Speech By His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, President Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria At The 61st Independence Anniversary Of The Republic Of Ghana, 6th March 2018.

On behalf of the Government and people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I am honoured by the special invitation extended to me by His Excellency, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on this auspicious occasion of the celebration of the 61st Independence Anniversary of the Republic of Ghana. I am delighted at the warm reception accorded me and my entourage since our arrival in this beautiful city of Accra.

Your Excellency,

I would like to pay special tribute to all leaders of the Republic right from the era of the late first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to date. We must acknowledge their various contributions.

In the words of Kwame Nkrumah “those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started”. No words can sum it up better as we are all familiar with our colonial era journey and its ups and downs. My tribute also goes to all those who have paid the supreme sacrifices in the cause of nation-building.

Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen

May I extend my personal congratulations to President Akufo-Addo on your successful one year in office with special note on the strides recorded by your administration within a space of just 365 days.

From Nigeria, I have watched closely your achievements, ranging from your ingenious approach to creating jobs for the teeming youths through various initiatives, including the repositioning of agriculture for modern farming, ‘Farming for Jobs and Food’, Senior High School (SHS) free education, One-District-One-Factory, and One-Village-One-Dam as well as the improvement being recorded in the Republic’s macroeconomic indicators.

All these efforts, I am aware, have made Ghana to become a good destination for foreign direct investment just like Nigeria. Accept my congratulations!

Your Excellency,

My tributes to you and the people of Ghana will not be complete without acknowledging your efforts at tackling corruption, which has eaten into the fabrics of our societies.

I congratulate both the government and the Parliament for the quick passage of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act and its signing into law. Your Excellency can be assured that you have a good partner in me as I look forward to any form of collaboration between Nigeria and Ghana in tackling the menace of endemic corruption. Given all these public policies, it becomes reassuring that with the right leadership, Africa’s drives to eradicate poverty and to entrench democracy is on course.

Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen

Nigeria and Ghana share close cultural and historic ties, which have continued to shape our bilateral relations. Once again, I note with pride that our common colonial experience, as well as parallel socio-economic and political development and the patriotic vision of our leaders have helped greatly in shaping this unique relationship not only in West Africa sub-region but in our collaborative actions internationally.

It is therefore my strong desire that we owe it as a duty to ensure that our good peoples continue to live in each other’s countries unhindered. Our newly rejuvenated Permanent Joint Commission for Cooperation has already provided us with good platform in resolving any differences while focusing on our main developmental objectives.

Your Excellency,

Permit me to put on record, Ghana’s untiring efforts in brokering peace in Togo, by bringing all the warring parties to the negotiation table. I am appealing to the opposing parties in Togo to please come together and resolve their differences so that Togo will move forward.

In the same vein, I wish Nigeria and Ghana to continue to provide the impetus in realising the objectives and ideals of the founding fathers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), to ensure security, peace and development of our region.

Your Excellency, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen,

On behalf of the Government and people of Nigeria, I join other well-wishers to congratulate the Government and the good people of Ghana on this momentous occasion of your celebration of freedom.

Long Live, the Republic of Ghana,

Long Live, the Federal Republic of Nigeria

I thank you all.

Buhari looks really happy -- well, who wouldn't be when your brothers have finally acquired the right to do as they place in the country. I will be happy myself.




Six Reasons Why Herdsmen are Only Nuisances, Need Our Prayers


Nigeria is is unbelievably unsafe at the moment...

Violence and killings have become commonplace. Some people have no compunction for bloodshed. No restraint, no fear of god or belief in the sacredness of life; they made killing their sport.

Yet, these same people or demons have not been correctly categorized. Our government after a long and thorough study of the activities of Fulani Herdsmen, correctly in their wisdom, tagged them criminals.

The decision was based on the following factors identified by leading political, security and cultural organizations around the world:

1. The Fulani herdsmen have in ten years only killed 8,000 people in Nigeria and not the reportedly insulting figure of 6,009 souls perished according to the Food and Agricultural Organisation.

2. The Fulani herdsmen who killed 310 peope in Agatu and 72 recently in Benue had only done so because they were in festive season and decided to wash their hands with the blood of innocent people. There is nothing wrong with craving human blood for hand-washing purposes as it is the right of every Fulani to whet their sanguinary cravings on any non-Fulani.

3. The Fulani herdsmen who sacked whole communities in the middle belt are nuisances. It is however expected that every non-Fulani should accommodate Fulani men when they want to play a little rough play like burning houses and raping pregnant women, cutting open their bellies and sticking their diks inside the stomach of the infant through a orifice cut into the baby's stomach.

4. Those herdsmen burning and killing are just juvenile rascals. They're are nuisances and nothing more. vice president Osibanjo advises that we bring them to god in prayer so that they can amend their ways and lose their blood-lust.

5. It is the right of the Fulani and the Fulani alone to bear arms. Let it be known however, that we are only partial to the ownership of AK47s and regularly seize any other variants. In so doing, we refuse to let bear the accusation that Fulani herdsmen are dangerously armed while infact they live within the confines and privileges of their rights as citizens of the first order in Nigeria.

6. It is an accepted law that anyone who engages the Fulani while he exercises his fundamental right acquires a debt of blood. The right to the settlement of all debts to the seventh generation of an offender, is in and of itself, a core component of Fulani rights.


To sum, the government decided, after critically examining the facts at hand, that the most appropriate categorization of the Fulani should be Criminals in times of great bloodletting, and Nuisances when they cool off, before the next attack

Are they right or wrong? Please tell me.

arrant nonsense

Oga sha be packing ur bag..! Enjoy presidency while it last

nice speech.