₦airaland Forum

mascot87:
Oga focus on your east. What ever happens in Lagos is non of your business

Are you from Lagos state? Do you know if I am not from Lagos state?

PR stunt.

I think it is safe to now say that APC is as corrupt as PDP with the amount of billions these people have stolen. This is just the report on CBN and a tip of the iceberg that has been released to the public. The real report would definitely be more damning. I wonder what would come out if NNPC, customs and FIRS are investigated? APC na WA o!

Trader mini - voicemail
School feeding program - voicemail
Npower - months upon months owed
Conditional cash transfers - audio
debt profile - skyrocketed
Naira value - crashed
Poverty - skyrocketed
Inflation/unemployment - record levels
Fuel price - Una know that one
Subsidy payments- frauds

BondRiv:
Rivers people are not the losers. All parties should honour the agreement for there to be peace.

Articles like this are irrelevant and contribute nothing to the discuss.

I asked you earlier and am still asking you what was the cause of the conflict in the first place and how this so called peace treaty resolves same?

sirpharrell:
This ignorance being peddled about that any lawmaker that defects loses his seat automatically is akin to the falsehood that was peddled about the 25% votes in Abuja fantasy. Just like the Abuja 25% case, even senior lawyers are involved in peddling this falsehood while quoting the part of the constitution that suits them and leaving out the rest.

FYI, the constitution does not say that they will lose their seats automatically. Otherwise, Senator Ifeanyi Uba should have lost his seat by now. The constitution says that the speaker shall, upon receiving a letter from the member stating that he has left the party that sponsored him and reading same in plenary, declare the seat of that member vacant.

Now, did the 27 members write any letters to the speaker? Did the speaker read the letters in plenary? And did the speaker declare their seats vacant? When you answer these questions, you will know if any seat is vacant or not. This foolery should stop.

Armchair political analyst continue speaking Japanese. Are you saying that the so called lawmakers who defected to APC did not give any formal notice but just announced their defection to the Press?

The speaker of the house as constitutionally backed by law following a court order from Rivers state High court has affirmed Rt. Hon. Edison Ehie as the the authentic, legal and only Speaker of Rivers State House of Assembly.

Rt. Hon. Ehie in his capacity as Speaker already declared the seats of Hon. Amaehwule and his 24 friends vacant following their defection to APC. He has equally notified INEC to that effect.

Interesting.... Information I'm getting is that for GIGM this subsidised fare was made available initially in just 2 terminals: Jibowu and Ajah.

BondRiv:
You know what the Riv in my username stands for?

This why people like you who lack information about a subject should not comment on it.

The Commissioner of Information and Communication in Rivers State was in the meeting with the president and has spoken on this issue. He has stated that there was no coercion and that the resolutions will be implemented.

Now you are informed.

Thank you for the information.... Now please go ahead to educate us on what the root cause of the quarrel was and what the peace treaty did to address same. What exactly led to the conflict between the 2 parties? Specifically, how are lawmakers who have formally defected to be reinstated? Is that in line with the constitution?

BondRiv:
Which Truth? People like you should leave Rivers State alone. Agents of chaos. Both parties want peace now.

People like who? I am just an observer abeg o.

So far all the talk about the details of the truce has not come from anyone in the Fubara camp.

You're talking of peace. Before you mention peace you need to answer what caused the quarrel in the first place and if the so called peace treaty has addressed that.

simpleseyi:
It is for the good of all.

The President intervened as a concerned citizen who wants peace. He was publicly begged by the Rivers Elders who are loyal to Fubara to intervene. If he wants to intervene as the President and Commander-in-Chief , he will just declare a State of Emergency, and appoint a Sole Administrator.

If he appoints Wike as the Sole Administrator, the National Assembly will approve it. Anybody wey wan die, make e die, the President has spoken. This was what Wike was working towards, that was why he went to Rivers State to cause himself to be attacked and chaos will start, but Tinubu cautioned Wike to let Fubara be. If not, Nyezom Wike would have returned as the Sole Administrator of Rivers State and INEC will conduct another election which will be won by Wike's new stooge. Una go cry tire

See this one talking tales by moonlight. Na so e dey easy to declare state of emergency?

The truth shall come out in the end. This is not the first intervention by the president.

azadus18:
Subsidized fare

Have you experienced the subsidized fare? If yes please share your experience

Dear all, let's share our experiences as per the 50% fare reduction. Has anyone experienced this yet?

@mods kindly move to front page.

Lalasticala

Ballmer:
Pls hide all this update from Igbo make them no go commit suicide over development in Lagos.

If you doubt it just imagine if Alex Otti was the one doing anything with photos as awesome as this n watch igbos claim na Paradise Dem the follow drag now not even London or USA.

Online Agbero spotted

mannobi:
Lagos moves faster than others that's why it's always thier headache.
Imagine them sponsoring a chinedu to come and get Lagos for them. God forbid bad thing. Eko is safe in Sanwo-Olus hand

Online Agbero spotted

On your mandate we shall stand!

In fact if it is possible for them to subsidize the cost of petrol by transferring it to aviation fuel e for better so that the rich and the politicians will now be subsidizing the poor.

Shikena!

Mrfeel:
This guy you quoted told me sometime ago that FG is deliberately setting traps for people buying over priced dollar , that naira will become scarce and people will use dollar to buy naira and at higher exchange and dollar will fall

Freestuffsng is in severe pains right now

CandidAdmin:
But when bubu was borrowing money for infrastructure, people, including the opposition, criticized him.

Let me ask you a question... If you have 1m in your account and Davido or Otedola asks you to borrow him 950k ... Won't you borrow him the money?

People criticised Buhari because for all the debt accrued, we don't have anything much to show for it!

Otti came 6 months ago and started working massively to earn the trust of the Abia people that is why they can trust him to borrow 400b because already there is evidence everywhere that he will deliver.

adamusuleiman1:
Hypocrite.

Name calling is what olodos revert to when they have nothing meaningful to contribute to an intellectual conversation.

He is emulating his principal Peter Obi in running a government of service that is empathetic to the needs of his people and is striving to do his best to make his people happy but he is not doing it mindlessly as he is working with the realities on ground and I'm sure Obi has his full support. And guess what? Everyone in Abia state and well meaning Nigerians are happy with the Otti administration. If other states likewise take governance as seriously as he is doing, Nigeria will take giant strides in development with or without the support of the FG.

adamusuleiman1:
Obidients love to brag about how Peter Obi wasn't borrowing. All of a sudden they are okay with Abia, a small state borrowing to the moon.

Oga sir, please try to show you went to school.

In Public finance, there is budget surplus and deficit.

That Obi did not borrow does not mean he is against borrowing. He was able to identify leakages in his government which freed up sufficient funds for his projects! That is why he is against wasteful govt spending like sending 422 people to COP 28! He also has kicked against borrowing to finance recurrent expenditure which is what the Buhari government was doing! Even the loans they took for Capex, how much of the funds were used justly with tons of uncompleted projects littered everywhere and massive debt accrued with little or nothing to show for it!

If there is need for a business to borrow to expand then they go to the bank and take a loan. This is how banks make money to start with! Otti is just doing the same thing, borrowing to make a significant impact in the shortest time possible in resolving the infrastructure deficit of the state!

freestuffsng where are thou ooo?

Food is ready!

Raskimonojendor:
₦213.6 billion + ₦401 billion for a tiny state like Abia

Olodo oya let me school you....

Do you know how many major markets are in ABA alone? Google 'Ariaria market' and learn a thing or two. ABA has always been a commercial town historically servicing not just the entire SE and SS regions but the whole West Africa. We have heard of shoes and clothes of international quantity made in Aba. Even with the bad roads, people from outside Abia troop in daily to their markets to shop. How much more now? Today you have Akpabio, Wike and Umahi in prominent roles in the APC administration. Go and read what they did in terms of infrastructural development for their respective states!

Over the last 24 years (with little or no infrastructure and plenty of leakages in tax collection and financial misappropriation) they have been able to generate the funds you refer to because majority of the traders refused to pay due to lack of trust for their useless governments in the past. With the massive upgrades which they have prayed for now taking place, you can be sure that IGR will increase 10 times over as trade multiplies due to more conducive business environment. Not only that, new businesses will spring up and massive investment will flow into the state as savvy businessmen take advantage of the new Abia. Real estate would also skyrocket as property values will go up as roads and other facilities are provided. Also Abians home and abroad hearing the good news will also be happy to send dollars back home to aid the development effort!

Raskimonojendor:
ABIA STATE'S DEBT STATUS

DOMESTIC DEBT
Dec 2014: ₦25.13 billion
Jun 2023: ₦142.47 billion

EXTERNAL DEBT
Dec 2014: $35.50 million ($/₦166)
Jun 2023: $92.33 million ($1/₦770)

Total Debt (Jun 2023): ₦213.6 billion.


ABIA STATE'S INTERNALLY GENERATED REVENUE

2015: ₦13.35 billion
2022: ₦20.11 billion

Average monthly IGR:
2015: ₦1.03 billion
2022: ₦1.68 billion

ABIA State's FAAC (Incl LGA) in 2022: ₦98.68 billion

2022 Total Revenue: ₦118.79 billion

(NBS/FAAC)

What's your point exactly? After all na pesin talk say 'na statistics we go chop?'

madridguy:
By the time Alex Otti completely finish with Abia state, you all will leave Propaganda and start calling him out.

Wetin I even dey talk... His people are more interested in Lagos and Yoruba people.
His people don’t care about their homeland and what goes on in there.

The lack of public scrutiny for our governors will make these people finish their respective states while majority of the people will be shouting president this and that.

I know that you are jealous your governor is not as committed or serious to developing your state like Otti.

Confess! Don't you wish you were from Abia at the moment?

Mordecai:
The ideology is simple. PO has stated it a good number of times.

There is nothing wrong with borrowing. But we would not borrow to find recurrent expenditure.

Secondly, there is a need for frugality in the use of public resources.

Those expenditures should be such as to improve production and/or HDI.

Don't mind those olodos.... Peter Obi clearly advocated against borrowing against recurrent and wasteful spending in government. Trust these APC propagandists to twist the narrative.

CandidAdmin:
I thought we all agreed infrastructure doesn't run an economy?

Whatever otti has in mind, I hope it doesn't mess Abia up.

Who said so? That's a very stvpid comment to make otherwise why would every govt earmark funds in their budget to capital expenditure yearly?

LegendHero:
I thought when Buhari was borrowing for rail line, all of you condemned him that Nigeria is borrowing too much to the extent that Peter Obi even claimed infrastructure cannot help the economy.

So what suddenly change during Otti period?

—If Peter Obi ideology is “No borrowing” and most Obedient support it.

—Otti ideology is mass borrowing and most obedient support him.

What exactly is the Obedient ideology? To borrow or not to borrow?

Who said Peter Obi's ideology is no borrowing? Provide that link please.

LegendHero:
I thought when Buhari was borrowing for rail line, all of you condemned him that Nigeria is borrowing too much to the extent that Peter Obi even claimed infrastructure cannot help the economy.

So what suddenly change during Otti period?

—If Peter Obi ideology is “No borrowing” and most Obedient support it.

—Otti ideology is mass borrowing and most obedient support him.

What exactly is the Obedient ideology? To borrow or not to borrow?

I think when you try to argue please do it from an intellectual standpoint. Buhari depleted our foreign reserves and left us with a debt of almost 50trillion as at 2022FY. THE QUESTION IS WHAT MASSIVE INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADE DO WE HAVE TO SHOW FOR THE MASSIVE DEBT HE INCURRED? Was Education upgraded? Was health upgraded? How many federal roads were completed in the 8 years?
That's the difference.

Otti hit the ground running. Since assuming office, he has made giant strides in digitising collections in the civil service meaning less corruption and greater accountability, he has revamped the teaching hospital, he has got rid of the massive dirt in Aba, he has turned the entire state into one massive construction site with so many road repairs underway not with mushroom contractors o! Using Julius Berger!!! So why won't the people of Abia be happy?

Now he wants to consolidate by earmarking 84% to capital which will in turn open up the state to more commerce and investment making the people more prosperous. This will in turn naturally lead to more IGR.

p.s. unlike some states where you have uniformed and non uniformed Agberos, ticketing for commercial operators in Abia is done electronically and is working seamlessly! So why won't the people be happy?

People are questioning how Abia will fund a 400b budget. Of course the budget will be reviewed by the Abia H of A and modified or ratified as deemed fit. That's the beauty of democracy.

Let's leave that to the Abia state ministry of finance to source but the intention is to do 50% local loans and 50% foreign.

What is more important is that the governor seeks to invest 84% of his budget on infrastructure. This is a governor who came in, realizes the scope of work to be done and has rolled up his sleeves to get the major issues done. The Abian people have seriously suffered from a massive infrastructure deficit for the past 24 years. Just like Bayelsa, PDP really did Abia bad. 24% of the CAPEX will go to education and 18% will go to health.

Btw of the 16% recurrent budget, please note that Otti is going to process salary increases for the entire Abia civil service reflective of the current new minimum wage and current economic situation.

hammerFC:
SHAMEFUL!


PEACEFUL WITH WHO?


IFEANYI DEY CRAZE...

Online agbero

Can you blame them? Country hard for everybody!

femisplash:
Exactly the point, let's keep importing everything including toothpicks and eggs and naira keeps going down. Trash

If you don't understand right now the role of FX on the hyper inflation we are currently experiencing on everything and how we are progressively getting poorer by these inhumane economic policies then you really need to go for psychiatric evaluation.

Moderate esitimate of 3b for COP 28 meanwhile the entire student loan provision in the 2024 budget is 5bn.

Yeye dey smell.

I don't know why these people just believe that Nigerians are gullible and can be told any half truth...

After spending close to 6bn renovating the residences of the VP in Abuja and Lagos, is it not a case of misplaced priorities to be earmarking 15bn towards an abandoned project when that 15bn can be used to provide loans to thousands of farmers to boost food security?

Why should Wike prioritize completing this structure when there are a thousand and one more pressing infrastructural projects uncompleted/abandoned from the previous regime which would be of more service to the people?

Do you know what 15bn would do if earmarked to renovate general hospitals in Abuja, schools or universities?

Why should this be a priority project of the country in the midst of our current austere situation?