₦airaland Forum

MadPolitician:
So why is "food expensive", Because those terrible igbo importers?

Food is expensive because we aren't self sufficient in food as a country and we are experiencing hyper inflation as a result of the devaluation of our currency.

Kukutente23:
1. Agbado is not Ogun state
2. Ogun state is under Ibadan Disco not Ikeja
3. Nobody gets 12hrs to 16hrs light daily in Nigeria. That's a lie
4. It's virtually impossible to pay 4k in estimated billing at least in the past 4 years. Not even in the north is it possible. Quote me anywhere

It funny how people brazenly display ignorance with so much confidence....it really amuses me!!

Agbado is in iffo LGA and which LG bears that name in Lagos state .

IKEDC covers upto some parts of Sango and addo odo- ota LGA in Ogun state.

As I am typing this right now I currently have public power running and we do 16 to 18 hrs conveniently.

As recently as 2022,they were still paying 4k monthly but power was very poor as they hardly did 6 hrs a day.

SonOfDSoil01:
:Pwhat is wrong with Abike? Why should she be replaced when she is doing a wonderful job at NIDCOM?

It's high time,that commission gets a new head....Abike has tried her bit!!. However,this is about where Bianca can beat fit in in this govt and not about abike in anyway.

Lifemanage:
Subsidies are normal. More like social intervention, as done in the UK and other climes. Leaving citizens exposed is a show of lack of empathy from the government. Robbing Peter to pay Paul

The reason for that is because truly Nigerian govt doesn't have deep pockets to sustain the type of welfare you get in the west except you have to go borrowing heavily again to do that and that wouldn't be a wise move at all.

olaiya2007:
Foreign reserve keep rising yet we keep borrowing

No govt can function without borrowing,it's what you used the borrowing for that matters.....Saudi arabia with all the petrodollars still seek lending from IMF and WB.

MadPolitician:
Even if you sell a dollar for one million naira today, goods needed will still be imported inro the country. Your grand jealousy changes nothing. There are many traders in all those Lagos and Onitsha markets with reasonable stakes in small manufacturing outfits in places like China. Goods can easily be gotten by them and payments made later. And you will pay for those goods. Don't take my words for it, run your checks. And even if you close the borders, grand smuggling will ensue!

A president that spent tens of millions of forex on a private jet just few weeks ago for his own comfort and frivolities, lacks the morale authority to pontificate to me on the need to avoid foreign goods, especially when there are no local substitutes. Where was your man coming back from few days ago? Foreign land. Je went on "holidays". What was he spending there? Odua currency? How many presidents have visited Nigeria to enjoy their holidays? Funny chap like you.

No one is telling you not to buy anything foreign you want or go anywhere foreign you like but not with subsidised dollars from heavy lending by govt to sustain your frivolous lifestyle.....pay the right value for it.

Countries poorer than Nigeria run presidential fleets and their govts equally travel all over the world for one reason or the other,why cast aspersions on your president's intentions.... buying jets or travelling abroad isn't the reason why food is expensive or fuel is expensive.

Newsmills:
This macroeconomics but citizenry believe in microeconomic stability so that we can have foods on our tables

It's equally important neither can exist without the other......the govs needs to get their acts to gether to get the micro side on the upswing.

They are busy doing nothing in developing their states economy.... agriculture, infrastructure, education,health,small scale industrialisation, security....the govs are doing absolutely nothing despite the huge allocations they are getting.

MadPolitician:
"Critics" with sadistic agenda, who are trying to misrepresent the facts and return the state back to the hands of some evil looters and thieves, are great threats to humanity that needs to be called out and when possible, crushed! Your type foisted Mr Bulaabaa on the country with your wild mouths running like Oshogbo river. See where we found ourselves with agbadorianism today

Same way Otti was foisted on Abians and the people complaining about his governance.....when you point a finger,the other four points back to the pointer.

RingRoadCartel:
We must? After how many years? It's been 2 yrs bro and you're still making promises

It's 18 months sir not 24!!

MadPolitician:
Tinubu is an embarrassment, bro.. A bundle of embarrassment, really. On a seioud note, Stop fouling the whole environment by injecting that odious character into the diacuss. Dude is totally out of sort and his most assiduous supporters know.

If even at this period, you still think that national opposition to tinubus increasing tyranny, is borne out of ethnic hate and not because of the profound failure that has become his catastrophic administration, then you need tinubu. He fits you.

You can never hide the obvious hate filled emotions you have for that man.....no vex,subsidy is gone for good and no more cheap dollars to fuel your ravenous appetite for things foreign and yes,we like am like that.

MadPolitician:
Is there any "heat"? No one is feeling your heat. Was just randomly talking about the tendency to attack the best, when criticisms should be for the bad. But your peoples rection to my post has proven that there is an agenda.

In any event, if it cures your erectile dysfunctions to ranckle the chains of hardworkingcheif executives, then try to enjoy. I'm sure that if Otti or any politician of his caliber considers your wretched rants as some kind of threats, they must have enough ammo in their arsenal to fight for themselves.

Then why bother for them.....Leave them to face their critics.

helinues:
Normally, Kalu precisely was supposed to be the Senate president but there was a change of mind.

Not only 2 can play the game of politics, we all are allowed to

https://www.nairaland.com/7597555/se-missed-senate-president-position

Kalu didn't play his cards right,he ended up on the loosing side during the run up to the APC presidential primaries and wasn't fully in the baptist camp,he only had to fall in line when power had been won and lost ......the politician that angered me the most was Omo agege,he would have easily been SP ahead of akpabio but the guy just went to zuzu himself by gunning for governorship instead of SP that he would have been the first inline ahead of akpabio.

yinkus6750:
Politics of today, you reap where you sow.
SE decided to be Obedient to the chore.
His chosing Bianca is also a political game.
Haven't seen any major technocrat that can make positive impact in the changes made.
I expect major ministries like finance, budge planning to also be affected.
Including CBN governor.
That's when we can be sure of change in the financial sector that will reflect on our economy.

You got the first part right but I really feel Bianca should have gotten Abike Dabiri's NIDCOM,I feel she would have been far more effective there and would give better political mileage in the SE for the govt with her presence there rather than the minister of state position given to her.

Also wale edun and cardoso are one of the best and most trusted finance egg heads in tinubu's inner caucus....you only give such positions to those you can trust.....go read up on both of them antecedents in the financial sector and governance of Lagos.

MadPolitician:
Why is Nairaland championing this very sinister online attacks against governor Otti? How many negative threads every week against this man? Not even the corrupt ex governor of Abia state was vilified this way here. Do we need anyone to tell us that Mr Otti is a massive fresh air compared to the stench that used to ooz out from the Abia state government house? His administrative strides and achievements in a very short time are there to be seen. Are these paid attacks?

So how can this place chose the most hardworking governor from the SE for this endless virulent attacks? In the south east, we have a very atrocious governor at the moment, who is basically running his state down. And he is a member of the ruling party, who was imposed on his people by a suspicious supreme Court judgement. But he seldom gets any negative mention here. Why the sudden fixation on Otti? Or are some people angry if there is any shining light fron the east?

Hypocrisy at best.....but it were tinubu they were running propaganda against or any SW gov,you would be fine with it and equally join then in peddling falsehood......"if you don't like the heat,stay out of the kitchen " let Otti defend himself with facts about what he is doing to better the life of abians.

ccollins:
Watch as apc criminals and wicked individuals come into this thread to discredit the good works of the abia government. Pdp ruled this state for more than 20 years with only wickedness and oppression on the people. Now Alex otti is doing a good work and bringing relief to abia people from the evil pdp inflicted since 1999 and some people are bringing in propaganda and apc elements are behind the scenes trying to paint a government bad like the states where apc and their stooges rigged and manipulated inec into Power.

APC don't care about LP winning abia as in fact it's even to ApC's advantage that their man Otti is the gov.....Abia matter is between different interests in that region...the different LP factions and PDP that are dragging abia matter.

Kukutente23:
Where in Ogun state are they getting power for 12 to 16hrs daily?
Are you a clown or a corn jester because I never see this kind lie before

I don't say what I don't know,I was still there this week.....and they all confirmed it, though they were complaining the charge was too high as they were paying just 4k b4 for barely 6 hrs a day but I tried to make them understand that compared to Lagos ,they were getting a good deal for that amount.....it's agbado area ikedc disco.

Kukutente23:
You see am now
You see how Nigerians are being robbed blind by those thieving DisCos?
From this report, it shows that it is easier to see a bottle of beer in Islamic Bauchi than to see a prepaid meter
And we know what goes on when there's no prepaid meter. Arbitrary billing, extortion by disco officials, disconnection just for the sake of it and most importantly paying for power you never used. That's what 85% of Nigerians are going through in the hands of these DisCos.
Yet some people will be defending these clowns
Yet this does not stop them from asking residents to buy transformers and pay for repairs!!

My mother in-laws place somewhere in Ogun state pays about 18k monthly and they get about 12 to 16hrs daily on estimated billing.....which in all honesty I think it's fair considering the new tariff.....she and her tenants!!

helinues:
What do they even need more than 2 for?

Use your normal private jeep and get a space bus for your Pa and others

Wike won't like this!! Guy even has outriders...never seen a minister with outriders before.

Ebubu:
Ojukwu here means Wife of Ojukwu is working for APC Government.

Don't mind those infantile obidients who knows nothing about politics,they are seeing their fascist ideology taking a beating right before their very eyes......let them start cursing their monalisa for being reasonable enough in joining hands in salvaging this country rather than disparaging the president..... politics has long been over,it's time to build this country.

Tochi360:
Guy stop making senseless post bcus of mumu political sensationalism you want to play.

Under Obi years as Governor Anambra was rated by Igp Baba safest State back to back. How do you achieve a Secured State without provision of adequate social welfare??

All His critics can't beat his massive work in the Academic development of Anambra.

The 3 other contestants would have done far better than this colossal failure We have for president. You be happy slave so I no expect you to say less than Yes to the colosal disaster We have going on 😁 since 2015 You have been failing woefully to vote right yet you still think You not a threat to yourself and the Country at large 😁😁 Idris abdulkareem really described you well just a zombie happy slave 😁😁😁😀.

https://www.legit.ng/nigeria/1498135-18-major-achievements-peter-obi-melt-hearts/

Safest state that you dear not walk on the streets past 8pm.....during Obi's time I was working in Onitsha GRA,otigba junction precisely and was living on awada rd, obosi.....we had a project in the main market at the time....I was in Onitsha for over 3 months at a time.

All shops were closed by 9pm....safest indeed.

Zeebuy:
"You're a foolish person" isn't a complaint

Insulting someone is a for of complaint!!

blueAgent:
Zombie.

Na you happy pass, say you steal election na you still cry pass.

OZU ZOMBIE.

If I was crying like you,u wouldn't have given me a mention.... aren't you the ones crying hunger and not having anything to feed your children.....

blueAgent:
More propaganda as usual.

Shameless jobless ZOMBIE.

I bet you are too intellectually bereft to make anything out of it.

Golan007:
How?

The middle east is currently burning because of lack of strong leadership in the white house.... Ukraine and NATO would have been made to bear the full cost of the war rather than depending on America....infact Ukraine wouldn't have happened if trump was in power.

Trump doesn't support LGBTQ and he is pro life.

cr7lomo:
Exactly the reply of a tribalist ...left Babangida that gave the instructions and decided to blame an Igbo man nzeribe ... I'm so glad that other tribes have seen thru u guys ... never will u guys rule again

You pushed your Igbo propaganda,and we rejected it.... babangida's people would rather keep quite over such matters....but your people,it's all chest beating and empty rants about being better than everyone else.

cr7lomo:
For those that care to know or don't care to know... he was an Igbo man ... he did not play tribal politics..this is for that tribe that keeps on calling Igbos out. We can see who the real tribalists are in this country....

He announced SDP as winners of the election, despite Babangida telling him not to ... he was beaten black and blue by soldiers for defending democracy....defending an election a yoruba man won ... igbos voted massively for MKO .... but these yoruba people still decide to have so much hate for the igbos ... reason why I don't blame igbos that do same to them ... its obi that's their problem .. reason all other tribes should judge this matter and dine with a Long spoon while associating with them... u can all see what they did to Jonathan.... used propaganda to destroy his government, so they can get power ... despite a yoruba man ruling from 99 to 2007 ... while the one in asorock used tribal politics to get power ....very divisive and destructive tribe

Always remember that an Igbo man conducted the fairest and most free election in the history of this country ...but they choose not to give them presidency or even let them go ... one day all these will change for good

By the time i got to the second paragraph,I stopped reading your condescending fallacies to deceive your fellow delusional bingos and a vile attempt in pushing your supremacist agenda.

Prof Nwosu never announced the winner of the 1993 election officially,he never annulled it either.....it was a fellow Igbo man in the person of Arthur Nzeribe that set the ball rolling for the annulment of that election and the disaster that befell this country afterwards.

Prof Nwosu was a man of integrity and a man of courage but he chickened out when it mattered most but then who wouldn't,only very few would have been able to go against the command of the jackboots at the time.

I prefer trump to that Harris woman!! Dems are a disaster to world peace and humanity!!

Tochi360:
You still don't get the point yo.
Obi or Atiku or kwakwonso would have done better bcus they would try hard to work for real. Apc has no business or intentions to work. Just win the elections and hold on to Power at all cost is all they are after.
There is no sense in what you wrote for sensible human beings view the essence of politics more than elections.

Allowing you Apc happy slaves access to PVC is a great danger and tbreat to the general survival of this Country. Standing with same structure that has been nothing but a curse on the Country since 2015 yet you still dey shout choice upandan

Na una be the real headless mob una come add zombism and happy slaves join sef

"Would have done better" stop hallucinating,what yardstick would you use in measuring each of them on performance.

3 of them were former govs and one was a VP.....we all know who has his legacies still existing even with 3 diff govs after him,maybe kwankwanso also has a miniscule semblance of that but your obi my dear,is the least performer of the lot.

Obi the mercantilist,pure capitalist to the core is the one you are prepping up on welfarism....go back and check your data on all of them.....obi comes out worse off with the least sustainable achievements.

You obidient neo fascist ideology should never be allowed anywhere near power as you are a danger to yourselves and the rest of us.

SadiqBabaSani:
TINUBU met fuel at 267

That's fuel you were buying for 267 is the reason why our economy hasn't been doing well over the years....govt had to be borrowing money to pay subsidy so you could be buying fuel at 287.

Govt is saying no more borrowing to pay subsidy for you to drive your car to parties,church,mosques,the mall and to your business where you aren't even paying taxes to FG.

emmyN:
How can imported product be competing in price with locally refined ones? This doesn't make any sense.

How much is imported petrol?

jaxxy:
without any price abi? Everything shrouded in secrecy under this corrupt government.

How can Nigerians know they are not being exploited by these Oil marketer cabals and hawks in collusion with dangote?

You can equally go to DRL and find out yourself or ask the marketers or are they not Nigerians like you?

Amerengues2:
Ground rent is applicable to leasehold (not freehold) house purchases in the UK. It's paid annually. For a house purchase of, say, 150,000 pounds, you could pay £300-400 annually or no groundrent.

However, they passed a bill around April to eradicate this obnoxious ground rent which would likely be implemented in 2025.

I feel the government in Nigeria is desperately looking for revenue. No sane person would allow anything to affect his or her C of O thus, the high probability of paying the ground rent.

Nigeria is treading the path of the west but we don't enjoy some benefits of the counties we emulate.

It is well.

By the time we start paying taxes like the west,the citizenry will be more responsible when making choices on whom to vote into office.....many of us are too aloof with governance and govt doesn't really care about your well being because they aren't dependent on your taxes,if they were they would do everything to sustain you and make it possible for you to keep paying taxes,that's why govts abroad don't joke with their citizens welfare.