₦airaland Forum

triple996:
Good move make these fools no destroy the fragile country

What is the fear about.
Good governance and a working democracy fears not fall. It is easy. Just carry the people along. Let them decide what affects them and they will allow you sleep with your two eyes closed.

All the rice, chips and that calorie sump called 'swallow'. The table is by and large nutritionally deficient.

Slynation:
If our Soldiers has sense, this is exactly what they ought to be doing, take back the country. Nigeria is better off under Military regime than the nonsense parliamentary system of government called democracy...

Be careful what you wish for.
That democracy is not working well does not mean it should be discarded.
It is a black thing to discard instead of repair, to replace at heavy cost instead of a culture of maintenance.

Just as we constantly require foreign contractors to drive on decent highways and roads that we seldom keep clean ourselves, so we need constant military intervention to craft a decent, equitable and just society. Should this be?

We must learn as a people to come together, aggregate sound values and build a just, equitable and prosperous society by solidarity. Nothing else is a permanent fix.

To accept that military rule as inevitable is self destruction and an admission slavery was not the problem, neither was colonialism or any form of totalitarianism. Just that we are too ignorant to rule ourselves. A nation of kindergarten citizens.

Toneypen247:
A body that lacks integrity cannot be obeyed

Oh well.....

Summary as stated. Weak institutions.
For there is crime everywhere in the world but the above is the difference between nations.

So anytime you as a citizen says, 'it doesn't matter that courts are disobeyed, it is the interest of the present government that matters'.
So anytime you as a citizen says, 'it is the right of governor a or president b to have their way and ride over institutions'.
So anytime you as a citizen says, 'I will vote that corrupt man as legislator, governor, party chairman or president'.

Remember that the individuals you elevate over institutions will most likely be issued with diplomatic passports and moreso will never be considered as flight risks because the embassies know the country is their cash cow and proof of 'investment'.

It is your interest as a citizen to cultivate and nurture your institutions. That is ALL THE POWER YOU HAVE AND WILL EVER HAVE.

grandstar:
I am excited at the reforms presently taking place.

The truth is it is the policies I support and not necessarily the government. Since I supported the subsidy removal in 2012, it indicates i am policy focused and not party.

There's virtually no difference between the 2 parties, the only are the parts of the country where each party dominates. That's why there's so much cross carpeting. The only thing unites these 2 parties is endemic corruption.

Ever since Babangida and Abacha made it fashionable and highly respectable to see political office simply as a means to embezzle on a large scale with impunity and go scot free, that culture permeates too deeply today.

The level of corruption is frightening and mediocrity worrying.

The reforms are absolutely necessary.
Will they have been easier to take in 2012, no.
Is it harder now, yes.
Because the preceding government was terribly financially reckless leaving Nigeria much worse economic state than it was in 2015 or 2012 for that matter.

But there was a better way out which is similar to what is happening in the power sector, piecemeal removal of subsidies, currency and energy subsidies. A 20 percent removal each calendar year equivalent to a 5 year spread will not have triggered the kind of catastrophic inflation we see today.

Even at 10 percent removal per annum will have ended before the Tinubu tenure and he will have had a clean slate to work with. But crass, short sighted politicking led us this way.

Nigerians love everything the very hard way.

grandstar:
You are the tribal person here! You see things in a tribal light and perceive everyone else will.

So, Nigerians were not tribal when they voted for Jonathan? He won all states of the Southwest except Osun state (Aregbesola was still very popular then) and they did not vote for the ACN candidate Ribadu. You start shouting tribalism when it suits you

Did OBJ not try severally just to increase the price and met great opposition? Is OBJ Ijaw? Was he from a minority tribe like the Chibok? Most Yorubas applauded Oshiomole's frustrations of OBJ's oil price increases.

Jonathan failed to carry the nation along that he would remove the subsidy and deregulate the price. The nation just woke up on January 1st, 2012, with the announcement that the subsidy was gone and price fully deregulated.

Who does that? Where's the wisdom? He should have started sensitizing with stakeholders that he would remove the price after he won the 2011 elections. Heavy consultations with the state governors and stakeholders should have been had on how to end it. Oshiomole who was now a governor realizing his mistake could have reached an agreement with the NLC. I fully supported the deregulation then and now.

OBJ did a very poor job of enlightening the population of the need to end the subsidy and fully deregulate the price. That military man in him preferred to impose things on the citizenry rather than work through consultation. The same Oshiomole who fought him hard upon becoming governor realized that the subsidy was costing the nation dearly and short-changing all 3 tiers of government.

This is 2023. Times are different. It is glaring that the petrol subsidy is adversely affecting the country. Buhari's wasted 8 years has exposed the unaffordability of the subsidy, costing about a quarter to a third of the budget to finance.

Also, Tinubu, Obi and Atiku all stated they would remove it. So, what's the problem here? Is it because it was a Yoruba man that eventually removed it? If it needed to be removed, it should irrespective of who actually did so.

My friend there is no excuse for what happened in 2012.
All the 'carrying along tale' is just white wash and you folks should just ghost mode on that.

You guys are just lucky political opposition especially that of the PDP is dead, if not this period will have been almost ungovernable and payback will have been severe.

You principal put politics ahead of national interests in 2012 and any push back he experiences today he helped heap on himself, period.
No sympathy for this government from any Nigerian on the subsidy drama.
The APC government is merely reaping from where it sowed.

Well for those who consider it alright (personally I think there are several names that should not be near the list), just like in the last regime, we will find it amusing when the blame for mis-governance falls into the laps of the proverbial, 'people around him' as is synonymous with almost all Nigerian governments.

For every government is a creation of itself. No one has forced him to appoint people who are serial kleptomaniacs or have the DNA of 'cabal-isation' in them..... all good.

A glimpse into the shady regime of gasoline subsidy and an ample opportunity of a sincere government to get to the root of the matter by following the money trail with dexterity.

All it takes is to pay some or part of the funds and use financial intelligence to track its movements.
I bet some will end up in the accounts of certain Nigerians that will send Nigerians onto the streets in outrage.

However the realistic scenario is that we have heard the last of the matter and the money will be secretly paid after ample kickbacks have been promised to the new sheriffs.

We are still heavily under the gravitational power of a colonial planet that has faded from view but still exerts a lot of influence on our psyche. Moreso our institutions that have not cooled from the collision of military rule with democratic forces. Civil liberties are still far, far away from our shores and there will be many a battle to get this country completely free.

I will not readily equate our cultures, our institutions and our entertainment industry with that of the west but c'mon we have all watched countless movies of the good, the bad and the ugly of American policemen for instance and various law enforcement departments and services on the silver screen all our lives, the corruption, the drug dealing, the extra judicial murders, all sorts of torrid tales right from the days of the wild west to the present, recent and correct racist stereotyping of certain police departments on t.v.

Can we share in the same liberties their documentary, comedic and general film makers have to expose these issues on screen for amusement and introspection in equal measure....

PlayerMeji:
The dividends of subsidy removal will soon begin to trickle in...

Naso, but give a time frame if you are cocksure of this based on solid, logical facts, not speculation.
Hope is not a strategy, soon is not on any calendar I know.

stallionng:
Yes, mocking the poor masses,
Minister for transportation said the poor should start buying and using bicycles for work.
Unity schools and universities fees are increased deliberately to make the poor masses servants,house maids and house boys for ever ready for the rich.
What a mockery ,making them poorer and mocking them.let the poor breath?
God will judge you all

Na so.
And to ensure the children of the political class will have an endless supply of servants from the children of the poor into generations to come, just as Pharaohs were buried with living, able bodied slaves to ensure the chain of servitude continues into the after life.

If Nigerians like let them not wake up from their slumber and cast aside their toga of sentiment to pursue after their oppressors like the peasants of France pursued King Louis and ensured no leader since will ever take them for granted.

PrincessofDSS:
The poor has become an object of ridicule in this regime

The poor should stop ridiculing themselves first.
The way you dress yourselves before them is the way they address you.
When you worship them they become demi-gods.
This is the result.

Politicians in sane societies are considered merely 'first amongst equals'.
Africans have not been able to let go of feudalism so they liken their political leaders to their traditional chiefs and kings and bow down to them with absolute servitude and reverence.
You will be sure that someone will attack you for saying this truism.
It is a mental thing.

The kind of thinking that keeps the average Nigerian horse tied to a plastic chair.

If I were Mr. President no less that 3 key cabinet positions will go for international advertisement.

I will move for a radical change of legislation to incorporate non nationals where necessary into government to get the best of the best wherever they are in the world to deliver performance. The situation in Nigeria is that critical.

We need an international mirror to tell ourselves the truth as to where we are and the way out of the mess successive governments seem to be digging deeper into. We clearly need help, technical help.

masseratti:
exactly my thoughts.. Why create more ministries when we are suppose to even reduce the ridiculous number we have now.. They are even struggling to pay salaries and they want to create new ministries.. For what?

If the government wants to reward loyalty and party faithfuls there are many more appointments it has in store, it doesn't have to be ministerial which are critical to the survival of the country.

Nigerians must come to a realization that the most important positions should go to apolitical people, pure and unalloyed so called technocrats, because of our unique nature, tradition and circumstances that says Ministries are there as cash and privileges depositories to be exploited by the political class.

Mr. President should know that some of these folks on his list are known to have corruption issues and will stain his government and undermine whatever positive policy he has for the country for their selfish reasons. Pure technocrats are better because they have zero political stake in government and can be fired as easily as they are hired. This was the bane of the Buhari regime. The loss of control of his cabinet.

Politicians can be given posts in government owned enterprises where they will swim or sink on their performances, but will have enough private sector cover to ensure they do not drag the country down with them.

Honestly this is not inspiring.
Same ol, same ol.

We don't need more that half a dozen Federal Ministries which should reflect the exclusive responsibilities of government, like Armed Services, Justice, Internal Security, Social Investment & Finance, that's all.

All other aspects of government that either interfaces with the public or the private sector can be handled by Commissions, headed by Federal Commissioners or Directors such as Works, Energy, Telecommunications, Education, Health, etc. The private sector is heavily involved in these and do not need extra layers of the kind of bureaucracy that festers corruption.

I cannot see how a country that claims to be insolvent actively expands its government.
I cannot see how this will bring down the cost of governance or tip the federal budgets in favour of investments, aka capital expenditure.

Mr. Tinubu should think outside the box for once to bring an end to the waste called Nigeria's democratic machinery because with this kind of attitude it will take many, many years for this country to turn around.

They know what shameless feudal african lords masquerading as democratically elected leaders want.

Then his hapless citizens will toil and be taxed to death to maintain the presidential craft.

Yes, the people will get free heavenly corn and wheat from Vlad, eat it and will never go hungry again abi. But to give them the tools to fend for themselves.... no.

Perhaps the helicopter will till the ground and mill the corn. Africa is a major disappointed to the world.

phemmyfour:
But this defensive approach won't take them far

The truism in football is rather, 'defenses win trophies.... tournaments'...
Been so since 1982....

Another goal. Asisat.

Shooting on goal is one huge problem in the women's game.
If only the coaches and managers of these teams could spend time on this deficit, there would be a harvest of goals at this tournament instead of this huffing and puffing.

Goal Nigeria.

With all the beatings and capital punishment meted out in black Africa by holier than thou parents we still cannot formulate a just, equitable and prosperous society.... what is the point.

Just go to the slums of any large city and see how families live rough with children not spared the rod, yet such places are barely livable due to all sorts of criminal acts taking place.

mikkyword:
We Africans will not step down our discipline irrespective of where we find ourselves. our culture and traditions teaches us to be discipline. we will not water down our standard for western ills.

I see. So where did the boys who beat their teacher up for not allowing them to cheat 'find themselves'....
Who's culture and tradition did they use for that act..?
My friend crime is everywhere irrespective of culture.
It is the ability or inability to define a common set of standards that define the outcome.

Equaliser....

Poor kick out resulted in that poorly conceded goal.
Our ladies need to be mentally more resilient.

festacman:
Natural to support your dad but look Seyi, so far, there is little evidence to show that President Tinubu is the one that will change Nigeria.

The truth is that the damage, which President Tinubu's tax BURDEN and sudden removal of vital subsidies has done the disposable income of Nigerians will take a long time to be undone. Middle class has been knocked down the ladder. Nigerians are suffocating under the poverty canopy.

Strangely, apart from taxes imposed and subsidies removed to free up money for his government's use, President Tinubu, so far, has done nothing in terms of program to improve the real growth of the economy. Nothing!

Meanwhile, while subsidies for common man are removed, the humongous rogue pension package for Tinubu and other greedy ex-governors remain UNREMOVED.

Cannot agree more.
If there were NEW IDEAS on how to prosper this country we will have heard them from a government under pressure.

But all we hear is 'give us time' as if the passage of time is synonymous with the potency of innovation. This is worrisome.

It feels like there are folks somewhere teleguiding the government but with a disconnect in translation as to what the actual challenges facing the country are.

Really surprised there is nothing concrete on ground.

Triangles1:
There's something I don't understand about the ruling of Nigeria Government affairs, for now, I don't want to say anything because I supported this motive of subsidy removal, even obedient are in line with the removal of subsidy.



There's something some of us don't understand unless we join them, this remind me of if you can't beat them you join them.

Which one is 'even Obedient...'
Nigerians love sentiment.
What concerns the Labour party and this administration or the APC that has misruled for 8 years. Is that not the source of your sufferings.

That is what a panelist on a popular Abuja radio station says every Wednesday. 'Labour this, Obi that...' as if the Labour party is in power or has been in power. The man has not once called out the government, the ruling party or its hallowed candidates past or present by name or other opposition parties for that matter. Running scared of offending the powers that be.

They will lend all their support to their dear APC and exalt their president as maxim ruler only to run to the so called 'paltry party' they fight tooth and nail to keep out of government and claim not to have a structure, to hide under and chide for the reason for their sufferings.

But they have forgotten that the lanyard of Obi's mandate and the historical point of his popularity has always been about prudence in public finances and accountability, two legs of the country 's economy severely undermined by the ruling party.

Obi and the Labour party has nothing to do with why Nigeria is like this and has no solutions to this outside the powers of authority or opposition. Face your government and your ruling party.

During GEJ'a regime no one blamed the opposition APC for any problem in Nigeria or the CPC/AD throughout the 16 years of the PDP. Don't rope LP or Obi into this.

As someone said, 'how many desperate customers does it take to make a mafiosi cartel'.
The CNG adventure and time will tell.

Why not.
This is Nigeria, where the dregs rise to the top.
And the hapless citizens will be chanting... 'we hope...., we pray...., we expect'.... a bird to lay an egg and an elephant emerges.

This is contrary to what I was reading today.
The gist in general is that the inconsistent tracking of the parallel market is causing investors to hold on.
It appears there are still some doubts that the government can hold its nerve as the naira rate on the parallel market continues to decline.
There may be some currency subsidy already happening.

GRACEGLORY:
What!


How do you intend to cool the economy. Now it becomes more expensive to borrow money, consumers will definitely refrain from making purchases and spending reduces. Yet fuel price is alarming.

This rate hike won't bring down pump price, will it?

No, this is the right move. Long, long overdue.
Government should also be interacting with industry.... almost on a daily basis because we are virtually running a war time economy.

oyeraff:
when supreme court ordered that the old naira note should continue to be used as legal tender, did Emefiele comply with the supreme court order? No, both the new and the old notes we can not see. DSS too should not comply with this court order

Th is is exactly what I say.
The unprincipled, mixed signals the citizenry sends out, often at the spur of the moment, out of emotion, and totally void of introspection. The kind of 'short-termish', narrow way the victim today acted in the past.

Now take a step back and consider ALL the possibilities around your existence as a Nigerian. Under all governments, for all times and in all circumstances. Ask yourself this simple question again.

Should the rule of law be obeyed or not....

Nigerians are divided and unsure whether their institutions should obey court orders.
Tomorrow they will be the ones to complain about this.
If the NLC and TUC decides tomorrow not to obey the courts and proceeds to organise strike actions, what should these people say, after all the NLC will be acting in the 'national interest for economic security.

One of the reasons why Nigeria remains like this is the unprincipled nature of the average Nigerian.
Continually emitting mixed signals to government as to what is acceptable or not.
The Emefiele who is a victim today was a perpetrator of institutional abuse just a few short months ago as a 'power broker' of his own.

It will happen to these ones disobeying today.
That is a certainty.