₦airaland Forum

irunoobo:
[size=13pt]Why dont you show us the entire pictures of the state he governed This is like snapping at Banana Island in Lagos and portray it as the way the entire Lagos metropolis looks. Akpabio remains the biggest fraud out of the SS after GEJ and MAMA PISS. He built and inflated irrelavant projects to loot the state dry. He is a failure in my opinion [/size]

you are trying to reason with sheeple.

madridguy:
WAHALA DEY OOOOO. WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO.

MAY GOD HELP US AS A NATION.

not really. just privatise electricity and watch investors flock to it

mcgaius:
If you consider the mindsets of our politicians and youths of today, it wont be wrong to say that It will take about 200 years for Nigeria to develope into a first world country.The first 100 years for Nigerian citizen to genuinely love their country and another 100 years for them to develop it because no one can develope what he does not love.The farther Nigerian citizens are from loving their country, the farther the 200 years.

took Singapore Japan and South Korea 30 years. you only need 1 good guy to change our mindset

fistonati:
I wasted my time opening ds thread because its a senseless post from who ever posted it. Commonsense is rare truly

how

oduastates:
You do not need any model.
The answers are right there in your face.

1 pour money into technical education. Those degree /diploma mills aka tertiary education in Nigeria are not going to get the country anywhere. You do not need degrees to become a legal practitioner, accountant, journalists, aircraft maintenance engineer, machine tool operator, advanced farmer etc.

2 follow up with technical /engineering hubs and industrial estates. As we speak, an IT hub is growing by the day in yaba without any government help. Where did Nigeria waste money on IT hub ? Abuja, a place with little or no Information technology know-how. The lagos state government is also not doing anything.


3 use government policy to curb conspicuous consumption and reckless importation.

4 Direct funding to those who are already innovating and stop trying to make an entrepreneurs out of those who are not entrepreneurs( SURE-P). There are numerous fashion,engineering and information technology brands in Nigeria already. Support those.

5 Enforce laws


6 Give government contracts to those who are leaders in their field. e.g give shoe contracts to a shoemaker and not some politicians.

7 reduce the size of the government. A government that cannot pay his employees cannot afford those employees in the first instance. Downsize.

8 Something has to be done with the national assembly.


9 Most importantly, the federal government has to be downsized and the country restructured


10 Core infrastructure : Primary roads leading to the centres of production and commerce have to be top quality. Power supply improved. But all this depends on the restructuring of the country

voters no go gree you downsize ,there are no leaders in any field only looters. provide jobs and ppl will provide technical training

1andonly:
Hi Nairalanders!

I have grown tired of the mess that is Nigeria and I have been thinking seriously for sometime. I am hoping to find a partner(s) preferably an Economist to work together with on a model to industrialize Nigeria.

I am presently working on a mini article but the model should be the bigger picture. The crux of the model is to involve China in Nigeria the way China involved the USSR in its industrialization.

My motivations and turn offs:

I have gotten tired of Nigerian politics and our bereft politicians. I am no fan of Jonathan or Buhari.
I hate tribalism with passion.
I don't think corruption was/is Nigeria's biggest problem. I quote someone-"you can always take the moral high ground with more money in your pocket...". I think poverty is accountable for upwards of 80% of the social challenges we face. I rather think setting up strong and independent institutions is way better than "fighting corruption".
Africa needs a road map to industrialization. I think Nigeria can provide that.
I try to be one of the most unbiased persons you will find around (when I am biased, I state it though). I can actually take my brother to court if he deserves it.

Ultimately I like this guy...

http://www.economist.com/news/christmas/21568587-shot-killed-song-jiaoren-was-not-heard-around-world-it-might-have-changed

PS: I hope for the life of me that this doesn't come off as being narcissistic.

don't need China. gada 10 million ppl. collect 1, 1 thousand naira monthly and buy gas turbines and build industrial parks off grid

SycophanticGoat:
Why will I monitor that fool when I didn't even vote him. I wouldn't have voted that old and lanky goat even if I had a gun pointed to my head. I hate bigoted, vindictive and nepotistic fellows so on no account will I vote for such lunàtics. It is left for the zombies to monitor but if they prefer balls licking the mad man, then they should have a field day..

well we're happy that he removed pdp and is hounding them. and I know that there will be some kind of addition to our power grid (things that can never happen under pdp) which will force the next govt to match it just the way governors are all building malls and airports

anonymous6:
Amen

been awhile

SycophanticGoat:
Here's my advice, leave me to my methods and face your country because apparently, you're less of a Nigerian to me than a foreigner resident here. Because I'm the among the foolish ones that put a headless airhead in power that I should now be faced with the daunting task of calling the brainless old he-goat to order ba? Guy dey your lane and leave Nigerian matter for Nigerians to discuss..

you don de kolo abi. you mention me come de talk nonsense about lane. no be only lane na runway. you think say democracy na lazy man game ba. if you like don't monitor the person you voted. be waiting for manna a to drop from heaven you hia

SycophanticGoat:
If Nigeria is so rosy as you make it seem and they're killing you over there with taxes, why not resign and come live in this fool's paradise? You stay comfortably in the US where things are working and you're telling us what is right from wrong in Nigeria. You can see how unrealistic you folks are.

What do you know about what we're facing in this useless hell hole of a country? When there was the so-called corruption, the economy was moving and people could afford one thing or the other. There was fuel, some little power to manage, not much taxation, not much of extra judicial killings by men in uniform, as compared to this useless mumuhammado's time, etc.

In one way or the other, we benefited from the past administration at least, not paying ridiculous taxes for the worst economy and worst infrastructures in the world wasn't the order of the day back then..

Like I said, if Nigeria is a bed of roses, resign from your job and come back to Nigeria to help us enjoy all we couldn't enjoy.. Thank you.

its not rosy,but since we cannot all run out why don't you put the same energy to fixing it instead of vituperating.

SycophanticGoat:
If Nigeria is so rosy as you make it seem and they're killing you over there with taxes, why not resign and come live in this fool's paradise? You stay comfortably in the US where things are working and you're telling us what is right from wrong in Nigeria. You can see how unrealistic you folks are.

What do you know about what we're facing in this useless hell hole of a country? When there was the so-called corruption, the economy was moving and people could afford one thing or the other. There was fuel, some little power to manage, not much taxation, not much of extra judicial killings by men in uniform, as compared to this useless mumuhammado's time, etc.

In one way or the other, we benefited from the past administration at least, not paying ridiculous taxes for the worst economy and worst infrastructures in the world wasn't the order of the day back then..

Like I said, if Nigeria is a bed of roses, resign from your job and come back to Nigeria to help us enjoy all we couldn't enjoy.. Thank you.

you can't help a drowning man if you can't swim.but every single waking minute is spent on gathering trasnport money and capital to come back and turn things around(if you like keep vexinmg wetin concine me).instead of you to fix it since you domn't have choice,keep fighting shadows you hear,lemme know how that works out for you.instead of using this energy to fight the people that put you in this mess you de flex mouth for keyboard,continu you hia

SycophanticGoat:
Do you know that within two months of not using one of my savings account, about #2,600

2,600 per person is what you want to pay for world class infrastructure and services ba) i just work part time in new york for 4 monts and have payed over 120k in naira so stop complaining(just to check atm balance na $3)

was deducted from that account? Let's not even talk about the prepaid meter we bought in Lagos (over 100k for 3 meters) while they were issued free in Kaduna.

these are now private companies chairman
but even before na scam and because them know say you no go talk
in america ppl fight for their right not lament

Since then, I never use eye see light oh. Na still generator and solar system I dey use on daily basis.. Even water, we buy our own water, our road is in a mess, we pay for our own security too.. What have I benefited from mumuhammado mumuharious?

them just pass budget so na till year end before i decamp.guy change is hard ,not changing is much much harder abi you wan make e collapse finish bfor our eye clear?

femadesh:
Jesus take the wheel

with all these calabash for junction at midnight?

Pavore9:
lt is really a sad situation. Even before the dollar scarcity flying from Nigeria has always been expensive because these airlines know Nigerians are always willing to pay while Emirates, British Airways, Turkish Airlines and co are always advertising promos of cheap flights on Kenyan newspapers.

demand and supply

Quakertellicus1:
Well, what the government is doing now is the least worst of a slew of bad alterantives.

We are oil dependent. And when the price of oil falls....we have to conserve the amount of dollars we have so that we do not lose the value of the naira.

We could diversify....but the problem is...it takes a long time, we need to increase the number of large farms in the country...and anyway....agricultural products prices are not controlled by us...they are controlled in the same London and New York where oil is controlled.

What we should be doing is spending more on educaiton (Which is what we are doing)....and renovating and imporving power...so that we can become a manufacturing power. A process which can take years.

So...what is your alternative.? What do you think PMB should be doing.?

you're funny.how do you control price?is it not by supply or demand?produce enough and you too can "control" price

WhoRUDeceiving:
Sometimes it's good to think before talking nonsense. These people want to go and you said no....Then years later they are on video protesting peacefully in their "Nation" and you send an entire brigade to start shooting them that even Al Jazeera wanted to show the coupist Buhari to see (which of course he refused lol). So wetin na?

why should they go.we want their oyel money.we have the wherewithal to hold you against your will.why don't they try something that works instead of failed tactic that is just costing precious blood.when awolowo was denied nigerian universal primary education,did he beetch and moan,no,he rolled up his sleeeves and put on his THINKING cap not PROTESTING and GETTING SHOT and TEARGASSED cap and implemented upp in his domain.try to make use of the education your parents laboured to provide for you.did nigeria stop thhem from mechanising farming?building factories(is innoson and ibeto not moving forward,whats your excuse)?abegi mowu hia word,you're not ready.if you get biafra na still the same backwardness una go de display(ogbanje,caste system tinz)

SycophanticGoat:
Pay for what you get in other countries and not this useless hell hole. All that we've been paying, what have we gotten apart from total blackout, fuel queue, no water supply, little or no security, high commodity prices, high dollar to naira rate, higher accident cases and deaths on our roads, dilapidated infrastructures, extra judicial killings by men in uniform, etc?

how much have you paid in tax this year,no lie o

quid:
Wetin go do us like filmtrick?

na so we talk say ajimobi slow,when he start we de beg am to slow down

quid:
^ Yes, keep wallowing in blind mumuism

de watch. e go do una like film trick

Papasmal:
What is it with all this taxes....

Good road wil no get,

Food commodities 4 common man dey xpensive,

No fuel,

No employment..

No access to medical facilities...

Portable water no dey, Electricity nko..

See as this people dey xploit us...

and you all think these things fall from heaven. you pay for what you get. and no, oil money will not pay for these things. but make we see as anybody go vote based on tribe and sentiment when they've got skin in the game

Dyt:
You men like mumu submissions
Hianus

no submit na. who lose

tuniski:
What will baba do? We are in a democracy and fayose is right! U are the type promoting tyranny abi may God never allow buhari turn to full tyrant!

he can probe all his cabinet and house of assembly. if you want to hurl stones you do not do such in glass house. Buhari can never become full tyrant. plenty of checks and balances. (military, his party,) corrupt national assembly not included

Ontarget:
So Obj, Abacha and IBB are the examples of the good men you mentioned about cos the "built" things? And who told you Jonathan didn't build anything? You mentioned looting going under Jonathan what about that massive looting under Abacha and IBB? Anyway, that's not the main issue. The issue now is, since you mentioned Abacha, Obj and IBB as "good men" why didn't Nigeria advance so much cos you said it would take a single good man in power to transform things.

where did I say obj and abacha were good o. I just said as bad as they were they were much much better than Jonathan.they scored 1 over 100 is better than Jonathan's 0.1 over hundred. they are all failures as far as I am concerned but if we're being empirical they got 1 or two things doing.point to one complete useful project that Jonathan completed.

why baba de allow this idiot de insult am like dis na.

wadetaw202:
Well, I Dont see that as a long lasting solution

poison kills cows, shepherds stop coming south, no shepherds no fight

Ontarget:
Jonathan was a good guy. At least compared to people like IBB and Abacha. So what happened? Even Buhari is a good guy. But people are still complaining.

no he wasn't. he was an ineffectual buffoon. you don't tell your children you love them and spend their school fees money on alcohol. actions louder than words. he was given golden opportunity and instead allowed unprecedented looting.at least ppl feared obJ abacha and Ibb and things got built (third mainland and gwarinpa largest estate in Africa)all the airports under Jonathan are leaking and generators missing and so on and so on and nobody was packed no-one was prosecuted even after the whole nation cried out. no my friend he is was and never will be a good man

plant maize or beans or plantain

wadetaw202:
The Fulani herdsmen insisted no one could stop them from destroying people's crops and farmlands because it will inconvenience their lives and businesses, which means they are ready to destroy other peoples business in order to keep their own businesses going.

....and the military and police seem to be in support of these murderers, who are also buhari's kinsmen.

Buhari heard of the evil his kinsmen did at agatu, even against a sitting senator, yet he never thought it right to personally make a broadcast about the issue.

Buhari personally condole with Belgium over the death of 12 or 16 people, but he never thought it right to condole with agatu people, who lost up to 300 of their people in the hands of his murderous kinsmen.

At times like this, I wonder if buhari is a citizen of Nigeria or that of Belgium. I also wonder if he is president of Nigeria or just president of Hausa/Fulani.

Buhari seems to be enjoying the way his kinsmen kill the rest of Nigeria, hence his callous silence.

He seems to be ready to sacrifice the rest of us for his Hausa/Fulani kinsmen

Since the president, who is supposed to protect me, seems incapable to do this for political, tribal or any other reason; since the military and police seem to be protecting and supporting the Fulani herdsmen, I think it is high time the rest of us found solution to our common problem/common enemy-The Fulani herdsmen.

This problem is not just an Igbo thing; it also affects Yoruba.

I think self defence is the only way out.

What do you think? Please comment reasonably.

Constructive criticism is welcome.

just 1 tanker of rat poison or pesticide is all that is needed. no fight on confrontation just rat poison aplenty

Clakyvip:
Corruption ridden country. Imagine what could happened to this country if these swindlers n unrepented hell condemned souls were still in govt all these crimes won't have been noticed. They just after our money nothing more, I wonder if all these people r even Nigerians. I cry for this nation. Those in power r not better, when they leave too, u see thr atrocities, we pray the damage won't b as severe as the formal. Let's pray for Nigeria. Let's change our mentality, every thousand stole is a life lost, Stop killing innocent youths n children. Some day some of us we get there too, when u get there.,Pls do well. God bless u.

stop praying and participate. go there and show ppl that things can be done better

RichYoungNigga:
This guy is the true definition of a philanthropist.
You know how much he's given to charity ??

Donald Trump is busy displaying his stupidity

SMH and you really believe nothing goes for nothing. learner. if you like eat free stuff shared by white man in this era of Illuminati gmo

sephryneyo:
good news! but why only northern states
were picked? bring it come my state Osun
i beg our governor dey make hunger wire
us.

cos it's easier to spread Illuminati agenda among the ignorant.you think Bill Gates is your friend ba. using us to test genetically modified crap

ogunronbi18:
lol...u shuld be a role model not agba iya,....next time try to correct som1 mistakes, u av to stay away frm inferior character......klimagmanisinhli

why I emphasise it's not our language. I was correcting her for laughing at him but you just come porknose for Wetin your brain no understand