₦airaland Forum

SmartPolician:
Nigeria doesn't need to create additional states for now; make the existing ones viable first. If not for Niger Delta money shared across the country, some states will just be miserable. There shouldn't be state police without governors controlling 100% of resources in their domains and paying 10% taxes to the centre.

People who say that the states collect all the revenues and give 10% to the Federal Government make me laugh.

If the states refuse to do so, what will the federal government do?

There is a big difference resource management and tax collection. States do not have to be involved in resource management because having 36 bodies of laws and regulations for extracting raw resources will be too expensive.

States and the Federal can have the same tax creation and collection powers. What stops Lagos State from imposing a corporate tax of its own, and choose to increase or reduce it? The real conversation should be about taxes.

NetbizBoss:
I am not from the South. But I believe in the saying that there can never be peace without justice. For the sake of Justice let a South Eastern person be president

Are you aware that there has been no Hausa President in Nigerian history both in civilian and military regimes.

Isn’t the point of politics governance? Why would one be in a party with leaders he doesn’t believe in?

But what really did Fela and co do to invite change? Did they merely criticize the government of the days without setting an alternate vision of governance?

Should we model after that brand of activism?

Isn’t there a level of activism where the activist campaigns into public office even at a low level to implement boring and tiny changes? Where civil servants implement their own type of activism by silently whistleblowing, and exposing corruption and being competent with their own little?

Ultimately and ironically, Fela‘s critics leveraged on his inability to govern himself against him as a powerful critique. His rule of his tiny Karakuta commute was utterly dictatorial without zero tolerance for the democratic values he preached and made a fortune out of. His interpretation of A African values was dubious, only picking out negative aspects of it. His disregard of women in a modern age was disrespectful.

This is my mere view.

kinethic:
Lol propaganda does not win war. Personnels were evacuated not radioactive stuffs. Do you think it's just to go in a pick stuff from a shelf? Do you think they are not monitored. You cannot just wake up and evacuate dangerous stuffs like that. Everything was obliterated.
Stop believing all those liars and mullahs. Everything is gone .

If the enriched uranium was indeed evacuated, Iran wouldn’t say so. They would prefer to hide it.

Kazeem47:
State police will increase insecurity overtime.Imagine those state that won't be able to pay those Police,that's when they will start the weapons given to them to pay themselves.

Maybe initially, they wouldn’t be armed with assault rifles as the police is. It is an abnormality for the on beat cop to be armed with an assault rifle.

sleezy106:
State Police And Security Architecture: Realities And Historical Context

We should not forget a social works aspect to this. Security is multifaceted. Poverty which fuels crime must be dealt with by social welfare and education.

Guestmale:
How many times in the recent time have Borno recorded terrorists attack. If it can work to a level in terrorists prone state let us give it a chance in benue state first.

In Nigeria, self defence includes aggression against the ‘enemy’. Hence when you give people who are not in any way accountable to you arms, do not be surprised if they get out of hand.

lexy2014:
what are you expecting the military to do?

does the military investigate civilian issues?

it is not the job of the military to deal with an issue like this. it is the job of the civil defense, the police and the DSS.

Nigeria has so crumbled that the military, not trained to police, polices.

occfx:
I don't know if it is devil that talks to me or God on what Nigeria politicians deserve but what I hear in my ear does not sound well.

Ebony state sold garri to me at 25 cups for 100 naira when other states were selling 8 and 10 cups. They make a lot of garri cheaply with natural rice from Akaeze.

These idiots decided to build an airport none of the indigenous people could use or ever use with there common wealth living them to languish is hunger and penury.

20b could set up a garri processing plant in all the local government in Ebony. Set up rice milling plant too and bring enough tractors for steady and faster farming but these idiots at the top just want to embezle and embezle.

Someone should properly document all these atrocities so that the next generations will know what demons look like.

It is the Northerners’ fault.

mrvitalis:
Let me start by saying this... If you are not grounded in economics please read and pass

There has been this sentiment in Nigeria that import is what's killing Nigerian economy.. Lmaooo uts funny

Let me start by saying this importation has never harmed any economy, lack of export is what kills an economy

If you refuse to import what you can produce cheaper than imported once you are reducing the living standard of your people by reducing their purchasing power

As a nation because you can produce something doesn't mean you should... Say the locally made A cost ₦100 and imported once cost ₦20 by all means allow import

Some import duty we have is exactly what is killing Nigeria

Why should there be import duty on wheat? Can we ever produce wheat effectively? Never

Why us their import duty on stock fish? Can it grow here?

Why is their import duty on turkey? Do we have a turkey industry?

Don't get me wrong I understand import duty on rice, we have the land and climate and labour to compete

But import duty on steel? Lmaooo England just closed its last steel company because it was running at a loss... Ajokuta can never work or produce steel cheaper or even 150% price of imported steel... The iron concentration is too low 33% minimum requirements is 68% ... So we would need to enrich it which would increase cost

Import duty on steel have killed many industry from going global because their steel price put them at a disadvantage...

We want auto industry but we have import duty on steel and aluminum? Funny people

Why is their import duty on fabrics? We can never compete in the fabrics industry our cottons are too expensive and production is too poor... Import duty on fabrics is preventing Aba from competitng with turkey🇹🇷 and Bangladesh

Ok you want to protect fabrics industry but you won't allow cotton import? Funny people

To put it plainly To export as a nation you must import especially if you want to export finished goods and not raw materials

There is a reason the biggest export nations are also biggest import nations

We need economic policy change as a nation

Well what do I know

We reasonably expect political parties to organize and run on ideas such as this. If a party can articulate coherently a roadmap with ideas such as these, people will work with them and vote them.

Rather we want to discuss north and south.

Jonzing777:
To break generational poverty takes more than hardwork, seriously been an employee doesn't mean you become rich,... Check almost the billionaires and multimillionaire history.... Someone had to sacrifice his integrity for the rest to enjoy..... Nothing good comes easy.... But sha say no to crime

This mindset to solving poverty is a trap.

For Nigerians, we believe we can rise above the institutional rot and succeed despite that. And that generational poverty can be solved with wealth.

In fact one can build immense wealth and lose it in one day in Nigeria. Every business in Nigeria is equally vulnerable to some crazy policy or poor decisions of its institutions.

Arik Air was one of the most promising airlines in Nigeria. They had the biggest fleet. But due to infrastructural deficits and weak governmental institutions, it did not only fail to meet its potential, it collapsed for lack of due process.

David’s dad said the same.

Justnation:
The national assembly must as a matter of urgency make laws that will prohibit any elected officer to decamp with the mandate of the party to another party.
The recent gale of decampments has put our democracy on trial and if we want the democracy to succeed in the long run something must be done immediately.

Your sentiment is well understood.

However, we should be circumspect about these issues. The real reason party lines are crossed without guilt or remorse is the lack of doctrinal identity in these parties. PDP and APC do not stand for anything and thus nothing.

Restricting cross-carpeting gives undue powers to soulless parties. Now that parties also godfather harems and then you have the unintended consequence of protecting the turfs of people who never got the mandate of the people to exercise the powers that they have or exercise.

fuckingAyaya:
The three people that commented first have nothing upstairs 😂 or are they trying to console theirselves? Ty danjuma openly said that the military are complicit in the fight against terrorism therefore indigenous people should arm and defend themselves. DG dss said the agency's can't defend everyone that people should defend themselves against marauding herdsmen and ofcourse will you defend yourself with sticks against a man with Ak47? Lastly hope Uzodinma said the insecurities in omo state has nothing to do with ESN, some politicians are behind it. So tell me why the three people that commented are laughing? Are they laughing at their ignorance or what?

Kanu’s defence has to be consistent and coherent. The law does not tolerate a private militia and it is not an act of self defense. Raising a foundation based on the utterances of Danjuma and others to erect a defense of self defense will fail.

The operation of law is not sentiment. It is either Kanu is responsible or not for a private militia.

Proudlyngwa:
How many prisons can they build

Very useless anyhow law

The law will be used selectively. If you are vocal against the government, and they are aware you didn’t vote, then you can be imprisoned for it.

parags:
The bill itself is a great idea but it is a rubbish effort in light of what our electoral process is . They need to be amending the electoral laws to the point that votes really count . I would rather pay 200,000 than go and engage in an activity in futility . Amend the electoral laws and make the electoral umpire truly independent

You would have a conviction record which can harm your chances of employment or contracting. Most embassies don’t want to know how you got convicted, that’s enough to deny you a life changing visa.

nairalanda1:
I think it is a good idea. It would finally force Nigerians to take an interest in the voting process and maybe we won't have parties like apc voted in again.

It will be ideal if you can address the issues people have raised. Ok a theoretical level, it is a good idea. Create an Athenian democratic participation.

However, shouldn’t the bill be approached from a different angle, focusing on the real reasons for voters’ apathy such as violence, ignorance and illiteracy, logistical challenges, poverty which deprives people the funds to travel and time to vote, single parents struggling with their childcare responsibilities, military, diaspora voters, and general lack of confidence in the system.

Also, there is the risk of discriminatory enforcement. People might then perceive that though ethnic lenses.

nairalanda1:
Yeah, but Europe is an individualistic society. Nigeria is not

I don’t understand what you mean by an individualistic society. Would you consider a society where every man digs his own well, procures his own security, generates his own electricity and barely has any ties with his community. He can’t influence his community to contribute to build a road or clear gutters or put up security.

nairalanda1:
Nigerian parties lack ideology because the struggles of life make it difficult to be propounding ideology

Like back in the day, a lot of our universities used to produce graduates with a lot of ideology, mainly of the Marxist line. Yet today we do not have a strong Marxist movement in Nigeria , and it is not because of the cold war

As soon as a graduate leaves university and gets a job, his family, his wife's family and his friends pester him for money. He thus has to work to obtain such money. There is no time for ideology as a result.

Under such conditions, the best party is one that gives you some palliative to vote for them. A little money helps a lot.

At the end, no one has time for ideology. It's for the ajebutters who care about such things

You should see how social democracy grew roots in Northern Europe. It wasn’t ajebutters or mercantile class that built it.

nairalanda1:
Nigerian parties lack ideology because the struggles of life make it difficult to be propounding ideology

Like back in the day, a lot of our universities used to produce graduates with a lot of ideology, mainly of the Marxist line. Yet today we do not have a strong Marxist movement in Nigeria , and it is not because of the cold war

As soon as a graduate leaves university and gets a job, his family, his wife's family and his friends pester him for money. He thus has to work to obtain such money. There is no time for ideology as a result.

Under such conditions, the best party is one that gives you some palliative to vote for them. A little money helps a lot.

At the end, no one has time for ideology. It's for the ajebutters who care about such things

In my view, that is not the case. I strongly believe it is largely a lack of political participation culture in the country. Ideology does not have to be as hardcore as Marxism or anarcho-syndicalism. It can simply be about how much resources should a polity devote to healthcare or education or petrol subsidy.

The poor participation in local government is even more appalling.

There is also the question of a culture of political participation. People in Nigeria do not have or believe in civic duties. Hence, it is easy for a couple of wealthy people to hijack power.

What are the metrics?

DeOTR:
No nation will become reasonably self-sufficient by selling unprocessed mineral resources, and then be a net consumer of the finished good. I don't know why it's so difficult to force China to have their factories here if they're interested in it, assuming we don't have indigenous individuals that are capable of it. Politicians are always eager to make money quickly and steal as much as possible. No foresight whatsoever. The worse and the annoying part is that, they don't run their personal business that way.

Institutions matter.

Investments are likelier when you have an independent judiciary, rule of law and skilled civil service.

nairalanda1:
Well, while there is an issue with tribalism in this country, the main problem with industrial development in this country is basically......we rely on oil.

Just as the war was ending, three years later crude oil prices rose drastically.

Now, imagine BIafra won. They would have been a country in ruins and would have needed to rebuild. Crude oil would have provided ready money, and a means to dependency as well.

And no government is going to listen to inventive people under those circumstances.

Like I always say, many oil producers, unless you are like Russia and Norway and the USA that developed industries before oil.....are not great producers of industrial goods and services.

Plus, our palm oil industry has declined...largely because...again...krude oil made importation more profitable. This holds true even if BIafra won.

Finally, biofuels are more expensive than avaition fuel. That is why despite their discovery abroad, they are not in wide use.

Just saying.

I very much doubt that a country cannot succeed because of oil. I think the real issue was that Nigerian governments fed with petrodollar tend to centralize the economy and nationalize industries. They didn’t open up or liberalize the economy for private entrepreneurs to seek foreign capital, buy or build advanced technologies to upscale most industries.

IGBOPROMISE1:
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True! We have the determination to detach ourselves from this slave-camp called Nigeria, but it will not be easy as the evil hegemonic alliance leading the entire anti-Igbo agenda have a bottomless pit of money with which they use to entice, bribe, cajole and compromise other ethnic groups in and around the east to sabotage any moves to secede….especially the Ijaw ethnicity!

Any breakaway nation from Nigeria that thinks it i will succeed merely because of Igbo nationality without learning the right lessons from Nigeria and investing in its institutions will surely fail.

If it does invest in its institutions, I will be one of the first to rush for a Biafran passport.

essentialone:
See your life filled with double standards.

When a lady orally insults a man, and the man physically disciplines her untrained mouth, you will be the first to say, why did he not also use his mouth to insult her back?

Now see your double standards. If a man toasts a lady orally or tell her what she does not like, why would she not also use mouth to toast him back, or there and there, tell him what he will not also like?

Why scream Sexual Harassment to the whole world just because you hate the man? And why do so after a long time?

If few years ago, I had told Akpabio how to despise women, he would have been saying female rights and gender equality. Now he has learnt the bitter truth. Trust no lady. Pity for no lady. If she cross your lane, crush her completely or you will live to regret letting her go free.

Let’s still to the issues. Forget your prejudice against women for now. At some level, we must acknowledge that sexual harassment exists for both sexes. There is a spectrum of seriousness. It might be trivial in some cases and outrightly dangerous in others. In some countries especially in Central Asia, boys and young men are sexually harassed by older and powerful men. Either way, there must be a system in every workplace including the Senate where an allegation is taken seriously because of its consequences and is heard and investigated.

Funnily, an investigation will vindicate somebody, either the accuser or the accused. Both parties should have the benefit of a thorough system investigating the case and definitively pronouncing a result which we all can live it.

I think the failings of the Senate includes not creating an avenue for Mrs Natasha to air greviance and an avenue for Akpabio to assert and confirm his innocence.

essentialone:
I hate it when ladies scream Sexual Harassment after any small joke. Toasting is not sexual harassment. Did he press your breasts, or did he press your brokos? If Akpabio asked Natasha out, all she needed to have said is, I am not interested. That is not any form of sexual harassment. Let us stop giving oxygen to nonsense accusations. If as a lady, you do not want any man to toast you, then remain in your father house or in your husband house. This world is a free world. Toasting a lady, even if she is married is not a crime. If it is a crime, point it out in the constitution let us see.

Would you mind if men repeatedly toast you on the streets, in the workplace? Would you mind if they compliment your sexiness?

Wouldn’t you act in some righteous rage Do they have to touch you before you recognize sexual harassment??

Saga16:
Poseidon Adventure.

Great movie.

Loved that movie

WriterNig:
To be an enemy of the US is dangerous

To be an ally is fatal.

madridguy:
I sincerely wish Nnamdi Kanu listen to me back then...I shout tire, form a party with your followers and send your boys to the National assembly, their bills always will be your vision.

I said it times without number that someone will hijack his movement, and also hijack his followers and today no one is talking about Kanu again but the Agulu liar. Nnamdi Kanu is cooling inside the prison while the opportunist his jumping around enjoying what Nnamdi Kanu laboured for.

The king of lamba will be somewhere praying for Kanu not to get his freedom so he can continue to enjoy his sweat.

This is actually a brilliant idea. The National Assembly and state houses of assembly are the most powerful organs of government. They literally can do and undo. In fact, constitution drafters spend more time worrying and limiting the powers of the legislature than the executive.

And guess what, seats of legislatures do not require regional zoning, every zone is represented.

Acekidc4:
I totally agree with this. All cultist should be put to Death Asap. They're a menace to our Society.

There is a world of difference between a law as it exists in the statute book and law in practice.

Most stiff sentences do not prevent crimes especially when the crime is created by poverty. The real issue is in consistent enforcement and thorough investigation. Sadly, these are not sexy ways to address the issue.

Tobi2025:
This is a daring attack on a military facility but it comes with a whiff of information about operational logistics of the army base.
Someone who is disgruntled is giving these ISWAP terrorists current information and this has compromised army bases and formations.


There are saboteurs in the army and they are eliminating the remaining few patriotic soldiers who are willing to uphold the territorial integrity of Nigeria.
These ones are sent to their early graves to an area they don't know much about and are killed.

What is more sad is anytime the army attacks the terrorists they fail to provide live feed or images of the slain terrorists or bandits!
One wonders why this is so,if there are no saboteurs among the army top chain or brass then why are they afraid to end them.


Also one cannot rule out opposition politicians involved in this whole terrorism.
They too are the ones providing terrorists hard currency,weapons and ammunition and also intelligence against the Nigerian army.
What ever bad blood there is know that IBB,GMB and Atiku abubakar are the major sole foundations of Boko haram and it's sponsors in Nigeria.


They established what spiralled out of control and became a whirl wind with foreign terrorists from Mali,Senegal,Niger,cameroun,Libya etc
Again GMB in his regime left open the Northern borders so these Fulani terrorists can swarm into Nigeria to overtake Nigeria.
It all failed and will continue to fail.
The local residents and the villagers only became sympathetic to the terrorists cause because of the abject poverty and enticements that they have been through.

This is why you must be very careful about campaign promises as a politician.
Don't promise what you will never fufil and then the citizens become angry and will be swayed to anti Government policies which are temporarily supportive to their poverty.

Yes the ISWAP and BHT live among the people

You are aware that Kanuris and not Fulanis dominate this region, right?