₦airaland Forum

oglalasioux:
We'll only have free and fair elections when the crude oil dries up and government have to work to generate revenue. The black man naturally hates work so once there's no money no one will vie for elections in Nigeria again.

Standing5:
Yams to Asia (China especially), Beans to Europe, Palm oil, rice to any continent just to mention a few. If we can import then we can export simple.

Standing5:
Same way it did for Brazil and Nigeria in the past. When you have enuf food on your table you can sell the excess to nations who don't farm either as raw material or as finished product like the tomatoes we import from China. If things gets rough you starve your customers to feed yourself first. It is called food security.

utunnegi:
is that why he should go on a spree of carrying out substandard projects? why not do the few he can do and do them with class. he has stop any other economic project and their is much finance in his disposal to do quality job as I stated in one of my previous comment. he has no excuse whatsoever in doing a good job

Standing5:
the Problem u subtly failed to acknowlege about your argument is that it involve dependence on export proceeds. Agriculture helps secure you table with food. And can also generate forex. Industry help keep capital flight in check and boost forex too. It is super-foølish to go into further oil exploration now.

jaybee:
Pathetic. Pathetic indeed.

Most comments on this thread make a f00l of Nigerian youths.

Just think of it.

What is 'diversification'? what does of mean in the context of Nigeria's economy?

Does it meat jettisoning what you have (in this case oil and gas), while embracing what you don't have (like the proverbial, and improperly defined, agriculture; mining, etc) ?

To understand 'diversification', all you need is to define it. Any dictionary should provide such definition. Diversification is simply the act of introducing a variety (in our case, in investments, and production of goods and services); instead of investing mainly in the oil and gas. it does not connote zero investment in oil and gas and 100% investment in other sectors. Remember that Nigeria already has huge investments in oil and gas to leverage on. After all have you ever heard that a bird at hand is worth two in the air?

The concern on timing for investment in oil and gas exploration in Nigeria now is highly misplaced and shows ineptitude of the highest order, if not outright mischief. Just think of it, the crude oil being produced Nigeria today (which was sold as high as $146 in the recent past), at what price was crude oil when the exploration was done? The exploration was undertaken in the 80s and early 90s (oil exploration and production is a long gestation investment) when crude oil was at its lowest around $9 - $14. This is a good time to invest when the price is low and the cost of exploration is also low. When the price rises, the cost of exploration will be high and making the investment decision will become more difficult. it makes economic sense.

Finally is the money for this so-called frontier exploration in the budget? this i strongly doubt. If it is there, someone should please show, not tell me. Which means as usual, government only facilitates these activities, and does not really put in tax payers' money directly into it. Mostly, the investors put in their heard-earned hard currency and takes all the risks in anticipation of commercial hydrocarbon discoveries that would permit them to recover their money in a long time in the future.

Amoto94:
If you're as an educated "Southerner" can spew this thrash then I believe your education is nothing but mere paper qualifications. How do you diversify when there is no money to do diversification, and do you want an IMF or WB loans that'll give stringent conditions that will hurt the populace and enrich the cabals? Oil will still be an essential commodity for the next 100years and the government needs to find more reserves to replace the depleted reserves since oil is not a renewable product. South Sudan said Sudan were the cause of their problems because of oil, but we all can see that's not the case after South Sudan decided to separate and the rest is known to those who reflect

layzie:
Utunnegi is correct in his analysis of psychiatric road, I have been there. Amaechi's section is wider and with underground drainage/walkway. Wike's section is exactly as shown in d pix. And to think dat Wike used Julius Berger is even more appalling considering their fees.

sonOfLucifer:
@modath: guess Bubu was right, after all.

NJPot:
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2000 years ago, a new way of life was born. A way of agape love, simplicity, righteousness and truth. A way of imitating Jesus Christ who suffered to redeem mankind from the power of death. A way of life introduced to us by unselfish missionaries from Europe. This way of life which is called Christianity today is under treat in Nigeria. It is gradually losing it’s value and taste as a result of some negative attitudes of the believers. Let me quickly identify 10 ways Nigerian Christians are killing Christianity but don’t know.

1. False Prophesy: Simply put, any prophesy that did not eventually come to pass is a false prophesy. Many Christian leaders in the country are fond of making predictions out of their own imaginations or dreams claiming they were revelations from God. Failure of such prophesies makes caricature of Christianity.

2. Hypocrisy: This is the worst killer. Majority of Nigerian Christians are hypocrites. Some pastors, reverend fathers, bishops and so on give sound preaching but don’t live by their words. They do opposite of what they preach. Also, our Christian politicians are not Christ-like in their leadership. How can a Christian governor owe workers and pensioners for over six months even after the federal government has released bailout funds. They still go to church on Sundays to raise their hands up in praise and worship. Church ceiling fan will cut off such hands one day.

3. Mixing Christianity with paganism: Reading Zodiac signs, osu caste system, animal and human sacrifices and other superstitious practices are still rampant despite the numerous churches in the nooks and crannies of the country. Some Christians would even go to any length to defend such practices in the name of preserving their culture and tradition. What about Christians including pastors who patronize native doctors? Some use charms to perform signs and wonders and to win souls for their churches. Some belong to occult societies and still go to church. It is very common in Nigeria to see someone who is both a member of a Christian denomination and Ogboni confraternity or any other evil cult. This is destroying the Christian faith.

4. 'Men of God' milking their shepherds while living ostentatiously: Our pastors are cruising expensive cars, acquiring private jets and living in multimillion naira mansions while majority of their followers live in poverty. No wonder they lay too much emphasis on paying of tithes and seed sowing. They lick the asses of corrupt politicians instead of telling them the truth point-blank. This lifestyle is gradually killing the credibility of the Christian faith.
5. Fornication receiving little or no condemnation compared to other sexual sins: Sometimes I wonder if gays and lesbians will go to a hotter part of hell fire than fornicators and adulterers. Boyfriend and girlfriend relationship is on the increase among the Christian youths. Baby mamas are now celebrated. Pre-marital sex is no longer viewed as a taboo. It is very common to hear of a Christian thanking God for delivering him from the spirit of masturbation while the person is still a fornicator. This is self-deception and a distortion of Christianity which strictly condemns all sexual immoralities.

6. Praying and wishing evil for their enemies: Christ, who Christians claim to follow, taught them to love and pray for their enemies. On the contrary, Nigerian Christians hate and pray for the death of their enemies. “Die by fire”, “holy ghost fire them” and so on are common prayers in many churches today. Judging our enemies and wishing them dead is fake Christianity.

7. Lack of charity: When last as a Christian did you help the poor or someone in need without looking for something in return? Many Christians show less concern for the less privileged. They show more interest in tithing and seed sowing for their progress forgetting that agape love is the most important thing in the Christian faith.

8. Associating God with prosperity: Nowadays, if you are rich, it means that God is with you. Poverty is seen as a curse. Most churches now preach prosperity more than salvation. The rich are being celebrated as those favoured by God. This stupid mentality promotes corruption and is gradually killing Christianity in our country.

9 Weird church adverts and programs: Just in the name of attracting members, many churches have devised somewhat weird means of seducing people to their church services. Some use popular celebrities to draw crowds to their churches. For instance, of what spiritual value is it to feature Terry G, Mama G, Wizkid, I Go Dye and so on in a Christian program? Some churches also use funny posters and attractive themes to lure people to their church. I have seen church posters with themes like ‘miracle extravaganza’, ‘prison break’, ‘auntie wetin I do you’, ‘who tie the goat’ and so on. This makes Christianity look like a joke.

10. Denominations fighting one another: Some Christian denominations believe that they are the genuine Christians and members of other Christian denominations would all go to hell. They fight one another with hate words and sometimes the fight goes physical. Instead of thinking of ways to dialogue and unite, more Christian denominations are being created. Sometimes, I begin to wonder if there are more than one Jesus Christ.

namdo:
RIP to James and others who died. If only our 'leaders' would realize that what we require are good roads, working health system, power, good education system, good housing schemes, empowerment schemes, then our country will be better and in peace.

tit:
lone car accident?
must have rolled over multiple times.
travelling at over 100 mph.
Was cruise control on?
driver may have dozed off with cruise control on.

fulanimafia:
Interestingly, this comes at a time the company is planning to resume production of the luxury Peugeot 408 which can easily be used as official cars for top government functionaries and capable Nigerians alike.

Nigeria is working...we will get there.

LightofEarendil:
I think a good lesson to learn here is to pay attention to our cars, especially tires and to drive at a controlled speed. While we wait and push the government to fix the road and provide other services. There are things only we can do for ourselves.

There are already enough dangers on our road than for us to add more complication. Obeying simple car safety rules is also critical so that if an accident happens, we would have at least reduced the chance of death as much as we can.

I learn this from a Road Safety officer. The higher your speed, the higher the chance of death. 110km/h is the most reasonable to maintain. When travelling I always maintain a 110km/h speed no matter how smooth and clear the road is. I leave nothing to chance.

Also, using a belt is a must! As much as possible, avoid situations where you or anyone have to not use the seat belt.

Lastly, patience and self-restrain is key.

cramjones:
It was with a heavy heart that I heard about the death of Minister Ocholi and family. It is indeed a tragic news to his immediate family, the Federal Executive Council, the APC-led government, and most especially, the people of Nigeria who lost a first class asset. He would surely be missed.

Beyond Minister Ocholi's death, what many Nigerians did not know was that on the same day more than 100 other people died as a result of car crashes in Nigeria. Using the World Health Organization's recent data, Nigeria has one of the worst road traffic safety record, ranking 149th out of 184 countries studied by the World Health Organization. Why is this so? And what can we do to reduce these fatalities? We can certainly do a lot more to improve safety on our roads. While acknowledging that we all need to play our parts by wearing seat belts, driving within speed limits, obeying traffic signs etc. I would want to point out the most expedient commonsense things the Nigerian government must do to keep all of us safe and reduce this abysmal record.

1. Simple - Fix the roads! It seems to me from the narration about James Ocholi's case, there was a tire burst which led the SUV to somersault. There are many "death traps" on our roads. We have been relegated to being called "expert drivers" only if we develop techniques to dodge pot holes at high speed! I drove from Jos to Abuja recently and saw a Vetra sedan car who had just passed our SUV slip into a pot hole swerved off the road and caught fire. All passengers in the car, numbering about four were tragically burnt to ashes. It was one of the most horrific sights I have seen. It is no fluke that countries in the Western Hemisphere averages 6 per 100,000 fatalities and we stand at about 618 per 100,000 fatalities attributable to road crashes. To digress a bit, maternal mortality in Nigeria is same number as road fatalities, that is about 600 deaths per 100,000 live births, however, that is story for another day. If our government constantly fail to fix our highways, expand them and enforce traffic rules on its usage, the numbers would only go up, as population increases.

2. Paramedics/Road side emergency response: An image that tells the whole story, was the horrific image of Minister Ocholi's body covered with leaves. Most times during accidents like this all you see is a crowd gathered, with their hands on their heads muttering things like "Jesus!" "Chineke!" "This life!", others get busy with fanning the victims of the accidents. Some even get themselves entangled with the accident victims getting stained with their blood and carrying them carelessly sometimes even inadvertently severing a fractured C4 or C5 spine and killing the victim. My point is, we don't even have a clue of what first aid it. One would have thought that with the Boko Haram insurgency, the government would have created a program to deal with bomb and road fatalities. None of that exists. There is just nothing. According to the American Society for Orthopedic and Trauma Surgeons, over 50% of road traffic accident victims can survive if they get medical attention between 7 - 10 minutes. Are FRCS trained in advanced trauma and life support? Do their vehicles have facilities for emergency transfusions, minor surgical procedures on sight etc? This must change. And if the Buhari government and the Minister of Health seeks to gain any mileage in the CHANGE agenda, Minister Ocholi's death should at least spur some form of political will to change the status quo.

3. Hospitals: It was said that the Minister's wife who was in critical condition, and was rushed to the near by hospital, called Doka Hospital. As someone described the hospital to me, "that hospital is a S***t hole, it is worse than a refuse bin". We are good in building new buildings, but bad with building systems. The state of our health care is so dysfunctional, that even if you go to a hospital the broken system either do not even have any capacity whatsoever to help, some who have very little capacity, drive their patients away in the name of referrals. A survey done just last year by USAID on 15 Nigerian teaching hospitals, showed that none had defibrillators in their casualty departments. We must again reexamine how we ought to build a working health care system. Granted, some can afford to fly to Germany, and would careless about our hospitals, however, Minister Ocholi's wife death reminds us that in medicine, some things cannot wait. It needs urgent, emergent care. A 6 hour air ambulance flight to Germany cannot save at that point.

I wish the Ocholi family the fortitude to bear this irreplaceable loss, and I hope the Government of President Mohammadu Buhari will learn a thing or two from this traggic event.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

-CramJones

aljharem:
As the topic says , Buhari is God's punishment to Nigerians since we cannot think. How can a youth of this country vote a past 1985 president back in 2015. Nigeria youths especially those that voted apc are the dumbest in the world. Quote me any day

prevail23:
tho I don't I have a girlfriend, buh if I had,I won't slap her,I can't stand to watch her get hurt!

Genea:
Greatest Akokites,

There Are No Excuses For Failure....Please Conceptualize on It .This year's University of Lagos Convocation is At Hand.....And we Have 5472 convoking Bsc Students And 5435 Post graduate Students,
Engineering With The Highest number Of First class making 41 First Class graduates.Below Is the Break down.
Faculty Of Arts =393
Faculty of Education=605
Faculty of Enviromental=201
Faculty of Sciences=710
Faculty of social Sciences=676
Basic Medical Sciences=312
Faculty of Bus Admin=803
Faculty of Engineering =366
Faculty of Law =251
Faculty of Pharmacy=92
Distance Learning institute=1063
Generally We Have 178 First Class,1617 2nd Class Upper,2496 2nd Class Lower,894 3rd Class.....

And To Bring To your Notice We Have A Record Breaker AYODELE DADA From The Dept Of Psychology Making A CGPA Of 5.0 making him the Overall Best Graduating Student 15'16 session.

Fellow Akokites, next week we celebrate our senior colleagues in the struggle from the 1st to the 3rd March as UNILAG carries out her 48th convocation ceremony.
A hearty congratulations to all graduating students!

Together in the struggle
Jumai AF,
ULSU PRO

MOVEMENT FOR TOTAL TRANSFORMATION

Kingsasian:
I think Nigeria should be ranked no.1 in the world in terms of rape cases

eleko1:
Be bold UBAH Pls BE BOLD.Name those irresponsible,saboteurs,bastards,thieves that doesn't want dis country to prosper. Pls do us dis Favor Chief,Dr,Otunba Okanlomo Ubah

revolt:
so " they resolved to do all their to help oil price" , a simple phone call could get that resolve. Now all tht baffles me is tht a learned fellow does not know tht market forces determine prices ie demand n supply. If u do not know y oil prices are dipping by now then......will he also tell Iran to halt production (they're not an OPEC nation if I'm wrong), lose their profits cos Nigeria is in recession, then wen the prices soar, hell put a gun on obamas head forcing the us to resume buying our oil. Buharis meeting wth the Saudi president is a jamboree from all indication, no FDI inflow from that, no trade agreements, absolutely nothing. In fact the relevant agencies will start discussing what? Oil price. Na wa

plaetton:
It's hard not to make fun of Buhari everyday, with all the comedy of errors emanating from his leadership and pronouncements.

For example, while Buhari is cooling off in the luxurious comforts of a Saudi palace, he has sold the bogey to his zombies that he intends to influence the Saudis to stabilize oil prices.

Of course, he and his propagandists are banking on the fact that Nigerians, especially the APC Nigerians, do not read current events.

Yesterday, for example, while Buhari is cooling off in the luxurious comforts of a Saudi place, the Saudis announced that they are preparing themselves for and can live with $20 per barrel oil.

And then today, Saudi oil minister Al-Naimi just announced moments ago that they are RULING OUT any cuts in supply of oil.

So, we are, once again, forced to ask:
Are Buhari and his advisers that naive to think that they can convince or jawbone the Saudis into an oil cut?

What exactly is the true purpose of Buhari's week long trip to Saudi Arabia, given that we do have an oil minister, Kachikwu, whose job it is to represent Nigeria's oil interests ?

Emekamex:
This is just mere rhetorics, Saudi Arabia wont cut down oil production unless the USA, Iran and Russia do likewise, as these are their major competitors in the global market share.

Convincing these four nations to cut down production is almost impossible at this time as Iran and USA will not likely do this. Instead of still focusing on oil, why cant Buhari invest more time and effort in our agricultural and mining sector.

This is the time and our only chance of diversification; Mr President, dont waste this opportunity to get things right.