₦airaland Forum

Everyone saying buy Nigeria fail to notice that almost all the NPFL clubs are government owned and run....

....is that not enough reason not to touch it. Hear this. If Nigerians want development they should crave investment. If they crave investment then they should demand government leaves first. And let the enterprise be entirely private sector run in and out, top to bottom.

The first and most important thing that will happen next is that arbitration is possible. This factor alone will attract investment.

XXXXTENTACION:
A.P.C zombies will come and tell us about buhari trains and bridges.

Trains and bridges caused all that....wow...So, if Nigeria becomes Dubai like, the naira to the dollar becomes 1 to....

femi4:
He will kill his career, even yesterday despite scoring, his performance was below par

He looked tired. His stamina needs another level.

Hmmm, he needs to work on his pace, stamina and make his right leg a bit more useful to be effective in a German led team.

When your mentality is soiled by your nation where the rule of law is alien you act like this saying, 'you donot want to report them to FIFA', then why bother us with sob stories.

If I am robbed and for whatever reason refuse to report to the police then there is something definitely wrong somewhere. Someone out there is selling porkies.

The government has played its hands. It will now have to bear the consequences.

The sense here is clear, it has placed the interests of individuals above the nation and totally ignored the sensibilities of a swathe of its citizens further weakening its ability to govern properly and fuelling the already tense insecurity situation to which the police admitted today it is essentially bankrupt.

Wise governance will not be hasty in personalising this incident. They will rather act independent and let the Legislature, the referees in this case take the heat. Afterall it is our Representatives that slipped up in vetting this person. Then they will have satisfied both sides of the equation.

Of course they will deny. That is government without oversight, democracy in a poorly structured country.

Mouth Gig:
DEM DON BUY DIS SELLOUT

WAREEY, DEM GO USE U DO RAM SUYA

No one stands to gain anything from escalating the situation and inviting violence particularly over unsubstantiated allegations.

Genocides in Europe and Africa have resulted from assassinations of top leadership and this can easily, easily go terribly wrong.

We should be extremely careful here. Let justice prevail. Insist on the system working. That is the responsibility of society.

No be by force. Sub's are big boys toys. Don't mess with tech you cannot control. Sorry. Next time just sign a defence pact with either David or Goliath.

Arcridwan:
Senator Lola ashiru is an architect that is why he move that motion that is Nigeria for us you do you what will please you

Nothing wrong in a knowledgeable person stepping up a concern. That is why we need the middle class representing us in government. They are practically affected.

9jaRealist:
They were run into the ground by POOR government management....

Nonetheless, Ewekoro still exists. It is owned by Lafarge (used to be Blue Circle UK, before Lafarge acquired Blue Circle), which is the world’s BIGGEST AND MOST POWERFUL producer of cement. The irony was that despite the fact that Lafarge has been in Nigeria since the 1950s/60s (as well other major multinational cement producers like Holcim, Scancem, Heidelberg, etc.), before most of us were even born, it was until indigenous Nigerian producers like Dangote and BUA built world-class plants that Lafarge decided to rehabilitate and modernize its decrepit and polluting Ewekoro and Shagamu plants, and it was still bagging imported cement and producing/dumping low-quality 32.R-graded cement until Dangote and BUA came on the scene with locally-produced 42.R-grade cement (Dangote is the FIRST, and likely remains the ONLY producer, in Africa of 52.5R-grade cement, the highest quality globally).

Bendel Cement was acquired by BUA Group under the Obasanjo privatization program, and has since been retrofitted and modernized, and a brand new plant added, and is now producing about 6 million tons/year (more than 10x its production under government management and ownership). Sokoto Cement was also acquired by BUA Group under the privatization program, and repeated the same modernized production upgrade feature as it did in Edo State. Calabar Cement Co., which was moribund and not producing, was acquired by Flour Mills under the same privatization program, and together with Holcim built a state-of-the-art new plant in Cross River State, and again has geometrically increased production levels and capacity. Similarly, when BCC Gboko was acquired by Dangote Cement under the same Obasanjo privatization program, it was moribund and NOT producing any cement. After so much objection by rent-seeking Benue politicians, Dangote Cement turned around the plant, increasing its capacity TEN-FOLD from 400K tons/year to 4 million tons/year, built a power plant (which supplies electricity to the local community and LGA), roads, clinic and housing. Meanwhile, Ebonyi politicians also engaged in a long fight against Ibeto Group’s acquisition of Nkalagu Cement Co., until relatively recently, and since then the Ibeto Group has awarded contracts to Sinoma for a total rebuild and modernization of the Nkalagu plant (as well as a second new plant nearby).

The entry of indigenous Nigerian producers like BUA and Dangote has helped transform Nigeria from the world’s second-largest importer of cement (only second to the US) to an EXPORTER of cement, saving billions of dollars previously spent on importation, earning millions of dollars from exports, and CREATING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS IN NIGERIA FOR NIGERIANS! Only people who celebrate failure and denigrate success would want Nigeria to return to the old regime of poorly run government-owned cement companies, and massive imports. SMH
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Well said. You can imagine what the Naira will be converting by now if we were importing cement.

What folks and the Nat Assembly should be asking for is details and reasons. Bring the producers in and ask them why the high margins compared to foreign products and see whether these factors can be handled, simple.

The much expected run on the naira has started. This is the final straw. Brace for impact Nigeria.

Profayo:
Onuachu
Simy Nwankwo
Iheanacho
Osimhem
Sadiq Umar


Nigeria has got a terrific strike force at the moment. Any reasonable coach must make Nigeria play on the offence not defence presently. We don't have great defenders so our best bet is to outscore teams.

Absolutely.

That is what a goverment exists for. To look at its resources and tailor incidents accordingly. It doesn't go around lighting fires all over society and ignoring smouldering embers. That is what we call "The State of the Nation". The ability of governance to function effectively and the leadership necessary to ensure it is not overwhelmed.

Britain looked at the capacity of the NHS for example during Covid and implemented preventive policies to ensure its primary health care system did not crash. Brazil's leadership on the other hand sticks to its regrettable sentiment till today and its health system has crashed with overwhelming wartime like casualties.

There is no nation in the world that can hospitalise its entire population so it ensures its citizens are healthy. No nation that can give food packs to its entire citizens so it ensures its economy ticks along and there is no nation that can warehouse all its citizens in prison so it ensures justice prevails.

Only in Nigeria the leadership thinks it can continue in its disastrous sectional, ethnic, nepotistic, autocratic ways of governance and not expect a dysfunctional state, and a resuktant social and economic meltdown leading to the viral outbreaks of lawlessness that has overwhelmed the security services.

If all of us down patriotism and resort to self help like our government is always keen on doing how many policemen and prisons will they be able deploy. The police is out resourced simply because of poor leadership and bad governance, simple. Improve leadership and the majority of causatives of anti societal ills will be contained.

AHCB:
I support what he said 100%. Unfortunately, Nigerians now believe freedom of speech mean freedom to say whatever you like, it doesn't matter to them if what they're saying is fact or not, they just say it and defend it with their narrow minded opinion, which they believe, is fact.

Truly if we must move forward, a whole lot of steps need to be taken to make Nigerians accountable for what they say, especially on social media. It's becoming too much.

Fake news, misinformation and what have you is now the order of the day. Majority don't even care to know if what they're reading is the truth or half truth or baked up lies, they just believe, especially if they don't like you.

It truly is a shame.

Oga. I think what people out there are DOING against the nation and one another is far, far worse than what they are SAYING in media to your discomfort both in context and reality. Consider this.

Tragedies are brewing as we speak. Plans to invade, kidnap, plunder communities. By the time these things are spoken about it his too late to stop them. So it is incumbent on government to be proactive in halting the wanton violence racking the land and ensuring justice and equity prevails throughout all Nigeria then the news that hurts you guys so much will naturally ebb away.

But you guys want to have your cake of injustice, maladministration and sycophancy and eat a peaceful, progressive, praise worthy society. How do you square that circle. Leadership in the democracy we all know does what the people want for the good of the people. This one we have right now just does what it likes, damns then vast majority of people and has scant empathy for their horrendous leadership outcome.

Oga. Be careful what you wish for. You are asking for the 'Silence of the Lambs'...think well oh. It is better to have an outspoken society than one...

Zmark:
Nigeria is too polarized, anything can happen. People like dangote will bare the highest brunt, he automatically become a foreigner.

Is he not already investing abroad? What is the difference. Not a subscriber to the break up of Nigeria but if a society improves by what ever means it will profit anyone of sound mind and good conscience.

alfarouq:
Is it because he is an Imam that he should not be a Minister, if that is what you truly believe, you are either ignorant or a hypocrite.
Is Osinbajo not a pastor? The second in command to Adegboye.

And if Osinbajo had such a coloured past. Considered openly the Head of the KKK (can't even imagine any equivalent in Christianity) 'a better Christian than he is, attended meetings where agendas to rail road Islam out of Nigeria were discussed and deliberated, published lots of hate materials, and spawned a cult like following amongst extreme, violent 'brethren'. Will you still consider it fair play for him to hold high office and entrust him with national security.

That is the justice or the lack of it lots of folks speak about that is cartwheeling this country into the abyss.

The mundane statements of the likes of Mathew Kukah and the vitriol of the likes of David Oyedepo against bad governance, not even against other religious adherents and certainly not proselytising violence were met with much angst in your circles.

What will you think or do if somehow they were appointed inti this government... indeed, any government. Won't you folks go totally ballistic....

Just admit that his utterances and actions are unbecoming of political leadership in a supposedly multi-religious state as Nigeria and will not be tolerated in any democratic setup that seeks progress. You certainly will not tolerate the proverbial boot on the other foot.

Aremson14:
This doesn't make sense at all he was the imam there so what.... was it not at uniben there a girl was killed... it's just like saying d pastor of the church was guilty... did he instruct any1 to kill the girl

The report indicated a 'fatwa' was placed on the boy. Who placea fatwa's if not religious leadership.

This is becoming a real mess. Serious problems are brewing in Nigeria.

I once warned that a time is coming when Nigeria and Nigerians as a whole will beg for restructuring but alas it will be too late.

I believe that Charles Soludo has the pedigree to take Anambra to another level and improve the fortunes of its citizens. He was a major contributor to the most prosperous economic period we have had since the advent of the 5th Republic as CBN Governor. His policies were very positive in expanding the economy and attracting investment. I believe he can replicate that in Anambra and give meat to Peter Obi's legacy.

Nice...sturdy....but those tyres look like a real Achilles Heel. They seem rather light weight and a concern if they are not kevlar lined or solid neoprene. If an armoured vehicle has its legs cut off easily then it's a sitting duck.

Of all the ills befalling Nigeria, bovine security is top priority.... honestly... just donot know what to say.

This is the penalty the Nigerian citizen will pay for not taking democracy seriously, objectively and intellectually.

No human being can rise above his knowledge and experience what he cannot assimilate.

Just sad....of all the issues tearing this country apart. Truly heart breaking..

NwaNimo1:
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Chai... , you eh...

TMKsouth:
This was announced a year or two ago, already. Guess its newsworthy coz Twitter went to Ghana.

It is exactly. It is called perspective. When an aircraft falls out of the sky all previous incidents are uncovered for patterns that suggest cause. It is only the unintelligent that views things like these in isolation.

chrisxxx:
He does not know that DSTV sponsors EPL and has the right to use the picture of any player of choice in the EPL for advert.

No sir, that is not correct. It is not a carte blanche. You cannot assume that.

Princeofwales:
They paid the EPL and the EPL Paid your club and your club paid you for your image rights.. Case close

Probably the case but he should check through legal representation to be sure that is the case.

9jaRealist:
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Amazon is primarily a LOGISTICS company...
It was never going to locate its regional HQ in Nigeria (or even Ghana).

Even in the US, it “rejected” SCORES of cities for its 2d HQ...
The notion that every multinational should be located in Nigeria is DELUSIONAL!
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Nigeria is the preeminent importer of goods and services on the continent. It cannot make sense to locate a logistics company outside our customs borders. It will simply make their goods more expensive to sell here.

They know this logic but the overwhelming challenges this country faces must have tilted their opinion away.

This is practically what we call the cost of doing business in Nigeria which Amazon will face as well. Nigeria is seriously hostile to investment. There are few things beyond the large but tragically poor population that attracts.

If we are not careful all future investment will amount to more than the production of diapers and 'durex'....if you catch the sad drift.

Bouz:
This soludo guy is surely the next governor

Hope so.

KidDarkness:
Their domestic leagues will expel them too

Expel Real, Barca and Atletico from Laliga is suicide. Other leagues to a lesser extent.

A working democracy where those who lead or want to first serve. Where actions have consequences and where the citizens are feared and respected.

This is a whole party chair. Here a common Senator/MP assaulted a shop assist and is still in office. Here a common civil servant assaulted a security man and it was the security man who was brutalised by state actors.

And we remain hopeful of development...eh

Once thise clubs can get the biggest names in corporate sponsorship on their side then UEFA and FIFA are effectively disarmed.

However I forsee a compromise on both sides. There is far too much at stake. No sponsor will touch any event be it World Cup, Euro Cup, UCL or Europa without those clubs and the players under contracts there. They simply have become too big to be ignored.

FIFA/UEFA will be ruing the takeover of soccer clubs by billionaires, oligarchs and oil sheikhs while they slept. The rules governing ownership will no doubt be tightened in the future.

owobokiri:
Am I the only person who thinks that Kelechi Iheanacho should move to the Spanish league?
I think the league fits the Nigerian football flair more than the gidigidi that's the English league..

Yea, I guess so. His game is so Atletico-ish. Just has to work on the defensive side though or El Cholo will chew him up.

Arewa1stSon:
Kano State Government has distributed hundreds of Bikes to KAROTA which would enable the agency to identify, develop, and maintain new methods of free traffic and road safety as well as fighting insecurity and severity of road traffic accident in the state.

Lovely. Love Kano. Lived a good deal of my life there. Very progressive state.