₦airaland Forum

Interestingly, Buhari's management of the economy itself qualifies to be labelled terrible.!!

If a President really has the interests of this country at heart and the will and the proper knowledge of what to do, Nigeria is actually quite easy to put on the right path. It's just that our politicians never have the will, competence and heart to do what is right, even if what is right at times will hurt many in the populace now for longer term benefits. For eg

Removal of subsidy now and redirecting that money to quality and free primary school education for ALL kids nationwide has short term pain but long term benefit. We will see benefits in 10-20 years time - less kids for Boko haram, more intelligent kids that can plan their own destinies because they dream of a better future, less beggers on the streets, more economic activity, less underage voting etc.

sparko1:
Just because you can't use it for a month doesn't mean is not upto 2.5 gig, there are lots of data draining apps that are present now that were not present then, you can't compare when most nigerians were still using blackberry and symbian phones to when there are dozens of android apps that run in the background.

Thanks for educating the dafties! The amount of content on WhatsApp now and then na the same abi? Now we watch HD videos all day on YouTube and expect the data to last same as 5 years ago!

BruncleZuma:


You mean these law enforcement people?

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This says it all!

9jaRealist:
Akume did NOT “sell” “your” BCC to Dangote Cement - because BCC was NOT owned by the Benue government.

Rather, BCC was a federal government entity and was thus privatized under the federal government’s privatization program launched by the military government of Gen Abdusalam Abubakar under Decree No. 28 of 1999, and seen to completion under the civilian Obasanjo administration. Under the same privatization program conducted by the World Bank-supported Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), Sokoto Cement Company was sold to the BUA Group, Bendel Cement Company was also sold to the BUA Group, Calabar Cement Company was sold to Holcim (partnering with Flour Mills), while Nkalagu Cement Company was sold to the Ibeto Group.

Furthermore, in stark contrast to your assertion, the Benue state government under George Akume actually obtusely and obdurately OPPOSED to sale of BCC majority shares to Dangote Cement pursuant to the latter’s winning bid under the BPE’s privatization process (which was btw supervised by the World Bank) - resorting to such primitive and primordial tribal sentiments that Dangote should have bid for CCNN (Cement Company of Northern Nigeria) instead and stating a preference for foreign (white) investors, when no sensible foreign investor was going to risk such a backward climate displaying a disdain for contractual obligations and the rule of law.

Since the privatization, Dangote Cement has modernized the poorly-run and decaying Gboko plant, raising production from 400K/yearly at the time of privatization to the current 4 million tons/per annum - a TEN-FOLD INCREASE (creating more jobs for locals and benefiting the local economy in the process)! In addition, Dangote Cement supplies electricity power to the local community and Gboko town/environs through the cement plant’s modern captive power plant, has built and renovated schools and classrooms, as well as built and funds a community hospital. Nonetheless, pretty sure there are some Tribal Remnants still mad because Dangote is not an “indigene”. SMH

Thank you for educating those who don't read newspapers or listen to proper news, but only base their comments on nonsense social media posts, most of which are fake!!

Well tinubu should be worried because we're getting sick and tired about the incompetence of the current governor

Joromi12:
He has no range rover and money lik olosho Toke. Wey never reach 10 years der

Toke actually works!!!

The guy ain't governor yet. He's governor elect. OP please note!

Actually this makes a lot of sense if it will be done properly and well thought through. Why flare the gas off it can be used right there. The issue before was the infrastructure to send the gas to processing facilities. But if small scale facilities are right beside the gas, it could be a game changer.

Check for Ibom Air again in 3 years.

Give it 3 years and check for air ibom again?

Still find it hard to believe that 1 in 20 Nigerians is hiv+. I have friends who go through sooo many women, it's kind of weird to calculate that they may have slept with hiv chicks multiple times. Though they use condom as you would expect, but still......i shudder at the thought!!

The 2 cars at the back are pretty old school! Certainly not cars I'd be bragging about.

The 2 in the front? Now you are talking!!!

chiefobdk:
I ply dis route everyday since 2010 train has been coming and going on dis rail line daily since before 2010

That's the old mass transit train on the narrow guage

Meanwhile, while I am happy for the execution of the rail I sincerely hope that it doesn't fail. The main economic value for rail is freight movement and not really passenger travel and I'm not seeing my thing going on in this space.

The only way this can be a long term benefit is if the railway sector is deregulated. For eg, let the National Railway Infrastructure Company own and maintain the tracks while private people pay to use it and provide their locomotives. This way the govt gets return on its investment which encourages it to expand the rail network, while the private sector brings about the efficiency.

SAME as with airports.

Shibaraba:
One wayray up there don politicise am fast fast.
This has been in the pipeline long before some of us were born. We only had the Ill luck of having oloshi leaders.
Good one for Nigeria. Wetin other countries don build finish we just dey start. And person dey solve 4+4 up there.I swear all of us dey craze for this country

Valid point, but at least Buhari executed it from start to finish. Do you know how many projects start in this country but never finish?

ZombiePUNISHER:
This was done by Jonathan.


I ply the route

Modified : zombies are in severe pains
This is music to my soul

Nope!! Jonathan did Ore to Benin. I agree that stretch was spotless. But just after Ore to shagamu interchange was not done. And if this OP is correct that Ore to Ijebu has been done then that is Buhari at work.

Story story!! That's how they huffed and puffed with VAIDS and yet no one has been arrested and charged d to court.

$41mln per plane seems a lot, considering that an F16, though 20 years ago cost $18mln.

sagio09:
U sold NigAirways- No result
U sold Nitel - No result
U sold NEPA - No result
Naw to want to sell NNPC to urself and cronies, God will not allow you D ugly looking thiefing pig.

I'm not aware nigeria airways was ever sold but even if it was at least you have now you have arik you have air peace e that you can fly now. In respect to nitel it was sold and ntel is currently working and in any event you have mtn, 9mobile airtel currently working and offering better service so I don't see what your problem is and as regards power, the issue with nepa is very well known and that's because the tariff is just not cost reflective simple. the minute the tariff is cost reflective then we will see improved investment in the business

The video was fast forwarded. Look at how quickly it came to a stop at the end. No way a train going that fast can come to a stop that quickly. Law of inertia people.

How many deep sea ports do we need for goodness sake? Akwa ibom wants to do its own, ditto rivers state and bayelsa, yet the existing warri, port Harcourt and calabar ports are grosly underutilised.

It's also of benefit to some of these companies because in many cases they might be utilising their excess capacity to construct these road. take for example dangote cement as important as cement is in this country its not a guarantee that dangote is able to sell everything that he produces so rather than keeping cement as inventory he's able to utilise that cement to do road therefore the actual incremental cost to dangote for doing these roads may not be as much as one thinks

amhelpless:
who send them? the refinery and the factories belong to him, how can only Dangote have sole right to import sugar to Nigeria , why?

Dangote may be the biggest but I doubt that he has the sole right to import everything or anything. To the best of my knowledge dangote is not the sole importer of cements or manufacture of cement neither is he the sole importer or manufacturer of sugar or wheat or any other things that he produces

globalresource:
Money don exchange hands. Dont worry maybe when buhari is done removing all the ijaws and replace all with northerners

An Hausa man will never say this

That doesn't make it right

ogbonti:
...Less than 2 months after Buhari was sworn in, he confessed he cannot do much for Nigeria as he earlier promised because he is now old and weak, and lamented that he wished he was a younger man.... he would have done more for Nigeria.. this was July 2015.


And people are ready to vote in this carcass and brain dead jihadist for a second term of 4 years in 2019??

If Buhari wins a second term, God forbid, he will move Aso Rock to London as he will be taking treatment for his undisclosed illness for another 4 years with the country footing the bill..... and the Cabal will openly be running Nigeria as a mafia state, and you will not even find Buhari, to blame him for anything.. that is what they are planning to do....

Nigerians, if you re-elect this evil man, then you so much deserves whatever will happen to the country afterwards, Enough said!

Unfortunately in Nigeria we are usually voting not for the best brain, but the lesser of 2 evils. In our current scenario, as bad as Buhari is, he is probably the lesser of two evils. Or are you saying Atiku is better given what Obasanjo said about him?

If this same nigerisn judiciary can give Peter Odili a perpetual I junction against arrest, simply because his wife is a justice, if that doesn't smack of corruption and nepotism of the higher order, I don't know what does.

toprealman:
Quintessentially Nigerian attitude....make noise when it hits you DIRECTLY..... otherwise, ALL IS WELL!

I'm sure in that meeting, none of these so called leaders will raise the issue as to where his funds came from?? That will be conviniently ignored.

As far as I'm concerned we need tougher harsher actions against corruption and corrupt practices. the democracy were practicing currently cannot take us anywhere quickly. other countries are moving faster than we, yet we are supposed to be catching up with them. I've always said that what we need in nigeria to move forward rapidly is a benevolent dictator. A dictator who is who has an iron clad grip on power, but yet has the progress of nigeria firmly in his mindset. china singapore malaysia didn't develop to this point they are now with democracy. the truth of the matter is that nigerians are largely corrupt, largely tribalistic, largely nepotistic, largely incompetent and largely incapable of mustering the will and the courage to do the right things to get nigeria to where it ought to be.

How can a grown man and a chief justice of nigeria for that matter say he forgot to declare properties and millions of naira worth of of cash in foreign currencies? I'm half his age, I'm less important than him in public service and I know every asset that I own. people only forget these things when they want to be dodgy and funny. if it were to boast to his colleagues about how much he was worth he certainly wouldn't forget to list all of these properties and money is in his various bank account

As far as I'm concerned the judiciary is its own worst enemy. one of their members has unexplained money in his account and rather than castigating, they jump to his defence to say the president is waging a war against the judiciary. how can people who are supposed to be above board, who are judges and justices have millions of dollars in their account at they cant explain.

The judiciary are not from the moon. They live along us and are therefore just as corrupt as the rest of us. If you give your enemy the basis upon which to hound and defeat you, whose fault is that??

I get the impression this guy is going to be one of the footballers that in twenty years time is going to be totally broke

zoedew:
Going to Redemption Camp will be a piece of cake!

Unfortunately it doesn't pass through there.