₦airaland Forum

grandstar:
Tinubu should leave the market alone. If he wants to interfere, it must be to improve on it and make it freer, that it removes stumbling blocks that prevent the market from operating efficiently.

If he really wants to help, the CBN should raise rates above the level of inflation so that inflation can begin to fall. This will improve the Naira value and it will bring not only the cost of gas down, but of petrol and many other products. It will also improve investor confidence in the government. This will do more to assure and attract foreign investors than global travels.

FreeStuffsNG:
Uncouth, insolent as usual. Smh

“So that’s why I said it’s a large subject, which we must not trivialise. We shouldn’t take the easy way out. We shouldn’t go on the axial, black and white, and so on. It’s a work in progress, but we must not let the barbarians get away with this new project,” he said.

“However, as a new, tyrannical, insolent, and abusive culture, the culture of submental humanity in our midst, which you can give the rough name of the new Internet culture, in which real creativity is being downgraded, even despised for cheap, populist, nasty, subversive, humanly subversive culture.”

Pro Wole Soyinka

jmoore:
If Buhari ruled for one term, you can forgive these clowns. But they voted for Buhari again in 2019 after his first tenure. It is now their eyes have seen what Buhari did.

FreeStuffsNG:
Top 10 Solutions To Problem Faced By Any Country, Including Nigeria.

My List

1. Patriotism
2.Patriotism
3.Patriotism
4.Patriotism
5.Patriotism
6.Patriotism
7.Patriotism
8.Patriotism
9.Patriotism
10.Patriotism

Any country with a tribe with majority of unpatriotic elements, that region will never be blessed by the blessing of the land so that region will be a blight on the progress of the country home and abroad.

Thank God that our Patriots from other tribes are cancelling the unpatriotic elements with patriotism. All the enemies of Nigeria will lose las las. They always lose. God bless Nigeria for ever!

RepoMan007:
Their socialist approach is obviously failing as instead of so called poor Brits to use welfare as a launching pad to be productive, every one seem to want endless welfare. The gap between low paying jobs and welfare handouts is not enough to drive beneficiaries to work. That means lower GDP and weaker economy that's increasing impractical to sustain their welfare system and public expenses generally.

Nigeria can learn from how they tied free handouts to productivity here.
When they fund your education, you repay via taxes, when they give you free money to survive, commonsense dictates they demand you do something to support the production system(economy). That's what is happening here.
Doing away with perpetual rentseekers is key to motivating local productivity in Nigeria.

SeeWahala:
All I know is that the day nigeria does away with quota system and settles for merit the country will start reaping benefits in leaps and bounds.

finallybusy:
Agbepo work go plenty. I like their way. Naija suppose implement the same but no sense.

Jobseekers who don't land paid work after 18 months will be forced to do 'work placements' under a clampdown on joblessness.

Jeremy Hunt said that people still unemployed after receiving help for a year and a half will have to work where they are told to 'increase their skills and improve their employability' in his Autumn Statement.

And those who fail to even try to look for work will have their benefits stopped entirely after as little as six months, he told MPs this afternoon. This will not apply to those with disabilities or children.

The Chancellor unveiled a major 'carrot and stick' package of reforms today alongside a 6.7 per cent increase in Universal Credit. It includes telling people housebound with physical and mental health problems to try to work from home.

He told the Commons it was right that the government asked 'for something in return' when providing a further £1.3 billion of funding to help 300,000 people who have been unemployed for over a year.

He said: 'If after 18 months of intensive support jobseekers have not found a job, we will roll out a programme requiring them to take part in a mandatory work placement to increase their skills and improve their employability. And if they choose not to engage with the work search process for six months, we will close their case and stop their benefits.

'Taken together with the labour supply measures I announced in the spring, the OBR says we will increase the number of people in work by around 200,000 at the end of the forecast period, permanently increasing the size of the economy.

'I know some on the benches opposite would prefer to fill those vacancies in a different way. They hanker after a more liberal immigration regime or even dream of bringing back free movement. But Conservatives say we should unlock the potential we have right here at home, which we do with the biggest set of welfare reforms in a decade in today's autumn statement for growth.'

The Chancellor revealed he will raise handouts by 6.7 per cent next year, in line with September's inflation rate, after he rejected the idea of using the lower October rate as a benchmark in a decision that will cost £3billion.

He told MPs this would be an 'average increase of £470 for 5.5 million households next year'.

Under one plan, benefits would have been 'uprated' next year by the lower October inflation figure of 4.6 per cent, saving the Treasury around £2 billion.

However, a source said earlier this week that the full rise had now been deemed 'affordable' after better-than-expected forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility were delivered on Friday.

People housebound with physical and mental illness will be told to look for jobs they can do from home or face having their benefits cut.

Under plans to be unveiled by Rishi Sunak they will be told that being unable to leave home is no barrier to finding employment, thanks to modern technology.

New claimants from 2025 could lose handouts worth up to £4,680 a year because they can no longer be 'written off' as unable to work.

The Prime Minister said on Monday that it was a 'national scandal' that two million people of working age did not have a job.

But Anastasia Berry, policy co-chairwoman of the Disability Benefits Consortium, said: 'The government's decision to push ahead with this cynical attack on disability benefits will have a devastating impact on those on the lowest incomes. It will deprive people with severe health problems of £390 a month and push more disabled people into poverty in the middle of a cost of living crisis.

'The government claims a radical shift towards home working since the pandemic can justify removing support for those with mobility issues. But only one in 10 jobs advertised this year have offered this option. At the same time, access to health and care support which could keep people in work for longer, including mental health and social care, has become increasingly strained.'

Dr Silvia Galandini, Oxfam's domestic poverty lead, added: 'We welcome the increase in the minimum wage and the uprating of benefits in line with September's inflation rate, but punishing people who are unable to work with harsher benefits conditionality and sanctions will only push them further into poverty.

'The government should not penalise those who cannot work as a result of caring responsibilities, disabilities or illness.

'Today's focus on tax cuts also contrasted starkly with a lack of commitment to invest more in already under-funded care services, including social care and childcare. These services provide vital support to people with care needs and enable those with unpaid caring responsibilities to do paid work if they want to. Care is critical to the functioning of the entire economy - failure to recognise this is one of the reasons that we have an economy that works well for some, but leaves too many behind.'

tommy589:
States governors and National assembly members voted against LG autonomy last year(Google). Instead for Labour Union and Nigerians to picket National Assembly,they gave it no attention.Not getting dividends of democracy to the grassroots is the major reason for the widespread poverty in the country.
Recently,an Ogun State LG Chairman wrote a public letter highlighting how the State divert fund meant for his LG. The man got arrested, impeached and now facing prosecution for stealing.
Governors collect allocations and do nothing. They are like mini gods that are not accessible unlike LG Chairmen. It is when Nigerians understand that all governors (past & present) are their problems,that is when they start getting breath of new life

phemray:
Jagaban is fantastic.

What makes a man is not the manhxxd but how many problems solved successfully.

If you are problems solver with capacity to stand your feet, you should be boastful of it.
Have you ever seen anyone with F9 parallel to be boasting of the such result?

OAFMods:
Alex Otti charging your wretched fathers n mother 2 8 billion naira monthly will favour your foolish dead head

newoffer:
Retailers are part of the everyday problem. Even if they buy a basket of tomatoes for 10k they will still sell at high rate. Painful souls

Rexymania:
A bag of sugar is close to 50k... something of 8k two years ago