NewStats: 3,264,056 , 8,182,447 topics. Date: Monday, 09 June 2025 at 01:14 PM 4f202z

Kemetian:


My brother just imagine how beautiful that street would have looked if they just built it the right way?

Everything is there. The nice houses. The tarred road.

Ok, just do the final touch by adding a wide sidewalk on either side of the road, with covered drains, and that street would look like Miami, Florida.

We don't lack anything in this country.

We just refuse to use our brains, that's all.

My point exactly. I mean, how much extra would it cost to do things right from the outset. Will covering the gutters and adding functional sidewalks, trees and green areas even cost as much as the road itself? Probably not. Yet, we continue to build in ways that ignore basic human needs and environmental considerations. We have always lacked standards and it is evident in every aspect of our society.

Functional walkways, trees and green areas are not even primarily for aesthetics. They serve a critical purpose. They are there to improve the safety and wellbeing of the people. The aesthetic appeal is an extra benefit. Functional walkways provide safe walking paths for the people including those with disabilities, children and the elderly. Their absence forces pedestrians to walk on busy roads, putting lives at risk. Functional walkways also encourage simple forms of exercise like walking, running and cycling, which significantly improves the health and mental wellbeing of the people.

Similarly, trees and green areas improve air quality by absorbing pollution and releasing oxygen. With Nigeria being a tropical country where temperatures soar above 30 degrees, trees could improve air flow, preventing heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Anambra state, being an erosion prone area should be championing the planting of grasses as green areas help with stormwater management, reducing the risk of flooding and erosion, which is a growing concern in our state.

Richtaiwo:
19.1km?

I thought it was less than 1km according to some people living in self denial and hate because of Tilumbu.

Wetin dey pain me be say I almost believed them. Nnaa eh. Nawao.

So barefaced lying is part of the campaign strategy for that clown who increased poverty from 25 to 53 %.

Have you actually taken the time to review the NBS data on poverty, or do you just accept whatever you're told? In 2004, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported the poverty rate in Anambra State as 41%. The next available data came six years later, in 2010, showing an increase to 53.7%. About five years after that, the third report recorded a sharp drop to 11.2%.

It’s important to note that Peter Obi served as governor from 2006/2007 until 2014, yet there is no available poverty data for 2014, the year he left office. This makes the data inconclusive, as it's unreasonable to assess his full impact based solely on the 2010 figures without year-on-year data. For all we know, the poverty rate might have spiked to 80% in 2006 and then dropped to 53.7% by 2010. Similarly, it could have further declined to around 15% by 2013 or 2014, before reaching 11.2% in 2015.

Without consistent, year-by-year records, any conclusions drawn are purely speculative. And speculation is not the same as fact.

That being said, I also understand you have to defend your monthly N20,000 from APC but next time try to confirm details first.

Eboofa:
Lol.............an unbiased perception of Nigeria from those without vested interests..........watch out for a traveller's view of Onitsha.......filmed with a good 4k camera! watch !





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE1ExmrK9rM&t=921s

Watched the video and Nigeria is indeed beautiful. We just need to embrace cleanliness and organisation as a society and we will flourish. The police checkpoints are an eyesore and they need to be dismantled or upgraded. We really need to have cleaner, safer and liveable cities

SmartPolician:
Can we just stop building single lanes in this country? It's not safe driving on such roads. Even if you care about your own safety, you are not sure of the vehicles.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with constructing single carriageways, particularly in areas where traffic volume is consistently low. Based on the images shared, few vehicles can be seen along an extended stretch of the road; a clear indication that the area does not currently warrant a dual carriageway.

Allocating resources to build a dual carriageway in such a location would not only be inefficient but could also be seen as a poor use of limited public funds. Infrastructure projects must be tailored to actual need, and the volume of vehicular movement is just one of several key considerations in road design.

Other important factors include environmental impact, projected population growth, economic activity in the area, safety assessments, and long-term maintenance costs etc. A balanced and sensible approach to road construction ensures that resources are directed where they are most needed, delivering maximum value for the public good. There are also single lane roads even in advanced countries.

It is perplexing that both our state and federal governments in Nigeria consistently overlook mass housing when touting their achievements in housing development. It is even more concerning, given that millions of people live without shelter, defecate in the open due to inadequate sanitation, and endure the crushing realities of multidimensional poverty. For a nation facing such profound socio-economic challenges, prioritising the construction of affordable, mass housing for the poorest of society should be a moral and developmental imperative. Providing safe and decent homes will not only offer dignity and security to the marginalised but also have ripple effects on health, productivity, and social cohesion.

Beyond housing, there is an urgent need to address other critical areas such as healthcare, education, and infrastructure. Our health and education systems are in dire need of comprehensive reforms and upgrades. Providing free education at all levels, alongside universal health insurance, is not merely an act of social responsibility; it is an investment in the future of the country. These measures would significantly reduce the financial burdens and emotional stress faced by millions of citizens, paving the way for a healthier, more educated, and more productive population.

Additionally, infrastructure development must be approached holistically, ensuring that every community, urban and rural, has access to clean water, reliable electricity, good roads, and efficient waste management systems. Such initiatives will improve living standards, stimulate local economies, and foster a sense of equity and inclusion among citizens.

Ultimately, a government that prioritizes the well-being of its people by addressing housing, education, healthcare, and infrastructure challenges lays the foundation for a more prosperous, stable, and equitable society. These efforts require vision, commitment, and the political will to place the needs of the many above the interests of the few.

Should Incase

We will continue to face the same challenges if we fail to implement digital systems across all levels of government. This is the inevitable result of relying on outdated manual processes. Do you realise how many ministries are involved in this? The governor cannot possibly oversee everything, and even some commissioners and permanent secretaries might contribute to these issues.

It is time to move away from this archaic, 17th-century style of governance and adopt modern, contemporary solutions. History has shown that without strong systems in place, human nature can lead to chaos, with individuals resorting to unimaginable actions to survive. Effective systems provide the structure and ability needed to maintain order and integrity.

Key processes such as procurement, storage, stock-keeping, and replenishment must be fully digitised, with strict maker-checker validation standards to ensure transparency and minimise opportunities for corruption or inefficiency. It is time to embrace change and build systems that can sustainable governance.

Gas will not easily cause an explosion in the open. As you said, it happened outdoors. The air needs to be saturated with the leakage to cause an explosion

The underlying reason for Nigeria’s poor FDI lies not only in its sheer population size but in the limited purchasing power of our population. A nation of 1 million people with strong buying power would attract more investment than one of 200 million with limited economic strength. Unfortunately, the past decade has seen an alarming decline in the standard of living for professionals. For instance, a professor’s monthly salary, once equivalent to around $1,500–$1,700, has now dropped to less than $200.

The erosion of the middle class, which has largely resulted from a series of hasty and poorly considered governmental policies, has further dampened economic growth. The middle class serves as the backbone of a thriving economy, driving demand, innovation, and consumption. Without a robust middle class, Nigeria struggles to attract and sustain FDI, and potential investors are deterred by an economy where disposable income is increasingly rare, leading to weaker markets for goods and services. This failure to recognise the critical role of the middle class in fostering economic growth is a significant misstep that continues to impact the country's development.

Convert to dollars to get the true value and see that we are in trouble as a nation.

You may have searched for it on Google, TikTok, or another platform. Many of these apps track data from other apps, and we often leave digital footprints across various platforms we visit. It can even come from comments you post or videos you like and comment on. Most modern phones use these data to identify your preferences and send targeted adverts to you.

Another reason could be psychological—perhaps you’ve seen those adverts before, but since they weren’t relevant to you at the time, you didn’t pay attention to them. Now that you need the product or service, they’ve become more noticeable to you.

Our state governors are mostly the reason Nigeria has remained backward. They carry out their duties unchecked and unhindered. Receive state allocation + LGA funds and IGR yet absolutely nothing to show for it. Just borrow extra billions and build few KMs of roads with open drainages and call it a tenure. No landmark achievements, no out of the box initiatives for job creation and revenue generation, no extraordinary urban renewal projects, poor and insignificant investments in education and healthcare, no social housing projects, just the normal garbage in garbage out cycle at every election. It is sad really. Every leader must be held able and must be checked. The immunity clause must as a matter of urgency be stopped. Running our society without a functional local government system is ineffective. The local government is the closest arm of government to the people and must be effective.

These are the same Muslims that our brothers in Northern Nigeria are trying to outshine, attempting to prove they are more devout. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is leading in technology and innovation, modernising and diversifying their institutions, infrastructure, and economy. Yet, our brothers in the North are focused on other things. Progress requires breaking free from regressive influences. It's painful to see how religion and tribalism are holding us back. Nations like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Morocco—Islamic nations—are advancing. The backward Islamic nations are those that have not embraced modernity. We are still struggling with basic amenities: in 2024, we talk about intermittent power supply, poor access to clean water, crumbling health and education facilities, and poor security conditions. Other countries are seriously leaving us behind. We've lost our position as Africa's leading economy, dropping from a GDP of over $500 billion to $200 billion. This decline has further lowered our already poor GDP per capita of about $2,000. Inflation is biting, but our focus remains on having our tribal or religious representative in power, rather than addressing these critical issues. It’s even more sickening that we defend these terrible leaders who are hellbent on running the country to the ground.

At this rate, Yahaya Belloe will be looking at more than 10,000 years.

FreeStuffsNG:
Great intervention. Though that fine is too much in my opinion. They can report the officials to EFCC and recommend them to be sacked or suspended from work for 6months without pay. It's when both the individuals and their company are punished that there can be sufficient deterrent.

Individuals committed that infraction so they should be held liable as well.

May God bless Nigeria for ever! Check my signature for free stuffs!

The fine is even too small. We need more of this. Not just in the power space. We need it in healthcare too. Private hospitals toss patients around, delaying treatment and causing imminent complications and even death and they go scot free. By the time people are fined for negligence and extortion a couple of times, every sector will wake up. We have a very poor consumer protection system in Nigeria.

Leaders have absolved themselves of the right to make excuses. You were well aware of the debt burden, El Rufai even included it in his handover note to you. You were voted (or rigged in) to solve problems so you have to get to work.

You have every right to retrieve your items. They bought those things without a receipt and that alone messes the whole thing up for them. They bought a stolen property and that is a crime.

Very well deserved. Perfectly deserved. Man is genius

No we are too tribalistic to effect any change. It must be our brother first before we talk about saving the country. We saw these things stare us directly in the face but we headed straight down into it. The truth is we are not ready for a change. In 2027 again we will vote our brother, afterall it is our turn. Economy is in shambles, security is dead, unemployment is the order of the day. Everyday things keep getting worse and we are still shouting “Our brother must be there”. Nigeria will be better when we vote right. Those guys don’t care about anyone. As long as they have soldiers and fortified mansions, they don’t care. If the country burns, they will jet out the very next minute, leaving we, the masses, to suffer.

May the country not collapse before we get serious

This was a waste of time and money right from the onset. A country without a database trying to share money to its citizens? That’s just an avenue to loot and line the pockets of a few. Better to use that money to drive down food prices or fix roads.

Although this is a good step, it's important to recognise that the scope of agriculture extends beyond production alone. It encomes investing in the entire value chain, which includes production, processing, storage, logistics etc.

On production, the security of our farmers remains paramount. Also there should be heavy investment in mechanised farming and access to fertilisers.

On processing, we cannot fully maximise our agricultural potentials if we don’t invest in food processing centres. This ensures that other by products of these crops are produced.

Storage will do a lot in ensuring that food products are available all year round. This is a key element in controlling food inflation and driving down food prices.

Looking at logistics for example, the state of our roads and railways is vital; inadequate infrastructure and situations where trailers spend 5-9 days to transport food products hinder growth. Also, looking at the ease of doing business in the agricultural sector, the government has to create an enabling environment for these farmers/transporters by way of encouraging health competition, stopping multiple taxation paid whilst transporting goods and criminalising the collection of bribes by police/customs officers.

Addressing these aspects and even more that have not been mentioned, would not only stabilise food prices but also guarantee food security, generate revenue, and create employment opportunities.

seunmsg:
It is not enough to fire Betta Edu. The ant General who honored that fraudulent request must also be sanctioned. In fact, the minister can be excused for being ignorant of the rules guiding the operation of special projects/programs . However, the ant General who actually made the rules cannot be excused.

Those payments are not just fraudulent, they clearly violates extant regulations guiding public expenditure. Both the minister and the ant General should be sanctioned. I like Betty but I will not this obvious fraud.

Ignorance is never an excuse. She knows the office she is occupying. She ought to know the policies that surround that office. Ignorance is tantamount to negligence.

This is sad really. A country where one person out of more than 5,000 people occupying various political seats, steals millions of naira. We have heard cases where one person stole billions. These monies would have turned things around for the average Nigerian but then, we live in a country where the citizens who are oppressed, do all within their powers to defend their oppressors. A country where we are more interested in defending our various tribes.

Nigeria has been on a long bench sleeping. I hope it won’t be too late before we wake. Many other countries are advancing and growing, for us we are just squandering our future away. Just look at what corruption has done and is still doing to us. No quality and affordable public healthcare system, no good roads, poor electricity, railway projects are more of political infrastructure than economic infrastructure, poor public education system. Years and years of corruption would have fixed these things but no, we have leaders who do not understand that you really don’t need too much to survive in life. Worse of all, we have citizens who are even more selfish and unbelievable.

This is very sad. It is even worse coming from someone who should know better. Nothing can justify the harassment and embarrassment to the woman. I hope this is looked ito

Workch:
Well, IGR wise. It's GDP that later translates to IGR, and IGR is not a true indication of the economy of a place.
If a state has more GDP than another but the other has more IGR, it's an indication that the latter is taxing more than the former.
This is basic for anyone who attended a secondary school to grasp, economics was a compulsory subject in school.

We need to do a lot to widen the tax net in Nigeria. A lot of loopholes and leakages. Advanced countries do 20 -25% of their GDPs as IGR meanwhile in Nigeria we do less than 5% to 5% of GDP. Imagine Nigeria with an about $400bn+ GDP having a revenue of N10tn which is just about $11 - $12bn. The same can be said about our states. Imo state with a GDP of N8tn+ GDP has a budget of about N400bn+ and most of it is made up of loans.

One way we can improve our IGR is by digitising the processes, upscaling the informal economy and strengthening SMEs. There should be measures in place to track earnings of individuals and businesses and tax appropriately. The manual process of collecting tax through agberos leaves room for missing funds. Above all, government should be able and stand up to the responsibility of leading right. People will be compelled to pay tax when they see their tax working for them.

horsepower102:


I Disagree, it’s time to formalize everything in both Abia and Anambra. It affects investment decisions by investors. It’s time to leave 19th century thinking and enter 21st century.

Exactly, we need to upscale the informal sector and drive SME growth in Anambra and Abia. That is an old way of thinking. There should be a fine balance between the formal and informal sectors of the economy if we really want to drive growth in these 2 states.

B then C then A

Offpointng:


No difference oga. tomatoes are tomatoes na ur mind dey make u feel you're on some specials

Tomatoes no be tomatoes oo. There are piccolo tomato, cherry tomato, salad tomato, tomato consuelo, tomato celano, tomato lizzano, plum tomato etc. They all have different tastes from slappy to sweet and sour.

Caseless:
How do you expect anyone to do all these within 2 years is beyond me.

I know we have the worst brand of politicians in Nigeria, but Anambra is lucky to have one of the best in our country as governor.

If you want to build a skyscraper, we will see the signs from the foundation. Same way we should see the signs of a government who has promised us Dubai/Taiwan from the first day. Anambra has a very strong SME base and if we are really serious about improving the fortunes of the state then we should look at empowering these SMEs and upscaling the players in the informal sector.

Taxes collected from markets and bus parks get lost in the hands of agberos because of disorganised commerce and transport systems. No database has been implemented to guide in decision making. Poverty is really encroaching into the lives of all Nigerians and our governors really need to do more. The governor, being an economist, should talk about plans for an agricultural revolution that will touch all parts of the value chain from “mechanised” farming to storage, to marketing and logistics. These are areas that will not only bring down food prices but also provide jobs. We have fashion, pharma and auto industries in Anambra, arguably the biggest in West Africa, these guys just need the proper training, exposure and platform to trade globally and having an economist in power means that we should be hearing of concrete plans around these areas. In Nigeria, imported items are cheaper than locally produced items and this has caused a huge gap that any serious government can tap into and it is all down to ing SMEs. We also need to empower our Local Governments if we are serious. Every action of the government must reinforce the commitment of ing the masses and boosting purchasing power of its citizens.

Anybody can come in and build roads with open gutters and non-functional pedestrian walkways. Some of my points captured above are long term plans and I know how governments love to run from long term plans, however, we can start now and this will surely cement APGA’s place in Anambra.

I have always maintained that Anambra’s/Nigeria’s problems will be 80% solved by having and implementing the right policies. We need the right policies in housing, sanitation, waste management, commerce, transportation etc. Our people need to understand that you must not build a shop in every house or turn every ground floor to a building materials depot. Our markets need to be relocated and built for purpose with paid parking, warehouses, loading and off-loading areas. Our bus stations should be built for purpose and digitised, this will make tax collection easier and better. When these things are done, we will reap the benefits of improved revenues. The governor has played in the highest levels and has been exposed to some of the ideas of advanced economies. We need stronger plans on ground on how to achieve the pipe dreams of turning Anambra to Africa’s Dubai/Taiwan.

Above all, we need able leaders in Nigeria. A lot more should be done. We need to be practical about helping the masses and turning Nigeria around. Things are getting worse and people are really suffering and it is sad for a country that has almost everything to succeed.

The state governor really blew his chances and should have himself to blame if he doesn’t win in 2025. A lot was expected especially with the whole Dubai Taiwan mantra and the fact that he has achieved a lot in his career. Almost 2 years down the line, nothing has changed really. He just came in, did the usual thing like every other average Nigerian governor. Nothing special to say that we are being led by a highly rated professor of economics who has been engaged at the highest levels. No massive economic or infrastructural turnaround, nothing, just the usual road constructions with open gutters and no functional walkways. No organised and digitised markets and bus parks. No plans to widen and digitise the tax net. No plans to upscale the informal economy or set up SMEs, just business as usual.

AllenSpencer:
God bless Our Firstlady!

She is so ionate about the Super Falcons!

So ionate about the Super Falcons yet they are being owed their wages

When I complained about this istration, someone said I was a hater. He even went ahead to say I wasn’t from Anambra state. The truth is that some of us are gathered here because we want the best for our dear state. Nothing has improved since this istration came on board. The few roads being constructed lack some of the basic things modern roads should have. The tout menace has continued unchallenged and nothing has been done about sanitation. This thread was always busy when Obiano was the governor. I always saw updates on road constructions, tourism, community development, wealth creation, education and health. My town even had streetlights running through the major roads. Even during Covid, things were going on.

The truth is that Anambra needs a firm leader, most of the problems in Anambra can simply be solved with having the right laws and policies in place and these things will not break the bank. I expected the governor, as an economist, to come up with solid strategies on how to empower the people and create wealth. I felt so indifferent when I read that palm seedlings were shared to individuals without proper training and structure in place. There has been no innovative ideas on wealth creation, no different approach to capacity building, just the normal talk talk governance with loud mouthed praise singers.