₦airaland Forum

ooshinibos:
The policeman could have locked the gun before he handed it over ...Please don't judge him , the Gun might be even bullet empty .
I trust our policemen they are not stupid :-)

Hmmm....pally, how....er do you lock a gun....mbok.

Hmmm....they both worked at a saw mill. Now, that's where she got the inspiration to cross-cut his shot gun. Lucky chap. She would have reduced his 2 by 4 solid timber to a 2 by 2 softwood noggin....complete with pepper to kill termites....oh blimey.

That Arsene Wenger cannot win the league is not rocket science. With a cash surplus of 130million dollars they couldn't even add a lampost to their squad in January. Trying to win trophies with the likes of Giroud, Campbell and Welbeck is insulting to the footballing fratenity abeg. Sack Wenger NOW!!!

hahahahahahehehehe....my oh my, dearie me....I've read some funny s:hit on this forum but honestly, this is way up the palm tree. The okada rider's name is what!!

IGOR JABLESS and men the ticketing officer didn't know this or....whot...hahahahaha...rip abeg...hehehehe...my oh my....abeg make una no kill me wit laff.

Abeyjide:
will the likes of legislative and judiciary arm allow that? Stop blaming Buhari. For example, He condemed the purchase of luxury cars by senate and d senate president himself turned a deaf ear to him.

Eh nau. Dem see im presidential jets, dozen dozen, naim piss catch dem.

blazer234:
The reason why our leaders find it difficult is

Their process of becoming presidents/ governors is usually complicated by so many promises and compromises. They wouldn't want to bite the fingers that fed them. They lack political will.

Nigerians are so slow. Was saying this about two years ago. The sun is just rising in your parts. Even if you live in Akaska or Siberia you'd have known this at most since 2015 january.

Una too like trouble. Nigeria is not like this. Nigeria is a complex society. If you asked for all these nobody will come out to contest.

freecocoa:
Why do they always have to spoil the whole thing by saying they still love the man? Mschewww.


Btw, seems like the tantalizer of it all. Is what's really passing the man off.

Is she that cheap. Selling her soul for a tub of rice.

9japrof:
I dislike APC and their propaganda but I don't pray they fail, you know why ? cos if their fail, the Nigeria project keeps failing and it boils down on the common citizens like us who would bear the brunt fully.

Nigeria needs surgical procedure, that's the only remedy, but how would that surgical procedure come about, don't even bring in the revolution ish here cos it cannot work in the multifaceted and polarised country like Nigeria where tribalism and nepotism holds sway. We are stucked for good

You are partisan, sentimental and very, very wrong. Who is a patriot please. A person who seeks the good of his country, irrespective of his personal values. You don't want a revolution because you don't want to bear the brunt, so you want the pre-existing system, the status quo maintained which you know is fatally flawed?

So in a nutshell you are satisfied to live a life without electricity and you will age and go to the grave with that satisfaction that that is the best your country could give you?

IzonOwei:
now you just mentioned exactly what our aged problem is..We must locate infrastructures for energy production in proximity to where energy sources are located to save cost and up efficiency...I remember back in then days when bayelsa autonomously ran it's electricity production via gas turbines without any entanglement with our useless national grid...We would usually enjoy light for 6months without a blink..The moment bayelsa state integrated it's power production into the national grid everything fell apart yakata...this country will remain a curse if we don't do things the right way...

And every part of the country has the natural endowment to be self sufficient. The north is not energy thirsty. It can do very well with the serious solar flux it enjoys year round. Not a penny is invested in this.

Coming to the Bayelsa thing. I was around there when they were being hooked up and I could not imagine why because it was about the same time Rivers started the Omoku IPP and what we thought was the road to power independence. My brother Nigeria's problems are clear. They are not issues of incompetence or corruption but of the way the country operates and how its peoples relate. We put sentiments ahead of even the most obvious decisions a child would make. We cannot survive this way.

0rex:
Nailed it!
But trust me, except a revolution occurs, Nigeria can not work.

People resist all these things, it's not like professionals in the field don't know or haven't recommended them.

So we now admit that the sum total of our problems is structural....not electoral, not party political, not presidential....but this country is simply assembled dysfunctional.

IzonOwei:
nigeria is being run on the same template of failure and still expecting different results..what stops each zone in the nation from autonomously generating power form its energy sources present in the zones


what is stopping us from adopting true federalism and regionalism so that we can grow....

Abi oh. Using the resources at its doorsteps. That is business sense. Not the nonsense ethnic-foolery we practice in Nigeria. No gas plant should be located outside the Niger-Delta. It doesn't make economic, security or strategic sense. What is a gas plant doing in Kogi state. What is another doing in Osun. Is that not the major reason why the biggest one Egbin will never operate optimally. It is a fish out of water. The plant in Kogi will have better served as a coal fired plant. Kogi has some coal and a rail line some 300 kilometres to Enugu's coal deposits will have been a better economic decision than a 700 kilometer gas pipeline to Escravos or wherever.

LordAdam:
Solar is too expensive.

What we should invest heavily in is coal power. More electricity is derived from coal worldwide than any other source of electricity. It is cheap, we have plenty of dormant coal reserves in Nigeria.

I think Buhari should also do something about the vandalism. Even if na to setup special task force that stretches through the host communities. Contract the local vigilante of the host communities. And give strict conditions should leak or vandalism occur in their domains.

Nigeria's security apparatus cannot guarantee the smooth operations of all the pipelines in Nigeria. If we have surplus of gas and use gas as a major driver in the production of electricity, I wonder why we would allow pipelines to be vandalized at will.

If it is oil pipelines that will disrupt oil production and stop money from flowing into the pockets of the northern elite, they will send battalions. But when it is gas pipeline to supply gas for production of electricity for the average Nigerian, they will sit in their AC office dishing out propaganda because they run the administration on diesel generators.

Nigeria's problem is the structure. It is too defective. The President would do nothing because he doesn't have the right advisers, or because his advisers serve other masters. If the minister does something on his own, it would have no weight because civil servants have their own agenda. Even the security people have their own agenda. Community people have their own agenda. Youths have their own agenda. Electricity producers and distributors have their own agenda.

We are just been pulled in all directions. That is why electricity supply in Nigeria will keep dancing back and forth. Even if you make Thomas Edison Minister of Power (Works and Housing) in Nigeria, the glut will still remain. We have to restructure the country, because it is the same rot that is affecting all the sectors.

Imagine ASUU asking the FG to exempt them from TSA. After they run universities like independent economies and receive more salary than the soldiers protecting our lives and property.

-Lord

Why pipelines. Why not locate the power plants right there at the gas fields. Instead they scatter them round the country for ethno-sentimental reasons. If a particular gas well or a collection in close proximity can sustain a 10 megawatt plant so be it. The oil majors have been doing so for decades to power their operations and host communties. In the US and europe there are thousands and thousands of plants of all sorts of sizes and fuels it is impossible for system collapse to occur. Must every plant be 500 megawatt and located in someone's village a gazzilion miles away. Poor strategy. Foolish thinking. It is like building a dam in Lokoja and then piping high pressure water to turbines in Lagos. Daft.

AdeniyiA:
This started not yesterday and when Elitist Fashola came, his only remedy was to put more burden of price increment on already over-stressed citizens ...
Nigeria is the only country where the poor/citizens suffer and pay for government incompetency and irresponsibility. where the government leaves you to be a government to yourself by providing all you need and your struggle and hustle are heavily taxed whereas they didn't help you climb...
What a useless and inconsiderate government we've been having

Then why not take the final step and tell them to let you go. A child who has no parent has a right to bear the names of angels. Do you know that the sum capacity of all private petrol, diesel, gas, coal generating plants from the thousands of I-pass-my-neighbours to Dangotes's massive turbines is greater than the average generating capacity of PHCN/DISCOS. And that most localities if permitted to inject power into the grid can attain almost 24 hrs power at rates which will meet government's rising tariffs. What are we saying.

Just take the final step. It is called citizenship.

9japrof:
I am not a professional in the energy field but why must we continue with old ways that had been proven to be ineffective. sometimes I wonder whether this country is cursed, we have been doing this national grid stuff for many years and it is proven to be ineffective and we still insist it must work.

Why don't we unbundle the power stuff into six regions, the south south has the gas(we use the gas turbines to power electricity there) south east(Enugu) has coal, (get coal fired turbines to power electricity for the eastners {after all China and south Africa still use coal to power a large percent of their energy needs}. The north here has sun and dams (e.g Niger state with kainji, jebba, shiroro dams) use it to power the energy needs in the north. etc.

Why would we spend resources pulling energy to one national hub and still spend resources to distribute this energy and no doubt energy is been lost during the process.

People brought in APC to bring about change with the way things have been going before. the large carmotose of the national infrastructure can not be blamed on them but the truth is that it is always easy to criticize when you are not in the helm of affairs (e.g the silly sunday oliseh was so vocal during his time as a TV pundit, criticizing the then coach and the national team, Buh when he came on board he failed miserably)

Talk is cheap, I expect APC to change the political structure of this country, that is the only way we can develop, when regions compete effectively using the available resources within their regions and not depending on the entitlements from the centre, then we can grow. A million Buharis can't make Nigeria better without making the state/regions viable.

What are the advantages of unbundling Power are:

we spend less on constructing gas pipes from south to north (thereby saving foreign exchange Lol), that been said , less sabotage less maintenance.

People in the region would hold people around them accountable for the energy problems they have. people would tend to protect power facilities in their area cos they know that if it is vandalised they suffer it.

Common sense ain't common

When I say structure is the problem they say Buhari (an establishment figure) is the solution. As I said earlier, his term will only witness cosmetic changes, nothing radical enough to restructure Nigeria and set it on a path to success. His fx policy is hopeless. Foreign cash will never come in now so how do you build the plants and grids. So sorry for this country. If Nigerians don't rise up in unison and tell Buhari to do the right thing na dem sabi. He is 72. He has fulfilled his legacy, received back from the cold as a statesman in international capitals and jailing miscreants. That's all we will get.

benzics:
These people are the most unstable creature on planet earth
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If I dey lie...just follow their line of thought !
Example:

Buhari :
my government will pay unemployed Nigerians 5k every month.

Zombies:
sai Baba... change is here..Nigeria will rise again!
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Buhari:
I never promised to pay unemployed Nigerians 5k each month.
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Zombies:
No mind those Jonathanians. With their fake news. Show us links where he promised that. We are solidly behind you. Nothing for yam eaters
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Buhari :
We have started collection of data to enable us pay the unemployed graduates 5k.
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Zombies :
Where are those TANoids that said Baba is not a promise keeper...shame on all PDP. Baba till 2023 !
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Buhari:
I wont pay 5k to unemployed youths. Its not a priority !
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Zombies:
Baba is right! Whats the use of 5k? What can 5k do to anyone. Mr president we love u. Best president ever!
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I wont be surprised if I wake up tomorrow and hear :
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Buhari:
Unemployed Nigerians should pay 5k every month to the government.
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His idiotic zombies will be like:
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Zombies:
Think of what u can do for your country and not what your country can do for you. Baba is right. But I know those unpatriotic wailers wont pay
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Abeg no vex o. Is this thing ordinary?

Hmmm. It is called hope. But that is reserved for God alone not man. You only hope on Him who is Holy, who's integrity will make him do what he says.

HaneefahRN:
What of lenovo and gionee products? Anyone with infos about the brands?

After Injoory you are asking about gioneeee. Dat one dey sound like peson wey dey purge...

Smartlife:
If you see injoo phone, just run.

Hahahaha....abi. Before you get Injoo-red. Chai. Just 3 weeks and the thing is scrap. Insult upon Injoo-ry. But you guys had better buy more and more so that they can buy our oil. Abi una no know said plastic na from oyel. Oya say after me. 'we love Injoooooo....'

bid4rich:
And many people are dying of hunger in the state that produce him o, hence the Slingshot car. I can not but feel sorry for this country because of the selfishness of this human being called ''leader'' Can we call this man a leader?

Let God alone be the judge.

When I say restructure you people will be shouting 'change', 'transformation', 'APC', 'PDP', 'PMB', 'GEJ'....

Simply say the people should elect and fund their representatives as going to the centre to gather and fight for their interests and lets see whether his people will buy him 'toys' to play with while they starve. Governance is not hard...only to a people who know little.

They come from the people. They 'REPRESENT' the people. Why should they be paid by the government they are supposed to oppose, check and validate? Why?

Here we go again. They will spend a gazillion naira touring europe in the guise of recruiting only to end up in a discrepit alleyway somewhere in Marseille, Hamburg, Turin or Alicante cutting deals with some good for nothing hobo who probably knows less than them about what a football looks like or some white african mercenary who has more tours of african confederations than U2 and Bono have toured europe. Of course the deal is not complete without the customary 50% 'witholding tax'.

Imagine. Folks that couldn't pay Siasia, couldn't pay Keshi, couldn't pay Oliseh want to pay in dollars that is a scarce as their grey matter. Hmmm....just wait till Murray Bruce hears this.

Instead of developing yourself and moving forward in life you're busy doing boyfriend and girlfriend. For 5 years for that matter. Do you know how long you have to live? Do you know there are several successful men and women out there who didn't have the misfortune of wasting their time this way. Girl. Look at your life, work on it and you will have quality men searching earnestly for you.

989900:
Really? That seems to have worked very well since 65 kobo to a dollar to N199 to a dollar.

Yes. Babangida devalued but didn't follow through with reforms. And by 1988/89 he abandoned it all together. The same uncertainty we face now. The naira slides as indecision persists.

Sanchase:
These are the consequences of devaluation, for example if the government devalue the exchange rate of Naira to Dollar which currently is

N197 to $1. Say the government decide to peg it at N200 = $1, this will have a ripple effect across everything more than we currently experience

in Nigeria. Every Naira added by the government on top of the current exchange rate figure will be multiplied 2x in addition by every business in

Nigeria, this is normal because nobody wants to sell at a loss. If this devaluation happens again that is when we will witness more inflation i.e.

the price of goods that normally sell for N10 will then skyrocket to N50. This is bad for an average Nigerian striving to survive as they will pay

double the price for everything while their income is reduced, sales will drop while prices remain high due to substitute products that can be

bought slightly cheaper. An average Nigerian will spend more money for everything while his/her income remain the same or even less for business

people as their revenue will drop even though they still make profit.

Secondly, Nigerian economy will not benefit from devaluation because it is a major importer of almost everything. This affects the economy

because a country where there is nothing to sell to earn foreign exchange apart from oil, any trigger on that oil affects the currency severely.

Devaluation is only suitable for a major exporting country so that foreign investors can come and buy cheap goods from the country while the

country produce those goods in massive quantities, but i detest devaluation of any sort because quality goods at suitable prices will still attract

foreign investors.

The solution is for Nigerians to change the way they think, Nigerians need to turn a blind eye to foreign made goods and get use to local

alternatives and enhance them to meet standards.

The Federal government maintains there will not be any devaluation and it will not change so hoarders of foreign exchange is in for a long ride.

Your advice is at cross purposes. How can they 'turn a blind eye to imports' when you make it easier for them to import. Explain.

Do you need further proof that the state of a country is determined by the quality of its people, not its government and certainly not its leader(s). Even Obama would have loved to be in Mugabe's shoes....so would I....

When you look for the meaning of docility just google 'Zimbabwean Citizens'. As if their armed forces don't have guns and bullets or their citizens have knives and clubs....or did he jazz them. Haba. A whole country.

RICHIEBOI1:
This is what i saw when i boarded an airline yesterday.. I wont mention the airline. What ever happened to safety standard.. Smh

Not bothered about that. What concerns me is why you couldn't mention the airline. What then are we expected to discuss and what will be achieved when info such as that is witheld. 3rd world doesn't mean government alone. 'This is what I saw on an Arik Air flight to...' or if you don't want to be associated, 'This was Apostle Paul saw on an Arik Air flight from Corinth to Ephesus...c'mon.

yaki84:
how much is being budgetted to this ministries in d current bill?

It is not about budget alone. It is not about projects, incentives and programs. It is about the enabling environment. That is where most Nigerians and Buhari is running away from. They are afraid of inflation in the face of dwindling 'cash to spend'. I call it cash to spend not income because that is our mentality which must change. If local chicken is more expensive that imported ones, local pepper more expensive than 'better' ghana and cameroun pepper, if wheat is cheaper than garri, pally abeg tell me, who will farm. You don't go into productive business for the fun of it but to make money. If the government sides with ghana pepper and german bmw's by its monetary policy, what can we do.

blkmum700:
You are right bro,if Japan or South Korean devalued their currency you will see strong opposition from Imf or US but they want us to devalued naira because its favor them more.

You must understand that the IMF (pro European) and the World Bank (pro American) will always act in favour of the West. When they deal with large Eastern economies such as China and Japan they do so in Western interests. China and Japan buys huge quantities of US and European goods and so devaluation of the Yuan or Yen will make Western goods uncompetetive. Nigeria is not in that ball park. We want to industrialize so we must make imports expensive by devaluation. They will say nothing because quite frankly we donot buy much as compared to the Asian Tigers.

fairheven:
We had parallel market system even when Sanusi was in central bank, so why is he now preaching against it?

He is not preaching against it. He is asking for a convergence of indicies so that the economy is on an even keel. No one can build effectively on uneven ground. Can you?

One out of many rexamples (reasoning examples). If I was to set up industry requires fx and I bought at 300. How will I compete with you who buys at 'government' rate if I'm not on the list, connected or corrupt. The uneven playing field is a big disinvestment. If the margin was 2, 10, 15% I may harzard it but the margin in 70% encounting. Which kind of profit will I make to hedge this risk.

blazetitov:
Devaluation is not the answer. We should instead diversify the economy and consume more of locally produced goods.

Will you buy less quality Nigerian goods at a more expensive price that better but cheaper imported alternatives. Your truthful answer will be no. Even the VP and his government are not doing this. There has to be an incentive, a carrot to take hard decisions or a stick to force submission. Nigeria has no more carrots in the CBN or Treasury. The only way to change is to force it by devaluation. The best time to do it is now with a combination of low oil prices and a new and popular government. If you were a patriot you will do the right thing, not the expedient thing. There is no painless way to develop. We have been on palliatives since 1988 due to Babangida's half measures. He started, saw the bleeding body on the operating table and fearing popular uprising baulked and elected for drugs instead.

Nigeria needs focused, courageous leadership that Buhari is currently not offering. I warn again. The populism of his anti-corruption drive will wane and when there are no longer deviants to conquer, Napoleon will weep.

Sanchase:
SAnusi, sanusi, sanusi. How many times did i call you?

You are no longer the CBN governor so get that into your brain dead skull.

Take your devaluation to Kano, ur village precisely.

Sanusi and his team of embezzlers have stacked up huge amount of foreign currency, they are now pushing the government to devalue Naira so

they can cash in, ur plan go no work boy.

Joseph Sanusi not Lamido Sanusi. Read carefully.