₦airaland Forum

Plenty money yet nothing to show for it
Education, zero
Roads, zero
Electricity, zero
Health, zero
Security, zero.

Politicians are getting richer while Nigerians are getting poorer

PDP died in SE the day they denied Obi ticket. If Obi remains in LP then LP will win most free and fair elections in SE.

Tomorrow they will claim 100% increase in IGR and the Agbadorians will celebrate.
In an unproductive economy like ours, high IGR = high taxes on ordinary citizens. It is nothing to celebrate at all.

All over the world, governments take pride in REDUCING peoples taxes. In Nigeria the reverse is the case.

I hope Agbadorians will not pay the tax o.
Who would have known that even Buhari had more human sympathy than BAT?
Them go feel it.

Ohaneze ndi oshi. How the coastal road take concern them? What did they say when Umahi went on air attacking Peter Obi?
That's why these charlatans have zero respect in the south east. Umahi has visited them at night with brown envelopes.
They are attacking Obi over a road that didnt pass through south east at all. What a bunch of clowns!
Ohanaeze should know by now that they are inconsequential in the affairs of SE.
They supported Atiku in 2023 yet both Atiku and BAT didnt get upto 10% votes in South East.

Nigeria is far from being a country. Everything is looked at from tribal lens. What point is this OP trying to prove?
Why cant government start this road construction from sections that are outside of cities?
If the road is indeed going to take 30years to complete why start where business that supports people's livelihood would have to be demolished? It doesn't matter who owns it, private enterprise should not be destroyed unless absolutely unavoidable.

BAT at one time installed the governors of all the 5 south west states. Yet, apart from Lagos and Ogun (purely because of its proximity to Lagos) the rest are amongst the poorest states in Nigeria.

Lagos is a special case. Even with a donkey as governor, Lagos will still be better than other Nigerian states

Onanuga was editor of PM News. In Europe and America, PM News is what you call gossip newspaper. Generating and promoting fake news is their modus operandi.

"Michael Chibuzor" is not a name given to a true son of the soil. If you know, you know.

Okoroawusa:
When last you check your temperature?

I think you should check yours first. How many votes did PDP and APC get in Imo in 2023 presidential election when the people refused to be bribed or intimidated?

This may be a strategic move by Ihedioha. First of all he should start by apologizing to Ndi Imo for working against Obi in 2023.
As things stand, if Obi remains in LP, LP will beat both PDP and APC in any free and fair election in Imo State and throughout the SE.

That was how Buhari junketed from one country to another. In the end, Nigeria didn't see any benefit.
Build your local economy FIRST, all these oyibos will beg us to do business here.

To acquire western education is Haram but to enjoy in London and New York is not.
Bunch of hypocrites!

We said here that celebrating FPIs is dump. They are not reliable investment.
Naira is crashing again because the FPIs are taking profits. They came in at about N/$1700 and are now exiting at about N/$1200.
That's free 500 naira per dollar for 2 months investment. You cant get that return on investment anywhere else in the world!
You can rig elections but you cant rig international finance.

chopnaira:
Tinubu NEVER said it was yoruba's turn. The Yoruba he spoke was simple enough. Sowore is just creating funny scenarios in his head.

Tinubu was voted all over Nigeria for his political sagacity and good work he did in lagos. Only the SE rejected him for obvious reasons. They felt it was their turn.

Good work he did in Lagos? so how come he lost in the same Lagos too? Abi Lagos people no dey appreciate good thing ni?
Meanwhile, BAT said Yoruba lo kan, before saying emi lo kan.
You probably know this already but you need to justify the little stipends they are giving you for defending the indefensible

Too many laws and protocol, yet darkness is everywhere

professorPABX:
Lagos Calabar Highway Project is a PPP requiring only FG commitment of 15%. Can you get a company that is is ready for a PPP of Sagamu, Ore to Onitsha road or Sagamu to Benin Road, FG is ready to pay the 15%.

You should ask OBI who was an economic adviser to Jonathan to name one Road Project executed by Jonathan in South West? 2. He should name one Interstate road that began from Lagos or any South West State when Jonathan was in power. OBI is a trader. This is a P P P road. FG only needs to meet 15% of the fund. Atlantic City, Lekki Deep Seaport and Dangote Refineries are the only bitterness he can see.
I pity him.

You people have forgotten that when OBI was the Economic Adviser to Jonathan the road from Lagos to Ore was worse than Ore to Onitsha and Ore to East West Road to Portharcourt. The time you spend from Ore to Lagos was almost thrice the time spent from Asaba to Ore. Why didn't he start from Sagamu

You sound like one of the online supporters paid 25k per month to defend the government. I don't blame you sha. Country is hard and man must wack. Here is an article on the inadequacies of the project written by Dele Sobowale (NOT OBI ooo). Maybe you'll now read to understand and not just to criticize Obi.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/04/why-lagos-calabar-coastal-road-might-not-be-completed-by-dele-sobowale/

Nigeria was first under PDP. APC took it to 4th.
Meanwhile, agbados are online twerking in jubilation.

You may not like Obi but the so called super highway is a complete waste of money. It is all eye service to please BAT. That's why it started in Lagos and will probably end in Lagos.

Making the Lagos > Shagamu > Ore > Benin > Asaba > Onitsha > Owerri > Aba > PH expressway a 12 lane super highway would have made far more economic sense.

We have seen this movie many times. Next they'll end up in South East terrorizing innocent citizens as members of Nigeria army.

They said Jonathan was clueless but he had a stable hand in NGOZI OKONJO IWEALA running the economy. She commanded respect from London, Frankfurt, to New York where international finance decisions are made!

Then bad belle entered. Buhari came, removed Ngozi and installed Kemi Adeosun, a mere London Underground accountant as her replacement. After Kemi comes Zainab Ahmed, an unknown quantity in every ramification. Tinubu has come and installed his crony in Wale Edun as coordinating minister. It's easy to see why the economy is in the state it is in right now.

This tells the larger story of Nigeria's dilemma. When merit was the order of the day, the naira and dollars had almost the same value. People from all over west Africa and the Caribbean flocked to Nigerian universities. Then bad belle entered, Nigeria removed those managing the economy at the time based on MERIT. Chancellorship of Universities became tribalized and ethicized. They introduced federal character to replace competence with incompetence. Since then, Nigeria has been on a slippery slope to underdevelopment in every aspect of human endeavor.

You won't hear pim from the army. Killing of soldiers is only bad when it happens in the south.

Rich man dey cheat, poor man dey cheat too. So pick your own cheating partner carefully.
It is better to be heartbroken in a private jet than in a Toyota Corolla.

Richtaiwo:
I'm igbo from Anambra. We don't bother ourselves with reports like this because we already know what to do. Na to just blame Tinubu and praise Peter Obi, then everything go dey normal. If we like, sometimes, na to just call Nigeria zoo and blame yoruba or fulani, we are satisfied.

"RichTAIWO" is Igbo from Anambra? Be deceiving your fellow agbados.

Cardoso is selling our scarce dollar to BDCs at artificially cheap rates just to force exchange rate down.
He wants to enjoy momentary praise and look for who to blame when the proverbial shit hits the fan.
This is not sustainable. US dollar is not Naira that we can print as much as we like.

FX floating: reversed
Subsidy removal: reversed

Why then did BAT and his gang of baby economists subject Nigerians to the excruciating pain?

APC has succeeded in installing a puppet PDP leadership.
Come 2027 PDP will officially decide to support APC/BAT for presidency.
Pin this comment somewhere.

Two more posts attacking Obi/Obidients and Reno will see his credit alert for the week.
The hustle is real.

Wike will go the way of Odili and Amaechi. Both were some of the most powerful governors during their time.
That's why he is fighting tooth and nail to retain access to, and control of, Rivers treasury. He knows without it, he is nothing.
Very soon, his so called allies will desert him one after the other.

It's laughable seeing Imams, pastors, elder statemen, hardcore fundamentalist Christians and Muslims, defend "One Nigeria".... a country named by Lord Lugard, a confirmed pedophile, and his mistress, a.k.a, ASHAWO.

Yugoslavia broke up; today Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia are making progress.
India broke up; today India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are making progress
Singapore and Malaysia broke up; today they are both developed countries
Czechoslavia broke up; today Czech Republic and Slovakia are separate countries making progress.
Even UK recently devolved powers to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland!

Meanwhile Nigeria is forced to be together in idiotic 'One Nigeria' but ordinary light, clean water, good road, hospital, school... we no get.

Black people! they swear for us Break this country up, at least one fit make progress for all of us.

IF BREAKING UP THIS SHAM CALLED NIGERIA WILL MAKE US HAVE STEADY LIGHT, LIKE GHANA, THEN SO BE IT.

So after all, the government has reverted to subsidizing the naira by selling dollar below market price to BDCs?
Basically, Nigerians were subjected to sever economic pains all for nothing!
Our foreign reserves dipped 2% last week alone due to the cost of subsiding naira. This means that the government is using our earnings to subsidize FX. Isn't this one of the sins of Emefiele?
The government often get away with all sorts of atrocities due to people's ignorance.

ValCon888:
There's something called Reciprocity. The reporter should first find out how much Nigerians pay for visas to the US.

It will do him good to know the amount is nonrefundable, the rejection rate is extremely high, yet Nigerians pay the same fees every time they apply for a visa to the USA

Didnt you hear that he is visiting on Kenya passport? Appropriate question should be how much Kenya charge Nigerians.

BondRiv:
Give Fubara 100 years, he would not have been able to win a local government election. You are comparing someone who knows nothing about politics with people who fought for power. How many times did you hear Fubara speak during the campaigns? After he was handpicked and thrown into office. You think it is about "dishing out dole"? So why is Fubara failing? Do you know how much he has wasted so far? With his judicial consultant. When you are clueless, you are clueless.

Let's all wait and see. All the touts Wike deploy to rig elections through unbridled violence will render their service to the highest bidder. Wike may still leverage his federal might come election time but it wont be as easy as it used to be for him. Wike has accumulated enough enemies at home. They all have personal bones to pick with him. 2027 will be interesting.