₦airaland Forum

Silly people. Is price control the way to go in.a liberal, free market democracy such as ours. It is a stupid as trade union strikes over salary increases while ignoring the more worthy issues of inflation and its root causes such that you have a strike every six months to maintain a level standard of living.

What should have be done was the protection of an industry from monopolistic tendencies of individual companies by appropriate anti-trust laws. GoTv should never have been allowed to.set sail. That is a litigation worthy venture. The various underhand marketing strategies of Multi-Choice aimed at squeezing out all competition over the years should have ended in court. Now that the chimpanzee has grown into a 300 pound gorilla you want to wrestle it.

You better leave them alone. The pricing regime that you should fear is the one that lowers prices to such a ridiculous amount all aimed at rail-roading competition than the one that raises prices to such a ridiculously high level. Because the markets will soon offer Multi-Choice a stern lesson when high prices attract the competition it doesn't want, just as high, sustained international oil prices are ALWAYS followed by a crash.

For me it is better.

The PDP has no business whatsoever winning Abia. If they vote in the PDP again they are entirely responsible for whatever befalls. How can lightning strike thrice.

soe:
Truth be told....until JK started his campaign, Lagos didnt have Igbos, Yorubas or Hausas. All she had were Lagosians. The hussles and buzzles...the hard life...the struggle for survival...from the bus conductors..to the bus drivers...passengers...commuters...agbero...bla bla bla...they all spoke a common Lagos language...with the common Lagos sharpness...common Lagos alertness and a common Lagos vision...the vision for a better developed, and peaceful Lagos of greater opportunities. This bond had built their drive for prosperity...from Tinubu to Fashola...working hand in hand with a very ethnic rich cabinet...made of pat utomi, joe igbokwe, ben akabueze, and a host of others, lagosians had always been lagosians. But like I said...that was until JK started his campaign.
Just like PDP is known..taking devilish advantage of our differences... Religious differences on a national level, ethnic differences on a local level..and even academic differences on certain occasions...this has been the hallmark of pdp.
Lagosians should look beyond these difference as always...vote for the party that has always offered the best. Feel free to vote Ambode or JK ... But keep tribal diff out of the way...because at the end of the day...everyone shares the same struggle.

For those who say Fashola repatriated some Igbos...I ask...What abt the mad men repatriated to ibadan? And the beggars sent back to the north. Let us stop seeing things from a tribal perspective.

So indeed the Oba must be working for Agbaje since according to you the PDP are agents of tribalism while the APC are more cosmopolitan abi. Like your Oba, you should try and be as objective as possible. For him to even be partisan is a serious denigration of his stool that possibly can never be repaired.

Once again. The best days of the APC are over. From here on all you will sense is the acrid smell of a burning brake pad as they try to slow the hill descent. No more excuses, no more lightning rods. Such is the quest to stay at the top. Much harder than getting there.

SirMethod:
In other words, your Buhari's case would worsen as he ascends the stool of power

Food for thought.

Jennifer89:
Op, this is a well written script. When will you commence shooting?

Hmm. Please who has lost his ostrich.

Hahaha. 'Hardship allowance'. Sure, its a hard life being a Senator. Devious planning, scheming, gun running, lies, sabotage, theft, fraud.., their poor little souls must be panting for righteousness.

Anyway 'change' has come. So by May 30th I expect to see those wages halved. But come to think of it, all the major parties have had representation there. Why has there NEVER been an internal debate, battle over good governance like we have had with the Executive.

Is there a clearer indication that greed has no party logo. Can it be clearer that it is the system not the operators that require 'change'. Is it not apparent that the battle lines are between 'them' and 'us', not them versus them and us versus us. Nigerians, please elevate your thinking.

Racists and racism everywhere. Then they will lament at the white man's mockery and rant at his profiling. We deserve what we get. Just one election and the country is creaking at its fault lines revealing the acidic lava of tribal pseudo-supremacy. Pity. This country and its people remain decades away from civilization and real, sustainable development. We just donot have the mental capacity to handle nationhood.

The best days of the APC are over. From last week its all down hill. Welcome to real politics.

Chigold101:
your head dey there my brother... na God go save us from them hand ooo

God will not save you from them because He is not interested in politics. He has laid down the law and with it blessings and curses and He has asked us to chose.

ucheewa:
Don't be scarstic. Let us give Buhari a chance regardless of who you voted. With this attitude we will win. What do you really want? A healthy Nigeria or XYZ as president. Brothers and Sisters please lets stop all these. Be intelligent and let reason and logic rather than tribe, religion and politics win. Once our politicians realize we know our rights Godfatherism which is the bane of our politics will die because the president will appoint the best because he knows got their on through the help of masses who voted him rather than a Godfather. This what killed Jonathan. i thank God Buhari has a strong character. I pray God helps him

Better wake up from your slumber. You apparently know little about politics and governance and even less about history. No leader can run this country without cabals. They were there since Gowon presided over the civil war importing arms. Murtala wined and dined with them. Shagari had them in charge of 'essential commodities. Buhari I had them in charge of the import license caper, IBB gave them licenses to lift crude oil replacing the worthless naira as legal tender up till GEJ who gave them licenses to import phantom cargoes of fuel.

Every regime since independence has produced its oligarchs and Buhari II will not be an exception. He either does that or be removed. It is that simple. By the way he made every day architects, quantity surveyors and engineers of Afri-Project Consortium overnight billionaires. So did his import license regime. I won't name names. But it has and it will happen again.

Corruption cannot end in Nigeria.

Once again the 'system' is miles ahead of the players. This is why corruption can never end. Once again I say, the best days of the APC are over.

modath:
Pastor Bakare we know,but the game of politics is not the house of the lord, where white will never be blue.. compromises had to be made.

GMB in this instance can be likened to a strict father who has promiscous children in tertiary institutions, he may not be able to stop them when they are in school but they know better than to engage in their antics under his roof.

I supported the people's general in '11 and I remember what an uphill task it was to convince people outside of my immediate family to give him a chance(one of my friends still side eyes me till this day for trying to sell her an "Unbeliever".) ..My cousin told me Jonathan's shoeless story then was compelling and she wouldn't even entertain my attempts. Fast forward to 2015, she not only voted for GMB,she was online monitoring PU results.

Unless we keep lying to ourselves,our votes alone didn't bring this long desired change,its the formidable force behing the general that made it easier for some people to accept him.

Focus on the story and circle the essence. Can the People's General keep the forty thieves off the reservation. Does he or does he not have accords and agreements with them that facilitated his rise to power. Can he cage these people. Once again I repeat. In the animal kingdom very, very few species hunt and eat their kind. I don't know how Buhari intends to hunt and eat his kind. Canibalism isn't pleasant at all.

Am happy he says 'no one knows the mind of God', so where does he get these things from. We know the Will of God as contained in His Word. We know the mind of Christ because God has gifted us that but the mind of God are part of the things that make God sovereign. It is inaccessible. Even Jesus 'who came missioned' from heaven did not have all the answers so who is this man to.

Point of understanding. Buhari cannot change Nigeria. Nigeria is the way it is and will be the way it will be by the aggregate collective wills of Nigerians.

It is Nigerians who put him there to do their bidding and he won't be able to operate outside their will. We often hear that, so and so leader was this and that but he surrounded himself with people of different opinions leading to his demise. Well no man, no leader can do it alone. He needs people to assist and these assistants need assistants and so forth. Along the line the aggregate complexion of leadership changes as authority spreads taking the form of generality.

In 1983 the vast majority could not accept Buhari's ideologies so he lasted a short while. This time either his position changes or the peoples'. The question we should be asking in line with the famous anti-corruption mantra is, are Nigerians ready for the change they voted for because just yesterday at the local ATM I saw everyday corruption and it didn't involve leaders, politicians or government but it affected me.

These are the realities society face. My greatest worry in a people who fail to come to terms with what they are but rather live in delusion that it is always somebody elses fault.

arsetalks:
The only thing I want to hear is we can pay N1,500 and have unlimited data in a month.

They should work on that. If countries like Gabon, Ukraine can do it, Nigeria can do better.

I know they will go there. Free food. Entitlement ruinous mentality. All for nothing. There was a time calls were subsidized and dirt cheap under NITEL. When an incoming international call will be rushed and you will be wondering why these white folks are always in a hurry while at our call centres our folks will spend ages in idle talk and then drop one rubbish 100 naira because aunty or uncle is in charge. What was the profit to Nigerians then.

People will often fail to correlate cost to productivity. That the cheaper a thing is, the less productive it becomes.

Drabeey:
She said she would help me travel to the States but she would keep me indoors in her house for 6 months pending when my papers allowing me to move around the US would be ready.

I'm already receiving 75,000 naira per month here in Nigeria and still single.

Please is there any advise from the house?

My friend develop a grand vision and begin to pursue it. All these glass ceilings you guys place over your heads is just unnecessary. Personal development, not location should be first and front in your list of tasks.

Volksfuhrer:
GEJ might be everything I dislike in a president, but I still give him credit for allowing Jega to conduct a more credible presidential election than we've ever had since June 12!

The pastor might not be wrong after all! GEJ truly fulfilled a divine assignment of empowering the people to freely choose who leads them.

You look at the big picture. That is what visionaires do. That is how to move forward. It is about the game not the players.

saxywale:
All these pastors with diarrhea of the mouth sef. God must be wicked if His assignment for GEJ was to bankrupt Nigeria inclusive of the hardship present in this current dispensation.

It is okay. He has gone.

djfox:
We've seen pics, listened to the audio, read the transcripts and now apparently there's an analysis huh

I tell you. Hunger is bad. So that when you see a burger you just can't have enough. When you have a good man in the midst of so much evil they will keep talking and talking. How many of them can do such. Very few. Even the much acclaimed Fashola raved and rantf when his chosen successor couldn't make muster at Bourdillon. If it was his chance, his choice and he had the armed forces at his disposal will Ambode be contesting?

I don't like doing people but Jonathan has set the bar. I hope it becomes the norm.

edwife:
If he wants a divorce,she should let him go because if she continues begging him over and over that's how she will live for the rest of her life trying to make up.The trust has been broken,it's either he forgives and totally start afresh or they go their separate ways.

My dear every creature with a soul strives to 'make up' for one thing or the other all through their lives. It is normal. What you are suggesting is that since she has fallen she should look for another 'high horse' to mount. You are more interested in her pride than her humility. We cannot all live like that.

StealthIdeals:
A theory as useless as a degree-holding Nigerian mechanical engineer who always requests the services of road side auto mechanics to sort out his [ordinary] car ignition problems. A population you can't feed at 170million now is what you want to feed in 2040 with absurd population growth rate. You want to become a global world power without military innovations; 100% of our military hardwares are imported. Israel manufactured Iron Dome, USA made Zumwalt-class destroyer (the most technologically advanced warship ever built), Iran has nuclear deterents; point out a Nigeria made commissioned weapon. All you these thesis researchers, with the lies you are sharing, remember there is God ooo.

You just can't understand the terminology 'potential' or can you. Tsst.

Na waoh. Abeg na. The elections are over. Is this what we will be doing for the next four years. It is scary. When have Nigerians become political brawlers. The new government is in for it. Non stop attack. I hope there will be time for development. Hmmm.

onatisi:
The results of the governor ship elections will determine the kind of opposition that will exist between now and 2019

No matter the outcome of next weekend's elections there will be opposition. People have tasted the abilities to change government by the ballot so they will try. The fact that it has happened peacefully will attract better quality candidates who hitherto viewed Nigerian politics as Tom and Jerry rating 18+ and thus stayed away.

marv1:
. You are speaking my mind 100%. Pdp is nt a 4midable opposition party, so there4 it will fizzle out. They dont have gud structure on ground. If GMB can over deliver in d first term in office pdp is finished. I may nt be 100 correct but i cant see any serious minded person in pdp, they are all political jobbers waiting to loot.

You know very little about politics. Is there any society where leaders ultimately deliver to all peoples all the time while demands remain static. Please wake up. Man's wants are insatiable. Nigeria has nothing but hungry mouths and extremely divergent hearts. You can only appease them for a season. For example, Fashola's successor is not likely going to enjoy equal popularity even if he produces 110% simply because the bar has been raised unrealistically high. Buhari is starting from such a low so he has traction but over time even your starry eyes will change. You yourself will become his opposition. It always happens.

signz:
There'll always be opposition. Nature always has a way of striking a balance. If it doesn't come from outside the part, it will come from within the party.

PDP will still be there and they'll be joined by disgruntled members from the APC.

And yes there'll be disagreement in the apc

Correct. You know your onions quite well. Not only will Jonathan step down from power, it is important he ceeds the reigns at Wadata House. Like in the Parliamentry system, when the PM goes from government, he more or less leaves the party chair. It is critical. OBJ held onto it too long and did more damage to the party in the party.

Democracy is a system not a person. We should never lose that important perspective. OBJ cannot understand this so he is caught in a wierd state of matter. He is not a political liquid, solid or gas.

MaleoPearls:
A Country without opposition will be very boring. It is the opposition that makes politics interesting. But I doubt if the PDP can provide us with the kind of fight the APC put up till their emergence.

The APC only reached the summit of Nigerian politics with the famous split and later splinter PDP group of Kwankwaso, Ameachi and the rest. This is exactly how the new PDP will emerge. A combination of disgruntled APC men combining with hardcore PDP loyalists sometime within the next two to three years when the 'sharing' is all done.

Two things have to happen by then. One. The footprints of President Jonathan will have long been washed away by the beach waves. Two, the magnetic poles will have switched completely around with the PDP offering a President of Northern extraction with a vice from the South-South but preferrably South-East to counter and split the APC northern block vote.

One interesting outcome of this election is the solid alliance forming between the South-South and South-East. Going forward I think the S.S should reward the support the East gave them by pushing for the S.E VP slot and beyond. This is also a strategic mistake the APC is making that may cost them someday if they are not able to make political in roads there.

Trust me, opposition politics is alive and well and will be taken to a whole new level. Its just a matter of time.

No comment.

sirRiddy:
Patiently waiting for the death of corruption
as he promised.

Do you want me to laugh. Okay, haha....but your joke is not funny.

Beamborla:
This is becoming really annoying.

If they think carrying corpse would put food on their table, they are in for a rude awakening.

Instead of them going about their daily activities and working hand in hand with the government for a better Nigeria, they are carrying corpse up and down.

I don't know how some people think. They seem not to realize that we need PDP to keep APC on their toes.

Shows that they donot understand how democracy works in other countries and should work for Nigerians. If every PDP politician dies or relocates to the APC then what makes for the name PDP. You need competition to grow and the stiffer the competition the quicker the progress. Neutral, enlightened Nigerians will want a PDP rebirth. Of course under new leadership with fresh ideas and thirst for power that will make them oppose the new government with all the vigour it can muster. This is the benefit to Nigerians of this democratic experiment.

ammyluv2002:
I respect him so much. ....he really tired just hope he won't listen to any bad advise and infer in the court case involving Buhari

He won't. He is a good man. The best President Nigeria ever had as I have been saying for four years. For him it has always been about the system, not the person. This is how he has fought his own corruption by empowering the vast majority of Nigerians with the right to punish those hitherto more powerful than them. Better than what any judge or jury can ever do. They say he divided Nigeria so how come he lost the elections if he did.

My people, the salvation of Nigeria lies more in the system, in the people and not in any individual. It is Nigerians that will ultimately guarantee the success or failure of the new government. All we wish for is positive leadership stimulus towards institution building.

MrKnowitall:
What did Jonathan do? I'm i missing something?

Hahaha. He didn't 'do or die'. Actually he did nothing really extraordinary as a person or a democrat. I said it years ago. He is not a Nigerian politician by any stretch of the imagination. He is a fine gentleman, a peacemaker and everything a Christian should be. And in my opinion the best President Nigeria has produced till date. A man's achievements will always speak long after he is gone.

I said the man was not desperate to rule and he has proven it. Now it is putting a few coins in peoples pockets. That's how. His net worth is that he has contributed to democracy and the institutions upholding it. I just hope our new leaders can sustain the growth.