₦airaland Forum

Guestmale:
Apart from corruption and fraudulent practices that permeate Nigeria fabrics, our state governors are another major problem,most of them has turned their respective states to their personal empires,they are collecting monthly allocations what are they doing with they do one or two projects, they hardly pay their workers what is due them.

They don't allow any independence for local government, they make sure it is there stooges that were appointed local council
chairmen.

The present system of government is not working unless you want to receive yourself. The main issue with Nigeria democracy is too much wastage in the name of governance, the system was mimicked after the US system which is a rich country while Nigeria is a poor country.
How can trillions be budgeted to service a bicameral legislature, over bloated executives with several advisers and PA who do nothing every year leaving nothing left for capital projects and you say the system is ok.
What is required is to look for a system that works for a poor country like Nigeria where the cost of governance is shrunk to the minimum, the issue is more than just holding leaders accountable unless you just want to be stupid.

JuanDeDios:
The question is why is China doing ok. No, it's not because they don't have democracy. The West has democracy and it's richer than China.

How many western country is richer than China apart from the US? He be like you don smoke Igbo abi. China is far richer than all the western countries combined once you remove the US.

JuanDeDios:
No, it won't. In fact, things would be worse.

So what do you propose then? Is it not glaring that this present rubbish system is not working even to the blind? Perhaps, you did r read the text but he stated it there that he doesn't have all the answers and so do I but there definitely have to be a systemic change in Nigerias governance style cos it's presently heading for doom.

Honestey:
Borrowed more than any other government how? Not in Nigeria maybe in your world of alternative reality though.

Go and check if you want to learn and stop disgracing yourself online.
Nigerias debt as at when Tinubu took office was 97trillion today the debt has risen to 145Trillion, meaning Tinubu has borrowed over 48Trillion in just two years in office!!!
No other administration in the history of this country has ever borrowed that much within two years in office. Intact the total amount Bihari borrowed in his tenure was not up to 45 Trillion despite paying subsidy .

Honestey:
I have PVC and so is my wife and younger ones who must vote whoever I asked them to vote. Dear Alhaji Waziri Adamawa, your excellency Atiku Abubakar.

You said the coming election is between Nigerians and the Administration that has unleashed hardship on them.
We all know the hardship is as a result of Tinubu's determination to raise money for his government without continuing to borrow and plunge the nation into more debts. He did that by removing subsidy and stopped subsidizing dollars.

Dear Alhaji Atiku once again
If you can swear by Quran that you will immediately start paying subsidy and subside dollars to bring fuel pump price per liter back to N200 and dollars to be exchange for $1=N350 once you become president me and my people are going to vote for you, deal?

This part of your quote got me cracking up cos it smarks of ignorance. Really!!!
We all know the hardship is as a result of Tinubu's determination to raise money for his government without continuing to borrow and plunge the nation into more debts.
Are you aware that despite the so called subsidy removal and dollar floating, this Tinubus administration has borrowed more than any other previous government? You gullible zombies should keep deceiving yourselves.

Raph82:
Hell will not let loose if they don't export to the US. Find other countries to export to. It's that simple. Don't let US hold U into ransome. By the way, US population is not up to 400 million, how come every other nation is targeting US for their products?

The answer to the last part of the question you raised is because US is the number 1 economy in the world where majority of the population of 400m can afford the basic needs of life, contrast this with the situation of Nigeria where majority of the 200m population are either below the poverty line or just living from hand to mouth.
If you ship your goods to US , you stand a higher chance of selling it than in any other country because there's not just the population but a buoyant population that can afford it. But if you ship to a country like Nigeria where they are struggling to feed, you will have few people that can afford it because they are still battling with the basic needs of life.
It's often said that the majority of the African robust population is just a waste because they are unproductive.

Dotherightthing:
Shut up!

We were borrowing money to pay subsidy.

Crude swap was one of the means of borrowing.

We sold crude in advance!!

They need to return your school fees cos you are too dull to be engaged. How can a full grown man say swapping is same as borrowing.
Do you know what trade by batter is? In the olden days people swap salt for cutlass does that mean they are in debt? Even if you swap crude in advance for petrol how does that equate to borrowing?
One of the reasons I left this platform for a while is that people here are too dull to be engaged and even when corrected they are defiant in their ignorance.
Keep wallowing in your poor mind and ignorance as I cannot help your situation. Ode.

Barrywilly:
This event happened long time ago during the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. Why are you bringing it up now to discredit the new government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR?

We will bring it up because they are both APC or is APC now disowning APC again, I thought the one in aso rock said he will continue from where buharis stopped or is he not continuing in Buharis footsteps again?

Dotherightthing:
How many times shall we tell you dull*rds that Nigeria was borrowing money to pay subsidy

Totally unsustainable!

You are the dullard here slowpoke. Nigeria was not borrowing to pay subsidy before Tinubu you ignorant fool, what was happening was that NNPC was exchanging crude oil for refined petroleum products, that's why NNPC was the sole importer of petrol during buharis regime.
Stop lying and misleading the public idiot.

adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/Eid-el-Fitr-Low-key-celebrations-as-Nigerians-lament-hardship

I thought Tinubu and his zombies said prices have come down and there's no more hardship in the land. When we say propaganda is different from reality this is what we meant.

razzydoo:
Olodo. Your destiny is in your hands. No one can keep you poor and impoverished. When you're not crippled. Empty people, later you'll be deceiving people saying you're a gospel singer and minister.

One of the people he's refering to is already spotted here. Don't be surprised he borrowed the data he used to type this rubbish from MTN and he's yet to feed since yesterday. APC Una do this one sha, turning grown adults to daytime zombies like this.

femisplash:
https://nairametrics.com/2025/03/31/see-the-13-major-ongoing-road-projects-under-the-tinubu-administration/

The same Lagos Ibadan expressway and Oyo/Ogbomosho road that has been under construction since I was in secondary school in fgc Ogbomosho in the 90s is still under construction today.May God punish all Nigerian former leaders and Tinubu together.

back2sender:
Until you start producing for local consumption and export & less import before pressure on naira will reduce.
Until then, naira will keep receiving gba gbos from the dollar

But your propaganda government told us that Nigeria is now exporting more than it's producing, in fact they told us Nigeria has recorded trade surplus since Tinubu became President.
Immediately, I saw that news I knew this idiots have started deceiving their gullible zombies again. Because it is impossible to be having a trade surplus and your currency will be depreciating the way naira has been depreciating. What has simply happened in Nigeria's case is that importation has reduced due to diminished purchasing power caused by the same Tinubu, not that there's any significant productivity in the economy that has led to more exportation.
This Tinubu government will not kill his zombies with propaganda

APOPTOSIS:
Congratulations Osimhen,
Meanwhile see your Ballon D'or hopeful and World Best below...
See terrible statistics.. This is what Media Hypemen can do. They can hype someone like Buhari till the world would move to recognize him with a Nobel prize in Physics and Medicine.

For the First Time, The president of Brazil is moving in angrily, threatening to drop a Brazilian player (Vinicius)
Such an embarrassment to Pele, Garrincha, Romario, Fenomeno, Rivaldo, Dinho, KaKa Adriano, Fabiano, and Neymar.
On a Good day, this Guy won't smell the bench of the Brazilian National Team.

Did anyone tell you it's his national team statistics that's pushing him for world beat or ballon d or?
It's definitely his club performance and not his national team, he plays for the best football club in the world which is real Madrid, for the likes of osimhen to get into world beat conversations they need to first get into the elite teams like real Madrid and start doing their magic there before they are reckoned with.
That's the way football is structured,if you want to win the big prize you get into the big leagues.

lawbabs:
How do u claim to be smart when you don't even understand the senate rule. I hope you know that the closed door session is what is in the senate rule? Read widely and stop joining under-the-bridge newspaper rabble rousers...

And the senate has the right to conduct its voting however they like it on the plenary. The real reasons you want their names is because u don't really care about what is right for Rivers but you want to find scapegoats that you all will stalk and bully on social media.

You are correct , we want their names so we can bully and stalk them on social media. We as electorates reserve every right to bully and stalk people we elect to do our wish who are doing otherwise.
So is there anything wrong in being transparent and letting the people know senators who are doing what they want or not, isn't that what true democracy is about unless you have traded your brain for maggot yeast.

NinjaMetahuman:
I hope they suspend the sales of crude to him in naira too.

This is why I laughed at those who wanted importation banned because of dangote.

This one is an ignorant Tinubu supporter that cannot even read yet got 97 likes from ignorant people like him. I have always said this forum is full of low iq people and that's why I've avoided it for a while.
Naira for crude sale has been suspended since march 2 by NNPC and that's what has caused Dangote to also stop Naira for petrol sales.
Intact this fact is stated in the public statement Dangote released which is what you are commenting on,but because you didn't read before commenting you are stating what is stalled yet you got 90 plus likes.
No wonder the country is like this , the leaders are stupid and the followers voting them are dumb.

Bluntemperor:
Let the Markets go sit,I beg!
Most of them are Jaguda - thieves,who have No Mercy or have de ever show Care to the Public,but are always wanting More Dollars increase ,as they see Dangote as their enemies 💰or a Treat to their Dubious ways of doing oil business.
Many Nigerians are gaulibles audiences, because this is how they have been Short-changing NIGERIANS.
Instead of their Prices to go down,it has been on the Increase.
- We thank Dangote for not listening to them( Marketers) and IPMA,etc
These so called Marketers are against the Refinery locally .
Rubbish People, pretending as if they like or they are helping Nigerians.This is how they have been doing since 1960- Independence.
Very Shameful Indeed.

Os this not shameful even for your own children to read of you have any? It's only on this forum that Tinubu still has supporters like you, in public discourse in offices,bars,market place ,Twitter and IG Tinubu has closed to zero supporters and his public approval is close to zero meanwhile I stay in Tinubus Lagos.
What I suspect is that it's the same set of sponsored people who have opened different accounts in different names to support their paymasters and I hope something is done about it.
On twitter and Instagram it's curses that your likes receive on a daily basis not the 100 imaginary likes you people give yourselves.

iLoveYouToo:
It’s simple economics. Petrol was heavily subsidized. It was institutionalized fraud where people just did nothing and got paid by the government. It’s not sustainable in a country as corrupt as Nigeria, where some companies are enrolled as beneficiaries with false claims of imported petrol in collaboration with their cronies in the NNPC. Nigeria bled for decades

Ozuor, that's what you zombies use to make yourself feel happy. Has Nigeria stopped bleeding now that subsidy was removed? Has that put food on the table if Nigerians now? Has corruption stopped in Nigeria now?
If you believed that petrol subsidy only benefitted some imaginary people and not the Nigerian masses then you need medical examination, till date they have asked the same people that sold you these lies to provide the names of the imaginary people that looted the subsidy funds they have not been able to name a single person.
Removal of subsidy only added more money to government purse and removed a lot from Nigerian purse meaning Nigerians became poorer and politicians became richer.
Massive looting is still ongoing in various government offices in billions so you can tell this your faded story to the gods.

nlfpmod:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rahZ_CeEpqI



https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2025/01/20/trump-inauguration-live-updates-trump-enters-capitol-rotunda-for-swearing-in/

See president with balls and getting things done immediately. Im so happy for America that they brought this man back.
Very impressive speech yet he rendered everything offhand without reading anything written speech, we have one iragbiji dunce here in aso rock that stammered even the one he read from a book on his inauguration day yet there was nothing inspiring about the speech.

ObaKlaz:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/01/neymar-says-mbappe-jealous-over-messi-during-psg-spell/

It's like the only thing Neymar can be relevant these days is to talk. Neymar should go and get fit and worry about playing for AlHilal instead of just talking on media. He has been earning ridiculous wages for 2 years now but yet to kick a ball.

MT:
I understand your type and the way you reason. Ignorance is a bliss but I will get you educated.

Federal Ministry of Agriculture just provides directions and policies for the State Ministry of Agriculture to align with., provides support for local farmers, provide grants and loan to the states, provides regulations and enforcement and engages with stakeholders.

The actual implementation is done by the State Ministry of Agriculture. The Federal Ministry of Agriculture simply collaborates with the States who own the land.

So, can you see how silly you are for calling your lineage ”daft”. When you were advised to take your schooling serious and you refused, it was to prevent this disgraceful contribution you just made in an open platform😄.

Sit this discourse out, it is beyond you.

I still don't get how someone will be proud of his ignorance and lack of logical reasoning like this.
Even in your own submission, you have contradicted yourself. You mentioned federal ministry of agric set out policies, now if you the so called policy is not working as seen in the inflated food price all over the country , should we be blaming your teacher in school or the person that set out the not working policy.
One thing is crystal clear since I started engaging zombies, it's impossible to support APC and still have your brain intact, they are mutually exclusive events that cannot match.

nwirinedu:
The tax reforms will further impoverish people, PAYE will be on the high side for employees, overheads will increase for organizations, daily household incomes will deplete because of the increased costs in utilities due to the 10% VAT starting this year.

The gainers are those who are exempted from the tax law.

A lot of people are even ignorant of the content of the tax bill, they only think the bill is something to trigger the north due to sharing formular proposed. The main thing that affects them which is what you listed, they are not paying attention to it.
How can the government be planning to increase vat to 15% in an economy where purchasing power of the citizens is almost eroded?

Lithiumite:
Then you must be unintelligent enough to know that currency devaluation and lack of capacity to produce enough is what's driving up food prices.....the same govt that was in power when rice was 12k....go and check how much that govt met the price of same rice.

Who is responsible for the currency devaluation and lack of capacity you alluded zombie?
A government met dollar at 500 and now it's 1600, so whether it's directly of indirectly the government is still responsible and totally accountable. I hope you can see, you are the unintelligent and daft one here and not the person you quoted.

MT:
The state government owns the land, what are they doing with it.

Hold your Governors responsible for some actions.
The Governors collect monthly allocations and own the lands. Stop focusing on the FG skins to solve all your problems.

You must be very daft to be quoting things out of context just to divert blame from your God Tilumbu. When the minister appointed by Tilumbu was making the promise, he didn't know that state government owned the land then abi?
If your attempt is to shift the blame to state government, what then is his function as minister of agriculture? It means he should not even have any office in the first place if we are to go by your logic since you are absolving the federal government of any blame. Mumu zombified human being.

emkz:
They could not unite to defeat the candidate they assumed they could defeat, but they can unite in solidarity.

That tells you why they lost.

As for Atiku's defence of Mahdi Shehu, where was Atiku when Mahdi Shehu shared an old video from 2013 to spread a propaganda that Nigeria had allowed French to set up a military base in Nigeria?

Dear Atiku, Peter Obi claimed his family and himself were threatened. Did you even bother to ask him what kind of threats were issued?

You are a statesman. Act like one and call for calm, not make fiery comments for political expediency.

My worry is not even about what you posted but about the ronuists/agbado posts always getting the same amount of likes.
I think Seun should be wary of various parody accounts and BOTs used in generating this likes to make ronuists feel good with themselves.

Kdon2:
Obi is not any different. A pot calling the kettle black. Instead of fixing Anambra economy to stabilize obi was investing their money through proxies in Dubai. Have you read the global consortium news report tagged Pandora. Obi was one of the prominent figures identified in various tax scam.

I don't give a Bleep about Obi or any politician, my response is on the message and not on the messenger. Besides the last time I checked Obi is not the president neither is he holding any political posts so he can afford to go to anywhere he likes to get his treatment. My interest as a Nigerian and who I will hold accountable is the president so he should practice what he preaches.
Obi can go to hell as far as I'm concerned, Obi does not owe you any obligation, who you should hold accountable is the one leading you.

Kdon2:
Obi is the dullest presidential candidate in Nigeria history ☹️

In what way please explain? What he said actually makes a lot of sense, how do you understand the problems if you don't use the facilities here in Nigeria. You budgeted Billions for state house hospital but when you have just a toothache you rush to France and later come back to tell Nigerians to patronise local product to help the naira.
Is that not the height of hypocrisy from a government to it's people?

MightySparrow:
Are you for real? Refineries that have not worked for decades! Thank God Tinubu is receiving them now. No matter how harsh, we are now eating our rice, rice produced in Nigeria. Since Obasanjo who tried to reposition the economy, no other person has done much. The criminalities we have today is because, people are jobless and there are plenty jobs in Nigeria that are crippled by bad leaders.

You will say you are just eating your own Nigerian rice and don't generalize,Nigerian rice has been available since the days of Abakaliki stony rice for over 40 years or more now and it was far cheaper than the foreign ones.
If your reference is to the non stony Nigerian rice then it still did not start from Tinubus government , it was started by Jonathan's rice revolution, continued by Buhati and not Tinubu at all, I recall Ambode and Kebbi state govt in Jonathan's time coming up with Lake rice and the price was then far cheaper than the imported ones, it's only in Tinubu govt that we have Nigerian rice that is now at same price wit foreign rice and it's not something to be proud of at all.
It's the same way you are attributing refineries that Buhari paid fully for it's rehabilitation to Tinubu, the funny thing is while Tinubu himself is praising Buhari for fixing the refineries, his zombies like Reno and the ones here on nairaland are praising him for the refineries.You zombies should stop clinging at any straw to praise your master and attributing things he has no clue of to him.

kayperry:
Sometimes when you listen to them speak, even if our present LU is full of dropout dont they consult and ask experts

How can any graduate be proposing incessant minimum wage increase as a messure to catch up with inflation

A serious country's inflation index should not be more than a digit, Nigeria is on 35 trying to catch up with that is like using thunder sound to cover bomb noise ...exactly

what we need are sincere efforts to wind down inflation @top priority, ensure naira stability and value ... Nigerians can enjoy a 20k minimum wage even beta naa currency value be koko

I prefer the days 30k can buy a bag of rice and workers still have enough to go to work than a 150k minimum wage at these time

You have made an excellent point which is only applicable in theory but not practical. Do you think a bag of rice will ever come down to 30k again , or petrol reduce to 500/litre ever again? That's the main problem here which you and I know the prices will never get reduced again .
Now if we all admit that the prices of basic items will never go back to the way it was, then why will you expect the workers wages to remain the same, take for instance I fuel my car 50k weekly to work now and that's 300k monthly on fuel alone but my salary remains what it was in january.
If my fuelling cost and other things have increased and there's no hope of it reducing again, why will you expect my salary not to increase to match the attendant inflation that has ruined my salary?
Mind you,the government herself pegged the 2025 budget at an exchange rate 1500 to a dollar so don't expect the price of anything to reduce from what it is now cos it can only go up further.

GeneralPula:
Floating the naira is the best for naira. It’s even one of the best way to manage inflation. Atm, it’s supply & demand that’s determining the worth of naira. If Nigeria can start exporting more, inflation would get tamed!

And I believe that with time, Nigeria will find it fit into exporting more rather than importing anything & everything..

It's like putting the cart before the horse , when you know you are unproductive, why don't you get productive and start the exportation first before the floating.
Currency devaluation is good for an export economy not Nigeria, take South Korea and china for example. Now purchasing power is eroded in Nigeria and companies are making losses and closing down due to the hyperinflation in the economy.

Bluntemperor:
So, increasing More Salaries is the Solutions to Inflation,abi,as far as NLC is concerned?
Anyway,he de play,as Nigerians,have seen now,that Labour Leaders are clueless!
We de wait their Cruise!

So what exactly is your own proposed solution then? Workers should accept things the way it is when it's obvious the present salary cannot take them home? Do you know I spent 50k on fuelling my car alone? In a month thats 300k on fuel alone, what happens to feeding, taking care of my family, paying house rent etc.
Salary should be increased , when inflation increases, salary increases again and the cycle should continue.
The government cannot be feeding fat while we the workers suffer.

yoruboid:
Stepper ni… and handover to who? Obi? The man who isn’t fit to lead an LCDA in Lagos where LCDA chairmen are building housing estates, schools and roads that are better than anything he ever did in Anambra

Tinubu has legacies other governors have built on in Lagos. He developed the road map for rail, Eko Atlantic, the Lekki FTZ which we can all see manifesting today

It takes a bold leader to do a quarter of the things PBAT has done

Anyone with an understanding of Economics can see that the reforms are yielding results

Jagaban will fix Nigeria

Even Obi and Atiku have had little to say about the economy any longer except times they just want to appear relevant


Make yourself available for the consumer credit scheme for purchase of made in Nigeria cars when it becomes available this quarter if that’s what you want

There are several opportunities under this administration

This should be the biggest joke I have read in 2025 and yet it's just the first day of the year. So you are saying this economy that you are seeing with your own korokoro eye that you are not been told is doing fine and very well that Obi and Atiku are also praising it. An economy that has 35% inflation rate that has eroded all purchasing power of the citizens, an economy that the currency performed as the 3rd worst currency in the world losing over 200% of it's value within a year, an economy that saw energy costs which is the primary factor for production increased by over 400% in less than a year is the one you delusional APC zombie is praising like this.
To say you people have made me give up on Nigeria because of your psychophancy is an understatement I swear.