₦airaland Forum

I think FFK was right once again. The tilting of key portfolios to the NW was inappropriate. PMB is setting a dangerous precedence in nepotism. Another president might come and insist on following the very same template. Where would Nigeria be? I also support FFK's view of only calibrating the Ministers based only on performance.

He is not too old to be Minister for youths and sports. Solomon Dalung was 51 in 2015 on assumption of office. Though I think a candidate who is themselves a youth (<50) would have sufficed. This is just like appointing a man Minister of women affairs.

We only pray this team delivers what the last could not. Four years is not beef to endure. We need immediate results!

Let us see if there would be improvement over the last executive year. There is no more Saraki and Dogara to blame. We pray for Nigeria our country, e go better las las.

Well, how do we escape from the hell called Nigeria? Isnt it better to escape to a fictional Zee World or Telemundo other than let the hardship and boredom of this country dictate suicide. Look at the suicide rate? Is it natural? I support them and their tears. It serves a purpose, biko.

I quite agree with FFK on this one. We don't even know the portfolios so what are we screening? A Minister of Health could have been asked to bow and go just like that, either because of being a faithful party man or ex-senator, or in some crass situations, that she was beautiful. Nigeria, how did we get here? The country is a huge joke!

It should first be confirmed if this is a public school or one of the mushrooms of unregistered private schools. For a public school in the oil rich state looking this way, it will be grossly unacceptable. We need to know the efforts made in bringing Government attention and the responses. Sometimes the Government may not even know such school existed or the infrastructural challenge. The picture isn't enough.

There is an emergency on insecurity in Nigeria. These hoodlums will continue to perpetrate their crimes because there is no due diligence in tracking and punishing them. Even in India, this crime could easily be resolved in 48hours as they have CCTV and well-armed police. Nigeria is something else. May the soul of the departed rest in peace, amen!

Well, I sometimes think that El-Zakzaky is more dangerous in detention than out of it, and a monstrous situation is being fomented. I do not understand the autocratic muscle-flexing that see the like of Sambo Dasuki rotting in detention. Is there more to these issues than we all know? Only Muslims can tell the difference between these two Shiites sects and why RAAF is more to be tolerated than IMN. Is there no central Islamic authority that could have taken up the matter our president is saddled with?

GidiChoice:
He's Clowning

No na. He is Fayoseing

I had decided not to comment on this immoral program. But here I am commenting what I don't know. Evicted? Her business. Will it change the price of garri or make Buhari name cabinet fast like Boris Johnson?

ItsMeAboki:
Just look at you; is the RUGA proposal not national, for every state of the Federation - only for southern and some middle belt states to reject it?

Are you suggesting that farmers who, get fertilisers, tractors and other farm implements etc, at subsidised rates are not in private business or all Nigerians are farmers and therefore such govt assistance is accessible to all?

What of industries etc which get land, tax and import waivers; are they also not private businesses or do they necessarily operate nationally in every part of the country?

Pls do not allow your emotions overrule your common sense.

You are not making sense at all. Ruga is for all states of the federation and the beneficiaries are who and who? Are there cattle rearers outside Fulani stock? I am NOT against them. But the scale of Ruga is phenomenal not in the class of providing tractors etc. They can buy land and do their cattle business. It's not a national business. The rearers of cattle are not the owners. The owners are wealthy enough to afford ranches. They are just playing games. We have more immediate issues than cattle business.

NwaAmaikpe:




The job of a President is to serve the interest of his people, to protect them and to put their welfare first.
That's what a true President does.

That's exactly what Buhari is doing because to him, his people are the Fulanis, their interest is their cows and their welfare is giving them unhindered access to any farmland they so desire.

He should do as he so desires because like Ukpabi Asika rightly said, "onye ube ya ruru, ya racha".
Buhari should give his kinsmen RUGA afterall he is President.

Who knows, maybe one day we would have an Igbo President who will give Lagos State to the Igbos due to their immense contribution to it's development.

Welcome to the NextLevel.

NwaAmaikpe, your warped logic makes no sense at all. A president is supposed to be nationalistic, not parochial. He is not supposed to promote any ethnic group above others.

ItsMeAboki:
Stop that nonsensical rhetoric!
Some of you proclaim education but spout so much ignorance akin to someone you'd expect had probably never seen the walls of a school.

Oil money, oil money and cattle rearing is private business: as if the north is not part of Nigeria or haven't you heard of the numerous private businesses which govt, through specific policies, had directly sponsored or assisted in one way or another; either as subsidies e.g. fertilisers, equipment and technical support to farmers or assistance in form of land, import and tax waivers. etc to industries - among others?

Some of you keep repeating shallow inciting statements made by local tribal champions (who having lost out want remain politically relevant through hate and division) without rational thinking and examination. .

Fertilizer is national. Check all these businesses, they are all national. Cattle rearing is private. Government can subsidize some issues but not take up whole sponsorship like acquiring land and building grazing areas. The scale is mammoth. Only commensurate for a national business. If the Government want to make a business out of cattle rearing like in Holland, Brazil, etc, it can do so. Set up a corporation, employ Nigerians, rear cattle and sell the hides and skins to leather factories, the milk to milk industries and the beef to the populace. All as a national business, with revenue and employment opportunity for all irrespective of origins. I do not think any reasonable Nigerian will oppose that.

ItsMeAboki:
Yes indeed!

I just hope FG would go right ahead and pump money into those northern states accepting it and later watch them cry over the development potentials they rejected because of their short sighted bigotry and ethnic bias.

Establishing Ruga in the North with Oil proceeds from the South? Lukatew. For God's sake cattle business is private!!

By Clarius Ugwuoha
RIGHTLY or unfairly, the PMB government lately seemed entangled with Myetti Allah and herdsmen as their welfare seem uppermost in the government’s agenda.

Nigerians were used to herdsmen grazing their cattle peacefully along various grass-paths. Unknown was the phenomenon of gun-toting herders menacing farmers, kidnapping and killing and raping women. What gave rise to this frightening transformation is not certain.

As their atrocities escalated, there were widespread speculations, given credence by government sources, that these were foreign mercenaries masquerading as herdsmen. They were from neighbouring countries and not the regular herdsmen we were used to, it was alleged.

The whole country woke up to the Ruga controversy, nonetheless. A government that once dismissed the militant herdsmen as aliens from Niger, Mali and others, suddenly came with the ‘brilliant’ idea of resettling them in all states of the federation – a way to end the herders-farmers clashes! This implausible proposition was going to be fully funded with the tax-payers’ money. Cattle rearing suddenly became a national business with no known revenue to the country. The unprecedented hoopla that attended this anomalous proposition made the government to suspend the programme, while some Northern states like Kano took up the task of resettling their ‘kinsmen’.

Never has the unity of Nigeria been so seriously threatened. Nigeria is annexed by an army of occupation made intractable by government apathy. It did not need visitations from potentates and letters from OBJ to drum home to the Buhari government that a cataclysm is afoot if the raging herdsmen are not reined in momentously. Nigeria cannot survive the pockets of armed insurrections if sustained. There are killings everywhere. In Zamfara, Katsina and Borno. Killings in Edo, Ogun and Enugu states. Killings in the Middle Belt and other parts of the country. Amid this chaos and carnage is the Rural Grazing scheme which only fueled allegations of a Fulanisation agenda. Instead of ebbing, it only keyed up the tempo of the already excited polity.

RUGA is a recipe for balkanisation of the country if not abrogated entirely or redefined for the core North. It is not the solution to armed herdsmen menace. They operate with impunity and a sense of invincibility which the government’s nonchalance suggests complicity. We must first, before resettling them in the core North or anywhere, confirm their nationality, disarm and bring them to orderly civil comport. There is no rationale in resettling non-Nigerians even in Kano or anywhere. Non-documented immigrants ought not to stretch our resources. It is untenable. This is not allowed to happen anywhere in the world. Where nationality isn’t Nigerian or proven, these hoodlums ought to be expelled by instrument of the Nigerian armed forces.

The indigenous herdsmen should embrace ranching in the core North. I emphasize the core North because every other part of the country is sensitized and hostile to herdsmen due to the activities of the bad eggs among them and due, of course, to fears of Fulani expansionist agenda. Any governor outside the core North drumming for Ruga is insincere, being political and has no backing back home. Ruga should be politically rested. It came at the wrong time, it is like a stifling mask for someone already gasping for breath.

The government is not helping the Fulani sub-ethnic nation by direct or indirect complicity in their ill-advised altercation with almost all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria. That one of theirs is in power today doesn’t make them owners of Nigeria. They once lived peacefully with the Hausas in the North. Reports allege bloody confrontations in various states. The current spotlighting of the Fulani nation is due of course to two issues: the activities of bad eggs among them and the complete silence of their elite fueling fears of collusion, does not tell positively of sagacity. It is evidently counterproductive.

The PMB government swore to protect Nigeria and Nigerians. It would be improper to continue to watch the country burn without proper deterrents. All gun-toting militias need to be outlawed, and all trouble-makers prosecuted irrespective of origins, so that Nigerians do not resort to self-help with the attendant cataclysm. A stitch in time saves nine.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/07/buhari-and-the-ruga-controversy/?fbclid=IwAR1uuOZBXILvouIeRlm6Ltb6ZLDRKsotaWEYx83q6LVi7jaVx4sFs_2bosY

This is a very sad reminder of the fact that Nigeria is fragile, life expectancy far precarious. Look at how an innocent Corper with bright future was cut down in his prime. The Police and Shiite protesters are trading blames, while the government is sure to do certainly nothing either to immortalize the slain or console and compensate the family. There is nothing like probe to as the trigger happy gun-wielder is gona go scot free. There was a Country!

Why the arrests? We can build a RUGA for them in all states of the federation.

Are these kind of people Nigerians like me and you? She has no memories of our terrible situation here and can only relate to London et al. What makes us think it is BBN again, it should be tagged BBD, Big Brother Diaspora. I am confused.

Don Jazzy, continue wasting your time. You will marry when you are no more in the news and grey hair is doing village assembly meeting on your hair. You hear? Continue.

We should now fry beans. I hope these banks are not owned by corrupt government officials. Who are the owners, directors and their profiles? All these ought to be public for scrutiny before the granting of license. In our country, everything is clandestine. Well, let us assume they come for good!

I believe the government is creating a new deadly militant group by mishandling the Shiite issue. This move is already escalating the matter beyond El-Zak Zaky. That was how the killing of Yusuf made Boko Haram morph into a deadly cult cum terror cell Nigeria is yet to recover from.

This country is messed up. Look at her excuse for snuffing the life out of an innocent kid in such a horrible manner. God forbids. I am ashamed of coming from the same country as beasts like this. This one is sub-animal. No animal can kill just for the fun. Haba. Speechless. May God Almighty have mercy on his soul, amen!

That's really hilarious. The husband will on one hand feel rated - KING and on the other hand feel underrated - IDIOT, so funny! King of Idiots indeed.

Congratulations. Love is beautiful. If the zeal with which couples start is sustained, many marriages will not hit the rock. We pray this one lasts FOREVR.

hustla:
No vex bro
Didn't insult you
Just made an observation intended as a joke

Thank you.

EkunKekere:
See your face I'd rather not..

Show your own face, retard!

EkunKekere:
With a face like yours, be grateful for what little attention women pay to you.

You could react without insulting me, you know? I didn't insult the lady or yourself. Just made an observation. You are an idiot. See your life.

hustla:
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See as your head be like that Killer Bean guy cartoon that year.. U come even Dey abuse person

Nawa o

You could react without insulting me, you know? I didn't insult the lady or yourself. Just made an observation.

From pre-wedding to pre-birthday. Lol. Whatever that meant. She looks okay except for the exposed laps. Ladies learn to cover yourselves properly. No real man likes to eat exposed food. Back to pre this and pre that. We hope we wont wake up one day to pre-sex photo shoots.

For how long will we continue to waste the lives of the finest of our soldiers? For God's sake there is underfunding of the armed forces and the Nigerian government has not shown any willingness to improve funding, leakages, etc to aid the zeal and commitment of these gallant officers. May His soul rest in perfect peace amen!

It is good to be preemptive. But how did the Government come to the conclusion that some of these buildings are not up to standard? What's the yardstick? Or it is an avenue to witch hunt? What is the compensation cum settlement for those whose properties are businesses are thus displaced?