₦airaland Forum

tupacshakur:
If you notice, I seldom contribute to political and economical issues pertaining to the SW as I hold none of the Governors in high esteem. I believe no Yoruba Governor since 1999 is worthy of emulation, including Fashola. They are all bunch of crooks and far from being in the mold of the great Obafemi Awolowo.

Oh, how I detest Tinubu. He's a smart politician though. I give that to him but he achieved nothing in his 8 years at the helm of affairs in Lagos state. He left the state in tatters, allegedly murdered Funsho Williams in cold blood, as he knew the latter was obviously going to defeat his party, AC. He handed over to an overrated Fashola, after disregarding democratic tenets in the AC primaries that'd have seen Jimi Agbaje emerge as the party's flag bearer.

Aunty Modath, oro po ninu iwe kobo.

With due respect, I disagree with you on your stance. Let's criticize our SW leaders explicitly without mincing words. E jeki a bu won daa da! . Afterall, who have they helped, except their cronies and relatives?

As regards the Flat-heads' unwarranted and annoying poke-nosing into this thread, I think the best folks like you can do is to ignore them completely. But trust me, I'll pay them in their own coin.

That aside, I've been trying to figure out how you came about your moniker, "modath"...sounds like the name of an ancient Greek goddess. As google couldn't help, I tried stringing parts of some distinct words together but gave up after futile attempts. I thought of MODupe-ATHeist, but a lady Yoruba atheist is as rare as a virgin in a maternity ward. . I know the reason behind IlekeHD and Ibebe's moniker though.

9jacrip:
Egbon mi, I have thought about the effect of giving a 'foe' ammunitions to attack us with but then how are we supposed to discuss pressing issues if we are not honest with and to ourselves?

We do not have any other platform exclusively reserved for us to open up about situations bothering on our region.

If we begin to censor, how else are some of us not present in or accessible to some locations supposed to get a clear picture of the situation there?

I would like to see how it goes if the house chooses to dumb things down.

The both of you have said it all and there's nothing more to add.

The ridiculous debt profile and utter idi.otic fiscal policies by SW governors is enough for folks to hit the streets and start protesting in saner climes. It shows that collectively SWern governors are the worst in the country. How can five of the 6 states be running at a deficit and folks think people need to be quiet about it? Ridiculous.

Who cares about who's reading and taunting who? Are they the ones who will pay back the debts, while these rogues keep enriching themselves, their cronies, and unborn generations on the backs of poor Yoruba folks who aren't benefiting anything from their wasteful spending, with nothing to show for it?

These folks have failed Yorubas and we need to talk about their obvious failures. That was what we created the thread for - for awareness and to discuss everything Yoruba, with no holds barred.

If Winston Churchill wasn't critiqued for his shortcomings and obvious failures - there would have never been a Clement Attlee, who's the father of modern Britain and the greatest British PM ever.

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yetseyi:
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my friend some days back. She works with one of these foreign banks and she said they are encouraged to have some brief discussions with customers. In the course of how are you and your business discussions a lot of married men try to ask her out.

She said there was a particular one that was like can we meet at XYZ restaurant for a chat, she said the most annoying part was that she was staring at his wedding band (trying to remind him that you are married now) but this guy didn't even blink. She had to tell him we are not encouraged to go on dates with our customers.

Another one was trying to close his account and relocating to the USA and was asking her if she would come to visit him if he pays for a ticket (come for what now). She also had to turn down his offer politely (even though she felt like lambasting him)

She said the most annoying part is that these men come to abuja majorly for business and just for the few weeks they spend they look for young ladies to mess around with.

According to her these men are accomplished, comfortable and financially capable so its almost impossible to find a man in his forties with such characteristics and still unmarried.

It takes a very disciplined lady to turn down any offer from a married man, they come and try to lure with their money most times and if you are a long throat you wont be able to resist.

That's how one on my street was saying something of sort. I simply told him I am not interested.

Married men should stop running after single ladies and other peoples wives also Ladies should stop accepting offers and be observant enough if a guy is in his late 30's or early 40's and he is comfortable and he says he single then investigate.

Cool story, Sis.

But you omitted the ones that accepted the offers.

RevDesmondJuju:
I was asking why all US backed Terror groups are Muslim.

Your Taqiyya is weak and lame.

Or are you scared sh1t of having your Muslim buddies in Londonstan who know your handle here pounce on you?

Loool.

You're a circus clown. Pounce on me? Even Baghadi won't come near me unless he wants to be force-fed more than enough pork.

You're an idiot and a crackhead. Thought I was posting to someone who's mentally stable. Effing troll and time waster.

RevDesmondJuju:
The question you must ask is why is it so easy for America to create Muslim Terror groups and find Muslims to fill the slot?

Islamic foolery is what America exploits.

Its that simple.

It's very easy to influence those you turned disenfranchised robots, especially when you have a country like Saudi Arabia, the home of all Sunni Muslims, to use as a medium to recruit them. Hence US and Saudi Arabia are buddies.

Despite how everyone knows that the West destroyed Africa, from slavery, to colonisation, to all the brutal civil wars, to apartheid et al. Aren't Africans most of the useful idiots the West still use today against the same continent? Heck, weren't Africans the same folks Europe used in fighting the colonisation wars in Africa? Weren't Africans the same folks King Leopold of Belgium used in killing 20million Congolese, their own brothers and sisters?

Once the oppressor gets in control of the mind of the oppressed - anyone can become a useful idiot, including you.

ken4jj:
Even as i agree with you that the US role in the middle east has created some of these terrorist but for how long are we going to keep putting the blame on the US? The stupidity, arrogance, selfish interests of the US should not and never be an excuse for the Muslim world to become terrorists. If elites like you simply blame the US alone without actually condemning this terrorists, it will be an indirect way of giving them moral support and this madness will continue. Somebody should tell these guys that since they want to become terrorist because of the US, they should target the pentagon, Air force 1, white house, Us soldiers and leave innocent civilians alone.

Why waste the lives of innocent people when even most of them hate their govt because of its stupid role in the world. One day Europe will slide to conservatives and start deporting Muslims back to their country.
Attacks like this is a reminder to the free world that there is possibility that there is something fundamentally wrong with Islam. Remember the religious riots in the north. Or is the Danish carton riot a fault of the US too?

At some point, the past needs to be erased so that a better future will be created. Japan was nuked by the same Evil US, yet Japan has let go the past and has built a prosperous nation afterwards. i am sure that if Japan was an islamic nation, that would have been an excuse for Japanese citizens to embrace terrorism since it will be comfortable to blame the US.

I am sick and tired of Islamic terrorism worldwide. somebody should tell these guys, US evil interest should not be an excuse to destroy and kill. if the Muslim world cannot sponsor Christians to become terrorists and suicide bombers, when then should they allow themselves to be sponsored for terrorism except there is something fundamentally wrong with Islam.

But are all Muslims terrorists? And wasn't Al Qaeda dying off before the US decided to go create new monsters in ISIS and Al Nusra in Syria, with the aid of Saudi Arabia and Qatar? If Syria had been left alone - would these groups be thriving today? Would there be any refugee crisis in Europe?

Japan was nuked once during a war, it wasn't consistently attacked like the US has been bombing MENA for over 25 years now.

gists:
Even Americans knows. Only Nija bigots who have no info but just reacting based on hatred thinks otherwise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMlck4IZXsk

Don't mind them. A lot of these idiots just watch the fake and scripted news on MSM and regurgitate the crap they see there. A lot of these things are well scripted to achieve a certain goal. But the collateral damage are always innocent folks. We live in a very strange world and nothing is black and white - too many grey areas.

Back Steve Biko, "Black man, you are on your own." These folks are just slaves and useful idiots.

PappyMason:
The worn out crusade argument is just another ploy by you muslims to justify your barbaric acts by comparison.

I won't discuss the crusade with you because I do not believe it to be a christian movement but an economic war by the Papacy and Kings of Europe to secure their interests which was to drive out muslim invaders from Europe and Jerusalem which where not arab nor muslim land in the first place.

As for your question why now, you should understand that as a Muslim living in the UK more and more muslims subscribe to the Mahdist apocalypse and see ISIS as a harbinger of the Islamic end times which will eventually see Islam dominate the world.

America exploits fault lines, ideologies and theologies for their power play. It just happens that your Average arab muslim being is easily swayed by such crap.

If you must know, the real reason behind ISIS is to build a pipeline from Saudi Arabia and Iraq through Syria to Europe.

To the Americans it is just another day in empire building but to the average muslim it is the sign of the Iman Mahdi.

I can go on but I will urge you to resrarch on the implications of Bagdadi declaring himself a Khalifa and an Islamic Khalifate and his claims to legitimacy to do so and the significance this holds among the majority of Sunni Muslims who keep flocking to join ISIS.

When did I become a Muslim?

The world is deeper than the propaganda you lot read on the internet. A lot of these "terrorist attacks" are false flag operations, just to change public opinions and turn everything into a war of ideology. We all know about the Christian crusaders, Christian terrorists, and there are still tons of Christian terrorists running around. The KKK is a Christian fanatic group and there are tons of them.

Religion is just the boogeyman to keep the world divided. Just as the Shiite and Sunnis don't get along - the Catholics and Protestants are also fighting their own wars. So, if it's about religion, why's the US, a Christian country - in bed with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the two sponsor of Wahabism? Why did the US roll out the red carpet for the Saudi King when he visited Washington? Why did the UK, a Christian country, and the country that created the Protestants version of Christianity, as a break-away group from the Catholic Church, roll out the red carpet for the Saudi King when he visited London? Why is Israel working closely with Saudi Arabia and Qatar?

Oh, you mean the same Bagdadi that was in a picture with John McCain, a US senator and former presidential aspirant? If you believe Bagdadi wants a caliphate - then you'll believe anything.

Like Steve Biko said, "The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

searching4loove:
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Trash. Always blaming the US for everything while u bastards lick russian butts. u should be shot in the throat. son of a biitch

Lol.

This accursed homoerotic illiterate and product of an awkward se.x session between two monkeys again? Why didn't ya mum swallow that se.men 9months before you were sired? Why? I need to slap that biitch for the shame she has brought on humanity. Effing monkey!

eye4eye:
I swear, you are mostly right with most of your points. The U.S needs to stop meddling in affairs of others. That's what draws me to Rand Paul. The deed has been done now and the solution is to stop treating Saudi with kid gloves. If I had my way, I wouldn't mind occupying Saudi by 7am tomorrow morning. Saudi is number 1 sponsor of terrorism with their wahabism.

But can the US stop messing with Saudi Arabia despite the fact that the whole world knows that Saudi Arabia is responsible for Wahabism and the country spends billions of dollars to keep these agents of death around to cause havoc?

Fvck the US.

I'm out.

PappyMason:
Islamic Terrorism pre-dates America and her foreign policy.

Muslims jubilate when such attacks occur.

Muslims defended the Charlie Hebdo killers.

In as much as I agree that American foreign policy is the major disaster plaguing the world, Islamic terrorism has over 1400 yrs and hundreds of million body bags ahead of the US.

But was it this rampant pre American adventurism all over MENA?

Islamic terrorism back then was no different from Christian terrorism. The shoe bomber wasn't a muslim, was he? The Oklahoma City bombing wasn't done by a muslim.

France has always had a huge Muslim population with no problems whatsoever. The whole of Southern France is loaded with Algerians, Tunisians, Syrians, Moroccans, Lebanese etc., including a lot of black Muslims from Francophone West Africa. And a lot of them have been there for more than two generations with no problems whatsoever. But why now? Why do they keep troubling France?

Anyway, the US needs to keep its mess in France and not let it spread to the UK.

eye4eye:
God bless you for this post. George Bush and Tony Blair created these monsters. Unfortunately, Obama let it get out of hand when he pulled out of Iraq.

U.S needs to send 100k troops to Iraq and Syria. There is need to kill every terrorist in that part of the world. Saudi Arabia should not be spared either as they fund terrorism too. Those mullars in Saudi Arabia are the ones funding terrorism world wide.

The US created all these terrorists.

Take a look at Syria for example: if the country had been left alone there won't be neither ISIS nor Al Nusra and the refugee crisis. Who turned Syria into a shytehole? - the US. There's absolutely no way Europe would've shut its doors on these refugees, so they had to take them in.

Brev, sending 1 billion troops to Iraq/Syria won't solve the problem till the US stops meddling in foreign countries; reins the CIA in; and bomb Saudi Arabia and Qatar (the two axis of evil). Till then, we'll always have these problems.

raumdeuter:
All these European govt who sacrifice the safety of their populace at the altar if political correctness

Stop taking people with different religion and culture en masse

This has nothing to do with European govt but more to do the US creating monsters everywhere, while Europe keeps suffering from the collateral damage. There have always been a huge Muslim population in France since like forever.

France has the largest population of North African diaspora - from when there was nothing like extremists, until US and Saudi Arabia started creating these monsters. Is Europe also responsible for what's going on in Syria and the refugees they unleashed on Europe? Did Europe create the Syrian rebels that turned to Al Nusra and ISIS?

The US created all this mess and the country needs to go clean up the mess it created in MENA.

Aareonakakanfo:
Yeah! but didn't want to bring the discussion here

Okay.

Ibebe:
I had a lengthy conversation with a Nigerian friend of mine tonight (20mins ago to be exact).

The negro told me that no revolution can help Nigeria. He sounds so complacently pathetic.

FOBs and NINs makes it so hard to have hope of change.

Lol.

That's what happens due to lack of proper exposure and living in a messed up country for too long.

These folks are so funny, some of them even confuse stupidity/docility with being educated/sophisticated.

Please, leave these folks alone...they deserve what they get.

Qelvin:
Thanks bruv, one very admirable quality of Yoruba people is their culture of liberality and openness towards dating outside of their own nucleus, and yeah you are right on the conservative part(noticed that in this chic,the way she exudes calm,charm,with this alluring subtlety in her voice that underlies a classy type of freak especially when she speaks yoruba in that sexy Egba dialect of hers...I speak Yoruba btw as I was born and bred in Ibadan), man fvck it Yoruba girls have won me over, Biafra might have to wait cause I ain't leaving this chic anytime soon man.

Loool.

Don't worry when you get ya Biafra, you can always apply for whatever passport Yoruba decide to use then via ya wife.

Shyte, if you lot like each other, she's yours. God bless the union.

Aareonakakanfo:
Loooool Eyi o de wa da oooo.Ti mo de n duro de ounje emi ko si aburu

As per the Daddies thing,I know you and Shymm3x drink water with Pizza pans without anything dropping off Respect! Awon agba awo lo n soro

Surely the Old men are wiser and they know what we don't know

But why are you guys keeping these secrets from youths like us That's unfair

No be beans to drink water from this thing na

Loooooooooool

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Are you watching the Brazil vs Argentina game?

9jacrip:
He has not been active in this section.

You mentioned the need for a revolution a while back then I wondered to myself if that could be a possibility in SWest?

I was just messing about with revolution.

Yoruba folks are too sophisticated for revolution - unless it's an owanbe revolution with a lot of merrymaking.

You want folks who were crying about meat like molly when people raised alarm about how Fulanis are killing Yoruba folks to revolt, no? Stop it, just organise a big owanbe party for my people with a lot of amala and music, and it's all good.

Ibebe/Ilekeh/IlekeHD and quimicababes

The daddies, 9jacrip and aareonakakanfo are home - time to serve dinner.


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9jacrip:
It feels good to have egbon DayoKanu back, been a while yo!

I'm just sitting on the sidelines observing his contributions, he appears pro-Aregbe to me though

Big Dayokanu has been around. He never left.

I see him all the time in the Family section.

Qelvin:
help guys I'm in love with a yoruba girl..any tips on how to make her know this Igbo boy isn't playing around with her feelings?(seems yoruba girls are pretty serious about loyalty)

She's all yours. We Yoruba guys don't cuff our chics - anyone can take them.

Just make sure you've enough money and you can sell good dreams. Yoruba chics can also be conservative from the outside, but once the lights go off - they're freaky as fvck.

Enjoy.

raumdeuter:
The biggest drum stuff is also part of the developing the cultural tourism of Osun and promoting the Osun Festival. I attended the Osun Festival several years in the early to mid 90's even went to the river got the water, went to the grove the palace and there are other cultural attraction to follow like Nike gallery, Elebuibon shrine

The stadium i think it was the previous administration that got loans and started the stadium

The airport probably to get direct flight to the Osun festival. Someone here said Osun has the second largest workforce after Lagos Imagine how weighty that can be on a state without 10% of Lagos IGR

Also looting is part of governance in Africa and even in the whole world. Its just for govt to deliver some dividends after the wholesale looting

I think the plumetting oil price is a good start reduced allocation would force govt to think now

The biggest drum won't boost any tourism right now, till say, 200 years' time. Those going to Osun are more interested in Osun Oshogbo festivals and Ife. Osun is an integral part of most of the Yoruba religions in the new world, from Santeria, to Condombe, to Voodoo etc.. Another god they worship is Yemoya. However, I don't know how the Yemoya worship/festival works and perhaps Osun state can invest in creating a next festival about Yemoya to for tourism and revenue generation purposes.

A thinking governor looking to maximise the interests of tourists in these two gold mines would invest heavily in them and turn them to something similar to the Brazilian carnival and media campaigns in the countries where most of these folks coming to spend money are from. He can also send emissaries to those countries from time to time to boost relations. But this man didn't do that - he just wasted millions of naira on an inconsequential drum like there aren't more than enough things in that state to generate interests. Isn't that the same state where foreign archaeologists are still excavating all kinds of artworks by Yoruba ancestors, buried beneath the earth surface? How about build a museum there for exhibitions from time to time?

Government in today's world is run like a profit-oriented business venture. Once you start running at a loss, you just have cut expenditure, to keep a proper balance sheet - else you'll go bankrupt. That's just common sense. Something just has to give cos the debts are piling up for future generations and folks can't turn a blind eye on them with excuses. I'll leave the civil service alone cos the sector should only make-up a fraction of the recurrent expenditure.

However, in a case where they're not delivering anything and the debt profile keeps growing due to wholesale looting - shouldn't they cut down the looting and do the right thing?

modath:
@shymm3x ,

That's the thing, The Civil Service is a packaged welfare system designed to look like active duty..


Ain't nothing happening in 90% of government offices..

Come to Abuja, you'll see Nigerian wonder, Agencies of govt occupying the 2nd floor of a residential building & only a 3rd bother to be punctual & regular & some even if you want to work dem nor send u message..

My younger sis' office was a rented bungalow that they have been evicted from since a yr+ ago & the salary hasn't stopped neither is the govt aware that the bosses are just balling on govt dime....

As long as NASS is getting their cut, appropriation of funds for its mgt is not going to stop...

Told her a few days ago that we should place a bet , that before this month runs to an end, an office space will magically appear, hope to win...

They don't tell folks - once the country goes bankrupt, no one will tell them before they start laying folks off.

raumdeuter:
Let me put you in the position of governor of Ekiti or Osun

Some of these governors Like Akande Aregbe and Fayemi were thinking if they provide infrastructures like road it would make the state attractive to investors but building up infrastructure would have to be at the expense of recurring expenditures

I dont know what else constitute recurring expenses aside salaries

Due to none development of other sectors, the govt is the highest employer of labour and in truth its more like just dashing money out a welfare system for salaries and pension

I won't speak about Fayemi cos I don't know much about Ekiti.

However with Osun - the state has at least two tourism gold mines millions of Yorubas or those who practise Yoruba religions in the new world are interested in, and thousands visit annually in: Osun Oshogbo festival and Ife. But rather than invest in the two - the man keeps spending money on frivolities like the biggest drum in the world, mini stadia etc., despite how poor that state is. Who does that?

A good administrator would do a proper analysis of whatever place he's asked to govern and focus on the strength, so as to cover the weakness. However, when you are wasteful with no direction whatsoever - then you have to take the blame for failing woefully.

Also, are you going say these folks aren't utterly corrupt? And their excessive looting is part of the reason why the recurrent expenditure is that high?

Aareonakakanfo:
I already used that your gif

Do I need to pay for copyright infringement?


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Loooool.

You are the gif don...you can use it loool.

raumdeuter:
They cant scrap those dormant ministries because of the people who work there who would be unemployed that would raise hell and make the ruling party lose elections.

When Buhari delayed ministerial list and even pruned it down many people were already complaining that. There is no money in town. That the money budgeted to ministries would trickle down in form of money for PA, DG, perm secs, hiring of staffs etc

So if a budget of say 100M was allocated to a ministry before they think of any project they have to remove the money for salary and travels/training. Its whatever is left that would go to projects (ignoring that they are stealing). The cost of governance is so damn high and not sustainable

Those 6 months we didnt have ministers in Nigeria that we raised hell, Do you know how much in salary was saved? The truth is the people that really do the work are usually about 10, the rest are just there to fill constitutional quotas

When growing up I knew a friend whose mom was employed by FEDECO(INEC of the 2nd republic) the ministry was no longer in existence but she was still collecting the salary till the mid 90's almost 15yrs after the scraping of FEDECO while she would resume to her shop and still collect salary

Nigeria is a very complex country I tell you

Let me give you an example. When Akala was voted out in Oyo state he set a landmine for the incoming Ajimobi by hiring many people with the intention of dumping their financial burden on the coming govt on top of little resources

However, something has to give and desperate times requires desperate measures. In saner climes, government agencies/ministries are run like business ventures - not charity. Except when it's welfare. And since there are no welfare programmes involved - the dormant ministries have to go. They can't keep running recurrent expenditure at a deficit, else the whole system will collapse and go bankrupt - and once that happens, they will have to do it, won't they?

Also, about Yoruba states employing all and sundry from everywhere in the federation. If there's no quota system in place for state governors to employ folks from other states/regions - I believe they need to start doing it based on what other regions are doing. If there are only 10 Yorubas working in state ministries across the SE - there should be only 10 Igbos across state ministries in the SW. We can't keep incurring debts to run our states, while other states are free from debts. Yorubas are the ones liable for the debts - not Nigeria. Unless FG will pay back the debts.

Let me leave the state workforce alone for now. What are the aspects of government spending that contribute to recurrent expenditure in the Nigerian context? Also, a lot of these governors are utterly corrupt and wasteful. They need to put their excesses in check and deliver good governance. The truth is that: apart from Lagos - there's next to nothing going on in these other states. So is low oil prices the excuse they're going to keep giving for the next four years, while piling up huge debts?

zimoni:
Shymmex and batty shaaa

Where is your amala wife Miss89? We haven't seen her in days.

The amala wife, missy89, is too occupied with propaganda and the white man's nuts for now. She is family and she will come back to papi Chulo once she is done with 'em white boys loool.

Aareonakakanfo:
Quimicababes you know they cosigned it on that side?

You need to tell them more

Shymm3x this your gif eh Abeg help us take am dahn

I will take it down now lool.

raumdeuter:
The budget and debt profile is a tricky subject to approach

1 There is a disproportionate number of civil servant in the SW who just take salary and have very little input to the economy. Its also a very sensitive political issue because ofthe large number of salry earners who make a bulk of the voting population or their dependent. In the interior almost everyone in the SW is tied to some salary earner

When the govt of Bisi AKande in osun tried to do the right thing, He retired older employees and not too productive ones. People rose against him

His argument was that In a school of 60 teachers, You have 6 teachers for govt, 10 for CRK and IRK i Physics, 1 Maths 2 English 20 for Home economics

There is no way the education sector of the state would bring the needed result from the investment made to it if we spend more salary on Unproductive subjects

The people kicked against it and it became a Political issue. Needless to say He lost the election

Fayemi became governor in Ekiti his first move was education reform He gave teachers subject teachers tests in their own field and those that didnt pass were fired

E.g If you teach Physics you wer given a Physics test WAEC level and passmark was about 60% man failed. He laid them off and it became a big political issue and one of the reasons he lost to Fayose

The money Fayemi saved then, I heard he tried to use it on infrastructures in Ekiti and was roundly commended for his road projects and developmental projects but the civil servants kicked against it

At a time when Oil prices were high and income to states High, Recurrent expenditures were the like the bulk of expenses. Now when oil prices crashed states couldnt pay they had to resort to borrowing

For us to see any meaningful development in the country we need to develop other part of the economy which can employ people so everyone wont depend on civil service for employment

Brilliant input.

However, before we heap the blame solely on those working in the civil service - I think it will be better to know the total number of workers employed by the state and the cumulative wages they earn monthly vis-a-vis the recurrent expenditure, to determine the actual percentage they contribute to the recurrent expenditure.

Also, what other aspect of government spending contributes to recurrent expenditure in the Nigerian context?

I agree that Nigeria's excessive dependence on oil is a big problem. Ditto the structure of the country. And like I posited in the past: Nigeria is a poor country cos the money the country makes from oil is too meagre to cater effectively to the huge population. However, that doesn't absolve these governors from blame. You can't run a government on deficit and the beauty of good governance is about being proactive, prudent, and the ability to make the electorate feel the impact of effective governance. Once you start running a deficit and incurring unnecessary debts - with nothing to show for it - it is only matter of time before everything will come crashing down.

Furthermore, I'm sure there are a lot state departments/ministries that are dormant and are really of no use...why can't they scrap them?

Ibebe:
Someone is seriously upset o

This will solve the problem - just make sure the big aareonakakanfo is the only there and it's private.

Ibebe:
Who married who?

*sigh*

No shymmex, we shall not go down this route. I get uneasy with this kinda conversation.

C'mon, the big aareonakakanfo is going to look after you.

Leave 'em romanis alone and keep it in-house.

Aareonakakanfo:
Dugbe since its the commercial nerve centre of Ibadan.

Ibadan, here comes ya amala politics statue.

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Ibebe:
Stillwater is my guess, but I doubt she's as tribalistic as Crayola1.

Loool.

Never trust snakes - most of them have alternate handles.

Anyway, I think both nn3nna1 and still-whatever are sisters but it seems the nn3nna1 is an emotional nutter and she was almost losing it back then. And Every time she's in culture section back then, the cray0la1 always follow her there. Then the still-whatever will just appear from nowhere.

The three handles are just weird.