₦airaland Forum

DeLaRue:
What is happening now is some businesses are making stupendous amount of profit like never before, even when you account for naira devaluation.

On the flip side, the average man on the street is feeling the brunt of income that can't keep up with rising goods prices.

Some are winning, and winning big. Many are struggling and can barely hold on.

Like Nigeria, countries such as the UK, USA are experiencing a similar dichotomy where the gap between the rich few and the rest of the population is growing wider and wider.

Personally, I now believe that uncontrollable capitalism as practised in these countries is not all honky dory, as we were led to believe in our old economics textbooks.

Nigeria needs to retrace its capitalist steps and pay more attention to the basic necessities of the ordinary people - food, and I think, electricity.

I am still shocked at Band A price for electricity. These private companies are only fixated on more and more profits while doing less and less.

Government needs to stop privatising utilities.

yusufu16:
Honestly if we solve power problem in Nigeria, over 80% of our economic problem is solved.

Just give Nigerians 24/7 light and you will see wonders in the economy.

Asonaijaaso:
Been to many third world countries with 24hours power supply and the bills are in tune with minimum wage.

And believe me i am not talking about Paris or London where the president goes to enjoy uninterrupted AC.

All we have to do is copy their blueprint and replicate it here, tweak it till we get it right.

The administration of Bola Tinubu has not prioritized power supply. If they did Nigerians would have seen results.

Weeks after Bola Tinubu wa sworn in, he wanted a new Private Jet, less than 2 weeks after, the money manifested, the new Jet was bought and paid for and the old one put on sale.......That was an intentional act.

But issues like power supply, education of the girl child, a lot of out of school Nigerian children, maternal mortality,insecurities. Those are not addressed, When Nigerians voice their frustration, either his handlers gaslight us (its not that bad.) or we get the popular Buhari trope (All that was caused by the Buhari regime)

crocsjohn:
Honestly most of us don't care anymore

Thundafireseun:
Pressure …..

More money more problems….

You can’t survive in this country with just one source of income

Mopolchi:
Pdp accumulated these debts

chiefolododo:
Strike is not a bad thing if it will yield result

Max24:
Not surprised. Same happened under Obi in Anambra. He couldnt pay doctors salaries for 8 months. Imagine if he was the president, by now all agencies of govt would have been on Strike. Someone who could not pay state workers salaries, how will he pay mulltitude Federal workers? Obi is a leaner where Tinubu dey.

HenryWilliams:
If they field Obi as President and a well educated, politically mature reasonable Northerner as Vice..the election would be over by 12noon.
The hatred people have for Tinubu and APC can't be fathomed..
He is the very definition of corruption, nepotism and sleeze. The North definitely won't support him in 2027, he can say goodbye to SE and some portions of SS.
There's no way he'll get majority votes in Lagos ever again with the way he rubbished the LSHA.
A coalition will definitely tear that druggie away from power.. they have less than two years to get their permutations right.

Mabuggi88:
Imagine their price is still higher than a private individual price. Wickeds in power

Igirigimercenar:
. Yes ooo. We will vote for tinubu. He is doing well. Nigeria economy is doing well

commoditiesnig:
Lol.. the way you folks hype Obi dey baffle me. Nigerians didn't even know him when he was governor.. that should tell you alot.

Let me tell you, 2023 votes to Obi was more of protest votes from Christians from South, middlebelt and north against the ruling party's Muslim Muslim ticket. Obi really milked it by visiting churches.. I hope you remember the "religious war" conversation.

2027 that won't work. If he contest I doubt he will even get half of what he got in 2023.

Politics is strategy not emotions or social media

TimeManager:
You look PDP finish and think after putting their house in order, they will now hand over their ticket to an outsider who contributed nothing to the party?. No matter how useless PDP can be, they can't be as useless as Labour Party and their party's candidate.


-Kiss the truth!

SmartPolician:
If the PDP really wants to get a good shot at the presidency, they should put their house in order and woo Peter Obi (a man who ran in an unknown party and got 6 million votes) back to the party with assurances that they would give him the ticket. Without it, nothing can stop Tinubu from winning in 2027.

Xscape1993:
Anybody, group, party, association or organisation that endorses the drug baron, tout, agbero and certificate forger for re-election is useless and a burden to humanity. Only those who are benefiting from this government would support him for another term.

idahme:
You are wrong. They ain't wrong by having that notion because of the kind of country they hail from i don't blame them for having such notion.

Just go to government places, and see people who doesn't have any business or any money but controlling billions because they are associated with government. Typical case scenario is your president and wike, prior to 1999 the president's highest earning was about $2400 monthly but post guber time he catapulted himself to the zenith with a deal he made through alfa beta. While wike who never for once practiced or represented a client in order to make money now becomes almost a trillinaires(naira) just because he worked for the government whose monthly salary was less than 10million.

This funny scenario also happens in the private sector that has connections with the government, people pay kickbacks in order to be given contracts which were never done but stolen. The only people who should get accolades are those private sector folks with zero ties with the government but with sheer resilience, hard work and enthusiasm to succeed making hem successful in their business.

We may all deny as much as we can but this is the reality in Nigeria. The attitudes of citizens is the reason people have this notion

salem1996:
Mitchewwwww so you believe this rubbish thing you are seeing here?

EmeeNaka:
Poverty and insecurity is currently the worst ever.

Shawarmagirl:
Audio. Tuji is still alive in Nigeria killing and kidnapping yet the military 🪖 could not arrest him. If it was IDF, by now Tuji is a history.

Goodnewsforlife:
see mumus we argue with online?

emkz:
In fairness, Tinubu has launched a massive investment drive in states and only a wicked person would ignore the impacts of those projects.

Those who opposed the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway may have lost some voters in areas who are seeing the impacts of the road.

Even ThisDay/Arise who opposed the project had to give Tinubu Man of the Year Award, even though the award was suspicious.

The people of southern Kaduna who were marginalized have a medical center and a university and have seen that the person who lied about Muslim-Muslim ticket wanted to scam them.

By 2027, agenda will agend as the chickens will come home to roost.

President Tinubu, please do something drastic about insecurity in the Plateau. Governors, set up vigilante groups and arm them and pay them very well.

Put your security votes to good use.

Maxymilliano:
The governor is only protecting his seat by the unnecessary eye service.

He knows his second term will be in jeopardy, if he did not pander to the whims of the executive

Same reasons for the campaign poster of Adeleke and Tinubu in Osun

KonceptzOnpoint:
Dropped by 5% here in Kaduna

wealthyvic1:
You are very sick.
See your doctor immediately

TimeManager:
The problem with Nigerian wailers is the fact that they don't see beyond " what's the price of yam in the market?", they're more concerned about their stomach than the health of the economy. Forgetting that If you don't have an economy, you can't even have food security, growth and development. The food inflation we all complain about is not as a result of government policies but as a result of human factor - na bandits, terrorists and herdsmen factor dey cause food crisis and high food costs. And I know you would say, it is Government responsibility to fight insecurity. And I can tell you as much that there's no other President that has killed more bandits and terrorists than the current President. However, you can't wipe out insecurity of over 16years in less than two years. So, pockets of attacks will never undermine the fantastic efforts of the NSA and the Military. Unfortunately, Nigeria. wailers will rather exaggerate these pockets of violence than see the successes of the Military.
The economy is also on the pathway of recovery given where we were coming from, improved economic outlook has earned positive ratings from Fitch. Less debt to revenue ratio, net trade surplus, higher liquidity, stable currency, improved foreign reserves, gradual reduction in inflation, etc. But I will not be surprised if some people selling recharge cards or phone charger under the bridge start arguing with Fitch rating. I don't like talking too much.
God bless Nigeria.



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Kiss the truth!

nairalanda1:
Under GEJ we were at 2.3 m bpd. That was the highest we ever got.

iwaeda:
We have done 1.8m before.

MightySparrow:
This is issue of deception not money. Why didn't the husband tell her the truth from the onset? If the woman wasn't comfortable with such union, she would have another man and the man would have another woman.

How many more children has the man in secrecy? This is a woman, what if the woman has problem of child bearing and the husband feels indifferent? What is her fate?

I think your position is callous.

Obierika:
It appears the woman is the main breadwinner of the family that's why she's vibrating like a generator that is about to knock engine!