Abdulkatcha:
HAPPY INDEPENDENT MY DEAR COUNTRY GOD BLESS PMB GOD BLESS NIGERIA

naptu2:


The full speech is on the first page (it's in two posts).

Ishilove:

When did the president make this speech? Isn't it supposed to be a live broadcast? I remember when Abacha used to dazzle us with his heavily accented Hausa English. My dad would roar each time he said 'fedeeral gamant'.

Ishilove:

When did the president make this speech? Isn't it supposed to be a live broadcast? I remember when Abacha used to dazzle us with his heavily accented Hausa English. My dad would roar each time he said 'fedeeral gamant'.

naptu2:
Many Nigerians don't know anything about their country or about how government works and instead of trying to find out they just throw tantrums.

Anybody that knows anything about presidential speeches knows that they are always recorded. I figured that out during Shagari's presidency because of the transitions. I spoke to someone that worked at the NTA at the time and he said that they usually took their equipment to Dodan Barracks, recorded the speech and then returned to their station on Victoria Island before broadcasting the speech. Some of the transitions that I saw were because President Shagari often took smoking breaks while they were recording his speeches. That's the norm.

In fact, I remember that Shagari's New Year's Day and budget speeches were often broadcast around midnight on December 31st. They were obviously not broadcast live.


I noticed similar transitions in presidential speeches since then. They are not live.


Furthermore, I was shocked when that incident happened with Goodluck Jonathan's speech c2012. What shocked me was not that Sahara Reporters released the speech hours before it was read, no. What actually shocked me was the reaction of Nairalanders. Some Nairalanders acted like the government had committed a huge crime and it didn't make any sense at all.


Presidential speeches are often given to media houses hours before they are broadcast. In the case of Nigeria it was started by Chief Duro Onabule in the late 1980s.

Duro Onabule was the chief press secretary to President Babangida and he noticed a problem. At that time newspapers went to bed around 4am, while presidential speeches like the Independence Day Speech, New Year's Day speeches, etc. were usually broadcast at 7am. Therefore, the newspapers usually published Independence Day speeches on October 2nd and the speech would have been old news by that time. Chief Onabule decided to do something about it.

He approached President Babangida and convinced him to release his speeches the day before and Chief Onabule gave them to senior newspaper editors and then embargoed them. This meant that the newspapers would have the speeches ahead of time, but they won't publish it until the morning of the speech.

Some of Babangida's aides were against this move because they thought that the media would try to embarrass the government, but Chief Onabule gave Babangida his personal guarantee to President Babangida and the speeches were released ahead of time. My newspaper vendor usually arrived the house at 7am on Saturdays and public holidays and we would sit with the newspaper and read the speech at the same time that President Babangida was reading it on TV. That's the norm.


However, Sahara Reporters violated the embargo sometime in the 2010s and published President Jonathan's speech the night before he was supposed to deliver it. People read the speech on SR's website and it was basically the same speech that Jonathan read the next morning. The Jonathan Presidency stopped releasing the speeches ahead of time after that. President Buhari has resumed the practice.


These practices are not peculiar to Nigeria. The Queen's New Year's speech is usually recorded and many heads of state and government give their speeches to senior editors ahead of time so that they can write their editorials and publish them at the same time that the speech is being read. There's nothing strange about it.

naptu2:
Muhammadu Buhari @MBuhari

https://mobile.twitter.com/MBuhari/status/1311547844671803392

naptu2:
Muhammadu Buhari @MBuhari


https://mobile.twitter.com/MBuhari/status/1311547844671803392

StrikeBack:
I can't read this informal article

Ogonimilitant:
God Bless Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
He has woken up the consciousness of Nigeria.
It his style that has drawn these attention.

Let's not condemn his style but embress the message.
Buharis agenda is not for Nigeria but for the welfare of Fulanis all over the world.

How can Fulani foreigners of less than 7m be controlling and subjugating the whole of 193m people.

Go to twitter handle of Channels TV and see the polls going on, on what Nigerians want.

Nnamdi Kanu said he will use the truth to destroy Nigeria and that is what is happening. Let's not be afraid. The Fulani hegemony is about to be destroyed.

You guys would soon be free

Jafar1:
It's feels awkward that a president kept on avoiding live broadcast...
But why?

What is Nigeria celebrating?
Insecurity?
Corruption?
Poverty?
Unemployment?
Currency devaluation?
slow development?
Inflation?
Multiple debts?
Nepotism/Tribalism?
Incompetent leaders?
will the labour of our heroes past be in vain?
Lets hope not..

Well, at least we can still celebrate life..

We hope for better Nigeria!
God bless Nigeria!!
God bless its citizens!!!

minasota:
Finally the've recorded a video for the gullible Nigerians.
They couldn't bring out the imposter to the Eagles square to give
live speech....... See our president comparing Nigeria with Chad this country is finished

gurusprout:


Did he not also compare it to Saudi? You people also wailed to that.

Khaleepha5681:


His comparison to Chad as it came in that position during his speech was uncalled for. And his final comparison to Saudia is a clear lie to deceive Ignorants. Saudians buy petrol with liyar no Naira,and why shouldn't he mention Liyar? If he mentioned it,it could be les that 90 Liyar,and to Saudians it is norm.

gurusprout:

You're inconsistent.