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Why Nigeria is not making rapid progress

No one solves a problem s/he does not understand. Putting this statement in another perspective, we say, once our conception of a problem is wrong, we cannot find solution to it. Nigeria is not making rapid progress because those who are managing Nigeria’s development do not understand the human development process. Let us consider the two main aspects of the development of human societies – economic and political development.

History shows that nations achieve economic development as a platform for political development. Britain achieved the modern industrial revolution (IR) in the period 1770-1850 (Gregg, 1971). The Febians Society and other socialists and labour unions in England formed the Labour Representation Committee in 1900 which metamorphosed into the Labour Party in 1906 as part of the strategy to fight the oppression of workers by business owners (Trevelyan, 1948). The United States of America achieved the modern IR in the period 1850-1900 (Bartlett, et al., 1969). By 1900, the many Americans including women in all states, black men in the southern states, Indians and some naturalized immigrants still could not vote. Women could not vote in the United States till 1920 (United States Information Agency, 1994).

Because history shows that the political route is the longer one, the younger nations of Africa ought to emphasize economic development more and adopt committee-type governments in which politicians are given very limited powers rather than executive presidential system in which inexperienced, incompetent and illiterate politicians are given executive powers to mismanage nations based on the fallacious claim that political development precedes economic development in a nation.

Nigeria is an agricultural nation. This also means that over 75 per cent of Nigerians are farmers. Again, history tells us that all the technologically advanced nations of today were also agricultural nations in the past. While Nigeria produces solely agricultural goods, the technologically advanced nations apply science in solving their problems and produce many scientific goods. The challenge confronting Nigeria and other African nations therefore, is acquiring scientific knowledge, skills and capabilities (KSCs), apply them in solving problems and transforming the agricultural economies into industrialised ones. Sadly, those who manage the Nigerian economy never talk of acquiring and applying scientific-KSCs; they always talk of primitive agriculture.

The process of transforming an agricultural economy into an industrialised one is a scientific one which non-scientists do not understand. That is, economists and other social scientists, accountants, bankers, lawyers, etc., who have been managing the economy do not understand the development challenge confronting Nigeria. How could they solve a problem they do not understand? This explains why Nigeria cannot make rapid economic progress.

Let us discuss four grave errors non-scientists managing the Nigerian economy have been making for decades.

First, economists and co., measure growth as change in GDP. Mere increase in GDP does not necessarily translate into real growth and increase in employment. For example, Nigeria’s increase in GDP can come from increase in the international price of oil. Nigerians make very little contribution to the exploration and production of the Nigeria’s oil.

That was why the GDP growth of up to 7 per cent measured during President Jonathan’s administration meant nothing to Nigerians – it was growth without development, no increase in employment. Economists and co, do not know what to measure to promote the industrialisation of an agricultural economy. This is the reason economists cannot promote industrialization.

Second, economists and co., cannot measure growth in scientific-KSCs because whereas growth in scientific-KSCs is achieved through learning, economists and co., claim that it is through capital investment that a nation achieves sustainable economic growth and industrialization (SEGI).
That is why virtually everyone in government in Nigeria campaigns embarrassingly for foreign investments and opening up the economy. Mere capital investments do not promote SEGI. Capital investment merely acquires structures. All structures experience depreciation; they are therefore Depreciating Assets (DAs). All structures immediately begin to depreciate and cause economic stress, once they are acquired or erected. Economists and co., have always been urging governments to invest in infrastructure. They have been offering bad advice. An agricultural nation emphasizing capital investment may be likened to one attempting to fill a profusely leaking water-tank with water. This is the reason Nigeria’s infrastructure is always in bad shape. Nigeria sees every problem in terms of lack of money. Nigeria would rather build a bank to solve each problem but solves no problem. To economists and co., Nigeria has low Megawatt of electricity installed because it has not invested enough capital. They are wrong. The performance of the GENCOs and DISCOs can only improve with Nigeria acquiring more scientific-KSCs, otherwise worsen because of the depreciation of the generator and the distribution systems.

The learning-people on the other hand appreciate in intrinsic value with time and learning intensity; they are therefore, Appreciating Assets (AAs). Hence, a nation emphasizing learning (education, training, employment and research) may measure scientific-KSCs in terms of some or all of:
1) N – the number of people involved in productive work or employment in a nation;
2) M- the level of education/training of those involved in productive activities in the economy and of the people of the nation;
3) L – the linkages among the knowledge, skills, competences and sectors of an economy;
4) r – the learning rates or intensity in the economy and especially among the workforce; and
5) n – the experience of the workforce and the learning history of the society.

All the variables are related to the learning-people. The higher the values of the variables, the better is the economy. It is because industrialisation is a learning and capability-building process that any race that learns and builds-up knowledge, skills and competences to critical levels achieves Industrial Revolution (IR) and builds necessary infrastructure as fruits of IR.

Third, economists and co., erroneously encourage agricultural Nigeria to borrow money and erect complex infrastructure (DAs) to promote growth and attract foreign investments.

History shows that after nations have achieved Industrialisation, they build relevant and adequate infrastructure as fruits or aftermath of industrialization. Economists and co., have therefore been encouraging young Nigeria to build the roof of the house before laying the foundation. A nation doing that cannot make progress. This is the reason Nigeria is always indebted through obtaining long-term loans to erect short-term structures. The over 500 roads and bridges and railways being constructed today would not be there tomorrow. Anyone who looks critically at the perpetually bad state of Nigeria’s infrastructure knows that Nigeria has always adopted the incorrect approach to developing infrastructure.
Fourth, economists and co., do not understand the relationship among the fundamental variables of an economy – employment, productivity and inflation.

To economists and co., employment is a cost item which use in an economy must be minimized. How, our theory showed that employment is the “blood of the economy.” European and Asian nations achieved the modern industrialisation after toiling for thousands of years because they did not emphasize learning (education, training, employment and research) early. Our analysis also showed that nations with large population can mobilize their entire population for learning and achieve the modern industrialization in a few decades. How could economists and co., manage our economies well?

Fifth, micro, small and medium scale enterprises (MSME) and entrepreneurship, agriculture do not promote scientific KSCs and reduce unemployment and poverty.

All social scientists claim that it is the MSME that Nigeria must emphasize to promote employment and industrialization. They provide no reason in support of the claim that MSME are promoting employment and improving productivity in the USA, Europe, etc. Our theory of mobilizing a large number of people to promote rapid development automatically warns us to avoid micro, small, small and medium scale enterprises.

If turning-right at a T-junction leads to a desired destination, turning-left at the same T-junction cannot also lead to the desired destination.

The MSME are not known to emphasize learning which is the primary source of SEGI. The MSME are not known to do scientific things. Hence, the MSME have no basis for promoting the acquisition of scientific-KSCs and promoting scientific growth and industrialization.

To plan, according to the Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, is to make preparation for something that is expected to happen. We can also define planning as the act of putting together the thoughts and activities necessary for achieving desired objectives. Proper planning must be based on a proper theory, framework and devoid of false and inappropriate assumptions. Otherwise, a nation cannot achieve its desired objectives. What has been the development theory guiding Nigeria’s planning? Nigeria has always lacked a theory of development, a proper planning framework. Nigeria’s development has always been based on fallacious claims.

ENEMYOFGOD6:


Look at those Ghanian people up there shouting if it were Nigeria they would have correct it.who told you that ?


Ghana is a shit hole country,

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dmbb:
Saboteurs are desperately campaigning for the abolishment of the SIM linkage for the reason best known to them

Splitmind:
The media needs to be gagged for peace to reign in Nigeria, those who keep criticising the government are enemies of the state who must be dealt with.

Buhari has done a perfect job, anyone who says otherwise is an ingrate, a buffon or another lazy bastard southern youth.

omohayek:
That's the infuriating thing about this bill - the drafters couldn't even be bothered to look closely at the American example they've seen in so many movies and TV shows, let alone at how decentralized policing works across other developed countries like Germany or Japan. They just went with the simplest, dumbest proposal possible - they want to hand over personal armies to governors who already have too little accountability.

budaatum:
Lazy people get off their asses and make lemon juice out of lemons.

Price of wheat and corn has gone up so hard working folks are on the farm growing it right this very moment to take advantage of further increases. Their prayer is, God please let bubu not open border or give forex so wheat and corn cost more when I harvest and sell. Amen.

garfield1:
Buhari has done well in terms of infrastructure and workers welfare.nigeria has been decaying even before buhari came.every problem under buhari was inherited.

Ganduje is a thief but which politician in nigeria isn't? Me and you know that all governors steal like ganduje.he was only unlucky.but he has done well.tambuwal is progressive,kebbi governor too and badaru abubakar of jigawa....
Gej was a near total failure.he did not give us any democracy.buhari is a better Democrat than him,I can cite several instances.dont forget buhari is even coming from a military background..

Nigeria ranked third-worst nation in new global good governance index
https://m.guardian.ng/news/nigeria-ranked-third-worst-nation-in-new-global-good-governance-index/

Nigeria drops on Transparency’s corruption index, now second most corrupt in W’Africa
28 January 2021

https://punchng.com/nigeria-drops-on-transparencys-corruption-index-now-second-most-corrupt-in-wafrica/

Nigeria Slips To 110th Position in EIU’s Democracy Index 2020

Nigeria ranked 110 with a score of 4.10 out of 10, Nigeria was categorized as a hybrid regime. While Nigeria was ranked 20 in Sub-Saharan Africa, Mauritius, Cape Verde, Botswana and South Africa occupies, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th positions respectively.

https://brandspurng.com/2021/02/03/nigeria-slips-to-110th-position-in-eius-democracy-index-2020/

Nigeria ranks 146th on Global Peace Index, 8th least peaceful in Africa

https://m.guardian.ng/news/nigeria/nigeria-ranks-146th-on-global-peace-index-8th-least-peaceful-in-africa/

Nigeria scored low on The Heritage Foundation’s 2020 Index of Economic Freedom. The index ranks 180 countries, averaging scores in 12 categories of economic freedom. The scores are calculated using statistics from third-party international organizations.

Overall, Nigeria ranks 116th out of 180 countries, and its status is “Mostly Unfree.” Nigeria does especially poorly on the Rule of Law variables, where its scores are among the worst in the index.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/11/02/now-more-than-ever-what-nigeria-needs-is-economic-freedom/

Once Africa’s promise, Nigeria is heaving under crime, few jobs

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/6/15/once-africas-promise-nigeria-is-heaving-under-crime-scare-jobs

Oil-rich Nigeria outstrips India as country with most people in poverty

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jul/16/oil-rich-nigeria-outstrips-india-most-people-in-poverty

Nigeria has become the poverty capital of the world

https://qz.com/africa/1313380/nigerias-has-the-highest-rate-of-extreme-poverty-globally/

Africa’s biggest economy dropped three spots to 161 in 2019 from 158 in 2018 among 189 countries in the 2020 Human Development Index (HDI), according to a new report released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The country’s HDI value for 2019 was 0.539 which put the country in the low human development category.

https://businessday.ng/news/article/nigeria-drops-3-places-to-161-in-uns-2020-human-development-index/

Nigeria’s Economy Ranks 114 in 2019 Global Innovation Index, Below Kenya and Rwanda

https://technext.ng/2019/07/25/nigerias-economy-ranks-114-in-2019-global-innovation-index-below-kenya-and-rwanda/

PLAGUED by years of interminable Islamist terrorism, banditry and other unbridled security challenges, Nigeria’s ability to feed its mammoth population is becoming highly questionable. Already, millions of Nigerians are unable to feed like they used to do. With insecurity deteriorating to an extraordinary level, there is a real threat of hunger looming large over Africa’s most populous country. Nigeria occupied the 10th position in the 2020 Global Hunger Index where countries like Afghanistan, Haiti and Chad prominently featured among the ten hungriest countries.
https://punchng.com/Editorial/There-is-looming-hunger-in-the-land

In the 2020 Global Hunger Index, Nigeria ranks 98th out of 107 countries the with sufficient data to calculate 2020 GHI scores. With a score of 29.2, Nigeria has a level of hunger that is serious.

https://www.globalhungerindex.org/nigeria.html

‘It is really bad’: Nigerians go hungry as food inflation soars

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/4/16/it-is-really-bad-nigerians-go-hungry-as-food-inflation-soars

Human Rights Watch slams Buhari’s dictatorial tendencies

https://www.naijiant.com/guestcolumn/human-rights-watch-slams-buharis-dictatorial-tendencies/

With the (Human Freedom Index), my co-author Ian Vásquez and I aim to capture the degree to which people are free to enjoy fundamental rights such as freedom of speech, religion, association and assembly, and also measure freedom of movement, women's freedoms, crime and violence and legal discrimination against same-sex relationships. The report is co-published by the Fraser Institute, the Cato Institute in the United States and the Liberales institut in Germany.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/blogs/human-freedom-waning-in-many-countries

(Nigeria ranks 131st out of 162 countries)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Freedom_Index

THE administration of President Muhammadu Buhari met a decaying health sector after his election in 2015. And most Nigerians believed his government would help fix the sector. The emergence of COVID-19 further re-echoed the necessity for prioritising the health sector, but it appears only a little has changed in a country that parades some of the world’s worst health indices, The ICIR reports.

https://www.icirnigeria.org/analysis-nigeria-health-sector-after-buharis-six-years-in-office/

The worst recession in 40 years, the collapse of crude, insurgents and the pandemic: how this country’s economy has been ruined in just 6 years

https://marketresearchtelecast.com/the-worst-recession-in-40-years-the-collapse-of-crude-insurgents-and-the-pandemic-how-this-countrys-economy-has-been-ruined-in-just-6-years/78310/

Nigeria slides into worst recession since 1987

https://politicsnigeria.com/breaking-nigeria-slides-into-worst-recession-since-1987/

Buhari is the only Nigerian president that has presided over the country under multiple recessions.

https://www.thecable.ng/buharis-legacy-of-recessions/amp

Under Buhari, Nigeria’s economy to lose 10 years’ gains: World Bank

https://gazettengr.com/under-buhari-nigerias-economy-to-lose-10-years-gains-world-bank/


Nigeria Ranked 115 Out Of 180 On Press Freedom Index

http://saharareporters.com/2020/04/26/nigeria-ranked-115-out-180-press-freedom-index

Nigeria’s human rights record ‘very poor’, worse than average in sub-Saharan Africa

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/469652-nigerias-human-rights-record-very-poor-worse-than-average-in-sub-saharan-africa.html

Nigeria ranked sixth most miserable country in the world

Thailand and Hungary rank as the least miserable countries in the world on the 2018 Misery Index, having ranked 95th and 94th respectively of the 95 countries ranked by Hanke.

Venezuela, Argentina, Iran, Brazil and Turkey lead in that order, while Nigeria is sixth.

https://punchng.com/nigeria-ranked-sixth-most-miserable-country-in-the-world/

GDP performance of Nigeria’s Presidents since 1999

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, 2011-2015 (4.80%)

GEJ took over as president after the death of his predecessor in 2010 and was later elected President in 2011. His presidency saw the rollout of reforms including fuel deregulation which was hit by the “#OccupyNigeria” protests, and also the successful implementation of the first phase of Nigeria’s reforms, which saw the deregulation of Distribution and Generation of PHCN assets into the GenCos and DisCos of today (transmission is still in the hands of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, which distributes the power to DisCos nationally).

Jonathan’s 2011 presidential year saw economic growth at 5.31%. The highest growth rate was 6.22% recorded in 2014. Nigeria’s GDP growth averaged 4.80% under his leadership, from 2011 to 2015.

Muhammadu Buhari, 2016-2020 (0.31%)

Buhari’s administration historically signified the transfer of leadership to an opposition party in Nigeria’s democratic history, an election where promises to diversify the economy from crude oil were made, alongside others.

For several reasons, the administration has fallen short of its promises although it has scored fairly good points in social welfare schemes executed under the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP). Notable among these programs are the National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP); N-Power program aimed at creating jobs for 1 million beneficiaries; GEEP programme to provide loans to an additional 1 million traders, farmers and market people; and the Social Register, to accommodate an additional 1 million households. Others include the TRADERMONI, MARKETMONI, FARMERMONI, MSME Survival Fund, and N75 billion National Youth Investment Fund (NYIF).

Under the Buhari administration, the economy has experienced rising food inflation and currency inflation which have seen Nigeria’s GDP per capita fall to the level it was 40 years ago.

His 2016 presidential year experienced a decline of -1.58%. The highest growth thus far is 2.27% recorded in 2019. Although his administration ends in 2023, from his arrival in 2016 to 2020, GDP growth under his leadership averaged 0.31%.

https://nairametrics.com/2021/05/21/gdp-performance-of-nigerias-presidents-since-1999/

Nigeria is ranked 128 out of 153 countries on the GIWPS’s 2017 Women, Peace, and Security Index, which is a measure of women’s well being. Nigeria scores low on financial inclusion, lower on women’s political participation, and even lower on access to education.

https://ladetawak.medium.com/how-laws-can-impede-the-fight-for-equality-56fc11ac1c0b

In November 2017, it was reported that President Muhammadu Buhari ratified and inaugurated a number of policies relating to the military, one of which, according to the PUNCH newspaper, includes a recommendation to “phase out the training of female regular combatant cadets.” This is a reversal of a policy created during the tenure of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

[b]What is most astonishing about this move is that it is not based on the performance or competence of women already admitted into the National Defence Academy. The recommendation for the ban was made after complaints had been made by unnamed northern Muslim leaders. These leaders, most likely men, based their proposal on being worried about women becoming leaders within the army, and giving orders to men.

Interestingly, the women already admitted into the programme have been performing beyond expectations, even, according to a source, outperforming their male colleagues: the Navy Gold award (highest in the navy category) the Army Silver award, and the Air Force Silver award (second highest in the army and air force respectively) went to women, and two female cadets outshone their male counterparts to win placement at the United States Military Academy in West Point.

https://ladetawak.medium.com/how-laws-can-impede-the-fight-for-equality-56fc11ac1c0b

[b]2020 Social Progress Index Scorecard for Nigeria

Nigeria, with a score of 51.31, is currently ranked 136th out of 163 countries.

https://adesojiadegbulu.com/social-progress-index/

Nigeria is this year ranked the fifth position in Africa and 81st in the world, according to the 2020 Digital Quality of Life (DQL) Index, which gives insight into how people’s overall welfare is influenced by their digital wellbeing.

The study sampled the quality of digital wellbeing in 85 countries across the globe over five key pillars: Internet affordability, Internet quality, electronic infrastructure, electronic government, and electronic security.

https://m.guardian.ng/technology/nigeria-lags-in-africa-on-digital-quality-of-life-index/

Buhari fails to sign over 200 bills passed by NASS in six years

https://punchng.com/buhari-fails-to-sign-over-200-bills-passed-by-nass-in-six-years/

donmixc:
Lol, doesn't change the fact that southern states are underdeveloped

Buckeyemedia1:
Are you an Almajiri? Look at your personal life, then tell us the areas you have prospered in the last 6 years, what concerns you with Buhari? Is it because of President Buhari that the Governor & Local Government Personnels you voted for haven’t added any value to your society?

Nigeria ranked third-worst nation in new global good governance index
https://m.guardian.ng/news/nigeria-ranked-third-worst-nation-in-new-global-good-governance-index/

Nigeria drops on Transparency’s corruption index, now second most corrupt in W’Africa
28 January 2021


https://punchng.com/nigeria-drops-on-transparencys-corruption-index-now-second-most-corrupt-in-wafrica/

Nigeria ranks 146th on Global Peace Index, 8th least peaceful in Africa

https://m.guardian.ng/news/nigeria/nigeria-ranks-146th-on-global-peace-index-8th-least-peaceful-in-africa/

Once Africa’s promise, Nigeria is heaving under crime, few jobs

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/6/15/once-africas-promise-nigeria-is-heaving-under-crime-scare-jobs

Oil-rich Nigeria outstrips India as country with most people in poverty

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jul/16/oil-rich-nigeria-outstrips-india-most-people-in-poverty

Nigeria has become the poverty capital of the world

https://qz.com/africa/1313380/nigerias-has-the-highest-rate-of-extreme-poverty-globally/

PLAGUED by years of interminable Islamist terrorism, banditry and other unbridled security challenges, Nigeria’s ability to feed its mammoth population is becoming highly questionable. Already, millions of Nigerians are unable to feed like they used to do. With insecurity deteriorating to an extraordinary level, there is a real threat of hunger looming large over Africa’s most populous country. Nigeria occupied the 10th position in the 2020 Global Hunger Index where countries like Afghanistan, Haiti and Chad prominently featured among the ten hungriest countries.
https://punchng.com/Editorial/There-is-looming-hunger-in-the-land

‘It is really bad’: Nigerians go hungry as food inflation soars

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/4/16/it-is-really-bad-nigerians-go-hungry-as-food-inflation-soars

THE administration of President Muhammadu Buhari met a decaying health sector after his election in 2015. And most Nigerians believed his government would help fix the sector. The emergence of COVID-19 further re-echoed the necessity for prioritising the health sector, but it appears only a little has changed in a country that parades some of the world’s worst health indices, The ICIR reports.

https://www.icirnigeria.org/analysis-nigeria-health-sector-after-buharis-six-years-in-office/

Nigeria Ranked 115 Out Of 180 On Press Freedom Index

http://saharareporters.com/2020/04/26/nigeria-ranked-115-out-180-press-freedom-index

Nigeria’s human rights record ‘very poor’, worse than average in sub-Saharan Africa

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/469652-nigerias-human-rights-record-very-poor-worse-than-average-in-sub-saharan-africa.html

Buhari fails to sign over 200 bills passed by NASS in six years

https://punchng.com/buhari-fails-to-sign-over-200-bills-passed-by-nass-in-six-years/

what concerns you with Buhari?

timesup234:
All areas

michlins:
People hate this guy because he's over blunt. He doesn't hide his feelings. He talked about withdrawing his child from the public school and they attacked him.

You people are forgetting that his child is putting other kids at risk.

KRSWon:
SO WHY DID HE PUBLICLY ENROLL HIS CHILD IN SAID SCHOOL IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?!?!

Why did he pull a political stunt on his constituents, who don't have access to the personal security he and his family does, in order to lie to them that their schools were safe, even after multiple kidnappings?

Why did he talk out of the side of his mouth and make a public show of refusing ransom to be paid for him, knowing full well that the poor citizens of his state don't have access to the personal security he and his family does?

Why was he minimizing the harm and loss of life caused by kidnappers?

Why did he applaud legislation to actually criminalize and punish with prison sentences the payment of ransom, automatically dooming most Nigerians, including most people in his state, as well as their spouses, their children and others family members, again knowing full well they don't have access to the strong security detail he and his family and the families of other politicians have?

BigBashiru:
buhari is a great man. Governors have failed Nigeria including in the area of insecurity.

Officialgarri:
Serap has a large dusty shelf full of court documents that stays irrelevant till this day.

They sue every goddamn day, but no one honors their invitation. The court doesn't even take them serious.

I'm even thinking SERAP is a one man organization that wakes up everyday to look for what to sue the president for.

vedaxcool:
Politicians will manipulate you while you cheer them on.

No matter how Igbo politicians disown or distance themselves from Biafra AGITATION, it will not stop the North from seeing them as IPOB.

kingthreat:
Kidnapping is a stigma that became a business during the Niger Delta agitations. Now it is a monster. As a rich man, you are a target not to talk of a governor. You have been blaming a governor like he is the devil incarnate. If you were to be a governor of any Nigerian state, will your child be enrolled in a public school? Better answer since you obviously are 10 times more intelligent and moral than Nasir El-Rufai.

Reno didn't publicly register his children in a kidnap-ridden state in Nigeria as a political stunt in order to tell residents of that state that schools in that state are safe.

Reno didn't quietly and secretly remove his children from said school, as opposed to the public and eye-service enrollment done as as a political stunt.

Reno didn't publicly come out and defend bandits and kidnappers by minimizing the harm and damage they cause.

Reno and his wife didn't tell people to not pay ransom if they or any member of their family were kidnapped as yet another political stunt, knowing full well that they have security detail that poor families in their state don't have.

Reno, unlike El-rufai, didn't push for legislation that criminalizes and punishes people with prison sentences for paying ransom, automatically dooming other people's children.

thebosstrevor1:
Reno children are in the United states.

Why isn't his children in Nigeria.

Reno and his likes are just attention seekers looking for jobs in 2023 pdp presidential Campaign.

Reno is a member of the Diaspora community, he has never given one idea on how to solve Nigeria's security challenges, his own is to abuse and criticize you till stupor.

tenzofall:
Do Reno's children school in Nigerian public schools?

Buckeyemedia1:
The man is such a hypocrite, it seems he doesn’t have anything doing in California than to read Nigerian news from morning to night? I know he is really missing Nigeria, nowhere like home.

chatinent:
Reno's kid are abroad. He isn't any different.

Man's government has failed.

bhella10:
Does Reno have a child that attends/attended a public school at any point in time?

kingthreat:
Reno shey your pikin dey Nigerian private school, not to talk of public school

authority2006:
Reno is nothing but plain hypocrite.
I wonder how many of Reno Omokri were in public school when he was "serving" under Jonathan! At least, El Rufai son experienced what public school. How many public servants made such attempts?

WaffenSS:
1. Which or that, not whom

2. Who, not whom

And how could he provide protection when he does not control any apparatus of defense?

KKTooMuchMoney:
okay i didn't know she was a teen.
But what was she doing in that dengerous environment.

The Senate is in the process of passing a Bill which prohibits the payment of ransom to kidnappers, or the receipt of same by them. Apparently, this Bill, cited as the Terrorism Prevention (Amendment) Bill 2021, is a substitution of Section 14 of the Terrorism Prevention Act 2013, and provides for a punishment upon conviction of 15 years imprisonment.

While some like the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasiru El Rufai (Mallam), will certainly welcome with applause, the law which is said to have passed the second reading on the floor of the Senate, many, on the other hand, see it is as cruel, insensitive and unnecessary.

Abducted students in Nigeria’s Kaduna state are safe: Governor

Nasir el-Rufai tells Al Jazeera the government will not pay any ransom to attackers targeting educational institutions.

El-Rufai’s Wife: I’m Ready To Die In The Hands Of Kidnappers

The wife of Kaduna State Governor, Hajiya Asia El-Rufai, has said no ransom should be paid to her abductors if she is kidnapped.

dmbb:
One of them spotted

TheSalient:
He is not a fool, in fact, one of the best in the history of this nation.

dmbb:
Lazy Nigerians are always quick to insult struggle

KillMNKnow:
Don't fool yourself Farooq, the US will not deport you because your name is Farooq. you're trying so hard to make your green card relevant like Aisha yesufu. Hypocrites you and Aisha can stop been Muslims openly. For God sake you live in US and UK, people in Nigeria becoming atheist without any confrontation with the community. Fcking hypocrites. irrelevant people becoming nuisance because our society are addicted to news.....

All this because of Alcohol.
The US prohibited Alcohol in 1933.
They still do prohibit president, military, police, pilots, etc from drinking alcohol.
All over the globe, People are running away from Alcohol. Sobriety is the new Cool.
Y'all hate us because we don't do Alcohol, gambling, prostitution etc

nograv:
Hibernating indeed..

If they do it would be to say GEJ was worse and other such nonsense.. Mtcheww

deji17:
PDP thieves and their appendages likes to think everyone is a thief like them. For a party that was in govt when oil sold for $120 per barrell and with huge debt, yet no meaningful infrastructure delivered.

Nigeria drops on Transparency’s corruption index, now second most corrupt in W’Africa
28 January 2021