₦airaland Forum

Johnadeniyi:
Bro, speak for yourself and stop using the word "WE" as if you are spoke person for everyone... Am a Yoruba Christian and my votes is for Tinubu!!!

Why will you vote APC again? Change and next level never tire you?

The nation as we all know is unapologetically APC so we are not surprised by this propaganda.

All this is simply fake news.

The ondo people are not deceived.

They will use the pain of the suffering of the last 8 years to vote out the shameless APC.

Aufbauh:
So why can't the PDP muster the same courage to expel or suspend Gov. Wike who's more a nightmare to them?

Now I can conclude that the PDP hasn't take the SE politicians seriously.

Why don't you focus on your APC and allow them do their thing their way?

yarimo:
After squandering Anambra state tax payers money, just spending on bleaching creams . While people suffer in Anambra state

A townhall different from Balabluuuu

Aufbauh:
Now I believed that Buhari was tricked by the disgruntled cabal in the villa through Emiefele.

The lesson learned from the Emiefele's appointment is that never entrust a sensitive responsibility to someone you barely know regardless of his resume.

More meaningless BAT propaganda.

So Buhari does not know someone who he has worked with for the last 8 years?

So Buhari does not have the sense to examine a policy proposal submitted to him by the CBN and reject same if he viewed it as anti-people? He just signed it without reading it?

You guys should give Nigerians a break!

We are not fooled and we will use all the suffering we have faced in the last 8 years to vote out APC!!!!!

ImpregnaTor:
Chances of winning this election at the moment by percentage:

Apc: 45%

PDP: 41%

Lp: 14%

#Zero partizan

You must be seriously retarrdedddd

Throwback:
Tinubu as Governor never tolerated the kind of successive failures that Buhari has tolerated in the hopeless Emefiele.

A single CBN Governor that presided over the collapse of our currency from $1 = N160 to $1 = N740.

I can't wait for Tinubu to take over by May 29th.

Yeye dey smell. Una know all this yet Una vote APC for two terms and Una still want vote APC again. If not this policy hook Una for throat Una for open mouth complain about Emefiele at all? When we dey buy fuel N400 per liter why Una no talk?

Shameless people

drlateef:
See the hypocrisy in you. In one breath you talk about APC having money to bribe and bringing hardship. In another breath you support a policy against the people. Shame on you.

Like I said you can't shame the shameless....

Where were the APC governors since last year October when fuel went up to N400 per liter and everything in the market has tripled in price?

Shame shame shameee on you. You are a disgrace to your family!

drlateef:
Everything happened when Obi was economic adviser to Jonathan and when Atiku was vice president. If you forget easily i have medicine against forgetfulness- ogun isanye 😂😂😂.

Shameless people... You seem to forget that you came into power with the promise to change all that. Instead things are now so bad that APC is fighting APC few days to the election just to see how to get cash to rig the election because even the blind can see and the dead feel the level of suffering APC has meted on the Nigerian people.

But anyway, you can't shame the shameless.

gotnel:
It is very unfortunate that your types are so blind to the reality of situations around the country, concerning the cash crunch.
No legal tender for transactions on the streets
People are suffering for everything that money will be used for.
The only thing that you wicked fellows can think of is how to prevent someone from vote buying.

If we continue with this cash crunch, do you think we will be able to vote?
Thank God almighty.
Reasonable men are still around in the court..
Everything must not be viewed from political angle.
Let the old money and the new one circulates together for a while.
The old 200, 500 and 1000 notes that goes into the bank should remain in the bank for onwards transferred into cbn for whatever they so wish to do with it.
New naira notes will be made to come out to circulation gradually and everyone will have money to spend.

Oga park well. Nigerians did not start suffering with this cash crunch.

Nigerians have been suffering for the last 8 years going from frying pan to fire. How much is fuel in your area today?

It is only because it is election season that is why those that want to rig the election are fighting for suspension of the naira swap.

drlateef:
You can’t know because you are hypocrite!!!

You nko.... Are you not shameless to be supporting a party under which we had 8 month ASUU strike, under which we have been suffering fuel scarcity since October last year and under which we are now paying 2000 to withdraw 10,000!

Shameless people!

yarimo:
is that all? Oya say this to your neighbors Everyday

My neighbours just bought fuel at N450/liter.

They are waiting to vote APC out come election day.

No amount of bribery is going to change that fact.

yarimo:
He is having a nightmare because your parents still feed you. Your parents are the ones to type now not you

I'm sure you don't have parents to still be shamelessly supporting APC.

Johnrake69:
You can't enforce cashless policy overnight. How much electricity do you generate and distribute? A country in total darkness wants to implement cashless policy. Really laughable.

Let's test your theory. Because Pos agents are withdrawing their own money from ATM then the banks should rather save the available cash in their vaults and render their machines inoperative. Smh.

So many of my transactions from Gtbank to Access took 72 hours to complete using my app in the last one month but according to you we should live or pretend to live like those in US and Canada.

Before the Naira design max withdrawal from ATM was 120K. Now, max withdrawal is 20K. By all means CBN should guarantee that #20K daily withdrawal to any bank customer with cash in the bank. Up Till few days before the deadline banks were paying out old notes while they kept selling new notes to the highest bidder.

A governor should be setting up tax force to check banks and not Pos if they want to effect change. Bankers are selling cash to customers.

Like I said before our over reliance on cash is the major problem.

I agree with you that Banks should have done more preparation in anticipation of the kickoff of this policy after all this policy was first initiated 10 years ago and with proper planning most of these challenges would have been addressed.

That said you cannot discountenance the fact that we live in a highly flawed society permeated by corruption at all levels. With galloping inflation and the harsh economic realities coupled with the highly restricted supply of new notes to the banks how do you not expect a bank manager (unless one with the fear of God) to fall to temptation when someone walks up to him and promises to offer him a healthy commission if he can source for cash for him? If he needs 10m to effectively load his ATMs and pay customers for the week and instead is supplied 1m what do you expect him to do? He has to make some difficult choices and definitely people will suffer. If unfortunately his principles can be bought he will sell to the highest bidder.

KushLyon:
We are not ready for a cashless economy. Since this whole new currency issue started, banks have been acting crazy and some bank apps don't even open at all. My debit cards haven't been working since for some days now and whenever I try to use a POS to pay, it get declined. As for bank transfer, a lot of businesses have started adding a fee to any transfer you do. I tried paying for something yesterday with bank transfer and the woman told me there's a fee of N100. We still have a very long way to go before we can embrace cashless economy, a lot of things have to be fixed first

You are right but we must start somewhere. Truth be told the banks did not expand their network capacity in anticipation of increased card usage and mobile transfers with the advent of the Cashless policy.

Naira is painful but we can bear it until after the election.

The one we cannot bear is buying fuel at N400 per liter.

If apc wants to intervene, then let them address this immediately.

However we know they are a monumental failure and are only interested in pursuing their selfish interests at the expense of the suffering masses.

Johnrake69:
This man is a clown. POS agents have nothing to do with the naira scarcity. It was same Pos agents that were charging just #200 for 20K withdrawal few months ago before Naira redesign.

If ATMs are dispensing cash nobody will bother using Pos agents. Some weeks ago in the whole of Ago and Okota only 1 Access bank atm was dispensing. This corridor has over 15 banks.

3 Access bank branches, 1 UBA, 1 Stanbic Ibtc, 1Ecobank, 1 Polaris, 1 Fidelity, 2 Gtbank branches, 1 Fcmb, 1 Zenith Bank, 1 Firstbank, 1 Sterling bank and 1 Keystone bank.

Politicians like to chase shadows. Police should raid every bank vault and charge both CEO and branch managers to court for committing felonies against the state.

You're just a clown.....

The reason for the whole new naira regime is to reduce Nigerian's overdependence on cash.

Abroad people don't move about with much physical cash when 99% of their transactions are paid for by card or transfer.

The demand for cash far exceeds supply that is why banks have difficulty in keeping their ATMs loaded.

It is the same problem with the new notes. Yes there is politics involved in it without a doubt but the fundamentals are the same. Government wants more people to go cashless. Now even if you load 20m in your ATM POS agents are on standby to withdraw all the money. I hear that now they even pay multiple people to go to the ATM and withdraw on their behalf. In addition they also have multiple cards all in a bid to bypass the CBN restrictions. As a result an ATM that could have served 500 people will end up serving just 50 people meanwhile not enough deposits are coming in because people are hoarding their cash either to use themselves or to sell to pos agents who of course will sell at ridiculous rates to Nigerians who no dey hear word. Even major cash depositors like fuel stations are not allowed to go and deposit their monies at the bank at close of business because POS agents are there to buy their cash! Banks thus are put Inbetween a rock and a hard place of limited supply and unlimited demand for cash!

If majority of small businesses start accepting transfers or get a POS for their business payments or get a QR code which a customer can scan and make payment, gradually demand for physical cash will reduce over time and with the reduction in demand, all those stockpiling their cash will release same into circulation.

Things are difficult right now in some areas crazy sef but I believe we are on the right track. Government should allow this scarcity to remain until after election after which they can relax some controls. There should be an expansion of network capacity by banks to accommodate the increased transfers which is sure to occur to ensure more customer buy in, improved service and reduced transfer issues which is the major reason why people distrust transfers.

Finally a task force should be setup to monitor cash pos operators to check their excesses and avoid over exploitation of the people. It's crazy for people to have to pay 1000 or 2000 naira to withdraw 10000 naira!

Spectrum007:
Even a criminal, when he/ she is arrested people do rush to catch a glimpse of him or her, so make no mistake, people turning out massively to catch a glimpse of Atiku does not mean they are going to vote for him.
89% of Benue people are going to vote obi for president ( LP )
99% will vote Alia for Governor ( APC) .
Both Atiku and Tinubu should forget Benue.

This is someone who is on ground and giving an honest assessment of the feelings of the Benue People.

Forget paid publicists like ochejoseph

Chinonye2022:
you're a monitoring spirit going on people's profile

And you still need to organise your life

Is it coincidence that over 90% of the users on this page claiming support for Atiku opened their nairaland account between October and November 2022?


Hmmm.... Yeye dey smell

Seun myndrr lalasticala front page please

seunmsg:
He will lose again at the court of appeal. The evidence against him is overwhelming. The election was clearly rigged and INEC admitted to over voting in court.

Oga shut up abeg.....

We both know that the 2 parties engaged in malpractices that day.

Stop sounding so self-righteous!

We all know that the battle for Osun state will end in the Supreme Court.

To me it's funny how PDP will start looking to Wike now for assistance on this matter

Adeleke will regret not joining the G-5 when he had the opportunity to do so.

KingKO22:
He said Tinubu is a “famous and credible name” associated with big businesses on the global stage and as president, Nigerians are poised to see more foreign capital and investment pouring into the country like never before.

You have said it all.

There are more secret or reasons why Lagos keep monopolizing the entire Nigeria in terms of foreign investment

Asiwaju is synonymous to progressiveness

He can now sing the praises of someone who he took to court because he was finally settled and as is the Nigerian way his conscience is now available to the highest bidder.

If this is not corruption then what else is it?

Absolutely shameless!

Faiththatworks:
Some people just come online and open their mouth waaaa like whale without even knowing what the topic is about
All they come online to do is scream like babies with no IQ and abuse governors of a state without offering any counter solution.
The most annoying are those who leave the topic and start talking about their presidential candidate,I leave those IQ less babies for now.
For those who condemn what the Government of Lagos is trying to do I say shame on you,I have spent so many hours in traffic in Lagos in the last 5 days especially coming form the mainland to the island.
The hold up is on another level especially those who queue on the expressway trying to buy fuel and block other road users.
Why would anyone criticize the government for asking these petrol stations to stop selling by 4pm.
If these filling stations can't get their customers to be orderly when waiting to buy fuel,then they should shut down by 4pm,it's crazy when you have to wait for hours just to pass by a filling station.
Gov Sanwo-olu should form a task force to close down any erring station that allows it customers to block the entire road and force other road users to stay in traffic for hours unending.
God bless Nigeria.

You're the one that is crazy. Go and find out was the M in LASTMA means.

LASTMA officials are supposed to be on ground around those stations to ensure sanity in the queues and ensure smooth vehicular movement along those roads.

LASG should also do whatever they can to end the scarcity ASAP.

Obuzor speaks for himself not for Wike or Rivers people

NLPoliceWoman:
Seun Mynd44 Dominique justwise.
Rule 2.


https://www.nairaland.com/nlpolicewoman/posts

Blaablaaaa blue

IbeOkehie:


In 1975 the federal government seized control of universities and schools to promote universal availability and ensure access for all.

We know the results after 50 years. Look around at the condition of government owned schools all over Nigeria.

Sometime in the 1970s, the federal government seized control of the only refinery in Nigeria which was then owned by a foreign company called BP. Today that refinery is producing ZERO fuel.

Added to that, the federal government started paying fuel subsidy in 1973 to ensure affordable prices for the masses.

How has that worked out?

In 2015 upon assuming office, the first thing President Buhari did was to ban all private importation of petrol. He made NNPC the sole importer to ensure transparency and fight corruption.

How has that worked out?

Before 1999, all cement factories in Nigeria were owned by government. Nigeria used to have widespread scarcity of cement just like scarcity of petrol today.

Around 2005 the government sold off all the cement factories to private investors. Dangote bought Benue Cement, BUA bought CCNN in Sokoto. Unicem bult a factory in Cross River and Lafarge in Adamawa or so. Nigeria even exports cement today.

The ONLY unproductive cement factory in Nigeria is Nkalagu cement which is still owned by Ebonyi State because they refused to sell to Ibeto Cement.

There's has been no scarcity of cement in Nigeria since round 2009 or so.

Government is the problem. Remove government and problems disappear. Insert government and problems will grow. It's a real lesson that we have seen live in the Nigerian economy. I don't know why Nigerians find it hard to understand

Whilst I agree that government and corruption are hand in hand in 3rd world countries, in this instance the problem is not the government. The imported fuel is available at the tank farms but the tank farms are hoarding same and inflating prices not the government. Government is still partially to blame because they are seeing the excesses of these depot owners and how it's frustrating their efforts to subsidise fuel and they are not taking action. Unless you are accusing the government of being complicit with these depots which I frankly don't believe. I do believe that if government steps in all these excesses will disappear overnight.

Moh247:
Subsidy going bit by bit

When Dangote Refinery comes on stream

You're talking of subsidy going bit by bit meanwhile 3 trillion was earmarked for the first 6 months of the year. With this provision, there is still scarcity everywhere and government is turning a blind eye to the massive exploitation of the masses by the depot owners.

These are desperate times and desperate times call for desperate measures. Any depot found to be hoarding fuel should be taken over by government.

Same thing should be done to those inflating their prices and causing this artificial scarcity. Even if we are in the last days of the administration, government should not turn a blind eye to these practices and instead work assiduously to leave a good legacy behind.

Cryofigbos:
Nairaland should create a section and call it lunatics where ppl like u can comment.....so dey should vote obi for lagos state governor too so he can invest the money lagos used in building rice mill and light rail into beer u first said lagos state will soon tell Lagosians when to eat just bcoz of dis standing order inorder to reduce rush hour traffic and u still complained about the effect of d filling station queue, can't u see u r not normal....and instead make u leave lagos and to to ur Anambra where ur ppl r killing themselves u have refused

Just bcoz of dis filling station queue I entered ikeja #200 from Maryland today and I used over an hour b4 I could get to Sheraton hotel

You sef are not normal. Is government not supposed to be doing everything to end the scarcity instead of increasing hardship on Lagosians? Do people want to spend hours on the road queueing for fuel that they could have spent more productively or at worst with their families?

You're there talking of entering bus N200. Wait until you start driving and have to find fuel to go to work then you will realize how stupid you actually were.

I'm not against any public infrastructure provided by government to the people provided these facilities are effectively put to use to serve the citizens and effective maintenance mechanisms are put in place to keep these facilities in excellent working condition to keep serving the people for a long time to come.

EduBrazil1991:
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Is the office of the presidency a call to service or a reward?

As a Président are you called to serve or are you there as your entitlement?