₦airaland Forum

RX480:
Sad stuff seriously, we're Africa's largest economy and all we have to show for it is fat politicians

Hospitals - Rubbish
Roads - Rubbish
Corruption - #1 in the world. Best at being the worst
Water Supply -
Power Supply - Rubbish

Nigeria can't even support Her own citizens

Lamenting on the web is not a strategy.

Where were Nigerians when Sowere was organising the #RevolutionNow protest. Abeg make dem suffer they have earned it.

Useless African, destroying your wildlife and then wondering why the country has so many rats( and Lassa Fever) after they have killed all the predators.

AlphaStorm:
How would the agberos sustain themselves Nd their families in this period
This is serious oooo. This is the time for churches to practice what they preach. Soo many people would starve

Nigerian Churches are business ventures.

Neoteny7:
It's completely beyond his capabilities

I am aware of innoson limitation, I worked in the auto manufacturing industry for 15 years, but any encouragement will suffice for now.

agwom:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/sarakis-wife-assembles-scientists-to-reduce-virus-spread.html

This is what the federal government should be doing mobilize scientists and engineers to focus on finding a vaccine and engineering preventive measures.

GLeesMODEL:
Coronavirus: National Tension As Photos Of Abba Kyari, Ganduje, Masari, Dangote, Others At IGP Son's Wedding Recently Surfaces!!

Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, Abba Kyari chief of staff to President Muhammadu Buhari; Aliko Dangote, billionaire businessman; and Aminu Masari, governor of Katsina state were among those who attended the wedding fatiha of Hassan, son of Muhammad Adamu, inspector general of police.

Hassan married Summayya Goje, his fiancé on Saturday, 14th ( 10 Days Ago) in Abuja with most of the prominent personalities in Nigerian politics and business scene, gracing the occasion.

Kyari had travelled to Germany on Saturday, March 7th to meet with officials of Siemens in Munich on the Nigerian electricity expansion programme.

He returned exactly one week later on Saturday, March 14th, but did not show any symptoms.

Abba Kyari health confirmation comes hours after it was reported that Kyari was seriously ill and suspected of having Coronavirus after returning from trips to Germany and Egypt where the virus had killed dozens of persons

Subsequently, he voluntarily submitted himself for testing and was informed of his status yesterday.

Kyari has however gone into absolute isolation following the test result

As far back as February 2020, the WHO said no public gathering, ban foreign travelling. If the so-called leaders cannot obey the law what do you expect from the people?

idahme:
You baffle me more for not knowing that the so called massive oil wealth is not managed by the Niger delta people but the Nigerian state, slay papa dumb papa...

Why do you allow your oil wealth to be managed by outsiders?

MiztaFabuloz:
I believe this virus will bring about a massive upgrade in the Nigerian health sector as these leaders will now see the need to treat themselves at home as no country will even accept to treat them.

Continue to believe in an illusion, did the fall in the oil price to $10 in the 1990s deliver any change in the oil industry?

Self-interest is Nigeria's downfall, the country borders and airports should have been closed down last month but the Buhari government kept it open just enough for their families to return and spread the disease.

Neoteny7:
Yeah right

Ventilators are complex devices

Companies like Tesla, SpaceX, GM etc are estimated to need like a whole year to start production, yet an assemblage in a remote corner of Nnewi is claiming to also be able to build them. I'm certain he'll import from china and slap his sticker on them.

I will either find a way, or make one...Hannibal.

It's not beyond Innoson capabilities but I will suggest he focus on preventive items such as face mask, gloves, respirators types of equipment.

Ogegeodey:
Commence production Asap.

See the advantage of having local production? In this critical time no country will be willing to sell to anybody cos they need it themselves. Encourage local manufacturing our govt will not listen.

Imagine that we have three of innoson factories.

Nigerians are truly proud of you IVM.

Seriously, what technical components does Innoson produce, he assembles automobiles from completed components. Even European car manufacturers will struggle to build ventilators , but at least they have access to a supply chain environment that can source the supplies, while they focus on assembly and production.

It's not beyond Innoson capabilities, but I will suggest he focus on preventive items such as face mask, gloves, respirators types of equipment.

The lack of local industrial capabilities will be Nigeria's downfall, the country can't even produce masks or rubber gloves.

Ford on Tuesday said it was working with GE Healthcare and 3M, another health industry manufacturer, to design modified respirators and ventilators, which could be produced using fans, batteries and other parts that Ford typically uses for its cars

On Monday, Fiat began converting one of its car plants in China to start making about one million masks a month

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51956880.

groovie:
Compared to other Governors and revenue received, Wike is doing good.

Somebody said Amosun built 10 bridges?? SMH.
Ogun state and Abia state are at par with respect to state of infrastructure

Did you say Abia state and infrastructure development?

Why are you comparing Wike to equally failing state governors, why not compare him with a country like Rwanda that has a similar budget.

Esseite:
What's the essence of that bridge?

I honestly don't know?

Is it over a river, stream or intersection road?

The Niger-Delta people baffle me, despite 500 years of contact with European and massive oil wealth.

NaijaMutant:
Our next president after the Kovik-1-9 birus will really have a tough job to do

He will have the easiest job if he has the right strategy and the interest of the country

proclinician:
Italy has 7000 ventilators and icu beds and they are overwhelmed with this virus. No state in nigeria has more than 3 icu beds making it a total of about 100 in a country of about 200 million idiots that think it wise to build a church with 1bN, renovate tv station with 500m$ and renovate house of assembly with 32bn.

When we highlighted the madness of Nigeria's leadership, their paid-up online agents were quick to attack us as anti-Nigerian. How can any rational human being support a president of the caliber of Buhari or GEJ?

Prioritise investment in healthcare and education as the first infrastructure of a country.

LabDNA:
There are brilliant Medical laboratory Scientists who are specialists in Medical Microbiology and Immunology, empower them to develop the CoVID-19 testing kits.

The Medical Laboratory Science Council has a superb In-Vitro Diagnostic testing lab for imported and manufactured kits, activate that infrastructure and ask the Scientists to move in and develop the kits.

That's where the CBN funds should go right now. This is not the time to play unneccesary politics. This is life and death staring us in the face.

All hands must be on deck.

That is the vision of a true leader, empower the numerous universities to work on solutions both preventive and cure. Empower local pharmaceutical facture to start manufacturing preventive clothing and drugs.

Nigeria cannot continue with leaders that only offer excuses.

hisexcellency34:
Na wa oo. Kyari addressed the letter to Femi Gbajabiamila (Speaker) but in paragraph 4 said 'Distinguished President of the Senate??

The country is controlled by imbeciles

ahiboilandgas:
clown who told u the refinery is at lekki .....80km away pig

Olodo , first get an education before you reply.


Dangote Refinery is located at Lekki Free Trade Zone Road, Lekki, Nigeria.

Islie:
https://m.guardian.ng/news/oil-price-fall-fg-moves-to-use-pension-fund-on-infrastructure-aliero/

Any monies taken out of the pension funds will be used to service the $100 billion debt, Nigeria is broke and the government is looking for any source of revenue or funds to keep the country from defaulting on its foreign debts.

The country is on its last legs.

OChimex:

Good morning a few good Nigerians. Word of advice, if you don't want to lose your sanity because of the insane thievery in govt and bastardization and raping of the country relocate and start a family somewhere else, because the way things look, Nigeria is irredeemable .

IMASTEX:
This is already the option as it stands to many. The politicians are ready to sell the lands of if there is nothing left to loot.

The West doesn't want Africans, it time for Nigerian to take back their country.

This is what happens when a government places self-interest above national interest.

The majority of Nigeria's FX is wasted on importing fuel, iron, steel, Bitumen, and food. Any simple government can easily repair the refineries, fix the steel plant, develop the Bitumen deposit and increase food production instead of wasting valuable FX paying inflated contracts to the middle east and Chinese expertise and import, but for whatever reason the Nigerian elites preference is self-interest at the expense of national interest.

Nigeria elites will continue exploiting the country, first oil when that runs out, pension and national assets and finally back to selling slaves. We need to take the country back before it's too late.

iamJ:
Yes Bloomberg

Try to cause changes in developing nations that favors you


Na so they try to do with China

China ignored them back to back


Today look at china

They may be Currency manipulators but they are the 2nd biggest economy in the world


Economic analyst are no different from those lotto players all na guess work

Typical Nigerian, ignored the real elephant in the room to attack the messenger.

The Elephant in the room:

The reason -- Nigeria’s import dependent economy [/b]has seen inflation accelerate to a 22-month high in February and could rise even faster if the currency weakens. [b]Despite being oil rich, the West African nation imports almost 100% of its gasoline due to mismanagement of its domestic refineries. The fuel is then sold at subsidized prices to Nigerians. A weaker naira would raise the cost of those subsidies, which already consumes a chunk of government revenues at almost $2 billion a year

The Nigeria government still t place high duties on the importation of machinery and spare parts required to operate manufacturing plants. The four refineries are still not working despite Buhari being the Petroleum Minister.

Stupid slowpoke, why kill the animal when you can remove it from your premises. Nigeria entire wildlife has been either killed or eaten yet these people want to introduce tourism.

ahiboilandgas:
bad belle and clown writer ...they lagos state govt is constructing a road through sagamu to epe for trucks not thrpugh lekki , the consumption is now 30 million litres with boader closure, 3 their is a port for vessel to evacuate refine products 4 they intend tp buy their crude from all grade globally and will not pay 15 bn dollars at once ....it called contract to supply over time .....u are paid by importers that dont want Nigeria out of subsidies game idoit

So the plan is to turn Epe to Apapa. Olodo, large oil transport is done by rail or pipe.

Is there any plan to build a pipeline or rail network from Lekki to Ibadan? You want millions of Lagosian to suffer because of Dangote self interest.

TylerDurden:
sharap zombie.

NNPC never removed subsidy. They only made accommodations for the naira's devaluation from 197 to 360.

Buhari is still paying subsidy which they are calling ''under recovery''.

And FYI, NNPC is claiming that they are supplying 50 million litres per day.

This has seen the subsidy payment well over a trillion naira annually despite the fact that Nigerians can barely afford to fill their tanks.

The level of wicked and heartless looting and corruption going on in this govt is mind-boggling.

Only NNPC now imports fuel as most marketers can not afford to import owing to Federal govt policy on refusing them access to forex.

All marketers now buy from NNPC.

The NNPC then inflates the amount it sells to marketers and from there loot double in the form of increased subsidy payments to themselves and reconciling sale of non-existing fuel.

During the recent CBN summit on Growth 2.0, Dangote said that Nigeria spent $49 billion on import, I was confused. What are we importing? it now obvious that the government has continue to subsidies fuel import.

So who are they paying the subsidies to?

Fixed:
Imam Sulaak, it looks like your grouse is the non-payment of taxes by churches. This your solution is as good as asking government to build sufficient and well equipped hospitals across the country in 4 weeks.

My grouse is that these churches are basically large scale enterprise selling religion to the vulnerable for a profit. Jesus said to the traders and money changers at the temple "Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade"

In the recent "Going for Growth 2.0" Roundtable that held in Abuja, last week, stressed the need for urgent measures to diversify the economy and insulate it from external vulnerabilities. I was concerned with Mele Kyari presentation on the lack of update on the failing refineries and downstream gas supplies, considering the recent collapse in gas supplier to the genco and the lack of progress on rehabilitating the four refineries. Are preparing another Dangote monopoly.



Gas Supply: Power outage to last for 10 days — TCN
[url] https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/03/gas-supply-power-outage-to-last-for-10-days-tcn/[/url]

Nigeria to begin rehabilitation of four oil refineries in 2020https://constructionreviewonline.com/2019/09/nigeria-to-begin-rehabilitation-of-four-oil-refineries-in-2020/

Fixed:
Haven't you heard that churches don't have toilets or you want to increase the risk of contracting other diseases?

Besides what is the use of hotels when humanity will be wiped out? Even the hotel workers already contracted the virus in the scenario painted by the OP.

The rich pastors will volunteer portable toilet, clean water and social worker. Charity begins at home, let's see the real churches and the fake one.

Angelfrost:
Dear Op, so you can't convert private owned hospitals in each state for such purposes, you had to talk about large churches not fitted for such emergency purposes??!... What sort of a backward reasoning is that??!...

Every state has at least a major hospital at her disposal for such cases... It is not like we will have something worse than China or Italy... I wonder why you people reason so ridiculously far!!! Why put up such unnecessary posts??!

Una go just dey form half witted intelligence... Better expend more time in pushing your health ministry to do what they should have done over a month ago, instead of trying to add religious crisis to the panic room we have on ground.

Private hospitals are private businesses. A church is a charity, they should be the first to volunteer to help the weak and poor.

prekumohtim:
China built huge facilities within the space of few days. Buhari should be ready to do the same since he bluntly refused to close the border against effected nations

China doesn't have large churches that are considered charities and don't pay taxes.

Fixed:
OP you have not considered hotels in Nigeria. Just for you to know...
Sheraton hotel abuja up to 600 rooms
Transcopr abuja up to 900
Sheraton Ikeja up to 400 rooms
Eko hotel up to 600 rooms etc.

Each room can take minimum of 3 hospital beds. That is already more than 7,500 beds from these 4 hotels alone. I am very certain the owners will surrender them to government free of charge for humanitarian purpose just like we expect the churches to do.

Hotel's are businesses, Churches are supposed to be charity. The churches are the best facilities for hosting emergency hospital.

If the churches refuse to allow their facilities to used as emergency hospital then they should be taxed.