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Well it is hoped that the abridged league brings the calendar in tandem with the rest of Africa and indeed Europe (if they can resume in August) so that our teams can perform better on the continent and local players can be in form to participate in the various international calendar dates.

Nigeria had better start asking for and insisting that the role of the Legislature in superintending over the Executive be sacrosanct. This institution is just not working and this country is not being served in any way for the billions spent on it.

What is the use of a smoke alarm that only rings AFTER THE FACT, only sounding when the building is already raised to the ground time and again. Why are Nigerians satisfied with institutions that express as much surprise as them about incidents they should be out and ahead of.

If a building collapses the engineer is held to account. If a plane crashes the pilot is interrogated if he survives and if he does not they still want to hear what transpired in the cockpit. Why are we satisfied with not holding the Legislature to account when government fails under their watch.

Enough is enough. Say no to Executive/Legislative so called 'cooperation'. It is nothing but connivance. We cannot have players selecting referees. The only agreement between an umpire and a team is one of fair play. The Legislature must be independent and respected by the Executive for Nigeria to have a fair deal.

This man and his storied life.
All Italy will miss him.

sukkot:
they have an outlet on admiralty way where they sell some of their agricultural products but it's also a supermarket

Oh...

Midastorch:
A master warrant officer in the Nigerian Airforce will feed you, your mother and father without feeling it in her account.. You think it's by writing "Damn Nigga" in social media.. Gtfoh please

He was referring to the part describing the larger, rising number of suicides across the country though unproven that they are caused by hardship.

But what is it about you folks running down your fellow citizens complaining about the sorry state of the country. People are free to express their disappointment with the way Nigeria has turned out.

Self search as he has done is the only way to break the cycle of the desperate state of Nigeria. Or are we all living blissfully.?

SKIBiNSKI:
They musta abused her sexually so badly she could not take anymore. Very sad.

In this age of social media backed with smart devices, any person can record and fight back except the person is too timid.

sukkot:
But truly I don't think these guys intention was to scam. I think they just ran out of money. I have been to their shop on admiralty way Lekki and it is beautifully situated facing the water. The product is good quality and they employ a lot of workers. Upstairs is a restaurant and downstairs a juice and muffins bar and middle floor is the supermarket. Then one day a few months ago I went in and the shelves were empty and it looked like they were packing out and running. Even the frontline workers looked confused and didn't know what was happening. I bet they do now. I asked the guy in the bread and wine section if they were closing down and even he looked befuddled and confused and didn't know what was happening

Which farm is there on Admiralty way or are we talking about the same thing.
Is this not supposed to be an agro-business.
How many that invested ever saw a farm with crops growing or being harvested?
Na waoh.

MrBroke:
Dumb ass people. When we bring ideas they don't buy but fraud shit is where they put money at. Breakfast served hot

This is the problem. Everyone has 'ideas', some genuine and even well intended. However ideas alone do not translate to a successful enterprise and before you seek 'investors' it is important to prove success. This is the million dollar question (no pun intended) all over the world of venture capital, proof of success.

Reading through the varied 'victim's statements', one string held them all together over the fire, not a single cashew nut, bunch of bananas or bag of rice, leading me to wonder, exactly what were people investing in.

Ofunaofu:
“They were well organised. I call it organised crime

Not funny but this cracked me up.
What are they waiting for.
Interpol should be on their tails by now.

Preaching to the converted.
What is all the appeal about when the average Nigerian has accepted it has to go and it has gone.

What Nigerians are concerned about is the inflationary effects about which the government has said NOTHING in the week since gasoline prices increased more than 100%.

One would have expected that the government will have announced a series of inflationary taming measures ahead of markets of various economic designations so that the public is assured the fallout will be minimal but they continue to stand idly by while transport fares have galloped, closely following with certainty are food prices and in the next few weeks other soft commodity prices will surge.

By the time they wake up I hope the cost of durable goods will not have been impacted if not it will be over, Nigeria will be headed for serious economic problems. The time for them to act is now that price rises are limited to soft goods.

Nigerians should wake up to realise that subsidy removal alone is not the silver bullet that will kill the eternal vampire of economic woes. It is just the entrance, the door way to opportunity. The economy still has to be properly managed in a cerebral manner and with dexterity. And the battle against inflation is key as it is in all progressive economies of the world at the moment.

Nigeria should do likewise.

frozen70:
In as much as I dont support what she is doing, I can't judge her because the story said that her husband doesn't provide for them but rocks out, they go hungry some days but am sure he eats while his family goes hungry

So she has no option left but to have a sugar daddy who cares for them and provide for them to feed

Well if the husband can't stand it, let him find his way out of the relationship

Hunger is not something to play with

A man who doesn't do his work, another man will do it for him

What is wrong with her working to feed the kids. Both husband and wife are equally irresponsible.

When you hear stories like this you can easily picture a couple of delinquents tied by a marriage of convenience.

There is no advise to give other than to school then.on the basics of relationships or to keep well clear while they crash and burn. It certainly won't end well without law enforcement intervention.

SeriouslySense:
I was curious, then i plotted many locations where earthquake occurred, to see the appearance on the map, and it forms like a triangle, rather than a narrow line or fault line.
It could be that that triangle is a fault zone perhaps, or a wide fault line, or still a line.

Must be fault lines, perhaps undocumented or yet to be discovered. It can only be fault lines running that way. The only other remote possibility I will speculate on is the effects of deep mining. I have no facts about this but mining has been known in the past to create geological disturbance and SA is a big mining country.

Due process should be followed and nothing done without the Judiciary involved. However he just had to add 'the Hijab' to whip up sentiment. Politicians are as predictable as ice in Iceland.

SeriouslySense:
Earthquakes have been happening for a long time.

Just checked through the global map of the major fault lines and South Africa appears far enough to be safe. There must be other minor fault lines running closer to shore.

Neoteny7:
Exotic cars don't mean your regular SUVs and trucks.

Mostly vintage cars, hypercars, supercars, collector's items, etc.

It's only in Nigeria that a Prado, Lexus, or Range Rover SUV or Mercedes sedans are called "exotic."

Well the kind of corruption we see is.... of course, only in Nigeria.
And what do you call a sixty million naira vehicle driven by a 'driver' earning forty thousand naira a month.... of course, exotic, because it will take him a lifetime and a half to buy one.

Only restructuring will put an end to this whereby you spend what you earn.... like every decent human being in any sane society.
As long as the people do not feel you are stealing from them they seldom care.

[quote author=obi58 post=123716233[b]]The only reason subsidy was removed was because government was not ready to fight the corruption crippling the country. Instead as usual the common man has to bear the cost of this[/b]. We shall see how Nigerians will react to concurrent increases in fuel and food prices. All those people that were shouting Sai Baba where are they now?[/quote]Well this has been going on for decades.
Not even a name has been mentioned (save the Otedola/Farouk era), not one single investigation lately and apart from the 'poor' Farouk no one has seen the inside of a gaol.
Meaning that it is likely the government is responsible for the heist.

If you ask me, na who I go ask.
Indeed. What is the plan.... This is a week and counting....

All chorusing in agreement that, 'go and see a doctor', but when it comes to the politics and governance of a better healthcare system then the divisions arise between the, 'they can go to hell for all I care', to the, 'they should continue striking till the earth freezes over...'. No one takes anything serious until seriousness visits him or her.

If they like let them sit idly by and while the 'feudalists' turn the Legislature into an Executive annex of the Presidency then start to wail in 2027 that cabals have taken over the government. After all the Legislature gave approval for practically every single move of the Central Bank and its defunct czar Godwin Emefiele the hated....

Premiership no good.... they have won two of three European Cups.

lhordspy:
This report is commendable. I love the way Sowore highlighted everyone allegedly involve one way or the other.

The most baffling thing is that this same Emefele was the key tool used in the embezzlement of national funds by the likes of D!ezani, Dasuk!, and the rest of Jonathan's administration corrupt folks.

Yet , Baba Buhari, a supposedly man of integrity. Who rode on the Anti-corruption attributes to power; - Not only retained Emefele after coming to power but also renewed his contract afterward. Not only that, he gave him the power to run the country economy into ground; nonchalantly and recklessly. He took the rate from N167-N764 per dollar. To add more pepper, he declared his intention to run for president, he was also going around with military personells and armour tanks as personal security to evade justice. A god status.

I dont think Buhari is an accomplice. I choose to believe he was hypnotised, misled, uninformed or something. Because everything feels wrong here. Something that only exist in horror stories.

But when good citizens were speaking out about the serial mis-governance of the past regime folks like you were castigating them as wailers.
Is it not poor citizenship to wail after the damage is done.
Damage that in most cases cannot be reversed.
Can you see that a government is only as good as it is being tailored by the people it claims to serve.

And now can you see why good citizens are saying the present HOS should not interfere in the election of the Heads of the Legislature. He should not be influencing the selection of the referees (under any guise) that will superintend over the 4 year match between himself and the people.

Because that is the only safety feature the people have to stop a runaway train wreck of any government. We are tired of wailing after the fact. We only want the good governance that can only be guaranteed when WE the people are in charge.

Because the country they claim to be working for is run down and poor.
In normal climes when you run down an enterprise you lose your job as it folds up.
Well, government is built never to close down no matter how badly government employees run it aground but poverty is a certain option.

OP. If I say what is on my mind concerning the civil service you will just weep.
Do you know the last time Nigeria's refineries worked anywhere near capacity (that is at the kind of sustained, productive levels a typical enterprise needs to be profitable) was nearly thirty years ago during the early years of the Abacha regime.

Now a civil servant who joined the Refining company then will soon be ripe enough to retire and become pensionable. What will such a person claim to have done with his life. WHY should such a person be anything but poor, but most are not. Not only do they not work as in the true sense of work, but they either sabotage or work in cahoots with those who sabotage that enterprise.

And this can be said about half a dozen other grave yards called Nigerian government enterprises from Ajaokuta to ports littering the eastern seaboard. Just one big welfare scheme.

Skyview01:
It beat my imagination how some Nigerian reason. Indeed, our educational systems have failed. WTF!

So if Buhari asked to kill somebody, we should not hold you accountable for your actions.

What the F***cking F*K!

I just laugh.
Oga, it is the country Nigerians built for themselves.

8 years ago Mr. Buhari was touted as the strongman of action and totalitarianism. Nigerians yearned for a President that governed as a military dictator because they believed he was disciplined and incorruptible. So they ceded every single institution of government and authority of State to his influence. A situation most on this topic are denying now.

It shows that Nigerians will only learn from hardship (for a while until they forget and revert to their primordial sentiments) and perhaps come to a realization that democracy has its rules to be followed in order to benefit from it.

One if it's rules is the independence of institutions created for checks and balances. By independence I mean a notion that such an institution does not belong to you or me or Mr. President alone, but it belongs to ALL of us EQUALLY. And if all these had worked this issue will not have arisen or be spoken about.

If the CBN was truly independent or autonomous then it will have been 'controllable' by the people through the Legislature and policies indeed will have been in the interest of the people.

So Mr. Emefiele's guilt about the sufferings of Nigerians in a nutshell is a result of the ignorance and weakness of the citizens that cannot insist on independent, governable institutions that operate in their interests and not in the interests alone of Mr. President or a few around him.

Now, what are we doing about this kind of thing so that in 4 or 8 years we will not be dramatizing this over again. How are we as citizens insisting that Mr. Bola Tinubu be held to account and that he is not made more powerful than institutions of state.

How are we busy securing the independence of the legislature for example, the judiciary, the security services, and the CBN in question. So we are not doomed to repeat our sufferings.

'All the President's Men's....

Why do I have this feeling that we are witnessing the emergence of the new Aso Rock cabal.

Ganduje is laying down the marker.

This is one of the reasons why I never had the slightest regards for the whole unfortunate drama, the Nigerian factor.

adioolayi:
Are they not the ones that promised Nigeria 50-100 CNG buses valued at same 10Billion naira

Did Nigerians ask them where they will get such monies before a round of applause and all the hailing?

SenatePresdo:
Is Tinubu supposed to determine who leads National Assembly?

Isn't National Assembly an independent arm of Govt?

Useless Government of Corruption continuation.

It has not been independent since 1999.
The cost today is bad governance and the poor asking 'how much is a plate of food in your area'.
But still the average citizen will not sit up and do what is right.
He believes the President is a king that can do no wrong whereas democracy is fashioned after a vehicle that has a brake knowing that power without control is destructive.
Everyday you wake up and wonder whether democracy is the right way for the Negro.

Here they come again.
Last government was 'cooperative National Assembly', now it is 'smooth'..... both sounding like inappropriate relationships of which the citizens are being cheated. Everything to disguise their desire to destroy the real function of the Legislature which is to checkmate them.
Nigerians love their feudalism and to them criticism, checks, pushbacks are alien to development.
If Nigerians invented the aircraft it will simply not fly due to headwinds.

Talking about aircraft and the phantom 'Air Nigeria' drama, Nigerians are crying today and even members of the 9th Assembly have joined in shedding crocodile tears, but you just wonder how Mr. ex-Minister was able to spend such humongous amounts without 'approval of the cooperative legislature'.

They all sat by clapping in 'cooperation' while he acted drama for them for 8 years but when the king left the throne they have all regained their voices. Was there no Committee on Aviation to check the Minister's excesses, were there no budget approvals all these years with which the Minister produced the comedy skit. That is what 'cooperation' gets you, acquiescence.

So let Nigerians sit idly by again while Legislature and Executive erotically massage themselves with the smooth oil of cooperation. Let them not do their jobs of superintending over the Executive. By 2027 we will hear news, watch drama and cry at the new tragic comedies.

Karlman:
What are you supposed to do?
Get them arrested

Abi oh. Or is the immunity still in place?
If your house is broken into won't you get the perps arrested and prosecuted or have your goods recovered?

Government in Nigeria is just a means of mindless stealing.

dyera:
It's not good for Nigerians to always leave their destiny to chance. They sit down look as Jonathan and his cronies loot billions of dollars, sit down look as Buhari and his people squander billions of dollars, now they are planning to sit down look as Tinubu rule them and hope he will not do the same thing Jonathan and Buhari did.

The only hint we have ever heard of this shadowy group of 'subsidy cabal' in the past twenty years plus was the Otedola/Farouk Lawan drama. with the lawmaker the only one I know so far to have tasted justice is this tragedy yet the so called all powerful government of Nigeria just cannot unearth even the tip of the iceberg of what amounts to a trillion naira heist. The cannot even dare mention who did what.

And despite the almighty neck pressing the same government has given Nigerians over the past few days by removing subsidies my people cannot seek accountability, they just curl up in one corner debating either 'how much is aplate of food in your area' or 'how many kilometres did you trek today' as trending....

Feudal nation.

AutoConsult:
I'm not disputing any of the things you've said. I'm only keen on the time frame. It's too short to spend that much on a refinery. It spans through 25 years, not just under Buhari. It's fundamentally impossible.

So let us all go to bed and forget any such thing happened.
The refineries are working right?
When you live in a country amongst people that are content being taken for a ride time and time again you begin to question your own citizenship. It is just sickening.

The other day the former Minister of Finance reminded us about how a shadowy group of people kidnapped her mother to blackmail her to pay (obviously fraudulent) subsidies. You will have thought this is enough to get the DSS on their trail and you will have expected that by now someone or some people will be in jail.

But a decade after no one knows these people, the very people she paid trillions of naira over the course of her tenure. Same thing the past government, no one knows who these subsidy thieves are, even after trillions have been mismanaged.. And now that subsidies are allegedly over no one will clean up the books and these shadowy folks will retire with their loot.

Nigerians are just lazy to facts, unable to seek details and suffer because they cannot dig into the workings of their government. They just sit and hope serial felons will rule them well, hope that the goats will keep the yam barns while they play around.