₦airaland Forum

Openyamind111:
Una sha must post something to proving mumu points. Lagos State alone dey generate wetin all of una combine dey generate…

Inxeed. That's why I said they deliberately leave out other relevant statistical info, such as IGR for example, to warp the narrative for those who can't think independently or do basic fact-finding research.

MarketDispatch:
Great news. I'm looking forward to the day Lagos state will allow Nigerians to build houses across the mainroad like this

Not everything seen elsewhere is good for Nigeria. Some nations like Japan and China, with paucity of space, have no choice but to find innovative solutions to accommodate many in small space.

This can lead to what is called the concrete jungle effect with loads of skyscrapers and tall structures to accommodate large population at the expense of aesthetic beauty and natural landscape taking in parks, green life etc.

Nigerian leaders simply need to lead well so population can be spread evenly across States of our nation that is large enough to accommodate us all and even stylishly in an architectural and town planning sense.


It is an aberration our smallest state Lagos host 23 million people yet Niger State, several times bigger, has a population of 7 million approx.

That picture you showed belongs to a nation that will do things differently, and in a more attractive gentrified manner, if she has the landmass Nigeria does.

Ideally, and as a preference of architecture and town planning, t is business and commercial districts that should have skyscrapers and not residential areas unless space is at a premium.in residential areas as well which is not the case with Nigeria if we think of the land mass of our States and FCT.

aworatak:
The states keep accumulating debts without anything to show for it. The one of the south west is quite troubling.
The blame lies on the so called lenders who advances loans to every tom dick and harry.

Debts are not necessarily bad if the benefits of it are good and the debtor has the capacity to pay it back comfortably.

OP is just being mischievous presenting figures, with no statistical breakdowns, he knows most will react to on account of size of amount owed alone.

The big picture is far more complex. For example, Lagos and Ogun owe a large stock of the debt of the SW.

This is why we need State or regional policing. Travel and tourism could be huge and a significant earner for the SW if security is very good аcross the entire region.

AKWATGOLD1:
Rotimi Amaechi, you are very correct on this statement unfortunately they will listen to the word of wisdom.

How is Amaechi correct? It is not a crime for a candidate to be difficult to defeat in his home State and region.

Amaechi is just showing his insecurity with this thinly-veiled attack against others because he is the only candidate , out of the most prominent, who lacks support in his State and region.

He is simply envious of the others and this is no different to him recently saying he should be favoured to emerge ADC flagbearer as the youngest of the prominent candidate when that talk is blatant age discrimination.

When will Amaechi learn to talk maturely instead of divsively and in a manner that polarises?

Every candidate will have their stronghold because of 'home support' but that is not enough to label them ethnic candidate.

Amaechi is just shouting because he knows he cannot even win his State let alone the SS.

Bahamas95:
I don't celebrate mediocrity, it's their duty to provide us with infrastructures.



Celebrating these things to me translates to them doing us a favour......All of them should getat!

That's not how to look at things. Commend positive development when you see it to encourage leaders to do more.

No one says you should throw a Party for Umahi but graciously appreciating his effort would be nice.

IkeOnyia:
What are they flying over there?

Easy and quick to find info and even videos that aids clarity. Key is having a knowledge-seeking and inquisitive mind instead of awaiting answers from others that you can get for yourself.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDf4EOgoUMo?si=I6HTgDk7Z_kDy13E

Buccalcavity2:
Ok we don gree. Subsidy removal didnt help. Ask your candidate to campaign to reverse it! Àbí! Mtchew mú mú things

One thing I have come to understand with Nigerians is that many, though conventionally educated, are mentally lazy. Highly so in fact.

They never take time to understand a problem to then note the correct solution to that problem and how it will work solving the problem to include operation and timeline

Xboss1:
This can’t be 042
Na Ibadan go b dis

Lol. Basic Ai is your friend and free to use.

lawani:
In today's world any section of the country can do what the North did in 1960. Give us the Presidency or we leave Nigeria. They are just not conscious.
Rotational Presidency is good because without it the NW and SW can continue monopolizing the Presidency but it must be fair and equitable too and if it is fair and equitable then the SW and NW will still have more slots than others. The North have to wake up and smell the coffee. They have nothing to bargain with. They need to have their own revenue and that is most important. There is no state in the North where IGR is more than allocations and that is very sad.

Indeed.

Sheuns:
Military rule isn’t counted. Those ones don’t send whosoever wins in democracy.

The same people that denied Abiola also booted out their own Shehu Shagari in 1983.

Our democracy started counting from 1999. Stick to that.

Okay. Let's stick to that. OBJ acted impeccably producing and backing Yar Adua to replace him in respect of the power rotation agreement.

Ask those who are knowledgeable and they will tell you Odili , who was close to OBJ, and other southerners wanted OBj to back them for the 2007 Presidency. Yet Obi insisted on Yar Adua.

Ditto Tinubu who was one of the first to insist GEJ be sworn in as substantive President while Yar Adua was comatose abroad. Fact check it.

Tinubu also supported GEJ tacitly to remain President in the 2011 election by deliberately failing to robustly support Ribadu, the ACN candidate, because of an agreement Jonathan should get another 4 years, making 5 years in total as substantive President using the slot of the North sure to the unfortunate demise of Yar Adua.

The South (through OBJ and Tinubu) has behaved honourably to give unto the North what belongs to the North

It is Atiku and his gang of born-to-rule Northern supremacists who do not give a damn about anything or anyone

It was only after Jonathan decided to be a sit-tight President, as many African Presidents turn out to be, that Tinubu stepped in to form APC and help Buhari win to restore the rotational agreement because 9 years for Jonathan would have destroyed the fragile peace and unity power rotation created.

saintopus:
The so-called insults and abuse by the Igbos came recently, the Yorubas has long since mastered the art of cursing, insulting and abusing since.
The Igbos just learnt it of recently and amplified it to the level it is presently.
The Yorubas can no longer match the Igbos in the cursing and abusing business.

Keep bragging myopically about unimportant issues. Being champions of curses and abuse has got you where exactly?

Today your region is famous for hosting indigenes keen to move permanently to the SW with negligible number of Yorubas viewing the SE as a viable option for economic migration.

You people will forever remain focused on the wrong things because emotions and prejudice prevents you seeing what matters most in life.

jmoore:
Did Tinubu respect power rotation?
Obasanjo from southwest became a president..So Tinubu should not have contested 2023 elections till other southern regions have produced theirs.

Silly argument. Many prominent Southern ethnic groups in the South aside Yorubas and Igbos. Edos can make a legitimate claim to the Southern Presidential slot. So too Ibibios etal.

One things you guys will never understand, because you are not reasonable, is that the turn of the South does not mean rotation exclusively between Yorubas and Igbos alone.

The turn of the South, even as Yorubas and Igbos may hold size advantage , can belong to any southern ethnic group that can forge alliances and build bridges better than others. Something you guys will never be competent at doing because of your megalomaniac nature and delusions you automatically deserve to dominate and lead others.

Watch, to prove my point, how Yorubas will support an SS candidate in 2039 to prove we have now matured to understand the meaning of aura for aura and energy for energy.

El Rufai, your new hero, said "hate begets hate". Using that analogy, what have you lot shown Yorubas to expect us back you blindly simply because you shout it is your turn?

The mature and pragmatic politics SS is playing today, you guys have never shown capacity for, will gain them mileage from us they can cash in on come 2039. May God spare all our lives till then.

DoTheNeedful:
I understand if you are asking this question as a Northerner. If you are not, then you must either be naive or silly!

Exactly. Does any sane Nigerian believe what the North did to Abiola and the South can happen to the North without Nigeria burning to the ground in a day via mass riot and pogrom-like killings of southerners the North would have embarked on?

Can the North accept what they did to Abiola, his wife and the South if the situation were reversed?

saddler:
Who established the Rotation?

What sort of question is that? Do you know the grave injustice done to the South via the rejection of Abiola's Presidential win simply because the born-to-rule and power obsessed North never wishes to relinquish power to the South?

Yet same North wants to continue gaining the benefit of being in nationhood with us while showing disregard for our critical and existential importance to Nigeria.

Name the method and you will find the North guilty of attempting to use such to remain in power. Military coups throughout the 80ties so they remain in charge and truncation of Abiola's win when Nigeria attempted to return to civilian democracy .

We even hear they allegedly tried to remove Tinubu via military coup while Atiku is doing same via civilian coup that cannot bode well for Nigeria.

The North has historically done grave injustice to the South and the rotation agreement was put in place to check their inordinate lust for power using anything (military coup, anarchy etal) that could put Nigeria in danger of balkanising violently.

saintopus:
Why did Tinubu not support Obi in 2023 knowing quite well that the SE is the only region yet to taste the presidency in the South?

At least for equity and justice!

Why should Tinubu support Igbos in 2023? Did any Igbo, individually or as a group, approach Tinubu amicably to seek his assistance?

How did Igbos go about their demand to "taste the Presidency"? With insults, blackmail, curses, large scale support for Kanu/IPOB and politics of hate/bitterness against Yorubas.

Any reasonable adult will agree rotation of power is between North and South. It is not Igbos alone who have not "tasted" power out of many ethnic groups of the South.

If Igbos wish to be the flagbearer during the slot of the South, they work and negotiate for it especially on the aspect of things related to bridge-building.

Blackmail, conflict, coups, war, insurrection, insults and threats, which is their historical default tool to seek what they want, will not give them the Presidential ticket when it is the turn of the South.

As things stand, I will be supporting the SS when it is the turn of the South in 2039 because, in the spirit of aura for aura and energy for energy, what Igbos have shown Yorubas clearly make it obvious they do not mean us well and would always seek options that is punitive to the wellbeing and progress of Yorubas.

SmartPolician:
The dynamics have changed. If you think that most states in Southern Nigeria will vote for an Atiku/Obi presidency after Buhari wasted 8 years in power, think again.

The South, where most of the resources used to run this country come from, doesn't live to serve northerners.

We know that a Nigerian Vice President is useless. Southern Nigeria deserves 8 years in power and I assure you that the ticket will find it difficult to beat Tinubu now.

Well-said. Whatever the argument regarding whether Obi or Tinubu is best to lead from 2027, no Northerner should feature.

We are not their slaves. The South is essentially all that is Nigeria. She sustains the North (VAT, crude oil allocation, local government funding, intervention budgeting for terrorism fight, IDP displacement etc) and gives Nigeria international glory and essence plus retain the peace and civility allowing it host over 70% of the FDI inflow into Nigeria.

Are we to forget Nigeria is one of the most terrorised nation in the world, many nations advise their citizens to avoid, because of the North?

At this point, and put before a non-Nigerian, the North seems to offer not much essentially to our nationhood yet some over there, Atiku and co, keep insisting they must rule even when that breaches a rotation agreement crucial to maintaining the peace, unity and stability of Nigeria

The core North is no better than Niger Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso etal. If the region was not full of regressive empty barrel leaders, with confirmation of this coming from how Northerners have the worst human development index in the world, then they should be doing everything to placate the South to include respecting rotation.

Their savings grace is the knowledge, with how Southerners have always displayed it publicly, folks in the South lack the unity of purpose to take the North to task.

For that reason the North will always continue to do disrespectful things she should never contemplate, as Atiku is doing, if the South remains divided and emotionally unintelligent to the extent they cannot see the big picture.

overall90:
Oga you are not making sense
All these insults is for what?
Nobody is asking that Nigeria be transformed to Dubai overnight.
We want to see how fuel subsidy removal saved our lives and that of the future generations in the face of mounting debts and borrowing, worsening security and infrastructure.

If you see "insults" then it may be your guilty conscience indicating some labels apply to you. Fuel subsidy was not supposed to "save" your lives.

It main purpose was to stop the bankruptcy of Nigeria because we simply did not have the funds to keep it in place. It was choking Nigeria centrally.

helinues:
Bro, don't get carried away. Northerners are preparing for 2031.

Elrufai and Kwankwanso might not even be on the ballot but they would like to be godfathers. Atiku winning in 2027 will scatter their plans

Kwankwanso and Atiku won't eventually be in the same party, then votes will be spilt like in 2023 deliberately

Read carefully to Note I always distinguish the Northern leaders I speak of with the "born-to-rule" categorisation to indicate the specific group I am talking about.

All reasonable, fair honourable and progressive Northerners are behind PBAT. They will dispatch Atiku and his born-to-rule Northern supremacist gang.

CharlotteFlair:
Your facts are that citizens complaining about poor and epileptic power supply are dumb to do so? You must be smoking shii man.

Lai lai. Don't try to portray me a hater of ordinary Nigerians. My granddad was an illiterate farmer and we would never have beat generational poverty but for Awolowo free education my parents benefitted from.

Poor and underprivileged Nigerians getting opportunities that can elevate them out of poverty and destroy generational poverty in their lineage is therefore something I am very passionate about.

My point is that it is shameful educated folks like you, because you refuse to tame the emotional outlook and ethnocentric dislike of others you host in your hearts, cannot rise up patriotically to be an asset to your nation educating the poor, illiterate and underprivileged about the factual good the government is doing that will transform their lives in the near future plus that of their children and generations unborn.

Can you kindly talk about the trillions GEJ and Buhari racked up in debts to GENCOs and DISCOs that is directly linked to our power woes ,they avoided paying using Presidential bullying power, Tinubu has now approved 3.3 trillion Naira to settle?

If you don't wish to give your opinion about that monumental effort of PBAT then don't quote me again.

CharlotteFlair:
All these jargons just to exonerate your masters failure and you are looking for who to go down with you right?

Oh yes!

You are the smartest Nigerian alive. That's why you call yourself a wizard but I think it's because you don't have a mirror in your house.

Lol. Okay. I am wrong. You worked me out completely and I am a total disgrace. I apologize sincerely.

Happy now? That still cannot remove the veracity of the facts I stated you avoided confronting. 😎

Emu4life:
Mr Bashir, your trust and believe in him means nothing to us

When you see some born-to-rule Northerners patronising the intelligence of Nigerians with nauseatingly idiotic claim then you know they are up to no good again.

Which deliberately absent father is praised as "meaning well" for the children he fathered yet left others to raise?

Atiku who sojourns in Dubai in his entire spare time, ignoring Nigeria and her problems , to show up in election year alone demanding the keys to Aso Rock, "means well" for Nigeria how?

What has Atiku down to show he "means well" for the people of Adamawa, where he is from, let alone Nigerians?

seunmsg:
Atiku doesn’t mean well and they all know it. They just want power back in the North. We shall ensure the presidency stays in the south for 8 straight years.

Simple. They need to tear down the CBN that just won world central bank of the year 2026, under Cardoso, and return it to a Forex dispensing ATM, under another Emefiele-like tool, for the Bureau De Change scam system enriching Northerners massively daily but regressing Nigeria socio-economically.

They will then do same in every sector Tinubu has brought fiscal and reform discipline to and take us right back to square one while they all become richer than Malami overnight.

The future of Nigeria, full of strange bedfellows forced to cohabitate when they can never be reconciled, is seperation.

Whether that happens through peaceful and progressive regional autonomy or fractious, violent and terrorist balkanisation is up to Nigerians.

CharlotteFlair:
You surely know it all. Go on repacking failure.

Lol. That is all you have to say ba after being schooled over your own hideous ignorance?

You remind me of a favourite saying of my mother.
"Olorun ma je ki a fi owo wa shé ara wa".


Meaning may God not let us use our own hands to destroy ourselves which is what some of you ignorant guys who fail to educate yourselves, to become politically sophisticated, will end up doing.

CharlotteFlair:
Excuses upon excuses now that it's Emilocorn.

The only thing that can guarantee steady power supply is to kick out PDP.. Fashola 2015.

Now, you have ink in your pen to write BS!

Lol. Anyone still quoting APC and PDP, because they don't understand the immaturity of Nigerian politics to understand it is about integrity of individuals and not political Parties, is not ready to see the all-important big picture.

GEJ and Buhari racked up debts of billions owed to PHCN for power supply to Aso Rock and, according to DISCOs and GENCOs, over 6 trillion Naira unpaid bill for power generation and distribution .

GEJ and Buhari are in same Party to validate your absurd view of "na dis or dat Party dey damage Nigeria"?

Meanwhile Tinubu has cleared debt initially claimed to be close to a billion owed PHCN for Aso Rockpower supply and created a solar solution as permanent fix.

Tinubu has also reconciled debt owed DISCOs and GENCOs from 2013 and has agreed to pay 3.3 trillion Naira to deal with the impasse his predecessors caused.

How much of the total debt was accrued under the PBAT Government compared to what GEJ and Buhari racked up?

Yet, which President has decided to grab the bull by the horn only for ignorant Nigerians, who refuse to educate themselves , to be labelling him the problem?


Keep saying "excuses upon excuses" without realising you're letting yourself down lagging behind other adults per capacity to think critically, logically and winningly.

Read below to note what Tinubu is committed to resolve, caused by his predecessors, to improve power and keep misinforming yourself attacking the wrong President while same you will come out later to be praising GEJ "best ever" while your unlettered equivalent from the.North will tell us Buhari was wonderful and power woes today is 100% Tinubu's "inept" doing.

People like you have a long way to go to be an asset to yourself let alone your societies and nations.

simpleseyi:
Where are Peter Obi’s trains since 2010? Are they still en route from China to Onitsha?

Lol. Meanwhile, Obi and Amaechi who both claim they have what it takes to lead Nigeria have been exposed as glorified rail infrastructure scammers.

Nigeria na cruise sha and Nigerians have the shortest memory in the world.

destinychildolu:
I don't believe in Atiku. If Tinubu that I admired and supported for over 15 years can turn out to be a monster like this then it is finished for Democracy in Nigeria

How is Tinubu a "monster"? Show , with sound and verifiable arguments, what he could/should have done differently to turn Nigeria into Singapore overnight and I will come and dobale for you wherever you are.

Zionmdde:
According to APC syncomphants it did
Yet people are suffering more
Inflation is rising
Government is borrowing more
Power is getting more epileptic
Security at its lowest

The only thing we see on paper is 1 million km Sokoto to morrocco expressway.

Rubbish. If I ask you, for example, what is behind the poor state of power supply lately, when such is a simple and straightforward problem that has nothing at all to do with the Tinubu Government , would you be able to identify this problem? I doubt it.

Would it surprise you to know that most reasonable, solution-seeking, mature, objective and informed Nigeria are aware of this particular problem that makes them understand the burden Tinubu is carrying and has not fled from addressing as others before him did?

Many of you are part of the problem and you will keep rewarding leaders who cannot take you forward because of 'quick fix' mentality that prevents you educating yourselves to see what is obvious.

Which, in the case of Nigeria, is that a wound that biologically takes six months to heal cannot defy how the body natural repair system works to be fully healed in 5 days.