₦airaland Forum

fulanimafia:
It's amazing how IPAD touts equate a battle between illiterate okada riders on both sides into Hausa/Yoruba disharmony.

These guys are still butthurt about the joint kick their ineffectual buffoon received from these two great political heavyweights, and will clearly do anything to amplify this conflict among touts in a bid to break our winning alliance.

Pele.

masterpower:
We told Yorubas that these Islamic beasts are no ones friend but they wouldn't hear.

Now the Yorubas can see that they're better with the Igbos as allies.

igwe123:
Meenn yorubas are something else, why fear notherners like this, see how they suddenly shifted it to igbos. I remember when they were shouting "igbos burnt hausa mosque" during ipob protest like the almighty hausa will now anihilate igbos. I also remember how "igbo herdsmen" kidnapped Falae

themilanway:
I will always take madam Kemi any day any time over a hundred Ngozi okonjo Iweala aka madam voodoo economist.

Kemi might be untested and unproven,I'm more than willing to giver her a chance and weather the storm together with her,so long she is atleast honest and practical with the affairs of the nation.

Only dumbos makes silly and unsubstantiated noise about kemi and her work.

Nice read by the way.

ipledge10:
Please there are things I don't understand about this saga...can unbiase person explain better....because all I have been reading is South vs North. ..Muslims vs Christians

lwisee:
As I'm writing this I'm sweating profusely,I've been practically angry at everyone since I came back from work.
For the past six years, I've not experienced terrible power failure like this.Our transformer picks supply from a 33kv line,which make us have at least 15 hours supply of electricity everyday,except if there is a major fault.
Then,N500 petrol can remain in my generator for 3 months,I hardly switch it on because I also have inverter.
I came back from work,I was told we only have 15 minutes power supply since morning.
Nowhere to buy petrol, I have tried and tried,the heat is damn too much.
I decide to sit outside and it seems some force command the air not to blow.

Price of food stuff has increased sharply,what kind of Country is this.Why is the word Buhari synonymous with suffering.
I just remembered that our president did not handle any personal successful business since he left office as a head of state.
Look at his cattle farm,the cows be like something wey get AIDS.

Frankly speaking, some people are like that,they are failure personified.
I pray it won't be the case this time around because it involves all of us.

I don't even know what to type again.I just tire

kYjelly2:
you are not yet a full zombie, still in transition

9japrof:
I am not a professional in the energy field but why must we continue with old ways that had been proven to be ineffective. sometimes I wonder whether this country is cursed, we have been doing this national grid stuff for many years and it is proven to be ineffective and we still insist it must work.

Why don't we unbundle the power stuff into six regions, the south south has the gas(we use the gas turbines to power electricity there) south east(Enugu) has coal, (get coal fired turbines to power electricity for the eastners {after all China and south Africa still use coal to power a large percent of their energy needs}. The north here has sun and dams (e.g Niger state with kainji, jebba, shiroro dams) use it to power the energy needs in the north. etc.

Why would we spend resources pulling energy to one national hub and still spend resources to distribute this energy and no doubt energy is been lost during the process.

People brought in APC to bring about change with the way things have been going before. the large carmotose of the national infrastructure can not be blamed on them but the truth is that it is always easy to criticize when you are not in the helm of affairs (e.g the silly sunday oliseh was so vocal during his time as a TV pundit, criticizing the then coach and the national team, Buh when he came on board he failed miserably)

Talk is cheap, I expect APC to change the political structure of this country, that is the only way we can develop, when regions compete effectively using the available resources within their regions and not depending on the entitlements from the centre, then we can grow. A million Buharis can't make Nigeria better without making the state/regions viable.

What are the advantages of unbundling Power are:

we spend less on constructing gas pipes from south to north (thereby saving foreign exchange Lol), that been said , less sabotage less maintenance.

People in the region would hold people around them accountable for the energy problems they have. people would tend to protect power facilities in their area cos they know that if it is vandalised they suffer it.

Common sense ain't common

Trailblazer1:

Are we not suffering all these together
Ngeneukwenu omenka passingshot mynd44 Obiagelli Beremx
were you all exempted from this suffering
May you suffer more change

realjoker:
This victim mentglity of our brothers from the south east is not drawing symphaty anymore. Lagos state government did not ask fg to start exploration of crude oil in their domain, instead they partner with private firms and invest in it. Most oil firms are shifting from onshore to offshore oil exploration, do to little government and millitancy intervention in their activities and some other factors and moreover offshore holds 60-75% nigeria crude oil reserves.

vedaxcool:
If an adult female decides to wear a scarf, I don't see how that turns into jerks convulsing all over the place. Wailing zombies are brainless, senseless and supporters of PDP criminals and criminality

vedaxcool:
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Senseless question from ignoramus, keep pretending you have never heard of ladies eloping with their lovers. I urge you pupils to stop quoting me. Face your studies.

vedaxcool:
watch as a certain mentally sick bastarrd will resort to calling you names for this opinion, couldn't have stated it better. I said clearly the IG was handling the matter with wisdom while the sick fool and accursed imbeci1, child of foolishness started calling me names because he was dropped on his head as a baby! It takes a fool not to know a child at 13 can be gullible and sometimes act in mind boggling manner. Yinusa did is very wrong, Islamically and otherwise, too use your useless tribal foolishness and hatred to attack me was just acting senile and foolish! Yes, I am talking to you plaetton the fool at 40!

Sunnycliff:
Did I mention Yoruba? Does the name Kanu give you nightmare??

IdomaLikita:
Give us Guns to defend our Brothers goddamit!!!
I can personally mobilise 300 young men to counter them drawn from all the LGAs in Idoma South.
All I need is Guns, (AK47 only plsssssss)!
Och'Idoma, Opiatohak'idoma, Senators and Members, Businessmen and Academia, pls act on the letters I've been writing. I'm even willing to commit my earnings and Life.
This Madness must can only stop when we take the fight to them in Nassarawa were their base camp is.

Built2last:
Saudi Arabia is facing exactly what Nigeria is facing but they took a different approach to solving their illiquidity problem.

The king of Saudi handed over the economic matters of the kingdom to his brother which has the expertise in that regard. (I hope PMB will learn that.)

His brother consistuted an economic team which in turn recommended that experts be brought in from Canada to supervise the economy in this trying time. they will do this in consulting capacity. Our president and his team of junketeers will not ask the Saudi team how they are weathering the storm. I am not one of those fooled that he has gone to pray for Nigeria to be good. Thats a dumb thing to sell. Nigerias problem is not from heaven. we refused to save when we ought to, we refused to diversify when we needed to . so how exactly is it God that is doing us.

The Saudis have a team of 9 experts who operate on the model of "PERFORM OR GO" these experts meet on weekly basis with ministers and heads of various ministries. woe be tied you if you dont show up in that meeting with tangible progress report. once the team recommends you should go, the king fires without recourse to you. every one is on top of their game to perform.

since our president appointed ministers, i can only remember 7 who appears to be on the media. I dont even know most of them talk more of performance.

Why did Saudi go to Canada to get experts. Canada was the only advanced nation in the world that during the 2007/8 credit crunch stood the heat and was never affected.

nations like Germany, U.K and U.S could not understand the magic Canada did. but the man behind the magic was Mark Carny, the then governor of the bank of Canada. In 2013, England broke their own law to hire this same man who managed Canadian economy in trying time to run their national bank and made him chairman of monetary policy

Saudi has learned and gone for other retired team members of Mark Carny.

Our president must go to any mile possible to have working brains on monetary and fiscal policy.

If we dont get it right and define our path in the next four to five months, this nation is headed for a cesspit.

Prof Wole Soyinka , Funsho Philips and other observers including myself are calling on mr president to assemble his economic team before its too late. the honey moon is over. we wasted time in appointing ministers and that is why the embarrasment of the budget. permanent secretaries and directors prepared a budget of yam in the absence of ministers. the lazy ministers came and never read it. here we are.

enough of the junketing, there is work to be done. The energy exacted on begging nations to help us will do better if we channel it to work.

azpekuliar:
You are very correct. That's how they killed all the thriving industries like DSC, NNMC in the '80s and '90s, because their people were in power. You never found them in the factories were the real production was going on, but in administration, finance departments where they easily lined up their pockets & ruined those companies. Incompetent nepotism quota-system semi-literate buffons!

francizy:
Don't mind those bigots. They always say things like "God bless Nigeria" and "Nigeria will be great again", knowing fully well that Nigeria will never get better because they support nepotism, tribal bigotry, religious bias, etc. Even if a man they believe will perform well is from SE, just because he's from SE, they prefer one without educational background from any region takes the post and passes the money embezzled down to them than the SE guy.

I've said it before and will keep saying it, Nigeria will never be better unless these numerous bigots we have out there all drop their tribalism and bigotry and work based on merit and accountability..

kenny987:
Is it not only logical that u for once stop and ask yourself, why is it that these same people that ur likes call proud and chest-beaters keep complaining about one particular thing? Could it be that there is really something wrong? Is there anyone that just likes to complain for the hell of it? For once, stop and think.

kenny987:
When people complain and point these glaring inequalities out, rather than calmly ascertain the merits of such complaints and demand for corrective measures or just keep quiet and let those affected make their voices heard, some spineless oafs will start talking about how Igbos always play the ethnic card or always claim victimisation.

Same thing keeps happening yet u expect them to keep quiet and accept crumbs when they're entitled to more for purposes of fairness. They get tired and decide to get out of the sham of a union, they get branded as traitors seeking to divide an entity. Where was the unity in the first place?

The truth must prevail.