₦airaland Forum

ComeToJesus:
Only the PUNCH says it as it is.

Other news outlets only dance to the discordant drumbeats of Emilokan.

Reforms without a clear direction, and human face is incompetence and mediocrity passed off as strategy.

You don't need no prophet to tell you that this administration is groping in a dark room looking for the door. They have no concrete blueprint nor direction.

Rightly said!

Lifestone:
i have a simple question. What will you do differently? If the current economic reforms are not sustained for the next 10years, we are doomed again as Yaradua threw away all the gains we made under Obasanjo
Next phase is to fix infrastructures, put more funds into healthcare and Education. Sustainable housing financing should be emplace so you dont have to hall 100% cash before you build your house. emplace a good credit system

Dont be deceived, or if you’ve already been deceived, stop deceiving others.

No reforms anywhere.

They are deeping you and your generation further into perpetual poverty, and you are here calling it reform.

Fujiyama:
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Reform without public sector reform is no reform at all.

Without fixing Nigeria's public sector and her ailing, dying institutions - this so called reform is no different from pouring water into a basket. At the end of BAT'S term in office we will hear nothing but the usual excuses for failure - just like other administrations before his.

True leadership requires sacrifice and the force of personal example. These qualities are in very short supply in this administration and thus, failure is inevitable.

The administration continues to waste money on large overheads while preaching to the rest of us about the 'courage' it took to remove fuel subsidy and 'unify' exchange rates. The same administration has violated the constitution by refusing to publish budget implementation reports since last year. What does that tell you?

Nigerians are already complaining that he has done too much at a go. With removal of subsidy and deregulation of the exchange and FIRS/Revenue reforms, its already bitting very hard. If he proceeds with public sector reforms and aggressive costs cutting, it will be too much to go at once.
I believe once these parameters stabilizes as it appears to be, he can then embark on reducing cost of governance and improve on efficiency and productivity of the public service.
His own and other political office holders costs of governance should reduce.
The elephant in the room is the political reforms, make INEC to be truly independent in appointment and funding and probably a return to regional system, scrapping of State government and more visibility and funding for the LG. In the alternative, significantly reduce items on the exclusive list.
We've got a long way to go, I think PBAT has started and these gains must never be reversed the same way Yaradua reversed most of OBJ open market policies.

tpain121:
Dont be deceived, or if you’ve already been deceived, stop deceiving others.

No reforms anywhere.

They are deeping you and your generation further into perpetual poverty, and you are here calling it reform.

Only an ineptitude individuals will not agree with current reforms. The only tjing you can ask for now is for more of them, but my take is that chewing too much at a go will inflict much damage to Nigerians.
I'm not a Fan of PBAT, but on these reforms I'm with him 100%. We must see it through this time around

Bahamas95:
I always tell people who care to listen that the masses are the major problem of Nigeria. Just watch, another election year will soon come and you'll still see some mu-mu voters selling their votes......The money wey you collect the last time nai still dey sustain you till now?

They always tell us to be patient but what these mu-mu voters don't know is that the families of these politicians ain't feeling the hardship.

Oga calm down who told you Americans too are saying good things ant triumph or who told you all Americans have a home to live and bouyant financially than me that earn close to 500k per month 🤔

So why the hatred talk always about Nigeria...

Elusive001:
When they tell you that allocations to states has increased in this bad regime, tell them that when Tinubu took office in May 2023, it was about N460.72 to $1. Today, it stands at around N1,500 to $1.

This means that revenues gotten in Dollars will be 3.26 times of what it was in May 2023. This implies that allocations to states will now be nothing less than 3.26 times of what there were in April 2023. This is aside all the newly imposed levies, tarrifs, taxes, fees, etc

You are right but I remember to say something.

People or Nigerian citizens are always taking lame and slamming the taxes Levi's etc 🤔
Sorry to say if you have been to developed countries like US Canada Germany etc these are what they do to make revenue and use it back to the society to make stable electricity, good road , water , infrastructure etc and we all love them 🤔

But in Nigeria if we try to follow the path to pay Levi's and taxes we will abuse the government and paint them black 🤔🤔🤔
.Nigerian citizens and leaders are just two confused people.

Mtheew

May God bless this writer..
His editorial piece was top notch and he hit d nail on the head without minding whose is ox is gored.
I took time read and read again so as to fully digest ds piece....
This govt has failed and the president is not in touch with realty.
In 1999 A$ to naira was N21..
Incredible

A $ was N470 when Tinubu took over but now A$ is 1500 ....
This is a complete failure.....

Tayorshd87:
You are right but I remember to say something.

People or Nigerian citizens are always taking lame and slamming the taxes Levi's etc 🤔
Sorry to say if you have been to developed countries like US Canada Germany etc these are what they do to make revenue and use it back to the society to make stable electricity, good road , water , infrastructure etc and we all love them 🤔

But in Nigeria if we try to follow the path to pay Levi's and taxes we will abuse the government and paint them black 🤔🤔🤔
.Nigerian citizens and leaders are just two confused people.

Mtheew

Abuse who? Paint who black? Is the government not black already?

When it is to deal with the citizens, you guys make reference to developed countries. But when it for the government to shoulder it responsibilities and for the president to do what he swore to do, you won't remember developed countries. You start giving excuses

HeavenlyHolines:
Nigeria is blessed with talents. If you meet a Nigerian abroad is who hardworking and law abiding, chaii you will know that the training we have gotten in Nigeria can take us an where

I wanted to know what you love about Nigeria.
As for hardworking, etc abroad, most "saner clime" countries are designed such that the more you work the less it is worth it - due to taxes, etc. Eventually you'd realize that being extra hardworking is just not worth the stress and impact on your time and leisure

Lifestone:
Nigerians are already complaining that he has done too much at a go. With removal of subsidy and deregulation of the exchange and FIRS/Revenue reforms, its already bitting very hard. If he proceeds with public sector reforms and aggressive costs cutting, it will be too much to go at once.

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No.

No!

I do not know any ordinary Nigerians with complaints about cutting the cost of government. The Oronsaye Panel submitted its Report over 10 years ago and no doubt, some of its recommendations are now out of date. Yet, Buhari did not act on that Report when it mattered most. Tinubu (after two years) hasn't acted on it - in fact BAT is on record as saying he will not scale down his cabinet - the largest in this country's history. Again, what does that tell you?

Lifestone:
I believe once these parameters stabilizes as it appears to be, he can then embark on reducing cost of governance and improve on efficiency and productivity of the public service.

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No. There is no 'parameter stabilization' on the horizon.

The man has NOT practiced what he preaches. The cost cutting and efficiency/productivity improvements etc. should have begun with him and his government - that would have demonstrated integrity and sincerity. Instead, BAT has carried out 'reforms' that have hit vulnerable groups very hard, while he and other members of the public sector elite remain unaffected. The presidential jets, cadillacs etc. have been bought and delivered. The vice presidential palaces have been renovated at multi-billion Naira cost. And so on.

Ordinary Nigerians are not interested in sermons and preaching. They can recognize hypocrisy when they see it and this administration is the most hypocritical of them all.

Lifestone:
His own and other political office holders costs of governance should reduce.

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I notice you use the word 'should'.

We have passed the stage of words like 'should'. Hard action is long overdue and Nigerians will not get it from BAT.This administration knows exactly what it is doing - and the things it intends to do. Cutting the cost of governance is NOT one of those things.

Lifestone:
The elephant in the room is the political reforms, make INEC to be truly independent in appointment and funding and probably a return to regional system, scrapping of State government and more visibility and funding for the LG. In the alternative, significantly reduce items on the exclusive list.

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The BAT administration has not made any meaningful progress on any of these things. But hey, we now have a new, old, recycled national anthem - somehow that bill passed through the legislature in record time and here we are today. Nothing is more amusing these days than to watch BAT at one government function or the other where the pre-recorded anthem is played (and it is always played, without fail) : without this pre-recorded piece, there will be pin drop silence because nobody knows the words.

There is a problem when my national anthem at official events is always a pre-recorded track by voices that sound like native born Britons from the 1960s. Can't BAT's people get a recording by local voices with Nigerian accents?

Lifestone:
We've got a long way to go

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On this we are in complete agreement.

Lifestone:
Only an ineptitude individuals will not agree with current reforms. The only tjing you can ask for now is for more of them, but my take is that chewing too much at a go will inflict much damage to Nigerians.
I'm not a Fan of PBAT, but on these reforms I'm with him 100%. We must see it through this time around

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Why has the BAT administration refused to publish federal budget implementation Reports since 2024? Even Buhari published them when they were due.

The failure to publish these reports is a violation of the Fiscal Responsibility Act. This Act is Nigerian law and BAT has no excuse for flouting it.

I love the food and culture

DiarisGodoo:
I wanted to know what you love about Nigeria.
As for hardworking, etc abroad, most "saner clime" countries are designed such that the more you work the less it is worth it - due to taxes, etc. Eventually you'd realize that being extra hardworking is just not worth the stress and impact on your time and leisure

Lifestone:
Nigerians are already complaining that he has done too much at a go. With removal of subsidy and deregulation of the exchange and FIRS/Revenue reforms, its already bitting very hard. If he proceeds with public sector reforms and aggressive costs cutting, it will be too much to go at once.

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I told you.

I warned you then that so called 'economic' reform without public sector reform and institutional reform - is dead in the water.

Eight months after this thread and we are now reading fantastic, lurid tales of fake agencies at the highest level of government. Incredible allegations of multi-million Naira requests for bribes by very highly placed officials. Terrible, damning stuff.

This is not how to run a country.