₦airaland Forum

gawu1:
Your father worked for one Nigeria till his death. He worked and earned promotion to the most senior rank as one of the judges of the country's apex court. We are all living witnesses how he tried all he could do to raise you a responsible human being but you failed him.
You have grown to old age together with your irresponsible life. If you had heeded to your father advice you would have been counting achievement how you tried to help fix the country's problems you said have lingered on for decades.
You are an example, a reference of a failed generation history of this nation shall not be kind with in the near future.

Savage!!!!!

grandstar:
Dangote hasn't killed any refinery. But the Bill only allows those with sizable local production to import fuel. That means only Dangote can import fuel. Even Otedola can't import as he has no local refining 1capacity (Otedola is no more in the business)

All petroleum product importers have basically been shut out of business. This is anti-competition.

NNPC is the only importer of petrol because it is not profitable for private entities due to fixed price regime and subsidy.

This is not the case for the deregulated diesel and kerosene markets where those that can are allowed to import.

Although the provision of the bill is anti competitive, it is necessary at this stage of our development as a way to encourage those who are bold enough to invest in refining, boosting local employment and more importantly saving scarce forex for importation

nograv:
They don't have the government subsidising their every move and removing every impediment in their way..

The Nigerian economy is clearly run for the benefit of Northerners by Northerners. Stop feigning ignorance..

A monopoly will result in price gouging and the cost of petrol being higher than it should otherwise be in the long run

Are we not tired of this Northern thing? Since the return to democracy in 1999, Southerners have ruled for 14 of the 22 years and poised to return to power in 2 years' time. The issues are beyond this ethnic thing

BetaThings:
Some people have chosen to despise the truth
Dangote tried to buy Ashaka Cement when it was privatised, the community revolted
Dangote wen to Kogi, bought a large tract of land and built Obajana Cement on a virgin land, from scratch

Dangote tried to buy Port Harcourt Refinery when it was privatised by Obasanjo, a few weeks later Yaradua (a Fulani/"aboki" reversed it
Dangote wen to Lagos, bought a large tract of land and built Dangote refinery on a virgin land, from scratch

Spot on.

When people accuse Dangote of monopoly and Govt prop up, I ask two questions.

1. How come ALL govts, PDP or APC, Southern or Northern have 'favoured' him?

2. How come the same Dangote has thrived in other African countries like Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia, Ethiopia, Congo, Cameroon etc?

He is an astute businessman who knows how to take opportunities. He raises money from Nigerian and international banks, meaning he is bankable etc. Others should learn from him rather than bicker endlessly. Another 2 guys towing that line are Tony Elumelu and Abdul Samad Rabiu. The more the better for our country

As usual, many people go off discussing what they have little knowledge about. Folks bandying percentages about dont know what percentage of what they are talking about.

NNPC will become a commercial venture and won't be spending money on wasteful frontier exploration when they will be required to raise their own money to do business. As someone said, fossil fuels are going out of fashion anyway.

This North vs South thing is often overplayed. The bill that was just passed has been in the works for over 15 years. Money for exploration in the Delta came from somewhere too before oil was discovered there. In any case, oil is fading and other areas will rise to provide national revenue. Why are we so fixated on these issues that drag us back?

Davinity:
It's no more news that this corrupt government broke international laws just to secure NK's arrest

Same international law that the British are still enquiring about?

Dead on Arrival (DoA) for 2 reasons;

1. He tried something similar ahead of the 2019 elections. He was even more vocal and antagonistic with his numerous letters but didn't even make it past planning stage

2. He had a golden opportunity to put the country on the path of sustainable growth after his tenure but chose to plunge us into the debacle of a failed third term agenda, foistering leaders that were not ready to mount the saddle.

He should take a back seat and play an advisory role.

Reno is displaying the same foolishness by talking too much. He may be the next guest of the FG. People like GEJ his former boss will disown him so fast he won't believe his eyes

Mordecai:
Okay, I get your point.

But to get more clarity, is the FG the lender, or just the guarantor? If they're a guarantor, who's the lender?

I don't have all the facts but my understanding is that it was a special intervention fund to enable states pay backlog of salaries, some extending up to 15 months in arrears. It was set up as a budget support loan repayable over a number of years at an interest rate, secured by irrevocable standing instruction deductible from future allocations. The CBN provides the funds but FG secures on behalf of states.

Mordecai:
It is not the FG's job to deduct money from the allocation, nor is it the governor's job. It's the CBN's job. And the CBN should just go ahead and do it. If the FG borrowed from CBN, the CBN should also collect the repayment accordingly. The fact that a supposedly independent corporation like CBN is yoked to FG is even an indictment on the office of the VP.

If any governor needs to refinance their borrowings, they should approach the relevant bank, make their case and negotiate. If any bank lends outside regulatory guidelines, CBN should fine them accordingly.

The VP's interference should be to ensure that the right thing is done, period.

Usually, banks that borrow money to state governments often secure those loans primarily through domiciliation of monthly allocations in that bank. For the loans taken from commercial banks, I agree that those banks should just go ahead and deduct from domiciliation proceeds except they can mutually agree to restructure.

For the non commercial bank bit, those loans were a product of FG's intervention through the Ministry of Finance with CBN acting as FG's bankers. FG surely guaranteed the loans and should be involved one way or the other. Remember the states used most of that money to pay salaries and cushion the impact of economic downturn on the states. The alternative would have been to throw those workers out of work, a commercially sensible thing to do but politically not advisable. There are no easy solutions

Mordecai:


The op and the first five comments are from Osinbajo's media team. I wonder if they think NLers don't know them.



Osinbajo's media aide abusing the entire Igbo tribe. And thinks Igbo are not taking note. When elections come, he'll expect these elders to "build bridges and come support him".



This is how the Fulani caged him, and he threw his people and conscience under the bus.



This is the most sensible post. If we want things to be right, then we have to start doing things right. Using VP office to subvert things like loan repayments is a bad symptom.
I wonder if those governors will say same of their foreign loans. They will pay those ones religiously. And then refuse to service the local ones because people like Osinbajo are waiting to create political capital out of subverting rules and processes.

Op should take this post down. It's not a good thing the VP is doing.

But you won't mention why Governors can't pay. They took loans, pay back. No they will prefer to blackmail FG as Obaseki did. But someone comes in to mediate a peaceful resolution and you are saying many things. Ok what is the solution? If FG goes ahead to deduct from their allocation, you will be the first to scream blue murder

Buckeyemedia1:
Spot on, You are conversant with the shenanigans of politics these opportunist Nigerians playing the game of politics are taking we docile people on. We need a revolution of mind against the system, not blame Buhari for everything whose powers is created & subject to the system, & halt this coward divide Nigeria rhetoric selfish crap channeled by illiterate cowards afraid to face the system heads on ideologically.

The founding fathers of The Great United States of today, faced more adversity than Nigeria is facing today but the minority intellectual technocrats were able to overcome, & those Southern States that refused & decided to go to war, were taught a severe lesson by the Northern States bringing an end to their illusion confederate.

Exactly. Our people are poor students of history. Not denying people the right to self determination but there are more civil ways of doing it than bring misery on others.

Those shouting Biafra and Oduduwa now will keep quiet once their kinsmen or women become President. The question i ask is if those kinsmen have done much for their regions when they were in power. Buhari won't be there forever, in 2 years he will be gone so why burn down the whole country because you don't like him? The common enemy is corrupt and selfish politicians. Having a separate country won't magically cure that illness. As you said earlier, if people know how much security votes these governors spend while crying that they don't have instrument of state, you will be numb.

Every region is battling the demon of bad and corrupt leaders. Every single one. We can go into details and write a whole book on that. I will rather have a conversation about how we can get more involved in our political process, strengthen it and be patient until we evolve to having good leaders at all levels. Anything to the contrary is taking short cuts that bring conflicts, sorrow, hatred and retrogression.

Buckeyemedia1:
The Governor is the Chief Security Officer of his State says the Constitution 1999 (As Amended), The Lands Use Act 1978 which is enshrined in the Constitution says the Governor is the custodian of land in his state, why then are you assigning The President powers beyond his jurisdiction? Yet you are the same ones that shout devolution of power? When Omoniles & land grabbers come to your property is it the President or Governor you run to?

Governors that know nothing who think running a state is the same as running their private business are responsible for the menace, they have no knowledge & workings of public administration & people like you that have refused to study for themselves & choose to be mislead have jumped on the bandwagon. Tell Ortom & Makinde to publish how much they have received in security votes in the last 24 months.

All Ortom does is shout and scream. He is the Chief Executive of his state for Chrissakes, crying like a baby. Wike is an opposition governor but see how he takes full charge of the state, imposing curfews, taking the fight to criminals and collaborating with security and local forces.

Sunday Igboho stepped into a vacuum to protect people from marauders. That is commendable. However I expected that he collaborated with elected officials to further strengthen the gains. You can't fight a duly constituted government anywhere in the world without consequences. His further push for secession was terribly ill advised and that is the point of departure for many people. It shows lack of strategy and high thought when you go that route without thinking through what it takes. Grandstanding and protests will achieve little when you choose to confront govt forces for which you are ill prepared. It always ends in tears

Poor attempt at playing politics by the PDP. So how do you describe the insecurity situation in APC states such as Kaduna and even the President's state of Katsina?

texazzpete:
The President controls the Police, army and all intelligence agencies. The buck stops at his tables. Stop heckling your betters with your unintelligent and illogical takes.

You are right. Security matters are on the exclusive list hence responsibility of FG.
I will only add that the huge security votes by Governors be taken away from them and given to FG to administer. You can't on one hand say there is nothing Govs can do about security and on the other hand allow them hide under opaque and unscrupulous security votes, some of which can be up to 20% of their annual budgets and for which they necessarily need not account for.

lereinter:
May the end of buhari life be spent in astronomical pain

Amen

God doesn't answer these type of prayers.

Buhari has survived all things thrown at him - sickness during his first term, covid that took out some of his aides, hatred and death wishes on a daily basis etc He just carries on with his life, ignoring all negativity. Dont you think the hand of God is upon his life?

kutchs:
Dr Ezekwesili isn't begging for food and will never beg even if she doesn't match Dr Iweala's achievement, so you should rather think about your own life and what sense you can make out of it.

Yar Adua remains the most loved president in recent history because he endeared himself to Nigerians through his person and policies. Tell your Buhari to do right and nobody will hate him.

You can't be supervising the abduction and killing of Nigerians in their hundreds and expect people to like you. You don't force love, you earn it.

We seem to have short memories- recall successes recorded by PMB in the first 3-4 years of his administration against insecurity. Most territories seized by BH were reclaimed. Religious houses that were bombed at will across the country by terrorists were eliminated. Remember all the precautions that Churches and Mosques were taking then. Abuja was being bombed now and again if you still remember. Niger Delta was a hotbed of kidnappings, bombings and vandalisations.

I admit that some of those gains have been reversed in the past year or so. Reason why we should keep telling the President to overhaul his security team and strategies. Constructive engagement rather than hatred is way to go

morgstreme:
How does building the 2nd Niger bridge equate to ruining the country?

How is it that THIEVES facing justice FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DECADES means the country has been ruined?You love STEALING,shebi

How does having the BEST Social Investment Programs acclaimed by the AU equate to ruining the country?

Can you tell Onyeama of Air Peace or INNOSON that Buhari had ruined the country?

How does the issue of bettering our Light thru the Siemens-FG power deal equate to ruining the economy?

How does completing abandoned infrastructure equate to ruining the ECONOMY?

Bailing out states a record 4 times is ruling the economy?

Stopping incessant and inordinate Bombings in 17 core northern states equate to ruining NIGERIA..

Cleaning up the Pension fund to make it the BEST ever pension regime in our history equates to ruining the country

Paying salaries/gratuities of NITEL/Nigerian Airways since abandoned in 2001 is equating to ruins in Nigeria?

Biafran Police forgotten for like 40 years nkor?

Finishing up the Abuja-Kaduna Rail,Lokoja-Itakpe-Warri Railway,Lagos-Ibadan in 5 years plus is RUINING THE COUNTRY?FOR REAL

Creating the LARGEST Agricultural revolution in upwards of 40years is ruining our economy

The last for now but not the least,Buhari NEVER STEALING is what is ruining that "economy" in your empty skull...

The records are there and much more. Thanks for highlighting some. I think the challenge is for Govt to ease the immediate pains experienced by citizens because of rising cost of living. I am more than convinced it is a short term pain but it will take more to convince millions others.

Basher8583:
From the way it looks God is not answering sh1t from her. Else she won't be making noise up and down like a shameless old hag looking for attention. Her colleague Ngozi Okonjo who is not making noise is doing fine

In fact NOI will continue to thrive. PMB had to replace someone else with her as Nigeria's representative at WTO and supported her all the way. She will surely become WTO DG, only a matter of time, when Trump has left office.

Same support PMB gave to Akinwumi Adeshina at the AfDB. He didn't mind that these two were the bright lights in PDP's govt. Get the best hands to represent us.

Cut Femi some slack. He may be harsh but he is right. Oby's response was nothing short of hatred for the President. Has she rejoiced with the parents of these boys, sentiments aside? Preparing for another BBOB jamboree which was cut short. Lets call a spade a spade. Frustration with the President's effort at securing the country is justified but pure hatred crosses the line.

donnie:
Follow follow

Actually not. Many countries rushed to ban flights from UK but Nigeria didn't follow suit because there was no need. We are one of the few to institute these measures which has helped. Watch all these countries now adopt our measures.

We should stop being negative and give these professionals credit when they get it right

rafcrown:
SECURITY F9/F10
AGRICULTURE F9/F10
INFRASTRUCTURE F9

BUSINESS/ECONOMY F9
UNITY F9/F10
HOUSING F9
ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC/GENERAL F9/F10
REFORMS/RESTRUCTURING F9/F10
INTELLIGENCE/INTEGRITY. F9
CITIZENS COMMENTS -ADVISED TO WITHDRAW
GENERAL COMMENT. FAIL

Typical lumping and muddling. Pick each item you scored there and expand with data why you scored it the way you did. Not enough to just allow emotions rule you. Be analytical

quaintbloke:
People talking about banning flights don't understand the economic implication of shutting down the country again.
We're still reeling from the economic implication of shutting down our borders and the ineffective first lockdown, mulling another flight ban especially from countries with high capital repatriation is just ignorant at best of how the economy works.
For a country whose economy is on its knees, devising a smarter way to manage the situation is a best bet.
Unlike what the false prophet at the synagogue said, this virus isn't going away anytime soon, people have to learn to live with it.

Absolutely!! I couldn't have said it any better.

COMPAQ:
Buhari doesn't have the intellectual capabilities to solve any problem in Nigeria.

While he may have been an Army General, but otherwise he is an intellectual illiterate.

Buhari has no emotional intelligence, no economic intelligence, no academic intelligence, no diplomatic intelligence, no technological intelligence! Absolutely NOTHING!

For every problem in Nigeria, I can think of a clear cut solution split into the short term, medium term and long term, based on my mental and reasoning faculty. Buhari has none of that. Thats why Nigeria is getting worse and worse.

Buhari had a crude oil price crisis in 2016. You would have thought the guy would be prepared for the next one, yet the 2020 crisis caught Nigeria even worse prepared than the first one!!

Exchange rate is worse under 6 years of Buhari (200 to 470), compared to last 30years (1 to 200)

Excess crude account depletion is worse thN ever under Buhari.

Foreign debt has increased by the most under Buhari government. Yet I am struggling to see the projects we have used it to do other than railway and airport. And if we do not monetize these assets, the loans will never be paid back.

Buhari has no clue!!

One more thing - if you look through our history, you will discover several bust and boom cycles regarding oil price. However the worst and longest occurred in 2014 and lasted more than 3 years. To give you some data, this govt earned roughly 20- 30bln USD per year between 2015 and 2020 compared with average of 60bln USD per year earned in the 10 years before 2014. because of high oil prices then, there was little pressure on naira so exchange rate was relatively stable. However we should have used that oil price period to diversify our economy, curb our appetite for importation of foreign goods etc. Once we didn't do that, the next low oil price cycle was bound to hit hard with the naira taking a hit.

You recall first thing CBN did when PMB came in was to ban some 41 items from accessing forex at official rates and tried to force us to look inwards. Unfortunately some bad policies contributed to it getting worse but they have now learnt and refined some of those. I maintain we need to boost local productivity, export more so we make more forex thereby improving value of naira. Oil prices will be depressed for a long term as the world is moving away from fossil fuels. Therefore we need to diversify like yesterday. This govt in my view is taking steps towards that and we should be supportive rather than castigating it.

If they are managing with a third of revenues compared with pre 2014 period, they can go the full hog of even cutting further wastes and putting us on a sound footing long term through a campaign to boost local production

COMPAQ:
Buhari doesn't have the intellectual capabilities to solve any problem in Nigeria.

While he may have been an Army General, but otherwise he is an intellectual illiterate.

Buhari has no emotional intelligence, no economic intelligence, no academic intelligence, no diplomatic intelligence, no technological intelligence! Absolutely NOTHING!

For every problem in Nigeria, I can think of a clear cut solution split into the short term, medium term and long term, based on my mental and reasoning faculty. Buhari has none of that. Thats why Nigeria is getting worse and worse.

Buhari had a crude oil price crisis in 2016. You would have thought the guy would be prepared for the next one, yet the 2020 crisis caught Nigeria even worse prepared than the first one!!

Exchange rate is worse under 6 years of Buhari (200 to 470), compared to last 30years (1 to 200)

Excess crude account depletion is worse thN ever under Buhari.

Foreign debt has increased by the most under Buhari government. Yet I am struggling to see the projects we have used it to do other than railway and airport. And if we do not monetize these assets, the loans will never be paid back.

Buhari has no clue!!

I have a different view. He may not be articulate but he isn't stupid. He is taciturn like Yaradua meaning he is not a showman and lacks vigorous citizen engagement skill.

However, the path he is on will benefit the country in the long run. There is bound to be short term pain and I urge him to put reputable people at the helm of administering palliatives that minimises that pain. The social investment policies are good but more needs to be done to reach ordinary folks. Big decisions like scrapping subsidies in the downstream petroleum and power tariff sectors will set the tone for long term investments by the private sector and ultimately creation of millions of jobs. Of course prices will go up in the immediate but will be better long term. There is an infrastructure revolution going on and this will lay the foundation for a brighter future. The next Govt that succeed's PMB's is going to be the most important yet as they will be the ones to cement it.

PMB knows that security situation has let him down, being an area he has the most qualification to tackle. Reason why he has been talking about Nigerians giving him more time. I wonder why he won't just sack his security leadership and have a restart, nothing shameful in that. All the frustration and anger are like own goals, definitely his doing.

Overall if folks can look long term, they will find that this govt is laying the right foundations

Elpipitaaa:
stop the uk flight please

No need to. The threat is not as high as to stop flights. That will be disruptive. As long as inbound passengers test negative before flying and upload their results, it should be fine.

yinchar:
Inbound Nigerians did ecpensive COVID test at their departure point which has to be negative before they can fly or board the plane.

On arrival you want them to go pay 50,000 to go do another test with 7days.

After the 2weeks holiday 3days before departure they will have to do another COVID test to fly out.

What sort of madness is that, its not done like this in other countries. Once you fly with a negative COVID test, you only have to isolate for 7days because you were negative at the point of depature.

This is extortion because the Nigerian government are forcing incoming Nigerians to use designated Laboratories, and we know what that means in this country.

You can't trust us to self isolate for 7 days, hence the need for the second test. People go as far as presenting fake negative certificates at point of entry. Those ones won't self isolate or present themselves for testing after 7 days. The reason why we can keep our airspace open is because of those strict protocols. If you pay online and get your QR code before travelling, you will not have issues with unscrupulous officials on arrival. Less than half the arriving passengers ever bother to pay online BEFORE they travel. Simple rules we can't obey but will scream at the top of our voices, typical us

If focus was on the road to the airport, then fine. If you are talking about the International Airport itself, you didn't complete the story. You branched off into the local airport which has been there for long and currently being renovated. The new International airport is further down that road you turned left from. It is a piece to behold. Built by CECCC as one of those magnificent 4 around the country started by GEJ and completed by PMB. Pls return there and bring pictures and video to your readers.