₦airaland Forum

givedemwotowoto:
Citizens need to participate, for democracy to work effectively.

If you hire staff and trust them to do their jobs because they're professionals, and don't evaluate and monitor actual performance and take necessary disciplinary action, over time, your company will be a playground.

Democracy envisioned the possibility that the executive, legislative and judiciary could connive to work against the people, and there is provision to rise to action. It's a price to be paid because democracy won't sustain itself.

We let things get to this point. There's a reason Americans get into the streets when they think the system is trying to work against them. Without it, the system will actually work against them.

Very, very thoughtful and incisive post.
This is the fact.
People are the custodians of institutions.
Democracy does not tolerate a vacumn. It is a constant power struggle.

The reason why powerful individuals in government hijack institutions and use them as they wish is because the people fold their arms and do nothing when they should stand guard.

'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty' - Thomas Jefferson.

In other climes the advocacy for good governance, free institutions and blind justice is savage and unrelenting. The moment the people sense a heist of their liberties they instantly retort before the stray dog gets completely lost.

PlasmaTV:
Seun, this your new ad system is absolutely horrible and off-putting. Fix it.

Thought I was the only one.
Thought AI was after me, trying to kidnap my screen with vile adverts.

When I see too many unsolicited adverts viruses and other malware can't be far.

Primusinterpares:
What can we call this now...

Contract splitting...

But to be honest there is nothing wrong with this. I can remember products like Uncle Bens' in those days coming in all sorts of size packets, some ridiculously small.

Rice was not a staple then despite the average Nigerian 'middleclasser' able to afford American long grain. It was not until Asian rice began to emerge in the late eighties that I first saw rice sold in sack bags and if course you cannot compare the quality.

For some rice is not prepared in large quantities but a small part of a main course, as an ingredient for making soups and stews and some types of deserts.

However the big eyeball fact is the price which is damning. Honestly inflation is a beast of no mercy.

That is what they always say when those they like from that region are not aspiring for leadership but remain subservient.

Once they take a step forward towards leadership the story changes. We understand that.

Is Okorocha not a serial contestant for Presidency.
Did OUK not do everything just to become No.3 citizen....what happened.

Even the South-South man got into high office by the unfortunate death of Yaradua. You can bet that if Yaradua completed his two terms power will have returned to the South West. It is a hegemony.

If the person who is speaking will be railroaded by 2031 for someone from the north west. It is already happening with or without the APC. He should ask Atiku how far.

Lawalemi:
Why is he crying again? Must everyone align with him?

That is what a dictator doesn't want.
And when you call them by their names they kick.

SmartPolician:
If you say that CPR is for dead people and you are a medical student or doctor, then it's obvious why we have many trained quacks in Nigeria.

This will have been funny if not for the grave situation. CPR - Cardio (relating to the heart). Pulmonary (relating to the lungs). Resuscitation (relating to the stoppage of one or both functions)

If you stop breathing your heart fails in time. If your heart is in failure your breathing becomes progressively difficult.

CPR is an emergency procedure to get both working again in short order to keep other vital organs from oxygen starvation and irreversible damage.

Death is presumed when the heart can no longer be restarted to do the above.

RIP to the lad and comfort to the family. They need to do an autopsy to clear the air on this situation and to indicate if there is anything to be concerned about in the family as a whole.

The healthcare part.
'Inconsistent and not up to standards'....

To me.
None of the four ties is over.
This is the semi finals they are headed to and all the teams behind are capable of turning results and going through.

We have seen what one careless moment upset Barca at home. That is the nature of knock-out soccer. Just one moment. Don't bet on any team in or out.

The commentators are right. No clean sheets in 14 for Barca in Champions league. That is the big issue and why they have not won the big ears in years.

Too top heavy since after the days of Carles Puyol and co where they had a more balanced team.

BewareOf419:
They have remove Lukman, I no dey watch again!

Well his replacement has done the business.

Football is just IMPOSSIBLE to predict.
Wow. What is happening at the Camp Nou.
This is desecration.

The underhand tactics of this government appears to be uniting the fragmented opposition parties into a more cohesive unit. So much for political sagacity.

Ah, ah, what is all the destruction I am seeing in my Abuja to private and public property. This is awful. Hope no lives were lost.

ceejay80s:
Don't waste ur time on BUA , this was the same way we waited for dangote refinery, it's now completed and he is milking us dry, BUA is same as dangote,
Take a look at their cement

I share your sentiment but we need alternatives. The risk with Dangote alone on one sid and imported fuel on the other remains high.

So it is not about the potential benefits of having but the potential risks of not having.

Putindbutt:
Work is ongoing.

Though I have very little hope about BUA.
Me. I feel he and Dangote are two sides of a coin. There is very, very little competition in the markets they share.

However government should do everything to see that the BUA refinery comes on stream as quickly as possible. And create a different kind of truly competitive market place that will benefit the country.

agabaI23:
The west doesn't want you to be self sufficient. Dangote petroleum survival is a big plus to Nigeria. Worldbank won't want that to happen.

You can argue with your keyboard

A big plus but not at the expense of the economy.
Nigeria should not be the sacrificial lamb for Dangote to succeed no matter how big or strategically important the company is.

We all want him to succeed but he cannot run without reins.

The sleepy National Assembly should haul his arse in to explain exactly what is happening in his organisation. A 1-3 percent addition on inflation is absolutely unacceptable. We are yet to recover from subsidy removal.

If the issues are over his head he should say so, so that the people decide where to turn to.

Putindbutt:
Oil production has increased to 1.8million bpd, Govt has doubled the cargoes for the refinery, Govt has even been fairer on naira for crude sale admist the ongoing middle east war. Why is Dangote not reciprocating?. God knows how many times he has increased prices during this 40days.

I can't wait for BUA refinery to come on stream as quickly as possible.

Naso.
When the oil unions were at war with Dangote Nigerians took sides with the businessman against themselves (unions do represent the people).

I made it abundantly clear then OVER AND OVER AND OVER again. That whoever won that war will enslave everyone else. Today, how far.

Unions are a window to the inner workings of an industry. They know why, when and how things happen that the ordinary man on the street cannot. And they alert in issues that affect the wider populace.

How will you know how universities are run down if not for unions. How will you know how hospitals are starved of resources if not for unions and on and on.

But to have such a CRITICAL, CRITCAL industry without public oversight is just playing with economic fire. Well, we have concluded that Dangote is an 'institution'. Our Vice President has by that statement admitted that the company is a law into itself. So we take what we see.

PS: I will not even talk about the role Nigerians played in running down the regulator. Talk about an ignorant citizenry shooting themselves in the foot. Ask if Americans accord the likes of Google, Tesla/SpaceX, Mobil, Facebook and other far, far, far bigger companies run by far, far, far richer and more powerful owners any quarter.

LIVINGICONREBOR:
If these set of people are the opposition Nigerians are relying on to rescue them from APC, I am really sorry for you folks.

The same shiit but different toilet sinks.🥱

This is nothing about the APC.
APC is not even democratic by nature. There is no dissent within it to the ways and means the government operates just like the Buhari regime.

The purpose of having strong, viable multi-parties on the ballot is essentially to oppose the President and his policies because the institutions of government are presently dysfunctional.

What well meaning Nigerians want is alternative views, ideas and actions to the myriad of problems facing this country. A lot of people feel there are better ways to run this country and want options to choose from.

If that is not possible then they want a body of size and clout noticable enough to impact on government and it's views, policies and actions. They want the democratic process to be viable enough put the kind of pressure on government to make them honest.

That is the only way democracy works for the good of a country.

Presently there are no debates on reforms for better security. People are dying enmasse by the week.
Presently there are no debates in the economy. People are getting squeezed into alarming poverty everyday. We need political alternatives. It goes beyond elections.

Why is it that I have this feeling, that I have seen this kind of thing before.

Can someone recall the protests in Kaduna where the late Mr. Buhari led a similar march with A-list political celebrities back then.

Who will have thought that a decade and a tock later the boot will be on the other foot and the former oppressed are now the oppressors.

So will it mean that if the ADC somehow finds it's way into power, some other group in the future will need the public's angst and sympathy to garner traction.

How can this country go round in circles repeating the same mistakes in exactly, precisely, definitely the same way.

Do we learn anything, I mean anything at all as a people.

nairalanda1:
Erm, doesn't work like that

1. Iran hasn't reopened the strait...quite. There is an announcement, but that does not mean that shipping would start flying through the strait just yet

2. Oil facilites have been damaged in the area. That's going to take time to fix

3. Crude is going to take time to fall, unless there is a spike in production that is able to make it fall by 50 dollars in one week.

It works like that.
There are fundamental cost impacts of this war affecting the physical you mentioned. But oil is an internationally traded commodity so their is also a cap of speculative pricing on it.

That speculation, as I call it, perceptive factor has retreated and will only return if the fundamentals donot improve.

For now the price is down the highs of a few days and weeks ago.

Looks good.
These are the kinds of infrastructural investments that are meaningful and impactful.
Restorations first before new things.

For me it's between Bayern and PSG though Barca is playing some scintillating footy, their backyard still has a very low fence.

Bayern is long overdue for this trophy. Been consistent around the last four for years now and night just step up.

The trophy is seriously difficult to defend so that takes the edge slightly off PSG. Teams will prepare specially for them and their tactics is pretty predictable. Wing play.

Hemanwel:
Don't mind Perez! Wonder why he didn't look in the direction of Eric Chelle.

Kai. Even academy no go take...

Real Madrid is the biggest clubside in the world, assembling the biggest players in the world at anytime. Surely it requires the biggest managers in the world at anytime to make it work.

I just don't understand what Perez has been doing since Carlo left. Just playing around with these juvenile coaches. Can't work.

Emeskhalifa:
I just hope this is genuine and not just on paper

Honestly no one can tell.
Figures from government, figures from corporate Nigeria. They just donot reflect the realities on ground.

DeepSight:
Classic stuff.
We dont produce such stuff anymore or do we? I might not know.

DSTv has sucked the life out of the Nigerian drama industry. Not that it put much of a fight anyway....

What can I say.
An icon is gone.
His contributions together with the entire crew of The New Masquerade shall never be forgotten in the annals of the small screen in Nigeria.
RIP.

Emdi1914:
Christianity is not Judaism, Judaism is not Christianity
There is no Passover in Christianity,there is no holy communion in Judaism

I quite agree.
Jesus was the Passover Lamb sacrificed on the cross so that we through him fulfill all these laws.

OmoGomesIlorin:
Its a Passover event, 1st done on the last eve of Israelite in Egypt and was commanded by God that unleavened bread must be used.
This is a symbol of Urgency as the Israelite cannot afford to wait for the dow to rise before baking, since they must leave egypt that night

I thought the commandment Christians follow was at the instruction of Jesus at the last supper not that of the Israelites out of Egypt.

And knowing that in Jesus these laws are fulfilled meaning that such laws explicitly concerning the Jews no longer hold for the Gentiles and as such those specifics no longer matter as a mark of obedience as supported by the Eastern church.

I believe anything can symbolize the body and blood of Christ provided it is taken in Righteousness by faith.

OlujobaSamuel:
As long as he is legally divorced with her, even if there is no will, she has no right to the property and can't claim joint ownership, for the dissolution would have shared any asset between them, so none would have any future hold over the other

You will be surprised what people can do with a wack judiciary. It is better for a man to make a 'living will'. That is to share all your estate while still alive. Know who it is going to, change the ownerships but hold the 'keys' as it were.

oyeb15:
Lawyers in Nigeria has made making a will very difficult.

Most lawyers demand between 12% -25% of your wealth.

Is it not better to leave the children fight for survival than allow ori-olori acquire 20percent of my wealth in d name of WILL

And you know that the justice system in Nigeria is highly corrupt. The lawyer might not even be able to execute the will after all that or in some cases work in cahoots with the 'other side' should a contest arise.

Best way is to live a simple life. Cross your 'T''s and dot your 'i's while you are still standing.

AMINDA:
This is not politics, unless you're calling what is playing out in Cameroon under Paul Biya, politics. Turning democracy on its head because you have presidential powers is not politics. Other president's have graced this seat too in the past. They didn't play politics this way. Actions that can destroy the national fabric of this country cannot be summarily categorised as politics.

I just don't understand that kind of thinking.
But I guess Nigerians have their own version or ideas of what politics is. Just a pity that it has not turned Nigeria for the better, which to me is a yardstick of success.

Whatever the present government is doing is not novel or genius. That is hasn't been taken to this level ever before just shows that those before had a modicum of civility, honesty and integrity.

Just wait a few years after this government is eventually over. The regrets will start and they will inundate us with memoirs and book launches desperately trying to whitewash their sepulchres.