SuperBold: Nigeria want good things but are not patience, do you want Nigeria to keep importing when we have means of producing that same thing? How do you want to encourage farmer or boost their moral if you keep importing things they produce?
If Nigeria want good thing, we need to work together, when everything is settled now, we will be enjoying our hard work
Patience for the people for the policies were formed to die of hunger?
Some processes need to be implemented in phases until the aim is achieved.
Kweensavvy: I tire o...from 7k bag of rice to about 28k. Ban everything without a clue how to expand/ support agriculture in the country. All Dangote needs do is snap fingers and FG will follow suit... monopoly is the real problem...very few supply for billions of people.
Right now the prices of sachet tomato, a crate of egg and other staple foods have gone up by 45%.
What this means is that the purchasing power of Nigerians has further gone down south in what analysts call a free fall.
This latest development has rendered the purpose of the new minimum wage fruitless.
Five years ago, Mr. Audu Ogbe, the former Minister of Agriculture introduced and influenced an unfavourable policy.
The policy meant that the FG banned the importation of rice, yam and other basic food items into the country.
Mr. Ogbe's submission was that the policy will encourage local production and increase the value of the Naira.
What they failed to address was the sustainability of the policy. The structure put forward to power the policy was weak, hence its purpose was defeated.
It is time to review these dead policies. Most them are not working.
The recent development means that the poor are now automatically displaced. This doesn't make any sense.
Considering the fact that the country is yet to recover from the impact of Covid 19 lockdown.
- Herdsmen invasion - Scarcity of fertilizer - Little access to credit facilities
Are majority factors.
Right now, what the country is producing is less than what is needed to service our enormous population.
The EndSARS protest has taken a violent dimension in Lokoja, Kogi State capital as the State Correspondent of The Sun Newspapers Emmanuel Adeyemi was shot this morning on his way to the Secretariat of the Nigerian Union of Journalists(NUJ).
Reports say hoodlums took over the streets of Lokoja shooting sporadically.
Litmus: When does this argument become a stupid one? I didn't use the word counter productive because it always was.
Banks are broken into, you claim it might be ploy to discredit; churches and mosques burned, it might be a ploy to discredit; shopping malls are broken into and looted, it might be a ploy to discredit; buses are stopped, passengers disembarked and killed, it might be a ploy to discredit; simple minded Nigerians protest in the racist suburbs of America are lynched, oya, it is Nigeria US embassy's doing and a ploy to discredit; when will something that looks and smell like a rose be taken for what it is, a rose?
Let the protests keep to thire moral and just aim of pressuring the government to reform the police. Nigeria desperately needs a police force fit for purpose. The add on's are a distraction at this point.
Neddstark: You are just a silly IQ-deficient soul. Anarchy is looming, you are calling it blackmail. You think people in Benin are sleeping well tonight? You think law and order is a fvcking joke. Watch as it deteriorates.
You are a bastard. Take your vulturic life out of my mention.
If you don't understand simple english go back and learn.
Can't an accomplished politician prosper in peace again?
A man that singlehandedly built Lagos from scratch doesn't deserve to own a mansion. Now I know how backward people's reasoning are in this part of the world.
sweetgala: Stop this Nonsense we are a democratic nation we can not be dictated to by American. Same Americans that Trump supporters carried guns into a government building and confronted a sitting governor over coronavirus lockdown rules.
Please stop this nonsense. Any adult who doesn't understand that elections are not physical wars but a battle of intellectual difference in principles should not be provided a voters card. Worse is said during US election cycles
Learnt to be civil in smart discourse such as this.
Despite the ban by the United States Government, the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello traveled to Ondo, a Southwestern state in Nigeria to campaign for Gov. Akeredolu and in the process drummed for war.
In a recent video from the campaign ground, the governor who was indicted for electoral crimes and violence was seen chanting war songs in his dialect.
Transcription of song goes thus "“It’s Aketi that we want as governor. What are they saying? Clean dirts away. What are they talking about? if you don’t want him as governor, it's gonna be ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta,” he chanted in a Kogi dialect.
Ondo State governorship election comes up in a matter of days.
Recall that a former governor of Edo State and ex-National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, was among top Nigerians slammed with a visa ban by the United States Government.
Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, and Kogi governor, Yahaya Bello, were also among those affected by the latest US sanction.
Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna on the other hand had his own visa ban extended.
He has been banned from entering the US since 2010 over a graft case.
According to US officials, more Nigerian politicians may be included on the visa ban list after the Edo governorship election if they are involved in electoral malpractice.
Baawaa: I hope they are not doing this boy,if you have message to pass across to the government this is not the best way. Some mumus are quoting me, if they call for protest today how many of you will come out
Tittos: You do realise that picture is a digital model also called a computer generated model and not a real picture. The idu station is of the Lagos model . Have we come to the point where we now pass off computer images as how Nigeria looks for clout or for politics. BTW, these counties have moved to speed trains and electric trains, so no one will have confused these pics for Tokyo or Dubai. Not especially when these kinda trains in these countries are being phased out
Dude, these pictures are real. Don't disgrace yourself on a public forum like this with so much confidence.