₦airaland Forum

SmartPolician:
That man is 1000% right! Electricity has improved in the past couple of months. Those who don't own cars have no business with fuel stations. Many people have admitted on Nairaland that electricity supply has improved in their area.

Many of the usual suspects hate to hear this, but it's true.

Anither563:
It is not true. He is paying the minimum wage of 40k.

Well, as of July 23, 2024, the minimum wage in Nigeria is 70,000 Naira per month.

Hopefully he starts to pay that amount this month ending.

LastGiantAlive:
I didn't bother reading your unity-begging epistle. Tell your darling daddy to help us do the Lord's work and disband this evil contraption. Give me the mushroom country like that I'll take it. This gigantic one hasn't done anything for the Igbo nation. We're tired. We want out!

So what are 20 million of you doing in the North?

And 15 million of you in the southwest?

Which unity begging pass that one?

Even dragging land ownership with them?

After we break up and we drive all of you back to the South East, hope you can house and feed 35 million deportees..

Or you think you can remain as FOREIGNERS in Nigeria in your tens of millions?

Think again.

I will even JOIN THE POLICE and make BIG money from harassing you people and demanding you show your residency permit, or even visa, or face beating and instant deportation.

Or you think you will have RIGHTS in Lagos or Abuja or Kano?

Think again. FOREIGNER.

And nobody stops you from seceding right now.

Just keep your filthy paws off the SOUTH-SOUTH which is NOT Igboland, and you can secede even tonight.

We will even do send off party for you.

Worthless.

Nigeria that is FEEDING YOU after you fled your region in your tens of millions is the same country you hate with a passion, and doing 'sit at home' to secede from, because you are THICK and STUPID.

Please secede. Make I go join Police to make sure say na REAL secession.

Salewa97:
Alex Otti, the governor who has been busy with social media instead of focusing on governance.

What a shame

Look, this is why I laugh when I hear people say that once Nigeria breaks up, everything will be okay. Or that ''once we get 'Biafra', we will turn to Paradise on Earth''.

It's just a stupid fantasy. The problem is not Nigeria being together or breaking up. The problem is that your own leaders in your region are thieves.

CURE THEIR THIEVERY AND YOU WILL BE OKAY!

Is it when you break up and form one mushroom country nobody's heard of, that they will stop being thieves?

hahhahhahahaha.....

On the contrary that's when it will even get worse. Because they will be MORE powerful in a smaller country with their own army etc. You will now start having Presidents For Life, like in Malawi and Congo! Passing the presidency down to their sons! Go and see what's happening in places like South Sudan, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Togo with Eyadema, Cameroon with Paul Biya, etc.

You can't just wake up and start insulting the president and govt like we do in Nigeria today, freely. They will finish you! And nobody will know or care, because you're a tiny country.

If you cannot hold your regional leaders accountable in this relatively liberal NIGERIAN framework as presently constituted, you will NEVER be able to hold them to account in a smaller, new country, because they will be more powerful than they are now.

Myname55:
You are not sure but you conclude, showing hate or grudge you had in mind

Answer the question nau..... it's simple question.

Why all this grammar?

Is It True That Givernor Alex Otti Is Still Paying 18K Salary Per Month In Abia?

Just tell me it is not true.

Because if it is true, this is Igbo against Igbo, and you cannot blame ''Nigeria'' or Tinubu for it!

Nonsense!

AceRoyal:
Tax! Tax!! Tax!!!

25% tax is criminal no matter how we want to justify it, especially when the government is doing little or nothing to help businesses grow or contribute directly or indirectly to the success of these individuals.

Even the rich will also cry!

No focus on human capital or infrastructural development.

No focus on cutting down cost of governance.

No focus on clamping down on corruption.

All the tax, multiple loans, revenue from other sources and supposed savings on subsidy removal..... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT!

I dare anyone to mention just one thing the common man presently benefits or enjoy from the government.

It's sad, painful and pathetic.

OH PLEASE SHUT UP.

That you can read, write, and have access to the internet, DO YOU THINK IT ALL HAPPENED BY MAGIC?

Could your grandparents or great grandparents read and write? Did they have qualifications? Did they have phones and communication? Could they JAPA from their farms and head to Australia or Canada or US for “greener pastures”?

CAPITAL NO.

All that came from govt investment in Education and Telecommunications.

Were it not for that investment since Independence, YOU would be a VILLAGE PALMWINE TAPPER today like your forbears.

So USE your Education and internet access you enjoy, courtesy of Nigerian govt investment, to GO on YouTube and learn ANY skill for FREE, and START SOMETHING WITH YOUR LIFE.

And in the countries you worship like the UK and US, their tax rates are even HIGHER than 25%.

If you want to be developed like them, you must be prepared to pay HIGH TAXES like them.

LOVEALAIGBO:
Will you shut up! I’ve noticed your desperate attempts as you go around the politics section trying blame IPOB for the engineered insecurity in the south-east! Dude, the insecurity in the south-east, whether by omission or commission, is WHOLLY the fault and responsibility of your evil, anti-Igbo hegemonic gov’ts of Buhari and now Tinubu! Their crass incompetence, red-flag operations, unofficial partnerships with criminal militant leaders like Asari Dokubo, and outright mass murder of innocent agitators….all this is what has led us to this point! Buhari and Tinubu aren’t interested in ending insecurity in the south-east because THEY are the ones engineering it and they want to use is to try and demonise IPOB and Mazi Kanu as well as ensure they destabilise the south-east economy and demarket the region! They do this out of hatred, the blackness of their hearts and a desire to ‘teach those Igbo a lesson for daring to want to secede and not knowing their inferior/slave status’! People like you have your own part to play in this evil plot, and this is why you do what you do on this forum! If Tinubu was genuinely interested in restoring peace to the south-east, he’d have obeyed the last court order on the matter and released Mazi Kanu, so we can know just who these instigators and 5th-columnists are!

You glibly assert that no investors or investments should go to the south-east because of ‘insecurity’, yet as we speak, your evil hegemonic Tinubu gov’t is sucking out billions of dollars worth of oyel and gas from the region! Imagine the hypocrisy and deceit! You see nothing wrong in Nigeria taking billions of dollars worth of loans, of which most of the benefits go to the south-west and north-west (the two regions of the hegemonic alliance), while you argue that it’s ‘justified’ for the south-east to be excluded because of IPOB! Loans ALL OF US will pay back oh! You see how eminently wicked you Igbo-haters are!?

One wonders why you don’t argue same for the north-west which is arguably one of the most insecure regions on earth, yet as we speak your federal gov’t is engaged in building a multi-billion dollar AKK gas line; a trans-border brand new multi-billion dollar railway so Buhari can link up with his cousins in Maradi, Niger; has built a brand new international airport terminal in Kano while the one for Enugu is left to rot; is rehabilitating Kaduna refinery; has spent hundreds of millions of dollars searching for the elusive oyel and gas in the region; and much more projects/investments too numerous to mention!

There is God ohhhh!

What a demented rant.

You clearly have serious problems upstairs.

Stella Oduah your sister looted the money FG gave her for Enugu airport.

The 2 billion dollar 2nd Niger Bridge Buhari built for you, what did you show him in return except more hatred and abuse?

Yet you demand they do more.

I don’t even know why Buhari bothered building that bridge.

Total waste of Nigeria’s money.

Spit.

EhWhoBeThat:
After screaming like a rabid dog

Go to Abuja

Get your visa and fly to Lebanon to help your allah

GROW A BRAIN AND QUIT PLAYING DUMB SLAVE TO ISRAELI RACISTS WHO TREAT BLACKS LIKE YOU FAR WORSE THAN ARABS.

DUMB AND DUMBER.

FAT-MOUTHED SLAVE.

RACISM AGAINST ETHIOPIAN JEWS IN ISRAEL:
https://m.jpost.com/opinion/article-755797

sreamsense:
If not because islamic terrorists are really dangerous and evils, why do the always waste money building tunnels for their future crime and the mosques will even be donating for such ventures. They will build tunnel close to mosque, hospitals and schools. They only think of evils five times a day as they go for five Solat prayer on daily basis. Their women and children are suffering in poverty, yet they prefer to waste money to chase enemies that don't even plan evil towards them. Very disgusting religion!

And the Satan you worship supports the Israeli mass murder of 40,000+ innocent people in Gaza, including 10,000 children.

SATANIC BEING YOU.

VAMPIRE THIRSTY FOR THE BLOOD OF INNOCENT CHILDREN.

YOU WILL ANSWER FOR YOUR WICKEDNESS AT THE GATES OF HELL.

AND THERE WILL BE NO SATANYAHU OR IDF THERE TO HELP YOU.

IT WILL BE JUST YOU, GOD, AND THE SOULS OF THE 40,000 INNOCENT PEOPLE WHOSE MURDER YOU SUPPORTED AND CHEERED FROM YOUR WICKED HEART.

Alliswell248:
Why didn't you start this in Anambra when you were the governor?
You were busy siphoning money to panama.

Hypocrite 001

While refusing to pay his state doctors for a whole year.

I wonder if he thought about their “food security”.

YET ALL HE BUILT WAS A FCKING BREWERY.

LET’S ALL GO AND EAT THE BEER YOU COOKED FOR US, PETER OBI.

nothingspoil70:
Unfortunately the country is about to split up

Your type have been saying this for the past 50 years, yet we are still here.

Keep hallucinating.

Ewabokian:
Aboki try Dey rest

Shinedu, go and “sit at home” before I call Simon Ekpa to flog you.

Who released you from your IPOB restriction?

nedu666:
You are now an lgbo man. All these inferiority complex people. Even online they will deny their ethnic group just for sake of winning arguments.

Riffraff. Who cares what an ignorant school dropout like you thinks?

If you think I’m not Igbo, that’s your fcking business.

Ignorant village dunce with no brain.

Was INNOSON not in Aso Rock recently, showing support for the FG?

He is not Igbo either.

He is Fulani.

After all only those who hate Nigeria and Tinubu can be Igbo in your dumb, ignorant village dropout head.

Ewu nama.

Zionmdde:
When my people are tired of ipob and the other criminals, they know what to do

Exactly.

Resurrection212:
Please I'm just imagine something this morning if there is a any functional railway station in the whole of southeast. I knew that the Porta Harcourt and imo railway project during Jonathan administration wasn't come to reality.

Guys please any functional railway station in southeast.

The South East has been destabilised by IPOB.

Which contractor wants to go where your people are killing policemen, burning police stations and LG headquarters, with your IPOB terrorists forcing the population to “sit at home” etc?

Will the workers on the project not be scared to come to work during your nasty, traitorous “sit at home” periods enforced by your “unknown gunmen”, UGMs?

Rubbish.

You’ve turned a fascist society led by thugs and criminal fascists who hate Nigeria, so enjoy yourselves, and don’t expect new projects from a country you hate, and do “sit at home” to leave.

When your heads are correct, and you become Nigerians again, then you will see projects coming there.

Useless.

michlins:
let us understand who brought us here. It was the politicians who looted and rather than invest. The politicians who looted and are still looting are asking the masses to make sacrifices for the good of the country. It's an absolute arrogant and heartless thing to do to the masses.

Senate president is asking us to eat wherever we see food meanwhile he and his colleagues have feeding budget that can feed the whole primary schools in Nigeria.

Make it make sense!!!!

All this is past tense.

Don’t expect Nigerian politicians to not enjoy the perks of office.

It is what it is.

That’s our way.

If they put you there you will also accept the enjoyment without complaining.

You people are only saints and angels when you are not in power yourselves.

With all this your grammar if they make you even an LGA chairman, nobody will see you on Nairaland again.

You will become a big man, handling big money. Making big deals that will earn you billions, forgetting all the holier-than-thou grammar you are speaking here now.

The Number 1 issue facing Nigeria is the need to continue diversification away from oil, because the oil income is a pittance for our huge population.

Even if the politicians drink garri for lunch and ride okada to work, that our national income or budget of 35 billion dollars will still not be anywhere near enough to develop the country.

Myname55:
Nigeria is not practising Democracy

What is it practicing then?

Here is the video of Peter Obi saying he would remove subsidy on DAY ONE of his presidency.

He was even shouting that how can we be spending 7 trillion naira annually on fuel subsidy while spending only 3.2 trillion combined on Health and Education!

He was screaming that the whole thing was a scam, and that he wouldn't hesitate to remove it the same day he entered office as president!

Now due to the subsidy removal by President Tinubu, inflation has risen, and Obidients are BLAMING TINUBU for causing the inflation when their principal supported the same policy!

I'm just sick of the BAREFACED HYPOCRISY displayed by certain elements in this country.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrgp1pMZNSw

Olamideayomide:
You don't put chart before the horse.
Since this government remove fuel subsidy, what are the alleviation provide to cushion the effect on the Nigerians?
Temporary pains till everyone kpai abi?
Dunno how those supporting this evil policies and government sleep at night. Sure you are happy seeing Nigerians groin in pains bah?

Peter Obi that said he will remove subsidy didn't he tells you his plans before removing it if elected?
Go and listen to him very well, you are part of those people that always mislead Nigerians.

Here is the video of Peter Obi saying he would remove subsidy on DAY ONE of his presidency.

He was even shouting that how can we be spending 7 trillion naira annually in subsidy while spending only 3.2 trillion combined on Health and Education!

He was screaming that the whole thing was a scam, and that he wouldn't hesitate to remove it the same day he entered office as president!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrgp1pMZNSw

nedu666:
Temporary can last for 25 or 50years. You are comparing Obasanjo to tinubu. What a joke? At least Obasanjo was visible, talking to Nigerians during his monthly presidential charts, tinubu does not even consider Nigerian worth talking to.

Once you hate Tinubu, you will always find a justification.

Even if he spoke on TV daily, you would still hate and abuse him because he is not Igbo like Peter Obi.

Meanwhile, Peter Obi had also promised to end fuel subsidies ''on day one'', so we would have been in the same situation with him in power.

Maybe worse, given that he stated recently that he would have borrowed HEAVILY if he was elected.

And was talking about starting ''a religious war, daddy''.

michlins:
tell me one country that doesn't have subsidy on the most essential items of their economy.

Just mention one country. You people just swallow the nonsense from economic hitmen hook line and sinker and brandish same about.

So you support the continued borrowing of 10 billion dollars a year to pay for fuel subsidies?

Do you know what Nigeria's annual budget is?

It's roughly 35 billion dollars for a country of 240 million people.

South Africa's annual budget is 120 billion dollars for a 50 million population.

The USA? 9 TRILLION dollars for a population of 320 million people.

UK, 2 TRILLION dollars for 60 million people

FRANCE, 1.8 TRILLION dollars.

NIGERIA earning a miserable 35 billion dollars a year, while using 10 billion dollars a year to pay fuel subsidies, and maybe 15 billion dollars on recurrent expenditure and debt repayments....HOW DO YOU GROW?

Just tell me.

Where is the MONEY that you will use to grow your economy? Build infrastructure etc? Better education, health etc?

givedemwotowoto:
So how many Nigerians suffered extreme hardship and poverty as a result of OBJ’s policy according to you?

Or you just woke up hungry today and started looking for justification for nonsense?

The hardship is TEMPORARY.

The alternative is to keep borrowing 10 billion dollars a year to pay fuel subsidy, which would have bankrupted the country!

DeLaRue:
In the future Nigerians will look back on the current tough policies and thank God that a particular President had the courage to enact them.

Even as of today, I think Mr Tinubu is a greater reformer than Obj.

You sound like a wise man.

kettykin:
Yawwwn.

This is awkwardness at its infinite best. An inept management of the economy by people without economic management skills is the reason for the economic meltdown and not removal of subsidy

Tinubu's economic management skills led to the growing success that is Lagos today.

Also, merely mouthing ''inept'' without being specific, is useless.

kettykin:
All I am saying that locking up your entertainment industry of airwaves is not the only recipe for success. Obasanjo and Tinubu are not on the same pedestal and will never be . Obasanjo got the best hands to work with Tinubu is the worst nepotist and got the worst hands but best only to him to work with.


Obasanjo achieved not only a breakthrough in the entertainment industry but the banking industry; telecommunications industry, manufacturing that eventually grew other industries.

Tinubu has killed the manufacturing industry as the breweries are on a loss making streak, aviation is gone, the telecommunications industry is in deep ICU with mtn , airtel and glo in loss after loss streaks, the banking institutions without forex is gone.

In a shot while eateries will be history, the national grid as at now is down. The transportation industry without fuel is serious strained. That construction industry is contracting . Lagos has lost most of the companies that made it what it used to be.

YAWNNN.

All this is due to subsidy removal and floating the naira. ESSENTIAL for moving the nation forward.

Every economist and financial institution worldwide backs the move.

EVERYBODY, INCLUDING COMPANIES, WILL HAVE TO RECALIBRATE THEMSELVES, AND LEARN HOW TO THRIVE IN AN UNSUBSIDISED NIGERIAN ECONOMY.

Once they get over that hurdle of adjustment, and re-arrange themselves, the sky becomes the limit.

kettykin:
Imagine if every other country in the world adopted the 80% policy of indigenous music what would be left of not only Nigeria's music industry but the world's music industry. Thos is not enough to drive creativity.

Why are you caring about ''every other country''?

Do they care about you when they do their own stuff?

AFROBEATS started in 2000 after President Obasanjo mandated all radio stations in Nigeria to play 80% NIGERIAN MADE MUSIC, or be shut down.

Back then all we played was R&B and Hiphop from Yanki and Jand.

If you dare played Nigerian music at a club or party (apart from maybe Fela), everyone would just leave. They would say what kind of local champions are these, playing Nigerian music here?

That’s how it was.

OBJ’s order changed all that.

People abused him and called him a dictator.

That he was very wicked and heartless.

Baba ignored them and went about his business.

All the radio stations began looking for local artists to fill up their air time.

Local artists became hot cakes.

The rest is history.

TODAY, Nigeria is a world music POWERHOUSE because of that mandate, boasting a retinue of WORLD CLASS SUPERSTARS SELLING OUT THE BIGGEST VENUES IN THE WORLD, INCLUDING MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK and WEMBLEY STADIUM, LONDON!

Making NIGERIA a HOUSEHOLD NAME in international circles today.

The ENVY of all Africa.

LESSON: Just IGNORE THE NOISE OF THE NIGERIAN MASSES when you are in power, and do the right thing.

They themselves don't know what is good for them.

I am certain that if the current policies of the govt are maintained, NIGERIA will be an absolute POWERHOUSE and JUGGERNAUT in the next 10 to 15 years.

airsaylongcome:
The directive did not say serve Nigerian food. It said to serve food prepared by Nigerian catering businesses. At least on the outbound flight from Lagos/Abuja/PH/Kano

It’s a good demand for local businesses. They will have to up their competence and sanitary skills to match other international businesses that provide catering services to international flights. Definitely a good move if you ask me. It’s similar moves like this that ensured our entertainment industry rose to prominence within Africa. We used to waste resources flying to South Africa to shoot Music videos. Today all of that is done in Lag. Big Brother Naija used to be hosted in South Africa. Government directive made them bring it local and all the attendant benefits that have accrued from it

AFROBEATS ITSELF started un 2000 after OBJ mandated all radio stations in Nigeria to play 80% NIGERIAN MADE MUSIC, or be shut down.

Back then all we played was R&B and Hiphop from Yanki and Jand.

People abused him and called him a dictator.

TODAY, Nigeria is a world music POWERHOUSE because of that mandate, boasting a retinue of WORLD CLASS STARS SELLING OUT THE BIGGEST VENUES IN THE WORLD.

Making NIGERIA a HOUSEHOLD NAME in interational circles today.

LESSON: Just IGNORE THE NOISE OF THE NIGERIAN MASSES when you are in power, and do the right thing.

They themselves don't know what is good for them.

casualobserver:
Oga use your brains. Patronize local caterers does not mean serve Iru or Amala. It means the food must be prepared in Nigeria by Nigerian caterers even if it is foreign meals. It means don’t come with your food prepared abroad for the outbound flight.

Honestly bro, these Nigerian youths are a disgrace.

The way they talk is as if they were raised by animals in the bush.

Thanks for educating him.

Armaggedon:
Was the radio station as an establishment complicit in any crime? Why do you have to raid the station premises and distrupt it's broadcast? If the Ukoh of a lady was a DSS staff, would you raid DSS office to arrest their staff? Isn't this trespass?

The crime was committed on the premises of the station, in her role as a broadcaster, so of course they will go there.

Some people sef.