₦airaland Forum

EagleScribes:
That shows how terrible our system is.

The decay has eaten so deep even into people's minds. Only God has save us here. Our help comes from nowhere else

Okay, it is the system now. No more Goodluck or Buhari. Someone asks for laws. Who elects lawmakers. Who do lawmakers represent....answer, our collective values. Nigeria is the way it is because of Nigerians so anytime something goes wrong just look at the mirror in exasperation.

Chai. This country and her citizens. We gives up....sorry yuzzy.

SergeAlain:
We dey wahala ooh!

The fact of the matter is that the marketers are just being realistic. There is no guarantee that the new govt will pay them so they want all monies owed them right now.
If your personal business was in their shoes you would probably not act differently. The new govt would have a big decision to make immediately it enters, either pay off the marketers and maintain the subsidy arrangement, or ignore the marketers and import directly through NNPC as the current govt is doing now (along with the associated scarcity given NNPC's inefficiencies).

Which ever way they choose to go, radical changes are called for in the way the downstream oil industry is run.

However, if the government chooses to remove the subsidy, then we all (including APC) owe GEJ an apology, because when he suggested this in 2012, everyone opposed it.

An exciting 4 years lying ahead, no dull moments.

I tell you. We are watching.

OYAY:
I do not expect this aggressive horse trading in this era of change,moreover this people jostling for power should know it is no more business as usual oooo it is GMB not one flamboyant president. So they should be ready for service not to embezzle. Parade has change gear!!!

You must be a toddler in politics not to expect this. Abeg don't bring Buhari here. This is way above his pay grade and any move he makes on the matter will split the party. Welcome to reality.

They want to cut part of his agbada and use it for parachute. They have started again. Schemings, deals, compromises, entitlements, rent seeking and all the anti-Nigeria machinery they can muster. Corruption can never end.

That is assymetric warfare for you. They are not in uniform with insignia. They do not attack in formation and their camoflague is psychological not leaves on helmets. They cannot be defended against lest we live the meaningless life of a hermit. Just how do you defeat such an adversary while still winning the proverbial hearts and minds of the civil inhabitants. A riddle encapsulated in a quagmire indeed.

This is not good. We are inching closer to direct foreign intervention on our soil since it appears we cannot contain these rats from spreading plague abroad. We are nearing Pakistan status.

Said it time and again. This thing has no military solution. The recent victories are like morphine to a gangrenous toe.

LEXYCOM:
Am confused, pls when is a penalty given?

E don do nau. The mess no dey smell again you dey ask who mess.

The only bank I can absolutely vouch for, that is perhaps too big to fail and will be the last bank standing ironically is First Bank for so many reasons despite its stressful, tedious, heavy weather customer service experiences.

Started out well and thought to respond before I noticed you are Aregbesola's spokesman so its in the bin but as a passing shot. Before the warning of your boss was a more important one by NOI to temper spending in the heady days of excess liquidity. Guess you have selective historicals. Just advice GMB to lay off half the civil servants and states do the same. Any organization that cannot honour its obligations should be declared bankrupt. States should be taken over by AMCON, their assets siezed and liquidated to pay their debts and their civil servants sold into slavery to other states better managed. My two naira...whatever its worth....

OP. I take God beg you. Portharcourt like Lagos or Onitsha is not a tourist destination. Portharcourt since the late nineties has become a cosmopolitan, urban sprawl inhabited by typical Naija hustlers meaning it is in most parts nasty on the senses. It is anything but serene. Has very average hotels and practically no iconic attraction. It is an industrial hub for oil and gas which is definitely atouristic.

mensdept:
But the Delta gov bagged the best governor aware last week abi?

They have a budgetary provision for buying awards.

Hmmm. Maternal corruption. Put the woman in charge of the petroleum industry and.....

Garri (eba), okro soup with goat meat for lunch for almost a week on location. The memories will forever be etched on my hard drive. Men, it was terrible.

DahtzFestjayz:
Last minute projects. Where are Nigeria based construction company?

Their directors are busy vying for political office which is far more lucrative.

Hmmm. Brought in a new IGP to 'try his luck'. I hope this is just a journalistic additive and not spoken by the parties in the matter. If not are we saying public office is now russian roulette, bingo or snakes and ladders. This country is in a viscious revolving systemic mess of such magnitude that a computer operator will simply reboot.

Dragonking:
What about kulikuli?

The fact that you don't know is the answer.

Ethereal0110:
What of Garri?.....

Sure. The main reason for our stubborn under-development and widespread kwarrapshan.

'ROLL' model.

kay29000:
Hmm! I just can't wait till the General climbs the throne...The anticipation is killing me. Anyway,if you have problem lasting long in bed, hit me up on BBM- 7C22F6EC.

He has tried to temper your excitement with a plea for patience yet you insist on using your medications on your mind. I hope the whole Buhari brouhaha doesn't go flaccid after premature excitation.

Mynd44:
This has been what Osinbajo has been proposing all these while. To be honest, we Nigerians don't really know the exact issue with power generation and the National grid.

If Nigeria generates anything more that 7,500MW and feeds it to the grid, everything is going to come down as our distribution lines cannot take that much power. We don't not have the facilities so building huge power plants is not the way.

What we can do is to generate the power in bits. As Osinbajo have said, generate power when it will be consumed so we don't spend too much time and money on distribution. Each Local government or LCDA depending on the consumption. Perhaps even a locality can come together to have a 10MW plant for that area and they are good to go.

To keep building huge plants and hoping to connect then to the grid is a waste that has proven to be the way not to go.

With this bit by bit module, each locality can look at what they have and use it to generate power, gas in most places, some can use renewable power especially in the North where there are huge opportunities for wind and solar power.

In the south, I will like to see a Badagry power plant Ltd. that wants to harness the Atlantic ocean through tidal power. At least the beaches there have not been tamed like the ones on Lagos Island so it is possible.

These bit by bit generation will culminate into something tangible but first we need legislation for it to work as right now, the power generation laws state that if you generate anything greater than 1mw, you have to connect to the grid. This is where policy, plans, entrepreneurship and dedication combination will come into play

But what will power these numerous plants: fuel or gas. Fuel means a cobweb of pipelines, the eldorado of vandals, if it is gas then the risk around residential areas is better imagined. Trucking means gridlock and inefficiency especially when a plant may be drinking a truck an hour. There is a reason modern economies scale up. Efficiency rises with scale. How ever I agree that we can't start seeking efficiency.

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. The best days of the APC are over. Every good student of history knows that when an empire grows so large as to have no more enemies its appetite for conquest causes it to turn on itself. Interesting times ahead.

If I answer this post it will be a mere repetition of what I frequently say so may the resounding drum fall silent. Corruption can never leave the building.

Just like corruption in Nigeria. There is an underlying cause damaging his kidneys that has not been addressed so he's changed government but good times last only a while. He should have gone back to India for proper forensics. Can his body survive another transplant?

anwe:
The Press have been freest under GEJ. Freedom should come with responsibility.

And freedom must be total, the kind God gives us to say and do all we wish while we still have breath. They are wrong.

Terrible frustration setting in. Not a good way to end a regime. They failed to make hay when the sun shone now the vultures are hovering round their weakened souls. Pity.

Since you don't want to mention the 11 banks I guess my niece who has written her C.E.E and is a genius at Quantitative Reasoning will find the failed banks from the list of those who scaled through. Easy.

anonimi:
Thanks for the clarification.
I hope Duke would return to active politics and play a key role in the ongoing necessary reform of PDP to remain a viable force despite the party's defeat at the presidential election.

Our country needs a worthy opposition to continue deepening our teenage democracy.
Cheers!

I worked with him and I can tell you that was one fellow who could get things done. Before the likes of Fashola or Akpabio this guy had transformed Calabar before the end of his first term. Light, water, roads, sanitation, health, education. He had a post oil vision so invested heavily in agriculture and tourism. Sadly he could not get Federal support to ignite the Calabar Ports and make the EPZ there a hub of activities.

He was considered by OBJ (owner of Nigeria) for the Presidency but like Odili was considered too independently minded and dangerous. They settled for what they thought was a flaccid Jonathan. The rest is history. Now that the PDP is gutted I hope someone like him can make some sort of return for the sake of democracy in Nigeria.

OP. You are so on point. Let them be running round in politically induced circles. What is madness if not a 40 year repetitive error. Government has no business in business. Scrap NNPC 30 years ago. Nuff said about the curse called oil a.k.a 'devil's dung'.

The simple answer to the first two is no. The condom and hotel industry is less clear cut. This is according to the law. But we donot live according to the law but by grace and this is manifest in the 'leading of God'.

'The Lord is my Shepherd (thus) I shall not 'be found wanting'....Though I walk through (it has a beginning and an end)... I shall fear no evil. For though art with me....'

And anyone who is familiar with God's leading knows that at some stage in life's journey you may find yourself in places you never expected not by your will but by the Will of He who called you according to His grace and mercy.

The key here is to be led. Make sure you are not going anywhere (even the safest of places) without the express permission of God. My walk with Him has made me understand a few things about Him. He absolutely takes delight in confounding us, in making those things we rely on, those things we think we are and have attained of no effect so that His grace will shine through and the glory goes to Him alone.

I have never smoked a cigarette in my life, neither do I know what alcohol tastes like but I will never tell that to God lest I find myself working there for a season. Folks, your relationship with God is the most important not these mundane, temporary things.