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This is mid table form.
Even the Newcastle game has more bite than this.
You wouldn't think Chelsea is at home.

Chelsea is really poor today.
No pace, no movement, no goal seeking tactic.
Poor coaching.

Yankee101:
That’s the same amount
Abroad, in the US or Canada
Your kids get feee education in public schools
If you pay your taxes for up to 10 years you’ll get a pension
You have access to welfare, soup kitchens, child credits
Food is also very cheap. The major problem with that amount is just accomodation. If you’re not ashamed you can be on welfare and you’ll get discounted housing and food stamps
Security, electricity, fairly good roads, potable water, cheap public transportation are taken for granted
You can get job place healthcare insurance in the US while in Canada healthcare is free



Of course you can earn more money if you’re ready to work harder


Now talks you still want to compare?

Now that we know all these.
The million dollar question is?
How can we bring these ideals to bear on this country and the people.

I am happy that more and more people are begining to have 'quality of life' conversations about their existence within their geo-political entities.

The next step will be to make the linkages between their political choices and the consequent effects of governance on their experiences.

In a nutshell begin to foster ideological politicking, slowly discarding sentiment for objective decision making.

Only then will a nation make meaningful, all encompassing and sustainable progress.

Well the fellow was merely painting a picture of distress.

Tummies naturally downsize for reasons of hunger.

Yes all countries borrow but none wears it as a badge of honor like Nigeria under this government.

Put on the news. The Conservative Party and others in opposition are berating the Labour government on the rising public debt viz the rise in interest rates.

In the US the government is presently shut down because of spending disagreements in Congress. The issue at hand is the rising debt.

What are our opposition parties doing back home to tackle this government's financial recklessness. What is the National Assembly doing to push for better value for government resources.

In the long run Israel will lose the support of almost all countries and become isolated completely.

It is written in the stars. Because it will seek to annex all the West Bank and Gaza into one state.....

And then an all out war will break out.
This is the old testament playing out all over again.
That place cannot know freedom from conflicts.

God1000:
Hmm, this is serious oo, but to be honest I prefer donating money to orphanage homes, NGOs and and other charity organizations than taking such risk

Infact I will receive more blessings from God for helping the less privileged with such huge amount of money

Lastly, if you want to do it, do it without expecting anything in return

Do what you want to do personally and stop poisoning the minds of others with a narrative that this incident is common.

Like every issue in life there are failures but the are are also success stories out there and anyone who is in a position to help the helpless should not be distracted or discouraged.

God1000:
Hmm, this is serious oo, but to be honest I prefer donating money to orphanage homes, NGOs and and other charity organizations than taking such risk

Infact I will receive more blessings from God for helping the less privileged with such huge amount of money

Lastly, if you want to do it, do it without expecting anything in return

Do what you want to do personally and stop poisoning the minds of others with a narrative that this incident is common.

Misterone:
In a continent of about 53 countries, there will always be classification of good, better, and best or fast, faster and fastest. Obi should stop this nonsense.

When things go bad for an individual, a company or a country's economy shouldn't people ask at least, what happened. For the simple reason to avoid such in future.

And the only way to get answers is by stirring debates on issues, not hiding them.

I remember when the economic downturn became noticable the then government blamed the situation on Covid. Poor income due to a collapse in the oil market. We all agree to that.

But how come other economies of similar structure have all since recovered and we are even worse than during the Covid period. How come only us have not recovered. Don't you want to know why.

How come we have not done an economic post mortem on 2013 to 2023 when most countries have instituted inquiries and gotten answers from those that ked during those periods.

Only us. That is why we carry on doing the same things over and over the same way and we expect in another time period after another pandemic or economic shock we will not start from scratch.

Racoon:
Of course financial indiscipline and clueless ineffective leadership are worst combo that can never take a country through a good economic tragectory.

Meanwhile, the same IMF goaded the same failed govt with its many neck-constricting unfeasible economic policies. Imagine telling govt to remove subsidy on electricity fuel and increase taxation. God save Nigeria from the jackals feeding on it's dying carcass.

There is nothing fundamentally wrong in reducing subsidies or cancelling them completely on certain aspects of public services or increasing the amount citizens contribute to the national treasury if the public purse is lean.

After all individuals.do that..I am sure the vast majority of citizens over recent years have cut back on many things they took for granted before. We too have cut back on spending (subsidies from the government's perspective) on ourselves, our relations, our friends despite how they feel about this. And we too have demanded for more or better income (taxation from the government's perspective) as individuals through advocacy for better wages and price increases by businesses.

This is not a fundamental problem.

The problem is what has replaced these savings or what are we spending these pay rises, these increased earnings on.

If we as a country continue the way we were doing things because our employer has increased our salary then we will never get out of financial crises.

This is where I fault the government and totally agree with Mr. Peter Obi. We have not seen from government, this government any sign that we are living in austerity by what they choose to spend money on.

You remove subsidy on gasoline, inflation jacks up. You should spend money primarily on Inflation busters. You increase taxes and cost of living spikes. You should spend money primarily on reducing household bills, enterprise bills. That is what you should do. Item by item, what are Nigerians paying much more for and invest in those things as a priority.

But government just goes about spending money the way successive governments since the Obasanjo regime spent their way to ruin. Budgets don't reflect realities. The cost of governance continues to spiral out of control. Investments (because I hate the word projects) are not commercially oriented but are mostly self seeking and self rewarding.

So the impact of these reforms do not hit the ground where the ordinary man is. If not this is almost two and a half years and inflation remains stubbornly high and far off wages and earnings of most people and enterprises.

The government is not getting it right and will not right up this capsized ship of an economy before it's tenure is over. Or in simple language it will not return this economy to the state it met it before it has to go. Looking from the people side of things.

You say Premier League?
You mean the league of 20 clubs?
Is it since inception or just this season...?

Good one. More industrial capacity cannot be wrong.
But there should be an integrated plan to get Ajaokuta/Itakpe up and running to provide feedstock to these mills.

Also I am all for recycling and resource conservation but what these steel mills have caused in the past two decades is an explosion is the dreaded, scorch earth activities of so called 'Iron Condemn' folks who fo round urban areas pilfering, burglarizing and assaulting people to collect metallic articles which end up at these steel mills as feedstock.

It is high time the steel industry comes under the spotlight and government gets a grip of of things before both public and private investment come under threat.

I just hope this new outfit is not the next in line to invigorate the already challenging situation.

deji17:
Once the Coastal road is complete, there will be less traffic on some of these roads which will make repair work easier and quicker . A road like this will go from main / primary link road to alternate / secondary route connection.
But some, one way thinkers and myopic people will tell you not to construct a new road untill all the existing one are fixed.

Just listen to yourself.
They should wait until a new road is constructed before an old one is fixed, also.

Okay, citizens and businesses along that axis should stop paying taxes until the road is fixed.

Whatever is good for the crazy goose is okay for the determined gander.

Failed citizens.

And if the case is dropped what will happen.
And even if the unthinkable happens and he is tried and sentenced, will he not be pardoned....and what will happen.

Just a couple of days ago on Sky, former PM Boris Johnson was in the docks of a panel of inquiry seeking answers about certain Covid policies during the ill fated pandemic.

That is accountability without limits. Can we ask how such systems work and who is responsible for holding public officials accountable. So we know by what standards we rate our society.

But to have our prisons virtually void of public officials while our country is racked by the disease of corruption is just terrible.

Nazgul:
I don't know about the rest of the countries on that list. But you see that 4.5m they wrote for Nigeria, it's a lie from the pit of hell.

Cos it's almost impossible to be homeless in Nigeria, you'll sha see where you'll squat and if nobody in the city accommodates you, there's definitely a space for you in your village to lay your head unless you're an orphan.

USA has more homeless people than Nigeria.

They are talking about those who cannot pay to be housed. Whether ownership, or rent. So squatters are homeless. Those living under bridges, in shacks, in uncompleted buildings are technically homeless. Anywhere that you cannot fill on a form as your residence for the purpose of administration is termed homelessness.

Heading for total financial ruin.
And will take down many countries when the economy eventually collapses.
Gold must be having a laugh with this news.

jaxxy:
Doesn't matter the government of the Failed state will still negotiate with them.

This is just bad.
Really bad.
Honestly these are symptoms of a failed state.
People should have no confidence whatsoever that this government can protect the.
None at all.

Namaster:
Whoever wrote this GARBAGE should be flogged!

NO information about the reason for the relocation.

NO information why only DENTISTRY students were affected while their MBBS counterparts were left alone.

NO information about what will happen to those who were NOT transferred to RSU.

But the SHODDY article was careful to mention the contribution of the SUG President.

I bet the NONSENSE was written by an unqualified SYCOPHANT somehow elected or appointed into the SUG with ZERO idea about Public Relations.

Indeed. The report was extremely specific about the kind of bus conveying the folks.

So much for university education. Very informative indeed.

GanagiBitrus:
An effective railway system will reduce the number of these heavy trucks on our roads & also reduce such tragedies.

Exactly what we have been saying.
Travel by any intercity road and you can clearly see the menace of heavy duty trucks.

They cause most of the accidents.
They do most of the damage to roads and bridges.
They violate right of way by indiscriminate parking.

I don't understand why rail infrastructure is not a priority in Nigeria. Rail lines are cheaper to build, cheaper to maintain, have a far higher carrying capacity and do this consuming far less energy making cross country haulage much cheaper.

Because rail lines are shorter distances and pass through more remote locations between cities the public is less exposed to dangers of hazardous cargoes.

Why is the government not investing in rail lines and making rail connections mandatory for high throughput industries both existing and proposed especially when assessing their EIA.

Cement plants, quarries, mining sites, inland docks and EPZ's, seaports and airports should all have rail links as part of their approval process.

If the government was busy connecting the existing rail network to the Dangote refinery when it was being built, the need for the storied 4,000 CNG transport trucks will have been unnecessary. The distances fuel will be trucked will be between the local rail terminal and depots or filling stations. This short distances will then be viable and safer during the night only.

But presently I don't think even the new rail lines commissioned last regime carry any reasonable cargo and that is why they are not viable enough to repay the loans and attractive enough to further investment.

Rail lines the world over are primarily cargo intended. That is where they make money to subsidize passenger services.

'More bouyant'.... while commissioning, wait for it...'Revenue House'.

To make for even more bouyancy...hahahaha..

What I will.just advice Nigeria to bring a lasting solution is to decentralize security services.

Get policing down to the grassroots by establishing state and local government police.

The size of the Federal police should be cut in half. The resources saved used to improve the quality of services. Better compensation, better training and equipment and a better structure with an emphasis on intelligence, technology and specialization.

They can maintain reasonable sized, rapid response, armed and equiped units in each geo zone to handle incidents of extreme prejudice, where state units are overwhelmed.

But their core focus and mandate should be the big picture, organized crime, cross border incidents and crimes against Federal personnel and institutions.

This country is too populous, too diverse and far too complicated for one institution to guarantee it's total security.

laivwire:
There was a fateful morning, I got up early from Kontagora driving to Abuja. As I exited the town, I saw hordes of bike men in black (local vigilantes) riding into town for a meeting. I learned they were embarking on a rescue mission for a nearby village where bandits kidnapped the night before. They know the directions the bandits headed and we're going after them.

When I returned to the town later, I learned the mission was a disaster. The bandits spotted them from far away and laid an ambush. It was a massacre. About 40 vigilante men with only a handful of shotguns against many bandits brandishing automatic AK-47 rifles.

Different lives I know in Rijau have been lost to these bandits but you say they should defend themselves. With what?

You are simply shifting the buck. If you do not arm and train the JTF, it would be another massacre in the making.

This is exactly what I am saying.
Is it beyond a state government to buy proper fire arms, body armour, APC's and all the gear to protect it's operatives while meeting with such violence?

Are state governors/governments not actively making procurements for the present Nigeria Police? Of vehicles, gear and a few times arms, renovating baracks, etc.

On the other hand do most states not have bogus civil service filed with ghost workers they pay?

So the resources are there and they can raise even more through taxation if the people can see potentials and results.

All the difference between the massacre of vigilantes and a successful rescue mission that should have been is structure, simple.

regenerateman:
This is what Pastor Ezekiel said in Plateau state. When the Nigeria army comes to the villages and collects knives, cutlasses and Dane guns from the locals, they will know that an attack by herdsmen is imminent.

The Nigerian Army can only do this if the people do not advocate for institutional security.

This is a democracy so the tools are available to the people to get their wishes.

Advocate for independent statewide and local government police service as the solution. The reason for this is simple.

Such security services will be operating within the ambit of the law. Personnel will be held accountable for actions and the rules of engagement will be clearly spelt out.

So I cannot fault the army for confiscating weapons. It is part of their responsibility because self help is not lawful.

If you want your security guaranteed do it through the front door. Open and clear to everyone including the criminals.

Nigerians should test these waters and if the broadening and deepening of our security architecture is resisted by anyone or any group then we will all know where the exact problem lies.

Paut:
That's the only option for Nigerians and this the result of having a failed government

Yes failed government structure but in all honesty an unrealistic structure.

You have your security man at your gate who is willing but is not trained, is not armed and has zero authority to apprehend.

You have local vigilantes in your community that are willing but are not trained, are minimally armed and have minimal authority to apprehend.

Then you have a void. No local government police, no state police. Right up to the Federal police. Averagely trained, averagely armed but have all the authority to arrest offenders.

This simply says there is a huge void, an enormous space where criminals operate unhindered. It only makes common sense to fill this void and end rampant insecurity once and for all.

It is so shocking that the average Nigerian can see the problem but cannot rise to the obvious solutions.

Between your house or shop or farm where you live and work there is practically no security till your state force headquarters. How can people live like this.

He is being realistic.

It is up to the people to wake up and act.
All he needs is to push for state legislation to establish a statewide police service and local government police to drag security right down to the grassroots.

Use your security votes to seed the institutions and taxation will establish them.

What is the point of democracy if it cannot better the lives of a people who uphold it.,.. what is the point of winning elections if you don't win the race against poverty and insecurity.

Just sad.

Love800:
Osimhen is still a local champion!

He should come to premier-league and be breaking these records!

Nigeria players always fearing challenges.

Look at okocha, as good as he is, he couldn't play for any good club. Always average clubs!

His boy ronaldinho shined and made many records!

He wanted the Premiership. His agents held talks with a couple but none could meet the terms of Napoli and his compensation.

His game is perfect for the Premiership. Decent skills, high work rate and tempo.

My only doubt is his legs which are rather brittle.

nedu666:
Rather than agro rangers to protect them why not give every farmer ak 47 to protect themselves. Agro rangers can't be everywhere

The Federal government wants to be in charge of every gun in Nigeria. The reason is simple. So that it can continue it's misrule without consequences.

Because a man with a gun may one day link his crumbling fortunes to those who sit in high places and see them as those that deserve to be behind bars.

So that man with a gun at the farm may as well turn up tomorrow riding shotgun in a black bullet proof suv to protect those considered of higher value.

Are these people allergic to industrialisation or what. Haba.

Talking about competitive advantage. The authority over power has been divested, where are your plants, the authority over energy has been divested, where are your refineries.

If you cannot do them big, do them small.
Seed them, get them going, get them employing your citizens and creating value and when they are established sell them off to recoup your investment.

Honestly these people and the disease of contract award. Just sickening.

One of the few countries in the world that does not need to build anything whatsoever to host the biggest tournaments in the world.

Hotels and transport infrastructure are pretty decent and all it's stadia are successfully run commercial enterprises owned by sports companies, councils and cities all with unique heritage

Will be fun cup tourney.

treesun:
https://dailytrust.com/our-reforms-will-cut-n3-5trn-post-harvest-losses-others-minister/?noamp=available

Good initiative.
The devil however is in the details.
A working structure will commercialize the entire chain with government's involvement ending with framework, incentives and regulation.

Government must not be a participant in the day to day running of such enterprises as conflict of interest that will erode it's supervisory role will happen.

The lions cannot be zoo keepers or safari organizers.