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Hmmm....
2-7 on aggregate. DSTv should just exchange this match with Cartoonito so the kids can focus and learn arithmetic in this exam season.

When it rains it pours.
Bernardo sees red, Vini pen makes a mountain the Everest.
Pep should just bring in all his subs at halftime and rest the best. Winter hasn't ended at the Etihad

GanagiBitrus:
In order of best chance of qualifying...
Arsenal
Liverpool
Newcastle
Man City
Chelsea
Tottenham

2/6 to qualify

Said this much a couple of weeks ago before the first legs.

Ah, ah....Wetin be dis.
I never siddon finish Chelsea don carry debt....

judewrites:
The playoffs are just in a matter of days, yet the NFF are expecting an instantaneous verdict from the court?

Let them Forget the ticket, and let the pain of missing out motivate them to take the next WC qualifiers seriously.

They will not take the next world cup qualifiers seriously. You and I know that.
You and I should be seeking to reform the methodology for electing or appointing the leadership of our sporting federations so that we can have a say.

It is presently a closed knit system, shrouded in the kind of secrecy only matched by underworld families. We need to get the right people in there to grow the game in Nigeria. Those on the seat presently have no ideas whatsoever.

ibedun:
Performance is subject to available budget bro. Have you ever run any organisation or business or government department in your life? Even to run a home (with wife and children), your capacity is dependent on the family income.

Nigerians people are just too stew-pid to understand this issue.

That is why I agree with Sowore (although he is also a fool) when he said Obi is a fraud, selling false hopes that the Federal government budget cannot support.

Before you measure anybody's performance please look thoroughly at the budget and revenue. Are these 2 enough and able to finance projects and democrazy dividends to the people?

Oga how much tax did you pay to Anambra state in the last 5 years? Oya tell us, abi na to criticise you sa bi?

This is not absolutely true.
Resources is not limited to money in the bank or revenues from the tax purse. Resources are all encompassing and it is all tied to the ability of leadership to first have a vision and then sell it to the people and they will resource it.

It is what you see where paupers build mighty edifices. Pastors in charge of congregations of modest means build cathedrals, poor peasants under Communist regimes build giant factories, industrial concerns making world dominating artifacts.

How the great President Herbert Hoover was able to build what was then one of the mightiest hydro dams in the world at the time the economy was going through the Great Depression and continued to owe the contributors for decades after (50 years it took to pay for that dam).

And many, many, many more examples of leaders round the world who were able to do great things on the back of the people that believed in their vision and so moved mountains literally for them.

I know this is very scarce in this part of the world because leadership is largely visionless and a lot more self serving. You cannot get a people to resource your vision if they see through your pretenses and smell on you the fact that their interests are not your primary concern.

All these foreign loans to build this country are largely unnecessary. There is capacity in Nigeria. I have always believed in that. People are ready to build the roads and rail lines, the schools and the hospitals, the power stations and the seaports by themselves if they see it will truly lead to greatness. But unfortunately the guise of most of the developments is no more than a money grab through contracts and commissions to friends ,cronies and associates.

That is why the people stay away. No one will condone that sort of waste and theft of his very, very personal resources.

43Ronin:
And people like you just jump on everything without watching the video. If you did you would know she called out thr governor, LG chairman, senate and reps members of that constituency. But guess what? Thats a Federal road!

It does not matter if it is a Federal road.
What are the layers and layers of leadership she is calling out DOING ABOUT IT.

Can she go to Abuja to complain to Tinubu or Umahi, no. Democracy provides that she contacts and pressurizes the person in authority at her level and this should have a domino effect up the leadership chain.

But where you have a scenario everyone is "sold out' and it is bad manners to speak while you are eating - sorry Dino or is it Fayose, the entire democratic system is crippled.

Why can't politicians free themselves to serve, to serve their people rather than pander to individuals in the process of being among. Why can't the people secure the kind of leadership that puts them first.

Elect a person you can control so you can control the person to do what you want. You don't employ a person that is bigger than you.

We blacks must escape this feudal mindset that the best person to lead is the richest, the most powerful or the most daring. These are not leadership qualities. I don't know where we get them from. That is animal kingdom stuff where the fiercedt lion wins respect and loyalty in the pack.

See how that lady was manhandled by that county chair in Rivers state. And the man is still in office oh. Is it that one you can compel to serve you and make the sacrifices to better your lives.....? why put such people there in the first place.

Thought that all these things will be sorted once your leader moves closer to the centre....abi.

But I told you folks.

Good governance is hard....very, very, very hard.
What should be the basis of sustaining an elected official in office has now been traded for a 'cheaper' alternative to retaining power, joining the centre where you are 'guaranteed' re-election.

So my dear lady, there is little you can do, Democracy is disconnected and all the pressure buttons you should press to deliver good governance have been rewired.

You folks are at his mercy and it will take the kindness of his heart and those of others around him to remember your roads. Sorry, but that is.how democracy works....or does not work.

Magnetic010:
if only our governors care this much for security of their citizens

With what tools sir.
We say state police.
Instead of giving a marching order to the Legislature with the same vim as when asking for foreign loans they instead constituted a committee to look into the modalities (just buying time to appease a set of people who are against it, people who want the entire country an open safari for their hunters to stalk humans as prey).

If Borno state had its own police department they can saturate the place with resources, resources they are presently using to react to these sad incidents. Is it not better to spend to create a security outfit rather than spend billions building IDP camps and rehabilitating displaced people.

If each state had 10,000 policemen. That is an additional 360,000 law enforcement officers. That is a massive tip in favour of the people and just like it happens in other climes if a state is overwhelmed it can ask neighbouring states to lend a hand with men, means and machines to contain.

Lekki folks, una dey try abeg.
In between the salty ocean and the 'nutritious' lagoon, your water must be rich in character...

What is goose for a Samson is ganderd for a Nyesom.

The problem with this airport issue from the Abuja standpoint is that of capacity. The Metrolink to the airport is not very functional (don't know whether it is working at the moment)

The practical, main alternative is to journey to and fro by automobile. FAAN knows this and has exploited it to the maximum having two tolls you pay, one for entry, the other for parking. This is exploitative.

No one wants to go spend time at the airport racking up parking bills so people cut it close arriving just in time to depart and pick up. But with the problems of delayed flight in the industry the airports nonetheless are always overfilled with cars.

This puts enormous pressure on any cashless system at the entry and exit points. So the Minister should liase with Abuja Metro to getting the shuttle train running and more efficiently. It can then share revenues with them. Just my two cents.

The fuel I burn to that airport every month is upsetting. The place is damn too far.

IbnB:
He is in London eating full English breakfast

Well this is enough to cut short that trip and head to the situation room, fast.

ChristianMuslim:
Demon Trump brought back terrorism, there have been peace in that region until that redhead threw missile to Nigeria.. And some lunatic fellow are praising him .

That is the lot of the black man. He will never take responsibility for anything. It is always someone else that is responsible for his misfortunes.

How do you start to solve an issue if you cannot face up to it. From leadership to followers there is poor quality citizenship everywhere you look.

No one is ready to admit, ready to think a way out, ready to apply the necessary sacrifices of sentiments and passions to get out of the rut.

Uche412:
Where's our president?..what's he saying about all this....where's the Vice president?...#apc

The VP's home state for that matter.

Enough of this violence, destruction, maiming and death. After all these no one truly wins and history tells us they all eventually lose what they had been fighting so badly for.

They should apply to the City Boy Movement or whatever they are called. They appear awash with cash from wherever they are funded. Ordinary Nigerians are just trying to get by with zero disposable income.

dechriz:
Even if it is true they will still want to cover it.

That is because there is one policing system so it is easy to hide agendas and conceal the truth.

Look at what happened in the US with the immigration order related deaths. See how the US Federal government (FBI) and Justice Departmemt painted a far different picture from what State police were saying.

A lot of injustice, persistent waves of crime and many needless deaths have occurred and will comtinue to occur because of agendas and unipolar views of potential solutions.

IBB007:
lol…so naija police dey call FAAN liars be that

They deserve anything they are called. Why can't they secure their facility.

Every airport should have it's own security system which includes a full compliment of transit police, regular type police and SWAT, period.

The Nigeria Police Service should have no business in or around airports, period.

We should end this stupid British system we operate with all our institutions. Our context and complex is entirely different from that colonial island nation where everything is centralized in a small space with a small population speaking identically.

Well it remains one of those stupid thoughts going around. You collecting it shows you are not ready to decide how your money is spent. It is still a feudal mindset and the end product remains the status quo.

I call it the Esau phenomenon, prevalent in black Africa. Damn the consequences to obtain immediate relief only to cry out later.

What every citizen should be doing is questioning the source of the resources used for this and determine it is not a bribe towards a greater antisocial malaise.

For what we cannot tell our children to do, collecting gifts from strangers passing by, we should not be doing as adults for the consequences are similar.

Madam, your conscience is bought.
It is not about voting.
It is about the use and misuse of resources.
You cannot question how they use the rest of your so called taxes tomorrow. You have been settled.

Oh boy, has Kobo arrived yet.
This man will receive a righteous shellacking....

McLizbae:
2005 corrolla: that is a easy to fix car, and I am certain that you are not giving the car to the right people for repairs.

That 300k is far more that enough to fix whatever the issue with that car may be, if you are dealing with the right people.

First of all, that hard starting problem should be checked by a rewire and not a mechanic. A good rewire will diagnose and tell you what the problem is among the following:
1. Bad spark plug/s
2. Bad coil wire/s
3. Malfunctioning nozzle/s
4. Damaged valves
5. Weak kick starter.
5. Dieing fuel pump.

Ha, you wan kill the man finish.
Why not just tell him to run diagnostics to get to the root of the problem....if that has not been wrecked as well.

That is what you get when development is at the mercy of the 'Contractor Culture'. There is no doubt that the street in question is inhabited by people who are able to work with local council to build and link drainages. People build houses everyday.

What additional expertise do they require to build a drainage system on their street. Government merely needs to resource them with materials and engineering supervision to ensure quality and system integration and they are good to go.

But they will wait for billion naira so called contracts that will take forever to materialise and coat many times more than expected. One of the good qualities of leadership is getting impossible things done by the power of mass mobilisation.

GloriousGbola:
https://guardian.ng/news/let-people-eat-first-buharis-ex-aide-ahmad-backs-fgs-rice-waiver-amid-criticism/



These guys had 4 to 6 years of govt support [incubation] to consolidate but instead they blew through the money and became extortionist cartels .basically another subsidy scam

get outta here with that emotional blackmail

Seen the post you responded to. And yes it is very true. But that is what we did say will happen and we were all alive and on this forum then. I remember clearly saying then that giving out CASH was a very bad idea.

Some went as far as saying it was political settlement money. Their suspicions true or not appear vindicated. Others at that time criticized the so called palliative culture and the heightened fraud associated with it that still exists till today.

Solution. The government of the day should have instead set up AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES up and down the value chain and put it's money there as seed capital. These enterprises operating on a profit basis will be required to publish their books in preparation for sale to the public within a specific timeframe so that government can recoup it's investment. Not from individuals but from corporate entities.

The value chain of the business of agriculture can start from land preparation. Incorporate a company, invest in providing tractors and other land preparation equipment and farmers can then subscribe for a regulated fee the services of lands preparation. In this arrangement you are creating an enterprise, creating jobs and securing accountability.

You can have other enterprises specializing in irrigation, in seed manufacture and application, in pest control, in harvesting, in processing, in storage, in canal building and farm infrastructure, in on site energy. You can have tens and hundreds of distinct value giving service companies each lowering the cost to each farmer of producing rice, maize, wheat, cassava, palm, fruits, cattle, fish, poultry, etc.

When the industry is settled list these companies on your NSE and they become permanent features in the agric sector and will thrive across governments. That is how to industrialize, without which government's interventions are at beat haphazard and wasteful.

So the billions of naira given out to rice farming under the previous administration has gone up in smoke. Just terrible. Now who will be responsible for that. You see how we waste our precious resources in this country.

And I bet part of those soft loans or grants or whatever were sourced internationally for which we maybe paying heavy interests on presently. One government proposed, the next government deposed. Who ultimately pays for these missteps, the people. They pay by the gradual erosion of their standards of living by inflation.

Yes, government's inconsistent policies over years and decades is why you as a Nigerian is poorer today than when this democracy started in 1999 and until Nigerians stand up to learn and understand how economies are grown out of poverty and control the governments they elect into office to maintain the right policies to sustain growth, we will continue to stumble from one failing policy to another.

Remember the common denominator is the people. The man that championed the last economy is dead and gone. The present person who is championing this one will not be around in two decades or less. It cannot be up to that person or a small group of people alone to decide the future of this country. We should all get involved in shaping our destiny.

trespas:
The government should pls also allow import of cement local manufacturing is choking us while the companies declare hooge profits. Pls treat seriously

See another wahala.
Rice, then cement, then fuel, then everything until we are a 100 percent imports dependent economy with teeming youths roaming around doing bad things and the Naira ever crashing.

And it is not as if there is something else we export that is so valuable to compensate for our over dependence on imports.

It is a vicious cycle. The more you import the poorer you get and the poorer you get as a country the less you can afford your own country's goods and services.

This is what Mr. Peter Obi was saying for which he was berated by some.
How do you balance production with consumption. Too high prices at the shops mean no customers. Too low prices at the shops mean no producers.

This delicate balance has to come from somewhere and is from deliberate policies of government to ensure it meets both requirements with a good economy by ensuring the cost of production is low enough to compete (with cheaper imports) and to ensure disposable income rises by cutting inflation.

And how do you do both. Investment. Investment. Investment in the cost central of production. Start with the one thing that adds so much to costs and tackle it. Then move down the list until production becomes competitive.

If you don't know what aspects to tackle first and how seriously you should take them, town hall with consumers and producers. Hear them out.

You will always see the British Prime Minister, the Chancellor moving about from time to time in factories and visiting industrial concerns to understand the issues on ground. Such also forms the basis of policy direction. You don't sit in your office in CBN Hq and hope to solve economic issues. Go out and about, talk with the people that matter.

Made him, did not make him, made himself....
All these just goes to show how weak the country's democratic get is. No talk at all of the role of the people in the making of elected officers. And that is why governance and politics run on two different tracks apparently never to converge.

As a matter of fact on key issues of living and life as a common citizen of the country, they will tell.you, 'don't politicize this and that", 'don't bring politics into this and that matter'. A toggle switch when they want to skirt responsibility and exercise failure.

So it is our business to go polling.
It is their business to win.
And after all that don't ask them any questions.
Of course because you did not put them there in the first place. So take anything they give you.
And if they give you nothing, Carey your mat and run like in the Sokoto migration.

Omoboricash:
Since your country is cursed, invariably yo are cursed citizen.
As far im concerned, my country is not cursed.
Yes we may have challenges like other countries have theirs. But we are not cursed. Your country may be cursed and u are cursed too

Well it seems oddly paranormal for folks who wholeheartedly and vociferously subscribe for a government to suddenly abandon it and walk away without a whimper.

It is like a man who has spoken out loud in public that he wanted a car. For years he has saved, adorned his walls with pictures of the car, prayed on end for it and eventually the day comes, he can afford it, goes to buy it. Then unexpectedly abandons it in the garage and continues to trek. Is that not weird.

People make so.much noise about their electoral choices and who they put in power. But cannot put those they choose and successfully empower into office to make their lives better. That is paranormal, a high level of bewitchment.

So think about these things. Elections is a job market for politicians. You go there to employ them just as you cal for an interview for a driver, cleaner, teacher, technician. And when you eventually engage them with big perks and salaries your problems should be solved, not you continuing to suffer same problems.

Why should you relocate with all the people you vote into office and all the resources you give them to secure you. It is bewitchment.

seanery:
The govt u voted for

They cannot relate their free democratic choices to the outcome. They cannot think, saying to themselves in their minds:

'How can I together with my neighbour use this small paper given.me to vote, to change my life's experience for the better.'

How can I make this election meaningful and after that how can I make that my brother I put in office do what is right and proper to make all our lives better.

Just that simple. But is rocket science to the average Nigerian. His worth is a tee-shirt, a few naira notes, some soundbite and plenty of religious or tribal hot-air to make him sell his soul and ruin his life.