₦airaland Forum

Busolami2015:
It's a lesson to all. United Nigeria is better than a divided one

Then you haven't learnt anything, a united Nigeria is not good for the South.

CodeTemplar:
Beware of northern cry. It always leads to more oyel money for them.
Check northern education , healthcare and business environment to see if it has improved since they started collecting huge allocations. Instead those aspect of northern life are going down while they agitate for more funds with it.

The same corruption that led to the Taliban taking over Afganisthan.

Originalsly:
Which government puts money into the auto industry?... the US? ... Japan?

@ topic .... countries through their policies are setting dates and regulations and incentives to phase out fossil fuel cars. What will the manufacturers do with their soon to be obsolete assembly plants? ... sell them as scrap iron?.... or shift them to a back to the future country and continue generating income? They found us and here we are celebrating... what next?...

"NIGERIA TO ESTABLISH THE WORLDS BIGGEST DVD FACTORY."

My friend, I worked in the auto industry in the UK for 15 years from 2000-2015 and I can tell you that the UK government provided grants to local universities in Warwick, Coventry University and Birmingham University to support Auto R & D. The UK government built roads (M6, M40 and M42) that integrate auto manufacturing towns in Castle Bromwich, Solihull, Coventry, Shirley and Gaydon.

The supply chain that connects these towns was built by the regional and national UK governments, the fact that Jaguar Land Rover can source the majority of its parts from the surrounding towns.

65% of car manufacturing is made up of iron and steel, hence until Nigeria develop a steel industry forget about the automobile industry, we had one in the 1980s and that did not last long once Nigeria couldn't afford the cost of the CKD and steel imports.

Nigeria cannot build a sustainable auto industry with petrochemical plants, steel plants, electricity power, clean water, talented technicians and engineers that all require government support

ivolt:
Of course they are. But they weren't the only Pashtun power broker, they just happened to have suppressed others.


That is part of the problem.
The real issue is that the Afghan never created a real army.
Most were not different from salary earning civil servants with zero loyalty or expertise.

Maybe the army is sympathetic to the Taliban, similar to the Nigerian army that has been infiltrated by extreme Islamists.

ivolt:
Another ignorant comment from FFK.
Taliban is not the people.
It is just the most murderous group to survive a civil war.

Taliban are majority Pashtuns ethnicity they make up 40% of the population, the country also have as many as 14 recognized ethnic groups in the country.

The biggest mistake was the Afghan government realising thousand of Taliban prisons and negotiating with terrorist

jumper524:
Kk the thing really pain Reno.
He's been insulting buhari for decades and he knows this changes nothing but yet the thing choke am so he had to look for space to breath.

This is not an insult, the county is sick yet the president is visiting a sick billionaire, recently 74 children died of cholera due to the lack of access to clean water.

Sysdatek:
the way this man just goes around talking shlt is outstanding

which ibom seaport?
the one that has not even been started yet?

Osinbanjo is the VP of audio development

GardenOfGod:
Have faith in the God of your motherland. She will be great again.

When was Nigeria GREAT in the past?

Saao:
Best thing to do, is to tell us the name of the school, the local government so as to rightly inform the government to fix it. Maybe the governor isn't isn't aware as he can't be everywhere. Thank you

This is more than fixing it, the LGA chairman should be prosecuted

Drsnives:
Provide alternative for them pls

Alternative is to go back to their home state

Very good decision, if Nigerians want roads they should pay for it.

Any civilised country would have thrown out Shell and seized its assets.

Freestainworld:
I love this kind of a thing, you need to instill discipline into your civil servants as a governor

Nigerians have started again, government by media never works. Can he test all the teachers himself, this man is supposed to be a professor.

Let him implement policies and standards that will recruit and test the best teacher. The standard that must be implemented at the college of education level. A simple test is that all teachers must pass the UTME before applying for a job as a teacher.

How did these bad teachers get into the job in the first place.

They are hungry, Buhari economic incompetence also affects terrorists.

Dangote is a political billionaire created by OBJ by selling Nigeria cement assets at rock bottom price, his first attempt to build a petrochemical business from scratch is now a total disaster with current debt is $8.4 billion on $12 billion infrastructure that has still not been completed.

I hope Dangote succeed in his venture, but an entrepreneur requires skills beyond political patronage, a smarter businessman would have built a smaller refinery train and grow the business from there onward.

Elzakzaky:
Just do both and earn #330,000

Very Smart.
Take the government job but delay the start date. In the meantime start the contract job, do two months and earn N440k before you start the government job.

BeeBeeOoh:
The North will always defend their own no matter what.


Had it been Abba Kyari was a Southerner, Buhari and EFCC would have bundled him to USA with immediate alacrity to show people that he's fighting corruption but, the reverse is the case now and they are telling us that Nigeria and USA doesn't have extradition treaty. As it stands now, EFCC and Buhari are having eye cataract and ear infection.


I wish the South could see beyond their nostrils

That's why they have leaders like Buhari, that hasve been defended to the point that he is now a liability to the North. Always call out your criminals.

Sebastine1994:
We have millions of smart youths in this country as we claim yet I don't see smartness.

The youth are the reason why this country is like this, we are book smart not really smart.

All the youth want is for government to give them capital to start a business, let us kill this mentality.

India government did not build India I. T. sector, the government just supports. when the youth starts the government will come. dangote was ready, that is why the government supports him.

The USA government supported Elon musk with 500 million dollars because he has started something already, government is not father Christmas.

Youth corpers will just be blowing English up and down instead of to create value, dragging jobs with illiterates.

The Indian government provided favourable tax exemption and incentives for foreign companies to open IT offices in India and employ their youth.

Tinubu to Sanwo-Olu, this is what you are going to do. Cut Governor's pension to 50% but we keep Alpha -Beta and all the toll gates ..OK

Sanwo-Olu to Tinubu, Yes Sir, I will fly back to Lagos and inform the 'state-house of assembly' to implement your instruction with "automatic alacrity"

tutudesz:
Just imagine how many elephants were killed Africans killing their endangered species to sell to China that are protecting theirs

We sold our people for alcohol.

Africans have a big problem in valuing their resources because these Asians and Europeans are not in Africa to help Africans

Buhari, baba igbese

This man has only one strategy debt, loan, spend

Faiththatworks:
That's what happens when people fail to understand government is a continum,many people have died in this country because a new government comes in and decides to cancel a contract and hand the same project to it's cronies.
I know it wasn't Gen Buhari that cancelled the contract but Government at all levels must stop this nauseating habit of thinking they can cancel an agreement with a company just because the previous government in power has chopped all the bribe.
We know anytime they do their nonsensical project valuation of any contract it's just a term for adding more bribes to be wacked,that's better than cancellation of the entire contract.

Buhari government cancelled the contract. It was Fashola that cancelled the contract. Buhari also cancelled the Lagos State Metro contract in 1984 and cost the Lagos state government $70 million.

Kriss216:
There's nothing wrong being a farmer. Farming is not solely for 3rd class or drop outs.



Congratulations to him, though. More grace.

Academic qualification doesn't guaranty anything, the majority of the richest men in the world dropped out of university. University education is overrated. I will rather be a productive farmer than an unproductive PhD holder

Originalsly:
Hmmm..... case of chronic inferiority complex. You and others like you are willingly waiting with mouths wide open for the White man to shove something ... anything .... down your throats. Ask yourself ... how is it the Black man been living for thousands of years in the midst of the malaria infested forest regions and are not wiped out by malaria? The White man cannot do that. Isn't it something the Black man knows that the White doesn't? The local man already has the solution but here you are ... a local ... condemning your own while singing praises to the alien.

Dummy, living in the Jungle and depending on evolution to take its cause...is not a strategy.

Sickle cell and immunity can only do so much. Invest in talent and develop an African solution.

A vaccine laboratory that once saved lives

In the months and years following its creation in 1948, the FVPL, Yaba, used to be the envy of other West African nations especially due to its cutting-edge technology and expertise in manufacturing vaccines in needed quantity whenever required. Rabbies, small pox, yellow fever and even other more ruthless vaccine-preventable diseases, the laboratory had the wand to prevent, and if need be, extinguish them at the time, a fact recently confirmed by President of the Nigerian Medical Association, Prof. Mike Ogirima.


The entrance into the old vaccine lab
For instance, during the yellow fever outbreak in Nigeria between 1986 and 1987, a scientist, identified simply as Jose, who worked in the lab at the time, told our correspondent that other affected states across the federation came to the laboratory to get vaccines.

A report by the United States National Library of Medicine stated that in 1950, Nigeria had a record of 67.2 cases of smallpox per 100,000, but that shortly after, the incidence had dropped to 29.7 cases due to the production of over five million doses of vaccine at the FVPL in Yaba, leading to the eradication of the ailment at the time.

Even when smallpox resurfaced in Ibadan in 1957, it was quickly contained by emergency vaccination. And when it came up again in Abakaliki (now the capital of Ebonyi State) in 1967, when the population of eastern Nigeria was about 12 million, targeted vaccination, courtesy of the vaccines produced at the lab in Yaba, helped to contain the spread and save many lives.

Since then, Nigeria has not had any incidence of smallpox.
https://punchng.com/nigeria-blows-billions-of-dollars-on-vaccine-import-as-lab-rots-away/

Federal Vaccines Production Laboratory located in Yaba, Lagos

Sabadon:
Thank God for technology, but why are the bereaved not bothered even for centuries, still relying on strangers to keep our house in check


Africa my Africa

Thank White man technology and not your Yeye god

PlayMaker14:
I join the good people of Delta State to felicitate with the former Delta State Governor, Chief James Onanefe Ibori as he clocks 63 today.

Ibori is a respected leader in the country who has contributed immensely to the development of Delta State and Nigeria.

Chief James Onanefe Ibori is not an ordinary man but an enigma whose footprints are visible for all to see as he has achieved alot at 63 and deserved to be celebrated.

His invaluable contribution to the socio-economic and political development is unequalled and I will always celebrate him for his developmental stride in Delta State.

May God continually enrich Chief James Onanefe Ibori with wisdom and good health.

God bless Chief James Onanefe Ibori.

Thieves of Thieves

Monogamy:
Like Buhari, Like Ortom, both of them have doctorate degree in cluelessness regarding insecurity

Ortom is not the commander-in-chief and Buhari supports Fulani's aggression across Nigeria.

Beancounter94:
More like FCT does not have enough money, and there is looting too.

FCT used to raise money from parking meters to supplement its income some 8 years ago, until someone got a court order to stop it.

Also, we don't pay something called a council tax. Many cities in the UK...residents pay something called a council tax which can be as high as 85,000 to 100000 naira. (I know, Nigeria cannot be compared to the UK eh, we are poor)...but that money goes into providing essential services such as street light, transport, etc.

The oyel money that we all rely on is not enough for all of us. Which is why you that is shouting Hausas and Fulani...is your state capital well lit all over? The reason is simple...there isn't enough money to do the job.(apart from Lagos maybe, and even Lag is not well lit all over). Because your tax to gdp ratio is too low and because the oil price has not been high enough to sustain us for nearly 9 years, if not longer.

States and the FCT need to be innovative in raising money not just for streetlights , but for public services, especially in the cities. And Nigerians too need to put pressure on their leaders to make sure the money is used well to ensure that their cities are run well.(The court case I referred to earlier may have stopped corruption in the parking meter system, but then it also threw out the baby with the bathwater)

(This is not a supporting Buhari message...personally, I think the minister of FCT should be more of a professional than a polticial somebodi. APC continued with the same old same old.Ironically, the last really good FCT minister we had was El-Rufai.)

Nigeria VAT is very low should be around 20%, there is no cattle tax, council tax, housing tax and road tax all these taxes are collected every month by UK local council to provide local services

TheRareGem1:
Investment in mining gold and other God given resources couple with continuous diversification in agriculture with operations around oil business, economy boom will happen, definitely. We are blessed with all these things.

Covid19 effect on governance, well being, ways of life, what we consume is global, some countries are still battling with recession not even thinking about other aspect of governance. If Nigeria government and private sector can work together to some extent improve the economy, reduce hardship by people, it will be commendable.

Why not invest in talent?

Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Google are more valuable than all the oil and gold companies combined.

Ghana exports $2 billion of Cocoa to Belgium and Belgium process the Cocoa into confectionery and export $35 billion worth of products , creating jobs and not poverty.

Nigerians must invest in talent to industrialized agriculture, enough of this subsistence farming and cattle herding in 2021.

Eriokanmi:
Northerners are the most corrupt tribe on earth. Even if they succeed in stealing Nigeria, you'd never hear pim from any of their fellows because they're loyal to each other to the core. The minority tribe had wrecked this country to this point we are at, today. They'd say its government wealth and e no dey finish. He's our brother, let him eat much as he can.

Their loyalty to criminal is the reason why poverty and hunger is prevalent in the North because only criminals can be loyal to criminals.

thebosstrevor1:
Sowore is no different from the people he criticizes.

He wants a revolution, the other day he complained bitterly about why people arent ready to die for their country, why does he want people to die for his political goal, he is also part of the murder gang.

Nigerians are already dying for their country, with hunger and extreme poverty.


60 years after independence Nigeria cannot provide basic education, universal health care, 12 hours of electricity and a secured country to its ever-growing population.... the future is not bright for Nigerians.

SUCKCESSFUL:
Kindly run for your life ma.
Make Saphiere no deceive you
The Future is Female no reach here o

Not everyone is a coward like you.