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This is a democracy, violence is not a part of this. If they don't like the candidate propagate, they should just vote for who they want.

PS. Post in the wrong place. How did this happen.
Meanwhile I have no comment on South Africa.

laivwire:
After all the trips to France, we cannot point to any single diplomatic benefit for Nigerians in France even till this day.

While other African countries like Cameroon, Morocco etc enjoy streamlined residence permit processes, or can easily swap their driving licences for a French one based in recognition, Nigerians still go through the long arduous process for every single administration process.

They keep posting shiny pictures at dinner tables, comedic musical performances or print promises of business deals with no evidence on improving the life of the average Nigerian both home and abroad. Such a shame.

They go there for themselves under the cover of diplomacy. They and their hosts know exact that.

For what. This is not good...at all.
Just look at the huge plate or carbs.
Finish what?, when I am not a long distance athlete....

Our cuisine in these parts is just one long zebra crossing. White and black,...or red in this case. Very predictable and uninteresting.

iykololo:
And if they decide to zone it to Ebonyi to produce a candidate, I am 💯 sure that this slowpoke will front himself as the most qualified for the position.

Zone what...?
Were you not told explicitly that, 'power is not given, but taken'..,.

How do you understand that statement. It means that no zone is going to 'give' another.

Who is going to give the south east power, who is going to zone it to them...the south west....or the south-south...?

In this fifth republic when has power been outside the southwest...when?

Can't you see that what scares them most is the Obidient 'movement'.,.. movement.... movement....meaning a vehicle with an independent engine that they are not driving, a power narrative that they are not controlling...

They don't like that. They want to be in a position to ALLOW for it to happen. And there will always be a reason why they will not 'allow' it.

Oga Umahi, there will never be a turn. When it rotates back to the south then you will discover another south easterner roped in to support yet another south westerner. It is called divide and rule for a reason.

Then you will be told that all your good works today have become bad works tomorrow, all your labour was in vain.

It will never end until it is ended.

If the same folks that praised Mr. Buhari could turn around and castigate him while his corpse was still warm, you can be sure within a week of your exit from this government you will see how they truly feel about you....

Except you vow never to contest as a southerner for any higher office than you presently occupy.

It is only two people that ultimately determine the outcome of a match not the fans.

The referee who controls what happens on the pitch and the match commissioner who considers what happens outside the pitch.

If both are upstanding gentlemen even lions in the stands cannot do anything.

A qualitative referee with resist all the shenanigans of the opposition team on the field of play and the match commissioner's report can determine whether the game is forfeited if the atmosphere becomes untenable.

This is where CAF ought to get it right and having seen the presentations by Rangers FC, should appoint the very best officiating team it has.....which unfortunately are very, very few.

A lady amongst them....too bad.

Government is like that driver you give your vehicle to make a taxi business for regular returns.

At the very end it is the driver that decides what you get, when you get it, returns scantily and irregularly, makes all sorts of excuses why it is impossible for him to stick to the agreement, all in the meanwhile you hear (or see him) having a great time at taverns and joy riding in the company of friends....

Finally you've had enough and ask for a termination and the return of your vehicle and to add salt to injury he refuses to let go and goes about town gaslighting and slandering you...

Funny country.

In summary, '...because you taught them selfishness....'

What can I say....what can be added to this....from a man who notes that his palace should not be 'a toilet' where people only visit when 'pressed'.

Such an intellectual man, a true leader by his wise words.

franchasofficia:
Because Nigerian Insurance companies are only good at collecting premiums, etc but when it comes to paying benefits or for what they insured, it becomes an issue that takes forever and most times impossibility

Because of weak laws, weak criminal justice system and weak law enforcement.

If for instance a man from Mars suddenly dropped into Nigeria Insurance and settlements begin to roll, his firm will go bankrupt before the financial year is out....due to the above (first para.), that's why.

In other climes the size of some police departments that deal with fraud, insurance fraud to be specific is monumental.

We lack the depth to do that here and so the system is left stunted.

And like I said yesterday, this is one 'infrastructure' we lack that makes foreign investment much more difficult.

Weak laws, weak criminal justice system, weak law enforcement.

Just marry someone who works late as well so you both appreciate one another. Is that too hard to figure out.

DonaldGenes:
No, Trump is definitely trying to end the bloodshed going on in Ukraine

Something has to give..we know Russia won't stop so the best thing to do is Ukraine giving up the land to Russia - simple - then the war will end

You know Russia is militarily stronger that Ukraine , so what is the point of the killing when Ukraine can easily gibe a small part of the land

Russia will not stop there. If Ukraine falls they will simply move to the next country, particularly anyone that has a government inimical to Russia.

It is the same story since the dawn of civilisation. Power, power, power, conquest, conquest, conquest. Every dictator or dictatorial regime's vision is expansion and projection of power and authority.

What makes democracy generally safer for the world is that visions are on a clock and the risk of runaway thirst for power is time limited. Democracy depends on the next leader's differing outlook to things as no two people ever share the same vision.

That is why the US for instance is less of a risk because no matter how bad a leader there is, he has a limited time to do lasting damage.

But as for Russia, China and other autocracies only the death of the leader can change the course of a nation and if providence gives such a person long life then we are all in serious trouble.

Everyone goes into the folly of war, Russia, the US, Europe as well. Everyone has an agenda too stupid in hindsight. So Europe should not expect that it's own agenda should be the agenda of the world.

It has an agenda for Europe, an agenda for the Middle East and even an agenda for the United States that it expects everyone else to follow...how does that work...?

The US called for help in the Middle East as a key NATO partner and Europe baulked, do they expect the US in turn to throw in their lot for NATO in Europe.

So if everyone works for his interest, why the angst at the US. Trump made a deal for his country just as European countries are making deals for theirs.

Beyond this investigations should be made into the importers, the clearing agents and the customs officials in charge at the point of entry.

Everyone in the logistics chain should be found culpable and addressed by the law. If not we are in no better situation than the fuel subsidy conundrum where not a single players in the decades long trillion naira heist is behind bars today.

Indoctrination into a lifestyle of debt. Once you are hooked, you are done.

Ask those who know. The world is flush in a epidemic of debt similar to a Ponzi.

The day the music stops....hmm

Stop voting into government establishment people. People who grew and developed on this corrupt system. They cannot wield the big stick on society because society made them.

Vote into office people that don't have public baggage, people the public basically donot particularly like or idollze so when he or she throws them into jail it will be entirely expected.

They should have played some Bollywood blasts for them to gyrate...

Just like clockwork we are back to that usual pre-election banter of: 'we don't need his body, just his..,'..

When are we going to produce a sequel, this original is going a bit tired, worn and stale.

BlackViper:
See how other African countries are reacting

Just as a side note concerning what I was talking about this morning.

Look at how one particularly poster mocks Dangote's industrial push into east Africa viz the terrible power situation in the country.

That Africans have a serious deficiency in critical thought that keeps her pinned down to desolation.

If it the South Africans are able to stabilize power, what is wrong in meeting up with Nigeria or Nigeria is meeting up with them to share this competence. What is wrong with bringing them over to invest in Nigeria for our joint benefits as Africans to develop this continent. But we cannot do it.

Look at Europe and how they have manage to integrate. Nations of different tongues and traditions, with histories steeped in bitter conflicts and rivalries, have pulled it off and are waxing string, holding their own against the super powers of the east and west and rivaling the very best in any sector they put their minds to.

But in Africa and in little Nigeria within, it is one huge crab basket. Supplying 40 percent of the world resources in everything from minerals to agricultural produce, yet cannot feed, cannot clothe, cannot house, cannot heal and cannot organise itself.

Decades ago I was reading a scientific journal about the energy potentials of the Congo basin and how there was a proposal by African governments to jointly build an out of this world hydroelectric power plant.

The Inga dam would produce 40,000 megawatts of electricity which at that time could supply the whole of Africa, and with potentials for a total expansion to 100,000 megawatts out of the Congo.

Where is it today....drowned in Africa's infamous tardiness, disorganization, self centeredness and all the ism's that typically degrade humanity, kill visions and leave people in poverty.

After that China did her own 22,500 megawatts and is doing an even bigger one that has enabled China give it's industries 24/7 power at 0.11 dollar per kilowatt, while Nigeria's epileptic power costs even more at 0.13 dollars per kilowatt.

How in this world are we going to compete, is Africa going to compete.

And how do you industrialize without electricity. And even if you have constant electricity it has to be competitively priced enough to push more goods and services out of Nigeria than come in. It has to enable us compete with the world, so it is not just a matter of availability but cost as well.

But what are we spending.our money on....?

From th place where we were in 1999 under international sanctions, oil trading single digits, massive debt, this man was still able to positively impact the economy within his first term.

Granted most of his second term was wasted on politicking and the quest to control all aspects of government like the present government has wasted the first term on, but the impact ,the difference in Nigeria plc between 1999 and 2003 was as clear as dawn.

And even if subsequent governments had their own pathways at least his blueprint for developing Nigeria should have remained at the core of any manifesto.

But the degredation started immediately Yaradua a stepped in and the whole economy started the wobble that subsequent governments only made worse.

You can imagine what a well meaning government will have been able to do with basement debt, healthy reserves and on top of that the one excess crude account. With the recipe series then in private hands ,.the removal of subsidies will have had no more than a mild impact on the economy.

He set up this country to have a resilient economy, a working middle class and growing industrial capacity. Today everything has been fritted away.

That is it.
It is not about Tinubu as a person or his government. It is about what they are doing to this nation that is the problem.

An economic reform that focuses ONLY on putting more resources in to the hands of government is just not right.

Reforms should cut across board. You have more money but then you reduce the size of government, the footprint or shadow of government over the economy and grow the citizenry if you want them to finance this country in the future through productivity.

Because that is the only way we are going to get out of the debt trap. Because at the end of the day the only elastic resource a nation has is the people, every other factor is finite and has obviously maxed out.

The question the government should be asking itself it simple. I am expecting the people to carry 100 percent of the financial burden of the nation in the future, what am I doing today to equip them for that.

They cannot get away from this question. APC is full of ultra short term thinkers. No visionaries.

Neoteny:
In what country is it acceptable for a serving minister to hand out expensive political bribes in daylight without question?

Well, no one has a right to question the state of the country when viewing and accepting this snapshot.

We are the cause of everything happening to us. We didn't get here by mistake.

winterfell007:
I'm seriously pained, but I have to agree with on this. Something is fundamentally wrong with the black man. Nigeria's political leadership is simply the refelection of the state of the common people. We are our own worst enermies and we deserve the sort of terrible leaders that we get.

I mean. Look at what Dangote is facing in Kenya. Same Africa, same Africans, same thing. It is only his personal determination and perhaps ambition that has had to overcome such massive challenges.

And I say ambition because this is not common amongst those who want to invest from all around the world. Many will not just have the patience or the fortitude to bear these sort of things. They will just walk away and find better pastures.

We need to wake up in this country and this continent to begin to live properly.

arantess:
focus on the mesage

is it okay for father and son to indulge in this level of corruption and people should remain silent?
but ofcourse you people support crooks, so i know your answer

The other day the father was courting the German ambassador on some proposed development work.

When the rubber meets the road the people look more closely at worked examples of how the society on which they want to invest is run, how do we expect them to do it, when the principal's family is involved in shady practices, or do we think they will not know.... obviously they will and they will be watching such cases.

And that is why after years, even decades of running round the world courting development partners, Nigeria remains a relative investment wilderness, nothing much is happening.

And when we say create a conducive atmosphere to attract investment people immediately think it is all about roads, bridges and stable electricity, not knowing that those things can easily be overcome.

But the rule of law, a working criminal justice system and a people averse to corruption and all other criminal tendencies is inherent and critical. It simply cannot be constructed, bought, installed or imported. It has to be in place, in the hearts and minds of a citizenry for them to be attractive to outsiders.

A people have to prove that they can overcome themselves, their self serving tendencies and their sentiment for them to be truly open for business.

I am afraid the people of this country are just not ready for that from what one sees, hears and reads.

A whole Minister's son entangled in such a mess...what is a greater de-marketer of Nigeria or Abuja plc.

Everyone is saying insurance.

Insurance doesn't automatically mean safety and a sure compensation. Your insurer will go to great lengths to see that it was a 'real' accident.

If there was unreasonable risk taken in that establishment the issue will become protracted and may even fail.

gen2justice:
Imo State is a State overun by cultists and touts. I could clearly see cultists in the video in the name of Monitoring and Compliance. We can't wait for this administration to come to an end, so that those cultists and touts can vacate that State.

As someone earlier implied, the 'cultists' will simply apply to the next government for 'employment'. In this democracy they never lack job opportunities because the system permits it.

We as a people have covertly or overtly cultivated this sorry state by our inability to unite to define what is right and wrong.

Sorry to say so but Nigerians just donot have the mental capacity to draw bottom lines, places they will just not go for an undue advantage, no matter the benefit.

For instance, ask the typical Nigerian what his favorite politician or so called leader will say or do and he will be so appalled to stop supporting and you will find that there is nothing.

Perhaps the victim did a POS transaction and the felon spied on his balance to see an amount worth the crime. The elderly are highly vulnerable is many ways.

Hopefully justice will be swift to make for a deterrent. No keeping them for donkey eared years only to have their sentences commuted because some governor would not sign the warrants.

wonlasewonimi:
See the people you wan dey pity...slaves love their chains.

I should be shocked at most of the responses so far. But you know what, that is what an under developed country looks like. The very difference between it and a developed economy.

It is not about resources or the lack of it. But the mental state of the citizenry. The lack of a cohesive will to establish standards, rules, regulations and to enforce the law and justice.
Basically a society that recognizes right and wrong.

We didn't get to this state of regression as a nation by mistake. We worked it out fundamentally with attitude like this. Personal interests, sentiment and selfishness.

If I say the black man simply cannot cultivate a viable, sustainable and prosperous society on his own, folks will get angry.

Hindsight is 20/20, but if the Constitution permitted it, the Southwest should have given their 'Emilokan' slot to this man instead, to do what he did in 1999 all over again.

In everything from security, foreign relations, to the economy he is streaks ahead of the present one in office, who appears to have taken a debt off everyone so much that he simply cannot govern.