₦airaland Forum

econome: Oh I'm sorry..oh Mauritius got very good stats..I'm gonna read more about the nation

econome: Is Mauritania politically stable? "peace" can only reign in a country when its Politics is stable.

Do we ever enjoy or benefit anything when we hear Nigerian economy has grown up to a certain percent?
Whenever the dollar falls, do you ever feel any economic relief in your finances?
The last time 'i heard' Nigerian Economy is now the largest in Africa, i say na only for newspaper, tv/radio, and internet we go deh see am, abi the prices of ur households items don come down since we became the biggest economy?

econome: Is Mauritania politically stable? "peace" can only reign in a country when its Politics is stable.

Do we ever enjoy or benefit anything when we hear Nigerian economy has grown up to a certain percent?
Whenever the dollar falls, do you ever feel any economic relief in your finances?
The last time 'i heard' Nigerian Economy is now the largest in Africa, i say na only for newspaper, tv/radio, and internet we go deh see am, abi the prices of ur households items don come down since we became the biggest economy?

Raiders: I guess you are supporting the Nigeria army based on patriotism. The boko haram problem has been going on for over 5 years now. The Egyptian Army is the strongest in Africa. They have a better train army and better weapons than Nigeria. The Nigeria army is not as strong as it used to be since Obasanjo came into power in 99. I still think our army is not as strong to protect Nigeria from invasion from a strong army. we still have a long way to go and this boko haram insurgency proved that our army is weak

Raiders: I guess you are supporting the Nigeria army based on patriotism. The boko haram problem has been going on for over 5 years now. The Egyptian Army is the strongest in Africa. They have a better train army and better weapons than Nigeria. The Nigeria army is not as strong as it used to be since Obasanjo came into power in 99. I still think our army is not as strong to protect Nigeria from invasion from a strong army. we still have a long way to go and this boko haram insurgency proved that our army is weak

eluquenson: Your Army led by liar Olukolade are just bunch of cowards, what will it take a nation like Nigeria to silence this Boko Haram boiz, they can form alliance with other African states to achieve this but nothing good came out of it when the British , US & Chinese came all to no avail.

Well, my opinion stands still.

Ontarget: The reason I am asking this question is because of what we have been witnessing so far concerning the fight against the Boko haram extremists. We have heard the foot soldiers battling the extremist say the lack appropriate firepower to wage a successful combat operation and I am wondering how on earth the Nigerian army could lack weapons to defend this country. I am also wondering how the Nigerian army could be so unprepared and only woke up to buy weapons at the last minute. Why wasn't our arsenal already stocked piled with these weapons a long time ago? If Boko haram can successfully buy sophisticated weapons why cant a whole country like Nigerian buy better sophisticated weapons without involving all these stories we keep hearing daily? Boko harm is not an organized national army and you can image the amount of difficulty and stories involved so far. So what will happen when an organized national army like Cameroon decides to take the whole of Cross River or Benin collects Lagos State? Are we sure Nigeria can collect the territories back? Is this the kind of weapon lacking unpreparedness and politics that will be used to defend this country?

coolar: You don't get!

soma042: Words

idupaul: Deal with cammeroon with wat? With our one 26 year old alpha jet ? We are finding it hard to defeat a rag tag islamist group and now U want to deal with a cammeroon that is backed by a french mlitary pact .. We Nigerians love to lead a life of denial and deceit even when we know the truth

akinsadeez: 1. How can govt address ALL the anger in the society. Seems like a simply impossible task. Anger can't be quantified so how will we know when all d anger has been addressed. also anger is a subjective feeling. What is making me angry might be trivial to someone else and might not even be sensible or related to d govt at all.


2. How can you engage leaders to stop boko haram when some of dem are actually d sponsors or at d very least benefitting immensely from the activities of boko haram.

3. How will the investigation of boko haram links to al Qaeda help us or stop the insurgents

4Play: Yes, if the residents of Ede make up 0.11% of Nigeria's population and the under-5 mortality rate in Ede is the same as Nigeria's.

RevDesmondJuju: Executive Governors are relatively new to these shores and it has been shown that most states are not financially viable.

As for 4, the reason being that with 2 main political parties, ethno-religious divisions can not be exploited by self serving politicians and it also reduces the noise levels from shanty parties

RevDesmondJuju: 1. Get rid of states and their executive governors. Most of them are not even financially viable and the case of 4 years uninterrupted immunity from criminal investigation and prosecution is rather a call to impunity to steal as much as possible.

2. Get rid of full time legislators and parliament. These guys just sit on their azz for a full term adding little or no value and given how much these greedy bunch of desperate men allocate for themselves plus the runaway levels of lobbying that can be described as outright bribery and kickbacks, Nigeria will save a huge amount by sacking them.

3. Local Government Chairmen should double as representatives that will convene at Abuja on periodic intervals to address National issues.

4. There should be only 2 political parties with local government elections being the only elections being conducted.

5. The leader of the Political party that succeeds in winning the highest number of LGAs automatically becomes the President of the Nation.

ShehuAba: Actually the senators have also not been helping matters, but on this call on Mr president, they are really spot on.

apolonius: Maybe we should rather focus on finding a leader that will seriously and sincerely love the whole nation.

reedonne: Our first problem is tribal hatred and suspicion base on tribal affliation.
90% of every hausa man will be suspicious of any action taken by an Igbo president just as 90% of Igbo will be suspicious of any action taken by a northern president. The same with yoruba and minority ethnic group.
The only solution to this is a shared rule system. A system where the goverment wont be lead by an Igbo,hausa or Yoruba, a system where the 3 ethnic group will have the same number of representative.
Eg: If Nigeria is divided into 6 zone comprising of Yoruba zone, Igbo zone, Southern minorities zone, Northern minorities zone and Central zone.
The parliament of each of the zone should ratify a list of three people in which the NASS will choose one of them as zonal representative.
The 6 zonal representative will then form the goverment and every decision must have the support of atleast 4 of them. With a situation like this, there will be no problem of:
1)Suspicion base of tribal affliation since every decision will be ratify by atleast 4 rep from 4 different zones
2)Federal superiority over the states: Since the states pick the member of the FEC, the FEC members will follow the position of its zone at meetings and therefore zonal intrests will become national intrest.
3)A super powerful being who can destroy opposition, rig election, or even "islamicalize" or "christianize" Nigeria
4)Voting base on tribal affliation
5)It will reduce the chance of inter-ethnic war.
6)Side-lining of some ethnic from power.

apolonius: Maybe we should rather focus on finding a leader that will seriously and sincerely love the whole nation.

Sagamite: You are a cretinous person!

A moronic baastard product of a failed education system!

Why would Nigeria be buying things with public money that they don't "want anybody to hear about", you moronic person?



You are a cretinous person!

A moronic baastard product of a failed education system!

Isreal is helping Nigeria with what that has led to cash being carried on private jet and not being declared to the destination government?

You should refrain further from that moronic activity occurring in your head that you labelled "thinking".

apolonius: Unitarism will fail if we are determined to allow morons to lead us;it will engender wholesale transformation and the highlighted problems avoided if visionaries and patriots are allowed to lead us under it.

apolonius: It has killed Nigeria;confederalism or unitarism is all we need!

Rawani: Berem, can you suggest an alternative formula for PU allocation which will avoid over-crowding and the resultant dis-enfranchisement of registered voters? I am in need of a superior argument because I also agree that the present system gives the south an unfortunate handicap, and kindly share why you view allocation of more PU's to a more populated North as robbery.

aderonila18: No sane government buys weapons with cash. The normal thing is to pay electronically so that it can be verified that the money was actually spent for what was budgeted for. No government will lease a private jet ( under the name of a dubious comapny )while Niegria has so many private jets and then hand so much money to one Nigerian and one foreigner to take that cash into another country when they know it is illegal to carry such amounts of cash into any country without it's government's approval.

All these lies they are sharing!

Truth is Nigerian's eyes have been opened. Everyone I've talked to about this incidence all agree that the Federal Government has a hand in the Boko Haram situation. They are simply covering up for illegal arms being bought for BH.

Haven't you always wondered why it's so easy for BH to buy arms and ship them to Nigeria? Now I understand

cjrane: Has Nigeria ever practiced federalism ? NO!

We should drop the unitary system and practice true federalism and watch all the corruption and falsifications that bedevil Nigeria disappear.

Caseless2: we have fertile land all over the country . What this mean is, there wil be a multi-axial job opportunity for all frm farming, miling, storage outlets and other farmin related stuffs that demands manpower. Agric was what we were living on b4 we discovered oil, and it remain the only sector that can get half of our population employed. Remember, 70% of our population are in d rural areas and this whr most farming activities take place. In d past, nobody was even interested in goin to abroad, not to even talk of urban centres like lagos. The reverse in d trend is a result of our shift from our agric-based economy to oil-based economy. I read somewhre that only benue can feed africa. Taraba alone is enough to create jobs for over milion nigerians if its economic/tourism/resource potentials ar properly tapped into. Nigeria can survive on taraba alone. This is one out of 36 states in nigeria.
Again, in d 60s Nigeria was fairly an industrial state, until SAP came and quashed everything. If we revive all these, it will cater for all our urgent needs which includes getting our youths to work.

coolar: GEJ should focus on job creation and food stability programmes.

There are more crazy people in the US but because the system is working, basic needs are met and less corruption in the public sector , crime rate is being managed.

FG should avoid investing the country's resources in security without securing the stomach of the citizens, engaging the youth with jobs and fixing the unending drain of corruption. Work towards having a just society.

If not,more groups will emerge with supports from politicians and moles in the special forces to destabilize the country just like boko haram.