₦airaland Forum

On which population record are these false data and statistics emanating from. Originally, most of these data are predicate on a country's population, who can accurately tell us what Nigeria population is? Both the local and international statistics on Nigeria are based on mere assumption and can not be accepted.

topstone4:
Point out anything that makes him a fool; that's the only way to prove that you are not the[b]FOOL[/b]

It is so easy to know you people, check your post and it will simply reflect how foolish you are.

topstone4:
Why not counter what he wrote with facts and not empty ranting? They say you APC defenders are daft and stupid in the way you all comment; why not prove people wrong by commenting sensibly for once?

You mean to prove a FOOL wrong?

God punish PDP.

gaetano:
You see the what these useless leaders are passing down. Ist it was Buhari that brought the idea of taking way too long before appointment Ministers, now Governors have copied that.
Then it was omoagage that started the mace thievery nonsense at the senate, now state houses of assembly have adopted that. This Buhari regime ehn

Keep quiet if you don't know what to say, who started the issue of snatching mace in this country? No wonder, it's clear there are too many children like you here.

WarriAproko:
If we get 200 of sowere for dis country. Everywhere for good

There are thousands of people far better than him, the problem he had was that he wasn't diplomatic in his approach in the first place. Now it is left for the court to decide if his actions amount treasonable felony or not. Don't forget that treason is not a bailable offence. For 59 years after independence, it is obvious our leadership have failed us, let begin to think on who we can change the narratives. We should think of what positive things we can contribute to the society and not what our leaders can do for us.

daddytime:
If na Obaseki govern Lagos with the huge allocation and monthly IGR, in fact, wet in him for do for Lagos as per infrastructure, na suicide mission Tinubu for go on to mess am up because he refuses to share the states money.

Lagosisns would have risen to his defense unlike poor teddy bear Ambode the akpu.

What has Obaseki done in Edo state?

SoftP:
If only Oshiomole and his selfish crew can give one good reason why they are desperately fighting to unseat Gov.Obaseki, Edo people will gladly support him and his cohorts.


The only Sin the governor has committed is not sharing government money amongst the likes of Samson Osagie, Obahiagbon and some other miscreants who believed the state treasury is their birthright '

Edo people has gone past that stage. We are strongly behind Obaseki.


very soon, oshiomole and his cohorts go start see spiritual finger for their face'
Our God is not asleep

Nobody need Obaseki's money. Oshomole is not even know for sharing money. The truth is that Obaseki is a betrayal, you cannot be a honest politician without being loyal to the party under who's platform you contested and won election. If he can not respect the party it is clear he cannot even be trusted even in his guise to be developing the state. The records are very clear what Oshomole did achieve in his first term then as a governor, Obaseki can not and will never accomplish such even in eight years. Obaseki is clearly working for the opposition, he is a disgrace to politics, a betrayal and a disloyal beginner. Let see how it goes, the court has their constitutional responsibility so is the Legislature. You cannot interpret the law more than the makers of the law. We are all watching and certainly the disloyalty and irregularities presently be perpetuated by Obaseki will surely consume him.

tuniski:
How is one winning/losing his polling unit amounts to the outcome of general elections? The last time I checked buhari didn't win at Aso Rock!

Is Also Rock PMB polling unit. Ague with sense, abeg.

namio10:
What's president Buhari's business directing a state governor?

Is BUHARI gearing towards absolute dictatorship

They belong to the same party and Mr. President is the party leader. Are you a member of their party? If not, I don't think it is your business.

PopsiAde:
If a new proclamation is to be made, it suffices that they are starting afresh. So what happens to the expiration date? And we have a Vice President who is a Professor of Law.

What is the time frame by law Mr. Lecturer?

Mikepenny5:
It will never be well with those wicked leaders

But it will be well with the terrorist, people like you are the reason why these evil terrorist will continue with their ungodly act just to set the people against the government of the day.

IneedSugarMumy1:
Ahh this is getting out of hand


Why this government like killings, simply release the man as court have instructed you to do

All this killing and destroying of property is uncalled for

Which court demanded that he should be released? Is it not the same man that was in court last week seeking an order of court to alloy him travel abroad for medical treatment? You people should stop spreading wrong information to Nigerians.

elldeb101:
story.....Common sense in IT should tell us that the use of card reader (which was made mandatory) required a central server where data was stored and retrieved to verify voters details. IF a server was not used, where then was the card reader accessing their data from? Except he is saying that it was not used to send results..which is also a lie because most PO / APO claimed to have been given a username and password which was used to send the result from their polling units to headquarters electronically.
It would have been better if he just said the result on the server was not used because it was inconsistent or any other lie..not this one he is saying.

You dont even understand what a server mean in this case, the Card readers were configured as a stand alone system meaning there are not sending or receiving any code from a central data storage, they only utilizes the code or data stored on them that is why they can only work in their assigned polling units. You can remember Inec saying they need to reprogram card readers to replace the ones affected by a fire incident in one of states.
There is no way inec could have transmitted the results to a central system. It was a big blow to the PDP as they were evidently prepared to hack the system and manipulate the result. If there was even a server, how come they have access to it without the permission of the electoral body or the tribunal? We remember the PDP praying the tribunal to grant them access to inspect the voter's materials whereas they claim to have obtained a result from a server which belong to inec without any authority.
PDP and Atiku will end up exposing their dubious plan to have rigged the election before the tribunal.

FarahAideed:
Exactly taking Buhari out of the equation immediately puts an end to the killings

That is exactly what the people fuelling and sponsoring these killings in this country want but unfortunately it wont go that way. How on earth can you explain that the fulanis has taken over the yoruba land for instance and are killing their people without any fighting back? We are not telling ourselves the truth.

paxonel:
then INEC should allow the tribunal inspect the accreditation data, it's simple.

The case before the election court is not about accreditation, its about result.

oluwaahmed:
Besides, a corps member who served in Ibadan, Oyo state and simply identified herself as Adenike told THISDAY that all the results of the 2019 elections were transmitted to the central server. She added that as Assistant Presiding Officer (APO) during the election, her job was to transmit the result electronically.
According to her, “All the results were transmitted. It is the work of APO to transmit results.”

If truly results were sent to a server why do we have Ward collation, LG collation, states collation and finally collation at Abuja. Just as the card reader is not perfect it will be a disaster to transmit reliable result to central data base using the same card reader. Again who authenticate the acclaimed result sent with the card reader? How do party agent attest their signature electronically to the transmitted result? There is simply no case here.

Racoon:
INEC under the APC govt has simple became a worst embodiment of gross fraud & corruption.

Is it the result that was sent to a server or the number of those successfully accredited? What is a server? A computer or device that controls another computer or device or a device that send/recieve and store datas. Inec certainly has record(data) of registered voters which can be stored in a server or a computer, now information on the card readers are programmed locally on the individual card reader that is why a card reader meant for a PU cannot be used for another polling units. This alone is a prove that there is no single central data base where data can be transmitted( Put/Get) Moreover in most cases the card readers could not even verify most registered voters particularly their bio datas and these category were cleared manually using the voters register. Now on the issue of result being transmitted to a central computer is not logical and could not be accepted. The final collation of results was done in Abuja with each state returning officer coming to physically present results from their respevtive states. This alone shows that results were not meant to be collated automatically.

airminem:
Atiku will reclaim the people's mandate very soon.

which people? Server people? The witness even said the result is not the one from the server . Abeg wake up from your sleep, day don break.

QuickStandard:
I just hope the general public, "North not inclusive" would come out enmass to protest in condemning this provocative move by the federal government.



Not protesting on irrelevant matters......

Last time i checked only Northern states showed interest in the scheme why are southerners so worried?

condemn:
Southerners make we get sense and start to venture into this cattle business oh. Once maga pay boys for street, make them buy land for inside bush and buy cows straight.

Most of the cattles in the south are even owned by southerners but the Hausas and Fulanis help take care of them. One thing is still dont understand is that the RUGA issue is simply voluntary for interested states why is it that those states who said they are not interested still complaining? Is it that they dont want interested states to adopt the scheme for fear of something or what? Just like sharia law, only interested states are practicing it against earlier speculation that it may be forced on the entire country. Abeg make una help me reason am

joey150:
The fact that Buhari is settling for an all Northern clan is not even half as worrying as the fact that he does not seem to surround himself with people that have even the slightest pedigree or iota of vision and sound ideologies based on past or present reputation.

There is of course the talk of nepotism, which as his mandate grows older, is becoming harder and harder to defend. I will not excuse a man that seems to only want to surround himself with people from one part of the country. Variety they say, is the spice of life.

With his recent selection of 'henchmen' it is clear and almost logical to conclude that Buhari promises nothing new in the next four years. I'll be shocked if he improves on his already abysmal outing during his last tenure.

Like many other concerned Nigerians, I am deeply worried and saddened by this development. I can only plausibly conclude that Buhari clearly lacks both the mental capacity and vision to rule a complex clime like Nigeria.

Of what use is running a government if your surborinates are grossly underperforming and yet are still being rewarded with extended tenures? Despite the fact that they should have been dismissed long ago based on their performances - the entire security and service chiefs come to mind.

The man at the helm of the affairs of this country is clearly incompetent and cannot advance us any further than we have already pitifully come.

Finally, for the good of Nigeria, I hope I am very wrong.

E pain you sha. Why not advance yourself, Nigerians can never see anything good.

wizzyrich:
If Mr president had put much effort in creating jobs for all the 36 states as he was trying to create RUGA settlement we won't be complaining of unemployment in Nigeria.

RUGA will provide employment, cattle rearing is not meant for fulanis alone, our problem in Nigeria is gross ignorance and illiteracy as will see everything with political, religious and ethnic sentiment. Ortom should not complain tommorrow when the insecurity in his state rise again. As a state governor what he done to curtail herder and farmer crisis? The law prohibiting open grazing in Benue state has not achieve any success till date.

TooNoisy:
I am very happy with these protests. Nigerians are now beginning to speak with one voice. For so long the elite have divided the masses along the lines of religion and tribe. And the gullible masses were fooled forgetting that suffering does not know tribe or religion.

We should continue to protest injustice and suffering. I foresee a revolution coming in a few years. Nigerians are getting tired of being constantly raped by the political class and we are gradually getting to the tipping point.

Let the revolution come after 2023. Is it not their Ijaw brother that bastardized the power distribution privatization. Good for them.

Uncleodi:
Atiku's is a well groomed man, a father and a fine gentleman.


I support his stand on this case.


Public apology is a very good way to show remorse.


Then, the sin-nator should face the law !!

A clear reaction of a loser. He needed the sympathy of Public. Server presido.

englishmart:
Rubberstamp senate president. This one has no single power to implement anything. He's just a tool in the hands of the executive.

The non rubber stamp of the 8th assembly did not benefit Nigerians either.

stonemasonn:
it has no benefits to any state. They get free land, they don’t pay tax and price of meat and milk will not reduce only herdsmen will benefit.

The benefits will be enormous, you people are only being so sentimental, misinforming the public to create fear among the people and hatred toward the government. This cattle rearing business we all think is just for the majority fulanis is really for the benefit of all. All of you ranting nonsense here in less than 12 hours will surely feed on the products of these cows. You love the meat but hate those who help to make it available. It so unfortunate about the security challenges in the country not just limited to the herders and farmers clashes, but as a people we must join reasonable voice to proffering solution not by these false information and propaganda.
The RUGA settlement option proposed by the FG is for those states who are willing to adopt it. IT IS NOT A FORCE ON ANY STATE TO ADOPT IT. People claim that cattle rearing is a private and personal business, yes the same with trading for instance so if government can map out a piece of land to build market with modern facilities for traders to enhance their activities, i dont see why it will fail to provide a settlement for ranching. We are so blind in this country that is why we think cattle business is meant only for the fulanis, this a business that have very great economic potential. Our people here in the south can key into it for employment, we should not see it as a business for a particular people in the country. If we southerners are fully into the business, i dont see any room for the fulanis even bringing their cattles down to the south. Apart the green grass here, they also enjoy the monopoly of selling their cows to us for food. Our governors and people should be wise, we have alot of potentials to create wealth and employment for our people. All these lies and hate statements will not help us as a people.

Useless talk, is it osho baba that created the rift between Amechi camp and Sanator Abe camp in Rivers?

BuhariLooter:
Any southerner that votes Buhari will remain the biggest fool of all times.
Reason.
99% of security chiefs are in the hands of Northerners.

You will be the biggest fool for voting Atiku, what difference will it make if all the service chiefs are southerners. Ewu.

SarkinYarki:
Dear Nairalanders there have been various arguments on who was really responsible for the Economic slump witnessed under the Buhari govt with some people saying the slump was as a result of 16 years of bad leadership by the PDP which just happen to tank during Buhari administration and others saying the buck lies squarely with Buhari .. I am of the latter opinion that Buhari indeed is 100 percent responsible for the recession and I have carefully outlined all the poor policies by Buhari that led to the slump please enjoy .


1 : Delay in communicating a policy direction on time:

Ladies and gentlemen this was the first mistake by Buhari as he failed to communicate any economic policy direction immediately he was announced winner leaving all economic stakeholders in the dark , for months no stakeholder knew is the the new govt was going to be favourable to the private sector and at what level and instead of Buhari communicating this he instead went to work straight stoking the embers of tribalism and division with his 97% to 5% gaffe which immediately cast a veil of economic and security uncertainty on the polity and economy .

The outcome : Investors immediately put a pause on any further investment till the air could be clearer at least on what economic direction the president was towing.


2 : Delay in choosing Ministers

The 2nd mistake Buhari will make was his deliberate delay in choosing Ministers for almost a year meaning he spent his first fiscal year without any form of FEC meeting where new govt tactical and strategic policies
are brain stormed and matched against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) , this delay was like virtually pausing the life support of a patient in Coma while you searched for a medical expert !!

The Outcome: This needless delay would end up putting the Nigerian economy under stress as for months unending every other micro policy from state govts to local govt to private sector where all put on hold as stakeholder waited for ministerial direction as a plimsol to guide their own decision so it was not uncommon for many of us to walk into our clients organization and be told we had to halt projects tool the ministers where inaugurated.

3: Immediate Infighting within the Presidents party :

Buhari has always been known to be a very cunning and divisive man who is very fond of speaking from both side of his mouth all just to protect his secret interest and he will immediately use this character to bring division into his ruling party where once again his inability to firmly set a direction would open the doors for chaos and spoils grabbing as no one knew how Buhari wanted the structure of party leadership to be , this lapse immediately brought about many camps within the party all infighting for the spoils of their latest conquest while the economy was left unattended.


The Outcome No unity between the party leadership, the executive and legislative right from the onset a problem that will further sacrifice the health of our already struggling economy further.


4: Poor implementation of TSA

It had never been a secret that Nigerian Govt funds housed in many Nigerian banks provided a lot of stability for the financial sector even though it left some loophole for possible corruption but the benefits far outweighed the risks , it was in this light the previous govt agrees that the implementation of the TSA must be staggered in phases so as not to cause financial shock to Nigeria managing Banking industry but Buhari will disregard the advice of expert and go for total implementation over night a costly bad decision that threw the financial sector into sudden confusion as predicted by experts, meaning over night our banks suddenly had less deposits to use to manage the delicate balancing of funds between depositors and lending , ofcourse at such times it's the lending aspect that will suffer as depositors must always have access to their funds as at when they want it because they are in Fact the soul of the banking business . We should note this action was clearly an indirect sabotage to the financial economy similar to a previous Buhari error in the 80s where he changed the Nigerian currency over night in a bid to catch looters

The outcome : the private sector suddenly had less access to loans and as result many economy growing projects where put on hold at great cost to the the Economic kinetics and potential of the Nigerian economy.


5: Going after Tompolo at a time of low oil Prices


At a time of low oil Prices most good leaders immediately try to drastically increase output and production in other to cover for projected short fall in revenues but shockingly it is at this time that President Buhari will choose to shake the fragile peace in the Niger Delta in a poorly thought out decision to send the military into the oil rich Niger Delta to hunt for oil warlord General Tompolo over a 13 billion Naira (35 million dollars ) payment made to Tompolo by the previous govt for the purchase of some land for some university , it ended up being a total economic disaster which only ended up worsening the Economic outlook of the country.

The Outcome : In attempt to go after 35 million dollars the Nigerian economy ended up losing a projection of about 100 billion dollars and countless lives and the painful part is that Tompolo was never caught neither was the 35 million dollars ever recovered ..Infact it's said the military operation itself cost the govt over 60 million dollars . Talk of a very bad decision .


6: 5 Billion Dollar MTN fine


Early in Buhari govt without even a policy direction in place and heavy economic uncertainty the Buhari govt in its bid to raise cheap funds will make a very bad mistake by fining telecoms success story MTN a mind boggling whooping 5 billion dollars for failing to properly register less than 1% of its subscribers a practice common with all 4 mobile Telcos in the country but surprisingly only MTN was singled out for this quite suspect fine which may industry observers have said is nothing short of a grandiose approach to executive extortion but that's as story for another day , the bottom line is that this poorly thought out fine triggered a megathrust of capital flight out of the country by many private sector players including the same same MTN who feared that same fate could befall them under the knee jerk Buhari govt and in less than 4 weeks over 80 billion dollars was spirited out of the Nigerian Govt under the nose of Buhari in one of the greatest mass capital flight ever recorded in a developing economy.

The Outcome: The capital flight triggered by the fine would put further strain on the economy once more and slow down any further new investments by such players , MTN will go further and cut it's support for thousands of small Nigerian Businesses and ideas citing lack of funds ( yours faithfully lost a lucrative advertising business my company ran regularly with MTN) MTN will drop many youth ambassadors it sponsored , drop Who wants to be a millionaire and project fame citing lack of funds , the total loss to small businesses that depended on MTN for patronage will run into billions of Naira in reality and tens of billions in projections. It was another economic misfire by the Buhari govt .
The Outcome here was hyper capital flight and many calculated exits by investors from the Nigerian economy e g ETISALAT and heavy loss to Nigerian SMEs that got patronage of such players, this will translate into massive job losses and prospect deeper that can even be measured and the very very painful part is that after all the damage the Buhari govt failed to collect the 5 billion fine but instead reduced it to 650 million dollars to be paid over a long time by the Nigerian subscribers.

7 : Increasing Petrol Price and Electricity Tarriff at the same time:



It's no secret that Nigerian micro business economy is driven by a finicky balance betwen the petrol engine and unstable electricity as the petrol engine is used to produce back up electricity used to power small businesses from fabricators to small offices to small online businesses to cooling to room to salon at times when NEPA electricity has failed and believe me in Nigeria it's almost all the time .. The Buhari govt will again show it's short sightedness in this area and deliver a devastating blow to micro business owners who are the foundation of 80 percent struggling Nigeria family units by increasing petrol price and Electricity Tarriff by a whopping 50 percent and at the same time which immediately increased the operational running cost of micro businesses about 100% , my brothers and sisters this was the death knell to the economy as it triggered wave of unplanned inflation overnight and reduced demand instead of the other way round where increased demand will trigger inflation, once again the Buhari govt had turned economic theories on its head and thrown the economy in to further doldrum. Many micro business who couldn't cope with this loss of demand as result forced inflation had to die throwing millions more into uncertainty and abject poverty.


8: Poor handling of Herdsmen Farmers Clash

When farms and cattles meet there is always bound to be problem and in Nigeria this is no different but under Buhari this took a worse turn as instead of quickly using fairness and equity to resolve such tensions the Buhari govt immediately took sides with herdsmen for reasons best known to it and this immediately emboldened the herdsmen to escalate their attack as the realised there was no repercussion in sight as long as the Buhari govt continued to be one sided , this lack of will by the Buhari govt will end putting devastating blow on the foundational pillar of the Nigeria economy which is actually subsistent farming .

The Outcome : The Outcome here was hunger hunger and more hunger as many subsistent farmers fled their traditional farmlands leaving in its wake reduced agro production and inflation as agro supplies dwindled , it also led to an increase in crimes as both herders and farmers took to kidnappings and robberies in other to survive .


9 Poorly thought out Import Tarriff increases


The Buhari govt made two tax policies that I think were a really bad mistake and they are

A : Increasing tariffs on anti malarial

B: Increasing tariffs on Vehicles .

Usually govt increased import Tarriff for two reasons either to protect it's own local industries or trying to discourage the use of such . The Buhari govt will shock all by increasing the Tarriff of antimalarials citing reasons that it wanted to encourage their production at home forgetting that Nigeria was a malaria endemic zone with little or no real infrastructure to support production especially under Buhari who had recently demobilized the lending sector with his poor implementation of TSA and increase cost of all production in Nigeria, this policy was another ok advised one as I would have expected the govt to first make the economy conducive to attract investment in those sectors before thinking of increasing Tarriff.

The Outcome: The policy only succeeded in increasing the cost of healthcare and cost of vehicle in Nigeria which means a reduction in saving and disposable income for the average family unit , we didn't see the indigenous car plants or anti Malarial factories get built in Fact the policy was so bad that the Customs boss had to recently beg the Buhari govt to reduce it as it's is only encouraging smuggling and infiltration of substandard products .




I hope with these 9 points we can all agree that Buhari was 100 percent behind the slump contrary to arguments the slump was caused by other govts and Buhari only inherited it . I am in no way trying to absolve past govts of poor leadership but only trying to show the role Buhari played in expediting the slump.

Many thanks for the read and please feel free to share whether you support or not .


Writer: SarkinYarki Bello

Foolish submission, one simple question is why before may 29, 2015 about 27 Nigerian states couldn't pay workers salary? The economy was already in doom and Foreign Reserve clearly depleted.

Escalze:
No sane Nigerian would want this administration of incompetence, nepotism and tribalism to continue.

It is a matter of choice, choose who you want to support and respectfully allow others to make their choice too. You may not believe in this government while others do, so let them follow what they believe. PDP supporters should allow Nigerians to make and vote their choice.

NaijaRoyalty:
People like you don't mean well for Nigeria .

It is all about yourself and yourself alone the well being of others don't count .

You're everything wrong with this present day Nigeria .. even in your suffering you're still smilling and supporting a dictator whose failure didn't start today .

Their is no way professor mahmood would have cancelled the election without getting the "nod" from the man (Buhari) who appointed him to head INEC .

They both agreed on these idiotic postponement because they've seen the hand writting on the wall that buhari will be booted out disgracefully should the election hold .

But I tell you confidently today that , Nigerians are more Than willing to send the lifeless dullard out of our seat of power and out of our national lives for good .

You should be sensible enough to know that PDP can not and will NEVER win the presidential election whether it was postponed or not.