₦airaland Forum

dasparrow:
Are you not an African man?! So why are you here sounding like you are European? What's with the inferiority complex many of you display here?

Inferior complex towards who?

Why all the pleas for "unity"?
Why can't you guys(Africans) stand on your own?
Begging everyone to love you, yet most of you are filled with hate towards certain ethnic groups in your country or continent.

bluemansion:
Only love and oneness will bring total healing to the world.

Who dey do oneness with una?

I wonder why you Africans can't be on your own!

Nobody wants you, respect that.

chukzbozz86:
Imagine if Nigeria were to be white country or in a cold region people will be dying in thousands

Sometimes you will see reasons for Thanking God you are a black man

I always see reason to thank God for being Ijaw, black and African.

As for Nigeria, it is not a natural concept and Nigerians failed to make it work for all the ethnic nations forced to be together.

sapele914:
No light in Delta State, Bayelsa, the whole South South, Jonathan said he privatized electricity in 2013, I should blame Kyari?

Jonathan was there for close to 5 years, Buhari has been there for close to 5 years too!

According to you, in 2013, about 3 years after being in office Jonathan 'privatised ' power. What has Buhari done in almost 5 years?

People like you who lack the ability to reason are Nigeria's primary problem.

In the last 5 years what has Buhari done to improve power generation? At least in the 5 years Jonathan was in charge power generation increased.

garfield1:
It has changed sir

When? How? Where?

Basher8583:
Good for you man. Your problem not mine.

So you think it is your Tinubu that should be mine? Abeg make pesin hear word!

Izigha:
I hope it does not get to that. But what is the contingency plan in any that the government will embark on if petrol dollars stop.

I pray it gets to that!
It MUST happen by God's grace.
Injustice in Nigeria is just too much.

garfield1:
Oil and gas revenue cannot be over 500 billion when derivation ,of 13% is 38billion.it means total profit from oil and gas is between 320billion to 360 billion approximately.under buhari,profit from non oil sources is over 50,%

No, the criminal, illegal Nigerian state shares revenue as they wish. Official figure says oil accounts for over 70 percent of revenue but direct and indirect oil revenue is well over 90 percent of Nigeria's revenue.

SocialJustice:
Who told you the entire N500b is from oil and gas, and how did you arrive at N32b? Delta state alone receives around N20b monthly.

You want fiscal federalism but that is currently impossible as politicians who promise to get it done never do.

I even make it conservative, oil and gas revenue is more than 500 billion out 700 billion.

I wonder what you interest is in distorting facts.

The Niger Delta does NOT in any way get much. This propaganda on behalf of the powers that be is unnecessary.

SocialJustice:
The Niger Delta gets their allocation which is high compared to non oil producing states, they also receive 13% derivation, ministry of Niger delta and NDDC. I still do not agree it is fair but bearing the current circumstances of unitary government we practise, the government has tried.

This is a newspaper report not a direct FG report and what will the FG gain by trying to cause trouble for itself? Please be reasonable.

On the contrary you should!

The Niger Delta 's allocation is not in anyway high!

Getting 32 billion out of over 500 billion from your resources is NOTHING!

When people don't read they can be misled by a fraud like Buhari, those who were informed never let him deceive them in 2015 or 2019.

SocialJustice:
Sensational journalism, NEDC annual budget is not up to N40b.

Even if it is less than 40 billion it is more than what they alloted to the oil producing states as 13 percent derivation.

If there is no deliberate attempt by the government to mislead why join the North east development commission budget to that of other government agencies?

Basher8583:
True leadership is not audio. It through physical results.

You don't need to tell me about Peter obi. I should be able to physically confirm his legacy. People will talk about him like a Northener like me is talking about a Yoruba man like Tinubu. Got that?

...and a non-Igbo like me is talking about Peter Obi?!?

Got that?

Basher8583:
Same here. Im from the North and not yoruba but I admire them alot most especially Tinubu. A true leader who nuture other to carry the legacy of true leadership. We have seen those Tinubu has produced eg Fashola, Sanwo-Olu, Senator Gbajabiamila etc.
Since you like him so much.... Please who has Peter Obi nutured?

Cronyism does not make anyone a true leader! Tinubu and his cronies are not true leaders.

Peter Obi has never promoted this concept of buying people's conscience with either his private or public funds. The same cannot be said about Tinubu. We all saw the bullion van

richard69:
Hope Kano didn't get a dime? Hisbah be going about destroying beer bottles & content.

This was Atiku Abubakar 's idea but channels being the biased outfit that they are is making it look like Tinubu is behind it.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/WhatsApp-Video-2020-04-21-at-16.35.21.mp4


Sadly I don't see the inept Nigerian government acting. Their primary motivation is Chinese loans, they love the Chinese loans. It enables them sell the future of yet to be born children NOW and pass on the proceeds of their criminal enterprise to their kids in a few years to come.

Jamesbiodun:
my brother I don't know ooo, it's left to our medical expert ooo, but trust our government if it's faulty they won't tell us anything

Pathetic and scary situation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ-up6BhWJA

I wonder how this government will be able to ascertain the quality of what they got from China, scary stuff!

Basher8583:
All these your talk does not explain why your people the Igbos have abandon the east too become slaves in Lagos. If your Lord and saviour Peter Obi has done well should we not see less migration. Instead it's the opposite. Lol

To start with, I am not Igbo! Peter Obi has done well, that is a fact. I wish my home state had such a governor.

larride:
Sectors like?

Finance, real estate, imports

larride:
But I thought the higher % of Lagos IGR is from VAT and PAYE? Correct me if I’m wrong pls.

The port are still open, as long as Lagos can keep manufacturing and the service industry active, they are going to fare better than all the other states.

You think of it, Nigeria has a very poor productive base. Since that is the case, where would all the PAYE and VAT come from except the oil sector or sectors that are largely dependent on it?

Basher8583:
If Peter Obi was better that Tinubu, then why are your people trooping in droves to Tinubus zone (Lagos) for food to eat. What has Peter Obi done for you guys in your region....lol that China man.

To start with, who are my people?
To start with, Peter Obi's records are there to show his source of income. He built businesses prior to becoming governor. Those businesses still exist.

On Tinubu we don't have any prove of any legitimate business he was involved in prior to his becoming governor.

Who Peter Obi is, where he comes form, where he studied are not issues of debate, they are out in public space.

To start with, Lagos used to be Nigeria's capital between 1960 and 1991. That a lot of Igbo people are in Lagos has nothing to do with Peter Obi's performance.

Tinubu left over 200 billion Naira debt with barely anything yo show it. Coupled with that, his company takes a cut of tax Naira paid to the government of Lagos.

Peter Obi left Anambra state with dividends yielding investments and over 11 billion Naira in cash. Human capital development index improved under him. Through his investments students from schools in Anambra have able to do well in highly competitive global competitions.

Taking a swipe at Peter Obi, Anambra state or Igbo people in a bid to whitewash Tinubu is just detrimental to you as a Lagosian because you are not getting the value he gave his people from your governors.

larride:
Wrong. Lagos is not VERY DEPENDENT on oil money.

Let’s take last year breakdown for example, from Jan to Dec last year, Federal allocation to Lagos is 152.4bn while Lagos generate 205.6bn in SIX MONTH ( Jan 1 - June 30).

Much of the so called non oil allocation is still connected to the oil sector.
Banking, real estate, imports etc

Ibime:
Quite a sobering read. Naija done enter am


#COVID19Thoughts: TSUNAMI LOADING ...

If you are a state governor in Nigeria and you are not already working round the clock, night and day, you are playing with fire. Red-hot, napalm FIRE!

Here is your reality. Bonny Light (Nigeria’s crude oil) is trading at about $11. This is half the cost of producing the barrel. Even at that price, Nigeria is not able to sell her crude oil. She has tens of millions of barrels of crude oil in scores of vessels cruising the seas, like a gala seller in Lagos traffic, looking for customers. No is calling; no one is buying. Nigeria is offering a $5 discount per barrel but who will buy when U.S. shale oil is selling for $2 (and no one is buying that either). Nigeria has other bigger challenges because it does not have onshore crude oil storage so she has to put her oil on vessels. In the last week, the cost of renting the vessels doubled to $350,000 per day. Do you see the picture?

Clearly, this has to be the lowest the oil price can fall, right? Wrong! Over the weekend, Canadian oil hit -$3. Not $0; minus $3. They, too, are not selling. Why? China - the factory of the world - is running at a fraction of its capacity. The airlines are shutdown. Farms and factories are shut down. Many analysts are saying that the world may not get back on its feet for a few more months. In reality, we may be stuck in this new world until a vaccine is found for the novel Coronavirus and a major percentage of the global population vaccinated. Unknot your tie, we may be in this new world for a while.

Mr. State Governor, why should you care? The world as you know it has changed and nothing has prepared you for what you and the residents in your state are about to experience. All state governments except Lagos depend on allocations from the sale of Nigeria’s crude oil for most of their revenue. The Federal Government allocations to the states started dropping off a few months ago. It will get worse.

About a month ago, I had a chat with one of the State Commissioners for Budget and Economic Planning. At that time, he was already petrified by what he was seeing. The cheque from the federal government was getting lighter. Sadly, he couldn’t get his principal and colleagues to understand that what they saw moving in the distance were not clouds but a Tsunami that is gathering speed. Many of the state governors still can’t see it.

Mr. State Governor, the catastrophe is close at hand but you still have some time to lay the sandbags. This is the time to get into emergency mode and plan for the worst. What will you do when it becomes obvious to you, in a few weeks, that you can’t pay salaries and provide the basic minimum public services required in your state? What are the economic choices you have to make today? What things do you have to cut off today to be able to tide over tomorrow?

What will you do when hordes of criminals take to the street, looting and killing people, in search of something to eat? What if there are multiple demonstration by different groups of people in different parts of your state? What are your options?

Who are the people who would help you maintain public order? I am sure you are not banking on the Nigerian Police Force. They won’t have enough bullets to kill the number of people who would be on the streets. It can’t be the vigilante groups. They may be the ones doing the looting and killing. Basically, how are you going to balance this elephant on the top of a needle?

Set up your “war-room” now. Pull in your best thinkers. Borrow from other states and outside Nigeria if you must.

Reach out to everyone who has a voice in your state. Your best solution may be to convince the people instead of through coercion. Decide who is in the best position to convince the different groups of people.

This is no time to be partisan. Turn this problem into a shared one. Don’t let anyone brand it your problem.

Plug the leakages in your system starting with the “security votes”. Call on the illustrious sons and daughters of the state and convince them to join you in planning for and in funding palliatives for the poor and vulnerable.

This is the time to plan and act. Act as if you are convinced that the dam will break. It is more than likely that it would. If it doesn’t, you are still ahead. If it does, you will be ready. Don’t be caught napping. It won’t be pretty.

Even Lagos is VERY DEPENDENT on oil money. No government ( Federal, State or Local) in Nigeria can do without oil money at this point in time.

sulaak:
You just confirmed my position, GEJ wasted the increase in oil price and reserves on wasteful consumption and subsidies.

In 2012 he had the chance to cut subsidies but backed out against the advice of his senior ministers. What kind of government increase workers salaries in 2013 and then starts borrowing to pay workers salaries in 2015.

Even you can't deny that GEJ government has no logic, only 5% of Nigerian work for the government so increasing their salaries doesn't even make political sense.

By 2015 ...

So why did the likes of Buhari, Tinubu, Fashola do "occupy Lagos"?
Wasn't it all in a bid to prevent subsidy removal?
Jonathan tried to remove subsidy in less than 1 year after he was elected. That tells you how serious he was about putting the right policies in place.
Workers salary was not increased in 2013, it was increased in 2011.

sulaak:
I wouldn't insult you and I am not ignorant.

You are correct that both Fashola and Amaechi bullied GEJ to access the $32 billion excess crude oil funds and wasted the funds on state consumption and corruption. The five power plants were all bought and paid for by OBJ government, between 2006 and 2007 and delivered by GEJ

But GEJ government still had access to high oil prices plus $68 billion in reserves and less than $5 billion external debts.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/262858/change-in-opec-crude-oil-prices-since-1960/

You clearly ignored the production output aspect!

Your claims on the power plants isn't true, there were several power plants he increased capacity from the previously planned output. According to what we were told under late Yar'Adua, $16billion allotted for power by Obasanjo disappeared without anything to show for it.

Under Jonathan there was salary increment for the civil service, subsidy payments increased significantly in the government's bid to avoid product scarcity, the CBN had bail out banks.

Blaming Jonathan for not "saving " is wrong!
He did all within his constitutional powers to make that possible but Nigerians and their governors refused.

Russia built up her massive reserves only after 2016.
The problem in Nigeria is that we are not one, if Jonathan was a Fulani man he would have probably gotten the political support he deserved to change things.

Mace0lane:
This is coming from a dolt that claimed because Obama did not sell weapon to Nigeria Dasuki as right to do giveaways with the money, confession n not claims abound how politicians got alert to this effect, with Orishajafor flying Nigeria money in his private jet across different countries n because they have not be convicted they are Saint but a Tinubu that was tried not just once but thrice and was found not guilt should be jailed.

Mr Fool btw Tinubu n Dasuki it is only Tinubu's case the court as throw out for lack of merit and he was acquitted. Dead brains like you I understand can not comprehend that but it means Tinubu is not a criminal but Dasuki is still in court and can be convicted at any time depending his acquittal.

The cry of a fool, imagine this lunatic accusing me of ethnic extremism, who doesn't know your tribe is filled with the biggest bigots that shield criminals like Ikpeazu ugwaua Orji Kalu Theodore Orji Umahi Ekeweremadu Abaribe Peter Obi and many other criminals that have deprived your cities of the development it desperately needs but irredeemable bigotry n chronic hate won't let you hold them account instead you will be wailing over Buhari n holding Tinubu that held no position to Ransome over the shithole the bastards you vote as governors as condemned your state.

To start with, it is obvious you have comprehension problem!

Dasuki has not been found wanting up till date.

That people got alerts does not in any way prove any wrongdoing, that is left for the courts to prove.

To show how hypocritical you are, you want to condemn Dasuki but you are quick to absolve Tinubu of any wrongdoing.

You call honourable men like Peter Obi a thief, a man that is better than all the governors Lagos has had in the last 20 years put together.

It wonder what grouse some of you Yoruba ethnic extremists have with the Igbo nation.

Once somebody tells you the truth you tag the person Igbo and insult ALL Igbo.

If any former or present governor should be called a bastard, Tinubu will be one of the foremost bastards.

I wouldn't descend to your gutter level of insults. It just shows how shallow you are. I am not surprised, just like Buhari, most of you who support him did that out of your acute lack of the required intellect to reason rationally and independently.

sulaak:
Is Angola or Eq Guinea any better than Nigeria today, they are both majority Christian countries with an oil rental economy and both fantastically corrupt and backward like Nigeria.

Remove the Fulani's and Hausa from Nigeria and Nigeria will still remain poor and backward as long as it operates an oil rental economic, the rental economy is the reason why we have many useless states and government departments.

Why didn't OBJ sort out the energy issues in his eight years in government, I will cut OBJ some slack as he left close to £100 billion in reserve and low external debts.

GEJ was an Ijaw, he had an Ijaw as minister of petroleum resources and an Igbo finance minister, how many power plants did they build despite $62 billion in reserve , oil price at $100.00 p/b and $36 billion in reserve. $15 billion would add 15GW to Nigeria electric grid.

You are either ignorant or deliberately trying to be mischievous! In the history of Nigeria no one has built as many power plants as Jonathan did in 5 years.

Oil legislation is passed by parliament and not the president or petroleum minister. That is the area the Fulani and their lookalike core Northern brethren come to fore. Diezani tried all she could to make them see the benefit of passing the PIB, all to no avail because of Fulani short sightedness.

You fail to also add the fact that oil output was down by a 3rd when GEJ took over. Politicians like Amaechi, Oshimole and Fashola sued Jonathan to court for his attempts to create financial buffers.

If the core North wasn't part of Nigeria, Nigeria would have been, at the very least, a middle income country like Ghana or Kenya.

Why is thinking a challenge in this Buhari government?

They can bring in 5 times that figure if they choose to.
Hotels or dormitories can be used as isolation centres till the two weeks elapses. Delaying the evacuation process may only lengthen the lockdown period or lead to a quick relapse of the viral spread in the country.

Mace0lane:
No corruption case as been proven with Dasuki n
Metuh rotting away in jail and foolish souls like you will claim Tinubu is corrupt ?! Nigeria indeed do not deserve the foolishness you are exhibiting right now, people like you need to be beaten to death until you can stop lying.

Has Dasuki been indicted by any court? Just like Dasuki, Tinubu has also been charged to court, in both cases we've not gotten any judgement. Well, if anyone is being dishonest it is you.

I can not die, if you think death is good it is you that will die. Nigeria has been punished with ethnic extremists like you who would love to shield the likes of Tinubu.

Mace0lane:
If PDP or Jonathan were still ruling this country the money for this would have been looted.

As usual, being a country were most of her citizens barely read, propaganda rules the wavelength! How would money meant for planes be looted when in the first place Obama refused to sell planes and even went as far as discouraging other countries from selling?

All in his bid to please his homosexual political constituency.

It is 5 years now, till date no corruption allegation has been proven but being the society that Nigeria is, any trash can pass for truth!

As the imam of peace said; " Nigeria deserves her stupid leaders because stupid people voted for them".