₦airaland Forum

bixton:
This Emir SLS is talking from two sides of his mouth and people should be reminded that he is also a leader in his position and none of us have seen Almajiri system changed for the better in Kano........or do we have Amajiri system in Saudi Arabia and the UAE !!!!!

Or what exactly has he in his position changed since he was installed as Emir among his people!!!!

He has spoken out against the system many times. He is one person that has invested a lot in education. And amongst his peers he is the most forward thinking. That is a fact. But like every system the Almajiri question is deeply rooted, a sub cultural bastion that requires collective responsibility and action. An individual can only do so much.

seunmsg:
He also said subsidising fuel was never sustainable and the country would have been bankrupt by now if President Bola Tinubu didn’t remove it.

So what happened with the national protest against the removal led by the same person just a few years earlier.

This question needs to be answered because it is the genesis of where we are today. As a party leader was this matter ever discussed throughout the first eight year rule of the APC?

This is the quality of leadership the Emir is talking about. The lack of integrity. The anywhere belle face policy. The truth is that it is was all about the money then It is always about the money, even now.

Feudal mindset of a feudal nation. It is not about personal conviction borne out of a heart burning vision to serve a down trodden people. Rather it is about serving the king whose word is law.

Democracy as a tool of development and nation building will continue to be a mirage in this autocratic fiefdom called Nigeria.

As we continue to say, it is remarkably easy to understand how the black man was sold into slavery enmasse. We are just not wired to be Republican. To be capable of forging viable, prosperous societies through the power of independent diverse thought.

None of my business. I am neither a Briton nor an American. I cannot understand why my fellow Nigerians....maybe a few clandestine foreigners, on this forum are hyperventilating about this matter and Musk.

Your political focus should be on Nigeria and getting it to work rather than leftist or rightist foreign outlooks.

I don't think the average American or Briton gives a hoot who emigrates to Nigeria and how many illegals or otherwise are here legally or illegally an its effects on our demographics. I haven't heard any of them commenting about the invasion of arms from Libya or armed groups from the Futa Jallon heights.

That should be our concern. Nigerians should be more worried that while they pander about events thousands of miles away the demograhics of their own country and states are being changed by deliberate acta of genocide and forces displacement of hundreds of thousands of people who are almost permanent residents of IDP camps.

One thing this Gunners team has now is depth. Serious depth for a serious campaign on all fronts. And in Zubimendi they have a real midfield generator. And of course a lot of England internationals...the better ones.

Jaymats:
How I wish Buhari is alive to see the mess he caused by his failure as a Rtd General.

But he is not. The bad legacy you say he left is afflicting the people. That is exactly what we say about the relationship between the people and leadership particularly term based political leadership.

Those who are in for the long haul, those who are exposed to and suffer the effects of leadership for longer periods should be more circumspect in backing good governance through institution building rather than 'personalising' governance.

So it is not about hero worshiping Tinubu, Obi or Atiku but engaging them to improving the institutions they ultimately lead. Constantly tasking them to strengthen, improve the institutions of law and justice for example.

These things are more important than roads, bridges, airports even schools and hospitals because institutions and the effects they have on society outlive them all.

So is the present government advancing the present institutions of law, order and justice for example. Is the present police service improving, are all other security services advancing. That is what will matter when this government is gone. That is one of the factors to decide if it was a success or a failure like all before.

So sorry about this but the soup looks....terrible. Can't you guys do anything about presentation. I mean African cuisine is really low on looks. One of the reasons why we are not up there with the rest of the world despite our population and travel.

I am asking again. Was that container painted and if so what kind of paint was used and how was it painted because pots are not painted on the inside for a reason.

The effect of heat and the chemistry of certain ingridients can leach out that paint into the food. And if the paint containes lead that is double Jeopardy.

For the inside of cookware to last and/or function they are coated with solid state materials. So it will have been better to leave the bare metal since it will likely be a one time use.

Awon sane society. 48 hours. Must be a record. Now where are the CCTV's installed by the GEJ government in Abuja for billions of naira.....to serve this insane society.

Lanretoye:
so hungry policeman should be protecting an hungry man,as you are now you get who is planning to kidnap or kill you?…I’m just asking ni,if u think you need special protection then you go to force headquarters and apply

I hope this comment is just a joke or something...because I cannot believe this is coming from an adult, quite honestly.

DaddyGoo:
My own question is when will Nigerians start feeling the impact of all these humongous funds collected?

Ask me. They gaslight you into selling your shirt to them but journey to the north pole to look for excuses as to why they cannot deliver.

Income without accountability equals poverty raised to the power of corruption.

Nigerians are too docile. Yes, they pay 100 percent taxation in sane societies but they demand 100 percent accountability. That is how it works.

They decide what their governments spend money on, they decide how much their public servants are paid and they ensure no public servant is paid higher than them.

Yes, they pay taxes like a man shops for goods or services. They expect delivery not excuses.

guass:
Unionism is killing Nigeria's economy. I support Dangote.

One simple question of general interest.
Without unionism what do you think will be the minimum wage in Nigeria today.

Sit back and think about this for just a minute please and the overall effects on the economy.

So many kids on this forum.
I repeat. Unions exist for a reason.
This is a power play between the forces of capitalism and socialism. No one ideology is perfect. Both have flaws so wisdom lies in managing the power tussle between both.

I repeat, whichever side wins enslaves all others. I don't want to be at the mercy of unions but neither do I want o be at the mercy of the industrialist.

Just like politics without sound opposition breeds impunity, economic power without accountability leads to the problem of monopoly.

Nigerians for one are suffering the effects of all these and we of all peoples should be wary about taking sides in a country where laws are not obeyed by anyone. And justice can be bought by everyone.

For me let them fight it out. Not taking sides here.

When you are in public service particularly in a country like this at a period such as this, just make the sacrifice of living a quiet life, period. No matter what your background is and no matter how genuine your intentions are the environment dictates how you live.

Originalsly:
I'm sure some workers will choose not to join because they don't want to pay Union dues. The Union should focus on getting its people to be more responsible and professional...but seems to me they are more interested in collecting union dues ... more members more money.

But some day, some time in a galaxy far, far away they will probably wish they had joined. Because all things do not work well all of the time in one's favour and the master you serve today may change in ways you don't find palatable. Remember, unions exist for a reason

CoronaVirusPro:
That’s how it ought to be.

If it’s mandatory, then it’s no longer a union.

But a cult.
Indeed this whole matter is a double edged sword. I can't but sit on the fence on this because it is a battle between the socialism of the unions and the capitalism of the industrialist.

Both have been forces of good in the past. The unions have fought valiantly for the masses of Nigeria against reckless price increases before and Dangote's contribution to the economy remains unequalled on the other hand.

However power without control is dangerous and as I have said many times before. Whoever wins these kinds of battles invariably enslaves everyone else.

So it is up to onlookers, bottom feeders, the citizens of this country to choose who they rather have as master. And it is not as if we have not tasted both before.

My only concern is about the pot. What is it made of and how was it finished in red.

Just hope lead was not used in fabricating it and I hope it was not painted.

It cannot happen in Nigeria they say, but it didn't happen in Nepal before, neither did it in Bangladesh or Indonesia.

That it is only the poor that loses. Well what does the poor gain from their poverty in the first place. They simply want to share their condition. You bring a poor, uneducated kid from the village into your mansion as a help then get upset when your expensive gadgets get abused.

Where did you expect the urchin to get the technical knowledge, the exposure, the values from?.

You must be living with Alice in wonderland to expect the vast majority of your country people to demonstrate heady knowledge of value based economics while living a miserable life in perpetuity. If your driver was a PHD holder he will not be your driver in the first place.

That is why countries that are at the top of the human existence index are not those with the greatest numbers of rich folks, but the fewest numbers of the poor.

This happens when leadership chooses to ignore all signs and deliberately turns off all societal safety warnings.

This happens when a government cannot work for the good of all citizens but choses to isolate the many for the interests of a few.

Whatever the future holds for the Nepalese, one thing is certain, the people will never be taken advantage of again. Business as usual as they call it is over. The genie of societal docility is out.

ARISHEM:
In other words they want the rot to continue. That is why they arrested him

They will charge him with demarketing the state.

budaatum:
I was in King's Hospital in Denmark Hill yesterday, sitting in reception of SACU, where we could all hear the private consultation of a patient in a cubicle behind us.

I was so furious that the patients business was being broadcast so, that I left two complaints.

If this journalist has no permission to record patients, he is definitely breaking the law, though I must admit that is the price he should be prepared to pay to inform us.

If we feel the need to support the journalist, we should gofund for him, and go placard the governor.

And you think the sick man lying on a bed frame cares about his privacy. If he ever gets a reprieve he will thank the journalist a million.

I don't think we know how to get out of the mess we are in this country. We continue to play games with pretentions of civility when leadership is crude, rude and outright sinister. I don't think we are ready to meet bad leadership with the kind of forcefulness required to effect any meaningful change.

nairalanda1:
They were able to do so because they had enough money paid to them and enough profit and investment because no government price controls and tarrifs

Or how do we get GSM? We paid high tarrifs and it took several years for service to improve. The high tarrifs we paid were enough to fund expansion and improvement

Your assumption makes no sense. Companies don't have bottomless pit of money. It's what people pay in that enables then to make a profit to provide services and expand services

It's like you guys don't like capitalism and prefer communism

Oga, use another country, don't use France. Electricity in France is heavily subsidized and with the vast amount generated from nuclear power they have one of the lowest tariffs in Europe.

Use the UK instead where free market reigns.

discusant:
Nigeria's major roads needed to be patrolled by plain clothes police all the time to deter these criminals.

Insisted, police mount checkpoints on the roads. Checkpoints to deter criminals is an outdated formula

It starts by voting people who have ideas into office. In other climes leaders are voted in based on the superiority of their solutions to pressing national problems.

Here we vote based on geography, ethnicity and religious bias. So how do you expect them to deliver.

If we as a people elect a President based on the magnitude of potential deliverables definitely he will appoint security chiefs based on the same criteria, potential performance.

He will ask the military high command to call all the ranking generals, call the police command to call all the senior officers and ask them to present proposals on how to tackle the pressing issue of insecurity in Nigeria. And whoever presents the most viable and effective solution gets the top job.

But who is the IGP today, a past aide to the President a while ago. Who interviewed him for solutions to Nigeria's challenges, no one.

So what do you expect other than systemic degradation of the institutions of security.

For change to happen it has to start by the people moving away from sentiments in selecting leaders at all levels of authority.

Dogalmighty17:
I am beginning to think that the Nigerians are just too stupid to remain a nation. How is it that no police formation in the country has drone units? They don't even have trained K-9 units that can pick up the scent of any of the victims and be on their trail.

The Nigerian police is a collection of the dumbest persons you'll find anywhere. No intelligence or intellect is brought to bear in their operations. Incompetence everywhere.

But they have the most expensive cracker biscuits on earth.....hahahahaha....

When we say revenue is never the problem but spending. So this is the end product of the extreme tax drive. To further stuff the fat cats with more government pork.

You see them all over Abuja going from one government office to the other and you think they are actually working, doing something productive but it is only one big heist.

Read the report again and know the problem of Nigeria like I said a few days ago.
'For the supply of....' That is it. A country of rent seekers, crass mercantilism, round trippers, buccaneers in suits. A system that will pay a premium for someone to turn on the the office lights quite literally (yes I know of someone who lives off changing light bulbs in a certain MDA)

Read again the analysis by Sahara. How much those things really cost and wonder how a country that is neck deep in debt, that taxes it's poor to death, that has been in austerity since 1979 cannot have it's workers walk the short distance to the market, to the gas station, to the builders mart, etc, to buy what it needs at face value.

This is a police service that cannot kit is operatives properly, cannot accommodate them responsibly, cannot send them effectively to an incident scene at notice, cannot compensate those afflicted in the line of duty timely, yet it has the guts to give out contracts for crackers.

They must all be crackers. Day by day I am increasingly persuaded that this country has no future of any reasonable value to those who live in it. Let me see the that will make me pay more tax by January 2026.

Nigeria needs, badly needs a hiatus from tournament football. A long enough period for the sole purpose of soul searching.

We need to ask these questions of ourselves and the most pressing of them is.

Who are these people that run the sport of football in this country. How are they placed there. How do they get into office, how are they selected to present themselves into leadership.

We need to start there because all I have seen for decades, in fact every since one Emeka Omerua headed that organisation is nothing but deep seated mediocrity.

We don't need the world cup, we need a total overhaul of football administration in Nigeria.

Abeg, I dey wait Portugal later on. That is my adopted world cup country for 2026. Cannot tolerate nonsense from Nigerian sports plc.

Goal. Nice one from Troost.
When they said they came for a fight I thought it was a soccer fight.

Poor mentality. You will expect so called pros to have mental fortitude and focus on the job instead of falling for the traps of provocation.

pastorarynzay:
You can't established tax law without establishing accountability. Were corruption reign tax law fails.

No it is good in this regards.
To cook food you must apply heat.
The more heat is applied to the citizens the nearer we get to cooking government to making the country palatable for everyone. Eventually thw revolution will come.

Trust Nigerians to return to the days of cash only transactions.

phemray:
That same placards and coffin was carried for Tinubu @ # end bad governance protest and nothing happens because it was a protest. But calling a sitting president a criminal is a direct assault and you guys call it freedom of speech? DSS knows where they are going by following those steps and u guys will soon cry foul. Thank God he is same tribe with the president and u will not shout tribalism.

But what I want to understand is this.
What is personally upsetting to you in what the man said. That is personally to you as a citizen....that is, if you are not directly related to the president because the charge was directed to the man himself.

If I see a person hurling an insult to another in the street, what exactly will make me so upset and angered. I really want to know because we have had many, many leaders of this country over several decades, at all levels.

I cannot remember ever having a personal affection for any bordering on god like reverence to the point of being a personal protection detail. I just don't understand some of you folks.

I my honest opinion it is better to live an objective and knowledgeable life. That is the only route to peace. Just avoid sentiments and you will be okay. To me whatever THEY call themselves is THEIR business. Except if it my job, I am paid to be a personal protection detail against tomfoolery.

I think this fight should be taken abroad. To countries where Nigerians run to for salvation. That they should help us and help themselves end economic and security related migration by pressurizing the leadership of this country to reform itself along the lines of good governance.

Nigerians can do their part by supplying information, whistle blowing on corrupt politicians, their associates and family members and those involved in the insecurity besieging this country with a view to have them sanctioned and have their accounts frozen until proof of legitimate earnings are provided.

Because without an unpleasant revolution I cannot see how this country can be reformed from within.