₦airaland Forum

ImoleNaija:
Buhari govt don yahoo us. There's no need crying over a spilt. Let's hope Tinubu would make us smile again 😊.

Of course there IS NO NEED CRYING, if it is your favorite politicians and political party.
Failed, hypocritical citizens everywhere.
A nation where the citizens cannot collectively agree on what is wrong or right has no future.
Of course he has topped the Obasanjo era 16 billion dollars power to waste scheme.
And almost equaled the Jonathan era 20 billion dollar CBN theft allegation.
So what was all the 'CHANGE' about and what is your 'HOPE' based on..... 'emilokan to squander billons of dollars?'.....
No need crying indeed.
Country of bystanders and 'moveoners'

Mr. Sirika will soon be livid that it is only his soiled underpants that is being waved to the crowd. He will soon begin to his own laundry list. Odds on that every single Minister that served in this government has become a multi billionaire.
Told you folks about what happened in 1983.

I knew a number of kids of serving Ministers and MILADS back then and did know a single one that wasn't stupendously rich. All of them military men, just a few civilians. They all stole this country blind under the watch of Generals Buhari and Tunde Idiagbon.

Forty years later, nothing has changed except back to the democracy he truncated... and the enormous figures being bandied about today. However corruption has remained the same....

This is all the ruling APC has prospered in throughout its 8 year tenure and counting, divisions of all kinds, incitement of all types by its leading men, severally and blatantly testing the worn fabric of national cohesion time and again with abject superiority complexes and then blaming others for the fallout when the push back for equity and self determination arises.

Since the man's statements made mass media days ago there has been no official reaction from the party he represents, the government he supports or the President(cy) he helped instal, leaving some to believe that such silence means acquiescence or validation.

Now the online army and defensive forces of the ruling APC are left to pick the pieces, having their work cut out to deflect and bury bodies and will likely be left in this pure defensive mode throughout the four year rule whenever any perceived religious bias by the government arises.

Without restructuring this country remains largely ungovernable and just cannot pull itself out of the mire to make any tangible way forward.

When they said religion does not matter where the President came from, what they failed to realise is that religion did matter where he was going to. And that the heat of divisions and extremism increased proportionally with the distance from Lagos headed north.

And like many other things they projected the President will be able to do (aka performance), it now all depends on the attitude of those who are beginning to come out of the closet and stating their desires which may be far from Mr. President's ideals.

I have said this without time and number that the concept of good governance is not universal in Nigeria. For some good governance is bridges and railways, for others it is three square meals, for others it is the freedom to steal from government and for other like Mr. Rufai has stated, it is religious dominance. I just wonder how Mr. President will square this circle without restructuring. Time will tell.

Nigerians are feudal by nature. If their political leaders demand and receive worship then what stops landlords from feeling entitled.

Water reservoir for rural areas mainly and similar in purpose to those in the rural parts of the United States.

Angelfrost:
The statement in Bold is perfectly summed up in Osimhen!... Why pay so much for a stop-gap when the present+future is already available?

Hahahahaha.... Osimen is NOT a big game player.
Not yet by quite a distance.
Europe was the barometer for that and that game against Milan was..... quite disappointing.
The same Milan that Lautaro Martinez ran rings round.

And that is why Osimen should leave Napoli but not quite at the level of Madrid except if he is prepared to go understudy.
But 100million for a second striker is way too expensive in world football right now.
There is just no fit for Madrid.

Angelfrost:
Aren't you being quite hasty in laying off the kid??!... Just a poor season doesn't mean he won't come good!

He has potential... That's why when fit, he starts for France!

The problem with Madrid is that players don't really develop there, they go there to unleash potentials and my fear is that his candles are fast burning. You can see that Camavinga is a Madrista, it shows, but if Tchoumeni has another average season he will probably be sold.

Madrid did not compete this season not just because of their retiring top striker but that ageing midfield of which the man in question was nowhere to be found at critical stages of their campaign.

And you know that Madrid does not have the kind of stability in the dugout for any player to rely on the gaffer to develop. It was surprising that Madrid is continuing with Carlo but even he will have to win either Laliga or the Champions league next season to survive so he will be under pressure and will not be patient with players.

Angelfrost:
Honestly, Kane has just 2 great seasons left in him... The real question is how long is his ambition??!

Madrid should go for Osimhen abeg!

kane fit flop!

Totally agree with bolded. But not that he will be a flop.
Madrid has such a powerful midfield and wing play that shames that of Sours where he makes hay.

However I think he will just be a stop gap while they await the emergence of the next 'Galactic' 9.
But if there is a striker that walks and quacks like Benzema it is Harry Kane.
Their game play is uncannily similar, exactly alike, pace, power, movement, on the ball skills (or the lack of it), positioning and big game mentality.

Angelfrost:
This is huge...! For a 19-year-old!

That midfield will be something else next season... Bellingham, Tchoumani, Camavinga, etc!

I pray he succeeds... let him not become another Harry Maguire in that midfield!


Now that Benzema has left the 9 position vacant, Osimhen should change direction from England!

@ bolded.... average player. Not Madrid standard. Several leagues below Tony.
Should have been traded with Jude to reduce cost.

Not too sure about this.
Players out of Germany/Bundesliga are almost always inflated in terms of capability and the list is long, coupled with the fact that he is an Englishman.... with a lot of media hot air propelling the drama.

Some people just cannot stand the day to day corruption living in Nigeria exposes one to.

N3TRAL:
I'm a bonafide south south boy but let's face it- based on those figures, APC no too chop Nigeria's money.

What Jonathan's administration spent for subsidy for 4 years is almost double what Buhari spent for 7 years.

If you divide Buhari's figure, it is lower than what Yaradua spent in 2 years and what Obasanjo spent in a year.

APC may have its problems but you have to admit that their subsidy figure is the lowest in the history of Nigeria.

The data also shows that Buhari's major problem may not have been misappropriation of funds but he couldn't run the economy well. The percentage the naira fell during Buhari's era is scary.

Though subsidy corruption was at its peak during the Jonathan's regime you have not factored in the price of crude v the retail price of PMS in Nigeria. That ratio will give a better picture. In a nutshell crude prices were much higher broadly across the Jonathan regime as such the subsidy per litre of product will be the highest then.

Prudency045:
President wan appoint 20 but governor wan appoint 50.

No be juju be dat.

If we can remove subsidy, what happens to reducing the cost of governance?

They will not reduce anything if the people do not threaten them with fire and brimstone to cut cost.
It is now Nigerians will see waste of gargantuan proportions.

If you need 50 people advising you, you must be a complete dunce.
The people of that State had better wake up and demand good governance before they are forced into slave camps to be recruited by villains due to crippling poverty.
What kind of nonsense is this.....

captainamiedi1:
so what happen next after the shock? hope the 10th assembly can probe this and collect back tax payers money. i don't expect anything from APC govt though

They had been looking for legislative leadership that was 'cooperative' instead of 'confrontational' and deluded ignorant citizens were hailing them. Is this not the result. You employ a person to take care of business and cooperate with him to run your business down instead of superintending over him with vigour.

As long as Nigerians continue to follow after sentiment and continue to uphold the very people they vote into power as Lords and Masters of unquestionable candour they will continue to be fooled, short changed and remain in poverty and depravity because there will never be a shortage of so called leaders ready to take them for a ride.

If the so called leader is not my relation why on earth should I sell my soul to defend such a person unquestionably. What is my benefit as a citizen except a well governed country. How could a whole nation be held spell bound for eight years while these people stole the country into crippling debts.

Just sad.

References1:
https://punchng.com/breaking-reps-declare-nigeria-air-launch-a-fraud/

Rubbish.
When the horse has bolted.
Where was your oversight responsibilities.
What the hell are Nigerians paying you people hefty sums for.
Useless rubber stampers.
Shedding crocodile tears when the 'strong man' has retired.

Hope they don't have a ghost problem one day.

shinealight:
…..natural expectation to demand miracles within One Week? What someone else could not achieve in eight years?
Is there any sense in that?

Yes, when you have a case and report to the police station you don't ask how long the DPO has been engaged, you expect him to start working on your case immediately.
This is the same government, the same security architecture, the same personnel.
All that has changed is the Minister and the President.
Now if you have a prepared candidate elected all he brings to the table is a new strategy that is preset.
What stops it being immediately deployed with the same dexterity as say the removal of subsidies.... or is the daily loss of lives not as important as fuel prices.

And as I praised Mr. President for being swift and decisive in removing the subsidy as any delay will have given room to the cabal to outmaneuver him so I am equally concerned that indecisive action on insecurity will allow the establishment to outmaneuver him making any serious reforms hard to make down the line.

Because whether we want to admit it or not there are vested interests in keeping the security architecture running as ineffectually and dysfunctional as it is. Swift action on insecurity is required without haste.

shinealight:
Who is posting this kind of illogicality? It’s amazing how ridiculously myopic some people can get!
Do you expect Tinubu to arrest the killings that have been going on since Jonathan assumed office, within one week?
Please try use that stuff between your ears…..assuming you have anything there at all.

Just profer solutions and go.
Your job as a bonafide citizen is to guide government not to sit and make excuses.
You employ someone at high cost to find solutions.
It is a natural expectation to be anxious.

Once more we say.
Structure is the problem and as long as security, law and justice remains the exclusive preserve of the Federal government this problem can only get worse as the economic realities bite harder and Nigerians begin to feast on themselves.

If he cannot take concrete steps to franchise security amongst States and Local government this problem simply cannot go away. The Federal government does not have the capacity to secure Nigeria in any way shape or form.

In the United States which shares a lot of geo-political similarities to Nigeria there are only 137,000 serving law enforcement officers in the service of the US government. States and Counties on the other hand employ a combined 600,000+ more than four times that of the Federal Government.

Because whether we like it or not security is all about visibility, about the density of deterrents, about the number of boots on the ground per population and per square kilometre not to talk of local knowledge, intelligence and community relationships.

So if we cannot restructure we should just prepare to continue piling up the bodies and living under siege.

Nigerians should be realistic.

There is just no other way out of this quagmire than to end subsidies since it is clear that we just CANNOT FIGHT THE CORRUPTION associated with governance in this country and have collectively surrendered to the fact that we live in a feudal society where the power of individuals far superceeds that of the State.

So Nigerians MUST make the sacrifices to save this country from extinction as the past governments have brought her to the brink of. To this I commend the new government of Mr. Tinubu for being bold, swift, decisive and not giving the nameless, faceless cabal that has held this country's economy to ransom for decades time to blackmail it into backing down. It is painful but absolutely necessary. That is qualitative leadership.

HOWEVER, the reality is that governance is about people and the country to be saved needs people to exist in it. If subsidy removal is for the benefit of the people then it has to be INDEED. This is where ALL Nigerian governments at all levels and at all times have missed it. They just do not know how to build prosperity.

If this government is going to succeed ultimately the treatment has to be complete and universal and the government on their part MUST reform. It just cannot be business as usual. It has to make sacrifices, it has to be seen to operate in the same austerity they ask the rest of Nigeria to live by.

Anything else is asking for serious trouble. No one will be left, able to defend the government then.
Once again I repeat. It is highly provocative for the government to announce a set of economic sacrifices of a lifetime and almost in the same breadth declare what amounts to pensions of truly horrendous sums for people who should not be pensioned, the very politicians that Nigerians widely hold responsible for this mess.

This kind of insensitivity and less have actually ended governments, led to revolutions and civil wars in other climes in times past. Please, Mr. Tinubu's government, let us never hear this kind of thing again.

Personally none. I have not even bought at the new price yet since I have a large stock but I also anticipated this move a long time ago and have prepared for it.

richidinho:
You have not announce what the political class are willing to sacrifice but you want the masses to sacrifice everything for you to countinue living large

We don't trust this govt.

They have truly shown to Nigerians that the mandate they operates on is a Stolen one

Totally agree.
They have kept silent on what they have to contribute by way of lowering their expenses so any 'savings' accruable it is assumed they will chop.

Someone was even saying today that Nigeria had been borrowing to subsidize so ending subsidy does not bring extra cash anywhere to develop the country.

Abeg labour should twist their arms so that the FACTS of this whole issue emerges since political opposition remains docile.

WHAT ARE CITIZENS GOING TO GET OUT OF THIS DEAL. In all major religions when you offer sacrifices you should get better not worse.

I hope they have the moral courage to reject any benefits accruing from that since tribalism must supercede good governance in the feudal north and increasingly feudal west.

Without restructuring Nigeria simply cannot make meaningful progress. Everything must be painted and tainted in sentiment.

I have long realised that the black man cannot fashion a prosperous society for himself.
Once you put two Negros together and a task to save themselves you have just done the opposite.

Cooly100:
This needs a political solution.

I tell you.
Civil disobedience is a very powerful tool.... broke Yankee Doodle, broke Apartheid.

Just listening to 94.3 FM Abuja on the tale of giving out your goat to the butchery and getting only the intestines back (at mind boggling cost I suppose, simply because you don't have a knife to slaughter it)......

Prodigal country. Walahi, this country is due for severe punishment for the reckless waste of God's given resources.
If Nigeria was a 63 year old son the father will have risen from the grave to disown him.

valentineuwakwe:
Must they link everything to Peter obi? FFK is just a clown and really playing to his pay masters scripts!

Yes they must.
This is an open invitation to Peter Obi and his Labour party and indeed other opposition parties to do what is supposed to be done. To do their duty in crafting a progressive way forward.

What we don't realise is that political opposition is the strongest force field of accountability and good governance, not trade unions or workers movements. Political opposition is the most feared power structure to force change.

So when I hear all these talk of 'all parties supported subsidy removal' or 'labour movement is the Labour Party', all I see is an inner cry of help from those who need someone or something to intervene. Societal pressure is causing them to look for rocks to hide under so they try to anchor.

If you watch Skynews every morning you will see that the ruling party does not just push its agenda on any matter, it also simultaneously attacks the ideas of its rivals.

Democracy cannot work well if there are no opposing forces because it is simply a power struggle of which the citizens benefit from opposing parties trying to outwit themselves to please the people by doing what is right.

So Mr. Obi should step up and accept the challenge. Atiku too and others that campaigned for an alternative experience in leadership. Opposition does not end with elections or tribunals. It is a game or perpetual contest where one man, one team alone cannot take part.

Lutherblaq:
This goverment will link their failure to peter obi after 4-8 yrs if the fail

Told you guys this last week.

And that is why the opposition should not remain quiet at this point in time.
I just do not understand Nigerian politics.
This is the season where the opposition becomes vocal in pushing its agenda.
This is where it gains traction by making alternative policy hay while rain is falling on government to shape the and develop the country.

But when it should be doing its work all one hears is token disapproval, nothing of substance while being headbutted by government propagandists.
Democracy is not working well in this country at all.
Lazy actors everywhere you look.

The US is just emerging from a titanic battle between the ruling Democrats and opposition Republicans on an important economic factor of debt ceiling.
In the UK the same thing, inflation and the running battles between Rishi's Conservatives and the opposition Labour day in day out.
Nigeria is facing the most important economic decisions of a generation and there are no political actors to be found.....

Season of True Confessions.
Error of Judgement indeed.
Yet his diehard fans particularly the uneducated ones will never agree.

Don't employ a driver you cannot tell where you want to go out of fear.
They didn't hear. They said the driver knew everywhere and could read their minds.
So he took them to a place they did not know....

Now they have employed their 'daddy' that they cannot correct out of respect.
So they are going to eat whatever he cooks whether they like it or not.

A people who do not know how democracy works cannot benefit from it.
Democracy 101. Vote leaders you can fire, vote leaders who fear and respect you, vote leaders you can correct and direct.... and all other things will be added unto you. It is your country as well.

Adams, Adams, your beloved party is heading to equate the 75 percent mark in the so called 16 wasted years of PDP rule with nothing to show for it.

I think you should rather leave the marketing and focus on good governance. 4 years will just go like smoke in a hurricane.

meolaniyi:
Criminals always have a way of imposing themselves on the people

The only way out is to restructure Nigeria.
The people MUST all sit down and agree that what is wrong is wrong and what is right is right first before thinking of nation building.

In other climes once this has been revealed the man will fall on his sword and voluntarily resign.
But here he will hang on kicking and screaming because he knows the people cannot form a consensus.

This is why lawlessness and impunity continues to thrive, a structurally disjointed nation.
Then when enough people know they cannot get away with wrong doing the cream rises to the top, not the dregs as we see in virtually all leadership positions in Nigeria.