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Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by kingpinwon: 3:38pm On Apr 18, 2013
Your religion met them here.... Let them be..
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by Anikwevincent: 3:41pm On Apr 18, 2013
Lilimax:


Hoooohaaaaheehehehehehiiiii grin grin grin grin grin grin cheesy cheesy grin
Me too I dey laugh in Isoko language
me na igede hokwahokwahokwa no mind dem jo grin
Lilimax:


Hoooohaaaaheehehehehehiiiii grin grin grin grin grin grin cheesy cheesy grin
Me too I dey laugh in Isoko language
me na igede hokwahokwahokwa no mind dem jo
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by ifihearam: 4:24pm On Apr 18, 2013
usayab: Wizard, witches and PDP say no;Almighty God,jesus christ and muhammad(s.a.w) say yes. I de laugh in Nupe language!

Almighty God will never say yes to a demon and a terrorist to rule nigeria son
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by FirstOpinion: 4:32pm On Apr 18, 2013
Grant Them Amnesty.
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by nijaspace(m): 4:34pm On Apr 18, 2013
I slap all witches with internet slap in Jesus name anen! Paw paw pawpawpaw paw pawpawpawpawpawpawpawpawpaw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by imperiouxx(m): 5:11pm On Apr 18, 2013
The NRC guys have spoken. Only God can changed am. Shikena!
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by badrogen(m): 6:13pm On Apr 18, 2013
cheesy smiley winkWhere u people be wen boko haram struck? If it is truely there is witches and wizards in dis country, u sud ve rescue Nigeria from dis calamities of ours with ur power. Na wa ooo
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by Nobody: 6:46pm On Apr 18, 2013
[size=18pt]Buharinomics - General Buhari’s economic program marshaled out to salvage the nation in 1984 [/size]

http://www.elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5720:is-general-buhari-the-problem-with-nigeria&catid=36:pointblank&Itemid=83

Buharinomics was General Buhari’s economic program marshaled out to salvage the nation in 1984. He summarized the objective of his economic policy (as articulated in the 1984 budget) as follows: "To arrest the decline in the economy, to put the economy on a proper course of recovery and solvency, and to chart a future course for economic stability and prosperity" (West Africa, May 14, 1984). He had previously done similarly, in March while receiving the visiting Sudanese President, Gaafar Nimeiri. Upon his inquiring of what the new military government had in mind for the nation it then ruled, Buhari said to him: "The priority [of his administration] is for economic recovery, providing employment opportunities, improving people's living conditions, consolidating internal security and ensuring foreign respect" (Africa Now, March 1984). In a nutshell, Buharinomics set out to arrest the decline in the economy and refocus it towards recovery. Buharinomics was to wean the nation off consumerism and profligacy, while channeling it towards frugality and productivity. To accomplish this, the government was to cut down on its expenditure, engage in more efficient restricting and controlling of foreign exchange outflow, undertake the revival of the country's productive capacity (concentration was on agriculture), and broaden government's revenue base.
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The first test of Buharinomics was implemented to revive the comatose banking industry and arrest local currency hoarding. In April 1984, the government ordered a change in the color of the Naira. This action was dubbed the “real coup” by unscrupulous business men and politicians who had almost eliminated the need for commercial banking in Nigeria by keeping their moneys under their mattresses or by trafficking them into neighboring West African countries. This currency change, which forced all holders of the naira notes into exchanging them for the new naira notes at commercial banks, infused billions that had remained unaccounted for into the banking industry and eliminated counterfeited currencies, which had inflicted inflationary and other nefarious effects on the economy. This measure had an immediate revitalizing effect in the banking industry and was an unqualified success. Banks that were close to collapsing became vibrant again, to the extent that some of them began to hire hitherto unemployed Nigerians.
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To cut down on government expenses, the federal work force was cut by 30% and imports for 1984 pegged at 4 billion pounds (mostly on basic foodstuffs, spare parts, and raw materials for local industries), against 14 billion pounds spent in 1983. To ensure that Nigeria remained respectable on the international business world, Buhari committed to honoring Nigeria’s debt payment schedule irrespective of the limited earning potential of Nigeria. In August 1984, Buhari was on one of his meet-the-people nationwide tours, which he began as soon as the administration got on its feet. Everywhere he went, the people embraced him, coming out en mass and ushering him tumultuous cheers and unreserved applause. In one of his speeches to the people (this one in Owerri), he reiterated Nigeria’s commitment to honoring its debts, the dire economic situation notwithstanding. "The task of this administration is how to persuade Nigerians to understand that for a number of years to come, we would be paying debts, the roads may be long and thorny but we believe that on our shoulders lies the responsibility to save our fatherland from devastation that has resulted from mismanagement" (Newswatch, February 18, 1985).
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Buhari could not have been any more correct in his statement above. Assuming Nigeria took no further loans, its breakdown of loan repayments was as follows: 3.9 billion naira ($4.4 billion) in 1985, 3.7 billion naira ($4.19 billion) in 1986, 2.8 billion naira ($3.2 billion) in 1987, until a decrease to 703 million in 1991 (Concord Weekly, May 6, 1985). Nigeria’s precarious financial situation made it impossible for it to finance capital projects and meet up its balance of payment obligations. With oil export pegged at 1.3 million barrels per day by OPEC, borrowing from external sources became necessary. To this effect, Nigeria proposed borrowing 1.795m naira to finance its capital project from the IMF. The patriotism with which General Buhari handled Nigeria’s dealings with the IMF was the highlight and beauty of Buharinomics.

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In order to qualify for the loan, IMF gave Nigeria certain conditions which must be met. In 1984 when the naira exchanged for $1.34, the IMF demanded a minimum of 60% devaluation of it. Buhari refused, agreeing only to a "crawling peg"—a mechanism whereby government would realign the currency gradually, forestalling or minimizing economic and social dislocations because of such drastic devaluation of its currency. In addition to the devaluation of the naira, IMF demanded that government took other drastic actions: (a) The government must remove its subsidy on petroleum. (b) It must curtail its expenditure. (c) Government must rationalize its tariff structures. (d) It must put a freeze on its wages. (e) It must put a total end of non-statutory transfers to State governments, (f) Government must at least institute a 30% raise on interest rates—government resisted this because the decline in its revenue earnings and its debt obligations made it almost impossible to raise interest rates without triggering inflation (West Africa, May 14, 1984).
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The Nigerian government and veteran economists in Nigeria (like Aluko, Onosade, Okigbo, etc) could not make sense of being asked to devalue its currency when Nigeria’s imports were in dollar and its export (fixed quantity of oil) was also in dollar. The implication of devaluation was that Nigeria would pay more to import lesser quantity of goods than it did prior to any devaluation. It would also export the same amount of oil it exported before any devaluation and derive lesser revenue than it received before any devaluation The impacts of it debt payment would have harsher effect on the citizenry if the naira was devalued. This did not make any economic sense to Buhari; it struck him as an insult on the intelligence of the African. Finance Minister Onaolapo Soleye and Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji who led the Nigerian delegation to the last negotiation in Washington were chewed out by US Federal Reserve Chairman, Paul Volcker, for presenting the Nigerian governments rejection of most of these recommendations. For rejecting the IMF conditions and the loan, the Buhari administration got into the black book of Washington. Already, it had earned the dislike of 10 Downing Street for cutting down Nigeria’s imports from the UK by about 350%. In any case, without the IMF loan, government was still in a bind as to how to finance capital projects and pay for imports, especially spare parts for local industries, food items, etc. At this juncture, the genius and resourcefulness of Buharinomics illuminated to the delight of the African.
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First, the administration sent Oil Minister Tam David West to OPEC to seek a raise in the quantity of oil that Nigeria could export. If OPEC agreed, Nigeria would expect to generate extra revenue in the long run from any increase of its oil quota and this would assist tremendously in augmenting the shortfall in the nation’s purse. Professor West came back empty handed—the US and Britain had put pressure on their puppets in OPEC (like Saudi Arabia) to refuse Nigeria’s request.
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To counter OPEC’s bluff, the Buhari administration entered into a $2 billion barter trade agreement with four countries. Nigeria daily bartered 200,000 barrels of oil as follows: (a) completely knocked down parts for automobiles from Brazil. (b) Construction equipment from Italy (c) Engineering equipment from France, and (d) Capital goods from Austria. This barter trade took care of the administration’s need to have borrowed money but it intensified the ill will the US and Britain had for Nigeria. By bartering this oil, Nigeria was: (a) solving those needs which the proposed IMF loan was geared toward. Doing so without borrowing or feeling the pains of spending the meager amount generated from its OPEC approved 1.3 billion a day oil export is the stuff an economic wizard is made of. (b) Britain had been cut off as Nigeria’s major supplier of the goods which the countries in the barter agreement sent to Nigeria. (c) The US usurious money lenders were denied the chance to suck Nigeria dry through the IMF loan. (d) American and British oil companies were irate that the oil being bartered would flood the oil market, cutting in on their profits. (d) The oil being bartered was oil that used to be illegally bunkered before Buhari put illegal oil bunkering artist out of business. For once, an African country had put positive economic mechanism in place to salvage its ailing economy without swallowing IMF’s poison pills.
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As far as America and Britain were concerned, there was a price to be paid by this Buhari, who thought he was smart enough not to accept subservience to their authority. To begin with, a London newspaper (The Financial Times) published Nigeria’s barter trade agreement with Brazil (which, in truth, was done in secrecy because Buhari treated some aspects of his economic policy as State secret). The British thought it was going to incite OPEC against Nigeria since OPEC as a body did not support oil bartering. Oil Minister Tam David West, in a press conference, said, “If a nation believes it is part of its strategy for national survival to do this [barter trade], why not?” To assure OPEC that Nigeria was not indulging in barter trade in order to pull out of OPEC, he added ”Our strategy is to stay in OPEC and make its presence felt, and work together on programs that will be for the economic interest of all” (Concord Weekly, May 6, 1985). There is more to this barter trade than time will permit one to detail in this piece. For now, it is worth noting that it was the major reason for which Britain and America wanted the Buhari administration overthrown.
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The counter trade showcased Buhari as a visionary. He made America and Britain feel silly and they swore to get him out of office. When Babangida took over, on his maiden speech to the nation he promised to revisit the counter trade agreements. Within two weeks in office, September 17, 1985, he setup a panel to review it and recommend to his administration how to revive the economy without the use of counter trade. Babangida rolled back counter trade at the behest of his imperialist masters and at the detriment of the Nigerian nation and people.

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By the time the Buhari administration was overthrown in August of 1985, Buharinomics was beginning to yield dividends. For example, the inflationary rate had fallen from 23.2% in 1983 to 5.5% in 1985. Nigeria did not regret rejecting the IMF loan because it was meeting its obligation of prompt debt payment and the bartered goods were, to some extent, holding up within the austerity measure which had been in place since the Shagari days. Food was becoming reasonably available for two reasons: (a) The emphasis paid to agriculture had resulted in abundant food harvests, especially yam tubers. (b) The border closure made it impossible for unscrupulous business men to continue smuggling food items into neighboring countries where they sold for twice their value in Nigeria.

Had Buharinomics continued for at least five years, Nigeria would have joined the Asian tigers in economic growth and self reliance. We know that to be true because Babangida came into office and did everything the IMF asked and the Nigerian economy took a dive into the gutter and has not recovered yet.
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for the corrupt, the fear of Buhari is the beginning of wisodom

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Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by Wadeoye(m): 6:55pm On Apr 18, 2013
obi123: Nigeria is a joke , honestly, why cant the same witches association deal with the corrupt politicians that have been oppressing Nigerians for years? just reading this article makes me cringe with embarrassment . Truly there was a country

"former President Olusegun Obasanjo fared better as he was in the good book of the witches" have u ever heard such BS in your life ? as in what the BLEEP

Are wiches not corrupt? They kill people for no reason, destroy homes, etc. Witches are not known for anything good. These people are friends of GEJ and they want him to continue to rule.

And the same GEJ, who is a friend/member of witches and wizards association will stand in front church gathering. Interesting...

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Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by lumidee: 7:43pm On Apr 18, 2013
Lilimax:


Hoooohaaaaheehehehehehiiiii grin grin grin grin grin grin cheesy cheesy grin
Me too I dey laugh in Isoko language
are from isoko?
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by Nobody: 7:47pm On Apr 18, 2013
Not surprised cos anything seems possible in naija these days. While reading the interview I thought it will get to a page where he'll request amnesty for his coven but he didn't
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by Yusluv77(m): 7:49pm On Apr 18, 2013
Eyah! I dont knw why buhari no dey fulfill his promise to them... Well na ebo and etutu go make dem happy now...
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by godman01(m): 8:47pm On Apr 18, 2013
Wonderful. Wonders shall never end.
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by kehinde1588(m): 8:56pm On Apr 18, 2013
Laugh don make dis food comot 4 my yansh o.cant stop laughing ;DLaugh don make dis food comot 4 my yansh o.cant stop laughing
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by Nicepoker(m): 9:49pm On Apr 18, 2013
Is that association an NGO or funded by the government?
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by Nicepoker(m): 9:54pm On Apr 18, 2013
Wadeoye:

Are wiches not corrupt? They kill people for no reason, destroy homes, etc. Witches are not known for anything good. These people are friends of GEJ and they want him to continue to rule.

And the same GEJ, who is a friend/member of witches and wizards association will stand in front church gathering. Interesting...
people lyk u r needed in the mental assylum for reformation. Register fast.
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by mindtricks: 10:01pm On Apr 18, 2013
What manner of hurdles for Gen Buhari. Even the witches gang up against him. Pray he doesnt end up frustrated not getting to that exaulted position.
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by Nobody: 11:07pm On Apr 18, 2013
what he said is not different from the so called men of god of christendom churches.
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by blackbeau1(f): 12:31am On Apr 19, 2013
wonders shall never end.everybody just wants to be popular.
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by porka: 1:18am On Apr 19, 2013
honeric01: A COUNTRY WITH 50% MUSLIMS, 40% CHTISTIANS ARE LAUGHING THAT SOME SET OF DIABOLICAL PEOPLE ARE AGAINST A PARTICULAR CANDIDATE?

I have always known it that Nigeria is a demonic country where evil rules and the people stylishly support evil doers.

CALAMITY WON"T STOP BEFALLING THIS COUNTRY AS LONG AS PEOPLE KEEP SUPPORTING ANYTHING THE KINGDPM OF DARKNESS IS SUPPORTING!

The witches and wizards are supporting Jonathan, yet foolish people expect a better life under him? When has witches/wizards ever supported good things?

Relax Oga...

That particular candidate will not be fielded by the Ogbologbo politicians around him in APC.

You can mark my word... and I'm not a wizard
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by Sunnychy: 9:33am On Apr 19, 2013
Gej, ths one witches don approve u , better set a commitee for their amnesty for a successful 2015,Asap!
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by OpeOje: 11:05am On Apr 19, 2013
SMH for Dr.Iboi,apart from the fact that he ȋ̝̊̅§ just seeking attention or popularity,alsothe acclaimed conclusion of the wictches ȋ̝̊̅§ nothing a joke. Come to think of it,who registered the witches association and apart from that where did they go to when our politicians are busy robbing us. think Dr. Iboi shuld get a better job that will keep him busy and focused.God bless Nigeria
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by OneNaira6: 12:43pm On Apr 19, 2013


I thought I saw it all. So they have witches and wizard in Nigeria eeh? Chineke wetin I no go see.

Anyway this witches and wizard don get one thing correct, Buhari should never get a taste of the seat.
Re: If Buhari Contests 100 Times, He Can't Rule This Country- Witches & Wizard by Nobody: 7:57pm On Apr 20, 2013
It does not surprise me that witches and wizards who are forces of evil are supporting PDP and that they are against the non-corrupt Buhari.

Makes perfect sense.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0HQQaZtBT0

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