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Also how do you identify a good leader.

Someone that is nice? honest? not interested in stealing money?

Even if you have a person that has all those attributes, that does not guarantee he will be able to change Nigeria.

You mean the corruption, theft, greediness that is endemic all over the country will suddenly change because the President is a good man.

The bad actors - kidnappers, bandits, terrorists etc will get an epiphany and stop their activities because...the President of Nigeria is a 'good' man?

That's fantasy. Ain't happening.

If the problem was all about the leaders, how come Nigeria has not found a single good leader since 1960 to turn things around.

A 'good leader' in today's Nigeria will be so constrained by vested interests that he will spend less than 2 years in the role before people start calling him 'useless'.

Also, a leader is just one person. In addition to being good, the leader also have to find hundreds of thousands of 'good' people to be ministers, civil servants, military officers, police men, political appointees etc at both federal, state, and local government levels.

He will also need millions of other 'good' people like vulcanisers, tailors, welders, traders, middlemen, car washers, filling station operators. You can name any category of Nigerians. Most of them are all of the same mold - dishonest, deceitful, greedy, corrupt, selfish, ungovernable etc So where are the good people in Nigeria.

Goodluck finding a civilian leader that can fundamentally change Nigeria. The usual claim that if a Nigerian leader sets a good example, Nigerians will change their bad ways is fanciful.

The problems of Nigeria are more complex than just findind a good eader.

WannaHowzit:
Hmmm, SA economy managed to become Africa's largest with less than 1% growth 🤔🇿🇦🏆

It did not become Africa's largest economy by economic growth. The South African economy has had little to no growth in the padt 10 years. The only reason it is tge largest economy in Africa now is because of the devaluation of the naira.

Imagine Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa being students in a class. For about 10 years, Nigeria was the best student, always coming first with an average mark of 70 out of 100.

During that same period, South Africa usually scored 62 marks to come 2nd and Egypt 54 to com 3rd.

Then in the 11th year, Nigeria falls ill (naira devaluation), and is unable to perform well in school. As a result, he is now scoring 45, instead of 75 that he used to score. South Africa is now scoring 59 and Egypt 51.

South Africa is now first in the class, while Egypt is 2nd, and Nigeria is 4th.

But you can see that South Africa is not first because it is performing better than before. Infact, it's current score of 59 is less than the 62 it used to score. It is first because the student (Nigeria) that used to come first is struggling.

If the naira improves to around $1000, Nigeria will be first again in Africa. Nigeria is only suffering a temporary setback.

Looking to the future, Nigeria will be the undisputed giant of Africa. In terms of the size of the economy, South Africa will be no match for Nigeria. Assuming Nigeria gets its act together.

Xxxxtentacion2:
It's all positive news from south Africa while the criminals in Nigeria are only looting our wealth

South Africa's economy is forecast to grow by 1% in 2024. You say it is good news.

A few days ago, it was reported that Nigeria 's economic growth was trending at over 3% for 2024. Yet, you are happier celebrating a worse economic performance by a foreign country

1% growth this year will be South Africa's best performance in 10years! Whereas in the past 10 years, I doubt there has been a year when Nigeria's economy has not grown by at least 2%.

As for looting, only a few days ago, the South African government announced it was investigating over $7 billion dollars of stolen government money.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/International/wireStory/south-africa-investigating-alleged-corruption-7b-top-state-113188629

But according to you, South Africa is a paragon of honest living. A 'sane' country as you people like to say.

What do you gain from loathing your own country so much.

flokii:
One thing I however acknowledge as true in the soldier's video is that the act based on orders.. The Military won't engage armed bandits if they don't have orders from their top hierachy to do so. The thing now is for the C-in-C to issue that marching order to the Military that supersedes all others.

I get where you're coming from, but the C-in-C can give whatever order he likes, if the heads of the highest security agencies and the military can't execute the orders, the order is as good as meaningless.

If the Chief of Army Staff, for example, tries to execute the C-in-C's order, he will have to do it through the chain of command below him.

You only need one dodgy senior officer in that chain for that command to break down.

That is why previous Presidents were constantly changing the heads of the military with no permanent improvement because it is not just about the heads.

I suspect it is usually a few individuals within the lower ranks that undermine things.

One has to feel sorry for the field personnel who do the actual fighting. It must be difficult being sent into battles not knowing whether someone within your organisation is feeding information to the trouble makers.

tito44:
I am not here to argue with a tribal scûm paid peanuts by the government to churn propaganda.

Mention the security positions you claimed are occupied by Yorubas. You couldn't.

No surprise you resorted to the usual default of abuse.

tito44:
This one is trying to be clever by half. More than half of all security and defence positions in Nigeria currently is manned by Yorubas. Stop lying unnecessarily

You're deceiving yourself. List the security positions occupied by Yorubas.

The positions I listed in my previous comments are the most important in the country's security architecture.

Even if the Chief of Defense Staff is Yoruba, and I don't know if he is, he is not as central in the day to day strategic fight against insecurity as the Chief of Army Staff, NIA, and the NSA.

flokii:
He is not being sincere.. insurgency started way before PBAT assumed office in 2023.. as far back as OBJ's tenure. The thing got worse when GEJ a Southerner took power after late President Yar'adua's death.

I am not sure the guy said it started with this President. But it has continued under him, like the other Presidents.

Just wait until it is about a year to the next election. Then you will see the whole thing escalate to a new level.

That was what happened to Mr Jonathan.

Yet, in the lead up to Mr Buhari 2nd term election, insecurity appeared to reduce tangibly. Even though these trouble makers also gave Mr Buhari hell, it seemed they put some political factors into consideration.

This tells me that some (not all) of the insecurity in that part of Nigeria is sponsored by disgruntled people.

Some of these people are into illegal mining of mineral resources like gold and others. These illegal business runs into tens of millions of dollars.

When a President puts a Southerner in charge of dealing with terrorists and bandits, Northern politicians oppose and do everything possible to destabilise that President, especially if the President is from the South. They did that to Mr Jonathan.

There was a Chief of Army Staff from the South East that did quite well against terrorists then. I can't remember his name. Certain elements from the North wanted him removed.

The current President wanted to avoid all that palaver by putting virtually all the key defence offices in Northern hands, yet no improvement.

NIA - Northerner
NSA - Northerner
Minister of Defense - Northerner
Deputy Minister for Defense - Northerner
Chief of Army Staff - Northerner
DSS - Northerner, until he resigned a few days ago.

Not that I know whether the 'military personnel' quoted is fake or not.

However, it is just curious that all these years the entire security agencies still don't have basic technologies to trace and locate the trouble makers.

No be small thing o.

The government needs to find a legal way to clip the wings of this NLC.

The police invited the man. No big deal. If you or you organisation has committed a crime under the law, the police can prosecute you - again, no big deal.

The NLC thinking they're bigger than the law just shows how weak the present government is.

Under Mr Buhari, ASUU went on strike for 8 months. The man did not bat an eyelid and refused to pay their salary during the 8 months. Nobody begged ASUU before they returned to work and even after going back to work, Mr Buhari still refused to pay them.

The current President generously paid 4 months out of the 8 months despite the fact that under the 'no work, no pay' rule applied by Mr Buhari, they were not entitled to the 8 months salary.

The current government has also settled the minimum wage with NLC.

Yet, every little thing, the NLC threatens to shut the country down.

Could they try this under Mr Buhari. Absolutely not.

This is good.

Many junior staff are aware of thefts of public funds and other dodgy dealings by senior civil servants and politicians, but they won't say anything because they rightly fear for their jobs.

If the whistle blower law will protect those who provide inside information, then that will help the fight (however small) against corruption.

moneyest:
Chai

We don enter am for this country

Aljazeera just warned that in few weeks, 26.5 million Nigerian people are at risk of completely running out of food.

Let us keep pretending that all is well by deluding ourselves with fraudulent gdp growth, ogun IGR and APC mega rally in Edo. By the time this Okpolor eye is done with this corntree, South Sudan will be sending palliatives & relief packages to Nigerians.

These are challenging times for most countries in the world. Nigeria's challenges are more than many countries, but there are countries that are in worse economic situation than Nigeria.

Try Egypt, Lebanon, Argentina, Turkey.

What is important is that the government's of the various countries do their best to bring relief to their people.

I think the Nigerian government has taken many useful decisions since coming into power, and I believe these decisions will lead to much improvement for ordinary people over the coming months.

As for Aljazera, the TV station is merely promoting its own Northern moslem agenda.

It is amazing how many of you, supposedly educated Southerners, lack the ability to see through the alarmist agenda of certain TV stations.

You probably also lap up everything that comes out of Arise TV as the truth because, like I said, their agenda suits you.

CodeTemplarr:
people cant feed you are talking of mopping up the small change they have to curb inflation. Inflation caused by increased cost of production or low productivity dont fear liquidity dynamics. They humble equilibrium and make a mockery of textbook jargon.

When they say there is excess liquidity, it doesn't mean the cash you and I and millions of ordinary Nigerians have in bank accounts or in our pockets.

Th N22 trillion 'Ways and Means' that Mr Buhari's government 'borrowed' from Mr Emefiele's CBN is widely acknowledged to have been largely stolen, as there are no traceable evidence of what that money was used for.

Just get that into perspective- N22 trillion, not billions!

That money is in the economy and not used for any production. That is one of the reasons for our high inflation.

The CBN has to find a way to remove most of that money from the system otherwise high inflation will remain a permanent feature of Nigeria's economy for several years to come.

One of the ways CBN can do it is to issue treasury bills to entice those hiding the excess liquidity to buy treasury bills so that their money can be taken out of the economy for some time in return for payment of interest by the CBN.

The CBN's efforts will help to bring down inflation and this will benefit ordinary Nigerians.

Issuance of treasury bills is a necessity at this point and the CBN will have to continue to issue treasury bills from time to time. It is an ongoing effort.

Treasury bills is also a way to mop up excess liquidity (cash) from circulation.

Excess cash is one of the drivers of Nigeria's endemic high inflation.

As part of the CBN's efforts to bring down prices of goods and services, it will continue to issue treasury bills.

You can't say you want prices to come down, but when the CBN takes action including issuing treasury bills, you rush to Nairaland with a thread headed 'CBN to borrow on behalf of Federal Government' as if it is a bad thing.

Every country in the world issues treasury bills on a regular basis, with the USA having the largest treasury bills program in the world.

Infact, the USA government issues treasury bills EVERY WEEK. See the link below:
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https://treasurydirect.gov/auctions/general-auction-timing/#:~:text=delay%20the%20pattern.-,Treasury%20Bills,bills%20are%20offered%20each%20week.

1. Student loan

2. Local government autonomy

3. Reducing the proportion of Nigeria's total revenue that is used to repay debt from 94% under Mr Buhari to 63% now.

4. Making a Southerner FCT Minister

5. Merging the 2 fraud-ridden exchange rates under Mr Buhari

6. Increasing our crude oil production from 1.1 million barrels under Mr Buhari to 1.7millionbarrels now.

I can go on.

And all of that was achieved within 18months of Mr Tinubu coming to power.

No elected President of Nigeria has achieved that much in such space of time.

However, his government needs to drive down inflation. That is what most people care about.

Oh dear

Funkyswagzz:
Same way you won't accept jakande was the first person who said Lagos is no man's. And we ask you people today who is the prominent Igboman that said but you can't provide him. Isn't that misinformation too?

Ok let's assume Igbos said it, how come you now saw it from another angle unlike jakande who said it

See there are people you guys can play smart on and we know them.

You seem to view a lot of things from a tribal lens.

I have no interest in that.

Funkyswagzz:
You go come explain taya your hand go dey pain you. No worry after tinubu do comot we will see what he did.

I am only providing the truth to people who are interested.

Arise TV, ThisDay Newspaper, and the other merchants of misinformation on social media are not relenting in their misinformation business.

I can't match them, but the little I can do to bring the truth, I will.

Cruzmaster:
And yet, the federal government have not build anything there.

I thought the new coastal road was going through there. Anyway, I don't know.

Even if the Federal government is merely recovering the land because it belongs to it, Landmark can only plead and lobby the government. It cannot claim a right to deny federal government its land as Landmark was doing, wrongfully accusing the government.

If a friend asks you permission to use your pickup for business. He must know it is not a gift that he can hold on to forever. If you then want your pick-up back because you need it, or indeed for whatever reason, you would think your friend would be pleading with you if he still needs the pickup. And if you say no, you really need it back, you would expect him to accept your position in good faith.

The last thing you would expect is for your friend to go to the market place, start wailing that you have destroyed his life! That he desperately needs the pick - up, but your wickedness would not allow you let him continue to use it.

I am sure you would be shocked by your friend's behaviour and ingratitude.

freakyavia:
if you followed the case they acquired the right s to use the beaches by the Lagos state government for a limited time under the tourism act he breached the contracted


this APC led government is aimed at using Nigeria as their tools what is the use of new routes when you can easily maintain the previous ones?

In law, a right to use is basically a License. And a license is just another word for permission.

Also, in law, a license is not a right. It is a privilege. That is why the Licensor (Owner) can usually withdraw the license anytime.

Think of it this way, if you own something, would you need another person's license/permission to use it.

So, if Landmark obtained a License from Lagos State to use the beach, that is proof that Landmark did not own the beach/land.

In other words, opportunities still exist in Nigeria.

As some old, tired, mostly colonial, and exploitative foreign companies leave because they can't compete or their products are no longer popular, smart Nigerians are stepping in to take advantage.

These type of Nigerians are not on social media every minute abusing government even if they're not happy with some policies.

Instead, they buckle down and look for opportunities here to better themselves. These sort of people are not interested in US, Canada, UK visa because they know that, in spite of everything, they're better off staying in Nigeria than being 3rd class low paid citizens abroad.

kettykings:
The federal government is very very lucky that landmark is owned by a Nigerian and not a Chinese otherwise very key government properties overseas would have been used to compensate landmark.

There is no equivalence with what is happening with the Chinese company.

The Chinese company had a lawful written contract which Ogun State government appears to have breached unlawfully. So they are right to pursue their claims in court.

In Landmark's case, even if Landmark was Chinese, American or from Mars, it would have no justiciable claim in any court, whether in Nigeria or abroad.

You cannot base a claim on an illegality.

For example, you put a tennis court on your neighbour's land because the man is not around. When the neighbour returns at a future date, he has a right to tell you to remove the tennis court, because he wants to build on his land.

Instead of accepting and removing the tennis court, you rush to the media including CNN to accuse your neighbour of wickedness and of victimising you.

So your neighbour should abandone his own project just because you say so.

Islie:
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/08/26/report-demolition-of-landmark-beach-forcing-investors-to-relocate-to-other-jurisdictions-in-africa/

Nlfpmod

The 'beach' is the land immediately adjourning the ocean. That belongs to the Federal government.

Landmark building is what Landmark owns, and that was not destroyed in any way.

If you build a swimming pool on the beach that belongs to federal government (like Landmark did) and the federal government needs its land to build a public infrastructure, what do you expect the federal government to do.

The claim in this article that federal government destroyed Landmark's business is clearly untrue. The Landmark building and business is still there.

If the government destroyed Landmark's lawful business, the man would have gone to court. But he hasn't because his lawyer will have told him he has no case. He will lose.

EreluRoz:
This our government ehn it's one of it's kind. May God help Nigeria

A man voluntarily resigning from a job is not a problem.

Even if the speculation that he was asked to resign for doing a poor job is true, the government is entitled to ask a poor performing appointee to resign.

The man, head of NIA - from the North.
Mr Ribadu, NSA - from the North.
Minister of defence - from the North
Minister of State for defence- from the North.
Chief of Army Staff - from the North.

I don't have a problem with them being from the North. However, one would think they would have a better grip of the ongoing security challenges in the North.

But that is not proving to be the case.

The government is right to review their positions and ask the non-performing ones to go.

I have just done a quick research online, cement is currently cheaper in Nigeria than many Wesst African countries.

$6 per bag in Nigeria.
$8 per bag in Ghana.

More expensive in Cameroon too.

IJEYdiamond:
So cement in chad..... is 1600... where as in Nigeria that has the natural resources to produce is 8,000 naria..
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The article says $1600. Not naira. So, that's about N250,000 per bag.

May be this $1600 is an error in the write up.

N250,000 ke? How are people building houses in those countries.

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So cement is about N250,000 per bag in some neighbouring countries? Wow.

Same with petrol. Even at N1,000 per litre, petrol here is still cheaper than neighbouring countries

It seems to me that the affordability challenges in Nigeria is not solely about price but about salaries and incomes being too low.

Over the last 20 years or so, Nigerian salaries have have not kept up with inflation.

Oando's deal to buy out ENI started about 3 years ago under Mr Buhari. Basically it has taken 3 years. Other Nigerian oil companies have done similar deals with Shell and Mobil in recent years and those deals were completed in less than 3 years.

So how is Oando's 3 years accelerated.

The agreement to drop international court cases against Shell and ENi regarding OPL 245 is a necessary one. The scandal started under GEJ or OBJ, and has been rumbling on for several years in European courts with no sign of conclusion.

For nearly 10 years, it has not been possible to produce any crude oil from OPL 245 due to the cases, yet, as a country we desperately need to produce more crude oil.

Mr Buhari continued with the cases. The current President decided to drop the cases, so that Shell and Eni can start exploring from the well.

As OPL 245 is likely to produce bumper amount of crude oil, and we are desperate, I think dropping the cases is the correct decision.

Mr Atiku say the government must support Dangote refinery. Now, the government has taken a decision that will help us to have more crude oil available to our refineries, Mr Atiku cries foul.

Mr Atiku. What exactly do you want.

I listened to Chief Bode's George's interview from beginning to end, there was not a single tribe-related view there.

He said after Buhari's 8 years, PDP should have followed their party constitution by zoning their presidential candidacy to the South.

He also said allowing another Northerner to lead Nigeria immediately after Mr Buhari would have created a lot of problems in the country. On this basis, he said he didn't think Mr Atiku as president would have been good for the country.

What's tribalistic here.

The man was just expressing his personal political opinion.

Chief George has also criticised the current President many times. I don't recall Mr Atiku criticising Mr Buhari at any time during the latter's 8 years.

You go to another man's territory and constitute yourself as a 'Oba of Yoruba'.

How is that possible.

His title should be 'Chairman' or even better 'Coordinator' of his Yoruba Association there.

If he refuses to respect the local community or the State government's request on this, he should be promptly arrested - if he has broken Enugu State's law.

People go around causing trouble.

Unless your business absolutely needs Nigerian staff maybe due to market knowledge, you're better of with foreigners.

Recently, a friend narrated his ongoing experience in the hands of his staff to me. Most are pure thieves. Some talk to him with juju. Many are just inefficient and care only about their salary.

When I asked why he doesn't replace them, his response was that he has replaced many over the years, but they are all the same.

As I speak now, the guy is abroad trying to recover from stress.

I know people who refuse to set up any new business or expand. They'd say, 'I can't kill myself'.

Nigerians. Very difficult people.

greenermodels:
From 1987 till today, no cjn from the southeast,I laugh at one Nigeria. No university in the southeast and south south benefited from the ongoing students loans, I laugh even harder at one Nigeria.

You are not correct about the student loan. University of Benin was represented in the first list. By the time they publish the 2nd list many more universities will be represented.

The truth is, most Southerners dismiss every government initiative as propaganda and fake. Take off is also poor in the South West.

The student loan scheme was consistently dismissed as fake here on Nairaland and in social media despite government's efforts to publicise it. Many, mostly Southerners did not bother to apply.

Northerners on the other hand don't joke with government schemes, hence the high take-up in the North.

You can't blame government in this instance.