₦airaland Forum

This is the cost of not being an independent institution of law and order serving society, not individuals.

Stop being a tool in the hands of politicians and money bags, you say no. Countless executive orders withdrawing police from individuals. You still find your way back to be humiliated. Cannot resist greed.

Who is she to have police as orderly. What is an orderly in the first place. A servant to a serving senior military officer. Is she serving military?. Or just a colonial era master and slave official and unofficial, glorified domestic servant.

Are those the responsibilities of a police service funded by the taxpayer?

Whatever. Pay up. It is the price of institutional schooling. Next time she applies to have one of you hold her handbag and ride shot gun in her SUV, tell her to go find someone else.

Julibet:
Our Government's failure to provide power has made us a laughing stock to the world.

This guy said he'll provide consistent power and after almost finishing his tenure, he hasn't. He should bury his head in shame.

He is not interested in the that.
His latest loan quest is for his concrete roads at the bequest of Chagoury and HITECH.

If Nigerians cannot have what they badly need to survive, then there is no point having a government.

This man TRUSTS that Nigerians have short memories and attention spans.
This man TRUSTS that Nigerians do not record or read history.
This man TRUSTS that Nigerians pander to propaganda, dwell on emotions and trade in sentiment.

C'mon Mr. Lai. We were all here. We have not forgotten. We don't need your rehash or reboot of history.

But this is what I always say. He has reached the point where legacy begins to speak, to haunt him like a ghost, where accountability begins to knock on his door and he has to say something, a vain attempt to hide the elephant under a ball of string.

And if we will not take it he will then find a scribe to help write a book so that his days don't end in infamy and like my Gen Z's will say, "To explain taya" But alas, the legacy is lost, a good name is gone forever.

Lesson to those in power today.
You go explain taya when you eventually have to get down from that high horse. Just ask Mr Babangida today. He will tell you. Only if he could turn back the hands of time.

Well, you've heard it folks.
God promised to strengthen him.
So you guys fighting to have him replaced are fighting against God??...

Sheuns:
Listen to what a president is saying?

We thought this one was different.

They are all big disappointments.
But when your people demand little or nothing you can afford fun and games while the leaders of other advancing nations sweat and grey out daily due to pressure to perform.

Bahamas95:
You're right, in Delta and Edo state you can hardly find people that can't communicate with at least pidgin English.......We do it effortlessly no matter the age, it isn't like that in some parts of Nigeria.

Some people speak only their language and when they meet people who don't understand their language they struggle to communicate.

The level of enlightenment is very high.
And I think it is because of their cosmopolitan nature. They say easterners travel a lot, true but I think Edolites travel light.

Eriokanmi:
Oyo people, if you permit this failure to rubbish seyi Makinde's great work, na una sabi oo. In the end, he'll say you should forgive him.

Nigerians should own the process and own the outcomes. Learn to build institutions that are the guarantors of continuity.

Just as financial traders have tools such as 'stop loss' and 'take profit', the citizens too should have independent tools to limit the damage of bad leadership while securing the continuity of good leadership.

A lot of folks don't like the Trump government and consider his term a huge waste. But whatever damage they perceive is on a clock and they have a chance in near time to reverse it. Because of institutions that work.

SmartPolician:
Stop making excuses for that man. What was he thinking when he made a finance czar the minister of power?

I thought that Buhari was a dullard for making a lawyer his minister of power, but Tinubu proved to be the real dull@rdinho (its highest level!)

Politicians don't look at it that way.
They look at budgets, capital expenditure, potentials for foreign loans and grants when placing their beloved in positions. Money, money, money that will empower them to 'support'.

In a nutshell, the term 'juicy' portfolios are reserved not for the qualified but for the henchmen and women.

bennybuhari:
https://www.thecable.ng/lai-mohammed-boko-haram-started-attacking-christians-for-wider-attention/

He said and I quote, '...they won't disagree over theology...' Are the fatwas' and the public lynchings not 'disagreements' over theology.

Does he mean that in the decades they have been married Mr. Tinubu and Mrs Tinubu will not have 'disagreed' over theology, perhaps said something 'fatwa' compliant to one another to precipitate serious violence.

So it doesn't happen in the south doesn't cover the atrocities that happen in the rest of the country. Christians in the core north walk on egg shells and many have paid the price for things said and done.

HacheNoire:
I think Peter made the first point I will agree with in last two decades, but still did not hit the nail on the head due to political reasons.

It’s just so sad that none of the 18 states in Nigeria has a standard and competitive public education.

Even though Peter made that point, he also did not invest in it! Peter spent good years in the UK and knows what education looks like. He cannot confidently boast about replicating such anywhere in Anambra, but I still respect his suggestion.

But now, what are the plans he has for education. Anyone can complain, but let us know your plans and see how feasible it is!

The growth and development of a country starts from the class room. If he believes we lagging behind, just like majority knows, he should present his plan for the sector!

How many STANDARD and COMPETITIVE primary and tertiary institution does he plan to build every year? What are his budget and how feasible it is with the current financial status of the country.


How does he plan to curb corruption in the educational system?

Just a shift in priorities.
Government spends too much money on things it should not. Half the capital vote can and should be investments not expenditure. Reform, commercialise, privatise to reduce wage bills and the enormous recurrent expenditure and above all slim down political patronage. Instead of giving out appointments, you can give out privileges. This will unlock a lot of resources for the core developmental objectives.

If you cannot educate your citizenry you cannot control your population growth and if you cannot do that like in Nigeria you cannot put a hand on security, quality of life and dent poverty.

Itzlinda:
He is incompetent and heartless. Many contractors that have executed federal jobs have not received payment for over two years and are bankrupt

They should start rejecting government contracts. And government should wind down the contracting culture in this country. It should reform itself to either do things by itself, for itself or completely cede those responsibilities to the private sector. If you cannot run a thing there is no point in owning it.

airsaylongcome:
The truth is that Nigeria has no money. The coffers are empty. I don't want to go into details but one of the problems Dr Anite had in that ministry before she was moved was that there was no money. Forget all the spin coming from the government.

Thank you for the admission.
In the coming months the evidence will be clear to all.

kafeii123:
When faced with the situation where death is sure whether or not you say the truth, It is better to say the truth and die.

Then your death will be akin to matyrdom. Wale Edun is a technocrat. Technocrats are not like civil servants, as such, you dont expect them to share unverifiable claims.

This is whaz Wale Edun has repeatedly done. Man wont allow any lie be made in his name.

His salary as a Finance minister is pittance compared to what he stands to lose, if he allows politicians to rubbish his work.

I am happy he stuck to truth instead. And pushed to uphold tge common man.

I knew he'd sooon be leaving, once i heard of him rejecting imf loan....money that many abuja goons are already waiting to share. I knew he'd soon have to leave.

Doesn't mean he's right tho... but this behaviour is exactly what d bad onesd an̈trust southern nigerians for...doing all our best to save d naira....pay back our loans..reject bad loans..only for them to come in and destroy all those macroeconomic gains and print
money and boost inlflation upwards....let a yes man come in..then. release funds to contractors, some of which will gin their waxs into the pockets of this politicians. So Edun decided to let all citizens experience succour.
Rather than feeding politicians.

That is Nigeria in a nutshell.
You know the truth the establishment and their rabid supporters will not admit. Remove money grabbing from politics and government offices will be empty.

Angelfrost:
Definitely IF please…!

My money is still on them lifting the title next month.

It would be a historical travesty and anomaly for City to win this title, especially after the season both teams have had.

I badly wanted Arsenal to win.
They have the longest drought amongst the traditional big 5 English Premiership clubs and a runners up spot three years in a row had them on even odds with City to clinch it.

But...Arteta has not learnt much from previous seasons and his inferiority to Pep has once again shown in the run in.

I can't count Arsenal out of it completely, 100 percent but it is only a brave or crazy man that will bet against City.

Ah, ah, I don't understand.

Was it last year when it was reported that he was medivac-ed to the UK in a crises, some said near dearh, the government and it's supporters denied ill health but said he was on holidays or something like that and showed photos of him at a gallery or museum of sorts.

Fast forward and the same set of folks, same set are saying he has been ill for a long time, and he resigned because of that.

I really don't see any value whatsoever in continuously peddling falsehood. I don't understand the purpose it serves. You do so for a length of time and you completely lose your moral compass. Integrity is so lacking in this regime. You just don't know what to believe anytime they speak.

Angelfrost:
Feels so weird seeing Arsenal second on that table… Table they’ve been topping since early season.

Weren’t they topping with 7 abi 9 points at one time?

If 'When' Arsenal loses the title, it will entirely be Arteta's doing. Those selection mistakes on key match days and those substitution mistakes right up to the last match away versus City would be the noted hammer blows.

Bernardo Silva is to City what Martin Odegaard is supposed to be to Arsenal, a Conductor in Chief. But the difference is clear. Silva's all round game is simply impeccable, while Arteta has not been able to raise Odegaard's level in all his time at the Emirates.

Winterhaven:
did u see the burnley stats I posted. I was being sarcastic

You don't mean it...
I didn't see that earlier.
That is damning.
And you see this Burnley team had I think a record number of clean sheets in their Championship promotion last season. Broke all sorts of records.
But the Prem is a very different animal.

Anyway it's bye today.

Winterhaven:
Burnley can do arsenal a favour today. They can use this their defensive stats to lure city into a false sense of security, and sucker punch them.

I simply cannot see anything beyond a City win.
It will be one of the biggest upsets ever if City does not pick a win and a hefty bank balance.

Awwww, what a shame. I was looking for a Spursy like relegation scrap next season.

nedekid:
Coastal road is should not be a high priority project, I'd rather say it should be done at slower pace while other higher priority issues are sorted out. Haba in your personal life, is it when business is slow, in debt, you are borrowing money up and down you then start building your office building and claiming it will generate revenue through eg rents or saying it will make you and your staff more comfortable? Or you cut expenses, save, clear your debt and when out of red and in green, then making profit you then decide to build the office complex or in the case of Nigeria, coastal road?
The problem we have as Nigerians is that all we want to see is road, bridge etc as signs of a government working. Yes I
it is good, but it must be done at the right time without plunging the state or country into chaos economically. Look at all the states, check you will see they are in debt, same with FGN. Only two ex governors are in record for not accumulating debt ie Peter Obi and Akinwumi ambode, go and check Anambra today, debt has started accumulating, same with Lagos despite all its trillion naira revenue.

Didn't see this very common sense post. Well done.
If the first term had been used to sort out the economy then the path wil have been clear to do the cosmetics the second term. But now everything is threatened.

HelipsTech:
Truth, but Oil keeps them more in global market. I think they wouldn't want agriculture.

But you are correct.

Do you know that Malaysia has made so much from Palm, has earned so much forex over the decades and so converted most of it's farmlands to plantations that the world has begun to warn them of the effects of deforestation because they have gone palm oil mad.

That is what industrialization does for you.
You can identify one or two agric products and go all out to dominate the international market. Convert all your farmlands and earn pure forex. This takes vision and purpose.

If you have a solid vision for agriculture you will see beyond food on the table. If Nigeria was earning and depending on the farmland for a good proportion of our foreign exchange earnings do you think they will treat banditry with kids gloves. They will have solved it like they did the delta issue. A threat to NATIONAL SECURITY.

Right now the oil worker has a garrison of troops protecting him while the woman who makes garri depends on the anointing oil for safety. What is the difference....money, dollars.

HelipsTech:
So after investment, cows will see what to graze?
Bandits will have people to flog and demand for millions of Naira.

I just feel for my country. Sometimes I feel, we should be recolonized.

This is where government comes in.
To essentially set up an agricultural industry in this country.

To transit Nigerian away from subsistence agriculture which is vulnerable to the kinds of things you speak about, to large scale enterprises that can take care of themselves.

Then the threats will be similar to those faced by oil companies in the delta who have the capacity to handle pirates, saboteurs and aggression (due to scale) in affording proper security.

seunmsg:
Actually, what we have is a revenue problem and not a spending problem. For a developing country with over 200million people, our revenue is grossly inadequate to push us to a developed country. To make matters worse, we have a huge population that thinks FG must give us everything for free without caring for who will pay. Free education, free health care, free electricity, subsidized PMS, fixed exchange rate, subsidized fertilizers, untolled federal highways etc. And despite this huge expectation of freebies, we don't want to pay commensurate taxes. Sorry buddy, spending is not our problem. We need to improve our revenue.

I see.
So where are you going to get the so called revenue from if you are not spending the little you have wisely, that is if you are not INVESTING it effectively to create value. You think the poverty and revenue shortfalls if today just fell on this country out of the blues.

It is years of mismanagement of all that we have earned and all that we have had that has brought us to this place. The gulf of fiscal responsibility started decades ago as cracks. Cracks that are now caverns.

Have you ever heard of three budgets running at once. In ten years it may be ten budgets running at once if you and I don't insist government cuts it's spending, reforms the way it operates.

Advances a culture of self help and direct labour to do everything from the toilet rolls in it's loos to the Almighty Coastal and Caliphate highways that we expect will pump our GDP.

And above all practices in itself the kind of austerity it expects of the citizens.

Me, I don't have the thirty trillion in my account to fill the black hole the government has created for itself. So even if they line me up on a stake and threaten to shoot me over more taxes, tolls and tariffs, the money IS JUST NOT THERE.

Told you folks.
It is always about the money.
Contractors, consultants, corruption.
The three C's of Nigeria plc.
Stop these and Abuja will be empty.
Stop these and rallies will be deserted.
But stop these and Nigeria will start moving forward.
We have a collosal SPENDING PROBLEM.

How can he be of any use when they are busy doing 'cooperation' instead of 'confrontation'.
So if you cannot bow to the feudal lords, nothing will come your way.

stuffs2002:
Why are you calling them jihadists?
Did they say they were on a jihad mission?

Those were basically criminals who kills anyone irrespective of religion

Seems like you have a lot of information about them. Tell us more. Like you know more than the victims who saw them eye to eye.

Where do.you see criminals carrying out scorch earth campaigns, where do you see criminals wiping out, 'cleansing' whole villages....

Where do you see criminals spreading terror. You need to be questioned.

osuofia2:
My thoughts as well

Greed. It is the nature of man.
You naturally continue down a path of least resistance.

Almost a recurring, everyday theme throughout south east Asia. I think their embassies here should start profiling and rejecting visa requests.

The way Chelsea is going down the Chinese government will soon hire their expertise to mine lithium in Nassarawa....

Lukuluku69:
Nigeria has frequently used its crude oil for loan repayments, a practice known as crude-backed borrowing or "oil-for-loan" deals. The NNPC Limited has utilized oil production to settle loans, including Project Gazelle and Project Eagle, with significant portions of 2025 revenue (14.66%) tied to these debts.



Significant Usage: In early 2025, about 213,000 barrels per day were pledged for such deals.
Recent Examples: The $3.3bn forward-sale loan from the African Export-Import Bank was serviced with crude.
Concerns Raised: State leaders have asked for a forensic audit of these arrangements, arguing that the deals are opaque, sometimes lack parliamentary approval, and are undermining revenue.


These agreements are often used to address immediate cash flow issues, but they commit future production to lenders before the revenue can hit the Federation Account.

Thank you.
NNPCL has also had serious internal debt issues.
They basically cannot help a competitor (as it were).

I think a way out is to drive Dangote into upstream. Incentify him into exploration and production as a long term strategy to address these issues.

Indonesia was once a top OPEC member in the late 70's and early 80's until they left. Having decided to halt oil exports in favour of local consumption on account of their growing economy. We have reached that decision point and it will take another herculean political decision to quit crude oil export for good.

coleon:
Dangote importing crude to Nigeria that produces crude is not only a bad news but a terrible news.
I don't know who is teaching you people economics today but basic economics should tell you that the moment you import any products into your economy you have taken jobs and all the benefits in that value chain to another clime, you have also depleted your already scarce FX reserves to another clime thereby increasing your inflation level that's already one of the highest in the world at 15.63%(highest in the whole west Africa).
Using Nigeria to compare America is one of the most illogical and senseless comparison I have seen. Nigeria needs all the value it can get from it's limited resources while America doesn't , the economy of California alone is more than the whole of Africa. America can afford to only import crude and not tap her own crude because it can afford to do so, meanwhile crude oil is priced in American currency so importation of crude does not affect American currency in any way but it affects the naira and trigger inflation.
I don't know who teaches you people in school these days because the kind of thins I read online amazes me and I fear for the future of this country.

Your country keeps on taking foreign loans that is where the problem lies. We have decided to accept that. We have not questioned that. How will you then pay these foreign currency debts if you give the bulk of your principal forex earner to Dangote (in naira perhaps).

Remember that a good portion of the production is securitized into the future. So be realistic and let us tackle the problem from source. Our appetite for debt and our bad spending habits is the reason why Dangote has to look elsewhere.

Like I said I don't know if there are other arrangements by Dangote with foreign crude producers in some sort of swap deal, refining contract agreements or ownership arrangements. He is a private outfit and has been licensed essentially to run his refinery the way he wants.

Nigerians have largely allowed that.