₦airaland Forum

myboy2111:
Can we grow wheat in Nigeria?

StubbornGENIUS:
Oil dependency or corrupt leaders?

longetivity:
their governor is really working

StubbornGENIUS:
What are you even saying?Didn't you know that oil was at a negative value recently?At least we'll be making money from it instead of the other way round.

xdunamis:
The federal government is always broke.

Minister of foreign affairs + GMD of NNPC + Governor of CBN. Collaboration of 3 looters.

Over a billion naira to isolate and feed returnees that will not be up to 1000 in number?
Then you will isolate and abandon them in freely donated facilities for 14 days. Clowns.

StubbornGENIUS:
This is a welcome development

PerfectlyPerfect:
https://trobell.com/our-team/
The company is obviously a front for some bigwigs in government

Susu888:
Why an assembly plant na? Why not a manufacturing plant??

Anyway its better than nothing at all.

bolaayenimo:
They are fronting for Malami..you think Nigerians are fools?

Little-known Trobell International Limited had been engaged by Abubakar Malami, the attorney-general of the federation (AGF), in April 2018 to help recover an estimated $43 billion unpaid “oil profits” from multinational companies at a commission of five percent.

Effectively, Trobell was to pocket $2.15 billion as commission.

However, federal government decided in October 2019 to step down the recovery process following a meeting of stakeholders — after Trobell had issued demand notices to the oil companies.

Trobell is now claiming 50 percent of the fee, saying it had already done significant work.

Nigeria is currently in international arbitration with P&ID Ltd over a botched oil and gas processing contract in which $6.4 billion plus compound interest has been awarded against the country.

Also, Sunrise Power is making a $2.3 billion claim in arbitration against Nigeria over the Mambilla power project, although it has now entered into a $200 million settlement.

fk001:
Sahara reporters are just a bunch of clowns parading themselves as a journalist. If not junk journalism what do we call this? This tweets happened over a year ago since before Pantami become a minister, but unprofessional Sahara Reporters decided to dig and report it today because they are out of news.

Saddam Hussein was one of them. Muammar Gaddafi was one of them. They adviced him that there was the [b]likelihood that the US could sanction Nigeria and as such he should save money outside that could last the country, at least, six months, even Nigeria’s account was blocked by the US, [/b]there won’t be panic.

lorbah001:
3 things drive economy..... technology, education, industrialization ( jobs,jobs and jobs).
It's a shame these ones aren't bothered.

reemanq:
The question is how do we get here?

Ade3131:
Acute tribalism and nepotism couple with unpatrotism brought us here. There's hardly a Nigerian that is a true patriot again. Those that wept yesterday when they lost an election are now at the helm of power with 98% of their cabinet from their region. What then happens to people from other part of the country? This same people will cry foul if their region should be this marginalized. Well, despite all the flaws of their imposed leaders staring right into their bcuz they've actually been the worst hit by their leader's ineptness, they'll still come back every 4 years to impose and chant the names of their own to the faces of those who can stir the country to a greater height.

How Nigeria walked into a disastrous independence and why Azikiwe never became prime minister

This week, our history series focuses on two years before Nigerian independence, when its post-British political fate was decided. Throughout 1958, Obafemi Awolowo ramped up his calls for Nigeria to be divided into more than three regions before independence. He stated colonialism meant the Yorubas, Igbos, Hausa-Fulanis and others had been “lumped together by our British overlords without the knowledge or consent of the people concerned, and with little or no regard to their cultural, linguistic and ethnological differences.”

Awo stated “there is more in common between a Greek villager and a British villager than there is between a Sokoto villager and an Ijaw villager.” While the Greeks and Brits shared a culture “derived more or less from the same source – Christianity – when you consider the relationship between the Sokoto man and the Ijaw man, where is the connection? There is none at all, either in language or in culture. They do not even derive their culture from the same source,” he argued.

Interestingly, though bitter political rivals, Ahmadu Bello shared Awo’s view on northern and southern Nigerians being fundamentally different. “They (southerners) get their civilisation from over the sea; we get ours from over the desert,” Bello told Manchester Guardian in 1956. He saw southerners as western-oriented while the north looked to the Islamic world for inspiration.

However, because Bello viewed the north as being in a dominant political position by the late 1950s, he was not overly worried about what would happen to his region in an independent Nigeria. In March 1958, he was confident enough to declare before the northern House of Chiefs that the aim of his “Northernisation” policy was to have “northerners gain control of everything in the country.” Nnamdi Azikiwe, meanwhile, argued that cultural differences between Nigerians were not an obstacle to nation-building.

Zik and Bello are famously said to have had a meeting at which Zik said to Bello, “Let us forget our differences” to which Bello responded, “No, let us understand our differences. I am a Muslim and a northerner. You are a Christian and an easterner.” This exchange encapsulates the vast difference in approach to Nigeria’s ethno-cultural diversity between Bello (and Awo) on the one hand, and Zik on the other. Awo and Bello were both clearly more realistic about what Nigeria was while Zik appeared to overestimate the ability of rhetoric to constitute reality.

It is worth mentioning that despite his strong opposition to Bello and northern elites, Awo approached not just NCNC for a coalition, but NPC as well. However, northern elites were so bitterly opposed to Awo, largely because of his consistent campaign to break up the north, that they ruled this out and chose NCNC instead

Nevertheless, having lost his battle for a reconfiguration of Nigeria before independence, Awo, like Bello and Zik, turned his focus to the all-important general election of 1959, which would determine who controlled Nigeria’s political centre after Britain left. Electioneering kicked off in earnest with Awo and other Action Group (AG) leaders crisscrossing Nigeria in helicopters, campaigning hard in the seat-rich north and in the east, where they hoped to make enough in-roads with regional minorities to be able win a majority at the centre.

AG’s 1959 campaign was described in foreign press as “the most expensive and most professional” political campaign ever conducted in Africa at the time. Yet, ultimately, all that expensive campaigning had little effect as election results revealed voting along largely ethnic lines. Zik’s National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) party won all 50 seats in the Igbo constituencies of the east. Bello’s NPC dominated the north, capturing virtually all the available seats in upper-north constituencies populated mostly by Hausa-Fulanis. Awo’s AG won 32 of 47 available seats in the Yoruba sector of the west. Additionally, AG won 14 of 23 available seats in eastern minority areas, and, in alliance with the United Middle Belt Congress, 25 seats in the lower north. Similarly, NCNC won 14 of 15 seats in non-Yoruba western Nigeria. Factor in independents plus small parties and all told, Bello’s NPC commanded 142 of the 312 seats in Nigeria’s federal House of Representatives, NCNC 89 seats and AG 73 seats.

This parliamentary arithmetic meant any two of the major parties could form a majority coalition. Awo sent emissaries to NCNC offering a coalition agreement in which Zik, as leader of the bigger party in parliament, would become Nigeria’s first independent prime minister while Awo would be finance minister. However, just after the results were announced, but before any coalition deal had been reached, British Governor-General James Robertson appointed Tafawa Balewa prime minister on grounds he represented the largest party in the House of Representatives and could form a coalition.

Balewa specifically requested this favour from Robertson to strengthen his hand in coalition negotiations. Balewa told Robertson he was sure Festus Okotie-Eboh, an NCNC man who opposed an NCNC-AG coalition since that meant Awo as finance minister, a job he wanted for himself, would break away from NCNC with other party members and join an NPC coalition even if Zik opposed it.

NCNC, a coalition of numerous unions and movements, was never as disciplined a party as Awo’s AG or Bello’s NPC. Moreover, the days when Zik’s authority in the party went unquestioned were long gone by 1959. In the immediate years preceding independence, while Zik remained an important symbolic figurehead for NCNC, he was never fully in control of the party. Outside, he tried to create the impression he was, but insiders knew he wasn’t. To further complicate matters, most Yoruba members of NCNC said they would never accept a coalition in which Awo would play a prominent role. They threatened to dump NCNC if Zik tried to push through AG as coalition partner.

Add to this the fact many NCNC members recalled bitterly their years of rivalry with AG in the south, didn’t trust AG politicians and feared the potential threat of northerners not accepting an all-south government, perhaps even seceding, and we see how an NCNC-AG coalition that would have made Zik Nigeria’s PM became a non-starter.

Publicly, Zik preferred not to admit he would have been unable to force through an NCNC-AG coalition even if he had wanted as that would have revealed him not being in control of the party he led. So, he emphasised the threat of northern secession instead. In the end thus, NCNC joined NPC as a junior coalition partner with Zik receiving the ceremonial post of governor-general which offered no real power.

Sure enough, the corrupt Festus Okotie-Eboh, popularly referred to as “Mr 10%” for his wheeling-dealing, got his coveted job of finance minister in the NPC-NCNC government.

It is worth mentioning that despite his strong opposition to Bello and northern elites, Awo approached not just NCNC for a coalition, but NPC as well. However, northern elites were so bitterly opposed to Awo, largely because of his consistent campaign to break up the north, that they ruled this out and chose NCNC instead. And this was how Nigeria’s first independent government came into being, an arrangement that would bring disastrous consequences still being felt in the country’s politics today. Next series, we shall discuss the early 1960s and how the events of those years led to a civil war in Nigeria, which at independence was a state without a nation. Till then, take care folks!

https://businessday.ng/columnist/article/how-nigeria-walked-into-a-disastrous-independence-and-why-azikiwe-never-became-prime-minister/amp/

Genoa:
Mr, Are you in any way different from them?

KnowAll:
Nigeria cannot run out of forex because the diaspora community sends in about $20 billion dollars every year. Where do u think that dollar ends, Nigeria central Bank.

5gee:
The FG will be accused of dictatorship if they battle Wike.

That's why I like OBJ, no governor will try this with him.

Kekereekun123:
We are not the only country joined together. Others are progressing and moving on well. We are here still weeping

Exc2000:




Sack workers like Mikano 600 (lagos), Gotel TV 100 (Adamawa) , American British University 400 (Adamawa)

Useless Hypocrite, why not use his own advise rather than sacking people in his own firm, he could had sold some of his choice properties in UAE like Sahara Mall Sharjah, and numerious tower apartment buildings in Palm Jumeirah Dubai

If this monafiq father of Ipobian didnt conive with Elrufai as BPE boss to sell , Delta Steel plant like scrap Nigeria would be making money outside oil from steel based products just has the koreans, If he never sold NITEL off Nigeria would had being making money like British do from Btitish Telecoms, and UAE does with Etisalat worldwide

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FG discloses how it will finance N5.36 trillion budget deficit
FG intends financing the N5.36 trillion budget deficit through domestic, foreign loans and proceeds from privatisations.



Federal Government of Nigeria has said that it would finance the N5.36 trillion budget deficit through domestic, foreign loans and proceeds from privatisations. This was disclosed by the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed after the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday.

The Minister told Reuters that the cabinet approved a revised budget of N10.52 trillion at the meeting, against the N10.59 trillion approved earlier. Ahmed added that expenditures related to COVID-19, which was not included in the budget, has been added to it.

The revised budget, which requires the approval of the National Assembly, was based on assumption that crude oil price would be at $25 per barrel, the output of 1.94 million barrels per day and an exchange rate of N360 to $1.

Meanwhile, it appears the government has changed its mind over budget reduction, as it acted differently from what it said about two months earlier. The finance minister had said in March that the N10.59 trillion budget would be reduced by 15% due to the global oil prices crisis, which is about N1.58 trillion. But Ahmed announced only a reduction of N71.5 billion only.

READ ALSO: Buhari administration on track to double Nigeria’s fiscal deficit


“It is not good to keep on borrowing on a yearly basis to finance deficit budget when a lot of very valuable national assets are lying fallow and moribund. Proceeds from outright privatisation or concession of the moribund assets should serve as the best alternative in funding yearly budget deficits since the assets are more or less becoming national liabilities.

“There are about 600 state-owned enterprises in the country which gulp not less than $3 billion on a yearly basis with little or no returns into the public purpose,” he said.

https://nairametrics.com/2020/05/13/fg-discloses-how-it-will-finance-n5-36-trillion-budget-deficit/

Okoroawusa:
They claim Fulani but are neither full blooded Fulanis nor can they speak the language.
The Ilorin people are more Yoruba than Fulani even the Emir,Chiefs and all. They bear Islamic names first, followed by Yoruba names then either another Islamic name or Yoruba name as surname. Even the Emir of Ilorin.

There are so many intricacies associated with Ilorin and as a historian that is what makes history interesting. The Illorin people have learnt to embrace and live with the intricacies of their history. Let us respect that.
After all how many of us can tell well detailed history of our ancestry beyond grandfather n at most great grand father.

I think the Ilorin people have a rich cultural heritage.

mohlanforex:
Kwara state comprises of 16 local government

12 local government belong to Yoruba

2 local government belong NUPE/Tapa

2 belong belong to Baruba.

%80 of Kwara population are Yoruba

KWARA SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT

%100 Yoruba

Offa
Oyun
Oke ero
Isin
Ifelodun
Irepodun
Ekiti

KWARA CENTRAL LOCAL government
%99 YORUBA
ASA
Ilorin west
Ilorin South
Ilorin East
KWARA North local government
Moro is %95 Yoruba

BARUTEN and Kaiama is %100 Baruba

EDU and Patigi is %100 NUPE/TAPA

mind you, emir of Ilorin royal family are Fulani by tribe but can no longer speak the Fulani language again...

%80 of Kwara population are Yoruba but UpTo %95 of Kwara population speak Yoruba language, as NUPE and Baruba also speak Yoruba because it's the language of majority...

malcom1X:
Is illorin Yoruba or Fulani?

bigheart7:
I despise Buhari's style of leadership but one thing I can't ignore about him is his unshakeable faith in friendship.

He doesn't forget his hood & friends especially loyal ones.

Unlike some people that will forget friends that knew them when they had nothing because Baba God don finally pick their call.

Life is turn by turn, be good to the people on your way up because you might need them on your way down "Lucky Dube"

Arrewa:
shut up and stop feeling important!! Those guys are Negereins lot Hausafulanis... They are helping in those trucks to send and offload agro produce in the south!

An average northner hardly travel to the south... Make your head stop dey big!

iezeiyida:
The Northern Almajiris or whatever are the problems their religious and political leaders created by themselves, and I'm worried because they are causing us more harm than good, particularly in this era of a deadly pandemic disease

The British people were very stupid and selfish, to have structured this nation this way! They would have at least divided Nigeria into two country - by creating North as a country and South as a country.
I'm sure both country would have survived, economically

layzie:
I don't think turning back the truck is the best strategy unless they will follow the truck to be sure it goes back all the way to the north. I mean the truck can just go back a few meters or km and discharge the youths who will then come in singly on foot or simply try another western state.
The truck should be allowed in with everyone in it including the driver quarantined for 21days just to be sure. The driver won't try it again with the knowledge that 21 days forceful quarantine awaits him. The youths can be allowed into the society if that are negative, or sent back by with the truck, escorted by security operatives all the way to NC border at least.

naturefellow:
conflict of interests. Would Buhari and his cabal have listened?

Farki:
Please what does China contribute to us that warrants racial discrimination?

Racoon:
So you know this yet as a minister you couldn't counsel the president against borrowing from them & the forceful invitation of Chinese doctors to Nigeria?