₦airaland Forum

Sammy07:
But Removing subsidy on Education, Fuel. Things will become unbearable.

Until we become fully an export country and our naira is really strong.

I think the subsidy should remain as it is.

Students can't be paying 300k for federal university un top this bad economy and few.jobs

Like it or not, Nigeria will remain a consumption country in those subsidies remain. Nobody can make Nigeria a production without increasing taxes, duties or removing subsidies and (or) collecting billions of dollars worth of loans. If those things are not done, any cut on unnecessary costs and spending is nothing but a waste of time.

And the sad truth is that many Obidients doesn't even know this fact.
Peter Obi will be able to do nothing if he doesn't take loans or increase taxes and duties (thereby causing prices of things to rise and increasing our debts portfolio).
If he likes, let him budget only one car for his convoy and one meal a day as a president and wear only one shoe and watch for his complete 8 years in power, he will be able to do nada as a President if subsidies remains.
ASUU will keep going on strike and our refineries will never be able to function.

Sha I'm glad that Buhari is just waiting for Dangote's Refinery to be completed before he completely remove fuel subsidy next year. Those that wants to die should die and the country will move on after them.

If paradventure, Peter Obi becomes President he should reduce fuel back to N65 naira and watch Dangote refinery becomes moribund just like our 3 NNPC refineries.

As for ASUU strike, Students should pick between no strike again and a conducive learning environment but paying as high as 100k for federal universities or pay 10k school fees and ASUU striking 6 months, twice a year and students lapping each other in their lecture theatres.

Qtrpst4:
Oga you give to people you are better than and not those better than you. Of all those that gave to Nigeria, howany of them have inflation and financial crisis like we do, how many of them have their schools in strike because of money
Try dey get sense, you must not defend nonsense

Nigeria is a thousand times better than Niger. N1.4 billion is chicken change for Nigeria.

Qtrpst4:
Biodun556 but the federal government giving 1.4bn to Niger is nothing right, where did they see money for that? Can't they also go that place to get money for ASUU? If not that they don't take us for granted, how can buhari be that insensitive and to know that people like you support that is the most foolish of it all

N1.4 billion cannot build a standard faculty in any Nigerian university.
N1.4 billion is Chicken change for Nigeria.
Try and move on.

Two weeks ago, the Senate passed the Electricity Bill 2022 to allow states and individuals to generate and distribute electricity.
If in 10 years time private investors rally around Lagos to build 10 power stations some idiots will cry "na only Lagos dey?" instead of them to ask their useless Governors why they are not attracting investors to their States.

Corto:
You're not happy for anything you are a carrion-eater, the lowest of the low

I need no Sunday wishes from agents of darkness like you whose consciences are dead, so shove your 'happy sunday' up your arsê.

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mycar:
If you, yourself is not a liar, you would know that that investment was worth that amount at the time he made that statement, if you are not a liar , you would have known that the document containing the amount he left is opened to the public for verification and it's online and the figure there is correct according to Obiano who only disagreed based on payable debt which of course was for the contracts yet to be completed.
If you had been in the class in your secondary school days, you'd known that there is never an accurate figure in statistics, hence we have average, media, mode and some times moving average.

Something someone does not know is bigger than one, we have lots of statistical illitrates in this country, you need to know where you belong.
Your type will say that 10 divide by zero is 0 or zero divide by 10 is 10.
And yes, Obi will be your president come February next year, deal with it

No difference between you and Obi. Lying with reckless abandon.
Just read the rubbish you wrote.
Even if there's no accurate figure in stats, 35 billion is a far cry from 75 billion even with rounding off and approximation.

Peter Obi lied to the Anambrans that he left 75 billion plus no debt for his successor and Anambras began to expect too much for Obiano that he had to clear the air on the real amount that was left and the debts he inherited.

You and Obi are nothing not liars

wirinet:
Lagos State Government under the military could no go on an aggressive revenue generation drive.


IGRs are generated by states through Pay-As-You-Earn Tax (PAYE), Direct Assessment, Road Taxes and revenues from Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA)s. Its a function of population and the amount of commercial activities taking place in the state. Lagos state was already the commercial capital of Nigeria with huge revenue generating potential before Tinubu came in. Tinubu was not the one that built the infrastructures that made Lagos a commercial hob.

You ended up saying nothing.
Lagos as the commercial capital was generating a meagre sum of N600 million monthly before Tinubu and before he left Lagos was generating to 45-50 billion monthly. Whether it was through PAYE, Direct Assessment, Road Taxes and revenues from Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA)s etc is another story entirely. What we know is that he was able to increase the IGR by a large scale.

If I was to choose between a manager that did that for my company or a manager that saves while my bankers and cleaners went on strike for 13 whooping months, I will definitely choose the former.

wirinet:
We are not talking about track record yet, although that track record can be disputed. If we are to compare the track records of all previous governors/ military administrators of lagos state, we would find that Tinubu's 8 year tenure was not extra ordinary. Lagos has been the commercial nerve Centre of Nigeria for decades, it doesn't take much to "perform".

Anyway, we are talking about religious sentiments. A Muslim Muslim ticket is insensitive to the political sentiments of most Christians, particularly at this times, where Buhari had polarized the ethnic and religious atmosphere.

Does it not stink of hypocrisy when ethnic sentiment was employed to choose the APC flag bearer (Yoruba lokan), but you want Christians to employ competency when it comes to religion.
We might as well employ competency to choose a Fulani Fulani ticket or a Yoruba Yoruba ticket.

If a bank manager increases the revenue of first bank from 1 billion to 10 billion, will you disregard his ingenuity and say he only did that because first bank was already rich and had high revenue generation before him?
Perhaps you would say first Bank is an old Bank that has been existing since 1875 and any one would be able to do what he did.

Massiveglory:
They have told you point blank. It is now in your court to determine what you desire.

If you desire Somalia in Nigeria then vote Apc. If you desire Buhari promax, vote Tinubu.

If you desire a radical change of our nation from consumption to production, vote Peter obi- Ahmed datti of Labour Party.
If you desire a people oriented government that can be held accountable, vote Labour Party.

By the time you compare their track record on who have the tendency to transform Nigeria positively, you will know that Peter Obi shouldn't even tie Tinubu's shoe lace

Mrkindness:
Kai no peace for Tinubu urchins.

Imagine digging out 2018 old news just to attack Obi and one useless mod pushed it to from page.

Is Tinubu drug involvement not also in the past even before many of you Obidients were born?

mycar:
You people can now see the real state of our country.
He said 2million vehicle in Nigerian road and someone is arguing that we have up to 11.5m cars in Nigeria without understanding a simple english, He said on the road and you are counting the ones in the dealer shop and rickety and faulty ones in the mechanic workshops.
The problem with illitrates is that they don't know the difference between estimate and precise.

That is how he estimated that his investment is almost $100 million. Same way he estimated that he left almost N75 billion for Obiano.
And that's the same way he will say (if he wins) that he only estimated Egypt power generation level when he went there to study.

Peter Obi is a liar. Deal with it.

Imagine this doctor was in Anambra when doctors did their one year strike. His dream for don die tay tay

Corto:
We will see where filthy scavengers like yourself think they can hide, when it all comes tumbling down...continue to betray your unborn generations in exchange for stale crumbs, you e-rat

All because I'm happy for something good in Lagos State you're dishing me all these insults?

Happy Sunday bro.

wirinet:
Tinubu can win next year, afterall elections in Nigeria is won by the better rigger and not on free and fair elections. That still does not mean majority of Christians will support his Muslim/Muslim government.

I am a Christian and Tinubu is my most preferred candidate. I have lots of Christian friends who support Tinubu.

From all four major contestants, Tinubu has the highest track record of all and I believe he can replicate his ingenuity in all of Nigeria.

You blame the Nigerian Government for not giving you a better life then you go to a country whose Government give good lives to their citizens and blame Nigerians for not helping you.

They will say everyone supporting Tinubu is paid. And when campaign starts and you see millions of supporter supporting Tinubu they will either wail or insult people of liking suffering.
When Tinubu wins next year, they will wail more.

aribisala0:
Lagos state is 3577 square kilometres
Singapore , a country is about 770 square kilometres with about 6 million people
Singapore has the 2nd largest port in the whole doing several times the tonnage that Lagos does SEVERAL TIMES

The issue of congestion in Lagos is a non issue. The reality is that the ports in Lagos are inefficient. We cannot expect the Nigerian government to run an efficient port .That is better done by the private sector.

e.g. Ports in Lagos carry out operations that could happen elsewhere. like customs checks on containers.
A dry port in Ibadan Benin or Abuja linked to the ports by rail can be used to process containers not intended for use in Lagos and Customs checks can happen there. We should not be removing containers from Lagos on the back of lorries that is very inefficient
This is a video from Nigeria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-38cADzMXk
and another from UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZCCrBjhohU
Once rail evacuation is in place you won't even know there is a port there.
Felixstowe in UK which we see has a population of under 50000 people and does many times more than what Lagos is doing in tonnage
Because of what they will eat the Customs and NPA cause all kinds of delays. The Customs work can be moved to a dry inland dock and completely out of Lagos State

The problem with Nigeria is us comparing Nigeria with nations that have been developing for over 100 and even thousands of years ago. UK, US, Germany, China Egypt etc are nations that were in existence even before our first engineer, technicians, accountants, doctors etc were born.
Nigeria is a nation that is just one generation away from illiteracy. 95% of all our grandparents were all illiterates. So how do we compare ourselves to nations that have started Nation building generations ago and some of which colonized us and stunted our growth.
Nigeria development is slow quite all right mostly due to our foolish and corrupt leaders but it would still take us a lot of decades to catch up with those countries no matter who lead Nigeria unless another World war or something castastrophic happens to those other countries.

One thing I'm quite sure of is that the next half a century will bring something good for Nigeria and Africa

aribisala0:
Half knowledge is worse than no knowledge
You don't know. You don't know that you don't know. You think you know and you have no one to tell you that you don't know

What is the relevance of "exclusive list" to the conversation here. What is your point in mentioning EXCLUSIVE LIST

Do you even know what exclusive list is all about? No doubt you think you do but you are clueless.
If you are silent no one will know how foolish you are

The average Obidient doesn't know how economies work

tnerro1:
Please Edo state also needs a port , we just need to dredge ikpoba river. Decentralize Lagos abeg . Some people (not abokiis) can relocate to Edo self if ships start berthing in Edo

If Obaseki can convince investors to dig the seaport in Edo State then FG will grant him the license to do so.

But the only problem there be say, "Edo nor be Lagos."

Omodua:
Good news. But development of the country should be evenly spread.

Lagos state has Apapa Port and Tincan Island Ports. Major patrons of these Ports are people of South East extraction. They are the major importers.

Sadly, no single Port in the southeast stretch. They freight their goods from Lagos Ports and onward bound southeast. This is not fair.

Yet,another Port is to be added to existing Ports at Badagry,less than 60 kilometers from Lagos. Where is the fairness and justice.

This skewed development is what's giving rise to separatist agitations in the country. FG could do better by spreading development to all regions of the country Not only Lagos.

Restructuring of the country is key to development and national cohesion.

Eastern leaders should wake up to these injustices!

If Borno State can find investors to dig a seaport in their desert then FG will grant them the approval to do so.

Lagos State Government have found investors to build them Badagry seaport and FG have given them the go ahead to start. Let the Eastern Government find investors and FG refuse to grant permission then you can cry injustice and be right.

initstime:
A whole concession period of 45 YEARS. Mortgaged the future of our children. who is the concessionaire? Loan in a different attire.

Why not do a research on Egypt on how they are financing those infrastructures PO went to study last month?

Las las, it is people that know how economy works (who are mostly not team Obidients now) that will defend Peter Obi from his Obidients if he wins next year and people don't see the needed change they expected from him.

Corto:
They keep approving projects that they do not have the funds to execute, all they are interested in is the kickbacks

Next thing you will hear that the contractor has sued the federal government and they will hurriedly pay compensation.

I wonder who cursed the Black man like this

Lekki deep seaport is almost delivered and here you are barking.

Diligent1:
Wow, this is good but the tarrif should not be too high so that the importers can bring in more goods that will benefit the masses and also affordable for people.
The foreigners import from Cotonou because their tarrif is not high.

Too much importation (especially of consumer goods) doesn't help a country. China isn't where they are today because of importation.

You should be more of an advocate for exportation and not importation.

gtrust:
How did you leave for Soludo?
You remembered to pay contractors sef?
You did not pay pensions
Same as salaries
Worse sef you accumulate debts on top Soludo head
Nonsense and ingredients

He left next to nothing with a lot of debts. But he still built a lot more infrastructures than Peter Obi and doctors didn't go on a 13 months strike during his tenure.

mii4u:
Is it not this same Obiano dat told taraba state governor that he built the airport with the money that Peter Obi left behind?

Peter Obi left 35 billion. And left unpaid cheque and debts that 70% of the 35 billion would pay from.

70% of 35 billion is 24.5 billion.

What's left after paying the 24.5 billion debt left by Obi is 10.5 billion.

Obiano used part of that 10 billion (together with what his own administration generated+his state FAAC allocation+loans) for the airport.

Try to dey think dey go far sometimes.

Let's just hope Davido haven't sold another racksterlli to the Osun people

Firstly, it's not the US Government that built that laundry for the people but private individuals.
Secondly, the Nigerian Government will not stop a single person for building such a laundry here in Nigeria.
Thirdly, if you have the money to offer such service to Nigerians and you feel that they'll be able to afford it enough for you to make profits, no one is stopping you.

Anndrew:
Alaye,enough of this propaganda..since 1999,you guys have be attributing every success to tinubu...Tinubu own lagos,tinubu that,that...all just to market him for 2023 election...you guys are the real enemies of Nigeria..there is nothing like lagos indigenous..Oyo,Ogun,Osun,Ondo and Ekiti are the core yoruba State in Nigeria..B4 u claim am a lagosians,first list ur State b4 u talk of Lagos..Nobody is claiming lagos is my own...even the irajibi man u are prasing is an indigenous of Osun State.. Nigeria is a divisive democracy...if I want to travel or clear my goods,I will have to go to lagos..why it is so,..all headquarter of multi organisation are base in lagos.....tell me why lagos won't be over crowded..90percents of Nigerians directly or indirectly deal with lagos..if I ask,why it so,u say hold ur State government accountable,4goten it is the decision of the federal government to decentralise lagos....Nigeria is failled Nations..Nairaland is tribal bigot forum,so I don't expect anything good from you...

since 1999 till now, you guys have been saying Tinubu is the grand patron of Agberos in Lagos even though he left office since 2007.
If you say Tinubu is the cause of agberosim and other bad things happening in Lagos even when he's no more Governor, then you should balance it by admitting he's the cause of all good things in Lagos too.

gloryman91:
Useless man, always import finished products not exporting finished products from Nigeria.
Yeyeson Man.

Which people are the self acclaimed importers in Nigeria?

I'm still expecting them to say, "how will this help the common man?"

Tinubu; the Governor who changed the sea to land and the land to free trade zones.

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