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My question is what skill or experience is she bringing in? I think there are far more qualified people even if still zoned to the north that can bring real change onboard. Am more concern about having round pegs in round holes, but this is far from that. Well, to many highly qualified Ladies and Gentlemen on the forum, let's think more of how we will get noticed and not wasting our lives away on nairaland having unhealthy ethnic and religious arguments. |
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After reading through the numerous posts, the only thing that cone to my mind is 'Lord Luggard and his Girl Friend cannot be resting in peace for bringing all this trouble on innocent people living peacefully on their own before the forceful union called Nigeria. Mere reading through Nairaland posts is enough to conclude that we are just deceiving ourselves that we are one, we really don't have any business being together.No love, no respect. I am so sure that if there is no oil we would have divorced and parted ways long ago. Anyway, God will have mercy on Lord Luggard! |
Pls send the proposal and I there necessary information to sanulekan@yahoo.com |
Bro, indeed some other people suffered, but the suffered most, the fact is that was there effort to erase the memory? And even after election, was there any move of reconciliation and erasing a feeling of 'no winner, no looser? It's still same Country and as a President he needs to enjoy everyone's support unlike you and l that can decide to abuse Ppl from other tribes without loosing anything. Not making effort to douse the tension was a big minus for him, winning election is not all. Meanwhile you interpreted the 95 and 5% to mean political appointment alone, how are you sure? Do all Nigerians have similar interpretation? The question the Lady asked was not about appointment, it was about development plan and plan for ND and he also did not make reference to appointment when he stated the 95 and 5% in his response. The fact is that some things are better left usaid by Leaders especially when you know the pulse of the ppl.Every word from leaders is weighty and can be interpreted based on where you stand, we all knew what has been happening, such utterances shouldn't have come out at all. I guess that's a lesson for our Leaders JesusWillSaveME: |
You see am so? They have freedom to decide where they want to be but tied up with some funny elements and we also cannot use our initiative.The last time there was a referendum on weather Scotland should remain in UK. Anyway, we all know that we are just being selfish about the whole thing because there is free oil.If there is no oil, am sure that decision to part ways would have been made long ago. If Niger Delta fail to secure their future by getting fiscal federalism, when oil dry up other regions will mock, stigmatise and shun them. On that basis l support real settlement now. Meanwhile, am a yorubaman,that has travelled far and wide in the region and know that Nigeria has not been fair to the region. RaptorX: |
Sorry Mister, his 'body language' led to the violence, his utterances were caustic and that led to it. No matter what you called Jonathan or how much you hate him, his body language and speeches were clearly against violence which GMB lacks. In case you dnt know Sir, Trump is an ordinary citizen as it is in US, but with the high security network there, his caustic utterances can still cause violence. I am a yorubaman,l dnt have anything to do with Jonathan but l stand for peace,justice and equity.People should be treated with respect and we need visionary Leaders not set of people that lord their success over others, that's not modern day politics, we have been through that path and that's why people voted for a change. When you observed a situation, as a leader you pro actively make moves to solve it which this govt lacks. After election Nigeria was polarised and l expected visionary and national leaders to close ranks and lure everybody in all regions to have a sense of belonging in the new era, but instead, it was utterances full of hatred, carefree speeches undermining and further giving already biased minds more reasons not to be comfortable in the Nigeria system. Ordinary person like me saw it coming, so am surprised and bothered that all the special change squad in govt did not see this or maybe afraid to tell a president and now being reactive. Why people fail is when they can't see what they or their demi gods have gone wrong to know how to amend the situation .The fact is that this govt started like 'we will deal with them, they didn't support us' which was glaring in GMB's speech (you can always deny that as well), however, that's how a nation is led, ask Obama, he probably had forgotten the voting pattern that brought him into the seat and his program is based on unbiased assessment of the country. Anyway,God will help us. Meanwhile, you can pass your message across without calling anyone silly, it doesn't show good upbringing. Thanks. gists: |
Yes, they hate him because there were reasons to do so. Is locking their VP son in kirikiri,while the President was given a presidential treatment after 1983 coup not enough to hate him? Is loosing 100s of their Children and kinsmen to violence after he lost previous election not and is this careless speech not also part of it. If you guys can't be objective, then you will lead him into his total downfall.He messed up and he simply did. A responsible president can't say that after what happened before and after election JesusWillSaveME: |
And same man and some funny Ppl want the constituencies that produce 10% of Nigeria income to continue to benefit more than Ppl that produce 90%? Nonsense, why won't Avengers cripple the economy. When he was supposed to mend fences across regions based on the division post election, he was busy saying careless nonsense with his Ministers. Anyway, Gbogbo agbalagbaa,ko ni agbalagba in the real sense if it. |
Stupid decision if indeed it's true |
Congratulations, so you are now a P.I.M.P. Just kidding @ P I M P o.lol |
Long but worth reading for open minded people The Hypocrisy of Our Leaders on True Fiscal Federalism, By Tony Osborg Premium Times December 29, 2015 Nigeria cannot continue to practice this skewed unitary ‘feeding bottle’ federalism. The change that Nigeria desires is not a change of politicians nor political party, it is a structural change. Until this is done, we shall continue to have the experience of ‘the more things change, the more they remain the same or get worse’…True fiscal federalism is the solution and the APC led Federal Government has a moral, legal and patriotic obligation to make this happen. In April 2012, the present Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, published an article titled “A Federation without Federalism”. In this article, El-Rufai gave a passionate and critical review of the skewed unitary federalism which Nigeria practices and advocated that the structure of Nigeria’s federalism is faulty and should therefore be restructured into a true fiscal federalism to allow the states (or regions as the case maybe) compete among themselves so as to drive a productive, fair, efficient and sustainable Nigeria. Part of the argument put forward by El-Rufai, was the need to revisit the 1963 constitution and decentralise power to enhance fiscal responsibilities to the governments closest to the people. Like he rightly said in that article, ‘from one perspective, there might be a nexus between our anomalous federal structure and the lack of accountability, particularly at the state and local government levels. If we reflect on our distant past, the 1963 Republican Constitution was close to an ideal federal structure, with clear guidelines on how the Nigerian federation and the federating units were to be financed without undue reliance of one on the other. Unlike the 1979 Presidential Constitution and its successors, including the current 1999 version, the 1963 Constitution set clear parameters for territorial and fiscal federalism and carefully avoided undue centralisation. For instance, section 140(1) (a) & (b) of the 1963 Constitution foreclosed any agitations in the guise of ‘resource control’. While all minerals – solid or liquid – remain unequivocally the property of the government of the federation, the Constitution provided thus: “There shall be paid by the Federation to each region a sum equal to fifty percent of – the proceeds of any royalty received by the Federation in respect of any minerals extracted in that Region; and any mining rents derived by the Federation from within that Region… In reciprocal terms, the regions were contributing towards the costs of administration of the federal government at the centre in the proportion of what they received as their own share of proceeds of export, import and excise duties collected in each region by the region on behalf of the government at the centre. In the case of oil production, the same applied with the unforeseen exception that the federation will go into joint ventures and production sharing contracts that bring in revenues other than rents, royalties and taxes. This system was maintained until the circumstances of the civil war changed it radically in favour of retention of most of the revenues by the centre, in order to prosecute the war. Things have never been the same since then.” If there is one thing all patriotic and intelligent politicians will agree upon, irrespective of political inclinations, it would be that the structure of Nigeria’s federalism is faulty and this is mostly responsible for the unlimited abnormality we are experiencing in Nigeria. In one of my early articles on fiscal federalism, I insisted that the politicians and their political parties are actually not the cause of our national problems; they are not the solution either. The cause of our national trouble is grounded in our skewed system of unitary ‘feeding bottle’ federalism. PDP did not cause it, APC will not solve it, only fiscal federalism will. Even the massive levels of corruption we see at the centre is only a by-product of the system we have chosen to practice; a skewed federalism breeds inevitable corruption and underdevelopment. Sometime in 2011, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu made an appeal to the elected lawmakers on the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) platform. In that appeal, as like in subsequent appeals, Senator Tinubu urged the lawmakers to support true fiscal federalism. Tinubu was not only stating his personal opinion, he was expressing the philosophy of the ACN. Like Senator Tinubu rightly stated in that appeal ‘only fiscal federalism can accelerate Nigeria’s development’. He was obviously right. He went further that, ‘What should be our agenda? What we stand for is what we are saying. And the stability of our country. We have Federal Republic of Nigeria and we are running a federal constitution. Then, we are here to ensure true federalism and I hope I am clear. Now fiscal federalism is mandatory for us. It is only the legislature that can effect the change in the revenue sharing formula… In the last 12 years, I have not heard that the revenue allocation has been reviewed and implemented. We have a lopsided revenue sharing formula… Critical to that, you have a lopsided revenue formula giving the Federal Government 52 percent of the commonwealth of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. It is not acceptable. The real people are there in the states and local government levels. The Federal Government should not take more than 25-30 percent of the revenue… In the federal principle under the constitution, it is the state who ceded power and trust to the Federal Government to hold certain aspects in trust on behalf of the states. Without the states, there is no federal (government). The situation is sad… we have not been running an effective federal system; it has been unitary system and it has to stop. And we have to work hard on that.’ Those were the words of an opposition leader who understood the real foundation of Nigeria’s challenges. The issue of fiscal federalism was once the major objective of the opposition party. And its proponents were from various parts of the country. Fiscal federalism was therefore not even a regional ideology. It was a national concept championed by opposition men such as El Rufai, Tinubu, Atiku and even Muhammadu Buhari. By 2012, Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar had become an advocate for fiscal federalism. In one of his debates, he regretted his refusal to support regionalism in the past and expressed his disappointment in the present structure. “I was among those who opposed it (fiscal federalism) because I thought that Ekwueme, coming from the defunct Republic of Biafra, wanted to break up the country again… Now, I realise that I should have supported him because our current federal structure is clearly not working. Dr. Ekwueme obviously saw what some of us, with our civil war mindset, could not see at the time. There is indeed too much concentration of power and resources at the centre… And it is stifling our march to true greatness as a nation and threatening our unity because of all the abuses, inefficiencies, corruption and reactive tensions that it has been generating… There is need, therefore, to review the structure of the Nigerian federation, preferably along the basis of the current six geopolitical zones as regions and the states as provinces… The existing states structure may not suffice, as the states are too weak materially and politically to provide what is needed for good governance.” He went on “Why should we be talking of federal roads and federal secondary schools? Decentralisation is not an invitation to the breakup of the country and national unity should not continue to be confused with unitarism and concentration of power and resources at the federal level.” The issue of fiscal federalism was once the major objective of the opposition party. And its proponents were from various parts of the country. Fiscal federalism was therefore not even a regional ideology. It was a national concept championed by opposition men such as El Rufai, Tinubu, Atiku and even Muhammadu Buhari. In March 2011, the then presidential aspirant of the Congress of Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhamadu Buhari (rtd.) stormed Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, promising to practice true fiscal federalism if elected into office. It is indeed confusing to see all these men who once believed in the power of true fiscal federalism become mute upon gaining control of the central government. One would believe that true fiscal federalism would become the impressum of their government. Alas, they have all gone mute. President Buhari, who once preached about fiscal federalism in soliciting for South-West votes, did not even have the courage to mention the word ‘fiscal-federalism’ in his inauguration speech. And the other leaders agreed with him. Is this not the height of national hypocrisy and deceit? The APC is now in full control of the central government. By full control I mean, controlling both the executive and the legislative houses, both at the state and federal levels. Yet, eight months into the government, no attempt has been made to at least begin the debate for true fiscal federalism. Just before the 2015 general elections, the All Progressive Congress (APC) published its party manifesto which it titled ‘Securing Nigeria’s Future – A Roadmap to a New Nigeria’. Two pertinent points are to note in this document. The manifesto begins with a promise on true fiscal federalism by asserting that if the APC is voted into the central government, it would “Initiate action to amend the Nigerian Constitution with a view to devolving powers, duties, and responsibilities to states in order to entrench true Federalism and the Federal spirit…”. It also went further to state that it would “Make sure people at a local level benefit from mining and mineral wealth by vesting all mineral rights in the land to states.” The APC is now in full control of the central government. By full control I mean, controlling both the executive and the legislative houses, both at the state and federal levels. Yet, eight months into the government, no attempt has been made to at least begin the debate for true fiscal federalism. Again, I ask, is this not the height of national hypocrisy both by the APC and its leaders? Nigeria cannot continue to practice this skewed unitary ‘feeding bottle’ federalism. The change that Nigeria desires is not a change of politicians nor political party, it is a structural change. Until this is done, we shall continue to have the experience of ‘the more things change, the more they remain the same or get worse’. President Buhari and the APC must save themselves from the pitfalls of our present skewed structure by doing the needful- restructuring the country. That is, if they wish not to be overwhelmed by the criminality of the present structure, just like the leaders and party before them. True fiscal federalism is the solution and the APC led Federal Government has a moral, legal and patriotic obligation to make this happen. Like El-Rufai once said “Without question, I believe the situation would have been different if true federalism in which every state generates the bulk of its recurrent needs, lives within its means and gets help from the centre on need basis; is operated as in the 1963 Constitution. Rather than blame the government at the centre for the woes of the states, citizens would have learnt to hold state governors and local government chairmen responsible for their neglect, and the incessant scramble for political positions at the federal level would have been less desperate and divisive. As it is, the attitude is one of “it is our turn to rule and chop” – with dire consequences for national cohesion, transparency and accountability in governance… A sound federal structure with balanced devolution of powers among the federating units would provide a respite for the security challenges currently facing the country…” President Buhari and the APC must save themselves from the pitfalls of our present skewed structure by doing the needful- restructuring the country. That is, if they wish not to be overwhelmed by the criminality of the present structure, just like the leaders and party before them. |
FELLOW NIGERIANS, JUST HOW DID WE ARRIVE AT THIS MESS? My wife and I were in Ado Ekiti for the wedding of the son of a close pal last weekend. To catch up with the news, we tuned in to a radio station on the evening of Friday and we heard a long speech from the state governor, Ayodele Fayose, in which he explained laboriously, albeit unsuccessfully to the discerning minds, why his state owes its workers and why it is passing through dire financial straits. The summary of his lamentation (for want of a better word to employ!) is that the 'cow' we call Niger Delta is refusing to be milked by the rest of us because of its restive youths. The North East, thoroughly vandalized by the mindless Boko haram insurgents, needs to be rehabilitated using the resources from the 'cow' we call Niger Delta, which is now refusing to be milked any further, because of its daring youths. This implies that the rebuilding of that part of the nation will be slow in coming. Most states of the country need the monthly federal allocation, over 80% of which are from the sales of crude oil from Niger Delta. How can a governor fight to win an election in the hope that he will run his state (if elected) with the resources sourced from hundreds of kilometers away from his state? In Ogun state, Ibikunle Amosun, has been trying to build a bridge linking alagbole to Akute and a rail line to link ijoko to alagbole, without first providing an alternative route, by fixing Denro-Ojodu road, for the residents of these areas, and, ensuring his state can generate the resources for this project, which looks more like a white elephant project than a needed infrastructure for the state (pardon my digression!). His strategy for funding of the bogus vision is not unconnected with the monthly federal allocation expectation, and somebody is calling the youths of Niger Delta names. How can North East be fixed with the proceeds of oil from Niger Delta? Can an indigene of Niger Delta become a governor in any state other than in Niger Delta? Whatever became of the groundnut pyramids in Kano? Whatever became of the palm produce of the south east (This is about the saddest story of our descent into this current shameless dependence on Niger Delta - considering how Malaysia came to collect palm seedlings from south east of Nigeria - Nigeria was then the world's number one palm oil producer - only to displace us and take over that rating, leaving us without any global reckoning in that product!); why is Cocoa no longer sustaining the west? Whatever happened to the coal at Enugu and the tin ore of Jos? These rhetorical questions have one obvious answer: The easy wealth from oil has atrophied our thinking, or more pointedly, has dulled the minds of our leaders. For about a month now power supply in most parts of the country has gone from epileptic to clinically dead, for the major reason that the 'troublesome' youths of the 'cow' we call Niger Delta, are bored with the milking of that 'cow' by the rest of us! We are now fully a generator/lantern driven economy because the youths of Niger Delta are unhappy with us. It is to our collective shame that we chose to go through school and we did not allow school to go through us. With all the PhDs and other high sounding and intimidating degrees and professional qualifications we bandy around, with all the solar energy we leave untapped, with all the arable land in our nation, which are left perennially virgin, with the both unfair and unjust quota system/federal character in the gaining admission in federal schools and getting government appointments, why would we not catch cold each time Niger Delta youths sneeze? Back to the title of the write up. Fellow Nigerians, how did we arrive at this mess? Nigeria is unarguably the only country in the world that a minority can hold hostage. Truth be told, we have been very unfair to that part of the country under the guise of federalism. I was repulsed the day I heard former president Obasanjo, in a rather far fetched joke say in Asaba, during an official visit he paid Delta state, that it was okay by him if Niger Delta goes on producing oil while he controls the proceeds. That unguarded statement summaries how we arrived at this junction. If we will turn the situation around and move the nation forward, we must give our state governors a deadline on when they must become financially autonomous or they get annexed by any neighboring state able to fund their existence as states. Detroit, is almost a ghost town because the United States will not give it monthly allocation as we do here. It's only here that we keep serving our states free monthly lunch! The darkest hour in the life of a man is when he sits down to plan how to spend the money he did not work for. The wisdom in that saying of late Zig Ziglar is time-tested. Any governor who keeps expecting federal allocation will never support confederation, which every developed country practices in different shades. What the states should be contributing to our commonwealth should be royalty from their internally generated resources. From such funds the government at the centre will take care of internal security and defense. Those who think Nigeria should not become a confederation should step aside for those who think she should. How long shall we depend on Niger Delta and how long shall we keep robbing the region, or better put, robbing our states of the blessings of becoming self sustaining? We call Niger Delta youths rent seekers but the rest of the nation are rent robbers under the mask of federalism! Its time we put on our thinking caps! https://www.nairaland.com/3147779/lets-confederation-true-federalism |
Where in ijebu igbo pls, how far fro Epe? BoluwGoldenFarm |
Where in ijebu igbo pls, how far to Epe? BoluwGoldenFarm: |
OP, Pls is the ijebu land still available? I am interested in 10acres |
Well said Bro. What made it critical is the fact that APC govt knew how divided the country was after election but instead of reconciliation moves, all some were saying was '5% support, wailers,etc and open intimidation of Ppl from the region during elections aided by some APC candidates especially in bayelsa, lopsided appointment, open display of anger and threats against the demands of these guys instead of seeking for solution, cancellation of Maritime University projects, bias handling of some national issues like fulani cattle rearers,senseless donation of huge resources to a US university by one of the beneficiaries of ND Oil when he doesn't have any educational support in any form in ND where he is milking the people dry.All are injustice that aggravated this.Am against violence, but as a yorubaman that served and has been residing in ND for 16yrs support their demand for true federalism.let every state control her resources while an agreed amount is contributed to Fed Govt. If we are sincere, we all know that the present arrangement support indolence and that is why state Govs can't think outside the box to generate resources and pay workers, they all came in with the mindset that federal allocation is there and no need for extra effort. Let's put sentiment apart, this govt saw this coming right before election but ignored this. I personally have been predicting this since 5yrs ago, and the signs were quite obvious just that we Nigerians sometime just want to see what we believe and not what is really on ground. I pray the violence end so that sincere dialogue can start for situation not to get too bad. AreaFada2: |
How far from main expressway |
Sorry my Bro, can you shed more light on the oppression allegation? Thanks |
Guess you want her to backslide? ![]() tico1212: |
Hahahaha such a coincidence, it's really funny, the guy that made a post above you is asking for any nairalander that can give him a doggy and here you are telling him to watzap you. kaduto: |
Not just 1 person HateU2: |
Ha ha ha ha Hahahahahaha. Don't disclose their identities o, except you are ready for a civil war ![]() EMEKA1MILLION: |
Anyaoku backs Buhari stance on naira devaluation Published on March 29, 2016 by · No Comments Chief Emeka Anyaoku, a former Commonwealth Secretary-General on Tuesday in Ibadan endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari’s stand against the devaluation of the naira. Anyaoku spoke at the presentation of Amb. Olusola Sanu’s memoirs “Audacity on the Bound: A Diplomatic Odyssey.” He called on Buhari to maintain his stance and also assemble a team of economic experts on the issue. Anyaoku, however, stressed the need to take the nation out of its present economic crisis. He bemoaned the present exploitation of the Nigeria Presidential system by the new generation politicians, whom he blamed for the nation’s woes. “I have worked closely with the old political leaders, who during their time were hardworking, brilliant and known for high level of integrity. “The new generation has exploited the presidential system. The president, governors and local government chairmen now parades over 3,000 special advisers. “Some of the state governors that cannot boast of strong revenue also have up to 30 advisers. ” A local government chairman now operates presidential system at council level,” he said. Anyaoku who quoted copiously from the work, described the book as an instructive material for the future generations in Nigeria and for institutional development. He said that Sanu was one of the brightest administrators in Nigeria, who lived a life of hard work and integrity Similarly, retired Gen. Yakubu Gowon, a former Head of State commended Sanu for displaying exemplary performances in all the positions he occupied. Gowon said that the book would help to boost the capacity of young career diplomats. “I am sure that Sanu will never forget his exploits as an ambassador to Ethiopia,” he said. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the book has 514 pages, divided into 21 chapters. http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2016/03/29/anyaoku-backs-buhari-stance-on-naira-devaluation/
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[ Sorry Bro, Wike has been there before him and has also proved to him that he doesn't have any political base. He was declared personal non grata by his Ubima kinsmen and that is the worse that can happen to a man quote author=fulanimafia post=43938479] Ameachi has been Governor twice which is the maximum allowed by the constitution. He has grown beyond Rivers State politics and is now a national politician. Ameachi is loved in the NW, NC, NE and SW (the election deciders) and can win any national election. Apart from the SS/SE, where else can Wike be tolerated? Ameachi has gone beyond state politics and his role in this election was to attempt an increase in the APC's large political warchest. He remains a Senior Minister of the Federal Republic and Dakuku has also gone Federal as Nimasa's DG. All's well that ends well.[/quote] |
Am here my Bro quote author=rocoh post=43902017]Anybody in Port Harcourt?[/quote] |


