₦airaland Forum

This is a good one from the Minister of Finance. For everyone who loves to proffer ideas and solutions online and for those of us who are serial complainants of the failure of government, this is our golden moment.

The email has been provided for input. No excuses please, let us just forward our proposals. Other ministries should kindly follow suit. Best regards.

Imagine a comment above or more vilifying SERAP. An institution that has taken out the time since time immemorial to defend the citizens of this country against the madness of those in politics and the civil service.

I can’t do it, I can never defend Nigerians who love and bask in failure.

Thank you SERAP, sincerely, and may God continue to bless you guys.

Please I am not attacking the OP but if someone can guide me, what is the exact obsession with marriage in this country?

Why are we losers? How and why does another persons marital status concern another?

In a collapsed nation, marriage and having excess children you cannot take care of are the focus to the point of attempting to shame those who are single and without kids. God save us. Spits.

South Africans are harsh oh, nawa, can never be affiliated with them in anyway but I must commend them for giving it to us hard, asides the killings, that one is a stretch.

The truth is “most” Nigerians are animals; yesterday I was driving in Abuja and someone threw out a fairly sized bag of trash from their car onto the road, I was perplexed. Same yesterday and as always, I obeyed a traffic stop sign and the drivers behind me were not having it, of course they were ignored.

Let’s keep playing and I know some people will still hop on a flight to South Africa tonight.

We will remain global pariahs until we are all ready to sit and fix up.

This is not a good article/post, it should not be on the front page but what do I know. Best regards.

Festus Keyamo disgusts me.

With so much room for improvement in the aviation sector, particularly our airports and the nasty behavior of airlines, he deems it pertinent instead, to focus on being the spokesperson for the APC, a position to which he was not appointed.

He may kindly get serious or quit his job. Spits.

As someone pointed out above, NASENI is a deeply fraudulent agency. For those not aware, this agency is allocated 1% of monthly FAAC allocations, yet they have developed little to no critical science and engineering products and give near zero funds to indigenous entrepreneurs. The person heading it is not even a scientist or engineer.

A serious agency with such levels of funding should have gotten the country to space by now. It should be scrapped.

I love Atiku’s campaign strategy and momentum. Though I do not support him, believe or agree with some of his promises, he is showing seriousness.

What Peter Obi should ideally be doing, instead he is talking about how when he was governor he paid for Hajj. I don’t see him going far next elections. My preferred candidate remains Sowore, though he is going nowhere. No problem.

Oh wow, we have a Minister of Agriculture in this regime? Wasn’t aware. Sorry.

All I will say is that for those who are conniving with government officials to collect land allocations and building permits where you know it is wrong; when a sensible leader comes in and demolishes your “investment”, I will not sympathize with you.

So because he is from the state he should not say it as it is?

The coastal highway is a silly project. That excessively inflated 15 trillion could have gone into permanently repairing a large percentage of our existing roads; this is a no brainer. To me, that would have been more of a legacy, the coastal highway is not.

I spoke about the cost of governance being our deepest problem on a subsidy thread yesterday.

Let’s leave that aside for now. Read the comments. Forget the president, DG’s of agencies in Nigeria have larger convoys than the convoy of the President of Ghana and other countries. And a ton of the people as can be seen in the comments support and make excuses for them.

These are people who are literate and have access to and can operate a phone. Now, understand that the bulk of the population are not literate and do not use such platforms as this; so if these people who are can comment in such a manner, then you know that there is no hope for the nation.

I just thought to put things in perspective for the sensible folk like Mr. Rufai so as not to over stress themselves.

I always supported the floating of the Naira but you see fuel subsidy removal, I never did. Why? Because we have the funds, we are extremely rich.

The subsidy was removed anyway and the government continues to remove other subsidies, that’s fine. My problem is that the government has not once contemplated cutting the cost of governance and the amount of our funds they spend on flexing themselves, yet you find people supporting these decisions.

Anyways, I am well to do and these policies don’t particularly affect me. If they affect you and you think it makes sense to keep supporting them, that’s okay too.

Some Nigerians have this character of exempting those who should be blamed for wrongdoings. Most notably when it involves the president, like as though he is not culpable.

You hear comments like “Mr. President has bad advisers” or “Mr. President is not being advised properly”. “Mr. President should fire his CoS”. What is this particular madness? Are you naive to think Mr. President is not aware of these dealings? The Chief of Staff should be fired but so should his oga.

When I persistently talk about the unintelligent people we have in government and in society and that all civil servants should be retired it’s as though this person is somehow.

How can any educated person make such a decision when they know how poor the citizens are, coupled with the fact that we already have an education problem and a largely illiterate society? No problem, continue.

I said the exact same. When I say that our leaders are not intelligent my friends will say I have come.

One of the things I expected of Mr. President was to retire the entire 700,000 plus civil and public servants and rehire purely based on merit; that way, watch the system change.

So in as far as we proceed with the current crop and the status quo who cannot critically think prior to coming up with silly ideas, we are headed absolutely nowhere.

Enough of the debate and chatting please. Both Adeyemi who paid a bribe and all the culpable public officials who established the agency to siphon the collective should be executed.

If this will not be done which we know it wouldn’t then let’s kindly move on. Why are Nigerians always distracted and talking?

As we are chatting and engaging in stupid debates as to whether the agency is fake or not, South Africa has solved its own issues. Get out please.

I like the idea and encourage it. Since we can’t do or achieve anything ourselves. America and its congress had to take on the issue of terrorism for us and Mr. Phakel, a South African has to go on tour to remind us to hold our leaders accountable. It is what it is. Thanks.

I have observed that Nigerian men tend to dislike Nigerian women so badly mostly due to some of their character traits which is understandable. But if you dislike them so much why the constant bickering? Just forget about them totally, divorce them and live a sweet and peaceful life.

If you’re chanced, kindly read the comments. This is what I mean when I say Nigeria is a hype nation and the people are largely delusional. This attitude is similar in every single sector. Meanwhile, these people know we innovate and build nothing, all we do is vote in useless politicians and run away from the country.

Tell me, what is shocking in this statistic? I’m surprised we even came in 14th and are not in position 30.

That’s how they were vexed at the Moniepoint guy. It’s best we learn to face the truth so we can all make decisive effort to move this country forward. Rubbish.

It is so difficult not to hate Nigeria.

The EFCC said they were preparing the charges when the US suddenly sanctioned the terrorist. Just continue.

We will remain patriotic.

The comment of the 2nd poster is absolutely unbelievable, especially considering that it comes coupled with an insult and again shows that we have an education problem.

Mr. Bwala is absolutely right that we must hold our state governors and local government chairmen accountable; it is our duty and not that of Mr. President.

You must ask and be concerned about how your funds are being spent. N600 million a month may seem small but for a local government it isn’t and tons can be achieved with that, all of which have been mentioned by Mr. Bwala.

Call them up, text them, email them, visit the council, contribute, expose them and do not be lazy, it is your duty not that of Mr. President though I am not a supporter of this government.

It is a basic no brainer that anything other than restructuring is purely aesthetic.

Resource control will leave everyone with no choice but to return to their states and deal with their local government chairmen and governors decisively.

It will also mean that police officers within each state and local government will be from that region where they are known by their community, thus, leading to better handling of security issues and eventually, total progress of the nation. But let’s be behaving like olodos.

President Tinubu wants young Nigerians to stay and build the country yet critical agencies such as NASENI don’t even understand their mandate and won’t fund the ideas of innovators and SME’s with high potential. Instead he placed an idiot who studied business in a science and engineering infrastructure agency. Continue. I’m here though.

Good of him. Some people will say he’s damaging the image of the country on the global stage but pay them no mind. Our leaders must sit up.

I think the 2nd comment stated that regardless of how much you explain, most Nigerians will still see it as a spiritual attack; and look at the subsequent comments 😆.

Nigeria is an illiterate society and until the illiteracy issue is resolved, it can never move forward. Happy Sunday.

I saw someone above asking if this is marketing or de-marketing Nigeria. I have always found this constant rhetoric to be very weird.

Why do we like to lie and pretend as though the country is good or moving forward? Why do we have an all round truth and acceptance problem? If the country were good the rhetoric will rarely be negative.

They said the first step towards change is acceptance. Therefore, Nigerians must continue to say it as it is everywhere, domestically and internationally until our leaders receive sense. So kudos to Peter Obi for saying it as it is though I am not one of his supporters.

It is a painful statement only because it is true. How many Nigerians are truly skilled at their craft? Be truthful. Deeply skilled? Very few.

I do dynamic modeling, simulation, control, FEA, CAD for dynamic systems. I have to do all work for my business myself which I do not mind but even the few I find I still have to make numerous adjustments on their work. This does not mean there aren’t skilled people but it’s not just the way we think.

As I have generally said, we are mostly hype and we can see it in the thread. Just hone your skills to perfection, don’t apply till you have and see yourself never be rejected from a job position.

But I don’t get we Nigerians; we are so proud and pompous and braggadocios and mean especially to our fellow Nigerians. So how can people clearly not want you in their country and you remain there or even visit?

Personally, I can never step even my baby toe or pinky finger into South Africa or Ghana or Dubai. South Africans in particular as they have proved are a nasty set of people but I understand their frustration though I dislike their violence.

Let’s have some shame please. Get out from there.

As we have a national comprehension problem, let me help you understand what he is trying to say.

All the man is saying is just do even the barest minimum of small ordinary light for a few hours (not that they should not do better) but even at that, the leadership is still failing. And he is right. Let’s listen and read to comprehend, it’s not hard.

It is unfortunate. However, this is what happens when you leave your nation unfixed to go to the place in which their indigenes have struggled to fix.

Nigerians are hated across the globe which means there is a fundamental problem in our character. Therefore, we must all return home to fix this place via revolution and regain our respect globally. It is not to be bragging up and down with nothing to show.

The truth is there is no pathway for the progress of this country. I always talk about Nigeria having a severe education problem even with those who went to school but we don’t like the truth.

For anyone in leadership particularly within the military ranks to make the decision to reintegrate a terrorist not to talk of multiple into the community; those persons must be daft and uneducated.

But it’s okay, I am no longer emotionally attached to this country. Let’s all continue being daft and mad and while we are at it, let us be fair and ensure of the release of everyone in the custody of the correctional service.