₦airaland Forum

First solution is demand for Tinubu resignation through massive protest. He has not shown the capacity, capability, integrity and political will to move Nigeria forward

#TinubuMustGo

helinues:
Same arguments, same back and forth issues, not even the solutions to the numerous problems facing the country, na only gbas gbos left and right and yet we dey complain of hardship when we decided not to do anything to it.

From hence point, I will stop responding to the petty discussion on the forum, started like a week though but want to get more serious about it .

Solutions talk to the issue affecting the country or nothing

Hold Tinubu accountable!

emkz:
Breaking News

Peter Obi reacts...

For those wondering why I say "Peter Obi reacts", it is a pointer that Peter Obi is too predictable. He reacts to everything like a chemical.

I like how Peter Obi signs off A new Nigeria is POssible -PO.

Is Peter Obi's middle name not "Onwubuasi"? Why doesn't he include it in his sign off?

I'm ok with US base in SS or SE!

Lagos belongs to all Nigerians equally.

If you don't like it, support Yoruba nation. Even after Yoruba nation is granted, you must pay Nigerian reparations to take Lagos for the billions that Nigerians invested in Lagos as assets

LegendHero:
Awon oponu dede.

Elupeee from top to bottom while the outsiders laugh them behind the back and push their own son there.

All the money for the constituency will be taken by the guy for his own people while the “Yoruba But” continue to speak English on the internet.

I’m sure if the guy have the means, he’ll block any pro-Lagos project in the house and heaven will not fall.

Yoruba are funny people. I never see where majority tribe dey behave like this.

You always deflect with this pedestrian logic of someone not quoting you when you have nothing to respond.

If you make illogical comment, someone has to counter you! If you don't want counter then don't comment on a public forum. Rvbbish

helinues:
Are you obsessed with my comments?

If you have been making yours while I never tempted to quote you, why can't you do the same to my comments .

Shove your opinion to yourself let me shove mine, no dey question me as if you dey feed me

You're not the first, you won't be the last. Long after you and I are gone, Igbos will be thriving in Lagos!!!

seunmsg:
Shame on all the “I’m Yoruba but” crew. This is the calamity they brought to Yoruba land. Just imagine for a second what a Chinedu would have done to property owners of Yoruba ancestry in Lagos if he had won! God willing, we shall correct this error in 2027. Never again will a migrant be allowed to represent any of our states in the National Assembly.

You're not happy to see Tinubu, you're thinking of Obi

Watianoengineer:
That Peter Obi will still have negative vibes about this. I have never seen someone so unpatriotic like Obi. He criticizes every move of the government without restraints. 2027 election he will still come 3rd

Nigeria should be moving away from the death penalty. We cannot be going backwards

LegendHero:
They will still approve it. But for now, it’s drug trafficker case they are treating.

Drug traffickers deserve cruel death just as national and state looters deserve to be sentenced for life too.

Is it the Tinubu in hiding or which one?

Like I said, we need to elect competent leadership that would move Nigeria from consumption to production and gradually strengthen the naira. Fuel should not be more than N20 per litre so whatever is needed to make that possible, we should go that route.

nairalanda1:
Yes, and 40 years ago, most manufacturing was domestic, plus we were earning the kind of dollars we needed to keep naira at N1 to one dollar.

Even then it was bound to fall. BY 1982, the oil price crashed, by 1989, it was N6 to one dollar, by 1993, it was offically N21 on the black market above N70 to one dollar.

It is what happens when a nation's revenue is linked to one currency, and not to a diversifed economy. Like Nigeria, like most subsaharan african countries.

That is why I believe all our leaders were not good. They won't do what the big nations whose currencies are strong do.

Sell Ajaokuta as scrap; fg should not invest N1 in that piece of junk.

Government is not meant to be producing steel, let private investors do it.

Ajaokuta is a conduit pipe for stealing govt money. Same as the worthless refineries that are only producing loses. Encourage modular refineries.

Why can't $1=N1? It was so 40yrs ago!

nairalanda1:
1.Oga, I am not an agbado or obident, or atiku supporter.

2. NIgeria cannot sell fuel at N2 because if we do that, that means we would subsidise fuel to around at least N998 per liter...which means we would be spending 59 billion naira per day...in subsides. On petrol.

I don't need to tell you the kind of deficit it would cause. What we have now under agbado would look like chicken feed. Massive debt, that would in essence make us sell our souls to IMF and World bank. Maybe the souls of our generations yet unborn would be included.

3.Nigeria has a weak currency because we do not do what the countries with strong currencies do. Yes, and this APC government has not made things better.

That is why we cannot buy fuel at N2.

Truth is the govt is incompetent so everything looks like rocket science. If the government cannot create wealth, they should resign.

You cannot fill a bucket with water thats already in the bucket

SmartyPants:
So it is V.A.T that will eliminate the middle class and force the rich down to the middle class? Lol. What are you saying?? V.A.T. is just a small percentage added to the price of certain items. There is no way V.A.T. can make people poor. At best, it may have a minuscule effect on spending habits, which won't be enough to make people poor or turn the rich into the middle class. VAT is not a tax on income so that is not even within the scope of the discussion.

The things you mentioned are not bad policies and I've not said they shouldn't be done. However, this is theory. in practice, recovering misappropriated funds is a process that can take many years. it is not reasonable to posit that this should be any government's main source of funding. Also, you don't seem to have a proper appreciation of the challenges in the oil industry - let me just put it to you that if the government could snap its fingers and sell more oil, of course it would. These are not challenges that are solved overnight.

If that is a solution, why is it rising again?

What they did was sell treasury bills and used the money to defend the naira. You can actually use hundreds of billions of dollars to force down exchange rate to 200. Question is do you have that money? Even if you have, how sustainable is it?


Again, there's no sustainable quick fix APC already ruined things...it will take a lot of hardwork to get exchange rate to fall genuinely

lionshare:
I don’t like to be condescending but you should only comment on what you understand.

You said no short term solution yet the price dropped from peak of N1950 to N1000 before depreciating to N1400. Which long term problem or short term solution is responsible for this changes?

So why do you think they like PDP?

CodeTemplar:
I updated your lame argument.

Igbos give block votes to competent people.
Igbos vote for competence at the nationsl level

CodeTemplar:
The igbos are equally guilty of block vote mentality and are just lucky not to be operating at the illiteracy level of the northerners. Once 2027 approaches and few zealous obedient or ronu colony start vibrating we you will see massive tribal an religious aligned political support.
The hosts of heaven really dealt mankind a severe blow when they confused our brains with languages and all its effect. Putin is still trying to rescue his tribal people in imaginary parts of ukraine.

Let the will of God be done

Pussyisgud:
Hope it's not what am thinking.

A court has established this. They're no longer lawmakers

Whalis:
Why not go to court to establish this. No one has the right by themselves to declare their seats vacant but the court. Allow the slow but vice-like grip hand of the law to turn.

A court of competent jurisdiction has ratified their removal. They have not appealed so they're illegitimate like the mandate thief

seunmsg:
Nothing will happen if Fubara is impeached. If you guys see nothing wrong in his attempt to impeach 27 elected members of the House of Assembly, why then are you crying over the plan to impeach him?

Fuel is sold in Canada for less than $2. Why can't fuel be sold in Nigeria for less than N2?

nairalanda1:
The harsh fact is that almost all our neighbours are paying way above N1000.

Nigeria does not have the cash to keep fuel forever cheap. Make we be honest...this is not about agbado, and even the agbado government is spending trillions to avoid telling themselves the truth.

The painful thing is that if we cut government spending and stop the nasty corruption that is affecting us, the money raised won't be enough to pay for subsides long term. Also, the amount we earn from crude...80% of our earnings...is not enough.

Either we face the truth...or we keep throwing money down a bottomless pit.

We have been told repeatedly since the 1980's...we no wan hear.


To all those that have quoted me over this fuel thing...here is why I talk the way I talk

The fuel subsidy dilema


Also, if you want to call me APC supporter, and all sorts of names , fine. Just know that at the end, we cannot sustain subsidy. It has nothing to do with the party in power, and everything to do with our precarious fiscal situation.

And if you are quoting me to abuse me, just know that I have never abused you, and you can disagree without abusing me, as some have done here.

Shameless

DaddyCoool:
Nope. It's just another reality of life - we deal with it, not act like it's never been seen b4

The rich you think you're taxing also help create jobs. You can't continue to wipe out the middle class and force the rich down to middle class.

The points i raise to increase funds will produce more funds than required but the thieves in govt have no political will to execute

SmartyPants:
This is why I highlighted the part of the article that explains how this increase in VAT relieves the poor by refocusing taxes on luxury items. This is a progressive policy that helps the poor unfortunately people are reading headlines and criticising.

I have heard this case over a month ago so saying Obidients movement started it yesterday is you being mischievous

naptu2:
A massive and well coordinated campaign began yesterday night with many handles that are linked to the Obidient movement claiming that the Edo State Government and the Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, had summoned the Oba of Benin to appear in court.

Sodiq Tade is a PDP supporter.

The people are already impoverished. More taxes causes more insecurity as people lose money and overall distress increases. Leave the tax system as it is for now.

FIGHT CORRUPTION and recover the trillions of stolen funds.

Block leakages in govt and drastically reduce the cost of governance(by 50%)

Increase the abysmall 1.2 million barrel of crude to the 2.4 million we were doing during the PDP time.

These will give the required funds. You cannot fill a bucket using water contained in that bucket

SmartyPants:
How does tax stop the country from moving forward? Is there any advanced or advancing country that doesn't collect taxes? How do you expect the government to do any of the things you mentioned without funds? Should all the funds come from oil exploration alone?

Let's take an example. To end or reduce insecurity drastically, do you not need to employ and equip your security forces? Where should the funds for this come from?

There is no easy fix or short term solution. APC already caused a great deal of damage

lionshare:
You people will be parroting long term solutions to a problems needs immediate solution—-think for yourself what exactly is the problem?

This overconfidence will be your undoing

Ola9ja23:
IPOBidients day dreaming

We know the reason why you people jubilate when Naira depreciate is bcs you think that would make your Bitter Obituary to win through back door


Even if Naira depreciate to 50000 against dollar, Asiwaju remains our president till 2031

Nothing your bitter Obituary or his IPOBidients followers can do to defeat Asiwaju

Impeach Amoda

He should have put your name! You didnt notice after the first property?

JB0707:
My husband and I both live in the uk and we join all our money and investments together, all the properties my husband acquired in Nigeria doesn’t have my name on it, at first I wasn’t bothered but now i am bothered because his family is chaotic. I started asking for my name to be included and i am not ok with the response am getting. I feel i am just working and I have nothing in my name. I love him but I don’t trust his family. Should i keep insisting or start my investment separately. I am just confused

Govt should focus on ending or reducing insecurity drastically. Then focus on agricultural revolution. Next is production for local consumption and export.

Focusing on tax wont move the country forward.

SmartyPants:
This is a sound policy that increase VAT yes but places the burden on the rich by taxing luxury products and services higher, and removing VAT from basic necessities altogether, while giving more of the VAT revenue to the States and LGs to support more direct provision of services to the people. Can you explain what your opposition to this idea is? I sincerely want to understand.

You dare compare 2nd Niger Bridge with coastal road thats 100 times more resources and challenging?

tunjijones:
All this noise about the coastal road will still die as usual.

Una don forget the noise these same people made about second Niger bridge where they said it's a lie that the government was not constructing any bridge and all sorts of lies.

Dem never start to dey use the bridge now?