babyfaceafrica:


The problem is not intelligent people... The problem is Nigeria style of politics.. Look by the time soludo gets to power.. His intelligence will be corrupted.. Is okonjo not intelligent, is nnaji not intelligent, is fowler not intelligent, Fashola,.. E. T. C.... Take these same people abroad and see them doing well.. Nigeria kills talent!!!

and one stupido was ranting about one female pilots yesterday

andyanders:
Soludo, God bless you. Our incompetent leaders cannot apply the above stated by an economist, rather, they will looking for ways to loot the donated funds. People are hungry and the moment the poor man who hunger is killing is rushed to the huspital, health workers would tag the person as covid-19.

He belongs to an economic council like that which has the President's direct ear.
He should either tell him these things.
Or resign from that council since it is ineffective.
I am not sure what writing this will bring.

solmus:


that's right then shut the fvck up and let people like us talk

See this ignoramus still talking. I don't think you still have anything left in that skull of yours.

Africa is relying on the white for vaccine..I believe I'd Africa traditional medicine research centers have been developed containing Corona virus will not be much of a problem...d white are using white medicine,why cant African try traditional medicine....the cure might just be one of African traditional root...
Africa is underrated...

Glad we still have such brilliant minds in this country.
All those gluttonous, avaricious, money-mongering morons spearheading the affairs of this country in Aso Rock can't make this kind of brilliant analysis or profer such sound solutions.

Kudos to you Prof Soludo but unfortunately Nigerian leaders won't listen.

This is the only solution. And it must be fully implemented or else there will be trouble.

Angelfrost:
All of you who have been arguing, insulting, and calling me names every time I call out this sham of a lockdown, come and read this!!!

God bless Prof. Soludo.... It is always refreshing to read things from fellow objective and intelligent like minds!!!

Some of you here are so myopic and self centered, failing to face the harsh realities of the day!!!

lots of ppl are against lockdown .... but where ideas lack, the fools thrives

Seems like Soludo will have my vote in the next Anambra gubernatorial election

solmus:




Audio Nigerian Professors don come.. Na only talk them sabi, create vaccine or cure all of them don silent, scammer Professor Iwu don go dodge for one corner


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who be dis rat? na gutter water full dis one brain o!

please, where did he post this message?
did he post it somewhere the Nigerian govt can see it?
I really wish it would get to them.

Well done prof

Though Soludo showed us the mess we are in, the solution he proffers are grossly inadequate

Person go just sit down dey write, dey write, dey write. Wetin happen self? Professor abeg rest, even your recommendations can not be safely implemented.

I strongly believe that Africa especially Nigeria can handle this lockdown but corruption will not allow them to do what they are suppose to do.

The billions of Naira raised by the private sector might properly not to put in good use.

Despite d lockdown tou wont believe IBEDC still brought bill to my house as earlier as 7:30am today.. where do dey expect people to pay when dey are still extending d lockdown

MiniMiniPoPoPo:


who be dis rat? na gutter water full dis one brain o!

see them defending their olodo theory professors .. maybe them done carry this one go Unilag Cold room for extra evening lectures sef

SocialJustice:
Person go just sit down dey write, dey write, dey write. Wetin happen self? Professor abeg rest, even your recommendations can not be safely implemented.

shut up!

solmus:


see them defending their olodo theory professors .. maybe them done carry this one go Unilag Cold room for extra evening lectures sef

shut up! you hungry fellow!

mucus-infected brain!

This is the time i expect the useless government to ask their own economist to debacle or counter soludo submission so that we can have more options as to our survival...
But as usual they will bring in politics and tell you in was among the past administration that inovle in huge financial misappropriation.
But we ard here now to seek solution for tomorrow....i dont care about your past i can only learn from your past.

MiniMiniPoPoPo:


shut up!

Cry me a river. See if I care.

solmus:


see them defending their olodo theory professors .. maybe them done carry this one go Unilag Cold room for extra evening lectures sef

agbero like you. you do head like compressed palm kernel!!!

igwe18:
Our model should be learning-by-doing while mainstreaming basic common-sense tips such as: mandatory wearing of masks in public, basic hygiene, disinfection of all open markets every early morning and all places of public gatherings, practical social distancing tips, provision of hand washing facilities in public places, production and use of hand sanitizers, gloves, etc. For example, all public transport vehicles—taxi, buses, trains, airplanes might require disinfection of the vehicle before use, and for all passengers to wear masks and with hand sanitizers. Can you imagine the thousands of jobs to be created in producing face masks, hand sanitizers, gloves, etc for 1.3 billion people? But this cannot happen under a lockdown. New opportunities! Everyone wants to live, and Africans will learn and adapt quickly. Staying at home will become a choice, not a compulsion. The slogan could be: “stay at home if you can, or smartly go to work if you must”. We can only defeat the challenge by confronting it, and not by playing the Ostrich only to still confront it the day after.

Every African society has some local herbs that, to use President Trump’s phrase, “might help”. While the UK and others are experimenting with vaccines, you never know if an Africa herb might be the cure. Necessity is the mother of invention, and only those who dare, succeed! With enough education and mobilization, the infection rate will be drastically reduced without pausing the lives of 1.3 billion people.

The real challenge is the potential economic catastrophe that many African economies face. How policymakers respond depends on how they interpret the shocks: as temporary or permanent structural shifts. But howsoever they choose to see it, one thing is certain: several more similar shocks (not necessarily in exact form) are on the way.

What is evident so far is that most African policymakers (typically) think of the shocks as temporary, and consequently seem to believe that they can just stimulate their way out of it and wait for the next one. African multilateral financial institutions (e.g. AfDB and Afreximbank) have announced packages to assist Africa ride over the shocks. The World Bank and the IMF have provided quick disbursing windows for us to borrow. African finance ministers have called for moratorium on debt servicing, and most have applied for the cheap loans from Washington. Several African countries have “announced” intervention funds that, at best, constitute a drop in the ocean relative to need. The buffers and institutions for dynamic adjustments are weak or absent. In most countries, subnational governments are pleading for bailouts from their cash-strapped central governments. Many of these subnational governments will soon realize that they are basically on their own, and many could become fiscally insolvent.

After most African countries empty all their piggy banks now, and borrow their full tranches at the Fund and the World Bank, secured moratorium on existing debt etc, what happens with the next disruption in a few years’ time? Or like the African musician, Oliver de Coque sang: “let us enjoy life today, and after that we can worry about tomorrow”? But that tomorrow is a few hours away. Because of these crises, many African currencies (especially the oil producers) might likely depreciate significantly. Servicing these external debts tomorrow with the exchange rate then, would require heavy lifting. But it is difficult to see how a competitive real effective exchange rate regime will not be a critical component of their comprehensive strategy for diversification and global competitiveness.

Politicians with short-term electoral cycles typically have short time horizons or suffer policy myopia. This is not just an African problem. It is a typical problem of multiparty democracies with short term electoral cycles and term limits. However, extreme cases abound in some African states especially because the civil service (that ought to ensure longer term continuity) is very weak. With eyes on the next election, opportunistic populism wins. Rather than confront the underlying structural dysfunction, the easiest escape is to pile up debts and contingent liabilities. This is the circularity that has brought Africa to the present embarrassment whereby barely some years after massive debt cancellations/reliefs from our creditors, we are again pleading for “debt relief”. But several future shocks are on the way. When and how can African countries escape this circular trap? This is a short question but with a long answer. Each country’s economic/development team should get to serious work.

For the countries that see the shocks as signalling structural shifts (which it largely is), the focus should be on exploiting the opportunities offered by the crises to press the re-set button. It requires a realistic diagnosis and admission that the existing business model has been rendered obsolete. Crafting a new business model that encompasses the whole range of institutional, technological, structural, macroeconomic, and even politico-governance arrangements takes time and demands for disruptive thinking. It would require mainstreaming creative non-debt-creating financing options and new forms of economic partnerships. But these require longer-term perspectives and a form of inter-generational planning. There lies the conflict versus the opportunity and points to what separates politicians from statesmen. Politicians think of the next election, while statesmen think of the next generation. We pray for Africa’s political statesmen (a seeming contradictory combination—be a politician and statesman at the same time). That is why I strongly support the re-opening of all of Africa urgently, and let all hands get to work to help them succeed.

Best Write-Up of the year 2020...how long can we remain in lockdown!
copy copy won't work, what we are doing is no different from 'self-imposed' colonisation

MiniMiniPoPoPo:


agbero like you. you do head like compressed palm kernel!!!

I abuse all of her olodo professor and sugar daddies .. the thing pain am she one cry

tell your Sugar Daddy Lecturers and Professor to come up with corona vaccine or cure and stop writing long essay

Nonsense!!

lockdown is a necessary/compulsory measure. Isolation/quarantine centers can be sorted out, other preventive measures can be discussed while limiting the spread by locking down. The number of infected people would have sky rocketed without lockdown.
I think the compulsion of nose mask, eye glasses(fr the eyes), washing of hands, and other measures will limit transmission of the virus, and also infection after the lockdown is lifted.
The lockdown is a short term preventive measure on its own(you can't lock people down for long), it was to strategies the next step

solmus:


I abuse all of her olodo professor and sugar daddies .. the thing pain am she one cry

tell your Sugar Daddy Lecturers and Professor to come up with corona vaccine or cure and stop writing long essay

Nonsense!!

u are just a sick and broke keyboard warrior who is dumb as hell. u will never get to the level soludo is in ur entire life and even in the life to come, if there's any.

solmus:

Audio Nigerian Professors don come.. Na only talk them sabi, create vaccine or cure all of them don silent, scammer Professor Iwu don go dodge for one corner
.

Brother, calm dow
He is not a scientist but an economist, haba!

God bless you for being the voice of the common man and a strategist.

sapientia:
So soludo said we shouldn't have locked down.

We should have allowed people to be spreading it abi.

Imagine no lockdown and no testing.

He should get realistic abeg.

Boss, calm down and read the stuff over again but this time with an open mind
cheers

Acidosis:
Nice write-up but I'm surprised he didn't mention anything about testing. Well, he's an economist so it's not out of place to address this challenge from the viewpoint of money. It's what any economist or businessman will do.

You just can't wish away this virus because you want to make money. You didn't consider the lives of the health workers and the burden on our weak health infrastructure. Absolutely nothing was said by Soludo on these key issues.

Like the lockdown, the entire suggestions about nose masks, disinfectants and others will not work. They're not part of us. You can't condemn a foreign measure (lockdown) and bring upon us another foreign measure (wearing of nose masks). Both came from the West and both would be resisted in the same measure by the same sets of people.

wearing face/nose masks was never a western initiative, it has been with us all, even before lockdown, I see people with certain allergies wear them during harmattan plus medical personnels used them, I had a pain on my leg last year and before the doctor touched my leg, he wore hand glove

abdullkabar:
lockdown is a necessary/compulsory measure. Isolation/quarantine centers can be sorted out, other preventive measures can be discussed while limiting the spread by locking down. The number of infected people would have sky rocketed without lockdown.
I think the compulsion of nose mask, eye glasses(fr the eyes), washing of hands, and other measures will limit transmission of the virus, and also infection after the lockdown is lifted.
The lockdown is a short term preventive measure on its own(you can't lock people down for long), it was to strategies the next step

They have done lock down for 4 weeks lets see their next step,

pesty100:
Though Soludo showed us the mess we are in, the solution he proffers are grossly inadequate

Kindly give your assertions and solution that will be grossly adopted....this is not an easy situation for any of us.