₦airaland Forum

snakie86:
Nice economic postulation.......................

But can this work for a country that is 80% import dependent

What have we done in the past years for infrastructural development to enable local production of goods and services?

Organization producing here in Nigeria import their raw materials for production.......do u know what effect this will have on the price of commodity?

Is it until we start buying tin of peak milk for N250? cos it will still get there if care is not taken with the way we are going......................

Do u know DSTV just increased their subscription fee? Why?.............................They pay for licence in $ and collect Naira from us, this means that they are paying more now cos of our devalued naira.

The same thing will happen to multinational companies that buy raw materials abroad with dollars as means of exchange, cost of production will be high and this will affect price of goods and services.


Systematic depreciation of currency is good cos it will improve patronage of locally produced goods and services but not in a situation we find ourselves now which was due to lack of foresightness by our leaders.................

They thought the raining days will be forever, no adequate planning...........................................


Cant just stop thinking about what will happen if things continue like this.....................................................It will be disastrous

giantstrides:
OP, the question you should ask yourself is that ' is our production capacity as high as the chinese' do we have local products which can serve as substitutes? We don't produce electronics, ceramic tiles, phones, our food production can't meet our demand, even our crude is imported bck in it's refined form because we hv no functioning refineries. so how is the exchange rate a blessing since we hv to pay expensive dollars for all this trades.

iHaveDecided:
Those who really care about the future of our dear nation will indeed be worried on our over-reliance on crude oil for our national earnings. It is really disappointing that a nation like ours which is blessed with so much land mass, fertile soil, favorable climate, absence of natural disasters and all whatnot has been unable to harness the opportunities in the agricultural sector.

The outgoing administration has said so much about the agricultural sector but not so much has been done. Those with a discerning mind will understand that it has been more talk and less work. The government of Muhammadu Buhari and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has promised to bring agriculture back to life. This will in turn help boost the economy through creation of jobs. The incoming government of GMB plans to:

• Modernize the agricultural sector by helping self-subsistence farmers to become medium/large scale farmers
• Pump in adequate funds to the sector so as to help create more agro allied jobs.
• Give out loans to farmers at nominal interest rates for capital investment on medium and commercial scale cash crops.
• Ensure farming becomes an all year round business through a well coordinated integrative irrigation of existing dams and the creation of more dams which will help collect and save over-flooding water nationwide.
• Make sure that our agricultural institutes which are currently in a state of comatose are revived.
• Have veterinary practices nationwide reviewed and then strengthened.
• Guarantee a minimum price for all cash crops and help build and improve storage facilities for agricultural products so that there will be no shortage of food crops all year round.

Enumerated above are some of the brilliant plans which will be executed to help resuscitate our dear agricultural sector which has been in dire need of an awakening. We cannot keep doing thing the same way and keep expecting different results.

CALL TO ACTION
1. Imagine what will become of our dear nation if our oil wells suddenly dry up and we have no contingency plans in place.
2. Take a moment to ponder on the innumerable opportunities which Nigerians will enjoy from a vibrant agricultural sector.
It’s time to stop complaining and grumbling. Rise up, pick your PVC and vote in the right team come March 28th, 2015. Change is inevitable this time around.

mightycrown1:
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medamillion:
See question. Visit www.google.com for quick response, as for me #IhaveDecided

Mynd44:
Biko Haram
Chibok girls security is our collective responsibility
Electricity is he a magician or havent you been following the news ?
Institutional corruption not a GEJ propagated issue
Foreign policy Am sure Buhari did better??
Infrastructure keep exposing your ignorance
Road network you clearly havent left your sorry comfort zone
Ethno-Religious politics do you know a thing about Nigerian politics in general?
Religiously bigoted Vice-President. what has he done?
No freedom of the press You can't be serious
Interfering in the politics of states Are you kidding me?
Annoying economic policies

medamillion:
Another Fayose on the loose

Change2015:
Lol. I travel by road frequently enough to see the work being done. As they block off one part of the express for 'repairs' ALL the traffic has to use the other side of the road which does not exactly increase its lifespan? As for the drainage, there are still many places where water accumulates which further hastens decay. What is the engineers perspective on that?

#change
#GMB
#APC

Change2015:
I do not believe the claim, but any reasonable person will understand that unless the bulk of freight haulage goes by rail instead of road, those roads will still decay as we have seen time and time again. So far, there has been no meaningful decrease in the haulage of goods by road.

#change
#GMB
#APC

justme002:
Why not get a measuring tape and mayb a ruler and start going from state to state to measure the lengths n breadths of all the roads he has constructed!!,am certain u ain't no doubting Thomas but if u doubt this one then it simply means u reside just in lagos and have neva traveled out of there before..

Reptyle:
Answer the question directly!

Has GEJ constructed 25,000km of roads across the country as claimed in his campaign speeches??

saintkash:
if u r been asked to list roads constructed by GEJ am sure benin-ore road will be top on ur list. .now tell me 5 newly constructed roads done by dis administration. . not renovated roads oo.. I mean a road made from a virgin land d distance it covered... no insults pls. . I just need to know abt such.

kennydee05:
Their is no major construction of rail line done by GEJ. What he did were rehabilitation of the rail line and their is no way that will cost much compare to those that are doing the major construction like the one being Fashola is doing.
GEJ only did some weldering of the tail line.
Don't get it twisted bro

Zikkyy:
Even without local car assembly, the part manufacturers can grow by making parts for servicing/repairs of automobiles. parts manufacturers will thrive producing parts/spares for maintaining the millions of cars on our roads today. It's not compulsory you have a car manufacturing plant before you make tyres, brakepad, fan belt, battery or engine oil.

Gbawe:
Is that not what Osinbajo is saying also? Is it wrong to then direct that punitive import duty, which mainly punishes and disenfranchise ordinary Nigerians, should not be deemed a compulsory option for assisting the development of quality local vehicle production? Your adage about running before learning to crawl actually applies to the approach of the Nigerian Government in my opinion. Creating a local car manufacturing sector should not come at the expense of destroying choice and affordability for all tiers of Nigerian pockets. That approach won't work.

Zikkyy:
If the focus is on production of commercial and utility vehicles, why is the government increasing duty/levy payable on passenger vehicles?

JackDaniels1:
I will only comment on the feeding aspect for now.
The feeding programme is being implemented in the State of Osun and to God be the glory,it has been a great success,for the Govt,Parents and the farmers.
Look at this,there has been empowerment of the citizenry in the aspect of poultry in the state to supply eggs and cattle dealers to supply meat.While the parents are happy for feeding their wards,the food vendors are also happy by smiling to the bank.

All this is still in the same system

JackDaniels1:
I will only comment on the feeding aspect for now.
The feeding programme is being implemented in the State of Osun and to God be the glory,it has been a great success,for the Govt,Parents and the farmers.
Look at this,there has been empowerment of the citizenry in the aspect of poultry in the state to supply eggs and cattle dealers to supply meat.While the parents are happy for feeding their wards,the food vendors are also happy by smiling to the bank.

All this is still in the same system

Gbawe:
You gets the 'trust' of what Osinbajo is saying. The simplistic point is that "what is worth doing is worth doing well". You cannot starve Nigerians of affordable vehicles, when doing such creates another set of problems altogether, all for the sake of protecting "local industries" that cannot operate and produce optimally.

It is for similarly reasons we import refined crude in the form of petrol. This is a measure that keeps Nigeria economically functional till Nigerian refineries can produce enough to satisfy domestic reply. It is for the government to do its job so that our refineries can work optimally same Government must produce the conducive environments and conditions that will facilitate the growth of a local vehicle industry instead of just punishing Nigerians with high tariffs while doing little to deliver this conducive environment. If posters put sentiments aside they will see that Osinbajo is not advocating a measure that will harm local car production. He is merely saying that for now, and while efforts is made to improve other important factor which will enable the delivery of a high quality local car manufacturing sector, Nigerians should not pay a punitive price, in the form of high duty, for car import.

In most Nations of the world, leaders must strike a balance between protecting local industry and depriving citizens quality/freedom of choice whcih helps them get the best out of the work/productivity and leisure equation. It is patently wrong to try and force Nigerians to patronise made in Nigeria vehicles if those vehicles cannot meritoriously compete with the best available !!! Osinbajo makes the distinct point that local vehicle production cannot be encouraged to the detriment of giving Nigerians greater choices , through importation, when some of the factors that prevents the local production of high quality cars are still glaringly missing.

It is clear Osinbajo takes a broad and long-term view to local production, not local assembly, of cars because that is the only way to look at things if we want uncompromising quality that will make 'Nigerian cars' as good as any other. He argues that while a holistic environment is being created to achieve this local production of high quality cars Nigerians should still have the option of importing cars at reasonable costs. This is a perfectly reasonable solution that takes into consideration the need to try and have balances which suit all sides rather than deploy drastic and ill-thought out ideas that benefit no side at all. The Government cannot just say it wants to help the development of local production of cars using punitive tariffs while major problems impeding the growth of the local car industry are not addressed adequately eg power supply. On this thread, many are taking the view that it must be one (import) or the other (local production) while Osinbajo , correctly in my opinion, is of the view this does not have to be the case. A balance can be achieved, till we reach our target, which allows as many Nigerians as possible to be on the road.

J12:
1. GEJ's government promotes freedom of speech like no other government has ever done in Nigeria. Everybody knows that
2. There are moral lessons to be learned in GEJ's rise to political power, if you chose not to learn anything from it, then you're on your own.
3. She is successful because she is the wife of the president. Is Michelle Obama successful?
4. He is a leader, I doubt if you also know what the term leader means
5. Is GEJ impatient?

Great institutions are led by people of strong will and character and it takes patience to build and sustain them.
Is GEJ selfish?

KanwuliaJara:
I don't kia!
GEJ or NAIRALAND BURNS!!!!

AZeD1:
1) Social media brought about the so called "freedom of speech" not GEJ.
2) The "no shoes" story was emotional black mail. Let the so called average Nigerian man try to get a job in NNPC and see how far he will go.
3) You need to define what you mean by successful and "good man".
4) GEJ might be president, but he is no leader. You really need to understand the meaning of the terms you use.
5)Who told you GEJ is patient? The real needs of Nigeria include strong institutions and selfless leadership..GEJ has done non.