₦airaland Forum

When will the spotlight be turned on this supreme Court?
Most of them were never known for excellence or activism so It is not surprising that they have been making motor Park rulings.
Just by looking at the names, you can tell there is nothing honourable or supreme about this lot.

Chief Justice Mahmud Mohammed
Associate Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen
Associate Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad
Associate Justice Muntaka Connmassie
Associate Justice John Afolabi Fabiyi
Associate Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour
Associate Justice Nwali Sylvester Ngwuta
Associate Justice Mary Odili
Associate Justice Olukayode Ariwoola
Associate Justice Musa Datijo Muhammad
Associate Justice Clara Bata Ogunbiyi
Associate Justice Kumai Bayang Akaahs
Associate Justice Kudirat Motonmori Olatokunbo
Associate Justice John I. Okoro
Associate Justice Chima Centus Nweze

The Subsidy regime became beyond repairs after Jonathan and Deizani ballooned the number of fuel importers from 5 to over 100 within 12 months.
Almost all the new companies were corrupt entities set up to collect and subsidies and subsidies alone.
Almost all lacked experience or history in the industry.
They came, they polluted and corrupted the Subsidy regime and they stole.
With this deregulation, most of the corrupt companies left will disappear.
The good companies, without corrupt government agent harassing them, can now build value chains on a deregulated downstream industry.
It is also appealing that these value chains can be built with or without crude oil from the Niger-delta.
Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Angola are not far.
If things go right, refineries, power plants,petrochemical and manufacturing can develop around the industry.
This is built on the hope that Nigeria does not experience a disastrous government like Jonathan again.



I have not even scratched the surface. A petrochemical value chain can easily supply 1 million jobs.
Nigeria spends a lot of money importing all these.

Ethylene and propylene are important sources of industrial chemicals and plastics products.

Butadiene is used in making synthetic rubber.

Benzene is a raw material for dyes and synthetic detergents

Manufacturers use xylenes to produce plastics and synthetic fibers .

Synthesis gas is a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen used to make ammonia and methanol.

Ammonia is used to make the fertilizer urea, bombs and other munitions

methanol is used as a solvent and chemical intermediate.

Olefins are the basis for polymers and oligomers used in plastics, resins, fibers, elastomers, lubricants, and gels.


You start making plastics, maybe you will start making home appliances like vaccum cleaners, computer keyboards, toys etc

Maybe printer inks and cartridges, pen and pencils

Okupe no wan vomit him share of dansuki chicken

A foreigner's observations/ comments - onitsha and Nigeria at large
XIAN YORK
pulled from the post link

Corruption and a missing state lie at the heart of Onitsha's troubles with pollution.

I have passed through Onitsha twice, both times spending long periods in stationary traffic. Eighteen years ago Nigeria barely collected any form of taxation, it's road network was unmaintained, no-one drove at night for fear of attack. Public utilities were not paid for by any form of organised metering but by extortion carried out be collectors who arrived at a property, made a quick visual assessment of the owner's potential worth then demanded a sum they thought the owner might pay. When a road collapsed it stayed that way.

Onitsha is the meeting point of trade and trade routes in West Africa, a gridlock chaos of roads, markets, traders, buses, lorries, taxis, and pollution. In Europe we view buses and taxis as a way of reducing pollution. In Nigeria the lack of regulation, the ultimate free market so loved by the right, conspires to transform these modes of transportation as dirty as private cars. There was no effective time table that I could see for public transport. Internal flights took off when they were full and the same was true of mini-buses and taxis. Having paid a taxi driver to take us from Obosi to Lagos (because the internal flight in Enugu had failed to materialise at all), a friend and I traveled west towards the capital.

Approaching Onitsha, the taxi driver left the motorway and headed into the centre of Onitsha, a cacophony of gridlock mayhem. He eventually parked his car in the middle of a vast informal space that served as bus depot, taxi depot, market, car park. He got out of the car without saying a word and left us in the full heat of the day surrounded by tens of thousands of people milling around and the thick sweet pollution of thousands of mini-buses, lorries, and private cabs. This is West Africa's transport hub. No visible structure, though there certainly must be an informal one. No road network, just a vast open space that people drive across in whatever direction they choose ... very slowly. A sea of humanity parting this way and that to afford passage to fume coughing trundling taxis, coaches, lorries, and mini-buses.

We left once the driver had found two more people willing to pay to be taken to Lagos. We had already paid for all four spaces in the taxi. Didn't bother the driver, he had an opportunity to make more money and he was taking it. The new passengers didn't even say hello. We sat there pressed together, now obliged to carry our hand luggage on our knees for hours more as we headed back to the motorway and on towards the pollution of Lagos.

[b]On the motorways of Nigeria you regularly passed the burned out shells of vehicles that didn't make it. They are sometimes half in and half out of the forest. You pass groups of people standing beside broken down vehicles no doubt praying that someone will pick them up before darkness falls. You get stopped by posses of soldiers demanding payment. You stop for nothing unless you see a weapon pointed at you. Sometimes the road has disappeared, whole motorways can tumble and slide down a hill, leaving a single lane to fight over where once there were four.

This is what a failed state is. No programme to maintain infrastructure, everyone simply getting what they can to make it through the day. What is true of roads is true of everything else. Build where you like, build as high as you like, no health & safety, no engineers to check the block of flats can take the three extra storeys being constructed on the roof. Telephone wires clumped on telegraph poles like candy floss on a stick.A raw scramble to survive and to make a profit. And millions of people trying to maintain their dignity and treat others as best as they can and enjoy life in spite of it all. This is why Onitsha is the most polluted city in Africa.

Until there is a functioning state there can be no functioning Nigeria.[/b]

Business men - Tax evasion
Politicians, civil servants and appointee - stealing

We elected Buhari 7 years late

Good job.
$3 billion in,
At least $197 billion to go.

Nigeria need to get power supply sorted as soon as possible.
With power, we can actually give China, India and the rest a run for their money.
We cannot do it the south Korean way. What Nigeria can latch on to is outsourcing in manufacturing( especially textiles), IT services, telesales and customers services.

For those trying to rewrite history, the Nigerian economy started falling apart the day Jonathan got into power.
Below is is a line chart and a flow chart of how Jonathan grew destroyed the Nigerian economy

Pssst

Buhari needs more fowlers in his administration.
Hopefully, they will go down the list and start asking everyone to explain the source of their income.
From Youths using Iphones to the Okadaman.
I cannot believe how you can have a country where the citizens want everything free at the point of use but do not want to pay for it.
I guess they think that all those infrastructure (Roads,water works etc) they see overseas are built with stones.
I personally recommend at least 10% tax for every Nigerian income earner above the age of 21 unless
You are student.
Or a flat rate citizenship tax fee of N10000 / annum If income is irregular.

Protest against what if the government is doing the right things.

chikel2000:
Onitsha? How?

Poor governance or lack of.

Enough to build the lekki bridge.
An investment from which the government is earning revenues today

A JOKE.

Mr Man,for any issue, there are always competing interests.
One man's interested is always different from the other person's.
There might be people who wanted the racket to continue, but the masses wanted justice(recovery of stolen money, cleaning up the system, prison sentences for the thieves etc).
Before the Subsidy fraud and subsequent protest, Jonathan and his goons had already stolen /oor squandered the federal share of the excess crude account ($12 billion).For those of us who follow government spending most especially when it relates to invading in the future, that was taking it too far considering the effort it took Obasanjo to save that amount.
The Subsidy fraud was simply rubbing salt on the wound.
A government without shame and steals with reckless abandon. How much does a man really need.
I was not involved with any group. I performed my civic duty.Any saving ftom the Subsidy removal would have been anyway. They did steal the SURE-P.
I participated in the protest to because, within 2 months of Jonathan's takeover from yar adua, that Nigeria was heading for the rock .
Within 3 weeks,Marie Antoniette was already power tripping without control.

The corruption in Nigeria has gone beyond what can be taken care of by the court.This is because the courts are dysfunctional and corrupt. The lawyers are corrupt, archaic and dysfunctional.
The centres of power are occupied by Criminals, thugs,psychopath and people with pre-historic mentality
The only thing I know of that can put an end to this problem.

Special court employing retired judges from other countries.( If you cannot find incorruptible ones in Nigera
Death sentences for corruption
Internment camps for thugs
Mass sackings in the civil service.( Georgian example)
Prohibition of what exist as unions in Nigeria ( they all act like cults).
Removal of all Nigerians from process which involves the handling of cash.
Creation of a preferred seller list of companies who can sell goods and services to the government.

They should do grazing route in their own zone.

YOULOSE

So what are they doing in Nigeria?

Those military boy are the most corrupt set of bastards

While others were fighting for the June, this guys was wining and dining with the military.
He has always being a military dictatorship groupie

I will take that before oil anytime.
Who would not want to spend a weekend in the Creek without criminals.

Depending on which part of the world you are,
Nigerians are considered as dysfunctional freaks.
Most of the problems stems from the fact that,the people in position to influence issues are either lawyers or finance experts.
As a result,experimentation and evidence based solutions is beyond them.
The solution is always money,money and more money.

You do not need an economist ( mostly quacks) to solve this problem.
I have written about this before. it used to be like that in lagos and his applicable to all cities apart a few.

SUMMARY
reduce the number of private cars on the road and change behaviour thereby leading to the reduction in the amount Nigeria spends on petrol.

1 bicycles and bicycles lane
2 congestion charges
3 expensive driving licenses
4 FG should terminate all train journeys outside city limits.
5 Turn over all rail transport within city limits to the state for mass transit.
6 Toll roads
7 taxes on parking

In other countries, you get conventional trains like every 15min while in lagos, you would have to wait hour or even days to see 1 train.

He should rot in hell

Good for him.
How many lives has he taken?
He can go to hell.
Someone came from nowhere. He tells that you this is the way to your God, even though you had one.
You accept.
Then he tells you to kill yourself.
If this is not the definition of stupidity, I do not know what is.
Let the philosophers speak.



[b]Ibn Battuta, 14th century

"beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings."

Ibn Battuta, 14th century, writing about Mali

About the Zanj: "Their nature is that of wild animals. They are extremely black." About the Sudan: "Among themselves there are people who steal each other's children and sell them to the merchants when the latter arrive."

Ibn Battuta, 14th century

"If (all types of men) are taken, from the first, and one placed after another, like the Negro from Zanzibar, in the Southern-most countries, the Negro does not differ from an animal in anything except the fact that his hands have been lifted from the earth,--in no other peculiarity or property,--except for what God wished. Many have seen that the ape is more capable of being trained than the Negro, and more intelligent."


Ibn Battuta, 14th century

"The Zanj are dim-witted (_kam 'aql_), and God, most high, has created them stupidd, ignorant, and foul (_palid_)." [/b]

fiizznation:
In one sentence he said he wrote APC's manisfesto for them and in another sentence he criticised the APC's "medieval manisfesto". Even a juvenile knows that any new government come with their economic blueprint. Obama did it when he came onboard, David Cameron isn't left out either. The problem with pessimistic personalities like this respected professor is that they believe so much in western Theologue, while forgetting that the Africa economic environs is entirely different.

If I should ask a person like utomi what he think will work best for our developing economy, you will hear him calling America, Germany or UK. These set of people don't understand the African economy to the best of my knowledge. I read a book about macro economics which was written by a person like utomi, gosh I just had to drop the book because the writer just wrote hogwash and was making baseless comparisons. He didn't understood the simple basic economics of African nations. I don't just know why but when it comes to economy matter, I don't take the likes of utomi any serious.

Thank you Bro for calling out these "in America" people.

Bill Clinton destroyed Haiti's local rice industry so that Louisiana can sell rice to Haiti. This is the extent countries are ready to go to protect their interest.
It is cut throat business.
Most of what he preaches does not apply to a farmer, riding his 1970 bicycle to the local market ,with his produce in tow .
You will never see a yam farmer go to the market to buy yam. He will only buy another man's yam if it is cheap and he can resell for profit.
This is how any country with any hope of surviving thinks.

http://www.coha.org/haiti-research-file-neoliberalism’s-heavy-hand-on-haiti’s-vulnerable-agricultural-economy-the-american-rice-scandal/

ideykwum:
You have a medieval mindset!!

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Vladimir Lenin


Ghana ran with the economics pat utomi preaches, it all still ends with dependency , debt and crisis.
That hermit nation called north Korea will come out of isolation and still surpass Nigeria within 4 years.
Heck, North Korea has better infrastructure and is more technological advanced than Nigeria.
We are talking about a country that has spent over 60 years under sanctions and isolation.

ideykwum:
It's Okay to curse On Nairaland, but a simple understanding of economics can set you free!!

" A politician thinks of the next election, A statesman thinks of the next generation "
**** James freeman Clarke

I do not do your crap.
I do the liberation economics of Stalin , Singapore, south Korea and Mao that is built Education, research, self reliance, conformance, zero tolerance for crime, heavy industries, mass mobilisation.
Yes people will suffer and some may die so that future generations may live.
The economics of flogging and dragging your people, not to development, but to developed status within a generation.
Show me where it has worked beyond the land of those who packed the rubbish into the head of the people like utomi.

Utomi talks a good game and he does have good ideas;
at times.
However, on the economy, Buhari has not even done enough yet to undermine that useless neo-liberal non-economy which Utomi preaches.
In fact, I would have a loved a situation where he actually destroys that non economy which has turned Nigeria to every country's bit*h
Nobody should blame regulations.
The reason why we import petroleum products is the same reason why we import textile,orange juice and every other thing.
The government allows it.
That is the dumping of subsidised crap from other countries.
Useless president like the corrupt Jonathan and the unpatriotic quack Iweala encourage it by doing things like handing dollar credit cards to privileged Nigerians and removing tariffs.
You do not have to produce anything.Just go shopping . Go crazy, spend spend spend the money you do not have on champagne, private jets and armani bags.
Iya yin she she Bere ni.

watching in 3d.
The Niger Delta is a mirror image of the country also known as Nigeria.
Like I repeated earlier, as much as dislike these criminals, I also said that they will be doing the country a favour if they follow through with their threat.
The complete neglect of virtually every sector of the economy while the government concentrates of crude oil is diabolical.
Returning to Nigeria a few years ago my sojourn overseas, it was shocking how backward the country remained and still remains.
A lot of things that you take for granted overseas( Fibre optic broadband, electricity, water, security,roads etc) are practically non existent. Yet some people are saying that Nigeria is progressing.
Where is the progress.
Ask a Bangladeshi. Bangladesh is a very poor country. This same Bangladesh had 3,000,000 fixed broadband Internet users compared to Nigeria's 15000
Mediocrity all around

The day when officers from inland revenue start turning up at people's gate and start asking how they came about the $60,000 cars,$300,000 houses without any record of paying any taxes is the day I will agree that Nigeria is moving in the right direction.
The idea that citizens of a country can complain about the game( society) and not have skin in the game ( performing their civic responsibility- taxes on their incomes ) and yet still expect everything to be free, is something I have never seen anywhere in the world.

Just looking at how the tail wags the dog.
Ever since I can remember, it is one provocation from one failed ethnic group after the other.
One day, something would have to give.