₦airaland Forum

aryzgreat:
Hahahahahaha lwkmd! I don piss for body

Fashola do eye like imbec1le. He seems to have 4:30 eye.

Lol, cartoonfie Indeed.

Look childish

see them!
dem deport your uncle?
keep hating those whom God has blessed. You will die a painful slow death induced by hate.

LesbianBoy:
Things they both have in common...

They are UGLY
They are THIEVIES
They support a S.TUPID PARTY!
Like if you agree

Dem deport your Papa and Uncle ni? why so much hatred.

berem:
you're talking to me as if I belong to PDP. Tell your story to PDP members. APC is where I belong but I will personally vote for Agbaje if he wins PDP primaries. If he doesn't win,well......

K
I personally have known that you are a double-faced agent on this forum and NEVER to be trusted by anyone.

#teamLagos
#teamAPC
#teamAmbo2015

berem:
absolute balderdash! I am not pushing any Igbo agenda for Jimi Agbaje. I am telling you what's on ground. The PDP will have a landslide victory if Agbaje is their flagbearer. APC should tighten up their seat belt and give us a better candidate aside Ambode.

Shut you crappy mouth and your nonsense about what is on ground!!!
I know what is on ground more than many of you on this thread as I'm close to these people, both APC and PDP.
The day PDP announces thier candidate in Lagos is the day you will know that PDP has no business contesting here.
PDP is a dead party here in Lagos and they are only banking on federal might to help rig
Join Dosunmi, Doherty, Agbaje and Koro to face the APC candidate, they will lose.
Carry your nonsense what is on ground to your village town union meetings

Below is what is on the real ground.

Seun:
Topic locked because the voting process is an abuse of the like and share buttons.

Tell them

brio:
Jimi Agbaje is currently leading the nairaland poll with more than 100%.

I hope you all have your PVC already.

Vessi:
STFU. Who is sure you even know what you're ranting here? Indirectly calling people clueless, when no one is sure of your authenticity makes you much worse.

You are the one to STFU if you are here only to rant bullpooooo!
bunch of deluded and confused people.

#Vote wisely.

A good family man.
#teamambo2015

berem:
I guess you were not born and bred in Lagos just like me. Because you were born by yoruba parents doesn't make you know everything about lagos politics. Allow people like me who are born and bred Lagosians to discuss lagos politics.
Now,could you go take a back seat while I talk?

born in Lagos and you know no jackk about the politics of the state but pushing forward more or less an Igbo agenda for a Jimi Agbaje.
Methink you are the one to go and find a quiet corner to sit while those that knows the nuances and political establishments that controls the state politics discuss it.
When you get to your Sunday-Sunday town union meeting, sell Ambode to them

A wash in the great tide of politics, we must not forget why politics can be a noble endeavour. It leads to governance. When done correctly, governance can reform a nation and improve the lot of the people. In the hands of the ignorant and the mean, governance cast abundant misfortune upon a nation and upon the welfare of its citizens.


This commentary concerns governance and policy more than it does politics. I offer it to generate debate on an important economic issue. No matter who is in power, we must do whatever is in our capacity to steer the nation away from economic woe. The people have suffered too much hardship already. Neither side of the political divide should seek to purchase transient advantage at the high price of dousing the people in greater economic calamity. Thus, I suggest this progressive’s position on how best to shape economic policy during this period of falling oil prices. I state this hoping those in charge will take pertinent advice from any quarter. My prayer is that they are not so stubborn as to adhere to a strategy that will deepen the economic misery of our people even when better policy measures are proffered.


I confess to writing this also for a reason essentially political but non-confrontational. It accentuates the distinction between the conservative Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the progressive All Progressives Congress (APC). The nation faces momentous elections when next year turns to its second month. The choice is a stark one; but many people do not believe as such. The differences are vast especially regarding economic policy. On the one side, the PDP champions a conservative, elitist economic model based on the theory that wealth money must first go to the already rich and well-heeled who shall determine how small a fraction of it will trickle down to the rest of society.


On the progressive side, we believe government can fillip economic growth and development in such a way that brings the fairness of prosperity to all of society. We don’t seek to penalise those who already have but we will do our utmost to remove from the clutch of poverty the bulk of our people. We seek to turn the hungry suffering of our poor and working classes into a dignified livelihood that provides a dignified existence for all.


Global oil prices have fallen from over $100 a barrel to approximately $80 per barrel. This slide has caused a corresponding drop in government’s dollar revenues. With this, the federal government claims it has less money at its disposal and the paucity of dollars necessitates austerity measures. Most people accept this position as gospel; debate about its correctness has been nil. Yet, the stakes are much too high to assume this subjective position as an economic certitude or uncritically accept its propriety. What they proclaim as policy is not based on any unassailable economic principle. It is statement of economic bias that beckons to the wealthy while auguring unnecessary hardship for most Nigerians.


Look at jobless and poverty levels as well as the diminished status of our middle class. After viewing these statistics, most objective economists would conclude Nigeria is mired in a long-term, secular depression. Forget the rosy GDP numbers. They signify a great economic and financial segregation between those who have and others who have not. If we continue with the policy preferences of the current administration, the haves shall become the “have–mores” and the “have-nots” shall become the “have even less.”


The vast majority of the claimed GDP growth has fallen into the laps of those already enjoying obvious luxury. The rest of the people are left to gaze at the enormity of the income and wealth chasm separating them from the cabal orchestrating the discordant political economy. While a small group flourishes, the rest of the nation subsidises their economic bounty. A tight confederacy rides an economic skyrocket while the bulk of the people languish in the swamp. For one group, the economy is effervescent. For the other, it is catatonic. Nigeria is one nation with two economies.


For this government to speak of austerity is to further enrich the affluent while casting the average Nigerian into greater hardship and deeper socio-economic depression. As with the Euro zone the past five years since the global financial crisis, austerity has not solved the dire economic weakness of the nations that employed this sickening remedy. All austerity has done is tighten the grip of the wealthy on the economy while weakening the position of the middle class and the poor.


Austerity weakens aggregate demand, deflating an economy already fatigued and against the ropes. Those with hefty portfolios, profit as the value of their holdings appreciates by the very dynamics of deflation. Those who don’t have, find money even dearer to come by. Jobs and commerce disappear. Debt climbs. Deflation turns a noble but poor household into a committee of beggars and street urchins. The austerity that the current administration offers is an insensitive, myopic policy that lends primacy of favour to meaningless accounting figures instead of the material wellbeing of the people. Austerity undermines our economic pillars and breaks the spirit of the people. Austerity is the merchant of pessimism and hopeless futility. If you desire a nation of thralls, by all means continue this bleak path. If we want a nation of prosperity and economic justice, a different course is our due.


Listen carefully to the position of the Goodluck Jonathan administration as articulated by the finance minister and you shall collide into the barricades of illogic and its weighty consequences. The claim is that government is low on funds because the lower price of oil means fewer dollars are being collected from oil sales. This sounds logical but for one fundamental point. The dollar intake is basically irrelevant to determining the amount of naira the government commands and places into the political economy. This fundamental point reveals the government’s position to be the antiquated relic of a past era. It is the way of the gold standard which ceased to exist over 40 years ago. As such, government’s stance is based more on superstition than on the actual functioning of modern economy with a sovereign fiat currency of its own.


The last I looked, Nigeria operates a naira-based economy not a dollar-based one. There is no legal or moral restriction strictly limiting the amount of naira in the system to match the amount of dollars collected via oil sales. More importantly, there is no economic justification for the close linkage implied by the government. If we take its position at face value, the Jonathan administration is advocating that we effectively place the naira and thus our fiscal policy on a “dollar standard”. The world jettisoned the gold standard in 1971 because it proved unworkable, reducing the policy space in which governments could pursue fiscal programmes promoting full employment and social welfare. We should likewise reject this government’s imposition of a dollar standard on our nation’s fiscal operations.


Under the gold standard, a national government took pains not to incur budgetary deficits that exceeded the dimensions of its gold reserves. This was because the currency had no value by itself. Its value was based on the convention that the currency was backed by the nation’s gold holdings. Those governments that ran deficits had to pay those debts in gold. Given that gold supplies were always and everywhere finite and exhaustible; a nation had to keep its deficits within the confines of its ability to pay debts in gold. Because of this straitjacketing effect, nations would abandon the gold standard during harsh economic times in order to give them the fiscal freedom to rejuvenate their economies. This was the case during the Great Depression with the major economic powers. This should be the case with Nigeria today since the bulk of our people live in conditions redolent of the Great Depression or any other depression for that matter.
Our government persists that it must limit fiscal outlays to the amount of dollars the nation holds. Similar to the operation of the discarded gold standard, following this path is to strap ourselves to austerity and the chronic deflation of austerity produces.

Worse, it serves to enthral the fiscal policy of our sovereign nation to the monetary policy of another country. That nation plies monetary policy to serve its interests and not the economic interests of Nigeria. I am baffled why this government would give such power over the fate of our economic wellbeing to another nation that does not incorporate our interests into its decisional processes. This government makes our nation the economic servant of another so that government may turn about to make the Nigerian people its economic servant. While there is a certain logic to this dynamic, it is a perverse and debilitating one.


Because we operate a sovereign fiat currency the federal government issues at its sole discretion, the federal government can never be rendered insolvent in naira. This means it can run naira fiscal deficits indefinitely. The only outer bound is to ensure the fiscal expansion does not incur damaging inflation rates. There is no logical reason to peg the flow of naira into the economy to the flow of dollars received. The correct perspective is not to mechanistically restrict naira expenditure to dollar intake. This would be tantamount to those crippled with economic blinders forcefully leading those who can see we are heading for disaster. It points to deflation, recession and worse. The better methodology is to ascertain, then achieve, the level of naira expenditure needed to expand the economy and create jobs without causing inflation to rise to dangerous levels. This is how broadly-shared prosperity is generated in a sustainable manner.


In this way, the nation’s economic engineers should focus primarily on allocating value and opportunity to our underutilised labour force and our idle, yet potentially productive capital in a way that promotes wealth creation and expansion of aggregate demand. It is this sustainment of aggregate demand that empowers the nation to rescue itself from the whirlpool of economic contraction. This avenue is more benign than the one the federal administration now advocates. Their way calls for us to forget growth and for government to preoccupy itself with allocating economic misery among those segments of the population too poor and weak to contest the immiserating actions of government against them.


In the face of recessionary headwinds, government should run countercyclical fiscal policy by using its naira sovereignty to fund fiscal deficits. The deficit is not simply for the sake of running a deficit; the funds cannot be spent on non-productive matters. It must be used to fuel infrastructural and other projects that not only employ great numbers of people but enhance the overall productivity of the economy. The funds must be used to backstop state governments in a nonpartisan manner so that each state government may continue to pay salaries and pursue projects essential to that state’s economic critical path.


To accomplish this, the federal government needs to reverse the inimical “dollarization” of the national economy in two ways. First and most importantly, it must abandon the out-dated peg of fiscal policy and expenditures to the dollar intake. The one actually has no correspondent nexus to the other. Any commanding connection we give it is an artifice not an economic necessity. Related to this, we must reverse a trend that has gained momentum under this government. Among government-aligned elite, the fad has been to conduct domestic business transactions in dollars. Policy must “nairasize” the economy by requiring all domestic transactions occur in our legal tender. As this is done, the government’s infinite ability to issue naira will come to outweigh the limitations inherent in the overuse of the finite supply of another nation’s currency for transactions wholly internal to our domestic economy.


Inflation is the major risk of running budget deficits to spur growth. We can contain inflation to acceptable levels by ensuring additional government expenditures are for items that can be supplied domestically, particularly labour. Naira paid to poor and working class people mostly circulates in the domestic economy, spurring additional local commerce and production. This is because their consumption patterns do not approach the level of import expenditures associated with their wealthier compatriots. Related to this, we must decrease our level of superfluous imports.
These measures will place downward pressure on the naira. Devaluation will not be destructive but it will be noticeable. For most nations, such devaluation would be welcomed as it would make export industries more competitive, thus creating jobs and export earnings in the process. However, this will not be the case initially for us because of the moribund state of our industrial sector. Here, government would need to initiate crash programmes aimed at enhancing those domestic industries perched on the borderline of international competitiveness.


In the end, the policy I propose is not without risks, inflation being the chief concern. Yet, if wisely prosecuted, the rewards of job creation and economic growth allocated among the bulk of the populace outweigh the inflationary risk. More to the point, the policy now pursued bears no risks at all. It is certain to toss the average man’s economy into a stagnation that will resemble the onset of a major recession. Saving the people from this unnecessary plight is sufficient imperative to eschew the policies of old and embrace the progressive course.
I offer this advice, this warning, because the people have suffered enough hardship. I offer this advice in the slim hope those in power will ignore the messenger and objectively weigh the quality and humane nature of the message. If so, they will spare the people the grief visited upon a vulnerable people when their government blindly imposes last century’s policies in a modern setting inappropriate to the old strictures.

Regardless of our partisan affiliations, let us consecrate this land by dedicating ourselves to the betterment of the poor, weak, and needy members of our national family. Let this moment not pass like so many others where we have demanded that the most vulnerable among us bear the greatest weight of the national burden. Let us give them the hope, change and dignity they deserve and human decency demands. This is how we make the nation great. When I speak of a common sense revolution, this is what I mean.


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/slump-in-oil-prices-a-progressive-way-out/193976/

berem:
who the heck is Faud Laguda? Am just seeing his poster for the first time. APC should give us a very popular grassroot candidate. If anyone should be closer to been popular in APC camp, Ganiyu Olanrewaju Solomon comes close.

Madam, go and sit down, you know absolutely nothing about Lagos politics, though you may call yourself an Igbo-Lagosian

Op you try with the photoshop

berem:
there's this young handsome dude Tunde Wahab who is contesting under APC. Is he Wahab Folawiyo's son? I see his posters everywhere I go.

You see one thing, you can quarrel and hate that man downtown, but one thing you can't take away from him is his knack to give young, upwardly mobile young guys the chance to come and prove themselves.
Go and check APC candidates with PDP's and you will see what I'm talking about.
If you are tripping for Tunde, them you will fall for Fuad Laguda.
BTW, Tunde is not related to the Folawiyo's

Arch1:
SIA also has his own flaws too. I personally will grade him 49/100, but he has tried a bit thus far. I hope he can do more when re-elected

In politics, you can't serve the people and serve the politicians, you have to choose one, most times politicians need is always at variance with what the people want.
SIA only offence is that he has elected to be on the side of the people and not the politicans.
Osoba cannot be controlling the NASS members and at the same time want to control the Executive.
Olumide Osoba has been in NASS for how many years without any contribution.
We will meet them at the polls in 2015, let them field Buruji, Daniel and Bankole all together, they will lose woefully.

Lagosians, #Vote wisely

Arch1:
wake up from your nightmare. Lagos and Ogun belong to APC. Because Chief Segun Osoba, Senator Sefiu Kaka, Deputy Governor Segun Adesegun etc defected from APC doesnt necessarily mean Amosun will lose the next election in Ogun.

Senator Ibikunle Amosun is a one man riot. He is loved and appreciated by the people of Ogun 'cos he has so far within the sapace of 3years done what the PDP administration Of Otunba Gbenga Daniels couldnt do in 8years.

Senator Ibikunle Amosun will win the Ogun Gubernatorial election next year clean and clear

The truth is that SIA has gained more than he lost

asha80:
dont think he mentioned anywhere specifically...he just said (although sounding sarcastic) that ' they already have a spot as a commisioner isn't it' and bukola said yes....it was in the tail end of the program.

#teamambo2015

asha80:
quit the lies jimi never said that lagos is all about festac to the igbos...he just said he picked the topic because of its nature which talked about deputy governor

You then didn't listen properly, did he mentioned Ikorodu and Epe or not?

Caseless:
how does not having an agbero tendency translate to being an easy goin?

Lmao.

aljharem:
Looool is the name ambode an ijebu name ?

The dude is ilaje and not from epe

You apc don start again with lies

Egbon, ma je ka disgrace e lori thread yi oo. Ko gbenu e soun.

Arch1:
Lekki, Baiyeku, Igbopa, Epe, Ikorodu, Egbin, Ita Elesin, Ewu Elepe, Ejinrin, Ipakodo, Ijebu Ketu, Ikosi Agbowa, Gberigbe, Itamaga, Ijede, Imota - all these places and are the Ijebu areas of Lagos state, Akinwunmi Ambode being an Ijebu man from Epe in Lagos would pull more votes in these places alone than what Jimi Agabje can gather in the whole of Lagos

I was listening to Jimi Disu Newspapers analysis this morning on Classic FM and this issue came up, he just laughed and advised them, very funny advise he gave the Ibos, he reminded them that Lagos is not just Festac and it axis

berem:
I am talking of the realities on ground and you're telling me about facebook page? Ambode is not like Buhari who is both popular online and offline. Since you say Igbo votes don't count,wait till Agbaje is picked as the PDP candidate.

Abeg make I eat my breakfast jare!

Go and sell your APGA candidates to the people in Ikorodu, Epe and Badagry

aryzgreat:
Lagos and ogun is going back to pdp, mark my word. Thief.nubu foisting of candidate is No longer acceptable to many.

Fingers crossed.

show me your voter's card.

Arch1:
Yes you are correct. Fuad Kayode Laguda, he wants to contest for the Lagos house of assembly represnting Surulere constituency 1 under the platform of APC

You are correct bro.
Fine young chap.

berem:
Ambode or whatever is his name is not popular. APC should better present a very popular person. People eyes don open now o!

Where did you conduct your opinion poll to come to such conclusion.
Go to his FB page and you will change your mind.
You said Igbos are anti-APC in Lagos, so he cannot be popular among you Ibo people.

Arch1:
Take it easy

These people barely understand the intricacy of Lagos Politics but comes here to write jargon about what they know next to nothing about.

Arch1:
Late Engr Funso Williams elderst son, Gbenga Williams Jnr is now with the APC

and one of his nephew, Laguda is coming to the HOA with APC.

berem:
may I know the reason why the whole of Amuwo Odofin and partly Ojo didn't get their PVC? Does it have to do with the Igbo population in the towns?
That is question for the gods to answer!

GO and ask INEC control by a PDP govt.

berem:
Of course, a yoruba man will become the next lagos governor whether he's in apc or pdp. I think what Igbos in Lagos want and desire is a yoruba governor who is not anti-igbo. I can tell you that right now in Lagos,Igbos see Fashola and APC lagos as anti-igbo. Fact!!

Let all Ibos work and vote for PDP then.
See you dirty mouth, speaking for all Igbos including the likes of Joe Igbokwe abi?
This girl talks nonsense always on NL.

barcanista:
Jimi will lose woefully. He had a brighter Chance in DPA. PDP internal wrangling and their unpopularity in Lagos will rub on Agbaje. beside, Agbaje won't be given the ticket... quote me after the primaries

and Jimi will still as usual crawl back to the Baba downtown in Bourdillon for forgiveness after being used and dumped by PDP.

berem:
Did you say votes of Igbos living in Lagos don't count? Ok na! Jimi Agbaje if presented as PDP flagbearer will shock you!

Outside Amuwo and Ojo, it does not.If it does, queue behind your APGA candidate and bring him to Alausa.