₦airaland Forum

Burruchaga71:
Anambra state is not a war zone. Army should leave the state a quickly as possible..

JOemmy:
Campaign officially starts today and suddenly the attacks on nigerian security personnel have increased in the south east hope this is not political to tarnish the image of obi?

openmine:
Oga they do not have weapons to face RPG armed herdsmen or sophisticatedly armed bandits!
Lets even assume without conceding that the ameotekun operatives were given 'shotguns' and 'knives' to engage bandits that use an RPG or highly devastating weapon of warfare...does that make any sense to you?
Thats like a pussy cat trying to engage a lion!
Connect or engage your disconnected brain Mr 'Cognitivereason' as your moniker suggests! Haba



So Oga 'Vitamin A plus Okpolo eyes' are you saying knives and cutlass with a locally made shotgun are 'weapons' that should be used to engage highly superior ak47 and rocket propelled launchers wielding bandits and terrorists?
Now you are not only blind,your cerebrum is right now on a cliff!
So in your own thinking,you feel knives will be sufficient to ward off bandits?
I thought its because your were benighted....Now i know you had issues with your communications lecturers or you skipped english school!




You are a glorified Olodo with zero information!
So shotguns are good enough to ward off terrorists that wield RPG and Ak47?
If shotguns according to you was good enough why do you think the governor was unhappy with FG giving permission to katsina security outfit to use AK47? Did you not reason that its due to the obvious limitations of the shotgun that made him feel it would be better to engage and match the terrorists with better weapons like APCs,AK47 and RPG or their likes?

Once again lets assume without conceding that amoetekun was given the licence to use shotguns according to you....the governor you are lamblasting told the press that he had setup his own security outfit but the FG have refused to allow them use a single weapon....Not even a shotgun!
So far no FG or aide have spoken anything contrary to what Ortom has said!
So what should they use in engaging the bandits and terrorists in the rural communities? Bow and arrow or pen knife with cutlass?
I would have said make use of your encephalon but i just remembered that it relapses anytime it tries to be engaged in proper discus!


Chai indeed common sense is not common!
Is benue state part of the SW?
He granted interviews with Arise morning show,AIT,TVC news and ChannelsTV morning show and he said the same thing about the FG refusing to give his security outfit the license to even have a 'handgun'!
Up till this moment,non of the FG or the aides to the presidency has commented on what he said or denied his statements which implies that he is saying the truth!



You are not only an epitome of what you just wrote up there with a huge dose of inan.ity but you are an embodiment of a pat.hetic paloo.ka with an obviously disconnected cere.brum!


Well atleast i know one thing!
Not every Benue person thinks and reasons poorly like you because your case despicable!
Fortunately, your types are few in Benue state!

Owologbo:
When those State government leave those University for the FG because they could not find it, why didn't the FG decline?
The school fees, and most of the fees paid by students, where are they going to? What is happening to our tertiary institution today is what you get when you vote in a semi literate president who's not even sure of if he's a WAEC certificate; His disdain for learning is extremely high.

Owologbo:
some of you just come online to comment crap.
Is DELSU under ASUU?
Whatever it's that ASUU fighting for benefits schools that are under ASUU.
If the government of those developed country where they send their children to aquire knowledge treat their schools the way they are treating Nigeria's school, will they send their wards there?

openmine:
Hahaha amotekun is armed and yet the governor of ondo state is angry that katsina state security outfit was permitted by FG to use arms but not amotekun?
The news is all over the internet about akeredolu accusing FG of playing double standard....some of you don't even read the news but come here and display your ignorance!



State policing gives the state government not only the power or authority of recommendation but appointment and also firing of any state commissioner that refuses to perform its primary duties!
State policing ensures that the indigenous people of the state that are fully aware of the terrain are recruited to solve the insecurity problems in their state and LGAs because insecurity is local and must be solved by the locals who are well aware of their domain!
State and community policing also ensures that the police commissioner of the state and LGA act quickly to a conflict or crisis to ensure it doesn't snowball into a full blown war but the present system o policing will make the police commissioner to wait until there is a war before the IGP from abuja authorises the commissioner to act!
State and community policing will ensure adequate funding for their security system with logistics,acquisition of the right weapons and setting up of an intelligence unit to curb insecurity!



Another classic own goal!
You are contradicting yourself!
You just asked me why I think we need state and LGA/community policing and here you are admitting we need one! Smh




First go and read the constitution on policing!
This will give u a broader perspective as to why governors are not responsible for insecurity in their own state!
Why do you think instead of creating a security outfit in Niger state,the governor ran to the president in abuja to complain about the invasion of terrorists in his domain?
The likes of ebubeagu and amotekun are not permitted by law to use guns but to act as an intelligence unit to the present policing system in that state! This is common knowledge
This was the reason why governor of ondo akereodolu was disappointed recently that the FG permitted katsina state setup security outfit to have weapons like ak47 and yet amoetekun that was setup earlier were denied permission for acquiring weapons!
How can you setup a security outfit and yet deny them the authorisation to acquire quality and capable weapons to fight against an enemy that uses sophisticated weapons like RPG?





The fact that you don't even understand what is going on in your own state as you alluded to is the very reason why you are wallowing in your perpetual ignorance!
I heard the same governor of Benue state when he talked about setting up a security outfit like amotekun but he said the outfit was denied by FG to purchase weapons for the security outfit!
Do you expect a security outfit mandated to crush a unified terrorist organisation without the required or sophisticated weapons?
Not even an APC(armoured personnel carrier)
Yet when katsina state own security outfit sort the FG for permission to acquire weapons they were expressly authorised!
This is the same thing that akeredolu was talking out recently!
Double standard for different states!
But I doubt if you know about that...all you know is sit where ever you are like a glorified illi.terate to type trash instead of asking relevant questions that will keep you enlightened! Smh




Same ignorance on display!
If you like setup a 100 security outfits in one state,if they are not authorised or empowered to carry sophisticated or superior weapons to engage the terrorists,nothing will happen and the massacre will continue unabated!



Hope you can say the same thing about the Niger state and jigawa state governors whose domain have been ravaged by insecurity!
I am not in any way holding brief for the governor but its important to ask some pertinent questions to comprehend their struggle!
First the state gets their IGR mainly from agriculture and the rural areas that contribute to this IGR have been thrown out from their farm lands due to bandits,herdsmen and kidnappers and are currently in IDP camps!
The only funds available to them is the little FAAC allocation that is mostly used for salary of workers which is not even enough to pay all of them!
Are you aware that Benue state has one of the highest wage bill in the country?



Factual you said? Try harder! Unimpressed!
Please don't make me laugh so hard at your obvious callowness!
Even a buhari supporter though at times can be ignorant is by far better in engaging an issue compared to you!
Once again make sure your cerebrum is not disconnected from your fingers before typing!
No be me pursue you from english class!

LordLugard1:
AKWA IBOM TO VOTE PDP AT THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION?
You are decieving yourself, People of Akwa Ibom State are not as foolish as you think.
If Northerners have not been voting for Southerners and believe they can only vote for a fellow Northerner. What make you believe a Southern State of Akwa Ibom will vote for a Northerner?

Not just another Northerner but a greedy one. A known thif, an embezzler and another Fulani man.

They rejected Udom Emmanuel who perform better than Atiku and Saraki join together in the name of voting their tribemen and you want us to vote a Northerner.
So we are only good to be rule.

What has Buhari who is a Northerner done for the people of Akwa Ibom?
All the railway, Federal road and others we are only hearing about them. Even Niger Republic benefits from railway by Buhari.
Despite the fact that we are the highest contributor of revenue to Nigeria, no visible Federal project in Akwa Ibom State.

openmine:
This is why i said you guys are as benighted as the president you are haplessly defending!
Is it not the same amotekun that cannot carry arms and that Governor akerodolu claimed the FG refused to authorize guns for them to use but the same government approved ak47 for the katsina state government security outfit!
Is it not the same toothless amotekun that could not stop the massacre that happened at Ondo?
Please why have you refused to mention Niger state,Katsina state or jigawa state where banditry and terrorism have ravaged them for months or are they not part of the north with benue or are their governors not incharge of their security in their state?
Why is the one of benue state so peculiar to you or are the governors whose states have been tortured by kidnapping and banditry immune from your baseless criticism?...Nonsense!

Until we have a state police system in all the states,this carnage will not stop!
The constitution which you have ignorantly refuse to seek states clearly that there shall only be one police which will be controlled by the FG!
That portion of the constitution makes the governors powerless when it comes to the security of their state!
Go and learn the constitution and the limitations of the state governors and stop spewing your ignorance on a public forum!
Lastly Learn to comprehend with your encephalon properly connected to your fingers before you reply!

openmine:
Who is in control of the policing in that state? The CinC!
You guys really need to study the 1999 constitution

christejames:
So if Buhari decides to take his long annual leave this is how the students will be waiting for his final verdicts?



Osibanjo is what again?

CheapHomes1:
Did you ask the companies before you came up with the following?



How come with all your assimilation, you can't answer simple questions?

onuman:
In bold.
First, I am happy you called me oga, but why did you at the same time query your oga's mental health?
Now listen to Economics 101:

if rail service provider A uses 500 liters of diesel to transport 300 available passengers in a train which has a capacity of 600 passengers, because no more passengers were available to fill up the remaining 300 seats;
but a similar rail service provider B uses 500 litres of diesel to transport full capacity 600 passengers to equidistant to A,
it's obvious that service provider B shall get richer and be self-sustaining more than service provider A.
Furthermore, if service provider B's services are usually rushed, and in a day, B runs the distance with full passenger capacity many times, more than Service provider A, it's obvious that service provider B is by far ahead of service provider A.
Don't clutch tight on Iberiberism to insult who you referred to as oga.

CheapHomes1:
You haven't answered the questions.

How has the tax waiver reflected in the prices of their products? How much of their profits would the waived taxes would have erased?

ATLIEN2027:
I understand where you are coming from but the train system they are building is a basic necessity of modern economy.
First, you need train system to transport goods from one section to another. It's cheaper and faster.
You need train to transport large amount of people, cheaply and faster than road and air.
Just because you are trying to fix road and power does not mean that you can't fix rail system
They rail system is not the fast high speed in advance country, this is just the basic ones that every economy that wants to grow needs. It allows you to transport food from the North to the South, it allows you to transport goods from the south to the North.
In the US, the old rail system are still being used to transport grains from the mid west to the industrial West and Est coast of America. Train system systems have many advantages and can be done cheaply over the long run.
What we have is nothing close to fancy cars, these are old true, tested, cheap, and reliable means of transportation all over the world.
That doesn't stop you from developing your power sector or any other sector at the same time.

onuman:
You have no economic sense.
High Demand lowers Cost of a Service.
That's why it costs less to fly from Europe to America than from Europe to Africa.
The largest business route in Nigeria is Lagos-Benin-Onitsha-PH/Calabar route.
High patronage lowers price, and operational costs.
That's why those luxury buses that ply the above route have survived more than the luxury buses that ply the SW-North route.

CheapHomes1:
Common sense in what way? How has the tax waiver reflected in the prices of their products? How much of their profits would the waived taxes would have erased?

ATLIEN2027:
So your suggestion is that African and other poor countries in general should not try to build rail systems simply because they are poor?
Ok, that's a new one...
So how will get out of poverty if they don't try to develop their infrastructures?

onuman:
Lol.

Lagos-Benin-Onitsha-PH/Calabar standard gauge rail lines if first built, should have yielded excess profits to build, and possibly sustain Lagos-Ibadan-Kano and Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge rail lines; if Nigeria were to be a normal country.
Nigeria the country whose ethnic bigot leaderships drive to the edge.

NITEL died after modern digital telephone exchanges were built in tiny sleepy towns in Northern Nigeria; while large commercial cities in Eastern Nigeria were left with wrecked analog telecom exchanges.

omoredia:
Dangote is no business man he is a politician. A man that has failed with virtually all ventures he put his hands into from cement, to fruit juice, to noodles to water

CheapHomes1:
Any significant impact so far?

omoredia:
Cos the 45 are just for cover up. It will be Dangote that will get the waiver at the end. These northerners are smarter than all ur useless profs combined

Reference:
Waivers are necessary by nature as stimulus for nascent enterprises and as insurance in bad times but these should be term based and not open ended and when such enterprises are stable, government should recover every penny conceded.

So these crazy waivers should be ended as it is already. None of them qualifies for it anymore. How can you be giving waivers to a bouyant enterprise that is in the process of expanding business.

omoredia:
Dangote is not a business man but a politician. That's why you cant see he having anything meaningful to say amongst notable business men of the world.

omonnakoda:
Your statement is problematic on so many levels
Not every country has state and federal governments. Not every country with federal and state governments operate the same constitution as we do with our bizarre exclusive list and concentration of funds in the centre
All you need to have done is google countries that provide free university education .There are many.Some even provide free university education for foreigners
It is not an ideological issue.Rather it is a practical one.
Logically your statement is problematic because other countries do something( claim not true anyway) does not mean it will be good for us. I do not advocate the FG government funding universities in THE SAME WAY as they have done but not for the reasons you suggest.
After independence we could afford it now we cannot and the students need to contribute because our population has grown so it is a reality based issue
Rich countries fund their universities with a lot more that the total budget of Nigeria the models are different and students also contribute . often the funding goes toward research but there are many countries with free tuition and some offer grants or low interest loans to students. Now the US is considering forgiving billions in loans
There is no easy solution and glib declarations don't help. Ultimately students in Nigeria will have to put their hands in their pockets and poor students will be excluded to some extent. Bitter Pill
Our solution does not have to match anyone's the logic of your statement is like saying A woman should not pay bills in a household because xyz happens in another household.Totally illogical.
We need our own unique solution based on our realities

vanunu:
The federal government has no business financing tertiary education, in other countries it is the state government and the private sectors that finance education.
Nigerian government seems to be the most foolish government in the whole world, with no idea of how to end perennial ASUU strike that have been going for almost thirty years.

Joshmoore:
Don’t tell me you start hating on this good start, it may be 1km but at least there’s a zeal to work. I didn’t criticize your Supreme Court governor here, I only mention Madam of Enugu and his Big belle Abia state fellow.

Joshmoore:
When you see who’s ready to work, you will know. Something that took that madam Enugu and big belle Abia state governors a whole 8 years, still nothing.

This is exactly how Obi will start work from day one, day and night. No rest, no international medical check ups, no shenanigans!

Ykc2:
capital of kanu state is kano ,everyday they keep showing us kano the capital, hope uzodimma is now your mandela abi?,make una dey deceive us self,kano state that collect monthly allocations more than oil producing states with phantom claims of having more population than lagos,tufiakwa