₦airaland Forum

ajepako:
Next time, state of Osun should shine its eyes

Governance is not only about Aregbe Fufu, Semo or Rice or 5-story high talking drum

They add no value to your lives forever , una hear?

And next time someone owes you a month salary, throw stones at him during his re-election campaign

Dont dance like 'eleya' and follow-follow and brain-dead broom wavers

Stop disgracing the Yoruba nation..

Awon alatenuje, ti-fun loran..

edoyad:
The comment above gives me hope that some Nigerians still think critically.

Op, I'm sorry I disagree with some parts of the article.
The ADC has no power to do what he did, he was acting on the instructions of his boss. Who gives a lieutenant colonel power to deploy troops to the.presidential suite, is that not done by the Army high command ?
This crass show and total disregard for our constitution was done by a man who wants to destroy what we have been building for 16 years. BUHARI IS NOT A DEMOCRATIC LEADER AND THIS ACTION SHOWS WHERE WE ARE HEADED.
The bolded conveys my thought exactly.

great664:
No offence man, its same way they use the media against GEJ by calling him clueless and drunkard same way we are attacking back.

The danger of creating a monster is that one day the monster will turn against his master.

when they were campaigning with hate they were teaching us to also hate and abuse them if they eventually win.

So this isn't about me. He is Dullardhino of Daura

ApexTitan:
The rate at which false stories are manufactured regarding Buhari and his administration is amazing. It's early days yet and we've had enough falsehood to last the entire year.

NDPVF:
Yorubas and their prepondrance to do damages to anything that didnt favour them.
Sahara Reporters has started again.
Now they are out to rubbish Saraki and deploy their media propaganda to witch hunt him.Just like Gej.
Is saraki no longer a "Progressive"?.
That reminds me,i had thought Yorubas said Saraki is Yoruba?.
Is he now a Niger?.
Hope your mouth is wide open as mine?.
Exactly how you feel when you got bursted.
Yoruba packs of lies being demolished everyday.LOL.

Reference:
Just because Tinubu didn't have his way. Another case of the un-elected trying to exert control over the elected and all the attendant problems. Just like the confusion surrounding the Rivers guber vote in which the APC fielded two candidates - Ameachi and Peterside. Your party had better turn democratic or you will lose power in an instant. If you have not noticed the power greed in the APC top hierachy has stopped the steady flow of ideological defectors from the PDP to the APC just because the party is not democratic enough. The only thing attractive right now in the APC will be to the 'smash and grab' bandits.

kettykings:
APC is a party full of thieves, Saraki, tinubu, Amaechi, okorocha, Atiku, buhari etc.
Singling out Saraki will make things worse than it is presently.

Sunnybobo3:
How could that be when Osun's GDP is higher than that of the SE states combined?

Onegai:
I'm not a political fan of anyone. But let us sit down and analyse this LOGICALLY.

So, they've banned rice and poultry and some other goods. The importers turn to black market and smuggling to bring in those goods. For a while, I cry, but then eventually LOGIC tells me to look for cheaper alternatives. People here have mentioned Nigerian rice and I have always bought live poultry (it's even better for my health than anything frozen with an expiry date some clever Nigerian has obscured and sells to me). I begin to buy this rice, and if others join me in demand for local rice, the local growers cannot keep up with demand and expand their business. AND HIRE WORKERS (leading to a reduction in Unemployment and an increase in spending power of Nigerians).

And because these local industries need power to expand (and won't sit on their ars.es hopefully waiting for government), they will look for other sources of power, including Waste, Solar, Wind, Hydro. And if our Engineers and Technicians are smart, they should hopefully be dusting up their skills in private power distribution (I'm staying with some engineers who are currently planning this for Nigeria. They don't live in Nigeria, meanwhile those in Nigeria are fighting for bank jobs So more SKILLED JOBS WILL BE CREATED.

Those same local industries will hopefully have smart people with vision in them who will think like Dangote and start their companies with people who have contacts in government, so the tax breaks come. Because that is how life works IN ANY COUNTRY and that is why Lobbyists exist. I would not start any company and expect it to grow without having as one of my partners someone well-versed and well-connected in my industry (that person will also have networks in government). Even if I have to go back to my state of origin to do so.

And any sensible company will say "Oh, Standards Organization of Nigeria doesn't do a great job, why not incorporate our own testing and standards company, open some labs and give honest, unbiased reviews of products on the market? If we do our jobs right, Nigerians will come to trust our label/certificate of Authenticity and Quality on any product and companies will pay us to review their products". And these guys will need to hire chemists, biologists, science people, PR officers, consultants, accountants, all sorts. AND MORE JOBS WILL BE CREATED.

And then watch your economy grow realistically...
People have realised if you speak to Nigerians in tenderness, they will not listen but brute force makes them sit up. All the begging in the world would not have made one Nigerian driver wear a seatbelt but the fear of LASTMA became the beginning of seatbelt wisdom. We are in desperate times, that calls for desperate actions, the time for FG to leisurely implement policies has passed and State Govts have to start functioning (almost all of them are comatose).

The reason I can think about this LOGICALLY is that I realise no-one, absolutely no-one is forcing me to buy any imported goods. There are and will always be alternatives to everything imported. I haven't bought commercial body cream in 2 years and my skin is fantastic, I'm using organic stuff and best, my baby can use everything I use without me worrying about allergies or issues developing. I've avoided frozen chicken and my health isn't bad. I can actually buy furniture made in Nigeria (more stressful but can be done), my Nichem Wax ankara of 5 years is in better condition than anything else I bought that was imported from China (not one day of fading). So yeah, I survived without using certain imported goods. I found alternatives.

But I guess the next meal is more important than any meaningful change in 4 years' time, bah? Let's all sit back and enjoy that cheap imported rice.



The reason I think like this is that for a whole year, I have been saying that Importation must die and been studying up Business in Nigeria (and consulted for a medium-scale enterprise and worked in LASG and saw some projects up close and have some business proposals), so I can see the big picture. I wish everyone would.