₦airaland Forum

izzou:
[color=royalblue]The largest off grid solar plant in Africa is the Sahel region Solar plant in Burkina Faso

It's a 33 Megawatt plant and it produced about 15Mw in its test phase

The one in BUK is not up to 10Mw sef.

Be guided, Larride

That's said, let Sodiq take the stage please? [/color]

Let me rephrase that: “largest offgrid solar hybrid power plant in Africa.”

odizeey:
Yea. I met it when wise ones took it over. I thought it was a mockery campaign. But lo and behold, people were actually paid to trend an oppressor.

Inside life. Nkan nbe.

Honest question, how is Buratai your oppressor? Are you a member of BKH?

iamoyindamola:
okay good let's start with his manifestos.
National security
Dollar rate
Electricity
Employment
Standard of living ( can someone minimum wage start a family or survive with his family)
Feeding school children
Give youths monthly stipend
Corruption

I think that's all I can remember, please with all sincerity rate those I listed

You still didn’t explain what you meant by not leading in the “right direction”. What does the right direction mean to you?

Now back to your post, I will try and answer each to the best of my knowledge and I hope you are actually ready for an open discussion and not grandstanding. Nevertheless, here it goes:

1. National Security.
On Terrorism, I score him 7. There have been tremendous improvement in both the Military hardware and successes in the fight against BH. We no longer hear of suicide bombers, market place bombings, religious place bombings and the likes. The Military has liberated a lot of territories from BH and ISWAP. Prior to the Buhari led Administration, we had local government in the North under the control of BH. No single territory or LG are in the hands on these terrorist anymore.
On Policing generally, this is where I score Buhari low as I expected police reforms from him.

2. Dollar Rate
I’m not sure what this means, so maybe you can explain.

3. Electricity.
If you really understand how electricity works in the country then you will know that component of the electricity sector was sold to private investors prior to 2015. We now have Gencos (Electricity Generating Companies) Discos (Electricity Distributing Companies) and TCN (Transmission Company).

It is important to note that as at Dec 2014, Nigeria has the capacity to generate about 4,900MW and as at May last year, Nigerian currently has the capacity to generate over 8,000MW. That’s almost double Nigeria capacity in 4 years.

Away from that, the Energizing Economic Initiative under the Rural Electrification Agency has recorded some major success. The initiative objective is to provide uninterrupted power supply to over 100k establishments in economic clusters around the country to boost productivity. The pilot phase has been concluded. The pilot phase was in Lagos - Sura Shopping complex, Abia - Ariaria market and Kano - Sabon Gari market. Both Sura and Ariaria market are been powered by Independent Power Plant (IPP) while the Sabon Gari is been powered by decentralized solar technology.

Still under REA, there’s Energizing Education Programme which goal is to provide clean and sustainable power supply to 37 federal universities and 7 teaching hospitals. The one in Alex Ekueme University in Ebonyi State has been completed and commissioned. Another one in Bayero University Kano (BUK) has been completed and commissioned. In fact the one commissioned in Kano is the largest off-grid solar power plant in Africa.

4. Employment
As at 2015, Nigeria unemployment rate was 5.31% and as at last year, our unemployment rate was 6.11%. This is considering the fact that we have gone through recession and back. Also, this administration has employed over 500k Youth through N-Power, over 90k cooks was employed directly under the NHGSFP.

5. Standard of Living
Considering that some states are struggling to pay the previous minimum wage and were owing salary, how do you think they are going pay the new minimum wage? The new minimum wage is based on our current reality. With time, it will improve.

6. School Feeding Program.
Under the National Social Investment Program (NSIA), Nigeria has the largest School feeding program in Africa. The National Home Grown School Feeding Program (NHGSFP) is currently feeding over 8.5m primary 1-3 pupils in over 40,000 schools in 35 states in the country.

7. Youth monthly stipend
See N-Power

8. Corruption.
The EFCC has gotten over 1,000 convictions since this administration started. Under this administration, we have seen SGF sacked for corruption and currently standing trial, we have seen Head of Service of the federation indicted and removed for corruption, we have seen the head of the judiciary stand trial for non declaration of asset, we have had high profile case convictions. Under this administration, we now know, stealing is CORRUPTION.


So tell me sodik, what do you think? Let’s hear your views.

iamoyindamola:
We should be sincere here, how will a sane person think the man is leading us to the right direction.

How is “he” not leading us in the right direction?


Let’s have an open discussion on your expectations or which direction you think is best for the country to move to currently.

airmark:
Larride, how far?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CrfL12i_Eo

How far what?

They ran into some land mines and were ambushed. 2 soldiers dead and 3 injured from the explosion.

It’s a war, there will unfortunately be casualties.

nihilistjnr:
leyqute do you think btc can double its price within a year?

I'm thinking about making a risky move

I doubt it. Something has to happen in the market to make that kind of bull run.

BlueRayDick:
Does it mean these agencies are self regulatory and don't answer to anybody as regards remuneration of their staff? Well, I don't know much about this and can't argue about it sha, but if this is true it means it leaves room for them to have Ghost workers; which is one of the reason FG is pushing for the implementation of IPPIS.

Meanwhile, it is a known fact these lecturers are not saints just like the rogue politicians dragging them. They are all product of the society we live in.

Of course not, it’s not that those agencies are self regulatory, it’s just that they have a lot of control over their internal workings that lots of other agencies doesn’t. They are still subject to other relevant laws.

If we really do want change in the country, we must be ready for lots of disruptive actions. The civil service is the breeding ground of corruption. It’s those in the civil/public service that helps politicians to turn rogue.

BlueRayDick:
Well, seems this FG vs ASUU is more like evil fighting evil here. The evil that has more leverage will come out tops.

FG paying for shortfall of their PAYE should not have happened at all. They should've laid this bare all along and let people see what ASUU and its members are.....The federal government we are made to understand subsidizes tuition fees for student, what sort of 4ckery is subsidizing lecturers' PAYE again ?

But then again, the FG agencies that are not under the IPPIS makes FG lack moral ground to enforce the IPPIS on ASUU and makes ASUU to want a continuation of their largese( If FG's story is true)

At the bolded, it doesn’t. Those agencies were set up as revenue generating agencies and the Act establishing them gives them the legal backing to take out revenue collection cost for their day to day running. ASUU is not. There are over 400 MDAs drawing salary from IPPIS platform, using CBN, FIRS, NNPC and NCS who are revenue generating agency as shield is just ASUU trying to grasps at straws.


Those years of strike by ASUU has given them a lot of powers especially over their respective University management and a tool to blackmail the government. That rubbish must stop.


Even the current ASUU National President, Prof Ogunyemi is from Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) which is a State University. State University are owned by state government and their salary are being paid by the state government. I won’t be shocked if it’s revealed that he’s drawing multiples salaries from the coffers of the FG.

Skimpledawg:
I was about to mention you and Larride.

Ma' binu Prophet.


What are we starting with?

Bless you Apostle. Was busy through yesterday. Saw the battle late at night.

BlueRayDick:
I read the article and I need to understand something here. Pray tell, who is responsible for paying university lecturers? I mean is it ASUU or Federal government?

1. The reason I need this clarification is the claim of the OAGF saying ASUU members underpaid payee. How? I work in a private firm and before I get my salary is paid my pensions and tax is deducted from source. The accounts/ finance department is responsible if whatever tax they deducted is underestimated or not remitted as required. The tax authorities have a job to take it up with them.

2. I think it makes no sense for government to make such statement as " ASUU members have been under paying PAYE tax for years and they have been covering for them " It shows the government, ministry of finance, FIRS, OAGF etc have very useless. If a set of taxpayers have been underpaying tax for years running into billions, is the sensible thing to do not write to them or their employers for clarifications or sanctions ? Why are we reading about this senselessness in a national daily at this period ?

3. You remember you talked about FG being the employer and that they should be able to dictate the contract if employment ? You know were of the opinion that the employee(ASUU) should not be dictating the terms of salary payment when those ones were saying they are not ready to drop BVN?

Now see FG claiming they rely on list submitted by ASUU which contained dead members . Are they supposed to rely on such lists without verification ? Is that how an employer that is supposedly powerful behaves?.

Before now, the way the FG pays his worker in the tertiary institutions differs.

FG every month send bulk personnel cost to each University and the Universify managements are the one that pays the lecturers salary, allowances and the likes. It’s one of the reason why ASUU are vehemently refusing to come on IPPIS because it will expose a lot of rot in the system.

The University managements are the one that are supposed to deduct the tax and remit it to the FIRS but ASUU has been able to arm-twist those management (which most of their members are ASUU member themselves) who have 1 or 2 skeletons in their cupboard. Coupled that with rogue tax officials, then you get this concondrum.

Even the list ASUU sends FG with BVN, 1,180 of them didn’t match with the records and had to be sent back to their various institution for verification.

They earn illegal allowances, draw multiple salaries under the guise of “Sabbatical”, they are underpaying PAYE and you are wondering why they are vehemently against IPPIS.

donjazet:
You are falling for his trap, the e-diot responded to a post criticizing the murder of a black man by 2 white males by saying that black on black murders are higher.
Anybody who follows raumdeuter's foolish far right political leanings will naturally deduce that he is indirectly justifying the murders. This is a point I have clarified here severally, and he too doubled down and defended that point here, so for him to keep on yapping about it was just him being stupidly mischievous.

As for me expressing any interest in any so-called roommate, I am ready to stake 100,000k right now, that he is just a plain liar as I never made any post pertaining such.

If you even follow the rubbish he has misyarning about this gay stuff, any sane individual can deduct that he just exaggerating and manipulating words smartly to make the accusations stick.

Eg, that I am tying a rope on my neck, later changing it to choker, that I rubbed lipstick, that I rubbed oil, capitalising on a vague post I made 5 years ago about a very good series. As a matter of fact, I innocently took that picture because I am a bit of a fitness freak and I like showing off my ripped body because i work out a lot, I didn't post it for anyone's perversed feelings.
I believe smart people must have already seen through all these to know he is just being mischevious.

A sage once said:

@BlueRayDick

Regards our ASUU matter, read this from the OAGF

https://thenationonlineng.net/you-underpaid-paye-tax-fg-slams-ASUU/

Oasis007:
If United eventually get Sancho, then Greenwood can't be deployed as RW anymore. In the pecking order he's gonna be 3rd, behind Sancho and James as a RW.

If we get additional Striker as you proposed, he's gonna become a 3rd Choice. Either way it may impede his development. He needs game times to develop, beasting in training alone won't take him anywhere.

True

Oasis007:
Are you a SA to any political Office Holder?! Honestly you deserve an Appointment. You are up-to-date, and do present your Submissions with verifiable Facts and Figures.

No o. Though the plan is to start somewhere, maybe LG chairmanship first.

Most times I just follow the news, read different report before forming an opinion.

BlueRayDick:
This makes sense if it is done properly as explained

Hopefully those staff of SUBEB won't hijack it and only share to few pupils' homes.

The Nigerian factor “might” come into play.

One thing I have always wondered is the low level of project monitoring in this country. It gives room for a lot of public officer to do as they like.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I don't understand the issue raised [/color]

BlueRayDick:
I was expecting u would give Ur opinion about the programme. Forget that we may call u party man once in a while , but we do learn from some of those opinions/explanation u give.

At least I learnt something on that social welfare programme/ conditional cash transfer we confused for COVID-19 palliative when u talked about the social register parole

From what I understand about the whole issue, The initiative is from the NHGSFP (National Home Grown School Feeding Program).

Each public primary school in all the states under the NHGSFP are the beneficiaries. NHGSFP is aliasing with each state education board since they are the one in charge of primary education in their state. Each pupil has their records with the State Education Board, so pupils address will be gotten from there. Because schools are closed, instead of cooked food, NHGSFP is providing food items to each home that has a registered primary school student.

Lagos State own is starting today, here is from the Lagos State Twitter handle:

https://twitter.com/followlasg/status/1261171901306716160?s=21

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Larride, what's your opinion on the current plan to feed school children with beeellliiiooonnss of naira, even though they are still at home?

Which move is this?
Sinzu, Spending or Jacuzzi? [/color]

Do you just want to criticize for criticizing sake or you don’t understand the issue raised?

Unlimited22:
Happy birthday to me.

Happy birthday to you Doc. Many happy returns.


Enjoy your day.

NinjaMetahuman:
while I understand what you are saying.. it's hard to ignore religious folks when everything they do affects your life.

Like use the hard earned money you pay for tax so they could fix road to build mosque or send some people on pilgrimage to countries you don't give a shit about. You just cant hold it in all the time.

Government use money to buy church or mosque?

Do you even know those that go on pilgrimage pay with their own money?

madrid5:
1.poor education is lack of funds mostly but hindered by religion,for instance in my secondary school we spent like every morning in prayers and worship,granted it is a primary school and not every Nigerian student experienced this,then things like evolution are left out of school curriculum,why?,health sectors,economy are mostly corruption.
2.colonials and European christian missionaries built most schools like mine(Baptist high school)but most Europeans themselves are no longer religious, they have moved on,so people that brought u the religion also enslaved you have abandoned both.
3.religion is the reason for most issues and even in cases where it isn't it is a symptom

@ bolded

You mean they didn’t teach you evolution in secondary school?

airmark:
No. It's really the shekau 'AUDIO'.

This is the transcript.

https://dailynigerian.com/breaking-shekau-weeps-in-new-audio-seeks-protection-against-nigerian-troops-firepower/

@ airmark how far nah.

Did you listen to the Sheakau audio yet?

donjazet:
Wrong. Not all politicians started from grassroots.
Some were technocrats or bureaucrats who were simply handpicked by their principals to succeed them.
Eg, Obianno of Anambra.
I don't need to remind you that majority of the current political class are political offsprings of former military regimes
.
Many state governors and senators were handpicked individuals who necessarily didn't have to build up their image.

Some simply have the privilege of being from wealthy well known families.

All our democratic presidents had no grassroots buildup.
Obasanjo was from the military.
He handpicked yaradua to succeed him because of his late army brother who had died.
Jonathan was a professor who was handpicked by Alamesie in other to balance the zoning ticket on recommendation from Peter odilli. As a matter of fact, he was chosen as VP by Obasanjo because he was perceived as weaker than odilli.
Jonathan never had any strong grassroots movement even till today despite having served as president. He has been a victim of extreme luck.

I don't need to tell you about buhari. In as much as he had a fanatical following in his region, it was a following built as a result of his past military leadership.
Not all politics is local, this is Nigeria, we don't have a system yet where people can crop up genuinely. It is difficult.

Do you know the meaning of third force?

With all Buhari fanatical support base in the North, why didn’t he win in the previous 3 elections he contested in?

Look at all the example you give, they all have one thing in common: PARTY STRUCTURE.

I’m not sure you really understand this argument.

donjazet:
As someone posted earlier, at THIS POINT, going to vote for a third party candidate is a waste of time when you know the impossible odds of that candidates number making a dent not to talk of winning, however one can still enact change in other people's mind by relentlessly educating and informing others of the need for change both in person and on social media. On my watsapp, facebook, twitter and instagram page, I constantly advocate for radical change in our political and religious mindset. Overtime, more will key into this.

I have made a lot of people around me start questioning what they believe, that's effective work if you ask me.

You can’t make a dent overnight.

People have to trust you first. You have to show leadership attribute before they can even begin to trust your candidacy.

The first point is always your locality. All politics is local.

Let me give you an example. James Faleke. For those that don’t know his story, let me share briefly. I was staying in Ojodu Berger when he became the chairman of Ojodu LCDA, he did what other chairmen have never done, he made sure all the inner street were smooth and laid with asphalt, gave Ojodu a new look. 4 years later he went for House of Assembly representing the same constituency and he won with a landslide. From there he was nominated as Deputy Gov to the late Audu in Kogi APC. If not for some technicalities, he would have being the Gov of Kogi State today. You build capacity and support base from your locality. Your locality must be able to vouch for you.

Look at what Banky W is doing in Eti Osa, he lost the last election to APC but he’s still visible doing all sort to remain in the mind of those in his community. Look at how Akin Alabi became a Rep. Examples abound, let them sowore n co start from somewhere before they start eyeing the top job.

diggz:
My guy you no see me see wahala. Ordinary to go vote na problem but you'd find them all over social media shouting upandan and forming rubbish. The youngest head of state was 31years yet these old men siddon for one corner dey deceive themselves say religion be their problem...lol

They want leadership role to fall on their lap.

Or maybe they will beg them to come govern or contribute their quota to nation building.

Critical thinking without action.


Diggz I Dey gbadun you jare. Fire on.

BlueRayDick:
Chai! It's still a win for him at the end of the day sef.

Obviously na that other guy just test the waters first. More like a forerunner for the big masquerade.

You are right.

BlueRayDick


OUK remains in jail till his own appeal will be heard. It’s certain though that he will win the appeal on the ground just like this one won the appeal for retrial.