₦airaland Forum

owobokiri:
Most of these policies targeted at ordinary Nigerians are born out pure racism by Trump.
Nigerians in the US are most probably the most educated. Very resilient, very professionally purposeful. Many Nigerians are contributing massively to the us economy and tech advancements. Most are into high tech, academics and research.
To clamp down on all of us just because you prefer migrants from "Sweden and Norway" imply shows how crudely racist Trump and his gang are..

But you know the 'Sweden' and 'Norway' are better run countries with more prosperous people than the US. So who won"t prioritise wealth when you are in need also.

Will you invite paupers to your fundraiser or illiterates to your book launch.

When the US was fighting country after country for trade share to bridge their deficit and rampaging debts, cutting jobs closing departments and freezing aid what did your think they were doing, saving money to spend on needy immigrants?

Trump made it clear before day one that his policy was America first.

You badly want to live there then make hay and a Trump Gold card awaits. They are tired of explorers and exploiters.

LagosOrigin:
Good

Let everybody remain in Nigeria and let develop our country .

Infact, the United states should impose a total ban on Nigerians so that those tinubu supporters that supported him blindly with hope of traveling to the United States for greener pasture remain here and have a taste of his bad leadership.

I know one like that.
Was a vocal supporter of the Buhari regime on radio in Abuja back in the day. Understand he is now in Canada.

If you seriously believe that the country is headed in the right direction to becoming prosperous and great, why seek to start all over in an alien land.

Fact is they don't.

Maybe there is a town in Ghana called Portugal just as there is a town in Portugal called Lagos....

I don't understand.

Didn't they file a flight plan before leaving.
You don't over fly a country without permission thoughtless of seeking to land.

Anyway the logical and sensible thing has been done. A diplomatic solution. It doesn't diminish Nigeria or accord Burkina Faso any superiority.

I am solidly behind you on this Mr. President. And it will be one of the boldest reforms ever undertaken by government in the history of this country.

It is not an easy thing for an entity, the federal government in this case to vacate the absolute authority of the gun to sub national institutions that were hitherto considered subservient particularly when there are apparently very powerful interests prventing this.

Another rubbished legacy.

They are all over the nation, like the rusting hulks of battle damaged weaponry. Like carcasses of treasure laden sunken ships littering the sea floor.

They had sold their souls.
Gained food, raiment and all worldly riches.
But the only thing they will be remembered by the vast majority people is a sad tale of stolen promises.

NiRfreak:
Better you use asbestos than end up in hospital because of POP. Make we get sense

Ha.....Asbestos
Is that thing still in existence.
It is banned worldwide.
Abeg oh. Don't buy death and fix it over your head.

We4all:
This is expected since every Tom and Jerry is now a POP installer. Honestly, I am not even a fan of POP ceilings, but trust Nigerians to jump on the bandwagon. And since it is more expensive than PVC, copy cats would choose it over PVC as a way of showing off.

Ordinarily PVC should potentially be a serious alternative but quality and variety is seriously lacking here in this country.

The fact is that home decor and interior design industry is a sellers market. Importers and merchants and not architects, craftsmen and decorators dictate what is available locally and this in my opinion is a big let down.

It is customization, variety and artistry that drives people to instal gypsum ceilings.

Only now is it clear what the whole issue was about. And they couldn't simply explain this to the Nigerian public or the Burkinabe Civil Aviation Authority ahead of the mission.

Very poor organisation.

LegendHero:
How many elected politician come remain for PDP?

Now Tinubu own both Fubara and Wike faction loyalty.

When people own people what is that called...
This is supposed to be a democracy, the ultimate stage of a man's liberties.

Here it is a cattle market.
Blacks now buying and selling consciences for food, shelter and raiment....

Long, long, long way to go.

So this lady is still in office.
Has gone completely silent.
Not good enough representation.

What will they say Germany has done to them now....
Yes, they will dig up something from antiquity, from thousands of years ago, from the time of the Kaisers to justify violence towards people they don't even know.

Vilgax:
Nigeria falls between 65-68...

but the IQ is a poor measurement of intelligence because they focus mostly on logical/analytical skills, ignoring crucial aspects like creativity, emotional intelligence, wisdom, and practical skills.

Well that still explains why Nigeria is like this. Little logic and poor analytical skills.

You don't have to look far. Stay on this forum for a couple of hours and understand why we don't feature at all.

dederocs:
The NSA is not working effectively at all...only indigenes should be vigilantes in their state...what type of fuckery is this?

Every state has men known to them, their indigenous people, southern Nigeria must reject any sinister plan to bring outsiders into our midst in the name of vigilantes or forests guards.

Federal government must use indigenes of states to protect their state, they know the terrain.

We should stop acting like people that want to destroy themselves,even animals don't do that.

When I say State and Local government police is the only way, people scoff at it.

It is getting clearer by the day that there is an agenda and I dare say an expansionist agenda by some elements in this country that see indigenous security as a threat.

We are not ready to "Federate' this country. And at he rate we are going we will end up a fiefdom, a nation of sectarian rule and ownership.

The United States obviously has information they are withholding about underground schemes of territorial subjugation. Since it's pronouncements the killings on the eastern flanks of the country from Plateau through Nassarawa to Benue has gone silent. A coincidence? But has erupted across the mid to west belt. Coincidence?

Now this. There is an agenda. This is beyond criminality. Nigerians should wake up and demand for the security of there homelands. The trust of the centre as a neutral partner in serious doubt.

People should ask for the police they themselves will control to protect themselves.

What a mess.
What an outrage.
Who will see these folks in the bush or on the highways and not think they are bandits.

Many of them will end up being killed by security forces, many will be killed by mob action.

If a whole government, a whole Federal government CANNOT constitute proper subnational security institutions but chooses to arm ragtag elements under whatever guise, the problem will only escalate.

Just sorry for this country.

The question still remains.
What was an Air force transport doing over the Burkina airspace. Where was it going. On what mission? These are the questions the media should ask.

treesun:
https://dailytrust.com/finance-minister-contradicts-tinubu-says-fg-didnt-meet-2025-revenue-target/?noamp=available

We know na.
It is audible to the deaf and visible to the blind.
Salaries and pensions are not being paid on time.
Their army of contractors are being owed left, right and centre. In Abuja there is a scattering of unfinished and abandoned looking projects.

It is a structural problem. A failure to invest FIRST in income generating enterprises which after two years will have started to to return resources to government.

They depended heavily on borrowings but that is becoming too expensive and on taxes and elevated tariffs which are counterproductive as consumption has tanked.

Even the projections from the 2026 tax net are bound to fall short of expectations simply because the cow that is not fed well cannot produce much milk.

Spend wisely oh yeah profligate Federal government. Invest, invest, invest rather than waste, waste, waste.

Focusmind:
I am surprised at how some people are bashing the NFF. Kudos to them for unearthing this "infringement " on FIFA rules. Trust me, if the odds were against Congo and they have convincing infringement evidence against Nigeria, they will lash on it and push their case. Let our anger not affect our sense of judgement. NFF should pursue the case and see if "victory" would be achieved.

What 'kudos' is that.
They have all that 'technical ability' to find errors in other teams and federations but donot have a simple, functional technical department or director to supervise the coaches of the teams to bring out the best tournament planning thoughtless of football development as a whole.

Are they football administrators in that FA hq or constitutional lawyers. Abeg, the one they did against SAF is enough before they bring unnecessary angst against our teams whenever they travel for future tournaments abroad.

It is North Africans that are well known for all these hostile corner corner 'win at all costs' behaviour. We didn't do well, period. Retreat, lick your wounds and plan well for the future, not constitute a nuisance in the corridors of CAF and FIFA.

Very shameful for a so called giant of Africa and ex powerhouse of the continental game.

If Congo qualified for the Nations Cup I wonder what will happen if we meet at any stage.

Salewa97:
Peter Obi should be consistent.

In one of his previous tweets, he said he would only respond to issues that are important.

Is this important?

Of course it is not important to government.
But it is important to Banditry PLC.
Continue playing games.

TheBizGenius:
I would not have responded to your comment but people are already endorsing and validating it.

Your comment is wrong. And I'm guessing your bias is because you are not a "learned" business man.

Every business on earth seeks to eliminate ALL competition using business strategies. It is a course in business school.

Government steps in if the company is stifling other businesses on its level. For example, Mr. Biggs can be indicted for monopoly against Tantalizers but not against bus stop foofoo sellers.

In Aliko's case, is there a refinery it is creating a monopoly against? It can't be against importers. You can't indict VAVA, a Nigerian furniture maker, for trying to ban importation of home furnitures even if the importers are crying.

If you must explain to people, do so from the point of acquired expertise not opinions.

But the NMPDRA (am I right?) says it resumed the issuance of import licenses when scarcity began to emerge after it suspended same for two months sometime in October, I think.

The origin of all this argument is whether Dangote can sustainably satisfy the local market which is still disputed.

Redoil:
what about the level of hunger in nigeria and south west as a region.

Please somebody should define the meaning of hunger to our dearest FG.
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defination of hunger

In politics, humanitarian aid, and the social sciences, hunger is defined as a condition in which an individual does not have the physical or financial capability to consume sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs for a sustained period. In the field of hunger relief, the term hunger is used in a sense that surpasses the typical desire for food that all humans experience, also referred to as an appetite. The most severe type of hunger is when malnutrition is widespread, and when people have started dying of starvation through lack of access to sufficient, nutritious food, this results in a declaration of famine.

Funny man.
Someone should define hunger again for you.
Okay, let me try.
Hunger is when your fuel pump start to make noise because your tank is empty....brrrrrr.....brrrrr.... Then you know it is about to burn...

nairalanda1:
To be replaced by another foreign cement company.

Lol, doesn't look like much railroading to me

Then we have mangal and Bua still active.

Let us see how the Chinese handle him. That battle is yet to emerge.

nairalanda1:
Like he railroaded his competitors in the cement industry that has made them to all close down, I guess

No na. He is a market maker in the cement industry. He has won all his battles there and subdued all competition. His major competitor Lafarge couldn't compete and promptly exited.

When Dangote made a statement (abroad and before a world audience for that matter) saying, Nigeria's national refineries will never work, as a citizen and consumer, I began to have a rethink about this whole refining drama.

nairalanda1:
IN 1993, the then government wanted to remove subsidy so that the ground would be prepared for more people to invest in refineries.

Nigerians like you said no.

In 2005, the then government too wanted to remove subsidy

Nigerians like you said no

In 2012, there were sixty licences for refineries existing

But because Nigerians like you said no, all of them could not get loans from banks and other financial institutions and also could not attract investors, because no one is going to invest in a refienry that is forced to sell subsidsed fuel.

Dangote was the only one, and I am not praising him...who got financing not because government favored him, but because the banks knew that if he failed to make a profit from his refinery, and defaulted on his loans, they will just take their money back from his other businesses via AMCON.

All this talk that you are saying dangote wants to be the only one, know that Nigerians like you brought it on yourself. If you had supported the removal of subsidy in 2012...and you did not need to support GEJ to do so, there is a difference between supporting sane economic practice and the party that produces them....by now there would have been at least two other refineries competitng with dangote. Even now, BUA, and at least one other person are putting up refineries and at least two people have refineries in the pipeline.

Dangote is in a position to have us as his mercy because you Nigerians kept on supporting subsidy without realizing that you were doing yourself long term.

But don't you think if Dangote fights this hard against fuel imports via the regulator, he is sending a signal to those refineries in the pipeline (no pun intended) that he is also prepared to railroad them.

Don't you think by this latest urgency he is trying to beat the opposition in series (facing one at a time) to avoid having to battle competition in parallel, that is, on two or three fronts simultaneously.

Can you remember that this almost happened in the telecoms sector at the outset. Two things helped the situation then and made way for the relative success in that sector today.

One, strong, ethical regulatory oversite.
Two, the demise of the national carrier.

malali:

I cant imagine that Nigerians are falling for the trick, Dangote wants to play us.
He dealt with Emefiele and never reported Emefiele for corruption.
Once they replace Farouk with one mumu person. He will dominate petrol supply in Nigeria.
The prices will be 100% at his mercy.

Hmmm....indeed we all know where this is going.
But things have to be done the right way.
It is a question of coming to equity.
It is one of the key attributes of being a judge or a referee. Your life is an open book. It is not a job for everyone. You cannot run a successful restaurant as a glutton.

malali:
Nigerians are watching as Dangote is openly trying to turn petrol supply into a cartel

Business vs. Cartel

A business is built by competing. It creates value by offering better products, prices, or services, and it survives only as long as customers freely choose it. Regulation is accepted as part of the social contract, and failure is always possible.

A cartel is built by eliminating competition. It seeks profit through control, collusion, intimidation, regulatory capture, or barriers that prevent others from entering the market. Regulation is treated as an enemy, not a safeguard.

Hahaha...this man. You sure say you no be the Mr.Farouk in the flesh.... ..

Any way it is true. It will be funny to flee from one prison only to run into another. Because it is almost inevitable that whoever wins this battle will enslave everyone else.

Very classy.
Consumate professional and dedicated lover of the game in Nigeria.

Wish him the best in his future endeavours. Perhaps someday with additional competencies he can find himself in football administration because all the ingredients of a servant are in there.

Where are the Senators and Representatives of the good people of the FCT. This is their function. The people don't have to fight anyone. Just call an audience with their representatives to lay their complaints.

They are GOVERNMENT. They have the authority to speak to the judiciary and the Executive on an EQUAL partner basis and in other climes they carry A LOT of clout and seriously influence where power goes in the polity. In other climes the Executive does not play games with them.

Look, Nigerians will CONTINUE TO SUFFER needlessly as long as they don't know how to WORK this democracy. First, if we don't insist in the CLEAR separation of powers so that no one arm overpowers the others.

Such that we deal with the Executive when they trample on the Judiciary or Legislature. We deal with the Judiciary when they try to subvert the rule of the Executive or Legislature and deal with the Legislature when they seek to drive an agenda outside Executive will and law and order. We play one against the other to hold them in a power flux.

But no. Our feudal mindset lends itself to autocracy. We want all power bestowed on one arm of government and by extension one man in the Head of State, so when he has subdued and we happen to find ourselves on the wrong side of favour, there is no one to run to.

We say we want 'cooperation' in government not 'confrontation'.... this is the result. The brakes of government are now cooperating with the throttle. Unfortunately we have reached a bend in the road and need to slow down but...

Is this wisdom in citizenship.
Sorry oh, but it is alleged that the FCT head also has the judiciary on lockdown so....

CrownedPhoenix:
This comes off as a very fuulish talk.

So corruption should go on unabated so that we can keep attracting investors who are actually hoping that the government can fight corruption head on.

And the fact that no two Nigerians sing from the same hymn sheet on basic matters of life, morality and decent living is the fuel for bad governance.

There are too many cracks in society for crooked leaders and public officials to hide in like roaches and attach themselves to like leeches.

Only restructuring can change that. We simply have to sit around a table as Nigerians, negotiate and decide what makes for decency, what is acceptable behaviour and how we want to get from where we are to where we agree is real development.

richiemcgold:
I never knew a legit whistleblowing could discourage foreign investors. As how na? 🤥

That is the paradox called Nigeria.
So you can now understand our problems in this country. You dare point them out and you become enemy number one. So the rot is allowed to fester.

Here in Abuja you see career civil servants build estates paid for in cash, serving and retired military men buying 100, 200 million naira houses and some folks here just yesterday were saying the examination of 'lifestyle' as an anti corruption tool in this country is wrong.

Does this not amount to a complete surrender to the forces of corruption. No where in the political world of democracy are public officers given the benefit of doubt by citizens, even the best run, prosperous countries.

Wotowotoman:
If anything, what Dangote has said will improve investor confidence if Tinubu can do the right thing and sack Faruk. Investors will be confident that they can come here and invest without having to bribe those thieving and corrupt government officials.

Exactly.
So when people call out individuals in government or institutions of government for perceived failures and injustices it does not amount to 'hatred' or 'demarketing', rather they are the conflicts that build and develop nations.

Because no two Nigerians today will agree whether taking action or not in matters like that of Dangote v the regulator is good for the image of the country. Some are even desirous to have the whole thing swept under and hushed over, band-aiding a septic wound.