₦airaland Forum

raskymonojendor:
Even if they admit anything, CSU already gave them a way out. The below is what the Supreme court will hammer on just like the election tribunal did with Tafa Balogun's FBI letter.

The bone of contention since 1999 had been Tinubu's academic background and records. All his academic records he submitted to INEC had been challenged and it was never really resolved. There has always been the allegation that he is impersonating someone's else's identity and certificate. This is what this current court case is about. Atiku and Tinubus distractors are alleging that either Tinubu got into Richard Daley's college or into Chicago State University with stolen identity. What Atiku is after are the admission documents he used in getting admission into Chicago State University including social security number and his passport photograph. Then the actual degree he was awarded and when he graduated.

A quick aberration in the letter you presented. I find it quite suspicious that the university registrar is saying that both the diploma awarded Tinubu and the certified true copy are different and valid. How? A certified true copy of a document is simply a copy of the document that is certified by a certifying officer. It should be an exact copy of the original document save the stamp and signature of the current date. A certified true copy cannot have different logo, different fronts and different original signature.
The registrar should just have said a brand new certificate was issued instead of calling it"Certified True Copy ".

jahsharon:
Supreme Court cannot take any evidence that was not presented to the Presidential Election Tribunal

False. In a sane supreme court in a sane country where justice is supreme, additional evidence is accepted if it was not available at the time of the lower court judgement and if it is fundamental to the case. It like someone already condemned for murder by the lower courts, and later DNA results came out that showed that the murder was carried out by someone else. The supreme court is a liberty to accept the new evidence and exonerate the condemned.
But this is Nigeria's supreme court we are talking about. They have never ruled against the incumbent government in president election cases in the history of Nigeria. In 2007 they said INEC's failure to serialised the ballot papers did not invalidate the elections. In 2023 an election tribunal in Kano cancelled votes because the votes because the ballot papers were not stamped. I am almost 100% sure that the supreme court will find one technicality not to admit the new evidence particularly if it is very damning.

Nigerians are confirming the world view that we are fantastically corrupt people. Our youths are into fraud, our pastors are conmen, our politicians are hardened criminals. No wonder we as a people are becoming a pariah in the committee of nations.

DrGoodman:
Let's see what this man has been hiding desperately

I am sure Tinubu will head to the supreme court. Since Tinubu said full disclose of his academic credentials will do severe harm to his life, that he will fight to it to the last.

kingxsamz:
Lol, this una god sef.
Lot's wife was turned to salt simply because she looked behind her, but Lot who offered his daughters up to strangers to be raped received no punishment. Lot's daughters who raped him and had children for him also received no punishment. And this is supposed to be a moral story? 😂😂

Apart from violence, bible tales are too immoral and depraved for me.

Biblical stories particularly old testament are too violent for an atheist/humanist like me. I cannot fathom how a supposedly benign being kills millions of his children violently in order to sooth his ego.

seunmsg:
Lloyd Ukwu from Agulu is now speaking for NADECO

The same people who called NADECO a Yoruba organization when NADECO was fighting for the democracy we now enjoy want to turn around and use the NADECO name to grab power for their gbajue son who came a distant third but want to claim first position through fraudulent claims.

For the records, NADECO was formed by democrats like Adekunle Ajasin, Dan Suleiman, Anthony Enahoro, Bola Tinubu, Wole Soyinka, Segun Osoba, Bola Ige, Shehu Sani, Abraham Adesanya, Olu Falae etc to fight for the actualization of MKO's June 12 mandate and for the restoration of democracy in Nigeria. There was no Lloyd Ukwu or any Obidient in NADECO. In fact, Peter Obi was working for the Abacha Military Junta against the actualization of June 12 and the return to democracy. NADECO was disbanded after democracy was achieved and the organization no longer exist.

Lloyd Ukwu and the other Peter Obi Obi supporters masquerading as NADECO members are fraudsters trying to impersonate a disbanded organization for their selfish and gbajue principal.

This is the problem I have with Nigerians and indeed the black man, we tend to tribalise everything. Every question, every criticism is view with tribal tinted glasses. NADECO usa is asking serious questions, instead of Tinubu's (obviously Yoruba) supporters to attack the questions raised, they simply attack the tribe of the person that signed the document. Even if the person was Yoruba, the would still attack the person as an "omo ale" (outcast).

Tinubu's certificate and identity had been subject of controversy since he won the Governorship elections in 1999. He first provided fake credentials in his INEC form, where he stated he attended Government College Ibadan and University of Chicago. Gani Fawehinmi took the matter all the way to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court referred the Latter to the Lagos State House of Assembly, since only the House can remove or sanction a sitting governor. The House of Assembly carried out their investigations. It later found the allegations to be true that Tinubu submitted fake credentials to Electoral body but accepted Tinubu's excuse that it was Senator Afikuyomi that filled the forms and not him, and so it was a mistake by the Senator, not minding that Tinubu appended his signature to the documents.
It was later on that they said the University he attended was actually Chicago State University and not University of Chicago. Since then we have not been able to establish the educational background of Tinubu. His total academic history is 4 years - 2 years at Richard Daley college and 2 years at Chicago State University. No primary school, no secondary school. That you and Yorubas who used to be among the most educated black race, do not find that discomforting is simply unbelievable.

Even with his scanty educational background, the certificate he obtained is mired in controversy, his admission credentials is suspicious at best.

The questions Nigerians want answers to are; who is Bola A Tinubu, what are his family background, what are his educational background and what are his criminal background.

Datedoboy:
I had mentioned it in my previous post that it will get to NGN1,000 per Usd if drastic measures are not taken.

Again, I am saying it here that it will get to 2,000 before 2025 if we don't take these drastic measures.

I have been saying this for the past 20 years, as long as we're persist in following IMF already discredited policies of floating our currency, removal of subsidies and opening of our ports, the naira will continue to fall ad-infinitum.

These measures will make the Naira appreciate to at most NGN500 to a dollar in the short term and in the long term, NGN100

The Naira can never fall back to N100, even N500 is a difficult task, unless we take the Ghanaian route of re-denomination.

What are these measures? I will explain further but note that this is not about Exports.
Even if we export more than China today, the NGN will still decline further. How do i know this?

It's about the balance between exports imports. Either we reduce imports or increase exports. That's the only way to stabilise the Naira.

If you do your research, you will discover that Nigeria as at 2023, exported and earned more FX more than several countries and yet the currencies of these countries are stronger than the Naira.

Giving our ballooning population, we also imported more and earned less in real terms more than all those countries put together.

So don't let anyone sell the idea that our economy is import dependent that is why our currency is falling. Even if we ban all imports and continue with (or increase) our current export, the Naira won't appreciate

If we manufacture all or most of our goods and rely less on imported goods like we did throughout the 1970s, what will we dollars for? Who will buy dollars even at N100 to $1?

A simple question you can answer is, when we banned rice importation, did our currency stop falling? No !!! So sit back as we take a dive to 4 policies which WILL make the Naira appreciate.

That was because rice consumes a tiny part of dollar demand. Fuels - Petrol, diesel and aviation fuel consumes a substantial part of our dollar demand. Other food items like dairy, flour, fish, etc consumes more dollars than rice. Besides, rice was still bring smuggled through the land borders using CFA franc.

1. All domiciliary accounts must be closed.
Can a Canadian or US bank open Naira account for you? No! So why do we open Dom. Accounts for our citizens ? Now you may say what of imports? How do we pay for our goods in foreign currencies?

The answer is simple. Credit your account in Naira while your bank pays the USD or GBP equivalent on your behalf at official rate determined by CBN

2. Ban deposits and withdrawals in foreign currencies and convert all inflows including export proceeds in foreign currencies to Naira (again at official rate determined by CBN).

You don't need to stop people who sell at black market or hoard the USD. Let those who hoard the dollar keep it but once they know that after a said date, you can't deposit or hold your physical dollar, they will be forced to go to the bank to deposit it. Anyone found with physical hard currencies after the deadline, must be arrested

This policy alone will make the NGN appreciate to maximum of NGN600 after first two weeks of implementation and will mop up hidden/excess dollar in the system.

This policy will also discourage buying usd from the black market because there won't be any physical dollar to buy.

3. Increase interest rate for fixed Naira deposits to a minimum of 10%. This will encourage saving in Nigeria. Let a Naira 4 Naira scheme, replace the previous Naira 4 dollar scheme.

4. Increase interest rates on foreign currency deposits to 40% of principal amount if option 1 is not possible and convert all inflows to NGN without the option of collecting foreign currencies at the counter. You can't spend USD or GBP in Nigeria so why do you want to collect your inflows in foreign currencies?
This policy indirectly stops the black market arbitrage.

As the Government has floated the Naira, if these measures are not put in place, NGN2,000 to a dollar won't be surprising to me.

I am just a concerned Nigerian and i am open to constructive criticism.

All these are just palliative, ointment to treat a gangrene infection. The only remedy is manufacturing. Need to building a manufacturing base fast. We need to start learning to converting primary agricultural goods to manufactured items for local consumption. We need to start converting our raw materials and natural resources to finished goods. We need to start turning cotton to fabrics, ponmo to shoes, cocoa to chocolate. That was how the industrialised world was able to defeat poverty. That was how Asian countries like China, Taiwan, Malaysia and even Vietnam were able to banish poverty. Not through juju, not through fasting and prayers, not even through portfolio investments, but through industrialisation.

MeineMutter:
You are right, to a greater extent.

We cannot, 100%, rule out importation as part of the reasons for Naira’s free fall.

People keep these dom accounts to fuel their penchant for imported products.

You can imagine Nigerians looking for dollar to import China made shoe racks, plastic juice extractors, handkerchief etc.

I expect CBN to also increase the list of products on import-prohibition list while they implement all your suggestions.

Importation is making us to be lazy, by the day.

It's not importation that's making us lazy, it's government policies, lack of a manufacturing base, lack of critical infrastructure and lack of benign fiscal and monetary policy that making us lazy.
You cannot be hard working with an official interest rate of 19% (actual interest rate is about 28%). And to make matters worse the banks will start demanding repayment the very month you took the loan, and the longest term you will get for repayment is 24 months. In 24 months most legitimate businesses have not started turning up a profit. If a bank borrows you N10 million and expects you to pay back with interest within one year, the best option is trading - trading imported goods.

Also corruption by government agencies and multiple taxation is a huge disincentive to manufacturing.

Then there is the almighty NEPA (power), you cannot manufacture profitably (in comparison to importation) when petrol is N600, diesel is N850.

Seun:
Before Tinubu the official market was practically nonexistent. Nobody could access forex. Floating isn't the problem. It's demand and supply.

Gbam! That's because the CBN had no dollar to sell.

Floating is a major problem because there is no water to float on, no upwards counter force to counter the force of gravity to create an equilibrium. The counter force should have been exports. At this rate the naira will keep on sinking until it gets to the bottom.

Seun:
Before Tinubu the official market was practically nonexistent. Nobody could access forex. Floating isn't the problem. It's demand and supply.

My boss. Long time we had a major disagreement. This one will be a major one.

For decades, I had been against the floating of the naira. When IMF gave floating the naira, removal of petroleum subsidy and opening of our ports as part of the conditionalities for giving us loan during IBB regime, I was part of Nigerian student that took to the streets in protest. At the end of the day, IBB backed out, but implemented some of the conditionalities through the back door through SAP. Now, as a student of O.A.U. we had robust debates on these conditionalities and it's destructive effects on the economy.

Today, I and great Nigerian students of then have been proven correct. No country that implemented those conditionalities did well. Infact all came out much worse, so much so that IMF later backtracked and confessed that those conditionalities don't work.

Now let me let you on a little secret, no developed country actually floats their currency, not USA, not UK, not China, not Japan. Countries control the exchange rate of their currencies through various mechanisms, in order to achieve certain balance of trade goals. The worst are the Arab countries, they have a strong grip of their currencies because just like Nigeria they depend a lot of export of crude.

Nigeria has put itself in a very vulnerable position. An unstable oil price will wreck havoc on our economy. If the US or Saudi Arabia manipulates crude prices to $120 per barrel, we would be buying petrol at N1200 per litre. We have not started talking about diesel and aviation fuel. At thar price up to 70% of Nigerian businesses would close down. We will depend even more on imported goods including food and basics.

This issue is very complex to be discussed in a few sentences typing on my phone.

But one thing I can tell you is that most of the economic structures put in place by IMF, World Bank and other financial institutions is to make us suppliers of raw materials and importers of finished products.

adisabarber:
You pushed for floating of the Naira, it failed. Now you are saying another thing

That's the greatest tragedy to befall Nigeria since the civil war - floating the naira. The IMF and the World Bank has been edging Nigeria to float the Naira (remove all subsidies and open our ports) since the time of IBB. They achieved this through Tinubu. Once the dollar has crossed the N1000 mark, the next mark is N2000. I predict it to hit that mark within the first term of Tinubu. At the rate the naira is falling, it might make it in 2 years.

fkj950ax:
Can you FACTUALLY confirm if she evaded being served or responding to the process at any point in time?
Judges issue bench warrant for people who refuse to appear in court for civil cases.
No one knows all her actions AFTER Erisco went after her. It's just the hullabaloo on SM people are regurgitating.
And for you to type the bold above shows you are economical with the facts of that case, as you are with this issue.
And democracy has no business in all of this. Even in police state, people have right to seek redress for defamation. And they go to court.
Democracy, once again, doesn't allow you to do as you will without consequences. If she erred, she should be made to pay to the fullest extent of the law. If Erisco erred by 'detaining' her, they should face the consequences of their actions too.
By the time the dust settles (we all know she has no money to pay for damages) and the court makes them do ADR, Erisco will let it go and she will be okay. We may hear what she did that led to her being remanded or detained. We don't have that info. All you guys are saying is Erisco had her arrested for her comments. I strongly believe her actions after Erisco went after her got her arrested.

You are making so many assumptions without an iota of fact to back it up. I am only relying on the story as presented and not adding "jara" to justify any bias. So if you can FACTUALLY confirm that she was served court papers and she evaded summons or refused to appear in court before the police jumped in to effect arrest like SWAT team, then point us to the link.

Abeg which fact am I being economical with with? The fact presented or the facts you assume I have been privy to. You make an awful lots of assumptions.

There is a democratic way to seek redress in a democratic state and its certainly not rambo style. You go to court, you are presented with an opportunity to defend your claims, if you are asked to pay damages as determined by the courts to the plaintiff. The police is not involved at all, except the person refuse to appear to a valid court summon, thereby the court issues a bench warrant.

It's only in dictatorship or quasi-democracy that that a citizen can be arrested and jailed for insulting the first lady or a "big" man.

fkj950ax:
She is not a defenseless lady. If you live in glass house, don't throw stone. Even in Nigeria, if you cant afford a lawyer, the State DPP provides you a lawyer. If Erisco legal team proved shes a flight risk, she might be remanded. The question is what did her legal team do? I am sure she was probably served or invited for questioning and probably ignored or try to evade, before she had to be picked up.
Her post is online, not in Lagos or wherever she resides. If Erisco HQ is based in Abuja and they filed in Abuja, she will be taken to the said Abuja.

You are only making all these statements based on social media sentiments.

She might have been unable to perfect her bail conditions, and hence remanded in custody. There is nobody holding her incommunicado. If she has been charged to court by the police, she will be availed the option to bail pending the case. If she cant meet bail conditions, she will be held in custody LIKE EVERY OTHER PERSON.

You can voice your opinion all you like, but you cannot destroy another person or business with your opinion and expect people to allow you a free pass.

Imagine if her opinion (or product review as you all call it) leads to boycott of Erisco products, and the company goes bankrupt because its unable to meet its financial obligations to staff, vendors, banks, investors etc

Erisco is exercising its full rights under a democratic system, which you dont seem to understand. She has a right to go on FB and spread unfounded information, and Erisco has a right to legally go after her claims since they know those claims are false.
If the product is sent to a Lab and a food tech scientist comes back with a report there is no sugar in the product, she has the onus to prove there is sugar in the product.
She also said the products have killed people; she has the onus to prove that there are indeed people (provide a list of names and dates) thats have been killed by the product.

The only dangerous path is people thinking social media is their beer parlor gathering and can say anything they want. She made a review filled with false information and claimed the product killed people. That is ALL the proof of malicious intent Erisco needs. Even if its a review she made (I wonder who sent her), she cant make a negative and damning review based on falsehood and say there was no malice.

Social media and or free speech or personal opinion CANNOT REPLACE going after people for LIBEL, when it has the potential to harm another or destroy a business entity.

There is no dictatorship in this matter. She beat the drum, she should tie wrapper and dance to the beats.

You still fail to realize thar this is a civil matter and not a criminal one. So where does the flight risk come in? All these things you are talking about, ie flight risk, bail, remand, etc are criminal cases. Libel is basically a civil offence which penalty is mostly fines and damages, and not actual jail time, unless there are other issues attached like contempt of court or failure to pay the fines.
In the US Fox news was asked to pay Dominion $700 million for defaming their electoral machines. No one went to Jail, not even Tucker Carlson. No one was detained, no one was questioned by police.

It seems you don't under stand how democracy works.

yommen:
Guy, how did you conclude that it's sponsored? It's a product review and it should be looked into! By the time the company is forced to pay damages, unna go know. Moreso, I observed the police is just a messenger of the rich instead of being the custodian of the constitution. I hope she was only invited for questioning and not put behind the bars.

She should not even be invited for questioning because its not a criminal offence. If the company felt its reputation had been damaged, the worst they can do is sue her to court. Afterall, they have a legal department, the police should not have had a role in this.

fkj950ax:
The minimum is libel.
She has to show evidence of people killed by the product.
Secondly, if there is no sugar in the ingredients of the product, then she has to demonstrate where she found sugar and also, what the economic and financial implications of her statement is on the business.
There is freedom of speech, but it has its limit.
I hope her at her has money sha because the damages or out of court settlement will be beautiful

What you are suggesting is a very dangerous path - a descent into dictatorship, where people are arrested and locked up for voicing their opinions. This is only an opinion about a product, what then happens if you voice your opinion against the chairman itself? What about political office holders, what happens if you voice a negative opinion against a sitting governor or a sitting first lady? The person should be arrested, beaten and locked up for years?
It seems lots of Nigerians don't know the meaning of democracy and democratic governance. There is supposed to be freedom of expression and opinion under such system of governance, so unless it could be proven that the made the product review with malicious intent, she conmited no crime under the law. Even if she did it for some personal vendetta or gains, the case would be a civil case and not a criminal one that would warrant arrest and transfer to Abuja.

I am shocked some people are supporting this gross abuse of power on a defenseless lady.

gare:
Since you know so much tell us why they have refused to develop those properties

That's the perogative of the home governments. If they feel Abuja is safe enough and aligns with their commercial, diplomatic and strategic goals, they would build a befitting structure there.

In international relations you don't use threats and intimidation to deal with other countries, you employ diplomacy except of course you are as powerful as the US.

lascos912:
the company only have a right to sue her not to arrest her

Sue her for what exactly? She did not say the product was spoilt or poisoned, she only complained of too much sugar.
Customer reviews are part and parcel of marketing, some companies pay millions of naira to obtain customer reviews. Erisco should gave used this negative review to their marketing advantage (that is if what the lady said was false). They should have engaged her by stating the exact percentage of sugar in their product. Arresting her will bring negative publicity to the product and the company as a whole.

Except it can be proven that the lady had malicious intent, the case us dead on arrival.

Benwallt:
The sacking is very well in order. Evidence plenty so no need to explain

The sacking was in order but the upholding of Senators Akpabio's and Lawan's election was also in order, abi? Did Senators Senators Akpabio's and Lawan's participate in their primary elections?

emmy512:
This lands have been allocated a long time ago, and it was agreed that is should be developed within a certain period.

In my village sometime in 2014 I got land for just 250k at a nice area developing and was told I had to develop within 1 years or else loose it

Same thing goes

That kind of agreement is not really practicable. It is fraught with complexities. What is the definition of development? Is putting up a fence considered development? Is building a gate house development or it includes building to foundation level or roof level? If you build to lintel level and leave it for 20 years thereafter, will they still seize your land and resell it without compensation? These issues are legally complex, but Nigerians don't take these issues to court because they don't trust the courts and the judicial system.

Having said that, embassies are a different ball game. Once a land has been bought or allocated to a country's foreign mission, it become the property of the home government, you can revoke such land without diplomatic backlash.

emmy512:
How is wike chasing them away.
He's only revoking their c of o and giving it to someone else willing to develop the land.the embassies can still remain and keep renting since that's what they want

Are you aware that these countries can also revoke the C of O of the land where our own embassies are situated in their countries if the want to follow the diplomatic practic of tit for tat?

gare:
Don't mind the Dundee, will those embassy tolerated that in their countries.

The agreement they signed when they got that land is clearly spelt out, so why are we crying more than the bereaved. They know they have deflauted.

Agreement diplomatic missions have signed? Gosh there is too much ignorance flying around here.

ceejayluv:
Oya na, let's start by enforcing existing laws na.

How many laws are being enforced in Nigeria? Are the appropriation laws we pass each year being enforced? Are Nigerians rights to protection of live and property bring enforced? Are Judgements against governments - both state and federal being enforced?

So it's only supposed law forcing embassies to develop land allocated that pains you.

So what happens if they don't develop these land within 3 months? The worst the FG would do is revoke the allocations. Then when these countries start a tit for tat response (as that is the diplomatic tradition), who will suffer most. Besides, if these countries actually really need to build an embassy, they can buy any land they wish. Most of them give Nigeria more aid than the cost of the land.

Let me inform you that in international relations your country's laws to not apply to foreign embassies. They mainly operate under international law. That is why you cannot arrest a vehicle with diplomatic number even if they break traffic laws.

EXOUSIAng:
So is this your valid reason for allowing embassies to disrespect us?
Are you thinking?

How are embassies disrespecting US? By not immediately building their Abuja office as ordered by Wike?
If you say foreign embassies are disrespecting Nigerians with the way they treat us as shit when applying for visa, I will concur. If you say they are disrespecting us by not having at least once office in the East/Niger delta (barring security concerns), I will agree.
If you even say they are disrespecting us by charging exorbitant fees for visa and then not refunding unsuccessful visa applications, I will totally agree. But to say they are disrespecting is just because they are refusing to develop lands allocated to them as ordered by emperor wike, I think you have your priorities wrong.

jimade:
Is this a genuine reason for the so called foreign country to disrespect your country and constitution?

So you mean embassies choosing where and when to situate and operate their own offices is now against the Nigerian constitution? You guys say absurd things just to defend the politicians you support.
Israel had been asking foreign governments to move their main embassies to Jerusalem for decades, it took diplomacy under president trump for the US andba few countries to move their embassies from Telaviv to Jerusalem.

Thomas464:
Now, the question I want to ask is, who allocated those to the embassies?
Am sure they won't just get land allocation any how without the government's approval.
Am pretty sure some of these cases would end up in court.
Wike is forming busy body. Am sure there're countless projects in Abj other than trying to revoke lands up and down and looking for properties to destroy because it's still the same government that sold these lands

The land had been allocated to these embassies for over 20 years. Most embassies have refused to move to Abuja due to security and infrastructural concerns. Ordinary Abuja airport has been a mess.

The embassies had been threatened many times since the days of Obasanjo to move their operations. Some embassies opened Council office in Abuja mostly in rented houses, but still maintain their main office in Lagos.

As I said this should be a diplomatic issue and not a gra gra issue like Wike is doing. Its just not feasible for foreign governments to start building their Abuja office under 3 months because of Wike"s threats. Besides, I dont think its diplomatically possible to just revoke lands already allocated to a foreign government for their embassy.

Eteka1:
The Laws of the FCT prohibits leaving land undeveloped for specific period after purchase. Laws are meant to be obeyed/implemented. Wike didn't enact those Laws I guess.

So what happens if no one develops the land? Will the FCT develop it? Will the FCT refund the money paid to purchase the land before reallocating it to another person?

Such laws should be challenged in court only if Judgements can be won and executed against governments in the Nigerian judicial system.

It's like a Law mandating a groom to consumate the marriage after paying the bride price else the bride will be forfeited back to the parents.

EXOUSIAng:
This your slavery mentality will destroy you.
Those same countries will kick you out if you don't comply with their standards in their own countries, was it not small Ghana that kicked us out of our embassy in GH some years ago.
You want to be respected in their country but you can't even respect yourself in your country.
I pains me when Nigerian talk the way you talk.
So it's okay for them not to follow our rules here in our capital.
If I dey near you right now I fit slap you, I dey easily get irritated by people with lowself esteem

You carry a Nigeria passport and your are talking about low esteem. Nigeria has one of the lowest if not the lowest esteem in the world right now. Ghanaian and Benin Republic passport has more esteem than nigerian passport. My wife's friend spent lots of money and effort to get a Benin Republic passport last year, because Benin republic passport has far more esteem than Nigeria passport.

cutepaul:
How can u send back some one that isn't present.....lands have been allocated to them....but they're yet to develop the land.......this gives them an ultimatum to start building........ basically still investing...I don't think it's a bad idea....unless there's more to it than meets the eye....Naija way

It's a bad idea. You can't force people to develop lands they bought legally with their own money. Its not even legal. You are not in their pockets. A sane government should provide incentives like loans, mortgages, grants, etc, to developers, if they are desperate for rapid development of a place. Dubai did not force developers and foreign investors to develop Dubai within 30 years.

Eteka1:
Do you think you can buy a plot and leave it fallow and undeveloped in the center of Washington DC? The authorities there won't permit that for sure. Hence Wike is doing the right thing.

You guys are simply ignorant on how cities, communities or countries evolve. You can't force people to develop a place. Development happens naturally when incentives are available. No one force or threatened anybody for Lagos to develop and continue developing at a rapid rate. If there is first and foremost security, followed by infrastructure and finally economic opportunities, development would come whether you like it or not. How can people rush in to develop Abuja when it is surrounded by Fulani Herdmen, Boko Haram and other terrorist groups. I hear you cannot travel outside Abuja city centre without the fear of being kidnapped. If you think all these gra gra Wike is doing will actually help Abuja develop, then you are highly mistaken. Mallam El Rufai did something similar, he huffed and puffed, be threatened embassies, he revoked and reallocated thousands of plots (mostly to his cronies), what happened? Did that lead to people rushing to develop Abuja?

Abuja started dying socially and economically more than 10 years ago. Even most politicians leave Abuja on weekends and public holidays for Lagos and other socially and economically viable state capitals.
What's is the Ministry of Abuja doing to improve the security of Abuja? What are they doing in terms of incentives to improve the socio economical life of Abuja. All the minister of Abuja both past and present knows is allocation and revocation of lands, that's apart from demolition of peoples houses.
Maybe Abuja truly needs a governor that will have a stake in actually developing Abuja.

Ade1177:
Omo

That's just his 2 weeks salary ba

And he has been playing for how many years

52wks per Yr

Let's even say average of 200k per week

I'm sure he can buy another one

He doesn't need to buy a new one, the vehicle is most probably insured, so all repaires will be carried out at no additional cost to him. If the car is damaged beyond repairs, a new one will be issued still at to additional cost. Only his insurance premium will go higher.

ceejayluv:
Upon all the money they're siphoning from Visa applicants.

Are Nigerians being forced to apply for visas? Since you feel Nigerians are being siphoned by visa fees, the have the choice to stop applying for visas.

Not that I support the way the embassies and even foreign countries are treating Nigerians, but if we learn to stay in our country and develop it instead of trooping to foreign lands and start constituting nuisance, we would be treated better.
Also note that the embassies need to maintain their diplomatic staff and infrastructure. They pay their staff the same salary and allowances in as they would have been paid in their home country. They pay the same running cost as every other Nigerian business ie NEPA bill, fuel, generator, water, etc.

Dennisbulkan:
Average Nigerians like you are lawless & have no regard for rules & order. People like you are the reason Nigeria is a shithole. Nigeria can never progress with regressive Monkees like you in it.

You guys are talking about rules and order when you are talking about foreign embassies cum diplomatic relations with other countries? It seems you guys are ready to cut your nose to spite your face, just for political, tribal and other stupid sentimental reasons.
Now if the Canadian French and other embassies designated for revocation of their land decides to leave Nigeria, who will suffer the consequences? Not wike, not the political elites and definitely not president Tinubu, most of them including their children families and households already have Canadian, British, US, French, UAE, etc., passports. It is the ordinary Nigerians that wants to japa, do business or school in these countries that will suffer. Already ordinary Nigerians are banned/prevented from travelling to many countries of the world because of the green passport. If these countries should close their embassies, you and I would have to travel to Ghana (with all the inconveniences and cost) to obtain visas.
Thus the reason I support a law that would ban anyone with dual citizenship from becoming a president, Governor or minister. If wikes and his family have no where else to japa to they would be more responsible in making policies.

Such issues are handled diplomatically and not through threats and blackmail. The ministry of foreign affairs along with the president should be the ones engaging the country in building befitting embassies in Abuja, in order to improve diplomatic relations. Besides, such decisions as building embassies is taken by the home government and has to be appropriated. Wike can't possibly expect such budget to be approved, money released and construction started under 3 months.