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Why does this government and its officials continue to decieve Nigerians instead of admitting that the new tarriff as announced is unworkable? They need to simply allow market forces to work instead of trying to rig economic outcomes with stupid policies.

The government can encourage and support the automobile manufacturing industry without destroying Tokunbo businesses which provide jobs to thousands of people.

I'd recommend that they go and find the missing $20 - $50billion and inject only $1billion into the automobile manufacturing industry and leave small busiunesses alone. duk barawo.

So na this boy be key actor? Issokay.

Make una go look inside aso rock campus and NASS if una wan arrest key actors. Useless people.

Please, have they also adopted the idea of throwing out NASS and the constitution of this great country? Clowns.

This so-called attack on nairaland should be a wake-up call to the owner of the site. Any such attack which leads to data loss of more than a few hours indicates gross carelessness or incompetence on the part of the site's operators.

Some observations and comments.

(1) Information Systems 101: Back up your data on a daily basis and keep the backups offsite!!!

(2) Nairaland has grown beyond a mom & pop operation or a one-man dictatorially managed outfit

(3) If the owners of the site are pressed for money, they should take the site public and raise the funds needed to make the site a true first class International site. Oga can still have majority ownership.

(4) Hire true professionals: technical professionals, journalists, moderators and utilize them to take the site to the next level.

(5) Most importantly, Nairaland must become a apolitical site and if that is too difficult, Seun must re-emerge as an apolitical owner .

(6) All the best to Seun.

Neatboy: You are too critical and bitter. You must have been raised by a single parent who also must have filled up your mind and head with hate for anybody that is not you. It also makes you never to see anything good about anybody. If you were an old woman na your own witch go be the 'baddest'.

onye iberibe ka i bu. puo na azu

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atlwireles: That's why the North must push 100% resources control and less centralized government. They can use their resources to build their dream Arewa republic. Time to take control of all your wealth northerners. National conference offers you that platform.

No one really has a problem with resource control. Most people, including me, supports 100% resource control of inland resources. Most also agree that offshore resources which are located outside the boundaries of any state are jointly owned and their benefits must be equitably distributed. A very fair concept.

The President told us 7 days ago that the new 250% increase in trariff on tokunbo cars will save Nigeria $4bn. Today we are told that twice that amount, $8.5billion was spent by NNPC on subsidy, though it took NNPC 2 whole months to "reconcile" their accounts in other to make this discovery.

Dear Mr. President, bikonu, trim the fat off your organizations and free up these billions for the benefit of ordinary Nigerians. Do the right thing for us , sir. Haba Mallam!!

DerideGull: There is no doubt you are clannishly biased as your statements suggest. From your myopic views, Nigeria started in 2012. One wonders who had led the cesspit called Nigeria since the independence to 2012. Great countries do not embark on two-year development plans that were severely disjointed due to ethnic pressure. One of the hidden factors that led to Nigeria/Biafar civil war was the 10-year development plan of eastern region which coincidentally followed the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantity within southern protectorate about 1956.

Nigeria is a load of wastefulness and has no reason to survive for a day. The potentials of each section of the jungle called Nigeria can not be realized until the country is disintegrated.

Another red herring by the usual suspect, Mr. Gull.

You of all people should know the difference between an action which took place in a single year, 2012, and actions which span many years or decades. You are addressing a completely different isue than the one I raised. When you grow enough brains to focus, then come back with the appropriate response. dolo

ISpiksDaTroof: Thats actually a giraffe and an ostrich.

It took you people 2 years to dicepher that. olodo

T9ksy: Okay i agree am lazy. Now can you educate me when it was that groundnut ( don't want to talk about cocoa) that was not even enough to sustain the northern administrative part of the country was utilised to fund the south, as well.

If you are not lazy as you claimed, then you will have to discuss both groundnuts and cocoa, as I stated in my post. Start with this.


Cocoa, groundnuts and palm products were the primary source of foreign earnings back then with cocoa and groundnut as the top earners.


Source: U.S. Library of Congress


Here is a snippet from the article.

Most Nigerians eat grains, but the production and consumption of sorghum (guinea corn) and millet are heavily concentrated in the savanna north. In 1980 the two grains accounted for 80 percent of Nigeria's total grain production. Corn production in the savanna middle belt benefits from heavier rainfall, which frequently permits two crops a year. The demand for rice, much of it imported, increased dramatically during the affluent 1970s, but had to be cut back during the foreign exchange shortages of the 1980s.

Cocoa and groundnuts were Nigeria's two major exports until petroleum surpassed both in 1965. Cocoa, cotton, groundnuts,hides and skins, were the principal export crops in the 1960s and early 1970s, but with export reorientation, only cocoa remained of any importance after 1975.

Although Nigeria was the world's largest exporter of groundnuts in the early 1970s, groundnuts fell from the export list by the end of the 1970s as a result of the severe Sahel drought of 1972-74 and a viral disease in 1975. With assistance from the World Bank, the government restored cocoa production in the late 1970s and 1980s through replanting programs and producer price supports. The resulting increase in cocoa output (to 200,000 tons in 1988) kept Nigeria in third place among world cocoa producers, after Ivory Coast and Ghana.

Sincere 9gerian: @Ndu-chuks..,now that two out of three of your demands have been met, what do you have to say?

But honestly, I insist the refineries should be sold. If it can't be done this year, then it should be done immediately after the 2015 elections.

This is why I continue to say that GEJ's handlers are incompetent and should be replaced before they completely ruin this good man. Instead of releasing 165 of these prisoners, most of who are teenagers and women, held for over 6 months without charges, the President should have ordered the release of ALL such prisoners!

If he had done that, coupled with the announcement of very elaborate compensation for these victims, I would have been more impressed. The President's handlers continue to miss opportunities for very significant wins. Eitherway, I acknowledge the President's goodwill gesture.

I also agree that refineries should be sold, but not to the cronies of the Minister of Petroleum, who did not see it fit to discuss the potential sales with the President. Government should not be running corporations and should focus on governance. I believe all corporations, including NNPC, should not be run by government agencies, just as public for corporations, should not be running social welfare programs.

Just look at the photographs of these kids!! They are nothing but victims who should compensated.

Handout and free contract things.

At the very least, these stakeholders will get transportation money and at most .........hmmmm

ikenga67: My point is that legislations like that whether passed by the NASS or by the military (and grand-fathered in by the Constitution) are patently unconstitutional as improper delegation of legslative powers.
Under US consitutional law (and I dont see a special circumstance that stops us from following the precedence, sicne we borrowed the same system), the Congress might rightly delegate some of its powers, but such delegation has to be narrowly tailored with clear guidance regulating its exercise. A blanket delegation of power to raise or reduce tariff or ban or un-ban imports will clearly fail that test.
We just have to imbibe and internalize the political philosophy that (except in a few circumstances) the powers surrendered to the governemnt under a constitution is first and foremost powers surrendered to the senior branch of governemnt (the legislature) which is also the truly representative branch and the custodian of the people's sovereignty

Good points up there. Unfortunately, neither the legislative branch nor the executive branch is willing and ready to test the constitutionality of the executive branch's power to raise or reduce such tariffs, in court. The test certainly will not come because of the new policy on Tokunbos.

Both the branches will be busy fighting over the budget in the next few weeks. If I were a betting man, I'd put money on the postponement of the 250% tariff increase. When all is said and done, we'll end up with a compromise of probably 50 - 75% increase.

Since it dawned on political jobbers that NL has become a source of information for our politicians, goons have been falling all over themselves using open letters, complaint threads, and other means, to blackmail or influence the mods/super mods regarding FP content.

My suggestion to folks is to stop the whining because NL seems to be doing just fine without the unnecessary threats and/or blackmail. Most of the political topics which hit the FP are well vetted, and recently, those which do not have published sources, were clearly marked as "opinion". Frankly, its a great thing to have good opinions of Nairalanders on the FP, in addition to newspaper accounts (which may contain erroneous information BTW).

As Americans say, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".

Sibrah: Our problem isn't policy but the wastage that goes with execution of our policies, i felt this is one area where he should have focused on immediately he assumed power as this is the only way to get all regions to support resource control.

I agree with you. Unfortunately, many of his supporters including those from the SS are oblivious to the implications of the bolded text above.

taharqa: See this CLOWN. Keep blaming GEJ for d incompetence and fooolishnes of yr Northern leaders since d Colonial days. Those Leaders, who have ruled most in d nation's history, have always made d North dependent on d South, whilst keeping their own citizens brainwashed and extremely ignorant. Keep grasping at Straws, guy.

The above balderdash is nothing but red herring. Try that with your fellow intellectual midgets.

Return to the thread when you are ready to dispute my claim that wasting $1billion to explore oil in the chad basin in 2012 was a dumb idea and that the money would have been better spent in developing solid minerals in the area. I also stated that the President's speech writers are incompetent and you are similarly unable to offer compelling reasons why I am wrong. You should be ashamed of yourself.

Eeeyah, PDP agents in their desperation for answers, have found solace in a useless poll. It has been very difficult for them to admit that their ship has actually sunk.

They continue to bury their heads in the sand like this Wild Camel (Rakumin Dajij) or the Ostrich below. I believe that these people are in great denial.


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DerideGull: Mr. chucks,

Fencesitters need to be shot.

Mr. Gull, you were lucky that great soldiers spared you, instead of doing the needful, after you were captured hiding in the bushes of biafra - thanks to commanders who gave orders to that effect. If those soldiers were under my command, you may have been spared as well. dolo

I'm sorry to say that this statement, credited to the President, is another admission of gross incompetence, failed policies by his administration, and outright cluelessness.

A competent government with well thought-out plans would have voted $1billion for the development of the solid minerals in the North back in 2012. As the President admited, these resources are in abundance in that region.

Guess what GEJ's government did in 2012 - it voted $1b for inland exploration for oil in the country’s inland basins particularly the Chad Basin. To date, a drop of oil is yet to be discovered in the area, while most of the $1billion has disappeared into thin air. Here's a link to the announcement of this waste expenditure.

The President's speech writers are incompetent clowns and GEJ himself continues to prove that he has no idea what his ministers are really doing on his behalf.

ikenga67: From a legal point of view, I even have serious doubt if this so-called policy can pass constitutional muster.
Here we have a policy that will have major impact on both the economy and the revenue of the Federal Governemnt, not to talk of having disruptive effect on industry. The NASS should be responsible for inititating such policies through duly passed legislation. Of course in the modern system the legislature can delegate some of its functions to the executive and other agencies, but the legislature ought to have in place a mechanism for overseeing the delegatee of such powers. I doubt if any of that has been put in place here, but again, this is Nigeria!!!

The Joint Committee on Rules/Business, Justice and Judiciary, is currently charged with studying opposing views on this very issue and advise the House on what to do.

One view is that the Customs/Excise Tariff Act empowered the President to adjust tariffs whenever necessary. Those who hold that view believe that the only way to stop the policy in question was to come by an amendment bill. An opposing view (which I subscribe to) is that the said tariff was included in the Exclusive Legislative List and could not be changed by “executive fiat” unless by a law passed by the National Assembly.

I do not believe that the matter has been settled. My guess is that the executive branch, out of courtesy, will allow the house to fully deliberate the issue before allowing the policy to go into effect. It would be wise of the executive branch to postpone the 250% tariff increase and avoid a possible legal challenge which could actually erode its perceived authority, to willy nilly adjust such tariffs. The fat lady is yet to sing.

T9ksy: Why don't you point me to the one you read that says groundnut sustain the nation's economy before the advent of oil?

Ode. I wrote groundnuts and cocoa. I give you a few hours to do your research and hope you are not lazy. If you are still in doubt I'll educate you.

T9ksy: When was nigeria's economy solely sustained by Groundnut? Are you talking about the same groundnut that wasn't even enough to sustain the northern part of the country? Haba! Aboki, your puerile attempt at revisionism is DOA. It is no secret why the british merge the northern protectorate with the south.

Consult your history books. Nuff said

ketoprofen: Yet, nobody touches their groundnuts, tomatoes; solid minerals eg tin, gold.
These minerals are being mined in the north by foreigners and the northern politicians and chiefs are settled.
But they own 80% of oil wells in the south.
Imagine if this oil were in the north, do u think they would be allowing other grps to come to cross Benue?

When Nigeria's economy was primarily sustained by Groundnut and Cocoa, and many of you people were still subsistent fishermen, we didn't hear a word from you. When we spent millions of naira on oil exploration, losing millions where we found nothing, we didn't hear from you people. When we found oil inland and spent millions more to drill, we did not hear from you people.

Now that you are receiving royalties via government allocations to your states, you are now yapping that its your oil. How much have you invested in oil exploration? Let me guess - zero Naira.

To add to the insult, some of you have the guts to lay sole claims on offshore oil!! What foolery.

Lazy fools should ask their governors to invest only 0.000001% of the free money they receive to develop offshore fishing and supply all of West Africa with frozen fish. Some of you simply come across as lazy ingrates.

This is truly a huge sign of weakness. With the right set of cajones (balls), Sanusi would have resigned after being asked to do so.

Nna, by the time SSS, EFCC, choice implementers, and others, finish with him, Sanusi would have been begging to resign. Mr. President is too weak to play ball, even Oduah has bigger balls.

Mumu wey never fire Oduah wan fire Sanusi. I dey laugh o.

Chimoski87: He is indeed a man without any iota of
corruption

OP though I had wanted to say something different, but when I saw your above statement on Buhari, that's when I realized that you are high on Ijebode weed

Rubbish. Ijebu Ode is known for Garri. Never heard of weed coming from that area. Abi that is what the Ijebu Jesha guy, Shymexx, is on, when he comes here?

Antivirus92: ndu chuks is this ur comment or am i hallucinating? Chai, new year new change!

My comments are always free from the typical bias you people are used to. If you read them without prejudice, that fact will become crystal clear to you.

This lady has apparently committed no crime. Someone simply lied (or made a mistake)on the official page of Nigeria’s Ministry of Aviation as well as her biography on Wikipedia that she has an MBA. I'd prefer that she clears the air once and for all.

The minister will escape being fired once again.

The OP talks about Political Expediency which wins elections. Nostalgia, effeminate emotionalism, naivety, and outright foolish miscalculations, do not win elections.

The President is playing with fire and flirting with impeachment. He swore to uphold the law and defend the constitution of Nigeria, ( "so help him God" ). Can't this man do a single thing, right?

The President is playing with fire and flirting with impeachment. He swore to uphold the law and defend the constitution of Nigeria, ( "so help him God" ). Can't this man do a single thing, right?