₦airaland Forum

jmoore:
The government should open their own cable tv company. They should not meddle in the operation of a private company.

Well-said. What allowed the perceived "monopoly" political leaders feel DSTV and MTN etal enjoy other than the laziness and lack of focus/application of Subsaharan nations like Ghana, Nigeria etal who cannot have locally-run alternatives that will, at the very least, be as good as DSTV and MTN or better than them?

How many decades do we need to achieve what is standard across the world? Yet on a thread like this many will be talking ignorantly without seeing the big picture as pertains to our people and their place in the world where all nations are trying to be as self-sufficient as possible.

Does Trump tariff wars, which he is emboldened to prosecute because of the socio-economic importance of the USA, not teach us lessons about how we also must seek more control over considerations that affect how we live in our nation rather than rattling sabres at private firms like MTN and DSTV etal?

If we start a culture of setting price for private firms, espcially foreign ones, then the best will avoid Nigeria and we kill crucial free-market competition crucial for developing economies.

https://businesspost.ng/brands-products/fccpc-cant-fix-gotv-dstv-subscription-prices-for-multichoice-court/

The judge clarified that while the FCCPC has investigative powers under its Act, it lacks authority to fix or suspend prices without presidential delegation via a gazetted instrument.

“The power to fix prices is exclusively that of the President. Any decision taken without such delegation is a nullity,” he stated, stressing that Nigeria runs a free-market system, where providers like MultiChoice can set prices, and consumers can choose to accept or reject them.

Justice Omotosho found FCCPC’s directive to suspend MultiChoice’s price increase breached the company’s right to a fair hearing and appeared discriminatory, rejecting the agency’s claim of MultiChoice’s market dominance as untenable.

PulaPower:
Make them share the 1 term do 1 year each..

Lol. It would have to be one month each because Presidential wannabes yapa in the collision coalition of desperado seeking to depose PBAT.

Ikaeniyan0:
It seems she does not know there's no difference between Britain and Nigeria

Most things she does and says are a result of political compromises she has imposed on herself. Many are in her shoes.

I.e Brits by birth or naturalisation while Nigerian by origin. Many have even opted for the option of dual citizenship which Britain and Nigeria allow.

Most today, in her situation, simply see themselves as well-placed citizens of the world because of their powerful British passport and affiliation with one of the most well-regarded nation on Earth and their currently cool origin as Nigerians.

They don't claim to be one fiercely at the expense of ungraciouly rejecting or denigrating the other as Kemi does.

She is over-doing it trying to please her conservative Party peers who are not called conservatives for nothing.

The opinion of most today is similar to that of the author of the article below which is that Nigeria, while it is acknowledged she has problems, is now a place many can be proud to be affiliated with for the good her people are about while Kemi is in the minority always wishing to demonise Nigeria. For personal gains I must add.

https://trenchtrenchtrench.com/features/how-the-rise-of-british-nigerians-like-john-boyega-skepta-solved-my-identity-problem

HeyMeNot:
Self deception is the worst type of deception.
It doesn't change reality

Ultimately, it is her choice. Many are in her shoes who see themselves as Nigerian-Brits or British Nigerian, rather than insist on identifying as British entirely, so her mindset is her own.

One has to only look at Bukayo Saka, Anthony Joshua, Ademola Lukman etal who rep their Nigeriansess proudly to understand we are no longer in an age where being Nigerian is seen as a negative thing even if Badenoch tries too hard to make it seem like that.

Ishilove:
Vivica A. Fox, I know. Blac Chyna, I only know because of her affiliation with the Kardashians. I'm not too thrilled with this combo

You're right not to be too thrilled by it. Vivica Fox, na has-been who was never a respected name in Hollywood and only getting parts in D list movies these days.

Black China, hip-hop video vixen done good hoping to break into the movie world. Dem plenty these days making crossover moves from music to acting and even Quavo plus Offset from MIGOS have gotten TV/movie roles recently.

Anything with Vivica Fox and Blac China, as prominent names, na likely low budget made-for-tv type of movie .

NOETHNICITY:
Blac China japa from ninja many years ago the moment he had the opportunity.

Dude for don big well well now. Chose to be forgotten

Who are you talking about? I believe the article is talking about Black Chyna shown below. Not Black China wey "japa from ninja".

Cromagnon:
My bad
"him" meant northern leader or to lesser deny southern leader

You need some bites from north and south to win so you must speak to their ideology to some degree (I believe most ppl are socialist, North and South, black and white) lit hunger resets their brain to follow capitalists until they get spoiled and forget that govt starved them earlier and the cycle repeats

again my bad
So wore is inconsequential except I admire him demystifying the process of attempting to run for office

Look again to note I am precise with what I say. I did not tell you Nigerians in the South need capitalism or are definitively capitalist.

It is not for nothing I mentioned Socio-capitalism distinctly since I know it is different to capitalism and socialism.

Of course most human being want some form of beneficial intervention from the Government. That is why socio-capitalism (see below) is best for a developing nation like Nigeria in my opinion rather than the overtly capitalist system of governance or the Government-funded welfarist system that socialism is. With communism being even worse as socialism on steroid.

This is why communism, an extreme form of socialism, is virtually redundant in todays world since it is generally seen as unworkable given new challenges and how the world has evolved.

Whereas Northerners, with how they live, show that socialism, tending towards communism, is their preferred option.

The North is welfarist and socialist leaning. The South is socio-capitalist. Not really an issue to exhaust time over since it is proven reality.

Cromagnon:
He's trying to
It won't work
Britain have the north mega advantage and they will not vote for it and south down have enough votes to overule

Britain gets mentioned a lot but their control of Nigeria, to me, is more imagined than real.

Decentralisation of power and processes is inevitable because if we don't initiate it willingly and painlessly, then we will be forced to embrace it very painfully and damagingly for Nigeria and Nigerians.

No two ways about it. With security , as a convincing example, decentralisation of our police force, to account for State and regional peculiarities critical to crime fighting and keeping Nigerians safe, is non-negotiable because nothing else can work.


Definitely, greater decentralisation of power and processes is our inedible and unavoidable future. The only issue is the pace of it's delivery.

This Kemi likes dragging people unnecessarily. 57 is different to 61 majorly?

NOETHNICITY:
Are you serious right now?
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Lol. Very serious. He is not above average IMO.
He is no Chiwetel Ejiofor or David Oyelowo bro.

Goodlady:
The way ya party sef deal with Nigerians tough. We dey feel am wotowoto for Abuja.

You don't think deeper when summing up political calculations.
Tulumbu will rather give Weenkay more higher post. Hate him or love him he can reward loyalty. So Lamido is just using his political oblivion pain relief drugs.

Precisely. Lamido has been a bitter and disgruntled political commentator since leaving political office as Governor of Jigawa in 2015.

To note a worthless Nigerian politician simply look at those who offer Nigerians and their immediate jurisdiction nada , and do nothing of worth with their time, after leaving political office.

yarimo:
Busy body how is that your business? go and face your dead on arrival coalition

Lamido is never to be taken seriously. He has been nothing but a bitter and disgruntled politicians since leaving political office as Governor of Jigawa in 2015.

simplelad:
He's qualified for any role in Hollywood. He has the accent, body structure huge and tall wise. He has all what Hollywood wants in an actor.

Not every actor has to be like Dwayne Johnson (the Rock) in Hollywood. Many male winners of the Oscar, one of the highest acting accolade in the World, won for acting talent not looks. Actors like Tom Hanks, Anthony Hopkins etal.

Nothing wrong with being physically attractive in Hollywood, like Denzel Washington, but you should be able to act which Ninalowo can't. Sorry to say.

Cromagnon:
only violence can reduce centralisation

Tinubu is already doing it without violence. The only issue is that a greater degree of decentralisation is needed to include State/regional policing etc as Obtains in the USA.

Cromagnon:


Then why do they vote for him



So do south




Like which one
None of the governors or senators have ever complained about the socialism o




Do northerners not have capitalist businesses




All the south is begging oga





Not really

I'll take only question which proves everything I said and proves all your question simply shows you don't know what you should.

You ask why do they vote for him.

Getting 33,953 vote in 2019 election (while the winner Buhari got over 15 million votes) and 14,600 votes in 2023 (showing Sowore has become less desirable in the eyes of the electorate) amounts to "they voted for him" ba?

Fact check me on the above that proves Sowore, due to his political immaturity and lack of political nous/intellect is a turn off to the Nigerian electorate.

No need for me to bother with your other questions since you think 33k votes in 2019 and 14.6k votes in 2023, when other candidates to include Obi contesting for the first time in 2023 got several million votes, signifies electoral endorsement of Sowore..

Bobloco:
Kindly take your tribál bîgótry elsewhere

Lol. Because you own Nairaland ba?

silibaba:
Kwara Boi claiming Lagos

Wonders shall never end.

Igbos are more lagosian than other southwest states.

No Osu caste system or "Ebonyi is inferior" lunacy in us. Yoruba na Yoruba and we own all inch of the SW .

Likewise, as reasonable folks, we agree you own all corners of your SE and that is why we stay away from your region and the reason I have never set foot in any part Ala Igbo and unlikely to ever do so 😎

silibaba:
Kwara Boi claiming Lagos

Wonders shall never end.

Igbos are more lagosian than other southwest states.

Lol. Guilty conscience always troubling you covetous expansionists and usurpers. Did I mention any ethnic group?

Softmirror:
It seems you were eating fat from Jonathan's Administration. You are always very bitter. I don't know the state you are from but what did your governor achieve when Buhari was President.

Lol. Dude is bitterness personified bro 😅😂

Lol. Nothing further to add. Shehu Sani has said it all.

“No matter how bad things may seem now, know this — your brothers from the North failed you. And if they return to power, nothing will change. The problem is not Tinubu — it is our selfish Northern leaders who had power and wasted it,” he concluded.

Bobloco:
Lagos is filled to the brim; Abuja is the next destination.

Kindly spread this wonderful news aggressively to your five SE States.

I can contribute generously to any newspaper circular or adverts you wish to use to spread news of this new and wonderful destination for Igbos that is a million times better than Lagos. 😊😎

christistruth01:
We are absolutely delighted for Abuja

May be Lagos will finally be decongested

Gbamsolutely endorsed post. Please Nigerians from outside Lagos, start flocking to Abuja. Na beg we Lagosians beg Una.😎

lexy2014:
did you miss this part of the article or you read just the heading and wrote a long epistle based on the heading?

Bruv, I have told you many times not to quote me. I Won't dignify your obdurate mischief-making with a serious response. Never.

Godfullsam:
For your mind now, you have schooled my presidential candidate with your epistle.
Continue

Everyone except you know that a competent leader, irrespective of tribe or religion is more desirable.

Although this is not possible because of our divergence.

Just like you rightly put, Nigeria is made up of more than one countries lumped together.

Thank God we agree on this. You cannot make Britons live like Talibans or vice versa.

Not possible as both should not even attempt to be in the same nation which is akin to what 'One Nigeria' has always attempted to do with the collective failure of that redundant exercise now hurting us all badly today.

I bid you you a progressive and fruitful day Sir.

ElSudani:
The solution is a weakened center and more power to the states. If you want to run down your own state then the people will know where to take their grievances.

Absolutely. 💯% correct. That is the ultimate solution to all our woes. Not a search for one "meritoriously deployed" messiah, as we keep fooling ourselves Adeshina and NOI etal will be, when the solution is to allow people who are diverse, and wish to live differently, have autonomy over their own affairs.

They will fall and stumble but ultimately, as those with homogeneity of socio-economic ideas tend to do, will get it right as developed nations of the world have done.

Rotation between North and South is the only thing that will keep us going in the right direction till we get to the 'dream land' situation you highlight related to independence for States and regions. If we remove it then we are in trouble.

Nice article..a refreshing reminder to those who continue to romanticise the presidency of Year aAdua as if it is the best we have ever had.

Educating Nigerians on policies and governance is a serious task that must be done. Which records?

Yar'adua met a huge reserve left by OBJ at $43bn. He also came at a time when global oil prices were the highest at $147 per barrel. Due to high oil prices, our reserves peaked at $62bn in 2008.

He went on a socialist and welfarist approach and started reversing the gains of Obasanjo. First, he reversed the gradual elimination of the fuel subsidy by reducing the fuel price, and ended the deregulation of the sector by also reversing the sale of the refineries which today has become a monster we have to deal with.

Exactly the bolded above, from the excerpt in your post, is the point I make in the thread below where I argue power must be rotated between South and. North without anyone deluding themselves with rhetoric about "meritorious" best , wherever they come from, should lead Nigeria always.

https://www.nairaland.com/8491296/rotational-presidency-senseless-sowore#136352774

Any Northern President, meritoriously sound as he/she may be, is not leading Nigeria into a modern and developed age anytime soon because his/her people, addicted to welfarist 'throwback' communism, will not allow such.

The North that has hardly changed one bit, since independence, will allow a Northern President to insist firmly that socio-capitalism is what the entire Nigeria needs to thrive when his people love and and even fellow leaders are addicted to free government handouts as if it is an entitlement?

Northerners will simply smile and accept the directive of a Northern President who wishes to suggest family planning should be compulsory to prevent people having children they cannot afford to raise properly thereby causing huge and forever lingering problem for Nigeria?

Yar Adua did not positively impact even one alone of the fundamental reforms needed to put Nigeria on the path of becoming a developed Nation yet a people fond of redundant nostalgia continue to ignorantly deify him as " would have been the best ever if not for death".

No disrespect but Sowore is a political dullard and this is the reason most Nigerians lost respect for him massively.

I don't do political correctness and make bold to say rotation between North and South must be sacrosanct because of the reality of Nigeria, and how her region and people prefer to live, which means a Northern leader is unlikely to ever lead in ways that can satisfy Southerners and vice versa.

Sowore is not even smart enough to note the core North believes in a welfarist system of Governance, like throwback communism, where everything and everyone is sustained by Federal government funding.

Whereas most region of the South are socio-captalist in leaning.

With how fundamentalist a lot of Northerners are, no Northern leader will ever gain power to then be overtly socio-captalist. He/she will never be allowed to lead in that way by Northerners.

Similarly, and by inclination, no Southern leader can force begging-bowl communism on most Southerners who believe in competitively bettering themselves, with education and "japa" plus business ownership etal, to thrive and gain the best things life has to offer.

We have essentially two very different and ideological dissimilar nation joined together like Israel and Iran for example where Ayatollah cannot lead Israel and Netinyahu cannot make decisions for Iranians.

Meaning it is best for power to rotate between North and South in Nigeria so both region get what they want till evolution does the rest to get all regions to independently attain the lives they wish to live.

Sowore is just a glorified student Union leader and unintelligent populist who believes politically correct rhetoric makes him a more desirable leadership candidate. Nothing more.

He should go and have a conversation with the Hausa man below to see if he can convince him that Northerners will allow a "meritoriously competent" Northern leader to transform Nigeria as Southerners will want considering the animosity he encountered trying to get Northern leaders to see the need to educate and train Northern kids , with STEM, to develop the North.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEczxfZ1s7Q?si=2z__5G_UYllBb57d

Lol. This is comical frankly. One of my arms is bigger than the rented "bodyguard" standing as the Abdulazeez character alights from the vehicle in the second picture.

A lot of Nigerians are just naturally deceptive people who have perfected the art of 'packaging' to deceive others they are this and that whereas they are actually nothing of substance.

Their private reality is very different to what they want the world to believe. We are a people who revel in deceiving one another thinking such makes us smart and others 'mumus'.

Kukutente23:
How old are you pls
You think FMBN just started existing?
The delusions of agbadoites sha
FMBN of since 50s

Lol. You need to understand others are not as ignorant as you. I am talking about the expanded and integrated home ownership initiative of the PBAT Government that includes, for example ,the MREIF scheme created by Wale Edun.

Crystal clear some of you are proudly and incorrigibly dedicated to remaining unprogressive naysayers.

https://www.arm.com.ng/mreif-about-mreif/

About MREIF
The Ministry of Finance Incorporated Real Estate Investment Fund (MREIF) is a bold public-private initiative introduced under President Bola Tinubu’s administration, with strategic direction from the Honourable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun.

Established to tackle Nigeria’s housing deficit, MREIF provides affordable, long-term mortgage financing for aspiring homeowners while offering off-take guarantees to encourage real estate development.

Backed by the Federal Government through the Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOFI) and managed by ARM Investment Managers, the fund fosters strong collaboration between public and private sector players to drive inclusive economic growth, generate employment, and boost activity in the housing and construction industries.

MREIF also supports global sustainability goals by advancing equitable and accessible housing solutions for Nigerians.

Reference:
This is the same excuses.
Okay. No problem. Mr President needs years or decades or centuries to fix a failed embassy system.

Now I hope those who are angling for office in 2027 hear this and begin to prepare plans for dealing with problems of office now. And with the same vigour the expend to make campaign promises.

Because this country is tired of electing people who are not prepared. Who are experts at winning elections but juvenile at the essence of governance.

I did not say that and you are being clever by half. I made it clear, with previous posts, that paucity of funds combined with an overwhelming number of serious problems, caused by the inactions of previous Presidents sincere 1999, means there must be an order of priority for tackling problems according to severity.

I have not said this issue raised should not be tackled. My point, again, remains that this Government, more than others, has tackled a lot of fundamental problems bedevilling Nigeria meaning the overarching positive results should be that Nigeria will not face the issue highlighted here in the near future.

What is clear to objective People is that you cannot use one identified problem alone to dismiss a Government , as many are doing here, while deliberately feigning ignorance of the many solutions said Government is delivering that means even the problem you are banging on about has a good chance of being resolved soon.

All problems cannot gain solutions at once. Not possible Sir.

Blackdisciple:
E be like say na small pikin sef oo

She likely is a "small pikin". Kemi Badenoch , and I don't agree with majority of her utterances and antics, made a 'loaded' statement when she claimed Nigerian leaders are "dream killers".

Non more so than Northern leaders because many children born in Northern Nigeria today have had their future destroyed before it can even begin.

They face this tragic problem, horrendous to witness, yet Bashir El Rufai, a young Northern leader meant to be the face of reform and a brighter future, is online bragging to "unalive" a Nigerian he felt insulted his mother.

This is the tragedy of unfocused, fundamentalist , feudal and wicked leadership blighting the North that continues to insist her political leaders are best-placed to lead Nigeria alway.

Whereas the core North (fact check me on this) is the worst example of how human beings should exist globally courtesy of Northern leaders who have failed this young lady and will continue failing millions of her kind they view as collateral damage for their many and varied nefarious agendas.

Anyone who truly understands the North will know this young lady, that actually looks like a child Nigerian society is obligated to protect and elevate, is nothing but a victim.

It will be difficult for Nigeria to rise and be great when we host regions, the North and SE precisely, that revel in doing wrong yet keep pressing the neck of all other Nigerian regions and people.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEczxfZ1s7Q?si=WHFaz1-CGgkwPqqJ