₦airaland Forum

Chinkoalhaji34:
E go make sense if FG fit take over and run am better. No be say make dem just dey watch while we dey import fuel like say na dem dey produce am. Time to leverage on our own resources, abeg!

Exactly what is wrong with you people? If the goverykmows how to run refineries why are the ones in Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna moribund? So they should take over Dangote refinery and run it like the government owned ones? Na wa o!

SmartPolician:
Apart from a few political jobbers and agbadorians on Nairaland supporting Wike, the entire Rivers State is against Wike. How on earth is he going to win the fight?

Let's even assume he wins, who is the person that will assume that office and start being loyal to him?

Nigerian government, Promoting stupid policies since 1960!

Hmm
David Hundeyin exposed this APC government yesterday and UAE confirmed his claim today.
See the tweets below.

obinna58:
Fully in support of the goat, an average black man wouldn’t want to build his nation but runs away at the slightest opportunity to an already built nations

Maradona's father has Italian roots, his mom has Spanish and Croatian roots, Messi's father and mother have Italian roots, Alfredo di Stefano's father was an Italian that migrated to Argentina, his mum French, the list is very long, stop the self hate, these oyinbos travel more than us!

yungkels:
Ekene from kaduna.....

His mother is Igbo. Southern Kaduna people voted him sha even though I learnt his father is Fulani.

FreeStuffsNG:
The State and Local Government Joint Account was created because council bosses were looting funds and not paying primary school teachers. Since that account was created, primary school teachers are no longer owed salaries. Sadly, paying the monthly allocation directly to the councils would not stop the diversion of council funds.

States should stop the illegal practice of dissolving elected councils and appointing caretaker committees. Local elections should be free, fair, and credible to ensure accountability.

The two paragraphs above are part of the inconsistencies in the Punch Editorial. In one breadth it blamed the LGs for owing primary school teachers and claimed that the problem was solved with the State-LGAs joint account while in another breadth it admitted that there is the problem of illegal dissolution of democratically elected LGA administration and replacement with caretaker committees funded from the joint account.

Another inconsistency is boxing federalism into a certain mould as if the independence of LGAs suddenly strips away the operation of true federalism. India and Brazil are bad examples because of their caste system against certain people and religions in their countries. The central government of Brazil is taking over indigenous lands by fiat while India's democracy doesn't pretend that it's a government of the Hindus by the Hindus for the Hindus so much that the central government can demolish Mosques and build Hindu temple to replace the Mosques. Which kind of federalism gives central government the authority to impose religion on a LG? That's no federalism and bad of the Punch to cite both Brazil and India.

The Supreme Court is in order by insisting that the LGAs democratically elected leaders can never be effective unless they enjoy financial autonomy. The constitution never denied or affirmed the LGAs financial autonomy so the SC is not wrong by recognizing that the same independence the federating States could exercise is because of their financial autonomy and same privilege should be extended to LGAs.

Primary School teachers were equally indicted too when it was discovered that many of them were always absent from work and many barely qualified to teach. That's the problem of TRCN that should ensure that only professional teachers in its national register are recruited , it's not entirely the fault of the LGAs. If the payment of primary school teachers will be a problem then their salaries should be deducted from source so that no LG executive will tamper with their salaries. The rest should be monitored by EFCC and NFIU. If possible build special courts to quickly prosecute and severely punish any corrupt LG official and/or traditional institution Head.

That state-LG joint account arrangement is nothing more than a piggy bank for some state Governors and that's the weapon they use to remove democratically elected LG executives and even strip the traditional institutions of funds and render them impotent ,so much that insecurity has taken over and some Community Heads and royal authorities are at the mercy of rich bandits,
cultists and criminals who can easily buy their loyalty by placing them on their payroll with the illicit funds from their crimes. In Edo state, there's already complaint by the Gov that the Oba is using cultists to collect ishakole to run its operation when it should be funded by the LGAs and not hiring alleged cultists he is now blaming for the insecurity in Benin.

May God bless Nigeria for ever! Check my signature for free stuffs!

Allow Punch to continue being smart by half.

If they press him too hard, he will lie!

SmartPolician:
There's nothing wrong with Africa. There are certain leaders some countries have that need to stay for long to deepen the right leadership values and kick out evil people forever.

Lee Kwuan Yew did it in Singapore, shutting down dissenting voices from his own majority tribe who wanted to set the country on fire. Today, the world celebrates him even in death. He was there for several years.

Olusegun Obasanjo has remained Nigeria's best leader since 1999. Imagine what Nigeria would have been today if he had stayed back and not let the lunatics who came after him destroy what he built.

We share the same opinion regarding the bolded.

shortgun:
Oga shut the fu*ck up on matters you know nothing about.
Who's controlling Nigeria's crude oil?
Do South South people have any say on where or who their crude oil should be sold?

I am surprised at the stupid remarks I am reading here. There is a serious problem with education in Nigeria. The one you quoted think it is the people of SS that will determine whether crude oil in their region should be sold to Dangote or not. Chai!

sIfioksq:
That's exciting, Dangote is expanding globally. Can't wait to see the results!

Is this a joke or a manifestation of dumbness? He is importing a raw material we have here and you say he is expanding?

jchioma:
Na God save am o! The guy’s death would have sparked the end of America as we know it. But God has a greater plan for him and his country.

How would it lead to the end of America? Is he greater than Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy?

PinkNature:
I pray this hardship fades away too.

It will! Everything will pass away eventually.

LaSenior:
At the foundation level ..... You know Pass inspection officers those houses are closed to 15years now and no sign of cracks or whatever

The more structural engineer we have this days the more building collapse .

Some is doing what he knows best for the past 20yrs and no of buildings has been in distress or collapse, here you are saying trash

Genz structural engineer collapsing houses because of their I too know attitude .

Structural engineering is about using just the right amount of reinforcement bars in construction, no more, no less. About anybody can put columns at very close intervals and use ridiculously high amount of reinforcement bars because they are afraid the building will fall. The structural engineer uses just the right amount without compromising on quality, that way saving money for the client. If you put all the iron rods in the world in your building, inspection officers will pass it, wetin concern them. Finally, intellect does not seggregate between tribe, religion or age, many of these Genz guys you despise have more brains on the tip of their smallest finger than you have in your head.

LaSenior:


My cousin said he will not live in any upstairs in Nigeria that wasn't build by him.

This sole called engineers bypass corners to build trash.

My in-law who's into real estate doesn't compromise on quality he specialises on 3decks Omo see foundation see chaining see pillars as I swear even building inspection officers always shouting wow wow when the come for integrity testing they will be like oga you chop money here ooooooh.

House is an everlasting thing why not build it with good quality substances


Now pains went directly to the parents, may God forbid bad things

Loading the building with unnecessary reinforcements is also a sign of incompetence! Tell your cousin in real estate (which is a business by the way) to engage sound structural engineers to avoid over reinforcement, that way he will eliminate waste and optimise profit.

peekspot:
https://punchng.com/police-arrest-couple-trying-to-sell-two-year-old-son-to-fund-canada-trip/

Even though Punch witheld the names, thank God, dailytrust did not. Check below screenshot for details.

Ellasky:
I'm a 23 year old,I'm pregnant and need someone to give the child to,it's just two months

Check the meaning of surrogacy!

dongalaxy:
Good morning Nairaland.
I have been deeply troubled lately over my health, I had written about this here years back but it keeps growing bad daily .

I had been diagnosed staphylococcus and as a matter of fact , it's a product of ignorance and not sexual exploit because I had my first sex at age 26 and before then I was never sexually active .

My life is in ruins now cos I'm closing to the year of marriage and my sexual life is nothing and to cap it all, my girl is even a virgin and being that I'm not sexually effective, I couldn't even disflower the period she stayed at my place and because of that , I pretended I was not sexually interested so it won't sound I was after sex as she had labeled all men to be .

House , even if I end up not having a wife in life , my health now is in a big mess as my private parts inches like what I can't even quality, pls house , if anybody has a lasting solution to this , the person should as a matter of urgency help me cos I'm dying in silence .

I had been defrauded repeatedly because I was looking for solutions to this menace , how can I be living, money I don't have , healthy life , I can't enjoy , haba! Life isn't just fair to me .

Instead of going to the hospital, you sat on your bedroom and concluded you have staphylococcus. Who told you you have staphylococcus?

SmartPolician:
I know that El-Rufai's son is uncouth and uncultured, but I totally agree with him on the last sentence.

You cannot impose a collosal failure on the people, no matter how tribalist or religious you get. Running Nigeria is bigger than Tinubu; dude has no innovative ideas. You cannot keep destroying this country and expect everyone to keep quiet.

Let's call a spade what it is. Nigeria needs a disciplined, frugal, energetic and innovative entrepreneur like Peter Obi to run it like a successful company.

Trust me, lack of energy, frugality, discipline and innovation are not the things that make Bello and a huge section of the Muslim north to hate Tinubu, the north has been completely been kicked out of the corridors of power and they are struggling to breathe. Tilumbu has fed them a full dose of their bitter pill and they are finding it incredibly hard to swallow. Mu-mu ticket is clearly not favouring them and their families.

Nemere2020:
Bashir El-Rufai

This guy's weird shoulders make him look like a kangaroo standing tall!

MrEverest:
I think what killed Tinapa is irresponsible federal government and its poor policies. Tinapa was an ambitious project and could have succeeded if only the federal government wasn’t antagonistic towards it.

Tinapa was conceptualized to be a free duty import and export processing zone. Maybe, a miniature Dubai of sorts to cater for West and central Africa. Yet, the federal government allowed customs, police and other agencies to literally lay siege there.

Contrary to those saying that Tinapa wasn’t viable, it actually was. I was in the university at FUTO when Tinapa was established and it became a premium tourist attraction. Most higher institutions in the East often organized excursions that lasted a couple of days at Tinapa. Corporate organizations were also doing same and also individuals. However, all these couldn’t sustain the place & make it viable because it’s actually a massive complex and required significant foreign investments and flow of goods and services as originally conceived.

I think Obasanjo failed in that and also failed when he allowed Bakassi peninsula to be taken over by Cameroun.

Wow! That is quite expository.

Damian911:
So for your small mind Tinapa will attract foreign tourist with the brimming insecurity? Where developed countries are warning their citizens against visiting Nigeria? Just dey play oh , dey play! Make dem come kidnap innocent tourist na so dem tourist mumu reach?

We were talking about how Tinapa died. The poverty of Nigerians did not start today, even when Tinapa started, average Nigerians could not afford to go there.

mrvitalis:
They visit thailand for the culture and food and Lady Bois

Rwanda has natural wild life u don't

Rwanda has lush undulating green mountains and a beautiful volcanic mountain. Sun city in south Africa is visited because of its golf courses, casinos and festivals. They should sell out Tinapa to whoever is capable of taking care of it. In the hand of government, it is bound to fail!

mrvitalis:
And you think building tinapa is what attracts outsiders?

Lmaooo our streets is what they want to see, our way of life,

You can't impress them with luxury u no reach

Really? So you wan impress oyinbo with streets? Who you be? You think same Oyinbo visit Thailand and Rwanda because they have fine streets? Lol

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

Where in the whole wide world have you ever seen any people doing serious tourism business with the aim of attracting only its people? Tinapa's travails have nothing to do with Nigeria's poverty. Tinapa was stolen to death and if this governor likes, let him not sell it to serious investors, his successors will still steal it to oblivion!

AlaafinOfOyo:
Are you sure you know wht you're saying? Places like Lagos Island and Victoria Island not well planned? Do you think these places were built by your usual corrup Nigerin politicians? These places were planned by the colonial government. The problem is strictly terrain. one-quarter of these places are simply flood plains and another one-quarter are below sea level. These areas are simply disaster waiting to happen and it's just matter of time because there is no will among the politicl class to do the right thing due to greed.

Where is the planning in locating residential buildings on flood plains. You are speaking in rubbish sir!