₦airaland Forum

favour32:
Chelsea die well..
Alonso nai good coach but e go take you minimum of 2 years to begin see light.

I agree that it will take time.
May fans of the blues have the fortitude to bear the kind of mockery Arsenal plc has taken for quite a while. It is the nature of life.

Angelfrost:
Sigh... Xabi is just another Amorim in better outfits.

Madrid dodged a bullet.

When footy clubs seek to buy Spanish gaffers they need to understand that the great Espana is split into two prominent, competing cultures, the Castilian and the Basque.

Moreso in football where these two horses have been led into battle by prominent generals, Vincente Del Bosque for Castillia and Johan Cruyff for the Basque country.

These icons have defined what Spanish soccer is today by their distinct, competing patterns of play that has affected a generation of gaffers today.

So distinct it is that your identity as a coach, your philosophy as a player is firmly bedded in one or the other. You are enamoured by one and totally repulsed by the other.

The expansive, tech heavy, total football of the Del Bosque game or the possession football, aka tiki-taka or the Cruyff game. Almost all Spanish gaffers subscribe to one or the other exclusively.

The few Spanish league games I watch you can observe that, teams either try to play like Barcelona or try to play like Real Madrid. And those who are unfortunate to switch coaches frequently find out the price of this discordance.

One season they are doing well the next season with a new gaffer they crash since the players they bought earlier find the adjustments hard to follow. Villarreal for instance is presently in this quagmire.

So if you sit in England and seek the football mastery of the Spanish gaffer, look at your team first as to whether they have the seeds, the elements of Basque football or Castillia in them.

If it is a hodge-podge of talents then know that it will take extreme patience, the kind Arsenal gave Arteta to rid his team of Madrid like players such as the Ozils of the world in favour of his kind, the kind that play like Barcelona or Man.City, tiki-taka, false 9, short passing midgets like Saka and Odegaard.

Chelsea will have to go full Galactico and give him time to purge the team if they want Alonso to bring trophies. I look at that team and immediately see the kind of players that don't fit this philosophy but most Chelsea fans will not take theur ejection....

The middle of the Premier League is a minefield of exceptionally stubborn headed teams whose sole business in this life is to torpedo title contenders.....on these missions of terror they play like possessed warriors..

Is it too early in the season for Alonso to appear before the jury in the case of, 'Unbeaten Season in the Bundesliga, fluke as you look or flash in the pan'

Because ever since he departed Leverkusen, I have not seen much stardust....though it is early doors.

Scrappy game, low on quality.

So what should we do now that we don't have a proper football house in place.

Is this evidence of the success of the defunct organisation that warrants their recall to office.....or as Nigerians may say, good riddance....'dem don carry dia badluck go'...

Not possible. The physics doesn't add up. I don't think metallurgy can fabricate the ball bearings in such a miniscule dry rotor disc to survive the loads I am seeing.

Granted dollies are used to recover stranded vehicles all the time but not of this size, not with an overloaded truck and certainly not one resembling a skateboard.

See a doctor

That is why I just don't want to hear anything 'CONTRACT'. It should be outlawed in this country. Restricted to only private sector to private sector transactions. Government should stop giving money to anyone to do anything.

ALL, ALL, ALL, ALL public sector contracts are rife with corruption. There is not a single exception. Past contracts, present contracts are all conduits by which government officials pilfer the country's resources. That is as clear as daylight. Some Ministries have taken it to levels justifying their tags as contract bazaars where 'papers' are taxed from one part to the other.

It is just heartbreaking that the hapless tax payer has not gotten value for government procurement at any level.aincw independence.

Any leader that will come in and end this terrible 'contracting' subculture and rather cultivates the attitude and resolve that the country does its works and delivers its infrastructure by its means and without a penny paid in advance will break the jinx of development.

We have the men, materials, in most cases machinery. Why should anyone be paid upfront to put these together in the name of a project.

We have wasted 70 years of our existence doing the wrong things and nations that hav done it right have streaked miles ahead of us.

Just imagine Atiku, just imagine Nigeria. Just to build a simple dam....the thing Ethiopia is doing without stress despite their regional challenges, thing China has done again and again with one record breaking dam after another. We have been talking, swimming in failed promises around this Mambilla dam for almost 30 years.

What kind of curse is this.

Mr Sowore, na so you go talk until peson like Mr. Chagou enter your life then you go like live forever when he show you the riches of the world...

But, I like your stand.
That is what heros are made of when they do it.

owobokiri:
Illegal miners should be treated like illegal oil thieves. There are soldiers manning every segment of some strategic oil pipe lines in the east,.with orders to shoot and kill if anyone trespasses. Monitoring, arrests and punishments of illegal solid minerals thieves should never be relaxed because of events like this. Rather, measures to arrest more culprits should be intensified..

To start with, they are not supposed to be doing what they were caught doing. They were caught sabotaging the economy. Essentially, they're no saints! If the government should improve procedures as to how arrests are done in order to avoid deaths, that should happen. But this event should never be allowed to be another propaganda tool in the hands of those who stubbornly steal from the state, while contributing zilch to national growth.

The NSCDC man should be recalled if he didn't do anything wrong..

Thank you all

This argument has been on again and again.
And the queries continue as to why government cannot organise them into productivity, whether in oil extraction or mining.

Formalize their activities.
Place them under an umbrella of enterprise that is registered and recognized. Where they are protected by the law. Where they can be funded by the investing public. So that government can take it's taxes and royalties or rent from the acreages leased to their companies or collectives.

In the developed world individuals are into mining. People like you and me bid for plots to mine. The whole of the US where there are mineral discoveries are automatically mapped and put up for bidding. People who cannot do the physical work can still invest in individuals or small concerns to boost productivity.

Why can't we do same here.
Why are we just not organized.
Why is the African hardwired to subsistence living whether in mining or agriculture.or manufacturing or construction

Always so small minded and visionless, everyone from individual to government.

Oblongata:
Illegal mining has its consequences. Hitting deep where raw minerals in their gaseous form could be the culprit.

Gases will more likely kill them on the spot, not in custody or present them with clear enough symptoms to trigger an emergency.

I suspect chemical poisoning particularly if they were detained on site and not given the opportunity of sanitizing their bodies. The carcasses look like they were on the day of detention.

Security establishments that handle this industry should be trained to understand the nature of mining activities with regards to hazards and dangers to both themselves and the people they arrest and detain.

Unlike normal, civil criminal activities these come with attendant risk of exposure to all sorts of chemical agents both in extraction, rudimentary on-site processing to the very extracts themselves and all should be considered as potential HAZMAT's and treated with caution.

All mining related detention facilities should have medical personnel knowledgeable and experienced in the hazards of the industry.

Awaiting a post mortem but it is very strange for a biological disease to kill this many this quickly without triggering an emergency but I know of several poisons associated with mining activities such as cyanide, mercury and arsenic that can cause this toll this fast.

Benoxvals:
He answered diplomatically…Yes,Nigeria is interested but will join when the time is right.

That is all he.,..we can do, wait and see because most of those countries floating the BRICS are not completely stable. They all have deep structural challenges just like us.

And to jump into a ship that is inherently unstable is a huge risk.

Secondly I cannot see the point moving from one captivity to the Dollar to another, the Yuan which will certainly become the defacto vehicle of exchange in the House of BRICS, when China remains a currency manipulator.

fasho01:
So what of the governors especially that have gotten more funds allocation? Slam the north west governors mr serial contender

Another dereliction.
Another evasion.
Another ducking and dodging.
Another ostrich with the head in the sand.

Let me ask you.
If you were a governor, what will you do with more funds to combat inflation, the rising cost of energy, both of which are responsible for the cost of living crises, in practical terms in a state of 5, 10, 15 million people.

If you don't know, know this. The state of the economy is ENTIRELY under the control of the Federal government.

In the unitary structure we have refused to reform states are merely parts of the machine called Nigeria. No single part is independent enough to change the course of it's economy. Minimum wage is same across board, exchange rate is same across board, living stabdards are same across board.

The cost of living of the average man in Lagos is exactly the same as the man in Jos or Port Harcourt plus/minus a few basis points. The only way to effect independent economy is to restructure into true Federalism, then the shackles are removed and states can detach their economies from the centre by controlling the means of production and setting the bounds of fiscal policy and in some cases monetary policy.

Yes, governors are as useless as other political Executives.. Visionless, corrupt and incompetent. Yes, they have failed to create productivity, jobs and enterprises. But the best actions and intents remain exceptionally difficult in an atmosphere of high inflation caused by the failure of the centre to invest in power and energy.to drive down prices or invest in industry to raise the nation's wage structure.

AustineE1:
At a time when protectionism is the other of the day all over the world,some unfortunate Nigerians are celebrating and advertising chinese retailers in Nigeria because they think they may be getting back on some people.
This is the worst form of economic slavery, if the chinese are coming into Nigeria,then it should be for production and for serious direct foriegn investment not retailing,I weep for this geographical contraption called Nigeria.

You are making the mistake.
Trading is not the issue.
Making is the issue.

Trading is not a sustainable economic model. You are not in control of the value chain your business model is not sustainable.

China is not powerful because they trade. But because they occupy the entire value chain top to toe.

The nature of globalization and technology is such that trading has become inclusive. I can sit in my house and buy stuff from one end of the world and sell it at the other end without ever seeing the maker, goods or the customer.

The 'shop' front is an evolutionary trait that is not sustainable. In Europe and the Americas physical shops are closing by the thousands every year. It will get here.

Rather be concerned about who is in charge of the value chain, the top feeder, the apex predator. It is the person that will win the race and enslave everyone else.

3kay945:
thank God for CHINA. Almost everything in my house is made in CHINA. how would i have enjoyed life without them?

Life is good with China by your side.

So they said in the 70's about Taiwan.
Today they depend on government handouts to buy Chinese things. Taiwanese stuff they can no longer afford.

There is nothing called a good life if you are not making stuff.

And how many of those goods in that shop are made in Nigeria.

That is more important to me than the language of trade. If she is making them here, fine.

If they are imported she is transforming this country plastic cup by plastic bucket into a palliative economy.

The question will then become, where are people going to buy her stuff going to get the money from.

Elders.

That is exactly what it is.
Your patience is an acknowledgement of the quality of service you are receiving.

Can you do this for your fellow man who you have given your hard earned money to deliver goods and services and three years later one excuse after another...

And you are all about to extend the waiting time another four years....

I really don't understand Nigerians.
Feudalism is a terrible disease.

I had a client at a particular time in profession, quite a while ago, that wil ignore your requests and completely shut down. But the moment he pays, communication lights up like a fire cracker. He wants service like yesterday.

Didn't like it one bit. But that is human nature and the person who serves or places himself in a position of service should expect that as the price of service. The customer ALWAYS comes first and fast.

Are these people you and I vote for serving in deed or in illusion?

tfelicityk:
I am worried at times when I read the government doling money.

If they have created incentives programs in the state and it is being properly maintained. Nigeria would have been a producing Nation instead consumptions Nation.

There are many brains and skills in this Nation but there are no genuine support and assistance.

They only manipulate us the same way they are being manipulated by the foreigners too.

Worried....it is outrageous that all government does is throwing money at every challenge. This COVID era planting has fully germinated in our collective socio-political psyche and has been taken to absurd levels by this government.

Honestly it is a lame excuse, a backdoor, an escape hatch to proper development. Whenever I see it, it smacks of government bribery to avoid responsibility because it de-sensitizes them to what is basic and necessary to moving this nation forward.

You monetize everything and then start absolving yourself of one issue after the other.

I keep in saying that government's responsibility is to organize society around values and visions for collective progress.

If the Enugu state government for instance has been working with the people to establish industries in the core, job heavy, value retaining sectors of manufacturing, agriculture, mining and construction, what will it take to integrate these people into these schemes.

But they see themselves as 'doing for' the people instead of 'doing with' the people. And the people themselves have conditioned their minds to be eternal receivers, not partners with government.

It is not a good place we find ourselves in this country at all. And that is why government doesn't respect or fear the people.

MarkudiRITA:
It's good the State Government welcome them, but inflation will consume the N1m in just one month.

I suggest the Enugu State Government pays them N1m monthly for at least 6 months or give them N6m each in bulk.

On what basis.
He has four and a half million citizens to govern. What is so special about people you need to integrate beyond this 'gratuity'.

A better suggestion will have been to use these sums to fix them into existing PPP enterprises according to their skills and competencies.

Yes, cash is necessary for a refugee but a fishing net is the sustainable path towards lasting integration.

femi4:
Injoo...that phone injure me

An early morning laugh is why I seek certain threads at dawn. Good for the health, brightens the day. Good one....

Paragon311:
Dapo Abiodun is a failure in all ramifications of governance.

Party freak Governor.... Yeyenatu.

He is not a failure.

You can go to a restaurant and sit all day long. The restaurant has not failed if you don't place any order or you don't 'pay' for any services.

Today it is fellow citizens that tell us that government has no business in the inflationary cost of energy because it is private sector. They say government has no business in electricity because states have been permitted to generate.

While in economies even more capitalist than Nigeria where government has not a single business it is running they scour the world to find cheaper oil and cheaper power for their people. They came here to collect every drop of Dangote aviation fuel to keep their tanks full, their planes flying and their prices stable. But here it is not their business, the people can go to blazes.

Oracleee:
You're still saying respectfully, politicians will think God governance is them doing you favour.

Enjoy the things you voted into power.

Feudalism, what else.
They are scared of his royal majesty so they are appealing to their servant to serve, but are eager to prove their fealty at short notice and will delivering 'bulk votes' nonetheless.

That is the lot of the African. His mind is captured. He walks while his servants are on horseback.

Nigeria is like this because of Nigerians. This is the limitations of our mentality.

Very soon they will be demanding vasectomy before visas....make una no behave...

Raise the bat for visas issued from Nigeria so that only quality is exported.

PulaPower:
Tinapa was a project that was supposed to be a great one but it failed cuz Donald Duke make one great mistake, the location he used!

I once listened to Ben Ayade / Rufai on one interview like that and Ben explained why the project isn’t viable..

Imagine using like 100m monthly for the maintenance and you barely make 5m a month. You wan create a project like tinapa and you go create ham for somewhere as even far as 7/8hours from inside calabar. He said even their calabar people barely go and the distance part of the major reasons..

But on TikTok, what some analysts said is that this coastal road might revive Tinapa for better..

Location is business..

That is not true. Tinapa is not 6, 7 hours from Calabar. Just 25 minutes on a good day and probably 45 minutes in traffic.

Yes, the location is challenging but I think that was because he was looking for a resort like setting beside a large body of water that is unspoiled by development and is expandable.

There were plans to link it with a monorail from the ICC and there were plans with a dedicated and direct road and bridge link.

However the kick of the whole thing was the usual, a poor economy. And like many other white elephants the business model was elitist and out of touch with reality.

That is why the best model of governance is one that creates an economy that works for all. Bottom up, citizen targeted sustainable prosperity. Teach, lead and seed your citizens into enterprise, productive enterprise of tangible goods and services. I.e.the making of stuff.

Granted he had a vision for tourism and entertainment. But such consideration takes a long long time to fruition. Time the citizens just didn't have.

Season of accountability....

I just wonder what the APC will say about this debt debacle come 2031.

The argument will be monumental as to whose gbese is all surpassing between Mr. Buhari and Mr. Tinubu.

Bizibi:
Import is cheaper than manufacturing.....this is the result.

Exactly.

Nigerians are not fighting for the right causes no matter the psychological stimulus of high inflation and general economic malaise.

I like the last couple of sentences of the actor on question. That is the right attitude and determination. Without that determination there is no end to this wow we are facing.

The government is adamant that it has no blueprint to boost the economy, to stablish industry to create value and jobs.

America is saying to Canada and Bombadier. No more planes unless you make them here.
India is saying we will only buy BMW's assembled here. China is the master of economic blackmail and coercion.

We here have no plans whatsoever to grow anything.

robosky02:
2027: Why didn’t you defeat Atiku in PDP primary – Rufai Oseni to Wike



https://dailypost.ng/2026/09/16/2027-why-didnt-you-defeat-atiku-in-pdp-primary-rufai-oseni-to-wike/

The structures are like those created by UFO's on the far side of the moon...hahahahaha....

Hahahahaha....slow down oh....hahahaha...

Who here is from Kano and knows the historical dynamics of Kanti Kwari, the largest textile market in W/A. I was a practical witness when the Chinese literally invaded that market decades ago and systematically took over.

Not physically but economically, but first taking our own textiles back to China, reverse engineering them and bringing back to sell at a cheaper price. Naturally local textile mills buckled and even distributors and retailers of Nigerians textile had to abandon Nigerian stuff to stay competitive.

Not satisfied they deepened the invasion by advancing goods on credit from China. If you had the goods, you had the shop indirectly.

Today I don't know whether they are physically on ground running those shops but it will not surprise me.

So what is happening is Lagos is not today. It has happened in other locations I have personally witnessed from Lagos to Calabar (EPZ) and a couple of other places.

The bottom line is simple. A series of governments that care less about productivity. All they know is supply and contract leaving huge voids huge spaces.to be exploited by foreigners who are getting bolder by the year.

Today this government cares less about the factors of production.

Tell them that energy is getting out of hand they tell you they have no business with fuel.

Tell them power is unsuitable for sustainable production they tell you they have handed over to states.

Tell them to invest in enterprises, seed industry, privatised government businesses and push for PPP's to bridge service delivery gaps, they prefer to share palliatives instead....

But instead of the citizens to collectively press for these things to be done they are busy doing tribal cockfights....nonsense people.