Dmentor: The world would get better if we all learn to keep quiet over issues that are not clear to us.

Malaria was not clear to humans until it was studied and researched.

Open heart surgery would not have been a feat if it wasn't studied.

If humans had kept quiet, nothing throughout history would have happened. Nothing would have evolved.

Typical Nigerian demented mentality.

Crackheads everywhere, didn't you see that was a bullet proof SUV? Go and act the season 2, smh.

skimarvel: Buhari is surely capable of doing something like that...you walk out of your car without even a bruise while more a dozen died around you..Buhari is a good movie director(nollywood tinz).

Descartes: Bombshell: It stressed that Buhari lost three times to the PDP in presidential elections in the past and would lose the fourth time if he emerged as APC candidate in 2015.—Olisa Metuh

. Let the truth be told, in as as much its bitter yet d truth must b told. Buhari is obviously seeking for cheap publicity and public sympathy, he is obviously not dat relevant again politically hence he master minded his own atach odawise y was he not killd y must itb labeld as "attempted" nd also he is aware that dis ll definitely shift d BH sponsor blame 2 anoda person especially d oposition party. I weep for Nigerian politics.

Oshimolenomics. Abeg make una tell oshimole to fix Uromi township road. Its embarrasing to hear so much gud about the Man and u pass tru uromi and its the opposite. Is it an Edo road or a Fed road?

autumnflower: What i fail to umderstand is why is this guys given an significance especially by the nairaland team?
This is a terrorist, you might want to decieve yourself and say he fought to people but the fact still remains he terrorised nigeria. Making him and shekau same.
just imagine shekau is granted amnesty and 5 years from now he makes stupid statements which are soely personal opinion and it hits FP of nairaland every single time?

Thank you my dear.Asari is now more than ever an ASS-wipe.

Asari, Buhari, and Shakua all have killed in one way or the other. So they are all TERRORIST.

You're the one demented here, what stops him from studying the situation before coming out to say poo. It's unfortunate we always give audience to attention seeker of a terrorist like Dokubo.

NoContract:


Malaria was not clear to humans until it was studied and researched.

Open heart surgery would not have been a feat if it wasn't studied.

If humans had kept quiet, nothing throughout history would have happened. Nothing would have evolved.

Typical Nigerian demented mentality.

BUHARI IS A BOKO HARAMIST...HE KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING..IN FACT,HE MASTERMINDED HIS OWN BOMBING,I AGREED WITH ASARI

efemena22: True talk. Buhari masterminded his own attack just to make the general public believe he's innocent but he's not. He's actually the leader of BH#

since you know that, go and arrest him now ..

Who takes this clown serious. In better nations, people like this are seriously ignored.

autumnflower: What i fail to umderstand is why is this guys given an significance especially by the nairaland team?
This is a terrorist, you might want to decieve yourself and say he fought to people but the fact still remains he terrorised nigeria. Making him and shekau same.
just imagine shekau is granted amnesty and 5 years from now he makes stupid statements which are soely personal opinion and it hits FP of nairaland every single time?

@Seun; I thiink she is right. Asare, 4me, is a complete reject. After all the militancy cum criminality in the Niger Delta...what can he show for it

Demented Mentality? When I first read the post we shld "keep quite on matters dat are not clear to us" the next thought that came to my mind was" until we are well informed" I wonder why to call the guy" demented mentality" was what came to ur mind? Now see how he has come back to make u look like the one with " Demented mentality" educated ppl mst not say everything for you to know what they are sayin or what they intended saying. Slow down on the rush to insult ppl.

GenBuhari: [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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[size=18pt]for the corrupt, the fear of Buhari is the beginning of wisdom[/size]

I don't know what to say with this information you provided. I hope this will enlighten buhari enemies to know that the man is a good leader.

webdezzi: at some point, i started to get confused about the boko haram sponsor, and there you have it on a platter of gold.

Mr buhari is our man.

boko haram has demonstrated over time that they can get their target if they wanted to.
they have hardly missed their target.

a target like buhari will require great execution by a group who has killed over ten thousand innocent citizens and also made gej and the nigerian military an international laughing stock

that a convoy was THAT battered showed they got real close.

that he escaped unhurt in that convoy without being admitted or flown out for treatment is another major scam

to me, this is just another hollywood grade movie scene with some of the best stunts directors on ground.


in the coming weeks, expect intels around the world focusing on Buhari as boko haram's major sponsor.

quote me then.

What is the use of a bulletproof/ bomber proof car? If boko haram are as you say they(you know them better) why have they not killed any top politician from at least house of assembly,house of reps, senators, governors and the president? Does that mean all of them are sponsoring boko haram and that's why they have not been harmed?

babamadiba: Asari is just a big brainless fool. Bungalow brain, nothing upstairs

lol.oga jona mad dog on the loose again

autumnflower: What i fail to umderstand is why is this guys given an significance especially by the nairaland team?
This is a terrorist, you might want to decieve yourself and say he fought to people but the fact still remains he terrorised nigeria. Making him and shekau same.
just imagine shekau is granted amnesty and 5 years from now he makes stupid statements which are soely personal opinion and it hits FP of nairaland every single time?

Define the Term "Terrorist"? After you are done defining it, then find out if Asari did what Terrorist do... Mumu

dont8: You're the one demented here, what stops him from studying the situation before coming out to say poo. It's unfortunate we always give audience to attention seeker of a terrorist like Dokubo.

Why is Nairaland filled with crack heads who can't think for a second to save their lives?

I, personally (even before Asari's assumption) never believed the farce.

Picture this, if you were in Buhari's shoes, facing such opprobrium as a Boko Haram sponsor. What would have been a better way to rid yourself of the brouhaha and direct the nations sympathy to yourself? You stage a bombing attempt by the sect the people claim you sponsor!

Why are Nigerians so slow-thinking?

Question everything nigga. They don't teach that in schools!

Am not surprised nairaland is full of rubish hw can dis nonsense make front page. A millitant talks nd it hhits front page. Seun u ve made money bt hw ar u trowing integrity to the dogs. U banned me bt i will always point out the ills of dis site. If only we hv a better option

awoononi: This bloated fisherman should please shut up!

Ah mean. Nigger gets more and more ridiculous everyday. Is his life that pathetic that he chooses to remain relevant by stirring up trouble?

Frankasino: Asari, Buhari, and Shakua all have killed in one way or the other. So they are all TERRORIST.

The above people have killed but GEJ and gang have not abi? Who killed Azazi? The name I was expecting people to associate with Boko Haram is Atiku, because when he lost the primaries he said "those who make peaceful change impossible end up making violent change inevitable". What do you think the statement on quote means? The only thing PDP has succeeded in doing is to effectively use this Boko Haram issue to blackmail the opposition and label them as terrorists. Azazi threatened them and they killed him.

berem: Asari Dorokubo-yarning dust since 1975!
It is only senile cretins like him that take him seriously. Onye ara!

really. Even a child can see that what asari is saying is 90%likely what actually happened. APC should venture into nollyhood, they are good at acting, deceiving, lying, crying and complaining

I don't know why people give this brainless Asari audience whenever he spit out his useless saliva to insult the person who still made it possible for him(Asari) to be a Nigeria Citizen up till date. Had it been that GMB ruled this Country like GEJ his kinsman is doing now,what will remain of Nigeria not to talk of say he will now become chief security officer of our oil pipelines in which he suck mllions of dollars monthly. Since when he has been talking rubbish,what has he achieved for Nigeria as a patriotic citizen? Nothing of course than to open his big mouth and insult anybody making a reasonable contributions to the growth of the Country.Useless pig!

OneNaira6: People keep attacking A sari because he used to be a militant. Militant or not, he has every right to speak his mind just like you.

Yes and people have the right to criticize his idiotic utterances.

berem: Yes o! We have been hearing the same statement since 1907. Tell your liverless President and DSS to arrest him if he is the leader of Boko haram. What the hell are they waiting for?

yes arrest him so that your people will have an excuss to kill thousands of innocent nigerians. abi? GEJ is not liverless, he is just too smart to fall for ur tricks, and he is far more educated and rational than those that will go as far as staging their attempted murder.

Moredew: Am not surprised nairaland is full of rubish hw can dis nonsense make front page. A millitant talks nd it hhits front page. Seun u ve made money bt hw ar u trowing integrity to the dogs. U banned me bt i will always point out the ills of dis site. If only we hv a better option

This is Nairaland, not your father's compound Obi

[quote author=henryobinna]sisi you're correct, even tho am not a supporter of Buhari, this Asari guy is more like an illitrate, talks like he's an important personel forgeting where he's from or whom he is. I've always wanted him to be thrown in jail but the reverse is the case. in fact he's now a billionaire. at expense of our money [/quote

Your money

OdogwuMike: . Let the truth be told, in as as much its bitter yet d truth must b told. Buhari is obviously seeking for cheap publicity and public sympathy, he is obviously not dat relevant again politically hence he master minded his own atach odawise y was he not killd y must itb labeld as "attempted" nd also he is aware that dis ll definitely shift d BH sponsor blame 2 anoda person especially d oposition party. I weep for Nigerian politics.

Did the sheik that was attacked same day also masterminded his own? Did the three kidnapped emirs in the north (of which one was killed) mastermind their own kidnap? Where several attacks on prominent northern emirs masterminded? Hmmm think again

ignis: Asari Dokubo, always looking for cheap attentions to score cheap political points.

he may be everything bad but he is not seeking political points at least he is not known to be a member of any party. He is standing up for the people of the south south. He is voicing out the truth that some are afraid to say out loud

I thought this topic was in frontpage just a while ago?

Mynd44: Now Playing: Fela.......
"Basketmouth don start to leak again ooooo"

Can someone remind this terrorist his statements about the Chibok girls where he said "No girls are missing"?

. I owe a cup of palm wine for your comment...

I draw so mich inspiration for futball and hoping to come up with theories of political discourse with their origin from futball. My highest point of the jst concluded world cup in brazil was the swiftness with wich musa ahmed and the Nigerian super eagles responded to the 2 goals from lionel messi and the argentine national team. I don't knw abt you sha. Having said that, I expect the Buhari critics to swiftly respond to the Buharinomics post with a Jonathanomics ideology so that we can have a robust engagement as we do a comparative analysis of both individuals and their adminitration and economic policies and ideologies and we all wll be more informed and Nigeria will be better for it. Bt unfortunately all am seeing is " buhari terrorist, buhari boko haram" if Buhari is BH then Gej is a weak President letting a terrorist go abt freely in our society without using our laws to put him away forever. @ least I knw shekau cannot move freely lk Buhari.