₦airaland Forum

yemmit90:
Creating more states in a presidential system of government is a recipe to waste of resources. Have you ever consider the cost of running administration of a state, which amount to billions of naira every months?

State is a complex arrangment with alot of idle institutions under it that gulps alot of resources. State offer no value to its masses than payment of salary and over inflated projects and egos by governors.

Now let talk about Regionalism, It offer people with same ideology, value, culture and tradition and history to determine what work best for them. Regional government tend to have more focus because it is base on identity and struggle to be better than other nations. Patriotism level is usually high under Regionalism than state. More qualify people are usually consider to lead than in a state system.

Base on the above, it is much more better to eradicate states for Regionalism OR just Federal government and 774 local governments.

You would now have a regional emperor instead of state emperor. How many housing estates did Awolowo built in Iwo, Ondo, oyo, Ijebu-ode, ede,Ilesha. Yet he took ondo’s cocoa money to build a skyscraper called cocoa house in Ibadan. States can work together to build inter state roads. Oyo and Oshun state are doing it at the moment. The road from Ibadan to Iwo is handled up to d Oyo state border by oyo state whilst Oshun state has taken it over from the border of oyo state to osogbo.

jmoore:
It is now about being too much? You want the government closer, 774 states
will make very close to the people.

We don’t need 774 even USA that is 10 times our size had 50 states.

Fortruth:
You have obviously been brainwashed by military rule for decades. State creation has taken Nigeria backwards so much that even the criminals in Abuja have no choice but to try to return Nigeria to regions to savage Nigeria.

What you need are strong regions and within those regions you can have states or provinces or counties or the likes. Akwa Ibom has not developed more than any other former Eastern Region state and is suffering the same backwardness you find everywhere. Each state has some small sprinkles of developments or structures, but none world class, none to justify the amount of resources they produce, and generally bad leadership.

Return to regions is the way to go.

We cannot go back to regionalism because as we had in the 60’s the region gets d money in which case western region. When we had western region only Ibadan was developed but today, oshogbo, Akure, Abeokuta, Ado Rkiti and not limited to state capitals, cities like Ondo, owo, life, Kanu ode, Ogbomosho, oyo and iseyin are well developed.

JagabanB:
More states are good too.
Some villages are remotely so far from governance that it seems like no form of governance exists in such places apart from what they call chiefs and so on.
More states are needed even in regional governments.
States like Kaduna should be divided, same as Niger, Benue, Oyo and so many other states, you can't build a city with states whose sizes are 30,000 km² or more.
Even 15,000km² is too much.
Creation of more states to some extent will give people a sense of belonging in their society as government will be closer to them.

Yes I agree with you.

Zooposki:
Let the existing local governments become the new state governments and let them control their resources.

They cannot. 774 that is too much. Having 50 states would make sense.

So long government is closer to the people insurgency would be able to managed if not eradicated completely.

Kenya a small country has about 44 counties equal to our states. Nigeria a big country needs power to be devolved further.

Southern Kaduna needs a state, the Gboko axis of Benue state and maybe plateau can be broken into 2.

Since the LG system has collapsed it would make sense to create more stated knowing that the Governors are emperors who push development in their respective states if they so wish.

One can see that last exercise was a success. Akwa Ibom state came out of CRS. But today Akwa Ibom is more developed than her parent state which is CRS.

Same thing Gombe state and Bauchi, Gombe is one of the best run states in Nigeria. And it is highly developed when compared to Bauchi.

See the level of development in Delta state today, if it were still part of bendel state the development would be a far cry.

The SE needs one more state. Create a state around Lake Chad foreshore to take care of that area.

Oke ogun state from oyo state is long over due.

Create a state from Niger State, it being the largest state in Nigeria and it seems to have a lot of ungoverned spaces.

Instead of going to one silly regionalism creat more states to spread development.


What do you think.

Personally I think each of LG in a worn area should have a 1000 soldiers and probably a 1000 police. How you dislodge such numbers would be a Herculean task.

psucc:
Your suggestions are as good as none. Who imports what? The leaders are the ones importing even their toothpaste, and groundnut. The poor buys everything thrown at him. It may interest you to know that there are 2 types of paracetamol in Nigeria, one for the rich and the other for Nigerian market.

On the Civil service, you got it all wrong. Reason?
A local government Councilor can conveniently pay a Director in the Civil service and still have something left. I mean a Councilor!

In this day of AI and computation we don’t need a bloated civil service. We are know mor in 1975. With a smaller civil service we should be able to give them a living wage.

The rich should go back to thst 1977 Obj policy where you only buy Nigerian vehicles. No more foreign vechiles.

Holland - 1 trillion dollars a very small country probably the size of Oyo state.

Belgium - 500 billion dollars a small country the size of Kogi. If it were in Africa it would be the largest economy in Africa.

Ireland $500 billion if it were a country it would be the largest economy in Africa. A country the Size of Benue state.

We know try at all for Africa. This things need to be done ASAP

Buy Nigeria, stop buying Japanese cars and German cars

Stop importing foods plant what we eat

Cut down the size of civil servants so that we can give them a living wage. Do you know if you work as a teacher in SA or Namibia you would get a wage 4 or 5 time our minimum wage.

Stop all imports and look inwards.

China practically consumes what it produces we can do it too.

May God bless Nigeria.

Of all the promises that Tinubu made I remember him saying people should be paid a handsome wage hourly instead of a daily pay that is prevalent amongst the tradesmen like your brick layers, carpenters etc

Because some jobs might just take 3 hours to do and as long as there is a good hourly rate people would be able to make a living doing those jobs.

Now the FG is finding it difficult to pay 100,000 Naira a month despite a depreciation of the Naira by 3 times.

I think so far the NW part of Nigeria and NE part ravaged by Boko haram and bandits has drawn Nigerian downwards. This 2 regions cannot even send their kids to schools to start with.

What are you expecting after allowing young men to be uneducated for 20 years . The results are the dire economy in these areas.

Even Kano city the so called wealthiest city in northern Nigeria cannot sustain a shopping mall making shop right to close shop.

Meanwhile Ibadan City has about 5 malls all still operational.

As long as those 2 regions don’t train their youths we shall remain the poverty capital of Africa.

Na wah oh!

ManirBK:
Why can't the deposed emir pack out honorably
like Sanusi yrs back

He should have been banished just like sanusi.

WizardOfNG:
Excellent observations and comments. More autonomy, power and funding for the 774 local governments of Nigeria is the only way most Nigerians will ever see development.

For example, we all complain against Tinubu about bad roads in our locality yet what we fail to grasp is that good roads will remain a wish forever if local government leaders are not genuinely empowered, and then held to account, to make a different at local Government level.

FG will never usually get involved with road construction at State level let alone local Government level. Ditto many other essentials like healthcare etal. The 774 local government area, because it is where we all reside in, must be empowered by all means possible to be a far greater contributor to overcoming the problems of Nigerians where they live and work.

Tinubu's and the FG's current court case against States 'imprisonment' of local governments corresponds with the conclusion and thinking of OP.

This is why I rate Tinubu as an effective visionary who has no time for providing fish when he knows enduring solutions, that fosters the greatest progress and development, comes from teaching the populace to fish. Reform of the role and leadership of local governments of Nigeria is crucial.

Do you know the municipality are in charge of running water in South Africa. But in Nigeria some idiotic Obidient wants Tinubu to give them water.

CilicMarin:
Brainless obidiotss will start donating to him now..E don use lie press their mumu button.

A whole Ghanian Refugee is bragging with non existent 3rd or 4th Passport...Hunger don waya am tire for outside shelter..

A bunch of myrmidons( Apologies to Wole Soyinka).

So obidients are real mumu.

Paraman:
You wan't to keep on giving Nigerians fake news like Tinubu didn't graduate from CSU

Imagine him coming out with all that cock bill stories. He is with his 3rd GF. If his women cannot stand his bullshiiiiit why would Nigerians. He should go and work like Abati, Rufai and others that are doing a honest job.

But come to think of it oh. Is IBB trying to be smart by half. Telling a lie against a dead man knowing that a dead man cannot bite.

David should go & find a proper job & stop spilling out all his unfounded contraptions in the name of investigative journalism. He is a conspiracy theorist.

tishbite42:
It was obvious the whole North, military and political, were against MKO Abiola their so-called friend
Chai

It is the fear of Nigeria’s really true dictator, tell me one Emir who would go against Abacha.

The fear of Abacha is the binginning of wisdom. Once Abacha says I don’t want it, I don’t think any sane man would go ahead with such prospect.

MEEVEET:
Firstly lack of land or food is not part of the problem I listed

And thinking food prices is what drives inflation shows the level of knowledge u have

Government should have no business in running business

Most of you Nigerians are just socialist

Mr man take eye out commot for centre and face your Governor squarely.

Tinubu‘d foot soldiers come 2027. I bet he would win in the Supreme Court.

Mvnster:
If the governors decide to enforce compulsory education to tertiary level in their states do you think the problems you listed above would still exist? Charity begins at home, the foundation on which the country is operating is faulty, you cant start building a house from the roof. The local govt and state govt are the problems in reality.

Thank you sir, let them be obsession over what is happening in the centre. Silly Atiku cannot stop his Governor appointing 200 special advisers but would raise hell when Tinubu makes any decision.

MEEVEET:
Which school did you go to?

Point out what is wrong in my argument? Does FG have land.

DMerciful:
Did anybody voted for Gowon? Show me a single person that voted for Gowon

Senegal's president is just starting, lets see how he'll perform. Besides, I don't know his history

The Senegal guy was like Sowere in Nigeria anti- establishment, anti-Neo colonialism, anti France.

DMerciful:
Sowore has not held an elective position before so it will not be wise to start with president! There's no precedence to judge him with

What precedent does the President of Senegal have. Or even our Yakubu Gowon in 1967.

DMerciful:
Have you asked yourself why the political elites are unanimous in their attack against Obi?

They know whats coming!

If you are looking for a saint then look towards Sowere. Not tainted Obi. At least Sowere has never held any position and we cannot judge him.

FatherCHRISTMAS:
I can host you and show you around when you are back

Leave that side. U don see Mugu!

DMerciful:
Why do you think the generality of the elite class ganged up against Obi?

They know whats coming when he succeeds

Stop making Obi look like a messiah, a man that could not carry out a simple task as conducting a LG elections. Not to talk of his aides caught with 250 million in Lagos on their way to some beaureu de change.

DMerciful:
When Obi becomes president 2027, these excuses wont arise. You'll see how corrupt politicians will be dealt with

With military fiat. Abegeee