₦airaland Forum

CodeTemplarr:
Lol. We could no longer afford to subsidize laziness with oyel money. IMF didnt cause that, our wasteful system did the magic. Currency and Petrol subsidy had to go. IMF and WB have no hands in that.

Had? They are still here .... still not gone! The criminals you have in government are still stealing those resources from the people while dribbling the Nigerian people with propaganda and lies.

GOFRONT:
I really Miss Adams Oshiomhole as the NLC president then.

The same Adams Oshiomole now f--king his own people in the back as a politician? What kain of people are you abeg!

adenigga:
■ In a statement yesterday, the President of NLC, Joel Ajaero, urged the World Bank and IMF to remove their knees from our necks so that we can breathe as a nation.
The statement reads: “Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) believes that it is cynical and indeed typical of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) to recently deny responsibility for the Nigerian government’s removal of petroleum subsidy.
“IMF and its cousin in economic mischief – the World Bank remains the twin forces that have longstanding pattern of recommending harsh and unworkable Economic policies to developing nations. In their usual subterfuge, they have continued to present these advisories as growth strategies but which have unfortunately often led to increased socioeconomic hardship and stagnation in Nigeria and other nations that have had the misfortune of drinking their poisoned chalice.

Ajero, please shut the f--k up already!

IMF do wetin? Na IMF go give three gbosas to Naira 70,000 minimum wage agreement wey no fit even feed a single Nigerian for a whole week abi na World Bank do that one? Na IMF promise you that measly minimum wage with the promise not to increase fuel over Naira 1000 only to almost immediately renege on that very promise? Nonsense!

Abbeytoy:
■ If we're to go by your submission, I will have to conclude that every Nigerian politician is the same and guilty of your allegation, and I hope you attack every other one, too, without being biased and covering one a saviour garment. Again I am very tired of them all as you. However, I would rather address the message and not attack the message when it raises a valid point and I will give them a hot

Again, I am not you! I don't take messages/advice from proven criminals and kakistocrats in Nigeria!

officialwdhtvv:
Lady levitates during baptism after been delivered from witchcraft

Nonsense story! What deliverance?

guysis:
■ It's wisdom to go for the one that is ready. However, you guys need to sit down and ask relevant and salient questions about the future. The kind of family you want, discuss your likes, dislikes, in laws, children, spiritual life, health life, etc. you get the drift?
Remember it's a life time commitment. Not a time to allow emotions to toss you both up and down. Congratulations.

That isn't wisdom but simply preference to go with that which is most known. The boy is himself not ready hence the reason why he still has many choices. That is foolishness waving at him but he does not or maybe cannot see it because he is not himself ready for the sort of commitment that marriage requires.

Ask him this. If it had been one of the gals he was seeing trying to make up her mind on whether to go with him or with another guy, would he choose that gal?

dboY1123:
Although, I actually like the first girl cz she's pretty and smart. I am thinking of planning myself right now, they both believe in starting up with a guy and they both would add value but the second girl is ready, and also has something doing already while the first is yet to settle herself.
Please advice me, who do you think I should go for?

You are not mature enough for a relationship — not the Nigerian nonsense you all call dating and marriage— and you will certainly not be happy with any of these women if you continue this way.

dominique:
Screams from neighbours every night? Did she live in the heart of a war zone? She should tell where she exactly lived in Nigeria, bloody lying nuisance

Those who live today in IDF camps, along with the many who leave home every night for fear they may be dragged off next by terrorists do not live in war zones though. By the way, all of them are Nigerians living in Nigeria as well. And they number in their millions. Many of them were middle-class too before Nigeria happened to them. Now they live like refugees in their own country.

santopelele:
If she had stayed back to fix Nigeria as fani the as*s licker said, she wouldn't have achieve the height she achieved today, because your shithole country would have killed her with corruption and poverty by now

Did Fani-Kayode stay to fix Nigeria himself?

Abbeytoy:
■ So you prefer to leave the message and address the messager?

What message? What message does an unrepentant criminal responsible for the suffering and smiling of millions to offer to you? Are you not sick and tired of these pompous morons who steal from you only to turn around and tell you(and your children) that your suffering makes your shit holy and pure which is all that matters? Una no dey learn?

Wrackcityoffici:
Over 220 million Nigerians stayed back to make the country better but the government have made life miserable for people in the country…now you want someone who is opportuned to relocate to a country that recognizes human rights to come back so y’all can make her life miserable…like you guys care about fixing shit, imagine electing the most corrupt and non challant govt official as your president as still boame people for migrating

Did he make the country better, you should ask. The old he-goat is one of those who helped reduce the country to an unlivable place for 10s of millions of Nigerians yet he has the nerve to speak.

jonnyjustcome22:
The woman was saying the truth and nothing but the truth. Femi Fani doesn't know this because he was born with silver spoon and his father was among the first republic politicians that stole Nigerian money. He also stole Nigerian money too when he was a minister during Obasanjo regime. He doesn't know the real situation in Nigeria.

Nigerians need to decide that these thieves and criminals who are responsible for the country will finally have the dogs removed from the public space!

Topman7:
✓ YOU ARE A LIAR AND A DISGRACE OF A PERSON WHO LOST HER MORALS DECADES AGO.
JUSTIFYING KEMI BADENOCH THE MIDDLE CLASS AJEBOTA’s LIES ABOUT GROWING UP POOR AND AFRAID OF SCREAMING TERRIFIED NEIGHBOURS NIGHTLY, IS EVIL BEHAVIOUR ON YOUR PART, BECAUSE YOU KNOW SHE IS LYING.
TOMORROW YOU WILL CALL YOURSELF A CHRISTIAN.
CHRISTIAN SUPPORTER OF LIES AND “BEARING FALSE WITNESS”. YOU ARE GOING TO HELL, MADAM FAKE CHRISTIAN.

You are an eejit for concluding in the first plaxe that I am one of your unhinged Christian relatives. Are you high or something?

See how you conveniently labeled her story a middle-class lie as though the Middle-class in Nigeria are somehow spared when it comes to terror and insecurity in Nigeria. Not even your police bullets do that.

Topman7:
✓ THEY ARE CURSED BY THEIR GODS.
THAT’S WHY THEY ARE LIKE THAT.
WHEN YOU ARE CURSED, YOU BEHAVE STUPIDLY WITHOUT KNOWING IT.

So, Nigerians foolishly enduring what she described in Nigeria today and doing nothing about it are blessed whereas the ones who can't wait to finally escape the torture chamber are the ones who are cursed?

Dem don talk am say about over 50 of those in Nigeria are already mentally unhinged.

Okoroawusa:
We are not asking her to come and fix Nigeria because she doesn't even have what it takes. All we are asking her to do is to leave Nigeria alone since she is British now. Is that too difficult for her?

She is a Nigerian and has a right to speak of her experience same as you do. You cannot erase her truth simply because it does not

boxypane:
Has he spoken out of point?

Yes, he did exactly that. There are many Nigerians whose experience of the country is as described by that gal. And guess who are the ones responsible for the torment they had to endure? Thieves and frauds like Fani-kayode.

Islie:
Reacting, Fani-Kayode, in a post via X on Saturday, Literally descended heavily on Badenoch.
“A very s****d little girl and notoriously self-righteous b***h barks. Ever considered staying in the place you “ran away from” and trying to fix it? You are worse than Aunty Jemima, the female version of Uncle Tom.
“By all means try your luck at being elected leader of the British Conservative party but leave my country out of your pretty yet stinking mouth,” the former minister wrote.

I don't really understand why people like this Fani-Kayode are allowed to still open their mouths to speak... Nigerians, una see wetin una don do una selves?

ednut1:
He will sue Nigeria. And our foreign assets including those with JP Morgan will be garnished . Foolish FG claime binance was part of the reason for exchange depreciation. Yet the FX no appreciate

He should rightly sue and make it as public as can be!

toluleke:
I feel binance has been Vindicated they cancelled naira and usdt pair and naira to dollar is still flying like super eagles

Binance suspended Naira trading pair around March 5th, but this is October 26th and the Naira continues to fall. Clearly, this damage to the currency had little to nothing to do with Binance. But what evidence did the Nigerian government provide when it charged Binance in the first place?

Lovethpatra1:
■ It dosent matter how old a constitution is as long as it was forced on people of different cultural backgrounds without any form of agreement or sense of unity it will never bear the fruits they desire….
■ America today is facing similar problems as of Nigeria because of the activities of slavery that forcefully introduced people of extremely different cultural systems to their society and it’s why more recently in the historical calendar we’ve witnessed cultural and racial clashes among citizens whose parents were forced to nationalize as Americans…
■ There is always the consequences of merging two or more disagreeing societies together.
■ Don’t forget America initially utilized slavery in developing their society which later became a part of their society and expanded their culture so we can say in a way they had a useful heterogeneous cultural relationship which benefited the development of the American society, Nigeria never had that luxury of utilizing slavery to advance and develop themselves.So you cannot use America’s hetero-cultural nature of developing their society to compare with Nigeria because the indices of development are different

1. There is no history of the Nigerian people— en masse— revolting against the very current Constitution or any of the previous ones. So, I am not certain what you mean when you claim it was FORCED on the people.

2. America is facing no such problems as that which you claim rather, the various groups have each accepted they are part and parcel of the country which they then fight to be considered of equal standing unlike what you are attempting to do here.

3. There is no homogenous collection of people to be found in any nation anywhere on this planet. Humans are different and part of existence is learning to embrace and work with those differences not amplify them and use them to use ourselves. Regardless of how different we are in America, we all sit together, work together, and build together... why can't Nigeria and Nigerians in Nigeria do the same, or at least begin to work towards that instead of seeking ways to tear themselves apart some more?

4. That makes no sense at all. So, Nigeria which doesn't have a slave population cannot consider its people useful enough and beneficial for its own advancement? What the crock?

Lovethpatra1:
■ 13 colonies came together to form The Usa and were predominantly European settlers of which 70-80% where british….Meaning the early American Society was almost mono-cultural in nature and this created the right foundation for the Country to grow.
■ There was almost no need for “a sense of unity” here because the people had similar cultural systems and values….A sense of Unity in my standpoint is the process or act where Different ethnic groups agree and consent on their own terms without any external influence to exist under one government which they deliberately formed and support….The kind of Cultural system that produced America as a country differs from the type that birthed Nigeria…One was Mono-cultural and the other was hetero-cultural in nature….Well due to the activities of slavery,immigration etc the Cultural nature of the American society expanded but obviously we can see the problems that came with that which in some way is similar to the ethnic issues ravaging Nigeria but theirs is more of racial injustice and other vices that comes with merging different societies together without their consent

1. The Nigeria we have today and the Constitution your agitate against topic is about is only 25 years old — belongs to the fourth republic—so it would make better sense for you to compare it to the America of today than America back in 1500-1600s.

2. Similar cultures— a sense of unity— yet to this moment we speak, divisions exist among Americans along racial, religious, and even gender lines?

Lovethpatra1:
■ How then can the people achieve this without a sense of unity?
■ That is the whole idea of the video I posted today, there is no “Nigerian” anywhere but rather we are just a bunch of societies that were unjustly suppressed together into one state for colonial interest and prosperity….
■ Till today after more than 50 years we are still unable to sit down on a round table and clearly define the meaning and essence of our relationship.
■ Our lack of a unified cultural system among the numerous ethnic groups that exist has furthermore disintegrated us.
■ We are not Nigerians we are just a people of different ethnic inclination existing in a neo-colonial British project callled Nigeria….Until we come together and accept to be Nigerians the true essence of the word “Nigerian” may never be achieved and will continue to be a concept of no tangible interpretation.it will continue to be something we know but don’t understand

1. Define "Sense of Unity". Let's start there so we clearly understand where you are attempting to take this. Where was this sense of unity defined and described in 1960 for example, and what has become of the definition since then?

2. There is no Nigeria yet a Nigerian celebrated its independence in 1960?

3. Even siblings have issues with each other so what exactly is your point here?

4. What in the world is a Unified cultural system and why is the requirement?

5. The United States is by far the most diverse nation on the planet today with almost every culture in the world represented at different levels in the society. Are you somehow telling me that all these people who have come together in this one nation are also just people of different ethnic inclinations? Are you suggesting that the true essence of the word American is lost as a result of that?

Lovethpatra1:
■ The incompetence of that constitution is reflecting in our common underdevelopment as a people of Nigeria…The notion that the Nigerian Citizens allowed the Nigerian military to rule over them for a long time without doing nothing is absolutely incorrect,we have had a lot of Nigerians who stood up against the injustice and incompetence of the military era,some of who were unjustly murdered,imprisoned or exiled.The Biafra War is also a reference of the resolution of the people against the military government

Isn't it a tad convenient to blame all of the failures of the Nigerian people on the document? Yes, it is not a perfect constitution — no Constitution ever started a perfect document— but the failures of the Nigerian people in the last 25 years CANNOT be traced to the document as you claim but rather to the refusal of the people to take the front seat in their own government whatever shape they wish or wished for it to take.

Lovethpatra1:
■ Does it even Make sense that a Constitution drafted under an illegitimate military regime will clearly define to us what citizenship should be? Who was the constitution drafted to serve? The Citizens or military Leaders who only wanted to hold on to power? How many leaders from the more than 500 ethnic groups were represented in the process of
drafting the constitution?
■ How can people who knew nothing about citizenship define to us how to become a citizen without the involvement of all the citizens in the process through proper ethnic representation?

1. Until you are able to come together to obtain that Constitution you prefer, this is the Constitution and Supreme Law that exists.

2. The same citizens of Nigeria allowed the Military to rule over them for many many years without even a word about citizenship then. So?

Lovethpatra1:
in what way exactly is it meaningless sir?

The Constitution is quite clear on this topic.

Lovethpatra1:
In This Video,We take you through a historical Journey as we try to find a meaning in what the concept “Nigeria” really connotes.Brace yourself for the best video you’ll see today on the internet…Watch via the Facebook link below 👇

Why do you folks love to fixate on these meaningless things for Pete's sake?

Buzzrants:
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has emphasized that Nigeria’s struggles are part of a broader global leadership deficit, which he feels is particularly pronounced in Africa. Speaking on News Central Television, he discussed the importance of strategic planning in governance, pointing out that a lack of clear and well-studied policies has contributed to Nigeria’s current issues.

Just imagine if Obasanjo had invested heavily in improving the educational system in Nigeria 20 years ago, would Nigeria be where it is today?

With tuition of Naira 42 Million, I am certain the school is not open to all as the man in the video claimed.

Wisfem:
■ The only sad thing is when a president is working as a body guard or servant to another presidents just because he can steal enough money to fix his own problem and settle his friends, but in the larger picture he is a slave to another presidents or one stupid British prime minister,
■ I have not heard IMF advising Biden, Macron or Even xi jinpin to allow there Citizens to continuing suffering till 11 years.

IMF never said your people should continue suffering. Your suffering is instead a result of the continued looting and pillaging of your collective inheritance and that is anti-IMF/World Bank policies.

We live in the information age. How I so wish that Nigerians, rather than consume news and ideas from the same propaganda resources fed to them by the criminal elements who destroy their lives, would instead seek to investigate the facts for themselves.

To date, IMF and World Bank have instead insisted on a drawing down of fuel subsidies and at the same time the establishment of safety nets to help ensure that the poor in society are adequately provided for to cushion the removal that is taking place. IMF also suggested the devaluation— not floating — of the Naira to allow the markets to determine its value, along with the cutting of bloat from the Government beginning from FG all the way down to LGA levels. Tinubu did none of these for over 14 months. In all that time, Tinubu did the opposite in each case— he organized and maintains to date a bloated and wasteful cabinet and government, floated the Naira until now he denies that is what he did, and he refused to put in decent safety net programs but has instead been sharing money to his boys every change possible. So, how can the IMF and World Bank be to blame for all of this suffering you have been enduring?

2. By the way, the reason IMF & World Bank do not advise the UK, USA & China has to do with the fact that the vast majority of its investors —the humans behind the many loans your country takes, humans who want to be sure they can get their money back no matter what— happen to be from those same countries where these reforms suggested by the IMF/WorldBank have been tried, tested and proven to be of great value to development. Yes, these ideas/reforms are the same reforms implemented and sustained in almost every developed nation around the globe today.

ojinuocheibi:
but every other presidents where smart not to agree except this dullard Chicago, Escobar

So, Obasanjo who in fact implemented and sustained the very IMF/WorldBank reforms for at least 4 years, with several gains which he continues to boast of as proof, was a dullard?

Tinubu, like IBB before him, did not implement IMF suggestions. Instead, Tinubu scammed Nigerians into believing the suffering that resulted from his incompetence and severe looting of the Nigerian coffers, is to be blamed on the IMF and World Bank; this is the same tactic IBB used to keep blind millions of Nigerians all while he comfortably stole 10s of billions of dollars of their future away. How often will you allow this same scam to be reloaded against you and your generation by this band of criminals/kakistocrats?

Callosobruchus:
Wait O!I hate dishonesty!I practically watched on NTA news some few years back on how IMF was advising Buhari's administration to remove fuel subsidy.

Right from the time of IBB, through Obasanjo, up until now, IMF has consistently advised Nigerians to do the following (see attached image). This is documented in several reports to date. The only government that has successfully implemented what IMF/World Bank has advised to date is Obasanjo, and that is also documented.
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2005/cr05433.pdf
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2007/cr07270.pdf
https://www.elibrary.imf.org/downloadpdf/display/book/9781557756305/9781557756305.pdf
https://www.imf.org/-/media/Files/Publications/CR/2019/1NGAEA2019001.ashx

What Tinubu did when he came in was completely drop subsidy in the beginning— not phase it out— without first ensuring the existence of safety nets to ensure the vulnerable in society are catered to. Where in the IMF reports that had been given to Nigeria to this date can this suggestion be found?

NetbizBoss:
These are some newspapers headlines IMF advising Nigeria to remove fuel subsidy

Stop helping spread misinformation. Read the actual content of the report — not just the Title.

The IMF had in its 2019 Article IV Consultation on Nigeria noted that phasing out implicit fuel subsidieswhile strengthening social safety nets to mitigate the impact on the most vulnerable would help reduce the poverty gap and free up additional fiscal space in the country.
When reminded that the removal of subsidy was a sensitive issue to Nigerians, many of who live below the poverty line, Lagarde insisted that the right thing to do was for Nigeria to embark on total fuel subsidy removal.
She said, “I will give you the general principle. For various reasons and as a general principle, we believe that removing fossil fuel subsidies is the right way to go. If you look at our numbers from 2015, it is no less than about $5.2tn that is spent on fuel subsidies and the consequences thereof. And the Fiscal Affairs Department has actually identified how much would have been saved fiscally but also in terms of human lives, if there had been the right price on carbon emission as of 2015. Numbers are quite staggering.

“I would add as a footnote as far as Nigeria is concerned that, with the low revenue mobilisation that exists in the country in terms of tax to GDP, Nigeria is amongst the lowest. A real effort has to be done in order to maintain a good public finance situation for the country. And in order to direct investment towards health, education, and infrastructure.”

The above is an excerpt from the Punch report of April 12th which you posted. Note what the IMF representative in fact said. And below is what is in fact written in the 2019 Article IV Consultation referenced in the same report. Please Google to read up more on the actual suggestion given to Nigeria from the IMF and the reasons for each. Then compare that to what Tinubu and his gang infact did this past 16 months in office.

What Tinubu did was nothing of what the IMF recommended or advised. And what the Tinubu government is now trying to do.... god knows!