₦airaland Forum

seunmsg:
To start with, the ECA is not really a legal account that lawmakers can start legislating on. Again, the funds in the ECA belongs to the federation and not the Federal government. Federal government by law can only spend from the consolidated revenue fund and not straight from an account that is at best illegal. What the national assembly is trying to do with this bill is nothing but sheer illegality.

The ECA is a special arrangement to save money for the raining day. The national assembly should stop overachieving itself by trying to legislate away the savings of the country.

I beg your pardon, the ECA is not a legal account but the National Assembly can definitely legislate on it.
The ECA is not savings.
It is a container for funds accruing above crude oil sales receipt.
It is definitely not for the rainy day. Define rainy day.
Rainy day funds go to sovereign wealth funds SWFs, strategic saving accounts earning interest and portions of the external reserves can be savings.

We need to save the steel industry. The expected GAINS are earth shaking. It can do to the economy even more than Dangote 's refinery.

billante:
Guy you don't know what you are talking about

Ajaokuta has been privitized a couple of times and it was made worse than it was.

The indians are not genuinely competent to complete and run that important national asset well...they are just there to strip and rip the place without putting in a significant amount of investment.

Let govt provide the money for the original builders of ajaokuta to complete the steel plant before private hands are called in to manage it

The plant is 95% completed. I believe your suggestion is what the government is going to do. We can complete, get competent management and privatize on the stock exchange. If we sell to an international Steel company, they will strip it and sell.

Steel is now a strategic industry to be nurtured like in the 70s . No more Global players because Trump has decided to protect US Steel. US Steel and Aluminium are now more expensive in US itself than the imported high tariffed Steel from China because US Steel makers want to make enough money in the short term to replace all their equipment.

We needed to do same to our own. We need the plant running for railways, defence industry, agro equipment industry and auto industry. We should not listen to any commerciality bullshit OR stupid talk about government inefficiency .
Govt inefficiency is a choice you make.

Olalan:
Ajaokuta mill is just a drain pipe for our resources, they had better sell it off to private firms cause it seems government has no answer to the problems there

How old are you?
Where are you from?

I want to restrain myself as I type this. I know Nigerian youths are very annoying so I will be restrained and very elementary.

Nigeria = plenty of youths (demographically speaking)
Youths = need a future, jobs, get married to whom they love,
have kids
Ajaokuta = Steel plant. They call it a basic industry.

Ajaokuta Steel Plant = liquid Steel + 30 very useful products and
gases

Ajaokuta can produce raw materials for 30 other industries.

Ajaokuta can produce enough Steel to 100x the current Nigerian rail capacity.

Trump is protecting US Steel and Aluminium. I don't like Trump but he struggles not to be a fool. Here he may have succeeded.

Why should Nigeria be foolish and not complete Ajaokuta

When a young man comes on Nairaland to vomit timidly what global Steel makers and their agents want to do to make us dependent, it means generational curses are at work. You showing off stupidly.

The stupidest idea running on the Internet is suggesting that Nigeria cannot run a steel plant.

They are not insulting Buhari they are insulting young Nigerian Engineers.

Ethiopia and Egypt and S. Africa are running Steel plants.

It is even sad that some of our brothers from the S.East have joined the crowd...you know showing off over nothing.

If Ajaokuta was sited in Enugu , won't it have been running since 1979?.

Please I like you but please think deep about issues before jumping in. Don't be mentally timid, running with other people's ideas.

Ajaokuta is a challenge. Nigeria will run it and develop other basic industries, defence industries, foundries and more sophisticated stuff from it. We shall become an exporter .

It can run, WITH or WITHOUT government. Ethiopian and Egyptian plants are not privately owned.

Amirullaha:
You slept with a drunk man and you are putting the blame on him...
Hmmm...
He is probably still thinking of how it happened...
SMH...

That is true looking at his picture up there.

ednut1:
dream on Buhari go complete hin 2 nd tenure. The under aged voters and cows go gv am at least 6m votes

No need for underage voters. Buhari will win convincingly in 2019. Osinbajo will do most of the work though. Buhari will also get to annoint his successor from the S. East in 2023.

There is a seismic shift in Nigerian politics after Buhari. The PDP will be destroyed completely, not accidentally. Everything will be planned and executed to that effect. All the ethnic champions and popular politicians you read about now will be wasted.

There will be restructuring but not the way most people are expecting.

tete7000:
Let those who campaigned for and voted Buhari be the ones to wail. I didn't vote Buhari, I could never have voted Buhari, I can't vote for Buhari, I will never vote for Buhari. I spent over 15years pursuing academic certificates. I have them and I know how not difficult it is to replace them if they get lost. For Buhari to claim he wrote Cambridge school certificate exam and he couldn't get them issue him something in place of his 'lost' certificate is enough to disqualify him for anyone who truly went to school.
A lying olodo who didn't write exams can't perform better than Buhari is performing. It is good sha the man becomes the president, else what we would have been hearing is how good Nigeria would have been if Buhari has been president. Only olodo, a man with very little or no education takes an art student, a man with no science background at all to head ministry of work, power and housing. Tufiakwa, Buhari is very very dull.

Actually it is stupid to spend 15 years pursuing certificates. I spent my 15 years learning to be an Engineer which included post graduate training in management.

You see the rubbish you posted above. This is the most idxotic thing I have read in a long time. No German, British, American young person posts this in this age.

No wonder you guys voted an unintellgent, low mentality, zero charisma GEJ as President. A President with PhD who could not sustain a logical argument or train of thought in any interview, foreign or local. OBJ does not have a first degree but he is at home with world developments in many areas. He intellectually industrious and has written about 20 books. Buhari is a professional soldier. He was trained and has grown in professional accomplishment in that line. He has been one of the most respected Nigerian Generals to the effect that IBB, Bako, Abacha and Idiagbon will plan a coup and make him Head of State.

Please what has your paper qualification done to your life?

Someone lied to your inferior soul that "academic pursuits" is the same as intellect.

I assume you were trained in Nigeria, because no foreign educated person will think this old fashioned in this age .

This is why I don't like Nairaland. Too many unexposed local breeds spewing trash.

Buhari will WIN 2019 by a landslide.

A lot of butterfly brains will love this one. No wonder Nigerian youths are now the lowest IQ in Africa. So here goes someone's qualification to be President and affect the destinies of other people ;


..“.....He has all the criteria that a modern Nigerian president should have, he is tall, urbane, suave, charismatic, cool and collected. But behind this charm, is a man of steel who is never afraid to pursue causes that he feels are right and just.

“Saraki is one of those rare breeds who is street smart as well as book smart. This was evident when he steered his political path away from his father, and triumphed without breaking up the family or the people’s faith in his leadership abilities...."

I think to be young in Nigeria is groping in darkness.

eodavids:
“Buhari was not entitled to an armoured car, but Dasuki went out of his way to import a specialised armoured vehicle that could resist bombs and bullets to protect Buhari. Go on the Internet and find out how much that cost. The Jonathan administration was under no obligation to provide Buhari with an armoured SUV but because you had decent people in authority; they valued Buhari’s life and went beyond what the law prescribes.”

The value of life is one thing the Jonathan government can be attributed with, but this APC/Buhari regime cannot be said to have high value for lives.

Unbelievable. So the Jonathan government spent stolen money to buy a bullet proof car for Buhari that Buhari did not ask for after Buhari was almost caught up in a Boko Haram attack in a context where Buhari himself had once been accused by PDP supportets of sponsoring Boko Haram?
My head is spinning and I am angry. I am angry that I asked God's forgiveness for calling GEJ clueless. Pls I take it back GEJ was a clueless President and even more clueless ex President for allowing this weird Omokri to write this trash

Is it not clear also that the woman is pregnant?. Why are "geniuses" missing that. This country is just deteriorating in many ways.

Old man's knees. Thats all. Since this is an issue

misano:
Nigerians made a mistake by voting for this man.

Any person from South South, South East or Middle-belt that votes 4 Bubu is an Enemy Of The State.

If PDP wants to win back power they should look for a reputable candidate (not Atiku) & power will be theirs again.

What rubbish! Is PDP not the cause of the militias floating all over the place?. This is another reprisal attack. They tied the hands of the victims. If you investigate this you probably find a massacre of Fulanis or whoever perpetrated this terrible act.
And to call Buhari 's name into it is mischievous. There is a governor in that state, a police formation headed by a CP and Army detachment but there is no way you can defend every homestead so the best thing is a state of emergency to allow the FG clear everything off.

resurgentxtian4:
See ehn, if you say it must be Buhari by force and try to rig the election next year, you risk a war and I can assure you that the US under the able leadership of Donald Trump would not support Buhari over and above Nigerians.

The elites are working to have him removed already so you can keep acting confident on Nairaland. You can be sure that Buhari is not doing another 4 years as President of Nigeria. Millions of lives are at stake.

So your hope is on elites and Donald Trump. Nigeria, the most unintelligent country in Africa.
Amy way to be sure, Buhari will do and complete another for years from 2019 to 2023. He will play his part in nurturing and electing a President from the SE of Nigeria in 2023.

The APC is making serious mistakes keeping Saraki and his people in their ranks. It appears Buhari has corrected the mistake sha. The only things helping him now are people like DSS and Kyari speaking for him in Aso Rock ...but his time has come. Let him take his due punishment. Jail was not only meant for poor people

PDP released the names of their corrupt former members hiding in APC without amounts stolen. Nigerians already know PDP is a den of thieves and killers. They should supply the amounts stolen so EFCC can do their work.

otuekong1:
Your Zombeism Is Incurable,for The Records Rice Re Evolution Started From Jonathan Through Akinwunmi Adeshina,fertilizers Was Given To Farmers Directly Free Of Charge,so Was Pesticides And Seedlings Supplied,grow Up

You copied this straight from GEJ propaganda piece. Let me tell you what was happening. GEJ killed Rice farming with importation. The importation was allowed to permit prospective Rice millers recoup the money they need to buy Rice mills upfront. Only a President like GEJ could have signed on that kind of ripp off " genius idea" . So the mills never happened until now when the political will has become clear. There is actually a Thai government table showing that Nigerian importation of Thai Rice has dropped. It only started to drop with Buhari.

Beedoc:
Respecting Bill Gates isn’t a think of black mentality.whites,yellow,blue n all lol Listens to him......He understands most countries that their leaders themselves..Stop giving excuses for this sadness we call leaders and face the fact..He was smiling in that picture n for him to be seen randomly shows he probably was doing that the whole time..

Bill Gates does not understand most countries than the leaders themselves. Use your mind please , don't waste your mental abilites. Think vigorously. He has a foundation that he has donated his wealth to in trying to solve world problems. The first thing his foundation does is ask questions from the country and it's leaders themselves.
You guys should stop this idleness of intellect.

Who started this thread abeg?. My VP should leave state affairs, put off his phone and listen to lecture from a private citizen, not US VP or POTUS? Just because the speaker is second richest man in the world? This generation is sold and paid for. I can't believe with all the problems in Nigeria, a young person would post this nonsense.

Even the PDP knows they won't return to power. From 2019 there will be a steady depletion of ranks. APC, APGA and SDP are the parties of the future...especially APGA.

IMPORTED Rice was N8000 when Jonathan was in office?. May we never have such an idxt in office again in Nigeria. No wonder we had a recession.

The FG will continue to talk about corruption during the era of PDP. PDP supporters will continue to get hurt by it. Why?
All you need to do is to go on election day and vote against APC because they exposed corruption. Meanwhile you save yourself the energy and megabytes trying to counter the FG on this issue.
Nigerians lynch pickpockets mercilessly that should permit looters to suffer the reputation loss and negative publicity of their crimes.