₦airaland Forum

Ezeama400:
Is Nigeria a productive country ?

What are u producing to be comparing yourself with a country like US that has a very strong economy?

The way some of you guys reason sef !

“We have too many sycophants in government. You sit in a meeting, and someone begins with, ‘Mr. President, I thank you for your leadership; God has blessed Nigeria by making you our leader.’ By the time they finish the praise-singing that is the advice the president takes.

“However, people like me that will say ‘Mr. President, this is wrong’ are branded enemies. So, when leaders surround themselves with praise-singers, they never get good advice.

Ezeama400:
Is Nigeria a productive country ?

What are u producing to be comparing yourself with a country like US that has a very strong economy?

The way some of you guys reason sef !

helinues:
Wondering why US is having trillion dollars debt

helinues:
Wondering why US is having trillion dollars debt

helinues:
Wondering why US is having trillion dollars debt

helinues:
Wondering why US is having trillion dollars debt

malali:
https://saharareporters.com/2025/10/29/emir-sanusi-cautions-tinubu-govt-continuous-borrowing-after-subsidy-removal-wrong

NaijaRoyalty:
…Says Buhari doesn’t have my kind of money

However, Buhari doesn’t have the kind of money I can steal neither does he have the money I can collect. He doesn’t even have the money for Lagos votes. So, whatever I promise, it’s for real and is coming from my pocket. It’s not until I go to Alausa before I get money to give you.”

Addressing APC supporters on the need to deliver votes, Tinubu said handsome cash rewards await those who can deliver votes for the party.

He said he would not make mistakes of the past where people would collect money in advance and not deliver on election day.

Tinubu added, “Those of you that say you come to Bourdillon for mobilisation, it is mobilisation that we are doing here or don’t you understand? Definitely, if you know people in your neighbourhood, our members, how we used to do.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/i-said-i-was-richer-than-osun-state-tinubu-admits/%3famp

DonCortino:
When you visit US you will understand why.
Basic amenities working well
Health care top notch
Technological innovations growing rapidly
A working justice system
Fantastic roads and infrastructures
The list goes on and on.

Thus making the citizens and residents live a good life.
That is what the trillions take care of.

fergie001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5v-F81hNTs

The Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources in Lagos State, Mahmood Adegbite, has said that people drilling borehole in the Lekki axis of the state is probably drinking ‘’shit water.”

While speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, Adegbite noted that contaminated boreholes in Lekki pose health risk and added that treatment of waste water would eradicate any form of disease that may arise from it.

He said, “On waste water treatment, I will say that everyone digging borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘shit water.’

https://punchng.com/video-everyone-digging-borehole-in-lekki-is-probably-drinking-shit-water-lagos-govt/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMABDJjbGNrAwAEK2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEewOd7728C0FSKQJNWar4yKRxNpNKt1owSlw47y57FKAux2QxvQL24Iu18rtw_aem_3kB5Sd2GjpdqjN6zFuIs7w

Blitzking:
The death triad
Subsidy removal
Multiple taxation
Borrowing with reckless abandon

The effect
Impoverishing honest workers
Undermining Nigerians yet unborn
Increasing the poverty to self sufficiency ratio of Nigerians
Reducing life expectancy

anonimi:
The eyesore on Bourdillon Road
2nd January 2025

Beyond his neighbours, there is something about the sight of people hanging around a president’s residence that does not speak well of his leadership capabilities. Maybe no one has nudged him to see it, but the impression that spectacle on Bourdillon Road generates is that Tinubu enjoys the sight of suffering humans and thrives in—and through— their poverty.

If all these years, impoverished people hang around you and you remain comfortable enough to keep them just so they can be handed tokens of your large heart, then it means you have a pro-poverty mindset. Such a frame of mind is oriented toward cultivating poverty rather than stimulating abundance.

That is why he could unproblematically relate the story of his “friend” who went from using five Rolls Royce to a far-less valued car and not consider the import of the nonsense he was saying. That spurious account was an indication that this is a man for whom poverty—of others, not himself—is an ideal.

https://punchng.com/the-eyesore-on-bourdillon-road/

helinues:
Wondering why US is having trillion dollars debt

helinues:
Wondering why US is having trillion dollars debt

malali:
Stop comparing looting to USA-style social infrastructure. Let’s be clear:

1. In the USA, unemployment benefits exist for those actively looking for work but unable to find a job.
2. Citizens who cannot afford housing have Section 8 and other public accommodation support.
3. People who become disabled and cannot work receive disability benefits.
4. Social Security ensures that anyone who has worked until ~62 receives a basic income, regardless of private pensions.
5. Every child gets free schooling up to high school graduation.
6. Underserved children have access to healthcare if their parents cannot afford it.
7. Children from low-income families receive food vouchers to ensure they are fed.

Now look at Nigeria. We have mountains of debt, but what is it financing? Which of these fundamental social supports does Tinubu’s administration provide with all the money borrowed?

Debt in Nigeria is not building social safety nets, infrastructure for human capital, or sustainable welfare. Instead, it seems to prop up a bloated government, subsidies that barely reach the intended people, and a political class focused on optics rather than outcomes.

The question is blunt: why borrow so heavily when none of the systems that make a society humane, productive, and resilient are in place?

Debt without social investment is not development; it’s a trap, and we are all paying for it.

helinues:
Wondering why US is having trillion dollars debt