₦airaland Forum

iykak47:
Our  problem is it the constitution itself or the operators of the constitution? after all UK has no written constitution. The bad governance Nigeria is having  today has little or nothing to do with the constitution. I want to ask oga fashola if the alleged rigging of LG election  in Lagos state was caused by a  fraudulent constitution?

violent:
. . . so Fashola swore to honor, protect and obey a fraudulent constitution?

manny4life:
I do NOT in anyway support that the Nigerian Constitution is "Fraud"; however, I should say it's FLAWED to a great extent --- from its beginning to its end. I do not support Fashola's view, I believe in true federalism. Every state should contribute to the FG based upon their resource / revenue. Powers should be delegated to states to decide what to do and how to deal with jurisdictions within their states. I do also believe that the FG should allocate money to states (not municipalities like LG) a single line items to assist them rather than an obligation. States should reserve the rights to make majority of decisions that affect the people.

efisher:
@ Goggs, are we beginning to appreciate El-Rufai? I fell in love with the man as I witnessed d way he cleaned up Abuja during Obj's tenure. They say "you don't know what u've got till it's gone".

Jonathan Depletes Nigeria's Foreign Reserve By $3.5 Billion In 2011 Alone
Posted: October 17, 2011 - 16:26


President Goodluck Jonathan's financial recklessness has further depleted the strategic foreign reserve of the Nigerian state by $3.5 billion in 2011 alone, according to information obtained by SaharaReporters.

A source at the ministry of finance told SaharaReporters at the weekend that when Mr. Jonathan came into office, he met a robust foreign reserve in place, but this year alone, he and his gluttonous inner circle have frittered away $3 billion of the reserves, which is now at $32 billion, down from $35 billion in January.

This situation is further compounded by criminal rent seeking and petroleum subsidy applied to petroleum products importers, notably Femi Otedola, who are also members of Jonathan's "Economic Team." In 2011, rent seekers and economic leeches will get $6 billion in the name of petroleum subsidy.

A Central Bank of Nigeria document however states that so far petroleum product importers have only imported $7 billion worth of fuel imports, meaning that only $1 billion of their investment has been spent on import, with Nigeria being made to subsidize and reward their criminal activities with $6 billion.

SaharaReporters also learnt that foreign multinational oil companies are ripping Nigeria off through a maze of sharing and royalty agreements that were agreed upon in the 90s when oil prices were at $30 per barrel. Last week, following an extraordinary meeting of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on October 10, the CBN revealed in a communiqué that a substantial part of oil production (about 40%) is currently in deep offshore wells.
“Based on terms agreed in the 1990s when oil price was under $30, royalty from oil wells deeper than 1,000 metros is zero percent and the nation is maidenly 20 %of profit by oil companies after deducting their expenses, as a result the country (Nigeria) has had limited benefit from high polio prices and increasing output, with most of the gains going to multinational oil companies under and inequitable fiscal arrangement," the MPC said.

Whereas the MPC recommended the passing of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) to stop the scams in that industry, it however recommended that Nigerians be saddled with the burden of paying for the crimes of the rent seekers involved in petroleum subsidy scams and blamed “discordant voices” for delaying “enabling legislation for correcting fiscal terms.” The committee asked that Nigerians be made to pay higher prices for petroleum products that would put some $10 billion back into the economy.
“Whereas the labour unions have genuine concerns about the impact of subsidy removal on the poorer segments of society, the stark reality is that the country is living above its means,” the MPC said.

The MPC estimates that “simply passing the PIB and removing subsidies on Premium Motor Spirit(PMS) will add at least $10 billion to national reserves annually,” with no consideration of how quickly irresponsible governing vultures will descend on it at the expense of the nation’s poor on whose back such numbers will be made up.

nagoma:
Obviously the southerners who were not in touch with any civilization and were living a primitive life as recently as the 18th and 19th centuary are now having the last laugh. The changes in the world , the industrial revolution and movement of the focus of civilization to the West means that people who have some conflicting heritage to defend are at a great disadvantage and at a loss unless they realize that the world has moved on. This is where the North got stuck. They think (or at least there masses think they have a heritage of civilization to protect).
As for the south , in the majority do not really have any strong civilization to protect and were able to accept in totality all that is western - the religion, the clothing, the drinks,the education, the way of life and infact almost all of them(southern Nigerians) aspire to migrate to the West if they can make it. It is a great ambition in their lives.

This Northern disadvantage is aggravated by the lack of leadership in the north and in the country and also world order that appears to be persecutory to muslims. This does not give an atmosphere for northern masses to crave for western education. Money does not come into it.

bisiaet:
Please this question is for the North themselves to answer because on my view I see it as their choice to remain in total darkness because I have never see these kind of people in my life that produce almost all president ever rule Nigeria and still as this backward.

I have never see these kind of people who put religion silliness above living like a normal human who want progress, development and go along the current pace of the world direction this is just mention few. No one of their leaders, non any governor even the rich among them is ready to talk about given all these street boys a common primary education all they like doing is to say its the West and Eastern people are the barrier to their development so funny indeed.

All they are concern about is Power to rule by force and their region is reeling in abject poverty and backwardness. All they care about is Petrol dollar fighting fOr PTDF[/b]top position. All they care about is ready to pay [b]N50million on the head of SSS chief but can not build a classroom and declare free education even to ordinary primary school kids so shameful indeed.

I'm sorry it is their headache let them sort it out i'm no more comfortable with these people any longer for abodoning what could have benefited them and bring developmebt to them but rather prefer religious sentiment and silliness, prefer to die for power at all cost and prefer to die for oil dollar at cost am so sick of them to be frank what I said may angers them, well I dont give a damn bcause truth always pains so much but must be said.

Beaf:
The states you mentioned are all in the core-North. These are the core-Northern states:

[list]
[li]Sokoto[/li]
[li]Katsina[/li]
[li]Kano[/li]
[li]Kebbi[/li]
[li]Jigawa[/li]
[li]Zamfara[/li]
[li]Northern Kaduna is in the core-North, while Southern Kaduna is in the Middle Belt[/li]
[li]Yobe, Bauchi and Bornu are marginally core-Northern[/li]
[/list]

mtaj:
How do you come by your definition of the core-North? There is no place called the core-North in Nigeria. I presume you are trying to say that these are the states that have the highest percentage of Muslims, in which case you should be ready to coin a new name for those states in the Southwest that have a sizeable percentage of Muslims.

dayokanu:
Retardeen is on top of the situation