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Baffarawa + dopkesi = enough to build dangote's hospital.

That picture says it all.
The nobodies pastor Tunde Bakare was talking about.
"Nigeria is a nation of fools ruled by idiots."
Why him no carry him siren blasting convoy put for head go London.

They could as well have installed dogs and cats in the cabinet and it will still function.
Canada,USA,UK and others are plug and play societies.
President come, prime minister go. The establishment remains
The heavy lifting is done by the civil service and the civil service remains a constant

Everyone has a bull crap opinion.
That is one of the biggest problem.
Mumus educating Mumu

500 BILLION DOLLARS EARNED
NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT.

not even a candle. The chicken has come home to roost. Like the wastage of the oil boom from the late 70's, and which led to the mortgaging of the future of 4 generations of youths, be prepared to suffer for 30 years if you are not in the clique

Pathetic

It is obvious that the truck hit an IED.

What you see there is exist all over the world and is exactly why Nigeria is rubbish.
You have to the bridge of ethnic nationalism before you can build a country.
It is almost like pouring water into a basket.
Nigeria will never be great. The country will keep tumbling from one crisis to the other.
We saw it in last Election ( a failed president was able to g

The should first of all,reduce the number of
Special assistant
Senior special assistant.
Deputy senior assistant.
Assistant to the senior special assistant .
Deputy Assistant to the senior special assistant.
Assistant to the assistant to the deputy assistant to the senior special assistant

When they cross that road, the should write me a letter

Alamesiegha is another one.
Jonathan's mother in law died on one of his "transformed" Road.
Religious "stewpidity" reigns in Nigeria.
They always pray for their abusers to abuse them more.
In fact,they will pay/part with their hard earned money to get abused.
What am I saying?
They do so every Sunday and Friday.
The question is, how many of these politicians pray as for you when your loved ones are massacred by armed robbers, shot by police, die in a substandard hospital etc
My own bias also ended once the diabolical PDP,which was a clear and present danger to the country and my constituency was defeated and castrated.
APC. Now wield those unitary powers which many in the SW so detest.
The onus is on APC to win the support of the clued-in with good performance.
Allowing people like this man to fly the party's flag says a lot about.
They are well on their way to morphing into another PDP regardless of the presence of Buhari and the largest contingent of serious people.
It is not always about winning.

Pathetic.
The military is suffering from mediocre officers recruited in to the defence academy

105?
Incredible.

DeLaRue:
I dont see how State Policing can work effectively in the current failed arrangement. For it to work, it requires a degree of policitical and systemic maturity which are totally absent right now.


If someone commits a crime in Lagos and flees to his State in the East. Do you genuinely believe the State police authority in the other State will help with investigation and repartriation of the alleged offender in th current atmosphere of tribal suspicions and mistrust? I dont think so.





Besides, I just don't see the introduction of State police as an immediate necessity to fixing this country.

All we requires is an autonomous yoruba region or a yoruba country.
Like I said before, give the powers of security to a council of Kings ( it used to be their duty before the Europeans came and it was good ) and turn the positions of administrator ( no governor, prime minister or president title) into an unattractive role.
No convoys, no grace and favour houses or guest houses all over the place, electronic voting and reporting.
Once you demystify those positions, the nobodies who are currently wrecking havoc will stop trooping into politics.
I think Awo addressed this issue in his thoughts on the Nigerian constitution.
Many politicians develop inflated egos once they mount the saddle of political office.
The only way to demystify them is to strip them of those ego boosting veneer of being someone more important and the paraphernalia of office.
Having said that, you have still have to consider the shark infested waters of the Nigerian country.
Asking the politicians holding the forth to unilaterally disarm,by pretending to be in a normal country, is asking too much.
There is no doubt in my mind that tax-free payers money was used to execute partisan elections and all of the SW politicians have engaged in acts which would be considered acts of corruption elsewhere,or at other times in the history of the homeland.
I guess this is the price we have to pay for remaining as part of the country.

I know the idea of taking responsibility for your own actions and inaction is foreign to some of you, however that does not mean the the responsibility doesn't exist or never existed.
Jonathan signed up for the post of commander in chief but was strangely AWOL and clueless in the discharge of that duty.
If only he applied the same tenacity to the problem like he gave to partying and useless celebrations, the problem would not have degenerated to this level.
On the other side of the said responsibility , the leaders of the NW and the NE bare most of the responsibility, if not all of the responsibility for the existence of those problems.
They created boko haram due to their obscene corruption, fatalism and incompetence.
No matter how hard they try to spin the issues, boko haram is their baby.
Let me add that they are also responsible for most of the bad news emanating Nigeria.

What and why exactly is he celebrating
Did he win the mega million lottery?
Has he just won an holiday to Barbados?

I would have fired this man almost immediately.
The mentality is just ewwwww. This man is made of the wrong stuffs.
The fact that he is a professor makes it even more unbearable.
I can place a bet that this man is an Obasanjo nominee.
Typical.

DeLaRue:
In Ondo State, there is no name in Nigeria or Nigeria's history that comes close to Awolowo

And it is all because of the achievements of Awo's Western Region Government.

People here will happily go back to regionalism. Mimiko cannot dictate otherwise.

Mimiko, tinubu, Obasanjo and all are inconsequential in the politics of Ondo state.
Once mimiko is done, he becomes as relevant as the previous governor he replaced.

The thing is Jonathan did not give a hoot about the conference or any other conference.
What he cared about was power and he had already given assurances to the north that nothing would come out of it.
He hand-picked 51% of the delegates and beyond creating extra beggar states, the entire conference was about what more the SW will give, what less the Niger -delta will give and what more the South East will gain.
The entire conference was to checkmate the SW and its outcome was a poison chalice to the yoruba country.
Imagine that the conference granted indigenous rights to non -indigens in a senseless tribal state like Nigeria.
Even without those right some are already flexing muscles.
I sm tired of trying to manage relationships and be competing for scarce resources /power with hostile tribes.
It is the same stupppiddd thing the yoruba leaders have been doing since independence.
The only people who argue against this are those benefitting from the rot.
We have written about yoruba achievers in the diaspora. Try bring up the issue of Nigeria with any of those folks and they will shut you down immediately.
Most would rather not be associated with the country.
For example West Indians like many Jamaican artists are always eager to throw their West Indians heritage in your face. They are proud of it because they have something to rally around
The same can not be said of Yoruba diaspora because of the extreme shame associated with the country.

Shymm3x:
I think it's always better to read the background story before blaming Lagos for demanding special status.

When they were preparing for the lousy confab that was more of an owanbe party than anything worth taking seriously, they never including anyone from Lagos. Perhaps due to the disagreements those representing Yorubas, who're also part of the PDP have with Tinubu who built his empire in Lagos. They only got those from Lagos involved at the last minute after protests.

Obviously, why do you expect those you never carried along to demand?

I can't speak for Ondo...but you can't blame those from Lagos for demanding something else.

That special status thing is the reason why I referred to the tinubu's clique as transient leaders of the times.
Imagine someone demanding to for special status from a beggar who is spending his money.
That is weak.
Very very very weak.
However I know the political reason why they rejected regionalism and the entire national conference.
To put it simply, Jonathan set up that conference to break the APC Coalition. Especially to cause friction between the SW and the north based on that issue.
Any weakness in the chunk of APC's armor would have been slam dunk for Jonathan.
Since Jonathan, his crew and the neo - facist ethnic agenda they were pushing, were the clear and present danger, it became politically expedient to keep the coalition at the expense of every other thing.

modath:
Ibebe, are you talking about utopia or a STATE in NIGERIA ??

Fashola deported Non Yoruba layabouts & his YORUBA kith & kin used it as cheap political tool against him..

Just pause for a moment to think of Ogun state University lmposing a "non indigene" levy on an ondo statr indigenious student, IT CAN'T EVER END WELL.

It makes no sense because we have a symbiotic relationships between the homeland states.
There are thousands of ogun students in osun, lagos, Ondo and ekiti.
This is different from the parasitic relationship with other regions apart from the Niger - delta who earn their keep.

Ibebe:
Hahha I get your point.

For any society to be developed and safe, Fulani herdsmen need to be restricted to a concentration camp. I don't know if those people are even humans.

Take the Fulanis and their almajiris out of the South and we've got a developing region.

I am not saying anyone should be restricted to concentratiin camp.
I like your optimism but we need a reality check here.
In spite of my misgivings, that is why I think the likes of odumakin, mimiko, afenifere are necessary to put the tinubus in check before we plunge too deep.
I am saying that Nigeria lacks the barest minimum of factors required for a stable, prosperous country.
That Nigeria is a failed state.
That the rot is irreversible.
The country is doomed.
Without exaggeration, that the country is already like Sudan of the 90's even if those inside it cannot perceive.
That our leaders should start the process of disengaging from the mess.
Right now, yorubaland is like a huge refugee camp.

Try build a society on this. In the last month

NO fewer than 22 persons, including women and children were feared killed when suspected Fulani herdsmen in the early hours of Monday, attacked nine communities in Dekina Local Council of Kogi State.

The murder of a villager in Egede community in the Udi Local Council of Enugu State by suspected Fulani herdsmen has heightened tension in the area as village leaders move in to forestall reprisal attacks.


It was tears, sorrow and gnashing of teeth when the body of 37-year-old Nanmwa Bongdul, who was murdered when some Fulani herdsmen attacked the Kwata community in Zawan, Jos, the capital of Plateau State, was laid to rest in his home town of Nban, Langtang North Local Government Area of the state.

Ibebe:
No. They're not. Dangerous neighborhoods are neglected and ignored (i.e minority neighborhoods).

Tourist neighborhoods (for the sake of revenues) have a standard quantity of police enforcement.

Please, let's not utopia-lize America. If not because they control the media, you'd realize that America is akin to a war-torn zone when it comes to police enforcement.

Not to say that I don't agree with you. We do need state and/or region controlled security.

Well, I will like the yoruba country to become like the American war zone.

They should do their investigations and make the reports public.
I personally know that they are chasing shadows.

Katsumoto:
Agitating for regionalism online won't do much good. The relationship between representatives (senate, house) and constituents is broken in Nigeria for many reasons. If people start to pressure their reps to push for Regionalism, then discussions can start. This is why I posited earlier that the issue is mainly leadership. Can the current Yoruba leadership not see these issues or is it that they don't care?



It would be unfair to introduce tax on bad roads. To tax roads, the government must first deliver good roads.

We are simply dancing around the root cause. The Nigerian State.
The last election was not about looking for a better Fashola but about preventing Bode George( who derives all his power to challenge for the seat from the FG) from seizing Lagos.
Tell me what progress you want to make from the bunch of criminals in the legislature.
Look at Kogi. Their elections is between a criminal incompetent and a criminal incompetent.
Meanwhile,some of our people have to endure that pain.
the legislature is not fit for purpose.
All the SW reps owe their loyalty to those who put them there. It is definitely not their prerogative.
Nigeria will definitely not become a better country.
Fulani attacked 20 communities in Kogi just 2 days ago.
Same way Sudan started until it became full blown.

Awo is gone. We do not need any Awo. We need ourselves

superstar1:
Lagos and Ondo kicked against regionalism at the last GEJ's national Confab.

Lagos case is even more critical.

On that one, They do not speak for the people.

Nothing more than the shortsightedness of the clique in power.
Did afenifere forcefully push regionalism when they were in power under the platform of AD.
They know that regarding regionalism and self government, it is a very emotional issue in the SW.
Those greedy folks( I call them the AKINTOLA school of thought) who are benefitting from the current arrangement are all but against it.
An irrelevant man in the SW like Obasanjo,who derives all his relevance from Nigeria as it is, will never support regionalism.
All he does is antagonise the SW.

Ibebe:
I beg to disagree. Even in tourism states like NY/Washington, shoit still happens and the possibility of criminal activities still exists. I wouldn't go walking around at 2am around here.

We need a good security system that people can rely on.

I still want my own country though

You right but you fail to admit that dangerous neighbourhoods are policed like concentration camps. That those societies have little or no tolerance for crime and that the violent crimes happen well away from tourist sites. ( You still get the odd drug dealers selling their wares or pick pockets
Like you are not hearing someone being robbed in a traffic jam all the time or whole Streets under siege from armed robbers.

WHEN YOU STAY IN A ROT INFESTED ROOM FOR A LONG TIME , YOU NOT ONLY GET USED TO THE STENCH , YOU BECOME A PART OF IT .
By Diran apata

For us Yoruba, it’s a time of desperate urgency
EVERY nation in Nigeria is in trouble. Every nation in Nigeria is experiencing extreme hardship. Altogether, we the people and nationalities of Nigeria are heading for something unimaginably massive and cataclysmic.
I started in my message of last week to spell out the Yoruba share of this swelling tide of disaster. I mentioned our virtually impotent state governments incapable of doing much for the welfare and prosperity of their people; the masses of our highly educated youths roaming our streets unemployed and depending on their poor parents for sustenance; our nation living today in a depth of poverty that we as a nation have never before experienced in our whole history; and the growing danger that our people may suddenly erupt in a massive and uncontrollable insurrection.
We Yoruba traditionally loved to brag that no Yoruba person could become a beggar in the streets. [ Any beggars in our streets were usually persons from other lands. But in post-independence Nigeria, it has become more and more common to see Yoruba beggars in our streets. Today, the huge number of Yoruba beggars in our towns has become a Yoruba national shame, and the number continues to balloon.
[b]The famous German professor, Ulli Beier, worked in Yorubaland for years in the middle of the last century – in the 1950s and 1960s when the fabric of Yoruba society and life was intact and strong. A long time later, in his old age in another country, he wrote: “Between 1950 and 1966, during my first stay in Nigeria, I never locked the door of my house. In a closely knit society, theft was almost impossible. - - - During this entire period, I never saw a hungry Yoruba; nor was anybody abandoned by the community”.
But before Ulli Beier left Nigeria in 1966, the situation in Nigeria had already started to corrupt Yoruba society. By the late 1970s, the impact of Nigeria on the Yoruba nation had become remarkable. Many capable Yoruba citizens were giving up productive enterprises and hustling for some sort of share in Nigeria’s petroleum money. Under the impact of federal Nigeria’s seizure and control of the country’s produce exports, the unfortunate falls in export produce prices in the world market, and the grossly inept federal management of the situation, Yoruba cocoa farmers were quickly ruined. According to Ulli Beier, “the farmers could no longer afford to pay the labourers to harvest the cocoa pods. The cocoa began to rot on the ground - - . The large cocoa sheds (in Yoruba towns) stood empty”. Poverty tightened its grip on Yoruba life – as on the life of all other Nigerian nationalities, for a combination of similar reasons. Excessive and intensifying federal control on all aspects of the affairs of Nigeria, and the consequent loss of morale and initiative in our states, made sure that the poverty would grow stronger and stronger. Obviously, the right thing to do at this point was to relax the federal death-hold, reduce the powers of the Federal Government, and empower the states to revive their economies and re-energize their people. Rather than do that, the controllers of Nigeria continued to tighten the federal hold.
By the late 1980s, the disaster had become almost complete. Ulli Beier wrote that when he visited Nigeria again in the mid-1980s, he could not believe how totally the fabric of Yoruba life and society had crumbled. Even in the supposedly rich neighbourhoods of Ikoyi in Lagos, he saw Yoruba people begging. “Yoruba society had fallen apart”, he wrote sadly. [/b]
The crumbling is now at an absolute peak. While the masses of Yoruba university graduates are roaming the streets and suffering the shame of depending on their economically battered parents, even the types of Yoruba citizens who have traditionally managed to provide for their families and to help their kinsmen and neighbours have been robbed of most of their strength by the poverty in Nigeria. All over Yorubaland, some of such notable citizens now must look up to their politicians to help them sustain a semblance of economic self-respect. In the circumstance, it is no longer sufficient for the elected public official to perform his duties well (to build roads, renovate the school buildings, improve the quality of teaching in the schools, build water supply systems, etc); he is also expected by some of the notables among his people to give them more or less regular hand-outs. If a governor does not keep up with these expectations, he might risk a political storm rising against him in his state. In the circumstances of today, authentic Yoruba political parties or political leaders have become a rarity; and most of the so-called politicians and parties of these days are just crowds of self-seeking jobbers perpetually regrouping – likemindlessly shifting sands on a sea shore.
All these developments represent a vile and unacceptable destruction of Yoruba character,Yoruba political mores, and Yoruba governance ethics, and they embarrass most Yoruba people. They make it impossible to create and sustain the kind of constructive, accountable and dignified political leadership and governance that the Yoruba people are used to, profoundly negate the ways that Yoruba people want to live and be governed, and alienate the masses of Yoruba people. Obviously, the Yoruba nation must find some way out of this quagmire – and do so in a hurry, before the treasures of their culture are totally destroyed, or before their highly educated masses rise like a hurricane.
For the Yoruba nation in Nigeria, therefore, these are times of desperate urgency. The sad truth is that there is no real hope that the necessary change for the better can ever materialize inNigeria. If Nigeria’s history to-date teaches anything, it is that Nigerians do not, and cannot, have a unity of purpose – a unity of purpose to reorder the direction of Nigeria’s affairs, to restructure the lopsided Nigerian federation, and to deal effectively with public corruption. In the final analysis, it is each nation struggling through the Nigerian darkness and disaster that knows where, how, and how intensely the shoe pinches; and as one proverb of ours says, “Alatise lo nmoatiseara re” (it is the person whose foot is hurting terribly that knows what to do).And as for any of us who is inclined to doubt and dither, or to continue to hug and glamourize the unsupportable, when it is really time to poop the anus will open.

PrincessJaneDoe:
but the south west is relatively peaceful, do you not think we can capitalise on this re tourism? There aren't many people in the region clamouring for regionalism or secession, so in the meantime we must find a way to make the current system work for us.

I agree that we should look at regionalism or secession as a long term solution because the more development recorded in the SW, the higher the number of economic migrants from other parts of the country and we MUST have the power to control this.

More like "relatively less violent or less lawless ."
I am with Shymmex on almost all his arguments.
There are really very few things to celebrate. All I see is a sea of mediocrity and mortgaged future.
Some were celebrating 6 ministerial appointments the other day forgetting that they could have 100 ministers from the homeland who understand their challenges, if they choose to do the right .
Celebrate 6 servants at the whims of the unitary Fg when they could easily have all if they choose to do so.
Can you walk the streets of Lagos,Abeokuta etc at 2 a.m without being maimed by an armed robber or kidnapper . If the two do not get you , some vigilante would. If not , someone would probably have to come to the station to bail you at the police station.
No one refers to the SW from overseas, the SW carries the same Nigeria tag as the boko haram infested north.
Tourism is built on not only sights but night life . A substantial chunk of the income is made from night life.

Katsumoto:
Lets look at the issues from a leadership perspective

It is clear to all that most states in Nigeria are not sustainable. Osun, Ekiti spring to mind in the SW. When a person becomes a leader, he must know most of the issues bedevilling his/her area of leadership. A first year university student should be able to tell you that most states have a bloated civil service. So why do governors maintain this bloated service? Isn't it so that they can use it a tool in the political arsenal?

Second, a situation where an administrator receives more than 90% of his revenue from the central government is a rather dangerous one and any wise administrator will do what it takes to increase the IGR of his area. What are SW governors doing in terms of increasing revenue? Not much if they struggle to pay salaries.

Third, in the face of the most austere conditions, how is it that ALL Nigerian governors are relatively wealthy? You don't need Sherlock Holmes to tell you that corruption is the source of their wealth. What I am driving at is that governors reserve their own corruption budget and then seek to execute what they can with they feel is the remainder of the budget.

So what are the solutions

1. Merge states but we know this won't happen due to pride and greed
2. Reduce the civil service but we know this won't happen because governors want to use the civil service to further their selfish ambitions
3. Increase revenue through agriculture, taxed services, tourism (but security must be improved first)
4. Reduce mismanagement & corruption
5. Reduce nepotism & cronyism
6. Increase expenditure on education, particularly for gifted students
7. Reduce the size of the underground economy from approximately 70% to at least 30%

There are brilliant people all over Nigeria but Nigeria will not progress if its the same professional politicians who continue to aspire to office at ALL costs. To surmise, the issue is one of leadership and not one of falling crude prices. Aregbesola, Fayemi, Amosun, Fayose, Mimiko, Ambode are all failures. They should step aside for better leaders.

Merge O, Unmerge O, "Dismerge" O, or discharge.
Nothing will change.
Yes the tax collection system is archaic but in reality, Our people are already over taxed without any benefit.
Education trust fund tax ? We pay most of that as well while other states piggyback on our little allocation and social infrastructure.
Fact is the people are simply beating about the bush and denying the truth.
NO STATE,TOWN, CITY OR FARMING SETTLEMENT IN YORUBALAND IS UNVIABLE. THAT IS WHY THEY EXIST.
All of our cities were all viable city state before Nigeria. They remain so because of the way we organise ourselves, our culture and our values.
The western region was not organised as stated but as more compacts provinces.
The Ondo province
Akoko province
Ijebu province
Ekiti province
Abeokuta province
Benin province
Ife province.
Warri province
Owo province
Kabba province
And so on.
The fact is that the compact nature of those provinces ensured the even development of the homeland without swaddling us with the baggage of a useless FG and the expensive presidential system of government.
I saw the debates on tourism yesterday and I laughed.
Like Shymmex said , It is like not learning to crawl before walking .
Journeys to ancient towns like Esa-oke will reveal the inherent potentials .
We are never going to get a developed tourism industry without the peace dividend.
There will be no peace dividend as long as we remain in Nigeria.
Sorry to say, some people in Nigeria simply default to crime and violence.
Tourism alone has the capacity to feed the SW. Our people do not spare the change in order to indulge.We simply need to get out of the country first.

I was following the debate on the fiscal issues in the SW.
I will not write to much stuff. I will simply drop these 2 videos.
As much as I dislike this guy's reactionary politics, he made some of the most sensible arguments on the way we should deal with Nigeria.
My own example Is the apapa port and power over land,air and sea which used to belong to the Western region.
That port generates trillions of naira every month.
Most of what comes in through those lagos ports do not leave the borders of the yoruba country. In order words, most are consumed in the SW.
So what does Nigeria do?
They take the money to Abuja where most of it is stolen and the rest shared. The Niger-delta even collects derivation on these revenues from the SW AS the money are all lumped into one single account.
Also the regions who have carved huge no of LGAS for themselves get more than the rightful owners.
But to add salt to injury, Our SW governors have to spend money to repairs infrastructure damaged by the activities of the FG and the incompetence, extreme greed and corruption of leaders from other places.
This is the same arguments I am making here. The only difference is that it is being made by venetian who are seeking independence in Italy.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586531/Venice-votes-split-Italy-89-citys-residents-opt-form-new-independent-state.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NygBTITUG2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzB-CM0EgZM

Iweala is definitely a neo capitalist heavy .the likes of whom are sent to enslave their people and cart their money away.
Tell me , how does a country who nearly does not export anything allow unfettered dumping of goods within her territory?
Aren't countries suppose to be prostrating to sell us things ?
Instead she turned us to buying beggars.
Iweala removed tomatoes , tomato paste , vegetable oil etc from the import prohibition list .
Hunger almost finished farmers in the north .
Allowing the importation of vegetable oil almost destroyed the vegetable oil in the SW ,SS,NC and NW.
She even went as far as granting waivers to encourage more dumping.
What about the budgets she presented at the National Assembly.
Same meaningless budgets(syntax ,numbers and all) with items like train tickets in Guinea Bissau!

All we want is someone who can balance an account.
So so amount came in ,so so amount went out and the balance is. No long story .
If something does not come in , why?
Definitely not a person too lazy to vet a budget .someone whose first mission is to protect local production ,manufacturing and jobs