A wasteful President.

BABA BUHARI SELF SABI ENJOYMENT


UNA DEY COMPLAIN BECAUSE UNA NO.GET THE OPPORTUNITY


BABA BUHARI DON TALK SAY HIM AGE NO GO FIT MAKE AM DEY ACTIVE, BUT YET UNA SAY UNA WANT AM AGAIN, UNA WAN COMPLAIN ??


ABEG BABA DEY HIM OWN O, NA UNA COME BEG AM MAKE HE COME FIGHT CORRUPTION SO MAKE UNA DO THE REMAINING ONES.

buhari is a joker

We all see your productive paper

failure

I don't blame him, rather his supporters.

Travelling hungry man has met his long awaited opportunity. Keep travelling, our tourist presido

The old man is trying to see the whole world on free money.

I envy his pilot. The guy has racked up a lot of flight hours.

Who is that guy on The President's team that keeps suggesting he travels out of the country? That guy should be investigated.

Throughout his reign as military dictator in the 1980s, Buhari had no opportunity to travel abroad to shake hands with foreign leaders because his govt was regarded illegitimate.


Buhari is making up his inability as military dictator then to now shake hands with foreign leaders

mmb:
Punch it is too late to tarnish the image of Baba Buhari cos election is over, and he won. Insha Allah he will serve his final second term in office and if possible, we will give him 3rd term chance.

when some parents ought to use condom and dey declined

Read why national assembly should probe Buhari

https://poraworld./2019/04/09/politics-why-national-assembly-should-probe-buhari-pdp-govt/

We have heard worst of this kind of gloomy pictures from this manipulative set of people. I think IMF can now go and rest after they have decieved Ghana. So whoever that is behind this rubbish, I want to tell you people that Pmb and his team are trying considering the realities they met in the office.

ClearFlair:
It can’t be productive to people with no common sense nah

So much for someone who doesn’t know anything about common sense is speaking. You and the president fall into this category..

So having read all the facts presented in the write-up, the only response you could offer is a vacuous comment against Igbos? SMH

naijaguy1234:
Trash written by an IPOB nonsense .

bishopkay:
The unfortunate situation of things in Nigeria. Then the fool up there and other fools like him who would come talk IPOB, may zamfara next level fall on him and his loved ones.

Amen

contigiency:
We have heard worst of this kind of gloomy pictures from this manipulative set of people. I think IMF can now go and rest after they have decieved Ghana. So whoever that is behind this rubbish, I want to tell you people that Pmb and his team are trying considering the realities they met in the office.

What realities did he meet in office? Did others before him meet eldorado in office?

The substance of the OP is that the government over-involvement in business is the reason most institutions are unproductive.

Atiku in his campaign was bold enough to say he will unbundle NNPC but you guys quoted him out of context and sold the carcass to the teeming illiterate Nigerians that Atiku wants to sell nnpc to his friends.

Tinubu is using his media to constantly hurt buhari. That's his own way of getting at the man who sidelined him after he helped him win elections.

Now, the cabal has started again with their anti Tinubu vibes, so we are expecting more damning reports about this Lifeless government.

Naijaguy1234 and Anansek, receive sense in Jesus mighty name! A-men.

naijaguy1234:
Trash written by an IPOB nonsense .

smh.....

NaijaRoyalty:
It's a Shame that a boko haram sympathizer and a man whose failure as a leader didnt start today is the one piloting the affairs of such a great country as Nigeria .
Buhari only reason for grabbing power by force s to be junketting the world aimlessly with tax payers money .
A man like buhari and Tinubu shoudnt be anywhere to the corridors of power .

Democracy at work. Wailers like yourself thought they would bring back the most destructive government of PDP. Buhari is not perfect, but 10 times better than going back to obasanjo and Atiku or the clueless years of Jonathan.

NaijaRoyalty:
Less than two months to the end of his first incumbency, it is now beyond doubt that President Muhammadu Buhari loves to bask in the short-term escapism of foreign trips. In the past week, the President has been to three different capitals in West Africa and the Middle East. With misery, insecurity and economic implosion escalating at home, it is provocative that Buhari is junketing around the world.  After his second election victory, his priority should be the home front.

First, he was in Dakar on April 2 to witness the inauguration of Macky Sall as president of Senegal. Two days after the Dakar trip, the President headed for Amman, the Jordanian capital, for the World Economic Forum on the Middle East/North Africa. From Amman, he hit Dubai on Sunday for an investment meeting where he was a Guest of Honour. There is nothing bad about heads of state engaging in strategic foreign trips, but it should not be at the expense of pressing domestic issues.

Despite being re-elected, Buhari’s first term in office is an unremitting parade of mediocre performance.  In yet another blistering report on Nigeria’s poverty trap, Bloomberg has highlighted Nigeria’s misery and “poverty time bomb,” inflation, insecurity and economic misery. The editorial says the government led by Buhari bears a grave responsibility: “His record over the last four years is discouraging. Economic growth has barely recovered following the 2014 crash in the price of oil, which remains Nigeria’s biggest export and source of government revenue. Per capita Gross Domestic Product is less than it was when he took office. Joblessness has more than tripled. Efforts to spur agriculture and other non-oil parts of the economy have failed. Foreign direct investment has fallen by more than half since 2010.”

Truly, on Buhari’s watch, the economy is still drifting: inflation, at 11.31 per cent in February, compounds the credit and exchange rate crises and amid a severe energy crisis where, says Bloomberg, “…decrepit refineries force Africa’s biggest oil producer to import 90 per cent of its petroleum products,” and “electricity generation is less than one-sixth of South Africa’s, though its population is three times bigger.” Ranked 146 out of 190 countries in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business index in 2018, FDI has tanked: Buhari’s re-election victory triggered additional capital flight, with investors pulling $2 billion from the bourse; N86 billion vanished in mere six hours. Over 30 per cent of the youth are jobless, the ports in disarray and infrastructure in ruins. Like the 21.3 per cent unemployment rate, the mess at the Apapa seaports, and unmerciful interest rates — are partly because of Buhari’s rudderless handling of affairs.

Other reports on Nigeria are no less comforting. Hanke’s Annual Misery Index 2018 rates Nigeria the world’s sixth “most miserable” country. The country’s displacement of India as the global poverty capital with 91 million extremely poor as ranked by Brookings Institution’s World Poverty Clock, is made worse by a joint research by Oxfam and the Development Finance International ranking Nigeria bottom — at 157 out of 157 countries surveyed — in the commitment to and progress in addressing poverty.  Just how adrift the country has become  is further demonstrated by the Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index finding that Nigeria’s social spending is “shamefully low,” tax policies and labour rights dismal, while its number of out-of-school children has risen to 13.2 million to retain its dubious world’s highest rank. The World Bank’s Human Capital Index rates Nigeria 152 out of 157 countries; it has the world’s 21st  highest HIV prevalence level (2.9 per cent) and remains, along with Afghanistan and Pakistan, one of only three countries that are polio-endemic.

Sadly, too, Buhari is barely breaking a sweat over Nigeria’s many killing fields. There is no reasonable argument to explain Buhari’s recent foreign trips when insecurity has overwhelmed the Nigerian landscape. Apart from Boko Haram’s deadly campaign, scores of helpless masses are being slaughtered by bandits, robbers and kidnappers in many states, especially Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, Benue and Plateau. In other parts of the country, life has become so cheap as violent crime pervades the country.  Buhari’s statement that it is ridiculous and unfair to suggest that he is not concerned about the situation in Zamfara is as trite as his earlier responses to the carnage.

Where is the President getting it wrong? It is said that the costs of vision-free leadership include inconsistent programmes, policies that have unintended consequences, and sheer drift. Buhari is failing woefully due to his laid back style and preferences. This government lacks a clear-cut vision to pilot a 21st century society. The economy is adrift because of the overbearing presence of government in business and security has broken down as a result of an over-centralised police system. A statist, he has refused to take the common sense route of liberalising key economic sectors and privatising the monumentally corrupt state enterprises headlined by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. He is yet to demonstrate sufficient capacity to strategise, supervise or attract and use talents. His insufferable aloofness and condescending attitude are undermining public trust in government. As President, he hardly connects with the people or takes charge even in the face of unprecedented insecurity. He hardy visits the states, even when people die in tens from disasters of violent attacks. Buhari’s cold and uncaring attitude and some of his officials’ inertia have fuelled the Fulani herdsmen killings. Over 5,000 persons were killed across the country in the first six months of 2018, say civil society organisations. We cannot continue like this.

But what should Buhari be doing differently now? Meritocracy offers a solution. In “The Qualities that bear on presidential performance,” Fred Greenstein, a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Princeton University, writes, “A president’s capacity as an organiser includes his ability to forge a team and get the most out of it, minimising the tendency of subordinates to tell their boss what they sense he wants to hear.” The President should put together a strong, detribalised and competent cabinet that is capable of thinking outside the box. He needs also to pursue market-friendly policies.  Africa is seen by the West as the last investment frontier. Nigeria, its biggest economy and population, should take advantage of this development.

Between his May 2015 inauguration as President and May 2016, Buhari made 30 overseas trips. Undoubtedly, the home front was at the receiving end. Worse, Nigerians do not feel his energy when he is around. He ensconces himself in Abuja like a hermit. This lethargic leadership should give way to purposefulness. Instead of his unprofitable foreign trips, Buhari should steer the economy in the right direction.

His government will need to attract investment for infrastructure and job creation: UNCTAD’s Global Investment Trends Monitor noted that “relatively diversified economies as Egypt and South Africa saw more stable and increasing inflows” of $7.9 billion (a 7 per cent rise) and $7.1 billion (up from $1.3 billion in 2017) in 2018 respectively, FDI in Nigeria however fell 36 per cent to $2.2 billion the same year. Pathetically, it lost the No.1 FDI recipient in West Africa status to Ghana that drew $3.3 billion. Britain opened up its aviation services to FDI when it ceded Gatwick Airport and London City Airport to Global Infrastructure Partners. Heathrow Airport has also been liberalised. As a global trend, Brazil put up 54 of its airports for privatisation in 2017, and four of them fetched it R$3.72 billion. Nigeria should subject its airports to this model of economic liberalism.

The mounting economic distress and grave security situation at home demand that the President spends less time outside the country. Foreign direct investment is not blind; its eyes are open only to safe jurisdictions that can fetch it good returns. And to ensure that the protection of the people of Nigeria is one of his primary responsibilities and functions, as he claimed, the President should accept the inevitability of state police.

https://punchng.com/buharis-unproductive-foreign-trips/

Punch editors.

Why not ask yourselves this simple question:

Why would a man like Muhammadu Buhari emerge as Nigeria's president twice, in a country with hundreds of thousands of younger, less corrupt, better educated and more qualified presidential materials than Muhammadu Buhari?

Answer is: the 36 states and Abuja political structure, with 20 states sewed like seeds by northern military dictators in the former northern region, but only 17 states in the former two southern regions, that's what makes the Buharis of northern Nigeria easily emerge president of Nigeria.

A presidential candidate must win 25% in 24 states before proclaimed winner.
It's thus easier even for a cow from Buhari northern region to win a most qualified presidential candidate from the southern regions.


Truth is, there should have been more states in the two southern regions than in the one northern region, because in a country formed by different regions, land mass or population is never used as yardstick to determine where new political units like states or local government areas can be created.

Equity between the regions that formed the country must be the yardstick in creating new political units.

Restructure Nigeria politically in a democracy, else, there are more to moan for in Nigeria.

AnanseK:


Democracy at work. Wailers like yourself thought they would bring back the most destructive government of PDP. Buhari is not perfect, but better than going back to obasanjo and Atiku.

Dispute the OP or get out of the thread if you don't have anything meaningful to say.

naijaguy1234:
Trash written by an IPOB nonsense .

Idiot is a compliment for you! Youths like you is why we deserve what we get in terms of leadership

Gandollaar:
Dispute the OP or get out of the thread if you don't have anything meaningful to say.

So you think you have now said something meaningful? Punch will always write rubbish.

Bolustical:
Both the author of this piece and editor have some screw not properly bolted in their heads.

Buhari must have really disappointed these brown envelop journalist, reason they are churning out these baseless and putrid opinions.

If their claims were true?

How come Lagos-Ibadan Railway is now nearing completion? How is it that work's going on Mambilla Hydro power project?

These were projects that were not started or stalled until PMB negotiated with the Chinese during his trip there.

Guy tell me the truth... do you own a business running in Nigeria? Yes or no!

AnanseK:


So you think you have now said something meaningful? Punch will always write rubbish.

This same punch prior 2015 so much white-washed the old sepulchre in Aso Rock and chanted CHAAANGE!!
They were your darling media then.

Bolustical:
Both the author of this piece and editor have some screw not properly bolted in their heads.

Buhari must have really disappointed these brown envelop journalist, reason they are churning out these baseless and putrid opinions.

If their claims were true?

How come Lagos-Ibadan Railway is now nearing completion? How is it that work's going on Mambilla Hydro power project?

These were projects that were not started or stalled until PMB negotiated with the Chinese during his trip there.

Lagos to Ibadan is part of the Lagos to Kano standard gauge project initiated by PDP. Jonathan did the Abuja to Kaduna section. He signed the Lagos to Ibadan section, but couldn't initiate it cos Abuja to Kaduna wasn't completed yet. Buhari's government completed Abuja to Kaduna and obviously had to initiate Lagos to Ibadan.
The way Jonathan couldn't finish Abuja to Kaduna before the expiration of his tenure is the same way Buhari hasn't finished Lagos to Ibadan in this tenure, even though they ran ahead to commission it for campaign purposes.
Assuming Buhari lost, the next president would have had to finish it, and then commence the next section of the project, probably Kaduna to Kano or Ibadan to Abuja.

NaijaRoyalty:
It's a Shame that a boko haram sympathizer and a man whose failure as a leader didnt start today is the one piloting the affairs of such a great country as Nigeria .

Buhari only reason for grabbing power by force s to be junketting the world aimlessly with tax payers money .

A man like buhari and Tinubu shoudnt be anywhere to the corridors of power .

What we should ask ourselves is this, why did buhari run for office?? Is it that he had the solution to Nigeria's problem?? Or becos he desperately needed to be in that office??

Take away head of state/presidency from Buhari, what's left??

Let APC people keep deceiving themselves....Buhari did not run for office over and over again becos he knew he had the solution to NIGERIA'S problem or because he knew he is a good leader, he ran to be relevant again. You see all this trips and comfort?? That's all he was after...Even himself knows he has nothing to offer....he just wanted to be in that office again.

I'm yet to see any intelligent APC supporter who will say Buhari is a good leader and how?? All you hear them say is PDP failed so let APC try...ask any APC supporter to tell you anything commendable about Buhari as a person, not the APC party...I'll like to hear what's good about Buhari as an individual.

[quote author=mmb post=77387603]Punch it is too late to tarnish the image of Baba Buhari cos election is over, and he won. Insha Allah he will serve his final second term in office and if possible, we will give him 3rd term chance.

clap for yourself

What do you expect from such a divisive newspaper Punch? I expect more of this before punch files bankruptcy. As the fringes of corruption are disappearing , they are doing their best to remain relevant. The days when Fayose and other criminals are buying full pages in the punch to announce Buhari’s death are gone. No sensible person takes their comment with seriousness.

mmb:
Punch it is too late to tarnish the image of Baba Buhari cos election is over, and he won. Insha Allah he will serve his final second term in office and if possible, we will give him 3rd term chance.

Thank you jare, insha Allah the north will die of poverty and terrorism. Ride on !