₦airaland Forum

Roland17:
Our Nigerian politicians are rare breeds I swear.

What exactly was Amaechi expecting? What is with the wailing and grinding of teeth?

He seriously thought he'd beat Atiku in the primaries?

Even in a free and fair popularity contest, does Amaechi think he will beat Atiku in the North to clinch the ticket?

Amaechi is deluded. Someone that cannot even win Rivers.

Delulu pro max

izzou:
If the opposition unites, and Atiku loses to Tinubu, what fighting chance does Obi have again?

By 2031, APC will present a Northerner of which Atiku still qualifies to contest; Obi cannot.

But it is Obi that should step down for Atiku in 2027

No northerner should've contested in 2023 and this upcoming 2027. It's just the born to rule mentality that they have the votes to make themselves President.

Segedinho:
Man fit run mad in this country if u say make u juxtaposed ur income vs ur expenditure.


Small mistake of enjoyment go fit make u go dey stay awake n think where ur money waka pass around 3 am in d morning with clear eyes

Last week Friday was our 5th year wedding anniversary, I couldn't even buy small gift for madam as I wanted because everything is now damn expensive.

You are not even buying anything luxurious yet the way money dey finish you go dey question your financial discipline.

It is well my bro. E go better for us all.

BlueRayDick:
Yeah , I know the Atiku faction eventually did primary but it took protest from Amaechi for them to consider primary elections. They just wanted David mark to anoint Atiku and push him as the next best thing after slice bread.

Atiku no dey lose primary.

Segedinho:
The opposition are interested in the seat cos they believe Nigerians will not be xtupid enuf to re-seat BAT.

Each of them believes,it is now or never hence the "megedefiegede" we are witnessing.

Like u said earlier,make all of them getat but I will honour my civic right by voting Obi ...don't have strength to toast the next person......

Cooking Gas don enter 1700..make make man think better thing

A divided opposition is advantage APC. One thing we cannot deny is that APC knows how to win election, I expected the opposition to have come together earlier and settle whatever differences they might have.

BlueRayDick:
That's the thing! People are in serious poverty, people are losing jobs and the president will say he understands how they feel. Lies!

Even for people who seem to have good jobs & living comfortably; the pressure from family, friends and even strangers looking towards them for financial help dey make almost everybody feel am one way or the other.

Na me know wetin I dey face. I currently spend over 60% of my salary on transport and feeding that to even save for rent, school fees and other responsibilities is like a pipe dren and everything keeps increasing every day.

I went to MRS to fill cooking gas on Saturday and cooking gas has moved from 1350 to 1600, I was just shaking my head and hissing. This same cooking gas was 1050 last month, an increment of 550 in less than a month, how do you plan towards that?

The only thing that has remained relatively cheaper this year is foodstuffs like rice, beans and the likes.

raumdeuter:
Spy360 will take over voting APC

I think APC was better at everything ruling party and as opposition too

They are better organized. Few yrs of PDP opposition dem don scatter

I think APC is better organized as a opposition party and better organized as a political party but as for Governance at the FG level, it's been absolutely shambles.

I'm still an APC member even though I haven't attended any ward meetings this year. I'm just tired.

BlueRayDick:
Anytime Jimi Disu tries to raise these obvious points, u will see paid bots cussing him and trolling Obi in comment section of Nigeria Info either on FB or Youtube. Sometimes I wonder if those guys are really paid to do that or they are just doing it for the hatred they have for anything that has to do with Obi?

As regards the ADC, one would think now that Obi is out of the party shebi Atiku will clinch his consensus ticket and nobody will have issues with him . But see the same ADC having two factions; even Atiku's faction still have issues with Amaechi kicking against the same consensus they were forcing Obi to kiss the ring and accept.

The Atiku faction did primary election, not consensus and as expected Atiku is beating Amaechi and Hayatudeen in all the results released so far.

Olowunl01:
Thank you. The problem now is Tinubu is most likely going to get 2nd Term not due to good performance but mainly due to lack strong alternative largely due to opposition (Atiku) not coalencing to single sellable southern candidate (Obi) just like the North did for Buhari becos for me another northerner after 8yrs of Buhari is a no-no.

The opposition too is not serious. Whoever win make he win. Me sef don try. I voted GEJ in 2011, voted Buhari in 2015 and 2019 and Tinubu in 2023. Make me sef rest small.

Looking back APC was so much better as an opposition party than the ruling party.

BlueRayDick:
Your honesty is well appreciated 🙏

Despite keeping the Dollar at 1300 - 1400, we still read of how they struggle to fund the budget with paltry 36 million was the fund released to ministry of health under 2025 budget out of ₦218billion budgeted for capital allocation.

You would agree with every well meaning Nigerian that Buhari's government was the worst thing that ever happened to this country. Then Tinubu's administration taking over from Buhari hasn't really done better like most pro-Tinubu pseudo analysts want us to believe.

I just don't like it when start muddling waters to make it seem like the country was in ruins before APC took over. No it wasn't! We were expecting something better, not worse like it has gotten in the past 11 years and counting.

I think trying to do all reforms at once is the Achilles heel of this administration. It just doesn't make sense that you keep pushing people more into poverty in the name of reform.

The annoying thing is even the slow pace they are going about it as if people's lives is not at stake.

Emaprince:
Larride is actually one truthful homebased APC supporter. He have admitted several times here, Tinubus failures.

However, for the sake of APC, which he is a bonafide member, I believe his answer is YES!! .

I actually won't be voting or campaigning for anybody next year.

Make all of them get out.

Olowunl01:
Chief as a Nigerian Living in Nigeria, putting aside Party, Religious, Tribal bias do you think Tinubu deserve 2nd Term?

No.

BlueRayDick:
1.Why do you think each government including Tinubu's always celebrate when the naira gains against the dollar in the foreign exchange market?

2. When FG claims governors now have as much as x3 of previous FAAC allocations under Tinubu's government, are they referring to Naira or dollars?

1. If I remembered correctly, I once posted here that Tinubu and Cardoso are intentionally keeping the exchange rate at that 1300 - 1400 range to enable them actually fund the budget. Personally I feel a stronger naira means cheaper dollars and that's why they celebrate it.

2. It's in terms of Naira equivalent, the dollar equivalent is most likely the same or even lesser. It's also why I don't parrot that nonsense anymore because when you factor in the increase in price of most goods and services due to the exchange rate, you will see it cancel out wherever increase in FAAC allocation that they get.

Roland17:
I don’t think this thing with Mitchell in Cleveland will work. It may be time to seriously reconsider everything.

I agree and they should've never traded for Harden.

Knicks might actually have a chance against the winner of the WCF

They currently do not have a scoring problem.

BlueRayDick:
There's nothing mischievous about staying the amount each government borrowed in naira.

Naira is the currency we spend in this country and that's what the common man can relate with.Sometimes we need analysts like these to put things into perspective to give people imagination of what exactly is going on with governannce under this administration.

Whatever becomes of exchange rate between Naira and dollar is a function of various government's actions and inactions..... You can't start blaming Jonathan for what naira has become today when Jonathan left government 11 years ago.

The excuse in the past was that government was borrowing to pay salaries and we don't have enough to develop the country after paying subsidies. Today they keep borrowing more than we did in the past and they are not paying subsidy anymore.

I actually went back to the link you posted and I just realised the guy that made that statement was just looking for a banger headline. The facts don't align.

First, our debt profile is not a hidden document, it's open for anyone to see and scrutinize for themselves. Our total debt today is 159 trillion naira.

Secondly, Buhari handed over a total debt of 87 trillion naira to Tinubu. That's around $103 billion.

Thirdly, when Buhari was leaving office, he used Emefiele to pin the 25 trillion ways and means payment into public debt further increasing the domestic debt.

Fourth, Buhari left an external loan of $43.16 billion, as at today, our external loan is $51.86 billion which means this administration has borrowed $8.7billion which if you use today exchange rate is 11.9 trillion naira plus another 15.3 trillion on domestic debt which brings his total debt to 27.2 trillion naira

Fifth, the writer of that post was being deliberately mischievous using a base of 12 trillion debt which Jonathan left in office when Buhari already balloon the national debt to 87 trillion naira before he left.

Of course exchange rate is an important part of national debt, the debts that Jonathan and Buhari left that Tinubu is servicing now, he will still have to source the $$ in today's exchange rate.

To make it eve clearer for you, when Jonathan handed over to Buhari, the total national debt was $63 billion which in naira was 12 trillion naira that the mischievous man quoted. According to Okonjo Iweala, Jonathan only borrowed $21 billion out of this $63 billion debt.

When Buhari left office, the total national debt is $103 billion which is 87 trillion naira using the official exchange rate then. If you look at it critically, Buhari didn't borrow X2 of what Jonathan left but the naira equivalent is x7. Why is that? Because Buhari exchange rate at the end of his tenure is significantly higher than GEJ own.

If you keep going downward further, you'll notice the same pattern. 1 billion dollars under Obasanjo is not the same as 1 billion dollars under GEJ. Same way 1 billion dollars under Abacha is not the same as 1 billion dollars under Obasanjo

Time value of money, inflation and exchange rate all play a part.

BlueRayDick:
How many countries that u know within the space of 2 years borrowed x5 of what It had borrowed in its first 55 years post independence?

Saying "borrowing is not the problem" is actually a problem in itself. You don't anybody to tell u that the character and antecedents of those borrowing the funds already suggested it won't be put to good use.

Anyone can play with numbers to give a desired result.

It makes no sense to compare someone that borrows $1billion which will be 1.37 trillion naira in today exchange rate to someone like say GEJ who was borrowing at a pegged exchange rate of 150-200 which will make $1 billion around 150 billion naira.

It's only when these analyst wants to be mischievous that they mention the naira equivalent as if all of the past Presidents were borrowing on the same exchange rate.

The more important question is what the government is using all the loans for which we can't see it's impact.

Roland17:
Can Asiwaju actually risk picking a different VP from Shettima?

He's not dropping Shettima.

izzou:
What stops the office of the NSA from approving arms for Amotekun?

So until they change the name to "Forest guard", before they can bear arms? Na name go suddenly provide security?

SW governors should go and arm Amotekun and let all these nonsense killings stop

The Governors can't without licensing and permission from the NSA.

That's why all these talk about Governors being the chief security officer of their state is bullshit.

The FG control all the security architecture and it seems they are not yet ready to cede anything to the state.

Roland17:
The Spurs need to find consistent scoring from someone else not named Wemby. They need someone who can give them 20-25 points on a steady otherwise they will remain heavily reliant on him for a W.

They need Fox to actually step up his scoring. Castle can also do 20

Congrats to all Arsenal fans. It's a well deserved trophy.


We haters association will be back on May 30th

Agenda delayed is not agenda denied.

Lana1:
Some people will be crying in their Grandma's basement like this

Odegbami is nowhere to be found.

We dey help Una beat Brighton but Una no fit even help Una self.

Make them disband this club before them comot roof for WhoDeyHouse head.

BRUNO FERNANDEZ


Oko mi le straight

Ibime:
Na from clap dance dey start

I have 2 colleagues both 60 years old

One does ultra trail running - 50 to 170km each time. The other does ironman triathlons which is a 42km marathon combined with a 180km bike ride and a 4km swim

Then I have another colleague 48 years old who does half marathons and does 10km in 46 mins which is sub 4:30 per km pace which is insane even for an almost elite level 20+ year old.

Then my sister does marathons and will be doing another 2 this year

So na from small small corridor yarns I find myself being sucked into that world. When I started monitoring performances on fitness watch, na there science student in me dragged me further into the lifestyle.

I wan be like you when I grow up Egbon.

I actually prefer walking to running and personally I feel walking is the better option (exercise wise) but yeah running too is good for the soul.

Keep up the good work.

Ibime:
There is time for everything

Marathon is 42km, let me manage my 10km for now. I will run half-marathon later this year if I can find a good race around me, then I will enter marathon next year if the house can raise £2k for me cos marathon entry no cheap. I will have to travel abroad to get a marathon entry in another country cos everything is sold out so flight, hotel and entry ticket is involved.

Are you using it for exercise? Because running marathon no be joke oo.

You are doing well.

raumdeuter:
So the security votes should it be withdrawn since they are not doing any security and handed to the FG right? Should the governors return the Security votes since they do not have the capacity to provide security, they shouldnt have the capacity to collect the money. Will you disagree

The legislative is a separate arm from the executive and he cannot tell them to just do anything they want

Many people in Nigeria on this thread including politicians have misgivings about state police so its not just what Tinubu will force through

Yes I agree that the security votes should be withdrawn and written off the federal sharing formula. It's nonsense. You are giving the state Governors money for security when they have no power to actually operate as they should. Governors are chief security officer of NOTHING.

Lets take Lagos as an example, the Lagos State government has a Security Trust Fund that big organisation and private individuals are expected to contribute to. Lagos use this trust fund to buy operational vehicles, helicopters, bikes, vans and the likes for the police yet these formations answers to someone in Abuja. Lagos even lobbied and the police agree to create RRS yet it's still a department under the federal police even though the Lagos State government pays them allowance, kit them and buy equipments for them yet LASG has little influence over them, even the commander of that unit is chosen from Abuja by the federal police. Since they moved the current IGP out of Lagos as commander of RRS, all othe commanders they have brought has been nothing to write home about and yet LASG that practically pay them well has zero say in who becomes their commander, the order comes from Abuja. Ridiculous

LASG also set up the Lagos State Neighborhood Corps, those ones can't even carry arms, na pako them dey carry upandown, even if they notice chaos is about to happen somewhere, they'll still have to rely and call on the federal police 🤣 Those ones can decide to come to the scene when trouble don end.

If the LASG wants to arm the Neighbourhood Corps, they'll have to be under the purview of the ministry of interior or NSA, totally taking control away from the state government.

Should we talk about Amotekun? Do you see the kind of guns they carry? They cannot arm them with sophisticated weapons else FG will have to take control over them. Ridiculous

What exactly are the Governors chief security of again?

We run a senseless centralization of power in Abuja and the President must either break that system and give the Governors actual power to tackle insecurity in their domain or he will continue to take the blame, rightly so.

Trevor012:
He is an Epl champion and preparing to play a champions league final something Bruno can never do till he die. Where was Fraudnandes when United was finishing 16th, losing the Europa to a useless Tottenham team, eliminated by Grimsby etc.


Fraudnandes is one of the most useless player I have ever seen for United. Oloboruku stat padder that does nothing in important games.

Make I bring bucket ehn? 😂

raumdeuter:
Until state police is a reality should FG cut off the security votes to states and manage everything from Abuja

Or what's the use of the security votes they get when the buck still always stop at presidency

What is delaying state police today BTW

Egbon, the President cannot keep passing the blame to the Governors when as at today he still controls the police and the entire armed forces. Even the forest rangers are under the control of the FG. The final buck stops at his table. No excuses. We won’t make this excuse for another person, we shouldn’t be making it for Asiwaju.

The Governor security votes are whatever, you are giving them money when they have zero operational control over the security outfits. It’s a travesty.

They are still doing framework and bla bla bla with the IGP of police as the head. Again we are putting the cart ahead of the horse. Let the National Assembly do their damn job and come up with a bill outlining the structure, framework and funding of how the state police will be and how they will operate with the federal police. Repel the current Police Acts and allow each state to draw up their own police structure, framework, funding and recruitments. We just like over complicating simple issues.

Those who have been entrusted with office should do their damn jobs. If Asiwaju wants to pass the blame to the Governors on insecurities, he should tel the NA to quickly come up with the state police bill, he kuku get whatever he wants from the National Assembly, this one shouldn’t be hard.

For now, the blame rest squarely on the President neck, shoulder and body.

Trevor012:
By carrying United to win either the league or UCL like Odeggard or by statpadding with setpeices and finishing another trophyless season with United?

How many assists your odegbami get sef?

Wo sunkun fun mi joooor

TrebleChamp:
This is the PFA award nah...

No it’s not

A40:
I have to give it to OKC. Their fighting spirit is something else. If you want to beat them you have to be ready to face them bumper to bumper. Gidigbo for Gidigbo

SGA was mid and it didn't even matter

Darryl Morey you will not see the pearly gates for giving them Jared McCain.

James Harden was right about the fraud

Philadelphia will remain in purgatory. They finally drafted a good player and traded him to the champions for scraps.

A foolish franchise.