₦airaland Forum

Fekumzi123:
Read very well, it is not about Tinubu.

It is about Tinubu NOW.
It has to be. Because he is the only one who can do something about it. Except he refuses to lead.

After wailing about, '16 years of PDP' this and that the past government sat down and worsened everything. If this government cannot pull up it's breaches the situation will only deteriorate even further.

Lifestone:
Hello,
Where did he accused the current Government in the policy paper? Simply because y.ou c.an't read.

The present government stands accused if it does nothing about the situation. We are tired if politics if, 'it started before my tine'.

Let the present government go after operators of the past governments with the same vigour it is pursuing a bid for autocracy.

Then it should put a stop to all these by solid reforms. It cannot stew in the same pot and not be cooked.

dederocs:
Very evil, it is beyond insensitive. A government that gave hundreds of millions for each politicians to buy vehicles, the cost of the automobiles they use alone is up to N50billion naira, you know what that will do for empowerment schemes for the poor across Nigeria?

in a country where almajiris roam free begging and turning to terrorists while others are in IDPs, in a nation where minimum wage is N70,000, in a nation where there is no empowerment scheme. Very evil people. They give nothing to the people, not even security, the basics, now they want to collect our hard earned money, which they didn't support us in making.

What Mr. Oyedele doesn't realize is that borrowing is the only way government can do the irrelevant things Nigerians did not ask for. So to depend on taxation is to put an end to white elephants..

Taxation is basically a subscription to government services. It is the bill a citizen pays for the services he expects to get. Now who subscribes for what he does not want. Who pays for goods he did not order for.

When government drives tax it should understand that it is opening it's ass for scrutiny. I don't have light, I don't have water, my neighbourhood is untenable, I am paying cut throat prices for gasoline and you delivery to me a roundabout, a flyover or an amusement park....are you not asking for trouble...

That is why Mr. Oyedele, they prefer loans for now. They simply cannot deliver good, people centric governance.

Mr. Oyedele.
The only reason politicians walk free is because of their ability to borrow and not trouble the masses directly.

The moment they will want to depend on taxation alone and think they will wrangle the necks of Nigerians to be spending anyhow, stealing massively and wasting on frivolities, then even you will not be able to walk the streets.

It is then you will clearly understand what governance and accountability is all about. The people in government know what they are doing. Borrow to do as they please now and hope to tax us to repay after the 2027 elections. Nigerians are waiting.

Kalulu44:
Mario Lemina you tried by hyping and praising your teammate. Osimhen is good as a striker and doing his job very well of scoring goals.
But talking of the most complete and best striker in the world, I disagree totally with Lemina.
Is Harry Kane a joke to most of you people.
Harry presses, link up play with other players, dribbles, fall to midfield to build play and assist and still never fail in his expected duty of scoring goals.
Osimhen is strong, energetic, presses defenders very well and score goals. But in terms of ball playing and dribbling, let me not say he doesn't have it, I will say he's average at best.
Is Ousmane Dembele also a joke to you guys. A player that can play and dribble with both legs, score goals and assist in quantums..
Osimhen only edges him in terms of energy and power, nothing more.
Or should we talk about Kylian Mpabbe and Halaand. Mpabbe has more speed and skillful than Osimhen, score goals more than him but have less power, energy and pressing than Osimhen.
With Halaand, I will say him and Osimhen are almost similar in comparison but Osimhen edges him in terms of pressing and disturbing defenders while Halaand edges him in terms of goals and assist.
Both can't dribble to save their lives, Halaand even holds the ball more than Osimhen.
Then they're the likes of Julian Alvarez, Lautaro Martinez, Marcus Thuram who I think Osimhen are not better than or them better than him.
So Mario Lemina should be calming down.

Yeah, this is true but you must understand the position of Lemina. He can only describe the elephant from where he stands.

Passionate888:
Osimhen physicality is best suited for the English Premiership

But the Premiership is also the most physically demanding league in the world. Defenders there are just beasts. Every match is a cup final. He will need to add a few pounds to his stature to become like Drogba.

beycity:
Dude has it, pace, strenght, skills, positioning and all. I only wish he could move to a higher league. He might never get the recognition he deserves while playing in that league.

Skills....?*/*?....I think there is a rather too much salt in this soup...just a bit will do.

No doubt he is a classy striker but his skillsets are not amongst the best in my opinion.

Dead ball, close control, the dribble, back to goal are areas he needs to improve.

The MLS has more depth. In the long run it will have more sustainable quality. The Saudi Pro is fueled by petro dollars and resembles the Japanese and later Chinese football league experiments of two decades and a decade ago respectively where government pumped huge amounts of resources into the leagues but the maths didn't add up and the money eventually dried up leaving quality languishing very much where it previously was.

Something tells me the Saudi Pro league is more or less a PR push to get the popularity of the game up at home and acceptance overseas ahead of their staging of the World Cup in 2034. Once that is done and dusted and the great stars of today are retired, they will pull the money plug and the league will return to where it once was. Already the Saudi government is gradually pulling back from direct club sponsorship and I guess no thanks to CR7's tirade a while ago.

Surely they must have an unusual sense of smell. Guess Coco Chanel isn't opening a chain of shops in that land anytime soon...

Please, the so called security architecture is not a person's face. It is a system, the way of doing things, the structure of things.

You don't change a system by appointment or nomenclature. You change it by reforms. If the architecture remains so so, such as checkpoints every ten millimeters apart on the highways while the marauders bypass them wandering through the forests then it is just a waste of time.

You can have half a million different security agencies. If they are all doing exactly the same thing then you will end up with a big, fat zero.

That is what we have been saying. Rail lines are a way more effective and cost efficient transportation system from point to point and for long term, stable efficiency much faster than road and even air transport.

That is why it is a wonder why the Federal government does not see it as an imperative to invest in a nationwide rail network linking all the city state capitals but insists on building more new roads.

You cannot travel interstate and not be menaced by heavy duty and long haul trucking which cost more than just lives regularly but degrade the road infrastructure badly and consume horrendous amounts of fossil fuels.

Nigeria needs better vision for better prospects if we hope to industrialize, develop and prosper.

Are they getting up to the N750,000 they say each Nigerian owes.... And for those women in the videos who probably have no less than half a dozen children each they should be getting round about 4 to 5 million tax free grant to cop out.

The more religious a nation is the higher it will feature on the list and Nigeria is a highly religious nation. Circumcision is a cornerstone of all Abrahamic religions.

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Nextjs:
When we are arguing that removal of subsidy has negative impacts that exceed the positive impacts on Nigeria data boys will say its a lie.

A tanker of fuel was sold for just 8m when tinubu came on board but today its 60/68 million naira...


Subsidy removal has done more harm than good with no visible achievements n we still de borrow

It is doing more harm because the gains from the removal are being wasted, not invested on things that concern those the money is taken from.

There is nothing fundamentally wrong in increasing taxation, which is what subsidy removal is. Consider it a 200, 300, 500 percent increase in VAT on petroleum products. Call it a massive contribution by every Nigerian to the country's treasury. Nothing fundamentally wrong with that.

What is terrible is the way such huge, enormous resources have been managed, spent and in my opinion, wasted.

When you are a member of a club, an association, church group, whatever and you are asked to make damning sacrifices, your mind immediately goes to, 'what is the sacrifice for, what will it make better, who will it help, and what is the end game of it all...'

It becomes wearisome when:
There is not endgame, no direction, no metrics.
The sacrifices are uneven, unjust.
Remember the government often peddled the story that it is the rich that benefit from subsidy, that the poor benefit nothing.

But then the government has taken the subsidy money and further enriched the rich through all manner of contracts and commissions out of this world, for things that have little or no positive impact on the poor, the poor that have little elbow room, virtually no alternatives than to crumble financially.

omotayocaleb:
Fertilizer, GMO fake food. She can't replant it.

Don't be a damp squid.
Agric is not for food alone.
It is for industry as well and some countries make a whole lot of money from exporting processed agric products.

And as we learnt from grade school cassava is one of the most versatile crops on earth used to make anything from textiles to animal feed. This it on my on project that can do that with GMO intervention so that one man's akpu is not used to make another man's ethanol for power, aerospace, whatever.

Spectacular.
Fly her and the harvest to Abuja.
Make a big agric show if it.
Bring in The Guinness Book to assess and let her be the face of a Nationql agric comeback.
This is what is done in other climes.

It is like saying how much is a saloon car in Nigeria. You can only get a range based on quality(ies). There are bungalows and there an 'boongalows'....

israelmao:
Farouk Lawan was a sound mind among Reps until he was involved in bribery.His political opponents will exploit this to discredit him.A broken integrity is not easy to mend.

Well the party that hosts him will decide if he is an asset or a liability and that will say a lot about them.

naptu2:
They are not. Ex-convicts are banned from seeking elective positions for 10 years after conviction, but he received a state pardon last year or two years ago.

Pardoned by an unseriouous government claiming to fight corruption, instead of using him as an example that it means business and that it is truly sorry that it had to remove subsidy instead of going after the thieves like him.

Pardoned to go home and vanish like a bad dream. Not to return to torment this country once again. If anyone thinks this man will not continue from where he stopped, that person must be less than a juvenile.

adefashe92:
Did you suddenly forget that Obj was also an ex convict before contesting for the first ever democratic presidential election in 1999.

Under a military tribunal, not a court of law and for speaking out against an unconstitutional, illegitimate government in the eyes of democracy. Not the same thing.

brain54:
Naptu even with state pardon I don't think this is legal....


Or should be allowed.


Even with a pardon, he still ought not to run for public office.


By the way this is what happens when these politicians don't have a normal/regular job asides politics.


That's why he wants to come back... politics is probably the only job he has and knows!

This man amongst others is the reason why subsidy had to be removed. They connived with marketers and importers to coverup inflated contracts. That is economic sabotage equivalent in many countries to sedition.

The average citizen is suffering today because the country could not fight people like these and their corporate collaborators rather it settled for collective punishment.

And now that he thinks Nigerians have forgotten because we are legendary for being babies, having short memories and short attention spans, he can wangle his way back to the table. Are we not settling up ourselves for even worse.

If the government can forgive him, the average Nigerian groaning under the weight of energy costs should never if we are right thinking.

Enddy50ty:
In Asake’s voice.
Forgiveness..!! Forgiveness..!! Baba forgive me, for the bad bad things, wey I don do.. do..
Consistency.. consistency..
I promise to remain consistent in my positive actions.

Forgiveness is for a theocracy.
This is a democracy where you should get only one chance at fidelity. If not this country will never, ever develop. Where there is no law, no consequences there is no offence. That is jungle status.

Is there no law that says a con cannot run for office. What kind of nonsense is this. What is the deterrent for corruption then in this sick country abeg. When are we going to tire of this rubbish.

Gotocourt:
Communities in for long thing as government owns all lands. They should fight for compensation of destruction of economic trees 🤷🏿

But is it Presco plc that will elect government into power, is it not the people. People that government should be serving.

Our kind of democracy is just not working. The government constantly sees itself as an antagonist of the people. They see the people as fodder for exploitation. Too small and too inconsequential to consider, if not what is wrong in striking deals with them.

Is governance no longer about the people. Is there no formula where both the citizens, big business and the government all win or is it always a zero sum game. Look to the United States and how they manage land use, resources and governance and copy a working model, simple.

Exousiang01:
The government has arranged a Skil acquisition program with N22k monthly stipend for the youths but the opposition is telling them that the president is trying to bribe them.
So how would the youths get the required skills to get them off the streets.
The same way the opposition went about discouraging students from taking NELFUND, they even told young people that NELFUND was scam

That is creating supply, why not create demand first. Open up industrial capacity and folks who are tutoring themselves in colleges for paper qualifications in hope will channel those resources to sectors that are awakening, to learn the skills to participate in them.

With all these reforms there should be targets where government is investing in, either by partnerships or enterprise creation.

The OBJ regime's reform of the telecoms sector in the early 2000's is a pointer of what reforms actually look like. It is a search for the kind of economic value that creates jobs, allied enterprises while adding value to the economy. And there are many sectors that are begging for this same treatment.

Start with power. Hundreds of thousands of jobs can be created up and down the value chain made possible by technology and the green revolution. But government seems disinterested. Just gave states the money and asked them to sort out themselves....

Currency reforms, yes. But energy reforms, I don't know know how that directly correlates with the stock exchange.

The removal subsidy was supposed to ease pressure on credit and enable more resources for development to accelerate the economy. But we are not seeing much of that due to....the normal thing misappropriation.

The savings are coming out of the economy but are not going back into the economy in a structured, planned and progressive way. We have cut down, made savings but are spending it, not investing.

O he should continue senseless war and bloodshed until.his economy crumbles and he is overthrown. What is the achievement. Land in exchange for over a million dead.

This is a high pressure game that is a test of mettle and mentality. It will decide if Arsenal are titlists or pretenders and whether the Champions League final will be a walk in the park for PSG.

At this stage of the season games and titles are won or lost more by what lies in the heart.

motymop:
Because you are insulting their intelligence.

You can not abuse and bully people then tell them to vote your own candidate by manipulating them

You don't get it.
No one is saying vote this person or that person in.
That is only ONE SIDE of democracy.

The more critical side, the side that makes democracy different from military rule, an autocracy, a monarchy, etc is your ability to VOTE PEOPLE OUT.

Folks fail to understand this important part. That democracy works where those in authority FEAR BEING REMOVED.

And this is the tool citizens use to extract good governance. The threat of a sack. And any government that can succeed in resisting this threat by any means will generally misrule because power intoxicates.

It is not the law written on paper that stops crime. It is the threat of sanctions, of arrest, of jail. If Nigeria was arresting and successfully jailing the corrupt, the prisons will be filled with them, not our government offices.

So my dear, 'vote wisely' is not a slogan to elect any particular person. It is a soul call to consider your civic responsibility in not tolerating misgovernance and a call for your preparedness to act if the government refuses to up it's game.

I often ask this question of those who support this government vociferously. Where lies your influence over the government in the face of your neighbor you see suffering so much neglect. As party men you should be able to reach them easy and direct them aright. It is a political party of which you chose the leadership so why can't you influence them.

Ah, ah, what sort of question is this.
Of course they go berserk because their voting has no correlation whatsoever to their experiences under governance.

After the previous 8 years of misrule you still thumbprint for another 8 years under the same set of people and principles....

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, come 2031 it will be laying duck eggs.

I will even go further to hazard a guess that it might be some mental deformity, some abnormality, some missing wires in the cranium to look at 2015 where we said no more, and then to go downhill from there and they still insist on digging...

All because your government doesn't want you to have guns but cannot get the guns away from the outlaws.

All because your government doesn't want you to police yourselves, secure yourselves but cannot provide you security.

Fine, elections are coming soon. Let us see just how badly you desire to return home by tackling one of the two options above.