₦airaland Forum

Afamed:
Lol. You are full of contradiction. You said the president has so much power that he can do and undo. But in your same post , you said the President still has to bribe the National assembly N37bn just to have his $30b . Is that not contradicting? When he could have easily spent the same $37b in 2017 when he said requested it from senate under Saraki leadership. Truly most of you, talk before Una reason

There's nothing contradictory in what I said. It's a pity you couldn't comprehend my message; you seem to lack an understanding of how leadership and politics work.

When I say a man can get whatever he wants, I didnt say he wouldnt pay for it. Bribing (a.k.a. lobbying or 'scratch my back I scratch yours') is an established means to achieving what one wants and this is synonymous with political leadership all over the world. If a president can EASILY lobby/bribe the NASS to get what he wants, then that president is obviously powerful. PMB simply wasnt smart with Saraki, that's why he couldnt get his way on some issues.

Sunofgod:
This is not like Nigerian police......to get something right?

The Nigerian police is not as useless as you think; when they really want to get something done (e.g. when there's strong pressure from above), you'll be shocked at what the police can do.

gidgiddy:
All the above is nonsense as the President of Nigeria has no powers to restructure Nigeria

Restructuring is a constitutional matter and the President of Nigeria has no powers to change or amend the constitution

horsepower101:
Perfect and correct response.

A lot of people still do not realise how powerful the seat of the Nigerian president is. A Nigerian president can do and undo whatever he likes, if the will is there. Buhari recently just bribed the entire NASS with N37bn renovation just to get his $30bn loan request granted. I repeat, "a Nigerian president is so damn powerful and can do whatever he wants if he's willing and smart enough."

1nigeriamyfoot:
You just described your father

My father does not spend his time on social media dishing out insults to any and everone without making any meaningful contribution to discussions. Neither did my father raise kids who lack the cerebral capacity to make meaningful contributions.

Like I said before, insulting people does not make you smart; only compound idiots without functional brain cells derive a sense of worth by insulting people randomly. Go back and read through all your posts on this forum and think deeply about yourself. Your father is definitely regretting raising a kid like you.

helinues:
The approvals by FG must be in exchanged for something probably loans.

If they are spending N35bn on just renovation, wondering how much it would cost to build from scratch.

Time of reckoning awaits all our politicians..

I said this to someone recently, the N37bn was definitely a 'scratch my back I scratch yours' deal between the exec and legislative, probably for approval of the $30bn loan.

Of that N37bn probably N1 or N2bn can be used for renovation; the remaining 35 will end up as bonuses for NASS members. It's at times like this you need a Dino on the floor, but would even Dino resist the temptation?

itsme01:



Buhari wouldnt dare.. but then again it is his last term and he seem to be unpredictable

Subsidy would die a natural death when Dangote refinery becomes functional with the modular refineries springing up and the NNPC refineries working to atleast 50% installed capacity, we can simply rich an agreement on crude oil swap for refined products and save scarce forex

The truth about devaluation is if we can fix Power and get Ajaokuta steel plant running to service industries, we wouldnt be needing dollars as much as we do

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Dangote will not sell fuel for N145, he would price it at well over N200. Even with Dangote and the other modular refineries functioning 100%, government will still need to pay subsidies for petrol to sell for N145.

MrMystrO:
Kai.. Look at what chrony capitalism has done to this young girl. Every possibility that she's eventually going to live out a normal life has been shattered and destroyed by this grave decision she's made for herself because of money. Such a sad situation. Life hard in this country Sha!

Her life, her business! But i must agree with you, people have weird desires in life.

edoairways:
Local manufacturers can't meet up because the government doesn't support them.

Of course the govt can to more to support local manufacturers, but even if the entire annual budget is given to local manufacturers (which we know is impractical), it wouldn't still be enough for them to meet up with the demand. So until such a time when local manufacturing begins to meet considerable demand levels, it is still a very good economic decision to get foreign investors into the country to set up plants.

edoairways:
We should consume local products that is how an economy grows. If countries like China and Singapore didn't restrict the influx of foreign products they wouldn't have been where they are today. The government is adopting import substitution however this policy may be to detriment of other infant industries

There is everything to benefit if those cars we inevitably import are actually produced here in Nigeria. Local manufacturers cannot meet up to 0.1% of the demand, so we will end up still importing until local capacity grows. Until then, it makes all economic sense to have the producers of these cars we import, have their production plants in Nigeria; it is better to produce them in Nigeria than to import them.

The only reason why Nigeria can talk of restricting importation of rice is because we at least can currently produce up to 50% or even more of our local demand. Anything else would amount to just outright economic madness.

edoairways:
Let the local business catch first before letting foreigners to compete

Yhis isnt qbout competition, theres a very large car market in Nigeria and our local vehicle manufacturers cant meet up to 0.01% of the demand.

Nigeria currently has a dead economy. So anything to boost the economy and provide jobs is a welcome development. FYI, there's is a clear difference between importing Hyundai cars and having Hyundai come into Nigeria to manufacture the cars; every nation welcomes that.

edoairways:
Yes

Okay, but that makes zero economic sense, and it would be disastrous for any country to chase away investors, let alone a country like Nigeria which direly needs foreign investments. Nigeria needs any kind of investment that can boost the industrialisation and manufacturing sector. The benefits are obvious, it will create numerous jobs, there would be technology transfer, it will boost government revenue, save forex etc. As long as they arent just importing cars into Nigeria, even if it just to assemble the already produced parts, as long as a phase of 'value addition' is done in Nigeria, it will be beneficial to our economy.

edoairways:
A reasonable government protects infant industries

In this case, do you suggest we protect local industry by chasing away foreign investors?

What exactly is this thread even about?

There's a large market for cars in Nigeria; there's enough room for everyone to thrive. Besides, anything that boost the industrial / manufacturing sector in Nigeria is a welcome development. As long as the vehicles will be produced or assembled within Nigeria, that;s a positive.

Nowenuse:
I was watching a documentary on Natgeo wild and I heard the commentator say something like this, that a certain snake's bite can kill an adult man within 5 minutes.
It was a documentary on the most poisonous snakes in the world. So, he may be correct.

I'd just like to know the name of this snake.

Suck belle things... Why did he flash it for only half a second?

I agree with atiku on this; we're still in 2019 and the talks of 2023 are already so deafening. Elected leaders get in office and instead of taking ambitious hard decisions which can bettter the country, they all keep considering political expedience (a.k.a securing 2nd term) and getting distracted. Not to even talk of the money spent in elections every 4 years.

The way in which they threw the bill out without even blinking was sick. Imagine one lawmaker arguing that "passing the bill would fuel unnecessary speculations that GMB wants to extend his tenure"? Solution for that would have been extremely simple, the new law shouldn't apply to elected leaders already in their second tenure.

Rich4god:
Make your research... Some snakes kills in less than that.

Mention their names biko...

Cherez:
So, where was re-inventing the wheel coming from?
You lack understanding and yet refuse to glean wisdom.
Well done oga

I wouldnt say you lack basic comprehension skills, or wisdom or understanding, that would be a lie. But you simply put these qualities aside because you were just desperate to make an argument out of nothing.

'Re-inventing' occurs when you try to create what already exists, instead of just reproducing it. The origin of this argument was you asking why Nigeria should import improve grass seed when we should be developing the seed ourselves in our labs. I opined that it was unnecessary and uneconomical to go in the lab to recreate what already exists from scratch, except of course we want to develop a more improved version of it. But then, if we want to improve on the existing seed, we can simply obtain the existing one and improve it further. You were simply just desperate to criticise the idea because it was from govt, but i told you there wasnt really anything worth criticising there.

Guyman02:
Adenike Ishola? The name is not Allen Onyema or Invictus Okeke or Orji Kalu, therefore, I can bet my N10,000 that this story will make FP only once

The reason it will make frontpage once, and may not even stretch beyond 2 pages, is because no one, absolutely no one turns it into world war 3; no one automatically feels a need to start defending her based on her tribe, no one starts several new threads lamenting how she's being hounded just because of her tribe, no one turns it into a tribal melee and starts attacking other tribes (and even countries), no one ascribes it to political enemies, no one turns it to an Apc vs PDP fight etc etc etc...

In summary, as long as no one claims and begins to viciously defend her based on tribe, the story will never degenerate into a tribal war fest, and as such, would die a natural death even by lunchtime. .

livebyday:
If it's any of the following there's nothing you can do because these snakes venoms kill.in less than 4 minutes

Puff adder
Black momba
Spitting cobra
Coral snake ( I think )

I can't remember the others

If any of these bites the person, just say your last prayers and lay down comfortably, there's no point dying in an uncomfortable position is there ?

No snake can venom can kill even a rabbit in 4 mins, let alone a human.

Coldfeets:
All these ones no go work if na mamba or rattle snake bite you o!

Luckily, mamba and rattlesnake no dey naija.

Who told you there are no mambas in Nigeria?.... Those devils are all over the place, the black mambas specifically. I call them devils because unlike other snakes that only attack when threatened and cornered, black mambas will actually come for you unprovoked, and if you dare provoke them, they chase after you for long distances. They can be extremely fast. Those things are nothing but demons.

babyfaceafrica:
Why will an adult drink kerosine just because someone said so on nairaland?

foolbuster:
This is the internet. There are many people on this forum with low intelligence.

Wait until you are bitten by a snake or scorpion and are in severe pain, falling in and out of consciousness. Even if someone jokingly recommends you drink pee as a solution, you will do whatever you're told without asking; thishas nothing to do with intelligence or enlightenment. Trust me, you dont want to find yourself in that disoriented sitiluation. God forbid!

1nigeriamyfoot:
your father

Lol.. Na only one word insults you sabi do?... zero brain cells.

Cherez:
I'd like to ask a simple question bros.
How is it re-inventing the wheel to produce cars with super radiators adapting to our temperate climate?
How is it wheel re-inventing to develop what you already have to suit you better?
That's how people get stagnant, calling IMPROVEMENT wheel RE-INVENTING while people are growing.

Produxing cars with super radiators to adapt to our temperate climate is called 'improvement'. Go back to all my previous posts and this time, try to read them slowly. I made it very clear numerous times that it makes no sense to start creating what already exists, except you have a plan to improve on it.

1nigeriamyfoot:
I'm not sure except u change your way of reasoning like a zombie

zon B kill you and you family there... I simply said a truth, and because you cannot disprove or puncture the truth I said without risking sounding like a fool, you resorted to name calling. Like I said before, disprove what I said, tell me it is wrong and what is false about it. If you cant, then you know its obvious that you are are even less than a zon b.

But guess what lad, you obviously lack the intelligence to counter what I said. So you will definitely return with another empty statement (a.k.a insults).

charliboy654:
And whose fault is that?

When all powers are in abuja, does local govt have any say in the country.
This is the very reason we are clamoring for true federalism and restructuring. The oil in my backyard is been controlled by the federal govt yet i should blame the local n start govt for failed school feeding program.

Besides the school feeding program is a federal govt initiative.

The power abuja is holding is too much, so expect us to blame abuja for failures in the country.

Reference:
What are you saying. Isn't it a Federal program again. Wasn't it their drive. They called the party but didn't count the cost. They received the accolades when the going was good.

The truth is that a Socialist nation must be one of great discipline, immense sacrifice and positive intellect if not economic challenges and poverty will be a national experience.

You cannot have socialism in a regime of high levels of corruption. That is subsidy at the bottom and the top of society simultaneously.

You cannot have socialism in a regime of deep ignorance and illteracy where the population donot aporeciate the values of responsibility and prudence.

You cannot have socialism work where the average citizen cannot make the basic sacrifices to see the system work, where parochial interests of typically tribe and religion are set aside for the greater good.

In such regimes social programs are just waste conduits, can kickingz and mereky postponing the evil day as we see our debts baloon without recourse.

There are serious problems ahead for the next generation that will dare to call themselves Nigerians.

It is a federal government INITIATIVE, but state governments implement it. State governments are to do a census and provide an estimate of the total cost of feeding school kids in their state, the FG vets the figures and then provides 60% of the total cost, while the state brings 40%. This explains why there are still some state not participating in it, cos they dont want to bring their counterpart fund.

Implementation of the actual programme is by state governments. So when there are silly hitches like we read of, the searchlight should really be on the operators (state government), not Abuja, except of course the Abuja fails to release the required funds.

Whether we run a TRUE FEDERALISM or not, the fact remains that we still operate a federal system where state governments handle a good chunk of the resources and hold substantial responsibilities. Stop excusing state governments for their irresponsibility.

A lot of Nigerians lack the ability to differentiate the roles and responsibilities of the FG, state governments and local governments. As usual in Nigeria, when a primary school child in a rural village isn't fed, Abuja is to be blamed.

Cherez:
The major disease of most Nigerians is pride always demanding undue reverence.
See this news bro
https://www.nairaland.com/5584024/nigeria-releases-first-transgenic-crop
Keep being antiquated & refusing to learn over things you have no iota of knowledge about

Lol.. This man! the pride you talk about is the only reason you have been unable to understand a simple common sense economic concept - "it is pointless to re-invent the wheel, except you want to improve an existing design." Your argument is sounding like a village scientist who wants to 'show off' to his village people, so instead of simply fetching water from the tap, he goes into the lab to synthesize H2 and O2 to get drinking water; Oga there is no sense whatsoever in that.

Like I said a countless number of times, there is nothing wrong with Nigerian scientists developing new varieties, so I'm confused at why you're sending me the above link? How exactly does it deviate or contradict what I've been saying? The new Nigerian environment-compatible cowpea variety produced by the AATF, did it exist before now?

There is nothing wrong with local scientists developing new plant varieties, but there is no sense re-inventing what already exists if you can simply reproduce it. It only makes sense if you want to produce a new variety which doesn't yet exist, or if you want to modify an existing one so it can grow in your backyard, or if you want to improve an already existing one. Heck! how is English too difficult to understand these days?

Oga scientist, how exactly is the above common sense so difficult for you to understand?

Finally Nigeria may get an airport building that looks like a standard airport building seen all over the world. Kudos to the Akwa Ibom state govt for having 'sense'

Olalan:
How would any sane person allow a pastor push him/her into doing bad things......
BTW most modern day preachers are no different form motivational speakers

I dont think you understand the twin concepts of hypnotism and brainwashing.

This fellow said much worse about the PDP few years ago..

Laslaslala:
They have been deceived alongside majority of sw.who believe they should follow their leaders sheepishly, they refuse to acknowledge that fact and begin to realign to fight for their own cause as oduduwa their faith remains on ABOKI because of crumbs
Yes they follow their leaders sheepishly Not knowing that those people are also humans and can mess up anytime
Some of your leaders have just seen the handwriting and began to redress people like obj
Even this same sowore but it's a pity that it will take more time and damages for a lot more to see the truth as many are still yet oblivion of the truth staring at their faces

So the yorubas should basically start fighting for Oduduwa republic because Fulanis are trying to corner everything in apc? Or probably, Osinbajo should draw a cutlass and start fighting Buhari? Is that the wise advice you have for them?