₦airaland Forum

Lol, Peter Obi will come second in southwest.

E sure die

Vibekiller:
South Africa should get out with their primitive research, how progressive are they!!.

silky Nigerian.
He stated the truth.

Stupid people like you don’t see the message, you are only interested in the messenger hence will always miss the point.

Most Nigerians are as stupid as you are, it is why we never vote smart

Top1gun:
Can the whole world see the hypocrisy of this Igbo clown ? This bastard claim he said the same thing about Abia but the oloriburuku Igbo bastard is yet to create similar thread about Abia state which is obviously worse.

What has this got to do with the problems in ogun state?

Are you cursed yourself?

lhordspy:
The dumbo is even proud to say he is base in Lagos state.

Just look at him telling people that stay back in his poverty ridden abia state, what to do all the way from the Lagos state he ran to.

did the Op lie about anything it stated about Ogun state?

If you are from Ogun state or reside there and you still want to vote for APC then it will take a lot to convince me that you are not cursed.
There's no road in Ogun state, the moment you leave Lagos and you enter Ogun state, you will know that you have landed in a dungeon.

Last month I went for a wedding at Ayobo, I didn't know that we were going to enter Ogun state side of Ayobo, the moment we left Lagos double lane tarred road, come and see bad roads. Our car got stuck in one of your useless roads.
It's this same story when you leave Berger and enter inside inner Akute, Arepo, mowe, Ibafo, shimawa, even from sagamu to ogijo. You cannot connect Sagamu to papalanto, the roads are all terrible. Even Atan, ifo, Agbara and ota roads are useless.
Anytime you leave Lagos and enter Ogun state, you will feel the difference, even with the proximity to Lagos State, ogun state is still very useless.
If one wants to travel from Lagos to abeokuta, instead of using the expressway, we will have to first connect berger to Sagamu before going to abeokuta, what kind of roundabout journey is that? And we have APC ruling the state and also at federal level. Lagos-abeokuta expressway is the worst federal road in Nigeria that I have plied, very disgraceful.

This is same thing I will tell Abia people, you don't have any business with PDP in that state.

Cc

Dtruthspeaker:
The children were stupid to forget that they are mini-God too, so they too can either kill the cobra or throw it to another room.

Definitely a Wonderful God Who is deserving of all praise and adoration.

why can't the God kill the Cobra. Mumu god

3ple9iner:
Industries are springing up and you know it.

Existing industries are struggling because of lack of forex as they still have to import also the high cost of production is also a factor. Any thinking president plan would have been to close this loopholes and not for this industries to close down.

Yes the Buhari administration goofed big time as they didn't put the necessary infrastructure on ground before putting the restrictions but we are already in it, we have suffered the consequences already and we are seeing the gains already any right thinking president plan would be to close these gaps and not to throw our efforts into the drain.

if industries are springing hut so why is unemployment rate high.

You are not making any sense

God casting Satan away from heaven and down to earth is like finding a cobra In your room, instead of killing the cobra, you rather throw it inside your child's room, then Blame your child for getting bitten by the cobra.


What a wonderful god they serve.

Imagine Peter Obi as president and one minister now said that he cleared grasses with N18.9billion.

3ple9iner:
Because there are not enough industries/jobs to cater for us. That is why any action that would make any local industry to close down should be kicked against if not a calamity would befall us.

why are industries not springing up?

Why are the existing industries struggling?

Because the restrictions is suppose to allow that happen because a lacuna has been created.

Buckeyemedia1:
Everything so nice, when I’m dreaming.

Everything is scary in the current nightmare of import restrictions without addressing refineries and power problems

Mynd44 and seun

Do the needful nitori olorun

plaindealer:
Long story short, we should just do the same thing that killed our local industries and manufacturing sector.

Import all manner of rubbish and turn Nigeria once again into a 100% consumer economy instead of a manufacturing and export economy that produces, creates jobs, generates FX, and makes us self-sufficient.

I do understand that obi is dull and retarded and the man is only thinking about his own pocket and how to grow his pandora account and not what's best for Nigeria and the Nigerian workers, but this is another reason why this man should never be taken seriously, the average container importer and his igbo kind are short-sighted, they only think about immediate gains and their own pocket.

We banned rice and it turned us into the largest rice producer in Africa, but this clown wants us to kill our growing farming and rice industries, kill all the rice mills that are springing up all over Nigeria and the workers, and let Thailand once again control our rice and dietary needs.

Flood the country with imported tomato products and kill the tomato farms, the workers and the advancements we've made in farming.


Well, thank God this clown will never rule Nigeria, so no worries.

but the local industries are still closing and not doing well eveb the restrictions, why?

3ple9iner:
Quick solutions wouldn't fix Nigeria in the next 4 years. Do you realize that staffs would be laid off which would also add to the high unemployment rate.


I am not an economist but yes things are expensive but to some extent workers are still able to afford them now imagine making things cheap but people aren't able to afford them due to being unemployed.


Nigeria manufacturing industry is growing we are now actually exporting than before imagine this industries closing down telling them you want to put the infrastructure in place first. Besides, Obi has said he would focus on Human development rather than infrastructure, so I wonder when these said infrastructure would be read in his first four years.

so why do we have increased unemployment rate even with the restrictions?

thebosstrevor1:
Every bottling company is shutting down according to obi supporters.

You are just defending your principal illogical economic plan

You don't have to produce anything.
You only generate 5000mw.

That can't produce anything. It's bit rocket science, fix the power first before restrictions. APC urchiins

seunmsg:
It is obvious you don’t even know what you’re talking about and I’m really wasting my time discussing with you.

Let me educate you a little, importation is not cheap. It is very expensive and we pay for it with our hard earned forex. Currently, our major export and forex earner is crude oil. Sadly, we barely produce about 1m barrels daily and this is not enough to meet our importation bills. As a result, we must produce some of the things we need locally in order to conserve forex for something more productive. Using forex to import rice, chicken, turkey, vegetable oil, canned drinks, bagged cement, plastics, foot wear etc is wasteful spending that will add nothing to the economy because we can produce all these things locally. In fact, it will lead to dumping and massive job loss.

all these doesn't make any sense until you provide power and fix the refineries. Until government does that, importation will be cheaper from China.
Again, the government is the biggest importer, they refuse to fix refineries and use huge some of forex to import refined petroleum products there by making forex scarce.
Until they stop that, we can't have enough capacity to produce anything. It will be cheaper to sort of China

The policy will erode the huge gains we’ve made in rice production, cement production, fruit juice production, poultry farming etc. We will only succeed in importing unemployment and inflation. And yes, these items will not be any cheaper because of the high taxes that will be imposed on them.

again, this will make sense only if you have power to produce anything else this is trash

Again, the effect on the Naira will be catastrophic. With current restrictions, CBN is struggling to defend the Naira. As at today, $1 now exchange for about N700. With unrestricted importation of just everything, we will start exchanging $1 to about N5,000 in less than a year of the implementation of the policy. That’s how bad and senseless the policy is.


What we need to do to revive the economy is to do everything possible to stop importation of refined fuel. Get Dangote refinery to start producing and revive the port harcourt refinery. In addition, encourage more modular refineries to come on stream. We must stop importing refined petroleum products as a first step to reviving the economy.

Once we achieve self sufficiency in petroleum products refining, we can then channel our forex savings to build the much needed infrastructures. Power, roads, rails, bridges, dams etc. Without these critical infrastructures, we cannot develop our local manufacturing sectors and without local manufacturing, we won’t get out of the current economic mess.

Cc: ofoigbo

more trash, just provide power before all these.

All your analysis can only make sense if there's capacity to produce. We don't have power, nothing here makes sense now

How can a country that can barely produce 5000mw be having import restrictions?
Where is the power to make all these your sweet talking work?
Does that even make any sense?

femicyrus:
Why is it so difficult for Igbo traders/businessmen to face export of products from Nigeria to the world?
Why always import?
The day this people change their bias and wickedness of importation alone to include exports, that is when Nigeria will start experiencing a change in power, energy , infrastructure, taxation, bottlenecks etc problems causing inflation so as to make Nigerian product to compete favorably in the international market for us to earn more forex to make our currency very strong

Maybe because the cost of production is higher than the cost of importation because this failure of a government can provide steady power and cheap fuel by fixing refineries

Efewestern:
Government should be encouraged to create an enabling environment for industries and factories to strive not this importation nonsense. There is no country in this world that would progress with this sick mentality.

Every stable country tightens what comes into her home. In US, local factories are protected by the government with heavy tariffs on rival products. They make it practically impossible for you to make profits importing what can be sourced locally. Read more about protectionism in the US and other developed countries.

We have no business importing Fuel, Soap, Tomatoes, Rice, Gas, Beans, Steel... What the hell is wrong with us? These things can be sourced locally for crying out loud.

Ooopsss, why are there no jobs in Nigeria?? Lol

You can stop importation when you have provide enabling environment for industries to strife. That's also sick.
You will collapse the economy by doing that. What every reasonable government does is to provide that environment before restrictions but APC does everything backwardly

adekolaelect:
" invest in power without corruption" is not a rocket science but virtual science talking as if Imagination solve governances' problems .Talking as if obi will soulonly Run the government . Oga ...Buharis virtual claims that brought backwards after he became president was even Brainlant than this you and your pay master claims . Do you know lefting ban on importation will encourage more importation bring high demand of Dollars which will make naira valueless and take Nigeria inflation to the highest level than the present situation? There is different between the knowledge of buy and selling and governance . Petty traders / importers are threats to the economy of a Nation if their activities are not given limitation / restrictions.

The bottom line remains simple, if you don't have the capacity yet to produce it, just import until you set up that capacity.

I don't know how that's an argument for APC urchiins

thebosstrevor1:
Is production not going on in Nigeria.

Wapco, cocacola, nbc, honeywell, dangote, lafarge and co are all producing in Nigeria.

Go check the list of producing companies listed on the stock exchange and read their profit and loss statements, these guys make hell lot of money

did you read through recent news of bottling companies wanting to shut down because of high cost of operation, especially purchase of diesel?
If they are complaining then how do you think local firms will cope?

Why do you think you now buy 1plastic bottle of like for 200naira? Do you think you will buy a bottle of coke for 200naira they had cost effective source of power?

Do you guys have brains?

Biodun556:
That's your own view

it's how it should work if the government is reasoning

adekolaelect:
I can't blame many of you because you assumed everything that comes from your side of interest is the best .this why you are defending this Economy Suicid statement from your pay master . Can you tell how long and how power sectors Issues will be resolved for you to recommend the remover of import restriction for the time time fixe electric power in Nigeria? The statement from you poeple is just the buy and selling idyology which can never work in Governance.

Just invest without corruption in the power sector then boom, you have resolved it.

By doing this, you have also empowered local producers. It's not rocket science.

How can a country that barely produces 5000mw place Import restrictions on products that needs power to produce?

Funny people with a funny government

seunmsg:
Good. We are now making progress. So, once we start importing rice, juice, soap, plastic, foot wears and bagged cements, inflation will disappear from our country? Like seriously? You think inflation is a joke that can be fixed by just lifting import restriction on few banned items?

yes, once we start importing them at a lower prices, it automatically means that we sell to consumers at lower prices. It's simple as A,B,C. It's bit very complicated to understand

Now, let’s get serious and stop the jokes. You guys are saying we should remove the restriction on the importation of these items, where exactly are we going to get forex to pay for these imports considering we are currently struggling to meet our import bills even with the restrictions?

you are the joke, because you don't listen carefully before making comments.
Where were we getting forex before Buhari placed the restrictions?
And after the restrictions, do we still have forex?..
APC urchiins are funny

Again, Nigerians have a very high taste for foreign products as it depicts class and affluence. How will local producers of these items compete? When rice farmers and poultry owners start losing their market to imported products, what do you think will happen to the jobs in these sectors?

Your local producers cannot be efficient without efficient power.
I have said this for the often time but you choose to ignore.

Fix your power then impose restrictions. No one will pay for substandard products by local producers at high price because they have to factor high cost of power in their pricing.

Insane government shifting the cost of her inefficiencies to the consumer

thesicilian:
What Nigeria needs is a long term solution, not the quick fixes that politicians have been trying over the years. The only way a nation can move forward is when one leader builds on the foundations of his predecessors, not coming to dislodge the status quo and starting his own short term approach just to make a name for himself.
Buhari placing import restrictions was the right decision, but not first making sure that we had a reasonable capacity to produce in house was where he went wrong.
What the next leader should do is to increase our ability to produce locally by providing incentives and a good business friendly environment, not the one that would take us back to 2015.

You cannot place Import restriction without solving power issues. It's stupid

Solving power problem should be the long term fix to our production problem and not import restrictions.

Fix power, local industries will naturally outperform importers because you have reduced cost of production.

Buhari is a clown

Biodun556:
That is the challenge that Peter Obi should explain to tackle instead of losing hope completely rely on foreign goods

you have to create an enabling environment for production first before removing restrictions.

That's what Peter Obi is saying. Solve power problem then remove it. Don't make people suffer unnecessarily

Biodun556:
It is expensive because it is not enough. What we need to do is to produce more by encouraging more investment not relying on importation

Relying on importation is an act of laziness of any government

how can you produce more without power?
.you are a clown

vanunu:
Obi is going to impose heavy taxes on such items.
What is the point of restricting importation of foreign rice while we still find it in the market, making smugglers and the criminals at the border smiling to the bank.

Is Rice the only product on restriction?

Show me where Obi said he will impose heavy taxes on importations. I am waiting

thesicilian:
What Nigeria needs is a long term solution, not the quick fixes that politicians have been trying over the years

Long term solution without proper preparation will result in the economic disaster Buhari plunged us into.

A serious government that is reasoning well first solve power problem and fix refineries, so the restrictions doesn't have a toll on cost of production.

No one is saying that import restrictions is not good, doing it at the wrong time is bad. Especially when you don't have the capacity

seunmsg:
Name the items that are currently on the import prohibition and forex restriction lists and tell us exactly how the immediate lifting of the restriction on them will solve the current inflation problem.

1. Rice, rice is cheaper to import than producing it in Nigeria.

2. Frozen food: it is expensive in Nigeria because there is no power to store them. It cost a lot in diesel to store them.

3. Plastic and rubber products: for obvious reasons, no power to manufacture these things here.
4 polypropylene granules: no power to manufacture.
4. Cellophane wrappers: no power, companies waste money buyuny diesel.

5. Soap and cosmetics.
6. Tomatoes/tomato pastes. Etc.

With the current realities of power, it's still cheaper to import these than producing then here. The inability of government to meet up with power demands of manufacturers is causing inflation in the prices of these products.

It's so so stupid to impose restrictions when you lack the capacity to produce them. It's increases cost of production.

A sane government will first make an environment to effectively reduce cost of production before removing restrictions, just like china did.

Only APC urchiins don't understand this simple economics.

seunmsg:
Lol. Every Tom, Dick and Obi now has an opinion on how to easily fix the economy. Just lift import restriction on restricted items and boooooom, the economy will start flying.

Removing import restrictions immediately solves inflation problems in the short term.
It's totally stupid to restrict import without power. Only APC can do that

Peter Obi said he will remove import restrictions, it totally makes sense to me.

You have to count 1 before you count 2, only a simpleton removes import restrictions in an economy that has no power and refineries.
How do you control price inflation when your factories will still be forced to buy PMS and Diesel at international dictated prices because you refused to fix refineries and provide cheap power for them.
It's just so stupid to install Import restriction when you cannot meet production power demand first. It's like saying you don't want to buy food when you don'tt have a farm to make food for you.

APC did this for 7years and you can see the level of inflation. They ended up forcing Nigeria to pay for the inefficiencies of the government which was transferred to the producers making inferior products to meet up with the current power realities.


I support obi to remove it first, stabilize power, fix refineries. This will create a suitable environment for production and regulate product prices efficiently


I don't see why this is too hard for Tinubu supporters to understand

Biodun556:
Then increase the local capacity and invest more in power sector

The competition should be within the economy

Only a total moronic person will place import restrictions without first solving power and refinery problem.

How do you want your producers to cope with fuel price volatility?.
It will cost unnecessary inflation and spread of inferior products.

A before B, make power available for production first then repair your refineries before import restrictions. If you can control the price of fuel in your country, you can control inflation and stabilize price.

Buhari and his government are just so stupid