₦airaland Forum

slowice:
You are very correct. Look at the Nigerian government and tell me if they are even aware that the country they govern is poor.
The job of the government should be to guide productive resources in the direction of sectors and investment they will create jobs and develop human resources but our are busy majoring on corruption and ambiguous standards.
One presidential candidate talked about these in the last election and Nigerians laughed at him and called him stingy.

I have not seen a single government department, industry, or project owned by the federal or state governments that works. Nigeria would be better off without a government.

SA has a coalition government of 10 political parties with 32 ministries, while Nigeria has 49 ministries and can't even operate refineries or shipping ports. I don't see any way out of this mess beyond street protest and revolt.

slowice:
Sometimes we fail to realize that Nigerians are very poor and lately, more and more people have been thrown into poverty.

It's part of reason companies fold up and leave the economy in a haste. The businesses that service the poor are managing to stay afloat.
In south Africa for example, you will hear that they have over 2000 spars outlets, 1500 kfcs, 2000 domino pizza... Some provinces have over 50 outlets and they are flourishing. Here, we have less than 50 spar outlets etc in the entire country, some state have none while supposedly rich state like Lagos has less than 6. These are signs abject poverty and none performing economy.

When a country is poor, the focus is on productive industries and services.

Poor people want to work themselves out of poverty; hence, investment technology parks are more important than resort parks. I spent some time in Vietnam in the 1990s and noticed how private and government resources were dedicated to factories and farming and less investment in entertainment.

mrvitalis:
With leaders like this e go hard rock develop Nigeria...

Tinapa was meant to fail and we keep failing not because it's a bad project na it's a fantastic project

The issue is Nigerians don't have the "business" Population to make it profitable

3 years ago only 3.7milliom Nigerians spent 10 dollar plus per day... Now I'm sure it's below 2 million people

Going to tilapia would cost 50 dollars minimum... How many Nigerians have that to spare per capita

Calabar people would just go there to snap picture

Anyone who has done business in a mall knows the truth 70% of people just come to take pictures

Tinapa like ajokuta can't work the mistake has been made let it go

It can work, but not as a tourist park.

You are correct that Nigerians do not have the disposable income to support tourist resorts, but if Tinapa is transformed into a technology and business park to support software, biotechnology, and services, then Tinapa will be more profitable to Nigeria.

Tinapa is close to the Atlantic coast, and Calabar has a seaport and airport, hence the investment in a data centre and fast internet cable to support technological companies.

I have seen how Western companies have repurposed Olympic parks into housing and technical parks using little investment.

adecz:
Na today❓❓

So long as Mele Kyari remains as
NNPC boss, nothing good can come
from there.

Poster child for the incompetence that
became normal from the Buhari era❗️❗️

Most of the problems we are facing in
this country are as a direct result of the
failure of the Petroleum sector under
this yeye man😕😕😕

The man is hopelessly corrupt and incompetence, under his watch oil production fell to under 1 million P/D, the first time in 50 years.

olaiya2007:
I wonder why getting a refinery fixed and working has become a white elephant project in this country

Can you point to one institution or project controlled by the Nigerian government that has ever worked?

43Ronin:
Anything fulani tell am, e go run do am. Mumu man

He is afraid of the cabal

49 ministries. These fools think creating a ministry solves the problems. Tinubu is beyond incompetence. I am ashamed that Tinubu is a Nigerian

Standing5:
Tinubu's ways and means volume is quite significant too. He printed slot thinking that's enough to manoeuvre his way out of the situation. Dude never really understand how currency loses value.

Tinubu is completely out of his depth. Corruption and incompetence is fast driving Nigeria into another Somalia

Lyrics269:
Good development. Some people won't like this
Tinubu government is actually the best we have experienced in a long time since Yar'adua

You are out of your mind. How is the government going to pay for it

A broke country should not build new coastal roads when the existing road network needs repair. Tinubu corruption is shocking, but the majority of the problem, including the Ways and means, are from the Buhari government

chatinent:
Omo. 48hrs is too short tho, but what needs be done will be done..yeah?

The LASG had months to clear the drainage and avoid another flooding but did nothing. Corruption and incompetence are the mainstay of the Tinubu government. The lack of accountability is shocking. Nigerians should protest the corruption of INEC that stole an election.

NgwalandAbia:
They want to frustrate our northern brothers.

Blame 8 years of Buhari government.

Curious345:
Bulabaa will look for ways to escape it .

Buhari was a disaster ( he ran away from debate )

Tinubu is a catastrophe ( he hid himself from debate )


Atiku & obi and every other presidential candidate was always ready for debate 😄😄😄..

Atiku & obi and every other presidential candidate was always ready for debate until their political party gets into power then they will avoid the debate like GEJ and OBJ .

Remman:
Our politicians only care for themselves.

The same can be said about Nigerian people. Why do we buy generators when there is no light, tankers when there is no water, private security when there is no police, and Okada when there is a transport system? If the so-called elected politicians are illegitimate, why are Nigerians not protesting on the street? If they protest against Tinubu, Buhari or GEJ, it will be considered a protest against their ethnic group. Nigeria's Labour Union are even worse, asking for better pay and a living wage in a country that has never functioned like a modern country. What is the use of a living wage when nothing works?

Remman:
The problem i have with most Nigerians is that they believe in the "national grid collapse" hoax. Nigeria exports electricity to some countries and when there's a fault on those lines they fake national grid collapse and divert our lines to feed those nations. I actually don't know the work of journalists of this Nigerian-generation. CNN would physically go to verify the grid that actually collapsed show it to Nigerians. It will also be impossible to fix a fallen grid in a few hours.

I think Nigerians should protest for better electricity and working refineries instead of minimum wages. Imagine if Nigeria, blessed with the 10th largest gas reserves and large hydroelectric potential, could easily generate 50,000 MW and deliver electricity and cheap hydrocarbons to its local industries, creating millions of jobs and competing for Nigerian labour.

Ashirioluwa:
The first problem is that this Tinubu-led government is incredibly weak, and the second is that our government unable to solve its own internal crises, which makes ECOWAS member states to look down on our country.

Nigeria is 60% of ECOWAS, and when Nigeria fails, ECOWAS fails. Nigeria's poor relationship with AES means more insecurity.

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Wiseman2y:
Tinubu is a disaster to Nigeria and ECOWAS. More countries will still withdraw their membership.

Cape Verde will be leaving very soon. There has just been a protest against Black African immigrants in another country.

sIfioksq:
Tinubu's policies may not be perfect, but they are better than the alternatives presented by his opponents.

Tinubu policies are a disaster, building a coastal highway when the country transmission system collapsed four times this year

YoungLionken:
Instead of dragging, why not build another one ??

Abroad, you would see the federal government, having more than one school/hospital in one state. But here, it's one FG project per a state...

The federal government should not be involved in schools

Shadomaan7:
Another win for FG as Ekiti government agrees to federal takeover of specialist hospital, despite jealous Obedients hate.

How is that a win? Ekiti state just admitted that they can't be a state

mrvitalis:
You have spent 1 year in office and hasn't increased it by 100mw even

When people talk about electricity as an engineer ( mechanical) I wonder what is difficult about generation and transmission of electricity ooh I have always wandered

To produce electricity you need a magnet and coil of wire... Just move one relative to the other boom u have electricity

The whole nuclear, hydro, gas, steam, coal and the likes are just how to turn the magnet relative to wire coils

Transmission is just aluminum wires ( the most abundant metal on earth) from power plant to distribution centers and those are just big transforms

I still don't get why we don't produce and distribute enough electricity makes little or no sense sha

Nigeria has no business having electricity problems considering that the country has one of the largest gas and hydro reserves in the world.

Vietnam has 80597 MW , yet Tinubu is talking about increasing generation to 6000MW

By the end of 2022, the total number of power plants in operation was 360 (not including small hydropower plants) with a total installed capacity of 80597 MW (without imports).
https://vepg.vn/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/EN_NLDC_Updates-on-Vietnam-Power-System-and-Electricity-Market.pdf

VanuatuWycombe:
Nope. Aarti is relying non recycled steel. That’s what most steel companies do in Nigeria. No fresh iron ore to use since our mining companies are not functioning.

Why do you think Aboki scrap buyers are all over the places?

What do you mean by non-recycled steel? Aarti imports all its steel products from India and recast them at their factory. The Indians, in coalition with Nigerian politicians, have been systematically responsible for destroying Nigeria's steel ambition to support

Delta Steel produces recycled steel using the electric furnace system, which is what it was designed to do.

Ajaokuta was designed to be produced from iron ore, iron billet and falt/iron rod steel.

The three rolling mills were designed to consume the billet and produce various steel products.

The Indians bought Nigerian steel industries without investing a dime, using local bank loans from local banks. Then, they sat on their acquired investments while they imported steel from their parent companies at the expense of local production.

Nigeria can revamp the existing steel industry, but it will require a local champion like a Dangote or others committed to indigenous industrialisation. Nigeria has a steel capacity of 13 million tonnes but will require at least $5 billion investment.

Forkthiefnubu:
It will be an unending civil war and strife if they ever were to be on their unproductive own, no oil money to embezzle, multinationals will be wary to invest in the place because of corruption and if there is no oil not enough ppl with purchasing power to the retail products of the foreign firms , they will starve to death

That is their problem to deal with.

South Korea and Singapore don't have oil money, but they have a petrol chemical industry, The petrol dollar is overrated; its good to have, but greater nations have been able to develop without it. Nigeria breeds bad leaders because of compromise between ethnic groups and self-interest.

The number speaks for itself. A Yoruba nation would already have 5000 MW of installed electricity capacity, multiple universities, a petrol chemical industry, three modern ports, and two more under development, agro-processing industries in Cassava, Cocoa, and Palmoil, and a well-developed services sector. The literacy rate is well above 85% and they share a common language. If the option is between Nigeria and the Yoruba nation.

The Same can be said for the SW, SE and even NC , Nigeria must return to the regional setup or separate

Forkthiefnubu:
Because you all are natural tribalists, your political philosophy is tribalism, see tinubu see awo see obasanjo see wole Soyinka, the lens these ppl look at everything and every situation is a tribal one , I will love to see them in a country of their own

You will be the first one to cry when the Yoruba form their own country, crying that Lagos nan no mans land.

The failure of the five steel plants, Ajaokuta, Delta Steel, Oshogo, Katsina and Jos rolling mills, is the reason for the for the failure of the Aarti Steel company

GorillaApp:
NNPC is a cesspit of corruption.
If that company is ever audited, the stink will reach up to hight heavens

Tinubu Petrol Minister
Mele Kyari Group MD of NNPCL

An oil company that cannot make money from selling oil, only in Nigeria

Melagros:
COMRADES, tinubu is a nonsense man, he has nothing to offer Nigerians, and I pity those his brainwashed minions who regard him as the Messiah which Nigeria had been expecting

He has absolutely nothing to offer Nigerians; companies that survived the civil war, IBB SAP and the Abacha government are leaving under Tinubu mad government.

Asiri1991:
It is Yoruba legacy in Nigeria. History has it that Awolowo introduced tribalism to Nigeria's politics. His brother, Akintola, is downplayed among them today because he opposed Awolowo's tribal cards.

How can Awo introduce tribalism in a country made up of 200 tribes?

psucc:
No Mc Oluomu
No Yakubu
No Ariwoola
No Technical glitch

When will we get it right in Nigeria?

The transition of the government took less than one day. We will never get it right in Nigeria. The political system passed down by the military government is a disaster.

RightChannel:
Is Osinbajo the president for 8yrs? For the little time and days he acted as president, what his principal (Buhari) then in office couldn't achieved for 8yrs with what Tinubu is yet to achieve for over a year now was achieved within 48 hours (2days) at his acting capacity

Osibanjo was an active member of APC, and he was a leading force in the economic committee set up by Buhari; if he felt that Buhari was a failure, he should have resigned. Osibanjo law f

Vice Presidency (2015–2023)

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and President Buhari


First Term (2015–2019)
Tenure

Acting President

President Muhammadu Buhari wrote a written declaration on 9 May 2017 to the president of the senate and house of representatives on his decision to embark on a medical trip; the letter was read that day at a plenary assembly of both the senate and the house of representatives. The acting presidency was conferred upon Vice president Osinbajo during President Buhari's medical leave.[21][22]

Second Term (2019–2023)

Tenure

On 29 May 2019, Professor Yemi Osinbajo took his oath of office to begin his second term at Eagle Square in the capital of Abuja.[27][28]

Following the federal government's decision to close the nation's land borders in October 2019, Osinbajo explained that the government did so to gain the attention of other nations to the importance of policing the borders. He claimed that China and other nations were smuggling in products, including agricultural ones, undermining the Nigerian economy and threatening Nigerian agriculture. By closing the borders, Osinbajo claimed that the government was helping protect the economy and Nigeria's producers and farmers.[29]


[b]On 31 March 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Vice president Osinbajo to chair an economic sustainability committee. [/b]The aim of the committee is to develop measures to cushion the effect of the coronavirus and eventually reposition the Nigerian economy.[31][32]

RightChannel:
Osibanjo did it in just 48 hours (2days) when he acted fully as president. What Tinubu fails to achieve for over a year still counting was achieved in just 2days of Osibanjo as acting president when his principal was on medical trip to UK. READ MORE BELOW

https://www.thecable.ng/7-decisive-actions-taken-osinbajo-buharis-vacation/amp/

Nigeria in 2024 is worse than Nigeria in 2017 when Osibanjo was acting present, the value of the Naira was stronger, and Buhari APC was blocked from bankrupting the country by the PDP-controlled Senate. Today, Nigeria owes $100 billion and exports less than 1.3 barrels per day of oil.

Osinbanjo's failure was being vice president of Buhari for 8 years , he is complicit in Nigeria current state.