₦airaland Forum

Seunpapa65:
■Hello bro have you listened to speed Darlington new music release baby oil 😂😂

I no know speed Darlington from Adam, nor do I listen to anything he has to say. I am simply on the side of justice in all of this.

MadPolitician:
■ I don't understand you. You're all over the place. You are not condeming him and you're not absolving him of any crime. The idea that Obasanjos administration was clean is a huge joke. Obasanjos administration was transparent? With him dubiously doubling as the Minister of Petroleum, a trend that has been followed by the most corrupt presidents ever since? Wait till a vindictive president open his book. All those privatisations and sell offs, haven't really worked out. Or have they?

Again, this is not to absolve Obasanjo of his corrupt dealings. And yes, he was more transparent than any of the presidents before him and those after him.

43Ronin:
Because they were d people that put him there and convinced INEC to declare him d winner despite a very fraudulent election. Half of Nigerians thought the election would be rerun. See below

Mr. Headline-Broadcaster .... Go back and read the content of the News itself for detail.

His words: “Subsidies are about resource allocation internally within Nigeria. So Nigerians, the people of Nigeria pay for these subsidies.
“And what’s the reason why we counsel against such generalised subsidies is very simple. It tends to be highly regressive, meaning the benefits of such you know, fuel subsidies tend to accrue to the rich and segments to reach out to people and the poor people.
“So it’s people that are driving these large cars, with big houses are wanting to see subsidised fuel. They’re the ones benefiting relative to the poor and vulnerable in Nigeria.
“So you know, not only people paying for the subsidies Nigeria, it’s the poorest segments of society that actually are losing out and resources could instead, of course, be used to improve conditions for poorer people instead of accruing to rich people.
“That’s why subsidy reform is important. We applaud the government for the steps government took to reduce the extent of subsidies. I think as oil prices have become volatile, the level of subsidy has also moved up and down. “But I think you know, the direction of travel, I think, to remove the subsidies and use the resources to provide social protection for the most vulnerable households.”
Mr. Selassie revealed that the IMF has provided the sum of $58 billion to African countries since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and pledged it would do more.
The IMF chief cautioned African countries against commercial loans for the purposes of refinancing because of the current rate hike in most economies.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/04/imf-why-we-asked-nigeria-to-remove-fuel-subsidy/

The IMF rep there clearly explained that what is needed is a reforming of subsidy programs in such a way that it no longer funds the rich but benefits the poor who they are instead meant for.

biggie73:
IMF= economic hardship

IBB is the first one who created that lie for Nigerians; now we have Tinubu continuing the same scam on Nigerians.

MadPolitician:
■ Obasanjo reforms? He only sold off lucrative national assets to indigenous CIA proxies in Nigeria, all in the name of commercialisations and privatisations. Thats how elections and politics in Nigeria, became totally an elite issue, since these new economic behemoths became political trend setters using their massive wealth.. The corrupt elite that is, with their fat bank accounts in western capitals dripping with cash that should have gone to the government coffers.
That was the gains of obasanjos IMF induced reforms. He never did anything close to what Mr bulaabaa is trying to do though. Tinubu is being manipulated and blackmailed into turning the whole Nigeria into a giant IMF economic laboratory, with struggling Nigerians as his favourite guinea-pigs. It will end in either of these two results; people randomly dropping dead on the streets, or a mass revolt triggered by the biting economic realities.

🤣🤣🤣 Please start using your head abeg! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

That Obasanjo implemented the reforms DOES NOT imply that Obasanjo was some form of saint himself or did not have a hand in creating the situation is in today with godfatherism and criminals running all over the place. Neither does it, in any way, absolve Obasanjo of any crimes he and his cabinet may have committed during his time in office. Rather, saying he successfully implemented the IMF/World Bank reforms simply means that Obasanjo followed the requirement suggested by the IMF/World Bank and Nigeria reaped many of the benefits of it.

The gains of the implementation of the IMF/World Bank reforms during the last 4 years of Obansanjo CANNOT be erased or occluded primarily because that administration also happened to have been the most transparent Nigeria had ever had.

MadPolitician:
■ You wrote as if there was a consensus to go ahead with any kind of reforms supported by the IMF or the world bank. That decision to go ahead with such plans, is an elite decision, and has proven to be counter productive. I prefer a "planned economy" to all the free market madness that these organisations are forcing down the throats of fledging republics around the developing world. Every Asian tiger,was/is a planned economy dressed in beuriful free market togas.
■ I don't know of Tinubu, but IBB consulted widely and only implemented his IMF induced reforms intelligently. Idika Kalu and Chu Okongwu were incharge. Those were gurus. There were changes as it regards the net effects, but nothing compared to the chaotic meltdown going on in Nigeria today. ....

1. Obasanjo implemented IMF/World Bank reforms between 2003-2007. He boasts of how much he was able to accomplish as a result, and the implementation plan his administration, as well as the progress reports created and made available to the public at the time detailed all of that.
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2005/cr05433.pdf
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2007/cr07270.pdf

2. IBB did nothing of what you claim since the one report available that details what IBB did, a report created and published in 1997, reveals this. Think about it for a second! IBB could not have been able to loot Nigeria blind as he did if he had been busy implementing IMF reforms which required transparency in the implementation of several projects. To this day, Nigerians still have difficulty assessing what happened during the IBB years. This is because that regime, like the one after it, was as very much as opaque as it was corrupt.
https://www.elibrary.imf.org/downloadpdf/display/book/9781557756305/9781557756305.pdf

SatoshiX:
Subsidy is sha gone finally?? Next please.

Who told you that? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

MadPolitician:
■ Read in between the lines. They have been asking for it, right back to babangida days.

Make una dey use una head. What IBB and then Tinubu did had absolutely NOTHING to do with what the IMF and even the World Bank instead suggested in their suggested reforms to Nigeria. Go back and see what Obasanjo— documented in the NEEDS project implementation plan published in 2004 —did to get an idea of what it was that the IMF and World Bank in fact suggested.


IBB, and then Tinubu, without implementing any safety nets of any kind, proceeded to completely remove subsidies— as opposed to a gradual phasing out of subsidies as necessary safety nets took effect—, damaging the economy as a result.

GOFRONT:
And All the 3 vehicles on that convoy should be Powered by CNG!!!

now we are talking!

gabbytabby:
As amended by subsequent amendments quo. The EFCC legislation is an amendment. That is how the law works.
Their try your luck if not for say they will pass it on they should be fined or their lawyers should be fined.

Nigerian lawyers are part and parcel of the commotion that is the legal-wuru-wuru system in that country abeg!

triplechoice:
■ Just saw this now. Please mention one religion in the world that places the self as supreme deity that others within the group must worship as the one true God ?Just one if you're sure of what you're saying .
2.There's nothing like "at least" one supreme deity for every religion out there. You have asserted a falsehood which you're unwilling to take correction for.
3. If you insist on making a word mean what you want it mean different from its actual meaning which everyone else apart from you has accepted to be correct, then .........

if I have to respond to any of these silly retorts then it's best I don't respond at all. what do you think?

Emmanueloo:
A Federal High Court in Kano has halted the scheduled local government elections in the state, previously set for Saturday, October 26, and dissolved the membership of the Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC).
Justice Simon Ameboda, while delivering judgment yesterday in a case filed by Aminu Aliyu Tiga and the All Progressives Congress (APC), ruled that KANSIEC’s chairman and five commissioners were ineligible for their roles.
He stated that they were involved in partisan politics as members of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), which violates sections 197(1)(b) and 200(1)(a) of the 1999 Constitution, as well as Section 4 of the KANSIEC Law 2001.
The chairman of KANSIEC, Professor Sani Lawal Malumfashi, and commissioners Muktar Garba Dandago, Isyaku Ibrahim Kunya, Kabiru Jibrin Zakirai, and Amina Inuwa Fagge, were found to be card-carrying members of the NNPP. The court deemed this unconstitutional, making them ineligible to serve on the electoral commission.

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NewDea4:
■ That's right, they are immunized from prosecution with respect to whatever type of filthy garbage they spout whilst inside their chamber of thieves

What immunity? No be for inside that chamber dem go carry Dino one time?

SamGift0817:
He said, “I understand that someone went on television quoting what you said on the Senate floor.
“Nigerians seem unaware that whatever is said here is privileged, covered by immunity, and not subject to debate on television or radio.
“You have never been invited or charged by the NDLEA, and as far as we know in the Senate, you are a gentleman who doesn’t even take alcohol. This is a serious issue, and we must call the NDLEA to order.”

If he really did utter those words, then clearly this man is nothing short of a disease that needs to be removed completely and immediately.

The obnoxiously loud and annoying drama queen of a minister who loved to deride others for doing that she was equally guilty of is gone so they can return to their regular uninterrupted and undisturbed looting of the Nigerian treasury as before.

Shadomaan7:
The World Bank should first lend us their ears.

A bank should first lend you its ears?

EmperorCaesar:
Cutting cost and scrapping useless ministries is a good move Come Alive... We have a creative and visionary President God bless Nigeria

Cutting cost? He created yet another useless ministry after scrapping one useless one.

What about the ministry of life stock and malu abi na wetin?

Celestialsword:
The statement read, “President Tinubu and Federal Executive Council scrap Niger Delta Ministry and the Ministry of sports development.
“There will now be a ministry of regional development to oversee all the regional development commissions, such as Niger Delta Development Commission, North West Development Commission, South West Development Commission , North East Development Commission.” “The National Sports Commission will take over the role of the Ministry of Sports,” he stated. Additionally, the FEC approved the merger of the Ministry of Tourism with the Ministry of Culture and Creative Economy, creating a single entity.

Nevermind! Here I was thinking the Government was finally ready to get rid of bloating in the system, not knowing it was instead looking to create others.

odejimioflagos:
World bank don dey play the game.

They know Tinubu is the man for the job.

Play what game? Tell you you should fix your country? It's the lack of shame that gets me the most with you folks who think it makes sense to blame World Bank and IMF for the incompetence of your own selected leaders.

GreatAchiever1:
■ I've had this Convo with you before, not ready to do it again. The facts is shown in the Bible, you've seen it, you know it, you won't just accept it. I don't know if you are waiting for something like Mark 17:1; And Jesus said the Bible is my word.
I believe you must have known about the formulation of the canon of scripture, but you still come up with another flimsy excuse. But why do I even bother with you, when you have said it unambiguously that You are not a Christian.
I don't know what kind of weird Religion or Cult you're in: The ....Religion

See Rambling abeg!😂😂😂😂😂😂

Nowhere in all 66 books that make up the collection called the Bible is it stated that the Bible is the Word of God. That lie -- that the Bible is the Word of God ---belongs to Christianity. 😁

treesun:
The president also noted that the equivalent of a litre of petrol, which is a Standard Cubic Meter of Compressed Natural Gas, can be had for N200. Tinubu said this when he met with the executives of the Nigerian Independent Petroleum Company, led by the director, Mr Ramesh Kasangra, at the State House in Abuja Tuesday, according to a statement issued by the president’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, titled, “President Tinubu meets NIPCO executives, commends investments in the CNG sector.”
“Nigeria’s motorists can buy petrol at N1,000 per litre or equivalent gas per Standard Cubic Meter at N200. We have also introduced incentives for commercial motorists to convert from petrol to gas” free of cost,” Tinubu said.

Tinubu has yet to convert his escalade, along with the many other cars in the presidential fleet, to using CNG! Tinubu is not interested in making sacrifices of any kind.

Lavor234:
The World Bank has urged the Nigerian government to increase its investment in nutrition programs, highlighting the potential for substantial economic returns.
According to the global financial institution, “every dollar spent on nutrition could yield up to $23 in returns, underscoring the critical importance of addressing malnutrition, particularly among vulnerable populations.”
This appeal comes amid alarming rates of child stunting and maternal anemia in Nigeria, which pose serious challenges to the nation’s health and economic development.
The World Bank’s Investment Framework for Nutrition highlights that globally, “Investing in nutrition is not just about health; it’s about economic growth.”
In Nigeria, where 11 million children suffer from stunting and over 50% of pregnant women are anemic, these returns could be even higher, with potential gains of up to $23 for each dollar invested.

In 2024, the most populous black nation does not have safety net program programs such as this in place. That should be a serious cause of concern for every black person all over the world. Do we really value ourselves as a race, to begin with?

GreatAchiever1:
Actually, you're the deluded one. You deny the whole of the Bible as God's word to us, you deny the authority of the Apostles, I'm not even sure you believe in the Trinity, You don't even recognize what the Bible explicitly said is a sin because in your words "Jesus never said it was", You deny the Christian Religious faith.
I mean who are you? I'm not even sure false teachers from Church History do reach this extent, if not for you anonymousity I would have said you should be studied of how one could be so weird, odd, strange, heretical, deceived and crazy at the same time.

Nowhere in all 66 books that make up the collection called the Bible is it stated that the Bible is the Word of God. That lie -- that the Bible is the Word of God ---belongs to Christianity. 😁

GreatAchiever1:
✓ You are as confused as confusion can be. I wonder who else, either past or present follows this line of thought.
I'm pretty sure there was none. And even if there was actually one in the past, the Church Council wouldn't for a second hesitate to deem them a heretic.

Spoken like a typical Religious nutjob. You think the God of Israel and Jesus Christ of Israel where calling people to some sort of popularity contest, abi wetin? You think that because what is in fact written is not followed by anyone you know of somehow invalidates it all and replaces it with the delusions you all choose instead? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

id911:
■ I don't expect you to know and I don't think you have a copy of your constitution to know anything inside there. Nigeria is the only country operating a Federal system upside down largely aided by ignorant people like you. SMH!

Do you know what federalism entails yourself? Because your initial claim which I pointed out is flawed reveals you are instead one of those ignorant of what federalism is in fact about.

Saintzykie:
✓ Apologies. Quoted the wrong statement.

Ok

Saintzykie:
■ Its really sad… sometimes we argue with a flawed logic just because someone wants to sound intelligent. If the states take allocation from the federal government and then members of the national assembly are drawn from the states then I wonder what we are even arguing. If the National assembly can't make laws for the entire federation then of or for what purpose do they exist?

Can you go back through your post to be sure you have it all worded correctly? I am having a really hard time understanding what you are asking altogether.

money121:
39yrs Ago
25ltr = #5

More importantly, as far back as that time you could get a receipt for your purchase. Nigeria made sense until it stopped making sense and this mostly happened during IBB's Shege period.

id911:
✓ EFCC is a Federal Agency and if we are truely running a Federal System of government,they have no right to look into the finances of States except they're invited by the state concerned. The ACT that created EFCC was not approved by any state in Nigeria (2/3 of states is needed) as specified by the constitution and so their activities are illegal and unconstitutional. ICPC is a legal entity while EFCC is an illegal entity.
The Supreme Court is corrupt because ultimately they'll rule in favor of EFCC and Federal Government against the clear provisions of the constitution.

What you stated here makes no sense as in a federal system, the FG instead has jurisdiction over all citizens including those of them who occupy offices in government.

The way Nigerians rush to adopt misinformation even in this information age that we live in is very disturbing.

MEEVEET:
■ There was no national Assembly when police was created... The police is order than the national Assembly

The Nigeria you have today began the moment that the 1999 democratic Constitution was enacted, I am afraid. Yes, All previous agencies were subsumed based on that defined in the Constitution itself or laws enacted by the National Assembly. It is hard to imagine yes, but it is what it is. The reformed Police have in place many of the hierarchies of old still. However, this does not mean that the police are exactly the same as that existed before the 1999 Constitution became the Supreme Law of the land.

For instance, you cannot say that because Nigeria existed before 1999, you should go back to 1960 to find laws to apply today. No, you first find more recent laws that apply before you go looking for old laws in the case that no recent laws have been enacted in the particular area of concern.

MEEVEET:
✓ Nigerian police is a national Institute just like the national assembly too

All agencies created by the National Assembly as Federal/National agencies if we are to follow the definition you gave earlier though. So you need to be more specific as far as this difference you pretend you can make between them.

MEEVEET:
✓ Oga u can amen d rules of a national body by an act
Sure u can amend the rules of the national Assembly by an act. But to create a 3rd national Assembly you can't do that by an act u need a constitutional amendment
✓ There is a huge difference between amendment Act and constitutional amendment

The National Assembly is defined in the Constitution so you cannot create a second or a third National Assembly without first amending or better still overhauling the entire Constitution itself.

2. We are not talking here or agencies that were established by the Constitution but rather of agencies/policies that were established by way of acts created by the National Assembly and signed into Law by the President. So, try to pay attention to your use of terms.