When I was in government, we did a nationwide survey that showed that 70% of Nigerians said that they had never been consulted on what should go into the federal or state budgets.
However, there was a year when women in Kano got together, made a list of what they wanted to see in the budget and presented it to the state government. Believe it or not, a lot of their suggestions actually found their way into the budget.
Civil society groups could actually do this, as could professional associations like the NBA, ICAN and COREN. They may not listen but make the demands first and let the governments say No, especially in an election year.
I am Ezemmuo. I know things.
The country set aside 450,000 barrels of crude oil for local consumption. We must ask the NNPC what has happened to the allocation…
The government will have to review its economic programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank; those institutions have repeatedly maintained that their prescriptions are not meant to help our economy…
-Human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN).
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President Buhari is a legend 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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President Buhari warned them but all the ethnic/religious bigots in Nigeria gathered and said he wasn’t an economist and @0xArbit said the man is not intelligent
Here we are today, the educated, intelligent, Chicago Accountant and his fake expired technocrats have scattered the very foundation of Nigeria economic existence
Nigeria has now become the poverty capital of the world with 60% of the population living in poverty according to the @WorldBankGroup under the “Accountant” aka Baale of Iragbiji
There is no better time to bring up this video than today
May Allah continue to grant Baba Buhari Aljanna Firdaus 🙏🙏🙏🙏
What i know is that if the runways in Abuja and Lagos international airports were closed for four days, it will be tagged a national emergency and heaven and earth will be moved to get the runways open
At this stage the Nigerian Army corps of Engineers should be moved to site with Julius Berger to perform immediate palliative on the roads until a full redesign and rework is done
Jobs and economic growth have been lost because of this incompetence.
I came across what appeared to be a suspicious fuel-loading activity while refuelling at AA Rano on the outskirts of Kano. More than 100 jerrycans, each with a capacity of 50 litres, were being filled and loaded into this white vehicle.
Lagos is overcrowded.
Every capital city on earth with a port is overcrowded.
London, Accra, Moscow, Lima, etc
Develop other cities. Build mass housing miles away, connect those houses with rails and roads, and folks and businesses will disperse. Nigeria did that with Abuja FCT.
OK, build 6 new "Abuja's", depopulate the crowded cities.
You create millions of jobs, boost consumption, and grow the GDP
Elevate your discussion.
When the government wants to work, it will work
A government that can build this in 24 months can also build a 1004 complex of one and two-room apartments in Abuja, and destroy the high cost of rent and win elections
The same way the government used solar to power itself out of darkness, but left you in band A
Notice how corruption did not affect these projects
You, who are writing a draft to attack this post, tell me what the government has done for you personally
Anywhere you see an elderly man or woman, greet him or her respectfully. Assist them with their load or in any way you can. You will never go wrong with that.
I transferred my bank app to a new phone and discovered I couldn’t make transfers above ₦50,000 within the first 24 hours. I urgently needed to pay my printers, so I rushed to the bank.
There, I was told to simply verify my identity by placing any finger on an ATM. I did, my details popped up instantly, and I completed the transfer.
The same principle can strengthen national security. Since citizens’ details are captured in the National Identity Database, security agencies should be equipped with mobile biometric devices to verify identities on the spot. If a person’s details cannot be found or do not match, further questioning can follow.
A country cannot effectively secure its borders and communities if people can move around without a verifiable identity.
You’ve had Fulani friends. Neighbors, classmates, roommates. Some of them since primary school. Not one of them has ever lifted a finger to hurt you.
Yet here you are, joining bandwagons to brand every Fulani a terrorist over the atrocities of a few we all condemn here. SMH
The insecurity in Nigeria is terrifying, but the rising ethnic profiling against the Fulanis is a ticking time bomb.
If we start fighting each other instead of fighting the criminals, we all lose. Crime has no tribe.
We need to be careful how we profile people. A few years ago, every Fulani herder was unfairly labelled a killer because of the actions of some criminals. We must not repeat that mistake by casually branding innocent people as bandits.
Such profiling can lead to harassment, maiming, or even jungle justice. If you suspect anyone of criminal activity, report them to law enforcement and allow the authorities to do their job. Don't take the law into your own hands.
They are profiling every Fulani as bandit. This is how Rwandan Genocide started and ended with over 1 million corpses. Only idiots think they could just wake up & start ethnically cleansing northerners in their region just because they are the majority and not think of their brothers in the North where they are minorities. This doesn’t usually end well for everyone.
Islam the perfect religion, and the prophet Muhammad peace be upon him is the model for all mankind.
She cooked her so well I felt embarrassed watching.