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Can't see Arsenal escaping this one.
The gap in quality in the first team is glaring.
Anyway this is the Premiership, a never ending drama.

naptu2:
Why should I have added it? Don't you have hands and a brain of your own to write whatever you want to write.

It's not you that will tell me what to write, I will write what I want to write and there's nothing you can do about it.

... sorry please. I don't mean to offend.
Just so....weird the kind of things you hear about in a 25 year old democracy....oh well. Whatever you guys feel comfortable about. Personally I cannot vote in a kind of system where I will be told what to do. And that is not rebellion, it is patriotism.

ChristianMuslim:
These GAC are more powerful than TINUBU,if you don't gerrit forget about it.. They are the major decider of Lagos Governor and speaker.. Ask Miranda and Ambode

How many, six, seven, a dozen, a company, a battalion deciding what 20 million people should. So how is it done. They tell you by WhatsApp messenger who to vote for or what...

naptu2:
The Governance Advisory Council is a structure of the APC in Lagos. It is made up of former governors, deputy governors, ministers and major politicians in the Lagos APC. Its role is to advise the governor on political developments in the state.

The members of the GAC have contested many elections and solved many political problems. They use their wealth of experience to advise the governor on political issues so that he can focus on the work of administering Lagos.

You should have added.
Because the people cannot speak for themselves, know nothing about governance and as a matter of fact, don't know what they want and their legislature is pointless.

After supporting Dangote to undermine the body responsible for superintending over his activities who do you think will have the guts to ask questions.
Shebi your Vice President called him an institution. I warned about removing the safety devices around governance, whether corporate governance or public governance including the Legislature, the unions and in this case the regulators.

Nigerians are not bright at all.
Free market does not translate to free to do as you please particularly if a business is essentially a monopoly. The scrutiny should be even deeper.

Ask the likes of the domineering US tech giants for instance what they see in the hands of American, European and Asian regulators. Power comes with responsibility. More power comes with graver responsibility.

A player like Dangote should have a permanent office close to the National Assembly because the place where the economy of this country is, his company will need to answer questions on a regular basis. It is that important.

tete7000:
This is why it will be difficult for men of principles and integrity to govern this nation. The politics being played is one of survival and stomach infrastructure. The political parties are simply tools for grabbing power, they lack principles and no coherent law is guiding them. Nigeria is just a spectacle of drama and mediocrity.

Indeed.

If we have been getting it right from 1999 and the quality of our democracy is positive, the country will be better off today. The things we talk about most frequently will be external competitions with other nations for power, prestige and development not the basics of survival, life expectancy and misery.

Every regime comes in with vain promises of hope but departs leaving the country much worse than they met it.

Is this not what we as a people should stop for a moment and think out a solution....but no. Nigerians cannot build a decent society. It is all about individualism. As long as I am better off than my neighbor, my fellow citizen, my actions are justified. We totally lack collective vision.

TempleHouse:
Lampard too ruined Chelsea but he's back in the Premier League with a bounce ‼️

Kompany sent Burnley to relegation but it's the best coach in the world now.

Chelsea team are just made of average over hyped players Not Coaches.

What makes Kompany the best coach in the world....right now.

callmetade:
I'm not watching o,.. from pictures I can tell already.

Goodnight

Same here.
There are a lot of things to be left unseen.
Not interested in being provoked this night.

There is NO SINGLE player that has improved in Chelsea this season. Not one.

shedy03:
N10,000 unit I loaded on my meter since January still has not finish as a result of no power.

Ha. That N10,000 is two days light even with 12 hours solar backup. Which band is that.

Stop wailing.
Compel your government to immediately stop work on that useless coastal highway and divert the trillions to power generation.

Just one third of the amount proposed for that road will double power generation within six months. Power will affect the quality of your lives, the survival and profitability of your businesses and will reduce the cost of transportation.

What will that road do for you as an individual citizen. Let us emphasize what benefits the most people and what can return on investment practically.

Once again. Nigerians should decide how our money is spent.

mrvitalis:
I was shouting it here for years

How can you borrow money to build infrastructure that require even more money you don't have to run and be maintained how does it make any sense?

APC don't understand the fundamentals of developmental economics, now they need to borrow pay back the loans Buhari took to build near useless infrastructures

Am I saying infrastructures or bad or not needed? Absolutely not.. But building them with borrowed money would only make you poorer

Oga.
There are some so called infrastructure that are completely useless. Just pet projects to harvest government pork for political settlement.

You are a businessman. If you are pressed hard like most legitimate businesses are today, what do you spend money on. Flashy stuff or fundamental, critical stuff that will keep your business ALIVE first, then able to keep it running to catch up will galloping inflation. That is if you are interested in surviving another year.

Does it look like the Nigerian government is thinking that way. What are the biggest project investments today, the news breakers, coastal road, airport renovation, gas pipeline to Morocco.

What are Nigerians ALWAYS talking about that affects them economically.

1. POWER, POWER, POWER. Stable, affordable electricity.
2. TRANSPORTATION, TRANSPORTATION, TRANSPORTATION. Stable, efficient, and affordable intercity, intracity and inter-hub transportation because it is the harbinger of all the inflationary effects on the economy courtesy of the subsidy removal.

Where are the big budget investments in these if a government is thinking socio-economically. Or if it is thinking purely capitalist, what are the investments it hopes will bring in th mega bucks tomorrow.

Dogalmighty17:
Let's not forget. This government still can't account for 1.1 billion dollars in borrowed funds.

What about NNPC. Trillions written off.
Stolen, misspent, lost, whatever....
Refineries.
Billions wasted on useless explorations that have yielded ZERO.
Who is answering questions. NOBODY.
Who is asking questions. NOBODY.

Image123:
Very simple, we don't have money. We think we do.
Simple analogy. You're earning 100,000 but you want to buy a car as it'll bring more productivity for you, make your life easier and probably earn you a little more income. You can decide to keep saving 10,000 monthly or get a good credit facility.
We need good roads, electricity, tech advancement, solved insecurity challenges, increased welfare conditions but don't want the government to borrow. SMH.

'...we don't have money...' - why don't we have money.

'...you want to buy a car...' - who decides you need a car.

'...more productivity...make your life easier..' - who's life, who are the 'we'

'....and probably earn you a little more income...' - how much income has been earned from the loans over the past years - a question for the citizens to ask and for the international and local lenders to answer.

This is how simplistic the government wants us to think. But does all these happen in reality. Such that the first question, 'why you don't have money's doesn't become a permanent feature of our experience as Nigerians from the day we are born till the day we die.

Thee is NEVER enough money for a waster.
Spending is the problem with this nation.

I do sincerely hope one day we can get the kind of leadership that can till the ground of this country and harvest the wheat that will bake the bread of development. Because this is just not how great nations are built.

What are these infrastructure that to me they hide behind to borrow for.

How critical are they, can they be funded otherwise and how much of a business model do they fit in.

These are the issue that should be debated in my opinion. Nigerians must participate actively in how and on what their money is spent.

PS: 30 billion was allegedly spent on the renovation of the ICC in Abuja. We were told it will be run as a commercial venture supposedly to recoup the enormous resource outlay. How much has been recovered to date and what are the guarantees.that the taxpayer will not have to pay for that place again.

This is the problem.
This is what I am saying. The feudal mindset. The battle to HEAD, not to participate, not to contest, not to bring out the best in examination, not to race, but to eliminate competition so that you have a free ride, so that you don't need to work hard, no need to prove yourself. All of them are involved in this.

Is this how it is done elsewhere.
Should he not focus on selling himself first, focus on promoting his qualities first.

What is he selling by way of policies, programs, ways and means to get the country ahead, and things he will do better if given the opportunity. Appeal to the senses of the people not to their sentiment and passions.

If he is afraid if Mr. Atiku's tradition of bribery and inducement, speak about the negative effects on the social fabric of the nation and the benefits of doing things right. These are the things we want to hear. These are the things that will make a difference.

Let us educate ourselves on how we can make things right and the nation great.

blaise26abj:
You are politically naive . The only way Tinubu can possibly lose is an Atiku/Obi ticket. Dead that Obi/Kwankwaso ticket . You don’t know how much the core north resents an Igbo presidency .

Great write up . At this point ADC should not even be voting during the primaries . They should just present a consensus candidate but for now they are a weak and scattered party .
It will annoying if they don’t sort out the court wahala before elections . If they win the general elections and the Supreme Court says Mark’s chairmanship is null , na wasted effort be that . Let’s not forget it has happened at the state level before .

They are weak and scattered because the average Nigerian, the black man cannot develop horizontal relationships. He cannot come together on an equal footing and make corresponding sacrifices to build anything. The moment two black people come together they IMMEDIATELY try to outwit, suppress and exploit one another.

This is not in politics alone. It applies to every relationship in every walk of life.

So when you see something APPARENTLY working the second problematic trait is in effect, Feudalism. The person who has successfully conquered the rest subjugates them and runs a line of succession to keep everyone in line. No equal footing. That is what is apparently working in the APC. That is what has kept the likes of Museveni and Biya in office. It is a black thing.

So in a nutshell the ADC is suffering from a lack of feudal power. Once that is established it becomes viable. Someone has to OWN that party, run it like a fiefdom and get others to bow to him.

That is how we do things in this part of the world.

It is obvious.

Why do you think Nigeria is like this.
We will have long been developed if we consistently thought otherwise.

Yes, the APC and Mr. Tinubu will win the next elections and Nigeria will continue it's downward spiral. Not because of any of the actors or the quality of the movie but because of the audience.

The only two things resident in the mindset that can happen to change the course of this country is:
To discard feudalism.
And to develop horizontal relationships.

Those two things are hardwired in the DNA of the average negro so we are who we are and will be what we will be. By 2031 nothing will have changed.

Jayhome24:
What nonsense is this. "Your record said", said what? So you are not even sure he is the culprit or what? If he is the suspect come boldly and say he is the suspect wth evidence and lock him up not telling me your record says..blablabla.

They obviously cannot identify him correctly that is why. And why not. He is not Nigerian from the report so they have to call him something to put him on an aircraft. Standard rules.

Some folks bear John Doe.
They too will be riled up anytime a crass felon is in the news.

Should have just called him 'John Doe' so that the 'Magas' and the 'Mullahs' of Nigeria don't tear themselves apart....

The disease of feudalism is spreading fast.
No one cares whether he has a vision.
No one will ask him any questions.
No one will put him to a test.

But when the common man goes to the market he asks questions of the goods he buys and negotiates a better deal. When he goes to the bank he asks questions of the teller, when he goes to the clinic he asks questions of the doctor for the best course of treatment.

But when it concerns the very thing that binds all these together to determine his experience of living in the country, he says it doesn't matter. Let someone else ask the questions.

Ironfaceman:
It's better late than never. Let's appreciate the effort.

Nothing to appreciate here.
Once you cut communication you have cut yourself off from integrity.
When you are liable communication is mandatory.
Now her reputation is irreparably damaged.
She has placed a glass ceiling over her destiny in this age of the internet.

This man.
Always posting things about wars and destruction from the comfort of your place.
When will wake up to realize that peace brings a better dividend for all.
These wars affect every one in the world negatively so I cannot see anywhere positive all these propaganda leads.

And for once spare a thought for your own country men and women suffering an equal date and spend more time positing solutions. Generate more empathy for yours.

Putinofrussia:
Is the life of an average Nigerian better during Obasanjo 's time than Abacha's time?
Are their lives better during Abacha's time than Shagari' s time?

That is why the quest for better leadership must continue until we get one that can change the narrative. Your car is broken, fine but if your mechanic is more broken....

Nigerians should not sit down and give up on experiencing a better life FOR ALL. That is what governments are elected to do. Make life better. Nothing else.

That we have not gotten a solution from those who we have been electing time after time doesn't mean we cannot find one, or make one.

The present leadership is already crafting their legacy and when Nigerians look back in many years time they will rate it as one of the lowest whether it does 4 or 8 years. The way things are going it will be another tale of regret and missed opportunities. Just as the VAST MAJORITY of Nigerians, even staunch supporters regret in secrecy that Mr. Buhari was given a second chance.

Fo me, I don't know how long Nigerians will allow 'Kazeem' to fiddle with their prized auto before they retrieve it with a towing van.

I don't live in Porharcourt. Those who live there should confirm who owns the said building. But it looks like those former Babangida era SDP/NRC political offices.

But it is good that ordinary folks are getting more conscious of the political situation in the country as it affects democracy and translates to their lives in general.

'....while offering no clear path to recovery'.

Off all the chapters of lamentations, to me this is the point of interest that supporters of the government have to clarify.

What is the pathway to economic recovery, that is if the situation we find ourselves in today is NOT THE NEW NORMAL. Because it appears that every regime comes in, builds a new economic torturing machine and expects the citizens to adapt to the pain.

What are the step by step measures the government is taking to economic recovery (if recovery as we know it is an agenda). Do we have a step one, step two, step three, etc. How far down the list have we gone and where is the bottom of the list and WHEN are we getting there.

What do we understand by economic RECOVERY.

Still not too sure about his big game temperament. Has still not made those defining European soccer stories that are critical to the Barca culture.

Lookman on the other hand is becoming a proven big game player. For the Super Eagles, For Atalanta in the Europa finals and now for Atletico in the UCL semi's.

And I believe if not for the incident at the Nations Cup quarter finals, Nigeria will have gone to the very end.

To early to start insulting the citizens sir.

nairavsdollars:
https://independent.ng/lagos-2027-gac-chair-olusi-clarifies-incoming-governor-remark-on-hamzat/

That is it.
This is supposed to be a democracy.
What is so democratic about fatalism.
At some point the scales will fall off the eyes.

frankson1:
So, you agree that a former Al-Qaeda commander who had a $10 million dollars bounty on his head by the US was made a president by the same US but you reject the Nigerian government for granting bokoharam and other terrorists organisations here pardon

I lack the right words to describe your reasoning

Well the big difference is that the middle east is thousands of miles away from the US while Nigeria is our home. It is a question of how you deal with your child versus how you deal someone else's.

The target for the US this time in Syria was ISIS. Al-queda as an organization is operationally decommissioned. And except you expect the US to stay in Syria and start planting democracy which it could not successfully do in Iraq or Afghanistan, they had to deal with the biggest bully in the class and accepted Al-Sharaa, who wisely decided to statesman.

Now, ISIS is not a direct threat to the US, but to it's allies in the middle east which reflects US interests. The US has a defence pact with most Gulf states and Israel which was also in the cross-hairs of ISIS. ISIS was ultimately going to overthrow those Gulf monarchies and establish a caliphate of their own.

Bokoharam/ISIS on the other hand is a direct threat to the Nigeria state, the Nigeria constitution. Call it an organization that is executing a long running coup against the government with the intent of turning Nigeria into a caliphate. How do you negotiate with that.

Originalsly:
The Syrian President was appointed by the US. Who was he? ... a "terrorist commander" fighting against the US forces in Afghanistan. Note ....Syria was better before the invasion and ousting of the government. Since 2014 ...been fighting ISIS? ..or entered but never left? Did they leave because of the pounding by Iran? .... did they leave because the Khurds no longer support them and have promised to take side with Iran if things escalate? ..or both? Trump has exposed the US as a paper tiger in this new era warfare.

Oga.
The civil war that split the country due to the weakening of the Assad regime led to the infiltration of ISIS mainly coming in from Iraq.

No country in the world from Saudi to Iran to Iraq wanted an ISIS spread because it threatened their sovereignty. ISIS was about breaking down borders, redrawing maps and unifying territories under a caliphate.

Russia and to a lesser extent Iran had unsuccessfully tried to prop up the Assad regime but it continued to lose territory until the US insisted he had to go so that there would be a ceasefire amongst the warring groups and ISIS as an organization could be tackled head on.

With Assad out the US decided that instead of pursuing an Iraq or Afghanistan type democratic quest with impossible outcomes they rather deal with the biggest dog in the fight. And now that that fight is over and a semblance of control is in place they are leaving.

What is so hard to understand about that if you have followed this story over the years.

And later the citizens will sit down and wail that government is being run or controlled by a clique or is working in the interest of a cabal they call it. This is how it starts. 'Consultations' and final decision making by a few then to present to the many who have no choice but to accept it.

The general consensus is that the many can't think for themselves. They need to be 'led' to make the right choice in a supposedly adult democracy of 27 years old.

And when you cannot start with the many, build your leadership on them, grassroots up, when the time of governance comes, as we have seen even at the national level, their demands will be secondary, from policies, programs, budgets and projects. It is the few that will still decide all that.