Nigeria constitution guarantee each Nigeria to reside and stay anyway in Nigeria without being discriminated. The Almajiris has the right to stay anywhere in Nigeria, they should be sent back to Ondo. I know many Yorubas that stays and live in Gombe and Yola and nobody has ever threatened them or asked them to go back to Southwest.
Because of this North will not vote for a Yoruba president in 2023.
Yakamata Yarabawa su zabi kansu a shekarar 2023
Nigeria constitution doesn't guarantee stupidity, Northern Nigerians elite have been ruling Nigeria for the majority of its 60 years and all they can export is poverty.
Babysawale19: These children are obviously from Niger Republic. They have no state of origin. They should be asking for their birth certificate, passport and their parents house. Their Almajiri teachers/caretaker should be able to tell where they are from.
Birth Certificate from North Nigerian, person wey dey born for bush.
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state on Wednesday said the 19 Northern governors in the country have collectively agreed on putting an end to the Almajiri system in the country and are ready to face anyone who dares to stand on their path in realising this objective.
When did 12 Northern state become 19? Almajiri is an education system based in the 12 Islamic states in Northern Nigeria and exported to the Middle-Belt and South-West. I am pleased that they have come to accept that it is a failed education system and must be immediately eradicated and replace with modern education.
Golan007: Name the government official that claimed it to be a grant.
By the way, all countries are borrowing and all countries have had their future generations pay debt.
The whinging is worn out.
What has Nigeria done with all the money it has borrowed? Buhari government has borrowed $26 billion since 2015, do you see $26 billion worth of infrastructure in Nigeria today. The refineries are still not working so we will spend a large chunk of that loan on imported oil.
Skmoda: is south west not a region? Are you sure you know what you typing sef?
Regions are not in Nigeria constitution, the country is constitutional divided into a nation, states and LGA and politically into two zones North and South
mtinfx: It was acquired long ago It was just delivered I wont use the word suffering, what akwa Ibom really needs is human capital development backed by solid key industrial infrastructure They already have some key industries they should revive including
One of the largest aluminium smelters in the world Abandoned paper mills and steel mills
What they need fast to create jobs include
Seaport FTZ and industrial zone Functional refinery and fertiliser plant 2nd Brewery
What they have so far
Champion breweries Exxon Mobil Syringe factory RUSAL Break pad manufacturers Gas plant 500 mw power plant Gas plants Saipem Shell
So they still have a lot of work to do
Unfortunately the last governor Akpabio wasted time and resources on liability projects such as stadium and golf course, instead of investing in the critical Ibom deep seaport project.
astana1: why blame government for people's wickedness. Is it the government that is kidnapping children, rapping them and selling thier babies. Please grow up.
Those girls should be looking for government social services to protect them and not well-wishers.
Had the petroleum minister fixed the refineries the unsold oil could have bee sent to Nigeria refineries and petrochemical plants. Buhari MUST resign as petroleum minister ASAP.
They are fighting over food in IDP camps the food should reach there too
They should focus on testing and improving the food supply chain across the country, I don't need to see the governor on the street, that is the role of the field workers and professional, the governor should be providing regular updates on TV/Internet like his colleague in Lagos State.
Nigeria has completed a shocking 12,000 test in 2 months. This is the time to generate accurate data on the number of Nigerian, their location and employment.
I just feel that the lack of organisation capability in Nigeria will turn the country into the next COVID-19 epicentre.
JAMO84: Even if he takes 100 billion dollar loan, he still wouldn't be anywhere near Jonathan in term if revenue generation.
What revenue has Buhari generated?
Why are you comparing Buhari with the useless GEJ or in your opinion Buhari is the continuation of GEJ incompetence, hence your argument is who is the least incompetent.
sweetmelanin: I think you are the shallow one here who has clearly refused to reason!
1. Why is Bill Gates (a college dropout with no medical background) suddenly the spokesperson for global health? 2. Why is the vaccine (which we have no idea of it's long term effect) being pushed to be mandatory? 3. Why is Bill Gates pushing for digital identification of those who have been vaccinated (ID2020)?
I agree with you that he is not in the position to be recommending mandatory use of a vaccine, but if you can find the time, I will suggest that you watch the brilliant "Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates on Netflix - I rarely watch TV or movies but enjoy watching documentaries and this must be one of the best documentaries that I have ever watch, Bill Gates reads a lot of books and engage a lot of experts on critical issues.
JAMO84: Have you asked your poverty development party what they were doing for sixteen years that they couldn't fix or build a single refinery after killing the ones they met on ground?
The development party (PDP) was doing what the integrity party(APC) is doing today stealing and wasting resources. Buhari's government has increased Nigeria external debt profile from $10 billion to a whopping $35 billion and was about to take another $22 billion from the Chinese with interest rate of 7% per annum.
SmartchildTutor: Laughable! You obviously didn't see the part where I advised that you keep politics aside and be objective. So because he's trying to be president, he has become extraordinary. Hmmmm... It may interest you to know that Gotel is into business and has a management team which make structural, operational and related decisions. Every company may come to a point when they'll need to restructure at one time or another. Moreso, with the prevailing economic realities, restructuring is the least unexpected of any company's activity. Many organisation have either cut down their staff strength, many are doing so and many more companies will do the same. It's just a matter of time. About 75% of Access Bank staff are currently facing disengagement. Even those who'll be retained may have to accept a pay cut. That's the same access bank that had 1 billion to spare. So you see... It's not about who wants to president or whatever. It's about reality and the sustainability of business. Like I said before, it's really very sad that people are losing their jobs in the midst of increasing responsibilities. My prayers are with them.
Politics and Business cannot be separated. A politician that failed to pay his staffs for three months is not fit to be president of Nigeria.
The other media organisations such as AIT, TCV, ChannelTV and AriseTV are presently not laying off their employees.
Atiku business acumen is questionable, the majority of the enterprise assets that were privatised during his tenure as head of NCP are still not functioning today.
He presided over the National Council on Privatization, overseeing the sale of hundreds of loss-making and poorly managed public enterprises alongside Nasir El Rufai.
ALSCON, Refineries Ajaokuta, the three steel rolling mills are virtually scrap yards because of this common thief.
The effects of this coronaVirus will be more damning than the virus itself
Hard times are coming and like always , it's the poor that will suffer most
Yet whoever has God has everything
Put your trusts in God in this trying times
Only in Nigeria is the end is near, in the real world, this crisis is an opportunity. New opportunities in technology, biotechnology, agriculture supply chain and media communication.
hahahahaaa!!! deaths are getting nearer to his inner circle , Emir of bichi's death must have ruffled him
Ganduje actually thinks he can arm wrestle Buhari because of 15 billion, unknown to him Buhari's stubbornness is follow come military grade.. you cant scare Buhari with corpse, he had participated in bloody coups, he fought Congo War and Biafra war killing and counting bodies, he lead offenssives on metasini sect and Chadian invassion
JAMO84: Buhari has done it again. We haven't had any fuel scarcity in like four years now, something that use to happen every six months during the sixteen miserable years of the useless Poverty Development Party.
Subsidies are gone for good, any marketer that doesn't want to accept the new reality can start selling palm oil.
For the first time since 1993, we are going to completely get rid of the fraudulent subsidy regime and use the money to development our critical infrastructure!!!
I AM DONE TALKING
Maybe you should ask this genius called Buhari, why the four refineries controlled by the ministry of petroleum via NNPC are not working 5 years into his government.
The operation of the refineries would save the government billions of dollars and improve the country petrochemical and industrial base.
SmartchildTutor: Nigerians!! Is AAA a magician? British Airways is laying off 12,000 of its staff and people are here calling Gotel names for downsizing in the face of glaring circumstances. Let's try to leave politics aside for once and be humans. I'm not happy that people are losing their jobs. But we must realize that no matter how rich anyone is, business is always business.
British Airways is not trying to be president of Nigeria.
Recall that some expatriate workers had earlier accused Gotel of breaching the terms of their contracts and failing to pay them several months of salaries and entitlements
Over 30 million Americans have lost their jobs already.
It is a trying time for individuals and organizations all over the world.
That you still have your job till date is a privilege. Everything can change in a moment. Be grateful
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Recall that some expatriate workers had earlier accused Gotel of breaching the terms of their contracts and failing to pay them several months of salaries and entitlements
A man that refuse to pay workers salaries has no credibility
In July 2018, the BusinessDay editorial board, of which I was part of, warned about an impending debt peonage if the large scale of borrowings, at high interest rates, were not curbed by the government. By the time of writing the editorial, Nigeria’s total debt stood at N22.38 trillion ($73.2 billion) representing 19 per cent of GDP. This comprised external debt of about N6.75 trillion (or $22.08 billion) and domestic debt of about N15.629 (or $51.12 billion). This was almost a doubling of the debt in Naira terms from N12.1 trillion in June 2015 (when Buhari effectively took over). Beyond the debt, what was most worrying to us at the time was the issue of debt servicing. Data from the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation and the Budget Office at the time indicated that debt service to revenue ratio worked out at about 70 percent – a figure quite high and unsustainable by global standards.
But in a poor attempt at defending the borrowings of the government, the Debt Management Office (DMO) wrote a rejoinder to our editorial, denying any debt crises and assuring the reading public that regardless of Nigeria’s high debt to service ratio, Nigeria’s borrowing is sustainable (at 19 percent of GDP) and that the “government has also embarked on several revenue boosting initiatives with a view to increasing the size of the revenue available to finance the budget and reduce the debt service to revenue ratio.” For added measure, when we advised the government to instead seek loans from multilateral agencies with very low interest rates instead of approaching shylock investors and borrowers, the DMO accused us of a poor understanding of the lending policies of multilateral agencies and that Nigeria could not approach these agencies because she has no balance of payment crisis.
Of course, the government kept borrowing and by December 2019, the debt had accumulated to N27.40 trillion with an external debt component of $27.8 billion. A look at the spread of the debt shows that Nigeria does not borrow from global multilateral institutions even though they lend at one percent or less. Rather, we go for commercial loans with interest rates of between 7 to 10 percent and recently from China with equally high interest rates. There are two main reasons for this. First, borrowing from multilateral institutions (IMF and the World Bank) is not a politically popular decision in Nigeria. Nigerians are quite emotive when it comes to IMF loans – especially with the conditionalities that come with them. The debates the Structural Adjustment Programme and IMF proposed loans generated in the 1980s come to mind. Some would argue that the fear of IMF conditionalities have pushed the Nigerian government into the arms of shylock investors who would show no mercy when Nigeria defaults on the loans.
But this argument is neither here nor there. The two main conditionalities for which Nigerians always resent the IMF for were – ending the fuel subsidy and floating the naira. History and our bitter experience have proven the multilateral agency right. Rather than invest in education, health and human development of its citizens, the Nigerian government has found it politically expedient to pour all those monies (scarce forex) into subsidising the consumption of petrol and keeping the value of the naira artificially low to enable elite/middle class consumption. Most Nigerians who were seduced into protesting against their true interest in 2011 have come round to see the foolishness behind the whole fuel subsidy regime that gulps billions of dollars yearly.
The second reason is the question of accountability. If multilateral institutions were to give loans to Nigeria, the government will first have to put together a convincing proposal. More importantly, the institutions will also put in place a strong monitoring process to ensure that funds are used judiciously and for the approved projects. What is more, the release of the funds are likely to be staggered with release of future funds dependent on how earlier ones were spent. But we know that Nigeria does not have a track record of judicious utilisation of budgeted funds not to talk of external loans. The accumulated external loans that Obasanjo and Ngozi-Okonjo Iweala succeeded in getting the Paris club and other investors to write off for Nigeria were never spent for the purposes for which they were obtained. The general consensus was that they were mismanaged or outrightly embezzled.
Sadly, the problem of accountability is still with us. Despite Buhari’s claim to integrity, no one can say exactly what the borrowed funds were spent on in the last five years. There is a high probability some of it were used to just service recurrent expenditure.
Clearly then, IMF-type loans would have been the best choice for Nigeria because the proposals and spending would be closely monitored and supervised to ensure value for money. But the Buhari government and even its predecessors would have none of it. As recent as February this year, the government was planning another round of external borrowing to the tune of $22.7 billion. This was after the previous Senate refused a similar request to borrow $30 billion three years earlier. About $500 million of the loan would have been used to digitalise the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) – a project many critics have termed ‘useless’.
Well, the petro-dollars that the government has always depended on is no longer forthcoming. The financial situation of the country is now so precarious analysts are predicting that there will not be any significant money to share between the federating units in June because of the combined effects of collapsed oil prices and the lockdown of the country. If by 2018, our revenue to debt service ratio was 70 percent, we can reasonably expect that Nigeria’s current revenue is not sufficient to service its debt and is at the point of default. Of course we know what a default would lead to.
One of the reasons why we have a reserve is for times like this...
The problem is, for how long can we rely on the reserve? Part of the reason why we are taking loans is because we don't want to eat too much into the reserve.
That's why Nigeria should stop relying on selling oil, and selling agric produce and minerals. Best to sell industrial products.
Industrial produce requires electricity, good roads, rails, petrochemical plants, steel plant, storage facilities, aluminium smelter plants and many more primary infrastructures and factories. Nigeria is selling oil because that is the only products that they can produce.
JasonJidenna: When the better South speak, our South West neighbors joins our oppressors to call us "5%" because their brother is the second in command.
What would you want us to do?
Sometimes being quiet is the best answer to an incompetence Buhari government.
Oksman: Who will save Nigeria? Doctors are fleeing from pandemic scene, soldiers are running away from battle field, policemen scampers away from robbery scene and the list goes on.
There is no patriotism in the country may God save us.
Patriotism starts with leadership. When your leaders patronise foreign hospitals and send all their kids to foreign universities, they cannot expect Nigerian to be patriotic.
Jaqenhghar: If you like cry no one is paying you shít. In fact I dont see any reason to pay a bunch of arrogant pricks anything based on they studied for 6 years. If you want to be millionaires go and do what Dangote and others are doing and let us hear word abeg. I say it even if they pay you 1 million a day your attitude to work will not change. Cuban doctors too are under paid and dont have equipment yet they deliver and are respected globally.
Cuban doctors that work aboard are very well paid and respected. The Cuban education and health system are world-class, well funded and doctors are treated with dignity and respect. I should know I lived in Cuban for 9 months. You will never hear Cuban government officials say....
Minister of Health says some doctors should become farmers instead of specialists
Minister of Labour: The Minister of Labour and Employment, Mr Chris Ngige has said that he is not bothered about the decision of medical doctors who choose to leave Nigeria to practice outside the country.“I’m Not Worried, We Have Surplus (Doctors), if we have a surplus, we export.
Chikelue2000: The only good thing I know dis administration for is constant borrowing......and some youths had d guts to call GEJ clueless.....let's see who is more clueless then.....click like for Buhari and share for GEJ
GEJ was a clueless leader just like Buhari, increasing the minimum wage in 2011 from N7500 to N18000, only to start borrowing morning to pay government workers. They both retained oil subsidies at the expense of investing in infrastructures.
Senate approves N18,000 national minimum wage THE Senate has approved the N18,000 new national minimum wage for workers proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan.
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