₦airaland Forum

@HIGHESTPOPORI
The appeal court have always been in the pocket of the Executive.The way they dismissed all evidence showed they were not ready for any other outcome than to do the bidding of the people in power.The worst was when they dismissed EU report on the ground that it was not submitted by a particular person.The judges were ready to pick holes in every evidence presented. Hopefully the Supreme Court does a thorough job that would give Nigerians hope in the Judiciary and not just picking holes and looking for technicality to dismiss every evidence presented in court.


@me
Lawyer wey no no him work na pako. Law and courts have procedure and rules. The judge cannot help a litigant.

@richie240
Just as '6 and half a dozen' are different, abi??



Pls tell them o...'neutral and enlightened igbos' like oby ezekwesali, charlie boy, psquare, prof. Anya, sam amadi, kenneth okwonkwo etc.


@me
The names you mentioned are not neutral. They have tribal biase.

We kept telling all the online miscreants that the letters and eyes of law is different from ordinary eyes. Judges merely examine your case and presentation and interpret the law.

Law doesn't listen to emotions and sentiments.

His trip shows patriotism. An important gathering and contact point that will help market his program for Nigeria is what you want him to miss?

@franchasofficia
The sad truth is that Nigerian Judges are not courageous and fearless enough to sack a sitting President in Nigeria.


Corruption, fear, bigotry and intimidation by those in power can never allow Nigerian Judiciary to sack a sitting President.



It is God and forces of nature that will serve the required justice to Tinubu, Yakubu, Wike and their cohorts, just a matter of time. Justice may seem delayed but it will be served.

@me
Simple question - do you know the mind of God??

Very correct. This is the general opinion of neutral and enlightened Ibos. We keep telling them of the implications of what they are doing but they called us names.

The effects of what they did and are doing will run into years. Unfortunately we are the most mobile tribe.

Similar to the lie that buhari died long and that Yusuf el-sudan has been ruling Nigeria.

They showed us buhari's and Yusuf's ears. How Isha was looking at him. Hahaha 🤣😂

@saintokwuluora
Nigeria's economy was stable during Jonathan's regime but the greedy wicked Jagaban deceived the gullible and they sacked Jonathan, destabilised the economy in their mad grabbing of public wealth since 2015 and finally threw it to the waste bin on May 29 2023.

@me
The stability didn't come by careful planning and execution. It was stumbled upon through high oil price. As soon as the oil price started going down there was crisis. That was when okonjo-iweala proposed subsidy removal.

The truth is that all our leaders where planless when we were in plenty and in lack. The Lagos state example was that the state planned without looking at easy ways out - short and long term, revenue expansion (this is key), revenue mix (no focus on unstable income source like oil), blockage of leakages etc. With this any economy will be reasonably stable.

I think that is what tinubu is trying to bring at the national level. Look at his appointments in finance, trade and investment, budget and planning, solid mineral, blue economy, fiscal and tax policy and gas. These are his key people.

We need to create wealth to enjoy wealth. My major concern is corruption.

@Racoon
Still affirming that the APC has truly bastardized the economy. Truth is truly always bitter to tell. APC morons see as them dey disgrace una.


@me
Stop talking about party. The key driver of growth pre-2013 was high oil price and not anything.

Our leaders have been vision-less uptil now irrespective of party.

@SILVERLINES

Arrests all of them

Criminals



God when will things like these happen in Nigeria?


@me
If it happens in Nigeria you will not survive it. It will be the end of Nigeria with so much bloodshed. So don't pray wrong prayer.

@Wainey
Ok, political ancient of days.
Godfather of Political statistics

What is Rivers State PDP? They have already lost it and if they don't make him the presidential candidate, they will keep losing it, so why will they keep a toxic man like Wike just to get Rivers votes?

@me
Money 🤑 man money 💰. Rivers state is PDP cash cow.

@Wainey
They may have all taken blood oath from Wike, cos I do not see how Wike is still part of the party.

@me
You guys are babies in political calculation. If PDP expells wike then they will loose the entire Rivers state PDP.

@adioolayi
Make we the masses feel and see all these positive effects of governance..that's the main thing.

@me
Policies focused on restructuring have gestation period. The mess you are seeing today did not happen overnight. The effects of the correction will not happen overnight.

@Vanpascore
Of what benefit is this to the masses?

@me
It means positive outlook for the economy. It means investors confidence in the policies. It means high possibility of FDI. By extension creation of jobs.

@bluefilm
What a sycophantic submission.

3 months in office is already looking like 3 decades of unending hardship!

Is that actually what you expect from an entity that promised you to hit the ground running?

God forbid BAT thing.


@me
Experts can see what online hawkers cannot see. He is aware of where we are coming from. The policy distortions. What needs to be done. The gestation period of a policy. Your own is tribal and political sentiment. Let dollar sell for #200 and let a bag of rice sell for #5,000. What needs to be done you don't know.

The truth is that Nigeria has been in a mess for a long time. High crude oil price and some other factors ameliorated it. We were enjoying luxury that we didn't produce but nature alone gave to us. Other major nations produced the luxuries that they are enjoying.

When I hear people talk about price of rice before now my question has been did you produce the rice? When they talk about exchange rate back then my question is what sustained it? These were sustained by cheap petrodollar.

The best time to have carried out these realignments would have been when the petrodollar was in abundance - 16 years of PDP reign.

Buhari's time - forget it. Tinubu and his team would have best come in to take over from PDP. The pains would have been less. Now we are totally down. Nigeria is in orthopedic theater right now. Everything is broken. To reset the patient will have to go through excruciating pains.

The hope is that the surgeon is very competent. Every sector is being attacked - removal of subsidy on oil and fx, reengineering of fiscal and tax ecosystem, expansion of revenue through blue economy, gas, solid mineral etc.

All these in less than 90 days. All ministers are on fire. Everyone has hit the ground running. I have confidence and hope. So far I'm not disappointed. I hope that things will turn around.

Funny enough politics has made legal issues to become all comer's affair. Lawyers play with words and make issues why it should be "is" and not "are". It's left to the judges to make sense or not out of them. Usually the lot of the layman is to watch and listen while waiting for what the judges make of them.

Alas the advent of social media particularly mtn's free data now allow every tom, dick and Harry to comment on what they know nothing about.

People that cannot distinguish between an obita dictum and a ratio. Everything is comment, comment and comment. Hia hia.

Mr man strive to make good money 🤑 and take good care of your woman. Who doesn't like good thing?

There's no pride in being broke. Some of you broke men go for rich women. Stop lamenting.

Come ooo..... what is wrong in praying for Nigeria and a leader? Were you expecting him to say that God will curse Nigeria through president BAT?

The man of God prayed a normal standard prayer and gave a good advice as a notable leader. What is the offence?

When pastor oyedepo lambasted buhari and tinubu then winners was no longer a Yoruba church.

I have said it time and time again that the activities of my igbo brothers since the emergence of KANU and now Peter Obi has created so much problem to us. No tribe will trust and agree to work with us.

Hia hia hia.

@akaahs
Oga stop confusing urself. U have stated the obvious reasons y our roads fail on time. So, the minister is right by saying minimum of 6 years before any repairs work.

@me
I think you have a reading comprehension problem. The writer stated that a road that dilapidates within 6 years is a substandard job. I replied and argued against it and stated reasons why Nigerian roads spoil quickly.

What is the confusion there? Hia

It's no use lamenting. We have gotten used to certain way of life now the situation has changed. In developed economies they will ask you first of what you can do(experience and skill). In Nigeria they will ask you of your certificate and grade.

If the cost of living is increasing, the solution is not lamentations and name calling. The solution is multiple streams of income and cutting of costs. Everyone can do it. Who tells you that you can't work in an office and have a barbing shop as side hursle? That's what they do abroad and their GDP increases.

We all have lived false lives for a long time. Reality has cut up with us. It's time to realign. It's not tinubu's fault. Experts saw it coming for a long time. Our revenue to GDP ratio has been low and we did nothing to increase revenue.

We have not been producing but consuming. Tinubu and his team will have to make painful decisions. We don't pay tax particularly income tax. Other nations make people work so that the government earns tax.

We just love subsidy. Import subsidy through fx rate. Petroleum subsidy. Therefore it's easier to make money through buying and selling than production. Now petroleum subsidy is gone the refineries will work.

Lazy me. Lazy Nigerians. Past leaders couldn't make hard decisions. Sell crude oil. Subsidise import and that's all. Nobody thought about tomorrow. Now the tomorrow we didn't plan for has cut up with us.

The president is a hard man. He's focused on expansion of revenue Viz blue economy, gas, solid mineral, tax reforms etc. The pains must come because we lived a riotous past.

@Chikeluba25
What?

I can't believe a minister of work is boasting that his road will last for 6yrs and people are celebrating it....

In Anambra, the Awka/Onitsha old road built by Chris Ngige in 2003 has lasted for 20yrs still solid.

Nigeria my country. The statement is very disappointing.


@me
20 years? When did Chris Ngige leave office. Hahaha 🤣. My people my people.

@jmoore
6 years is for substandard job.

A good road should last minimum 15 years.


@me
For naija? The roads are overburdened with heavy trucks. The cargo ought to have been carried by rail. Again heavy traffic hold-up add burden on the roads

@jmoore
The refineries in Egypt are working and there is subsidy in Egypt.


@me
I agree that this is a public forum therefore anyone can come up with any argument.

1. What is the size of consumption in Egypt?
2. What is the size of outlay in terms of subsidy
3. Is corruption so pronounced in Egypt as it is in Nigeria?
4. What killed manufacturing in Nigeria? Answer: you make more money importing than producing.
5. What killed the refineries? Answer: you make more money importing than refining - fx roundtriping, subsidy payment, etc.
6. In summary corruption killed the refineries and it will never come back so long as there's subsidy and special exchange rate.
7. Remove both and importation will no longer be attractive and the officials will want the refineries fixed.

@sonnie10

Even with the least invasive option such as radiotherapy, care must be taken not to affect healthy surroundings cells. This is often the recommended first line of treatment. The radiation has to be guided by well calculated dosimetry parameters.
The above illustration is what they missed. They went with most drastic option,. Just for ego. Just to be seen as hitting the ground running!

@me
You're right here. I think that his problem was that he came with so much expectations. As politicians always do he wanted to impress. I'm hopeful that when the regime settles down things will begin to ease out gradually. I must state that it's a long run.

@sonnie10
They started on falsehood, no sincerity of purpose.
When they commissioned Dangote refinery that was not in any where ready, just to deceive Nigerians that they have a plan for subsidy removal, it was all games.
Actions have consequences. If they sincere, subsidy removal could have been in phases. Something like 25% at a time until we have functional refinery.
Now this, when Nigeria is still struggling with all the recent failed policies. It is an act of desperation, and hasty decisions often end up wrong.
Why can’t they wait for the first batch of locally refined product before attempting economic changes.


@me
The corruption around subsidy is huge and has been on for years. Any soft handling will not work. The refineries will not work so long as there is subsidy on imported petroleum products. The hand 👏 must be cut for the body to survive. That's the only way to treat cancer.

Unfortunately the ordinary people are suffering the effect of the collective rape of our common wealth by the political class and elites.

I just pity president tinubu. The mess in the Nigerian economy started towards the end of Jonathan's regime. This was principally because of corruption and the weakness of the president to control those he appointed.

This led to the alarm bell rang by okonjo-iweala. They did not arrest the situation. Unfortunately buhari did nothing but compounded the situation.

Tinubu inherited a messed up economy. He's not talking because he's protecting buhari and his party. He's battling against odds.

The good thing is that he's sound and he has sound people around him. When a patient is in a critical condition the doctors will try several drugs and modes of treatment and watch the effect on the patient. Finally they will get the most responsive mode. In the process the patient will feel several pains.

The doctor will be called names by the patient and his relations. I'm feeling the pains too.

What will anybody honestly criticise a government that inherited the Nigerian mess, less than three months, ministers not yet sworn in and broad policies not yet in full implementation?

FYI I'm an Ibo, professional, religious leader detribalised and apolitical.

@Ofunaofu
When we are yet to come out of the Naira redesign debacle, they want to plunge this country into another disastrous policy of Naira re-denomination

This is after they had removed subsidy from petrol, floated the Naira masking it as exchange rate unification which has further impoverished Nigerians thereby moving over 180 million Nigerians into multi dimensional poverty

From one policy somersault to another. From one disaster to another


[b]Honestly, e no go better for those who supported and voted for this current calamitous Tinubu APC government.


@me
Talk is cheap. Every idea rather than holistically xray it and throw suggestions, no it must be condemnation and condemnation.

Mr brilliant what is your suggestion. State it clearly and let us examine them.

@Ecos
Nothing


@me
Why do you accept to belong and live where there is nothing? Which means that you are nothing.

@Ecos
Which economy? Or are they joking?

As it stands now, Nigeria doesn't have economy .


@me
What does Nigeria have?

Wale Edu is a great guy. Cool as cucumber. I think party affiliation has taken Pat Utomi away. We need them all to rescue Nigeria. All the "A" team of president BAT.....Ben akabueze, yemi cardoso, relwane, Augusto, fashola, elrufai etc.

The situation is very challenging. We need a tested team with a tested leader. Not untested like the two challenging the election. We need leaders that we can judge by past results.

Sweet tongue and oratory ability doesn't solve economic problems. I'm an Ibo fyi but a cosmopolitan one.