You have to use brains here. For a candidate of a country just emerging from recession, this is a very very good poll for Buhari. The result for the SW zone is interesting. I won't say it is false but APC is TWICE more acceptable in the SW than PDP.
Buhari has won his second term already without even starting to use his incumbent's bag of tricks. Believe me dem plenty.

PDP will lose Ebonyi, Anambra and Imo in 2019. They will lose wholesale in the NC in spite of the ethnic clashes. No SW State is going PDP in 2019.
There has to be a face up to the hard reality about what is happening. PDP has refused to rebrand and bring new faces, their supporters have not complained so they will meet DEFEAT.

gotaheart:
Impressive. He still remains a humble man.

Perceptions change.
Some of us were in primary / secondary school this period. Murtala Muhammad was in government so propaganda was negative against Gowon. Gowon was seem as a disgrace to have run a corrupt regime, refused handing over to democratically elected civillians as promised and to have become an ordinary student in England.

Patchesagain:


I have no intention of creating conflict **but**

Of all the things one could buy - why in gods name would Nigeria buy MBT's?

Certain forum members are exhibiting a great degree of childish ignorance (blissful no doubt) by advocating such things.

The Professionals, that being your Officer Corps, will no doubt be looking at more mundane, practical and cost-effective force-multipliers - things that are actually likely to get used - more MRAP's, heavy weapons, logistics vehicles, Comms, medical equipment, training facilities etc etc. Also, there is the fact that the Army formations has no doubt suffered varying degrees of equipment attrition in the NE and that all has to be replaced, repaired and so on and so forth.

With armies, you could drop $1 billion and see nothing more than new boots and a mountain of spare parts and ammo boxes - and that would be a good thing.

You are right. It is stupid to buy MBTs. There is no future projection study on warfare that predicts that MBTs are going to be useful.
UAVs, UGVs, USVs, robots, battlefield display systems, AI, attack choppers, et.c that is what to spend the money on.

Nigeria Airforce also needs SU 30s or MIG 35s to bomb with heavily and reach as far as possible.

AnodaIT:
The Russian built their oil industry based on abiotic process and it works for them, the American built their technology based on fossil theory and it works for them

There are overwhelming evidences supporting the two

There is no Russian theory driving it's oil industry. In fact no theory of oil formation is driving oil exploration. Old is found as an iteratively exploratory geological process backed by technology.

What is Russia's current oil industry was derived from the US. Rockefeller and a lot of US oil billionaires bought and mapped out thousands of acreages for exploitation even before the first world war. Western capitalists had almost bought Russia finish before the communist revolution. The communist revolution put a stop to all that.

There are too many Nigerians walking about with pea sized brains I am worried. Who believed the former statement credited to this Pastor in the first place and what does this rebuttal natter?.
A country of dunces.
You are a dunce if you think Mbaka's opinions for / against
Atiku matters.
You are a dunce if you think Atiku has a chance anywhere of becoming President.
Always in life, don't be guided by sentiment or childish wishful thinking. Understand your environment and trends and what they mean about the current mind of God.

chinjo:
These are some of the weapons purchased by GEJ to combat Boko Haram. Propaganda can bring u to power but it can not guarantee you reelection.

I don't want to be insulting but there is too much ignorance on Nairaland. Why are young people so ignorant in Nigeria?. Na curse.
Nigeria Army started using this class of weapons for air defense in 1967. In 1967, GEJ was in primary school. Stop annoying people with ignorance.

Conventional armies were buying Dushkas as commonly as Ak47 rifles for many decades. It is an old weapon. It only really became very popular when Libyan militias began looting Gadhaffis armouries and mounting them on Toyota Hilux vehicles.

If you say GEJ bought Dushkas for NA you are actually insulting him and Nigeria. It is not a sophisticated weapon. It is only deadly weapon because of it fits the rudimentary operational technique of insurgents and militants.

Duru1:
Muslims are imbecilic hypocrites. Why the use of cell phones, AK-47 and even vehicles when you are Boko haram?

Please stop this. Pretend to be educated if you are not. Muslims are top level professionals in IT industry. They are top level manpower in BlackBerry, Google, CISCO, et.c..Islamic countries are just behind the leading countries in AI and robotics.

Radical Islamic terrorism is a different thing.

Ignorance is very irritating and degrading. Please stop embarrassing yourself.

SpecialAdviser:
Nonsense. Africans with all manner of useless respectful cultures.

How has this helped us make progress as a nation please? Elrufai kneels for this, Atiku kneels for that. I remembered Onyeka Onwenu humiliating the great Igbo race kneeling for a gworo chewing prick washer. Later they dealt with her.

Buhari stood with Angela Merkel shaking and committed blunder by saying his wife belongs to the kitchen. Who kneeling help pls?

Actually this lack of a culture of respect by Igbo is a great sign of inferiority and weakness of culture. A great weakness. The Europeans, Japanese and Chinese built great empires and civilization by having royalty. Ibos will tell you they don't bow and that is a good thing yet they had a primitive caste system that denied their land talent and opportunities for development for more than 200 years.

tdayof:


In my opinion since the navy is getting a special funding from the Senate, they should be excluded from this $1bn deal.

Nemesis4u, how much does a su30 cost?

Yes only NAF requirements

baralatie:
I dey pity ambode and Lagos economy. you want to tear down two bridges that supports your state economy to be replaced with a rail network. nothing less than 6 years of serious economic loss in terms of time,cost and productivity.

The brain is free gift from God and should be used.
Have you even driven on Jibowu bridge?. As at 10 years ago, that bridge was already unsafe and ripe for demolition. Same as Costa in bridge. You should actually shove your face out of social media browsing, take some means of transportation and go and see those bridges.

They are going to put columns columns and beams to carry rail tracks that will transport 100 times more commuters than the currently bridges that are at end of life. I have seen this kind of conversion in more than four world class cities.

And for the funny poster saying government should use the money to patch up pot holes , I am very my sorry for you and the PDP governments that stole your inheritance and gave you jankara market mentality. It is a SAD country we have when youths have been impoverished into visionlessness

RealityShot:
in 2017 budget we have:

PART C - RECURRENT (NON-DEBT) EXPENDITURE

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE... 325,488,229,57

3PART D - CAPITAL EXPENDITUREMINISTRY OF DEFENCE... 140,000,000,000

Now they a approving another over 100% of recurrent expenditure to the same defence.

i pity poor man in Nigeria.. No hope ..smh

$1bn from ECA is not recurrent expenditure. I think the money will go to NAF and NA to pay for already identified sophisticated heavy combat aircraft and MRAPs.

bidexiii:
OFF TOPIC


photo: Pakistan’s pilot takes part in test flight of new JF-17B fighter

http://defence-blog.com/aviation/photos-pakistans-pilot-takes-part-in-test-flight-of-new-jf-17b-fighter.html

All JF 17Bs flying ( as test aircraft or evaluation prototypes) are Nigerian NAF property.

B for BUHARI

Please who is this OP and what standard of education throws up people like this?

The fool was probably working for State Security or other intelligence agencies. Young people who died or suffered for this guy are extremely stupid. No apologies.

bidexiii:



Yes they are installed at the Maiduguri and Yobe state respectively airforce base.

I need to know why you guys think it is wise to share this kind of info with foreigners?. Please let us stick to sharing only open source knowledge with non Nigerians. Even for open sourced knowledge there are updates that you use a clear risk matrix within your mind to determine whether to share or not.

Ibrahimanees:

I thought the mi-35s are for the Air Force. Is there a separate order for the army?

Nigerian Army Aviation is buying three new AS 350 choppers. I think they will also get some used start up aircraft from NAF.

onward4life:
Later they will tell us Agriculture is Booming!

Agriculture is booming. Don't sit behind a phone typing. Go out and find out. There is a revolution going on in Agric. This is practical fact not theory and there are no arguments with facts and things you can touch.

yanshDoctor:
... this one is for the military hardware sells now. the swap deal for alpha jet or you guys forgot?

they are not paying cash its a swap deal. they are package our oil for overpriced outdated military hardware. trump got brains your know.

There is no swap deal for Alpha jets. We are getting Super Tucanoes and precision guided munition conversion kits. Even that deal may be financed via loot recovery funds and not oil swaps.

FrancisDiote:
I have never seen a party without a mission and vission as APC.

They complain about everything, lie about everything and deny everything.

Instead of working and fixing the economy you are busy complaining about PDP. What kind of party is this.

You got 4 years and you cant justify what you did with it and instead of focusing on the job at hand you complain about PDP. Will PDP CONVENTION FIX THE ECONOMY?

Nigerians are wiser, 2019 Atiku Abubakar will take over period.

PDP will win Rivers, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Abia and Bayelsa during 2019 Presidential elections. It is a regional party.

Lukaku is being done in by his ego. The fool actually wants to be praised for 'almost goals ' and routine passes. This is the trash Man U bought for how much?

Good luck Jonathan is correct here.

PDP tells Nigerians they will steal, mis manage surplus and high oil price, neglect power and infrastructure, loot ..and some inferiority complex afflicted and tribal Lyu motivated youths still voted for them.

Patience is not hiding money in fake accounts, Fayose admitted he took commercial loans to fund his elections and Wike admitted that he kills during elections.

It is deep spiritual issues that is making some members of the stolen generation of Nigerians (24 - 40 years), the generations who preferred being slaves in Libya than fighting for their country to keep supporting these mofos

Too much beer will give you man boobs. Lack of exercise and other testosterone depleting things are also causes.

Wike's money is working hard. PDP is an extremely useless party. They have bribed all SW candidates out.
Young people, if you actually love your future come away from these pot bellied cultists. If you don't you will share their failures and God's punishment.

Defence, defence, defence...you can have good strikers but a good defensive line up will eat you for breakfast.

Crocky23:
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You won't go far in life if you actually believe the trash you wrote above.

Really.
Which low grade traders mentality are you using to criticize a strategy to keep herd numbers constant?.
You think you are in Ariaria market?

Please when we are talking buying and selling of used clutch plates we will call you. This one is herd management.

SalamRushdie:


So howbmany workers has he trained till date . abeg stop decieving yourself a man like Buhari with a IQ of 20 can never grow anything

How did a man with IQ of 20 become a General in the NA and Head of State twice?. I smell fear, inferiority Complex, lies and hatred. Please be courageous enough to be honest to yourself

BrosPeter:


Buhari was unable to do much for himself after being overthrown in 1985. He is not creative enough.

Buhari was not begging after being overthrown. He was in detention for the most part and he would not be for contracts.

In the financial world, Creative = Stealing.

No Nigerian head of state had any business acumen except Apache. Anyway, OBJ started a farm and it ran down, Gowon was reading after overthrow.
The most useless has been GEJ, GEJ never started or ran any business before becoming head of state. We don't know what he is doing now.

PaulOgrady:
I won't even trust Buhari to be my MD in a cattle ranch.
Buhari had 150 cattles in 1985, in 2015 he had same 150 cattles

Actually this is good business management.
What is the length of life of a cow?. The man was breeding carefully, selling at the right time.
No wonder he was able to achieve training three or four kids through university abroad and strategically still kept the number the same. Please get a sheet of paper and use your brain .

Buhari. He will train workers and management and stamp out corruption.
Atiku will loot the company and still come to work in Rolls Royce.

Bevista:
Whoever is handling Atiku's image laundering is doing a decent job.
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However, enlightened Nigerians know better not to trust what politicians say, especially when they already have antecedents for better reference.
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Atiku's supporters hope that his business background will provide a Unique Selling Proposition to market his presidential ambitions. However, they fail to realise that there is no empirical basis to justify that "A good Businessmen Will Make A Good President". The best presidents all over the world were never business people. Being successful in business requires being Profit-driven, while being a successful president requires being Welfare-driven - Two completely different skill sets.

There are very few true business men in Nigeria. A lot of people are thriving in a rigged system and calling themselves business men