₦airaland Forum

Na wa for Uuuna!

How about for once in our lives we vote for the best candidate devoid of party and tribe?

Is that such a bad idea?

Or maybe you guys haven’t suffered enough, just maybe!

The Public Office Holder (Payment of Pension) Law No 11 official Gazette of Lagos State, 2007 states that former governors of the state are entitled to a house each in any location of their choice in Lagos and Abuja.


Section 2 states, “One residential house each for the governor and the deputy governor at any location of their choice in Lagos State and one residential house in the Federal Capital Territory for the governor on two consecutive terms.”

The law also says former governors will be entitled to furniture allowance, which is 300 per cent of their annual basic salary (N23.3m); house maintenance allowance, which is 10 per cent of basic salary (N778,296); utility allowance, which is 20 per cent of the salary (N1.5m) and car maintenance allowance, which is 30 per cent of the annual basic salary (N2.3m).

Other benefits include entertainment allowance, which is 10 per cent of the basic salary (N778,296) and a personal assistant, who will earn 25 per cent of the governor’s annual basic salary (N1.9m).


The law adds that a former governor is entitled to domestic workers comprising a cook, a steward, a gardener and others whose appointments are pensionable.

A former governor will also be entitled to eight policemen and two officials of the Department of State Services for life, according to the Lagos law.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/lagos-silent-on-amount-spent-on-tinubu-others-pension-benefits/%3famp=1

Useless leaders!

What is the punishment for breaking the lockdown order?

Not all this gra gra

Otsam:
Yet, the saint said Abacha was not corrupt, he saved in the interest of the nation and his minister of justice just showed the same value they shared by declaring it “Abacha assets “ don’t be surprised if in years to come, we discover Abacha to be a learner at the feet of the present ones because Abacha was dealing with 50 naira then while the saints now are dealing with 1000 naira.

Lol @ Abacha Assets

Just one man

GreatResearcher1:
Great job though! I heard the citizens of that state are suffering. Was the new acquired aircraft necessary at this time where aviation is struggling to stand on its feet?


Vision less leaders everywhere

Though Nigerian leaders tend to be vision-less as you said, but in this case, there's no way you place an order for a plane like this and receive it in a week or a month. Something like this could take up to a year or more, from specification, build to delivery.

snitchbitch:
Who is the governor of your state? Who is your local govt chairman? Who is your constituency house of rep. Who is your senatorial district rep.? Who is your councillor?


Before you now start to blame buhari, all the allocation s of your state who is collecting them?


If they can't sleep at night, blame buhari

If they can't shit in the toilet, blame buhari

If mosquito bites them, bla.e buhari

If their **** isn't hard when they can to """", blame buhari


Buhari is not a saint and I am not supporting him. But for once take responsibility for your life and stop blaming anybody. Buhari will surely come and go, will still co tinur blaming him for our life?



Don't even quote me, cos I won't reply

I agree in that, more blame should go around.

There are thieves everywhere, senators buying new cars, state legislators as well, ganduje stuffing billions, lekki toll gate scam, governors of the south south with huge allocations and mediocre performance, e.t.c

Stephenomozzy:


For where even Local government chairmen were reported to have run away with relief materials they were meant to distribute naim una wan scrutinize disbursement made by an unsupervised loot-oriented government (not limited to the federal level) long after they would have manipulated figures and so called register.

We don't even have social security numbers yet we're having Social Register! How? When will our leaders start using common sense to call misappropriation what it is?

but why cant Nigeria have social security number or something similar. is it impossible or what?

The brutality in Africa sha!

When is the right time for police reform? Today? 2 years from now? or Yesterday?

Just look at the operation above, hitting men that are already down and I'm sure it would be for a minor offense.

What I don't understand is why Nigerian police rarely ever use handcuffs. Is it that Nigeria doesn't supply handcuffs to it's police force? All that was needed there was to handcuff those that were already down. Instead, they deliver blow after blow to someone that has already surrendered. Dragging them across the harsh asphalt surfaces, blood letting with sticks to the face...

Something has to be done about this our Police force, now, we need massive re-orientation of this so called police force.

So it was even GEJ and crew that initiated the repatriation of Abacha's loot.

Hope this administration will not say they’ve given it all out to the poorest of the poor and no one will know anyone that has received alert.

To make laws is easy, to enforce them 24/7 is the true test of a nations seriousness, mtcheew!

Ebonyeyes:
PDP, the Demons that looted Nigeria's wealth for 16 years, think about it, they were in power during the oil boom between 2004-2012 when oil was at least 100 dollars per barrel, did PDP save for a rainy day? Did they put money into a Sovereign Trust Fund for Nigeria? No, they used the opportunity to loot the country beyond recognition.

Poor Nigerians, the candidates that are lined up for us to choose are the corrupt demons with money who can muscle their way into power. So the choice is between a ruling Demon in power or the prospective Demon who wants to get into power.

That's why we all need to support the likes of Sowore.

Tell your friends, family, strangers about these new breeds!

PericomaNwankwo:
Lol, no matter anything. We cannot afford to hate the Chinese. They are far better than the white people that have shown us shege.


Did you know that in North Korea, kids are taught in school about how European imperialists shared Africa and enslaved Africans for centuries.

Did you know that some north Koreans still think blacks in America are still slaves??

lol, you guys really think China is not colonizing Africa?

Speaking of "shege", Africans show their own kind more shege sef! Africans sold their own as slaves, Africans hate people from other tribes in Africa, Africans in Nigeria vote terrible leaders to spite others, or cause they don't care!

Bros Africans are showing Africans shege! How else do you explain this continent?

flyca:
China is a very silly for doing this.
See guts
I wish everyone will come together and boycott China.
Rubbish

Boycott China?

Are you ready to drop your laptop, phone, inverter-solar, t.v, blender, fan, a.c.... ?

Other kids are already using Ipad when young, but here, nairalanders agree that the head is for carrying load.

The fact that many people are even justifying this

I give up on Naija matter

I used to respect this guy, but I think he has lost it!

I still respect Biafra though and his struggle to bring the discussion into the limelight.

Nairaland has been promoting a lot of fake news lately.

We all saw this video last week!

Split this country abeg, let’s all go our separate ways.

Ebonyeyes:
Ibo Man: Its the Ibos turn to rule, we must get our 8 years (Said in the strongest ibo accent you can think of)

Hausa Man: No, No, No, No, we are the majority in this country and it is Hausa's turn we need 12 years in power (Said in a heavy Hausa accent)

Yoruba Man: Actually Hausa Man you have ruled Nigeria for 43 years out of the 60 years of independence so it is now time for the Yoruba's to rule for at least 16 year (Said in a heavy Yoruba accent)

In 2020, this is the kind of tribalistic nonsense we are still talking about meanwhile other Nations are sending people to the moon. Since 1960, 60 years ago we have been playing this mindless tribalistic games which has taken Nigeria backwards economically. In fact 1960 was much more developed than today 2020.

You do realise there are more than 500 other tribes in this Limited PLC called Nigeria right? Not forgetting that the so called IBOS/HAUSAS/YORUBAS sold out Nigeria to the highest bidder while pretending to liberate Nigeria from the British in 1960. Shame on you and these 3 tribes could burn in hell for all I care!

As in...

Economy is crumbling, people are being laid off, people are begging more than ever online, dollar is rising...

Yet all they care about is Yoruba dis, Igbo dat, Hausa dis...

Men, we really need help in this country and maybe we should all go our separate ways.

Flogging grown men

SangoOlukosoOba:
There are Indian decent, Chinese and all other decents in America.

English is a general language in America. Don't we have a general language in Nigeria too?

You still not making a valid point here. Language is not an excuse and will never be an excuse. Canada has two major languages, how about that?

Language is just ONE example. It’s an example oooo, of course I can’t delve into every facet of the negative consequences derived from amalgamating different nations, but I’m sure you see some of the ripe fruits on nairaland daily.

So you mean you will go to a City in America and be able to get by speaking Chinese?

Gimme a break.

America is a Country made up people with common values, regardless of their ancestral descent, as is the case with most working countries. They may decide to have a diverse minority population due to their foreign policy, but the majority will still be that homogenous group that shares the same race and/or values.

SangoOlukosoOba:
Language you want to dive into now shey?

America has different languages.
Canada has two major language.
India has several.
China does.

So language is not a point. Tell me something else. Countries with more diverse religions and tribe have made it far. What's Nigeria's excuse.

Which different languages does America have again?

Bros, they speak “ENGLISH”!

When last did you see an American politician campaigning to his constituency in Spanish?

Or are you wanting to add Spanish cause of the Mexicans there?

SangoOlukosoOba:
Nigeria is not only tribe with diverse tribes. China, Indian, America fall in that class and they doing fine.

Stop using diversity as an excuse

Imagine if Germany, UK, France and Italy were joined together to form one country under false pretenses of diversity.

You ask them, what launguage do you guys speak and they’ll say, “We speak, English, German, French and Italian”. #Confusion!

SangoOlukosoOba:
Nigeria is not only tribe with diverse tribes. China, Indian, America fall in that class and they doing fine.

Stop using diversity as an excuse

Which America?

Do you see a man from Newyork telling a Texan to go back to his village?

Which diversity sef? You mean when Americans invite you as a foreign exchange student?

Even Canda that is 99% the same as America is it’s own country!

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

The new coronavirus is real.

The response to the coronavirus is hyped. And in time, this hype will be revealed as politically hoaxed.

In fact, COVID-19 will go down as one of the political world’s biggest, most shamefully overblown, overhyped, overly and irrationally inflated and outright deceptively flawed responses to a health matter in American history, one that was carried largely on the lips of medical professionals who have no business running a national economy or government.


The facts are this: COVID-19 is a real disease that sickens some, proves fatal to others, mostly the elderly — and does nothing to the vast majority.

That’s it.

That, in a nutshell, is it.

Or, in the words of Dan Erickson and Artin Massih, doctors and co-owners of Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield, California: Let’s get the country reopened — and now.

“Do we need to still shelter in place? Our answer is emphatically no. Do we need businesses to be shut down? Emphatically no. … [T]he data is showing it’s time to lift,” Ericksonsaid, in a recent interview.

He’s right. They’re right.

The data to keep America closed and Americans closed in simply doesn’t exist.

If truth be told, it’s questionable it ever did.

The scientists leading the coronavirus shutdown charge predicted in March that in America, between 100,000 and 250,000 would die. They based those estimates on computer modeling.

But at the same time they were basing those estimates on computer modeling, they were acknowledging that computer modeling is inaccurate and errs on the side of hype.

“I’ve never seen a model of the diseases I’ve dealt with where the worst-case actually came out,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of President Donald Trump’s White House coronavirus task force, during a CNN interview in March. “They always overshoot.”

Catch that? Fauci’s message: Computer models are flawed and inaccurate and always overestimate the problem.

But from these faulty overinflated computer figures came all the constitutionally questionable actions by government anyway — from ordering businesses closed to quarantining-slash-house arresting American citizens to doing some quick and pitiful and economically painful income redistribution schemes via stimulus funds’ legislation.

Since, about 56,000 have died in America due to coronavirus — or have they? Again, the facts are flimsy.

Government ordered hospitals weeks ago to stop performing elective surgeries to make way for the projected numbers of coronavirus patients. So they did. And in so doing, they cut off their revenue streams. So Congress passed legislation giving hospitals billions of dollars to treat coronavirus patients. Conflict of interest? Yikes. Yes.

The coronavirus counts, already flawed from computer modeling, were then given another flaw treatment.

“[Pennsylvania] removes more than 200 deaths from official coronavirus count as questions mount about reporting process, data accuracy,” The Inquirer reported.

Add to that the ever-changing nature of a virus that spreads by air and contact, and honestly, suddenly, even expert Fauci’s best guess is about as good as Joe Neighbor’s best guess. So that leaves common sense, combined with knowledge of past viruses, to guide.

But the quote-unquote medical experts refused to go there, refused to acknowledge common sense, refused to compare with past viruses in any way that didn’t hype the coronavirus counts.

This virus was different, Americans were told. This virus was far more contagious than anything ever before seen or studied, Americans were told. And any time the case counts dropped off and the numbers proved wrong, well, this was due to the social distancing and quarantining and face-mask wearing that Americans had been doing, by government’s order — Americans were told.

It just didn’t make sense.

It just doesn’t add up.

It just didn’t, and doesn’t, justify the utter shredding of civil rights.

And now some in the medical community, thank goodness, are starting to point out the glaring omissions of logic and fact that have plagued this overhyped, overreaching coronavirus crackdown that has stretched on far, far too long.

Among some of Erickson’s remarks: “This is immunology — microbiology 101. This is the basis of what we’ve known for years: When you take human beings and you say, ‘Go into your house, clean all your counters, Lysol them down’ … what does it do to our immune system? … Sheltering in place decreases your immune system.”

And this: “Any time you have something new in the [medical] community, it sparks fear — and I would have done what Dr. Fauci did … initially. … But you know, looking at theories and models — which is what these folks use — is very different than the way the actual virus presents itself throughout communities.”

And this: “Do you think you’re protected from COVID when you wear gloves that transfer disease everywhere? … We wear masks in an acute setting to protect us. [But] we’re not wearing masks. Why is that? Because we understand microbiology. We understand immunology. And we want strong immune systems. I don’t want to hide in my home, develop a weak immune system and then come out and get disease.”

And this: “When I’m writing up my death report I’m being pressured to add COVID. Why is that? Why are we being pressured to add COVID? To maybe increase the numbers, and make it look a little bit worse than it is. We’re being pressured in-house to add COVID to the diagnostic list when we think it has nothing to do with the actual cause of death. The actual cause of death was not COVID, but it’s being reported as one of the diseases processes. … COVID didn’t kill them, 25 years of tobacco use killed.”

Does it get any clearer than that?

Seriously, America. The only reason America is still in shutdown mode is political.

Either politicians are too afraid to make any move that might come back to bite them politically or politicians are using this coronavirus to political advantage — to, say, pass gun control laws, like Virginia’s governor, Ralph Northam. Or to, say, float campaign hopes on the current ravaged economy, like former Vice President Joe Biden and oh, all the Democrats facing races.

But for the rest of America — the rest of hardworking, freedom-loving America — it’s time to reel in the radically unconstitutional.

“If you’re going to dance on someone’s constitutional rights, you better have a good reason — you better have a really good reason, not just a theory,” Erickson said. “The data is showing us it’s time to lift … so if we don’t lift, what is the reason?”

That is the key question.

As time goes by, the answer will only become more and more evident. The coronavirus may be real — but the hype is hoaxed. Now let’s just hope this is a one-time hoax that doesn’t roll around every time flu season approaches.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/28/coronavirus-hype-biggest-political-hoax-in-history/

All these people talking about oil boom under GEJ.

Wasn’t that why he tried to remove subsidy? While the opposition rioted?

How is it that GEJ and his team kept gas prices so low, while oil prices were high?

Under this regime, if oil prices go up, before you know it they’ve increased pump price.

Even though I rate GEJ average for a president, I give him props for trying to remove subsidy. Iweala must have been preaching subsidy removal to him.

netflicks:
Is Nigeria cursed that we can't fix power since independence? What is wrong with this country... sold crude for over 53years, borrowed up ro N34trillion yet can not even feed it citizens for a day...

In this modern age we still cant say a single thing the county has achieved since independence...its a shame and we still have these old folks revolving around the govt. recycling the same criminals every election period...

It’s a deep problem bro, problems with the leaders and the citizens.

One one hand you have leaders who don’t care, on the other hand, you have barbaric citizens ready to kill at the drop of a hat.

Acidosis:
So you support extorting people via estimated billing methods?


With prepaid metres, these criminals have no business running around every street.

So you believe it’s tha man disconnecting wires that has the answers to the paucity of prepaid meters?