₦airaland Forum

sumborri:
The clamour for change always appears the solution to current problems, these changes. Most times result from improperly channeled feelings of anger, inequality andd unfairness. Seccesional change is always an idealogical solution and never a practical one. The outcome of the brexit vote has once again proven that the solution to developmental and radical changes aimed at equity and status quo can never truly be achieved by an ill thought seccesionalist motive.

the UK is currently rudderless, scotland is current sitting in the brussels EU summit while david cameron was denied entry, the UK has been told verbatim that there will be no entry into the EU free market without free rights of passage, the outcome of the brexit not only threatens the unity of the UK, it also threatens its future economy.

What's most baffling appears to be that, major proponents of the leave campaign have ran away or taken the back seat, nobody appears a fore runner to leading the UK or whatever is left of it , into the uncharted waters of the unknown.

I always tell seccesionist groups to plan their move, plan their economic models, plan their politcal models, before the start agitating for seccesion, but all we observe are agitations before any planning or objective considerations are made. Because its always easier to play a victim card filled with tribalism or racism as in the britain case, thus beclouding sound judgement on the merits and demerits of a seccesion.

Nigeria is filled with seccesionalists, take a cue from the brexit and plan before you agitate. Never wipe ur bottom before using the toilet.

#commonsense

thedio:
it is the biggest sinlge refinery

gocac:
dangote please be informed you will import crude that you will refine oh.... because niger delta oil can not be refined in lagos... shey lagos is now an oil producing state? ok.... no pipeline from niger delta willl deliver crude to that refinery. the marginalization can no longer exist.

allansie:
So u telling me a graduate of chemical engineering still needs 2 study refinery operations again b4 dey can operate anytin...dis is jus one of d reasons 9ja education is in shambles...May God help

lamzybaby:
THERE are indications that heads may roll soon in the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, over the directive to International Oil Companies, IOCs, to sell forex to only six importers of petroleum products from the IOCs’ forex pool put together by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, The Whistler has exclusively gathered.

In a letter signed statement by the SA/Head, Financial Markets Department of the CBN, E.U. Ukeje, to the IOCs obtained by Nigerian Pilot, he directed the IOCs to

“note that you are only permitted to sell your FX to the designated PMS importers by the NNPC or to the CBN at the ruling exchange interbank rate.”


Investigation by Nigerian Pilot reveals that the ‘designated importers’ FX should be sold as directed by the CBN are Conoil Plc, Mobil Plc, MRS Oil Nig, Oando Plc, Northwest Petroleum, and Total Nig Plc.


More: http://nigerianpilot.com/forex-scam-nnpc-cbn-sabotage-economic-recovery/

https://nigerianpilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/dollars.jpg

Why is this policy necessary and what will it achieve?

AreaFada2:
You have made up your mind that the current flawed system is the best. Good for you. But remember how states proliferation began. It was to cause division. In particular against Biafra. Tactics for war is not necessary same for peace.
State currently spending 70% of income if reduced to 30%, that 40% can go a long way.

I notice that despite your claim to omniscience, you do not seem to know exactly which states or how many make up SS.
I never mentioned state police but regional police. Without much of the bureaucracy.

I think you rather want to twist than understand my points. When creating the new system, emphasis should be on why we are doing do. Reducing bureaucracy should be part of it.

Now, regarding know which govt tier does what. We just EU referendum in UK. UK has a higher % of educated people than 9ja. Yet survey has shown that those who voted against EU were largely the elderly (who generally have lower education) and the less educate people generally, old or young.

Basically those less likely to fully research and understand the implications of their vote.
Just because you and me know does not mean the generality of Nigerians know. That is a tad selfish. If you are OK, then others don't matter.

If our federal system was amenable to any real adjustment, it probably should have begun gradually already. But the set of kill and divide makes that impossible.


You just admitted that we have no responsible legislature, is it a symptom of current failed system?

However, we know the regions vehemently defending this current system and the real reason. Sadly, it is also to their own detriment.

kobonaire:
That's correct, floating or fixing the exchange rate becomes meaningless if the following do not take place
1) fight corruption
2) increase productivity
3) diversify the economy - reduce over dependence on oil revenue
4) improvement in public infrastructure, health, education, security etc
5) .......

Problem is you think you are more enlightened about 9ja. Very far from it, you are not. If you believe the hype, my governor is one of the best performing governors in modern 9ja democracy.

This not about governors, but all govt paraphernalia that siphon huge amounts of money.

Think of how many states cannot pay salaries, governors diverting allocation for LGAs, the legions of aids and co. I also propose the scrapping of the many houses of Assembly. For fewer regional one. Many states were created solely to receive oil money allocation because every idi.ot and his dog knows they cannot self-sustain.

In terms or regional assembly representation, it's no rocket science. We can just use the current senatorial districts for representation. Nobody agrees on anything in 9ja but senatorial district has not been an issue so far.

What a regional system can achieve that states cannot achieve is this: (1)more autonomy. For example regional police will be more feasible. Each state cannot pay their own police. (2) Less recurrent expenditure. States currently run huge salary expenses. That is suicidal. With minimum 18 members of HoS in each state, with their aids, administrators etc, it's crazy. Then commissioners and aids in these states, and agencies, judiciary, etc.

If you take SS with 6 states, Rivers can provide 3 or 4 senators/reps, then others produce 3 senators in the regional parliament. That is adequate representation. It is the failure of govt and lack of development that has caused clamour of "every town & village" for own rep, LGA or even state.

(3) The locals can finally start holding local region/chairmen/councillors for lack of development. Right now, FG gets most of the flak for refuse in the market, bad roads, bad school etc. Nobody knows who's responsible for what. It was always GEJ , now Buhari to blame for everything. We can now better assign blame where it really should. More transparency therefore.
In fact the benefits are numerous.

I am not justifying anything. I have always been an advocate of a complete system overhaul,but this is how the Nigerian system works at the moment. Seniors civil servants, politicians and military officers have all kinds of "legal" loopholes to collect huge allowances. I honestly have no idea of how much allowance foreign military attaches earn, but it must be substantial, because the lobbying and competition to get appointed is often fierce. Those that come back after serving in foreign mission often change their social and financial status.

How much is the official salary of Senator, how much do they actually take home at the end of the day? What is the recurrent budget of the less than 500 national Assembly members? It is N115 billion. I am sure every member of the Nigerian Senate can easily afford a N120,000,000 mansion.

So if Burantai should tender his resignation because he owns a property valued at N120,000,000, who should take over as COAS? Maybe Buhari should look for a General property valued at less than N10million (which his salary can accommodate) or better still a General with no property at all. I can assure you that that will be a very tall order given the system Nigeria operates at this time

49cents:
When you learn social media ettiquette then you should quoting people.

You just didn't have to always show the whole world how poorly raised you were

There is no perfect system. But what we have now is worse than what we had in the 1960s. The war was very much avoidable. The Easterners in the North could have been far better protected. Just in case you want to ask why war broke out if 1960s was better.

Now we have 36 governors. Even if the dropped their deputies.
We had 3 regions before, now we will have 6 or 7 premiers and deputies. 12/14 is still less than 36 by far. In case we decide to make Lagos a special region of its own.
To restructure 9ja, cosmetics will not do. We need to do it root & branch.

Also, with 6 regions, there will be more relative homogeneity within a specific region. North Central for example will have related tribes like Tiv, Idoma, Berom, Igala, etc. Who can more easily co-exist with Yoruboid Illorin and Okun, etc.

SS will have Efik/Ibibio, Ijaw, Edo/Edoid groups, Akwa, Itsekiri, etc. Ijaw will be the main challenge there but can be settled from the beginning.

How regions use & distribute money would be addressed from the onset, with cognisance of agitation of oil producing areas even within each region. No make-it-up-as-we-go-along method.
Knowing the challenges regional system faced in the 1960s, we should find ways to prevent foreseeable challenges of the system.

Bayelsa is SS by the way.
Rivers in SS will not have any business with Ebonyi (SE).

SS States are: Rivers, Delta, Edo, Akwa Ibom, Cross Rivers & Bayelsa.

There won't be governors. only regional premiers. The other tier will be LGA/district chairmen and counsellors. Democracy will come to grass root.

Your only aim of institutionalizing a regional government is to sack your governor by insinuation ,
let me ask you, do you have issues with your governor cos mine is doing pretty well?
Have you heard about a position called president of house of chiefs? I think most of you discussing regionalism have no idea how it worked in the past. I have a feeling you want to metamorphose the geopolitical zones to regions, well that is another dream because every apparatchik of the present state structure must reflect in the region, so if you have 5 states that make SS region, each of those states must be adequately represented in regional governance, failure to do that will end in chaos.

AreaFada2:
But Tam David West just told him that restructuring 9ja means break-up. If an SS person who should know the injustice of this current centralised system says that publicly, can you imagine what other influential people from other regions will be telling Buhari in private?

Even if we produce 8m barrels a day at $70 and the politicians use the money judiciously, 9ja will still be a country of poor people for a long time. Let alone under 4m b/d at $40 that is even embezzled.

Recurrent expenditure at all tiers of govt is way too much. Don't even get me started on ghost workers.

A restructured regional system with regional Premiers/Prime ministers will abolish all the legions of governors, commissioners, SSAs, SAs, department heads, agency heads, etc. Regional parliament instead of lots of State Assemblies.

Cities/LGs will get mayors/LG chairmen/women to administer municipal councils and districts, with councillors at ward level.

We can save much money that will go into capital projects, research, education/training, health, etc

49cents:
The Naira was over-valued since oil became Nigeria's main stay and that discouraged diversification and industrialisation whilw promoting importation of everything due to cheap petrodollars

As it stands now, the smartest thing to reverse that trend is to further mark up the dollar to N400 and give tax paillaitives to companies, social buffers to Nigerians in terms of mass transport, housing schemes, food availability and quality education etc

In about 6 years Nigeria will find its self in a superb state

simplemach:
power supply keeps Reducing by the day and the best policy to tackle it is to share meter.
CONTINUE...... *In mummy P's voice*
But come to think of it, is it that the power problem is beyond this government, has constant power supply suddenly turned to rocket science?












Finally, shout out to all ROTARACTORS in the house

wirinet:
I have respect for you more than the mindless emotional outburst you are exhibiting.
Please tell me when in the history of Nigeria anyone had been asked to explain the source of their wealth? Then quote relevant section of any law that mandate anyone to explain the source of their wealth.

wirinet:
My brother Inlaw is a retired naval equivalent of a 1 star General. He has properties all over the place, including Dubai, and he never held any political post nor was he involved in the purchase of weapons. As i said earlier, depending on postings, a military man has numerous allowances and perks,that when aggregated are far more than basic salary. Even just going on courses abroad gives allowances close to basic salary. Ever wonder why Nigeria's budget is 70% recurrent and 30% capital. It is because of pecks of office and allowances of Civil servants and politicians.

0ubenji:
I av always wondered how SR get to retrieve these irrefutable evidences dat buttresses their occassional reports..

One thing seems certain tho..these documentary evidences are definitely retrieved thru backdoor(illegal) methods OR from snitches of these victims..
#kudos to dem tho..#desperate measures in desperate times..

Aspireahead:
I still maintain that the problem with Nigeria is not necessarily the political class, but the herd of suffering followers who defend their opulent lifestyles and sanguinary proclivities.

We Nigerians tend to even forget quickly, maybe because things are tough for us. we have all moved on from the CBN employment scam, FIRS employment scam and believe me...we would have forgotten about this one by next week.
Finally, let Buratai resign and a full fledged investigation be conducted...he is in no way bigger than the other former service chiefs who are standing trial.
I still believe he can afford the house, but I don't believe anyone who served in the last administration as director of procurement in a corruption ridden institution like the Nigerian Army is clean.

As for the army, allow Butatai and his family to respond...you are in no way privy to all of his finances

wirinet:
Is it only army officers that should be made to explain the source of their wealth? What about politicians, pastors, civil servants, alaba boys, militants and the general public?
Who has ever been called to explain the source of his or her wealth in Nigeria? Besides there is no laws backing the government to ask for sources of wealth. You are caught stealing, you are prosecuted, that is the law.

wirinet:
So all these mud slinging is all about freeing Diezani, Dasuki and co from being prosecuted for massive looting of our yams.
That only one property valued at N120 million can be trace to General Buratai and his two wives is a big vindication of the general. Comparing that any other general in the Nigerian military, not to talk of service chief is like comparing a lagoon to the Atlantic ocean. we cannot even begin to compare Buratai net worth to Gen Ihejerika.

Corruption is really fighting back - dirty

Shewunoshewa:
How will they do that when they can easily put on their thinking caps and go into profitable businesses?
The average Nigerian politician we have on the scene now will give way to those who really want to serve.

rotimileke:
to set the record straight, dictatorship has never worked in any land. All it does is to suppress and subjugate people. many of us are against true federalism simply because we don't know the true meaning of democracy. I rest my case.