₦airaland Forum

Over a year ago, I suggested that all the oil proceeds be distributed directly to the people in cash; with the federal, state and local governments having to survive entirely on taxes. The US state of Alaska has often paid oil reciepts direcly to citizens so there is some precedent.

Aside from the the obvious reduction in government waste and increase in accountability, there's also the fact that poor people spend money in ways that are far more beneficial to the economy than rich people (they buy local garri instead of imported big screen TVs).

There are 2 problems with this proposal, both of which also apply to Seun's:
1. The corruptocracy would still find ways to steal the bulk of the money either through "ghost Nigerians" or cooking the books.
2. Such a proposal is impossible to implement without a revolution. The elites will never allow it.

Someone should send this clown of a governor a copy of the 1999 constitution. I just lost all respect for the man.

Ignore the PDP sockpuppet.

E nice:
look, anybody do anyhow here go see anyhow. On monday, i am going out with my goons . Who 4ck up, i go 4ck am up. My president, keep up the good works. We are 100% behind you.

Okaay!! You must be a policeman!!

No wonder.

^^^ I wasn't sure at first so I had to read its posting history but it's definitely a PDP suckpuppet.

Ignore.

alj harem:
Please explain this figure

shouldn't there be cuts on these irrelevant things as well ?

See this breakdown for GEJ and VP 2012 Expenses:

Feeding the Presidency : NGN 992,570,000.00
Kitchen and Household equipment: NGN 45,000,000.00
Refreshment: NGN 293,000,000.00
State House clinic: NGN 1,200,000,000.00
Foreign trips: NGN 11,250,000,000.00
New presidential fleets: NGN 1,900,000,000.00
Maintenance of Guest House: NGN 1,500,000,000.00
Bullet proof cars: NGN 280,000,000.00
Extension of presidential villa NGN 75,000,000.00
Renovation of state house NGN 530,000,000.00

No, No! Why are you quoting it? Why are you replying it?

Ignore it and it will go away.

^^^ PDP sockpuppet.

Ignore.

@OP

When are Team America: World Police and the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers going to move in?

I'm not sure the Mossad can handle this alone.

^^^ PDP sockpuppet.

Ignore.

GEJ thinks he can put out a forest fire by peeing on it.

But he's only going to end up with a burnt member.

man-o-war:
@Evil Brain: Add to your first post, tell them to install Virtual Software if they are afraid. Then inside Virtual Software They need to install another operating system in which I can upload later for use or if if have XP vVMWimage upload it here (I mention XP because the image is small compare to Win 7 OS)




Thanks

\\Man-O-War

Sorry, but I have to respectfully refuse. Encouraging extraordinary obfuscating methods would only endanger the few of us without computer skills. The best way to keep everyone safe is for all of us to stick our necks out just like the people out on the streets are doing.

Besides, DDOS attacks are not illegal in Nigeria. Even if they were capable of tracking all of us down and arresting us (which they aren't) they have no grounds to hold us.

Do not be afraid my brothers. Fight for justice!! #OccupyNigeria

back belle:
Think d president deserved to be given a chance at least to prove himself, He needs us more, I can see sabotage in the security issue.

He's had over 22 months to prove himself. The only thing he needs to do now is GTFO.

#OccupyNigeria

phreakabit:
It is a felony when done[b] intentionally[/b]!

It's a felony in the US. However, there are no laws covering DDOS attacks in Nigeria. That means it is not illegal.

Don't be a such a v@gina. Your brothers who are out protesting and being teargassed are risking far more than this. Do your bit to save Nigeria from the thieves in Abuja.

Fight for your children's future!! #OccupyNigeria

jmaine:
How is a cyber crime retroactive in nature . . Enjoy your DDOS session . .until you get made . .

Using your computer to visit a website is not a crime under Nigerian law. Using your computer to visit a website 1 million times a second is not a crime under Nigerian law.

Nigeria is not the USA and the SSS is not the CIA. Do not fear my brothers. Even if they can find a law, they can't arrest all of us.

Fight for freedom!! No retreat!!

jmaine:
Guess you have forgotten how swift our legislators can pass laws that benefit them . .under a space of a week or or two . . those laws can still be passed and the offenders duly punished  . .especially when you consider how most of them are currently been harassed via calls and texts through the exploits of the naijahacktivists

Retroactive laws are explicitly banned under the 1999 constitution. DDOS away my brothers!!!

frosbel:
And you think these companies do not have DOS protection features and firewall filters etc etc   . Not to talk of their backup sites they can switch to , while trying to fix the primary site if you somehow manage to get through.

Why do you chaps just post stuff without reading it back to yourself.

If you want to do it, do it unannounced so that it will catch them napping , don't start blabbing on a public forum.

And wait till the SSS seek you out with CIA help , very very easy to do mate , you will achieve your dream of visiting Yankee, only this time you will be spending it in a jail.   

Fear mongering PDP sockpuppet.

Ignore.

tuniski:
El rufai u are part of the problem. All I see is the attempt by a segement of the north to rationalise the activities of BOKO HARAM. Let the truth be told BH is the military response of a failed or is it defeated political machinery by unleashing terror on nigerians, haba must u always rule!!!!!!! During the years of your mis rule we didnt leave the country so you must accept the reality it is time our country move on!!!!

Have you actually read what the man said or are you just attacking him because his village is on the wrong side of the Niger?

frosbel:
And what about the ones in Kano, Borno , etc  



You believe in anything  !!

Boko Haram has been killing people everywhere for the past 2 years. Yet it's only now that there is an election that anybody is enforcing a 24 hour curfew.

Or is there any curfew in Kano or Borno? Did they declare any curfew in Abuja after the Christmas bombing?

Keep drinking the PDP kool-aid if you like.

Don't listen to the PDP sockpuppets. The Nigerian government is nowhere near competent enough to track anyone down over this. If they had spent more time governing and less time stealing, then we might have had something to worry about.

Let us bring down the corruptocracy!!

Nasir el-Rufai is alleging that both the curfew and the "Boko Haram" attacks that inspired it were engineered by the Adamawa state PDP in order to rig next week's gubernatorial election.

I for one, believe him.

Read his twitter feed here: https://twitter.com/#!/elrufai

The corrupt federal government has declared war on all Nigerians. It is time for Nigerians to declare war on the government. We shall fight them on the land! We shall fight them on the sea! We shall fight them on the internet!!

I propose that we begin a campaign of distributed denial of service attacks against all federal government websites starting with the federal ministry of finance at fmf.gov.ng . Anyone with a computer and an internet connection can participate.

Here's how we're going to do it.

Step 1:  Download the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) program from here: sourceforge.net/projects/loic/

Step 2:  Run the program.

Step 3:  Enter the following into the Url box (without quotation marks) "www.fmf.gov.ng" OR enter the following into the IP box "184.173.227.86". Don't bother changing the attack optionsif your not sure what they mean.

Step 4:  Fire the LOIC by clicking on the box labelled "IMMA CHARGIN MAH LAZER". Leave the program running until your generator dies and your battery finishes.

Step 5:  VICTORY!!

If enough people join in, we can crash their server and kick the thieving scumbags off the internet.

I'll be on hand in case anyone needs technical support.

No surrender!!

okada_man:
Mukina there are so Many brilliant questions he chose to ignore. Post those ones too If you can.

He's not even doing justice to the few easy questions he's answered. When someone asked him for the specific amounts ministers and legislators were earning his answer was "It is fixed by The Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission." No numbers, no specific figures! he completely sidestepped the question.

frosbel:
So says the communist !!

lolwut?!

@frosbel
Stop your whining. If Jonathan doesn't have the thick skin required for the job, he should do us all a favour and resign. People are being blown up every day under his watch. The guy pushed millions of Nigerians further into poverty just yesterday and you're complaining that we're hurting his feelings. Are you serious?

If I hadn't read so many of your christian fundamentalist rants in the religion section, I'd have thought you were another PDP sockpuppet like Beaf. But someone has already come up with a better explanation: you're a simpleton.

@frosbel

GEJ is not the king of Nigeria, neither is he a military dictator. He is an elected public servant who happens to be doing a spectacularly bad job at serving the public. His policies and poor leadership since entering office have only brought fear, insecurity and poverty to the majority of Nigerians. Meanwhile, he and his cronies are enjoying an increasingly lavish lifestyle which is paid for with money belonging to the poor and downtrodden masses.

In case you don't know, in a democracy, it is the right, nay, the duty of every citizen to criticize a bad leader and remove him from power at the first opportunity. It is the right of every citizen to criticize a good leader so that he may become a better one.

If you have a problem with people abusing GEJ, then feel free to move to North Korea. I'm sure you'd feel right at home there.

samstradam:
Can you see the stupidity of this government, they can't even afford to pay 18000 and by the time Labour have finnished with them this year, minimum wage will be substantially more. This is where our subsidy savings is going to go to . . . but don't worry we'll find that out at the end ofthe budget year. . . and we've not even started talking about the devaluation the naira will go through this year. . . to think any secondary school economist could have predicted this. But i bet you they will be blaming everyone else, including the pope for their failings.

You're assuming that anybody in Abuja gives a rat's äss. Jonathan is too daft to understand anything as complex as secondary school economics and the people pulling his strings only care about getting more money to spend on big government contracts.

And those calling for another increase in minimum wage should remember that only a tiny percentage of Nigerian collect salaries from government.how is higher minimum wage going to help the farmers and private sector workers? Let's no decieve ourselves.

PointB:
Surely they will gather but most surely the will scatter.

the fuel subsidy is a big drain on the economy and benefits daily the oil majors.

it is only ignorant folks to will stick out their neck for the benefit of the oil cabals who have manipulated the media to instill fears of subsidy removal on undescerning people. Fuel subsidy removal has come people, lets embrace change.

it's not as bad as they made it sound.

You people are missing the point. It doesn't matter if the subsidy benefits the so called cabal. Even if only 1% of the money got to ordinary folks, that't still a benefit they had before that they didn't have now.

Not only is the government punishing ordinary people for their own failure to prosecute high level criminals, they are asking us to tighten our belts while they are loosening theirs. While the government is still paying the fat cats their jumbo allowances and wasting hundreds of billions on inflated contracts and running their bloated operation, they want the poor to make all the sacrifices? We will not stand for it!

It's time to show Goodluck and co who is the master and who is the servant. Those liars and thieves need to be brought down to their level.

Onlytruth:
This is the area

OMG! I served just a stone's throw away from there. I used to drink beer at Eha-Amufu and passed through there regularly on my way back to Enugu town.

UAD Rejects Fuel Price Increase; Calls For Indefinite Mass Action

The United Action for Democracy [UAD] condemns in the strongest terms the recent decision by the Federal Government to increase the price of petrol from N65 to N141 beginning on the 1st of January 2012.

The UAD considers this policy not only insensitive, ill thought out and absolutely unnecessary, but also provocative and inhumane. Given the fact that 70% of Nigerians live below what is considered the poverty line, and 90% live on less than $2 a day, an increase of this magnitude or whatever magnitude for that matter will spell social and economic doom for the vast majority of Nigerians who are already overburdened by unemployment, poor infrastructure, high cost of living, unaffordable basic social services and dwindling livelihoods. 

The United Action for Democracy and indeed the generality of Nigerians are not convinced by government’s plea that the phantom extra funds to be derived from increasing the price of petrol will be ploughed into building ‘critical infrastructure’ and creating ‘safety nets’ for poor Nigerians.

Going by previous similar promises  by the same economic think tank (like the $1billion to be saved annually from Paris Club debt deal and channeled into critical infrastructure), it is clear that this government has neither the will nor the sincerity of purpose to pursue real transformative and poverty alleviating economic reforms. Worse still, government’s failure to tackle the ‘cabal’ which it claims at every instance is responsible for colossal fraud in oil importation, and its failure to revamp the refineries (which by the way if operating at installed capacity can provide both the real and ‘ghost’ local consumption figures), is proof of this.

It is worrying that in a country that is rated as a key exporter of crude oil on the one hand, while its citizens are noted as some of the poorest in the world on the other; government will even contemplate such a debilitating economic policy. In real terms, an increase in the price of petrol will engender an attendant increase in the cost of all products and services, bearing in mind the transport implications of goods and services and the fact that homes and businesses generate their own power/electricity due to the failure of public power supply.

It is even more worrisome that while this regime is hell bent on imposing further hardships on us, it has just shamelessly presented the 2012 budget proposals to the National Assembly, where it is taking public funds [our money] to cover all the expenses of those in power. For example, we will pay 1.3billion naira to fuel the generators in the presidency, and 1 billion naira to feed the first family, while the rest of us are left to the mercy of the cabal to cover the cost of transportation and feeding among other things. This is simply not acceptable!

Based on the above, the United Action for Democracy calls on all Nigerians to rise up with one voice and as one to reject and resist this price increase. The United Action For Democracy shall, beginning on the 3rd of January 2012, initiate and coordinate with others a series of Mass Citizens Actions targeted at stopping this policy and tackling the rot in the petroleum sector.

The UAD calls on all citizens and citizens organizations to mobilize and take action in defense of their material survival and the survival of the country, as it is now very clear that our destiny is in our hands.
As we did in the era of military despotism, UAD will stand with the people all the way as we collectively reclaim our sovereignty from this alliance of treasury looters and the cabal.

http://saharareporters.com/press-release/uad-rejects-fuel-price-increase-calls-indefinite-mass-action

The One:
So you guys now see the merit in protesting? Well, for me I did a test run with the Lekki toll protest and saw how people here scoffed at it.

As for me and my family, we are not protesting again!

The Lekki toll road was small potatoes compared to this. This subsidy issue is going to sink millions of Nigerians into poverty if nothing is done. People are literally going to suffer and starve over this. Think about those who are raising families on N15,000 a month.

And don't be discouraged just because the last one didn't work out. You don't just give up because of one setback, you keep fighting.

efisher:
Concerning the issue of details of the palliative measures, many of you erroneously believe no one has the details. I can assure you (just like the case of FOI) that all key stakeholders including the labor unions have the info. The only thing is that it takes time for those in the larger society to know. Most of us only get our info from what the pages of the newspapers and other media. As I said earlier, this will become clearer in the next few days.

Negro please! If the labour unions had any info, we'd have it too. It is impossible to keep that sort of thing secret once it leaves the halls of government. The reason why they haven't revealed even a skeletal plan to allay fears is because no such plan exists. Either they have no clue what they are going to spend (whatever's left of) the savings on, or they know that what they are planning cannot possibly convince anybody not to fight them tooth and nail.

Madam Due-Process, Oby Ezekwesili on twitter:

Often, we get lost in the techs of management and forget about the essential bond of trust between the public and their governments.

Trust is essential not just for obtaining resources but also for making government work effectively.

Public Policy 101!

Now that's someone who's thinking with her brain. If Nigerians thought for a second that the subsidy money was going to be spent on anything other than chop money for "awon boys" then we wouldn't be so pissed. If anybody believed that Jonathan had any clue how to invest to stimulate economic growth, We'd all keep quiet.