₦airaland Forum

Abegi, Yet another hype.
Go there and you will still not get the real, traditional beach experience.

It will likely be a carnival, party atmosphere. The antithesis of what a beach is supposed to be. Heck, you won't even be able to hear the ocean over the din and you dare not fall asleep on those plush deck chairs or all your stuff will be gone in an instant.

Will try at my next Lagos holiday visit for 2029 or 30, but I am not holding my breath. Last Christmas was a huge disappointment. Overpriced and totally underwhelming.

madridguy:
We should be expecting fighting between the federal and the state police officers soon

There will be no meeting of responsibilities if the best practices are institutionalized, if proper boundaries are set.

They should take a page from the old relationships between the military and the police, before the military was drafted into defacto policing work as the war against terror heated up.

The most important reform of them all. The Government should be commended for this in totality. It has responded to the security situation exceptionally well at the policy level and we look forward to a more effective policing system in Nigeria. It cannot come soon enough.

We need new ideas, fresh standards and a total break away from the colonial era system that is primarily a tool of government survival rather than one of security services to the citizenry.

States should start up as soon as legally possible. Please and please and please we want to see high quality service, an end to the checkpoint subculture in favour of intelligence, communications, patrols, cerebral investigations and rapid response, every best practice they can import from saner climes and tuned to our own peculiarities.

AMINDA:
Where did APC get the funds that were used to induce voters in Ekiti and to buy bread that was thrown at the people from moving vehicles? Where was the EFCC then? If the president can now order or direct EFCC and ICPC to do anything, then he can equally order INEC to do his demands.

This is the part I do not quite understanding.
Is he overriding the law or interfering in the workings of an institution. Does he have the power to do that.

These institutions are indeed not independent. What has obviously happened here is that 'the boys' are 'patching' as we used to say in those days. The autocratic nature of government makes every institution lend the maxim maximum favours whether demanded or not in order to maintain 'loyalty'. The bigger the sacrificial lamb the holier the apostle.

Look Nigerians, the reform that will advance this country is the demand for institutional independence top to bottom. From your state councilmen through the Federal Legislature, the Judiciary, to the 'teeth arms' of government....those responsible for security, law and order, and the economy.

I don't understand.
Are you not a Youth Corper ...or am I mistaken.
You are as adhoc as they come.
The government is already paying you for your service, you may be earning something additional from your place of primary assignment, and you want the same government to make another compensation. That is illegal nau.

Reimbursement for expenses, yes.
Honorarium, yes.
Professional compensation, absolutely no.

Richtaiwo:
At least, Remi Tinubu has been a Senator for a long time. The Jonathan you claim is an angel, tell us what is the job of his wife Patience Jonathan that gave her 3.5 billion she spent on children's treatment.

That is what I am saying.
When you are in government it is no longer charity, it is responsibility and the whole gamut of nuances around it.. accountability, efficiency, probity, morality....many others.

People will begin to say, you gave nurses in that establishment, why not in the other, why not other health professionals, where did you get the money, I hope it is not our rights you are recycling, why ten million, too much, too little, etc. That is all because it is responsibility.

In the previous example, you can question your parent why you are not going to a better school, why your materials are inferior compared to your peers, why your lunch is poor, why you are made to use your uniforms longer, etc....but you cannot raise a finger against a scholarship board because it is a favour. You take what they have to offer and that is it.

That is why folks are so concerned about these First ladies. They are in government, stocked with responsibilities yet they make every effort to pretend they are not. And people are just saying, we want a better economic experience not handouts.

shegztech:
Good gesture. The only problem I have with politicians is that can they continue with the good gesture when elected?

Elected officials do not do 'gesture', they govern. And if done well gains better traction, depth and spread.
I always say this. Get the economy working and most of these 'interventions' will be unnecessary.

The people should begin to see beyond tokenism. We, the people and the government, we all love handouts too much, we love money exceedingly, we love the fish but are inconsiderate of the net and the boat.

So, yes as a private individual, it is a good deed but that is because it is an acknowledgement that it is all a citizen can do towards another.

Government is a different matter. An absolute level of responsibility. In government you are not doing favours, you are doing THE WORK for which you are entrusted with so much authority and so much resources.

Your parent is not doing a gesture when he is sending you to school, it is his social responsibility. His investment. The scholarships board on the other hand is.

Then the ruling party in the state has a new and effective weapon in it's favour to campaign with, 'victimisation by the centre'.

But I will always say this.
The people can only get involved if they have been from the get go.

If an office holder runs on a populist ticket and has been empowered by the people in deed and has served them meritoriously by making his government by the people, for the people and about the people, no doubt the people will earnestly seek continuity and nothing can be done externally to influence them.

But I guess the Osun state government is much like the one it battles for survival, being all about the few, by the few and for the few. And that is why it will easily be out flanked and outgunned at the polls.

I just don't understand how and why the everyday politician simply cannot see this truism. Governance and success in government is one of the easiest things on earth if those involved simply stick to the principles.

Today the one at the centre goes about showing pictures and videos as if the so called projects are being executed in a foreign country. Of course we can see what you are doing. Why no traction?...you did not consult anyone before pushing those projects. In layman's terms, 'who send you, no be wetin we say make you do'.

Then from time to time they mount podiums and reel out stats and data as if we are not in the same country. Stats on where we should have been if you did not come to our rescue, and the people are like, 'serious, but na you carry us go there before nau'.. Then the people's representatives tell you what you should be doing instead and you say their mouths are smelly....

Because of all these when the time for elections come instead of a smooth ride you begin to panic, intimidate and bribe your way, simply because you are not governing democratically, just doing what you please 'autocratically'.

Judolisco:
starlink is the best for now... Anywhere in Nigeria

...when the weather is good you should add.

Speed or latency is not my biggest challenge, it is consistency. It is becoming impossible to have a seamless service without downtimes which come unexpectedly and can last for any length of time.

Servicing multiple networks which I used to do is no longer an option as costs continue to escalate.

LordLicifer:
Keep dreaming Putin ain't going no where! Putin will live longer than many people just like the so called Doctor Adaobi. The EU countries sponsoring the Ukraine against Russia should be blamed for the war. Go and read about how the war started read about NATO agreement with Russia not to expand near Russia which the EU breached, read, read read!

As for doctor the late Ada Obi she should have left the war zone since. Many Ukrainians left their country including Ukrainian doctors so why did she stay?

A dead doctor is no use to anyone, a doctor is supposed to stay alive to treat sick people.

Not to expand is the reason you have sent almost a million of your soldiers to die in a foreign land. For what....pride, arrogance, simple.

At the end of the day, when the war has been won and lost, land has been lost or gained Ukraine more than ever before will have a reason to join NATO and they will still be next door to Russia even if it is only a plot of land that remains.

This is just a senseless war that has destroyed everybody, every myth and every reasoning. I cannot see what is YOUR personal gain as a Nigerian (if you are) in all this. You just had to stoop as low as possible to even discredit the person and the tragedy of your fellow countryman for what....

alanto:
Thousands have died in the war. That's why no sane human should support war or any kind of violence.

I tell you.
Just a sad, unnecessary waste of human life.
Pray her family and loved ones the fortitude to bear this terrible loss.

Basicend:
The CBN raised TBs and OMO yields to as high as 20 to 25%. That was the bait.

The high yield rate attracted many foreign investors and as they were buying the TBs, CBN made it mandatory that their foreign funds must first be converted to Naira before placement is processed.

So our indegenous banks were quickly converting the FX from those investors into their own reserves.

One major aim of it is to mop off excess naira from the banking sector so as to reduce dollar or FX speculations that constantly lead to inflation.

That's the dynamic.

Below is a link that explains further:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en-US&ie=UTF-8&source=android-browser&q=how+did+high+yield+treasury+bills+inprove+foreign+reserve+of+the+nigeria&client=ms-android-xiaomi-terr1-rwo2#lfId=ChxjMe

I think our inflation problem is structural. How does government mop up excess cash from government. Government remains the heaviest cash 'pusher' into the economy. They are the ones causing the Inflationary pressures.

If you have a fuel fire it is expedient to turn off the source just as you fight the blaze. That I believe it is why the rate continues to remain stubbornly high for so long and I cannot see it headed down anytime soon.

The best fighters of inflation remains the private sector. They know where real value lies. Their spending tailors their earnings unlike government that has access to endless money trees. And the raised TB rates says it all.

My view is that it is good for the investor, fair to the government, but bad for the economy. I remain old school in the fact that debt is not a good thing overall for the mere fact is is hopelessly addictive.

michlins:
The same people who will celebrate this news are the same people who will ask you why did Obi save money instead of spending it all

Yeah, that is the political hypos that are boundless on this Safari.

Actually if every state had their reserve bank all this while it will make for interesting study those that run their economies the best.

Anambra will have been top at that time.

I am sure those that accused Obi will have also criticized the Obj years where debts were rock bottom, reserves were comparably high and the currency relatively strong despite poor infrastructure but celebrate today the situation increasing reserves despite crippling inflation, rampaging poverty and the same malaise of ramshackle infrastructure.

They criticize but then go on to do the exact same thing showing they lacked knowledge then.

A reserve, a savings of any kind is always a good thing. Simply shows a person's, an enterprise a state's, a nation's thought process, that it is not panicking despite falling overboard. That it is disciplined, and clear minded enough to be rescued.

Basicend:
Kudos to Cardoso for discipline and prudence.

MPR being raised above 26% made TBs (Treasury bills) and OMOs high yield attractive. It also sparked foreign portfolio investments (FPI).

Diaspora remmitance and excess proceeds for crude oil sales.

I disagree on the part of the T/B if that is true.
Making your Treasury bills 'attractive' is not a great thing for this country. Debt is NOT a good thing. The topic is about raising your external reserve. That is positive energy. Rising T/B rates is negative energy. How should that be.

If your economy is getting better your debts should be getting cheaper to obtain not more expensive. You will be sending mixed signals.

pdppower:
The question is, what positive effect does this have on the common man?

A growing foreign reserve is a shop window into the positive management of the economy. It is a sign of increasing stability.

In a layman's terms which we all agree with, if a person is able to 'save' it means he is beginning to get a handle on his finances which is a good thing.

It doesn't mean he is out of the woods yet but he is clear minded as to exactly what he is doing and where he is going.

The opposite of decline or crashing of the reserves means a loss of confidence, an emergency which signals his friends and family to run for the hills.

Not bad in my opinion.
The inflation rate though....that is another story. The government is not doing enough in my opinion and it will remain stubbornly high until their change their spending culture.

Hmmm, Elon....are those your works....

helinues:
The world leaders, they will be involving the citizens who knew nothing about their grievances when they could have entered the rings and settle their scores.

A war that will still end up in a roundtable for resolution, but always, it's cart before the horse

I happen to agree with you today.
If you call an election with a war agenda, hardly any leader will be elected on that basis.
Why the citizens cannot direct their leaders along the pathway of peace subsequently is the mystery.

This was should end like yesterday and everyone returns to the conference table for lasting peace. There is no pride in continuing in killings and destruction because it is just an unsustainable way to live.

TA Orji left the group chat....

Biodun556:
As it is today, there is no northern Christian politician that can secure substantial number of vote for Tinubu in both north east and northwest.

If APC picks a Christian VP from northcentral, it means North East and North West are completely isolated in Tinubu government and that would give Atiku Abubakar firm grip over the two regions.

What Tinubu did is not a religious sentiment. It is the mentality of the northeast and northwest people that will not allow a Christian to represent them at that level because they see them as minority.

Also, it does not make sense to restrict Southern part of Nigeria to VP ticket as Atiku and Amaechi are trying establish.

You folks are just too hypocritical. You choose when and when not to play the race and religious card. Now you are flying the so called fact forgetting it is offensive to some, northern Christians.

But the salutation and back slaps of your colleagues will turn south (no pun intended) when the shoe is on the other foot.

So I ask....Is Mr. Tinubu running a religiously affirmative ticket, yes or no..... so you don't come tomorrow to either tell us he will win because he performed wonders in government or that Peter Obi was seen visiting churches which is always sour to your taste buds.

The deterrent against China and Russia is nuclear. That is why these sides will never come to blows. Missiles and bombs are for conventional wars. The US cannot fight a conventional war with any of it's main adversaries. Not just possible.

Iyobaba:
You're right some states have absolutely no right to be in darkness.
Imagine a state like Enugu with all it coal deposit. That State should be supplying power to neighboring states.

Lack of vision, initiative and political will.
I have said it before. You don't need a new coal plant, you don't need the latest and expensive clean coal technology. We import used vehicles at lower costs, what is wrong with importing used coal plants at manageable costs. There are several in America, Europe and Asia/China that are being replaced by newer technologjes and green technology and will gladly sell at a discount.

You have the coal, one of the best in the world as I heard, you install a cheap plant. Surely you will be able to undercut gas electric producers and with a sizable land allocated for an industrial park you will begin to attract real business and real industries that are struggling with high electricity bills.

Enugu has the added advantage of having a railroad footprint, history that can be revitalized with Federal help. Makes sense doesn't it.

Mrexcell:
I think it will still be affordable to businesses that can't afford solar and still runs on diesel and fuel generators go ask an average business owner in delta state how much they spend daily to operate with gen sets.

I am talking about industries not businesses. There is a crucial difference. Industries that invariably compete internationally. If I am making stuff I will always be in competition with someone who is buying, importing stuff. My energy costs are critical in competing and ultimately surviving.

For businesses they are just like individuals, they find ways to absorb, adapt and survive. If necessary they raise prices. They have no external competition.

If I am making iron rods or plastic parts for Innoson motors for instance, my energy costs matter more than if I am a welder, restauranteur or barbers shop. My competition will entirely be local and all of my competitors are subject t to the same business atmosphere.

I have said it here before. Electricity costs more in Nigeria than in the largest producer of stuff in the world, China. It is very hard to compete like that.

Mrexcell:
Nice one from elumelu delta state actually have no reason to be in darkness with their huge gas deposits and wealthy men they have in the state that can invest in power generation if abia can do it there's absolutely no reason why delta can't do even better.

But the Abia (Aba) Genco still has the issue that it is not running commercially successfully (at a profit) at the moment. The general consensus is that without government subsidy no gas/fuel generating plant in Nigeria is sustainable (I don't have the facts but I can generally assume the hydro plants) run at the lowest cost at the moment.

So more gas plants anywhere in Nigeria means more Federal government subsidies. This is where the payer of the piper, the Federal government has to decide to direct investors to other energy sources.

What I suspect will happen is that the Federal Government will hand over subsidy payments to states and in the long term states will capitulate and offload everything on the public.

So a gas plant in any location is great but it will come at a considerable cost to the public one way or the other.

Remember we have had worked examples in Rivers and to some extent Bayelsa state. They were not commercial success stories.

Doobie:
Nice one 👍. Power Generation, transmission and distribution should be fully Privatized just like the Telecommunication sector.

Privatised I agree, but the Federal government is still crucial in quarterbacking whatever efforts are made to guarantee success.

You heard Mr. President speaking to governors on capital projects and the limitations of letting people do whatever they want with their resources. It can be very ineffective and inefficient.

Speaking of the telecoms it was not as smooth as portrayed. There were teething problems of coverage, tariffs and operations. The telecoms only went to certain places by stick and carrot, the telecoms were resisted severally as concerning what they wanted to charge at the onset and many other interventions concerning ownership and market share, licensing and so on.

Power is even more complex because the infrastructure is a lot more expensive and extensive. Electricity is more of a product while telecoms is more of a service in the sense of the industrial process of delivery.

Electricity has 'raw materials' hydro, coal, gas, oil, renewables that can vary widely in cost and affordability up to the point of product delivery, telecoms is not like that.

So the government cannot fire and forget like the telecoms revolution. It has to quarterback the process by strategic oversight for a long, long time to ensure it succeeds.

Mr. Tony, you said and I agree 'possible', but I don't agree, 'affordable'...because I know you are taking about gas to electricity which we know is very expensive. Anyone who buys lpg domestically knows just how expensive and price sensitive it is.

Delta state is not a state with an affluent population so I don't know how your investment will operate successfully. Even industries that you can exploit and leverage to bring the cost down to the domestic consumer are better off taking the gas from the NGC:s themselves and using it to generate their own electricity.

There is just no way that power can be industrialized and made widely available with out a comprehensive masterplan championed by the Federal government.

You will need power from multiple sources and multiple locations to guarantee availability and price stability or else of you depend on gas, one cough by the White House, one sneeze by those mullahs in the Mid East and electricity bills will fluctuate from week to week and month to month making a complete mess of the industry as proposed.

Power on the vast majority of countries remain a national project and willi only change if and when we have sufficient diversified the most important aspect, energy source.

The OBJ program (NDPHC) of gas only power plants scattered all over the country was a huge strategic, all eggs in one basket mistake. China does it best. No.1 in new hydro, No.1 in coal for a long time, now No.1 in renewables. That is how to do it.

creativejagaban:
Take the dose below and enjoy your Wednesday in wailing

1. Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway
2. Sokoto–Badagry Superhighway
3. Calabar–Ebonyi–Benue–Nasarawa–Abuja Highway
4. Akwanga–Jos–Bauchi–Gombe Road
5. Abuja–Kaduna–Zaria–Kano Expressway
6. Sokoto–Zamfara–Katsina–Kaduna Road
7. Kano–Maiduguri Road
8. Kano Northern Bypass
9. Kano–Jigawa Road
10. Zaria–Hunkuyi Road
11. Ninth Mile–Otukpo–Makurdi Road
12. Lokoja–Okene Dual Carriageway
13. Ibadan–Ife–Ilesa–Akure–Benin Road
14. Oyo–Ogbomoso–Ilorin Road
15. Enugu–Onitsha Expressway
16. Enugu–Port Harcourt Expressway
17. Second Niger Bridge access roads
18. East–West Road
19. Eleme Junction–Onne Port Road
20. Bodo–Bonny Road
21. Nembe–Brass Road
22. Lekki Deep Seaport evacuation corridor.

We are still coming.....

Tinubu till 2031.

I hope these are not the only achievements.
A President should not be elected or reelected on the basis of one sector alone. He did not campaign to deliver roads and flyovers alone and he himself criticized state governors for polarizing achievements concentrating on roads and city centres alone.

If you got a distinction in a certain subject and averaged out or failed the rest you may not make progress in admissions or promotions And in certain examinations if you fail what is considered as the core subjects you have failed the entire thing.

The question you should then ask in this case. What are the core subjects Presidential candidates or aspirants have to pass in Nigeria at this day and time.

Me think it is security, the economy and energy. These are what matters MOST to the vast majority of Nigerians and form the minimum acceptable standards for election...or reelection.

PS: I can't help but notice that where this government excels is in transactional administration....contracting and procurement to be exact. Where government spends, spends and spends and we know why. Buy when it comes to service delivery. Things money cannot buy, it's performance is dismal.

I hope all the hospitals will be able to pay....COST REFLECTIVE TARIFFS....

Or is the government opening a new vista for power subsidies....

gideonvalor98:
Sultan don collect before and that was at the time protest was brimming in the North at the early stage of Tinubu's administration. But what you won't see sultan or any high rank Islamic leader do is to go public and talk anyhow against the government. You can't hear sultan meet with the president and he then go to TV station to attack the same person you spoke in private with. These our Christian religious leaders are somehow disgracing us. You'll see a so-called pastor causing the president on the pulpit. Some will be making predictions, some will even encourage their congregation to go violent during election. Why won't politicians use us to front their agenda. The church needs to respect itself and uphold INTERGRITY to avoid see finish.

The debate about 'the church' and 'the state' will continue forever, locked in a gravitational force field simply be cause it involves PEOPLE.

Both institutions have as their foundations, PEOPLE.
The lives of people, the futures of people, the prosperity of people. Both institutions are responsible.

The government secretly wished it could control the moral, the divine, the hearts of the people, wished it could cultivate the love, the devotion, the solidarity the church enjoys, but it can't.

The church on the other hand simply wished it could govern, control the minds of the people and enjoy the kind of power, and authority to accomplish the physical things God simply will not come down out of heaven to.

As the common denominator is up to the people to set bounds if they wish or mix then up as some would, playing one against the other to get the best of both worlds.

But in the real sense of it, the state tries it's best to give the church a wide berth out of respect and on the other hand the Lord Jesus Christ himself said, '...give unto Caesar, what is his...' and demonstrated his citizenship by paying his dues on demand demonstarting his loyalty to the state as an example to us all.

So any clashes do not come from authority on one side or the other. It comes ALWAYS and EVERYTIME from THE PEOPLE.

I don't have classmates.
I was so dull all the parents demanded their children be removed from my presence as they feared it was infectious.....and all the teachers had to gather daily to hammer the little knowledge into my stony head with prayers and fasting....I don't have classmates....

dominique:
When I first stumbled upon this news, I thought the daredevils swam across the Mediterranean sea into the country. Only later that I discovered that these guys technically never left the continent. That town they're calling Spanish is in African territory, located physically and geographically on the African continent. If you don't want anybody trespassing in your "country", why not give the land back to the original owners?

Why do you assume the land was :taken'.
Not every of foreign ownership of territories is out of conquest, annexation or colonisation.

Foreign territories can also be procured by agreements, treaties or bought like the US had done a lot in times past.

Kai, people are in a lot of distress.
So sad.