₦airaland Forum

Teymanhenry:
It's unfortunate that an ex convict would be appointed minister. What message are our leaders sending to us?

There is a sordid sub-culture in government administrative and political circles that leans towards engaging people weighed down with immoral or criminal baggege as a way of establishing loyalty.

Sub-culture?. Well rumours have it in the day that IBB had x-files on just about every top official he appointed as the scales in one hand while he wielded the sword in the other.

Has not changed ever since

sholatech:
Very Old news. The parties have even moved on. Zarah currently holds a presidential appointment self

As someone said. The worst of us preside over the rest of us. If these folks were to apply for a job in most places the baggage they carry will hinder not help them.

Once again. I just cannot find the synergy between our aspirations to becoming a great nation and the path we have chosen to walk.

Cromagnon:
one person
Not Nigerians
We rejected the clueless one resoundingly

And how come you couldn't 'vote out' the government that replaced it even though performance and quality of life declined even more.

This is exactly what this topic is all about. How come we keep on voting and retaining governments that worsen the country. And how come that since 1999 it is only once we have successfully removed a poor, non performing government. Only once, in 2015.

Now 2027 is coming let us see what the excuses will be.

ibabz:
Oga, biko don’t bring that sentiment here. Jonathan was the worst under PDP. Pls go back and study the data again with an open heart. If you still don’t understand, I can then enlighten you.

Just try and read again the write up to gain proper understanding about the way things work in proper societies and why we are here today.

He was the best because he gave this country a chance to self determination, he allowed institutions work and he listened to those of us asking for restructuring.

What is wrong with these people. Fix what for heavens sake. Isn't it clear to them that this refinery rehab business is a pig in a poke.

With all the crazy subsidy money they have enjoyed for two decades why cant they buy out those NNPC liabilities and get them working themselves.

klismann12:
This is as a result of bad leaders who we have unfortunate to have at the helm of affairs over the years,I think at this point it is fair to say that Jonathan was the best democratically elected president Nigeria has ever produced since we started practicing democracy,

I am happy that Nigerians are beginning to see this fact. That out of all the poor quality leaders Jonathan stood head and shoulders above them all. I said it on this forum about ten years ago and for two reasons.

One as relating to restructuring (which I have said for decades is the only way out of terminal decline of Nigeria as a state). He was the only one with half the courage to establish a confab to discuss the how, where and why, the bolts and nuts of a functional nation.

Two, as relating to his willingness to respect the wishes of the people to have another leadership through the ballot and in doing so acknowledged that he did not meet with their expectations, i.e he admitted he failed in making their lives better.

If these two ideals had been repeated after him over the course of the past decade. If those two ideals can be replicated today and in the future, this country will stand a chance of reversing it's fortunes and perhaps become great one day.

It is over to the people to determine their future by voting according to their present experiences only and the government of the day to honourably accept their decisions.

DrMB:
Eight presidents, 25 years, one pattern, prices climb, incomes crawl. In the marketplace of Nigerian democracy, the currency we trade is trust, and it’s losing value even faster than the naira.


https://x.com/StatiSense/status/1954128956593999923
https://x.com/StatiSense/status/1954138332382076995
#Statisense
(Consumer Price Index, NBS)

What this simply means is that in 25 years Nigerians have been unable to use the instrumentality of democracy to better their lives.

Not one, not one, not one subsequent year, government or political tenure has been better than the previous one, that is the one it replaced which clearly shows a detachment of electoral choices from the reality of quality governance. Meaning that Nigerians by and large have been voting for the wrong reasons.

And until integrity, knowledge and performance becomes the only, the only, the only criteria for empowering people at the ballot to superintendend over institutions, the decline will continue as sure as the sun rises.

Unfortunately up till yesterday night the signs through the polity and civil space, as a matter of fact. in our everyday lives paints a retention of the dark tunnel we seem unable to get out of.

Are things really this bad that paveway munitions have to be used. Are these insurgents or are we under attack by a full fledged combat force, a foreign armed force for that matter. This is a major escalation.

If we can't have helicopter borne elite combat squadrons like I have said before then we should have the DSS/NIA should develop CIA like black ops to infiltrate and neutralize these groups.

Oh Spurs, oh Spurs, oh Spurs. Bottled it.... yet again.

Shoot out time. It's a lottery now. But Spurs should have held on.

Wow. PSG break Spurs hearts. But why did Spurs stop playing.

Angelfrost:
This season, fans won't be that understanding or accepting with Arteta, especially after signing the Striker they've been asking for.

So far, their preseason was not much to reckon with, but let's just agree it's just preseason.

I expect them to beat a rebuilding Manchester United this Sunday (even a draw is out of the question).

But, they have to wake up and work seriously hard to not just finish the usual top 3... They have to win something meaningful this season.

If they have to win something then they have to be less conservative and more adventurous. Give up some possession football for direct play just as Spurs is doing right now.

That is how the most powerful teams of the day play. From Barcelona. Intermilan, Liverpool, Bayern. All are direct playing, hard running teams.

Angelfrost:
Honestly, teams have got to get with the times, especially Spanish teams or those being coached by Spaniards.


Tiki taka had its era... But, no serious team is allowing them that space anymore.


Just look at Shots on target...! PSG can't even get in there with all their ball possession.

There are fewer things more irritating in world football than Arsenal's famous Tiki-Taka Arc of Death.

Saliba to Rice, Rice to Trossard, Trossard back to Rice, Rice to Odegaard, Odegaard back to Rice, Rice to Saka, Saka back to Rice, Rice to Odegaard, Odegaard spins around and around and back to Saliba.... Saliba starts again..... okay half time whistle....

Seunfretty:
Inter.... Liverpool and city coaches will be knocking their heads right now for not pressing this PSG aggressively on their half when they played...this is a real testament that no team is without weakness ...all you need do is look well then u will see ...Chelsea opened PSG weakness up and Tottenham is now copying from that book


Another issue is the pessimism that comes with a loss....since PSG lost that game against Chelsea I knew they would likely loose again. And again

There is a particular aura and swagger that comes to with winning continuously in football ...and i can say that's what has been pushing and rubbing on this PSG team ...it's wasn't like they were sooo spectacular..

It is called momentum in sports. Difficult to gain and to regain when lost.

Once Lique 1 starts they will rebuild upstairs. Remember quality is permanent.

Starhearts:
Wht Arsenal FC fail to do....

Complete d statement by urself

Arteta (low budget Pep Guardiola) hasn't got the memo yet that tiki-taka is long dead. Even Barcelona had to get a German shrink to coach it out of their DNA.

Hmmm.... what is happening here. PSG getting shagged by an English club yet again.

Always thinking elitist. It is not high speed rail that Nigeria needs now. This country needs the kind of transportation that lowers the cost of commerce and industry to make our economy competitive.

We need heavy gauge rail lines to move petroleum products, cement, steel from producers to markets. The construction industry needs rail lines to move granite chippings from the mountain belts of Nigeria to the coastal regions and move dredged sand the opposite direction. Containers from the ports, farm products, minerals and ores and cash crops to export from the hinterland.

This is what effective transport means. High speed rail transport is elitist, expensive and not profitable in most countries. Just a white elephant.

Omooba77:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/08/fuel-consumption-drops-16-to-1-44bn-litres-in-june-2025-nmdpra/

Clear indicator that the economy is contracting or in a layman's lingo, the economic space is getting smaller.

6ixT8:
This speaks of the quality of our local league

Exactly. That is the foundation of most national teams except ours. The NPFL has gone the way of most national institutions....into decay.

AjegunleBoy:
Remo stars, Ogun state abi Ibadan sef!

And it shows how poor our soccer is at local level and the weakness of our soccer leagues and this tallies with our performances on the continental club stage.

You can imagine that key players of Mamelodi Sundows, Orlando Pirates and co are not playing CHAN yet a country like South Africa is smoking other teams.

123yes:
Supper eagles wing have refused to fly. The Falcons are making us proud.

Okay, we send the Falcons to represent the Eagles going forward starting with the coming World Cup qualifiers. Perhaps they can restore a doomed situation.

Nigerian sportsmen are really disappointing these days.

If the bulk of his earnings comes from overseas as he claims then he can move to a state with better tax rates.

As states gain true independence and tax becomes a necessary and viable revenue stream then states will begin to compete for investment just a countries do.

Softmirror:
Brazil has so many blacks. As a matter of fact it is the country with the highest population of blacks in the world.

How can that be when the population of Nigeria is more than the entire nation of Brazil, blacks, Latinos and all

Nigeria is the largest and most diverse black nation on earth. One in five (or six by other reports) black men/women is a Nigerian by origin.

Even the majority of blacks on continental America, south, central and north came from the Gulf of Guinea. It is no surprise that the largest group of black immigrants to any nation today bear the Nigerian passport. The slavery has not ended.

The simple solution to airport and air transport crime is to have airport and airway law enforcement, simple.

Our airports do not have law enforcement which in the 21st century full of well storied worldwide incidents is alarming.

The shadows of 9/11 and COVID are slowly melting away leading to an ever widening lax in airport security who's roles have been truncated to baggage and body checks. This is not good enough.

There are several other ways airlines and passengers can be targeted for disruption and God forbid worse incidents and these incidents coming in close proximity should be a sign of the glaring lapses in security and a wake up call to act to establish proper security structures.

There is a very, very thin line between an unruly passenger scuffle and the scuffle that led to the 9/11 hijackers taking control. Let us not wait for worse.

We want to see professional, presentable uniformed law enforcement officers on the beat in airport terminals and concourses, behind the scenes in cargo areas to check airport staff and airside to watch ground staff and passenger activity.

Switruth:
Otokoto.... That should be around amakohia in owerri...You won't recognize the place now! Till tomorrow no one is living there except the stores down stairs.

Hmm... the place will be haunted. Should be made a sordid historical museum to the diabolical.

The million naira question we seem to have missed is why our airports do not have uniformed police.

You see this all the time with incidents in other countries but here and in both cases (Kwam 1 and Ms. Emma) the tasks of handling infringements was left to air side 'security' officials with non descript detailing.

Having properly uniformed and kitted police officers in most cases is enough to deter and de escalate these sorts of situations. FAAN should step up their game and establish a proper police service for their airports not just some dudes in reflector jackets. It is their responsibility to secure their property and services.

PS. In this case if the FAAN had a police service department all the airline needed to do was to communicate the incident in advance and the police will have been waiting to handle it on arrival, not the airline staff themselves. It is the FAAN police that are executioners of air safety laws not the airline. And in the case of KWAM 1 as well. It doesn't require ministerial intervention.

iukpe:
We're these withdrawals made last week?
Why now?
As we read this, someone is withdrawing.

It is the system we operate. A feudal system where questions cannot be asked before or during the fact, only after the fact. That is after the person is out of power, out of office, or out of relevance.

There is no way to end corruption that way. Accountability and transparency must be implemented at source or we keep on chasing shadows and losing resources.

The other day on a phone in radio program a caller was asking the di.ple question where the first lady got the billions she is donating to crises victims in various locations. This simple question could not meet with any answer and this is symptomatic of the way the nation is run.

No questions asked when the deed is on. It is only years after when the resources have been totally lost will issues or matters arise. This country is very badly run without the real owners of the enterprise, the citizens any wiser or concerned.

Victorodehankel:
What played out is a common scenario about how people in authority use their powers to oppress others, the lady was asked to and off her phone but said its already on flight mode and the crew felt slighted by her confidence and probably her manner of response and planned to a payback by dealing with her on arrival, there are claims by passengers on the same flight that the lady was prevented from disembarking when they got to Lagos and that was when she started reacting, if they have already landed safely without any hitch why intimidate her further a simple word of caution would have been enough why detain her in the aircraft , the cabin crew called the airline security instead of police because they wanted to deal with the lady and settle personal scores forget whatever crap the airline is dishing out that lady is innocent, it's just typical Nigerians in power using authority to oppress the less privilege.

Let me isolate the rule from all the subsequent unfortunate incidents.

The rule is simple. Switch off your phones. It is announced. It is on the flight instruction manual infront of you. What exactly is the problem with following simple instructions.

Just like the seat belt rule. You can reason it off in a hundred different ways but until the rule is changed you are liable. And I personally cannot see what turning your phone off for 45 minutes will remove from your life.

That is the advantage of democracy especially in Africa. Other people pay for your sins.

The folks offering you the money never had it in the first place.

Wow, after a year. That is very commendable from the NPS. Case will have gone totally cold if the perps had not blinked first.

Africans and feudalism. That is why political violence is never far from the surface.