₦airaland Forum

4Him:
true . . . but isnt it about time we started to diversify the economy?
Our budgets are entirely drawn around the price of crude oil. The most important item on every government official's daily list is to check on current oil prices so as to calculate monthly allocation that will accrue to him.
Our governors are forever quarelling with the FG NOT on matters that affect the people but on how to "share" excess crude funds . . . haba!

Why is a state like Zamfara declaring sharia and then demanding oil funds to pay for an illegal state religious structure that is opposed by the vast majority?

Abi ooo. . .when dem suppose dey learn Technical Drawing, they are going to ILE KEWU

4play. . . . . .You are beginning to sound like a Bolshevik

'The country grow together'. When that one start.

There is simply no way, around it. Uniform development of all the regions is nigh impossible.
One region will always develop faster than the other.

It is in this instance that your libertarianism tendencies come in handy.

If we accept that everybody cannot come up together. . . .the most important thing then is to make the
richer regions as rich as possible and then it can drip down to the poorer regions.

The reallocation obviously by itself is not a panacea to our problems. It has to be accompanied by other measures.

And you make it sound like the spending will be a deliberate skewering to favour the Niger Delta.

Such an allocation rejig will only be disentangling the federal allocation mess, allowing local populations to reap the full rewards of their
resources.

Allocation is not all of it, but it is almost 80% of it.

Too many people sitting on their hands waiting for money.

4 Play:
For those who say we must spend most of the oil money on the Niger-Delta,in the interest of fairness,we should.But lets consider this.A lot of oil money has been spent on Abuja and Lagos.Are the people of Lagos and Abuja better off than the people of Imo and Abia?

The stats show us that there is less poverty in the South-East region than anywhere else.If receiving Govt money made much of a difference to a people,the North would be the place with the least poverty.The South-East historically receives the least.Take for instance Abuja indigenes,how much better off are they?

My point is that spending oil money generously on the Niger-Delta won't make much of a positive impact on the lives of its indigenes.

The Niger-Delta is part of Nigeria,its indigenes lives won't improve much if the other parts of Nigeria barely improve.The little difference their is in living standards,such as between the South and North,is mainly down to the different cultures(Southerners are better educated and more entrepreneurial).Govt money won't make much of a difference to people's lives.

All the Govt money spent on racial minorities(more per head than other races) in the UK/US barely budges the income inequality.It actually makes things worse.Nigeria won't be any different.

But I bet the Niger Deltans would rather their environs look like Abuja than what obtains at the moment.

Kobojunkie:
ok, but dude, I still do not freaking care where the money goes, I just want to have the abillity, the right, to catch and roast the goon that might try to steal any dime of it.

abi ooo. Its not your taxes na!!!!!!!LMAO

@Kobojunkie

Obviously it is dangerous to just hand it over 100% in the twinkle of an eye.

A gradual drawdown of the revenue formula over five years is my suggestion.

The time frame should allow all concerned parties to adjust to a new regime.

@bawomolo

if no one is forced to changed, then we will always have the status quo.

These funds are primarily used to fund bloated civil administrations and self serving projects.

Base the revenue from oil on a tax basis and allow more private involvement in the economy.

It is shocking to me in this period of high commodity prices, where the likes of Australia and Chile are
fattening up on gold, copper and iron ore prices, Naija still dey do by force by force oil only.

Change will come only by force, not by some kinda gradual process. Naija no dey ever work like that.

@Kobo

How the oil money take belong to the whole country. I don't get that at all.

You are so miserly with your taxes but so generous with Niger Delta money.

E ku Ishe

@Kobojunkie

Is the management of the funds by other regions of the federation any better eh?

The fight against corruption is a matter of course no doubt, but the argument that we should not give Niger Delta revenue to the Deltans
because they waste it is quite disingenuous and ultimately condescending.

Celebrate Ke. . . .

We should be mourning. . . .You are one year closer to death


_{Happy Birthday jare}

And y we no go fail to qualify for 2006 world cup when dem play the final match at a temple dedicated to a satanic disciple.

Remember it was this same man that denied us enjoying the halcyon days of the Super Eagles when e no allow them go South Africa Nations Cup

I spit on im grave and the monument dedicated to am.

And who tell una say e no fit talk na why we dey castigate am.

Ask Bisi Olatito. . .e be one of im live mouthpieces.

bawomolo:
it won't be a bad thing if u want highly centralized governments. the revenue should be allocated to all the states. 95% going to niger delta is way to much and would spark ethnic sentiments in nigeria

I am surprised by your response oo. . .considering your arguments against social spending in another thread on this section.

The Federal in Nigeria is in name only. The states are at the mercy of the centre and you will always find their reps in Abuja
begging for alms from the Federal government. Internally generated revenue is an alien phrase in Nigeria.

Discarding the current state of affairs will allow only state governments that are self sufficient to remain or at least live according to their means.

Political sloths abound in states like Gombe, Jigawa e.t.c devoid of any intelligence currently inhabit state houses and legislatures. Perhaps if we made the tasks more daunting and less lucrative, persons with ideas might begin to emerge in the states.

That Niger Delta has been blessed with oil. . .it is unfortunate that the region is paying some kind of penalty for this blessing. A most discombobulating state of affairs.

bawomolo:
most Nigerian states would crumble without federal government funding.

and is that a bad thing.

all these duplicitous admin units will cease to exist.

Gunners wey forget their Guns. . . . . . .

Quoting the Honorable P. Obahiagbon aka. Igodo Megodo

Arsenal has landed on Terra Incognita rather than Terra Firma. .

Contrary to what you guys think. . . .I thought he summed up for the panel on various occassions
with no little eloquence and feeling. . . .

There seems to be fire and smoke brimming below this man

Although I wonder what he was doing while Lucky Igbinedion was looting the Edo treasury.

Sky Blue:
@doyin, he made an effort to put money in the sector? How is embezzling money under the guise of addressing the power problem putting money in the sector? I am tired of hearing so and so person "tried". leadership is not a must, no one forced him. So why on earth should we defend gross mismanagement, looting, embezzlement, and overbudgeting? I am sorry but i believe if i am going to praise sub par, below mediocrity achievements in a PRESIDENT, then i don't have a right to complain when the next guy does thesame things or worse. Please can we at least set ourselves some standards and stop appreciating crumbs or being beggars? It sounds like an abused wife that is grateful to her husband for the night she is not being beaten. People are already praising Yaradua because he seems like a nice person, are we going to throw a party for the next president because he breathes?

I am in no way absolving Obj of culpability in the whole mess. My point is the money was embezzled, not by him I am almost sure, but by his
underlings and largely because of his ego and conceit.

He bears ultimate responsibility for the mess no doubt cause that is the way the cookie crumbles.

But you should also appreciate the complexities involved in these grandiose projects.

Even in the UK with a mature accountability system, all manner of corrupt practices are coming to light in the privatisation
of the Tube system.

Obasanjo compounded accountability on these power projects in his haste to have a legacy.

hehehehe. . . .

Somehow sha 4play I suspect there is one more twist in the tale. Lets hope its not United that is on the wrong end at the end

That Ramos look like person wey get sense. He no mind spend money at all.

You sure Wenger don learn im lesson.

I doubt it. He must have shares in Arsenal. He dey save money to boost im dividend payout.

Ol bob na only 4him dey get liver to show himself. . . .

NEPA don take light for this thread oooo.

hehehehe. . . .


Debosky. . .where u dey na

And i no knw how many agree but me thinks Arsenal is better playing Adebayor alone up front
until Van Persie comes back.

Eduardo and Bendtner no ge im at all.

The spare midfielder go allow more runners from deep. Standing up front, Bendtner and Eduardo before him
dey easy to mark.

Una jus dey hand the title to United. . . .

What is obvious to me now is, Obj's haste to leave a legacy has landed us in a royal mess.

His ego was on display when he was gallavanting all over the place commissioning
projects that were only 5 per cent completed.

His only saving grace: At least he made an effort to put money in the sector, the first leader to do so
since 1979, which funnily was when he left office.

Frankly. . . .I think Wenger is paying for his conceit.

He should have spent his kitty and bought some match winners.

Him and Benitez dey always try prove wetin no dey.

I no like Fergie but he is no man's fool. He no dey let money siddon for house make rat dey chop am.

POMPEY FOR THE TITLE ABEG.

hehehehehehehe

All these small pikin. . . .una don spoil finish, . . . . .

Holythug. . . .if she show you eh

Then all those girls wey no dey gree for me. . . na ma ma ma i go dey call them

Anytime I use my ear hear am. . . .my blood boils


I wonder why there are no monuments in Germany named after Hitler.

but now i understand how guy go sing love song for you now. . . .it makes a lot more sense.

Oranges will make those Hot teens sing well well  

morenike09:
@doyin
grandpa. . .what did you say about my oranges again?

i wonder which kain juju u use. . . .barely two days ago you were flat like an eroded rockface. . . .

henry007:
fat & ugly, a little pot belly rising down below the wrinkled boobs

Morenike. . . . . . .now don't you wish it was only me being a nuisance lol

@topic

the Chris Brown lookalike is here

morenike09:
thank you jare. . .tell him o. . nobody wants to see his flat@$$ naked o

HEHEHEHEHE. . . Strictly for Over 23's. . . .Any younger and you might cut your tongue

@holythug

Guy. . . . .who you be?