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@OP.

Desperate Obi is banking on the antics of his lunatic Obidients as usual lol. As if the entire world is now not aware of their madness.

Whether it is in ADC, Atiku's own 'vehicle he is paying loads to be sole driver of, or in Lagos and even Federal level, folks now anticipate and prepare for the 'craze' of Obi and his Obidients.

Validated:
Just imagine this failure:
1. Economy: Failure
2. Security: Failure
3 Healthcare: Failure
4. Housing/Shelter: Failure
5. Food security: Failure
6. Electricity: Failure
7. Roads: Failure
8. Education: Failure
9. Anti-corruption: Failure
10. Portable water: Failure
11. Industrialization: Failure
Etc, etc

Lol. Frustrated Obidient wakes up and first thing that comes to his mind is "Tinubu must be voted out".

Is that your uncle , below, demanding rescue and repeatedly shouting "Obidients, Obidient, Obidients" ?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9XS6Jm1-vQ?si=oWzwdA3PtkusXLn-

LegendHero:
So cultists are emboldened now to be shooting sporadically? They suppose shoot them on sight too.

It can and does happen. Anywhere in the world for that matter.

Yet Lagos deserves credit for it's relatively high crime detection rate , in comparison to others States, that puts her on a different level.

Orlandoo:
We can now conclude that Nigeria is beyond redemption. Imagine what a governor that was 'voted' by the people is asking of someone that her office is not in the constitution.

He was speaking and acting jocularly to entertain the audience and not being serious. Why are most of you so joyless, bitter and humourless?

Does the except below not show even a child that the Governor was speaking humorously? Most of you must be so stuffy and grumpy in real life.

Mutfwang further stressed, “Before my younger brother, the APC National Chairman Prof Nentawe Yilwatda, publicly offered himself as the First Son of President Tinubu, I had already applied to have her as my mother.

chiagozien:
South West is gone, from kwara to Lagos.




Where is next?

Firstly, is Kwara in the SW even as you are willing to ignore facts to insinuate it is just to shade Yorubas?

Secondly, if SW, the safest region of Nigeria, is gone then kindly tell us which region is "not gone". Your SE region ba?

Bitterness and hate towards others will consume you.

CharlotteFlair:
My problem is that there would not be any investigation and those named above may not be responsible for the crime.

They arrest quickly, with guns, ammo and phones etal seized from suspect, and you still say "those named above may not be responsible for the crime".

If they don't arrest after a week same you will be shouting "Lagos is gone" and "Sanwo Olu is a failure" exactly as you are accusing Wike of failinf over insecurity in the FCT. There is no pleasing you negative, unprogressive and joyless Nigerians.

You must always talk negatively and think the worst rather than praise what appears commendable. The arrest was made with seizure of what amounts to good evidence. Especially phones.

Yet you still chose to write the bolded, and even state that there will not be an investigation as if sure of that claim, rather than give the police the benefit of the doubt for what appears an excellent job of taking killer of our street. Na real wa for some of you.

Tribalism has finished Nigeria. If not, most posters would not have missed what is most crucial about this news.


Crime happened on Saturday. Five assailants. We are reading this Monday evening to note five assailants are in custody with multiple items of evidence discovered where they were arrested like guns, ammo, phones etc .

Where else is this happening in Nigeria right now? I.e near instant arrest of killers and perps of serious crime? This is huge credit to Lagos and how she is far ahead of all other States in Nigeria in terms of policing and crime detection.

An example of this is how the first DNA centre for crime fighting in West Africa was inaugurated by Fashola in CMS and burnt down during #EndSARS.

The past week alone we have read of many fatal attacks across Nigeria. How many have seen arrest? The attack on the Abuja residence of the news anchor, that led to her death and another fatality, happened before this incidence in Ojo.

She is fairly prominent as well to the extent Obi paid a condolence visit to Arise TV where she had worked. Any arrest yet? No. There may never be any.

Kwara, killings upon killings and killers are like ghosts. Let's not even talk of the North where perps, from kidnappers to bandits and terrorist, never ever get arrested.

This is how Nigeria is going and why Lagos has to be rated highly as a place still maintaining the highest standard in everything from security to Cosmopolitan city energy.

This news simply shows that all genuine Lagosians, whatever their ethnicity, should be proud of Lagos. Serious and fatal crime will happen always anywhere worldwide.

What is condemnable with Nigeria is that detection rate for very heinous crime, that should prompt our police force to work extra hard to take the animals responsible off the streets, is poor in most States and regions of Nigeria.

Huge credit to Lagos she is different and setting the standards others must follow.

What people do not plan for is the fact that plane cabin pressure can affect the very elderly adversely. Especially those who are ill as this man was. RIP. Early 80ties is not a tragedy.

FarahAideed:
I pray they make it a regular circuit , this was a great boost to Lagos Tourism

Is your GPS or google map malfunctioning? What are you doing in this thread? The doom and gloom thread is elsewhere. You must have taken the wrong turn lol.

madridguy:
I am proud of what we achieved this weekend and even more confident about the future we are building for Lagos.

Lagos is already a nation-State in Africa with respect and lofty status beyond Nigeria courtesy of the master planning of PBAT. 💯% fact.

The best from Nigeria aside Lagos,i.e Abuja, cannot talk where Lagos is talking .Covetous and envious haters can go and drink Lagoon water.

fasho01:
If you like, promise to deport one million people in a day for the next 10 years, you will never be made prime minister as you are seen as an immigrant yourself

Sunak, of Indian Origin, has already become Prime Minister. Britain has crossed that threshold Bro.

Not a fan of Kemi but she can become Prime Minister as a wider and more desperate strategy of the conservatives to return to power.

Finquas:
The British Govt and true Britons will do themselves a whole lot of favor by bundling kemi badenoch and deport her to her country Nigeria

They can't deport their favourite 'coon'. She says what the white hoity-toity and pretentious members of the conservative Party cannot.

Elusive001:
But you are happy when your president destabilises other political parties. You call it politics abi?

You do not blame the people who accept money to destabilise their country? What's your proof that they are the ones destabilising the countries?

Get sense and stop the whining. Tinubu's political strategizing, perfectly allowed and actually deployed worldwide, is comparable to the destruction of sovereign nations, by external forces, how?

Giving incentives for Nigerian politicians to join APC would only be viewed as Tinubu "destabilises other political Parties" by those , like you, who believe politics is about making it easy for your opponents to defeat you while serving them tea and biscuits as they remove you from office.

madridguy:
Kemi is just saying everything to have her way She needs to calm down and let the migrants breathe.

Truth is that being anti-immigration is a top vote winner worldwide as immigrants are being vilified as responsible for the economic downturn many developed nations are currently facing.

Kemi Badenoch's appeal is that she is black and can therefore say things , or prosecute policies, against immigrant her white peers cannot for fear of being labelled racist.

She may actually get to number 10 by being the ace anti-immigration card the Conservative gamble on against Nigel Farage who continues to go from strength to strength with his anti-immigration stance.

Not unexpected from desperado Badenoch. Anti-immigration sentiments are running high in developed nation, as Countries of the world generally become more economically troubled, to the extent many leaders view pledges of deportation of immigrants, and preventing more coming in, as vote winning strategy.

If only Africans, leaders and followers, can open their eyes and apply themselves diligently. We have far more to assist us become greater than these nations we are fleeing to only to face humiliation there.

Myopically inordinate greed, crude attachment to materialism and shallowness of character is really destroying Africa God has blessed abundantly.

BATified2023:
at least he tried unlike Peter obi who always run away from his problem n always blame opposition.

If it were obi, he will still b blaming opposition till now n the problem will persist

Don't even indulge his attempt to mischievously speak in parables.

Ask him to prove his allegations because all logical and critical-thinking folks will wonder how a President who insisted subsidy was gone foe good virtually from his first day in office, whereas Presidents before him used the scam element of it to amass massive wealth fro themselves and their acolytes, can be viewed as anything else other than a leader who means well for Nigeria and Nigerians.

Did Otedola not confess, with GEJ yet to refute the claim, that he warned the then President Goodluck Jonathan that subsidy was a huge and debilitating scam against Nigeria?

The reality is that all Presidents from OBJ to Buhari, knew subsidy was bad for the Nigerian economy and literally an act of self-sabotage destroying us.

Yet, as soon as they come into office and their acolytes convinced them subsidy is a source of literally billions of free dollars, they retain it and continue the scam.

Tinubu was never tempted and turned his back on it from day one. We are to believe such a man has ulterior motives and does not mean well for Nigeria yet argue, with a straight face, that Obasanjo, Yar Adua , GEJ and Buhari did?

Even worst was Buhari in power for 8 years and could not remove subsidy yet shifted the burden onto Tinubu, perhaps as a trap even, by making sure subsidy allocation was removed from the budget his government crafted yet Tinubu's government had to implement.

We know the truth the facts and realities of Nigeria reveal to us that bigots who hate Tinubu, because of his ethno-religious origin, cannot discredit.

FarahAideed:
So you really beleive he stepped in good faith? Hahaha

Lol. Not surprised this statement came from you. If you feel Tinubu had any sinister motivation for stepping in, other than doing so in the interest of what is best for Nigeria and Nigerians , then prove your allegations.

The onus of proof is one he who alleges.

LagosOrigin:
They are all the same in criminality. No tribe is in exception . Wether you're benue, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa or Benin , they are the same in that house if assembly.

You sure you don't have fever-induced delirium from Malaria? This one you indict Igbo as well is surely a first from you. Maybe you are not beyond redemption afterall.

@topic.

We can all see the legislator is a 'youth'. If the allegation is true, is $150 million US dollars he demanded not ridiculously excessive and perhaps proof, as some insist, young Nigerians are greedier and more brazen crooks than the older generation they are always condemning?

Krankhead:
Who tells you she is successful. How much is her salary

By Nigerian standard, I believe she is. I believe news anchors get up to slightly under 400k monthly in Nigeria. That is good money in comparison to what most Nigerians earn.

Aside being a qualified lawyer she even recently obtained additional qualification in politics and governance.

She also writes for several platdorms on lifestyle, fashions, beauty and women empowerment. Well, she is successful to me sha.

FarahAideed:
Neither has yours so rest ...no where in Nigeria can be said to be developed,

But the freedom, more and more, is now arriving for us to change that reality yet you refuse to discuss that in preference for doom-mongering.

As Trump said to Netanyahu, out of annoyance and exasperation, "you're always so f***ing negative".

The reason is clear in your case. You're not progressive or patriotic and therefore abhors good news about Nigeria and your fellow Nigerians.

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naptu2:
This is also why I always post links to previous threads (as I did on the first page of this thread) because they tell the whole story. I can't repeat every single detail every time, but a click on those links would provide the entire story.

Welldone and the correct thing to do. It is similar to what AI does because below every collated set of information, AI even quotes precise sources users can refer to.

After all is said and done, most Nigerians do not like reading or doing research. They will tell you smugly "who dat one help" or "how does that affect cost of Kpomo and garri".

Yet they will be annoyingly asking questions, they can get answers for, as if any here is their teacher.

Very irresponsible and, to me, the reason Nigeria is full of a greater amount of its people being part of the problem rather than the solution.

To discern and devise a solution for a problem, good knowledge of the problem is key. Never ignorance.

Stenciakels:
is just mere name replacement. Eko is Excel while Ikeja is IE.

Folake Soetan
CEO, Ikeja Electric

Sheri Adegbenro
Chief Audit Executive at Eko Electricity Distribution Company

Correct and Lagos has explained this was coming even weeks ago. See below. I am still surprised some cannot harness the power of AI to become quickly informed and even financially successful. From simply gaining guiding info quickly to creating powerful feasibility report and detailed new business profit forecasting, perhaps to secure start-up loan, AI can do it virtually instantly.

As with below, AI saves time literally 'stitching' together and summarising all that has been reported about an issue together quickly and efficiently while references sources.

FarahAideed:
Because it's the former capital city and commercial capital of Nigeria

Oga Sir, find better and more intelligent excuses that will hide your palpable bigotry. In case you don't know it, the power sector is now fully regulated meaning how and with which individuals any State crafts it's power solution is not your business.

What has now happened is that every State is free to devise it's own power solution working with any model, companies and individuals.

The beauty of this is that, at State level, we all swim or sink through our own competence, focus and ambition or lack thereof respectively.

It is time for every State to get to work and not be looking over the fence at what other States are doing/not doing.

naptu2:
Can you believe that there are people that are waiting for me to spoonfeed them and if I don't spoonfeed them, they'll just go ahead and make something up (something that they do not know and have no evidence of)?

Isn't that wonderful?

Thats how Nigerians roll. Many do not like to read and are definitive of the saying "if you want to hide something from a black man keep it in a book".

Write more than 6 line and it is an"epistle" giving them a headache because they'd rather scroll tik tok, you dont engage your brain doing, than enjoy the joy of reading for fun, research, finding specific solutions or to become more knowledgeable.

walexbiz:
Naturally I don't respond to post like this, but when the oppressor begins to play the victim cards it only worsens the situation.

Most of this discos are fraudulent, and because the government of the day relish in fraud they parley to extort ordinary Nigerians of their hard earn money.

A private entity like they want us to believe it is, the customer buys prepaid meter, pays for repair and maintenance of their equipment and yet you paint Nigerians as criminals when the real criminals are the discos.

You said Nigeria government is subsidizing the disco, yet every month Nigerians are been threatened to pay or get disconnected, while most are having less than 10 hours of electricity supply daily and most of their bills have humongous existing debt on it.

If a proper audit of their account is carried out it will show discos are just having a field with Nigerians while painting themselves as victims.

Yes DISCOs, under GEJ (who sold them into incompetent hands to begin with) and Buhari were not performing optionally.

Even accounting for the fundamental lack of capacity of some, part of the problem was that DISCOs would not or could not (under GEJ and Buhari) reveal the truth which is that tariffs were too low and a disincentive to their ability to operate more productively.

Same way previous Government failed to tackle subsidy removal preferring to endure with it rather do what is best and needed and then face the wreath of Nigeria.

You may simplistically view this as the bolded in your post reveal but the problem is much bigger than you present it.

Do you know that the Nigerian government owe distribution companies trillions, meaning several were operating as if a charity, or do you believe the whole thing is a contrived scam between the Nigerian Government and DISCos to "extort ordinary Nigerians"?

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/777339-nigerias-govt-owes-generation-distribution-companies-n4-trillion-debt.html

So amusing you give credit for "extortion of ordinary Nigerians" consideration many don't pay anything for power they use and 'tap' free especially in regions like the North.

Equally amusing is how Nigerians present the oxymoronic statement that all the government do is "loot the tax payment of hardworking ordinary Nigerians" whereas the fact is that most Nigerians, especially in the huge informal sector, do not pay a kobo of tax.

Is it the many millions of market traders, spare part dealers, roadside Vulcanisers, mechanics, provisions shop owners etal who are the paying tax Government is "looting" ?

I am no apologist of Government but, unilke you and many, I know , as an objectively practical and realistic thinker, that the system is broken on both side. Not one only.

Simple question I want you to answer with facts. Assuming DISCOs are not "fraudulent" and the government of the day does not "relish in fraud they parley to extort ordinary Nigerians" do you believe Nigerians would enjoy 24/7 uninterrupted power supply based on current tariff rates Nigerians pay for power?

bionixs:
I pity this country. The majority of youth of this country are either dumb or working for stipend or crumbs, just to mask the truth and deceive the masses.

Just imagine some of the comments on this platform

Here we go again. Typical comment of those who condemn all, as if they know best, or they alone are right, yet they will never submit their own fact-backed opinion which is always the best way to engage other in discussions where national problems and possible solutions are being discussion.

Bro, you talk as you do because you know nothing and only prefer to sit in sanctimonious judgement of others to mask your lack of knowledge.

If not show you are not as "dumb" as you claim your fellow Nigerians are by presenting your own opinion on the problem,and possible solutions, for all to inspect.

Believeintruth:
.Nigeria has never ran a communism based system of government take am easy to dey lie. Nigeria has always been a mixed system of government. Also note that even the developed societies have some form of subsidy, so it is mischievous of you to even make that statement.

That communism is not explicitly referenced does discredit the reality it's principles features heavily in how successive previous Governments have run Nigeria via embracing State-sponsored subsidy of many important sectors.

It is only recently Nigeria has begun shifting towards greater deregulation everywhere and a shift towards a free market , private-sector empowered and competitive economy.

Has Dangote not proven that Nigeria would be much better off today if, for example, Obasanjo had aggressively empowered private refineries instead of his and other President's insistence on enduring with Government-owned refinery that then led to damaging payment of subsidy for decades?

The only difference is that nations of the world that practised communism did so openly in the belief it is best for them. Nigeria stumbled into it as a way for Government to scam people into subservient acceptance of their looting and inept leadership.

Believeintruth:
Stop referencing chat GPT because that is generative AI it is using to give you results which means it goes through online sources of information in a non constructive way hence the information it provides may not be necessarily accurate. That is why ChatGPT puts a disclaimer that it's results are for reference purposes and not a fact. So you cannot use ChatGPT results as fact.

It is referenced as a guide so people understand I am not supplying my own opinion alone. If you have your own different opinion then submit such to make your point.

Don't reduce your contribution to discrediting others alone. Contribute to the topic by adding your own solution-based viewpoint or even simply highlighting the problem as you believe it to be.

What you are doing is classically references by the saying below. I e small-minded focus on people rather than ideas.

Discuss the idea of the thread if you can and as others are doing rather than trying to discredit source of info others cite to back their viewpoint.

nairalanda1:
1. The problem is most Nigerians are poor. Also corruption which exists fuels a mistrust of government and of companies . Even when the implications of subsidy for all on a weak tax base is explained to Nigerians , meaning that at the end government would have to take hefty loans to sustain it, the poverty factor would make it harder to accept truth.

2. Your power minister has not done enough. He still keeps subsides and has not done enough on metering and on power theft. People still underpay and bypass their meters. And we are not having enough power. 5000-7000 mw out of an installed capacity of 13000 mw is not enough for 200 million people. Unless we had under 20 million like Ghana and ivory coast.

3. Splitting the country won't change facts. Most Nigerians support subsidies of any kind Under a system where we have Nigeria breaking up, the new countries are going to be made up of the same poor citizens who expect subsidies and who won't listen to any realistic economic explanations. See a thread yesterday about what Nigerians would do if they became president. Over one third talked about restoring subsidies on education and fuel . Lol, none of them talked about measure to improve productivity or even to use raw materials to make products for the global market.

If we want development we have to accept that things cost money. And that the road to development does not involve palliatives and free stuff. Harsh, but that is how china , Korea and Japan went from backwater nations to developed. But no politicans is going to campaign on that, talk less secessionist leader. Una wan lose support?

Agree with point 1. Point 2 is subjective. Sure Adelabu can do more but he has done best of all power Ministers , since 1999 in my opinion, considering the severe and organic challenges of the power sector that means more time and a lot more money is required to continue incremental gains in the sector.

With 3, we can agree to disagree because both of our divergent stances are personal opinion. To me only healthy and incentivised competition at regional level will accelerate the will of Nigerians to do the right things.

As things stand, we have created a Nigeria where sense of patriotism and pride in our nationhood is lost.

Those are needed for nations to thrive because they ensure citizens pull in the same progressive and productive direction.

We have the opposite of that in our nation with Nigerians pulling in different directions whereas in their regions, and leading themselves, all will shape up because they have existentialist challenges to conquer. No such stimulation exist with Nigeria currently and is unlikely to ever be seen.

You say, correct only for people like me and you, "we have to accept that things costs money" yet in your first sentence you conclude correctly "Nigerians are poor".

Marry the two statements and you will see they form a contradiction of reality because most Nigerians, very poor and ignorant of economic realities, as you and a relatively small number Nigerians know it, will never accept things cost money because they will automatically assume you are demanding more of the little they have. This is why we have the huge discontent over tariff increase.

They will continue to believe and insist everything will be fine bar corruption. They will argue it is corruption alone preventing 24/7 power supply and insist they should not have to pay more .

To me, it is only when you break Nigeria down into smaller and more efficient units that the realities of that system, I believe will be more efficient and 'honest' than the discredited 'one Nigeria' we currently utilise, can make Nigerians see, accept and work with our realities.

Realities such as the fact we are a very poor nation and that corruption is not our only issue etc, etc

Ttalk:
You don't have idea of what is happening in power sector. Government is not subsidizing power. What government is subsidizing is darkness.

Do you know how much institutions,companies, government agencies and parastatals budget annually for expected power outage?

If those monies were not budgeted don't you think it would have impacted on the cost of goods and services there by increasing the purchasing power of an average Nigerian to pay for increased power bills?

What many of you don't see is that our power sector is on the brink of collapse, not because of lack of fund but because of poor management that is shrouded in secrecy, the power sector is going the Nitel way, unless government quickly step in and reform the sector from generation down to the. DISCO.

Presently, the DISCOS are losing customers at alarming rate because of their poor performance, people will settle for alternative power that is reliable and constant.

This is why ASO Rock has shift to solar energy and companies like Dangote and other are generating their power, even academic institutions and religious institutions. This is how useless the power sector has become that the chunk of class where the bulk of revenue of the DISCO will come from are dumping their services for private supply.

Write this down, the whole chain of power supply will go down the drain in the next 10years unless the government quickly reform the sector

You missed my point completely. Of course I don't discount inefficiency and incompetence in the system merely because I did not speak on them specifically.

My point is that regardless of what is going on in the power sector, per numerous and connected considerations, the scarily substantial shortfall of money our Nigerian power sector needs is a very serious challenge.

The power sector is now fully deregulated yet States are dragging their feet. What they will not reveal is that many States may have approached qualified private companies for power solutions.

Yet cost of project completion, that will be collected in instalments by the Private sector partner to State Governments, and additional ROI (return on investment) added to that, makes State realize they cannot approve such and move forward as their people will not be able to pay the huge subsidy hike that will be needed, long term, to pay for the delivered solution.

It is a case of Nigeria falling so far behind, with severe underinvestment in her power sector for decades, such that the cost of modernisating and optimising our power supply sector today will be humongous and unfeasible to the extent Government , State or Federal, cannot even derive a fraction of what is need from the Nigerian public. That is the real conundrum.

nairalanda1:
Oga, let's end this your marxist jokes and commentary

At the moment, discos cannot raise prices on most of their consumers. Only on band A , and even then it is not up to 300 naira

As a result, disco profits are at 1trillion naira annually. That seems like a lot, until you realize that we need 10 trillion naira (I am quoting the experts by the way) annually to fix power to everyne's satisfaction.

Right now, less than 20% of consumers are paying market price tarrif, most are paying subsidized tarrif, and even those that pay subsidised tarrif, many underpay or don't pay at all.

Can you run a business where you are making profit from less than 20% of your consumers and losing money on the rest.

Call me oppressor, but what you are indirectly campainging for is for government to take loans to subsidize power. That is what the USSR was doing to keep the lights on at cheap prices, until their economy was in severe debt by the late 1980's. They were also guaranteeing subsides for their satellite nations and allies. And they were borrowing from the same imperial capitalist west.

Call me oppressor, but , and forget about tinubu and apc, I have known this since GEJ privatized power, and I wish he had had a backbone....and allowed deregulation...it is going to cost a lot of money to fix our power sector. And most of it is going to come from our pockets.

Or how did we get the GSM/Internet network that enables me to type this from home, instead of going to internet cafe back in the day...it wasn't by MTN and co charging N2 for subscription in 2003!

You're wasting your time with that guy he is an example of Nigerians who subsidy, communist-like weaponization of poverty in reality, has brainwashed, blinded and ruined.

An intellectual discussion he ought to read and learn from, he wades in ignorantly with the asinine contribution the named distribution companies must be linked to Tinubu.

They were in full flow on the thread below where I was one of a few to back Adelabu's Oyo State Governorship ambition because I similarly know and appreciate all you have stated to understand the man has innovatively done well to secure the improved power we are enjoying giving the intrinsic and virtually intractable challenges of the power supply sector many are ignorant leading to their assumption any Minister of power not giving them 24/7 power is a failure.

https://www.nairaland.com/8533184/2027-power-minister-adelabu-declares#137029139

Yet these are the same people you can never get to read and research to note what it will cost to effectively and optimally complete the chain of power supply i.e generation, transmission and distribution.

If they cared enough to read up on the challenges of the power sector they'd appreciate they are grossly ignorant thinking current tariff rates can ever give Nigeria optimal power supply let alone the amount they were paying before Adelabu that many were even refusing to remit in preference for 'joining wire' to tap free electricity.

This is why I personally feel Nigeria, with a people brainwashed by communist-like public subsidy of many sectors, would be better of under regional autonomy.

It is the only system to reset the minds and thinking of Nigerians and get them to understand that, in life, you get what you pay for. Work hard and innovatively to have more, and thus be able to pay more, and you will have good roads, good infrastructure, 24/7 electricity etal as developed nations enjoy.

Nigeria, because of its huge population and it's undiversified economy, is a poor nation. Much more money, than most realize, will be needed to turn around the most important sectors of Nigeria eg education, security, infrastructure, healthcare, power supply etc, etc.

That required money will not rain on us from the sky. It cannot just be printed, to then have desired effect, as Buhari and his crew believed.

The money to reform Nigeria has to come from Nigeria and Nigerians being more productive and greater wealth creators. Not going to happen under 'one Nigeria'.

madridguy:
Which subsidy again oga? Are we going to be paying more now for power?

The government is still subsidising power. Tariff increase reduces the subsidy element. The higher Nigerians pay for power the more subsidy reduces and power supply increases.

It's a catch 22 situation nairalander1 has done a good job explaining. The real cost of power supply is very high.

Much higher than a less than optimal.number of Nigerians are paying and still complaining. I can't blame them as they had been paying literally less than nothing trapping our power sector in inefficiency since it cannot meet the cost to improve power considerably let alone provide the 24/7 supply many nations of the world takes for granted

Meaning optimal power supply will remain a challenge because Nigerians don't like to pay for power and would want it free pretty much how they'd want everything else free if possible.

This is part of our general problem as a nation. Previous Government invented and sustained subsidy everywhere, deployed us as weaponized poverty, to make Nigerians addicted to living like a nation that has just come of out a ten years war without them appreciating that fact.

Nairalander1 even highlighted this with his talk of the communism , what Nigeria, was practising in all but words, hinting we were like the Old Soviet Union where Governemnt subsidized a lot it could not afford to do leading to debt and near State collapse. This is why many describe communism, that Nigeria has embraced till Tinubu took over, as "evil".

The President who now wishes to reform Nigeria in the image of developed nations where people pay the requisite amount to enjoy stable power, high quality education, efficient public transport etal is going to have a tough job on his hands.

This is because Nigerians, addicted to subsidy they do not realize is bad for them and even keeping them in underdevelopment and bondage compared to their peers worldwide, will call that President "terrible" and "worst ever" as we are seeing now.

To me, the only way forward is regional autonomy because communism has happened to Nigeria on the downlow and has now ruined many Nigerians by warping their perception and how they think.

Let's all go and lead ourselves at regional level. People should check out chatgpt's opinion with point 4 and 5 especially explaining why Nigeria is failing and why the ambition, healthy competition, incentivisation that produces innovation and hardworking, that develops nations optimally, is likely only ever going to happen under regional autonomy.