₦airaland Forum

I still maintain, coastal cities have little or no long term viability. The cost of living there will skyrocket.

femidejulius:
I have always wonder at e-diots who call governor Chief Security of States.

Governor do not control the police,army,navy,air force,DSS,efcc,nia,civil defence corps,nothing. The constitution did not mention anywhere that they are chief security officer of their states.

Having established that, Nigeria need to be restructured so that there can be at least local government police, state government police and federal government police.

How do people defend themselves from Fulani militias whom we are told are well armed? How do we defend ourselves from the Fulani President who is obviously protecting his kinsmen by not doing enough?

That is why sensible and well meaning folks have been calling for the restructuring of this country. These incidents are merely symptoms of a failed structure, a structure that cannot sustain advances in population, diversity and economic progress. More lives will be lost needlessly if we insist on this way of life that favours only an increasingly retreating minority. The other day it was the south-south in the midst of the storm, yesterday it was the easterners at the receiving end, today it is the middlebelt where blood flows, tomorrow it will certainly be somewhere else. Isn't it time for all of us to sit down and decide how we want to live as human beings, not animals. If we think it will blow over and it is all about politics or elections, we are just joking. And if we think we can prosper economically with all these uncertainties and instability we need to search out books about countries, their economies and demographies. Every citizen of this country has a personal responsibility to call for the restructuring of Nigeria if they want their children to live here in the future.

hungryboy:
this is really sad, thank God no one died.

No hausa fulani man is safe in Tiv territory and no Tiv man is safe in Herdsmen territory, no thanks to this incompetent man in Aso rock.


When it looks like a leader is supporting one side in a conflict, it always leads to this.

Exactly.

HungerBAD:
This is wrong.

This is exactly what I was afraid of, and that all Northerners will be termed a Fulani Man and get attacked.

This is wrong. The attacks and killings should stop on all sides,because in conflicts every one is a loser.

Why can't we all just get along?I was born and grew up in the West and the Yoruba's have accommodated me very well.

I had my first 3 years of Secondary Schooling in the Old Sokoto State,and I lived with an Hausa family that took me as one of their sons.

I served and got my first Post-graduate degree from the East,and it is still the best time of my life,as I got treated as a son of the soil and many years later I still keep in touch and sponsor some youth programmes there.

How and when did all the love I experienced from these tribes to a stranger change?what are we doing to ourselves with all these hate?why do we hate each other so much?

Can we just get along please. If we do not get ourselves and act together, I see a Nigeria where our hate for each other will bring us all down.

Because your President, your leadership has done little to enhance the state of the nation. He has been very sectional, very divisive and these are the fruits.

manci:
this comment above shows 89% of Nigerian lack knowing the meaning of democracy,democracy give you a right at the same time prohibited you from violating the rights of others or create a lie's,fake news against everyone in order to damage their image or for your selfish interest.

Hmmm.... fake news or not. It has been on since democracy returned in 99, not today pal. The reaction to it shows what lies in the minds of those in power....desperation has set in so everyone is touchy.

kaymandak:
Some guys are just so local and foolish here, they keep on ranting Buhari's name.
Is the man the cause of your joblessness or the source of the poverty that has been ravaging your family for years
Better u find something productive doing and stop wasting ur lives and time on politics.
Your mates are making thousand and millions still under this dispensation, you are there disgracing the image of the country online thinking you're doing Buhari.

You see what I mean. Its a terrible virus...

sapientia:
Buhari can collapse China and USA economy under 2 months.

Yes...if you inject the American and Chinese people with the ignoramulucus ethno-religious papilae virus prevalent in 99 percent of Nigerian adults....

I said it. That Nigeria couldn't win. Just look at the stats of both teams coming into the match. Then its a final and they are hosts....there is no surer bet in all of soccer...

meezynetwork:
Na wa. Na so advance countries dey train their own military?

Yes, almost every military training worldwide starts with 'roasting the kernel' to remove the husk. To obey without flinching you must be 'broken'. This is small. You need to see what we went through as teenagers.

In one of my posts in 2015 I did say I hoped the PDP could quickly regroup after the election loss to make our democracy 'competitive'. Sadly this has not happened and the result is a run away train wreck of a government without proper opposition brakes. This was caused by the Sheriff - Chairmanship tussle but have we noticed that since the matter was ended by the Supreme Court and the convention held the party had become more divided and docile than ever....why. Focus. The focus of the plastic unity was to remove Sheriff, just as the focus of the plastic APC unity was to remove Jonathan and just as these plastic objectives by these plastic minded persons are to remove Buhari. The reality is that after that, what next. This is where preparation that forms visions come in. And these take time to crystallize. We Nigerians are poor visionaires and worse critical thinkers, apt to reactions.

If our democracy was working well a lot of things wrong with this government will have been righted insitu by democratic opposition and not necessarily by the threat of re election or not. So we should think properly and build our competencies as citizens to know and demand good governance through the establishment of solid democratic institutions if not we will face the ignomy of having a new political party take charge at every election cycle. This is a slippery slope to anarchy we must ensure never happens.

Eaa247:
am 100℅ in support of any move to remove Buhari in 2019 but we need to put strong consideration of Nigeria economic development into d plan.
Let d coalition/group not just focus on ousting Buhari from power without any clear economic blueprint.
let us not repeat the mistake of 2015 where APC's sole aim was to remove Jonathan from power without any clear program for economic development.
my problem is that APC nd PDP splinter group will rename themselves as our Messiah.
Buhari has really failed.

This is exactly what I am saying. To govern a hyper complex society like ours requires a lot of preparation, the time of which just isn't there. If they will not get it right first time then it is better not done at this moment. Our politicians and the laws that harbour them must make active politicking a full time endeavour whether in election season or not. This is one advantage of the parliamentary 'government in waiting' system. It produces candidates that are 'fully charged' and an incumbent on his toes. To restructure our polity every time an election cycle comes round is not the best. Let us not be 'baby emotional' and miss it. Afterall its about the game, not necessarily the players.

Not in support of these play acts. This is 2018 for heavens sake. Where is the time to evolve structures and convert convictions and ideologies to movements, parties and candidates. They should have started long ago and not wait till the horse has bolted. An attempt will only breed an error prone, half baked candidate. Countries that go into election in this short period of time have candidates ready aand are already 'shadowing' the present government with objective criticism and alternative ideas and solutions. It appears our political class are not about governance but power.

Yes, Buhari is doing this and that wrongly but to claim a desire for a better state is to structure a response, an alternative and I cannot see that being done on time. Power for power sake is useless to the people to be governed.

bellazz:
Honestly... State with relatively lowest cost of living is Jos.. for me.. jos is just to good..

Once again, without external income to an individual Plateau suffers from the same challenge of a small economy like all the middlebelt states wwhich incidentally have similar low cost of living. I was in Plateau for 6 years. Fantastic weather, lovely people but is a very small place. Not interesting for everyone.

sirlaykeens:
What's this one saying? How can u say Ekiti is a cheap place to live? mtcchheeew, This is my Fourth year in the state, cost of living is fucking high!!
Even Ibadan is a whole lot better. Abegi oo, Ekiti ko Itike ni

Yes indeed, southern states which trail in the economic ladder often experience hifh cost of living due to lack of investment. Anything from not enough housing projects to indigenous farmers bypassing the state capitals and taking farm produce to 'better' markets in other locales raises the cost of living. Cross-river is another example. It is an agrarian force but most produce ends up in Uyo, PortHarcourt, Onitsha, Aba and Abuja leaving local staples like yam, plantain, seafood and rice pretty dire in Calabar.

Yelsgink:
Northern states are the best when it comes to low cost of living. You can even price T-fare like tomatoes.

Low cost of living also means low income as income directly relates to inflation. So except if you conduct business outside the state, the lack of potential is certainly a no for some.

Born in Lagos, grew up in the north, worked in the south and east...and have been to 32 out of 36 states of the federation. Now in business all over....I cannot say categorically which state is the best. It has to come down to individual preferences and the time period since my experiences are spread over many, many years. But I think the most common criteria follows closely most demographic reports of which population density appears to be the common denominating determinant.

Hence you can fall on one side of the density divide, those who 'love the quiet' and those who 'love the noise'. Generally the south is denser, space is at a premium so all socio-economic indices are amplified, wealth, crime, stress, opportunity, education, etc. It favours the modern day urban cowboy aka the hustler. Wealth can be made and lost in the blink of an eye.

In those days most northern states were bastions of tranquility but in the midst of the laid back life was less opportunity and grinding lack.If one was a made man there were a lot of places to enjoy your success without a worry. These days corrosive forces of ethnicity, religious intolerance and crass politicking has turned moat northern states into mini cauldrons where non indigenes oive on the edge perpetually.

A balance between carefree societies and tranquility can be found in some southern states like Cross-River, Ebonyi, Osun and Ekiti but the lack of a bubbling economy makes all the relative tranquility somewhat hollow.

Thus in a nutshell its hard to tell which state is best. Depends on what an individual accepts....or will I say tolerates. In all Nigeria is a pretty miserable place to live.

Blueberrie:
Haha so you guys get married to somebody's looks?

Very vain, short termish thinking amongst our menfolk. It speaks volumes about how out of touch with reality a lot of people are. Such mentality is bound to recur in other aspects of their lives with a net negativity at the end of it. Women should avoid such by all means. Those marraiges are sorrow bound.

livinus009:
I'm Optimistic as well that Nigeria will beat Morocco..

I am not, the stats say so.

The state of thenation has never been this perilous. Institutions are failing. Once the Nigeria police can nolonger be trusted as 'Nigerian', then its curtains. Armed militia both official and unofficial springing up everywhere is symptomatic of a failed state.

We say restructure, you say no. Better enjoy your country and cease complaints. Everything you see served is what you ordered sirs. I think corruption is still the biggest problem ba?.

Yet another low. It has slowly become impossible to fly the kite of this government. Day by day they seem unable to unshackle themselves from the cart of primordial sentiments which is hurtling down a cliff of despair. Pity.

Martins301:
Stupid CBN Governor. How can you allow a medium that only permits you to take out money from your economy without the reverse to operate in your country?

Nigeria has over 100,000 internet business owners and freelancers working legitimately online and earning dollars but we are finding it difficult to repatriate our income home.

What sort of nonsense is this

That is why we say restructure and you say no. The Federal Government through the CBN wants to control the entire money market which inhibits enterprise and free market. They want your earnings, give you a lousy rate and then corruptly round trip.

The mentality behind these state security policies and actions betrays its continued bias and lopsidedness. It recognises 'cattle rustling' which are essentially economic crimes against the herdsmen, but sadly views the other issue as: 'farmer/herdsmen clashes' whose tone is made to sound like a 50:50 thing but in reality they are economic crimes against the farmers, that is the destruction of their crops. Afterall the herdsmen are normadic and so have a choice of where these clashes occur. This is just sad.

genghiskhan007:
Mumu Governor
Money will ne spent in malls
Hen will u build industries to create products and generate money?

My goodness. No one is bothered to look at what they write about. Are Nigerians actually clever...

Akjwyzepal:
How will a reasonable Nigerian youth be saying its good news for governor to be wasting state fund on shopping mall. #thingsfallapart

Please read the text again...

Akjwyzepal:
Misplaced priority. Governor building mall. U thought you have seen it all until another polithiefcian is let loose. Why can't he build factory where machines robots and the likes would be built, and create job opportunity for mechanical electrical material computer metallurgical engineers. That can improve the entire contry tech and GDP. Mtcheew useless set of people fayose associate .

Reading should not be that hard. Please try it. It will cut down the embarassment.

Fame333:
Donald Duke ALL D WAY.

I SEE HOPE WITH DUKE

You people have started again with this 'hope' mentality. Democracy and governance doesn't work that way. Hope is the preserve of one who is bigger and better than you. Thus you don't employ a help and hope he or she performs. No. You set standards, evaluate performance by those standards and continue or terminate based on a set time evaluation.

Now, what is an elected official, a master or a servant...

sizer07:
Dankwanbo and Donald duke for dupity

Sounds good but for heavens sake this is Feb 2018 with nothing to show by way of preparation for the office. All these 6 month electoral courtships are too short. We cannot know them or their competencies well enough before saying, 'I do' at the polls. We need more detail. Last election President Buhari side stepped the 'introduction' even after twelve years wooing Nigerians. See how the marraige is going. Most are asking for an immediate divorce citing issues a proper courtship should have addressed.

moscobabs:
Buhari will still win come 2019

Hope so. All the others are hopelessly unprepared and will be found wanting. This is 2018 remember.
I think there should be no ban on campaigns between elections. We are a growing democracy and need all the time available to build candidates and all the pressure to bear on the incumbent like a parliamentary system of government. A 9 month long campaign will only produce a half baked President.

I think Lagosians had better buy that toad back from LCC. Send a petition to the LSHA for it to be sold to the public for something like.....400 billion. Then Lagosians can make it toll free....
I'm sure the 250,000 users can cough out 2 million each to remove the gates. That's about 10000 passages or 13 years of tolling.... or should I say, toiling.

Yes, in a decade you will probably spend an amount on tolls equivalent to a small piece of land somewhere else.

When the baby is to take in your natural ambience in all its glory for proper bonding the poor little thing will be sniffing mercury and sucking wax. They then grow up come on Nairaland and talk rubbish via malformed brains. Where is the father sef to trash that bloody crayon set.

LaudateII:
Since when have roads become 'products?'

Ha. The day Lagosians hailed the concession they signed away public property into private hands and a social service into a product.
With all that is going on that road is looking like the product you put in your tank to drive on it.

And like the laws of relativity I have a sneaky feeling the toll tags the price of gasoline.