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People also don't consider that the number of ports need to more or less reflect the size of the economy.

Everybody wants a port in his backyard.

But ports are businesses, not charities.

If there's not enough goods going through them, they will be loss making, and become moribund as investment will divert to profitable ports.

There is Calabar. There is Onne. And Warri. Akwa Ibom is planning to build one. Ondo wants a port too.

Mr Dangote is planning to build the largest port in Nigeria in Ogun.

Haba, where are the goods (import & export) to fill these ports and make them all profitable.

If there is Apapa, Tin Can, Lekki, and the proposed Dangote port, I don't see an immediate need for another port in nearby Ondo.

That's good.

Goods that are primarily intended for the South South, South East, North East, and part of North Central should use ports in the South South that are close to them.

It makes economic sense.

However, any assumption that a fully operational Calabar port will economically transform Calabar, let alone Cross River, or adjoining state is misplaced.

The largest port in the UK is in a small town of about 30,000. In France,the largest port is a small town.

There has been no magical economic transformation of either town. The large prosperous cities of London, and Paris don't have Ports.

Today's modern port function so efficiently that it is just like collecting a consignment from an organised warehouse. Trucks drive into the port town/city, and within 2 hours, they are out heading to their destination. The economic impact of a port on the local economy of its location is not as significant when the port operates smoothly.

If you drive past Lekki Ports, you won't even know there is a port there because it operates so efficiently.

The days when Nigerian ports are a behive of activity with hundreds of trailers waiting, and thousands of people milling around thus creating increased economic activity is coming to an end.

He will. Eventually.

However, one would think a party leader who was genuinely concerned about the release of those children would have issued a press release by now.

Mr Kwankwaso is trying to win some people to his side with an eye towards 2031.

Just 3 years ago, he said he didn't rate Mr Obi.

Today, he still doesn't care about Mr Obi's interest in 2027.

He's just pretending.

The description of the road is inaccurate.

It is Oluku junction (Benin) all the way to Ibadan passing through Akure, Ilesha, Ife, Ikirum, then Ibadan.

They started Ilesha to Ibadan last year. Now they are facing the other side to Akure and Benin.

One road, several towns, villages, and multiple cities.

This is an incredible project.

Many Nigerians just don't appreciate the significance of Mr Tinubu's massive cross-country road projects.

For decades to come, Nigerians will remember a certain President called Tinubu.

The best Nigerian President/Leader ever. Full stop.

Beautiful.

It didn't even occur to me that Adire was seen by some people as a Yoruba thing, until this NYSC bruhaha.

Aso Oke is Yoruba's traditional wear.

I don't know any Yoruba person that 'feels' Yoruba because they're wearing adire, in a way that wearing Aso Oke makes you feel.

Besides, you don't want Adire because it is made primarily in Abeokuta (part of your country) but you want Khaki and T shirts that are made in China, a foreign country

You want the Government to patronise Innoson motors made in the East (I support), but you don't want the Government to use a clothing material made in the West. As a Northerner you insist Arabic must remain on the naira (even though majority of Nigerians in other parts of the country can't read the language), and no one cares, but you don't want a Nigerian institution to adopt a clothing material because according to you, it is associated with a particular section of the country. Ok o.

And I'm sure Adire can by made in any part of Nigeria by those who want to. Learning to make it surely can't take more that 3 months.

But some Nigerians would rather hurt themselves on the alter of tribalism.

In any case, the outfit can be made from locally sourced materials from the North and the East.

They can drop Adrire. Yorubas are instinctively disinclined to fight for cultural supremacy with anyone. You don't do that when you're so confident about your culture.

Any way as long as it is a local material, any suitable local material from any part of Nigeria, it is better than foreign import.

It is easy to say, give powerful arms like AK 47 to local vigilantes and private security companies.

The result will be disastrous for Nigeria.

Many of those powerful arms will end up in the wrong civilian hands. Armed robbery will explode. Kidnapping and terrorism will become worse.

Give it a few years, the violence in the country will be several times worse than it is today, and civil war will be just around the corner.

The best thing is to leave powerful arms in the hands of the police (State and Federal) where there will still be a modicum of monitoring of which officer handles what ammunition.

South Africans have behaved badly.

That's no reason for thoughtless reprisals by Nigerian citizens.

The government will know how react in a subtle but painful way that inflicts serious economic and diplomatic pain on South Africa.

That's where it should end.

Even Mr Trump was complaining a few days ago that US petroleum companies were refusing to reduce prices despite the fall in crude prices.

He threatened that he would initiate an investigation of the oil companies.

In a free market, a government cannot dictate to businesses what price they should sell their products.

The Nigerian government doesn't have the legal authority to impose a price on Dangote refinery.

Like Mr Trump in the US, Nigeria's competition commission can only threaten an investigation. And such investigation can last several months or years as Dangote refinery will rush to court to grind any investigation to ground.

What the government needs to do is ensure that companies that want to import get the necessary icences so that there is competition.

Best President / Head of State in the history of Nigeria.

Making fundamental changes one after the other.

Who asked for his opinion.

Didn't he say we the public are not entitled to know his plans

Very outmoded way of thinking.

There are males and females who don't like sex much naturally. It's not weird.

Why should such person not marry.

You're the pastor that say people should not have sex before marriage. You're also the one saying such person should not marry if they don't like sex.

How will a person who did not have sex before marriage know they don't like sex until after marriage

1. Efo riro.

2. Edikaikon.


They are not bad, but they leave you wondering, what's the noise about.

I sill haven't found anything under the sun that beats a well cooked egusi (not the white or watery type).

muyico:
If you can fully handle frustrations ??

The gentleman should make the move to Lagos, though Abuja might be better since he would be closer to home.

RichBoy247:
Shey na APC contest against itself in all the bye elections in the different states? Where are Obidients nah? Where are Aregbesola, Amaechi, David Mark, Atiku, big fat Dele Momodu and other Internally Displaced Politicians?

They have more important issues like internal rancour, lack of money, and above all, too many court cases, to deal with.

These issues are draining. ADC, and NDC know they can't win the 2027 elections. But they need to make a lot of noise on Arise and social media to deceive their supporters.

nairalanda1:
This is a bad sign for the elections. For the opposition.

APC is winning all their elections. This should not happen.

APC is battle-tested in elections in a way that neither NDC nor ADC is.

That election experience that APC has which neither of the new parties has is a big advantage for APC.

APC also has the people on ground, the nation-wide reach, and above all, the money.

Structure is a key advantage for APC, and PDP.

Even as broken as PDP is, there are still millions of ardent PDP supporters up and down the country. They grew up with it. It is all they know.

APC is getting to that level of inalienable support too because it too has been around for a while now.

However, new parties like NDC, and ADC are simply not well known to people in towns and villages in many parts of the country.

That's a big disadvantage for them going into the 2027 elections.

APC's biggest problem in the SW come 2027 is the typical voter apathy of people here.

Over the years, many Yorubas have steadily lost interest in voting.

Other than that, APC will win at least 70% of the votes in the Presidential election in all SW states.

Outside of Lagos, NDC will likely get less than 5% in Ondo, Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti and Osun.

ADC is unlikely to get more than 5% in Ondo, Osun, Ekiti, and Ogun.

A problem for ADC, and NDC is that in the South West (aside Lagos), most people don't know about them.

Most Nigerian voters are not on social media where most of the noise is.

There is a party called BP?

Fantastic.

Mr Tinubu. Best Nigerian President / Head of State since independence (65 years!)

Their currency will become like Zimbabwe's within a year.

And then the resulting hyper inflation will make them poorer than before the government doled out the money.

They'll beg their government to stop paying them that amount and return prices of goods to how they were before, but it would be too late.

Did these people sleep through economics class in secondary school or what

It's the same with Nigeria's NLC that wants a minimum wage of N700,000 per month. I laugh.

Oh dear, but we were told NDC was a holier-than-thou party that would usher in a new Nigeria.

So this is their version of a new Nigeria.

Mr Obi's supporters will see nothing wrong in this.

But imagine if Mr Tinubu's son is named as deputy Governor candidate of Lagos State. Mr Obi would lecture us about 'State capture', and his followers would go into a morbid mental combustion crying to the United Nations, FIFA, UNESCO etc

It is the middle of the night. You are comfortably in your house.

Yet, many army and other defence personnel are in in camps in forests having finished today's fighting waiting to be commanded to start again in the morning.

Many of them have died in this fight, and many more will sadly still die in standing up terrorists to protect us all.

All you have in your heart for them is to call them weak?

The Op lamented why Nigeria is not using its resource wealth to develop the numerous sectors he mentioned.

Where is this massive resource wealth?

From producing only 1.5 million barrels of oil per day? Nigeria should have 24hr electricity, pipe borne water for over 200 million people, world class research institutions and sports facilities, excellent roads all over the country, world class medical centres for 200 million people etc

Op is unrealistic. He's one of millions of Nigerians who erroneously go around believing Nigeria is a rich country.

For context, Nigeria's effective budget is no more than $30 billion per annum. South Africa's bugdet is more than $130 billion for a population that's less than half of Nigeria.

And in those countries citizens and enterprises pay tax.

In Nigeria, the overwhelming majority don't pay any tax, and are up in arms at the mere mention of it. Yet they wonder why the country can't build the infrastructure they see in some countries.

Delusion.

jahsharon:
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If they don’t, Tinubu will pass it without their input. He did it with LG Autonomy

That is not possible.

A President cannot sign into law, a bill that has not been passed by both the House of Rep and the Senate.

When it is a Constitutional amendment, as in this case, then in addition to the bill passing in the 2 houses, it must be passed by not less than two-thirds of State Houses of Assembly before it goes to the President for signing.

There are no short cuts. The above processes are sacrosanct.

And the President has not signed any local government bill that bypassed any of those processes.

Being enveloped by that for more than a minute must be very dangerous for a human.

The power of nature.

Another country the opposition loved back then was Argentina. Mr Atiku lambasted Mr Tinubu for not following Argentina's example.

Since then, Nigeria's economy has stabilised and growing.

Argentina's economy on the other hand became so bad, Mr Trump had to find an emergency $20 billion to lend Argentina to save the economy from collapsing patapata. Argentina is still not stable.

For almost 2 years now,Mr Atiku has gone quiet on Argentina. He doesn't mentiion it anymore

I was surprised yesterday when my ardent (pre - Wike) PDP supporter who has always disliked APC and Mr Tinubu turned to me and said 'these people think they can use insecurity to destabilise us and make us vote out Tinubu, they're joking'. Oops

Up until a few weeks ago, this guy was so anti Tinubu, he would walk away if you mentioned that name. Now, he has changed because he believes there is a motive behind the sudden rise of insecurity in the SW. People here initially blamed the government (they still do to some extent), but they now see the bigger picture.

Most Yoruba people have woken up to the insidious plan of certain elements in this country. They know the game plan is about the 2027 elections.

Yoruba people are unlikely to queue up in the sun to vote Mr Atiku particularly as they many of them now believe certain elements are trying to armtwist and blackmail them with insecurity. Unfortunately for Mr Atiku, he will bear the brunt of the pushback by SW people come 2027. ADC will be lucky to get up to 5% of the votes in any SW state.

NDC will naturally get some votes in Lagos, but will not get up to 5% in any other SW state.

Gtb charged me over N7200 as account management fee last month.

That's more than N85,000 per year

My other accounts too.

Banking in Nigeria is highway robbery.

The CBN needs to cancel all these pilfering by banks.

These things matter.

All the signs are already there that Mr Kwankwaso feels he's superior.

And this is not the first time. On a previous occasion, he literally grabbed something from Mr Obi's hand, almost aggressively.

The man clearly thinks he is above the law.