₦airaland Forum

nazicartel:
Hausa caps everywhere... We will repeat Buhari's government chapter two with this man... E better make I deh see Yoruba cap everywhere pass this one ooo... If you mistakenly go to that nnpc office at Abj you will understand what I'm talking about

Southerners supporting Atiku, another Northerner from the same tribe as Mr Buhari just don't get it.

If Atiku wins, that's potentially 16yrs of continuous presidency from the same tribe.

All the major & important federal agencies - CBN, NNPC, NLNG, FIRS and so on will continue to be stuffed with employees from Atiku's region.

The domination over Southerners will be permanently irreparable.

Presidency needs to come to the South.

It's still around $670 to a dollar.

It seems churlish to rush to the media to claim credit for what might be a temporary N40 difference.

This your analysis ehn...

Lol

Once campaign proper starts and the big boys - APC and PDP roll out their formidable campaign machinery, Mr Obi's campaign will lose some of the attention it is currently enjoying.

1. Read your history.


Mr Obi is clearly not doing enough to allay the concerns of some Nigerians about alleged (rightly or wrongly) propensity to dominate others.

Atiku's campaign spokesman is from North Central. Tinubu's campaign DG is from North East. But Mr Obi's campaign DG is, wait for it...from his side.

2. Mr obi even said the present constitution is fine. So, no restructuring. No rotation of Presidency. Meaning no root and branch reform. Oddly enough, some people have kept mute. Hmm...we know why. But if this statement was made by Tinubu (particularly) or Atiku, social media would have been turned upside down.

3. Someone from Mr Obi's side said earlier today that the South South should never have existed. Is this the nonsensical view of one individual, or a corporate agenda of the Labour party. As a South South person, I'm now worried that a Mr Obi administration will cancel our region & merge us into servitude under the South East.

Mr Obi must do more to assure worried Nigerians that he is a nationalist.

Peter Obi is a gift to Tinubu.

Without him, PDP will coast to victory.

By destroying PDP's traditional strong hold in the SE and parts of SS, it will give Tinubu a chance of victory.

But why should Obi quit for Atiku, when Atiku was not even prepared to pick him as VP.

Official campaign is not starting until September.

It's not the end of the world if a candidate chooses to wait until campaign starts before discussing his plans and ideas with the public.

Why are you in a hurry.

You have your own university. So?

What are your ideas for resolving the problems with ASUU.

Atiku's challenge in the South will become insurmountable if Oyo State governor who is also opposed to Atiku, cuts a deal with Tinubu.

Tinubu is a deal maker. If necessary, he will sacrifice Oyo APC governorship election for the PDP Governor's re-election.

Once Oyo Governor (the only PDP governor in the SW) is on side, it will weaken PDP across the entire SW.

In fact, Tinubu must do a deal with the Oyo Governor otherwise he won't get up to 60% of SW votes.

As things stand today, PDP (Atiku) can win Ondo, get up to 40% of votes in Oyo, Ogun, and Osun. Those who assume all those who have voted PDP all their lives will suddenly change and vote for Tinubu are mistaken.

Many voters are very tribal about their party. Many PDP local leaders in the SW are hungry after nearly 8 years of APC. They are desperate for a PDP federal govt in order to get back to sharing the national cake. It won't matter to them whether the PDP presidential candidate is Kanuri or Togolese. Their pocket, not Tinubu's ambition, is their priority. They will marshall their followers to vote PDP.

So, Tinubu must get Seyi Makinde on side.

Until a few months ago, when it started appearing in my you tube recommendations, I wasn't aware of Arise TV becos I didn't watch any Nigerian news channel.

I vaguely remembered there was Channels TV. Not seen NTA anywhere for about 15yrs. I'm just not interested.

Back to arise. I have now watched a few of their interviews - the ones hosted by Mr Abati, and 2 others.

I quickly observed that:

1. Too often, the hosts can't resist taking things too personal. If they feel slighted by a guest, they won't hesitate to respond in like manner The Abiola lady even used the platform to attack her sister. Abati launched his infamous personal attack on Wike. Very unprofessional lot.

2. The hosts lack the capacity to ask penetrating questions. Their questions are too often simplistic, tedious, and dense.

3. On nairaland, I've been hearing one Rufai this, Rufai that, so I've been curious to watch the guy...and my observation? Very average, play-to-the-gallery interviewer.

The guy on Channels, Okin Balogun or something, is far more incisive, capable, balanced and professional than anything on Arise

Keyamo is going to be a big problem for PDP.

His more subtle, intelligent, yet combative style contrasts sharply with Dino Melaye's loud, abusive, and generally off-putting approach.

PDP has shot itself in the foot with Melaye's appointment. It is an own goal.

Oshiomole's performance in his Arise TV interview the other day was also brilliant.

In Oshiomole and Kenyamo, APC has formidable spokesmen.

These 2 interviews also confirmed my observation that the 3 Arise interviewers are not very good at asking penetrating questions. They struggle any time they come across effective interviewees.

If Atiku wins, Dino Milaye will have to be compensated with an appointment.

Minister Ambassador

Nigeria. Chai.

Oshio is rock solid. Very fit and impeccably lucid.

I was very impressed with his performance during the interview with Arise. He was well prepared, calm, and spoke impressively.

The 3 arise interviewers were spell bound.

Chai.

He clearly didn't think his actions through properly, perhaps due to his desperation to help his daughter.

I feel sorry for him. The humiliation. I can only imagine what the wife and children are going through.

Federal govt cant force State govts into an agreement that the States are not parties to.

Does ASUU not have legal advisers.

ASUU should not complicate things. Students need to return to school. Some of them are on the verge of depression.

Christistruth00:
Pack of Lies

Nigeria just won the International Financial Jackpot

Because of Ukraine invasion

almost all of Europe is jostling to buy Natural Gas from Nigeria and the Price is still Skyrocketing

Unfortunately, Nigeria's production level means we can't take full advantage of the current high price.

Most of Nigeria's gas is still in the soil. Increasing production massively & installing the necessary facilities to export the gas requires billions of dollars and will take up to 5yrs.

You can't just increase gas production & start exporting straight away.

okeysoninv:
whether you remove subsidy or not , naira will still reach#1000.

I agree.

But not removing the subsidy will make it happen faster (prob few weeks or couple of months). It may also precipitate a semi-collapsed economy.

Removing it now (every day that the subsidy remains in place is a day too late) will slow down the pace of naira devaluation and economic deterioration and give the next govt an opportunity to reverse the economic decline.

If subsidy is retained until after the election, the next gov't will feel sorry for itself.

FreeStuffsNG:
O ga o
You just made it fashionable to make false claim with unimaginable cringeworthy gusto. This is why those in authorities anywhere in the world do not take most of you guys serious. You do not even understand the issues , you won't even calm down to understand issues and you are un-teachable.

Sri Lanka did not fail because external reserves went down/decreased.
Below is why Sri Lanka failed and has absolutely nothing to do with external reserves going down

The Sri Lanka crisis is said by both local and intetnational economic experts to have begun due to multiple compounding factors like tax cuts, money creation, a nationwide policy to shift to organic or biological farming, the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka

People like you are just out to deceive people.

You said Sri Lanka crisis was due to:

1. Money creation. That's exactly what I stated in my second post above. Money creation means their government has been printing too much of their currency. Exactly what Jonathan was doing towards the latter end of his regime, and what Mr Buhari's government has been doing non stop.

2. Sri Lankan Govt policy to shift to organic farming. Well, the reason the government shifted to organic farming was because it no longer had the foreign reserve/currency to import fertilizer which the highly agrarian people of Sri Lanka required. The govt had run down its foreign reserves. Exactly what is going on in Nigeria now.

Its quite frankly astonishing and naive on your part to claim that running down Nigeria's foreign reserve has no effect on the economy.

In fact, there's a direct correlation between the amount of foreign reserve Nigeria has and the value of the naira.

I believe Nigeria's economic situation is worse than many think.

Many state governments are effectively broke.

By most objective measures, the Federal government has been broke for many years, since at least a year before Jonathan left. In Jonathan's last year, his government was borrowing money to pay federal workers.

Buhari has failed to address the underlying problems of the economy. Instead, his government, like Jonathan's, has been secretly printing more naira than it discloses. With economic production experiencing little to no growth for many years now, and with the effect of Russia - Ukraine war sending many goods prices skyrocketing, it seems all the country's economic problems of the last decade are crystallising.

Unless there's a miraculous turnaround, the naira is heading for serious problems.

Bank of England is likely to increase interest rate aggressively tomorrow, in order to curb run -away inflation.

The US Federal Reserve will meet in September, when it is expected to increase US rates too.

These actions will increase the value of the Pound & US dollars even further, particularly against week currencies like the Naira & Ghanian Cedis.

October is likely to be a turbulent month for the Naira.

FreeStuffsNG:
Nations do not collapse because their external reserve go down.
Suggesting such idea is misinformation so I will advice us to ignore such alarmist sensational reporting.
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You are wrong. That's exactly what happened in Sri Lanka. They ran out of money to import essential goods.

The subsidy needs to go, but APC can't afford to remove it with elections coming. Yet, if they don't remove it, the country could become bankrupt. Catch 22.

With the way things are going N1,000 to a dollar is just a matter of months or even weeks away.

LG elections are not proper elections na.

The results are often written in a dark room in a secret location somewhere, at the direction of the Governor.

Na today?

That looks like Ayiri behind them.

From Warri via Lagos or Abuja to Maiduguri. No be small thing o.

If Tinubu wins, he will have too many people to pay back. How is he going to satisfy all these people.

Check out that photo of Tinubu walking upright, purposefully, and in a commanding posture alongside Zulum.

His gait is consistent with that of a man of 70 years, not 83 years. Some 65yr olds can't even walk purposefully like this.

The photo of him unable to walk properly being posted all over Nairaland by his opponents is clearly doctored and fake.

blaquebelle:
Same thing we need from the major candidates. Viable solutions. But none of them is giving that.

Truth is, there are no easy solutions. That said, we need a
new govt that will earnestly take the fight to the bad people.

That govt has to be 100% committed to fight for every inch of grass in their hiding places in the forest.

If we need to bring in mercenaries from abroad, so be it.

These so-called experts never profer solutions.

People have heard enough of diagnosis, they want viable solutions.

In my head, I've been wondering why the govt can't purchase heat-seeking drones to fish out these people from their forest hide outs.

If Turkey, whose drones are giving Russia hell in Ukraine, won't sell to Nigeria, what are Nigerian professors doing that they can't put a useful drone together.

What's the point of being an electrical electronics PHD holder and you can't improve readily available Chinese drones to get it to do what we need here?

We see young white and Asian kids doing these things in their rooms, but our Professors can't?

I suspect there's more to this story that is not being reported.

Was the reporter using his phone after the judge has already said no phone?

When in court, please respect the court & the judge. In that court, the judge is more powerful than the President.

A judge can't take away your rights by sending you to jail for contempt if you misbehave. A president doesn't have such power.

This is a manipulated picture.

You people are using software to manipulate these pictures.

You people lack subtlety. It's all about aggression - every one must vote the way you want or else.

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I prepare myself. Can't find in any restaurant.

Boring? Probably, but I like.