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I laugh, the comments attributed to the Vice President are nothing but pure comedy. But then he is a trained lawyer liar, not a Power Systems Engineer so I tend to take what he says on this particular topic with a pinch of salt.

In the world today, there are a lot of developed countries who cannot boast of 10% being generated by renewables. It is not because they don't want to, it is because renewables are quite expensive and often rely on government subsidies. Let's not even talk of favourable regulatory framework and environment needed for renewable power generation to thrive, let's not even talk of the technology needed for renewable power generation. In addition, countries that seek renewables are countries that already have stable power generation, transmission and distribution networks not countries still struggling to achieve 10,000MW of power supply for 3 months.

This is a pipe dream at best!

Thanks for the correction.

Gerrard59:
Bua is constructing her refinery in the bold.

Mr Salihu told PREMIUM TIMES that the federal government, during the Sani Abacha junta – “when President Buhari was the PTF chairman” – had converted the land to a grazing area and given it to him. Asked for formal papers, he said they had been burnt when his house was razed. However, some leading Igangan natives insist the land is owned by the state government and remains a reserved area for crop farming.

Whilst reading the report, the above caught my eye and I could not help but comment. We know Mohammadu Buhari and Shehu Yar Adua formed MACBAN. We know Buhari tacitly supports these herdsmen and their activities. What we did not know was the above? Apparently, same Buhari had been using government influence to redistribute South west lands to his kinsmen.

And some idiots will come here to bark One Nigeria, Nigeria must be great. How can this country be great when one group of people have a plan to annihilate every other group trying to coexist within the same space.

Nigeria is a joke. Nigeria is a sham. Nigeria must be split otherwise all of its inhabitants will continue to struggle from generation to generation and the story will not change.

Dangote and BUA refineries are good developments for Nigeria. I would have preferred these be situated in other states that have coastline such as Ogun, Ondo, Cross River or Akwa Ibom. However, I have a honest question, Lagos as it is presently is overcrowded. Thanks to the population explosion because of economic opportunity.

And in reality, no new infrastructure is being built to support all of these activities. If some or all of the refined product will be sold within Nigeria, I don't see rail tracks being built or pipelines to transport the product away from Lagos, so I am guessing trucking remains the realistic option. So will Lagos continue to be residential or should it be strictly an industrial state? Because as these things progress, it will become almost impossible to live sanely in Lagos State.

This is why despite my support of Biden, for immigration reasons, it is clear that this LGBTQI thing is an agenda. And this has always been my problem with Democrats. What works for people in California and New York may not work for people in Alabama and Tennessee just like what works for Americans may not work for people of other countries.

It is one thing for you to want LGBTQI rights for Americans. When you now make it mandatory worldwide and threaten sanctions, it is just hypocrisy. What is the point of expanding protections of an issue that is deeply unpopular with Nigerians? But like I said, it is clear there is an agenda with this thing. I do not believe that Biden nor Obama before him a gay lovers, this is politics, powerful rich, donor white men behind the scenes are driving these decisions clearly.

Anyway, overall the real lesson in this is every country has to strive for self-sufficiency. I am certain these sanctions are somehow connected to aid which our government regularly applies for and relies upon to embezzle. Real countries do not seek aid, they strive to be self-dependent. These sanctions will not move the needle with Russia for example, because despite them being against gay rights (and rightly so) sanctions do not affect them in anyway.

Mr Minister, you can give empty endorsements, however if security remains an issue it will be same of same. If stable power supply remains an issue, it will be same of same. If the logjam that exporters are presently experiencing at ports remains an issue, it will be same of same.

Keep your meaningless endorsements and work to provide the enabling environment for these young farmers to thrive.

IMF, if you so please you can give Nigeria $350 trillion.

I can assure you there will still be no tangible infrastructure and stable economy to show for it.

Nigeria, as it is presently constituted and as it was intended from the start, is a failed state. I wonder why the IMF is marvelling at this revelation. Perhaps if we were allowed to separate the chaff from the wheat by way of splitting the country, everyone would be less fixated on oil money, people would really use their brains to think and there would be judicious use of public resources.

But no, we are left to contend with corrupt politicians who relocate these borrowed funds to foreign accounts whilst using the mass populace as collateral.

As much as I hate to say what I am about to say, I hope he can find his way out of this country as soon as possible and make something meaningful of his existence.

Relocate to a country that values him as a human being, values his skills as a pharmacist and values him as a productive member of society.

As we no gree wise for this part of the world, we will continue to be feeder team for other more productive and sane countries. Only for fools on nairaland to keep checking his name, his tribe, his religion and all the other irrelevant stuff you have been programmed to check for.

Obviously not in his favour hence the criticism but you will not hear anything from him regarding the crisis in Southwest, Nigeria.

So-called "Asiwaju", So-called "leader". Priorities differ I guess, 2023 can't come soon enough, not everyone has amnesia and not everyone can be bought!

Spoken like a true northerner: ignorant, proud and clearly very stupid!

Hi guys, I have a question, at the embassy, for proof of support can one use an investment letter(say from Mansard, ARM and the likes) stamped, signed and on a company letterhead instead of a bank account statement?

Thanks

What do you expect him to say? You want him to start asking how we know that these are actual Fulani Herdsmen? Or if we have any video footage? Or if we are sure the footage was not doctored?

Tinubu's case is a lost cause, he is a known commodity. He worships three things: money, power and anyone who will give him access to the first two. Anyone who knows him closely knows exactly what I am talking about.

Yoruba people need to start looking to themselves and less to these so-called leaders. If you think there is some messianic figure over the horizon, riding a white horse coming to save you, you are grossly mistaken.

sapientia:
We await his interview soonest.

God will bless you and your generation for this.

Some paid idiots are here busy trying to launder the image of the Ooni on social media when everyone and their grandmother knows he totally goofed it by visiting Buhari.

For the record, Buhari is a known enemy to the Yoruba people incase anyone might be wondering. But ofcourse he has collaborators on ground a.k.a useless and worthless politicians and traditional rulers who everyday are exposed by their continued silence.

Awon oloriburuku gbogbo!!!

Kriss216:
Going to meet the president is enough reason to dethrone him.

His people are being slaughtered, it's expected the president come to yorubaland and sympathize with them not the other way round.

The destruction started a long time ago, Buhari simply consolidated it.

Fahdiga:
Buhari has destroyed Nigeria beyond redemption

All of this is nothing compared to the adverse economic effect of looting by Nigerian politicians. That alone must account for 40% of the capital flight we experience as a country and it puts a strain on the naira to dollar exchange. Another is the multiple exchange rates we have, having one unified rate will surely stop most of the speculation we experience that is responsible for failed monetary policies we experience. In addition, the fact that we are an import driven country in virtually all of what we consume. Case in point, before crypto became a thing, 4-5 years ago, our balance of trade was still a mess and our exchange rates were always high. Blaming failed monetary policies on the advent of crypto is just intellectual laziness at best. I have said that the greatest undoing of Nigerian politicians is incompetence not even corruption.

Crypto is just a means of survival for the average man. However, as with all things, the government must frustrate the average man from making a living.

There are deeper issues the government must look into if they are serious about attracting foreign investors and having a stable monetary policy, banning crypto is definitely not one of them.

Esseite:
Crypto currency is a death nail on import dominated countries. there is no balance of trade or how that can be regulated. Do you think the loans gotten from china is not a means of balancing trade due to our large imports?..

how do you balance the escape of forex through cryptos for an import dominated country especially for non physical services/goods?

- It undermines monetary policies of various Government..
- There are no checks and balances.
- Any dick and harry can prop up a coin.
- it discourages foreign investors from investing physically in developing nations.

Best initiative from CBN on saving the naira.

Is it not too soon to declare peace?

Where are the measures being put in place to ensure that this does not repeat itself?

We have not seen the last of herdsmen in Yorubaland. And when next they come, it will be worse than it is now. I just hope the useless leaders we have will not come and be saying we are ill-prepared for war, we must dialogue more.

I do not agree with FFKs politics but with that said whenever he is indeed focused, he can really write effectively and communicate better than anyone I know.

Everything he has said has been no different to what I have said since I joined nairaland. Yorubas have no business being in Nigeria. Our history with the Fulani has been filled with distrust and chaos, history has a way of repeating itself.

Did we the Yorubas not learn from our history? Did we have to wait for the events that unfold before our very own eyes? How did we go from the type of leadership we had in 50s to the type of leadership we have today? These are some of the questions I ponder, with so much sorrow within me.

Look it will not matter if we somehow manage to repel the fulanis, they will keep coming back because of two things: (1) weak, reactive and selfish leadership, (2) ignorance, hunger and naivety on the part of the masses.
Until we address the above effectively, there will be no peace in Yorubaland. While I remain confident about the potential of the average Yoruba man, the problem of weak leaders (which is inextricably linked to Yorubaland being a part of Nigeria) will persist and negatively affect whatever limitless potential that the average Yoruba may have.

Now the murders are at our gates and all we do is talk talk talk whereas the ones who ought to be talking are silent, because all we have a bunch of skilled politicians who have no clue of what it really takes to be a true leader.

You are absolutely right.

You see as Martin Luther King Jnr said, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. These incidents have been happening in North Central Nigeria for decades but no one gave a hoot, no one batted an eyelid, now it has come down south and we are all in our feelings.

Every single word FFK wrote is exactly how I see the situation of things on ground and I have said same since I joined Nairaland. This is not the time to be playing politics, this is a time for strong unity as never seen before. But ofcourse anything I say will fall on deaf ears because the so-called leaders in the country but more importantly in the South are just interesting in themselves than the people they govern. This is more apparent in the South West than in any other area.

What will eventually destroy South west Nigeria is not corruption, but incompetence, on the part of its leaders. They are a bunch of non-entities and sellouts.

richnankar1:
We Christians from the middle belt states of Plateau, Benue, Nasarawa and Kaduna states have been crying for ages without help.
We told them this war is an Islamic agenda, a war against the church and Christianity. Our brethren from the south never cared, now the war is right in their domain.
Go to Borno, Bauchi, Adamawa, Kebbi, Niger and see what Christians face there. The time for praying and waiting for miracles is over. We must arise and form a powerful alliance to combat these terrorist, blood sucking Islamic Fulani jihadists.
Evil cannot prevail, we must conquer. The gates of hell shall not prevail.

I swear I was just thinking of the same thing.

Hahahahahahahahaha.

Omooba77:
MURIC wants farmers to be compensated, wonders shall never end. I am sure his farm in Kwara has been grazed....

Okay so according to Sheikh Gumi, these "insert whatever adjective here" are nothing more than victims of circumstance. They are not to be blamed, afterall they are simply responding to situation around them.

Okay, it is well.

I think it runs in the family.

BigDick70inch:
could dis Adeshina brothers be really dis dumb and stupid

Or does stupidity run generally in the family??

Will you keep quiet there. No be only 201 deities, why not 202 or 2003.

Chief Sunday Igboho criticised the Ooni's visit to Buhari at such a time, when the people the Ooni is supposed to be king over are experiencing some of the worst hardship known to man.

As much as we Yorubas are taught to respect our elders, I am afraid now is not the time for such lessons. In the Yoruba language, there is a saying roughly translated that goes "what is the use of an eldership, if not to cheat a younger one". Ooni is hiding behind his throne, he has still not revealed what transpired in the meeting. I do not claim he received dollars but judging by how traditional rulers have sold themselves out like cheap prostitutes I will not be surprised if he did.

We Yorubas are at a juncture where enough is enough, presidency be damned, to hell with diplomacy. It is one thing for these leaders to play their games, but when it affects the average man in the streets, the average man will speak out and if you do not like his tone, you can go to hell. Ooni needs to remember Yoruba history, there are kings who have been dethroned by their subjects due to imposed hardship untold. If things get worse than this, Yoruba people will come for all of them.

If those who are saddled with the burden of leadership can not speak up, then they should accept whatever insult is thrown their way because we know they are all nothing but a bunch of sellout cowards!

ORIENTATION101:
Sunday igboho has offended all 201 dieties of Yorubaland , Cos that's what ooni represent.since he cant learn how to speak to elders, he will be taught a bitter lesson.
Any masquerade that sees himself like a God will be stripped Naked in the market place

I have been saying this since like forever.

The plan of the Fulani elite is to overrun the entire Southern Nigeria. It is as clear as day. They do not mind turning Nigeria into a Sudan if it helps them achieve their aims. And they will ultimately get support from the Arab countries to persecute this quest.

If Southern Nigeria does not wake up and be proactive, Southern Nigeria will be swallowed whole and the international community is not going to give a damn. because no whites are affected so why should they care.

Supan:
These are the unofficial soldiers of the Fulani Core north. They are also called Janjarweed in the Sudan war.

Their fathers, during the Nigerian civil war were the Gwodo Gwodos from Niger republic who did a lot of dirty works behind the front. They raped, massacred villages, vandalized abandoned homes etc.

They just want to replicate Sudan genocide in Nigeria with the help their cronies in power like El rufai and Buhari. It is just that, they have not been given the order to march down south.

They are ready to violently prevent any reasonable development in this country.

Let no southerner think you can win the presidency in this atmosphere.

The southerners and middle-belt need to wake up, put their differences aside and arm up seriously and in unity too. Because, they are well entrenched in power and also have the subtle support of world power like UK our coloniser.

We tried it before, it did not work.

Best solution is to secede a.k.a break this f_cuking country.

Dotherightthing:
The cause is to rid the SW of killer herdsmen and not to secede.

A properly-restructured Nigeria will be heaven on earth.

It's just like when you tweet and have it deleted.

It does not matter, Chief Igboho has spoken what is on everyone's mind. Can anyone call the Oba of Benin a fulani slave? Never!

Look we in Yoruba land know that our traditional leaders are like toothless dogs. Nobody respects them since they sold out to politicians all in a bid for more money and power. As far as I can tell, this trend has been for quite a while however in recent times the last Ooni Sijuwade was a Fulani slave proper, i doubt if this present one is any different.

spoken like the bigot that he is.

The Nigerian Government (most likely on advise from MI6 from Britain) have gotten to Facebook.

No surprises here.

With what he is licking as VP, I honestly doubt that.

Only a man of true integrity would resign from such a position, if not for anything, at the very least on account of the covert war being waged by the Fulanis against my people, the VPs own people too.

But like Tinubu, Pastor (Prof.) Osinbajo is not a man of integrity. His loyalties are not with the Yoruba people, his loyalties are with Bourdillon. No doubt he would be a more effective President than Buhari but then so would even an inanimate object.

Traditional leaders especially those in my part of Nigeria, the South west, have been reduced to nothing more than harmless mascots. I expected the Ooni would have turned down the President's request to visit as a means of first voicing his displeasure of the situation at hand. Ooni must remember where his loyalties lie and it is not to Abuja nor the entire country (in reality it is to Abuja and whoever put him on that throne).

Chief Sunday Igboho is totally right and infact restrained in his response characterising the Ooni's visit to the Buhari. It was just business as usual and such visits will yield no tangible outcome for the average Yoruba. What is also clear is Amotekun's role in this entire affair, they are clearly either not up to the task or handicapped by the politics that the "constituted authorities" are playing.

Yorubas need to understand that if everything goes South today, Ooni will leave his throne in Ife and flee the country, he can afford to. Whatever Chief Igboho is doing is on behalf of the entire Yoruba race and we must support him with prayers and resources. We must remember that he does not have to do it, he only does these things out of a passion and love for his people and his land.

My point exactly.

We need to understand that history has a way of repeating itself. The fulanis are an existential threat to us and they must be taken as such.

Do you see Turkey and Greece being friends? Or Turkey and Armenia? Or China and Japan? Or North Korea and the USA? The fulanis literally took Ilorin a flourishing Yoruba town and fast forward today you see our shameless politicians rubbing shoulders with the Fulani elite. For this alone, we ought to even be totally anti-Nigeria and pro-independence for Yoruba land but you see hungry gluttonous sick men talking from both sides of their mouths trying to defend the indefensible.

Quite simply put, the fulanis are a mortal foe to the Yoruba people and we must be proactive in not only limiting them but decimating them. Unfortunately, we have been only reactive thus far. And it is due to the weak crop of leaders we have on every level and across every sphere be it religious, political and traditional.

Sammy07:
Well I actually don't fear anything because I know what were capable of.
The war spirit never dies.

My only fear is that, it might be fought on Yoruba soil which will further destroy our economic and infrastructures

And this in itself is a weakness which the Fulani now exploit.

However, we must be prepared for war. I do not wish to hear these silly nonsense of Yorubas not being prepared. Awolowo said this in the 60s, our elites ought to know better. Fulanis will never stop coming until we draw line in sand once and for all.

If we have to fight a war to maintain our sovereignty, it is best we do so now. Unfortunately, politicians remain the only stumbling block and there are no rich men who wish to assume hero status. No one who wishes to arm well trained youths to repel such infringement on our freedoms. I honestly weep for Yorubaland.

Sammy07:
Lol, we don't act until we are pushed to wall.
Biko, read history well.



We are too welcoming self
Giving them hot hot would have been better.