₦airaland Forum

ZKOSOSO:
For how Long shall we wait for Bubu Hitler to vomit the Change we voted him to effect?
He seems fixated on a familiar terrain of being vindictive and soft on Fulani killing machines all over the country!

While I blame him for silence on Fulani killings, I don't expect him to reverse the downward economic trend like a car. Dullardino couldn't do it at avarage of $108pb for 6 years so Buhari should be praised for even squeezing the economy's leakages out of the looting apparatus he met.

Flexherbal:
No time for honeymooning. There are serious issues to e tackled

FLEXing HERBAL ogogoro can make progress look opposite. Bro stay away from drugs . . . They are bad for ur health.

If the attempt at rigging and skewing public perception towards the 2015 elections couldn't work for PDP even in addition to Billions of dollars thrown at it, i wonder how it will ever help bring them back. Just yesterday(few hour ago) we saw ho GEJ declared that Four years isn't enough to fix Nigeria with oil selling at $108 pb. I wonder how they expect Buhari to fix the economy with oil at ~$35pb.
The moment phony prophets who couldn't accurately predict the downfall of PDP started telling us Nigerians are very impatient and blah blah blah . . . I knew the daft plan of the relatively 'broke' yet largest opposition party in Africa.

charlesbailey:
who say make you go totorial school instead of uni.
prsn like you don find admission like five times for ife but dem no gree accept you, come start dey hate.

OAU is not for everybody. if it were,it will not be 'GREAT'!!!

totorial? Oau can't help sustain her own structure. Discuss that and stop diverting to what u r not sure of.

AnthonyAk:
why would you want to color a grid tho

This is the greatest mistake people make about bootstrap. You are to build on it and not use it a final product.

How much did it cost?

Even if Govt provides steady power it will be against gen repaires and importer, so i don't expect the Lagos state govt take people like OP serious.

Vandals have been operating for ages and won't stop. What is the govt doing to checkmate the activities of the vandals? With all the technology in the world . . . Power isn't flower oh, make Fashola use in him mind.

So things like these happen to trained guys yet the other day some bitter guys just organised themselves like PHCN officials to disconnect my power to spite the compound.

You should understand wailers are programmed not to see sense in post like this. They prefer to promote cassava bread as a way of reducing consumption of flour and rice instead of planting and processing same. The surface scratching approach that can be readied for campaign purpose, to wailers, is better than the deep-rooted approach that touches the substance of the problem. Imagine sharing monies for prayer to solve Boko Haram. I wonder what such govt would av done to improve economy they love spite Buhari with.

mars123:
This government has started well...it had the options of just polishing the surface and leaving the inner rot or getting to the root and start the cleansing from bottom.

it has taken the wise decision and I'm happy for that. Things will take time but by the time the government institutions start performing effectively because of the reforms, then the government will be effective once again.

P.S if you're a wailer, I don't expect you to see sense in what im saying.

em280:
Even if we successfully prosecute and jail every looter, ghost worker and other economic saboteur, there is every risk that those caught will only be replaced by persons who are just as bad, or worse - unless we radically strengthen our systems and institutions.

Our President’s brave and committed fight against corruption and waste is as much an economic crusade as it is a moral one. The objective is not just to stem the corruption and loss but to execute an economic plan to channel those monies into much needed areas that will support and reposition the economy. In short, the fight against corruption is not about “retribution” and meting out punishment, it is about releasing funds for our economy. I am humbled to be part of the ongoing work on recovery and can report that the urgency in the work, especially our interface with nations where our money has been stashed, is propelled by our need for funds to invest into our economy.

Our economic plans are not about austerity and frugality; if that were the case then we would not be attempting an expansionary budget. We could have pursued fiscal consolidation and maintained 2015 budget size, and then introduced severe public spending cuts to balance the books by laying off workers and cutting projects. Had we done so, we would by now be the darling of the IMF and other multi-laterals.

Conversely, we are undertaking an ambitious counter cyclical strategy to stimulate our sluggish economy and expanding government spending with a focus on infrastructure, the true catalyst for economic growth. This will have contractors returning to site and re-engaging workers, it will see new projects commencing, arrears released and economic activity reinvigorated across the nation. We plan to take advantage of low global prices for commodities and contract prices. Existing contracts are being renegotiated downwards, with significant savings recorded and new projects priced to reflect current commercial realities. Our spending stimulus is private sector driven, supported by a robust procurement system that will see permanent local capacity built in a number of sectors including oil and gas, housing construction and agriculture. However, and this is the key differentiator, we plan to spend in a disciplined manner that will extract the maximum value for every naira spent.

The process of building the internal control framework to support this need for disciplined spending has begun in earnest. Our Efficiency Unit has reviewed four years of detailed expenditure data to identify trends and is already negotiating volume discounts that appropriately reflect the buying power of government. Personnel remains our largest cost. In addition to the BVN driven cleaning of our payrolls that has so far removed 23,000 fraudulent entries, we have initiated significantly stronger controls over our payroll. These efforts will exert a constant downward pressure on personnel costs until such a time as we have assurance that every payment is accurate and valid. A similar process is now commencing in Pensions. The N160 Billion spent monthly on personnel and pensions related costs demands this as an absolute minimum.

The revenue focus is non oil. We are revisiting historical decisions that are no longer in the best interests of the national economy. The establishment of various Boards and Parastatals to undertake the operational and revenue generating business of government was a well-intentioned attempt to provide separation from policy makers. However, as the economy has grown, so too has the revenue earned in these agencies and their financial autonomy has grown in a manner that no longer fully serves the public interest. Port charges, maritime charges, airport landing fees,visa charges, passport charges,telecoms license fees, among many others, must be tracked and accounted for.

The highlighted are good moves in the right direction. These are radical changes compared to cassava-bread and campaign spendings strategy we have been seeing.

Yes oh. Didn't you check the date of joining?

AZeD1:
To remember Beaf means you are an old timer.

anonimi:
You should ask the poster that I responded to.
Thanks.

He said we saved nothing under a thread of a thief confessing freely about how money GEJ told us would be saved was shared, had he done that in a thread debating what was shared it would av been a different case. The fact that billions was being channelled into phony prayers justifies any request by opposition governors to have the monies shared. Stop spinning argument that's beyond your intellectual weight bros.

anonimi:
Perhaps you have forgotten, so let me remind you =>

Pathetic. How does FG sharing allocation affects the fact that a thief confessed in the court under no duress whatsoever? Your pattern of argument reminds one of Beaf.

Naij.com now under the nation media?

peacengine:
"The Nation" owned by Tinubu?

Another media propaganda

There is a difference between employing 400,000 to produce pencils that will sell at N100 each and employing 400 to produce pencils at N10 each. Industrialize.

bloodyBLOGGER:
I woke up this morning to a report credited to a US commander which says boko Haram still holds territory. This statement goes a long way in not just rubbishing the efforts of our Army but also calling our President a liar. Gone are those days when the office of our president can be ridiculed by those most Africans see as superior race. If Commander Rodriguez must say otherwise concerning the gains of the Nigerian Army in the fight against boko Haram, then he should be willing to answer the below questions:



1. Mention the territories occupied by boko Haram.

2. Tell us why people now travel in and out of borno safely unlike before.

3. Tell us why major roads in the northeast of Nigeria that were blocked when boko Haram held sway have now be opened and currently getting plied.

4. Did he set foot in Nigeria or the northeast before he made such statement?

5. Why haven't boko Haram made a propaganda video showing their territories and hoisted flags like they did in the past?

6. Don't he see the gains of the gallant Nigerian Army in the fight against boko haram?

7. Why haven't we heard from shekau the boko Haram commander?

8. Why talk about a situation his country is not willing to provide help for?

9. Is his statement a way of rubbishing the efforts of our gallant soldiers that we the citizens bear witness of?

10. Why is his country fixated on stationing AFRICOM in Nigeria?

Don't mind the hispanic dude. Yarning dust like he knows shìt. Even the BH aren't making denial videos any longer.

There is no apparatus to start those nice ideas. Imagine Fashola wants to increase tarrif when there are no prepaid meters in 80% of homes yet. Our politicians on one hand want to buy the power sector and hit huge profits within a short time. Just few days back i was reading on CNN mobile how India was getting solar generated electricity at less than N20/KWh (@ N320/$). Nigeria has more sunlight than India and can't tap into it.

They go hear am . . .

Food is 3 times a day, Gives u energy for iniquity and can be fine tuned. #TeamFood

Word.

ladyF:
The electricity they generate is not even enough for the population, so why are they putting a compulsory fixed charge when they have other consumers that will use/pay for it eventually?

Someone somewhere is paying for the electricity I did not use for the time I was away, and they still want to charge me for the same thing?? ?? Say wetin na? That is like double payment for the same commodity na, haba!!! Is that not broad daylight robbery?

You still missing it. They probably include u in arriving at that amount N750.

ladyF:
People should also be made to pay for services they get, and nothing else!

So I travel for 3 months, I still have to pay for electricity that I did not use? Nah, that's just not right....we can't take it...

They can't lay off staff for 3months cos of some customers now. Equipment to will be maintained as part of standard procedure and if your area's transformer burns it should be fixed regardless of whether u were around. It not like GSM where they blend the cost into their average consumption by customers in the country or particular market.

ItsMeAboki:
LOL, you call those AK47s typos? Guy give me a break.

you own should be fireworks then. All sound and no impact/action.

ladyF:
My own be say the NEPA bill too much. Bring back the former tariff with the N50 fixed charge!

LadyF, there are fixed cost associated with power supply. It is just like a merchant who gets his prodùcts at zero cost, transports it(at a fixed cost) and now wants to sell it for free. He will lose money and make a loss. PHCN must maintain and replace equipment and pay staffs. These things cost money and any attempt to over ration them leads to poor service like we have today.

Drop go where? I look up and what i see is pleasing to the eye. Chai a lady sitting right on ma top . . . Ojigbi-jigbi-jigbi.
Back to topic, Nigerians who know that their effort has no influence on their source of pay are greatful to Buhari for keeping their salary going even with the over 60% dropping in oil earning, through blocking of leakages Buhari, has been able to fulfil 70% (recurrent expenses) of the responsibility he inherited from the ineffectuals.

Wailing is a sign of bad losers. Whoever is heaping the blame of low oil prices on Buhari directly or indirectly is a wailer. Whatever PDP couldn't achieve with $108pb isn't Buhari's admin fault. At $40pb- it is impossible to maintain the recurrent expenses PDP left behind without adjusting the system. Buhari has scored over 100% in adapting to dwindling revenues.

bastien:
the mother supported the relationship, the guy said it himself during interview with the press, why make the journey to kano secret? I don't know. But I think she accepted and they both traveled to kano

I know in the North women are properties or even commodities. The reality elsewhere is Yellow shouldn't be speaking for the girls mum, she hasn't been hypnotised like her daughter you know. If she supported the so called relationship then why travel to the North with money that is hardly available? You are simple holding on to your weak logic to safe your e-face dude. You guys think hypnotism is new invention or you have monopoly of it?

kingzizzy:
You are a dreamer. The South depends on the North for food? You think the places to buy good in Africa have dried up?

Tell me your source of money asides oil.
If oil dries the south are far more dependent on its sales as against the north who have most of their needs like food, shelter, clothing met locally. U r chestbeating when others are creating the wealth they desire via farming.

KissCODE:
keep blaming GEJ. Your president should better wake up and work. We all are tired of your blame game.

When GEJ identified ghost worker we know the technic they used. They used bio metric system. Which system is this your government using? What technic is called “computer technic?“

This government is lyn they have not discovered any ghost worker. They know that Nigerians are tired of their inability to perform. They just cooked up the story of ghost workers so that we will the finance minister is working. She is just like every other minister in this government who behaves like the president. None of them is working. Our light situation keep going from bad to worst.

What is “computer technic?“ make APC forget lies & perform.

What is APC suppose to perform? PDP merely spent what was available and invested nothing. How does Buhari perform when the border are porous for smuggler. Any good banned or taxed further in an attempt at regulating the economy simply becomes hotcake. PDP really messed up.

bastien:
I'm not supporting anything...... You people are just talking as if you are not from the hood.



The mother of the girl knew about it from the onset but kept quiet, even the guy said it that her mom know about their relationship.

And when the mom couldn't find her, she went to look for the dude, and then told her hubby about it.

Did the mother support of it? If you say yes, then why did her movement to kano had to be secret? In kano the mother of Ese was harrassed and intimidated by mobs of Islamist right in the emirs palace too. I wish there was a rule to hid false post in NL.

bastien:
stole? How did he do that? U think 15yrs pikin don't know anything in Nigeria today? U think her mom didn't know about the relationship? This is the kind stuff we see n hear in the street everyday. The guy didn't steal her, it was both mutual agreement they left bayelsa, that's if u know how many hours from bayelsa to north

that girl was probably 13+ then. In kano she was looking at the mum and couldn't utter a word, that's consistent hypnotism. Ese was abducted. I know there are a thousand more cases like that and the brainwashed have vowed to flood the social media in response to punch newspaper's coverage of the abduction.

bastien:
I'm not supporting anything...... You people are just talking as if you are not from the hood.



The mother of the girl knew about it from the onset but kept quiet, even the guy said it that her mom know about their relationship.

And when the mom couldn't find her, she went to look for the dude, and then told her hubby about it.

Did the mother support of it? If you say yes then why did her movement to kano had to be secret? In kano she was harrassed and intimidated by mobs of Islamist right in the emirs palace too. I wish there was a rule to hid false post in NL.