₦airaland Forum

If you are emigrating then you want to change the narrative back here and fundamentally the three grevious issues centre around:

The economy.
Security, law and justice.
Ethno religious challenges.

Does anyone know why the aircraft was overflying that country, where it was heading and for what purpose....
Or does the public not deserve to know?

Strategies to 'harvest' the electorate....people you have not governed well.

Can only work with people who cannot make the linkages between politics and governance and know it is them that 'have all the guns'.

Ask the governors and lawmakers that have defected exactly what the centre has given them over and above what they are statutorily obliged to benefit their people...nothing.

Sccarrr:
we no need fancy football abeg ....

una think e dey easy to beat low block team , defending with 11 men, their game plan was to get a point, and Somewhow we grinded out the 3points and that's all that matters 🥱

The problem with all the disciples of tiki-taka for which Arteta is one, is that they often have no plan b. The over reliance on possession football is an open invitation for the low block tactic.

Almost everyone bar Saka was poor today. Can't say what kind of virus has infected the Eze software that he cannot even trap a ball. As for Martinelli...good news...the Arsenal ladies team is still recruiting.

Arsenal's December blues at it again.
Here the title quest implodes before our very eyes...yet again.

Oga Mo Salah.
If it didn't dey, it didn't dey.
Begin to find another club to collect your pension.
If not the demands of a club like Liverpool will crush your legacy....because in truth...it didn't dey....

See comments above.
People will not ask him now how he is going to solve this problem and that. They are not interested in making demands of the candidate and extract solid plans with workable timelines. No, they have decided already tp give him the job without an interview when they don't even know what he stands for.

Then when he gets there and empties the treasury shopping for white elephants or imposes one draconian law out of the deep blue sea they will be grumbling and gnashing their teeth behind closed doors.

The leader that will make civic education mandatory for every citizen arriving at adulthood will have liberated this country from modern day slavery.

So find a 'consultant' to write a multi billion naira proposal so that 'contract' can be awarded for surveillance technology.

Na de tin una dey find be dat.
He is giving excuses about their inability to trave calls and he is busy telling us how many 5G towers China has compared to Nigeria as if more towers will mean better surveillance.

Always looking for ways to wrangle money from.the public.

benardtotti:
Democracy is not an african system sir , Africa will need to design her own form of democracy that works for the people and not swallow everything copy and paste from the western world .

Then why bother.
And then what do you call what are doing...time wasting? Because the way we pratice our own is not improving the nation.

Again, that is why we play hopscotch with military rule since we cannot work democracy the way it should be done.

But I wish to remind us that western styled democracy was not native to Asia or the Americas. As a matter of fact much of South East Asia and Latin America had military dictatorships right up to the seventies and eighties but almost all.those countries are constitutional, multiparty democracies today and are thriving at it. Wither Africa.

epainos:
Though I am not a fan of Peter Obi, I admire his stance. Yes, I call him Obi Pandora because anyone who is a public servant and invests in Padora or similar companies while holding public office is a thief. Argue with me on this, and you will receive no response.

However, his decision not to work with Atiku now is the best strategy. Obi should go get a Labor or any other party ticket to fly again, and let Atiku kill everyone else in ADC with his money. If Obi competes in the same primary as Atiku, he will lose. The only person who can beat Atiku and has done so more than twice is Bola Tinubu, because Atiku's dollars are nothing compared to Tinubu's. According to Atiku, the only person who can surpass him is Tinubu, who has supported both Atiku and Ribadu. They understand his capabilities. Rather than wait for a new election and remain in France, Tinubu continued to pay. And he has been doing this since the days of NADECO. Ask Dele Momodu, who kept things interesting for them in the UK when they fled from Abacha. Lol. Dele Momodu stated that they always met at his home, and he would settle the majority of the bills. Even support some of them. It's why Dele calls him "egbon" till today. Tinubu invests in people. He may be dubious about his investment strategy, but it is not obvious that he purchased them like Atiku. Atiku makes it clear that he is buying you. This is the difference, and it is why people remain loyal to him. However, if someone cuts you off, thoroughly investigate the person. That fellow may have seen the "real light" or been greedy. People like Aregbesola got greedy. No one can tell me otherwise. But I have my reservation about Osinbajo. Why? He may have seen the light and decided to compete against him, but it was clear that God had not instructed him to. So, when he lost, he walked away from the situation and did not criticize Tinubu in any way. But look at Aregbesola. That's the difference. Perhaps if Osinbajo had listened to God more carefully, he would not have contested. And now he would be the one to enter Aso Rock and tell Tinubu the truth. But how can Osinbajo claim he wants to tell him the truth when he knows what he did?

So, back to Obi. Obi needs to just keep being popular. And boom....he should nor contest of I were him. Let him move into Bola Tinubu's mode. Boom. He would nominate Atiku for Vice President and then strike a deal with Osinbajo, similar to Tinubu's. It is better for that person to betray Obi later than for Obi to become Atiku's Vice President or for him to run again and lose badly. He won't get Abuja and Lagos next time. Never will he get the two cities again. And the whole of the northern land still dey deceive him. Let him not show Nigerians how weak he is, but instead pull his weight with the north, align more with them, and persuade Atiku to support him after his tenure. Obi has more years ahead of him. All he needs to do is go the Tinubu path again. Invest heavily in a good doctor abroad. That's it. Get a home there and visit it frequently to plan how to live a long life, and most importantly, he must be prayerful.

If he goes this route...forgot it...Obi will become the president of Nigeria after Atiku's 4 years. Atiku is desperate now, so, let him sign 4 years. Atiku will do everything to do it. After 4 years, he will turn to Obi to change it. At that point, Obi must rely on Atiku's supporters to keep their promise. Let there be an Imam and many powerful people from the north and south, along with videos. If Obi gives him another four years, he will take something significant from him again. That's how to go about it. Obi get so many chieftaincy titles in the north. Get access to surplus cash to throw around. Above all....invest heavily in predictive analytics to made better decisions. If he can not find experts, he might want to quickly connect with Fashola, who knows the game very well. Fashola sef no sabi anything there, but he knows how to get some good guys. That is if Fashola won't betray him. Lol. So. Let Obi do his homework very well.

I thank God for revealing to me the potential of predictive analytics. That thing is simply too powerful. There is no need for intuition again. I swear it is like entering the spiritual realm and foretelling the future. Too powerful.

Started well but got to the point of Aregbesola and I had to go back and read everything again and it is still the same thing, feudalism.

The politics of black Africa where individual loyalties are sought, cultivated or bought (which you rightly oppose) in the quest to build political fiefdoms.

Yes, I understand that in the context of cultural Africa. But this is one major reason why democracy does not work for the good of African societies. We build too much of individuals and are considerably weak collectively. We look at democracy as rulership instead of servitude.

It is a servant that will naturally take criticism without offence but a ruler cannot. According to you it is right for an Osibanjo who may have something to offer, to shut up and go away or 'wait for his turn', because he was nominated Vice by someone who you feel owns him? while the contest and criticism of an Aregbesola is terrible, abhorrent and rebellious. I don't get it.

This is government we are talking about. A call to service and not personal business, not marriage or religious officialdom. I just don't understand how we are all expected in a democracy to fall in line with one man, one vision, one ideology, one way as the only way. These are the shortcomings of monarchies and why they rise and fall....one leg.

If you really understand what democracy is about then you recognize that the ownership is by the people meaning it is sustained and refreshed by numbers, and the greater the numbers contributing actively to it the more stable, prosperous and enduring it will be.

Please let us find a way to rid our minds of this feudal nature. No man in this business is more equal than the other and the fact that this present leader is succeeding in his ways does not make it a law of nature. As a matter of fact it is an aberration to seek autocratic rule and as we have seen in many African so called democracies the day that maxim leader passes or is removed the nation enters an era of extreme instability.

Please leave Mr Aregbe alone. No fan of his.
I consider him a poor.quality administrator but he has every right to chart his own political course and will be politically examined and tested for that.

ChiefOloye:
I hope the derailment wasn't caused by babanbolas/iron condemn a.k.a urban bandits (scavenger) removing the rail tracks? Theose ones too are everywhere causing havoc, but in a less aggressive manner like their brothers in the forests.

If the trains were busy ferrying the cargo that constitutes a nuisance on our highways via the deluge of semi's and trucks then this will not happen.

If trains passed that point of vandalism every ten minutes, at the same frequency as trucks on the highway no one will dare touch those tracks.

The wrong people are charged with running the railways in this country and the wrong people are charged with envisioning a modern, efficient transport system for Nigeria.

They called it opposition politics back then. Today they call it 'hatred'. Hatred for the country, for the government and the President. Today they call it unpatriotism, demarketing and every pretentious lingo in the dictionary.

What has changed. Angels are now in power though the country is worse than it was in 2015 after ten years encounting of APC rule.

GDP worse, inflation worse, unemployment skyhigh, security...hmmm, just terrible. Exactly what can Mr. Lai lay claim to have justified all that...back then...
nothing.

Because politics in Nigeria has no correlation with governance. From 60 percent ruling party coverage to 95 percent today, nothing has positively changed amongst the federating units and amongst the polity because the defections are not about the people but about themselves.

Winning elections after elections yet managing to instal one worse government after the other. Funny country.

By 2031 it will be the same story. Pretenders will come out in the 8 year cycle of confessions from the book of lamentations. To tell us just how terrible the government they supported was, but stopping just before the chapter of personal responsibility. And why they are right once again to choose the next calamity.

We need to understand the agenda of those that continue to resist the creation of state police at the very least.

Two things are involved here:

It is either the Federal government (that is individuals in it) is scared of loosing, scared of sharing the power of the gun.

There are powerful elements within the country behind the insecurity for financial gain or territorial conquest that will resist state level law and order because access will be established beyond their reach.

tnerro1:
But some people self, Nigeria security agencies say make you go back to your village say security is guaranteed and dem no follow you go, you come use your two left legs waka go back make dem kee you. No be juju be dat

Some one calling himself Federal police under instructions from Abuja said they should go back to a village without resident police and they agreed. That is the Executive Summary.

Were they not used as bait to check something.....

Hahahahaha....so it means we all enter the cage, lock ourselves in and throw away the keys.....or hand them over to wildlife.

You just wish these battles were about governance, that is service to the people. About the shortcomings in education, healthcare, the environment, enterprise, jobs, industrial growth, investment.

But alas it is about person's, power and ultimately the sharing of booty, none of which remotely benefits those they claim elected them into office.

Very commendable from a man of great vision.

kpankpangolo:
If they see no customer, it’ll reduce. I’ll stick to roads.

Well if you try Benin road you will need to ask Santa for a mechanic and a physiotherapist for Christmas.

ufotunang:
These are the results of voting incompetent people into power

Exactly.
If.you own the government they will ensure your welfare, they will serve you. But when they see you don't matter, they don't care. After all you are paying their bills, you are buying tickets for them to travel at any cost.

Is there a regulatory agency for airlines and air transport?
What are they saying.
The Min of Aviation was summoned to the House days ago on this matter. Has he gone....

No comment.

But elections do have consequences.
If you don't own a government then your fate is bound to be lamentation.

Just as you say it doesn't matter who gets into office so this also doesn't matter.
Move on madam.

Ferdinandu:
Which kind nonsense daylight witch hunting is this. The case is not that he stole any money but that the company that executed the contracted are linked to his friends, like what? what criteria justifies that when you are in government your friends should stop their business, what criteria qualifies someone as friend. Meanwhile Tinubu is awarding the biggest project in Nigeria the coastal road to his lifetime friend to a company, his own son is a major shareholder.

Can you imagine this.
So the words nepotism, cronyism and corruption should be removed from the English language because of Ngige and his friends.

I will also say, for this to be right it means when a person is elected or appointed into government everyone else apart from his family and friends should go out of business, abi.

Yes, the Chagoury/Coastal road caper is totally wrong and I have said it many, many times. That Nigerians will continue to suffer until they wake up and own this democracy, wake up and build the institutions which underpin this democracy by expunging the feudal mental state of mind holding them captive to moneymen.

If institutions worked properly Mr. Tinubu will not dare do that and certainly not Mr Ngige.

So let us get angry enough at this apparent goose and gander, Bulus and Bala conundrum and start advocating for proper justice. Not the spiral of using one to excuse the other. We will never make progress that way.

That is all Nigerians governments do, award contracts. No governance, no development, no interest in what will prosper the general citizens, no.

Theirs is to pay tax, ours is to spend it on family and friends. Even the people are hoodwinked into thinking the quality of any government related to the number of 'projects' it commissions.

And they sing to one Mr Project or the other while their standards of living tanks like the Titanic.

See trucks everywhere. Goods that should be on rail cars. More trucks on the highway than cars. How will the roads last even if you pave them with gold and diamonds. Funny country.

fitinwell:
because we joke too much in this country...

How can you engage ex militant to secure Government infrastructure?

Federal Government negotiating with bandits..

And yet still searching for who are those financing terrorism in Nigeria...

Using Cat to watch over fried fish.. and wondering who stole the fish...

Funny government...

Hmmm...their thinking is that the cat will feed so fat and grow so selfish it will fight off other cats. But I agree it is a cat-astrophe.

But why not just get a herbivore instead. A creature that doesn't eat fish.

Dogalmighty17:
After a 17.5 trillion naira pipeline protection contract?

It may not be sabotage. Perhaps a technical fault.
But to hear Tantita's Christmas felicitations all the way in Abuja on radio is really funny...

BangaRice:
The article remains too ambiguous for a proper assessment.

I think there was a report some time ago about a PPP arrangement with a Chinese outfit. That is what I am leaning towards. But yes, the reportage is not clear.

helinues:
Okay, so Enugu people asked for rail project?

The Enugu state government has been there for 2 years plus.. This program is only coming up now showing it was not a priority over and above what it should be doing (fixing existing roads) and what the people have asked for (ditto). It simply cannot be a priority over the existing dilapidated infrastructure.

What I will make a priority it rail infrastructure over new roads not existing roads. I repeat the coastal highway should not be a priority over and above what people ask for and what will serve them better.

helinues:
Normally, no one should have any issue with development projects but when you consider how some Igbo's overreacted about the Lagos -Calabar coastal highway, if others called this project scam, no one should blame them

Oga, I cannot remember any Nigerian since 1999 advocating for a coastal highway. Is democracy no more about what a hungry man orders in a restaurant.

What I have been hearing about roads is the bad state of highways.
What I have heard after the Abuja-Kaduna line started during Jonathan's government and the Lagos - Ibadan rail line started and completed in Buhari:s government, was a strong advocacy for similar rail infrastructure south west to south east/south.

No one asked for a COASTAL ROAD. No one needs a coastal road. Folks in that region are essentially about commerce and industry first, and a listening government should attend to their advocacy first and then seek to create new enterprises after if it so desired.

But today you cannot hear anything about the kind of infrastructure, rail infrastructure that will reduce the cost of haulage from the ports in Lagos to the factories and markets in the East and the oil fields in the south.

Nobody asked for coastal road and this government did not have it in it's electoral total menu. This is another instance where politics and governance simply do not synergise.

LegendHero:
How much do you think it cost to build a 3 storey building let alone a rail line.

10bn is not too much for phase 1

The report indicates it is a counterpart amount.
Seems there is some financing arrangement in place, perhaps a PPP.

Henix:
Implementation is the main thing, not to budget.

Meanwhile, if Enugu state achieves this, I see no reason why Anambra and Abia shouldn't do the same. The Professor of Economics in Anambra needs to come up with more developmental ideas capable of opening up the state.

Don't worry.
Once one state starts you will see a cascade of events happening in others.

It is the failure at the centre over the years to visualize the enormous potentials of rail transport that has brought Nigeria to this ridiculous position where it has to concrete all it's highways (who does that) instead of developing it's rail network.

In most other countries haulage of goods over long distances is the exclusive preserve of rail transport infrastructure. But take a drive on the highways from Kano all the way to Port Harcourt or Lagos and you tend to find more trucks and semi's than automobiles with the devastating consequences of danger and damage and the ridiculous cost of concreting all these roads., resources that should go to a better way of delivery, railway.

3Ceagle:
They have their own plan to integrate all the South West states. I guess they are still on design and funding plan stage.

I think the railway system should be handle by the various regional development commissions with strong participation by the FG and state Governors to ensure accountability. This way continuity can be sustained, no one Governor will stall the project.

I disagree.
Regional development commissions are funded by the Federal government and this amounts to the same Federal government that is more focused on its trumpeted' concrete roads infrastructure which will still not cope with the army of trucks on our highways. In my opinion this will take decades, generations to achieve.

Let states fund it. The more states adopt the masterplan the higher the pressure on states that have not. No state will want to be a rail wilderness when it's neighbours are serviced.

It just takes the Federal government (through a rail infrastructure commission) to work with the states on the plans, routes and standards every state will adopt.