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@ Wisefellow

In intelligent countries citizens go out on protests to get their government to do what the people want. But not Nigerians. IQ levels are too low. For Nigerians no matter what is placed upon them, it is either
1) We go manage am.
2) Make our way by hook or by CROOK abroad to go enjoy what we did not work for.

Very good. Anambra too? Enugu State did similar on Tuesday.

Buy Naija to grow Naija!

[quote author=Dtribeless post=83194928][/quote]Mumu - it's your ilk that ruins Nigeria with capital flight and brain drain when you flee abroad.

If YOU WANT TO ENJOY WHAT YOU DID NOT WORK FOR BY FLEEING ABROAD (What lies did you use to get there?) THAT IS YOUR OWN OOO!

But as for me ooo... I will not be a part of all that. If for the likes of you FIXING a bad thing is BAD IN YOUR SIGHT - then good luck to you when you meet your Creator. Whether Nigeria or elsewhere, if someone says- Let us Fix it, I see NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. If YOU DO ooo that is your own moral problem.

I am among those people of this earth who are NOT ashamed to play a part in Fixing something that is broken.

Let GOD be the judge between your orientation and mine!

Great logo design for Innoson Vehicles.

Farouq, can you please now design a flag for the new country of SE and SS together?

ahnie:
Would you mind making your points without being insultive.

I musnt tailor my opinion to suit yours...

Thanks!

You call the write-up "mumbo jumbo". If that's what your intelligence level sees then your own words show you are certainly not in the same class as the writer. Period.

Plus RUN AWAY to as the writer say, go "enjoy what you did NOT work for". Is that a lie? Or did you work for the lifestyle that those abroad where you want to go enjoy?

Abeg. STOP making comments to my posts. JUST RUN AWAY ABROAD TO ENJOY WHAT YOU DID NOT WORK FOR. While those Nigerians like me will STAY PUT in Nigeria and work to fix it so we and our children will enjoy what we worked for.

Run away jor Flee away abroad jor. Go enjoy what you did not work for.

chigoziri2403:
This is just like pouring water into the ocean,
It' makes no sense
Ban foreign trips in totality
Whatever makes them go abroad should be developed here
Why can't we have foreigners doing tourism to our country

Yes ooo. We should do what will develop Nigeria. I hear that Buhari is a laughing stock in UK for going there for medical treatment. Tiny landlocked Rwanda is doing much to make the country nice. But big for nothing Nigeria is not serious.

ahnie:
Munbo-jumbo.

I would always go to where would better my life.
I see nothing wrong in wanting to go abroad.

You are one of those the writer talks about. Yes. Go abroad jare and go enjoy what you did not work for. That is the lazy cowards way so you are not in the same league as the writer, and you are not of the same intelligence. Oyinbo may give you more pepe than you dream of.

As for me and my house, we SHALL STAY IN NIGERIA, a true Shithole. But we will stay where God made us to be born and do whatever we can to make Naija better. Run away! Flee away! Ha ha ha I dey laff at your kind. Not man enough to join those who will stay and not run away.

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(If you can do go to the Facebook site as the 2 comments there are interesting, source link is below)

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NIGERIANS STAY IN YOUR COUNTRY AND FIX YOUR COUNTRY!

Always looking for the quick and easy way out is not how a nation is built. Too many Nigerians want to go where he or she can enjoy what they did not work for. Haba! Nigerians, rich and poor, educated and uneducated, skilled and unskilled, young and older - want to live abroad! Europe, America, Canada, Australia, Israel, Dubai, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Caribbean, South America - all these are places I have personally heard Nigerians tell me that they want to go to.

So this is Nigeria's new culture: From let me grab a piece of the national cake, to let me flee abroad to grab a piece of their cake!

Oh Nigerians, it will not go well for us in the long term until we become adult in our thinking, and decide to remain in Nigeria to together bake cakes, breads, pies and biscuits enough for each of us to enjoy and be satisfied.


SOURCE:
https://web.facebook.com/ndidi.uwechue

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HOW AFRICANS BRING TROUBLE UPON THEMSELVES AND THEIR CHILDREN

African, how should you answer your child or anybody who asks you why your country, or Africa, is in such a bad way?

The answer is in Proverbs 13:15b where God tells us: "...but the way of transgressors is hard".

Africans have very hard lives and our countries seem to be unable to develop because Africans IN REALITY reject God's Commandments and His wisdom. Every one of our countries has very high levels of corruption (stealing with lying), in every one of our countries witch doctors are consulted, in every one of our countries we have shrines to idols, and in every one of our countries we practice human sacrifice (ritual killing) and cut off limbs, pluck out eyes for "medicine". We cannot hope to mock God by saying we are Christians because if we had been true Christians we would have removed all the witchcraft and idols from our countries. While we have them, Satan keeps his throne among us. Africans, we know we act the hypocrite and are also not keeping to the Ten Commandments either: look how often we steal and cheat!

We Africans are resisting God. The truth is that in any country that resists God, you will find few of His blessings. Is that not exactly what we see with Africans? We have very few of God's blessings, and have difficult lives because the way of the sinner is hard.

So African, tell your child to expect few blessings and a very hard life because we the parents and grandparents choose to resist God, and we all will together as Africans continue to reap what we together sow.

But, should we Africans decide to humble ourselves before God, to repent, make restitution and choose to live as true Christians, then the LORD God will come to live among us, and shatter Satan's throne that our witchcraft and human sacrifice bring upon us.


SOURCE:
https://web.facebook.com/Christianity4Africans/

SOURCE:
https://web.facebook.com/NigerianTimekeepers/




TIME DISCIPLINE + TIME SINCERITY = TIMEKEEPING

Consider this, Nigerian parent, why do you show and teach your children to be late? Why do you spread the culture of "African Time" lateness? What exactly do you think your children gain in life by being late? Is it intelligent to be late? If so, how?

Who will take a people who lack discipline and who lack sincerity, seriously? Who will employ such people? Well Nigerian parent YOU have helped make your child up to be unemployed and unemployable! "African Time" lateness is just BAD in every way and is a cultural norm we must reject if we ever want to join the progressing nations.

So Nigerian parent, admit that you were very wrong in bringing up your children to disrespect time and to be deliberately late. Then, reform yourself and your children using this equation:

Time Discipline + Time Sincerity = Timekeeping

For some time now, Nigeria has become a laughing stock and its people seen as unserious. So, Nigerian parent, Nigerian people, let us not remain a curse to ourselves by keeping those attitudes and those cultures that are not helping us to progress in this world. We all have a will to do good or to do bad, to do what is right or to do what is wrong. So let's all do the right thing, let's play our part in creating a better Nigeria for our children. Let's value time and become Nigerian Timekeepers!

SOURCE:
https://web.facebook.com/NigerianTimekeepers/



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Chinese and other foreign companies are coming here. But they prefer not to employ our people for the better jobs. They say we lack the right "skills". Well, if you are constantly late and you live by "African time" lateness, then yes, you do lack the right skills for being employed.

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Nigerian youth if we want to have a job, or keep a job we can no longer do things the wrong way. The world has changed. If you don't want to change your character and orientation then just manage having no job.

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Your neighbor is a very typical Nigerian.... Devilish people who just like to cause trouble and to be a nuisance so that you don't have peace.

1) Report the matter to your landlord in words and in writing.
2) Seek advice from PHCN then report him there too if that's the procedure.
3) It is so wrong for different households to share same electricity source. Look into getting your own meter.
4) Do your best not to let this man get into your mind. That's what this devil wants. Keep out of his way, so too your children should keep out of this man's way and that of his wife and kids.
5) Best if possible that your landlord is the one who talks to this man. Try not to argue. That's what the man wants.
6) He's a devil, so DON'T take up any of his ways. If you end up paying his electricity, remember this: that whatever the devilish man is doing, he is doing it to Christ, not to you.
7) Finally, this life is full of troubles. Especially in Nigeria where Satan has his throne so his devilish people are everywhere and every time causing problems. So that they will be on our MINDS constantly. Pray against this evil against you and your happy home.

deantimes:
This second term is truly a payback time for those who voted for this government.

Buhari rigged himself into office. He is a fraudster in Aso Villa. He is part of the Nigerian corruption that the world is complaining about.

Great read and on point!

As the writer says, the Idiot Class [defined as "those who think that it is their right to be corrupt even though their actions harm the entire community and country.... a member of that group of individuals who think that doing things the wrong way, and being corrupt is clever"] has captured Nigeria, and we the people need to snatch our country away from them.

(From today today, I will begin to use the term "Idiot Class" as it's the correct definition of most in leadership; Iyabo Obasanjo a few years ago said Nigeria was ruled by IMBECILES.)

So let's READ & LEARN!

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The Idiot Class of Nigeria
By Ndidi Uwechue


10th October 2019

We can look around us at the type of society that different nations have created for themselves and come up with a general evaluation of the thinking of either the majority of the citizens there, or at least of the “critical mass”, those whose thinking style has captured the nation. For example in a nation where government is sincerely concerned about citizen welfare and poverty reduction, where the weak are considered and catered for, where development is visible, and where things work pretty much as they should – you can call that an intelligent society. These are nations whose citizens value their citizenship, who take active interest in maintaining their way of life, and whose national passport is held in global esteem.

Then you have those other countries where the weak (the poor, the disabled, the uneducated) are pretty much discounted and next to nothing is provided for them: Not electricity, not proper hospitals, not proper schools, not proper waste management, not toilet facilities, not potable water, not housing. Nothing to make life just a little agreeable. Citizens here are frustrated and angered by what their country represents, they are embarrassed by their national passport, their deep desire being to flee to a very different kind of place. If you have ever been to such a country, you see the wretchedness of citizens’ lives, and you wonder what those in authority, i.e., the civil servants and politicians, are thinking. And you just wonder why these leaders have created, and maintain such an unjust and decaying society. Searching for an accurate assessment, you come to realise that the IDIOT CLASS have captured such a country.

When the Idiot Class have seized a country, it means that the feeble-minded impose their own standards upon the people, they determine the norms, they determine which kind of behaviour is rewarded, and which kind is punished. When the Idiot Class have snatched a country, they decide what the country will look like, and what will grow or what will die.

In a functioning country, civil servants and politicians see their purpose as being “to bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people” (Jeremy Bentham, 1748 – 1832). This creates an environment where citizens are community-minded, knowing that they have a responsibility to come together to work for the good of the country. While when the Idiot Class are in leadership, civil servants and politicians see their purpose to be to use their positions to grab ill-gotten and undeserved gain for self, and the country be damned! This greedy focus on self spreads through society to create a deep selfishness, thus an individual-mindedness in citizens such that “community” does not mean much, and everything is seen through the narrow question of, “What’s in it for me?”

Basically, where the Idiot Class have captured a country moulding the national orientation upon self, there tends to be multi-dimensional corruption with its attendant underdevelopment. While intelligent nations are busy trying to solve their problems and even prosper, conversely, where the Idiot Class hold sway there is nothing like that, but rather deepening of poverty, decay, and the death of individual and national potentials.

It is well-established that names and labels can convey a message even before getting to the actual substance of a matter. For instance, the Chinese call the 109 years when they were under the control of European powers their “Century of Humiliation“, a title that in itself indicates a sorry period in their history. Such frankness in naming something they find distasteful, tells the coming generations that being colonised by others is something to be vigorously resisted. In a similar way the title “Idiot Class” tells us that it is shameful to be found among this group. “Idiot Class” may sound rude, maybe even offensive, and it certainly does not sound politically correct. But it is the correct label and description for those who think that it is their right to be corrupt even though their actions harm the entire community and country! Essentially, the Idiot Class is a member of that group of individuals who think that doing things the wrong way, and being corrupt is clever.

It is unfortunate that in the country of Nigeria, the Idiot Class is setting the pace and determining the culture. This has created a dysfunctional and delinquent environment where too many people are pleased with themselves and feel quite clever when they successfully outsmart a fellow human being, or swindle their country, all for some form of personal gain. A few examples of those in the Idiot Class are:

* A pupil or student who cheats in coursework, tests, and exams.
* A trader who sells fake or dangerously substandard goods.
* A person who uses his/her position to steal public funds. This is usually a civil servant or a politician, and the business person who helps launder the stolen money.
* A person who is not at work when he/she is supposed to be yet wants to be paid a full salary, and later get a pension too.
* A person who is influenced by or influences others with bribes.

There is no perfect country, but in Nigeria we can do so much better for ourselves and our community. Despite the country having a lousy reputation, we are not all in the Idiot Class, there are Nigerians who are not excited by doing things the wrong way like the Idiot Class are, but who prefer to do things the right and proper way, and who show restraint. They want to live in a Nigeria where society values and promotes human virtues. Where decency is common, where there is community-mindedness, consideration for others, and discipline.

Is it not time we got disgusted and outraged enough with the Idiot Class that is holding back Nigeria’s progress , and counter their flawed and debased orientation with an honest and intelligent approach to being and doing? I therefore urge sincere Nigerians and friends of Nigeria to get involved in ridding the country of the activities and influence of the Idiot Class. This is achievable by being sincere and doing what you say you will do, by not making excuses for failure but taking responsibility, by not cheating others or in exams, by not stealing, by not partaking in dubious office schemes, by challenging wrongdoing and indiscipline, by being a whistle blower, plus by taking active part in social action and citizen participation to improve your community. It also helps to embrace what society often sneers at as “big grammar” and read a lot, for reading expands the mind and heart, and opens up the doorway to knowledge and ideas, needed to create a better society.

For some time now the Idiot Class have captured Nigeria and are driving the culture. But a critical mass of serious and determined Nigerians, who are part of the much needed Intellectual Revolution, can set the whole nation aright and remove the influence of the Idiot Class because as Bob Marley sang, “So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.”


Source:
http://www.africannewstoday.com/magazine/the-idiot-class-of-nigeria/

Simplyleo:
Very good.

I need to drive a car with zero mileage to see how it looks like.

As in be the first original owner, not the ones wey oyibo don drive taya.

Unfortunately, it will NEVER be a good experience because of the terrible roads. We need to change Nigeria's structure otherwise noting will work properly.

@ urahara - you said it all, EXCEPT

Even if oil money runs out because the world goes to renewable energy, the civil servants and politicians in charge will steal money from other sources: taxes, solid minerals, fines etc.

You are therefore very right to say the SYSTEMS need to be changed and Nigeria Restructured (as a Confederacy) or Split (into 2- Southern Nigeria + Arewa or 4 - Oduduwa + Arewa + MB nation + Lower Niger Nation ie SE & SS together)

The title of this brilliant article is too long to put on Nairaland subject line, but here it is:
Please Black people, let us help ourselves by paying attention to this message. I have copied the article link and forwarded to my Whatsapp network. Please consider doing same, and sending to other Africans/Black people. We have been in the wilderness for too long. Messages from this type of article will help all of us Africans/Black people.

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THE WHITE MAN'S ICE CREAM IS BETTER THAN THE BLACK MAN'S ICE CREAM: A PREFERENCE FOR ALL THINGS FOREIGN
By Ndidi Uwechue
26th September 2019

This is a worldwide phenomenon. Black people seem happiest when we give over our money to someone who is not from our own community. I will give an illustration from an article by an African American that I came across about ten years ago but which I can no longer find, so as to give the originator due credit. It is, The White Man's Ice Cream Is Better than The Black Man's Ice Cream, and the tale goes like this: A White man and A Black man bought the very same vanilla ice cream from the very same factory and both men set up separate shops in the Black community. Now, Black people KNOW that anything from a non-Black person is always better, so automatically Black people bought ice cream from the White man. But very very few Black people bought ice cream from the Black man. The White man now had profits from all the money that the Black customers were giving him so he was able to decorate his shop nicely, he could buy more ice cream flavours, plus he could improve his ice cream by adding different toppings. But not so the Black man. Since hardly anybody went to his shop it began to look drab as he did not make enough profit to re-decorate it. Plus he could only offer vanilla ice cream and no toppings. So as time passed and the White man's profits increased, then it did become true that: the White man's ice cream is better than the Black man's ice cream, BECAUSE THE BLACK PEOPLE EMPOWERED THE WHITE MAN BY GIVING HIM THEIR MONEY! And conversely, the Black people impoverished the Black man, a member of their own community by from the start being suspicious of him and deciding that there was something bad about his ice cream. Enough said. We know ourselves and the constant excuses we give for not buying from somebody who looks just like us.

Regularly preferring to buy a product or service from a non-Black person has now become a big part of Black culture, and it is a destructive practice that helps to keep our community handicapped because we use our money to benefit not our own community, but other communities. Each time we buy a pair of shoes made in Italy, we keep the Italian shoemaker in business and at the same time we destroy the chances of our own struggling Nigerian shoemaker surviving. Each time we boast that we own something foreign-made, we are actually boasting that we are handicapping our own Black people, because that is the effect that our love for all things foreign has. When Black people do not buy from Black-owned businesses, our businesses will not survive. Yet, our money keeps foreign businesses sustainable. Is this smart?

In America, one dollar circulates within the Oriental community for about 30 days, in the Jewish community for about 20 days, in the White community for about 17 days, but only for 6 HOURS in the Black community. For us Black people, as soon as we earn money, we tend to quickly spend it buying something foreign. Our sportsmen, actors, singers and musicians do earn a lot of money, but they pour most of it into the laps of makers of foreign luxury cars, foreign luxury homes, foreign luxury goods, and high end foreign clothing and footwear designers.

If we stay with Nigeria, when we make money it is nearly always 100% from Nigerians. Yet, most of it is spent on buying foreign goods, so we make money from Nigerians but give much of it out to foreign manufacturers. Many Nigerians say that they buy foreign products because they are better. However, can we truly say that the imported items found in our markets are of good, or even satisfactory quality?

Let us consider the effect our love for all things foreign is having. Why bother to train your child at a university or polytechnic if you will not buy things made by a Black person - is your child not Black? For example if your child can build cars, since he is Black and not a foreigner, the car must be bad, right? Since you yourself prefer foreign cars, so who do you suppose will buy a car made by your Black son? We Black people have created disrespect for Black-made products, so we should not be surprised that our children are aimless and jobless, and that foreigners will follow our lead and also not want products made by Black you or by your Black child.

If we want to reduce poverty and unemployment, we are going to have to spend our money empowering Black people by buying what our people produce, instead of empowering foreign people by buying what they make. It is not too late to re-orientate our minds. Each one of us can determine to be part of the Intellectual Revolution where growing numbers of Black people are deciding to become smarter, and live intelligent and productive Afrocentric, Black community-focused lives. Wanting our people worldwide to value self-reliance and self-dependence, to become a confident people with things to bring to the global table.


HOW TO STOP THE "FOREIGN IS BEST" ATTITUDE
• Remember that we Black people had great ancient empires and kingdoms when we produced everything that we needed and traded on an equal level with foreign kingdoms, so we can do so again! For example Kemet (Ancient Egypt), Nubia, Ethiopia, Great Zimbabwe, Songhai, Timbuktu and many more.

• Electricity is the foundation of progress and prosperity. We can form pressure groups to insist that we will no longer accept lack of electricity in this, the 21st century: proper and full electrification is our human right.

• We should look for locally made products and if they are not up to standard we can inform the manufacturer using constructive criticism and providing suggestions for product/service improvement.

• Manufacturers and business owners should not forget that continuous improvement is global best practice and so should have quality control processes, and use customer feedback to improve. So having suggestion boxes, plus a functioning and transparent customer complaints process, are essential.

The same way that the Black community together decided that "Black is bad", and began to prefer all things foreign, is the same way that the Black community together should decide that "Buy Black" is the best policy. The late singer Bob Marley said it plainly, "Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds." The Black man's ice cream can be as good as the White man's ice cream when we empower the Black man, as we have empowered the White man.


Source:
http://www.africannewstoday.com/magazine/opinion-the-white-mans-ice-cream-is-better-than-the-black-mans-a-preference-for-all-things-foreign/

If we say we want to escape One Nigeria we are accused of being a traitor and terrorist.

But is it not treason and terrorism to keep on borrowing money yet there's nothing to show for it?

And all our leaders, if they believed in One Nigeria, why do they go for medicals abroad? Why are their kids abroad?

With this new huge loan (to service existing loans), is this government going to secretly bring us into an IMF Structural Adjustment Programme?

Which of the indigenous people is not tired of this failed One Nigeria that destroys hopes and potentials?

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LCCI: $2.5BN FRESH LOAN’LL HURT NIGERIA’S ECONOMY


With information emanating from the World Bank that it was in talks with Nigeria for a fresh loan of $2.5 billion, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has raised the alarm that it will further bleed the economy, hike cost of debt servicing and stifle developmental projects.

LCCI Director-General, Muda Yusuf, in an interview with this newspaper in Lagos, explained that a fresh debt would be colossal for the country’s fragile economy, warning that government could end up using 50 per cent of next year’s budget for debt servicing.

He also fears that another foreign loan could lead to high inflation rate, stunt gross domestic product growth and increase unemployment.

According to him, the private sector is concerned with the severe economic implication the country will face following the World Bank’s statement.

Yusuf stated that with the additional loan in the pipeline, the country’s foreign debt would increase and invariably increase the overall debt portfolio of the country, which stood at N24.9 trillion as at March 2019 compared to N24.39 trillion as at December 31, 2018, according to the Debt Management Office (DMO).

The director-general stated that already, the Federal Government had proposed to spend a total of N2.14 trillion on debt servicing in the 2019 fiscal year, which is 27 per cent of revenue.

The LCCI boss explained that foreign loans were the reasons government cannot channel more funds appropriately to developmental projects in the country since huge amounts are always provided for servicing debts.

He, however, stated that the private sector was expecting government to cut down its debt and seek other ways of raising funds, by rigorously promoting new investments to increase revenue.

Particularly, he believes that cost of governance in the country is still too high and should be reduced in order to free more revenue to run the country’s economy.

According to him, “with the World Bank saying it is in talks with Nigeria for a fresh loan of $2.5 billion, which coincided with the Debt Management Office announcement that the Federal Government would obtain additional foreign loan to the tune of $2.7 billion (N824.82 billion).

“This development calls for concern bearing in mind that in three years, Nigeria’s debt profile rose from $10.32 billion in June 30, 2015 to $22.08 billion as of June 30, 2018.

“With this additional loan, the country’s foreign debt would increase and would invariably increase the overall debt portfolio of the country which stood at N24.39 trillion as at December 31, 2018.

“Already, the Federal Government proposed to spend a total of N2.14 trillion on debt servicing in the 2019 fiscal year which is 27 per cent of revenue.

“So this fresh World Bank loan will further increase sporadically the amount of that of 2020 to be dedicated for servicing debts.

“We are concerned with the increasing amount meant for debt servicing and this is becoming worrisome as more funds that could be used for developmental projects are used to service debts.

“We expect the government to cut down its debt and seek other ways of raising funds, by rigorously promoting new investments to increase revenue.”


Source:
https://www.newtelegraphng.com/2019/09/lcci-2-5bn-fresh-loanll-hurt-nigerias-economy/

Looks like yet another IMF Structural Adjustment Programme is on its way as Nigeria isn't going to be able to service its debts.

NOT SURPRISING! With the fat salaries and allowances of Senators and Reps plus Governors etc. Plus with their life-long huge pensions after just 4 or 8 years WHY WOULD THERE BE ANY MONEY TO SERVICE DEBTS OR FOR DEVELOPMENT?


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TAX ROW AND OIL SHOCK MAY THREATEN NIGERIA’S ABILITY TO PAY ITS DEBTS


As Nigeria’s taxman tends to the herculean task of significantly boosting revenue collection in Africa's biggest economy, a noose dangles close to his neck.

In August, Babatunde Fowler, chair of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) received an official query from Abba Kyari, the influential chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari.

The letter from Kyari, who has previously been described as the country’s de facto vice president in some quarters, leaked on social media. Parts of it read:

• “We observed significant variances between the budgeted collections and actual collections for the analysis explaining the reasons for the variances between budgeted and actual collections for each main tax item for each of the years 2015 to 2018.”

• “Furthermore, we observed that the actual collections for the period 2015 to 2017 were significantly worse than what was collected between 2012 and 2014. Accordingly, you are kindly to explain the reasons for the poor collections.”

The taxman responded, saying that low oil revenues and the recession between 2016 and 2017 were responsible for the declining tax revenue.

Nigeria is trying to widen its tax base to strengthen the country’s fiscal position and fund its annual budget.
Nigeria’s debt profile has skyrocketed by approximately 45% a year since 2015, figures from the country’s budget office show.
• According to Bloomberg, the country is “spending more in servicing debts than funding education”.


Oil revenues continue to dip
For all intents and purposes, crude oil remains Nigeria’s largest export.
Despite being Africa’s largest oil producer, its oil revenues have gone into a tailspin, thanks to a number of factors, including its refineries performing below capacity and the gargantuan corruption in its fuel subsidies programme.

Fowler snared
Fowler, a known affiliate of actual Vice President Yemi Osinbajo — and apparently also an associate of All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader Bola Tinubu — was plucked from his position as head of the Lagos Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) after spearheading a tax drive that positioned the megacity and state as the country’s most economically viable.

• Thanks in part to him, Lagos continues to post internally generated revenue (IGR) to the tune of billions of Naira monthly.

• His four-year tenure as FIRS chief ended last August, but he continues to act in a substantive capacity but it is believed that he will not retain the role.

Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu has had to categorically deny reports that Fowler is under investigation, saying the query letter, “merely raises concerns over the negative run of the tax revenue collection in recent times”.
But that has done little to assuage the public and douse the frequent rumours about Fowler’s position.

Fowler is widely seen as a major casualty of an agenda to transform Osinbajo into a mere figurehead in order to drain the comparatively better goodwill the number two citizen enjoys over Buhari. It is a political play that could come in handy should the vice president seek to succeed Buhari in the 2023 polls.

A number of petitions and open letters against Fowler have also found their way into the public domain. He has been accused of flamboyant spending and partying, as well as poor staff management.


Teetering on the brink of bankruptcy
While Fowler’s future is up for debate, Nigeria is still piling up the debt. The government is currently in talks with the World Bank for a $2.5bn loan.
A number of economists and other observers have warned that the country is at the point of bankruptcy and needs political willpower to prune its expenses.

• Outspoken former central bank governor and current Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido, has been one of the loudest: “The country is bankrupt and we are heading to bankruptcy,” he stressed in June.

• Lamido questioned the plethora of subsidies paid by the Federal Government, and asked why petroleum and electricity tariff subsidies were more important than the country’s infrastructure and education and health sectors.

• Muda Yusuf, chair of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry lent his voice to the debate. “Already, the Federal Government proposed to spend a total of N2.14 trillion ($5.89bn) on debt servicing in the 2019 fiscal year, which is 27 % of revenue,” he said in a recent interview.

• “So this fresh World Bank loan will further increase sporadically the amount of that of 2020 to be dedicated for servicing debts…we expect the government to cut down its debt and seek other ways of raising funds, by rigorously promoting new investments to increase revenue.”

Bottom line: Regardless of whether or not Fowler loses his job, Nigeria’s balance sheet is now under the spotlight.


Source:
https://www.theafricareport.com/17894/tax-row-and-oil-shock-may-threaten-nigerias-ability-to-pay-its-debts/

Hee hee hee! Our politicians insist the mumu people of Nigeria must believe in One Nigeria.

Yet none of them believe in One Nigeria. Every opportunity they go to Europe for medical treatment for self and children - because they have no faith in One Nigeria.
Same for education - their children school in Europe or USA since they have no faith in One Nigeria.

Buhari's daughter Zahra had her baby last year in Spain. Why not in One Nigeria? Because they are all seeing to it their future will be Europeans.

Our politicians and civil servants steal One Nigeria's money to ruin it, then they tell us we must remain in this Sh*thole they created for the masses, and that One Nigeria can never be divided. Arrant superstition!

You are right that we should stop blaming UK, as we have had 59 whole years to sort out the evils that UK put on us. China that is only 11 years older than us has wiped off whatever evils UK brought to it and has managed to forge an ok journey for itself.

I disagree though that Nigerians are a good people. With RITUAL KILLING, greed, selfishness, being unconcerned, dishonesty (lying) about everything, insincerity even with timekeeping, cheating in exams and in trade, rampant sleeping around, even from primary school our girls play the prostitute, and so much STEALING (house help, driver, shop assistant, teacher, nurse, doctor, policeman, pastor, imam, civil servant, LGA chairman, governor, minister, reps, senator, president), then cults, and witch doctors. The good Nigerians are too few.

Last, unless Arewa and Southern Nigeria become two separate countries, no leader can bring out anything good from this Nigeria as the foundations are fraudulent and the constitution a fraud against the indigenous people.

We are just going round and round in worsening circles.

NAURA - A RICH NATION THAT SQUANDERED ITS WEALTH THROUGH CORRUPTION AND INCOMPETENCE


Dear Africans, I hope we will take the case of Nauru, a country destroyed through corruption, seriously. ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES! Dear African, let me say it again, especially to our young people who still have their lives ahead of them: ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!


The people of Naura played wildly in the sunshine, now they are crying bitterly in the hurricane. This is self-inflicted pain. This is the suicide of a nation.


Dear Africans, CORRUPTION is not a plaything. It is a powerful bomb, more deadly and more harmful than any atomic bomb. Nigerians, this example of Nauru is most especially for us, because we call ourselves "the giant of Africa". Well, if so, sadly, Nigeria is the CORRUPTION giant of Africa.


Dear African, each of us must do our bit to save Africa, fleeing as a migrant to Europe will not solve the problem, and will not save Africa. Only a "War On African Corruption" can save us. It is a good war, it is a just war. "The fight for justice is the only fight worth dying for" (Anonymous)


The 7½ minute video below explains what happened to the nation of Naura.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eec0OLOvVMU&feature=youtu.be



Source:
https://web.facebook.com/ndidi.uwechue

gidgiddy:
It is good that FFK now realises that Nigeria is an unworkable disaster of a country.

However, I dont think Yorubas have the backbone to agitate or strive for their own separate country

There are MANY Yoruba people striving for Oduduwa and also for Revolution Now. Remi Oyeyemi, Bayode Oluwasanmi and several others, plus brave Sowore.

Charles23975:
No Job
No work
Life is hard despite all my efforts
Married with two daughters
Landlord have given me last chance till december to throw me and my family out to the street.......

We are all reaping what our parents and grandparents sowed for us. They decided that dishonesty and corruption is what they wanted and we are all now suffering it.
My advice is you become HONEST. Are your qualifications honest? Are your efforts to get a job honest ways? Are you honest with your wife?
If you are honest, if you are a true Christian (only you, God and the devil know this one) who has repented, made restitution, and are seeking righteousness then "Seek ye first the Kingdom of the Lord and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you" is your promise.

There is still time till December. Manage the little you have and daily God will give you what He knows is ok for you and your family.
Go to your pastor and ask him about a loan from the money you and the church members have been giving to the church, for starting your business.

This sad life is what we Africans have chosen for ourselves and our children while we have shrines to devils in every village. While we do ritual killing, a blood covenant with the devil, every day and every place in Nigeria. So chaos, corruption and confusion is our lot until we rise up against these evils that have been with us and our forefathers since time everlasting.

May God have mercy on us Nigerians and our wickedness.

Henry22:
Impossible is nothing........ We are Africans and we hv black magic.

Yes. Africa is where Satan has his throne, especially Nigeria. That's why nothing good comes our way. Africans have cursed themselves and their coming generations with Darkness. Black magic is a fool's entrapment that has nothing at all to offer.

MBAISE777:
A friend who recently secured a job in a bank here in Lagos told me he relied on power of Juju to : a). Make his job application accepted at first submission. b). Called up for an interview and c). Secure the job where he has just received his second salary. I found it hard to believe but because of the saying "everything is possible in Nigeria", I find it pertinent to ask my fellow Nairalanders. Is it possible?

Hello,
Pharoah's magicians were able to copy several of the miracles wrought by God through Moses.
So it is possible for Satan to give jobs and things to his children. But his children are DEAD in sin. The sentence is pronounced but it's when their life on earth ends that they pay the penalty.

Your friend is sadly a mumu. He has joined the losing team. You can warn him that he is playing the fool, so he should repent and make restitution. That means remove everything the devil has given him from his life. Reject the devil and his ways, and humbly go to God.

Your friend is to be greatly pitied.

MOLDED BY GOD? OR MOLDED BY SATAN?

We know that we are on earth, not in Heaven, so perfection is not possible. We also know that life on earth was meant to be a blessing, not a burden. Looking at the state of Black Africa, the decay, misery, and poverty brought on by massive and continuous corruption, we can be in no doubt that Africans in the main, are disobedient to God, and to His Ten Commandments. For, "Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people". (Proverbs 14:34)

We Africans more than any other people can so see and experience the truth in those words of wisdom: "Righteousness exalts a nation, BUT SIN CONDEMNS ANY PEOPLE." Many think their way out is to escape Africa and flee to Europe, Canada or America, and even to China, India and Malaysia. Many who do so, use dishonest methods.

What then is happening in our African countries? Well, too many Africans who say that they are Christians are blindly following social trends instead of following God. DISHONESTY is the major social habit of Africans, is it not? Lying about so many things; insincerity with timekeeping and with our promises to others; cheating in exams; trading fake and substandard or expired goods; then STEALING from our employers or through office schemes. Dishonesty in thought and action is what has made Sub-Saharan Africa an undesirable place to be in (so Africans are fleeing).

Being DISHONEST means being molded by Satan into his likeness, to become his child. Jesus tells us so: " You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies". (John 8:44)

We each have been given the willpower to choose good or to choose evil. We therefore encourage and urge you, African Christian to use your willpower on God's side. Repent, make restitution, follow Christ and be HONEST. God looks for those who will worship Him in spirit and in truth. " God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and TRUTH.” (John 4:24)

African Christian, we know that HONESTY is not much valued among Africans hence the very high levels of corruption and insincerity among our people. Bribery, graft, hush money etc are daily occurrences that Satan traps Africans with, to our eternal harm. However, we cannot excuse our sin by saying that since everybody is dishonest, we too must be on that broad road.

Let us be clear about this. Life on earth is a test to know who we choose to be like. Either God is your Father. Or Satan is your father. Only HONEST people will enter Heaven. Honesty is the best policy in life for the real Christian. Amen.


Source:
Christianity for Africans at https://web.facebook.com/Christianity4Africans/

Time to say goodbye.....

Many of us of South and MB support a great Oduduwa as either a Province of Southern Nigeria or a country on its own

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NIGERIAN INDEPENDENCE: THE DOUBLE CHAIN OF SERVITUDE AND SUBJUGATION

"Nigeria is not one and has never been one. It is a 'state of nations' and not a 'nation-state'. The traitors in the south are heroes in the north whilst the heroes in the south are traitors in the north. The value system of the north is totally opposite to that of the south. The lenses through which we see justice and equity can never be the same. The Nigerian state is the tragedy of 20th century in Africa"- Aare Kurunmi Kakanfo, "Nigeria Is Burning", Facebook, 30th September 2019.

I could not have put it better myself. Today our nation celebrates 59 years of independence from our external colonial masters and 59 years of servitude, subjugation, tyranny and oppression by our internal colonial masters. Consider the following.

In August 1958 my beloved father of blessed memory, the Balogun of Ife, Chief Victor Remilekun Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode Q.C., S.A.N, C.O.N successfully moved the motion for Nigeria's independence. Parliament passed the motion and the British colonial authorities acquiesed to it.

Two years later, on October 1st 1960 (which is 59 years today) amidst great joy, hope, promise and fanfare, the first of our two chains of servitude and bondage was broken and Nigeria became an independent nation.

I commend Papa and his generation for this great achievement. His motion freed us from the chains and shackles of the external colonial masters and I am very proud of that.

However there is still much work to do. 59 years later we still have the second chain and shackle of bondage and servitude to remove and that is the chain and shackle of our internal colonial masters who have proved to be even more relentless, ruthless and murderous than the first.

Since the end of our civil war in 1970, which resulted in the ethnic cleansing, mass murder and genocide of no less than 3 million innocent Biafran civilians, and despite all acts of provocation and injustice from those that see us as nothing but conquered vassals, the good people of the south and the Middle Belt have been reasonable and restrained and have refused to react violently.

Instead they have patiently and politely protested against and peacefully struggled with that chain and shackle of Fulani bondage.

Since independence we have attempted to get a better deal for our people from within a united and "indivisible" Nigeria but we have failed woefully.

Rather than getting better, things are actually getting significantly worse and the noose of slavery and handcuffs of servitude are getting tighter.

The last four years under President Muhammadu Buhari, who is undoubtedly more of a President of the North than a President of Nigeria, provides an eloquent testimony to that.

His Government is shamelessly, unapologeticallly and unabashedly a Government by the Fulani, for the Fulani and of the Fulani sprinkled with a small handful and pitiful coterie of southern and Middle Belt useful idiots and accursed slaves who have no sense of decency or self-respect, who, like Esau, have traded their future and destiny for a mess of pottage and who have sold their souls to the devil and their peoole down the river.

For the Yoruba people particularly I am convinced that the only way to break that second and last shackle and chain of servitude and bondage is for the South West to exercise her inalienable right of self-determination and leave Nigeria.

The battle for restructuring which many of us have supported and fought for over the last 25 years is long lost and its advocates are no longer being heard.

We have failed to succeed in that noble cause because those that believe that they own own Nigeria and that they were born to rule her in perpetuity have treated that quest with contempt and ignored it with disdain.

They have met our reasonable demands for devolution of power and the establishment of an equitable and true Federation where all men, regardless of ethnic nationality or faith, are regarded as being equal before God, with an uncharitable and unreasonable display and unequivocal and unprecedented degree of arrogance and impunity.

As a consequence of their unbridled intransigence, insatiable lust for power and control and inexplicable desire to dominate and enslave each and every one of us, it is increasingly clear to me and millions of others that Nigeria can never change as long as she continous to exist as one.


Yet we as a people those of us that are interested in freedom can no longer continue to subject ourselves to the indignity of living in the insufferable bondage that they have forced and foisted on us.

Given the foregoing, the only option left for us if we are to maintain our self-respect and dignity and win our freedom is division and separation.

I am therefore glad to publicly identify myself with the proud Yoruba nationalists of the Balogun Collective and other Yoruba self-determination groups who have risen to the occassion, who have said enough is enough and who believe that it is time for the rise and establishment of the mighty nation of Oduduwa.

The Yoruba people, always so ready to accept and accomodate others and always so liberal and generous, deserve no less.

Though ours is a peaceful and passive struggle and not one that is interested in the usage of arms or indulging in any form of violence, anarchy or lawlessness, it would be a grave error on the part of anyone to underestimate our determination or test our resolve.

My father and his generation broke the first chain of servitude which was the bondage of the British.

It is my sacred duty and divine obligation and that of members of mine to break the second chain which is the bondage and subjugation of the Fulani. We shall not fail.

Happy Independence Day Nigeria!


Source:
https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2019/10/01/nigerias-independence-the-double-chain-of-servitude-and-subjugation/

Chicagoesontop:
Wonders shall never end, so Igbo people are no longer descendants of Israel but Egypt ... Local man is officially surprised !!

Same difference. Both have Abraham as papa.

Too funny! Nigeria is a failed nation and we all know it.

Nigeria the CORRUPTION giant of Africa - may the indigenous people soon celebrate a true Independence when MB, SW, SE and SS separate from Arewa.

NwaNimo1:
Too long

It's for adults. Not for losers. Go back to eating and dancing your life away.

To other Readers: it's a shame that the Black race has such a very high proportion of those with low IQ who are incapable of having the discipline of reading. So such then need foreign "experts" (a person who reads and learns from reading) to do everything for them. The only difference between a non-Black and a Black man, is that the non-Black knows the value of reading.

The idiot class, so foolishly proud of rejecting reading, is unfortunately the majority in Nigeria (and Africa).