₦airaland Forum

nograv:
Cities in Nigeria?? Thats not hard to do, the worst cities in countries like Vietnam or Lebanon are ahead of Nigerian cities even lagos..

We dont have one city in this country that compares to any of the greatest cities in the world..

Malaysians have Kuala Lumpur that can be compared to any major cities..

Sao Paolo in Brazil looks like New York in many parts..

The above are developing countries.. Stop making excuses Jare...

And I don't think Agbaje could have turned Lagos to any of the cities above

nograv:
No power, no clean pipe borne water, no modern sewers and no decent public transport...

I would say they are in prison...

Lagos is a work in progress, atleast far ahead of all other cities (including FCT) in Nigeria. She will get there soon

emeijeh:
Keep quiet

A wailer spotted

Realcash224:
Oh Saraki is gone

Price to pay for disloyalty and betrayal

emeijeh:
We are not surprised.

Lagosians do not want freedom, and Jimi Agbaje as usual has wasted money again .

Lagosians are not in prison, my friend

The landslide beating of Agbaje by Sanwo-Eko.

...I hope he performs well in office than his predecessors

DammyGbade:
The guy don cross road... I knew this guy during his days in college of Education in Abeokuta, he was later chased out of the community then... The end of thuggery is catastrophic... Desist from cultism and thuggery!!

Was he a cultist?

dainformant:
Another set of suspected thugs has been apprehended by vigilant youths in Akwa Ibom, just hours to the governorship and House of Assembly elections today.

A bus carrying about 20 political thugs all the way from Edo state - was intercepted in Ikot Esen-Atiamkpat road, Nsit Ubium LGA, Akwa Ibom state.

The leader of the group was beaten mercilessly by the mob as he claimed they were brought from Edo to Akwa Ibom to monitor the elections and also provide "security" at polling units.

He also said they will receive their full payment after the elections are concluded.

Watch video of the incident below.

See more; https://www.nationalhelm.co/2019/03/thugs-imported-from-edo-nabbed-in-akwa-ibom-hours-to-elections.html

Any thug hot caught is now from Edo? So, Edo has started exporting thugs?

akinblog:
Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has attributed the low turn-out of voters in the ongoing governorship and state assembly elections to alleged rigging of the presidential poll.

Atiku spoke after casting his ballot at the Ajiya polling unit 02, Gwadabawa ward of Yola north local government of Adamawa state.

“There is low voter turn out and I believe it’s because of the last election which was marred by a lot of irregularities,” he said.

Atiku said the involvement of the military in the election is unconstitutional, urging the electorate to be law-abiding.

Speaking on his loss, Atiku said he was committed to challenging the result f the election in court.

He called on his supporters to remain calm and await the outcome of the legal action.

Earlier, President Muhammadu Buhari said he expected Atiku to challenge the presidential election in court.

https://all-gists..com/2019/03/Many-didnt-vote-today-because-presidential-poll-was-rigged-Atiku.html?m=1

Reason I with my supporters didn't go out to vote

I have been getting so much calls and text asking as the 3rd place WINNER of the 2019 Presidential Election if i won't congratulate President Buhari for winning the election and to try to negotiate for Position.
Well i do appreciate all your concerns.

Well let me make my Position very clear.
1. You only congratulate someone who won an election.

2. Secondly it wasn't a Position i was looking for that took me to Nigeria, I am not jobless.
I didn't decide to go back to Nigeria because I don't have a job here in America. i went to Nigeria to run for office of the President to cause a change. of what use it is joining an administration were you know your voice will not be heard. With that said until I meet with the President himself to discuss i have nothing else to say at the moment.

Please note Any ENDORSEMENT you see from any media platform as regarding the 3rd place winner endoring Buhari please disregard it, its Fake News.

My name is Dr. Nicolas Felix Presidential Candidate/3rd Place WINNER of the 2019 Presidential Election

ELVISHOT:
Motorists and bystanders along the popular Ogba bus stop, Ogba, Lagos Mainland were in panic mode as a vehicle parked by the road side caught fire.

Although the reason for the fire was unknown to many, bystanders and road users rushed to the aid of the car owner who looked helpless as his vehicle burns.

The fire threw motorists plying the axis into a bit of panic as they hurriedly drove away from the spot to avoid multiple explosions.

Although the fire was put out with combined efforts from residents and road users, what was left of the burnt vehicle was the carcass.


Watch Video HERE as the car burn.

Tell these guys- you don't use water to stop flame of fire like this

hinwazaka:
The same democracy he destroyed. Am starting to believe the jubril story. Either that or Buhari and obiano are drinking buddies

How did he destroy democracy?

RTSC:
Your clime is so sagacious, you languished in opposition for 16 years.

Your only relevance came when you attached yourselves to an old man like buhari.

Once buhari leaves, una go hear am.

Bigot oshi.

Even before Buhari came, my state had been doing well. It's has always been among the top 7 in all development indices in the country. My state is even richer that 3 of your states put together. We are not sychophants, pls

chloride6:
I get that part.

What about the remaining?

Actually getting the bill to the floor for reading?

Check out for the respective House or Senate committees, which activities relate to the intent of your bill. Get them involved- what will you offer them?

... To make matters smooth, involve lobbyists. They are all over the respective legislative houses in the country

ImDStar:
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Consult a lawyer who is vast in Legislative drafting. If you need one, inbox me

Amosun is poo

RTSC:
Shut up.

So all the people in your place that have been decamping from various parties did not scuttle your Own presidential chances, it is only igbos you see?
Igbos that are the most loyal of all.

You dey craze for head.. Half crazed bigot masquerading bigotry for sense.

In my clime, we are very sagacious in politics, hence our understanding of its arithmetics (apologies to late China Okadigbo)

And curiously, it avoided Africa

Baba na Baba

Igbo people and thier political confusionism!!!
...same way they might scuttle thier Presidential chances in 2023

Kingsleydr:
Average ?? Those dudes are fuc*ing below average

They don't work hard

Good luck

Bunch of lazy average players

Trizzi:
No fewer than 29 people have been confirmed dead and several others injured after armed bandits attacked a community in Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara State.



The attack is said to have occurred on Thursday, February 28, 2019, but the information about it was no in not made public until Saturday.



Confirming the incident in a statement, the spokesman for the state police command, Muhammad Shehu, said the victims were ambushed by the bandits while on their way from a local market in Kwari village in the local government area.



“On 28th February, 2019 at about 23:45hrs, DPO Shinkafi received a distress call that on the same date at about 21:30hrs, vehicles conveying traders from Shinkafi to Kwari village were ambushed by suspected armed bandits while coming back from Shinkafi Market. DPO quickly responded by leading a joint team of PMF/CTU and military to the scene of the incident with a view to ascertaining the authenticity of the report” he said.



The command’s spokesman explained further that on getting to the scene, “13 corpses were found, while 16 other corpses mostly members of civilian JTF were later discovered littered as the surrounding bush was combed by the joint security operatives.” He added that a joint team of police mobile force and counter-terrorism unit of the police and military were swiftly drafted to the area in order to restore normalcy.



Read the full statement from the police below;


Source: https://www.mediahelm.com.ng/2019/03/29-people-killed-in-fresh-attacks-in.html

I think some persons simply want the Governorship elections to be postponed

Africa’s most populated country and the world’s 26th largest economy is heading for a meltdown as a direct result of envy politics.

It was an election between a multimillionaire pro-business candidate seen as part of the establishment and a self-proclaimed hero of the masses who railed against corrupt elites and promised to fight for the little guy. While this may seem to be the story of pretty much every election nowadays since the shock victory of Donald Trump in 2016, the results of Nigeria’s recent elections contain a very important message from an imperiled country about the dangers of using socialist rhetoric and envy politics as a tool of governance.

It is a story that shows how the populist tactics deployed by Trump and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have infected the global political discourse, becoming powerful tools for emerging dictatorships and incompetent governments to entrench themselves in power. Whether dressed up in right-wing clothes as in Trump’s case or presented as new age “socialism” as with AOC, the basic method is the same – the weaponization of envy and use of scapegoats to achieve political goals at the expense of good economics and common sense.

If the collapse of Venezuela got the world’s attention, the impending collapse of Nigeria, with six times the population of Venezuela, will be positively seismic. This is what happened, and here is how the world can learn from it.

‘Poverty is Good’
Typically decided along ethnic and religious lines, these elections took on a decidedly economic posture, with the generally prosperous South voting as one for the first time in favour of Atiku Abubakar. This was an economically liberal challenger and successful businessman who promised to introduce comprehensive cryptocurrency regulation in his campaign manifesto after Nigerians were forced to become prolific crypto traders due to the woes of the naira, which fell over 85 percent in 2016 alone. The largely impoverished North, however, voted almost unanimously for the famously statist incumbent Muhammadu Buhari.

Following four years of woeful economic performance, including Nigeria’s first recession in a quarter of a century, Buhari’s campaign message was no longer that fighting corruption would grow the economy – which it clearly failed to do in his first term. The message was something altogether different – that Nigerians should learn to accept poverty as the price for “fighting corruption.”

While this message elicited stunned reactions from many voters, it turned out to be right on the money in terms of hitting the emotional lever of an even greater number of people.

Despite being far behind where it should be on a per capita basis, Nigeria’s $411 billion economy has a significant population of US Dollar billionaires and millionaires, in addition to a large population of middle class professionals in cities like Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Enugu and Ibadan – predominantly in the country’s South. This fact is often overshadowed by the preponderance of extreme poverty, particularly in the North.

There is a very sharp economic divide between Nigeria’s prosperous South and impoverished North. | Source: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative

The glaring economic divide between North and South has been used alongside with ethnic and religious politics in the past, but this election was the first time that no attempt was made to promise economic growth to those in need of it. Instead, the message was that poverty in Nigeria is a sign of virtue because only the “corrupt” are able to live well. Like a certain social media sensation-cum-Congresswoman across the Atlantic, Buhari was the “man of the people,” campaigning with a message that their honest poverty is not their fault and is nothing to be ashamed of.

Like Buhari, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has achieved great success by branding herself as “the candidate of the people.”

Like in the U.S., this approach worked brilliantly, with voters responding positively to a message that absolved them of responsibility and found a comfortable and suitably visible scapegoat. On the surface, AOC’s message is “billionaires and corporate money are distorting democracy,” but what voters are actually expected to hear and respond to is a class warfare dog whistle saying “rich people think they are better than you.” Similarly, the message Nigerian voters really got from the “live within your means” mantra was “those smug city people feel superior to you because they have some money which they probably stole.”

Populism is Good Politics
For Buhari’s campaign team, it meant avoiding discussions about real issues like Nigeria’s bloated, inefficient, and excessively powerful central government and the unsustainable nature of its welfarist federal budget.

To have such a discussion would mean explaining why amidst the naira’s 85 percent fall against the dollar in 2016, Buhari’s government chose to maintain an unrealistic official exchange rate which was used to subsidise religious pilgrims heading to Mecca for the Hajj.

Such conversations would include discussing the opposition’s stated plan to privatise NNPC, Nigeria’s state-owned oil firm that essentially functions as an independent country on its own, with no practical oversight by or accountability to government. Also included would be the federal government’s opaque and inefficient public contracting, procurement and funds disbursement process.

Rather than discuss a lack of investment in education and healthcare, extremely poor power generation and transport infrastructure, or the lack of proper separation of powers making the executive a law unto itself, the campaign was instead spent attacking the convenient fig leaves of “corrupt people”, “treasury looters,” and “arrogant elites”.

In the absence of reasoned debate or actual policies and achievements, a large vote-buying effort was also deployed, in what some have referred to as the “weaponization of poverty.”

AOC, Trump and Farage In One
Weaving together the anti-elitist appeal of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the bloviating news-magnetism of Donald Trump and the skilful sophistry of Nigel Farage, Buhari’s campaign painted a picture of a country held hostage by “corrupt” elites, “treasury looters” and their middle-class subalterns who wanted to vote in a pro-business candidate to preserve the corruption status quo.

In 2015, Buhari defeated an incumbent candidate with a Ph.D. who was perceived to be incompetent due to being an airy-fairy ivory tower resident. This time around, his challenger’s wealth was portrayed as a moral failure in a manner reminiscent of how Ocasio-Cortez has portrayed the existence of billionaires amidst poverty as morally unjust.

While the world of shouty Fox News anchors and social media-savvy Congressional freshmen may seem relatively tame in comparison to the literal life and death politics of Africa’s largest country, it is important to note that Nigeria itself was not always this way. The unfortunate sequence of military coups and poor economic decisions that saw the country lose an entire generation of talent to the developed world could not have taken place without popular support from the very people most affected.

It may be difficult to picture Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Donald Trump leading the U.S. into a dystopian future where middle-class professionals are disparaged as the “enemy”, and widespread poverty is held up as a virtue, but such situations can take decades to incubate. The incubation takes place in three stages that often overlap – an anger and dissatisfaction phase, a demonization phase, and then the catastrophe.

Demonization and Scapegoating
The first phase is already well underway across most of the developed and developing world. From Bangalore to Baltimore, everyone is united in anger about something. Regardless of the wide disparity of living experiences around the world, the general mood is that things are worse than they have ever been, and something or someone must be held to account for it. Politicians eagerly feed the narrative that something has gone terribly wrong, and they will fix it.

The second phase is also underway across much of the world. During this phase, scapegoats must be identified and separated from the assumed ‘virtuous masses’. In Nigeria, the scapegoats are “elites”, which translates practically to “anyone who is not poor.” Anyone with a university-level education and a stable source of income is an “elite” who is collaborating with “corrupt treasury looters.” Across the developed world, the scapegoats may vary from immigrants to Blacks, to Muslims, to “the 1 percent.”

To the impoverished and angry Nigerian voter, their predicament is down to “people who are stealing Nigeria’s money,” regardless of how easily that argument falls down when challenged by the most cursory analysis. Their world is a zero-sum game, where if someone eats three times a day, lives in a comfortable modern residence and drives a car, they must have those things because they “stole” them, or they work for someone who stole them.

However intellectually redundant such a viewpoint is, it has a powerful emotional resonance that is often amplified by lack of education and existing ethnoreligious divisions between North and South.

To the angry voter across much of the developed world, their discontent is caused by immigrants coming over and being given all the jobs and housing, or it is down to the Muslims and refugees being allowed to come into the country and create their own laws and live outside the constitution unlike the long-suffering, salt-of-the-earth natives whom nobody ever listens to.

Perhaps it is the Blacks who are committing all the crimes and nobody can criticise them for fear of being called racist, or most recently, it is the 1 Percent (or even the 0.1 Percent) – the globalist plutocrat oligarchs who pay fewer taxes than everyone, and who have taken away all the jobs and healthcare and placed everyone in debt.

Nigeria’s Unfolding Catastrophe
For most of the world, the catastrophe phase is not underway yet, so perhaps a look at Nigeria, where it is well and truly underway will be instructive. A poor economy dependent on a single export resource looks set to continue on its self-imposed implosion, driven by generous subsidy regimes, ridiculously unsustainable social intervention programs, rapidly ballooning foreign debt and a growing annual recurrent expenditure bill that it cannot hope to afford.

In a wrong-headed attempt to plug this funding shortfall, the government has embarked on a high-handed tax collection effort, repeatedly violating the law by unilaterally freezing bank accounts belonging to small businesses and private individuals in the absence of valid court orders or even demand notices. Understandably, this has spooked investors and accelerated the outward flow of investment, which is conveniently labeled as “corrupt money” leaving the country, as against a policy failure driven by envy and fuelled by incompetence.

Alongside this is the growing spectre of oil losing its value, as the world’s biggest oil buyers including China and Europe switch to renewable sources over the next couple of decades, which will effectively render Nigeria’s government penniless overnight. Amidst all this, due to a populist aversion to promoting family planning, Nigeria’s impoverished population over the next decade will add another 137 million to its numbers – the biggest growth of any country on earth excluding India.

Already, tens of thousands of middle-class Nigerians are upping sticks and moving to destinations like Canada, Germany, Australia and the U.S. in preparation for the impending crisis. An entire generation of highly skilled labour including doctors, teachers, lawyers, engineers, nurses, pilots, accountants, entrepreneurs, artists, programmers, artisans, academics and management personnel is being lost to the developed world, leaving behind an exploding population of people living in extreme poverty.

The Sahara desert meanwhile, is also claiming an estimated 3,500 sq. km of arable land from Nigeria every year, which is a contributing factor to the presence of Boko Haram and the Fulani herdsmen – two of the world’s deadliest terror groups responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, maimings, and abductions over the past decade.

Envy Politics is Deadly Politics
Through all of this, a class of anti-intellectual populists in Abuja continue to raise clenched fists before adoring crowds, admonishing them to “live within their means” while demonizing economic ambition and wealth. They have achieved great political success by weaponizing the economic envy of a large, impoverished population, publicly glorifying poverty as a virtue while collecting the world’s most generous compensation packages for political office holders.

Outside in the real world, however, following the news of Buhari’s re-election, the Nigerian Stock Exchange lost 196 billion nairas (about $542 million), as the investment outlook continues to dim on Africa’s largest economy. The net result of years of envy politics and demonizing wealth and intelligence is a country that has hit the metaphorical iceberg, and continues to cheer while the band plays as the ship sinks.

The next time a politician – be it AOC or Donald Trump or Viktor Orban or Nigel Farage – tells you that your life is terrible because of this or that group of people, it would do you some good to think about whether this is what you want your future to look like, before giving in to your base instincts.

The unfolding lesson from this part of the world is very clear – the politics of populism and envy may be very good at winning elections, but they clearly are not good at running successful.


Source: https://www.ccn.com/the-socialist-politics-of-envy-what-the-world-can-learn-from-nigerias-unfolding-disaster/amp

Cletus77:
Hypocrisy is when you shout otoge in Kwara and Jagaban in Lagos

That's politics. If can, play it the best. Exactly what Tinubu is doing. You can't beat him to it

Beninmann:
If not for rigging, buhari won't see the needed 25℅ in Edo state.

I'm just so happy that joker didn't make the senate.

Ize iyamu sing handedly deliver his state for atiku and you still think he didn't win the 2016 election? If not for incumbent ize iyamu will flog oshiomole black and blue next year

Same old stories. He could not flog Oshiomole before when PDP still had some money left, is it now that they don't have the warchest he will defeat Oshiomole? Oshiomole has retired top god fathers in Edo politics.

Donjazzy12:
The boss is a lesbian. Very soon your cousin will testify!

Well, until it gets there

tammyboy1:
say no to drugs

merit455:
Is her boss a lady,if yes.....,then nothing is wrong with that.

Yes, the boss is a lady

My cousin applied to a firm a firm(legal practices and real estate firm) as thier Office Manager/Admin Secretary. She attended the interview with about five other applicants, but the job was given to one of the applicants who came top in the interview. But to the surprise of my cousin, after a week, she got a call from one of the Senior Partners/Owners in the firm who was on the panel of those that conducted the interview, telling my cousin that she performed excellently in the interview, but the job could only be given to one person. She now asked my cousin if she could drive very well and if she knows Abuja terrain, my sister said yes(she has been driving for over 6 years, even while at the university). They invited her for driving test, she passed same and she was employed as a driver to the Senior Partner of the firm, surprising with a good salary and other benefits. My sister accepted and has since resumed.

festacman:
Three things to note:

1. Chief Obasanjo should take a large chunk of blame for what is happening to Atiku today. He consistently painted him as corruption personified both in prints and in words as well as in diplomatic circles for close to 12 years until late last year. However, it is mportant to point out that it was Atiku's overambition that drove Obasanjo to do that.

2. Chief Obasanjo invoked 'curse' on himself by publicly saying that God will not forgive him if he supports Atiku inspite of what he knows about him. Several months later after two failed attempts to form a 3rd force party, he made a volte face in the name of reconciliation to support Atiku to achieve his egoistic fight against Buhari.

3. Chief Obasanjo tried to play God and got humbled. He unilaterally instructed Buhari to forget 2nd term and retire to treat his ailments.He publicly denigrated and uncharitably maligned the person of President Buhari in diplomatic circles. He once told a bewildered international audience that since Buhari's hand was too weak to sign Africa Trade Deal that soon a new president with strong hand will sign it. He was too sure as though he was God. He forgot that it is every Nigerian that will have the final say on the election day.

Every song ends. Obasanjo is a melodious song that is nearing its end.

Do you know how OBJ and Buhari later mend fences before the election? You guys don't know what's plays out in secret between these politicians and you are here typing trash