₦airaland Forum

QueenSekxy:
Why Yorubas voted, supported and keep supporting this terrorist government and blood sucking government remains a mystery to me.

It's all about 2023 and the need to be in Buhari's good books for a Tinubu or Osibanjo presidency. I hope though that the country is still sufficiently intact by then.

SarkinYarki:
Did Buhari not borrow over 12 trillion Naira , if Buhari was working then the difference shouldn't be this wide , how do you meet a country at 6 %unemployment and throw it to 23 percent, how do you explain the slump in transparancy International rankings , how do you explain the worsening insecurity ? does that have to do with oil price too

I tire for that Plaindealer guy. I know he is defending this failure because he is angling for Osibanjo in 2023. I am even willing to give Osinbajo a chance to lead Nigeria in 2023. But I know that he will not make a difference because it is not even about him. It is about the foundation and structure of Nigeria, which is fundamentally faulty. For one, a president Osibanjo will not stop the North from breeding like rabbits while not matching population growth with productivity. He will not stop kidnapping and Boko Haram which Buhari has not stopped because these things have come to stay permanently, due to permanently unproductive population boom and joblessness. Did GEJ not build Almajiri schools for them? How did that fair, even under Buhari a northerner?

Just look at unemployment rate rising from 6% to 23%. A good amount of the population increase in Nigeria as of today is in the North.

That level of unemployment is directly correlated to increase in kidnapping, armed robbery and other violence that we now see in the North.

plaindealer:
Being objective is stating the facts like I did. Counter my facts with your own facts if you can, obviously you can not.

Btw, was GEJ not the president of Nigeria or Nigeria did not earn more oil money under him in the history of Nigeria?

Objectivity is stating facts, not motions or sadness because they mentioned GEJ

My ''facts'' are all in the first post, as I concur with Bloomberg. This is my thread, remember? If GEJ was removed for poor performance and Buhari his replacement is giving Nigeria even poorer performance as indicated in the post, how is that a good thing for Nigeria?
I don't care about GEJ, Buhari, PDP or APC. I care that Nigeria is a failed state that needs to be fixed, including by separation if possible.

plaindealer:
...but in 2014, GEJ introduced austerity measures even though we earned more oil money in the history of Nigeria under GEJ and it still did not prevent him from declaring austerity measures in 2014 when oil was $77 per barrel.

So, what was the result under GEJ? We were still in darkness, no completed project, no road, no bridges, no quality healthcare, no railway, no stable electricity, nothing. Nothing but abandoned projects all over Nigeria, now we are completing projects that they abandoned for 30-40 years.

Today, Nigeria is starting and completing rail projects in less than 3 years, what they couldn't complete in 30 years.

Useless report without context and realities.

People like you who lack objectivity are the problem with Nigeria. What has this got to do with GEJ? Today, is Nigeria, overall, better than it was in 2014? NO.

If PDP takes over in 2023 will Nigeria be overall better then than now? I am not sure it will be. It is neither PDP nor APC. It is the nature of Nigeria to flounder and fail repeatedly. What's the solution? Break it into manageable bits.

richidinho:
I only focused on the Transparency Index, since Buhari no free me hear word

I'm pightin kworaption

Each new country separated from Nigeria will likely fight corruption better than it is being fought now because for one, the intervening variables such as tribal and religious sentiments would have been whittled down, if not eliminated. For example, if there is corruption in Biafra country (Igbo only; almost Christians), they cannot blame it on anything else but the corrupt individuals.

meccuno:
relax. No matter how the north and the British would try but eventually Nigeria can never exist for a long period. It would definitely happen . No matter how long it would take. That's change

I hope that time comes sooner than later. Thank God for establishing death as a means to take mankind away from this ''wicked'' world

Still interesting points as of today?

Guestlander:
Every subject is an opportunity to advance your separatist agenda.
If the rain is too much today, separate us.
Palm wine is not available at the joint, separate us.

Nigeria should be divided so that each group can manage their population growth and chart their own economic course at their own pace. Nigeria as it is today (given tribal, religious and nepotic sentiments, as well as gross incompetence at all levels, pervasive corruption and unproductive and one-sided population growth) is too intractable and unwieldy to manage. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to know nothing will change anytime soon. It does not matter whether APC or PDP.

Guestlander:
Every subject is an opportunity to advance your separatist agenda.
If the rain is too much today, separate us.
Palm wine is not available at the joint, separate us.

I have never historically been an advocate of separation (look me up here on Nairaland) and really don't care if you separate or not. I am PERSONALLY not affected in any way with what goes on in Nigeria. But recent developments and my gut tell me that separation is better than what I am seeing now and what is being predicted for the future. Hence, I am changing my mind. I have proposed a formula that could be agreeable and less rancorous to everyone, since oil appears to be the issue militating against reasonable and peaceful separation. I even proposed the SE not include any non-SE region in their proposed country. I believe individually the different regions will be better off. I assume you are Yoruba. Why do you not want to manage your own destiny yourself?

meccuno:
The question would be if Nigeria would be in existence by then .

Unless something drastic happens (such as a big disease outbreak, stronger and more nationally spread Boko Haram and Fulani killings, etc), Nigeria will likely remain the same in 2099. The citizens are too stupid to assert themselves, coupled with pervasive tribalism and religiosity.

OIL, the reason for some wanting Nigerians to stick together for life, is finite. I propose that if necessary, as an incentive, a formula to share oil revenue among the separated countries for 10 years can be arrived at, with international support and agreement. This will allow every group to financially develop themselves internally during the interlude. After 10 years, oil revenue reverts to the owners of each oil well.

Thankfully, we now know that oil is not the biggest deal in NIGERIA. Funds From Nigerians living overseas surpassed Oil & Gas earnings in 2018 at $25b against $18b from Oil.

Who are the Nigerians living overseas and sending these billions back to Nigeria? Igbo, Yoruba, Edo and the rest, in that order. You see, with this fact, Igbos will do well in their own country.

Igbos (South East) should exclude non-Igbo and unwilling Igbo South South people from their desired Biafran State, and make a strong case at the UN level for their own country.

It is a win-win for each region to live separately as independent countries. Assuming it is a ''Nigerian factor'' holding the country down. Separately, the North will do well with their massive land and agricultural potential. With Lagos, the West is easily the most developed part of Nigeria and will potentially keep that going. The Igbos are the most resilient Nigerians and have great human resource and acumen to survive and potentially develop themselves. The SS has oil as well as human resources to potentially develop.

800 million people in Nigeria in 2099 (century’s end)

For a country as extremely poorly managed as Nigeria, that will be the melting pot of poverty and disease

Thank God I will be long dead and gone by then.

Anybody who loves Nigeria should be asking for one thing, now: a STRONG LAW to curb childbirth to no more than 2 per family.

Otherwise, and in fact, it should be divided so that each group can manage their population growth and chart their own economic course at their own pace, peacefully for some. Nigeria is too intractable and unwieldy to manage. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to know nothing will change anytime soon. It does not matter whether APC or PDP.

Bloomberg compares Nigeria 2014 and 2018-hard data

Nigeria is a much more important country than most people in the U.S. probably realize. With more than 190 million people, it’s Africa’s largest country by far (Ethiopia, the second-largest, has a little more than half as many). And with a fertility rate of about 5.5 children per woman, among the world’s highest, Nigeria is only going to grow in importance — by the century’s end, the country is projected to have almost 800 million people, almost twice as many as the U.S. by then.

But as things stand, this African giant is failing to create the prosperity that will sustain that future population. Its oil-dependent economy has struggled after oil prices plunged five years ago. The number of Nigerians in extreme poverty — generally defined as living on less than $1.90 a day — is estimated to be increasing by six every second.


Meanwhile, the country’s economic institutions are failing, with rising unemployment and debt levels. A recent Bloomberg Opinion editorial laid out the grim numbers:


In the long run, Nigeria needs to wean itself from dependence on oil by spending energy revenues on education, health and infrastructure. But that plan might take decades to bear fruit in the best of circumstances. In the short run, Nigeria needs jobs.
One of the best way to create those jobs would be to increase international trade. And the quickest way to boost trade would be to join the African Continental Free Trade Area, the planned free trade zone of the African Union (an organization dedicated to forging closer cooperation between African states). The AfCFTA now includes 52 countries and more than $2 trillion of economic activity. Entering that agreement, which would eliminate tariffs on 90% of goods, would open up plenty of new markets for Nigerian-made products.

But Nigeria’s manufacturers see the AfCFTA as more of a threat than an opportunity. Frank Jacobs, president of the Manufacturing Association of Nigeria, recently declared that “When they open our borders for all manner of products to come into this country, most of our industries will be out of business.” The Nigeria Labor Congress, an umbrella organization of trade unions, called the AfCFTA an “extremely dangerous and radioactive neo-liberal policy initiative.” As a result of this political opposition, Nigeria has balked at joining the agreement.
There is some justification for reluctance. Though the current accord is mainly about reducing tariffs between African member states, the AU plans to follow it up with a push for a customs union and a single currency. This latter step would be a bad idea. As Europe discovered so disastrously in the financial crisis, a currency union can exacerbate local recessions, since it makes it impossible for countries with weak economies to depreciate their currencies and become more competitive. A monetary union without fiscal integration makes sovereign-debt crises like the one in Greece much more likely and damaging. Africa should avoid making the same mistakes that Europe made. And Nigeria, especially, should be wary of a currency union — its natural resource exports tend to push up the value of its currency, the naira, making non-oil exports less competitive, meaning the country needs to push its currency down in order to restore balance.
But signing on to the AfCFTA wouldn't oblige Nigeria to adopt the later stages of the AU plan. For now, the priority should be opening the country to trade. Nigeria now is highly protectionist. Its list of prohibited or restricted imports is long, including items such as carpets, shoes, handbags and most types of furniture. The government also makes a large number of imports, such as textiles and clothing, ineligible for foreign exchange at the central bank’s official window, making it harder to import these items.

In her book “The Next Factory of the World: How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa,” McKinsey & Co. researcher Irene Yuan Sun argues that these import restrictions have damaged Nigeria’s manufacturing sector. The obstacles to importing textiles have made it difficult for Nigeria to develop a competitive clothing-export industry of the type now growing in Ethiopia. And the impediments to importing labor-intensive manufactured goods like furniture, shoes and carpets, though it has shielded Nigeria’s manufacturers in the short term, has had the long-term effect of preventing them from learning how to compete in international markets.
This is a drag on growth. Labor-intensive manufacturing is still almost certainly the best and quickest path for nations to escape mass poverty. Journalist Joe Studwell argues in “How Asia Works” that exporting raises productivity and encourages the import and adoption of advanced foreign technology. And Harvard University economist Dani Rodrik argues that promoting exports helps countries to discover what they’re good at doing, allowing them to invest with confidence and to establish a stable niche in the global economy.
Maintaining an insular, protectionist stance is often tempting for a country as large as Nigeria, whose manufacturers are always clamoring for the prize of a captive domestic market. But this approach merely provides a crutch that ultimately preserves industrial weakness. Instead of hiding behind trade barriers, Nigeria should focus on aggressively promoting manufactured exports. Gaining access to nearby African markets would be one step toward doing that. Courting foreign-direct investment, depreciating the currency and pushing companies to export are other important steps. And in the long run, investments in education, health and infrastructure will make Nigeria an attractive platform for labor-intensive manufacturing. This is the giant African country’s best hope for escaping a looming tsunami of poverty.

https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2019-05-15/dropping-trade-barriers-could-help-nigeria-avert-soaring-poverty?fbclid=IwAR3K4xW5bWKds91jFu5DuOQtpwdnFUTNxfH5GhqE9oQn_42AdBRwK1uDuJw

Guess which city in South East Nigeria this photo came from

Chukwuka16:
Sir, did you know that the boldened is false. See
https://www.researchgate.net/institution/University_of_Ibadan
And
https://www.researchgate.net/institution/Covenant_University_Ota_Ogun_State_Nigeria
The above shows that UI has a research impact that is about 200% that of CU based on quality!

Thanks for bringing this to my attention. It must either be a new development, or I completely missed it. I have been on ResearchGate (RG) for more than 9 years now and never noticed that until now. Thanks, Man. We learn everyday.

Anyways, the links for UI and CU (the supposed best universities) show clearly that the quality of research from Nigeria is near-zero. Divide the total RG score by the number of RG members from each school. For UI you get an average RG score of 3.3 (12,896.98/3879); for CU you get an average RG score of 1.5 (4730/3150).

That of UNN is also a paltry score of 2.1 (14,114/6751). See link https://www.researchgate.net/institution/University_of_Nigeria2

However, an institutional RG score of 14111 for UNN and of 12896 for UI indicates that UNN as an institution has more quality research than UI. But a few specific UI professors are doing more quality research than specific professors from UNN. In other words, the good quality research at UNN is diluted by the number of too many poor quality research.

At Ife (OAU), the research quality is very poor (compared to UI and UNN) at an institutional RG score of only of 8610. https://www.researchgate.net/institution/Obafemi_Awolowo_University. But then, the fewer number of researchers there at 1818 increases their average RG score to 4.74. This also means that with that few number of researchers compared to UI and UNN, many professors at OAU are simply not doing any research.


Now, compare UI, CU, UNN and OAU average scores with my own individual RG score of 32.43 (I covered my photo and name, and deleted part of my university identity for privacy) beginning from 2008 when I started independent science publishing. If I was an institution I am far better than them. Lol. Of course, a few researchers in these schools, like the ones you mentioned (I looked then up), have better RG scores than the average for their schools. But overall, it shows the extent of poor quality research from Nigeria. Now I understand why the country is not progressing.

Bottom line: when your president is a sub-school cert holder, how can you do any meaningful research that will help develop your country?

HigherEd:
Now you are no longer talking like an academic. Researchgate is a compilation of research work done since a university was founded. The oldest private university in Nigeria was founded in 1999. The oldest public was founded in 1945. How would you actually compare the two systems and think public universities wouldn't rank higher?

Regarding academics it is still a matter of normalization. 32 departments in CU producing 3 high rated academics is equal to 100 departments in UI producing 10 high rated academics. What about the fact that certain fields are more funded and researched than the other? UI with medical offerings would definitely produce more cited research papers.

Only an expert consultant can give you a full proof assessment of universities. And Times higher is one of such organizations. And from its verdict CU is more research relevant than UI and UNN.

The bolded is false. Researchgate does not have any information about the number of publications from a university. What it has is information about individual author publications record, regardless of which university the papers were published from. For instance, if you were with UNN and published 5 articles, and then transferred to UI and published another 5 articles, Researchgate does not indicate which are from UI or UNN. It shows that you have published 10 papers and it gives you an RG score based on the quality, citation, reads, and other indices of your papers and your overall research profile.

HigherEd:
Everything the researchers wrote about are readily accessible on Scopus itself. Scopus and web of science are the most cited indexing platforms.

Of course they are. But I am telling you that not every research is listed on Scopus - a few of mine are not there, for example. That a particular paper is not indexed on Scopus does not mean that the paper does not exist. They should have used more than one source, for better coverage. That said, have you asked yourself why the authors published this paper in a non-descript civil engineering journal based in Iraq, with zero impact factor? The answer is that it will not pass in reputable journals like those in the stable of Elsevier or Springer.

asuustrike1:
After UI comes OAU. The picture below explains further

But that is not what the graph says. It says UI then UNN.

There is an OAU peak in 2011, and since then UNN Has been in second place. Look at the graph again, this time more carefully.

But for all Naija unis, it's all quantity with little quality.

90% of research coming from Nigerian universities, public or private, has near-zero % quality. I know because I am an author, a reviewer, a journal editor and a research evaluator.

I read and review tons of research manuscripts in the areas of Bioscience and Chemistry annually for international journals (Elsevier, ACS, ASM, Springer, etc) and those from Nigeria are always junk. The few good research from Nigeria are often those conducted in partnership with universities in South Africa (where a Nigerian student is pursuing his/her PhD; or where the Nigerian researcher has former professors).

If Nigerian universities cannot publish good quality basic research in Biology, Chemistry and Physics, how on earth can they publish good quality applied research in Engineering, medicine and information technology?

Can anyone post here one research conducted 100% in Nigeria, without foreign input, and let's see the journal it was published in.

shams040:
Well i think each school need to start making atleast one publication in scopus a requirement for post graduate graduation.

Here in Malaysia, you must have at least 1 scopus publications and my supervisor want 2 q1s and 2 peered review papers.
May God help me.

SCOPUS is not a journal. You cannot publish in it. SCOPUS is an indexing and abstracting database that collects and stores information on research publications Na wao!!

Fake news, fake research on research output published in a fake journal of civil engineering based in Iraq (of all places in the world). Now see the list of authors: from LAUTECH and CU and they are praising their own universities. Lol

Due to lack of actual research these fake professors of Political Science, Chemistry and Engineering in Lautech and CU are cutting and pasting information on research output to a fake journal. What is the relevance to their areas of expertise? Nada! Waste of time and money conducting data collection on Scopus

You want to assess research output and you are using only one database -Scopus? What happened to other databases such as Web of Science, PUBMED, Academia, Frontier, Loop, etc)?

You can guess that the OP is one of the authors of this fake publication.

Link: http:///2DRHk0w or http://saharareporters.com/2019/02/03/breaking-he-cost-us-our-dignity-—-northeast-miyetti-allah-disowns-buhari-endorses-atiku


Hahaha! See as these Fulani dey use Naija play ping pong. Any which way it goes, Fulani wins

BREAKING: 'He Cost Us Our Dignity' — Northeast Miyetti Allah Disowns Buhari, Endorses Atiku

"Fulani people have lost more dignity under the Buhari administration than any other in history. Today, our people are branded as killers, branded as kidnappers or robbers, just because some people are misrepresenting us. Before now, the relationship between herders and farmers was not this bad; we can all attest to this. Our people, for instance, could pass the night in the house of say, a Bachama man in Numan, but now all that has been eroded,” Mohammed Ango, a chieftain of the group, said.


by SaharaReporters, New York
Feb 03, 2019






Mafindi Umaru Danburam, leader of the Miyetti Allah group in the North-East, has dissociated his colleagues from the endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari credited to the national body.

The group also endorsed the candidature of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Danburam recently resigned his position as the North-East chairman of the group following the group’s endorsement of Buhari.
Speaking in Yola on Sunday, he said: "Miyetti Allah had, at no time, sat to decide which presidential candidate to support.

"I resigned my office as Mortheast leader of Miyetti Allah since news broke about the purported endorsement of President Buhari by our national body. So we're here to tell the world that if someone is priding himself as a Fulani man, Atiku is more, because he occupies the revered stool of the second in command at Adamawa emirate as the Waziri.

"If someone prides himself as a Fulani herder, Atiku is more, because he owns more than 1,000 heads of cattle, compared to 150.”
Also speaking at the event, Mohammed Ango, a chieftain of the group, criticised the present administration of the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying: "Fulani people have lost more dignity under the Buhari administration than any other in history.

"Today, our people are branded as killers, branded as kidnappers or robbers, just because some people are misrepresenting us. Before now, the relationship between herders and farmers was not this bad; we can all attest to this. Our people, for instance, could pass the night in the house of say, a Bachama man in Numan, but now all that has been eroded."

Ahmed Umar Fintiri, Adamawa governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who received the group on behalf of Atiku, thanked the group for clearing the air.
He admonished them not to buy into the deceptive tendencies of the APC, stressing that "only the PDP government, led by Atiku, will reunite Nigeria".

A traditional symbolic Fulani ritual of distribution of kolanuts, to signal irrevocable bonding into the Atiku project, was one of the highlights at the event.

MayorofLagos:
We dont fight Igbo. We just love the legacy left to us by Awolowo, whom Igbo hate passionately.

Interestingly, we are buoyed up and ready to reward Osinbajo and his wife, who is Awolowo's child, with the Nigerian Presidency. To accomplish that we must first retain Buhari in Presidency in 2019 to 2023.

You are too fake I can see thru you.

''I see that the North is holding the long end of the stick, as usual. Yoruba is sticking with failed APC because of Osibanjo while Igbos are jubilating over Obi. A cyber war is already going on between the two southern champions who survive only by picking crumbs falling from the ''master's'' table. In the end, Fulani (North) is still the king, whether garbed in Buhari's or Atiku's garment.''

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tomakint:
With your last sentence about the Igbos, you can NEVER be a learned man you are too crude

It's blatantly obvious he is cruder than crude oil.

iamJ:
you have no proof of either, ure assuming wrongly, people that think like that never move forward, get your facts first, that's why the east is still backwards and why that land is barren, no natural resource of substantial value, nature has a way of giving people what they deserve

Your argument and language on here clearly show you are a one-track illiterate zombie. I am here discussing individuals (PMB, Atiku) while you are ranting endlessly about Igbos and the East. What is the nexus?