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14 our if 133. That is a little over 10 percent of those initially interested in subscribing to democracy are now interested or should I say remain confident that the ballot they participate in is the way and means to moving their society forward and Howard.

To me this is a serious indictment of our democracy. Such low patronage shows the huge gulf between leadership and the led, seeing what they do with power as basically useless to themselves and will rathe expend their resources elsewhere.

For those in power now, they should be equally worried that if only ten percent of the voting citizenry remains confident in the process, will the remaining 90 percent be ready to defend democracy if anti democratic storms arise and forces attack....

If a soccer club is not doing well the first signs are empty seats popping up everywhere. If a market offers undesirable goods, it will remain as quiet as a grave site.

Orlandoo:
He was advocating for them to hand the thief over to the police, whereas we all know that the police will just collect money from the thief and set him free, thereby emboldening him to continue stealing, knowing that he will always buy his way out anytime he steals.

That is what I am saying.
We cannot build a better policing system without patronage. We cannot build better courts of justice without 'depending' on them for justice.

The citizens have to do THE RIGHT THING, to make for a desirable society. To experience a thing you need to have and desire for it, to have it, to craft it. Society has to be built.

Believe you me most of the so called civilised west we somewhat admire today was as disorganized, crude, lawless and dark as parts of our society today. They just found a way to agree to decency and standards.

America had a bandit problem in the 18th and 19th century. Europe had a religious fundamentalism problem centuries ago. Cultism, kidnapping, ritualism, organized crime, gangsterism, racism, sectarianism, corruption, narcotics, white collar crime, etc were and are things the developed world had and is still contending with.

But what they have all come to agree on, is the rule of law. Without which no society can truly progress.

Orlandoo:
I doubt if you have been a victim of robbery before.

What he is saying is that we need to cultivate a civilized culture of law and justice not wallow in a primal culture of vengeance, which only gives credence to the fact that we lack the necessary horizontal relationships that build successful, progressive societies.

We are presently stuck in a situation where we complain about the lack of functional institutions but by our actions do not place a demand for their establishment.

They told you to live within your means, you said no.
Now reports coming from your own government reveals quite a number of parastatals have not received what they have needed for capital investments over recent months and years, the investments that constitute real public service.

So if your government is not paying subsidies and is not adequately serving the public, where is all the money you are spending wily-nily going.... okay towards building political coalitions to undermine multiparty democracy and commandeering institutions to corner law and justice is the only successful thing this hapless.goverment has succeeded at.

Despite the fact that the African claims to have strong cultural, family and communal bonds, he has extremely poor progressive and sustainable horizontal relationships.

We may be very good at hanging around each other, but we are very poor at applying that to anything that enhances corporate progress. Instead if the 'ant' mentality, we have the 'crab' disposition.

The feudal mindset that occurs within a set up makes for an immediate search for who is better, who is greater and who can rule over others. And this makes for a harsh, uncaring and somewhat primal existence.

So sorry for the lady and those around her that couldn't keep her alive.

But the feudal system we operate that ensures nothing can be built or sustained has not raised a single person near this achievement forty years later.

Nigeria, a nation that cannot evolve sustainable development, progress. The hen that cannot lay eggs.
Our better days always in the past.

Someone is just commenting on the radio right now, that a religious uprising in the same 80's, the Maitatsine uprising was put down in weeks. Today we have been fighting an insurgency for the past twenty years with no end in sight.

Nigerians should wake up and begin serious introspection about how they want to live as a people, in perpetual mediocrity or in progressive evolution.

Without restructuring, all our best days as individuals and as a collective will always be in our past.

It is not unrealistic budgeting Mr. Adedeji.
It is unrealistic spending.
Let us call a spade a spade.
Government has not reformed itself.
It has not reformed the way it spends unwisely, wastes scarce resources and steals the resource of the people.

Such a system CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH REVENUE.

Gowon laid the template for this infamy and every single subsequent government has followed. No accountability to the people. No service to the people. It is what government officials WANT that government spends OUR money on.

In other climes it is the people that select projects to be executed, it is the people that value the projects to be executed, that is decide how much a project should cost and whether they the people can afford it. It is the people that decide how the project(s) are to be funded,whether agreeing to borrowing or taxation.

People centric democracies are the most progressive because everyone is in the know and everyone decides. It is not a democracy where the boyfriend takes the girlfriend out for dinner and she does all the 'ordering' and he does all the 'paying'. Such relationships are not sustainable.

Such we have have found in ourselves in this democracy we practice.

louqas:
Abi ministry of Labor doing solar street light project in rural areas
Or Rural electrification agency training rural women how to break egusi manually
Sometimes the kind projects you see under some ministry ehn

When we evolve to a citizen led, participatory type of democracy then we will be satisfied with the dividends.

In your house who decides what is bought from the market, the Oga or the servant. If these people are servants as they call themselves, public servants, how come it is then that decide on what and how our money is spent.

How come they are not accountable to you who owns the money. How come that after returning from the market they cannot produce a receipt of purchases and we are all well pleased with them.

How come we query them about the cost of things, the rate of things and they shout us down condescendingly.

The foundation of age old mis-governance and the consequent recurring suffering in the land is just down to the simple misunderstanding of the roles citizens play in working democracy.

Most think it is a fire and forget guided missile. Once they vote that is all, the presumptive performer will get the job done. But in our businesses, our enterprises, our vocations and even in our homes we remain eternally vigilant to ensure performance because the moment we sleep we are taken for granted.

So what do we expect of people that don't know us but have been permitted by us to rule over us with so much power and resources yet left without keen supervision.

Let me ask this simple question.
With the way this Executive had been permitted to command so much power politically and institutionally due to the lack of knowledge and vigilance, what can change this situation now, even if we want to.

Ofunaofu:
Tinubu, where is the money saved from subsidy removal?

The same APC government said it achieved its 2025 revenue target by August 2025, so where did the money go?


What about the borrowings, unprecedented in our history?

Where did those funds end up?


Nigerians deserve answers.

Don't you know where the coastal road is.
What kind of question is this.
You think it is easy to feed a white elephant.

Okortor:
no cyber security expert will ever connect to such or any wifi, IF YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW.......

My brother.
I won't even try it. Was tempted in the US a couple of years ago and it totally destroyed my phone.

Ponmoalata:
1 month imprisonment when there's no enough food to go around.

How about sentencing them to community services

Absolutely.

As a chain gang.
Hand them over to the Environmental guys.
To clean up all the areas where this scourge is prevalent, night and day for that month.

After that they will become preachers for good sanitary practices.

Oga, your fellow African country you boast of having a bigger economy than, manufacturers helicopters.

Why not seek their help in opening a sub-plant right here in your country.

South Africa manufactures most of it's defence equipment in house and tailor made to meet the African environment.

We can learn a lot from them.

robosky02:
PROPOSED TERMS AND FIGURES FOR ERIC SEKOU CHELLE

1. Private car (SUV) with a chauffeur and security.
2. House in a well secured environment with 24hrs uninterrupted power supply (electricity).
3. Furnished office with projector for analysis.
4. Internet provision.
5. Flight tickets for wife and two children (Eric and wife Business class) children economy.
6. GPS provision.
7. Supply of proper equipment in accordance to the coach’s demand.
8. Based on opponents, the coach has the right of choice regarding int’l friendly matches.
9. Camping programs.
10. The coach will initiate programs for youth development.
11. Provision for the coach to travel, watch, monitor and engage players of the national teams abroad.
12. Provision for the coach to travel to watch the local league to identify potential players that will be integrated in to senior national team, A U23, U20 and U17.
13. No Interference in team selection and players call up.
14. The NFF has to issue a working contract for my staffs.
15. Salary needs to be paid on or before 30th of every month.
16. Bonus and allowance as per federation structure.
17. Request to include my PA in the bonus and allowance structure.
18. Proposed salary of $130,000.00 (One hundred and thirty thousand dollars) monthly. The amount included all my technical staffs and PA.
19. Monthly meeting with all the national team coaches.

Just say he tendered his resignation letter.
He knows he cannot get these and so is opting out by a pinfall or holding the NFF to a classic MMA chokehold, watch the NFF tap out....

nairalanda1:
Cold reason for possible inflation of the bills? Most people are not paying or are not paying enough. So, bills are inflated for consumers who do pay.

(Also, the 'inflated bills' commentary is code for 'electric power should be free of charge'. Let's not lie).

Metering does not solve the billing problem. As at last year, 68% of metered consumers bypass their meters.

And why do.they bypass 'steal' electricity.
Why will a man steal bread to eat....

This is the topic just being discussed on Nigeria Info FM, Abuja this morning. And from what I understand about this scheme it appears to be another toss-into-wind-and-see-where-it lands project similar to the palliative regimes.

Saying the tractors will be 'given' to farmers on a rent-to-own basis is just a collosal waste of resources. Needless to say, in two, three years you will not see a single one operating anywhere. The very government officials and agents will either have them 'privatised' or the hapless farmers will have sold them off.

I have repeatedly said concerning government participation in the productive economy. It's role should be as an investor. It should approach the people with a business mindset, not a social mindset. Socialism is for education, perhaps health and security. It can toss up resources. But for PRODUCTIVITY, it should commercialise it's interventions.

In this case, it should have set up a commercial enterprise and handed these tractors and equipment over to it as equity so that farmers can PAY FOR THE SERVICES OF THESE TRACTORS, by way of extension services, not own them.

The advantage of this is that you completely cut out the 'government' factor as regarding corruption, cronyism, lack of a maintenance culture and lack of continuity across regimes.

The enterprise should operate as a profit making entity so it can be self sufficient in the long run and repay back to government the huge capital outlay.

Down the line to ensure sustainability the enterprise is eventually publicly traded. Government can then decide to retain shares or not.

As a farmer if I want my land cleared all I need to do is to pick up my phone and call for the tractor service. If I want it harrowed same thing, sprayed, de-weeded, and when the time comes call for the services of a combined harvester.

Extension services this company can also get involved in are too numerous. It can go into agric storage processing, canal and dam building to provide and protect water resources, research and development, soil management and farm security. It can become a billion dollar enterprise in short order and can be in the NSE so as to attract investment from home and abroad.

That is how government intervention makes for real economy growth. The power of organisation along the lines of enterprise so as to leverage on the factors of production. Not all these failed models of throwing government resources in the air like confetti and hoping the seeds land in good soil.

One million tractors without a solid economic plan based on a sound enterprise model will amount to dust in a few, short years. Is it a farmer who is struggling to cultivate and sell 100 bags of beans that will maintain a 200 million naira piece of equipment....

NinjaMetahuman:
Finally

Sensible thing to do.

That's absolutely bad for competition and such a deal should never have taken place and whoever sanction such deal in government must have taken a lot of bribe and should be fired.

Which again, is that redundant minister of communication

And they should ask MTN to guarantee that this huge financial outlay will not lead to raising tariffs to finance it particularly when the options are being whittled down.

nevilbot:
Google what antitrust laws mean then you will realise that you dont really understand the implications of allowing mtn wholly buy what other competitors use before making this comment. Allowing MTN to have a 100% monopoly to an asset that other competitors use is what will drive away foreign investors.

In fact, the govt was sleeping in their duties if MTN already bought that asset before they realised they needed to subject it to regulatory oversight. If they were not sleeping, that deal shouldn't have been allowed to happen in the first place. No sensible country in the world places its critical infrastructure that has ramifications to affect banking, telecoms, national security and data in the hands of one entity, not to talk of a foreign entity like MTN.

Exactly what I am saying.
Look at what has happened to the cable satellite tv market in Nigeria..
We sat back while DSTv/Multichoice railroaded competition over the past few decades.

Now that Canal+ has taken over Multichoice we have no input in that and even less control over what comes to our tv screens.

It is risky to permit enterprises unbridled control of your markets and economy . Who knows who will buy over MTN in the future, perhaps an entity at variance to our national interests for instance.

kedeojo:
IHS carried jobs ranging from installation, site programming and maintenance for not only mtn but glo and Airtel. that is a smart move by them. other network will now depend on mtn and that maybe calastrous or they will have to go and source for another company offering similar solution.

This is the very reason why this must be scrutinized.
What is MTN's strategic gameplay here. To railroad other service providers?

saintopus:
This may scare away potential foreign investors to the country

No sir.

We need to understand what MTN is up to.
So that we don't end up with a company that is bigger than the industry itself. It is called not putting all.your eggs in one basket.

persius555:
Airtel will now be at the mercy of MTN. Most telecom sites in Nigeria are shared sites. With MTN acquiring IHS infrastructure, Airtel has a new landlord who is it's long term competitor.

In other climes the authorities will look into this to see if this buyout stifles competition and is potentially creating a monopoly.

But in a country of weak institutions where even certain individuals appear bigger than the country thoughtless of conglomerates, nothing will be cakes into question.

It is the nature of men to become as powerful as possible.It is the responsibility of society to see this is done safely.

SaturnNick:
Where is the picture of the tower🤷🤷🤷

Just look the window, you will probably see one of their stalls in the distance.

Has not reflected the currency devaluation or inflation since then for that matter so it still has a long way to go.

But why is this man always agitated, always combative.

Didn't watch the second half v Juventus but see how he is so angry an enraged at his mates after what was a successful game, reminiscent of the Nations Cup.

Has to work on his attitude.

The places that are not covered can be given Starlink. There can't be many places.

helinues:
You better go and tell Atiku to refund the money his investors friends gave him thinking NNPC would be sold to them

And better tell the government to call it's 'contractors' to refund the billions of dollars wasted in repeated failed attempts to raise those dead scrap piles.

If it was your personal funds mismanaged in this way your views will be totally different.

When we grow up mentally to become responsible owners of this country then we will begin to demand accountability.

Since the government REFUSED to heed sound advice it should the totally responsible for the outcome.

And make no mistake about this. Another government will hold this government and all those behind this to account no matter how long it takes.

Time to set aside funds to buy up oil inventories.

By 'job' I suppose she means formal engagement in a corporate setting.

There are a number but not many top jobs that make this possible. But regime after regime this number shrinks.

At the very least, the 'intelligence gathering' will determine once and for all whether there is collusion between elements of the security forces and these insurgents.

Hopefully it will have a strong counter intelligence element.

The El-rufai expose indicates all is not well at the highest levels of government with regards to the clandestine world of phone taps, bugs and perhaps electronic warfare aka 'sabotage'.

My gut feeling is that if these insurgents are able to deploy drones they may as well have the capabilities of observation and the penetration to sensitive information.

CaptainFM1:
It's the time it took looking for health centre that has antivemom. Time is of the essence when it comes to snake bite. The brother narrated that several places they visited did not have antivenom. That is the main issue.

That is why I said in my only post on this matter that without an ambulance system survival in medical emergencies becomes near impossible.

The ambulance system offers speed, offers critical first aid and offers the knowledge of WHERE critical care is AVAILABLE.

it is the responsibility of government to institute an ambulance service by law no matter by which means it is operated.

And for a city as important as Abuja, the NATIONS capital not to have a functional ambulance service in 2026 is damning on our existence and shows just how primitive we remain.

IbnB:
Who go feed you three square meal for Nigeria prison

He is looking at the billions budgeted and thinking 5 -star hotel....