To AFENIFERE OHANEZE AREWA PANDEF MIDDLE BELT ETCETERA

IT'S RIGHT TIME TO TALK SMALL NOW.

WHO WILL THE BLOOD SUCKING VAMPIRE FLIES SUPPORT OTHER THAN THE BIBLICAL LAZARUS?

MIYETTI ALLAH FULANI HERDSMEN ARE TERRORISTS AND BUHARI IS BEHIND THEM-BY CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR-CNN. AND THIS BUHARI IS NOW A BRITISH EXPERIMENT IN OUR HANDS.

TANKO MOHAMMED, CJN IS JUST DECLARED SUFFERING FROM DEMENTIA. RATHER THAN SACK AND REPLACE HIM NOW, THE MIYETTI ALLAH FULANI HERDSMEN ARE PLEADING TO SEND HIM TO ENGLAND FOR ANOTHER EXPERIMENT.

MIYETTI ALLAH FULANI HERDSMEN ARE PLAYING GAMES NOW AND AGAIN WITH NIN AND THE NASS IS PLAYING WITH THE GORGON'S HEAD.

IS MIYETTI ALLAH FULANI HERDSMEN NOW DIFFERENT FROM AREWA? LET US START SEPARATING FULANIS FROM HAUSAS FOR ALL CONSIDERATIONS AND TREATMENTS.

From Orunto27. THIS MESSAGE IS FOR THE IMFORMATION ALSO OF

OLU FALAE, WOLE SHOYINKA, OBASANJO,
BANJI AKINTOYE, AYO BANJO, GOVERNORS AND TRADITIONAL RULERS OF THE SW. NIGERIA DOESN'T BELONG TO MIYETTI ALLAH FULANI HERDSMEN AND BUHARI CANNOT CONTINUE TO BE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA ANY LONGER.

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From all of us @[/b] : Happy Birthday to Our Darling Daddy, President Muhammadu Buhari, the President of all Nigerians, both dead and alive!
Both in the villages and in the cities

From Former President Goodluck Jonathan to President Muhammadu Buhari on his Birthday.
This got to our table @[b] some few minutes ago.


Former President Goodluck Jonathan has felicitated with President Muhammadu Buhari on the occasion of his 78th birthday, wishing him God’s blessings as he leads the nation.

The former president stated this in a goodwill message he personally signed. He acknowledged President Buhari’s long-standing commitment to the country, adding that he had previously held key positions of leadership in service to our dear nation.

In the goodwill message, Mr Jonathan further said: “I join your family, friends, political associates and all Nigerians to congratulate you on the occasion of your 78 birthday.

“Yours has been a record of steadfast service to our nation at different political eras; having served as a military officer, military governor, minister, Head of State and now President of Nigeria.

“As you celebrate, on behalf of my family, I pray that God will keep you in perfect health and grant you the wisdom and strength to steer the ship of our nation to more enviable and loftier heights of peace and prosperity for all. Happy Birthday Your Excellency.”

Mr Jonathan conceded victory to Mr Buhari in the keenly contested 2015 polls even before the final tally was done.

”I join family members, friends, officials and associates of the President in rejoicing with him for marking the occasion in good health and good spirit.

”Mr President, in all the years of his leadership of our country, has shown an undeniable commitment to the unity, peace and even development of Nigeria.


”From the ongoing massive infrastructure projects across the country, series of programmes targeted at lifting the most vulnerable, like the social investment scheme, to the numerous bold initiatives of his government aimed at diversifying the economy, President Buhari is leveraging on his integrity and good standing with the masses to courageously guide Nigeria through a difficult phase into future prosperity

”I urge every citizen to look at the big picture and continue to stand with the President in this patriotic mission.
I am also delighted with President Buhari over the process he has set in motion for reforming and rebuilding our great party for fulfilling its historic mission of leading Nigeria into political stability and economic prosperity.”

Source : Premium Times.

God bless our darling President Muhammadu Buhari and his amiable Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo.

Who is bankrolling you?

EdoFirstBorn:
They are trying so hard to make this clueless clown seem like a victim. The funny thing is. He is president the first order or blame rests with him.
But they don't get it
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CLUELESS

BUT your ancestors failed u



1. The second Niger Bridge
2. The Warri-Itakpe rail line
3. The Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Expressway
4. The Ilorin-Bode Sadu-Jebba Road
5. The Implementation of the TSA and BVN
6. The Lagos-Ibadan rail line
7. The approval for the establishment of 6 colleges of education in Benue, Bauchi, Sokoto, Ebonyi, Osun and Benue states
8. The Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipeline
9. National Cancer Center in Lagos State
10. The Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
11. The construction of Oju-Loko-Oweto bridge connecting Benue and Nasarawa states to the Eastern and Western States.
12. Discoveries and collection of looted funds and transfer of over N500 billion from EFCC to FG purse. Subsequent conviction of perpetrators to correctional facilities.
13. Construction of Gombe-Biu road
14. Payments of pension arrears to 3,542 Delta steel pensioners.
15. Ongoing work on the 700MW Zungeru hydro power supply in Niger State
16. Completion of 40MW Kashambilla hydro power Station
17. Payments of pension arrears to Nitel staff
18. Dredging of the Onne port in Rivers State
19. Dredging of the Calabar Port in Cross River state
20. $3.9 billion Warri seaports.
21. Completion of Abuja-Kaduna rail line.
22. Reconstruction of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja. 23. Reconstruction of Aminu Kano International Airport Kano
24. Reconstruction of Port Harcourt International Airport Port Harcourt
25. Construction of new Tower & second Runway for Murtala Mohammed International Airport I Lagos
26. Reconstruction of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu.
27. National Cancer Center in Kano state
28. Nigeria Army University in Biu, Borno State.
29. Nigeria Maritime University, Delta State
30. Nigeria Airforce University, Bauchi state
31. Nigeria Airforce Hospital, Daura, Katsina state.
32. Presidential Fertilizer Initiative on fertilizer saw a disruption from importation to local production of over 10 million tonnes.
33. Payments of pensions to ex Biafran soldiers.
34. National Cancer Center in Umuahia, Abia state.
35. Implementation of the FG N30,000 minimum wage
36. Approval for N33,000 minimum allawee to NYSC
37. Inauguration of Baro ports at 28% status.
38. Purchase of 38 brand new fighter jets for the Nigeria Airforce.
39. National Housing Program across Nigeria. To build 300,000 houses in all, over 25,000 houses of low, medium and high income in all the 6 geopolitical zones.
40. Construction of Konar Dumawa-Kunya-Babura to Níger Republic
41. Construction of Gaya-Jahun-Kafin Hausa road in Jigawa state
42. Total overhaul of Nigeria Army weaponry through purchase of armoured carriers from China and Russia
43. Establishment of Federal University of Agriculture in Zuru, Kebbi state.
44. Completion of the Zobe dam in Katsina state.
45. Approval and released of N75 BILLION Farmers money to cover for agricultural activities as first batch to states.
46. N20 billion Credit loan of N10,000 to 2 million Nigerians.
47. Engagement of 500,000 Nigerians and payment of N30,000 monthly for 3 years in Batch B of the Npower scheme.
48. Payment of N5,000 each monthly to 3.2 million vulnerable Nigerians in the last two years.
49. Establishment of the Federal University of Transportation in Katsina.
50. Four (4) rehabilitated and reconstructed roads in BUK in Kano state.
51. 2.8MW solar power plant in Federal University of Technology in Eboyin state.
52. Provision of 2MW solar power plant in Bayero university in Kano state
53. Supply of solar panel grid for power supply to Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Anambra state.
54. Completion of the Abuja airport-City center rail line.
55. Ongoing total overhaul of the power sector with the FG/Siemens 25,000 power generation transmission and distribution power road map. FG already paid N8.7 billion counterpart funding.
56. Ongoing reconstruction of the Enugu-Port Harcourt dual carriageway.
57. Ongoing reconstruction of the Onitsha-Enugu Expressway
58. Ongoing reconstruction of the Benin-Ofosu-Ore-Shagamu Expressway
59. Ongoing dualization of the Ibadan-Ilorin Expressway
60. Ongoing rehabilitation and expansion of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway
61. Ongoing rehabilitation of the Lagos-Otta road
62. Ongoing dualization of the Obajana junction-Auchi-Ehor-Benin road.
63. Ongoing reconstruction of the Enugu-Port Harcourt DCW Aba-Port Harcourt section.
64. Ongoing construction of the Ikom Bridge in Cross River State.
66. Ongoing dualization of Sapele-Ewu road in Delta State.
67. Ongoing reconstruction of the Alesi-Iyamoyung-Ugep road in Akwa-Ibom state.
68. Ongoing dualization of the Suleja-Lambatta-Minna road in Niger State.
69. Ongoing construction of the Gwagwalada-Abaji-Kotonkarfe-Lokoja Expressway
70. Ongoing reconstruction of the Bida-Lapai-Lambatta road in Niger State.
71. Ongoing reconstruction of the Makurdi-Naka-Adoka-Ankpa road.
72. Construction of road linking Baro ports to Gulu town in Niger State.
73. Ongoing Keffi-Akwanga-Lafia-Makurdi Expressway
74. Ongoing dualization of Akwanga-Jos-Bauchu-Gombe Expressway
75. Ongoing dualization of the Kano-Maiduguri Expressway Shuari link to Azare to Potiskum to Damaturu to Maiduguri.
76. Ongoing rehabilitation of Gwoza-Damboa-Goriri road in Borno State (Commencing)
77. Ongoing reconstruction of the Mayo-Jada-Ganye-Tougo road in Adamawa state.
78. Commencement of the construction of the Ibi Bridge in Taraba state linking PLATEAU, Benue and other states.
79. Ongoing rehabilitation of the Nguru-Gashua-Bayamari road(Just awarded as work is commencing soon)
80. Ongoing reconstruction of the Kano-Maiduguri Expressway linking Wudil to Shuari.
81. Ongoing dualization of the Kano-Katsina Expressway.
82. Approval for the Kano-Kaduna rail line.
83. $5.3 billion approval for the Ibadan-Ilorin--Minna-Kaduna-Kano rail line.
84. Establishment of the Nigeria/Chinese train coaches and wagon workshop and training center in Ogun state.
85. Ongoing construction of the Kaduna eastern bypass.
86. Ongoing construction of the Kano Western bypass.
87. Rehabilitation of the Sokoto -Jega-Kontagora-Makera road across Sokoto, Kebbi and Niger States.
88. Establishment of the N75B Nigeria Youth Investment Fund. Youth Bank
89. Establishment and commencement of the N/East Development Commission.
90. Bailing off 27 failed states unable to pay salaries in 2015.
91. The establishment of the N50 billion Household TCP
92. Recruitment of 10,000 police officers in 2015/2016
93. Putting up the Covid-19 financial support for SMEs. N50 billion for payroll support, N200 billion for loans to artisans and N10 billion to private transport companies 94. School feeding program sees the feeding of 9.1 million pupils in 32 states of the federation.
95. Total overhauling of the Ajaokuta steel company with the released of over N10 billion as counterpart funding to the Russians
96.Approval and commission of the Ariaria IPP in Abia 97. Approval and Commissioned of the 10MW IPP at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
98. Ongoing recruitment of 400,000 police to reinforce the wide gap for effective community policing.
99. Ongoing recruitment of 400,000 for the Batch C Npower program.
100. Payments of the backlog of pension arrears to 9,216 federal government pensioners in 2018. N24 billion was paid and all payroll into the system.

Jara:
101.Commissioning of the Ogbia national water scheme project in Bayelsa.
102.N20 billion Covid-19 financial support to pharmaceutical companies in ��.
103. Discovery and stoppage of 85,000 police ghost workers, 50,000 federal ghost workers all amounting to N6.1 billion and N13b respectively
104. Ongoing recruitment of 774,000 social workers across the country

#AOO

We know him. We have seen what he is made of. He doesn't care about the people he leads. He care about nothing. He care only about his cows

presidency:
Ask for a President beleaguered from all sides, and I’ll show you Muhammadu Buhari, the ramrod straight man from Daura, in Katsina State, who turns 78 today.

In the build up to the 2015 presidential election, we used to say everything had been thrown at him as projectiles, except the kitchen sink. Permit me to update that expression. Today, everything possible has been thrown at President Buhari, including the kitchen sink. Anything. Everything. Fake news. Hate speech. Lies. False propaganda. Evil thoughts. Malediction. Odium. Opprobrium. Ogbunigwe. Ogulutu.Surface to air missiles. All offensive weapons. But the man trudges on. Calmly, sedately, peacefully.

If only more Nigerians knew this President. If only they knew the essential Buhari, the quintessential patriot and gentleman, they would behave differently, handle him with more care, and show him more kindness. Yes, everyone needs kindness, even Presidents.

Remember that song by Mary Mc Kee and The Genesis?
You’ve got to try a little kindness
Yes, show a little kindness
Just shine your light for everyone to see
And if you try a little kindness
Then you’ll overlook the blindness
Of narrow-minded people, on narrow-minded streets.

Too many people have chosen to believe the wrong things about President Buhari, and have ossified their minds against the truth. But then, those of us who have had the privilege to work with him, studied and known him at close quarters, have a duty to tell what we have seen. And what better day to do it, than on his birthday.

Oh, he eats from the President. What else would he say than to sing his praises. True? False. If need be, I will serve this President for free. I consider it a great privilege to serve a man I admire. Even gratis.

Somebody commented that a blitzkrieg has been launched against Buhari and the government he leads, from all quarters. Some elements in the media, human rights groups, so-called activists, NGOs, Boko Haram, ISWAP, all at once. But is Buhari the loser? Not at all. It’s the country that ultimately loses, just as Eric Donaldson sang in ‘Little Did You Know:’
You think that you are hurting me
But little did you know you are only hurting yourself
Little did you know you are only hurting yourself.

In about two years and five months, with God being merciful as He always is, President Buhari will land safely, and retire to Daura for a well-deserved retirement at 80. And if those engineering distraction against his government continue, it is the country that would have lost. A great deal.

What are the things some people hurl against the President, which shows that they don’t know him at all?

He’s a religious bigot. Really? I’ve not seen a scintilla of evidence in the past five years. Every Christmas and Easter holiday, he calls those of us who are Christians, working with him, and asks us to stay off work, and enjoy the season with our families. That’s not the way of bigots, who would never acknowledge any religion, except their own.

As a military commander, history has it that Buhari would always give soldiers working under him time to go for worship on Sunday mornings, just as he did to the Muslims on Fridays. Yet, bigot, bigot, some people continue to shout.

He’s a Fulani, he rears cows, and all Fulani herdsmen are criminals, that’s why he tolerates them. Really? Some people even say all Fulani are herdsmen, whether they see them with cattle or not. Truth is; every ethnic stock has its deviants, its criminal elements. You can’t just demonize all Fulani, simply because you want to excoriate the President. Did he choose to be born Fulani? Did I choose to be born Yoruba, and did the Ishan, Idoma or Ijaw man choose the ethnic stock he wanted to be born into? It’s a biological accident. You have nothing to do with it. A man then doesn’t go repudiating where he comes from, simply because some people have decided to tar his people with the brush of infamy.

He’s nepotistic. A common refrain, but non-scientific. About three years ago, we did a scientific exercise. We chronicled all the appointments made by the President since 2015, and allocated them to states and regions. The result showed that the Southwest had the largest share. Followed by Imo and Kano states. Then Edo and Katsina. And on and on. But the naysayers ignored facts and figures, and stuck to their false narratives. Nepotism.

One day, the President had given me an appointment to announce in the early days of the administration. By then, some people had started talking of northernisation agenda. So I said, “Mr President, this is the murmur we hear. Why don’t you consider giving this position to another part of the country?”

He looked at me calmly, smiled, and said: “If a search has been conducted for a position, and someone has been thrown up as the best candidate. And I then bypass him because of where he comes from, or because of his religion, haven’t I been unfair to that person?”

Food for thought, indeed.

This is Jubril from Sudan and not Muhammadu Buhari, who had died during the medical vacation in 2017, some people say. You have a clone in Aso Villa, not Buhari. Idiocy, sadly believed by even some intellectuals.

Let me tell you a story. On the day the President finally returned to the country in August 2017, after months of absence, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Abayomi Olonisakin, was giving out his daughter in marriage. I had attended the church service, decked unusually in complete Agbada, with cap to match. From the wedding, I went straight to the airport to join the reception party.

We formed a welcome line, as we usually do. And as the President shook each person, he had one wisecrack or the other to say. When he got to me, he took my hand and said: “Adesina, this is the best I’ve seen you dressed.” We both laughed heartily, and the television cameras captured it. I remember that many people asked me later what had tickled me and the President, that we laughed so uproariously.

Jubril from Sudan? Would he know my name as Adesina? Would he know I rarely wear Agbada? How ridiculous can some people be?

Another story. The journalist Lindsay Barret had been a long time friend of the President. One day, he sent me to give his greetings. When I did, the President said: “Lindsay Barret. I remember meeting him at the war front in 1968. He was covering the war. There was a day he was almost killed in an ambush, and he then described himself as a ‘devout coward,’ who was lucky to be alive.”

Jubril of Sudan? And he remembers Barret, whom he met at the warfront in 1968? Tell it to the marines.

Ask me for a loyal man, who never forgets a good turn, and I’ll show you Muhammadu Buhari. Among the last class of Ambassadors, he had personally picked Justice George Oguntade, who was sent to United Kingdom, and Justice Sylvester Nsofor, who he deployed to America. The latter died only last week, aged 85.

How did the two men gain the favour, loyalty and respect of the President? In his many legal battles after disputed election results in 2003, and 2007, they had given dissenting judgements at both the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, nullifying the election results, saying Candidate Buhari had been cheated. The man never forgot, and sought them out in due time. The same also happened to some of us working with him today.

A kind man. I have lots of stories to tell, but let me restrict myself to a few. In December 2015, I had lost my elder sister, a Professor of Dramatic Arts, in an auto crash. While I was crying like a wailing wailer, who was on the phone, consoling and condoling with me? Muhammadu Buhari.

And before he became President, when my mother passed on in 2013, and we had a commendation service for her in Lagos, who flew in all the way from Kaduna to attend? Muhammadu Buhari. He sat through the Christian service. Yet, they say he’s a bigot. I hear. Bigot from Sudan.

And in January 2017, I was to receive the traditional title of Nwanne di Namba of Mmaku Kingdom, in Enugu State. Courtesy demanded I tell the President. This man, who prides himself as ‘very stingy’ gave me a handsome amount of money to ferry my friends and family to the ceremony. How much? I won’t tell you, lest you ask for a belated share.

And in May 2018, I was billed for China for a 12 days course for senior government officials from Africa. He said when the journey was two days away, I should come to see him. I did. You know what he said? “Adesina, I know that you don’t have money. But you are too shy to ask.” We both laughed, and he gave me an envelope which contained foreign currency. How much? You think I’ll tell you? For where?

This President is a patriot. He loves this country dearly. A man of personal discipline. Single minded about the infrastructural development of the country. And he’s succeeding at it. I have loads of stories to tell to justify each virtue. But time and space won’t permit.

However, let me tell this final one, as told to me by a retired Colonel of the Nigerian Army.

He said he was a Major at the Second Mechanized Division, Ibadan, when the then Major General was posted there in early 1983, as General Officer Commanding.

There was a cocktail reception, billed for 8 pm. Fifteen minutes to the time, the new GOC walked briskly in. Only a sprinkle of officers had arrived. He moved round the venue, surveying the place, and at the dot of 8 pm, with the hall still scanty, he went to the gate, and directed the sergeant-major on duty to lock the inner one firmly, admitting nobody.
Nobody.
Yes sir!
The GOC went back inside, held the cocktail with the few officers available. Event over, he went back to the gate, to see the battery of latecomer officers huddled there. He surveyed them, and then instructed:
All of you, see me in the office tomorrow by 8 am.
Yes sir!
The GOC walked briskly away. And you know what? As early as 6 am next day, most of the officers had reported in his office. Once bitten, twice shy.

At 78, the President still scrupulously respects time. Do they make them like this anymore? Doubtful.

Yet, many people are plotting, and engineering all sorts of artifices, to ensure Buhari does not succeed. Who loses? The country!

There is this classic Yoruba film, Saworoide, which I watched years back. Adebayo Faleti, who wrote and starred in the film, looked at the stratagems and underhand dealings of man. And he sang, rather philosophically: Koi ye won, yio ye won lola.

Translated freely, it means: They don’t understand today. They’ll understand tomorrow.

It’s better for a lot more cynical Nigerians to understand this President today, rather than tomorrow, for the good of the country. That would be the best birthday gift they can give him.

*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity

PMB your ministers are trying PLS let the service security chiefs go and flush Bokoharam//IPOB/Hoodlums/Headmen/Bandit

We need security of life and properties

The second Niger Bridge
2. The Warri-Itakpe rail line
3. The Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Expressway
4. The Ilorin-Bode Sadu-Jebba Road
5. The Implementation of the TSA and BVN
6. The Lagos-Ibadan rail line
7. The approval for the establishment of 6 colleges of education in Benue, Bauchi, Sokoto, Ebonyi, Osun and Benue states
8. The Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Gas Pipeline
9. National Cancer Center in Lagos State
10. The Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
11. The construction of Oju-Loko-Oweto bridge connecting Benue and Nasarawa states to the Eastern and Western States.
12. Discoveries and collection of looted funds and transfer of over N500 billion from EFCC to FG purse. Subsequent conviction of perpetrators to correctional facilities.
13. Construction of Gombe-Biu road
14. Payments of pension arrears to 3,542 Delta steel pensioners.
15. Ongoing work on the 700MW Zungeru hydro power supply in Niger State
16. Completion of 40MW Kashambilla hydro power Station
17. Payments of pension arrears to Nitel staff
18. Dredging of the Onne port in Rivers State
19. Dredging of the Calabar Port in Cross River state
20. $3.9 billion Warri seaports.
21. Completion of Abuja-Kaduna rail line.
22. Reconstruction of Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja. 23. Reconstruction of Aminu Kano International Airport Kano
24. Reconstruction of Port Harcourt International Airport Port Harcourt
25. Construction of new Tower & second Runway for Murtala Mohammed International Airport I Lagos
26. Reconstruction of the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu.
27. National Cancer Center in Kano state
28. Nigeria Army University in Biu, Borno State.
29. Nigeria Maritime University, Delta State
30. Nigeria Airforce University, Bauchi state
31. Nigeria Airforce Hospital, Daura, Katsina state.
32. Presidential Fertilizer Initiative on fertilizer saw a disruption from importation to local production of over 10 million tonnes.
33. Payments of pensions to ex Biafran soldiers.
34. National Cancer Center in Umuahia, Abia state.
35. Implementation of the FG N30,000 minimum wage
36. Approval for N33,000 minimum allawee to NYSC
37. Inauguration of Baro ports at 28% status.
38. Purchase of 38 brand new fighter jets for the Nigeria Airforce.
39. National Housing Program across Nigeria. To build 300,000 houses in all, over 25,000 houses of low, medium and high income in all the 6 geopolitical zones.
40. Construction of Konar Dumawa-Kunya-Babura to Níger Republic
41. Construction of Gaya-Jahun-Kafin Hausa road in Jigawa state
42. Total overhaul of Nigeria Army weaponry through purchase of armoured carriers from China and Russia
43. Establishment of Federal University of Agriculture in Zuru, Kebbi state.
44. Completion of the Zobe dam in Katsina state.
45. Approval and released of N75 BILLION Farmers money to cover for agricultural activities as first batch to states.
46. N20 billion Credit loan of N10,000 to 2 million Nigerians.
47. Engagement of 500,000 Nigerians and payment of N30,000 monthly for 3 years in Batch B of the Npower scheme.
48. Payment of N5,000 each monthly to 3.2 million vulnerable Nigerians in the last two years.
49. Establishment of the Federal University of Transportation in Katsina.
50. Four (4) rehabilitated and reconstructed roads in BUK in Kano state.
51. 2.8MW solar power plant in Federal University of Technology in Eboyin state.
52. Provision of 2MW solar power plant in Bayero university in Kano state
53. Supply of solar panel grid for power supply to Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Anambra state.
54. Completion of the Abuja airport-City center rail line.
55. Ongoing total overhaul of the power sector with the FG/Siemens 25,000 power generation transmission and distribution power road map. FG already paid N8.7 billion counterpart funding.
56. Ongoing reconstruction of the Enugu-Port Harcourt dual carriageway.
57. Ongoing reconstruction of the Onitsha-Enugu Expressway
58. Ongoing reconstruction of the Benin-Ofosu-Ore-Shagamu Expressway
59. Ongoing dualization of the Ibadan-Ilorin Expressway
60. Ongoing rehabilitation and expansion of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway
61. Ongoing rehabilitation of the Lagos-Otta road
62. Ongoing dualization of the Obajana junction-Auchi-Ehor-Benin road.
63. Ongoing reconstruction of the Enugu-Port Harcourt DCW Aba-Port Harcourt section.
64. Ongoing construction of the Ikom Bridge in Cross River State.
66. Ongoing dualization of Sapele-Ewu road in Delta State.
67. Ongoing reconstruction of the Alesi-Iyamoyung-Ugep road in Akwa-Ibom state.
68. Ongoing dualization of the Suleja-Lambatta-Minna road in Niger State.
69. Ongoing construction of the Gwagwalada-Abaji-Kotonkarfe-Lokoja Expressway
70. Ongoing reconstruction of the Bida-Lapai-Lambatta road in Niger State.
71. Ongoing reconstruction of the Makurdi-Naka-Adoka-Ankpa road.
72. Construction of road linking Baro ports to Gulu town in Niger State.
73. Ongoing Keffi-Akwanga-Lafia-Makurdi Expressway
74. Ongoing dualization of Akwanga-Jos-Bauchu-Gombe Expressway
75. Ongoing dualization of the Kano-Maiduguri Expressway Shuari link to Azare to Potiskum to Damaturu to Maiduguri.
76. Ongoing rehabilitation of Gwoza-Damboa-Goriri road in Borno State (Commencing)
77. Ongoing reconstruction of the Mayo-Jada-Ganye-Tougo road in Adamawa state.
78. Commencement of the construction of the Ibi Bridge in Taraba state linking PLATEAU, Benue and other states.
79. Ongoing rehabilitation of the Nguru-Gashua-Bayamari road(Just awarded as work is commencing soon)
80. Ongoing reconstruction of the Kano-Maiduguri Expressway linking Wudil to Shuari.
81. Ongoing dualization of the Kano-Katsina Expressway.
82. Approval for the Kano-Kaduna rail line.
83. $5.3 billion approval for the Ibadan-Ilorin--Minna-Kaduna-Kano rail line.
84. Establishment of the Nigeria/Chinese train coaches and wagon workshop and training center in Ogun state.
85. Ongoing construction of the Kaduna eastern bypass.
86. Ongoing construction of the Kano Western bypass.
87. Rehabilitation of the Sokoto -Jega-Kontagora-Makera road across Sokoto, Kebbi and Niger States.
88. Establishment of the N75B Nigeria Youth Investment Fund. Youth Bank
89. Establishment and commencement of the N/East Development Commission.
90. Bailing off 27 failed states unable to pay salaries in 2015.
91. The establishment of the N50 billion Household TCP
92. Recruitment of 10,000 police officers in 2015/2016
93. Putting up the Covid-19 financial support for SMEs. N50 billion for payroll support, N200 billion for loans to artisans and N10 billion to private transport companies 94. School feeding program sees the feeding of 9.1 million pupils in 32 states of the federation.
95. Total overhauling of the Ajaokuta steel company with the released of over N10 billion as counterpart funding to the Russians
96.Approval and commission of the Ariaria IPP in Abia 97. Approval and Commissioned of the 10MW IPP at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
98. Ongoing recruitment of 400,000 police to reinforce the wide gap for effective community policing.
99. Ongoing recruitment of 400,000 for the Batch C Npower program.
100. Payments of the backlog of pension arrears to 9,216 federal government pensioners in 2018. N24 billion was paid and all payroll into the system.

Jara:
101.Commissioning of the Ogbia national water scheme project in Bayelsa.
102.N20 billion Covid-19 financial support to pharmaceutical companies in ��.
103. Discovery and stoppage of 85,000 police ghost workers, 50,000 federal ghost workers all amounting to N6.1 billion and N13b respectively
104. Ongoing recruitment of 774,000 social workers across the country

This man doesn't realize that there is a difference between a being good person and being a good president, Donald trump is a good president and but a bad person, buhari is a good person but a terrible president.. Between USA and Nigeria, which is suffering the most? What we need is a good president pls


All what he's saying is about buhari being a good person to the people surrounding him, what about the people he rules over who live far away from him can they say this same thing about him... He's the president of Nigeria no one cares him he gives the his spokesman foreign currency what we care about is how he governs us.

This man will not die well

Nice write-up. Mr Adesina is just doing is job and he is doing it diligently. He is a good publicist.

Femi is clearly loyal to the President than the country. The country can perish for as far as He cares.

Imagine narrating how useful Buhari has been to friends and families as against His usefulness to the common man out there on the streets.

Corruption is still well seated from the Apex of Government down to the roots of the Local Government and one Man comes up to eulogise how angelic the president has been to himself and his cronies...

FEMI...you will be duly rewarded whilst you're here on earth.
God, Allah can never ever be Man...at all

Slave!!! I wish you and your soul in the afterlife exactly what you and your master buhari have gotten Nigeria into.

So the photographer has to lie down to make the SHORT VP look tall, na wa for this govt of deceits oo. Everything about them stinks

And in May 2018, I was billed for China for a 12 days course for senior government officials from Africa. He said when the journey was two days away, I should come to see him. I did. You know what he said? “Adesina, I know that you don’t have money. But you are too shy to ask.” We both laughed, and he gave me an envelope which contained foreign currency. How much? You think I’ll tell you? For where?

And in January 2017, I was to receive the traditional title of Nwanne di Namba of Mmaku Kingdom, in Enugu State. Courtesy demanded I tell the President. This man, who prides himself as ‘very stingy’ gave me a handsome amount of money to ferry my friends and family to the ceremony. How much? I won’t tell you, lest you ask for a belated share.

So this is how you people have been sharing our money in aso rock?
Same Buhari who does not have money to buy presidential nomination form in 2019 is sharing dollars and naira upandan.
No wonder this one is writing egbere epistles.
Who wouldn't water wherever his bread is buttered?
Besides, was he not going for an official function? Won't he be paid estacodes and other travel allowances in hard currency? What exactly is the money for then?
My people are you seeing what I'm seeing?

olatuns2017:



68. Ongoing dualization of the Suleja-Lambatta-Minna road in Niger State.
69. Ongoing construction of the Gwagwalada-Abaji-Kotonkarfe-Lokoja Expressway
70. Ongoing reconstruction of the Bida-Lapai-Lambatta road in Niger State.
72. Construction of road linking Baro ports to Gulu town in Niger State.

104. Ongoing recruitment of 774,000 social workers across the country

#AOO

Cancel that 68-72. Na lie. Nothing going on in those places.
As for 104, it's been suspended by HoR

hardewaih:
This man doesn't realize that there is a difference between a being good person and being a good president, Donald trump is a good president and but a bad person, buhari is a good person but a terrible president.. Between USA and Nigeria, which is suffering the most? What we need is a good president pls


All what he's saying is about buhari being a good person to the people surrounding him, what about the people he rules over who live far away from him can they say this same thing about him... He's the president of Nigeria no one cares him he gives the his spokesman foreign currency what we care about is how he governs us.

My Brother...to a very great extent. His eulogy on Buhar is very shallow and personal. Nigga is only telling us how Good Buhari is to him

i comment my reserve

presidency:
Ask for a President beleaguered from all sides, and I’ll show you Muhammadu Buhari, the ramrod straight man from Daura, in Katsina State, who turns 78 today.

In the build up to the 2015 presidential election, we used to say everything had been thrown at him as projectiles, except the kitchen sink. Permit me to update that expression. Today, everything possible has been thrown at President Buhari, including the kitchen sink. Anything. Everything. Fake news. Hate speech. Lies. False propaganda. Evil thoughts. Malediction. Odium. Opprobrium. Ogbunigwe. Ogulutu.Surface to air missiles. All offensive weapons. But the man trudges on. Calmly, sedately, peacefully.

If only more Nigerians knew this President. If only they knew the essential Buhari, the quintessential patriot and gentleman, they would behave differently, handle him with more care, and show him more kindness. Yes, everyone needs kindness, even Presidents.

Remember that song by Mary Mc Kee and The Genesis?
You’ve got to try a little kindness
Yes, show a little kindness
Just shine your light for everyone to see
And if you try a little kindness
Then you’ll overlook the blindness
Of narrow-minded people, on narrow-minded streets.

Too many people have chosen to believe the wrong things about President Buhari, and have ossified their minds against the truth. But then, those of us who have had the privilege to work with him, studied and known him at close quarters, have a duty to tell what we have seen. And what better day to do it, than on his birthday.

Oh, he eats from the President. What else would he say than to sing his praises. True? False. If need be, I will serve this President for free. I consider it a great privilege to serve a man I admire. Even gratis.

Somebody commented that a blitzkrieg has been launched against Buhari and the government he leads, from all quarters. Some elements in the media, human rights groups, so-called activists, NGOs, Boko Haram, ISWAP, all at once. But is Buhari the loser? Not at all. It’s the country that ultimately loses, just as Eric Donaldson sang in ‘Little Did You Know:’
You think that you are hurting me
But little did you know you are only hurting yourself
Little did you know you are only hurting yourself.

In about two years and five months, with God being merciful as He always is, President Buhari will land safely, and retire to Daura for a well-deserved retirement at 80. And if those engineering distraction against his government continue, it is the country that would have lost. A great deal.

What are the things some people hurl against the President, which shows that they don’t know him at all?

He’s a religious bigot. Really? I’ve not seen a scintilla of evidence in the past five years. Every Christmas and Easter holiday, he calls those of us who are Christians, working with him, and asks us to stay off work, and enjoy the season with our families. That’s not the way of bigots, who would never acknowledge any religion, except their own.

As a military commander, history has it that Buhari would always give soldiers working under him time to go for worship on Sunday mornings, just as he did to the Muslims on Fridays. Yet, bigot, bigot, some people continue to shout.

He’s a Fulani, he rears cows, and all Fulani herdsmen are criminals, that’s why he tolerates them. Really? Some people even say all Fulani are herdsmen, whether they see them with cattle or not. Truth is; every ethnic stock has its deviants, its criminal elements. You can’t just demonize all Fulani, simply because you want to excoriate the President. Did he choose to be born Fulani? Did I choose to be born Yoruba, and did the Ishan, Idoma or Ijaw man choose the ethnic stock he wanted to be born into? It’s a biological accident. You have nothing to do with it. A man then doesn’t go repudiating where he comes from, simply because some people have decided to tar his people with the brush of infamy.

He’s nepotistic. A common refrain, but non-scientific. About three years ago, we did a scientific exercise. We chronicled all the appointments made by the President since 2015, and allocated them to states and regions. The result showed that the Southwest had the largest share. Followed by Imo and Kano states. Then Edo and Katsina. And on and on. But the naysayers ignored facts and figures, and stuck to their false narratives. Nepotism.

One day, the President had given me an appointment to announce in the early days of the administration. By then, some people had started talking of northernisation agenda. So I said, “Mr President, this is the murmur we hear. Why don’t you consider giving this position to another part of the country?”

He looked at me calmly, smiled, and said: “If a search has been conducted for a position, and someone has been thrown up as the best candidate. And I then bypass him because of where he comes from, or because of his religion, haven’t I been unfair to that person?”

Food for thought, indeed.

This is Jubril from Sudan and not Muhammadu Buhari, who had died during the medical vacation in 2017, some people say. You have a clone in Aso Villa, not Buhari. Idiocy, sadly believed by even some intellectuals.

Let me tell you a story. On the day the President finally returned to the country in August 2017, after months of absence, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Abayomi Olonisakin, was giving out his daughter in marriage. I had attended the church service, decked unusually in complete Agbada, with cap to match. From the wedding, I went straight to the airport to join the reception party.

We formed a welcome line, as we usually do. And as the President shook each person, he had one wisecrack or the other to say. When he got to me, he took my hand and said: “Adesina, this is the best I’ve seen you dressed.” We both laughed heartily, and the television cameras captured it. I remember that many people asked me later what had tickled me and the President, that we laughed so uproariously.

Jubril from Sudan? Would he know my name as Adesina? Would he know I rarely wear Agbada? How ridiculous can some people be?

Another story. The journalist Lindsay Barret had been a long time friend of the President. One day, he sent me to give his greetings. When I did, the President said: “Lindsay Barret. I remember meeting him at the war front in 1968. He was covering the war. There was a day he was almost killed in an ambush, and he then described himself as a ‘devout coward,’ who was lucky to be alive.”

Jubril of Sudan? And he remembers Barret, whom he met at the warfront in 1968? Tell it to the marines.

Ask me for a loyal man, who never forgets a good turn, and I’ll show you Muhammadu Buhari. Among the last class of Ambassadors, he had personally picked Justice George Oguntade, who was sent to United Kingdom, and Justice Sylvester Nsofor, who he deployed to America. The latter died only last week, aged 85.

How did the two men gain the favour, loyalty and respect of the President? In his many legal battles after disputed election results in 2003, and 2007, they had given dissenting judgements at both the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, nullifying the election results, saying Candidate Buhari had been cheated. The man never forgot, and sought them out in due time. The same also happened to some of us working with him today.

A kind man. I have lots of stories to tell, but let me restrict myself to a few. In December 2015, I had lost my elder sister, a Professor of Dramatic Arts, in an auto crash. While I was crying like a wailing wailer, who was on the phone, consoling and condoling with me? Muhammadu Buhari.

And before he became President, when my mother passed on in 2013, and we had a commendation service for her in Lagos, who flew in all the way from Kaduna to attend? Muhammadu Buhari. He sat through the Christian service. Yet, they say he’s a bigot. I hear. Bigot from Sudan.

And in January 2017, I was to receive the traditional title of Nwanne di Namba of Mmaku Kingdom, in Enugu State. Courtesy demanded I tell the President. This man, who prides himself as ‘very stingy’ gave me a handsome amount of money to ferry my friends and family to the ceremony. How much? I won’t tell you, lest you ask for a belated share.

And in May 2018, I was billed for China for a 12 days course for senior government officials from Africa. He said when the journey was two days away, I should come to see him. I did. You know what he said? “Adesina, I know that you don’t have money. But you are too shy to ask.” We both laughed, and he gave me an envelope which contained foreign currency. How much? You think I’ll tell you? For where?

This President is a patriot. He loves this country dearly. A man of personal discipline. Single minded about the infrastructural development of the country. And he’s succeeding at it. I have loads of stories to tell to justify each virtue. But time and space won’t permit.

However, let me tell this final one, as told to me by a retired Colonel of the Nigerian Army.

He said he was a Major at the Second Mechanized Division, Ibadan, when the then Major General was posted there in early 1983, as General Officer Commanding.

There was a cocktail reception, billed for 8 pm. Fifteen minutes to the time, the new GOC walked briskly in. Only a sprinkle of officers had arrived. He moved round the venue, surveying the place, and at the dot of 8 pm, with the hall still scanty, he went to the gate, and directed the sergeant-major on duty to lock the inner one firmly, admitting nobody.
Nobody.
Yes sir!
The GOC went back inside, held the cocktail with the few officers available. Event over, he went back to the gate, to see the battery of latecomer officers huddled there. He surveyed them, and then instructed:
All of you, see me in the office tomorrow by 8 am.
Yes sir!
The GOC walked briskly away. And you know what? As early as 6 am next day, most of the officers had reported in his office. Once bitten, twice shy.

At 78, the President still scrupulously respects time. Do they make them like this anymore? Doubtful.

Yet, many people are plotting, and engineering all sorts of artifices, to ensure Buhari does not succeed. Who loses? The country!

There is this classic Yoruba film, Saworoide, which I watched years back. Adebayo Faleti, who wrote and starred in the film, looked at the stratagems and underhand dealings of man. And he sang, rather philosophically: Koi ye won, yio ye won lola.

Translated freely, it means: They don’t understand today. They’ll understand tomorrow.

It’s better for a lot more cynical Nigerians to understand this President today, rather than tomorrow, for the good of the country. That would be the best birthday gift they can give him.



*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity

God knows I didn't click this link just to read this long epistle, the story of my life is not up to this epistle

Good people are most times marked by a track record of unecessary persecution.
BUHARI is surely not the bad man he is painted to be.
May God be with him.

post=97149929:
I HATE TRAINS.
I HATE BRIDGES.
I HATE RICE.
I HATE TALLEST BUILDING EAST OF THE NIGER


Let me give the background to this piece. I was reading some comments on Twitter early in the week, when I ran into this one by one Dr Ben Gbenro: “Why are some people allergic to good news about Nigeria? You are angry about the test-run of Lagos-Ibadan rail, you are angry about the development in Onne Port, but will eagerly amplify any negative news even if it’s not true. Something is wrong with you and I am here to tell you.”

Of course, that comment generated responses, both positive and negative. But the one that caught my fancy specially was by Ayekooto, who declared: “We have got to a stage when GMB achievements can no longer be denied but hated. I hate trains. I hate bridges. I hate rice.”

Very profound. A lot of people can no longer deny the many achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari, particularly in the area of infrastructure, building a new Nigeria, and so, they have decided to hate it. Sad. Very sad.

Nobody can deny that there are very serious challenges in the country, particularly in the areas of security, the economy, and standard of living generally. But that is not all there is to Nigeria of today, and those challenges are being addressed very robustly. That hymn says “behind a frowning providence, He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, unfolding every hour.” We will surely see an end to the challenges, if we all work together, and eschew hate speeches.

Why then do some people choose to see and amplify only negative things? Why do they choose to remain willfully blind and deaf to positive things? And surrounded and confronted by salutary developments, they keep repeating; what has the Buhari administration achieved? Show us.

You tell them that just last weekend, there was a test run of the Lagos-Ibadan rail project, with brand new coaches that will begin commercial operation before the end of the year.That is happening in a country where we were told we couldn’t afford new coaches when our oil was selling at over 100 dollars per barrel. Now, at about 40 dollars per barrel, we are launching new coaches. Instead of giving credit to a prudent government, they just say; I hate trains.

Okay, if you hate trains, what of brand new airports in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano, Enugu, and others in the works? There was a time we were said to parade the worst airports in the world. But not any longer. Buhari reversed it in his four years. What do they say about that? They look up, look down, scratch their heads, and say; I hate airports. I’ve never even boarded a plane in my life, and I don’t want to board. Will I ever enter a plane if I’d been killed by bandits?

Okay. You hate airports and planes. What of bridges being built over rivers in different parts of the country, most especially the Second River Niger Bridge, which the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) built with mouth for 16 years. You tell them that the bridge is almost 50% done, and should be completed in the first quarter of 2022. There’s also the Loko-Oweto Bridge, linking Benue and Nasarawa States. It was started by a previous administration, but almost completed now. Like a cornered rat, their eyes dart furtively from corner to corner, seeking a hole to enter. Finding none, they tell you deadpan: I hate bridges.

Okay. All those are physical structures. So they want stomach infrastructure. You then tell them of the rice revolution, which has freed us from being a net importer of the product in the world. You point out that if Buhari hadn’t put his money where his mouth was, and encouraged us to go back to the land, causing rice farmers to rise from six to 12 million, we would have been in serious trouble when COVID-19 struck. How would we have imported rice, with all international borders closed, and no foreign exchange to even place orders? They pat their tummies gingerly, belch after a hearty meal, and then declare: I hate rice.

A Cancer Centre has been built and commissioned by President Buhari at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). An ultra-modern diagnostic center also built and commissioned in Kano. And just this week, another diagnostic centre built at a cost of $5.5 million, was commissioned at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, in Abia State. What do they say of all these? “I hate hospitals. May I never need to use any diagnostic centre. It is not my portion.”

You join them to say amen, since you don’t have a hateful heart. And you remind them that the largest ever vessel in the country, Maerskline Stadelhorn, with a length of 300 meters and width of 48 meters, berthed few days ago at Onne Port, in Rivers State. That is the biggest ever container vessel to berth in any part of Nigeria. Onne people were delirious with joy, and praised the government to high heavens, because no vessel had come to their port for 12 years, till August last year, under Buhari. You tell the naysayers the positive economic implications, but they refuse to listen. They dive under water, shouting as they go: We hate container vessels.

You then take them to Yenagoa, in Bayelsa State. Just last week, the skyline of South-south and South-East was transformed, as President Buhari commissioned the tallest Federal Government structure in the region, the 17-story Nigerian Content Tower, Headquarters of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB).

The architectural masterpiece occupies an area equivalent to four football fields, and has a 1,000 seater conference centre plus a 10 MW power plant. Started in late 2015, now completed, all under Buhari. Engineer Simbi Wabote, Executive Secretary of the agency paid tribute to the resolve, determination and encouragement of the President, that saw the structure to completion in record time. And Wabote, third E.S of NCDMB in its 10 years history, has written his name in gold. Just because he has a supportive President.

Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylvia, under whose tenure as Bayelsa State Governor the land was allocated for the project, declared: “The commissioning of this building is symbolic in many ways. It shows that Mr President is keen to see infrastructural development in every part of the country...It shows that skyscrapers and other laudable infrastructure can be built in the Niger Delta.”

But they say Buhari hasn’t achieved anything. You show them the 17-story building, and as they gaze skyward, their caps and headgear fall off. You pick the cap and headgear, dust and hand them back. And you ask, brothers and sisters, how now? Rather than admit defeat, they pull the caps and headgear over their eyes, and grumbled: We hate skyscrapers. They make us dizzy.

At that point, you pity them.
You realize that they need prayers.
They hate everything good.
They hate anything uplifting.
They hate development.
They hate their country.
They even hate themselves.


Once Again,,
Happy Birthday to our handsome darling Daddy.

To the enemies of the country,
Children of hate. Frustrations and perdition,
The anointing wey all of us @ carry,
No be una Papa mate!
No Cap!

As the news of the border reopening is fast spreading, those that would have been dead like this crew out of hunger now have the guts to talk.

post=97149929:
I HATE TRAINS.
I HATE BRIDGES.
I HATE RICE.
I HATE TALLEST BUILDING EAST OF THE NIGER


Let me give the background to this piece. I was reading some comments on Twitter early in the week, when I ran into this one by one Dr Ben Gbenro: “Why are some people allergic to good news about Nigeria? You are angry about the test-run of Lagos-Ibadan rail, you are angry about the development in Onne Port, but will eagerly amplify any negative news even if it’s not true. Something is wrong with you and I am here to tell you.”

Of course, that comment generated responses, both positive and negative. But the one that caught my fancy specially was by Ayekooto, who declared: “We have got to a stage when GMB achievements can no longer be denied but hated. I hate trains. I hate bridges. I hate rice.”

Very profound. A lot of people can no longer deny the many achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari, particularly in the area of infrastructure, building a new Nigeria, and so, they have decided to hate it. Sad. Very sad.

Nobody can deny that there are very serious challenges in the country, particularly in the areas of security, the economy, and standard of living generally. But that is not all there is to Nigeria of today, and those challenges are being addressed very robustly. That hymn says “behind a frowning providence, He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, unfolding every hour.” We will surely see an end to the challenges, if we all work together, and eschew hate speeches.

Why then do some people choose to see and amplify only negative things? Why do they choose to remain willfully blind and deaf to positive things? And surrounded and confronted by salutary developments, they keep repeating; what has the Buhari administration achieved? Show us.

You tell them that just last weekend, there was a test run of the Lagos-Ibadan rail project, with brand new coaches that will begin commercial operation before the end of the year.That is happening in a country where we were told we couldn’t afford new coaches when our oil was selling at over 100 dollars per barrel. Now, at about 40 dollars per barrel, we are launching new coaches. Instead of giving credit to a prudent government, they just say; I hate trains.

Okay, if you hate trains, what of brand new airports in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano, Enugu, and others in the works? There was a time we were said to parade the worst airports in the world. But not any longer. Buhari reversed it in his four years. What do they say about that? They look up, look down, scratch their heads, and say; I hate airports. I’ve never even boarded a plane in my life, and I don’t want to board. Will I ever enter a plane if I’d been killed by bandits?

Okay. You hate airports and planes. What of bridges being built over rivers in different parts of the country, most especially the Second River Niger Bridge, which the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) built with mouth for 16 years. You tell them that the bridge is almost 50% done, and should be completed in the first quarter of 2022. There’s also the Loko-Oweto Bridge, linking Benue and Nasarawa States. It was started by a previous administration, but almost completed now. Like a cornered rat, their eyes dart furtively from corner to corner, seeking a hole to enter. Finding none, they tell you deadpan: I hate bridges.

Okay. All those are physical structures. So they want stomach infrastructure. You then tell them of the rice revolution, which has freed us from being a net importer of the product in the world. You point out that if Buhari hadn’t put his money where his mouth was, and encouraged us to go back to the land, causing rice farmers to rise from six to 12 million, we would have been in serious trouble when COVID-19 struck. How would we have imported rice, with all international borders closed, and no foreign exchange to even place orders? They pat their tummies gingerly, belch after a hearty meal, and then declare: I hate rice.

A Cancer Centre has been built and commissioned by President Buhari at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). An ultra-modern diagnostic center also built and commissioned in Kano. And just this week, another diagnostic centre built at a cost of $5.5 million, was commissioned at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, in Abia State. What do they say of all these? “I hate hospitals. May I never need to use any diagnostic centre. It is not my portion.”

You join them to say amen, since you don’t have a hateful heart. And you remind them that the largest ever vessel in the country, Maerskline Stadelhorn, with a length of 300 meters and width of 48 meters, berthed few days ago at Onne Port, in Rivers State. That is the biggest ever container vessel to berth in any part of Nigeria. Onne people were delirious with joy, and praised the government to high heavens, because no vessel had come to their port for 12 years, till August last year, under Buhari. You tell the naysayers the positive economic implications, but they refuse to listen. They dive under water, shouting as they go: We hate container vessels.

You then take them to Yenagoa, in Bayelsa State. Just last week, the skyline of South-south and South-East was transformed, as President Buhari commissioned the tallest Federal Government structure in the region, the 17-story Nigerian Content Tower, Headquarters of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB).

The architectural masterpiece occupies an area equivalent to four football fields, and has a 1,000 seater conference centre plus a 10 MW power plant. Started in late 2015, now completed, all under Buhari. Engineer Simbi Wabote, Executive Secretary of the agency paid tribute to the resolve, determination and encouragement of the President, that saw the structure to completion in record time. And Wabote, third E.S of NCDMB in its 10 years history, has written his name in gold. Just because he has a supportive President.

Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylvia, under whose tenure as Bayelsa State Governor the land was allocated for the project, declared: “The commissioning of this building is symbolic in many ways. It shows that Mr President is keen to see infrastructural development in every part of the country...It shows that skyscrapers and other laudable infrastructure can be built in the Niger Delta.”

But they say Buhari hasn’t achieved anything. You show them the 17-story building, and as they gaze skyward, their caps and headgear fall off. You pick the cap and headgear, dust and hand them back. And you ask, brothers and sisters, how now? Rather than admit defeat, they pull the caps and headgear over their eyes, and grumbled: We hate skyscrapers. They make us dizzy.

At that point, you pity them.
You realize that they need prayers.
They hate everything good.
They hate anything uplifting.
They hate development.
They hate their country.
They even hate themselves.


Once Again,,
Happy Birthday to our handsome darling Daddy.

To the enemies of the country,
Children of hate. Frustrations and perdition,
The anointing wey all of us @ carry,
No be una Papa mate!
No Cap!

Wahala for who no dey asslick bubu.

presidency:
Ask for a President beleaguered from all sides, and I’ll show you Muhammadu Buhari, the ramrod straight man from Daura, in Katsina State, who turns 78 today.

In the build up to the 2015 presidential election, we used to say everything had been thrown at him as projectiles, except the kitchen sink. Permit me to update that expression. Today, everything possible has been thrown at President Buhari, including the kitchen sink. Anything. Everything. Fake news. Hate speech. Lies. False propaganda. Evil thoughts. Malediction. Odium. Opprobrium. Ogbunigwe. Ogulutu.Surface to air missiles. All offensive weapons. But the man trudges on. Calmly, sedately, peacefully.

If only more Nigerians knew this President. If only they knew the essential Buhari, the quintessential patriot and gentleman, they would behave differently, handle him with more care, and show him more kindness. Yes, everyone needs kindness, even Presidents.

Remember that song by Mary Mc Kee and The Genesis?
You’ve got to try a little kindness
Yes, show a little kindness
Just shine your light for everyone to see
And if you try a little kindness
Then you’ll overlook the blindness
Of narrow-minded people, on narrow-minded streets.

Too many people have chosen to believe the wrong things about President Buhari, and have ossified their minds against the truth. But then, those of us who have had the privilege to work with him, studied and known him at close quarters, have a duty to tell what we have seen. And what better day to do it, than on his birthday.

Oh, he eats from the President. What else would he say than to sing his praises. True? False. If need be, I will serve this President for free. I consider it a great privilege to serve a man I admire. Even gratis.

Somebody commented that a blitzkrieg has been launched against Buhari and the government he leads, from all quarters. Some elements in the media, human rights groups, so-called activists, NGOs, Boko Haram, ISWAP, all at once. But is Buhari the loser? Not at all. It’s the country that ultimately loses, just as Eric Donaldson sang in ‘Little Did You Know:’
You think that you are hurting me
But little did you know you are only hurting yourself
Little did you know you are only hurting yourself.

In about two years and five months, with God being merciful as He always is, President Buhari will land safely, and retire to Daura for a well-deserved retirement at 80. And if those engineering distraction against his government continue, it is the country that would have lost. A great deal.

What are the things some people hurl against the President, which shows that they don’t know him at all?

He’s a religious bigot. Really? I’ve not seen a scintilla of evidence in the past five years. Every Christmas and Easter holiday, he calls those of us who are Christians, working with him, and asks us to stay off work, and enjoy the season with our families. That’s not the way of bigots, who would never acknowledge any religion, except their own.

As a military commander, history has it that Buhari would always give soldiers working under him time to go for worship on Sunday mornings, just as he did to the Muslims on Fridays. Yet, bigot, bigot, some people continue to shout.

He’s a Fulani, he rears cows, and all Fulani herdsmen are criminals, that’s why he tolerates them. Really? Some people even say all Fulani are herdsmen, whether they see them with cattle or not. Truth is; every ethnic stock has its deviants, its criminal elements. You can’t just demonize all Fulani, simply because you want to excoriate the President. Did he choose to be born Fulani? Did I choose to be born Yoruba, and did the Ishan, Idoma or Ijaw man choose the ethnic stock he wanted to be born into? It’s a biological accident. You have nothing to do with it. A man then doesn’t go repudiating where he comes from, simply because some people have decided to tar his people with the brush of infamy.

He’s nepotistic. A common refrain, but non-scientific. About three years ago, we did a scientific exercise. We chronicled all the appointments made by the President since 2015, and allocated them to states and regions. The result showed that the Southwest had the largest share. Followed by Imo and Kano states. Then Edo and Katsina. And on and on. But the naysayers ignored facts and figures, and stuck to their false narratives. Nepotism.

One day, the President had given me an appointment to announce in the early days of the administration. By then, some people had started talking of northernisation agenda. So I said, “Mr President, this is the murmur we hear. Why don’t you consider giving this position to another part of the country?”

He looked at me calmly, smiled, and said: “If a search has been conducted for a position, and someone has been thrown up as the best candidate. And I then bypass him because of where he comes from, or because of his religion, haven’t I been unfair to that person?”

Food for thought, indeed.

This is Jubril from Sudan and not Muhammadu Buhari, who had died during the medical vacation in 2017, some people say. You have a clone in Aso Villa, not Buhari. Idiocy, sadly believed by even some intellectuals.

Let me tell you a story. On the day the President finally returned to the country in August 2017, after months of absence, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Abayomi Olonisakin, was giving out his daughter in marriage. I had attended the church service, decked unusually in complete Agbada, with cap to match. From the wedding, I went straight to the airport to join the reception party.

We formed a welcome line, as we usually do. And as the President shook each person, he had one wisecrack or the other to say. When he got to me, he took my hand and said: “Adesina, this is the best I’ve seen you dressed.” We both laughed heartily, and the television cameras captured it. I remember that many people asked me later what had tickled me and the President, that we laughed so uproariously.

Jubril from Sudan? Would he know my name as Adesina? Would he know I rarely wear Agbada? How ridiculous can some people be?

Another story. The journalist Lindsay Barret had been a long time friend of the President. One day, he sent me to give his greetings. When I did, the President said: “Lindsay Barret. I remember meeting him at the war front in 1968. He was covering the war. There was a day he was almost killed in an ambush, and he then described himself as a ‘devout coward,’ who was lucky to be alive.”

Jubril of Sudan? And he remembers Barret, whom he met at the warfront in 1968? Tell it to the marines.

Ask me for a loyal man, who never forgets a good turn, and I’ll show you Muhammadu Buhari. Among the last class of Ambassadors, he had personally picked Justice George Oguntade, who was sent to United Kingdom, and Justice Sylvester Nsofor, who he deployed to America. The latter died only last week, aged 85.

How did the two men gain the favour, loyalty and respect of the President? In his many legal battles after disputed election results in 2003, and 2007, they had given dissenting judgements at both the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, nullifying the election results, saying Candidate Buhari had been cheated. The man never forgot, and sought them out in due time. The same also happened to some of us working with him today.

A kind man. I have lots of stories to tell, but let me restrict myself to a few. In December 2015, I had lost my elder sister, a Professor of Dramatic Arts, in an auto crash. While I was crying like a wailing wailer, who was on the phone, consoling and condoling with me? Muhammadu Buhari.

And before he became President, when my mother passed on in 2013, and we had a commendation service for her in Lagos, who flew in all the way from Kaduna to attend? Muhammadu Buhari. He sat through the Christian service. Yet, they say he’s a bigot. I hear. Bigot from Sudan.

And in January 2017, I was to receive the traditional title of Nwanne di Namba of Mmaku Kingdom, in Enugu State. Courtesy demanded I tell the President. This man, who prides himself as ‘very stingy’ gave me a handsome amount of money to ferry my friends and family to the ceremony. How much? I won’t tell you, lest you ask for a belated share.

And in May 2018, I was billed for China for a 12 days course for senior government officials from Africa. He said when the journey was two days away, I should come to see him. I did. You know what he said? “Adesina, I know that you don’t have money. But you are too shy to ask.” We both laughed, and he gave me an envelope which contained foreign currency. How much? You think I’ll tell you? For where?

This President is a patriot. He loves this country dearly. A man of personal discipline. Single minded about the infrastructural development of the country. And he’s succeeding at it. I have loads of stories to tell to justify each virtue. But time and space won’t permit.

However, let me tell this final one, as told to me by a retired Colonel of the Nigerian Army.

He said he was a Major at the Second Mechanized Division, Ibadan, when the then Major General was posted there in early 1983, as General Officer Commanding.

There was a cocktail reception, billed for 8 pm. Fifteen minutes to the time, the new GOC walked briskly in. Only a sprinkle of officers had arrived. He moved round the venue, surveying the place, and at the dot of 8 pm, with the hall still scanty, he went to the gate, and directed the sergeant-major on duty to lock the inner one firmly, admitting nobody.
Nobody.
Yes sir!
The GOC went back inside, held the cocktail with the few officers available. Event over, he went back to the gate, to see the battery of latecomer officers huddled there. He surveyed them, and then instructed:
All of you, see me in the office tomorrow by 8 am.
Yes sir!
The GOC walked briskly away. And you know what? As early as 6 am next day, most of the officers had reported in his office. Once bitten, twice shy.

At 78, the President still scrupulously respects time. Do they make them like this anymore? Doubtful.

Yet, many people are plotting, and engineering all sorts of artifices, to ensure Buhari does not succeed. Who loses? The country!

There is this classic Yoruba film, Saworoide, which I watched years back. Adebayo Faleti, who wrote and starred in the film, looked at the stratagems and underhand dealings of man. And he sang, rather philosophically: Koi ye won, yio ye won lola.

Translated freely, it means: They don’t understand today. They’ll understand tomorrow.

It’s better for a lot more cynical Nigerians to understand this President today, rather than tomorrow, for the good of the country. That would be the best birthday gift they can give him.

*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity

No offense o
But this write up looks like an eulogy to a dead man.

presidency:
Ask for a President beleaguered from all sides, and I’ll show you Muhammadu Buhari, the ramrod straight man from Daura, in Katsina State, who turns 78 today.

In the build up to the 2015 presidential election, we used to say everything had been thrown at him as projectiles, except the kitchen sink. Permit me to update that expression. Today, everything possible has been thrown at President Buhari, including the kitchen sink. Anything. Everything. Fake news. Hate speech. Lies. False propaganda. Evil thoughts. Malediction. Odium. Opprobrium. Ogbunigwe. Ogulutu.Surface to air missiles. All offensive weapons. But the man trudges on. Calmly, sedately, peacefully.

If only more Nigerians knew this President. If only they knew the essential Buhari, the quintessential patriot and gentleman, they would behave differently, handle him with more care, and show him more kindness. Yes, everyone needs kindness, even Presidents.

Remember that song by Mary Mc Kee and The Genesis?
You’ve got to try a little kindness
Yes, show a little kindness
Just shine your light for everyone to see
And if you try a little kindness
Then you’ll overlook the blindness
Of narrow-minded people, on narrow-minded streets.

Too many people have chosen to believe the wrong things about President Buhari, and have ossified their minds against the truth. But then, those of us who have had the privilege to work with him, studied and known him at close quarters, have a duty to tell what we have seen. And what better day to do it, than on his birthday.

Oh, he eats from the President. What else would he say than to sing his praises. True? False. If need be, I will serve this President for free. I consider it a great privilege to serve a man I admire. Even gratis.

Somebody commented that a blitzkrieg has been launched against Buhari and the government he leads, from all quarters. Some elements in the media, human rights groups, so-called activists, NGOs, Boko Haram, ISWAP, all at once. But is Buhari the loser? Not at all. It’s the country that ultimately loses, just as Eric Donaldson sang in ‘Little Did You Know:’
You think that you are hurting me
But little did you know you are only hurting yourself
Little did you know you are only hurting yourself.

In about two years and five months, with God being merciful as He always is, President Buhari will land safely, and retire to Daura for a well-deserved retirement at 80. And if those engineering distraction against his government continue, it is the country that would have lost. A great deal.

What are the things some people hurl against the President, which shows that they don’t know him at all?

He’s a religious bigot. Really? I’ve not seen a scintilla of evidence in the past five years. Every Christmas and Easter holiday, he calls those of us who are Christians, working with him, and asks us to stay off work, and enjoy the season with our families. That’s not the way of bigots, who would never acknowledge any religion, except their own.

As a military commander, history has it that Buhari would always give soldiers working under him time to go for worship on Sunday mornings, just as he did to the Muslims on Fridays. Yet, bigot, bigot, some people continue to shout.

He’s a Fulani, he rears cows, and all Fulani herdsmen are criminals, that’s why he tolerates them. Really? Some people even say all Fulani are herdsmen, whether they see them with cattle or not. Truth is; every ethnic stock has its deviants, its criminal elements. You can’t just demonize all Fulani, simply because you want to excoriate the President. Did he choose to be born Fulani? Did I choose to be born Yoruba, and did the Ishan, Idoma or Ijaw man choose the ethnic stock he wanted to be born into? It’s a biological accident. You have nothing to do with it. A man then doesn’t go repudiating where he comes from, simply because some people have decided to tar his people with the brush of infamy.

He’s nepotistic. A common refrain, but non-scientific. About three years ago, we did a scientific exercise. We chronicled all the appointments made by the President since 2015, and allocated them to states and regions. The result showed that the Southwest had the largest share. Followed by Imo and Kano states. Then Edo and Katsina. And on and on. But the naysayers ignored facts and figures, and stuck to their false narratives. Nepotism.

One day, the President had given me an appointment to announce in the early days of the administration. By then, some people had started talking of northernisation agenda. So I said, “Mr President, this is the murmur we hear. Why don’t you consider giving this position to another part of the country?”

He looked at me calmly, smiled, and said: “If a search has been conducted for a position, and someone has been thrown up as the best candidate. And I then bypass him because of where he comes from, or because of his religion, haven’t I been unfair to that person?”

Food for thought, indeed.

This is Jubril from Sudan and not Muhammadu Buhari, who had died during the medical vacation in 2017, some people say. You have a clone in Aso Villa, not Buhari. Idiocy, sadly believed by even some intellectuals.

Let me tell you a story. On the day the President finally returned to the country in August 2017, after months of absence, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Abayomi Olonisakin, was giving out his daughter in marriage. I had attended the church service, decked unusually in complete Agbada, with cap to match. From the wedding, I went straight to the airport to join the reception party.

We formed a welcome line, as we usually do. And as the President shook each person, he had one wisecrack or the other to say. When he got to me, he took my hand and said: “Adesina, this is the best I’ve seen you dressed.” We both laughed heartily, and the television cameras captured it. I remember that many people asked me later what had tickled me and the President, that we laughed so uproariously.

Jubril from Sudan? Would he know my name as Adesina? Would he know I rarely wear Agbada? How ridiculous can some people be?

Another story. The journalist Lindsay Barret had been a long time friend of the President. One day, he sent me to give his greetings. When I did, the President said: “Lindsay Barret. I remember meeting him at the war front in 1968. He was covering the war. There was a day he was almost killed in an ambush, and he then described himself as a ‘devout coward,’ who was lucky to be alive.”

Jubril of Sudan? And he remembers Barret, whom he met at the warfront in 1968? Tell it to the marines.

Ask me for a loyal man, who never forgets a good turn, and I’ll show you Muhammadu Buhari. Among the last class of Ambassadors, he had personally picked Justice George Oguntade, who was sent to United Kingdom, and Justice Sylvester Nsofor, who he deployed to America. The latter died only last week, aged 85.

How did the two men gain the favour, loyalty and respect of the President? In his many legal battles after disputed election results in 2003, and 2007, they had given dissenting judgements at both the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, nullifying the election results, saying Candidate Buhari had been cheated. The man never forgot, and sought them out in due time. The same also happened to some of us working with him today.

A kind man. I have lots of stories to tell, but let me restrict myself to a few. In December 2015, I had lost my elder sister, a Professor of Dramatic Arts, in an auto crash. While I was crying like a wailing wailer, who was on the phone, consoling and condoling with me? Muhammadu Buhari.

And before he became President, when my mother passed on in 2013, and we had a commendation service for her in Lagos, who flew in all the way from Kaduna to attend? Muhammadu Buhari. He sat through the Christian service. Yet, they say he’s a bigot. I hear. Bigot from Sudan.

And in January 2017, I was to receive the traditional title of Nwanne di Namba of Mmaku Kingdom, in Enugu State. Courtesy demanded I tell the President. This man, who prides himself as ‘very stingy’ gave me a handsome amount of money to ferry my friends and family to the ceremony. How much? I won’t tell you, lest you ask for a belated share.

And in May 2018, I was billed for China for a 12 days course for senior government officials from Africa. He said when the journey was two days away, I should come to see him. I did. You know what he said? “Adesina, I know that you don’t have money. But you are too shy to ask.” We both laughed, and he gave me an envelope which contained foreign currency. How much? You think I’ll tell you? For where?

This President is a patriot. He loves this country dearly. A man of personal discipline. Single minded about the infrastructural development of the country. And he’s succeeding at it. I have loads of stories to tell to justify each virtue. But time and space won’t permit.

However, let me tell this final one, as told to me by a retired Colonel of the Nigerian Army.

He said he was a Major at the Second Mechanized Division, Ibadan, when the then Major General was posted there in early 1983, as General Officer Commanding.

There was a cocktail reception, billed for 8 pm. Fifteen minutes to the time, the new GOC walked briskly in. Only a sprinkle of officers had arrived. He moved round the venue, surveying the place, and at the dot of 8 pm, with the hall still scanty, he went to the gate, and directed the sergeant-major on duty to lock the inner one firmly, admitting nobody.
Nobody.
Yes sir!
The GOC went back inside, held the cocktail with the few officers available. Event over, he went back to the gate, to see the battery of latecomer officers huddled there. He surveyed them, and then instructed:
All of you, see me in the office tomorrow by 8 am.
Yes sir!
The GOC walked briskly away. And you know what? As early as 6 am next day, most of the officers had reported in his office. Once bitten, twice shy.

At 78, the President still scrupulously respects time. Do they make them like this anymore? Doubtful.

Yet, many people are plotting, and engineering all sorts of artifices, to ensure Buhari does not succeed. Who loses? The country!

There is this classic Yoruba film, Saworoide, which I watched years back. Adebayo Faleti, who wrote and starred in the film, looked at the stratagems and underhand dealings of man. And he sang, rather philosophically: Koi ye won, yio ye won lola.

Translated freely, it means: They don’t understand today. They’ll understand tomorrow.

It’s better for a lot more cynical Nigerians to understand this President today, rather than tomorrow, for the good of the country. That would be the best birthday gift they can give him.

*Adesina is Special Adviser to President Buhari on Media and Publicity

Stupid man that made himself president, can't he be more kind to Nigerians?

Does buhari remember events or people from years ago?

Old age comes with memory loss sometimes. I think they should allow him go and rest by resigning

That's your president. Most of us have resigned to the fact that we don't have a president. Because the one they refer to as president cannot face kindergarten school children not to talk of addressing them.

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I HATE TRAINS.
I HATE BRIDGES.
I HATE RICE.
I HATE TALLEST BUILDING EAST OF THE NIGER


Let me give the background to this piece. I was reading some comments on Twitter early in the week, when I ran into this one by one Dr Ben Gbenro: “Why are some people allergic to good news about Nigeria? You are angry about the test-run of Lagos-Ibadan rail, you are angry about the development in Onne Port, but will eagerly amplify any negative news even if it’s not true. Something is wrong with you and I am here to tell you.”

Of course, that comment generated responses, both positive and negative. But the one that caught my fancy specially was by Ayekooto, who declared: “We have got to a stage when GMB achievements can no longer be denied but hated. I hate trains. I hate bridges. I hate rice.”

Very profound. A lot of people can no longer deny the many achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari, particularly in the area of infrastructure, building a new Nigeria, and so, they have decided to hate it. Sad. Very sad.

Nobody can deny that there are very serious challenges in the country, particularly in the areas of security, the economy, and standard of living generally. But that is not all there is to Nigeria of today, and those challenges are being addressed very robustly. That hymn says “behind a frowning providence, He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, unfolding every hour.” We will surely see an end to the challenges, if we all work together, and eschew hate speeches.

Why then do some people choose to see and amplify only negative things? Why do they choose to remain willfully blind and deaf to positive things? And surrounded and confronted by salutary developments, they keep repeating; what has the Buhari administration achieved? Show us.

You tell them that just last weekend, there was a test run of the Lagos-Ibadan rail project, with brand new coaches that will begin commercial operation before the end of the year.That is happening in a country where we were told we couldn’t afford new coaches when our oil was selling at over 100 dollars per barrel. Now, at about 40 dollars per barrel, we are launching new coaches. Instead of giving credit to a prudent government, they just say; I hate trains.

Okay, if you hate trains, what of brand new airports in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano, Enugu, and others in the works? There was a time we were said to parade the worst airports in the world. But not any longer. Buhari reversed it in his four years. What do they say about that? They look up, look down, scratch their heads, and say; I hate airports. I’ve never even boarded a plane in my life, and I don’t want to board. Will I ever enter a plane if I’d been killed by bandits?

Okay. You hate airports and planes. What of bridges being built over rivers in different parts of the country, most especially the Second River Niger Bridge, which the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) built with mouth for 16 years. You tell them that the bridge is almost 50% done, and should be completed in the first quarter of 2022. There’s also the Loko-Oweto Bridge, linking Benue and Nasarawa States. It was started by a previous administration, but almost completed now. Like a cornered rat, their eyes dart furtively from corner to corner, seeking a hole to enter. Finding none, they tell you deadpan: I hate bridges.

Okay. All those are physical structures. So they want stomach infrastructure. You then tell them of the rice revolution, which has freed us from being a net importer of the product in the world. You point out that if Buhari hadn’t put his money where his mouth was, and encouraged us to go back to the land, causing rice farmers to rise from six to 12 million, we would have been in serious trouble when COVID-19 struck. How would we have imported rice, with all international borders closed, and no foreign exchange to even place orders? They pat their tummies gingerly, belch after a hearty meal, and then declare: I hate rice.

A Cancer Centre has been built and commissioned by President Buhari at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH). An ultra-modern diagnostic center also built and commissioned in Kano. And just this week, another diagnostic centre built at a cost of $5.5 million, was commissioned at the Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia, in Abia State. What do they say of all these? “I hate hospitals. May I never need to use any diagnostic centre. It is not my portion.”

You join them to say amen, since you don’t have a hateful heart. And you remind them that the largest ever vessel in the country, Maerskline Stadelhorn, with a length of 300 meters and width of 48 meters, berthed few days ago at Onne Port, in Rivers State. That is the biggest ever container vessel to berth in any part of Nigeria. Onne people were delirious with joy, and praised the government to high heavens, because no vessel had come to their port for 12 years, till August last year, under Buhari. You tell the naysayers the positive economic implications, but they refuse to listen. They dive under water, shouting as they go: We hate container vessels.

You then take them to Yenagoa, in Bayelsa State. Just last week, the skyline of South-south and South-East was transformed, as President Buhari commissioned the tallest Federal Government structure in the region, the 17-story Nigerian Content Tower, Headquarters of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB).

The architectural masterpiece occupies an area equivalent to four football fields, and has a 1,000 seater conference centre plus a 10 MW power plant. Started in late 2015, now completed, all under Buhari. Engineer Simbi Wabote, Executive Secretary of the agency paid tribute to the resolve, determination and encouragement of the President, that saw the structure to completion in record time. And Wabote, third E.S of NCDMB in its 10 years history, has written his name in gold. Just because he has a supportive President.

Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Timipre Sylvia, under whose tenure as Bayelsa State Governor the land was allocated for the project, declared: “The commissioning of this building is symbolic in many ways. It shows that Mr President is keen to see infrastructural development in every part of the country...It shows that skyscrapers and other laudable infrastructure can be built in the Niger Delta.”

But they say Buhari hasn’t achieved anything. You show them the 17-story building, and as they gaze skyward, their caps and headgear fall off. You pick the cap and headgear, dust and hand them back. And you ask, brothers and sisters, how now? Rather than admit defeat, they pull the caps and headgear over their eyes, and grumbled: We hate skyscrapers. They make us dizzy.

At that point, you pity them.
You realize that they need prayers.
They hate everything good.
They hate anything uplifting.
They hate development.
They hate their country.
They even hate themselves.


Once Again,,
Happy Birthday to our handsome darling Daddy.

To the enemies of the country,
Children of hate. Frustrations and perdition,
The anointing wey all of us @ carry,
No be una Papa mate!
No Cap!

I'm glad that Baba has been kind to Adesina. It makes him appear human

Lol! so you alone represent the whole Nigerians , because Buhari had done all this to you and expect all Nigerians to Rally and celebrate Buhari because of you ? he is indeed a gentle man , he allow you guys to Steal from his government without saying anything . He saw people killed , Kidnaped and rape , yet he kept quite . CONTINUE TO EXPOSE YOURSELF

Just negodu!!!why won't he shower praises to the dullard after he have collected envelopes for Dubai trip and chieftaincy titles

Happy Birthday President Buhari hmm like joke like joke you would be retiring to Daura by 81 and during that time most likely Yusuf would be the one at home taking care of you if is mata won't distract him.In those time you would be looking at the legacies you left behind for Nigeria, Kastina and Daura most especially. Praise Singers like Mr Femi Adesina would no longer be there, neither would your retinue of aide and minister. Hopefully your true friends still stays by that time most of your ex collegues (President) would be clocking 80 while others would be 90 most them more concern about their health and family at that time. It is very important for you to do everything possible to make Nigeria peaceful and remove the enemy of Nigeria from this soil. When that time comes you would want to walk the street of Daura to check your cows peacefully as well as be happy to see your grand children . It is also very important to choose your sucessor wisely because some people are traveling up and down the country claiming they are democrat but when we look at their antecedent we know they are communist and would sideline all their predecessors and still want to dominate their sucessor as well as their sucessors sucessors Kilode.Please chose a true democrat for us even though I am tempted to say irrespective of tribe and region I know Nigeria has it's peculiarities so I would say from the South of Nigeria. Since today is your birthday I hope the innocent children kidnap in Kastina are been supply with rations pending their rescue from those lazy, idiotic and shameless bandits.Enjoy your day Sir.

Mr. President happy birthday to you and many happy returns of the day.
As to what wailers and haters are saying, as long as Allah knows of your deeds, knows of the good that you do and the help that you give to others,then remain carefree and untroubled about what people think. As well GRIEVE NOT WHEN OTHERS BLAME AND DISPARAGE.
See the sayings of the Holy Quran :
They will do you no harm, barring a trifling annoyance ( Quran 3 :111).
And be not distressed because of what they plot ( Quran 16 : 127).
And harm them not. And put your trust in Allah (Quran 33 : 48 )
But Allah cleared him(Moses) of that which they alleged (Quran 33 : 69).
So GRIEVE NOT OVER CRITICISM FROM JEALOUS AND THE WEAK- MINDED Because they are jealous of he who has surpassed them, so People show him enmity and opposition.

Hahahahahahahha...Adesina, all you did was to try to justify why you are sucking his dick constantly. Hmmnn...we now understand. Even when price of fuel still high, inflation on every commodity, electricity? Our national debt, don't even go there! Insecurity? Haba now! Adesina, Buhari has raped your destiny sha....lol