₦airaland Forum

Realdeals:
what President Buhari and his team promised us before last elections is CHANGE! Change means clear departure from the normal. It is a definite step from away from the usual. The usual before March 28th, 2015 election was impunity, poor leadership and directionless nation.
Change is an act or process through which something becomes different. We all agreed our nation has been on a wrong direction for long. From military era to the immediate past government, Nigeria was enmeshed in corruption. Everyone, including the deaf, heard clearly Buhari’s promise of change. In my view, president Buhari has kept faith with this promise in the last one year. Pains and some hardship tag along this change, but we as a people must learn to defer pleasure with little pains today.
His stands on corruption fight, which we all taunt as our major enemy leaves no one in doubt. What I feel the concerns of Nigeria enemies are the tenacity and brutality on how the corruption war is being fought. Before you conclude Buhari is fighting opposition party members alone, please take an objective question on who were those in the helms of Nigeria affairs in the last 16 years of retrogression? The revelations on how money meant to fight Boko Haram war was shared among heartless people in power should be a thing of concern to you. The callousness, unpatriotic and perfidy of minds these people have are beyond imaginations.
President Buhari’s corruption fight in the last one year has been steadily focus with results. Just few weeks ago, we had the first corruption victim, Ex – NIMASA boss, Raymond Omatseye jailed for 5 years over 1.5bn contract scam. National Publicity Secretary, PDP, Olisha Metuh is having his days in court over corruption as well as Senate President, Bukola Saraki, who incidentally is a top member of APC. We have never heard such heart leaping news in the last 7 years, particularly under our immediate past president, Goodluck Jonathan. It never happened. Such is one change Nigerians voted for last elections.

Nigerians have to learn to support our leaders and hold them accountable not at the end of their tenure but by periodic assessment of what they deliver while in office.

This incident just saved the lives of many in from a future collapse. God is merciful.

Gerrard59:
It will be much better to increase the educational qualification for a post from the abysmally low qualification of the SSCE to Bsc/HND with an addendum that the individual MUST aspire for further education. Most likely a PhD or an MBA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharman_Shanmugaratnam
London School of Economics,
University of Cambridge,
Harvard University. The profile of the deputy prime minister of Singapore. PM Lee Lsien Loong went to Cambridge University and came out with a First Class in mathematical science and computer science. One of the few world leaders who can confidently code.

Our would be leaders need to be educated rationally, and a secular education at that.
One country that has such is Singapore where over 90% of its political office holders possess a higher degree other than their first degree and from Ivy league schools. Where is Singapore today?

Don't they all get doctorate degrees after being elected?

The right action taken a bit too late.

EVILFOREST:
Where are BLACK Africans..?

THE worst thing we did as a NATION was to Chase the WHITEMEN, after the discovery of crude oil.
Even if the WHITEMEN, had wanted to steal, they wouldn't have stolen destructively.

At least they would have made the place they wanted steal from better. So that it would be more comfortable for them to steal.
We would have benefitted from this COMFORT , more than what we get from our brother politicians.

This was what happened in SOUTH AFRICA

You share my passion bro. The greed got into our heads soon after and we started killing ourselves. Transfering all the money to the WHITEMAN to keep. The average Nigerian would have had a better life today.

Who will help me explain to the youths how today's politicians have destroyed the future of the youths.
Benefiting from the immense wealth and resources of our country is the right of every free born Nigerian.
The youths do not even have the hope to rule in their own time.
The youths should better start asking for politicians to return all looted funds or know no peace.

So will the technology in his country be backward. He will always say, "what for?".."too expensive"

This is what happens when people no longer believe anything about the government.

Someone please post Vulture pepper soup one of these days.

KILLINGS IN NIGERIA IS WAY TOO MUCH. DOES ANYONE HAVE THE REAL STATISTICS OF NATION WIDE DAILY MURDER FIGURES?
I HOPE NIGERIA IS NOT ON TOP THE LIST. ARE WE AT WAR?
TOO MUCH BLOOD ON THE LAND. NOT GOOD!!!

Nairaland is not in support of the strike

pat077:
Common 18k state government no fit pay, so na 45k dey go fit pay?

They should define their financial objectives and stop the looting.

naptu2:
For those screaming "lawsuit" and saying that Mercedes Benz will sue Innoson, I can bet you that there will be no lawsuit.

There will only be a lawsuit if ideas are taken without permission, so how do you know that permission was not granted to innoson (to use those ideas)?

This SUV is a nigerian version of the BAIC BJ80. The Beijing Automotive Industry Holdings Co (BAIC) has a lot of joint ventures with Daimler (Mercedes Benz), including Beijing Benz and Beijing Foton Daimler.

The Innoson 80 SUV is manufactured under license from Beijing Benz which makes the BAIC BJ80.

The front grill of the vehicle, which some have wrongly attributed to the Hummer SUV, is actually from Jeep (take a look at Jeep Wranglers, Jeep Cherokees, etc). BAIC also previously had agreements with Jeep and that's why there are design cues from Jeep on the vehicle.

Kia does that. Rear BMW 3series, front HONDA, Side TOYOTA.

How can a student leader do this? where did he learn this from?
Please lead by example!

MilesLamar:
I feel so honored to be the first comment. All of my hard work and dedication has finally paid off. Getting the top comment has been a dream of mine for many years, and I would like to thank those who have helped me along the way. Next I would like to thank my parents. I want to thank my friend Pixie's cat, for being really fat and always there for me. I would also like to thank my pet tadpol for surviving against all odds for over a week. Next I would like to thank the rats that live in my neighbourhood for crossing busy roads and dodging all manner of vehicles because that gives me inspiration that I need to get through the day. This is a special moment in my life and I would like to thank any of my unmentioned friends and family that have helped me along the way. This moment will be a moment that I will never forget. I just remmembered a few other people I would like to thank; the fish I caught in the third grade, my light in my room because I wouldn’t be able to see the keyboard without it, the internet for letting me go on nairaland, my house because without it I would be homeless, and last but not least I would like to thank all the people out there that actually took time out of their day to read this. I cannot stress how much of a big deal to me this is. I have been trying to be the first comment on a post for years, but that has not been possible until this amazing day. Hopefully my good luck will continue, but this is undoubtedly a rare occasion. If you asked me how I did this, I would say, you can achieve anything u set your mind on. To all the kids out there reading this, I would like to tell them to follow their dreams. Being the top comment is amazing, thank you everyone.

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Rexsul:
nothing like Worser bros.

warstar

Has he returned the money?
They pull out this kind of money for elections while they are owing salaries and infrastructure is poor. If this money was spent on projects, wouldn't it have gone far to write their CV or guarantee these politicians the needed votes?

Animal Rights Activists to the rescue.

STANDARDS!

I SUPPORT THE SUBSIDY REMOVAL. THE SUBSIDY WILL NEVBER STOP SCARCITY, KILL THE BLACK MARKET OR HELP OUR ECONOMY IN ANY WAY. NIGERIANS WILL LIVE UP TO IT, I TRUST.
ALL WE NEED IS A MOVE FORWARD AFTER SUBSIDY REMOVAL, AND A POSITIVE ONE.

domestic violence!!!!!

God has the power to heal him. But I think the church should consider to send him where he will get the best care and recovery. If he was a politician he would be on his way out of the country at the time if this report.

CioAngels:
My problem with this groups, NANS, NLC and TUC is that they use this mass callout as an opportunity to make money for themselves otherwise they are not fighting becos of the masses. The last gej fuel hike to 94 also when labour ended the strike abruptly was as a result of the government telling them, do i say (blackmail) to pay back the 500m# housing grant given to them or end the strike. So you see, they use masses as their ATM. We should stop answering to their call to stay at home order becos they are not fighting for our interest. The government will always do its' wishes.

correct

From my point of view this will only pressure government to perhaps just break the bitter pill we will end up taking. If anyone of us becomes President you will realize that removing petrol subsidy will save us a lot of money. Lets ask ourselves why every president always makes an attempt to raise the cost of fuel and recently remove subsidy completely. That is the way forward, The issue isn't the subsidy payment or removal but what the money saved will be used for.
The subsidy payments on its own is a huge scam. We as Nigerians know that people are making huge billions from subsidy payment when they never imported the product or what they are paid for, and it might be hard for government to completely track all these figures considering the existence of "them them factor", the Nigerian factor. So this is a huge step in the anti-corruption war. The question is what is government going to do with the money that will not go for subsidy payments. Every government has made huge promises they never keep in order to calm the masses at every protest rising from petrol price hike or subsidy removal attempt. We still do not have power, jobs, refineries, good transportation, healthcare, housing, infrastructure or free education.
This is where the youth should hold the government responsible this time, a serious protest to demand government's commitment for the patience of the masses and the youths especially. Government needs to directly begin a process of visible industrialization and infrastructural investments in order to provide reliable power, jobs and a sustainable economical growth. We are worse off today as a country, but we still have the resources that many countries wish they had. The youths must be ready to earmark and demand the resignation of nonperforming ministers, and governors seriously and also corrupt ones at the slightest evidence or proof that they are doing anything other than performing their assigned duties. Youths must pressure these political scumbags who eat up and loot our treasury to change their ways and work for our nation. Any politician who flaunts wealth must be booed and openly disgraced so they will be humble in office and deliver their mandate as expected. Anytime politicians come out, they show our youths that they are so rich you have to come up and serve in politics in order to make it.
There is no more time to waste in our country deceiving ourselves when we know the truth. Many young people in Nigeria today have worked so hard on education and had a determination to succeed but couldn't make ends meet. many will never have a rewarding life, own a house of their own or buy a car talk-less of a brand new car. Enough is Enough.
The youths need to think very well if our fathers and elders in politics are there to help us or do worse than their predecessors had done. Else they should give way for the youths who are ready to take the serious decisions that can make things work. The people who took painful steps to shape our polity in the 70s were not in their 50s and 70s and they knew what they were doing.

lomprico:
Those mofos are no different from d useless nigerian police. I bet you, they will focus mainly on flashy n newer cars n ignore rickety vehicles.

where u wan carry the rickety vehicles go? oga go sack you if you try am. Most of these things are all about revenue.

Where dem wan park all the cars?

Poster please talk to Abayomi Shogunle, Officer in Charge, Police Complaint Response Unit (CRU) might be able to advise you.

https://twitter.com/YomiShogunle

MURDER and stealing, which is a higher crime?

The situation is bad no doubt, but there is a lot of pressure today in our society especially in family life. People are so so angry at so many things or everything.
People need counseling that is the truth. To send a wife beater to jail isn't the solution but to help couples cope with their differences.

More should follow please, so these people will know they have to sit up. So anyone not ready to be a leader in our kind of country should stay away from politics or you loose all. The youths have lost everything, their future too. Many will never own a house or a car.

Typical Nigerian incident. No emergency services available. Every man for himself.