₦airaland Forum

ruggedtimi:
Lga funds na block oh....I know of a Rivers State civil servant working at the department in charge of LGA funds in the ministry of finance. Mehn that lady is on steady balling, Local chairmen dey visit her house pass the governor. All are siblings are under LGA payroll. E get some government offices wey minister and commissioner office no near for lotting.

U see, meanwhile all those crazy obidients na Tinubu dey go dey follow like follow follow.

OmotolaDeniro:
Ilorin-Ogbomosho is the mist cheapest place to live in Nigeria at the moment as regard housing, food transportation prices but the afformentioned locations may not be among the most beautiful

I like Akwa Ibom,

Dangote appoints 1000 special advisers. Let us see how long Dangote Refinary would last. Why are we surprised Nigeria is not working.

Looking for cheapest place live in Nigeria. Relocating to Nigeria with $1 million Naira. I hope I am not making a mistake

Mvnster:
Decentralize power/responsibilities. Let the local govt be in charge of collecting taxes. The fg/sg should hands off running schools/universities, hospitals, maintaining roads, security as much as possible. Anyone who is not okay with services can easily go to the local govt office to face the local govt chair instead of shouting tinubu from ariaria or idumota market.

I agree with you. FG should hands off FG Unity Schools, FG University all these should be under LG control.

musiliyukayode:
I am expecting the magic.The common wealth that belong to one million people is been held by an individual in this political dispensation. The current Government is a joke. What is it going to achieve in Four years that it's suppose to be there for Eight years. PROPAGANDA.

Which Government are talking off. Because as far as I am concerned there are 36 Governments in Nigeria and another 776 mini Governments. So which government is responsible for any pain in your life.

psucc:
Why not first discuss how Tinubu can solve the problem as a sitting President? Why is Obi the main character in every national discuss of late. Any President that knows his onions can drastically reduced corruption at the State levels but he that goes to equity MUST do so with clean hands.

State Governors are independently elected. There is no instrument for a sitting president to control the Governor. The problem with people like you is your obsession with the centre while closing your eyes to what your Governor does with his funds.

At least OBJ during his time would bribe d state legislators to impeach the Governor. That was how Fayose was impeached.

BlackfireX:
If you have 100 people advising you...



No be madness be that

U can see why Governance is failing in Nigeria and some Obidient rascals would blame Tinubu for it. Would Dangote’s appoint 100 advisers to advise him on how to run his business. So when criticising Mr President first look at what your state Governor is doing.

Lagos state has 180 km of beach lands how come they have not find a worthy beach for Landmark beach to locate to. What is happening in the Badagry axis anyway??

What can a President do if the state Governors has sworn to the devil that they would loot both the State and Local Government funds at their disposal.

Can Obi stop it. Just thinking aloud because I remember he Obi during his 8 years of Governor did not conduct a LG election.

How does a president stop a Governor from appointing 1000 special assistants.

In Yoruba language there is a saying “ apa kin se ole” which literally means a big spender is not a theif. Instead of buying a $10.00 shoe you choose to buy a $1000.00 shoe with state funds. Is that theft?

Let us discuss

Welcome to a Nigerian Governor’s second term. I remember Wike employing 500 special assistants a few months to the end of his tenure.

Nigerian Governors are very ingenious in the act of looting how I wish such dexterity would be deployed into development.

ebufa:
Too many Nigerian military personnel are just wack and corrupt.........If Tinubu is serious let him bring in mercenaries before these Fulani demons over run his government!

We can’t continue doing the same thing and get the same horrible results. The current template has been used for 8 years of Buhari regime with abysmal failure. The current regime is continuing in the same failed trajectory obviously without being a soothsayer the results are already speaking for itself.

We should start thinking outside the box with every option open for discuss and implementation.

If foreign contractors can help build our roads, railways and seaports. Is it not high time we give macenary a nod to help us fight against banditry & Boko haram.

Looks like our military are compromised as they seem to be struggling to get rid of this rag tag insurgent.

brain54:
Chibuike...

Chibuike was my friend. He was still in school while I was done with my nysc.

He was a final year medical student... A very brilliant guy with first class potential.

Now this Chibuike used to confide in me a lot... He confided in me how he struggled through school with finance etc. Even though his dad was wealthy could afford to pay for it but abandoned him and his mom in terms of taking care of their responsibilities.

He struggled to complete his academics and used to tell me about his dreams of finally becoming a medical doctor very soon... How he couldn't wait to take care of his mom... Who always struggled to support him when he was in need etc... He was so very close to achieving his dreams.

And then one holiday period he traveled to his village and never came back... He had a fatal accident and lost his life on his way back to Jos. It was so sudden... I never believed his death till I saw the burial poster.

His death was so painful to me... This was a young guy with lots of potential. About to get the reward of all he worked so hard for with all his heart. Even when I lost my dad I doubt it affected me the way his death did.

I hate it when young people die.

Sometimes now I wonder where all his dreams went... Life na vanity. But it doesn't mean we shouldn't chase our dreams. Because it's what gives us purpose in life.

Continue to rest Chibuike my friend... I can never forget your smile!

Sorry for lost. The mother would have been devastated.

Konquest:
A descendant of formerly enslaved returnee Yorubas from Cuba and Brazil is the way I like to put it. Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez was popular in Cuba and well known to Fidel Castro. I read a publication back in the early 1990s indicating that his forebears came back from Cuba. Of course the wealthy and influential Yoruba returnee families from Cuba and the Yoruba returnee families from Brazil also intermarried hence Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez would have Yoruba-Brazilian returnee ancestry as well.
These Yoruba-Brazilian and Yoruba-Cuban folks otherwise called African merchant princes were quite wealthy and they ran thriving International businessese shipping food commodities and other items from Lagos Island to Bahia and vice versa before 1900 because some Yoruba families and other Africans continued to live in Bahia, Brazil even after the abolition of plantation slavery. Some like the Ijesa-born Candido DaRocha family maintained two families on both sides of the Atlantic in Lagos Island, Nigeria and Bahia, Brazil. The wealthy Alakija patriarch who was the first Nigerian Queen's Counsel (QC) and founder of Daily Times newspaper was a returnee with his Egba family from Bahia, Brazil and was formerly known as Placido Assumpcao before he dropped his Brazilian name (after returning to Nigeria from his law studies in England in the 1910s), and adopted his full Yoruba name, Sir Adeyemo Alakija.

Just to add, the Yoruba-Cuban returnees (from Havana and Matanzas) in the late 1800s and part of the early 1900s settled around the Campos Square area of Lagos Island, while those from Brazil settled in the Brazilian quarters. Slave ship records show that about 250,000 folks of various Yoruba subgroups were brought to Cuba in the 1800s. About the same number of 250,000 were also taken to Brazil.

The Oyos were the largest of them all and they were known to lead several revolts against injustice by the White Spanish in Cuba because of the warrior backgrounds of many Oyos brought as prisoners of war to Cuba. The Ijesas from today's Osun State, and the Egbas originally from Ibadan and later Abeokuta also had significant populations among the Yoruba folks who were deported on slave schooners from majorly Nigeria and Benin Republic slave port areas (of Lagos Island, Badagry, Whydah) to Brazil, Cuba, Guyana, Trinidad, the United States, etc.

I don’t think moneys made in late 1800’s is what made Fernandez make his way in life, he probably held on to both the Portuguese & Spanish language and with his Portuguese sounding name managed to allign himself with an Angola coming out of war, using his Street smart Nigerian sense got involved in building the institutions in this new oil heaven. His antecedents in Angola make him able to work his way into Mozambique. Hence why he came out with that his famous saying of “ 2 rams cannot drink from the same bucket” Nigeria been a basket case where millions where grappling with crumbs falling off the table of the then military hegemony .

Nigerian is the only country where Agricultural supply is not Oligarchyly controlled. Even the west that espoused capitalism, the supply chains are carefully controlled making price differentials in major super markets little or no difference.

I have seen the same oligarchycal manifestation in Southern Africa too.

We need to grasp and hold Agricultural supply chains with some efficiency that has not be envisioned.

Both Onitsha and Asaba should have a boardwalk by the side of river. If you see the beautiful walk built in Durban over looking the sea using an African country as example. Even Lagos should have such too.

Our leaders should think out of the box.

comodo:
. You missed the part that says free education for the children.

Of course I forgot anyways it is assumed. U can’t give someone free transport and not give their children free education.

Raf4:
You need to pay an urgent attention to your mental health.

Abstract thinking, you are parochial in your thinking.

Gerrard59:
Tope Awotona of Calendly. His wealth has nothing to do with Nigeria. There are equally rich Nigerians, especially second generation, in the US who generated their earnings without a Nigerian connection.

Second generation Nigerians are not Nigerian. You have to be born here schooled here to some level which makes you full grounded Nigerian and for unseen reasons turn your back on Nigeria.

Tap0lane:
The Igbos are here to soil this beautiful thread. Only a foolish human being will declare a tribe capitalist, there is no tribe in Nigeria who is not capitalist in nature even more than you Igbos.

No tribe in Nigeria is a welfarist or socialist state, no tribe in Nigeria ever in their history practice such so stop beating your foolish chest over what you never had monopoly of n will never have monopoly of.

The Igbo’s and their dastardly way of doing business are the one killing Nigeria. I bought a water pump to pump water from my well to my tanker many years ago for the equivalent of £200.00 in 2003.

Do you know I use that pump only once and it blew up . I took it back to d guy he refused to take it back. There is no way I would buy anything electronic in d UK for that price that I would not get a replacement or my money back.

That is why I am fully in support of death penalty for drug pushers as some people see it as a legitimate business.

What I don’t understand, if I draw water from my well boil the water and drink what is the cost of that water that I have just consumed.

Same thing is applicable to crude. The crude is our soil, all we need to is convert that crude to pms at d bearest cost. I believe we can beat 640.00 per litre with some ingenuity. Necessity is the mother of invention. All those crude cooked can be made cleaner by putting something like alum not necessary alum to clean it out.

ibechris:
Then u don't know why Zimbabwe got bad economically.

Not because of salary but sanctions upon sanctions

I can bet move the minimum rate to just even 100,000 and start seeing hyperinflation.

Konquest:
The last two aspects of your suggestions were practiced in the former Soviet Union (USSR).

That socialist strategy proved to be unsustainable over the long-term hence the Russians after the peaceful break up of the former USSR into independent countries opened up to the free market economic system.

The BEST bet is to introduce more CNG refill stations such as those already in existence by NIPCO, and more CNG buses and vehicles fully to transport finished goods, farm produce, and people. This would rapidly drop the cost of transportation and goods and services would be cheaper. But this must be monitored because there are greedy people who would still want to game the economic system to maximize profits. So, whistleblower phone numbers can be provided for folks to report food items hoarders, and illegal check points were money is extorted by rogue policemen and soldiers, and state agents that collect illegal levies from food trucks moving from one state to another. There would be an instant drop of food prices in partnership with the market unions.

The second solution would be to invest heavily in drones for security purposes to prevent kidnappings by foreign Fulani nomadic invaders fleeing the drought and violence in the Sahelian region countries of West Africa and armed robberies that have made driving on some highways and going to the farms for commercial and subsistence farmers nearly all over Nigeria a nightmare.

The death penalty has to be implemented ASAP via electric chairs, lethal injections, or hanging. This is meant to serve as a deterance.

It is all about tweeting system just like what China did.

36STATES:
You are a mental case.
These issues are beyond your demented brain, you should stay way from them.

Suggests something better idiotasssss!

Taigaban:
Nonsense idea that can never work in Nigeria.

Think outside d box.

CheapHomes1:
are these for all the workers in Nigeria, both private and public?

It is for public workers. The public minimum rate drives the private minimum rate. And in most cases the private minimum is always higher than the public one except domestic staffs who stay in ova’s house. Private individuals would also be allowed to shop in the cooperatives so long they pay annual fee of N10,000.00 per year.

Righthussle:
Shut up abeg

Economics for you 0 / 10 olodo!

ivandragon:
If the president can unilaterally make pronouncements that impoverish the people, then a sincere leader can do same in the opposite direction.

Though I agree that it is a vicious circle because the society breeds the politicians and the politicians run the society, so its basically garbage in, garbage out. Our sociopolitical culture and values are at its lowest ebb in decades.

But some people have to break that mold or else the country is doomed.

I agree with you reverse the policy.

Gerrard59:
But he had the money to modify the structure, why did he not do it?

I think when you get embroiled in investing in western economies where the returns are in hard currency, you will think to yourself, why invest in a sinking economy like Nigeria where the Naira losing value every day is actually pauperising the population. There is no point.

Blackman101:
terry waya

Terry waya is home based.

Bottom line you remove subsidies everything scatter then put subsidies back and everything else go back as b4. All ready they are taking in more in revenue from taxes. Just go back to default b4 May 2023.