₦airaland Forum

NairobiWalker:
You mean your foreign remittances is higher than your budget? Either your country is a banana republic, you're corrupt, you cook figures (which is the most likely) or you guys are just stupid.

TayserMahiri:
Does this happen in Naija? You find money in an ATM machine and tweet directing the owner to collect it at the office?

I swear it dont

Only in Kenya

samsobo24:
compare with this and stop celebrating irrelevant things

https://www.nigeriafilms.com/style/125-nfc-crime-watch/16708-abuja-cab-driver-returns-n18m-missing-money-gets-n30-000-reward?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5425663675

mtis:
Only in Kenya

NairobiWalker:
Stop lying. Nigeria produces 2333MW of power. Stop living in delusions. We keep telling you your pathetic power can't transform you into a manufacturing hub.

obaaderemi:
Yes,and many times Nigerians have called one another out here and corrections made harshly atimes.The kenyans are taking this thing too seriously to do that.Nigerians discuss their problems openly.The kenyans on the other hand have decided to live in Utopia and close their eyes and ears in spite of debilitating problems in their kenya.Na dem sabi sha.But i am beginning to believe alexxo11 that these guys are actually embittered Nigerians/IPOBIANS.

kennethisland:
Garba Shehu is a mad man.

samsobo24:
I will say this lastly,because of the oil popular oil that you people hear on the media has blindfolded you that we have non oil sectors.
Take this
Entertainment, one of the largest or if not the largest.
Banking, one of the biggest
Telecomms
Minerals
Agric
Manufacturing, despite not having 24hrs light.

Nigeria is not where it should be because of our leaders,despite that Kenya should stop trying to flex muscles beside the country that has handled and managed many issues.
Pls ask anybody about Kenya,they I'll be like,kenyaaaaaaa.
Kenya does not come near to Nigeria, full stop.
Kenya's have really been working so hard on this forum to make the world feel they are better than Nigeria.Any we talk about GDP you shout oil, if we say Lagos,you say ............
Compare:
1.Telecommunications
2.Banking
3.Manufacturing
4.and other non oil sectors and stop shouting

rvp2017:
What recession. You have dummy economy that depend entirely on OIL and swings with oil prices? Kenya has very well diversified economy - why can't Nigeria build an economy that doesn't sway with global oil prices? How can you invest in infrastructure with 20B USD budget is that even enough to pay decent salaries?

rvp2017:
It not any different - Kenya has Counties and south Africa has provinces -with their own budgets - but all of them significantly depend on federal or national budget to survive. I know Nigeria system is federal while Kenya is devolved - so only 35% now get remitted to counties while national or federal gov remain with 65%. I wish you could get us state budges minus the federal allocation so we can know just how miniscule this giant is. As for foreign reserves - this is just the money you need to cover your import bill - kenya has 8B foreign reserves - Nigeria with all the oil has 30B usd?

rvp2017:
It not any different - Kenya has Counties and south Africa has provinces -with their own budgets - but all of them significantly depend on federal or national budget to survive. I know Nigeria system is federal while Kenya is devolved - so only 35% now get remitted to counties while national or federal gov remain with 65%. I wish you could get us state budges minus the federal allocation so we can know just how miniscule this giant is. As for foreign reserves - this is just the money you need to cover your import bill - kenya has 8B foreign reserves - Nigeria with all the oil has 30B usd?

Garba Shehu, spokesperson to President Muhammadu Buhari, has condemned Ohanaeze Ndigbo’s criticisms of President Buhari’s Independence Day speech.

Shehu, in a statement on Monday, maintained that it was unfair for the group to blame the recent unrest in the southeast region on the federal government.


“President Buhari was not abdicating his responsibilities. He didn’t request any political leader to do anything seminal or out of the box.

“All he says is, talk to your out-of-the-line-youth so that we have some peace. Igbo leaders need not to be on the defensive for the misbehaviour of the IPOB which they rightly condemned,” he said.

Shehu stated that the President was simply saying that the regional leaders also had a role to play in keeping their hot-headed youth in check.

“President Buhari was simply calling out the regional leaders to their responsibilities, making them aware of the crucial role they can play.


“This should not be seen as an attack on the Ohaneze or on any other regional leaders.”

Shehu also reacted to other criticisms of the President’s speech, particularly the declaration that all matters of restructuring or constitutional amendment are the business of the National Assembly.

“It beats our imagination that men claiming to be democrats or having democratic credentials are asking the government to ignore an elected parliament in preference to a committee made up of presidential appointees to debate and resolve constitutional issues.

“You are either for democracy or for its opposite. For us in this government, democracy is the country’s chosen system of government and we are determined to deepen and uphold it.


“Democracy may be slow and chaotic, but it remains the best system of government the world has got so far.

“We inherited a country in tatters- its economy, its security and its social relations. President Buhari deserves credit for rebuilding what has been destroyed.

“If anyone thinks this a failure, let them talk to those millions of farmers we have empowered to create riches for themselves and the nation, for whom fertilizer is available everywhere at the regulated price of N5,500 instead of N13,800, a year ago.

“Let them ask the manufacturers and importers of goods who bought the Dollar at N525:00 and are happy that it is down to N360:00 and still improving.

“Let them go back and read the accomplishments highlighted in the speech, to see the advancements in security, agriculture, the ease of doing business and anti-corruption, to mention a few,’’ he stressed.

Shehu also condemned those he described as professional critics who were fond of attacking or criticizing meaningful government policies and programmes with the hope of being “settled’’.

He said: “As for those critics who are used to being settled by successive governments, with false claims to being so-called conscience of society popping out from the cupboard on and off to drive the country towards religious and ethnic polarization, they have no other motive but to rock the boat of good governance.

“What they yearn for is to be picked out to be paid to keep quiet. The Buhari government has abolished ‘settlement’.


“Polarizing speeches that aggravate Nigerian against a brother Nigerian are causing damage to our democracy, rocking at the very foundation of our unity and they better not cross those red lines as warned by the President.”