₦airaland Forum

Baba Hamed, In Nigeria they don't force voters to vote, you bribe them

You cannot force a voter to choose a candidate that is not his choice, just because the candidate comes from a particular region of the country.

The honest truth is Nigerians are not interested in the Olympics, we all know that Nigeria will return with zero medals. The country is now at its very last leg.

EXLOVER:
Inside Job

How can they have N100 million in a government office , shouldn't the money be in a bank

EdoFirstBorn:
He is royalty fùcked.

It was when I attended a friend's court trial in America, I was astounded at how effective and deliberate their justice system is.

Before hushpuppi opened his mouth to finger Kyari as an accomplice,his lawyer would present photographs, bank transfers and call transcripts to the judge .

America isn't Nigeria where you just open mouth in court to make unsubstantiated allegations.

That was the day I knew our courts and police are so useless

They have all Hushpuppi records and computer and evidence of transaction have to explain to the US prosecutor if he wants a light sentence.

Iliya1520:
Thank god, ojinbo came saw us in our mud's houses, n they came found us we were wearing clothes not like those who were found on the trees, cave and hills, and living without clothes look like wild monkey.

The Oyinbo saw a civilisation that was behind their civilisation in government and writing but equal to their civilisation in the arts, agriculture and mining

Yusman316:
Aboki is a term for a friend while almajiri is a term for a learner like a student. But u guys turned these words to deregulatory terms just to insult those who are different from u. And in turn u want them to be happy with u, and trust u.
U insult the North and Northern leaders and don't expect them to be nepotistic towards u people when they are in power?

My friend the Northerners insult themselves,

If a region despite dominating the majority of Nigeria political and military leadership is still the most backward region in Africa don't blame the South, hold your sharia culture and leader to account. This is a region blessed with gold, cattle, arable land and an advanced Hausa and Kanuri civilisation yet they will promote backward values, refuse to educate their women and children and promote cattle herding in 2021!

Commentor:
I think we are being too sentimental.

Asphalt roads were barely 50 years at the time.

Not every city even in the advanced world were paved.

Ho old was the automobile in 2031?

The OP is praising the procurement of an extravagant automobile. I will like to see evidence of Electricity and water supply in 1927 Kano.

Imokay:
Why are the mainly Muslim Maghreb states, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt more advanced and developed than most of the sub-saharan black African states? If Islam is the problem why is the largely Christian states like Congo, Zimbabwe and Angola not very advanced and industrialized?

Just showing you starting on a premises based on bigotry will lead to a wacky conclusion

Stop being emotional and face the fact

The question you should ask is why are North African countries less developed than mediterranean countries in Europe.

Consider pre-Islamic conquest of North Africa North Africa was once one of the most civilise regions in the world. Today North Africa despite 100 years of exposure to Western European developments is just 50 years ahead of Sub-saharan Africa.

Some North African countries like Mauritania, Sudan and Libya are as backward as Northern Nigeria.

obynzo:
Naturally there are two Rivers that empty into Lake Chad. They are the Chari and Logone Rivers. The issue is that due to evaporation the river is not emptying the full capacity of it's discharge to the Lake that is why the lake is dying in addition to desertification. The plan is to divert the water from the River Ubangui(One of the tributaries of the Chari river) so the discharge will flow into Lake Chad thereby increasing the Volume of the Lake. The Ubangui River is one of the tributaries of the River Congo which is the largest river by water volume. So for me it is a wise choice.

We have to be very careful, diverting the Ubangi river might cause more problems.

In the soviet union

The Soviet government decided in the 1960s to divert those rivers so that they could irrigate the desert region surrounding the Sea in order to favour agriculture rather than supply the Aral Sea basin. ... The water level in the Aral Sea started drastically decreasing from the 1960s onward.

By establishing a program to promote agriculture and especially that of cotton, Soviet government led by Khrouchtchev in the 1950s deliberately deprived the Aral Sea of its two main sources of water income, which almost immediately led to less water arriving to the sea.

Not only was all this water being diverted into canals at the expense of the Aral Sea supply, but the majority of it was being soaked up by the desert and blatantly wasted (between 25% and 75% of it, depending on the time period).

The water level in the Aral Sea started drastically decreasing from the 1960s onward. In normal conditions, the Aral Sea gets approximately one fifth of its water supply through rainfall, while the rest is delivered to it by the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers. Evaporation causes the water level to decrease by the same amount that flows into the Sea, making it sustainable as long as inflow is equal to evaporation on average. Therefore the diversion of rivers is at the origin of the imbalance that caused the sea to slowly desiccate over the last 4 decades.



http://www.columbia.edu/~tmt2120/introduction.htm

Shugabanqasa:
Is it your money what's your problem.
Must you wail over everything

Olodo, It is my tax money, why shouldn't I wail.


Abi dey share the dollars with you.

Beancounter94:
And yet, Zambia for all its literacy is just as backward as Northern Nigeria.

Because they are resource dependent, not industrial and production dependent

Same for DR Congo, Zimbabwe, Uganda, etc etc. Resource dependent, indebted nations....

The first stage of industrial development is security, mass education and universal healthcare.

An uneducated, unsecured and unhealthy nation can never develop, insecurity is the reason why Nigeria has unsustainable food inflation.

I doubt you can find an industrialised country with a literacy level lower than 50%. I doubt you can fin any county in Southern Africa as backward as Northern Nigeria, maybe North Mozambique can come to close Northern Nigeria backwardness, they have a large Islamic population.

Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola and Bostwana are currently resource-dependent, but due to their stable security environment and high literacy rate, they are one or two steps from industrialisation. They just need to fix government corruption and set up an industrialisation policy.

Shugabanqasa:
Stop the misleading already..its $35.9 million and not billion.

$35.9 million for that bridge is the joke

Abdullah36:
$35.9 million
It's time for me to enter into the construction industry

That bridge actual cost will be in the range of $2-4 million

DropsMic:
When a business man moves from the south to the North he's expected to pay for land before starting his business... But when a Northerner business man moves from the same North to the South he expects the South to give him free land to start his business.... What kind of fuckery is this

If they pay for the land they will have to start paying land tax and cattle tax .

Beancounter94:
The enterprises in the South mostly center on importing and selling imported stuff. Ironically, the same happens up North. And the result is all the same...we don't make anything, we import stuff we make self....and we lose dollars, and get broke...and then take loans to make the diffierence.

It isn't about 'who chooses our leaders' for me. Even if it was up to the South to choose leaders, the way most Nigerians think....we should share money (and most criticism of our leaders is based on how they share money really)...at the end of the day, the Southern leaders would be just like the Northern leaders. Run an economy based on sharing money

We have to stop relying on oil and start relying on industrial growth, more taxes, and less corruption.(Gowon one of your norhterners also developed an industrial development plan for Nigeria...which if we had followed might have helped us out of our revenue dependency by now)

Keep in mind that many African countries are just as broke as we are...and most of them, as far as I know, have no Northerners in charge or running the country. When your income is dependent on raw materials whose prices you do not control....you go broke when prices fall below replacement/sustenance (Zambia is 80% Christian, has no Hausas as far as we know...and is broke like Nigeria because they rely on copper...and the last time copper prices were high enough to sustain their economy was in 2006-11)

Zambia has corrupt and incompetent politicians without the added security problems that are prominent in Northern Nigeria. 80% of Zambia are literate, Nothern Nigeria the literacy level in 30%

Piptocoin:
[color=indigo]A welcome change. Essential commodities should never be left to private individuals to control. It will help stabilize the supply and demand or flow of foreign currencies. The market would determine the value of foreign currencies and not some group of people who deliberately hoard them so as to rake in enormous gains by selling them above and beyond their actual market value. Good job, Emefiele.[/color]

Then while did the government sell dollars to the BDC in the first place. A government without a plan is a government without a future.

thundafire:
IQ were dey think from anus.

FarahAideed:
I dare you to say something reasonable loser

What he said was very reasonable.

Nigeria Yaba Vaccine Production Laboratory

Federal vaccine production laboratory still under renovation since 1991 till date The Federal Vaccine Production Laboratory, Yaba is the first vaccine institute in Nigeria. It started local production of vaccines in 1940. The Institute was active between 1940 and 1991, producing large quantities of vaccines against smallpox, rabies, Yellow fever for Nigerians and other Africa countries.

In 1991, the vaccine centre was shut down by the Federal Government for renovation and upgrading its facilities.

At a news conference in April, 2017, a former Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, announced that the Federal Government had set up a joint venture company with May and Baker, a pharmaceutical company in Nigeria, to commence local production of vaccines at the Yaba facility.

Adewole claimed that the decision was made during a Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, adding that the joint venture will run between 2017 to 2021.

But when this reporter visited the federal vaccine production laboratory located at 1, University Road, Yaba, Lagos on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 , the vaccine centre was locked.

Dilapidated buildings, rotten gates, filthy environment, all these seem to have been ignored by the government since 1991 till date.

.....Thenationonlineng.net

Ovamboland:
This is an indication that Nigerians don't pay tax but want govt to provide paradise and utopia out of thin air. Smaller African countries in terms of GDP and population raise revenue of over $100bn out of their economy to use for public works, education and healthcare investment.

But Nigeria raise mere $30bn and ignorant Nigerians want to have world class everything out of that. Funds that cannot give a country like USA adequate fire fighting services.

South Africa will invest our entire budget on education and still have another $100bn left for other things. Yet they still have hungry looters and poorly educated people.

We are doing ourselves bad if we don't create a working tax system, age of excess oil funds is over

It is an indication that the government doesn't enforce tax collection and discourage private investment and development.

Under the British government, Nigeria had a cattle tax programme, that was removed by Aminu Kano and Amadou Bello during independence.

Excise and Duties from NNPC and NPA are not accounted for and Tinubu Alpha

FG probes NPA over N165 billion unremitted surplus, suspended MD responds...Nairametrics

Tinubu, Alpha-beta, others accused of fraud, tax evasion, money laundering
..premium times

Yet despite very low revenue, they are adding more debt...

Nigeria’s revenue-to-Gross Domestic Product ratio, which fell to between five and six per cent last year, is the lowest in the world, the World Bank said on Monday.

The Country Director for Nigeria, World Bank, Dr Shubham Chaudhuri, said this during a panel session at a virtual public sector seminar with the theme ‘Nigeria in challenging times: imperatives for a cohesive national development agenda’ organised by the Lagos Business School.

Chaudhuri, who stressed the need for private investment for the country to realise its potential, said the private sector in the country ‘is struggling to breathe’.

“In Nigeria, I think the basic economic agenda is about diversification away from oil because oil has really been like resource curse for Nigeria on multiple dimensions,” he said.

He noted the aspiration of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty by the end of the decade.

He said, “Nigeria is a country with tremendous potential. If you look at the synopsis for this panel, it suggests that Nigeria is at a critical juncture – almost at the moment of crisis.

“Despite all of that, Nigeria is still the largest economy in Africa. So, just think about the potential that Nigeria has because of its natural resources, but more than that, because of its dynamism and all of its population. Nigerians are more entrepreneurial by nature.

“No country has become prosperous and realised its potential, eliminated poverty without doing two simple things: investing in its people, and unleashing the power of the private sector in creating jobs by investing and growing business. And then, of course, the basic function of the state is to provide security and law and order.”

According to Chaudhuri, to invest in people entails basic services, basic education, primary healthcare and nutrition, among others.

He said, “On this, Nigeria at the moment ranks sixth from the bottom in terms of the human capital index that we produce every year.

“So, obviously, there is a huge agenda in terms of investing in human capital. Nigeria spends more on PMS (premium motor spirit) subsidy than it does on primary healthcare in a year, and we know who the PMS subsidy is benefitting.”

He indicated that despite the country’s huge potential to attract private capital, the non-oil part of the economy ‘is not growing that robustly and certainly not generating revenues that the government needs’.

Chaudhuri said, “So, we see as priorities investments in human capital. But for that, one needs revenues. And there again, Nigeria unfortunately has the distinction of having about the lowest revenue-to-GDP ratio in the world.

“In Nigeria, it was eight per cent in 2019. In 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis and with the fall in oil prices, that went down to about between five and six per cent.

“So, domestic revenue mobilisation is huge. And then the third is enabling the space for private investment. You have to fix the power problem. Power is like the oxygen of an economy. In Nigeria, the private sector is struggling to breathe.”

Revenue situation is very weak – Finance minister

The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, who spoke at the event, described the country’s revenue situation as very weak.

Ahmed, who was represented by the Special Adviser to the President on Finance and the Economy, Dr Sarah Alade, said the ministry and the government were also concerned about the issues of insecurity, poverty and unemployment in the country.

She said, “But there is also one issue, and that is the lack of revenue to be able to do as much as we want. But maybe we would be able to do if we all realise that the revenue situation in the economy is very weak. It is fragile.

“Whatever we can get, maybe there is a way we can come together to make sure that we are able to reprioritise what we spend this money so that we can then meet our national priorities.

“So, there are a lot of things, and I can only assure you that that is what we are doing. We have the medium-term development agenda, which we are in the process of implementing from 2021 to 2025. And within the five years, a lot of issues will be taken into consideration.”

On the issue of macroeconomic stability, the minister said, “Right now, the economy is weak, growth is fragile, but we are hoping growth will improve as we begin to look at the policies that we have on ground and do policy reforms to attract both local and foreign investments.”

Also speaking, the Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Economic Summit Group, Mr ‘Laoye Jaiyeola, said government’s expenditure in the country had grown by 105 per cent since 2015, while revenue had only grown by 15 per cent..

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/nigerias-revenue-to-gdp-ratio-lowest-private-sector-choking-wbank/%3famp

richmond500:
OK thanks for educating me.

U can now get lost.

Proforce is exporting to UN but Navy can't build a ship, NK don use ona brain buy FENDI

The stupid dummy is comparing an assembled security vehicle with the construction of a navy ship...olodo

richmond500:
OK, ur voice has been heard, can u now get lost?

As long as I am doing my duty to educate ignorant Nigerians like yourself, I will always be available and not lost.

NGpatriot:
...but the UN and other African countries are buying our APC's and armored trucks.Mine Resistance Ambush Vehicle (MRAP).

Ipobian hatred and bitterness miss road...

Proforce and Innoson are both geniuses to build successful manufacturing units in Nigeria. They are both very impressive organisations, despite the very difficult environment, but how long can they sustain these businesses without constant electricity, a stable Naira and lack of affordable steel.

sulaak:


A country must learn to walk before it can run.

Nigeria wants to export ships but cannot build functioning steel and aluminium plants.

What will they use to build the ship ...wood

richmond500:
this one is also allergic to good news, pls leave my mention

I am allergic to stupid news,

A country cannot build a sustainable manufacturing industry if it doesn't have the supply chain to support it. If the country hasn't got some of the basic components such as electricity, steel and aluminium that constitute 65 of the ship construction then it is wasting its time.

What is the competitive advantage of building naval ship in Nigeria if everything is imported, this is one of the reasons why Nigeria's automotive industry in the 1980s collapse, Nigeria could not afford the cost of importing all the materials required.

Get the basic right, electricity, logistics, education, healthcare, security, steel, petrochemical and Non-ferrous material

rosinkkit:
''Through the first five months of 2021, gunfire killed more than 8,100 people in the United States''

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/14/2021-gun-violence/

(Not kidnapped - slaughtered. But you kiss their butts anyway, so kindly shuush)

How come Americans don't hate and blame Biden for these terrible crimes happening ''under his watch''? They are seen as national issues requiring consensus solutions, and everyone's involvement to resolve, but in Nigeria, if an old woman falls down the stairs, it's Buhari's fault.

Why stop there! if you want to justify Nigeria failure to secure its people using US insecurity, you can also compare Nigeria success with the USA success in government, education systems, welfare programs, road network, medicare. Nigeria just imported 6 turboprop aircraft from the USA.

richmond500:
Slow but steady, We will get there.

Our navy sha is hitting the news latelythis one is allergic to good news, pls get out of my mention

A country must learn to walk before it can run.

Nigeria wants to export ships but cannot build functioning steel and aluminium plants.

What will they use to build the ship ...wood

PrinceOfLagos:
Nigerians deserve the kind of wicked leaders they get ..

No pity

yemmit90:
You are probably still being fed by your parent. The country is gradually bringing down the middle class below poverty line, and you are here talking as if these set of unfortunate leaders did not affects everyone.

Nigeria need mechanized farming at point to rescue us from impending serious famine we may witness next year. Federal Government should as a matter of urgency allow massive importation of RICE and CORNS for poultry sector, which serves as a stable food for an average Nigerian family. If the price of rice come down, people will eat more of rice, which will definitely lead to decline in the price of BEANS,YAM,GARRI, etc in the market.

He is right, we deserve what we get.

When it comes to standing up to our corrupt leaders we fight ourselves over mundane issues like ethnicity and religion.

[quote author= post=104100951]Security is a basic necessity in life and so what caused the hike in food prices, first of all, is insecurity.
The second is climate change, while farmers and herders’ clashes, which is part of insecurity, is the next concerned.
And if you cannot produce, if you can’t move to the farm, if you can’t have access or convey inputs from one location to the other, it makes it difficult for us to grow our commodities.”
Something urgent must be done concerning this NOW.
A BETTER Nigeria is all we want.
Desperate Times Call for desperate Measures

We Rise. [/quote]Farmers and Herders are not clashing.

Farmers properties have been invaded by Fulanis herders and the Buhari government has refused to act accordingly. The destruction of farmers property has ultimately led to Nigeria food insecurity.

Hunger has always been the reason why countries revolt from the French revolution to the Russian revolution and the recent Arab spring.

Any leader that fails to manage Nigeria fragile unity will ultimately manage Nigeria disunity. Buhari has failed to manage the country diversity, I doubt Nigeria will make it to 2023.

WhatCanIsay:
Who knows when we would stop celebrating minor infrastructures in Nigeria?

Nigeria a country where bridges and roads are seen as great achievements worthy of sight seeing.

Well said,

They wouldn't build schools and hospitals, yet they celebrate minor constructions like roads and bridges while millions of children are out of school,

ceevee2003:
Hi all, I need your advice. I work for an online university that pays USD equivalent 230,000 as per today's aboki exchange rate. Now, just recently my immediate supervisor was sacked and replaced by an Indian lady who is making the work so difficult to the extent that I hate remembering work. I have been in this job for close to 5 years and I have never felt this bad about the job. Right now I feel like quitting and focusing on my other hustle, although this will mean halving my monthly income. Anyone with a similar experience to share, or advice to give?

That is her intention, to get rid of you and replace you with one of her family members. Don't quit the fight, stand and defeat her intention.

Petie33:
I just weep for Nigerians on how they think. because you are opposing the government should not make you hate your country because if Nigeria �� fails today we all fail not only the government but the people too


My very first, ftc thanks to mod

A lot of Nigerians hate Nigeria. The country has amounted to nothing but a collection of poor, ignorant people.

Pharmmaqp:
So arresting Amaechi will automatically complete the project.

That means Jonathan should be in jail for all the inflated uncompleted projects.

Like someone suggested.

Wike should have carried out some reassessment of the project.

Contract it to another firm or same firm after renegotiation probably at a lower value (if indeed it was inflated) and give a comparative report.

Imagine that monorail from oyigbo to borokiri or rumuola sef ..

Omo.. wetin person dey go find for road!.

Do you know how much Godswill Akpabio spent on Sheraton.. Is it not Udom Emmanuel completing it.

So they should have arrested Akpabio first before completing it

If Nigeria starts prosecuting corrupt politicians from OBJ to Buhari, maybe Nigeria will have a true democracy. In SA Zuma is in prison because of state capture and corruption.