₦airaland Forum

abbey621:
I guess we have to agree to disagree! I know some parts of the South East and South South that is so poor that I wouldn't advice my worst enemy to live there. You mentioned Katsina but obviously forgot about Sokoto and Kano. We can do compare and contrast all day but the fact remains that both North and South are underdeveloped. The North might be filled with religious ignorance and people with low intelligence but the South's so called developed area is concentrated only to 1/4th of the total states. Like I said I'm less concerned about that, what I'm telling you is to research the profile of each appointee and tell me how they are unqualified. It seems you know more than the president, so please enlighten me on what makes them incompetent!

The president's actions are not in keeping with his slogan of 'change' if the same people from the crooked, wasteful civil service are being appointed. If he wanted those who had shown ability to act decisively and to use resources efficiently then hp would look to the private sector.

There are few places on the African continent as backwards as the north. Child marriage, fistula. illiteracy, almajiri, Boko Haram, Sharia Law, hisbah guards - none of those is a positive. No society progresses whilst being so closed minded.

For the record Sokoto does not rank favorably with the cities that I mentioned either. I already spoke about Kano but I ask you this - why does Kano fare so badly when compared with Lagos, Ibadan, PH or Calabar?

abbey621:
If you are honest with yourself, you would realize that the South South, South East and the North are all underdeveloped. Let's move on from that, what I'm particularly concerned about is the bold part of your statement. I suggest you look at the appointments again and research into their respective job functions. You'll see clearly that experience in the private sector is not needed at all. I would think personal traits such as honesty, sharpness and so on are much more important. What people like you are failing to realize is that the president is going to surround himself with those he can trust, forget about federal character and ethnicity!

No part of the country is as seriously underdeveloped as the north - taken as separate entities the south is one of the most progressive parts of the continent whilst the north is one the worst places on the planet. Highest illiteracy rates on the continent; some of the highest rates of VVF; children battling malnutrition in states like Katsina; children sent out to beg all over the north.

I reiterate my point about the appointments coming from the same crooked, wasteful civil service that Nigeria has always had - how does that amount to change? And if these people are such agents of progress why have they not been able to pull their own region from its desperate state?

abbey621:
It just goes to show how clueless of a nation we are. I was hoping to hear things like the appointees are not qualified either by inexperience or morality but seems majority of Nigerians are all about ethnic or tribal sentiments. During the last administration things were pretty much in favor of the South but did we grow as a nation? Did the South actually developed more than the North? If the answer is no then we can see that it's not by appointment, it's by character! Tribalism and hatred has thrown some of you into a state of blindness and I'm afraid there's no light at the end of the tunnel for people like that in this world. I actually applaud the president for the appointments so far, looking deep into each appointee's profile it's easy to see that PMB is building a team he can trust, a team not guided by religion or ethnicity but by ethics and high work rate. My advice to all you wailers is to broaden your horizon and stop this ethnic biasness in order to prosper in life!

Go to Uyo, Enugu or Calabar and then visit Katsina, Kaduna or Kano and ask me again if the south developed more than the north.

The problem with the appointments is that they are people who do not appear to have done a great deal in the private sector prior to being in government - too many are career civil servants. If this government is about change why are the same elements being reused?

It does not help matters that they seem to come from the most underdeveloped part of the country - if they are such effective administrators why have they not pulled their own section(s) of the country out of the toilet?

ronald4lif:
Wrong. It doesn't happen everywhere. This is not the case in develop nations, at least not in Europe.

They don't do it all the time but they do it more than what the public can or should condone.

It happens for the Prime Minister in England as well as members of the Royal Family.

INTROVERT:
well....
south east.... zero
in the words of Ahmadu Bello "When we cannot find a northerner for the job we recruit expatriates because if you employ an Igbo man as a laborer in a factory, by the end of the year he would be the supervisor of the factory"

Because ambition from a layman is evil in the eyes of the northern power structure.

ADAMUdaCOWBOY:
But he is working and aachieving unlike the bowler hat guy who was always looking confused

He hasn't done anything besides make announcements and lopsided appointments.

The policies from the old administration are the ones bearing fruit.

ADAMUdaCOWBOY:
oga we don't have the patience to wait for any drunkard. We gave him six years and he was just working silently. Well as a president you have to talk. You carry your people along and not just work quietly in your closet like one kindergarten pupil.

Why does he have to talk?

Should his focus not be on doing?

What is done is more important than what is said.

A fine of 50k is nothing.

They should pay a fine of 1 million. Then acquire a license of 500k per annum and pay a business tax.

4Play:
I often find this sentiment profoundly silly not because I have much regard for PDP but because of what it reveals about Nigerians' lack of perspective. PDP came into power in 1999, the Nigeria of pre-1999 was an odious calamity. You often find people who either don't remember the Nigeria of those days or were kids/young at the time and had no real knowledge of the actual state of affairs then, basing their analysis on the notion that PDP is the root cause of our problem. They do so because PDP is all they have known in their adult life.

Nigeria was messed up before PDP was formed, therefore, what is wrong with Nigeria transcends PDP. This is a 55 year old country which has been dysfunctional from the beginning. You can keep deluding yourself that regurgitating political characters from the past, so long as they are not PDP, is the path to a new beginning but that is the height of self-deception. I predict that we will be dissapointed just as we have been for 55 years. In 8 years time, people who are infants or teens today will proclaim that our problem is mainly attributable to APC. We will never learn.

You speak the truth - Nigeria of 2014 was much better than the Nigeria of 1994 or 1984, I'm amazed at the number of people who seem unaware of this fact.

When has Buhari ever said or done anything that has been for the benefit of Nigeria?

Has he ever campaigned for fiscal federalism?

For an end to the devastation of the Niger Delta by IOCs?

For an end to child marriage?

For an end to almajiri culture?

Why has he only ever made noise about Sharia Law and amnesty for Boko Haram?

My issue is not that he has appointed northerners but there is no record showing that these people are the best qualified to run the country.

If northerners are so competent and honest why is theirs the most poverty ridden section of the country?

Why do Kano and Kaduna lag so far behind Lagos, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Uyo and Calabar in terms of development. education and industry?

Instead of making a big song and dance about it why not ask her in private?

Have a discussion and see if it's something she's ready for.

To be honest I don't know why any man would want to get married to a woman nowadays.

Until Nigerian society has a serious conversation about birth control, population growth and responsible breeding habits then such cases will continue to be uncovered daily.

As much as the economy might grow it will never grow enough to cater for the 5 children per woman habit that Nigerian society suffers under.

No society can cater for a population that doubles every 25 years.

Use Duckduckgo instead.

PassingShot:
China, USA and other major powers are experiencing this same issue.

This is partly what GEJ bestowed on us. It will get better by the passage of time.

If other nations are experiencing the same issue how do you then reason that it is something caused by GEJ?

Does GEJ have power over the global economy?

Does he set commodity prices?

Does he set interest rates in the US?

What is it with you people rushing to waste your money abroad?

Are there no bars, hotels or nightclubs in Nigeria?

I bet the same idiots wonder why the naira does not hold its value.

I'm not sure that Russia is in a position to point out anyone else's prostitution problems.

Wherever I've gone there's never been a shortage of Russian whores - be it north America, northern Europe, central Europe, Asia or Australia.

They seem to be everywhere.

How many of those girls have been used as suicide bombers?

Who takes pics at a gas station?

I'm hoping that this is a made in Nigeria Nissan.

As someone else asked, why do national bodies not patronize Innoson?

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^^ So Africans should stick to mythology because it might be more convenient?

In your opinion, of course.

Why do 'gods' need Naira?

Why do 'gods' need anything?

Obasanjo will remain happy with anyone who refuses to 'probe' him.

He's upset because tithes have dried up.

jboy73:
Fine man.

He should not be as dull as chewing gum chewing keshi..

And he should not let Menopause Mikel play our matches again.

Keshi lead Nigeria to a title win.

You may not like the man but there is no evidence of him being 'dull'.

The good thing is that the English taught to many of these children is often so bad that they may not know what these words mean.

Move to Katsina, no one will bat an eyelid.

This is pretty disgusting but I guess they learn from their mothers and sisters.

Afterall, isn't this what many of these lousy women do?

NgeneUkwenu:
I Think This Is The Best Time To Tie President Buhari To A Life Term Contract With A Release Clause Of 10Trillion Dollars, at least to dissuade the Western Countries From Snatching Him From Us.

This Kind Of Leader Is Rare To Find Anywhere!

Umu Wailing Wailers What Do You Think?

You have an appalling notion of what a 'democracy' is.

You do not give such power to one man, that is how you end up with the abuses and regression of the military era.

I wish you people would learn from history instead of spouting juvenile dreams.

Chiefpriest1:
Oga, my comment was about the Lebanese guy who got a Nigerian visa so easily or didn't you read that part of the story?

That man had false papers and plastic surgery - people who go through that much trouble usually sneak through.

Chiefpriest1:
That is why one should still thank God that we have not completely gone extinct despite the bad state of the country.

It's so easy to access this country, whether through land, sea or air. Its just so porous and our people at the border are just who they are...nigerians.

So, that things have not completely broken down and we are better than Iraq and Afghanistan is still a big miracle

Did you read the article?

This is about two Nigerians who entered Pakistan from India because they wanted to join ISIS.

This has nothing to do with Nigerian immigration.