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Lavor234:
Where is Lagos Dyke Map, you forgot to add that Amsterdam fortified its city against flooding by building dykes and they even have a dyke map.
Selective knowledge is pompous ignorance

I wrote 'let's be factual' in a very short comment. Humility is agreeing that a foreground, which was corrected, was wrong.

That written, the Dutch infrastructure you have described is some of what Lagos can key into. I didn't write that much earlier on because it was not necessary that I wrote a dissertation, besides calling attention to something that was not exactly correct.

casualobserver:
Actually this Uncle Tom mindset is why unemployment is so rife in Nigeria. We are a developing economy, in our circumstances of low capital access and persistent high interest rates, only govt has the means to establish manufacturing industries. Be careful when adopting western economic principles from the textbooks…..they weren’t designed for us.

Government has no business running business is different from government has no business establishing businesses. The problem isn’t the establishing of businesses, it is the running of businesses. You talk of all the companies established by government in the past that failed…what is the net result of governments divestment of these industries to the private sector, has it created jobs, has it created more industries? The answer is no! Only a handful of Nigerians have the capacity to create mega industries. The net effect has been job losses and the evolution of our economy into a dumping ground for imported goods.

Be careful when you read the white mans books. China the great economic superpower has many of its companies owned by government. The west (especially Europe) who preach to you about government not getting involved in business, developed their industries via state owned enterprises before the privatized when they became mature. British airways, KLM, Lufthansa, British rail, British Telecom, Royal Mail, Alitalia, Sabina, British Leyland etc etc etc . In fact not only were they developed through state ownership, they continue to receive state protection to the extent that during the financial crisis, the UK govt bought banks to prevent them from failing. Uk bought 84% shares in Natwest during the financial crisis to prevent it going busy annd preserve jobs, ans ant this year it still owns 30%….the free market apologists won’t tell you that! …..and the US govt did same with their car industry….or did they forget to tell you they gave General Motors (a very inefficient private company) a $6.7b loan during the financial crisis? We on the other hand have swallowed the free market line and let our big companies die in the name of free markets.

So be careful when you listen to the west regarding free markets and state ownership. You listen to them and you empoverish your economy and your people and export jobs abroad. The problem isn’t ownership, the problem is level of ownership, who manages the enterprises, the level of control and the level of support (protection) for local industries. You only have to look at NLNG to see that government can own industries that work.

For example we have been talking about agric revolution for the last 5 decades. Only government can establish 10-50,000ha in every state and establish a plantation and hand it over to a competent private sector to manage or sell a majority stake once functional. If we are waiting for private capital, it will never happen. We are talking about going from a Nigeria that had a Peugeot assembly plant that assembled 20000 cars a day, talk less Volkswagen, landrover, styer, Anammco, with local content manufacturers like Michelin, Dunlop, GACOL, Varta and Triple glassetc who supplied locally manufactured components like tyres, air conditioners, batteries and windshields to counting a keke napep assembler as a list of new industries. If that’s the result of free market then let’s go back to the old ways because even if they were inefficient, the created jobs and developed skills.

Thank you for your courteous feedback. I appreciate its politeness, even in elaboration.

That written, we can adopt a hybrid model to all these. As it is, which you would agree with me, government doesn't own NLNG. Rather, as I had enthused earlier, government has considerable financial input and ownership in a Public-Private Partnership, but is generally 'owned' by private sector.

So we are indeed saying the same thing, you know. In a society as fantastically corrupt as this one, you cannot have our poor people with weakened education and a lack of moral uprightness run public businesses for government.

Rather, government must continue to give the impetus, but let the digital private sector run the business franchises.

Curious345:
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If Lagos State government can give me 1.4trillion naira , I'll solve her flooding problem once and for all .

Do a research on the below 👇👇 mentioned

Here are some facts about Tokyo's flood system
- The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel (MAOUDC) is Tokyo's flood defense system.
- The system took 13 years to complete and was finished in 2006.
- It is made up of five concrete silos, connected by tunnels that are 50 meters beneath the surface.
- The system can move water from smaller rivers to the larger Edo River.
- The tunnels are large enough to fit a space shuttle and are connected by 78 pumps that can move 200 tons of water per second.
- The system is open to visitors, but a tour guide is required.

This here, as well as proper waste disposal system and urban planning would fix the problem.

HawkTuah:
How do you plan for natural disasters. I ve worked both in lekki and vi. The flooding happens because there is continuous rainfall for hours. By Nigeria standard, those areas get planning and drainages. If you want to be surprised, check the same place, one hour after rain, the water will be gone.

Lagos is below sea level. It will happen one day the sea will reclaim it land.

Being below sea level is not the problem, and Lagos is NOT actually below sea level. Rather, the city is 1 meter ABOVE sea level. Amsterdam, on the other hand, is very well below sea level by as much as 2 meters.

Let's be factual in contributions.

WikeTheDrunk:
Scam government propagandists. Firms that are owned by private individuals. Which one is the government of the drug criminal, Tinubu building?

It is NOT the role of the government to build welfarist business structures in today's world. There is the phrase 'Government has no BUSINESS doing (domestic) business'.

Nigeria Airways was once the pride of West Africa. Many State Governments similarly have failed in corporate business.

At some point in time, Ondo State had NIROWI (Nigeria-Romania Wood Industry) in Ondo City to export wood, Oluwa Glass in Igbokoda to manufacture glass for Peugeot and all, Owena Bank, Owena Motels in the hospitality industry, Owena Mass Transit in thr Transportation industry etc under Ajasin. There was a Textile Industry at Ado Ekiti in the old Ondo State too. I guess the same can be said of many States from the Second Republic.

More recently, Ondo's former Governor Mimiko made Ondo a Mecca of medical tourism in the eight years he was Governor. There is very little evidence of his investments in that sector, on the National picture ,today. Why? Government BUSINESS investments in the domestic sector is often KILLED by corruption.

The reason is that there are often little or no consequences for corruption in Nigeria. The more corrupt you are, the more you can evade the ICPC, EFCC and all.

For that reason, government would invest in private companies and installations with significant ownership interests but not the controlling shareholder. Many people do not know that the Federal Government of Nigeria has significant stakes in NLNG Nigeria, Total Nigeria, SHELL and even Dangote Refinery. That's a careful way to invest the government resources in a privatised system.

Finally, the Government creates the economic climate, fiscal policy and structures which enables these investors to set up these industries. Without significant government support in the background, for example, Air Peace would have been unable to establish flights on the London route. You saw how much Festus Kenyamo was in the public eye over the matter and even flew on the maiden flight to London.

I do not work in any capacity for the Federal Government, but this is our country, and we must look at all the angles, as we have no other country.

People have little understanding of what NIGERIA is UNTIL they travel overseas. You'll then understand that Nigeria is the beacon of hope for Africa.

If Nigeria thrives, Africa - at least Sub Saharan Africa - would prosper.

RichBoy247:
I don't listen to thieves.

This vagabond was jailed alongside his wife, his sister in-law, his mistress who was married to another man as at that time, and his lawyer who helped him to hide stolen money. That's an unbeatable Guinness Record

You have bad mouth, walahi!

What's the colour of the person on my profile, please?

MercyStan:
I'm about to share something I've never revealed before.

I'm currently in my late twenties and ever since I was a kid I have been able to see a part of human being that others can't.

When I look at a person, I don't just see the physical body but I also see an extra layer of what looks like thin coloured smoke. I can't feel the smoke but I can see it. When I come close to the person it appears like a hologram of sorts.

The colour of the smoke depends on the individual. But for most people it's a light orange smoke. I've seen very few people with black smoke and even fewer people with white smoke.

However there are people that don't have this smoke. All I see is a body and nothing else. I have now come to theorize that these group of people aren't humans, or have no soul; human or otherwise.

I can also detect this colored smoke on photos and videos taken on newer cameras and phones like Android and iPhones. I don't see this colored smoke when I look at pictures I took with my blackberry, symbian and older Nokia phones

I can't detect this colored smoke in people in old movies but I can see in on people in recent movies and on current television.

Also when I come in physical contact with the people that don't have this colored smoke I feel an instant sharp coldness that lasts a second; like when you touch iceblock and immediatelyremove your hand. I always avoid these people.

Feel free to ask me any questions, and you can also show me a picture of a person and I can tell you what color of smoke I see on them and if I don't see any smoke on them I'll tell you.

candygist:
A good leader with thousand mumu citizens will not bring any positive change.

This is what many people do not understand. They simply curse the President...

maasoap:
So Tinubu and his cabinet members need the knowledge level of the populace to be very high before they can do their simple job of making life easier for the citizens
You believe everyone here should have the knowledge of what the condition of this girl is, right?

Because you were very polite, I would try to answer as much as I can.

You see, even if Tinubu were to be some angel, and I am not saying he is, nor are most of our politicians, unless the governed people understand the long-term plans and decisions of the political elite, they cannot resonate with it.

Because the political elite know this, and want to win 4-year electoral cycles, they steal public money and offer irrelevant tokens rather than build long-term societal development structures which often require long term planning with little or no short-term effects.

That way, we popularise voting phrases like "see and buy" and "stomach infrastructure" because these are the tokens that the people understand, and subsequently undermines democratic governance.

Now, back to the final question, the average High School graduate in the developed world knows what the brachial artery is. I didn't know that until I was in medical school! So you see, we are all in a mess.

In a proper society, it is easy for people who have read the article and seen to picture to identify that it isn't the navel - if nothing else. The lady's navel was distinctly different, and in the very picture.

Thank you.

ConfidentialDoc:
This is a sub umbilical hernia

It's not even umbilical.

People have problem on this website, and that's not to insult our people, but a declaration of our National issues.

People blame the President for not fixing the country and making life easier but how can you do that when the knowledge level of the populace is abysmally low?

Only this gentleman up here has written what the issue really is. That's a sub umbilical hernia. It isn't the navel AT ALL. She stands the risk of strangulation of the bowel loops, intussusception and all what not. She should be seeking medical attention, not flaunting it on social media - but now that Facebook and YouTube pay for "content", we are apparently in for worse...

To fix Nigeria, we have to educate the people first - otherwise, we aren't going anywhere, no matter how angry we get. Knowledgeable people can take good decisions in administration, and there are more people in administration - in the Federal and State civil service - than all the elected politicians who we often seem to blame for our challenges as a nation.

peekspot:
https://punchng.com/just-in-again-tapswap-postpones-token-allocation/

Was it not foolish, forgive my French, for anyone to think he or she could literally mine money by physically striking their mobile devices?

Isn't it obvious that such exercise was simply an advertisement campaign by the people who put it out?

I never did. It was snake oil and it is a shame that so many people fell for it.

It is difficult to query this headline.

A lot was said of Buhari's "body language" back then. Akpabio's "body language", as head of the 10th National Assembly, seems like some arrogant, not-people-conscious secondary school bully.

As the leader of the 10th assembly, he hasn't inspired any confidence amongst the people. If anything, he appears continually interested in upsetting the people by certain outlandish remarks he routinely makes.

Governance and Administration in our country must be very difficult in Nigeria.

People - who should be responsible politicians - get angry over "sharing formula" and simply declare things that plunge poor citizenry against themselves over tribe and religion.

For all we know, here is a disgruntled former APC member who has recently resigned from the party due to personal differences, possibly over the cake sharing; coming out to stoke embers of ethnic divide.

It is a shame. The President has told everyone to hold their governors responsible for development, but this ethnic bigot is too blinded to address that. The truth is that the percentage of the FAAC which all the governors collect is larger than what the FG gets. The difference is that the FG collects singly collects her share of the lesser percentage while the 36+1 States state their own pool of the bigger percentage that is nearly 60% of FAAC.

The fact is that the enormity of civil servants and MDAs which the FG has to service possibly explains some of this lopsidedness in the favour of the FG, but most State Governors have completely subsumed and alienated development at the most remote of local governments. What we have is that the State government take their thirty something percent of FAAC and add it to the twenty something percent for local governments in FAAC to their State JAACs.

At JAACs, they give crumbs to the local administrations in the councils, who largely exist at the mercies of the State Governors who impose them without elections, or with rigged State Electoral Body elections that has no opposition party winning any seat. The State then takes it upon itself to develop all the local governments from the centre at the State Capital, invalidating any possibility of development at the rural areas where the essential agricultural products come from. Naturally, development decreases as the distance from the state capital centre lengthens in this arrangement. This must change. We must ensure that the local governments work, and the President has sued the State Governors to the Supreme court to achieve this. Nigerians must realise the root causes of our problems.

This is one of the structural problem with Nigeria: not choristers or anything. Tinubu is no longer figuring for legitimacy which requires people to sing about standing on amy mandate. If anything, he publicly told people to shut up while singing the song. We must face governance squarely. There is a reason why campaigns are banned 24 hours to any elections and are not lifted until a few months before an election. Don't overheat the polity by feeding people with heresies or outright falsehoods.

Papadoh:
God bless you for this comment.

Amen.
May God bless you and yours also.
May the Almighty God bless our country, and in our lifetimes.

I empathise with the President. This job must be very tough, and a lot tougher than he knew before he hot into office to "hit the ground running from Day 1".

I however know that NO JUPITER can turn Nigeria around as Punch seems to be suggesting, as against waiting "forever" in 12 months.

We are talking about a country with such porous borders, no acceptable census figures, no dependable database of ALL citizens. How do you effectively plan for a population that YOU DO NOT KNOW?

That's the first problem. We must be realistic in our expectations. We are in a mess, but we are still the hope of SubSaharan Africa. Let's give some more time, and if it doesn't work, we vote in ideals at the next elections, regardless of political party.

To do that, to have an effective electioneering system, we need citizens data. It is why I am worried about Minister Bosun Tijani's seeming silence in office. If Bosun cannot fix this data problem, so much so that his own data is sold on the dark web for 100naira, then we are in problems of such monumental proportions than what we perceive!

The extent of Tribal animosity in this country, as demonstrated on this page is particularly scary.

Look how a simple news article has generated so much negative traction to personal and ethnic brickbats?

We've got a lot of healing and incorporation to do as a country. The politicians and civil servants, the thieves and robbers in high places do not fight each other over tribal matters. Honestly. We have to stop being pawns in their hands.

Osimhen is himself a mixture of Yoruba and Esan. Esans are Yorùbá cousins. He is Esan by tribe but raised in Lagos Yoruba, which he frequently spoke during his emotional tirade on his IG Live.

We should embrace our country as one people - as we are almost irrelevant as a people if we balkanise. Most Nigerians do not understand this because they have never been/lived abroad. You do not get to appreciate how big you are as a Nigerian and proud you can be of it until you see what other people in other Low and Medium Income Countries and places experience.

JuanDeDios:
See team! Couldn't get a reversal though. Have they served the jail term already or they will now be hauled into a black maria for transport to jail?

So Baba Wole, Chief and Prof for lose high profile case like this one...


Law is interesting!

"MTN everywhere you go" no go like make Starlink come spoil dem market like this o

Malawian:
Among the Accommodators in the 1980s, it was "Night Soil Men".

Now they dont even bother with responsible removal of feaces from their bodies. Just set yansh anywhere drop the thing, be it Railway tracks, Canal, Lagoon, even untop bridge for lagos island.

Na wah o.

Another deep one. Fela sang about this.
E fi igbe le f'agbepoo...

The military incursion into leadership destroyed so many things in this country, you know...

ttobizz:
Produce inspector

This is a mature comment, and very correct.
The average Nigerian on the internet today indeed doesn't know what a Produce Inspector was.
May you live long!

opes:
The 4 x 400 women will still be in Paris. The slot for olympic in the relay category is 16, only 14 qualified in Bahamas, the remaining two slots will be taken by teams who couldnt seal their qualification in Bahamas and will be considered based on SEASON BEST (SB) Currently, Nigeria 4 x 400 women has the best SB of 3:27:29 recorded in Accra during the all African games.

Uncle, I am back.

How far with your bolded assertion?

joseph1832:
they should conduct an autopsy, to ascertain the cause of his death.

This is the first realistic comment I have read concerning the next step of action.

Unfortunately, education has been so compromised in Nigeria that it required 3 pages of commentary to read the most reasonable next step.

Pathologies like Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy can kill a person without any prior symptoms.

Someone wrote "spiritual remote control". What does that even mean? Are our brains so blunted? How do you write that in English Language? Did the Europeans who taught us their language teach that type of nonsense? Or is "spiritual remote control" only capable of affecting Black Africans?

Another wrote "phobia of the screening". Heck. An American Vice President once died while having what is rumoured to be sex. There is the phrase, "Rockefeller didn't know if he was cuming or going.."


There is so much re-investment in education that this country needs. It would help the populace to understand the actions of government. At the moment, this thread reveals a lot that tells that we have a very large ignorant population. No country can truly develop economically with this kind of population, regardless of who is President.

It is the same thing Ruto is facing in Kenya. Popularly elected like our Buhari in 2015, the locals are tired of him after 2 years because he has to raise revenue from them to settle international lenders in order to be able to run the economy. Granted, the local people may be upset at the possible extravagant lifestyle of the elected, but the same local people often FLEECE the elected so much before elections can be won.

It is more like politicians actually have to literally bribe everyone within and outside the political parties before they can actually win elections. They thus go into office to recoup the financial outlay. The financial discipline that our people consequently seek from the elected officials must also be exemplified by the people before the elections.

In Nigeria, to be a "delegate" at party primaries is considered an opportunity to "hammer". That's the corruption staring at us all in the face - as perpetuated by us in the name of "National Cake", yet we want to have the same cake we have eaten. We cannot have both.

We've got to learn the gospel of DELAYED GRATIFICATION and priotise MERITOCRACY over money politics.

Bosun Tijani came into office HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. He had been an enormous critic of government in the past.

It would be very damaging to him and Project YOUNG NIGERIA IF he cannot aggregate Nigeria's digital into one common national digital data backend or IF he cannot protect Nigerian datab breaches as Minister.

Bosun Tijani came with more popularity known than Bunmi Tunji Ojo but it would seem now that it is BTO that has used his office to solve the problem of Nigerians in a much better manner.

Bosun has to succeed, like BTO and all under 45 Ministers. You lot at the hope of our country. You guys and ladies must succeed in office. You are the hope of millions of younger Nigerians under the 35 year age belt - the largest group of Nigerians. Please, give us hope!!!

Maliqcious:
Na Abiola no hear word… Hewon use Abacha comot Ernest Shonekan. Abacha wey him know say na bad man. Last last run the mugu as the mugu no hear he jail am. Nothing for bring that man out if Abacha they alive. Abiola na greedy man tay tay.

In all this, you haven't blamed Shonekan who took upon a role he was not qualified for. Shonekan had enough time to allow Prof Nwosu complete the announcement of the results by revoking Babangida's annulment.

Bad or not, Abiola was Africa largest philanthropist who INDEED won that election and deserved to have been President. By 1998, there was too much water under the bridge that only a new election could have made Abiola President.

By that time, MKO should have surrendered his mandate like Mandela and allowed the country to go into a proper election. Even Mandela, whom MKO has as model, didn't immediately become President upon release from jail.

The Nigeria of 1993 was 30 States. Some of the Governors were dead. There was no way we could have gone back to that 1993 Mandate. MKay apparently didn't get enough advise and was sacrificed in Aso Rock.

May God continue to rest his soul. Nigeria, and indeed the World, lost a great man in MKO. Who was Harry Akande, or Dangote or Otedola when MKay reigned like a colossus?

Orun ire o, ọkọ Simbi, Baba Kola!

The reason why Nigeria is where we are is because many people have the mentality of the OP.

Dear OP, you thought you were helping the students. Indeed, you weren't. You weren't only dishonouring the school and the Catholic Faith that established it, you were actively destroying the Country.

When you 'help' students at examinations, you are blunting their critical thinking capacities and is setting a worse timebomb than Boko Haram would ever set, for yourself, the candidates and your country.

I'm addition, while such students may immediately thank you but would never respect our trust anything that has your signature on it forever. They would see you as a fraud as you are. It further queries your own education. If your education was sound, you wouldn't help others to get improper education.

Where people like you who hold the National Certificate in Education, and are qualified to teach in Primary Schools do this, what is the hope for Nigeria's tomorrow?

My brother,

The fact that you are asking for advice from a public forum like this indicates that you have cold feet. My straight advice, don't proceed.

You see this thing called marriage? You would bring the woman, regardless of her status when you meet her and marry her, to whatever social status you are.

Nobody would hear your story or pity you after marriage. You'll not be able to complain about her disability after you marry her.

So if you need the endorsement of the world, then don't proceed. Don't marry ANYBODY out of pity. Few very women in Kogi or anywhere in Nigeria would marry a man out of pity.

It MAY not be his last trip, really.

God owns life. Should anything happen to the re-installed Emir, he steps back on the throne.

It is a 'Game of Thrones'.

emkz:
Credit must be given to TVC News Journalists' Hangout.

On Monday or Tuesday, Babajide Kolade-Otitoju blamed the President for not paying attention to the fact that 32 members of the reconstituted governing councils of universities came from Adamawa State alone, where the Minister of Education hails from. He further said other people submitted names that were disregarded.

Otitoju said federal character must be reflected so as not to give undue advantage to any state. Someone called into the programme to blame Gbajabiamila and NSA Ribadu, but the anchor cut him off.

If there is one thing about the Tinubu administration, it is that he listens and tries to be fair.

Babajide Kolade-Otitoju, if you ever read this, we are grateful that you used your programme to tell the president how it is. Continue that way.

.

I clicked 'like'. More grace.

rotadeco27:
I met recently someone very close to him in my clinic, he said with all sincerity Tinubu intentions to make this nation work. There are whole lots of things we do not know that is why we say most of the things we say. I sincerely regretted campaigning against him in the last election. Nigeria needs sincere leader like him at this point and not a palliator that will be packaging a failing nation to get cheap accolades. The country is undergoing what I termed economic debridements which comes with pains and bledding, but by the time the nation recovers , she will be 1st in Africa as Lagos is always 1st in progress. Some people built America, we must build own nation too.

You've said it all. Nigeria needs a strong leader like BAT at this time who can do the Economic Debridement. We need a Moses, even though we as Israelites would always complain, and may regularly upset Moses so much that he may act in error and fail to reach the Promised land.

Leadership is a tough job, and I entirely empathise with our Political Leaders, beginning with BAT to the rest of them. Agreed, many of them are THIEVES, but NOT ALL OF THEM ARE THIEVES.

It is a game of numbers in democracy - and the majority would always 'carry the day'. To fix this country, we must go through the debridement.

Gerrard59:
I love your response. More of this on Nairaland and other Internetsphere in Nigeria, please.

Thank you Gerrard59.

I have seen a lot come and go on this website since 2006...

Thank you for your kind words.

VinnyBaba:
Ogbeni, It is said that Isaac Newton Lived his ENTIRE life as a Virgin.

Even the likes of John the Baptist, Elijah, etc Lived and died WITHOUT having Sex.

If your Life is so dedicated to a Particular cause, you won't reason Ladies and Sex. Many European Inventors were like that.

Two problems:

One, you referenced MYTHs that have no scientific evidence: Einstein's celibacy, Elijah etc.

Two, you then mention European inventors - who are SCIENTISTS - but have no scientific evidence to back your own assertion.

Finally, I didn't write 'all'. I employed no absolute language in my originating comment.

This is the only problem I have with the Catholic Faith.

It is almost biologically impossible for an adult male without physiological problems or IATROGENIC ALTERATIONS to PERMANENTLY decide NOT to willfully ejaculate for an entire lifetime.