₦airaland Forum

TUANKU:
The Ibo man/woman is a very dedicated person in anything they are engaged in, their level of commitment and hard work is amazing. Yes a few scums among them sadly channel this energy to criminal ventures but it takes nothing away from the fact.
Some of the best Nigerian professionals in SIEM related fields both home and abroad are Ibo.
At University of East London we had one Ibo guy in Electrical engineering who was a ex student of UNN, dude was so good he became an assistant to his department head by year 2.

Why not just congratulate her and move on? You don't need to use this great news as an opportunity to propagate tribalism.

There are Nigerians doing well in every area of life abroad. They come from all backgrounds.

I am fortunate to know many of them here in the US, and I can confidently tell you that their distribution is not as skewed towards a tribe as you try to make it seem. I have had a non-Nigerian in-law of mine, who graduated from Harvard, tell me that most of the Nigerians he met there were Yoruba.

Trust me, there are many Nigerians doing great things abroad, regardless of their tribes. One of the most outstanding Nigerians I met during my graduate studies in the US is a Fulani guy from Katsina. He is currently doing great things in Silicon Valley.

So much pettiness from the so-called Emir. I would have appreciated it if he was more vocal in the criticism of the bandits.

The silence of these Fulani Emirs in the face of the recent attacks by bandits is striking.

Ironfaceman:
Super Eagles Players And Coaching Crew Rush To Meet Ronaldo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubu-xEAaQdQ

I didn't see any rush in the video. I only saw players and officials extending post-match courtesies and greetings to themselves.

givedemwotowoto:
APC and their associates are all over trying to link Obi, meanwhile none of the people who were asked to pay N10 million has mentioned Obi's name

How does this concern APC? You need to seek help before it's too late.

Kenneth Okonkwo can never be trusted. His friends should be careful of him. The way he switch from being a passionate defender of Obi to his most virulent critic needs to be studied at Cambridge.

The fact that he shared private chats to the public just to defend himself and get out of the trouble his uncouth mouth put him is baffling.

I have no respect for people like that. Atiku should be careful around him.

This Kenneth na mumu. Where is Obi's name written on the receipt? That last time I checked, Obi was not the founder nor the owner of NDC. I hope Obi presses on with the suit.

While Obi is not my top choice for 2027, I detest mouths-for-hire like Okonkwo. I can remember how he was passionately defending Obi in the wake of 2023 election, only for him to make a U-turn a year after. His U-turn is sharp, extreme, and disrespectful. If Atiku, whom he currently surrogates for, is wise, he would not trust him. I know politics is mostly about personal interest, but the players should at least show some class and decorum.

Tenses:
You can not bastardize the naira with terrible policies and expect not to be judged by the same naira you made useless.

The true story of tinubu borrowing spree lies on the naira.

The best way to counter this perceived "LIES" is to strengthen the naira and watch how these lies fade away.

But until then.

Nah dollars you dey use buy one bushel of rice for Abakaliki ricemill?

A strong local currency is overrated. It does not necessarily make a citizen poor or the economy bad. The naira today has more value than the South Korean won, yet South Korea is one of the richest in the world. The currency of Indonesia, the country Obi likes to talk about as a standard is significantly weaker than naira. In fact 1USD = 18,000 Indonesian Rupiah. The Japanese yen is signifcantly weaker than the South African rand, yet Japan is far more wealthier than South Africa.

There is nothing really bad with devaluation. Rather, it is much needed for a country like Nigeria. We are just experiencing the initial shock of devaluation. The economy and people's wages will adjust properly to the relatively new naira in the coming months or years.

This Kenneth na mumu. Where is Obi's name written on the receipt? That last time I checked, Obi was not the founder nor the owner of NDC. I hope Obi presses on with the suit.

bigwig071:
honestly one way or the other an evil person must see a way to defend evil openly.... The was question way what is all borrowed money used for and what happened to the so called natural resources the Nigeria has?

Yes, I am an evil person for pointing out an obvious intellectual dishonesty. It is people like you that bring hatred to Obi. There is absolutely nothing distasteful about my earlier comment. The issue with people like you is that you don't want the smallest criticism of him, even if justifiable.

Naudeyrushme:
Whether its presented in Naira or pounds. Accountability is the issue here, was the funds utilised properly.

The currency used in presenting monetary figures is very important. You think politicians and opposition switch from dollar to naira and naira to dollar don't know what they are doing?

DLSReigns:
What are you saying? When govt is collecting tax from us to service debt, do we not pay in Naira? What difference does it make? You and your cohort are the dishonest ones. May Nigeria happen to you. So you can feel the workings of the govt.

If you knew what debt servicing was about, you would know that most are going to debts obtained by previous administrations. Any loan this current administration is taking will mostly be serviced in coming years.

Criticism is needed in a democracy, but we should also try to be objective.

SadiqBabaSani:
Something is loading, Tinubu cannot trust these people

Obi cannot trust them either, trust me. Although, I still believe he would likely deliver Kano to Obi.

I honestly think his teaming up with Obi is not because he thinks Obi would win. It is mainly because he wants to minimize Atiku's numbers in Kano and other places in the North. He is strategizing for 2031. If Atiku wins, Kwakwanso can kiss his presidential ambition goodbye.

GEJ for president!

The Turaki wing of the PDP are Atiku's apologists. They are pushing Jonathan's candidacy for an obvious reason. Were they not part of the Ibadan declaration for a unified opposition against APC?

Obi is not being honest with his presentation of Nigeria's debt. The fact is that Nigeria still has one of the lowest debt to GDP in Africa and in the world.

In all my life, I have known our debt both local and foreign to be presented in dollars. Obi and some opposition figures, knowing that our debt is not outrageous, intentionally convert the debt to naira to sensationalize the figures and scare people.

The funny thing is the opposition would convert the minimum wage back to dollars to make people see how small it is.

There are so many things about Tinubu's government that the opposition could criticize. Going to the extent of converting figures from naira to dollar and dollar to naira, depending on the argument they want to make, is low. It shows they don't have much to criticize, and they are just playing cheap politics.

Obi is not being honest with his presentation of Nigeria's debt. The fact is that Nigeria still has one of the lowest debt to GDP in Africa and in the world.

In all my life, I have known our debt both local and foreign to be presented in dollars. Obi and some opposition figures, knowing that our debt is not outrageous, intentionally convert the debt to naira to sensationalize the figures and scare people.

The funny thing is the the same people would convert the minimum wage back to dollars to make people see how small it is.

There are so many things about Tinubu's government that the opposition can criticize. Going to the extent of converting figures from naira to dollar and dollar to naira, depending on the argument they want to make, is low. It shows they don't have much to criticize, and they are just playing cheap politics.

kingbee90:
Propaganda!!!

OK ticket is what every same Nigerian has been waiting for.
The c0ke sn!ffing band!t in Aso-rock has been rejected nationwide because he is a damn failure.

A wise person would not completely dismiss this information. Although, I believe Obi will win Kano substantially.

The resistance to the OK ticket will likely come from the other NW states. Many of those guys in that axis want power to rotate back to the North in 2027. I don't think their likely resistance to the OK ticket is so much about Obi, but more about the harm the ticket might cause Atiku's ambition and Northern presidency.

DrAkpa:
We in the south will not be deceived by the scam of southern unity that was propagated by your senior brother Yekini Amoda Ogunlere to steal and grab power in 2023. We the Southerners (south east and south south) would rather support Atiku than allow Yekini to ride on to a second term as president. If Atiku is not available, then we will settle with Obi or rather vote in a lizard. Never again will you and your people deceive the south with fake southern unit when it was all scam. Yekini aka Tinubu must go in 2027.

Don't deceive people here. You are not from the South. Those of us who have been here long enough know this.

Besides, you appear ridiculous with the "We the Southerners (south east and south south) would rather support Atiku" you wrote up there. The South East is voting for Obi and a good chunk of the South South is voting for him as well. You are trying too hard to insert yourself in the schism between the Igbos and the Yorubas just to promote the Atiku you have been promoting for decades. The ship has sailed in that regard, Atiku does not have so much of goodwill is the entire South any longer.

My initial post which you quoted was NOT to promote Tinubu. Such is not needed. In every country in the world, the incumbent always have an advantage in reelection. Whether you like it or not, he still holds the advantage going into 2027.

chopnaira:
A Kwankwasiyya named Abubakar Yunusa gives reason why he is leaving the Kwakwansiyya movement.

There is a subset of Northerners, mostly Fulani, who believe in the supremacy of the North over the South, and the supremacy of the Fulanis over other Northerners. These people deeply understand and imbibe Ahmadu Bello's philosophy of politically dominating the South.
From what I have seen on social media, many of Atiku's Northern supporters belong to this subset.

Obasanjo, as the president of Nigeria, allegedly prostrated for Atiku to allow him run second term. Atiku insulted Jonathan to his face in 2011, telling him not to contest because it was the turn of the North. He would later defect from PDP to be among the founders of APC. The same Atiku contested to be president just as Buhari, a Fulani man, was completing 8 years. Obasanjo begging Atiku for a second term clearly showed that Atiku dangled his Fulani credentials in his face. Atiku is a Fulani supremacist deceiving the gullible as a detribalized Nigerian. Tambuwal, El-rufai and Buhari are other examples of Northern supremacists.

Contrary to what they might want to make you believe, Atiku still does not have a widespread appeal in the North. Most of the people cheering Atiku's presidency in the North are the Fulanis.

The post made by this Kwankwasiyya dude reeks of a Northern supremacist, who could not wrap his head around a RMK deputizing an Obi. To people like him Northerners should always be president, and they must decide whoever and whenever a Southerner should be a president. One of the problems the Northern establishment has currently with Tinubu is that they cannot control him after they reluctantly put him in power. By the way, he still had to bribe them with a Muslim-Muslim ticket.

One of the reasons this superiority mindset in the North has remained is because some Southerners have bought into it. I shake my head in disappointment when I read comments from some myopic Southerners on social media saying something like: "The North have decided to take power back". Statements like this cave to such Northern supremacy mindset; they also reek of Southern inferiority.

The good news is that the North of today is no longer the North Ahmadu Bello handed over to them. They are not as united as they used to be. The long played-out Fulani domination has weakened the cohesion among the various ethnic and religious groups in the North. The Tiv man from Benue or the Berom man from Plateau is more suspicious of a Fulani man from Sokoto than his grandfather was in 1965.

This lack of cohesion is something a united South can capitalize on. With all the popularity of Buhari in 2015, if the SW had voted for Jonathan enmasse, Jonathan would still have won. Peter Obi's performance in 2023 also shows a pathway to presidency without massive votes from the Fulani-dominated states.

If Atiku run in 2027 and amass large votes in the North, I would suggest we present and unite behind a Southerner in 2031 to contest against the Northerners.

helinues:
What is the purpose of una education if some uneducated people can be sacking you in your own land

Na person wey hold gun be the oga. A tout with an AK-45 facing an MIT professor is the boss.

helinues:
30,000 people holding over 200m people on random

That's why I always feel disgusted reading about herdsmen operating in any part of the Southern regions, what's their population? Like an outsiders can come to your land to displace you?

30,000 uneducated people with guns are dangerous. There are some countries in the world who don't have up to 30,000 soldiers in their armies.

They became powerful under a Fulani president, Buhari. Let us join hands together to vote another Fulani man, Atiku, as president in order to save us from them.

Leepeak:

Na today
Ona dey lie
200 trillion Naira

Tell us the truth. There are many of people like you on social media who go about labelling everything a lie without providing any sensible justification for such.

I predicted this weeks ago that the Wike wing of PDP will present an unknown presidential candidate.

DoTheNeedful:
I was expecting a response from Wike's camp.

Makinde's "presidential run" is only meant to shore up support for his national assembly candidates in 2027. The presidential and national assembly elections will take place the same day.

Makinde does not want to take a risk of having his candidates run on a troubled PDP platform. What if his faction loses in the end? He also doesn't want to decamp from PDP so as not to appear as a loser to the Wike's faction. The best he could do is to encourage his candidates to run on APM platform, and create a facade of a PDP-APM alliance, run as a PDP presidential candidate to shore up support for his national assembly candidates.

In the long run, this is likely to fail. I see Wike's faction presenting another weak presidential candidate, which INEC would recognize. INEC currently still officially recognize the Wike faction. In addition, the ordinary voters are likely to be confused as to which party to vote for. Some of them might vote for PDP and others for APM.

Finally, BAT will win Oyo convincingly, Makinde will likely not be on the ballot, and his many of his candidates will lose because of the confusion the "PDP-APM alliance" would create.

Javid13:
So what’s the summary? That corruption isn’t Nigeria’s problem? Where exactly did you get the statistics claiming Russian politicians are more corrupt than their Nigerian counterparts? If Nigeria wasn’t drowning in corruption, all the metrics you listed for a good living environment could actually be achieved here. The truth is simple, until our politicians stop looting and mismanaging resources, Nigeria will never deliver the quality of life its citizens deserve.

Russia was ranked as the most corrupt country in the world like a decade ago. Putin himself is considered to be worth over $50bn, and he has never done any business in his life. Many of the Russian oligarchs made their money from the government.

That said, the central point of my argument is that even without corruption, Nigeria is a very poor country that is incapable of providing quality life for her citizens. All you need to do is to consider our total revenue and our population, then you will realize that Ghana, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Tanzania, South Africa, Egypt and others are way ahead.

We have a great potential if we have a good leadership and restructure our system.

lawani:
Yes equipments can only be gotten from those who have the tech. However what percentage of any budget is used to buy such equipments? Not much. And not often. So when you add everything together, a 100 million dollar defense budget in China will be worth close to 400 million dollars in the US and at most 50 million dollars in Nigeria. If you now go to education budget and etc, the disparity will even be more. A drone that costs 20k dollars in Iran is being quoted to be worth over 200k dollars by US defense manufacturers and etc. That is the real world we have today

I understand what you wrote perfectly, but for an import dependent country like Nigeria, it is more nuanced. Besides, we don't need to drag this issue too long. If we made more dollars in Nigeria, we would have more road, more power and other infrastructure.

Your Iran missile example is very wrong. The technology and the idea behind the $20k Iran drone is different from America's. The US drone are designed to be intelligent and more discriminative with their target. Currently, the US is deploying drones with similar philosophy with Iran's and it costs around $35k. You may check out LUCAS (Low-cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System) drones. In fact, they are testing even drones that are significantly cheaper than the LUCAS drones.

lawani:
It cuts it to a large extent and that is why Europe and the US are losing business to the Chinese and it is why Dangote used Indians to build his refinery etc etc. Then any company can train and use some local people for many of their tasks so as to reduce costs. All the manual labor will of course be local at less than a tenth of the cost in high income countries. For workers from their own countries you will need to pay the dollars. However the bulk of any budget in any country will be local personnel costs which is very cheap in low income countries

I largely disagree with you. The manual (and largely unskilled) labor we provide represent a tiny fraction of the cost of building a world class infrastructure, even if you ask China to build it. Perhaps, the Dangote refinery would not have cost him $20bn if it is all about manual labor.

I don't want you to lose sight of my previous argument, which is enough dollars to build world-class infrastructure we need. Procurement, engineering and logistics take the most part of the fund. These are largely paid for in dollars, since we don't have the structure in place.

Anyway, like I previously stated, we have a real revenue problem in Nigeria. As a result, it is difficult to finance certain projects that can take us out of the woods.

lawani:
Yes Nigeria has a revenue problem which has been massively reduced by the current government but what one dollar can do in Nigeria, twenty dollars may not be able to do it in some high income countries

Your comparison of cost of the differing value of money across countries does not always cut it at the macro level. Projects such as roads, power generation and other large scale infrastructures are usually contracted out to foreign countries who would charge you in dollars. If a country is not making enough money in dollar, it becomes difficult to execute world class infrastructures. This is one of the reasons Nigeria is lacking in real development.

lawani:
You are guilty of the same thing you are accusing him of

You can't just be comparing nominal figures without considering the cost of living. A single person earning 1200 dollars per annum in Nigeria isn't necessarily poor while someone earning 20k dollars per annum in Saudi Arabia or the USA is poor. 1.6 million barrels per day of oil in Nigeria is more than sixteen million bpd in Saudi Arabia unless when you are buying Tesla cars, iphones and etc which Nigerians generally don't buy. Nigeria isn't poor but it has a challenge of good management. A country where the average couple fully own their own home before their fifties isn't a poor country.
Nigeria can be described as oil rich since the oil is there. It is also coal rich, cocoa rich, cassava rich, groundnut rich and etc. It has all these things in excess

Regardless of how you slice it, Nigeria is a poor country even without corruption. Besides, I think you have a comprehension problem. The only reason I used Saudi is because we are talking about oil. All the countries we consider oil-rich explore far more than Nigeria and their entire population are not up to a state in some cases.

Qatar is the largest gas-exporting country in the world, but their population is less than Anambra state. The earlier we know that Nigeria has a revenue problem the better. $45bn annual revenue is very low for a country of 250 million people. There is no way to justify it. We need to be honest with ourselves.

brain54:
Nigeria is an oil rich country...


With much/a larger portion of our oil resources being stolen or unaccounted for.


Reno don't tell us black is white... just because you are now feeding from the national cake and drinking palm wine from the calabash with the theives. It's insulting to people's intelligence telling them black is white.

Is like robbing a man his property and still throwing him in prison for crying.


Reno used to make brilliant points. I wonder what happened to him!

Funny thing is that you are likely a graduate. Comments like this make question the quality of youths we have in Nigeria. We have youths who are shallow in information and context. They have little idea of numbers and weak understanding of macro and micro economic numbers.

Let's assume our leaders don't steal, Nigeria is still a very poor country. That is the fact many of you don't realize or are poorly equipped to understand.

Reno's assertion is very correct. Nigeria is not an oil-rich country but an oil-poor country.

First, our entire oil reserves is nothing compare to countries like Kuwait, Saudi, Qatar, UAE, Iran and Russia. These are examples of oil-rich countries. What's more, our country has more population than these countries. Iran and Russia which are the largest of these countries have less than half our population.

A country like Saudi produced 10 million barrels of oil per day before the Iran war. Nigeria in contrast, produces around 1.6 million. Whereas, the population of Saudi is 35 million, ours is 250 million. There is also a strong correlation between the amount of oil a country can produce and quantity of oil reserves in that country. For an average Nigerian to have the same oil production per capita as an average Saudi citizen, Nigeria would need to produce around 70 million barrels of oil per day, which is impossible. For context, the entire world produced around 100 million barrels per day before the Iran war.

I, like most Nigerians, believe that corruption is our biggest problem. But, we need to educate ourselves that even without corruption, our country is very poor, given our population. Unfortunately, many Nigerians believe we are rich.

The entire revenue of Nigeria before politicians start stealing from it is around $45bn. $45bn cannot deliver real goods for a country like Nigeria. For your information, California state budgeted $140bn just for education this year. Compare us to other African countries, then you would realize how poor we are are. South Africa, with a population 65 million, had a revenue of $127bn last year. Egypt with half of our population made $55bn last year.

The fact is that we need more private investments in our economy, more efficient tax collection, sustainable power supply to trigger SMEs and security for us to boost our revenue. There is a level of revenue a country could make that would make the living standard of citizens of such country resistant to corruption.

Most of these oil-rich countries are very corrupt, but their citizens still lead better quality of lives than Nigerians. Putin and many Russian officials are very corrupt. The Emirs in the Middle East treat their countries' oil wealth almost as their personal wealth, which is worse that the stealing we have in Nigeria. However, their citizens enjoy far better high quality of lives. The politicians in Lagos State are probably the most corrupt in Nigeria, but Lagos State still delivers more top notch projects than other states in Nigeria because they have more revenue.

That is a lot of votes for a primary election. Yesterday, the Delta governor won with around 400,000. If these primaries votes are not massively rigged, then Tinubu would win 2027 easily.

Freshtruth:
So Good luck wan really come ridicule himself

Now I think the goal is to checkmate Obi in the SS. In the end, GEJ might not run, but by that time, a rift between his SS base and hardcore SE Obidients would have emerged.

I hope our brothers from the SE would learn never to be too emotional about politics. There is no permanent friend or enemy in politics.

Look at the GEJ they fought tooth and nail for to the extent of exhibiting strong dislike for the SW and the North. He has moved on. Even in the last election, Tinubu got more than 25% in the SS. He will do better in the SS in 2027.

GEJ and his SS brothers have long moved on from 2015; whereas, our SE brothers are still stuck in it and even losing friends in the SW and other parts of Nigeria.

Bendeco02:
FG/Tinubu is working hard to disqualify GEJ, while is funny supporter in Nairaland are saying GEJ contesting will favour their Oga

Did you read the story at all? Tinubu's Minister of Justice is asking the court to throw away the suit seeking to stop GEJ from contesting.

You are making a mockery of yourself. Next time, try to read to understand.