Enice:
Thank you. It is like most of the commenters on Nairaland are dunce. Imagine them criticizing the president for a policy that would benefit the country. Nigeria has arguably one of the most fertile land on planet earth. These goats want us to import what we can grow with our scarces forex when most of our youths are unemployed? Rubbish. what this policy is saying is that if you are a farmer, There's no way you will not sell your produce when you harvest.

Do you have a farm? Do you know the problem of farmers?
This would have been a good policy if the first things were done. What are those things?
1. Keep herdsmen in ranches. Do you know the amount of crops and lives of farmers that have been lost to herdsmen? I know some farmers who have quit farming because they can't continue to risk their lives and suffering loses going to farm. The number of Farmers are reducing instead of increasing
2. Support large scale mechanized farming. Majority of farming in Nigeria is still at the subsistence level. We need an agricultural policy and road map that turns agriculture into an enterprise covering the entire value chain
3. Ensure the country is self sufficient on food production. Right now, Nigeria is not self sufficient in food production as a result of the first 2 above.

What will this policy do?
Most food importers will no longer import. Since Nigeria is not yet self sufficient Food prices will skyrocket. Why? Demand will outstrip supply.

The govt is betting on people being forced to farm. However, you can't force people to go into farming when it is dangerous out there. The simplest thing the govt would have done is to ban herdsmen from roaming around and make farmers feel safe. They are not willing to do that due to their own selfish agenda and they think they can force farmers to farm. In fact the govt is not serious at all. At the end, the poor suffers.

After all, do the govt officials patronize local hospitals? Do they care about the hospitals? Common man don suffer for Nigeria chai. Too bad

What i don't understand in this travel section is how some people take this abroad thing too personal to the extent that they look like they have something eating them up internally. What exactly is the problem? That Nigerians should not migrate? Nigerians in diaspora should come back?

If Nigerians are slaves and not recognized abroad like some people say, whose business is it? Why would someone take it personal when he himself is a king in Nigeria and not affected?

We all want Nigeria to be great but how is Nigerians abroad or aspiring to migrate the problem of the country. Someone would just be worrying over the 'slave' status of Nigerians abroad as if it affects him instead of channeling their energy to the real people who are the problem of Nigeria. If you love Nigeria, then channel your criticism to those guys that have made Nigeria bleeped up. They are in Abuja and all the 36 states capital in Nigeria.

As it stands Nigerians in diaspora are even contributing to Nigeria more than those idiots. Nigerians in diaspora remitted $17.5 billion to Nigeria in 2019 alone
https://nairametrics.com/2020/01/11/nigeria-receives-17-5-billion-diaspora-remittances-in-2019/
These are monies from cleaning jobs, washing dead bodies, uber driving, factory workers, doctors, engineers, nurses etc but the so called people who should make Nigeria better take Nigeria's money oversees. For example, how much of Nigeria's money has Buhari and his families remitted to the Europe through medical tourism?
Instead of some of you to appreciate Nigerians abroad, you keep on talking nonsense.

Why is Africa at the bottom of everything? This is too embarrassing. Too bad

This is why Nigeria will never make progress as a nation. There is never a national interest, it is all ethnic and tribal interest

This is even better for the south. If they can extend this division to other things, it makes disintegration of this unworkable entity called Nigeria is easier

@Op, i don't know how old you are. If you are old enough, look back at Nigeria in 2000, look at Nigeria in 2010, Look at Nigeria today then with that pattern, see how Nigeria will be in 2030 etc. That lies your answer.

For people who come from shitholes like Nigeria, having a second citizenship or permanent residence in a sane country is never a bad investment. It is very risky to have Nigeria as your only country. Even your politicians and your big men know this. Their children all have options

Immigration is getting tougher now. If you have what it takes to migrate legally, do it now because in the years to come it is going to be worse. I know someone who had all it takes to legally migrate in 2015 but was carried away with 500k salary, he is regretting it now. If he needed 3m then to make the move then, he now needs 6m to make the same move now. Naira is losing value. Sadly, The value of 500k of today is like 250k of 5 years ago. So if you were earning say 250k 5 years ago and you are earning 500k today, you are still almost at the same spot.

However, i must warn that if you do not have what it take to make a legitimate immigration move, it is better to stay in Nigeria. In fact, in this case, Nigeria would be better than abroad. Don't go with visit visa and expect to maneuver your way, sorry will be your name and you go suffer tire and you will regret it. I don't support this craze of traveling by all means getting more prevalent in Nigeria now. I understand the country is getting worse but it is still better for people who can't migrate legally to remain in Nigeria than getting themselves into a bigger mess abroad. Btw, by abroad, i mean first world countries because no be all abroad na abroad.

What exactly is Messi's problem sef? That he lost 8-2 to Bayern or he didn't win a trophy this season? Is he the first superstar to lose badly?

I expect that whenever he would leave Barcelona, he would will leave on a good note not with acrimony with the club. Without Barca, he wouldn't have been this successful. Afterall, what has he won with Argentina all these years? When there was Xavi and Iniesta making the club super and he was the one taking the glory, why didn't he complain. Does he think players like Xavi and Iniesta will always be there forever.

Is not as if Barca is not buying top players, Barca has spent millions on top football stars. Griezman was Athlethico best player when bought, Coutinho was one of Liverpool Best players etc. What does Messi want? Football success comes in cycle. You don't win all the time even with the best players. What a grateful player would have done would be to galvanize the club and bring them back to winning ways and now leave. He started playing in Barca's first team when Barca was winning during the time of Ronaldinho and Eto, he now wants to leave when they are down.

It took Real Madrid more than 10 years to start winning the champions league again after 2002 despite all their stars. There is no guarantee that he would keep winning wherever he goes so why tarnish your Barca legacy at a time when he should be working to bring back the club to top glory.

Look at the eye watery amount he has made from the club, look at the collection of trophies he has won through the club. The going gets rough, he starts whining and behaving like the club owe him something. I used to think Messi was humble and passionate about Barcelona, i didn't know he was like most footballers, greedy and self centered.

ahiboilandgas:
who are those people paying 6m for b.i.s ,bowen ,daywaterman college,just for secondary school and who are those paying 5m in abti ,baze,Turkish,covenant,bell afebablola university ...this same group will pay 5m for mbbs if public university are privatized and charge tution......there over 50000 Nigerian families that pay 5m yearly for mbbs if kids show interest......politicians are not spirit or ghost ....doctors can become politician if they luv the perks and salary ...and if they can spend millions for mobilize elections.......if u pay 30m for election form and spend 200m to become rep .....how will u recoup such money ...can doctors spend such sum or risk 5000 naira .......the politician in Nigeria spends over 60 percent of his income on the public ....how about doctors ? How do they help financially? .....a local govt chairman pay hospital bills ,weddibg ceremony,school fee,and all bills ,how about doctors ur salary is only for u and family .....

Loool

At some point, i thought i was reading a joke from a comedian on facebook.
Una no go kee person ooo

ahiboilandgas:
they are doing greate favour.....it cost around 25m naira in subsidies to train a Nigeria doctor in public university through our paid tax ...while his uk counter borrrows money over 200 k pounds to be train which must be paid back.......is not the uk they are runing to ....if we must use tax money to train u ....u must serve us or attend private university..

Nigeria does not subsidize anything at least not for the people. The fees in Nigeria are low due to the low purchasing power of Nigeria as a country. You cannot expect people who earn 200k per month to pay 1m per term for school fees for their kids. If you make the fees at par with what is obtained in the developed world, who will attend it? You will have to introduce student loans to make it work but Nigeria does not have the structure to do things like that. Even if you make the fees high, judging by what we know about Nigeria, the quality will be no where near what is obtainable abroad because of the acute corruption in the country.

The solution is to develop the country and make it work for all. If the country is developed to the standard of the west, the role of money in the everyday life of the people will diminish. People will not necessarily earn high but they would be more comfortable with their lives.

The country should get their priority right. Whether subsidized or not, there is no way a politician should earn more than a doctor. From the executive to the Legislators, what have they done to deserve being paid sef? The country is getting worse under their leadership yet the are making millions and billions but the people who are saving lives are struggling

How much are they paying the recipients? Is it up to 100K? and is it permanent?

Too bad.

@op stop wasting your time, Nigerians are not ready to think about the country and its future. When the usual guys come now, they will read the article and the only thing that would matter to them is fishing out those who love or hate buhari.

AnanseK:


Of course you hate reading. Children of hate, they hate everything Government and you hate education.

Our standards as a people is just too low. Building infrastructures here and there is no big deal. Even an idiot can do it. What would be a big deal if it is massive for example, covering the whole Nigeria with high speed rail so that people can travel from Lagos to Abuja etc in say 3 hours. If what Femi is saying is the bar set for leadership then every idiot that has ruled Nigeria both at state and National level has done well. Even the worst governor in the history of humanity like Thief T.A Orji of Abia State would have also done well cos he built some infrastructures here and there.

IBB built Third Mainland bridge, Abacha built some infrastructures, Obj and even Jonathan have some infrastructures built under their tenure so what exactly is the big deal here? Let us not even forget that these projects costs are inflated and it is one of the best avenues for corruption for politicians

Talking about hate, what exactly is the big deal about hating someone? Why do we like brandishing the word "Hate" to divert attention and shield ourselves from scrutiny? Is there any country in the world apart from say North Korea and China where the president is loved by everyone? Does hating the president prevent him from delivering good leadership? Let us assume the entire east hates the president, does it stop the president from stopping the killings by bandits, Fulanis and boko haram in the country? Is it why a bag of rice has not gone below what it was in 2015? Is it why unemployment is still high since 2015? Is it why corruption is still high? Is it why nothing is working in the country? If we all love Buhari and sing his praises like North Koreans what exactly will it change?

The likes of Femi wants you guys to close your eyes to the most important things and instead keep chasing frivolities and irrelevant things that did not help Nigeria yesterday, that is not helping Nigeria today and will never help Nigeria tomorrow and you guys are falling for it

I can't believe my eyes

This is why i keep telling people that no matter your love for Nigeria and hope that it will get better tomorrow, the fact and reality is that the country is dead and buried.

See how people are defending corruption like their life depends on it.

Corruption is only corruption when they people accused are the ones you hate, when they are those you love, it is no longer corruption. No country will ever make progress with this mindset.
Guys, if you have what it takes to establish another home outside Nigeria, do that now before it is too late.

It is very easy to say Nigeria is the best country in the world after slice bread like most of the foreigners do when addressing Nigeria. Sometimes they say it just to massage our ego, because they know that is what we want to hear.

The guy seem to genuinely love Nigeria and actually wants to tell the country the truth and that is why he is giving examples using China and South Korea. But then, Nigeria and Nigeria don't like the truth. He better tell us lies instead

I

Amotolongbo:
Transformation Of Nigeria’s Corruption From Outrage To Comedy - Farooq Kperogi (2020)

That article was spot on. Chai

The standard of an average Nigerian is just too low and this has reflected on the standards of the country as a whole. This is why everything is taken as a joke.
I just pity people who only have Nigerian citizenship because the way things are going, the kind of country that would emerge from this rot 10-20 years from now is going to be an eye sore because decay is growing every year and government.
If you doubt me, look back at Nigeria in 2000, reflect again in 2010 and look at at how today's Nigeria is then imagine how it will be in 10 - 20 years from now

Liar Mohammed is a specialist in quoting bogus figures

How far for that him masquerade job sef? That one should have been generating billions and employed 3 million Nigerians now

The question is what would be the attraction to Nigeria to an average American? Job opportunities? Tourism? education? healthcare?

Instead of all this symbolic announcements that have no real impact on the target, it will be better to focus on developing Nigeria to world class standards that would earn us respect and make the country attractive. Only then will this kind of thing make sense.

CSTR2:
Now China has learnt what America learnt hundreds of years ago.

You need diversity to improve.

If china can apply it well, they may pull skilled immigrants that America is now rejecting and reduce the technology gap between them and the western world.

Bad news for Africa. More brain drain coming.

Except they go democratic and become a free nation like the west, Japan and South Korea, China is not going to be attractive to any serious person. Even rich Chinese are finding their way out of China buying houses and citizenship all over the west. There are more than 3.5m Chinese in America alone, more than 1.5m in Canada plus millions in Europe and Africa but only 900,000 foreigners in China yet dem get mind to talk rubbish. Do they think people are interested in their stupid country?

Matrimonous:
So US no dey reign again?

These are people who went to the US for other things apart from staying permanently. Some went to visit their children, some went for business, some went for seminar etc but got stuck due to covid19. You don't expect them to come back? Or do you think people coming back are people who are permanent residents and citizens? In case you don't know there are more than 250,000 Nigerians living permanently in the US, you can google it

Can buhari in all honesty be able to say what he signed and the impact it will have?

Bubu my man, i hail oooo

It is possible that the pothole must have been there in the last 10 years. Stupid leaders, stupid followers

Uae01Dirham:
Wahala!

This is why is good to be self employed. No matter how much salary you earn, job wen no be your own no go ever be your own!

They must sack/retire you someday and the worst part be say e fit happen when you no get savings

Please if you are earning above 200k naira, Biko start small business for back up oh. Make you no come here d paste aza for us. We no fit fall for “local” scope

It affects everybody. Both employed and self employed are connected. If the economy is down and a lot of people are jobless, who will patronize the self employed? If they get 10 customers on good days, they would now start getting 5 which will affect their profitability.
These pilots that are out of job will immediately reduce their spending. That means no more holiday, no buying new car etc The hotels have one less customer, the car dealer that would have sold a car next week will not sell. Some people's businesses have collapsed these period because of low patronage. You see the connection?

It seems oga buhari and his thieves have given up locally, they are now going international.

Unfortunately, this article did not change the reality in Nigeria

WoundedLamb:


Can we pedal down a little on this tribalism stuff? It doesn't tell well of anyone's background. Nobody gains from tribalism. A non Igbo man said something about another non Igbo man and a third non Igbo man countered it. But here you are baring your fangs at the Igbo man. Please bro, let's channel our energy on these guys leading the country. Let's collectively bare our fangs at them instead until they take us seriously. We can blame our leaders all we want but until we come together as a people and say it's enough, nothing will change.

#SayNoToTribalism

You are wasting your time.
Simplyleo hatred of the Igbos is second to none. He does not hide it one bit. If God gives him one wish to make, i am sure that his only wish will be to terminate the life of every igbo person worldwide. The guy na champion when it comes to concentrated hatred for Igbos. I have never seen anyone harbour such a thick hatred for another like that.

cochtrane:

Can I get some of your CAD? I’ve got naira

My oga. I have already made the transaction

listowell:

Use transferwise then.

Thanks. I'll check it out

Hello Everyone,

Please i want to ask which platform you use to convert your CAD and send naira to your naija account. I use MoneyTangle but they have a monthly cap and i have reached the limit. I still need to send more naira to Nigeria. Any suggestion please. Thanks

It is acting ooo.
For those who wan try am
Na embarrassment you go chop

Buhari should swear that he would accept if he was the one. Talk is cheap