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Capital expenditure indeed....now I've heard everything. As long as the job is full time and the central government is paying expect worse. The question I would ask. If these people truly represent the people why are the people not paying the bills. Remember they are meant to checkmate the same government arm, the executive presently paying them. So where then does true power lie. Is this not a case of democratic round tripping. If Nigerians cannot insist on taking up the bills of upkeep of THEIR representatives then they should not complain.

The few I've watched by mistake....in pure agony....

My only hope is that this club does not qualify for the Champion's league. It is the only way that principality called Wenger will be fired.

The good thing about it all is that they are most certainly wrong....but hey, I won't be around so what the heck anyway....

They are all waiting for someone to bell the cat since he is shackled by ethno-centric politicking. He took a political position that may become an albatross.

Before the Roman Empire was the reign of the Pharoahs, the era of slavery and hardship, of no trophies, of mid table mediocrity and no Champions League football, even Europa has no root nor stem. So the Blues fans cried out for deliverance and a messenger was sent...

Corruption is in our DNA.

RaggedyAnn:
Yes, if you're an Architect, then 90% of your conceptions have not been built. But it's still your responsibility to be innovative; and how can you be innovative if you don't start from the impossible? Most ground breaking Designs are Form over Function so expense is secondary. It works when you are lucky to have Clients that want their buildings to make statements first and then shelter people.

Just love the way you think. If one is an architect and doesn't have a vault filled with ideas, concepts and blue prints just waiting for the right client then you are a beggarly, hand to mouth charlatan. Go to auto shows, what do you see, the latest model and the concept side by side. That is the present and the future. Good architects don't run around finding a design to match their client but a client to actualise their dreams. Just look at the buildings in Nigeria, resembling poorly raised siamese twins. Tasteless works of lazy practitioners. Yet those same clients who they claim cannot afford it wear designer suits, use high tech gadgetry and drive lexuses who say 'we are in pursuit of excellence'.

I called Samsung to instal airconditioners and gave strict orders. I don't want to see cables or gas lines in and out only for the chap to tell me how impossible that was and catalogued how many have tried and failed. I felt like kicking his teeth in.

Oga. Let me shoot you down immediately. I thought your critic will be towards man and his built environment not the usual lazy tirade against challenges the way a river finds its course. The basic premise of engineering is finding solutions to problems and successful engineers are those who do in the context of the Nigerian consumer. So leave the net and return to your books and laboratories.

One of the reasons why Nigerian professionals are serially undermined by charlatans and cross dressers (architects doing engineering and engineers doing design and quantity surveyors building projects and architects making bills) is that the quest for excellence by professionals is so badly lost that mediocrity and mean standards have become the order leaving the door open to fake practitioners.

When professionals learn to raise standards and pursue excellence, education and research will become important and the fakes will fall away and the consumer will be forced to pay better and respect more.

You cannot be respected if you are not a solution provider. Stop complaining.

Since President Obama the self appointed liberitarian leader of the free world and vocal advocate in chief of every sexual malady under the sun identified with his roots in that nocturnal visit to his fatherland, Kenya has never been the same. They have simply bitten out of the 'big apple'. Not surprised at all.

Don't worry IMF in three to five years time they will come round to realise. The black man is typically slow in their up take, the Nigerian even worse when you throw the usual ethno-sectional spanner in the works. Suffering is their usual means of learning, not history nor 'worked examples'.

Absolutely agree. Fayose has no reason whatsoever to interfere with the workings of an elected government. It is one thing to criticise. It is quite another to actively seek to sabotage. It may or may not be treason by law but it certainly is by spirit and intent.

Quakertellicus1:
And thus prices go up.

Wailers./.....see why some of us groan about GEJ's failure to save.

(Cue wailers throwing everything at me....including the sink).

But....even if there was savings....we would have just delayed Armageddon till 2017.

The real elephant in the room is PZ cussons's failure to develop sources of raw materials locally. They are so dependent on imports...that when we run out of forex to import...they start looking helpless.....

So....our industries better start surviving on their own. Momma oil wants you to grow up.

Oga. This is a year. Where are we going. We are tired of hearing where we are coming from. Will Jonathan determine whether this government gets re-elected in 2019 or not.

And for your information it is not every damned raw material used in industry that is available or has an economically viable substitute. That is why there is what is called world trade. If every country had a local sovrce and patronized only local then even your oil will not be bought. What is key here is getting productivity up, getting people to work.

iykebest1:
One thing I know is that this is an artificial scarcity, created by some set of cabals whose plans includes sinking the political ship of PMB. But he will soon be back to fight kwaruption with kung fu.

Oh, shut it and go to bed. Who cares about your political conspiracy tales. We are talking about businesses and access to the tools of production. With a solid economy your Buhari can stay there forever.

aloeman15:
The stupendous thing is that there's still no clear economic direction to indicate when things will ease, or what buffers the govt plans to employ.
If our govt had any sense they would've given a timeline for these policies, allowing time for both them and importers to put their respective houses in order. If the fear was that people would move out their funds- well, guess what: NOONE is using the funds and the moment you ease things by the slightest, EVERYONE is going to take their money and FLEE from you!
These firms that are wailing are actual real sector manufacturers- some of our biggest employers- having such a serious problem. Yet for some reason, NIGERIANS are not protesting against the disaster that's unfolding!
Are we mad?!

The cbn has told us many times, with confirmation by bankers, how billions of dollars are in bank vaults. Why not buy them from account holders who desperately need their money but are barred from access?
Why not issue importers with dollar certificates that only those whose goods they import can claim the dollar payments from the cbn directly, thereby curtailing round tripping?
Why not get dom account holders to form import charters whereby their dollars are used by ppps to bring in equipment and infrastructural facilities for their preferred sector of investment- making them direct stakeholders in nation-building?
Why not do SOMETHING?!

You want people to sell their dollars in a directionless, constrained economy. Are you nuts?

Everyone describing the elephant from his own perspective. We see the distant galactic bodies by the way they affect the space around them just as we can decipher the environment people live and operate in by their views of the subject matter. How anyone can claim to know an entire race of people from a London or Lekki perspective beats me. There must be some 1 and a half billion black men and women. How many have we met.

Billionaires before they assumed office is 'we are prepared to accept their corruption', in plain english. Silly citizens.

What are bikes doing around banks. Thought it has been outlawed.

That is what we say. It reflects the qualities and tastes of the average Nigerian. When corruption thrives it is because the average Nigerian is corrupt. When poor quality leadership serially finds their way to power, it is because the electorate is equally poor. So Nollywood, the Music industry, the education sector, manufacturing, imports and trade, travel & tourism, etc, all reflect who we are and what we have accepted as our way of life.

So just cast aside widely held views and observe actualities, physical, living evidence and most of these theories fall flat. Just to mention a couple. A popular view is that Nigerians are hard working and dynamic, yet battle to keep all manner of subsidies from fuel to foreign exchange to education while at the same time procreate like rabbits, hardworking?? Another, Nigerians are hospitable, friendly and sociable yet Nigeria experiences some of the highest levels of mortality arising from ethnic, sectional and religious crises, while not featuring on the world tourism map at all.., whose nationals prefer to head abroad for holidays and to their villages for those who cannot.

Quakertellicus1:
Actually things were bad. We had scarcity every year of GEJ's regime. And part of the reason for the current scarcity is GEJ's failure to pay many marketers during the last year of his regime....meaning many of them had to take heavy loans from banks to import ....which they still owe...and which the current govt is struggling to pay thanks to the low revenues now from oil.

And there is a sense in which GEJ used high revenues from oil during his time in office to paper the cracks in the fuel industry in Nigeria.Instead of improving the refineries properly, and at the same time building the three refineries promised in 2010...for which a MOU was signed in 2012...and then nothing happened....we got promises on paper and massive importation. What we have now is left over business from the PDP.

What we need now,of course,is removal of subsidy, and eventually we actually have to build refineries.

You just can't get out of first gear. After one year in office wouldn't it surprise you now that there are no working plans to build any refinery, that the existing ones are not working properly and that the subsidy issue is not resolved whether to be or not to be. I am talking about a year without direction thoughtless of action. All we are being fed with are historicals. If it was that easy, wither?

The big bad wolf has eaten the three little pigs having blown the house down.

Landlord from hell. Get a good lawyer to sue their a.r-s.e to Siberia.

bejeiodus:
A new twist gets added to this budget debacle everyday. With the way things stand, the budget might not be signed until next year! One would have expected that a legislature dominated by the same party men as the President would have made such thing a walk in the park. What is done seamlessly in other climes has become a hill to climb here.

I am speechless, dumbfounded, perplexed, mystified. And what is Oyegun party chair saying. What is going on in the ruling party. Why are its members at odds in delivering electoral promises.

ajalawole:
wait ooo. Sha na everyody wen go get money from china ni

Is that not where all our money goes, right down to toothpicks. It must surely find its way back. No matter how big the barn of a yam farmer. He has to empty it to move forward. China no go chop money.

What I have been saying is if this government had gotten its fiscal and economic policy right instead of intrest bearing loans we will be getting interest free investment. In the world of finance money chases after the place of largest economic potential. Create a green pasture and get free money.

And I think Nigerians should stop the habit of 'reckless complaining' about the economy. It repels external help. I spoke with someone who had been struggling in business and needed my help to refloat. What worried me was the incessant lamentation and after reviewing practices, a terminal statement came out, 'and what do you want me to do'. It sounded defeatist so I left the case pending for a few days to give me time to weigh the risks. If we become hopeless as a nation, no one will be willing to take risks on us.

Just dunno what to think. Everywhere you look in this country, nothing but problems....

americanigga:
I here by call on all Bayelsa state Indigens, residents, Ipobs and Biafran hopeful, both in and ouside the country to openly reject this good will from High chief, (Rit.) Hon Chibuike Rotimi Ameachi to construct a railway line in Otuoke Bayelsa. Because this will be a slap on the face of former president Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan the suposed hero of the Igbo race, who aparently did not do anything in the whole of Bayelsa let alone Otuoke. This looming embarrassment must be averted.

What the hero could not do in six years, the man that has been labeld as a betrayer is about to do it in one year. What will people say?

Hahahaha...very comical. I thought this was a serious matter.

winningwinner:
I saw only one man talking sense (Mimiko), the other man (Oshiomole) is talking rubbish, blaming his own people for the sins of the fulanis.

Oshiomhole has to be politically correct....when your principal has not taken a stand on the matter.....sigh....we make governance so difficult for ourselves. I tell you. 99% of Nigerians identify first with their ethnicity before their country. This nation sore needs restructuring. No other way.

TheGoodJoe:
Our Southern Senators should keep quiet. Do not talk. Amaechi is out there alone fighting for us and you guys are waiting for Constituency allocations.

Do not talk. That is what your people sent you guys there for. To Tweet and keep quiet.

I Win You Win, My Vote Your Vote, My Mandate Your Mandate.

Bloody LIARS.

Amaechi does not represent the south, he represents the government. He is not elected, the legislators are, so it is up to the people they represent to judge or appraise their performance. I think you should understand democracy. The rail line will not affect everyone in the south. It may not pass through all the southern/eastern states but the constituency projects are grass-roots targeted and if done well will popularise and return the legislators affected whether you like it or not. That is a fact.

greenpasture:
One thing is clear, NASS is a big stumbling block to progress. How can you remove a project with this amount of benefit and replace it with constituency projects such as tricycles, bore holes and town hall meetings? How can senators from the areas to reap direct benefits close their eyes simply in the name of bad belle politics? How can you load up on the same constituency projects that your over bloated salary purports to cover on a monthly basis? Until Nigerians close ranks across parties and began to derive pleasure in having a good life rather than in seeing government fail, progress will be a mirage and the current 20-35 generation will fail in the same way as the others before it.

Nigerians wake up. This is not a party issue, this is a question of wasting four and possibly 8 years of your life if NASS and the judiciary has their way. And why should they care? They have enough stashed in cupboards, soakaways and tax havens. Your freedom is a threat to them because it means you will refuse to become cannon fodder and agents of obfuscation across social media.

It's your life.

You are highly mistaken if you think that constituency projects do not matter. These are grass-roots people thinking micro you are talking about and will not see neither will they care about 'Federal (macro) Projects'. A farmer who needs a rice mill, an oil press or a solar borehole to create his own wealth will rather side with his representatives on this matter than on a rail line which are for 'town' people and foreigners.

Much as the proposed rail line is critical in opening up the eastern flank of Nigeria to competitive trade, I see reason in those who ask why the the seaports and second Niger bridge are not prioritised. It appears we have a traditional people versus government confrontation at play here where the people want one thing and the government wants another.

One thing we are yet to grasp and understand. Democracy is all about the people. In advanced democracies the people are engaged to partner with government. Look at the way the HS2 has been hotly debated in the UK for several years now before it has finally taken off. How many debates have we had on the best way of developing the eastern flank of Nigeria by this government and others. If people are saying roads and seaports and airports and you are saying rail then your aim may be ultimately defeated if your will prevails. This democracy thing is new in Nigeria but we have to start getting the fundamentals right.

I think Amaechi should tactically withdraw from this reimbursement. If he wants to 'chop' the 60 billion alone....

SageTravels:
So far so good the NASS are leading. let the blame game continue. like as I said before.

NO MATTER HOW FAR LIE GOES TRUTH WILL SURELY OVERTAKE IT.


but wait o. the minister has not said anything.

The Presidency and the Legislative armadas going with guts for glory, blow for blow. Let's see who's knees will wobble first.
But time is going. I repeat again all these projects will not be feasible if the tropical season hits. No one enters the bush to clean up once June arrives. The 60 billion will become meaningless and parts will get stolen and re-appropriated next year. I know this is the plan by some, delay to degrade and ultimately defeat to steal.