₦airaland Forum

Noisyrians:
Must Ghana share a border with Nigeria to enforce the ecowas rule on free movement of people?

Did Nigeria restrict free movement of people?

Ibime:
No he is right. Since Nigeria decided their local laws supercede Ecowas freedom of movement (whether from Benin, Cameroon, Chad or Niger), then Ghana can also feel empowered to supercede Ecowas freedom of movement laws with their own. They actually still maintain freedom of movement, you just can't trade freely without meeting their threshold.

The law has been there since 1992 and there has always been issue concerning that particular law which they usually look a way to settle them up.

The land border was closed to exporting and importing of goods. People still cross over from those borders. They can also still import their stuff through the sea or by air. The land border was closed to checkmate smuggling and loss of import duties that would have been earned if those smuggled goods were imported legally.

For example, While Nigeria wanted to focus on home grown rice production and attain rice sufficiency, Nigeria imposes 70% duties on rice importation. Benin republic responded by reducing their own custom duties from 35% to 7% while Cameron responded by reducing their own custom duties from paltry 10% to ZERO. This is clearly sabotage. Most of those riceprenuer just reroute their cargo to Benin republic, Togo and Cameron paying next to nothing on custom duties and then smuggle those rice into Nigeria through the porous border.

Nigeria has even complained bitterly to all those countries we share land border with that they need to police their border efficiently while we focus on our side of the border also. Nigeria even complained to Ecowas also about how these countries are encouraging smuggling into our country, turning our country into a dumping ground and killing off local manufacturers and farmers. What did Ecowas do? Nothing.

We don’t share land borders with Ghana. For Ghana to get to Nigeria through the land border, they will have to pass through 2 countries (Togo and Benin) before getting to our land border. They should look for another excuse to enforce their law.

Ibime:
This Charlie must be like the larride of Ghana. He knows all their politics and laws well well.

Thanks for shedding light on the situation Charlie. It's understandable. One love.

He’s trying to be smart by half.

For starters we don’t share land border with Ghana. What we share with Ghana is maritime border and it wasn’t closed.

He’s right though about the law banning non Ghanaians from operating petty or retail business outlet.

hardeycute:
Larride


http://saharareporters.com/2020/05/23/exposed-64-bank-accounts-linked-bvn-lagos-assembly-speaker-obasa


Sahara Reporters/Someone has been on Obasa's matter for quite some time, do you have any idea on what this is about? Like a fallout or

I have no idea really. With all the expose, it’s definitely someone getting back at him. He will most likely lose his speakership.

Lagos State Assembly need to him remove him as speaker and let him face his actions squarely. He has no immunity so EFCC should get to work.

airmark:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B_91b5kHJ1t/?igshid=11m7r5ut028s7

Larride, see your brother in this video.

That slap ehn.

Thecassanova:
More research needed, a colleague of mine is working on that day and night, but I promise you Chloroquine will not be the savior. Even the allergy reactions says something. Me I’ve been focusing on them ginger, honey, lemon, vitamin c (500mg), tangerine per day since covid19.

Me & few colleagues wrote a manuscript detailing the mechanism of action of some FDA approved repurposed drugs, most especially Remdesivir for the virus therapeutic management. I’d rather look inward to Remdesivir (& ritonavir) as it’s in phase 2 clinical trial, same with tocilizumab, both works to inhibit RNA Dep & interleukin-6 respectively. A critical stage that prevent the viral synthesis & decreases inflammation. Will share the link once published in few days.

You are doing well.

Ibime:
This may be a bad move as most Local Government leaders are despots, most in the South-South are either militants or vicious thugs who got LGA Chairman role as their reward for delivering for the Governor. LGA Chairmen commit more abuses and there are no press controls on their actions, whereas a Governor has to manage press fallout from their actions.

Any further loosening of central command-and-control toward a democracy of thugs is to be discouraged. Democracy of thieves and thugs us the worst thing that can happen to a country. We already have too much Executive power in the hands of tinpot Governors. I have always maintained that FG does a much better job than State Govt and State Govt does a much better job than Local Govt. This is because FG is somewhat accountable to International bodies and International perception, while State bodies are somewhat accountable to National perception. For example you can never see FG not paying salaries for months on end unlike State Govt.

Local Govt own is to do anyhow, anyhow and no one will hold them to account. On NL front-page yesterday we saw a pastor being tortured on camera for criticising Local Government.

But the local government are closer to the people and if we get local government councils to work as they should, we will witness massive developmental improvement. There are lots of responsibilities that State Gov take on that are meant for the local government especially when it comes to constructing of inner roads, maintenance and repairs, primary health care centers and primary schools. Local government are meant to bring governance closer to the people.

I’m really hopeful that when the National Assembly rework the electoral reform bill, we will make headway in the way LG elections are conducted. The Supreme Court already ruled that State Gov has no power to remove elected local government chairmen and appoint caretaker committees. We just need to keep strengthening our institutions till we get it right.

Governance must be decentralized if we want rapid development.

BlueRayDick:


Good decision to leave the war alone. Even people that participated in the war gave different accounts that don't even in any way agree with each other.

Imagine Gowon claiming he released Awolowo and Ojukwu claiming same. Unfortunately the Awo himself was late and couldn't tell the two ex-warlords to keep his name out of their mouths.

Funny thing is someone sympathetic to Biafra course thinks Awo is a backstaber who was released by Ojukwu but turned back to join forced with Gowon; while fans of Gowon and one Nigeria thinks Awo was released by Gowon and his contribution to the war effort particularly allged advice to Gowon to starve Biafra of relief materials won the war for Gowon.

The war story is very sensitive

It’s a very sensitive matter that shouldn’t have been brought here.

nihilistjnr:
Seen.

But how is giving state judiciary direct access to federal funding a good move?

Not federal funds, the money will be deducted from the State allocation.

The plan is to make them really independent in the true sense of it. At least with these move, we can begin to see State HoA actually doing their job and not being a lackey for state govenors.

nihilistjnr:
What source?

I'm confused

The source is the Consolidated Federation Account.

Just like what Buhari hope to achieve with the local government financial autonomy. The sharing formula from the federation account is FG: 52.68%, State: 26:72% and LG: 20.60%. The State government cunnily made sure that LGA allocation were paid together with the state allocation directly to the state account and then “they” will credit their respective LGA account. Buhari change that last year June.

Now back to the State HoA and State Judiciary, the executive order mandates each state to compulsorily add their state HoA and Judiciary to their statutory transfer list. The State HoA and State Judiciary will no longer be the mercy of the State government as their salaries and the likes will be paid by themselves according to their budget. The order even empowers State Judiciary to embark on special capital project like building and maintaining of state high court complex, magistrate court complex and the likes.

Any State Government that fails to comply with the order, the funds will be deducted at source (Consolidated Federation Account) during the allocation sharing by the FG and it will be sent directly to the State HoA and State Judiciary account.


Buhari has set up a Presidential Inplementation committee to make sure the order is implemented across the nation.

nihilistjnr:
What does financial autonomy mean?

It basically means they will be getting their funds directly from source.

Buhari has granted Financial Autonomy to State House of Assembly and State Judiciary today through an executive order.

Hope Uzodinma has signed a bill into law today repelling payment to pension and gratitue to ex govenors, deputy governors, speaker and deputy speaker of state house of assembly.


Good move.

donjazet:
True, the coup had an ethnic coloration which soured opinions, however that isn't justification for the mass extinction of the igbos that was taking place. And it wasn't only in the north, even the west partook.

The bloody counter coup should have been enough revenge, not taking it out on ordinary citizens.

Easy fam, Easy.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/excitement-as-calabar-port-takes-delivery-of-four-shiploads-of-pms.html

This is the kind of news I want to be hearing.

Decongest Lagos Port.

eph12:
Yeah exactly what I am saying. And the constitution should be clear about the separation of power. People shouldn't have to police communities far from their families. The police for every area should be people that are familiar with that area and everyone knows them there including their wives, children, church, mosque etc.

I agree wholeheartedly.

donjazet:
Raumdeuter, I would like to pick your brain on this subject matter, as you know our history has been soo distorted, it's difficult to know facts. it has been hotly debated that Ojukwu freed awolowo himself on the agreement that himself and the Yoruba would secede from Nigeria but upon his release changed his mind.
I just read an article on Sahara reporters that stirs my inquisition.
If they did infact agree, why do you think awolowo reneged on the agreement?

Cc blueraydick, larride, Ibime etc.

http://saharareporters.com/2011/11/26/my-last-interview-dim-chukwuemeka-ojukwu-rudolf-okonkwo

There are different accounts of what happened during the war and each account is skewed to the narrative the author wants to pass across.

I’ll pass on this topic pls.

eph12:
And I have responded abi? There will always be one reason or the other why something will not work. It's never going to be easy. There are some things we will have to face head on sooner than later. State policing is one of them.

Of course, I am in support of community policing. There has to be an arrangement that works. We can still have a federal police like the FBI while states take charge of their respective internal security through the local government.

eph12:
I'm not sure I'm paid to think up a solution for Rivers state. They have the house of assemblies and judiciary. They have human right groups there. There are social media warriors to tackle him and put him in check. Wike is aggressive There are 36 states in Nigeria. Is Wike's state the only one you're afraid for?

Why are you being unnecessarily defensive tho? It’s an open discussion on which way you think our policing should be structured. Wike was just used as an example of State Govenors rascality.

eph12:
His town people will checkmate him by theirselves unless they're not ready. That's their problem. We have been having this fear for years now but no fear from the federal abi? The country can't be held hostage by some set of people. We can have federal and state police.

How are they going to checkmate him?

obainojazz:
Except federal government can step in when the governors abuse that power.. State police should not even be in the discussion for now.. People like El rufai, wike and any Lagos Tinubu will just abuse it.. Funny thing is Lagos is the only state that can have one, but police men will turn to ballot snatchers during election
No mind my joke

If it is backed by law, there’s nothing the FG will be able to do about it. Community policing is the way forward but how are we going to achieve this?

Look at RRS in Lagos, to a large extent they are the model which other police unit should emulate.

diggz:
Cc larride Blueraydick

I witnessed what went down during the last Census and I can confirm that the numbers were mostly fabricated.

Of course I know. I was counted twice.

eph12:
Why won't it be so? There's a security issue, they have to run to Abuja. The IGP can even refuse to obey the governors if he wants. The governors have to go to Abuja to collect money every time.

Let the states generate their revenue and be in charge of it. They can be sending some percentage to the federal instead of the other way round. You will see how states will sit up and nobody bothers abuja again on major issues. But we're not ready for this talk yet

We need serious Police reforms, the fear of a discentralized Police in the hands of our State Governor gives me serious concerns but we must find a way to do community policing.

Just imagine state police under someone like Wike.

I don’t even know where to start respoding from with all the mentions.

Make una take ham softly na.

BlueRayDick:
Thank u for this. I find it hard believing whatever figure they churn out because we don't even know the population of the country. The last census was done 14 years ago and it was fraught with controversies that shows the data is inaccurate.

We don't have unemployment benefits, so at what point does the government know someone used to work but he's now unemployed?

That was why I said those guys just padded figures and dish it out and claim that is the situation on ground when it's far from it. You hardly see 15 people gaining employment out of a class of 100 within the first 1 year of graduation and NYSC. Yet they are talking about a Lower unemployment rate.

@ bolded, I think this is a wrong choice of word.

You cannot claim they didn’t use enough sample test and at the same time claim the figures they release are padded. You can say you think they didn’t have sufficient sample to pool from but categorically saying they are padding figures they release is a bit of an overstretch since you yourself don’t even have any data we can compare it with.

If you check our unemployment rate, you will notice they are rising on an annual basis. If you say they are padding the figures, are they padding it to increase the figures yearly?

Ibime:
UK unemployment rate is measured via a random sample of 100,000 adults so 800,000 in Nigeria is OK as a sample size.

What Naija doesn't have is a sense-check mechanism like in the West they also track the no of unemployment benefit claimants.

TBH, you cannot argue with any figure produced in Naija because what really defines unemployment? Whilst the average Nigerian girl baking cake and chinchin in her house after NYSC may describe herself as unemployed, one can argue she is self-employed. I am guessing if the statisticians call her as part of the 800k sample and she says she is making chinchin, they will mark her down as employed. There is no profit figure you must hit to class yourself either way. However what I know is that very few Nigerians are gainfully employed.

Underemployment. YES.

BlueRayDick:
Oga mi, the 800k is their sample which they will use to represent the population. Whatever Labour force figure they want to come up with is in the 800k. That is how sampling works.

What I'm saying is doing analysis and basing decisions on a sample of 800k out of over 100m population shows Ur data will not be accurate.

By the way IMF, World Bank will not leave their country and organize census in Ur country for u na. Na wetin u give dem in terms kf Ur population dem go take.

@ bolded, the pooling sample of 800k was in 2014, it’s definitely not going to be the same sample size they will use for 2019. I don’t think it’s right to claim they are still using the 2014 sample to derive their stat for 2019.

IMF and World Bank do partner with relevant agencies to conduct their research especially for planning purposes. That’s why they have their representatives in each member state.

BlueRayDick:
Since u say u don't know, no problem then.

But just take a look at this screenshot below. Without attaching sentiments, will u take whatever data obtained from the process described in the screenshot serious?

Nigeria has a population of over 100 million (that has not been verified to be true or not) , they want to know the unemployment rate amongst the population so they decided to gather data thru a field survey that lasted just 3 weeks and allegedly had a sample size of 800,000


Do u know what percentage of 100million 800k represents? 0.8% which is even less than 1%

A certain Dr Yemi Kale and his team Sat down and calculated unemployment rate based on this 800k sample size and use it to represent the whole population and we are supposed to swallow it hook line and sinker because dem Sabi economics and statistics pass.

Fixed.


Looking at the screenshot, it talks about what they start about how they began collecting data for the unemployment rate. I believe unemployment rate will be gotten from the labor force. Maybe Ibime or Nihilistjnr can shed more light on that.


The screenshot was talking about what happened in 2014, a lot of things will have changed and some things improved upon. Data collection is no joke. Almost all data that world bank, IMF or any other body post about Nigeria are majorly sourced from the NBS which means to an acceptable degree, their data are reliable.

BlueRayDick:
I have a question for u; How is unemployment rate calculated in Nigeria?

I don’t work in NBS so I don’t know the parameters they use.

Moreover that figure is not even from NBS, it’s from Statica.

BlueRayDick:
I have somebody like that in my office. She's a senior colleague that has sympathy for apc and is always optimistic about this current administration. She drops figures like that too, but when I'm in my good mood I start debunking those cooked up figures.

When I remind her of the non-stopping increase in her children's fees since the advent of this administration, how much she fuels her car now, how the car park at marina has increased parking fees from ₦500 to as much as ₦750 daily, how the company's investment income is no longer anything to write home about......etc all in response to how things has deteriorated economic wise. She mostly will just say I should go with my wàhálà and end it all by saying at least there is no stealing/wanton looting going on like we had under Jonathan.

I just shake my head and move on. They keep talking about the GDP growing blah blah blah....Yet u see more and more business men and traders defaulting on loans due to unfavorable economic conditions, FX issues and what have u.

Everywhere na packaging for dis government Jàre. I give it to them, they have some sharp guys who do magic with these figures.

I’m free for the night, let’s discuss this shall we?

Let’s use your logic and compare the economic realities between the immediate past administration and this one, you up for it?

BlueRayDick:
Baba forget figures Jàre. It's economics graduates working at NBS that formulate these figures. Naija has no database to capture the data required to compute these economic indicators.

I've been doing research in the social sciences since I was an undergraduate, I've gone to different lengths to get some of these data, there are no records anywhere . How many company inform government about retrenchment / laying off their staff? How many people have unemployment benefits insurance that will signal the government there has been increase in Unemployed population when they claim on these policies?

I know at least 5 persons personally that have lost their jobs since 2016 till date. Only one of them has been able to get another job. Then I know others that have not gotten a job since they graduated till date.

All those unemployment rate figures u see does not in anyway represent the reality on ground at all. The recently concluded Lagos state teacher's recruitment ; they were recruiting for just 1,000 teachers but they received 50,000 applications. So 1,000 were selected on merit + connection + long leg. Now what happens to the 49,000 that were not selected?

Imagine if we have about 49,000 that couldn't make it to the teaching job's finale, what about engineers, accountants etc?

Once again, forget those figures.

Quick one, when they say Nigeria is the poverty capital of the world, did you bother to ask them where they get the data from?

According to you, there’s no data anywhere so how do we believe the poverty rate and other stats in Nigeria?

odizeey:
That's govt formulated figures. That's why I don't like engaging him. There's always a justification.
Wo. Even person wen kill, judge go say na manslaughter.

There's always an answer.

Lol. He say government formulated figures. When you hear figures that you suit what you perceive, you will be quick to share it but when someone share another figure, it’s govt formulated figures. Lol.

iamoyindamola:
See my reply in coloured texts

It could have been better if you had replied separately but any which way, it’s cool.

1. Herdsmen and farmers clash didn’t start today or 2015, you can do your independent research on what has been causing clashes between herdsmen and farmers. Ditto for kidnapping. These are meant to be crime that the Police force will tackle heads on and I do agree that the police force has been nothing to write home about.

2. How can Buhari made $1 to make 1 Naira?

3. You asked me what the FG has done on electricity and after I told you, you are saying it’s shalaye?

4. Saying you don’t know if N-Power exist in the west should end this discussion without stress.

5. How much do you think the government should be paying as minimum wage considering the current reality?

6. Maybe you should go and read more about NHGSFP.

7. Youths under N-Power are been paid 30k monthly stipend.

8. What’s PDP members witch hunt? Did they steal or not? Which party just left the helm of affairs? Was it not PDP?

You really need to understand how your country works. The FG is limited in the scope of his powers. The FG cannot force laws on State government. The federal government under Jonathan already signed the FOI bill into law, let those CSO go drag their respective state govenors who has refused to signed the FOI into law in their respective states.

The FG under Buhari signed the whistleblower policy. He sent a special court bill for corruption to the National Assembly which was declined. Instiutionized corruption can only be rooted out with the help of the National Assembly, without that, nothing will happen.