₦airaland Forum

Wow, surprised they've gone that far. The first tenure it was something like one foundation per year and folks just avoided the place like a plague choosing instead to 'fly over' to Portharcourt from Umuahia.

The infrastructural deficit in Abia State is mind boggling. And for a State that is the headquarters of cottage industries in Nigeria, this is just heart breaking. A lot of business I would have done the past few years. No way. Congestion everyehere. When the rains come its a calamity.

That is NOT a tunnel.

...provoking the weather beaten citizens to rebel but the gun powder is wet...

More grease to your elbow Mr. Dino.

brainpulse:
Trust children still sitting for exams many times giving advice on security matters they know nothing about, but leveraging on America films

They are children when it comes to deciding matters of state but they are adults when crime comes knocking.. Then they will be ripe enough ro be kidnapped, shot, bombed and have their throats slit.

Continue reinforcing failure. As my fellow forumites popuarly say, 'it will touch everyone'

Comedian2019:
NERC for or against us, the people?

Good question. One of the sensible comments on this thread/forum.
NERC like other regulator is supposed to be an umpire so technically it does not take sides. Its interest is in the quality of the sport or game or contest as may be. Its interest is in the industry itself not the players.

If it leans too heavily in favour of the consumers the quality of service will suffer and the industry could potentially collapse. If it leans too heavily in favour of the vendors it risks destroying the market. In advanced societies where there are alternatives that would mean driving customers to alternative energy sources for instance. In the case of Nigeria the risk means driving customers towards sharp practices which is almost the same thing.

Thus the regulator must detect and track the stresses on both sides of the equation and make sure it manages them wisely with a view to sustaining, stabilising and growing the industry. Thus the efficacy of any regulator depends on the vibrancy of the industry it regulates. Where there is a monopoly as in the power industry regulators have far fewer cards to play with and will always be seen to lean towards one side or the other.

Take for instance in advanced countries all energy is commercial so electricity as an energy source competes with oil and gas for patronage. Sometimes when electrcity becomes cheaper than gas people switch and the regulators have to act to keep market share. Even within the electricity market the regulators have to moderate the competiton between energy sources and distribution grids as renewables come on stream and prices of electricity varies from time to time and from location to location.

Our energy sector is still in its infancy these variables are yet to materialise. We are still very much closer to a goverment managed monopoly than a truly liberal market sector.

So what do you want us to do about this. This is a local problem on a national forum. Ate there no people in that state to set fire to those cars.

Lanretoye:
the fight against insecurity is comical.

Hmmm.... a black thing.... perhaps an African thing.
Just when the world is going cerebral and acting in cutting edge technology you see this...

Just like our police and military society expects the lowest, basest most illiterate to serve and protect...and then we collectively wonder why this isn't happening.

You can see sentiment written all over, appealing more to tradition than reality.

openmine:
Exactly!
The timing of this audio trial and the protest for the removal of service chiefs is no coincidence!

Stop deflecting from the issues in discourse. The EFCC has nothing to do with the military. As a citizen you should be deeply bothered that your country cannot bring its criminals to justice.

Just wonder why it is so hard to bring this woman to justice. The EFCC is a government agency not a tabloid for heavens sake. What is the fear of naming those who are blocking its work. Name and shame them in the court of public opinion and get this matter sorted out if this is the case.

We are tired of hearing about that kleptomaniac and her years at the helm of Alibaba Inc. Should be long behind bars serving time.

Lovely.

Jabioro:
Babagida stepdown because enomous political pressures

That our citizens somehow cannot muster today despite the fact that Nigeria is substantially in worse shape.

Are we saying in effect that in finding democracy we have lost our citizenship....rights, values, responsibilities...

Will MKO be pleased at what he sees today...will Babangida not feel a tad vindicated about his actions in 85....why is Nigeria not getting better two decades after democracy's rebirth.

Sometimes history should be allowed to fester, to incubate before judgement is passed. For the commentaries in the past will always be rewritten in the light of the present and the happenings of the future.

selemempe:
just for my education and the education of those reading this and keeping in mind with the need to say the truth for posterity...can you answer these 3 questions.

1. What did Igbos do to the minorities in the east that Hausa/fulani did not do to the middle belt (remember the first premier of the east was Eyo It's and the first IG of police was Louis Edet)

2. What did Igbos do to eastern minorities that Yoruba did not do to the mid west ( remember it got so bad that the mid west started struggling to leave the western region)

3. When did oil get discovered in the eastern region and what was the main stay of the economy before oil ( was coal from Enugu not the reason PH city was created in 1919?)

I blame ironsi for many things but I don't blame ojukwu for declaring Biafra at all. Pregnant women from the east living in the north and west were being killed (including ijaw women) people were dying because of Nzeogwu's coup and just like buhari is doing in the case of Fulani herdsmen, Gowon was not able to stop the killing. Ojukwu declared Biafra when there was no other options just like yorubas have declared Ametokun today

Azikiwe can be blamed for many things including greed but he does not represent the Igbo man. He was born in the north and lived in Lagos before coming to the east... however he was actually the one who composed the Biafran anthem...did you know that?

Please answer my three questions.

I believe the Igbos, ijaws, ibibios and similar ethnic groups of SE and SS will form a very progressive country if we can come together like the tribes in the north has come under Arewa. We are holding ourselves with our petty division. We have a lot of shared culture and history and we have almost nothing in common with the core north that we share Nigeria with

This has nothing to do with the topic. Take this nonsense elsewhere. When the driver or pilot of your bus, train or plane suffers a heart attack at the wheel you don't sit back discussing the weather or the price of coffee.

There is a battle on the deck of SS Nigeria between the captain, navigator and helmsman for the wheel as the ship of state heads for the rocks indolent citizens are discussing tribe.

unbitchable:
if ibos hadn't collapsed regional government, SW would have been far greater. To hell with biafra.

Desperately trying to derail and deflect from a serious matter of public discourse by the usual ethno-anarchism.

Anything to shift attention away from such a pitiable state of affairs at the very top.

Drabeey:
The truth is that Nigeria economy is in a state of emergency now and this is due to Nigerians. I tend not to believe anymore that the government is our problem. No! We are our own problems per say.

For Example:

If we have not voted Buhari, things would have been better abi?
We are all liars. See an average Nigerian wants to blame his predicaments on the government. Whereas who is called government gaan

E je ka bara wa so oto oro (let's us tell ourselves the truth jare)

Now see this one trying to reap from Nigeria's problem.



Yes we voted them to make a difference.... YenYenYen

Tell me one Past president, governor, even LG councillor that us not richer than prior his tenure (except they go bankrupt maybe through wanting to clinge to power). Tell me!
Even those we call founding fathers lived a luxury life when they had the mantle that most of their children today still live affordable houses compared to other Nigerians... Is it the salary they earn as public office holders or many kick backs
I stand corrected on that!

Is that Kyari man not a Nigerian?
Tinubu,Osinbajo, Buhari, Jonathan, Obasanjo... Just mention one saint who doesn't have family and well-wishers who really voted for him (if you know you know)

As a Nigerian judge yourself, if any of your family and friends become anything meaningful in Nigeria and maybe he/she allow you to head one coded office that can ordinarily without stealing make you rich for only four Years. Tell me what you'd do, yes you! Iwo ni mon bawi joor

Well our problem is not just one thing, even the media won't tell the truth.
See news of foreign exchange like WW3 news. Wetin happen?

Naira drop, gain, drop again....

Na today we know say Naira no get value?



See 'on a normal baze' een, Naija Economy just no sweet at all, but WHOEVER THINKS BUHARI IS THE CAUSE should summon me to a public debate ( see My eyes yaff clear, i am now a Nigerian devoid of any Political, religious or Tribal Affiliation). If you hate the truth HATE it.

Dem ban Rice people dey shout?
A whole Nigeria can't produce Good rice without stone... But if we no start with this, how are we going to ever export rice just to DIVERSIFY our economy?

No be one of the cause Naira devaluation be say we too dey import pass wetin dey commot, Abi? Economists in the house

See our problem is so interwoven that i even don't believe if Nigeria go separate ways, we would still get it right. I don't believe that.

Corruption is in our gene
It is the food we eat
The water we drink
Infact the air we inhale too! Hence why would majority of Nigerians abroad comport immediately they leave the country?

The country is FkdUP, BIG TIME!

Political history of Nigeria sef no sweet and the only generation that can make a difference are been devided through Religious and Tribal intolerance.

...but im still a Nigerian and a patriot, come what may!


Drabeey was Here

Even with a sinking Titanic the musicians continued to entertain the guests... till death.

Continue protecting those directly responsible for your misfortunes out of sentiment while your fellow citizens in developed countries with booming economies give no rest to their goverments day and night for even better.

You truly deserve eveything you experience in Nigeria right now. You are right am afraid.

Yeah, better face we the people. We are much more 'harassable'.

No wonder I can hear so much noise on the streets and endless sirens from my office throughout the day in Calabar..... was wondering.

I repeat again. Just disgusting. I have no words to describe this lunacy. Borrow to put in a government organisation... just disgusting....

Blindersoff:
This is the same El Zakzaky many are attacking El Rufai for and whom Falana is defending.

It is clear that the FG knows much more than most do which is why they have refused to release El Zakzaky.

Buhari has remained defiant to the courts and has refused to release El Zakzaky and this picture justifies his reason not to.

It does not justify the reason to disobey court orders. You folks just seem to think that the governace of this country is for the Executive alone. Everyone is involved. And the reasons why security remains a challenge is exactly this. The erosion of justice, the defiance of laws and the subjugation of the people, all crucial pieces in the stability and prosperity of any country.

But of course these things are too hard for most to understand. For our people it always a violence first policy, death, death, death and then when death and violence cannot overcome it they start appealing for negotiations.

Just watch it. Just like with the Niger Delta question, just like with Boko Haram it will end by appealing for negotiations when the cost of disobeying the law becomes too high.

We are just too dull in this country. God has been so kind to Nigeria that these people have decided not to join in the general insecurity in this country. You can just imagine what will be if they do.

The two bodies had better come together and sort it out. If a Doctorate adds value, fine, you may make it a requirement for new positions but for those already in the system make it a phased program.

Abeg the government has no legs under the table they are shaking. Nigeria is already in serious medical demographic distress with more doctors planning to leave due to the worsening state of the nation.

Abeg, the standards of peacetime are not the same as the standards of wartime.

allthingsgood:
iF they strike FG should sack all of them and hire capable hands idiats!

From where exactly.... sir.

Angelfrost:
These excuses are not sustainable.... Something has got to give.

Financial depression didn't start today. World over, leaders take over bankrupt economies, and transform them into goldmines.

No one is expecting a miracle from Buhari (at least no intelligent person I know), but at the very least, a statement of economic intent.

Other than taxation upon the already poor, what foreign investment plans are in place??! What alternative streams of high income are in place or in prospect (Please, don't tell me agriculture)??!

They were not prepared for an economic battle because in the run up to 2015 the midas talk then was corruption, corruption, corruption and if you read my posts way back then I warned sternly that corruption was not the problem of Nigeria.

That even if you blocked all the holes in a bucket (which they have not successfully done), a bucket will still not be able or enough to put out a house fire. That it was a question of opening up of the Nigerian economy by the instrumentality of restructuring which in its least would entrench an atmosphere of competition amongst the country's constituents who will elevate the trade in ideas above the trade in commodities.

A Lagos of today for instance will have been able to negotiate its own trade deals with the world through a reserve banking system of its own and secure its borders and establish its own regulations to attract investment. In effect it will run its own economy. How will not prosper... but we are in it together both those who want a better country and those who don't care for a better country but want power for the sake of it....

ITbomb:
How about the trillions TSA saved, the billions JAMB made, the hundreds of dollars recovered from Abacha, the millions of Naira recovered from Jonathan, the over $48bn loans gotten since 2015?

What exactly did Jonathan do wrong?

He was going to push the bitter pill of restructuring down our throats his second term and they will not have any of it. Apart from that I cannot put my finger on any index of life or statistic of reasonable living that is better today than it was 6 years ago. None.

That is if we consider the role of goverment in a democracy.... none whatsoever.

Hmmm...will be watching the Scorcese movie 'Gangs of Newyork' again.... At this stage we can safely say development will eventually arrive in 300 years when hopefully criminals and politicians collectively
fear the citizens. Not the other way round.

By then perhaps the Makinde name will be lost to infamy... since he cannot summon the courage and make the sacrifices to do what is right.

ArmaniUhuru:
They have started giving reasons to dump the Apc.

North: Once they can’t take full control, they dump you.

Indeed. The next thing is to decouple the CPC and boom another grand movement that will swallow up other parties like a massive black hole.

That is what a stumbling INEC and its benefactors have reduced the democratic process to, a sad comedy. Is it now a sin for our institutions to work properly. Mr. President get the electoral reform bill signed and delivered immediately before you heap chaos on this country.

JimohMomoh:
The word Bubble is what many Nigerians need to learn before they will know what UEFA is trying to avoid.

Indeed.
I could remeber a time that Spanish Laliga clubs complained that Barcelona and Real were getting easy credit from banks leading to the finacial muscle that made a duopoly of the league and demanded that the Spanish FA give them credit guarantees to enable them secure funds themselves but the FA baulked at the idea because it could easily cause a bubble.

They instead decided to alter the revenue sharing system from tv rights if memory served me right. Previously clubs themselves negotiated with tv companies for right to screen matches and naturally most of the money went to the big two unlike what applies in England where the PFA negotiates on behalf of clubs and shares the proceeds according to an agreed but substantially fairer formula.

Football is big business and the massive amounts involved will always attract underhand activities by those who seek an unfair advantage.

[quote author=NeoWanZaeed post=86715799]Buying success..

That's what Madrid and psg and barca always does..

Yet they're not touched [/quote

I have explained my position. Madrid and Barcelona are not in the same category as City or PSG. The big spanish clubs literally have a seat at the board meetings of some of the biggest European banks. It has been so for decades long before the american, russian and arabian billionaires came to England.

The big difference is this. These billionaire investors put money into the clubs in a random, open ended, unaccountable agreements and in most cases donot demand it back. The lack of transprency is dangerous as it can involve money laudering and round tripping.

Credit on the other hands is always based on financial records. No bank will give you money without audited accounts and transparent repayment plans. Bank money does not stay in clubs. It is paid back with operating income.

That is why if you observe closely the big spanish clubs donot spend massively every year. They may buy big one season and it takes them one or two seasons to recover and spend big again whereas these billionaire owner clubs spend big every single season. Barcelone right now is in a financial difficuty, Madrid could not afford their key choices last season.

Fair play means living according to your means. Let your success be organic.

It is simply because both Mr. President and the vast majority of the citizens of this country simply donot understand what demicracy is all about:

'..A government OF THE PEOPLE....BY THE PEOPLE....FOR THE PEOPLE.... Mr. President prefers an autocracy and his people prefer a monarchy where the system of government is of THE PRESIDENT, BY THE PRESIDENT, FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL WISHES.

Simply put, in a true democracy no single person takes credit or blame because the leader rules by consensus IN ALL THINGS. He consults his people and they give him guidance. How can he then fail in a multitude of counselors. Who will complain if their suggestion fails.... That is democracy.

But when you listen to no one and do what you like personally you will end up finding whom to blame to cover up your personal failings because they are yours.

For example. The people are screaming for a change of military leadership to stem the change of security fortunes. It may be a right or wrong decision but it is a peoples choice. If it is not done Mr. President will have to carry whatever blame their continued stay causes himself.

But if they are removed and the situation stays same or worsens then the people will have no choice but to accept responsibility and blame no one but themselves so that next time they will be circumspect and cerebral in their thoughts and demands.

That is TRUE DEMOCRACY. The people are the thinkers and planners. The government is merely the executor of their collective will.

The bottom line is electoral reform. As an institution you either reform or die when the demands of good governace and best practices are tabled.

Folks like us cried to high heavens for electoral reforms but INEC stuck to its guns to favour the incumbent. This is the result. Elections have gravitated from INEC to the courts. INEC is losing its relevance and its credibility. Very soon if this trend is not bucked 100% of our elections will be decided in courts then we will call on the Judiciary to conduct elections and save us the billions wasted by INEC on so called elections.

Nigerians should consider the fact that court cases are expensive and waste scarce resources. It is not in the interest of the taxpayer for his resources to be wasted on matters that border on good governace. Nigerians must demand that INEC reform positively and INEC must demand that Mr. President sign the electoral bill asap to save us from this needless mess.

The Judiciary determining electoral matters IS NOT NORMAL. It should be the remote exception not the rule.

Blackeurop:
I'm really glad I left China by December back to base, so Na so man 4 take carry play card.

I hope you have self quarantined for the mandatory two weeks and not roaming about spreading death to the unsuspecting.

Money is such a terrible master. Look at the innocent club whose name is forever stained due to the filthy temptation of overnight success.

When you take foreign money you also take with it foreign influence and as European clubs open their arms to cash from climes where probity is not of the highest standards they will be made to do things they are not used to or comfortable with.

Thay is why when a certain Dangote from a certain Nigeria known for.... proposes to buy an upright amd financially 'righteous' club such as Arsenal... hmmm.... I no talk oh...

MetaPhysical:
He did not even mention restructuring one time.....instead he talked about strenghtening the center with a national guard.
Bloody crook!

If modeled after the United States the National Guard is controlled by the State however they have Constitutional backing and National Regulations for equity. They can also be called up by the military to provide another layer of security if the territory of the United States is breached. That is because Constitutionally the US military is forbidden to operate on US soil.