₦airaland Forum

kikake:
Rivers is a state reduced to rumbles because of crude oil in its domain.

In other parts of the world, areas that have crude oil are near heaven.

In Nigeria, it's the reverse ...

The Buharis of northern Nigeria use oil money to build modem development infrastructures but exclude the oil producing areas. Because the Buharis believe that one Nigeria is a lie waiting to be exposed.

I repeat again, infrastructure does nothing to uplift the lot of the average citizenry. The south east has some of the best infrastructure in all of Nigeria baring the ill effects of oil production. The problem and challenge remains that of human capacity development. That is investing in the mental capacity of the people with the objective of making them sustainably productive. Nothing else will draw the youth away from destructive tendencies.

Rotimi Amaechi did a lot for Rivers State in terms of road infrastructure.

rexwalters:
Don't mind these blind puppets blaming the Government,are they not aware that they are the Government,they have refused to be innovative,ask them what value they added to the GDP they are complaining about?

The people that added to the GDP of Nigeria are enjoying their benefits,it's the lazy ones that brought no value whatsoever,that actually brought the GDP down,that are shouting blue murder.

All governments round the world are responsible for economic growth so this one cannot be an exception. Governments rise and fall on economic performance so don't justify mediocrity. The problem this government has is in its origins. This crazy narrative that 'corruption' was the sole reason Nigeria was backward. I argued severally that productivity viz our population was a problem. This is proven today with the alarming rate of external borrowing going on presently which should concern you because there is nothing to repay those loans with.

Nigeria is like a man running three jobs but has lost one while his wife is expecting and he has to go borrowing to make ends meet. It is a critical situation that only additional income can address. FDI is no more coming in at the rate it was some six,seven years ago and the effects are only now being felt. Better brace for impact.

Sad tale of economic mismanagement and a paucity of real ideas. Just a tax and spend regime. The TSA should be reviewed and government let its funds through commercial banks once more to stimulate the economy. The private sector can better manage growth.

slex:
nice one from the Nigerian team.

As for those who haven’t heard of this game before , try to watch Olympic Games .

So many sports we can win medals from but sadly it’s only football and basketball we concentrate on .

Winter Olympics to be specific.

I think we honestly cannot share in this achievement when it is clear there is no onshore contribution whatsoever. It is just fortunate that most sporting Championships are international team events competed for under a flag.

I just can't understand why Daimler is unrelenting in its quest to dilute the brand with countless or endless models heading in the unfortunate direction of a certain Ford or Toyota. I will not at all be surprised if it becomes the first European automobile maker to split into the very Asiatic concept of separate luxury and economy brands.

Shopfront democracy. This is what I keep on saying. It is the people who ask for these things. When you exchange your votes for roads, bridges and bus parks, that is what you get at the expense of the real change in society and the upliftment of the fortunes of the average citizen.

Nigerians are yet to understand how democracy can be made to work for them. They are yet to understand how nations are built. They are yet to understand how the nations in the west and east they so desire have developed.

Forget it abeg. There is no where suitable. Nigeria is not a tourist destination. We donot know how to live right.

Biblical prophesy coming true.

Good to be back in Portharcourt since the governorship election result annoucement.

Build rail links to end this madness.

I fancy a property there but the place is damn too far....and the access roads from Lagos are just a nightmare...

Thought he was in the process of becoming a fossil there.

As long as God can raise up stones, shows that he does not partake in the discrimination and ridiculous laws and sentiments of men. God is in a real hurry to save mankind. I seriously doubt if He will be picky as to who does His Works.

Don't drive because of accidents, don't use gas to cook because you cannot see it. Sweeping, ignorant statements. Why not just read the instruction booklet that came with man on his 'safe use' and obey them to thrive. The girl in question has poor morals, loose values. Danger would come anywhere. The blocked calls speak volumes of a troubled home and likely poor parenting. Don't use such extreme incidents to chart the course for the rest of us. Happy easter.

Oga go and sit down. Typical Nigerian, always looking at financials from the expenditure side of things only. From the Gowon era and his now infamous, 'our problem is how to spend it' to the present. Nigerians will NEVER look at the income/earnings side. They will always be comparing their earnings with 'senators' or citizens of developed countries. Ask them if they produce a fraction of what those they compare themselves with and you receive 'no answer'. Police will say they collect bribe because they earn far below those in the United States....nonsense. But everyone does it. They cannot teach, treat, build, administer justice, sweep streets, run, climb, drill, carry, trade.... because they donot earn enough. Is it not work that makes money again...

That is why it is so easy for failed politicians to swindle them of power without getting any concrete, tangible return. Within the time span quoted what has Nigeria done to increase productivity and earnings to be able to give itself a raise. You can only pay yourself from what you earn. The alternative is either to borrow (to live a fake life, a life of subsidies in power, fuel, schools, hospitals, like we have been doing for decades) or steal (as you point out - from the citizens).

Irrespective, Nigerians are irresponsible hypocrites.The day we wake up and take charge of this country and our destiny being active, responsible and engaging citizens the way nationals of other countries are, then we will know what to do to change our fortunes. I repeat again. Government is just a nomenclature for a group of people whose responsibility is to organise society, period. It is the quality of the society that determines its experiences. Nigerians are poor because we have an abundance of lazy, ignorant, corner cutting citizens whose penchant for blaming everything and everyone except themselves is legendary.

Oga. Within the time frame quoted what have we done to diversify the economy. What have we done to DEMAND government organises us around alternative sources of income outside oil. Even within the sullied oil mono economy to keep up with inflation we should be producing something like 4 million barrels of oil a day, something near impossible. So where will the money to pay raise come from... I tell you.... hear this. The stripping of assets, the mortgaging of the future, the crushing of what is left of the middle class. This country is effectively slaving for government employees.

sunnyt1:
I keep saying Nigerians dont know how Nigeria is being run, the comments above give credence to this. In Nigeria, only civil, public and govt workers generally benefit from the official minimum wage, private organisations do whatever maximises their profits, they can slash salaries at will, reduce staff strength or increase staff work load, you either adhere or resign.

If you are sensitive at all, you will observe the MW crusade is being driven by civil servants.


If you are not on govt payroll or if you think the increased MW will make the economy boom, you need brain transplant

Don't mind them.
Just fed up with the docile fellows I share this country with.
Just see what the youth of other countries get involved in.... pure knowledge based activism.

This is exactly what I am saying. This minimum wage matter has been on the national burner for the last three years or so. Strikes affecting the nation have come and gone. Debates have happened in the Legislature and within civil society circles. The public has aired their views albeit making political mud pies out of it, but.....

Ask the average Nigerian what the details are, the nitty gritty, the effects and implications and you will be none the wiser. That is the story of the average citizen of this country....ignorance... an abject failure to know and get properly and objectively involved in the organisation and determination of the society he lives in.

Unfortunately leaders are groomed to know this and quickly detect the ambivalence of the people they are meant to serve and that is why it is so easy to whip up sentiments to keep them busy while they can do and practically get away with anything. Now that the cry is loudest about the bad economy, why won't it be convenient to raise the minimum wage now to whip up sentiments yet again and paper up the cracks in what is a obviously economic maladministration.

Ask me again whether my pet cat will be getting a raise.... nonsense

Just lovely. Nice to see some bonding with our cousins in the animal kingdom...

joseph6071:
The Nigeria senator and CEO of Silverbird TV, Ben Murray Bruce has come out to tell why the nation is poor and also the way forward.

See what he wrote...

"We are poor, majorly because our population is growing faster than our economy. We must introduce population control policies so we can slow population growth and hasten economic growth. If we do not do that and do it soon, I shudder to think of what will happen to Nigeria."

Source: https://www.musictori.com/2019/04/why-nigeria-is-poor-senator-ben-bruce.html

Once again, another fundamental fact from a critical thinker. Just impressed by how this man thinks. If wishes were horses, he will be my President. Butyoucan go ahead and shudder sir. They will never understand. They are on a certain course for extreme hardship. I am investing to exploit the impending effects of a run away population and the attendant decay in society. I hold no apologies for that.

Topmaike007:
This man and his canvas again

Sorry sir. That is not a pair of ordinary trainers but a sophisticated piece of kit to keep blood circulation through his lower extremities, I guess because of his limited mobility.

rawfact:


Honestly, that bill should be restricted to the Public Sector.

The Private Sector should be spared for now until Government have done the needful.

Running Business in Nigeria requires the grace of God.

I see, so we are all slaving for government workers.... because taxation is bound to increase and guess who pays the bulk of taxes. .... the private sector that cannot just wake up and increase pay or switch on the prosperity button or get World Bank loans. See why I take this minimum wage thing with regret. Last time Jonafthan did it.... or was it OBJ or Yaradua (can't remember)... half if Nigeria headed for the civil service.... so irritating.

Makanjuola89:
Most private organisations won't pay the new minimum wage.

How will they. Will they just wake up on the 1st of May and suddenly become more prosperous. Or do they have access to World Bank loans like our profligate government.

b0rn2fuck:
Result of 30k minimum wage, they will sack many to pay few and teachers will even take two class , this is just the beginning

Is it a sin to sack. Is it not better to right size than to owe salaries. Anyone who doesn't want to be sacked should pay himself or relocate to Socialist Venezuela. My own idea about government remains constant. They exist only to organise dociety, period. How they manage to consume 80 percent of our oil earnings and tax naira just baffles me, when they constitute no more that 7 percent of the population.

Any state that cannot pay this ridiculous new minimum wage and cannot summon the sense to right size should seek Federal permission to print its own currency to pay them. Where on earth are we going to find the productivity to increase from N18,000 to N30,000... of course borrow more.

Nigeria. The enigma of a country where its citizens work for Her Majesty's, the government's pleasure instead of government working for its citizens.

Tapout:
with all due respect sir, ur the one displaying ignorance here. Go and do ur research on the state of electric power supply in those countries operating electric cars.
You cannot compare the number of people who can afford and maintain an electric car to the number of people who can afford a gasoline car. Nigeria does not have a reliable and steady power supply. Even the small amount that is being made available is too costly for the common man to afford with the alledged 30k minimum wage. Do u know how much it's even going to cost u power up an electric car to run for about 6 to 7 hours?? And of cos with our issue with traffic jam, which will amount to about charging ur car twice a day. Nigeria produces about 4k to 6k magawatts of electricity which is not even enough to give us an average of 12hrs of constant power supply and now u want to add electric cars to it. Dont u know there are a lot people living in certain régions of this country who drive cars but don't have electric poles in thier environment not to talk of electrity. They should first of all address the issue with electricity before talking about electric cars. If it's not addressed, electric cars will never do well in this country.

That is actually nice and I am tempted to say, clap for yourself. But just stop and consider this.

YOU DONOT PUT ON YOUR SEAT BELT DURING AN ACCIDENT BUT BEFORE YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE BEING IN ONE.
YOU DONOT PUT ON A SEAT BELT BECAUSE YOU ARE A BAD DRIVER.
YOU DONOT BUY A CAR AND ASK FOR THE SEAT BELT TO BE REMOVED SO YOU CAN AFFORD IT. ... I suggest you rather ask for the steroe or airconditioning to be sacrificed

Oga. People donot make changes because of all the above. The call for a phase out of gasoline cars is precautionary becayse it will happen some day whether you are ready or not. You donot make gasoline cars sufficiently to be independent of the world. And even if you did to whom will you sell them to if the world has gone electric. Also please when assessing cost, consider the cost of not doing, not just the doing, assess the cost of late doing when all others have done.

We have this mentality in nigeria of crisis management. The idea that, let it be. We will cross the bridge when we get there. Often, the bridge has long been swept away. We are notorious for bad time keeping and planning. I understand it is a black thing but for a nation that not only uses oil but depends on oil FOR EVERY OTHER THING IN LIFE, it behoves on us to be at the fore front of critical thinking and planning.

Like I said earlier coal was to the 20th century what oil is today. Coal is still in use so I cannot see oil out of use in tje forseeable futire except if new scientific discovery determines it to be a dangerous substance but what I see is that when developed countries have switched to electric, it is they who will begin to penalise countries like ours for continued use as China and India are criticised and penalised today. If we are not a fully industrialized and important global power by then....hmmm you will pray you were dead and long gone.

According to Wikipedia, Karl Benz patented the first two stroke gasoline engine in 1879. By the 1960's the last steam engines were shut down in the United States. Coal had had its day. The substance emipires were built on and buried with was replaced, relegated and today is derided throughout the developed world like a divorced lover.

The new bride, oil, has built the Empire of Nigeria, Arabia and many others, and so it is understandable that the addictive love... the 'I can't live without you...' is holding us captive to her charms even when it is glaring her time is fast fading. Of course coal is still being used to generate cheap electric power but when you compare the relative cost of coal a hundred years ago with its cost now, you will agree with me that it only takes a visionaire like Murray Bruce to realise that the oil regime is coming to a slow and painful end.

The projections are clear. As time goes by intellectuals, unlike most of our distinguished Represenatatives will insist and win the argument that oil is as dirty and destructive to the environment as coal. That has already set the ball rolling for electric vehicles smart automobile makers are investing in to cut down their emission penalties. And these penalties will continue to rise.

But what will actually tip the balance and end effectively the reign of oil empires is that oil reserves are in a certain decline. We have long passed and long consumed all the cheap oil on earth. Oil reserves all through the world have maxed out. At the rate of present population growth oil will become more expensive in the medium term (to Nigeria's benefit) but this will be the final straw to flip the coin in favour of all electric transport and the price of oil will sink, collapsing to its final burial.

Hopefully by then the likes of Ike Ekeweremadu will have long gone... only remembered by our angry children's children in history school as the leaders that squandered the opportunity to get out of the ship before it sank.... just as we remember some of our past leaders and wonder.... what they were smoking when they inherited this unworkable contraption called Nigeria....

As the famous writer and philosopher George Santayana said, '...Those who donot learn history are doomed to repeat it...'

Dee60:
APC

What is the plan?

Apart from rowing Rice and feeding school children?

What is the PLAN?

Million dollar question. WHAT IS THE PLAN?

Is there a vision fof this country. Because with a vision comes a plan and with a plan comes time/performance charts. Four years is gone..... WHAT IS THE PLAN?

Efewestern:
FG should do more to promote our automobile industry, Buhari should ensure all federal agencies procure their vehicles from Innoson. Nice one Mr President.

Buy Naija to Grow Naija.

There is no need for that. We operate a free market economy. What government can do is to ensure their products remain competitive by, as it were, calming the storms around them aka the much touted 'enabling environment', or investing in thier primary cost centres, power, transport infrastructure, taxation regime, inflation/interest rates and all the things they and their suppliers need to keep their production costs down, then they cam compete with the more established international brands and this will brosden their customer base beyond government.

If I was the Minister of Industries, Trade & Investment I will be having quarterly meetings with this company and five ir six other key industrial concerns which the government must treat as 'Too Critical Not To Succeed', with a view of ensuring they are a critical pillar in the nation's industrial masterplan.

If our leaders are good readers they will realise that right from the inception of the industrial revolution every western government has created, developed and sustained synergies with private industrial concerns. From the Trading Companies of Imperial Britain evolving into mega industrial giants such as Corrus, Rolls Royce, British Aerospace. In France you have Dassault, Renault, Citroen. In Germany you had Porsche, Volkswagen, Krupp, Rhinemetall all doing their bit for Hitler's war effort. Japan had Nippon steel, Mitsubishi maling planes, tanks, ships. In America Ford converted his factories to help the war effort, Obama in return ensured they will not go down the dustbin of financial history. Today companies like Boeing are just 'Too Big To Fail'. Their various subsidosries make everything from military drones to spacecraft.

Why is Nigeria not doing everything it can to raise industrial giants who make stuff that can place the country on the global map. Why does it have to wait for the three and a half decades it has taken a visionaire such as Dangote to get to dominate JUST AFRICA. When he started Google wasn't in existence, Microsoft was just kicking off together with Hyundai, Virgin and others. I woukd not even talk about Tesla or those supercharged Asian conglomerates...

Nigeria must join the league of nations that take industrialization seriously. Like I said some time ago we need to get to the basics. No industrialization is possible without a viable and vibrant steel complex and without an abudance of cheap, reliable power and I certainly mean coal fired power. Without these two a country will NEVER industrialize and as such can never become truly prosperous.

Boss13:
Buhari administration is creating a dangerous and unhealthy narrative. That those who criticize the government are looters, criminals and money launderers.

McCarthyism...

Even if you support this government, is it a sin to critique. If you truly love someone or something, the first thing you wish is for him, her or it to be or to do better. How mamy oarents woll see tge child the love err and continue praise of remain silent. Just don't understand the citizens of this country. You voted in a set of servants amd it becomes a crime to direct them. Who does that.

Look around the world, there is no democratic government that is not criticised. What did Omotola say that is false. Was she insulting or condescending...?

Nigerians shoukd realisr that it us them that wil shape theur future. No Brazilian or American or Malay or South African will do it for them. Tjese citizens battle theur iwn governments. Yes Zuma is out, Trump is having it raw everyday, leaders have been jolted in Indonesia and kicked out in Algeria and Sudan. Citizens of those nations are active in shaping the destinies they so desire. Let Nigerians on the other hand remain docile in the face of their daily challenges, the world is simply moving on.

babadeee:
Imagine a whole Dsp dey follow Gov for back person wey suppose to dey head Division, how this country want take set

Because the system cannot help him develop. His contemporaries in sane climes will have their thoughts on becoming Lieutenant and Captains (US) and how many crimes will be solved by the end of his career.

This DSP knows his career is at its zenith courting Wike and will cash in on all the crumbs that will fall from the masters table and believe you me those crumbs are worth a lot more than manna from heaven.

maasoap:
What was her last movie and in what year?
She and many artists depended heavily on government's handouts and Jonathan’s administration really gave them a lot of money. They even fought over it, we're talking about billions of naira. Omotola is angry because this administration is not bribing any organisation or institution, NASS included

So that is the cause of serious insecurity in almost all the states of the country and an almost moribund police force. So that is the cause of rampant inflation and collapsing industrial capacity. Deflect all you like, the complaints will crescend. You will defend like your life depended on it. Just get prepared.

If the government is not 'wasting money' bribing peole here and there. Then what is the government's finances used for at present. Tell me one area you can see real massive investments or opportunities Nigerians can key into to spur economic growth. What?

He succeeded in deflecting the issues that clearly spelt out the 'Hellish' nature of this country to one Nigerians are all too familiar with....money.

It is always all about the money. You want more taxes.... yet FIRS officials are being investigated for a 6 billion naira blowout. So 6 billion is probably missing. Is he saying that this amount will have made a shade of difference to 'hellish Nigeria....?', I doubt. What about 60 billion, 600 billion, 6 trillion, 60 trillion. Folks, nations enter into recessions and have years of prosperity. Nigeria 's problem has never been one of money, but of principle, structure.... that will just not permit any amount of money to work for the people.

Bashir can fantasise from now till 2023, Nigeria will not fundamental improve in the life of this administration unless structural changes are made to how this country operates. The moment a leader decides to tow the fault lines of the broken Nigeria project he has signed up to fail. I said it in 2014. Anyone can read my back posts. President Buhari and his government CANNOT improve Nigeria fundamentally, a few roads here and there, yes but the changes that will bring about lasting peace and sustainable development is impossible with this structure.

By 2023 we will all be better informed and I hope the narrative will not be.... 'ooh what a wasted 8 years', the same way the 16 years of the PDP went down the drain.Mr. Bashir, wake up. I don't think you or the 'staunchest' supporter of this government will have expected things to still be this bad by now when the Buhari project entered the scene in 2014.