₦airaland Forum

M4gunners:
The Man look gentle. I don't think he's deceiving us like some people here has said. One thing is sure they are still some good people in government.

He has corruption cases stacked against him back to 2006. That's why we say corruption is systemic and endemic. Even Buhari has given up seeing he's on a rocky outcrop surrounded by quick sand. Interesting days ahead.

kayoday:
Report had it that Lam Adesina did similar thing when he was elected governor. He later moved to government lodge after state funds were used to renovate his personal house.

Exactly what will happen. Starters just contest, finishers either win or lose.

hansad:
Rest in peace.
But decades after you roared about corruption, corruption still eats up Nigeria. And you roared about corruption many decades after your seniors in the army roared about corruption as their excuse to strike against a democratic government.

Unfortunately, Nigerians stick to unitary government system which breeds and feeds corruption in Nigeria.

Today, many foolish Nigerians believe that Buhari your ex-colleague shall stop corruption in Nigeria governed under the present lopsided political structure and unitary government system. Sorry for them.

Truth is that until Nigeria embraces fiscal federalism, corruption must continue to eat deeper into the country.

Good one. They are just wasting their time. We know how this country works and what breaks it down constantly.

dewstar:
E do abeg. The man don commot leave una, make we sef hear word. Does continuous complain about GEJ put fuel in your gen? Focus on GMB, he is the future now.

Don't mind them. Just making noise. The scarcity is caused by uncertainty (about what happens from Monday next). In the event that there isn't a clear policy direction by the incoming government no one will import the stuff. Simple.

On a wider scale if there was no subsidy, government come, government go, no one cares. If government had removed the thing like 5 years ago we will have benefit from the drop in oil prices.

Why can't they simply import the product since the pricing regime is fully deregulated and they consume the stuff in extra large quantities. These are the reforms needed to break the monopoly of the cartels.

Horlufemi:
a Maize farmer harvested hectares of maize and sold all his harvest.

He then went to the market to buy pap(ogi), corn flakes, boiled corn and roasted corn to feed his family.

That is quintessential foolishness.

That is the case of Nigeria. The farmer is Nigeria, the maize is crude oil.

We are in trouble.

That is not foolishness, it is wisdom. You are the one who needs wisdom. This line of jaundiced thought is so typical of Nigerians with their 'entitlement' mentality that robs them of the attitude of responsibility necessary for development. You my friend are not a farmer nor have the attitude of a farmer or businessman.

When you start your business kindly do not pay market prices for the goods and services you consume from your enterprise and let's see whether you will not end up like Nigeria. Reprobate people. The US is the largest producer of wheat. They formed the NewYork and Chicago mercantile exchanges which essentially sets the world prices of wheat and other essentials meaning the average US farmer knows that he gets international prices for his wheat and the US Confec. Industry buys there. Americans pay for American produced commodities at international prices. It is the producers that are incentified to produce more. Consumers are taxed upon the 'real' prices they pay. That is how to develop. So go farming the right way pal.

Shell's refineries in the US buy crude at international prices even though the US is the second biggest producer of crude. Why don't they subsidize. Black man and his ways. Chop, clean mouth and blame everyone else for tomorrow's poverty. Bloody entitlementists.

hansad:
And when knowledgeable people suggest to restructure Nigeria politically in a democracy for equitable political representation to enable the emergence of quality leadership - or return to fiscal federalism - the north refuses fiscal federalism which may reduce its oil earnings, the SW and north refuse political restructuring because they believe it may give people of southsouth and southeast equal rights to the rest of Nigeria.

So the sufferings from leadership failure continue in Nigeria.

What more can I say after so many, many years. The only light at the end of the tunnel is that our suffering will be hard enough to make us want to leave Egypt enmasse no matter what the Pharoah's think.

anonimi:
When Jonathan in his WISDOM decided to remove the subsidy in January 2012 only 7 months after he was voted in as president, to stop the SCAM, what did we say

The ghost of our foolishness will haunt us for long.

A people that cannot endure and sacrifice for a while will forever live in bondage!
QED!!!

Well said. I could remember trying to get the point across on this forum time and time again on the need to end this subsidy thing, few accepted. Three years and trillions down the drain, we are now wiser, better prepared and ready to let our pet sins go. What a pity. This is the same pity every well meaning foreigner I spoke to felt for this country then and I'm so certain now.

I keep on saying it, the biggest problem this country has, an anchor to its development, remains its people. All great nations are truly born in the crucibles of great suffering and immense tragedy. It was my conviction over a decade ago that any pacifist government was simply the enemy of the country and its people because Nigerians need a serious hard time to elevate our thinking. In this I commend the out-going government. NOI and SLS warned of all these things today and we still walked into the wall with our eyes wide open. What a reprobate people.

coolzeal:
Isn't it insane that Nigeria cannot refine its crude oil after decades of discovery? This is madness.

The reason we cannot refine our crude is simple, we expect to pay less than what it is worth. In any system, when you attempt to get out more than you put in you kill it eventually. We didn't realise this in the seventies and eighties when we had a population of 70 million and 5 to 10million cars on the road and 2 million generating sets. Today this demand has doubled and in some cases quadroupled partly because the price of fuel has remained low, almost static (in dollar terms) while the price of crude has spiked to unprecedented levels severally over the years. What Nigerians have been enjoying is having our cake and eating it.

You simply cannot seek the benefits of high oil prices and low fuel prices at the same time. That is cheating nature and is bound to backfire sooner than later.

Who do you cheat as a yam farmer if the prices of yam goes high in the market and you are just eating the yams anyhow at home. No one but yourself. That is the history of Nigeria, a waster of her resources. That is why when it rains in this country, it pours. The gains of years of high crude prices have been thrown away. Now our lazy backsides cannot adjust to the realities that yams are no longer trending. Irresponsible people. And irresponsibility is the number one vector for poverty.

Good thing Buhari is a man that will say it as it is. He only needs sound advice.

hucienda:
So why were people protesting back in 2012? Their eyes finally 'open' to the truth?

We now see for a fact that this subsidy may hold the fort for the short term but is definitely not sustainable long term.

We need working refineries in-country.

Even if you have a hundred refineries working if you sell below international rates as we are paying now, the cheap fuel will simply find its way to international markets and we will end up subsidizing the world a.k.a throwing our resources away. And by the way it will still be scarce at home. We will remain as thin and haggard as subsistence farmers who cannot afford to eat their produce.

The decision of the out-going government to indirectly force the subsidy issue to the front burner is a commendable one. The government has no beauty contest left to attend. It can say it as it is. This rot called subsidy just has to stop. The public must realise it is short-changing itself and right pricing is the only way to slow the bleeding of the nation's treasury. We must understand that in times of lack whether on a personal or national level you don't pamper yourself with excesses, you work hard, make sacrifices and most importantly drop bad habits of which the fuel subsidy regime is perhaps the worst.

hamaworld:
Why all this struggle for the senate president.

You people should not forget what happened to PDP.

Coz na dis same struggle for power, made PDP forget their work

Those who choose to ignore history are bound to repeat it. I hope they don't make every critical national decision a subject of internal crises or as they choose to put it, competition.

Plus234:
have you seen N300m before ? or are u among those that use mouth to put fish in a soup, i hope i got the proverb correct , lol

300m is a big money and can build this mall more than 1

Oga. It can't, period. Just order 1, just 1 escalator and report back. Oya, jog along.

chuna1985:
other States should use their wealth wisely

I come from Enugu and our 2015 budget is 93 billion naira...

Akwaibom state budget for 2015 is 462 billion naira...

That's 370 billion dollars more than my state n u expect us to use our wealth wisely!!!

What's happening in Akwaibom ain't magic or hard work.

It is not the quantum but what the money is used for. Poverty is caused by misappropriated wealth at some stage in the life of a man, family, community, State or Nation. Give Dangote that 93 billion and watch how he will create wealth and opportunity. That is what governors should be doing, running their states like businesses with a human face but I'm sure his convoys and entourages are as big and flamboyant as Akpabio's. In things like that he will conveniently ignore his smaller budget.

JN1:
Akpaio is a legend, I just wish the man will be the president of Nigeria one day.
Kudos to our our Akwa-Ibom brothers and sister, they are very lucky to have such a great man as their governors.

But unfortunately it won't happen. The Hausa-Fulani/Yoruba hegemony of the old Nigeria hitherto thought dead is back alive and kicking. It will ensure that a President will never again emerge from the minorities no matter how competent or credible he or she is. That's our lot in Nigeria. Moving in circles. No progress....except to the owners of Nigeria.

Flets:
The Lower Niger just missed a massive opportunity by a hair strand.

Uyo has been upgraded and positioned the next economic hub in West Africa. Akpabio succeded in putting up all major infrastructures required for a thriving metropolis..... and just one more thing was required......... sign the Ibaka seaport project and concession and Akwaibom would have taken Africa by storm.

GEJ was playing it cool not to offend the south west who believes the port business is their resource. He was just waiting to get back in 2nd term to kick start the project. The south west and North saw this and had to fight as hard as they could.

However common sense can only be delayed and not denied.
Why does Nigeria despite having over 700km coastline still operate only one Port only in the Lagos the south west?

Why was Atiku allowed a concession on Intels port in rivers state with import rates way higher than Lagos and only economical for oil and gas businesses?

Why has NPA refused to renew the dredging contracts for the ports in delta and crossriver state?

Why was a yoruba man few weeks back complaining that the NPA chairman position was the birthright of the southwest.

Nigeria remains a zoo and cesspit. Just because of the interest of a few yorubas, the economic potentials of a region is sidelined against common sense..... which will also help decongest lagos.

Some day that port will ressurect and population of lagos will be halved.

That is the Nigerian State for you, sabotaging itself. The same people will then turn around and complain about bad interstate highways out of Lagos. Our problem remains structure. Re-structure, re-balance this country and you have effectively tackled 90% of our present and ever daunting challenges.

UnknownT:
Na wa oh. Enough of all these news sef. It was not like these the 16 years PDP was in control

It is so, so funny. Just to select the Senate leadership all these problems. Just when will they get down to the issues of governance now that May 29th is just days away. I hope this is not a milestone on the road ahead of this new regime. There are clearly gaping fault lines running through the APC leadership (though I prefer this to so-called consensus arrangements) that have to be managed carefully or 4years will just flash by without much achieved.

micktoxin:
Absolutely. Unfortunately, I don't think the situation will improve anytime soon with the selfish motives of most politicians.
Despite the undeserved high income from the government, the northen part of Nigeria still has the worst per capita income in Nigeria, which is telling. They are aware of this, and will try their best to oppose fiscal federalism. This just makes the future of Nigeria really bleak, socially, politically and economically.

Now thy eyes are opened. So change government till eternity. As long as the structure is faulty this country can never develop. Nuff said.

josh4ever:
Bros did you bother to read at all? Does electricity come from the moon? It is generated by firing turbines and turbines can be fired by gas. if the gas is absent I'm sure by magic they can generate electricity.

And to think some of you claim to be educated...

#EducatedIlliterate

You are both right. He is right in the sense that, generally it is not the business of the publican to know the nuts and bolts of how the machinery of government works. That is why they elect, appoint and pay these folks. But you are also right because if you liken the Nigerian Project to a start-up company (in terms of age and development) then everyone involved is a stake-holder and gets involved in every aspect to a high degr3 of detail.

Emekamex:
Our labour unions are silly, you go on strike and deprive the people you are fighting for of power and fuel to run generators and you think your dealing with the government. I pity all of you guys because you will suffer the same fate as the ordinary citizen.

They are dealing with government because the government represents the people. The people invariably turn on their representatives.

Captainswag225:
if half of all the billionaires and millionaires in nigeria were to invest in the power sector in nigeria, nigeria would be the highest producers of power in africa.

All those who bought into the privatisation are millionaires and billionaires in dollar terms (albeit through the black economy) so the money is not the problem but the framework of the entire process and the flawed philosophy of our energy industry that is heavily skewed in favour of oil and gas of Niger-Delta source. On top of that we are not willing to make the sacrifices as a people (ar exemplified by unionist interests) to cultivate and nuture the industry.

AWONEYAN:
No fuel...No Light..
This is a Jungle

Not correct. In a jungle there is more than enough firewood for fuel and as for light you can count on the fire flies.

Lilknight:
Dis man is fuc'king gentle to rule a country like nigeria.....we need a very discipline nd courageous man with experience.

You got one. Let's see how it works out.

Eazydeek:
Dude if you read my post very well, you would notice I said " most of u igbos "
Which primary development do you have in your state created by igbos?
Or why are u so populated in lagos, ibadan, ogun...etc when you think you can handle your biz in your states

Your biz and lifestyle was booming Becus yorubas were accommodating
And you still open you mouth to disrespect the yorubas
Can you try all what you are doing in yorubas territory in hausas land? No wonder hausas maim and kill ya......

Respect each tribes , that pride and ego in Igbo tribe be making you all lag behind in development of Nigera as a whole
Learn to tolerate, love and help your fellow Nigerian Becus Nigeria is One

All of you shouting you'll separate from Nigeria to form biafra or what do u call it.... keep deceiving yourselves..... Nigeria is bigger than igbos and I guess they showed that during the 2015 elections

Let's learn to respect and live together in love

Yeah. Respect and love after doing exactly what you accuse them of doing, ethnic c.oc.k fighting. You are equally a race supremacist.

doctokwus:
I like that.
The problem with federal character/zoning in Nigeria has never been zoning per se but that in the process of zoning merit and character of the individual gets thrown out of d window and we end up having charlatans and touts in leadership positions.
The exemplary leadership of Tambuwal in the House should serve as a guilding lesson to all that when leaders are freely elected based on their own merits and popular choice,d society is better for it.
Buhari and APC have taken d right course of action.

Will the north accept this ALWAYS and at ALL times in ALL scenarios....highly unlikely and when you begin to use selective criteria, problems are bound to emerge. Merit is the girl every man dreams to own but never gets to marry.

Zellie:
Disgusting. I thought they said it was 'Small London'

Ikom is a 3 and a half hour drive from Calabar by the way. Cross-River prides itself as a state where everything works and things like these are a serious anomaly. On any given day it is hard to find dirty streets, hard to find garbage, hard to find traffic lights that don't work and hard to find street lights that don't shine. That was Donald Duke's legacy slowly ebbing away under the sleepiest governor in Nigeria, Liyel Imoke.

slimfit1:
We can't blame Jonathan for this one oh. I need something i can blame clueless for.

Hmmm. Its Buhari's turn to get the 'uncommon sledge hammer'. I hope he develops elephant skin. He will so, so need it.

lanrei:
get well Adebayo, It's a turbulent time for you but you'd surely see the end of the tunnel

The chap is a footballer not a gaddem coal miner. What tunnel?

AnneMomoh:
The Family don add booster card for them okpo

Hahahaha. They don't call Africa the dark continent for nothing.

Leo001:
A progressive man, in a progressive senate, in a progressive country!!! Lol!

Let us see what Buhari will do.

shakazuldadon:
1 big bottle of Alonso bitters under 2mins...

Only a jet aircraft can consume that much alcohol in that time.

yinkuscious:
What do you think is going on here ?

Deep rooted poverty.

teeowl:
It means sex is good for the body...

Like it or not that is perfectly true. So every man should get married as and when due. Not just because of the intimacy or health but the fact that as built the body needs it as designed.