₦airaland Forum

dederocs:
President Tinubu, mobilise like war time, because it's war, these religious extremists jihadists who hate non Muslims and moderates invaded Nigeria, declared war on Nigeria...we need to release the big guns, mobilise state resources to our war machine.

Constituency allowances payment to house of representatives and senators should be stopped for now, there should be spending cuts across ministries and strict accountability and transparency on usage of public funds, channel funds to our military, and ensure the military uses the money judiciously as well, engage America, be humble, we need help, let Trump come with the big guns, to help us chase out the terrorists... America have precision missiles, satellite and mapping technology, they can track and see the bandits and territorists movement in real time, and use high tech drones or guided missiles to take them out, use this opportunity, save the peace of Nigeria, by eliminating terrorists.take brutal decisive action or Nigeria risks civil war.

Accountability and fiscal transperancy is still a big problem in Nigeria, military contracts and purchases should be scrutinized to ensure accountability.

What more can one say.
This is precisely what every citizen should be demanding of their governors, councillors, senators, representatives of all kinds in any form of government and above all to the President and Commander in Chief right now.

That enough is enough..That we have reached a watershed and want this country returned to a place similar at the very least to the first day of democracy in May 1999.

We want peace. We are tired of massacres, kidnappings, terrorism and genocide. Surely there must be a solution.

yinkus6750:
A whole deputy speaker kidnapped in a sane country, yet the security agencies couldn't rescue him within a week.
Now struggling to raise 200m ransom.
And we sat we don't need international support to stop all this nonsenses.

Ask me, honestly I just don't get it.

In 1979 or there about Iranian regime backed militants took hostages out of the American embassy first to demand for the extradition of the Shah.
The late President Carter was in office and in the run up to re election remained unsure of what to do.

Up stepped a certain Ronald Reagan who promised not only to return the hostages but decisively with the Iran government and it's militias.

Carter promptly lost.

We are approaching a very similar crossroads. The pressure is mounting on all sides both home and away. The government is under serious performance scrutiny and it just has to deal with this situation once and for all. Excuses of an inherited problem no longer suffices.

If you reject help, if you cannot engage with others to assist on your own terms then you will carry the can.
Carter was dethroned not because the US was incapable, but because he personally did not have the guts , the will to make the call.

Like I said. This government should ban all political engagement with these bandits, these terrorists and declare a state of emergency in any locality that has capitulated.

Kingdavid579:
Him Don collect appointments na, what do you expect?

Everyone who's against US helping Nigeria is benefiting from Aso rock

But why can't the government engage these powers that have the resources, the technology and the sheer will to get this problem sorted.

Are we not the ones complaining that we are out resourced, out gunned and out foxed by these merchants of death....or are we saying the government and certain citizens are satisfied with the status-quo.

Are we satisfied that we can no longer travel cross country by road in peace, visit our country homes...I don't understand. Have we not been asking for the intervention of foreign military contractors (FMC's)....just like those that enabled the elections in 2015 by effectively suppressing the terrorists....

Now we have folks who have the best capabilities, the best technologies and the deepest pockets to carry out this campaign and here we are pussy footing instead of stealing the initiative and driving the point ON OUR OWN TERMS.

What if the US government does a volte face and decides it is not interested in Nigeria anymore, who will benefit. Who will be emboldened to commit more crimes against humanity and what will the government and all it's fan base say when the next village is pillaged and mass graves are dug....

My own has always been about governance.
That is the output of democracy, qualitative, developmental driven governance.

Since the PDP is no where to be found to aid this process they don't appear in my radar at all.

And if they are not ready to play their part they may as well go into extinction. Just a pity that the negroid race cannot on its own and without any personal inducement fuse together to form viable, prosperous societies.

autodexter:
Please the gurus in the house...who/what is the collateral for this loans?

Good question.
If the monies were expended on creating enterprises. Those assets will be the collateral just as your oil has been for years now.

But since there is not much security on ground ....well you are the collateral and that is why taxation is so important to this increasing leaning socialist government.

People say, oh infrastructure is important to build.
Yes it is. But China has been building infrastructure all over Africa for decades. It has built rail lines in Zambia, roads in Congo, bridges here and there.

But why are the people still wretchedly poor. No jobs. Roads don't create jobs, just as the fable of constant power by itself will boom the economy....how?. Today in Nigeria, power has improved, now the complaint is that stable electricity is unaffordable....why....no jobs...poverty. Gasoline is widely available, stable at the pumps yet few people fill up, many still cannot afford to move around.... poverty.

So if government has to borrow it has to attack the centre of the issue which is poverty. And this issue is one of productivity. Get more Nigerians employed by triggering industrialization and it will be a lot easier to finance infrastructure, education, health and security.


PS: And please, not palliative handouts or seed scattering in the form of so called incentives. Do it the China way. Government identifies an area of great need or a sector it wants to dominate globally, gets industries set up and the private sector buys them out as soon as they are up and running.

malali:
According to the Federal Government, the measures, championed under President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, have helped stabilise the economy, narrow the fiscal deficit, and restore investor confidence.

But despite the improvements, growth remains sluggish, with more than 130 million Nigerians still living in poverty.

If all the borrowings have not created 'GROWTH'....
Where have these funds gone instead.
When you lay out tens of not hundreds of so called 'PROJECTS' costing trillions of naira to so called 'CONTRACTORS' that employ a few hundreds this is exactly what you get.

This is exactly what the priority this government is.... Projects.
You don't build an economy based on contracting. You build an economy based on industrialization. The making of things. Either to use or to sell. It is the only way to help your currency (by import substitution). It is the only way to create sustainable taxation through job creation (contracting jobs fizzle out the moment the projects are delivered).

Since 2023. I cannot lay my hands on any single industrial project this government has envisioned thought more about implementing.

Like Mojeed Dahiru says on radio in Abuja. You only borrow to finance revenue earning enterprises. Any other thing is a debt trap you will never get out of.

This debt we see today as we are going will become 100 billon shortly and 200 billion in a few years and 500 billion in years after that if we cannot get the economy working FOR ALL by creating real value. Real businesses, real enterprises, real productivity, which means mass industrialization.

Let us start making the things flooding our ports from abroad. Government should take the lead, trigger the process by PPP's enmasse.

At least the northern minorities and the middlebeltans under siege from Jihadists will be grateful for the attention at this period in time.

Even if one more life is saved, even if one planned attack is averted on account of this threat.

It was well worth it and I personally thank the Congressmen and women and the POTUS who stood up for this country in asking questions of the government concerning the lives of those that cannot speak up for themselves.

They victims in tens of thousands are people's father's, mothers, brothers and sisters. They are not fodder, they are not statistics, they are not political pawns. They too have a right to live safe, dignified and fulfilled lives.

HacheNoire:
Are we the only country thriving and facing insecurity?

The US had mass shooting in all 50 states in 2025 alone, and of o go by your rhetoric, it means they are not doing anything right?

Are we on same page?

Hello!

I agree. The epidemic of gun violence in the US is self inflicted. It is caused by loose gun ownership laws. Just as the epidemic of sectarian and religious violence in Nigeria is self inflicted. Caused by loose secularism and anti sectarian laws.

The big difference however is the impact on society, on the economic wellbeing of it's victims and the destruction of livelihoods of millions in rural areas.
There are no camps for the displaced in the US. There are no people forced to leave their lands and sources of livelihoods. There are no people paying ransoms in humongous sums or taxes to non state institutions.

The big difference is that every shooter there is either dead, or in jail awaiting trial and certain death. Here they are still active, still growing, getting emboldened every passing day and slowly eating away at the authority of government at all levels.

This should be concerning for you economists who do long term analysis.

Vision101:
Nay and nay.... Discerning international watchers know that it's the usual Trump muscle flexing. Nigeria has remained relatively passive in all his noise. Tariff war didn't hit Nigeria. Nigeria refused to be dumping ground for his prisoners. In his visa revocation and immigrant repatriation Nigeria has relatively be calm. China has a major hold on Nigerian economy. Nigeria is closer to brics and Asian blocks right now. He's aware of the gradual turn around and direction of the Nigerian economy. America is seriously losing their grip on Nigeria and Africa.

Trump's lowest hanging fruit is what he's doing. Is he thinking about evading Nigeria....far from it. America particularly Trump doesn't do charity operation. What is his target? Draw Nigeria closer through the present blackmail. He's not going to give Nigeria anything free but we must pay for them. We should expect stoppage of aid. He has stopped some already still Nigeria didn't shake.

As for the performance of our Euro bonds, I'm very happy. It's a recognition of positive signals coming from Nigerian economy. In finance and economics sentiment has no place.

Trump this and that but you gladly ignored the premise of the whole situation. Insecurity and the growing Jihadist movement. The lives being needlessly lost on a daily basis. The hapless folks that are not privileged to enjoy your high wire economics. That is what 'the other's part of Nigeria is concerned about.

Do the folks who give you this money not enjoy both peace and prosperity. Are both mutually exclusive. Was both not promised by this government. So why is one more important than the other.

Then you should establish a law against amnesty, amnesty is not given in the middle of wars but at the end of conflicts, when all hostilities have ceased permanently.

Any state government that enters into negotiations will automatically attract a state of emergency.

Federal law should supercede state laws because this conflict is across state borders and the non state actors in some cases are foreign nationals.

jmoore:
You can't choose a band for yourself.

The way the newer smart meters work I think there is a possibility that people can choose the bands they want, that is the number of hours of electricity they will get since these meters are remotely monitored and can be remotely turned on and off.

TalkTalkTwins:
How is it done?
Do you get to choose the band?

No. Bands are allotted areas, consumer zones perceived as lower, middle or higher income. It is essentially an exchange between duration and tariff.

LagosOrigin:
Instead of calling on the military and DSS to step up or be sent home, he's summoning diplomats

Summon the service chiefs immediately, give them 48hrs order to annihilate the illiterate terrorists and fish out there sponsors or be sent home.

Block the borders that this terrorists come in from forever.

That's what a responsible leader would do and not just summoning diplomats that won't fight the terrorists for you.

Na the diplomats wan fight terrorists for you or the service chiefs ..

Tinubu is clueless

Honestly it just goes to show that this government has reached its limits on this security matter.
They just don't have solutions.
Marching orders are NOT solutions.

If the skills, the wisdom, the competence is not there changing service chiefs every day will not change anything.

When the military in the US interacts with government through Congress and the Armed Services Committee they dig deep into the structure and operations of the military, they are on top of everything from organisation, recruitment, procurement, deployment, etc. What military administration does are the finer details, tactics, field craft, etc. But vision and mission remains a civilian thing.

Here, it appears no one controls the military. They set the table of administration, cook the meals of operations. The involvement of government, the civilian government ends at providing the ingredients and watching the culinary show.

If I may ask as I have been for years now. What is the function of the Nigeria Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies to which both civilians and the military subscribes. Why haven't they come up with a framework to handle this intransigent matter running for decades now. Why haven't they come up with actionable, sustainable solutions to handle insurgency, banditry and the growing Jihadist movements.

This is where a civilian government will prove that it is properly in charge, that it is absolutely responsible for the security situation in Nigeria because the way we are headed we may soon see blames being thrown from one party to the other as Nigerians seek who hang for this tragedy.

Who is to blame for this sorry state of insecurity in Nigeria. The civilian administration or the military establishment. What is the synergy like between these important institutions.

Just looking at those pictures with women seated on the bare earth in lamentation breaks my heart.

What have these people done to deserve this. What do they own so precious that they have to be killed for it.

These are poor peasants who enjoy no benefit from the authorities. Just struggling to survive off the land and dying for it.

Honestly this country is a failed mess.
Absolutely no one who was an adult in 1999 and celebrated the transition to democracy will have remotely expected such descent into national ignominy.

Can anyone point to anything that impacts on life and decent living that has improved in this so called civilian rule.

2RightHands1Coc:
This one na Nigerian Shepherd

....nothing like that except you mean Fulani herdsman and that specie of dog is.....

But these things are paid for.
You sell to them and they pay in forex.
Trade is mutually beneficial.
I don't understand what the lamentations are about.

That you cannot use your earnings to improve your lives is absolutely up to you.

Japan is the fourth largest economy in the world, was second for decades. This is an island nation a third the size of Nigeria by land mass and in which half that area is mountainous and unusable.

It has practically no raw materials but enough volcanic and seismic activity to sharpen the mentality of it's people to the fact that they are on their own and have to survive by how they think and what they are able todo with their hands.

In addition they have fought and lost a war, the only country so far in history to have been nuked, yet they have not sat back and lashed out against our nations in spite or retribution. Today they are the primary champions of peace round the world.

What exactly is Africa's problem and this endless victim mentality.

This is a mentality completely lost on

And you think the US State Department has not seen this and a lot more.

You think they don't realize the Nigeria state is gradually failing.

And you think they will.just sit by and watch a country of over two hundred million fall apart.

Ask what is happening in Mali right now. It will send shivers down your spine.

This is an army obviously growing in strength month by month and with the growing socio - economic collapse and millions of desperate youth to recruit the future should be clear to all what is going to happen.

If you cannot hold your government to account on security and the economy then you better start thinking of a plan b.

I think by the time you start negotiating with terrorists that openly bear arms against the state and get away with horrendous crimes against humanity the lines of 'complicity' become extremely blurred.

Once again where is the Legislature to straighten this issue out. Only them can make the people see the limitations of government in this matter just as only them can convey the frustrations of the long suffering people who cannot understand why government has to negotiate, capitulate rather than fight.

Mr Akpabio. The time for 'allegiances at all costs' to the Executive has run its course. It is time you and your colleagues start to work for 'the people's of this country.

Start to do the hard task of calling this Executive to order or someone else will do it for you.

Bigdickmoney:
I’m Tired Of My Girlfriend Here In The Uk , She Frustrating Me. She Is An Alcoholic

I have been dating this lady for two years now here in the Uk I’m Nigerian and she is from Kenya. Have only been in the uk for 3 years, and she been here 20 years. She is an alcoholic and alcoholic is affecting her day to day life as she can’t even work or get things done. She lives on benefits.

Each time she drinks she becomes violent and fights me. we live together. Most times I have to run out of the house. I’m the one paying the rent.

2days ago she got violent and hit me several times. The neighbours call the police and I was taken to custody. Now I am out and afraid to go back to the house cos I don’t want to go to police again cos I don’t want anything to affect my dbs.

I’m squatting with a friend. Though her name is also in the contract of the house but I’m the one paying. I can’t even go home now as I’m afraid don’t know what to do. I’m no longer interested in the relationship. But I’m afraid to go to the house even though police didn’t restrict me from the house.

The police was called to sort only you out.
The police has not restricted your access.
You are afraid to return.

Reading this you wonder if she is a police officer or has them on speed dial because the one thing you have not done is present your side to the police.

Is there something that you are not disclosing.

stanluiz:
Jokers!!

If they are serious service Chiefs, By now , Nigeria military will be bombing and destroying terrorists and islamist jihad camp in the middle belt and the entire north.

Absolutely. That will be the first proof that you can handle the situation and don't need any intervention.

You will have expected that by now what we will be hearing from the DHQ is a massing of troops, equipment and logistics around those hotspots in preparation for an onslaught on those terrorists.

But no they are busy in their offices sipping tea and distracting the populace away from where the real problem is.

stuffs2002:
Thank you so much my brother.

Nigeria is a sovereign country and we will not be intimidated by any country trying to use any excuse to steal our resources in the name of protection

Then prove your sovereignty by ending all negotiations with bandits and insurgents and smoke them all out so that your citizens can return to their homes from the various IDP camps and so that indigenous populations can return to their homelands that are occupied and have been renamed.

Walk the talk.

HgAkpobomeEr:
Sovereignty must be defended at all costs.

Are you joking. What nonsense sovereignity
Is the Nigerian government not negotiating peace deals with bandits who have annexed vast swathes of territory, running their armed forces and collecting taxes in broad daylight.

This country is already split, having dual ownership. In another part of West Africa. The capital of Mali, Bamako is presently cut off from the rest of the country, surrounded completely and besieged by Jihadists who have cut off supplies of gasoline.

You think the US will sit by and watch an important country such as Nigeria fall to insurgents who will be emboldened to spread terror across the west coast if Mali falls.

You better tell your Commander-in-Chief that the clock is ticking. He better get off his political play acting and start the hard business of governance or else someone else will do it for him.

Renewable Energy.

nairalanda1:
I often find it funny that anytime someone mentions tax, Nigerians start shouting and screaming

Emefiele was appointed by GEJ and one thing he did was to bring back tarrifs for every ATM withdrawal. Even GEJ supporters were saying they miss the now Emir of Kano, who before they were abusing.

You hear Nigerians shouting that they do subsidy in saner climes. When you inform them that such subsides are paid for by taxes, dem go dey begin to start wobbling and fumbling, or they start to call one agbero.

If we were to bring subsidy back on fuel,government would spend 15 trillion naira. That is half of our budget for this year...and you know what that means...a big hole in the budget which would be filled by .....loans.

Like I say here many times, even if we fight corruption and even if we assume that Obi eliminated corruption on taking over in 2023, it still means we have a budget of less than 32 trillion this year. That cannot pay for any subsides or freebies or welfare projects. That is why APC Is useless...they can't raise revenue.

But Nigerians have been so used to freebies that when GEJ for example told them the truth in 2011, that fuel subsides were unsustainable, most of them went on riots and protests (today some of them chant they were decieved..lol). Nigerians want everything cheap. The fact is, there is no cheap anything

Tarrifs on fuel are being charged because right now, our budget was based on oil being at least 75 dollars per barrel for the year. IN reality, oil has been at 63-68 dollars per year. In the past we would have borrowed our way out if it, and we are still borrowing, but IMF Is also refusing to give us the amount we actually need...so taxes.

You can call me agbero, or you can face the reality of our poverty, and vote out APC in 2027 AND VOTE IN A GOVERNMENT WHOSE AGENDA WOULD BE INDUSTRIALIZATION AND IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY...and who will stop wasting money on subsidising power so that we can have enough investment to actually fix power. Only education and health below the secondary level should and must be subsidised.

You never seem to question the spending.
What can be done better, with lesser aka government efficiency.
It is always only about Nigerians not paying enough.

A man who runs a business and has little care for his clients.or customers beyond what he bills them is headed for bankruptcy.

Where are the investments government wants to profit from. That is the question. Leaders or governments of other nations are up in arms with one another to bring investments and jobs back home because they know the limitations of a tax flog on a dying economy.

Not this one that wants to make bricks without straw. They give you palliatives and want you to pay first world taxes out of that.

When was the last time you heard this government mention the word EMPLOYMENT RATE. Such a vital, critical statistic in other climes. Here, no.

That is the proper way to handle things not all the grandstanding. Say what you are doing to address the concerns because they are real.

Tens of thousands have been lost over the years.with the middle belt and Christian dominated areas bearing a disproportionately high casualty rate. Millions have been displaced and their lands occupied till date.

The reason why these issues are not more audible from within is because the Legislature is not functional as representatives of the people like their colleagues in other climes. If not we will have learnt in detail the carnage unfolding.

But like I have said severally, this government, in it's desire for total domination of all arms has inadvertently removed all safety devices to it's administration, silenced all warning systems and turned off all the sensors to the state of the nation so the feedback to government is that all is well while it is not.

Nigerians must rise up and insist institutions are independent and that they work for the overall good.of the people and not just serve the government in power or the figure of the leader of the country.

It is this failure of institutions of government that has necessitated concern from overseas. You can only keep a corpse in your house for so long before the decay begins to attract the attention of your neighbours. Most cases of domestic abuse are reported by neighbors when the cries over the fence and across walls become intolerable. This is where we are.

The US is not the potential end to the nation. It has rather saved this nation from sudden destruction by a total breakdown of law and order. Because the way we were headed....

Iamzik:
You can't assist a government that is complicit and turns the blind eye to killing of its own citizens. Imagine a government that forgives bokoharam killers and "reintegrate" them with some allegedly being recruited into the army... Those that burnt Deborah alive and posted it on social media are walking free. What do you want that international community to think?
Any weapon they give to the army would probably end up in the hands of those terrorists anyways.


Tinubu came out on October 1 to say that the nation is safe and secure despite killings going on in kogi and Kwara.

Any non state actor that is bold enough to come nto town armed in daylight for peace talk is clearly sanctioned by the government of that locality. Some parts of the north pay tax to bandit to plant and harvest on their own land.

Tinubu is focused on taxing Nigerians to death instead of security the nation. He is quick to change service chief for alleged coup to protect himself but he doesn't care whether Nigerians are slaughtered on a daily basis

This is exactly one of the triggers to this incident. The failure to bring justice to the terrorists. These people have embassies, they watch the local news and and see the paradox of a citizenry crying out for justice and a government setting the criminals free.

Of a citizenry in IDP camps while the terrorists are rehabilitated with public funds and set free to go home. How do you expect them to react. What you may see as normal may not be normal in other climes.

It is not only the US that knows these things and is repulsed and amazed by what is happening. It is just that the present US leadership is outspoken and the US is able to act.

Jaga9ja:
All these are media stunts, possibly to pressure the Nigeria government into taking security more seriously.


The US government will not put boot on ground in this country.

That is exactly what it is
'A NATION OF PARTICULAR CONCERN'
Because the nation and it's leaders are not particularly concerned.

LibertyRep:
Action in Nigeria as how? Invade a sovereign nation?

I think this genocide claim is becoming a subterfuge for something sinister.

Assist Nigeria to tackle this insecurity and not take action uninvited.

Help to find out those behind these attacks?
Help to rehabilitate terrorists that will not be prosecuted?
And I can go on and on.

These are the things within our grasp as a country but we have had no political will, no citizenship will to face up and handle these issues that we are clearly capable of.

Admit it or deny it. If the attention of the US will stop the next massacre of hundreds if not thousands anywhere in the country of any faith then it is a win FOR ALL. Except those who are behind these atrocities and those openly or clandestinely supporting it.

It is a real and serious pity that most of those who comment in post or on radio and tv are more concerned about ethno-religious sentiments than about the tens of thousands of lives lost over the last two decades to marauders rampaging through villages and towns displacing whole indigenous populations

If the US threat will eventually lead to the closure of the various IDP camps scattered around a country NOT AT WAR, then it is all for the good of those long suffering citizens. Enough of sentiment.

By coercion or by threats, it is merely to help a country that appears not to be able to help itself.

Front0lane:
Why should nigeria elect a failure or was Ebele Jonathan not a complete failure ?!

And the one you elected after Jonathan was an overwhelming success. Please find another rock to hide under. This one can no longer cover.

rapthugx:
It is a govt funded stadium. According to Wikipedia ithe cost is over $250M. Just Google Talanta sports stadium.

Must be.
All those space frames are damn expensive in a continent with little industrial capacity. Everything there will be imported with costs twice more than in Europe or Asia.

motayoayinde:
Stupid people hailing those who will turn their country to Iraq and Afghanistan.

So what are the Jihadi groups rampaging through the middle belt doing.

Was told by a prominent citizen of Kogi state that a place called Egbe is undergoing forceful cleansing, wholesale displacement of indigenous populations.

In which other country not at war is such happening.