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Transformation agenda.
SMH
Buhari has his work cut out for him.

Where Nigeria for get chicken

drehdinho:
The major reasons are two. One, The price is cheaper and two,the qualities are better than ours in Nigeria.

Fantastic excuse
Brand new and heavily taxed primark Clothes in the United Kingdom are cheaper and better than the Second hand clothes you buy in Nigeria.
Same thing goes for America. If you want luxury, you pay luxury price.
In fact, if you go at the right time, most things are cheaper.
Mind you those clothes are made in Bangladeshi factories with poverty rates like northern Nigeria but they do not grow cotton.

Just look at the mess in Northern nigeria. Most of the mess in that region originates from Arabia before passing through Sudan. one important factor is the mindset.
Then you come to the south. The same thing is repeated.
The Mindset.
They cargo a few idiotttttts to some neo liberal universities and load their head up with neo-liberal economic garbage.
They come back home with disastrous economic policies only fit for developed countries who are transitioning from an industrial smog ridden economy to either service based or high tech economy. What their policies feed is consumerism and import decency.
The proof is in the pudding.

1You will forever remain a beggar if you fail to stand.

2 A child must learn to crawl before walking.

3 you will never move forward when your so called elites your country's wealth is being spent on $50 million jet, $2 million Bugattis and $50,000 champagne.

4 We have talked about importation. Another indictment is the the fact that we cannot build our own infrastructure. Or should I say our useless, colo mentality and religiously brainwashed leaders do not believe in the capability of the people to do so.
If members of their corrupt economic and governing cliques are incapable,to them, it almost definitely means
that nobody is capable. Therefore they give the contracts to construct ordinary roads to Syrian plumbers, Lebanese carpenters and Indian shoe makers.
Back to mindset. Until People admit that they have been religiously and economical indoctrinated for a life and future of backwardness, backwardness it shall be.

Not confab report again?

That mistake is believing that those afenifere folks have anything to offer and that they were anything other than power hungry , morally bankrupt and corrupt old men.
Do you see anyone of these old men coming up with the eko atlantic idea?
I want to believe that the parents of most nairalander , the age of these old men, have retired peacefully into old age and have left the scene for their children to take over.
If at their age, they have no fruit to harvest because of hey have not planted any seeds, you should not expect anything better.
Many omoluabis have been lucky to catch a glimpse of the world beyond our narrow borders Even our best are not good enough.
These old men so dated and they not only do not belong to the present, I also doubt their offerings are good enough for the yoruba nation of the 16th century.

Just read what General Alani Akinrinade has to say about them

former Chief Of Army Staff Under Gen. Ibrahim Babaginda, General Alani Akinrinade (retd) has condemned the endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan by the pan social-cultural Yoruba group, Afenifere, describing it as disgraceful, self-serving and an embarrassment to every Yoruba living or dead.
The Former Minister of Transport is quoted by PM News saying; “if this old men that are shouting marginalization a few months ago, can sit today to endorse the same man that is marginalizing them, then their brains need medical examination.”

About time.
You can set up a factory for a lot of the stuffs on that list with less than N20 million.
With millions of unemployed women who can be taught tailoring in a few weeks, I do not know why Nigerians import second clothes.
We've turned ourselves into a dumping ground for other people's garbage.
You only need a few people with money to put their money where their mouth is.
Most of the stuffs we buy from China and India are made in rooms no bigger than most of our bedroom.
From the Chelsea jerseys to the football we kick.
Most factories in the developed world cost less than $1 million to build
You can build 50 of such mega factories for the price one of those pastors' private jets.
You can check the multiplier effects of manufacturing on the US economy.


http://www.nam.org/Newsroom/Top-20-Facts-About-Manufacturing/

just hand over the building to the LASG to convert it into a public park.
One of the ugly monstrosities used to destroy the beauty of old lagos. Another one is TBS.

Transformation agenda by our Absentee president goodluck and prime minister Iweala our so called minister for economy.
They stole in billions and mortgaged the future of 4 generations just like that.
N100 million was turned into kobo.

theV0ice:
I will hazard a guess it's because of the corruption that attended such privatizations. If qualified and experienced international firms in partnership with reputable Nigerians acquire these companies, then they will succeed because profit is their main interest and they have their reputations to protect.

What has been happening before is that state owned companies were simply sold dashed for very ridiculous prices to politicians who have zero knowledge in the field or interest of continuing the company as a going concern. They simply strip it off and sell the carcass.

No matter the price of crude, Shell or Total will never want to operate at a loss so they will streamline their costs and operations to churn out that profit. Contrast it with NNPC which together with it's subsidiaries has one of the best remuneration packages in the industry yet they ALWAYS declare losses in their financial reports. Govt companies are simply treated like civil service by staff, directors and govt.

You are right about NNPC. That is why NNPC cannot continue the way it is right now.

The choice between privatisation or public ownership is ideological. In Nigeria, it is hard to find any 10 privatised entity doing fine.
From roads to NITEL, almost every privatisation has been an attempt by the new owners( usually the old managers) to continue the scams when those entities were still publicly owned or live on government subsidies.
That is why new sectors built from scratch by the private sector (GSM or MMA2 ) do well while those government entities go under.
You can deduce from just looking at the forbes list alone that probably only 3 or 4 Nigerians have the means to acquire government properties and run them efficiently.
My own take is that there are things that can be done.
the biggest problem is the lack are good manager and government interference which allows political idiott to extract money from the entities.
The problem is not whether the are public or private.
The problem is finding a foolproof system which will allow the companies to run efficiently and without interference.
Just like the CBN.
let us take the heavily subsided railway in America. The American government puts a lot of money into the railways even though most of it is privately held.
In Nigeria, the private owners will be in the business of catching those subsidies instead of running an efficient service.
But a common sense approach would be for the government to

1 maintain long distance tracks
2 Allow private sector to operate routes and pay for the use of government owned tracks.
3 Allow states to run their own inter/intra state rail
4 license private individuals to build storage depot, warehouses and terminals in viable sections of routes etc

StepTwo:
xposer

what are the cars for?

this bloggers with multimedia blogs

just all about the photos

reminds me one one vivian.

It is what ekiti voted for.
Animal feed at the expense of development.
Instant gratification at the expense of the future.

Chanchit:
Why is the father too tagged Ex Sultan?! King dey retire?

Abacha ran him out of town and retrieved another man's crown. The sultan crown

woodcook:
You are "right." During Obj and Yaradua the airport was at par with that of Brussels and even Frankfurt. The funds allocated for maintainance were judiciously used and everything was working untill GEJ and ruined everything. Within 5 Years he changed Nigeria from a first world countru to a third world country. Within five years we lost all the cars, cement and other manufacturing industries. Within five years Nigeria that was once a multi-economic nation was reduced to a mono-economic nation. Within five years from zero unemployment rate to what we have now. Untill you people start addressing the root cause of our problems and stop throwing blame around this administration will end up achieving nothing

Root cause was the damn unification decree foisted on the country by the greedy SE elites.

That I'd the problem. That does not stop us from discussing the lost opportunity.
500 billion dollars earned in 5 years excluding the $1 billion loan from China that the corrupt Stella oduah got ftom China and yet the country's busiest airport remains an eyesore.

From where dem take escavate this fossilised one from?
Vanguard and their trashy journalism.

That is not your role.
Your role is to be spiritual head of the yoruba religion. Culture,tradition and ifa.
Is it not a problem if the Ooni is not enlightened enough to know his place.
He has close to 150 million Active practitioners of the yoruba religion and all the modern branches(Ifa, Santeria ) at his fingertip yet they run after the petty chicken change they get from government contracts.
Leave job creation to the state government and fulfil your role and destiny for the benefit of the oodua nation.
I hope some of the men in the diaspora will travel back home and work on him.
Just building a first grade ifa university ( a university broken away from the ignorance of Christianity and Islam with strong support for science and technology )and the biggest ifa temple will go a long away to turning Ile ife into a global centre of religion,pilgrimages education,culture,arts and tourism.

He is beginning to wake up.
Hopefully, he will discard that Fashola's mega city nonsense.
No space for 40 million people in lagos.

Luukasz:
You can run away from Nigeria but Nigeria can never run away from you cos Nigeria runs in your blood its in your skin,its in every facet of your life.
When i see some youths saying they want to run away from NG i just shake my head. If Lee Kuan Yew ran away from singapore will singapore get to where it is today.
If Nelson Mandela ran away from SA will SA get to where it is today.NO!! they wont but because this men had the love of their country at heart they chose to stay and revive their fatherland.
You never know that of NG might be me,it might be you or anyone else. As for me no matter how bad NG can be i will stay and do my best.

Lee kwan yew forced development on his people.
He did this by changing their orientation from ostentatious consumption to makers.

Eko ti lo

Murtala mohammed has always been an eyesore but under Jonathan, that eyesore became something else . You need to see the immigration desk in arrival to experience the Jonathan's transformation.
In spite of the so called 1 billion dollars worth of transformation.
The place stanks,
Ceiling without ceiling tiles exposing the moldy concrete beams above.

1Leaking roof.
2 Hot and damp.
3 Panty like buckets, the leg of a broken chair all over the place.
4 Broken furniture stacked in a corner and within sight of visitors.
That Hall could have been mostly rectified with less than a million naira.

I begi, make we here word.
Pfft.
Stop crying over spilt milk.
Since Na una develop am, you can serenade us with the history of demolition and regeneration in lagos .Starting with baba kekere ( lateef Jakande).
The number of houses demolished by lateef Jakande alone would build whole cities.
Not even Bobby Benson's massive hotel was spared from the multiple X mark with red paint
What about the demolitions done by mudashiru?
Abi Na otedola?
Before we talk of Babangida and shagari.
Or do you think there weren't homes where ikorodu Road stands today.
Inconsequential.
Irrelevant to the homeland's GDP, irrelevant to the homeland's potential, irrelevant to the homeland's future.
As long as the land is still fertile and plantain, yam, maize etc still grows from the land,It will not be felt one bit.
You think our decision makers take you seriously considering the sacrifices thousands of omoluabis made to make lagos attractive in the first instance ?
Talking about those "investments".
What are those investment?
Are you talking about nepotic firms who only employ fellow igbos?
Are we talking about the sole trader's inconsequential corner shop.
Ordinary danfo put multiple times the amount of revenues into the state coffers than the 4 by 4s.
Let me tell you a little story using the lagos stock exchange.
There used to be stock exchanges in the north and the east .
You know what they were useless, unviable, ran by incompetents and were very corrupt.After running those 2 stock exchanges down. The FG government muscled in on the lagos stock exchange turning it into the Nigerian stock exchange.
Light will always outshine darkness.
Ambode fire on regardless of whose Ox is gored.

Go and manufacture what you import.

xtrorp:
Your silly rants can't stop the Igboman from being your landlord!

Despite the pseudo-president Yorubas had in the person of Obj who more or less kowtowed to the whims and caprices of his slave masters, do the average Yoruba person have better welfare than the Igbo person? NO! The Igbo Nation prides itself as having the highest concentration of middle-class citizens while squalor and penury pervade the Yoruba enclave.

In terms of education and enlightenment, the SW has the highest record of illiteracy compared to other Southerners. Of what advantage is then the much taunted free education by Awolowo?

You lots whine, weep, wail, yell, curse and gnash your teeth with thick mucous dripping down your smelly noses as if your whole essence in life is being deprived you just at the mere mention of Biaf...

If the logic and the reasoning of the comments I read on nairaland are the stuffs of the educated from your side,
I will take my illiterate brothers all the time.

xtrorp:
“Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't get away with screwing people over your whole life, I don't care who you are. What goes around comes around. That's how it works. Sooner or later the universe will serve you the revenge that you deserve.” - Jessica Brody

In Lagos under 'One Nigeria' there seem to exist a silent economic war of destruction of livelihood, burning of markets in the middle of the night, extortion and harassment of genuine businesses by official area boys and street urchins, illegal/multiple taxing of business owners, in markets where Igbos operate e.g. Tejuoso, Alaba International and Ladipo. And now Oshodi electrical & electronic market.

Many of these attracious deeds are conducted at odd times when the traders won't be available to resist the dastardly acts.

Over the decades in the South-West, the Yorubas have systematically burnt Igbo shops as a guise to hijacking the markets from Igbos.

They hide under the guise of city development at the expense of the people's welfare and claim they had given the traders ample time to relocate and yet the demolition is carried out at odd times. Even the proposed alternative shops are exorbitant and out of reach by the common man.

https://www.nairaland.com/2618835/hoodlums-shut-down-alaba-international

https://www.nairaland.com/2846885/tears-lagos-demolishes-oshodi-market

https://www.nairaland.com/2847088/photos-oshodi-electronic-market-demolished

Prior to the 2015 general elections, amidst the threat by the lagoon crooner to drown Igbos, 18 Chisco transport buses were criminally burnt down in Lagos and up till date nothing was done to bring the culprits to book.

What does 'One Nigeria' mean?
A deceit where you are empowered to share my crude oil and wealth as 'One Nigeria' while I am considered a migrant to your State whom you're just merely accommodating and may perish in the lagoon at your command.

It is a chaotic situation where the Oba of a place would invite the representative of a people for discussion in his palace as regards a market leadership dispute only to set an ambush for him and unleash hundreds of thugs to flog and disgrace him.

It is an unjust situation where you're licensed to use foul means to destroy my business in your State with outrageous taxes. You can close my business premises at will while your elites continue to shout 'One Nigeria' to cover up the evils and injustices prevalent in the land. And you still expect me to be docile and continue to suffer silently as your hate and envy for my progress soar high.

Now, do you have any case for unity - fake or imaginary?

If you have there would no need fooling and playing to the gallery and shouting 'One Nigeria'. Or have you ever heard 'One Great Britain', 'One United States of America', 'One Germany'?
That shows that something is fundamentally wrong which many have been shying away from.

Is it a crime for any person/group to choose to opt out of a relationship?

Strange bedfellows, with irreconcilable value systems that are at best suitable for the individual selves, are not meant to be together! The 102 years of existence attest to that verdict!

Victor Hugo once said "no army can stop an idea whose time has come" and that "one can resist the invasion of armies but not the invasion of ideas".

Blah blah blah
Blackmail won't work.
Shanties will not be tolerated.
It has always been like that.
Bus stations, public ways, railway terminus, public parks are more important for the public good than a shanty market which developed out of the neglect of military dictatorship.
When baba kekere wheeled out his bulldozers in the 80 to sanitise lagos, there were no igbos around to make that noise you are making.
You know why.
Y'all Johnny come lately.
Most of the igbos around were federal civil servants or professionals




By the way, Next destination
Fence taxes, reduce height of Fences to 3ft or
operation remove those fences.
About time to return the village feel of our cities

The LASG always gives enough notice before they carry out any demolition.

How is it insensitive if the needs of the public are more important.
Nowhere in the world will you find government allowing shops, ghettos and churches to choke major roads, major arteries and junctions.
This is not even the use of the powers of Eminent domain.

I hope Oshodi is not going to be the last.
From oshodi to ikoyi, obalande,ketu , agege...........
The stories are the same
Lagos is one big mess.

Remove all Fences, shacks, containers,wooden stalls and the beauty of lagos will shine through.
Look at all that space.
No need to build any new permanent structures.Just clean the place up and turn it to a public square.
Maybe allow for ojo oja (4 market days a week) in the square.
No permanent structures allowed.
Ambode should discard that Fashola's mega city thing and turn it into a series of small and compact connected cities.

yahrant140:
if you can believe Ndidi and Ozodi Osuji are progressive, then you believe anything! Because in my personal point of view they are not!

They are progressives in the Nigerian context.

yahrant140:
That's shows how yoruba loved other tribes in Nigeria to foster unit but they see us as their enemy and behave otherwise.

In this country, this is actually a weakness.
3 of our states collect some of the lowest allocations .
With that little thing they provide the little social services they can
Yet the home states are the most enburdened in the country with imported human misery.
Tussling with our less well off for the limited opportunities available in the homeland.
Hoe are you repaid?
With hate.
Look at the idiott called Jonathan (a nobody fished out from the Creek and adorned with the robe of an emperor). Look at how he repaid us.
Even our conservative are like liberals when compared.

EternalTruths:
Who instigated the Cross Carpeting of the 50s that denied Zik the post of premier Western Nigeria..?

Carpet crossing ko, zebra crossing ni.
Who were the NCNC members who won elections in yorubaland?



“Dr. Mbu said of that election held on 24 September 1951 that: “Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was betrayed by the Western Region of Nigeria, not by the electorate, but by the leaders. The NCNC won the election against the Action Group (led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo), but the Action Group introduced what was unknown to Nigerian history”, namely, “carpet crossing. They Action Group bought members of the NCNC to join the Action Group after these people had won election on the platform of the NCNC. Zik, the leader of a majority party in the Western Region became the Leader of Opposition overnight”.
Reminded by the interviewer that the late Chief AMA Akinloye had maintained in his lifetime that he and his group had contested the election on a neutral platform from the NCNC, Dr. Mbu said: “That is his version… He is entitled to say what he wants to say. I don’t want to say ill of the dead.. He knew he was NCNC and his group was NCNC. Adelabu remained NCNC. He stuck on to NCNC till he died”.

The late Dr. Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe said in his autobiography, “Rebirth of a nation”, among others that: “But in pursuance of the policy of creating a political climate healthy enough to make one a citizen wherever he lived, Dr. Azikiwe contested and won the general elections in 1951 into the Western House of Assembly. To stultify this policy of one Nigeria in favor of his tribally-based philosophy, Chief Awolowo got some elected members to cross carpet from the NCNC to his AG side. Zik the victor lost. And Awolowo’s party was able to form the government of the Western Region.”
At a news conference in Lagos on 20 September 1989, more than two years after Chief Awolowo’s death, Dr. Mbadiwe returned to the topic saying: “Dr. Azikiwe and his party won the majority of seats in the Western House of Assembly. He was due to be elected the Leader of Government Business, when overnight, the Action Group introduced the notorious carpet-crossing. By this manipulation, members who won under the NCNC crossed over to the Action Group building it to become the majority party in the West. As a result of this, Chief Awolowo was elected Leader of Government Business and Dr. Azikiwe had to resign.”

Neither Dr. Mbu nor Dr. Mbadiwe named the members of the NCNC who contested the election on the party’s platform and later joined the Action Group to enable Chief Awolowo form the government to the exclusion of Dr. Azikiwe. These are weighty allegations such that they would have assisted their readers to clear the issues rather just repeat their own version of the events at that time in the hope that such repetitions would turn falsehood into facts.
To avert conflicting claims over candidates, Mr. Harold Cooper, the Government Public Relations Officer, wrote to the parties to furnish a list of the candidates contesting election on their platforms. Only the Action Group complied with this request and its list of candidates was as follows: Ijebu Remo Division – Obafemi Awolowo and M.S. Sowole; Ijebu Ode Division – S.O. Awokoya, Rev. S.A. Banjo and V.D. Phillips; Oyo Division – Chief Bode Thomas, Abiodun Akerele, A.B.P. Martins, T.A. Amao and SB Eyitayo; Osun Division – SL Akintola, JO Adigun, JO Oroge, S.I. Ogunwale, I…A. Adejare, J.A. Ogunmuyiwa and S.O. Ola; Ondo Division – P.A. Ladapo and G.A. Deko; Okitipupa Division – Dr. L.B. Lebi, CA Tewe and SO Tubo; Epe Division – SL Edu, AB Gbajumo, Obafemi Ajayi and C.A. Williams; Ikeja Division – O. Akeredolu-Ale, SO Gbadamosi and FO Okuntola; Badagry Division – Chief CD Akran, Akinyemi Amosu and Rev. GM Fisher; Egba Division – J.F. Odunjo, Alhaji A.T. Ahmed, CPA Cole, Rev S.A. Daramola, Akintoye Tejuoso, SB Sobande, IO Delano and A Adedamola.