₦airaland Forum

WorldRichest:
Bitter truth ooooo. Ordinary cost of flight ticket to EU or US is not not less than 500K, yet they can afford it, but they don’t want to pay about 20% of it for travel documents

Over sabi people. So na only Japa them dey use passport japa abi?

Moroccoguy:
Na who get money dey japa, 200k is even small dey should make it 500k. You get 10m to relocate and you are complaining about the price of no 1 identity to travel.

Passport money is higher than minimum wage and you are defending it.
What a shame!
Do you know how much money people have to borrow before they can japa?!

Do you think people japa out of happiness?! They japa because of the useless leadership provided by APC since your party grabbed power without plan of how to use the power.

This particular government is a desaster. They said that they build Lagos. It is time to build Nigeria as they built Lagos, I don't know what is happening. May be the cement has finished?

And they all think APC and tinubu came to do good to Nigeria...
Make una wait till he is reelected in 2027 first....

When a good leader rules the people rejoice but when a bad leader rules the people suffer

kedeojo:
Lagos- calabar coastal road is not a fraud. If you have been to the section from VI which is just at the front of Eko Atlantic City, then you will know it was a brilliant idea. Travel times will so much reduced. It will relieve the pressure of the Lagos-ibadan- shagamu- ore - Benin roads. Work has already started at both calabar and Akwa ibom axis too. Nobody from south south condemned the road and the only issue raise by late Edwin Clark was for Tinubu to also start from the calabar section and he did and even added Akwa ibom section too. I just hope you are not from south east cos they are the mostly condemning it but they didn't condemned the ones which will connect their zone with north. There is no government who won't make money or even loot in the present day Nigeria, from president to even councilor if they had the chance. What nigerians need is to see it completed and nobody will be consign about the amount. No saint among the current politician. One of my neighbors from agbor is very close to obi and his wife. He his into small chops and he said obi used to frequently host parties. He was heartbroken when he lost cos he knew he would have been in Abuja with them. He was convincing people and calling Tinubu all manner of name just because of what he stand to gain personally . I told him recently that his only support for obi was because of what he want to gain not because he was a credible candidate. I ask him can he compare anambra development under obi and Soludo now. How was Awka and he didn't argue cos he knows better.

my friend, you are not from Anambra State so don't compare Obi and Soludo. Obi is far better than Soludo.

WorldRichest:
Yes, like the Agulu pickpocket who ran down Anambra state, making all his people to flee to come and slave in Lagos, yet the cotes and rigged for him to be Nigeria’s President, it will never happen

no problem now. I hope you are enjoying the government you voted for?

Tinubu wants to milk us dry seriously, things are really hard under tinubu

It's now clear that the head quarters of the demons plaguing Nigeria is concentrated in certain regions of the country. Every effort to rip off Nigerians via excessive taxation is defended by people from these regions.

It's only a lazy government that depends totally on taxation to run the government. Even the western countries that we copy have tax reliefs and cash backs for families. Tinubu is bereft of ideas to run Nigeria.

Nbote:
What has ADC being a deceptive party got to do with the statistics they provided on the cost of getting a passport As usual the reaction is to deflect and change goalposts instead of facing the issues at hand. What is the truth about getting a passport yhat only you seem to know?

Which statistics? But to pay for visa application is sweet?

Traveling tickets is not #10.
International passport is not for common men.

National Identity Card, is what is compulsory for everyone

Enice:
Oga stop writing rubbish! It's an executive order that doesn't require legislation

See the kind of rubbish you're saying online.

As far as the country is concerned, ALL expenditure must pass through legislation. The executive can't autonomously grant spending outside the budget.

This is supposed to be Govt for SS1 students.

Smartwave:
Which statistics? But to pay for visa application is sweet?

Traveling tickets is not #10.
International passport is not for common men.

National Identity Card, is what is compulsory for everyone

Mr. Man, a passport is a basic thing.

Moroccoguy:
Na who get money dey japa, 200k is even small dey should make it 500k. You get 10m to relocate and you are complaining about the price of no 1 identity to travel.

Typical zone b character

Dbegining:
Mr. Man, a passport is a basic thing.

Basic thing for??

How do you define the word basic, with respect to international passport?

Enice:
Utilisation of which fund? Does the interior ministry not have a budget? You guys like to see Nigeria as a zoo but we are not. Nigeria is a nation govern by laws. Things are done based on planning not someone just waking up and doing things overnight. The NASS has oversight functions on the ministry. If things were not done according to appropriation, someone would've been complaining. So, stop being faster than your shoes 👟

You also dont know that its not a project of the Interior Ministry but that of the Works Ministry. Furthermore you dont know that the budget of each Ministry must be pre approved by the NASS.

Ol boy your case is special.




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Most of former president, weytinz they come do?? Non of dem wey no stealed money, minus Yara dua

ZombieTAMER:
Nothing to sort out when the head is rotten and has a useless base support

Tinubu came to steal and destroy

he's doing a good job at that

kedeojo:
Lagos- calabar coastal road is not a fraud. If you have been to the section from VI which is just at the front of Eko Atlantic City, then you will know it was a brilliant idea. Travel times will so much reduced. It will relieve the pressure of the Lagos-ibadan- shagamu- ore - Benin roads. Work has already started at both calabar and Akwa ibom axis too. Nobody from south south condemned the road and the only issue raise by late Edwin Clark was for Tinubu to also start from the calabar section and he did and even added Akwa ibom section too. I just hope you are not from south east cos they are the mostly condemning it but they didn't condemned the ones which will connect their zone with north. There is no government who won't make money or even loot in the present day Nigeria, from president to even councilor if they had the chance. What nigerians need is to see it completed and nobody will be consign about the amount. No saint among the current politician. One of my neighbors from agbor is very close to obi and his wife. He his into small chops and he said obi used to frequently host parties. He was heartbroken when he lost cos he knew he would have been in Abuja with them. He was convincing people and calling Tinubu all manner of name just because of what he stand to gain personally . I told him recently that his only support for obi was because of what he want to gain not because he was a credible candidate. I ask him can he compare anambra development under obi and Soludo now. How was Awka and he didn't argue cos he knows better.

in as much as i agree with some of your point comparing obi and soludo is far from each other. How much is soludo recieving from federal allocation and internal revenue of which obi was among the pasted leaders of anambra they gave the state hope. Mind you i am not from anambra but i lived in anambra from Uba tenure down to obi... i know what anambra used to look like. I will only appluad FG cause for the first time i passed through the new 2nd niger bridge and i was pleased by what i saw. But truth be told soludo as an econnomics, a first class and a former central bank governor one would have expected anambra to be competing with lagos. Infact onisha market is not as commercial as it used to be back in the days. So pls if you have been to anambra during peter obi and now you will see a lot defference....obi did well compare to soludo who is seeing more money now as a governor

Moroccoguy:
Na who get money dey japa, 200k is even small dey should make it 500k. You get 10m to relocate and you are complaining about the price of no 1 identity to travel.

You realize it's not just because of travel. Some get this passport in order to register for opportunities online.

Renewed Hope Agenda indeed. It is my diagnosis that this administration has no direction.

Moroccoguy:
Na who get money dey japa, 200k is even small dey should make it 500k. You get 10m to relocate and you are complaining about the price of no 1 identity to travel.

Try dey make research nah. More than 60% of Nigerians with passport has no intention of travelling out. International passport is used for many things including banking services, employment requirements, contract job requirements etc

lexy2014:
Lagos-Calabar Highway Costs 7 times more per km than Pan-African Cairo-Cape town route.

1. Nigeria’s Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, a 700 km highway.

Budget: $11–13 billion

2. Cairo-Cape Town Highway, a 10,228 km Cairo-Cape Town Highway

Budget: $1.65 billion

what is the pressure on Lagos-ibadan- shagamu- ore - Benin roads that Lagos calabar road will reduce?

are there no roads within Lagos calabar corridor?

please what is the state of those roads right now?

what will the Lagos calabar road do that existing roads in that axis will not do?

Wow !

Going by these figures, that would mean the $11-$13 B budgeted for the Lagos-Calabar corridor should be enough to build at least 7 of those Cairo-Cape town roads or another interpretation would be that that budget should actually be able to build the same Lagos-Calabar road a whooping 102 times over. That is the extent to which the project has been inflated or overcharged or over-budgeted or over-valued. As has been observed time and time again, this is a nasty tradition of stealing by overcharging under the guise of providing service. smh. Where is the projects valuation units and independent audits reports. Can they focus on cutting cost and effectively doing thing more efficiently?


Meaning the Nigerian Government over-charged 102X for one road, and that is amount (the least amount) they intend to collect back from the road users (majorly their citizens) through the tolls which will be erected on it.



The other day that was how the budget for a few hundreds solar street lights amounted to an equivalent of about NGN 220 m per unit, and I am left wondering, will this be a "forever street light", facility management covered, insurance covered, 100% uptime guaranteed, replacement guaranteed


Nigerians when you wake, behold your morning!

DeepSight:
You also dont know that its not a project of the Interior Ministry but that of the Works Ministry. Furthermore you dont know that the budget of each Ministry must be pre approved by the NASS.

Ol boy your case is special.




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E bi like say you don high! 😂 International passport is under works ministry! Really? 🥺 Agbotikuyo don finish una

Enice:
E bi like say you don high! 😂 International passport is under works ministry! Really? 🥺 Agbotikuyo don finish una

Jesus I mixed up the topics.I was commenting on the coastal highway earlier. Thats why I was talking about appropriation and NASS.

This has also been your fault. Because this is the sequence of the discussion. Someone made a reference to the "coastal highway of fraud." Another person said its not fraud. And I said it was. I wrote -

DeepSight:
It is a fraud.

1. There was no legislative appropiation.

2. It did not go through procurement (Bureau of Public Procuremement).

3. There was no public RFP/ competitive tender.

4. It was awarded unilaterally to the president's dodgy crony who is an international convict in two countries.

5. The cost is inflated.

6. It is no where near a priority and yet was made a priority.

And you replied -

Enice:
Oga stop writing rubbish! It's an executive order that doesn't require legislation

I then said -

DeepSight:
So you are not aware that all utilization of funds requires appropriation under law by the legilature beforehand under the constitution? What ignorance. And you are talking about writing rubbish?

To which you said -

Enice:
Utilisation of which fund? Does the interior ministry not have a budget? You guys like to see Nigeria as a zoo but we are not. Nigeria is a nation govern by laws. Things are done based on planning not someone just waking up and doing things overnight. The NASS has oversight functions on the ministry. If things were not done according to appropriation, someone would've been complaining. So, stop being faster than your shoes 👟

At which point I thougt what he on about, we are discussing the coastal highway. Thats why I responded the way I did.

So thats the source of the confusion and you can see the role you played in it from you first reply. You ought to have seen I was discussing and replying to a comment on the coastal highway.

WorldRichest:
Bitter truth ooooo. Ordinary cost of flight ticket to EU or US is not not less than 500K, yet they can afford it, but they don’t want to pay about 20% of it for travel documents

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I don't understand the way you guys reason? Why can't the government give the masses a better minimum wage, why can't they provide security, why can't they provide constant light, why can't they make the environment conducive for job creation?
I fear man black man.

Moroccoguy:
Na who get money dey japa, 200k is even small dey should make it 500k. You get 10m to relocate and you are complaining about the price of no 1 identity to travel.

You can reason better than this na, getting a passport isn’t for only those who want to relocate.

DeepSight:
Jesus I mixed up the topics.I was commenting on the coastal highway earlier. Thats why I was talking about appropriation and NASS.

This has also been your fault. Because this is the sequence of the discussion. Someone made a reference to the "coastal highway of fraud." Another person said its not fraud. And I said it was. I wrote -



And you replied -



I then said -



To which you said -



At which point I thougt what he on about, we are discussing the coastal highway. Thats why I responded the way I did.

So thats the source of the confusion and you can see the role you played in it from you first reply. You ought to have seen I was discussing and replying to a comment on the coastal highway.

Ok sir! My bad

iwaeda:
https://x.com/ADCcoalition/status/1961885349849759811

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N100k?

Good. Go pay N100k collect passport make we see.

NB: Put extra for pocket to grease some palms.

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opalu:
I don't even share my opinions on Nairaland again. Too many sycophants and praise singers to any government in power

It is all a messy cycle my brother.. It is all about personal interest and messiah complex and not their love for Nigeria.. The same evil the Buharists were busy condemning GEJ for, the same evil supporters spent all their energy, time and money to defend it to the highest heavens when power changed hands..

All the guys who were busy defending all the evil doings of GEJ during his tenure suddenly had their eyes opened to see the inhumanity in those same actions when Buhari started toeing the same path.

Do not ever be shocked that the same Obidients condemning this inhumane act by Tinubu today would have been the sycophants of the day if Obi had even increased it to 200k if their man was the president.

Then suddenly the current sycophants defending this evil act would begin to see it for what it is if it was Peter Obi in power.

As long as it is about party, religious or ethnic affiliation and messianic complex for the average Nigerian, Nigeria will continue to remain that British failed project only waiting to be raped by the next predator while the mob fans of the predator are waiting to devour anyone trying to condemn the evil actions of their messiah.

I have been on Nairaland long enough to always witness this "entertainment" by both sides of the divide who won't hesitate to switch their bias immediately the tide of power changes in their favour.

CodeTemplarr:
The painful part is not the taxes and levies but what they are used for at the end. They are used to further enslave the masses.
They do that through shell companies that execute hyper-inflated mega projects to be repaid by the masses via tolling and further taxation. Projects that dont really serve the masses but are forced down their throats. Look at that Lagos-Calabar fraud.

They use it to rig election. Election is all about money now and they need money to throw around to buy votes and the electorate. They won’t spend their money to do that, they will collect it from the people

Moroccoguy:
Na who get money dey japa, 200k is even small dey should make it 500k. You get 10m to relocate and you are complaining about the price of no 1 identity to travel.

I tire ooo. ...no be who don chop bellafull dy japa? . ... tinubu even try if na me na 300k.... imagine u voted nonsense finish,wen things started getting red u wan con japa leave us... Na thunder go faya u