₦airaland Forum

petekayo:
Go back to farming........sai baba

there are people farming already, what has the govt done to help them? I mean we should start engaging our govt with critical questions!

malton:
Blame artists, buck-passers and projectionists;

Globally, economies that oscillate around single-commodity exports are all having torrid times owing to economic downturn and the drop in global commodity prices.

Scapegoat Buhari all you want, truth still remains that he's not responsible for your woes.

I could go on and on with this, but there's nothing I'll say that will make y'all change your hate-filled minds. So, have a field day!

if you were made the GM of a company to oversee the company through trying times but after a year, you seem to be performing below expectation, you will be fired! my brother, he is the number 1man, our leader hence, he is automatically responsible for whatever we are going through.
mind you, Venezuela is going through same problem, the youths are out on the street calling for the head of the president. he may not resign but he definitely will sit up! think about it!

I used to think corruption is our major problem in Nigeria but not anymore... we are too divided to succeed. We are too divided to be like Singapore. We are too divided to reach our true potential. I think the president if he want to succeed should spend more time quelling the hatred that exist between the various regions in the country.

why are we so conscious of the white skin? Cameron said his own the other day, we went hullabaloo, now Amanpour, we are rejoicing like that would solve our problem.

7lives:
And the economy was salvaged when he was booted out? you better stop discoursing what you know absolutely nothing about, anyway your endless curses can not make him fail, did you wonder why Good luck still did not win despite all the incumbency power in his possession and your endless demonic night vigils?.
ONLY GOD APPOINTS LEADERS AND HE IS NOT A BIGOT LIKE YOU AND YOUR FELLOW WAILERS.

you sure don't know the ways of God... Majority carried the vote. God didn't appoint Anybody. Jonathan didn't win because he messed up. if we don't guild this govt and weep them when they are wrong, they will fail and it has nothing to do with God. Period!

searchiing4love:
Even if tomatoes sells for 5k and a satchet of pure water goes for 100 naira, we will vote buhari again in 2019 as long as he keeps jailing looters and recovering their loots

I hail your grain o!

gagewonda:
may God bless u

thanks a lot. God will bless you too

tuale4u:
We import diesel too. Diesel have been deregulated for over 4 years now. And d price went down from around 180naira to 120 naira today

below is the cost price of bringing PMS to the pumps...Now you get why most filling stations sell for 150naira... Now tell me, can it ever come below 100naira if we don't refine locally?

tuale4u:
Deregulation today will put d price at 200 naira per litre in d first 2 months before going down

don't be naive, as long as we import,the price will never go down. I mean it's just simple economics na. why are you guys allowing these guys sell crap to you. I took out one important point, 'allowing Deregulation of the industry to be driven by import'. govt is simply passing the subsidy payment over to us. question we should ask is, is there a need for subsidy payment? what if the price of crude oil goes back to over a hundred naira before the year runs out? why was it being subsidised in the first place? for all those saying now is the best time to remove it, I think the best time to remove subsidy would be when we are no longer affected by the prices at the international market or the fluctuations of the dollar and that can only happen when we start refining locally. truth is no matter how fierce the competition is, no body will sell below his cost price. When APC said the price will crash to 50naira in 6months, my question is, will the cost of bringing PMS to the pumps be less than 50naira in 6 months time?

VocalWalls:
Nigeria has gone beyond redemption.

dear I tell you. way beyond redemption.

have you guys supporting this move by the govt read the full PPPRA report on how they came up with the new price of 145? please do and you gonna realise govt doesn't care if we are suffering or not.

LoveMachine:
When did all these tough guys invade NL? I swear! You weigh less than a buck twenty with a pocket full of rocks but you'll fix your hands to type something so brazen.

Now onto your ridiculous post. These gov'ts aren't risking social unrest and political upheaval just for the sake of it.

There is no other option at hand. Saudi just fired their oil minister after 20 years of service because he essentially caused this by trying to kill us shale. Obama pulled a fast one on him when he removed Oran's sanctions and allowed us shale to export.

These are trying times for the global economy. I'm not of the train of thought that says things have to get worse to get better. The suffering must stop immediately but I won't jump out the window on policy that is in line with the present global economy.

Get your mind right.

now that's a better and more objective way of supporting the decision of the govt and not reminding us how we always blame the APC... they are in power and when their decisions will bite hard on us, they take the blow... instead of you guys to come here and make it look like we are crazy for complaining, give us a reason not to. in other countries, do they use the fuel to run their generators at home? you can decide to park your car at home and use the public transport, here the prices has gone up 100%. just like the tariff hike, I still use the old meter that is estimated, even if I decide not to use electricity again, they keep bringing the bill, so I have no choice but to use it. So what I am trying to say is, it's not just looking at the policies, but it's effect on the people. subsidy removal, good one but how wil it affect the poor man, what has the govt provided to make sure he doesn't die of suffering. I'm not daft to know oil subsidy removal is the best policy, I am looking at its immediate effect on the masses. and it just doesn't look good. we have suffered a lot. why run round a circle all this while?

one thing is obviously clear right now. this govt is using us as a test tube... testing it's policies on us. after all the noise about how marketers are the devil, making us go through so much pains cos NNPC became the sole importer, at the end, you have left us at the mercy of the same people you accused of being behind our suffering. shameful!

LoveMachine:
Dubai, Saudi Arabia and other countries just cut their subsidies as well. The oil glut is hurting all of OPEC but it's easier to blame APC. Luckily, Nairaland doesn't determine gov't policy.

shut your mouth, shut your mouth ok... you don't live in Nigeria right, does Saudi Arabia import the product? go out there and see the effect the hike is already having. just stick to telling us we need to suffer before things gets better instead of this.

maryjan8:
Politicians are dirty

very dirty dear... pity those who worship and hail them as the best we have.if these guys in APC are the best we have then we are in a big mess.

please guys how old is Freeze?

Mr Sports minister, you were absent at a marathon race held in Benin but here you are commissioning a bridge. what are you? answer yourself o cos if I do nw these APC mods will ban me.

Beeman1:
God bless Buhari.

God bless APC

God bless naija.

Ipod if una like make una *kwantinue* to hate Buhari,na una sabi.

now you seem like the one who has got issues!

When your policies are hurting the most vulnerable in the society, you either provide palliative measures or you roll back those policies. If you don't, it's only natural you get the kind of outcry we are witnessing and it doesn't mean people are not patriotic or don't mean well for the government.

Our President behaves like a spoilt child, he points fingers at everyone else, he stomps his feet with petulance when he is annoyed, he accuses those who do not agree with him either of corruption of – as his spokesperson inelegantly put it – ‘wailing wails’, he doesn’t listen to the counsel of his cabinet; treating those who disagree with him with a lack of access, he insists that he is the one to be convinced rather than taking his time to convince those he is supposed to lead.

Above all else, he prefers, irritatingly, to have his own way. He insists on his own way even if it’s to the detriment of national interest, or his own. There are those who say he has his own way ‘no matter whose ox is gored’, but they say that adoringly, and we find nothing to be adored about his behavior, especially with regard to our economy.

Our economy is in a shambles. That’s apparent to any observer not named Muhammadu Buhari. Last week, Moody’s finally downgraded us, for “speculative elements and a significant credit risk”, alongside “a high credit risk”, a combined status that is deeply indicative of the way the world sees the handling of the Nigerian economy.

The policies of this government are inchoate. Where there is a focus on corruption, there is very little strategy and very little cohesion. Save for a consistent desire to travel abroad and the over-selling of routine agreements with China (despite the red herring power minister Babatunde Fashola tried to sell a skeptical public), there is nothing indicative of an over-aching agenda.

The fault lines of his command and control approach to administering the economy show themselves in our currency, in the collapse of fuel supply services, in the self-imposed tragic dance that is our budget, and in the pursuit of frivolity that is the hallmark of our Finance Minister.

In the midst of this, the president’s advisers, taking a cue from a king that won’t listen, have been quiet. Mr. Fashola just began to speak in recent weeks, the trade and investment minister generally minds his business, the finance minister has nothing impressive to say. None of them can speak to us with boldness and clarity, which convinces us that none can speak to the president with boldness or clarity.

Hence, former Minister Obiageli Ezekwesili’s high profile intervention on Saturday becomes very crucial.

Speaking at an event in Abuja, she rightly decried the totality of Mr. Buhari’s economic policy as “opaque”, “archaic” and altogether destructive.

“What did not work in 1984 cannot possibly be a solution in a global economy that’s much more integrated,” she said. “During the first coming of this our new president, a command and control economic system was adopted, and inflation spiraled, jobs were lost and the economic growth level dipped.

“In over one year, the president is still holding to the premise that command and control is the only way out, and we have lost the single digits inflation status we maintained in past administrations.”

We cannot agree more. The loss of hard-won status by the otherwise feckless Goodluck Jonathan administration is particularly painful. One of the things Nigerians could count on through the administrations of Olusegun Obasanjo and Dr. Jonathan, even where there was a lack of political will, was a willingness to defer to technocrats with economic expertise – where interventions, negotiations and policy were directed by an understanding of a world and an alignment with global imperatives. This was one of the few bright spots of the past administration. To watch this one squander it so needlessly is alarming.

Even worse, this is doing great damage to the same poor people the president supposedly seeks to protect. “The weakest and the most vulnerable suffer the impact of inflation the most,” Mrs. Ezewkesili submitted. “Enormous power is being abused as a result of archaic and opaque economic policies.”

Again, we cannot agree more.

We agree that the Central Bank of Nigeria needs to stop operating as maid to the Presidency and regain its statutory autonomy. We agree that there needs to be an overhaul of monetary policy so that it is protected from misguided political ideology. We agree that this Presidency needs to alight itself with modern economic reality and “speak the language of economics and not this language of rhetoric and language of anecdote, and language of suppositions that are no longer premised on hard economic facts”.

Mr. President needs to get a grip.

It has become painfully obvious that too few people around you have the courage to tell you the truth to your face. In that case, you owe Ezekwesili, who cannot be accused of corruption, a depth of gratitude.

And if this king will not listen to a subject whose activism paved the way for his return to office, then we fear gravely the next three years can only accelerate our return to economic doom
http://ynaija.com/president-oby-ezekwesili/

I am happy respected people in society have started speaking up. That used to be my fear. Govt cannot bring prosperity to its people if everyone go the way some people are clamouring for. They are not above mistakes, they are only human. When we tell them they are failing doesn't mean we don't want them to succeed. It simply means we are watching closely. Jonathan came, obviously we saw he wasn't leaving up to expectation but we kept saying, give him time. A budget don't need to be passed before you access that govt. Through it policies, through the govt relationship with the people, it's reactions to unfolding events, etc. you can score a govt.

OK I am part of those bombarding this govt but on this issue, what do you guys expect the federal govt to say? OK the calls for the herdsmen to leave? That would be the biggest blunder. But govt needs to step up on security. They pride themselves with returning peace to the north east but else where it's going haywire

The govt has got to take all the blame... When wrong is done and you do nothing, you are simply encouraging people to do more wrong. We are still waiting for the Agatu report! The electoral violence report in Rivers, and so on. Not a single person is behind bars.

Afrok:
How will I make distasteful comments about a meal that I didn't taste? Tuface, was my name part of those that licked Tiwa's soup?
Hell no... AfroK doesn't lick another man's woman's soup

but Tiwas has denied it. Why are you guys still holding on to that?

Babalegba:
So because something is cultural then it is automatically right abi. I keep saying the level of quality education in this country is abysmal.I'm sure Tiwas lawyer will tear the whole thing apart in minutes. Nigeria is full of mo.rons

On point! Culture this, culture that.

Haba! First it was Olajumoke, people were even writing article why the innocent girl is not a role model. Now this, everywhere I turn, Facebook, Twitter, instagram etc... everybody don turn advisor. Allow these people decide their future Naah. Meanwhile we all put our future in bubu's hands... let's help him make it a better one... criticise him or support him but never stop talking!

blackpanda:
U completely got it wrong. Other countries started looking for alternatives long before the oil meltdown. But our dumb clueless president jonathan kept wasting our resources on his friends and cronies!

you again! LOL

charlesucheh:
LWKMD! Denying won't help you! You have a problem, and the first step to solving that problem, is by admitting you have one...you should have become president na, why are you on the "I have my PVC. Side" mtcheeeeeewm,,!!! Am sure you voted GEJ in the last election, did it bring him back!!! NONZENCE!

I wanted to let you be cus you obviously don't get it. But I will reply you out of boredom. 2011, the first time I voted, I didn't vote for GEJ because he obviously had nothing to offer, 2015 proved I was spot on. 2015 election, my Facebook page became a campaign ground for this nonsense APC that just can't get anything right at the moment. My PVC is my power, whether it is enough to boot out an under forming leader is out of the question because it's a game of number but at least my conscience will be clear I didn't vote out of ignorance and stupidity like so many of you did in 2011 and will do in 2019 whether this guys in power gets their acts right or not.