₦airaland Forum

Mr President,
1) Declare your assets openly and force everybody in your government to do same to show commitment to anti-corruption.
2) Fight corruption the way nobody has done in Nigeria before. (This may mean building more prisons).
3) Fix electricity (4,000Megawatts is about one-tenth of what we need, I know you know).
4) Break this unitary system of governance that has arrested our development, through strategic implementation of true federalism.

Mr President, When you implement NO 4, Nigerian states can create their incomes through their natural and human resources, the Islamic North can implement Sharia the Boko Haram way, unemployed youth will definitely find jobs in this new Nigeria. This is the price you can pay sir.

Congratulations to all Nigerians on these wonderful achievements.
At last we have moved forward.
Up Jonathan!!!

Which Federal Government? as far as people in Lagos is concerned Federal Government is only existing on paper. Even when we patch and reconstruct Federal roads do they pay? Which road in the whole of South West has FG build in the last 13years? For us in Lagos, FG is the symbol of backwardness in Nigeria.

Rich Dad: I beg stop this lies joor. Which federal Govt ? The same Fed Govt that was unable to fix Lag-Ibadan express for more than a decade ?

What's OBJ saying? who brought this clueless GEJ forward? Was he fooled by GEJ's Uniport arranged Phd? I thought GEJ will call Sanusi to order, but you can see the conspiracy.

If you like sell PHCN to anybody.
All I want is electricity.

Guess what?
When it's time to list achievements somebody will include this as GEJ's achievement.
Read my lips!

I will rather be deceived than speculate.
They told us "she has gone to Germany for a well deserved rest"
That is what I choose to believe.

"It is also pertinent to note that the northern governors fund Hisbah guards with taxpayers’ money.”"

--Point of correction "with oil money" which tax do they pay in the North?

I like the thinking behind this article but I am certain some Nigerians won't. Some are sold on
1) Maintaining this unified & unproductive status quo as a way of maintaining their laziness.
2) Revenging the past hurt as a way of punishing those that they felt were once complacent.

By Chukwuma Charles Soludo

In my 2005 National Democracy Day Lecture, I strongly argued that “for sustainable democracy, fundamental changes are required in the constitution, the electoral system, the fiscal federalism, as well as a gamut of legal-institutional reforms that are developmental and capable of promoting private enterprise and competition”. Seven years later, I feel more strongly about this point, and almost a sense of urgency to it. In the last two years, I have given several lectures on Nigeria’s dysfunctional political economy. I am glad that constitutional amendments are being debated. At least, let us start the talking. There is a systemic failure, and our institutions cannot take Nigeria on a sustainable path to prosperity. In three articles, beginning with this one, I want to join the debate.


The word ‘restructure’ evokes all kinds of reactions. For some, it is a veiled campaign to dismember or weaken the Nigerian federation. I disagree. While I admit that Nigeria as a country or nation has been a colossal disappointment and a textbook example of “how not to do it”, I disagree that the solution is to dismember or weaken it.


I have three strong reasons to be a believer in one united and prosperous Nigeria. First, I am a pan-Africanist--- an Nkrumaist in terms of Pan-African unity. As a scholar, about 60 per cent of my research and publications are on African economies. I am one of those dreaming of the second USA, the United States of Africa (with 54 states, encompassing the current 54 countries, with Nigeria as the Texas of Africa). Our destiny is tied together—the rest of the world simply sees one ‘Africa’ as if it is a ‘country’ but we think of ourselves as different. Combined, the 49 sub-Saharan African countries account for barely two per cent of global GDP (the size of Belgium with 10 million people). I see Africa’s future increasingly within the context of a more fully integrated continent. Enough of my dreams: now back to reality!
Second, I am proud to belong to the “big country”, and wish that it could become the “next China”. Nigeria is Africa’s most populous and its potentially biggest economy. In today and tomorrow’s world, size matters. Europe will inevitably move towards greater ‘federal Europe’ if the euro is to survive, and other efforts towards agglomeration are going on around the world. Nigeria accounts for far less than one per cent of global GDP (indeed if Nigeria were to submerge under a volcano tomorrow, the world would only notice it as a humanitarian disaster). I cannot imagine Nigeria breaking into smaller groupings. I do not see any of the groupings that will ‘happily’ stay together under one union without its own internal contradictions and tensions as in the larger Nigeria.


Third, I am aware that the hangover of history makes any reference to the word ‘restructure’ by an Igboman to be viewed with suspicion. I hate to think of public policy in those terms but if it helps this discourse, I make bold to say that as an Igboman, I will never support anything that will threaten the unity of Nigeria. Igbos have the greatest stake in Nigeria, and therefore stand to lose the most in the event of (God forbid) any disorderly unravelling of Nigeria. An enterprising, itinerant people with huge population in a tiny land mass, Igbos (like the Jews) are in need of a large domain or market for their commerce without molestation or discrimination. They are everywhere. Of the estimated 17 million Nigerians in Diaspora, I can bet that at least 10 million of them are Igbos. They dominate most markets, especially for motor spare parts, in Africa. Onitsha traders now suffer because of Boko Haram as their supply chains to and from many parts of the North are grossly diminished.


There is hardly any village in Nigeria or town in Africa without an Igboman, speaking the local language and probably owning a house and feeling much at home. Without fear of contradiction, I can assert that at least 80 per cent of the Igbo elite live outside of Igboland (mostly in Lagos and Abuja), and more than 70 per cent of the investments by Igbos are outside of Igboland. I know that more than half of Anambra’s population lives outside of the state. There is hardly any former public office holder (governors, ministers, senators, Reps, etc) since 1999 who lives in Igboland. As Mallam Nasir el-Rufai was quoted as saying sometime, Igbos have turned Abuja into their ‘sixth state’, and some estimates opine that Igbos constitute 30-40 per cent of Lagos State. Even traditional marriages are now celebrated anywhere. The reasons for these are for another day.


The point of emphasis is that Igbos have the greatest need to keep Nigeria or even Africa as one united and prosperous market. An elderly Igbo friend of mine summed it nicely: “in the 1960s Igbos fought to leave Nigeria and the rest of Nigeria refused; we lost our properties and lives; now that we have re-built them everywhere, we are going to fight to make sure no one else will leave the union: we are all in this marriage for better or for worse”. Enough said!


Our thesis here is that a society can only prosper under conditions of ‘good leadership’ as well as a ‘good system’ that supports competition and wealth creation. So far, the dysfunctional system and its perverse incentives that make it almost impossible to make sustained progress in Nigeria have received little attention in public discourse. For three consecutive years, Nigeria has retained the 14th position in the world as ‘a failed state’ (with Somalia as number one) and many people think it is a joke. I posit that any serious discussion of public policy that ignores this issue misses the point. We believe there is a systemic failure that cannot be fixed by ad hoc ‘reforms’ irrespective of the type of leadership.


We therefore use the term ‘restructure’ to refer to the gamut of transformations in the nature and structure of the Nigerian State and society away from the current entanglements with the pursuit of rents to re-establish the link between the state and the people/business, and to re-engineer a society where competition and hard work drive success. Let us divide Nigeria’s post-independence history into the pre-civil war (under the 1963 Republican Constitution and its provisions for competitive federalism under the regions and a revenue allocation formula that forced hard work and competition) on the one hand, and the post-civil war with its centralised, unitary-federalism, with the centre repeatedly ‘creating’ the unviable federating units each entitled to the free money from the centre.


On literally all accounts, the average Nigerian was better off in the first than under the second: per capita income in 1966 was about $1,000 and about $1,400 in 1973 and is currently about $1,200. In REAL terms, the average Nigerian today (despite Nigeria earning over $600 billion from oil since 1973) has less than half of the income in 1966; is poorer; has a shorter life span; with poorer educational system and infrastructure. All the industries and palm and cocoa plantations and groundnut pyramids built by the regions have collapsed.
Our current unproductive system was designed to keep Nigeria ‘united’ by creating a strong ‘centre’. In the process, we have neither a federation nor a unitary system (at best a corrupted unitary system). All incentives and institutions are designed around a command and control structure for sharing and consuming the lottery jackpot from God (oil rents). For fear of death, Nigeria has indeed decided to commit suicide! There is no incentive for productive governance. National politics of competition for the oil rents has assumed a life of its own. On a per capita income basis, Nigeria has the most expensive parliament in the world. Every village now wants to be a state to get its own ‘share’. Don’t talk about fiscal viability! Have you heard any state governor advertising the number of new businesses that were attracted to his state or number of private sector jobs created as ‘the’ key performance indicator? There is little incentive for such! Debate on leadership is about who will share and where he comes from. It is not about who has the best plans to create jobs and wealth. Because you don’t need any skills to share, just about anybody can be a ‘leader’. Our politics has become a road to nowhere.


We need good leaders but equally important, we need a competitive system that allows any potentially good leader to emerge and perform. To use the metaphor of football, you need good footballers in a good pitch to have great football. If you have 10 Lionel Messis in a team but you take them to play in a cassava farm as field, their talents and efforts may come to little. In fact, because the field is a cassava farm, the ‘best players’ that would emerge could be the street urchins. Our view is that the type of leaders thrown up under a democracy and the latitude they have for creative change depends upon the nature of the legal-institutional infrastructure and the incentive-sanction system. As an economist, I understand that to change behaviour, two keywords are critical: incentives and sanctions. Both summarise what are popularly termed ‘institutions’. An individual can make a difference but ultimately it is institutions that make all the difference. You can assemble a thousand technocrats, each with his/her ‘reforms’ and at best their positive impact will be at the margin.


Nigeria is in a chicken and egg situation. How will the ‘good system’ emerge without ‘good leaders’ and vice versa? Leave this for our next articles!


To prepare for life without oil, we need a new road map, and the starting point is a new constitution for prosperity! We need to understand the institutional/constitutional design that makes United Arab Emirates (UAE) produce the world class city of Dubai with little oil while other oil-producing countries of the Middle East are not diversified. We need to understand the incentive system that enables the State of Nevada in the US to prosper despite not having any natural resource in a country with oil rich states. It won’t be easy to repair the havoc oil and the destructive politics around it have wreaked on the society, including destruction of the productive elite. But the time to start is now.


To move forward, Nigeria must review the content and meaning of its current political map; rights over mineral resources and land; tax jurisdictions; citizenship rights; fiscal responsibility and fiscal federalism; powers of the central vis-a-vis regional governments; elimination of the suffocating hands of the Federal Government on the regions; etc. It is an oxymoron to repeat the same thing over and over, and expect a different outcome. For a new Nigeria to emerge, new thinking and new ways of doing business must be in place.

flyingdove: What's the source of this news? Hw authentic is it? Could u pls reference the source LINK before i make my contributions, else it could amount to another uninformed political blasphemy.

http://tribune.com.ng/sun/front-page-articles/8394-2015-obj-ibb-pdp-govs-to-float-new-party-former-govs-serving-senators-enlisted-for-power-shift-we-ll-wait-before-reacting-pdp-wayas-advises-lamido-to-accept-objs-proposal#.UELGI9fsWms.facebook

2015: OBJ, IBB, PDP govs to float new party •Former govs, serving senators enlisted for power shift • We ‘ll wait before reacting -PDP • Wayas advises Lamido to accept OBJ’s proposal

Written by Donald Ojogo, Bureau Chief, South/South-East and Adamu Amadu
Sunday, 02 September 2012

There are people who have invested more than this amount of money in Nigeria, but the investment fold up. Why? Investments need infrastructure to survive. If we make our infrastructure right, we will not need to look for investors. They will come to us naturally.

informatix: If Jacobs removes £1mil. Out of the £300 he is investing. And invested the £1million=257million Naira in lagos Isolo Industrial estate. I am sure if he opens packaging and printing company or Plastic injection and moulding factory. More than 200 Nigerians will gain fullscale employment. And many distributor of such products will gain a Burst in their business. Many of such companies r. existing today.

Congratulations to all Bayelsans on this very big achievement.

Mr. President, is it by January 2013 or December 2013?

This news or its semblance does not bother me, what bothers me is the fact that there are Nigerians who are insisting we only treat the symptoms of what is wrong with this country and not the substance.

This quality can only come from a thinker, but naturally he may end up being abused by those that think less.

By Chukwuma Charles Soludo

In 40 years, Nigeria’s population will be approaching 400 million – if you believe the population figures. Before then (29 - 40 years), Nigeria’s oil would have finished. So far, we have earned over $600 billion from oil since 1973 but cannot guarantee any of the basic necessities to the citizens – food, water, good roads, electricity, education, health, etc. The NBS tells us that 40 per cent of Nigerians were food poor in 2010 meaning that they could not afford the basic nutritional intake. For 50 years since 1962, the central objective of economic policy has been a transformation or diversification of the economy away from dependence on primary commodities. It has not happened, and will probably not happen in the foreseeable future.


So, how is Nigeria preparing for a life without oil? Where is the emerging new economy that will support the burgeoning population? A few months ago, the NBS released the first quarter GDP growth rate for Nigeria, and the public response was uproar. Many, including a major opposition political party, a former president, organised private sector, some professionals and analysts openly questioned the figures. This is not a good sign. Some boldly asked: where did the growth come from? This is a deep question but one without yet an answer.


In the next few weeks, this column intends to challenge the hypothesis that we have correctly diagnosed the problems and the solutions known but the problem is to get ‘good leaders’ that will effectively implement. We shall show that the Nigerian economy is holed up in some structural traps, and if the current constitutional - political - and economic arrangements continue, we will continue to move in circles. Progress will be by fluke, with occasional three steps forward and five backwards.


Unfortunately, we do not have the luxury of time. The dynamics of the global economy and geopolitics is changing in fundamental ways with huge risks and uncertainties. We are in a world in which the old order is fast disintegrating, and there is a rapid structural rebalancing of economic power away from the Euro-American beltway to the Asia-Pacific and emerging markets. The rebalancing of economic power will inevitably entail a rebalancing of geo-political and perhaps even military power. I see a world economy in the near future with three dominant reserve currencies (US$, Euro, and Chinese Yuan/Renminbi) with all the instabilities this would entail, and a world economy with increasing turbulence where only those countries which are constantly ahead of the curve will continue to prosper.


Given the new landscape of struggle for geopolitical supremacy, oil and raw materials; pressures to create and preserve jobs for citizens at home while capital is mobile across boundaries; as well as contest for dominance of one currency over another (as the US struggles to maintain the seigniorage and subsidised cheap credit from the rest of the world as issuer of global reserve currency), the global economy will have to brace up for a bumpy ride ahead. Where is Nigeria in all of these? Is Nigeria preparing to cope in the new world of competition or are we running yesterday’s race, and continuously playing a ‘catch-up’ race? Can we win a nuclear war with our bows and arrows? These are issues for another day.


For now, we focus on the deep question of where growth comes from. Output of goods and services (GDP) is determined by the accumulation of factors of production (labour) and (capital – investment in plant, machinery and equipment) and the productivity of these factors (determined mainly by the knowledge and skills embodied in the workers). So, which of these factors- employment of labour, new investment or productivity drive output growth in Nigeria? If you believe the unemployment numbers and what many analysts call ‘jobless growth’, then the announced ‘growth’ can only be explained by rising investment and, or, rising productivity per worker.


On the supply side, the NBS latest figures show that the structure of the Nigerian economy has remained largely the same since the 1970s. The three dominant sectors and their shares of GDP are: agriculture (40%); wholesale and retail trade (20%) and crude petroleum (15%). Solid minerals sector (0.4%) is insignificant. These primary sectors and trading constitute 75 per cent of our national output, and also account for 99 per cent of exports. The so-called ‘modern sectors’ – manufacturing (4%); telecoms and post (5.7%); finance and insurance (3.5%); building and construction (2%); real estate (2%); and hotel and restaurant (0.5%)—all account for just 18 per cent. These are the sectors in which one would expect innovation and high value-adding jobs to occur.


The NBS says “agriculture in Nigeria is predominantly rain-fed”. It does not explain its growth in terms of increased investment or productivity improvements but in terms of weather. So, once we have clement weather, growth occurs. Irrigation is largely absent; average age of the peasant dominated sector is about 57 years with their hoes and machetes, and productivity per hectare is very low. Curiously, year-in-year out, the ‘growth’ of the sector is pre-set at 6-7 per cent. If it is not new investment and increased productivity or new employments, is it that rainfall improves each year to drive ‘growth’?


The manufacturing sector is largely comatose and declined from a share of 7 per cent of GDP in 1970s to 4 per cent currently. Our manufacturers are fighting a losing battle against the armada of imports from cheaper and more productive locations abroad. Given Nigeria’s membership of WTO, there is little room to manoeuvre. Most of the industries in Nnewi and Aba are closed, and if the data from MAN are correct, then the Lagos-Ibadan industrial axis as well as the textile industries in the North are in trouble.


Nigeria’s export of manufacturing is still less than 1 per cent (after more than 50 years of attempts at industrialisation whereas all our comparator countries such as Indonesia have more than 40%). We have not been able to utilise most of the preferences under the EU-ACP pacts under the Lome Conventions and Cotonou Agreement. The manufacturing sector today cannot compete. Many erroneously believe that once we fix power, industrialisation will automatically happen. It won’t. We have not begun to prepare to industrialise.


On crude petroleum, it is basically an issue of capacity utilisation. Given the installed output capacity of more than 3 million barrels per day, anytime we increase output from say, 2 million barrels per day to, say 2.7 million barrels, we would record a huge ‘growth’.
On the demand side, the components of national expenditure present interesting dynamics. The components and their shares of aggregate expenditure as computed from the NBS 2010 GDP Expenditure Report are: private final consumption (60%); government final consumption (15%); gross fixed capital formation (13%); and net exports (12%). Many imponderables in the said report make me raise serious caveats on the reliability of the figures.


The NBS report makes a very serious statement when it argues that “in Nigeria, national savings has always been greater than investment”. Given the huge idle capacity and potentials of the Nigerian economy, it requires an annual investment rate of at least 35- 40 per cent to jumpstart the road to prosperity. Our gross national saving rate averages 15 per cent, and investment rate is below that. For a country that is grossly undercapitalised to be a net exporter of savings (capital flight) abroad is serious. NBS also gives a clue as to where the bulk of the miniscule investment is going. According to it, “the country’s gross fixed capital formation is largely influenced by acquisitions of machinery and other equipment arising from increased crude oil and natural gas exploration activities as well as investments in transport equipment”. We also know that the foreign direct investment goes mostly to the enclave oil and gas sector.
If it is not employment and investment, is it then productivity that drives growth? I have not seen any empirical study that does not conclude that productivity in Nigeria is either negative or very low.


Yes, we have over 100 universities but the effective labour wage (wage adjusted for productivity) is not cheap. It is a common mistake to think that labour is cheap in Nigeria: it is not. Once you take account of productivity, labour in many respects can become very expensive. The pool of skills per 1000 workers is very low. As a visiting professor in the US in late 1990s, the entire administration of the Department of Economics was effectively run by one grandmother. Enough said for now! What is the quality of labour force produced by our educational system? There is little research and development (R&) happening. So, what will be our advantages to compete and win in today’s world economy?


This brings us to the key conclusion. Nigeria’s ‘growth’ story is largely an oil price and consumption story, with occasional jump in capacity utilisation and punctuated with bad data. Nigeria’s growth is cyclical and somewhat opportunistically tied to the swings in oil prices. When oil price booms, domestic aggregate demand—largely consumption—spurs the rest of the economy. According to NBS 2010, “government final consumption expenditure increased in real terms by 17.84 per cent in 2010 over the level recorded in 2009”. Government expenditure grew at almost three times the growth of the economy! This is the issue. Note that government here refers to aggregate of all governments at federal, state and local governments.


The consumption-based system fuels the ‘booming’ but unrecorded underground, largely criminal and speculative economy. This ‘booming sector’ is different from the informal sector, and involves activities in the speculative and criminal economy as well as briefcase-carrying rent-seeking activities (oil bunkering, corruption, asset price speculation, prostitution, drug trafficking, yahoo scammers or 419; kidnapping, armed robbery; smuggling; dealership in fake and substandard products; etc). The global criminal economy is estimated at over $4 trillion and Nigeria has its share. Today, a large proportion of potentially productive elite are trapped in this rent-driven sector, and it will take more than ‘reforms’ to re-engineer the system.


A collapse in oil prices also translates into catastrophic effects on the macro economy. If the oil price crashes to say $30 tomorrow, the economy and its ‘growth’ will collapse again. We experienced the same ‘growth boom’ during the first and second oil booms of mid 1970s, and 1979 - 81. Bear in mind that Nigeria is currently at about half of its per capita income of $2,300 in 1980. In so far as oil price continues to remain high and given our existing excess capacity, we will continue to have “one of the highest growth rates in the world”. But we know that it is a fluke: no country has prospered in the long term that way.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigeria-where-is-the-new-economy-/122764/

What they've cornered is the oil wealth, the real wealth is in the minds of the citizens you are limiting by insisting on this unproductive, oil-money sharing, lopsided unitary system of governance.

Going this far just to sell magazine!

The president is finally getting value for money.

Nigerian police can go to any length to make it appear they are working.
1)How do they know he was the gang leader? who identified him?
2)Have they tested the bullet rounds they found in the ammunition with it to confirm it tallies with 1 of those used in the senseless killing?
3)Hope this guy is not just a deadly arm robber that the police decided to use to pacify Nigerians?
If only you know the Nigerian police force you will never belief any police story until verified.

I know about the country called Nigeria
I know it is suppose to be headed by a President and C-in-C
I also know about Ogoniland, a new autonomous country entity within Nigeria
I know anybody can walk through the Nigerian porous border with any ammunition
I know there is nothing that identifies who a Nigerian is
I know parts of Nigeria is blessed with oil and the other parts depend on sharing oil proceeds
I know the process of sharing oil proceed is called economy in Nigeria
I also know that the process of protecting the sharing of oil proceeds is called patriotism
I know Nigeria does not really exist in the heart of Nigerians
I know corruption is very lucrative in Nigeria and it attracts no punishment
I know that Nigeria state is currently witnessing a Protest/Riot/Jihad/Riot Religious/Terrorist attack/war
What I don’t know is at what point a country can be declared failed. I need help!

I know about the country called Nigeria
I know it is suppose to be headed by a President and C-in-C
I also know about Ogoniland, a new autonomous country entity within Nigeria
I know anybody can walk through the Nigerian porous border with any ammunition
I know there is nothing that identifies who a Nigerian is
I know parts of Nigeria is blessed with oil and the other parts depend on sharing oil proceeds
I know the process of sharing oil proceed is called economy in Nigeria
I also know that the process of protecting the sharing of oil proceeds is called patriotism
I know Nigeria does not really exist in the heart of Nigerians
I know corruption is very lucrative in Nigeria and it attracts no punishment
I know that Nigeria state is currently witnessing a Protest/Riot/Jihad/Riot Religious/Terrorist attack/war
What I don’t know is at what point a country can be declared failed. I need help!

"He urged President Jonathan to urgently convene a Sovereign National Conference, SNC, which he said was long overdue"

The conference can be held now, during the war or after the war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RSFMrAupwo&feature=youtu.be

"Everything you say about Nigeria is controversial"

At least here is a Goodluck with balls!

Nigeria is generally backward. However, the North-South dichotomy is real and is widening. I am not happy about it. What the North or any other region lacks is not quota-system-enabled political appointments. These appointments have not fixed, neither are they about to fix Nigeria, they just give a sense of ego and ends there. If you really want to see how backward the North is, Google "BBC Nigeria a country divided".

aribisala0: There are many Yoruba men with a similar degree of fecundity.
There may be SOME parts of the North that are underperforming but to generalize and create a spurious North-South Dichotomy is not based on hard evidence.There are many pockets of backwardness in the South e.g in Yorubalan and many Yoruba men have children they can barely afford.I believe this happens elsewhere in the south too. This idea of brain washing is a fallacy The last few CJNs have been from the North. The most recent is Muslim and female and almost 70 so she was clearly educated quite a while back.We need to recognize our own prejudices for what they are.How many people on this thread has ever set foot inside a Northerner's house I wonder??

The story of the last Northern reign!

Quote from Mrs Monsurat Jumoke Sumonu's 10th December 2011 interview.

"I do my shopping mainly in England. I have not been able to shop in Nigeria because I still have more than enough clothes I brought from the UK. But for my regalia, I do buy them in Saudi Arabia whenever I go there for my Hajj."

Courageous youths in Rigasa, the volatile community in Kaduna State, this morning chased and captured two gunmen who allegedly specialize in killing security operatives and traditional rulers in the area.

One of the youths involved called the New York office of SaharaReporters with the story, which was then confirmed by a senior security operative.

The source in Rigasa said, “The three of them came with guns to kill one of our Hakimi and he ran. In trying to shoot him, they killed one of our brothers. We then mobilized ourselves and started chasing them with stones.

They were on a [motorbike] and we were following them up to Hayin Danmani and finally when their bullets finished we got them and wanted to kill but soldiers refused. But one of them escaped.

He described them as “very small” boys, and said, “From today we have vowed that we will not allow terrorists to continue denting our image [in Rigasa]. If not for the soldiers we will have killed them and burned them. Two guns AK 47 and some arms were [recovered] from the terrorists.”

The source added that about ten persons that sustained gun wounds were taken to a military hospital in Kaduna.

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/youths-rigasa-use-bare-hands-and-stones-capture-suspected-gunmen

“Nigeria Police officers are ‘top class’ comparable to those in Europe and other advanced countries”
“we are watchful and impressed with the performance of the Nigerian Police Contingent under UNMISS”
“the SRSG said the UN was particularly impressed with the Nigeria Police contingent because their expertise have been brought to bear in the areas of investigation, administration, community policing and building capacity where the South Sudanese Police was really lacking.”

These are the some of the observations and accolades, I think this is impressive.

Is already flooded with corruption.