Xisnin:
She doesn't run the shop.
Business ignorance is one of the reasons poverty is so widespread in Nigeria.
A well-run business and its owner are different entities.
Even the owner's death should not stop a business from running.

The poster even brought in his entitled and lazy mentality that workers should be paid for just being workers.

I liked the OPs post, but later changed to this one. Makes sense.

I was fortunate to be in Dubai last year. To begin with, comparing anything there to Nigeria does not even make sense. It seems to me, they're living totally in a different world than ours. I saw it. I believe there are things that simply cannot be explained.

Kingosytex:


But the truth is that juju exists. Anybody that says juju doesn't work is simply living in delusion and needs to have his or her brain examined. You can only claim that juju doesn't have any effect on you as a result of the fact that you are connected to the highest power which is that of the MOST HIGH.


Denying that juju exists is folly. People can be manipulated and hypnotised through black magic. People have cooked themselves to the level that they are almost indestructible, disappearing and re-appearing at will, impenetrable "odeshi" and other things point to the potency of black magic.


I have witnessed live where a canoe is rowed on a main road and it sailed as if it was on water and i have also seen a man being cooked in a highly heated pot but he came out unhurt. What explanations can you offer to the above scenerio?

Nonsense. I don't believe in any Juju/Magic and whatnot. In SCIENCE there's no magic. There must be explanation of of how the goods were ACTUALLY TAKEN. If the Juju nonsense is true, let the man walk into bank and use juju to empty the bank's safes.

Stanchriss:
Thought he gave up his second term ambition so that he will not pass through this? Or was the agreement not signed? ..Goje signed his own and even the court concur..when someone that stole more than you is the one ordering your raid and probe...that thing dey paaaaiiinnn ...

He has given up doesn't mean all his sins are forgiven.

seunmsg:


The law is simply in operation. If he stole funds belonging to the good people of Lagos state, every kobo should be recovered from him. There should be no sacred cow in the fight against corruption.

Tell that to Mr. Bullion van

Happening now...

Agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) are raiding the residence of Akinwumi Ambode, former governor of Lagos state, in Epe area of the state.

Tony Orilade, EFCC spokesman, confirmed this to TheCable on Tuesday.

https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-efcc-raids-ambodes-residence/

Patent nonsense. 14th century mindset.

madridguy:
Oshiomhole booed, stoned at Buhari's Rally in Ogun is different from Buhari stoned.

Probably your school certificate is as good as Buhari's. It was Buhari who went there to campaign and the one who was stoned, but APC-media decided to report the issue cunningly, using Oshiomole's name in the heading. Better wake up.

madridguy:
Another fat lies from the desk of the satanic group.

Even APC-media, Channels TV is reporting it, though cunningly https://www.channelstv.com/2019/02/11/breaking-oshiomhole-booed-stoned-at-buharis-rally-in-ogun/. Better wake up from your delusion.

It should worry every right-thinking Nigerian how much this guy is really worth....

Forget Onnoghen; Let’s Talk about Buhari’s Asset Declaration Fraud
By Farooq Kperogi
Buhari’s asset declaration fraud is more damning than Onnoghen's, yet it is Onnoghen who has been illegally “suspended” and pilloried in the media. In this piece I’ll show you why Buhari is a double-dyed scammer who should be in jail.
First, it was Buhari who voluntarily said he would publicly declare his assets. The Punch of February 20, 2015 reported him to have said: “I pledge to PUBLICLY declare my assets and liabilities, encourage all my appointees to publicity declare their assets and liabilities as a pre-condition for appointment.” However, several months after getting into power, he refused to declare his assets publicly.

In the early days of the regime, I frantically reached out to many people in the president’s inner circle with whom I have a personal relationship and begged them to prevail upon the president to make good his campaign promise. When they weren’t forthcoming, I wrote a column on June 13, 2015 titled “Mishandling of Asset Declaration May Doom Buhari’s Presidency.” I republished it weeks later.
The very first paragraph of the column, which seems pretty prescient in retrospect, read: “Although many of us still nourish the hope that President Buhari’s administration will represent a substantive departure from the blight of the past, Buhari has so far done little to inspire confidence that he will live up to the hopes we have invested in him. Perhaps the biggest germinal error he has made, which might haunt his administration, is his seeming reluctance to publicly declare his assets, contrary to the promise he made during his campaigns.”

After the column was published a second time, one close aide of the president told me in confidence that Buhari would NEVER publicly declare his assets because it would demystify him. I asked why and he said it's because the man is very wealthy and that his base in the North and his supporters down South would feel betrayed if they knew how much he’s actually worth. He said Buhari declared close to a billion naira in his asset declaration form and has choice property all over the country worth billions of naira. What was worse, he said, Buhari didn’t even officially declare everything. That was when it dawned on me that Buhari was a deodorized and carefully packaged scammer.
For instance, Buhari routinely received generous donations from foreign governments during previous runs for present. The Saudi Arabian government has given him the equivalent of up to two billion naira in two election cycles, and he always instructed his personal aide to deposit the money into his personal bank account. The late Muammar Gaddafi also once gave him at least $3 million and he deposited it into his personal bank account. He was also the sole signatory to the donations that everyday Nigerians made to his campaign through scratch cards between 2014 and 2015. The money was never used for the presidential campaign, and it has not been accounted for up to now. (An old woman in Kebbi State donated her entire life saving of N1 million that she got from selling kosai (bean cake) and died in penury a year later. Buhari didn’t even acknowledge her death!). Buhari did not declare all these monies in his asset declaration form, yet he had close to a billion naira in cash in his declaration form that he is hiding from the world.

Now, here is where the fraud starts. In December 2014, Buhari had said, “I have at least one million naira in my bank, having paid N5.5 million to pick my form from my party APC. I have around 150 cattle because I am never comfortable without cows. I have a house each in Kaduna, Kano, and Daura which I borrowed money to build. I never had a foreign account since I finished my courses in the USA, India and the UK. I never owned any property outside Nigeria. Never.”
They say a liar must have a good memory. But Buhari is a bad liar. After so much pressure from many of us, Buhari’s strategists came up with a plan to deceive Nigerians and deflect attention from Buhari’s asset declaration fraud. His spokesman was told to issue an intentionally vague and incomplete “public asset declaration” that would leave room for plausible deniability in case he is caught.

That was why there were no specifics other than unhelpfully broad claims that the president had a house in Abuja (which he earlier said he didn't have during the campaigns), Kano, Kaduna, Daura and Port Harcourt; some cattle and livestock; “not less than 30 million naira” (how more deceptively vague can you get than that? Recall that a few months earlier he said he had only million naira left in his account!); “a number of cars” (we weren’t told how many); and so on. Compare Buhari’s "public asset declaration" with the late President Umaru Musa Yar'adua's more transparent, public declaration and the face of Buhari’s fraud will become even more nakedly apparent.
Many Nigerians weren’t deceived by the fraud. They asked that he make public a copy of his declaration like Yar’adua (who didn’t even campaign to publicly declare his assets) did. In response, the president’s spokesperson said, “As soon as the CCB is through with the process, the documents will be released to the Nigerian public and people can see for themselves.” It’s been more than two years, and the declaration hasn’t been released to the public.

What is worse, I have confirmed from friends at the Code of Conduct Bureau that the presidency took away Buhari’s asset declaration form from the place. So, get this: Buhari is the ONLY public officer whose asset declaration does not exist at the Code of Conduct of Bureau. Of course, it’s because he wants to hide his fraud from scrutiny.
This double-dyed fraud becomes even more annoying when you remember what Buhari says when he is asked to publicly show his asset declaration form as he promised he would. During the one and only media chat he did as president, he challenged journalists to use their skills in “investigative journalism” to find the form. What sort of dumb logic is that? On your own, you promised to publicize your asset declaration form. Then you took it away from the only place it’s legally supposed to be, and you now challenge journalists to use their investigative skill to find it. You want them to invade your home, hold you at gunpoint, and force you to produce it?
Well, journalists have used the best resources they have to find the form. They invoked the Freedom of Information Act and requested the CCB to release Buhari’s asset declaration form. On September 21, 2016, Code of Conduct Bureau Chairman Sam Saba said the Bureau couldn’t release Buhari’s asset declaration form because the law that set up the bureau forbids him from making the forms public without Buhari’s consent.

That’s why the Bureau also declined requests to release the asset declaration forms of other high-ups in the Buhari regime.
Now, how did Dennis Aghanya, Buhari’s former media aide and current SA on justice, get access to CJN Onnoghen’s asset declaration form when the law forbids the public disclosure of public officials’ asset declaration forms without their consent? Why isolate someone for punishment for an offense that everyone, including the people meting out the punishment, is guilty of?
Source: https://www.facebook.com/farooqkperogi/posts/10103640387756030

Well, finally Buhari succeeded in another angle in his ongoing fight againts Nigeria's very existence by sustaining pressure on Media Trust company until they discontinued "Notes from Atlanta" column of US-based professor Farooq Kperogi which is one the most critical column of Buhari's crass incompetence

Presidency Pressured Daily Trust to Stop my Saturday Column

By Farooq Kperogi

I had chosen to let this issue slide because it’s frankly of no consequence, in my opinion, but I’ve been deluged with a relentless stream of inquiries from readers asking why my “Notes from Atlanta” column has been discontinued in the Daily Trust on Saturday. Since it’s practically impossible to respond to all the email and social media inquires, I’ve decided to put up this update.

Every rational, perceptive observer knows that the Buhari presidency is in a desperate, panic mode now. They are arresting and jailing critics, freezing bank accounts of opponents, bribing journalists silly to buy favorable coverage, threatening media houses, and working to go pull down the entire nation because they know their game is up.

That’s the general context for the discontinuation of my column in the Daily Trust. As people who have followed my Saturday column know, I am an inconvenient thorn in the flesh of the Buhari regime. I expose their lies, hypocrisy, clannishness, and incompetence with a regularity that unnerves them.

Predictably, the Buhari presidency had worked to take down my column since at least 2016. Media Trust’s chairman, Malam Kabiru Yusuf, told me, as early as mid-2016, that he had been under tremendous pressure because of my column and wondered what kind of pressure I had been under myself. But he said I shouldn’t be intimidated. He called me the “conscience of the nation,” which I found rather flattering. When he visited the US in, I think, 2017, he called me and we spoke at length. Again, he told me he had my back and appreciated the diversity I brought to the opinion menu in the Daily Trust.

Malam Kabiru hired me as a reporter in the then Weekly Trust in 1998 on the recommendation of his childhood friend, Professor Attahiru Jega. He is someone I’ve come to reserve the greatest respect for. He is an uncommonly urbane, suave, cosmopolitan, and tolerant person. He fits the classic definition of a liberal—broadminded, progressive, intellectually sophisticated, charitable, and open-minded. So I wasn’t surprised when he encouraged me to continue with my critical commentaries on the Buhari regime in spite of the pressures the commentaries were bringing on him and on Media Trust, Daily Trust’s parent company.


But Kabiru isn’t the sole owner of Media Trust; he is only the majority shareholder and chairman of the company. Most importantly, though, the company has to survive, and government advertising is the lifeblood of the news media in Nigeria. Government can shut down a news media organization by asking all its agencies to withhold advertising patronage from it. I sensed that the Buhari regime had threatened Daily Trust with advertising patronage withdrawal when the Editor-in-Chief and MD of the paper, since 2017, uncharacteristically started to send out periodic memos to columnists to importune them to tone down their language. I’ve written my column for more than 13 years and have always had a vigorous style. At no other time had the E-I-C ever written a memo to columnists to tell them how to write. The E-I-C/MD was frank enough to admit to me that I was the target of the memos.

But I was infinitely harsher on Jonathan and Obasanjo than I’ve been on Buhari, but neither I nor any columnist was ever told how to write and what not to write during the Jonathan and Obasanjo administrations.

Then at least once, the editor of the Saturday paper pleaded with me—nicely, I should add—to take out a sentence or two in a column in order to avoid “libel.” He obviously knows nothing about libel, which I not only formally studied at undergraduate and graduate levels in Nigeria and the US, but also teach and research for a living. (It’s not his fault since he didn’t study journalism). Finally, he once refused to publish one of my columns where I questioned the genuineness of Buhari’s WASC.

In media law, a statement of opinion can’t be libelous; only statements of facts can be. In any case, I had had occasions in the past to question the genuineness of Goodluck Jonathan’s PhD, and the editor didn’t have any issue with that. (I wrote another column after I discovered that Jonathan’s PhD was genuine based on my private investigation.)

So when Daily Trust’s E-I-C and MD called me on December 13 to say that the “board” had met and decided that my Saturday column should be discontinued because of my critical articles on Buhari (yes, he was that frank), I wasn’t surprised. I saw it coming. He was courteous, respectful, and honest about it, which is admirable. I had been expecting it, given how increasingly desperate and intolerant the Buhari regime has become lately. The regime is using their power of advertising patronage to whip independent media houses into line. Daily Trust can't afford to lose its bottom line because of one column. I understand and support that. On my part, I can't afford to self-censor because of a company's bottom line. So the "divorce" serves both of us well. I asked the E-I-C/MD two questions before we hung up. I asked if I had ever written anything on Buhari that was factually inaccurate. He said “no.” Then I asked if I had ever written anything on Buhari that was libelous and he said “no.” That was good enough for me. In any case, the column now appears on the back page of the Nigerian Tribune on Saturday. It’s also published on my blog. So it’s pointless censorship.

People have asked if my grammar column will continue in the Sunday edition of Daily Trust. No, it won’t. The energy I put into the grammar column has been taking a toll on my research and my family. This is a good opportunity to stop it and get some relief. I might resume it with another paper in the future.

https://web.facebook.com/farooqkperogi/posts/10103551978229430

The desperation continues:

Justice Minister, Abubakar Malami, has hired two American lobbying and public relations firms to plant opinion article favourable to the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in American newspapers, PREMIUM TIMES can report today.
Mr. Malami’s action came to light more than five years after this newspaper exposed the Goodluck Jonathan government for spending several thousand dollars on arranging interviews for administration’s officials on U.S. media outlets.
Officials at the Nigerian embassy in Washington have always wondered why administration officials preferred to waste public funds on American lobbyists rather than take advantage of the resources at the country’s diplomatic mission there.
“One of our jobs is to relate with American institutions on behalf of our country, but we are hardly used,” one embassy official said, asking not to be named for fear of being victimised. “We have extensive contacts within the media here . So why our people keep wasting money on hiring lobbyists remain unclear.”
Investigations by this newspaper showed that in the latest case, Mr. Malami, in May this year, verbally contracted a Nigerian public relations firm, Channel Koos, to help him identify American firms that could insert pro-Buhari opinion article in a major U.S. publication.
nvestigations by this newspaper showed that in the latest case, Mr. Malami, in May this year, verbally contracted a Nigerian public relations firm, Channel Koos, to help him identify American firms that could insert pro-Buhari opinion article in a major U.S. publication.
The article, Mr. Malami demanded, must showcase the administration’s ‘reforms’.
It is unclear how much the minister paid Channel Koos. But the company spent $8,000 of its earning on hiring two U.S. firms to deliver on the project.
The company hired Mount Olive LLC, a Maryland-based PR firm owned by Nigerian-American businessman, Olufemi Soneye, according to details submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice in compliance with the US Foreign Agents Registrations Act (FARA).
Mount Olive in turn subcontracted the job to Prime Policy, a Delaware Corporation, for $5,000. According to the signed agreement between the two firms, Prime Policy was mandated to draft and place “an opinion editorial for the Nigerian Attorney General”.
Details seen by PREMIUM TIMES suggests that the Buhari government awarded the PR contract to “inform the international community about reforms in Nigeria, regarding the rule of law.”
“The agreement is oral stating that Mount Olive LLC should help arrange an op-ed for the Attorney General of Nigeria in a major US newspaper,” the filings by Mr. Soneye said.
“The op-ed is to inform the international community about reforms in Nigeria, regarding the rule of law. The fees is $8000 of which $5000 was to be paid to Prime Policy to market and $3000 for Mount Olive.
“The consultant firm, Channel Koos is working with the Attorney general’s Office as a media consultant locally. It is controlled by the Nigerian government. I was engaged to handle the international media engagements for Mount Olive. The process will be financed by the government to inform the international community about progress in the fight against corruption and rule of law.”
Mr. Soneye explains
Further explaining the reason for the contract, Mr Soneye said the Nigerian government decided to commission the drafting and circulation of the opinion article “in response to allegations of human rights abuses” against the current administration by international organisations.
Curiously however, he added that the opinion article was yet to be published, four months after payment was finalised and the contract was said to have been concluded.
Mr Soneye’s explanation was communicated in an email he sent to PREMIUM TIMES regarding the contract.
“Mount Olive is a duly registered PR, Communications firm in the state of Maryland. We duly received an article for publication on behalf of the AGF for publication in international media in response to some allegation by some international organization’s criticism of the administration’s human rights abuse, according to the brief. The brief was from a third party and not directly from the AGF.
“We negotiated for $8,000 of which $3,000 was paid to us at Mount Olives and the rest $5,000 went to the firm (Prime Policy).

Read more: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/284606-exclusive-agf-malami-hires-american-firms-to-plant-pro-buhari-op-ed-in-u-s-papers.html

This scam has come to an end. Please next one.

Before APC robots and Buhari zombies start spewing lies and propaganda as usual. British High Commission preempts them.

The British High Commission in Nigeria has said the recent visit of Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, is not an endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari or any other candidate.

Laura Beaufils, the British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, said this in her address at an interactive session organised for journalists by the commission in Lagos on Friday.

She also restated the UK government’s commitment to spending £47.4million on Deepening Democracy in Nigeria Programme Phase 2 (DDiN2).

Speaking on UK’s role in deepening democracy in partnership with Nigeria, Beaufils stated that British government has no intention to influence the outcome of the 2019 general election, adding that it does not have a preferred candidate.

“It is important to stress that the recent visit of the Prime Minister, Theresa May, to Nigeria was not an endorsement of support for the president or any candidate in the election next year.”
http://saharareporters.com/2018/09/17/theresa-may%E2%80%99s-visit-not-endorsement-buhari%E2%80%99s-re-election-bid-says-british-high-commission

Maxymilliano:
This is an unnecessary faux pas, the government has already responded, when did EFCC become the mouthpiece ? Anyway, let me wait for Ishaq Akintola led MURIC to also come up with his own condemnation of HSBC ...

Silly folks.

Haha love this. I'm waiting too

What do Nairalanders think?

1thinBoy:
Anybody recently applied at Abuja and gotten their passport back? How long did it take?

I applied on 4th July, I received message today 13th that it is ready. Though I don't know whether approval of refusal.

mankand:


Please how did you go about your hotel reservation?

I am attending Conference, so the organization did the paper work and sent me confirmation letter that was sent to them by the Hotel

1thinBoy:
Hello House, I applied for a South African Visa at Abuja on the 27th of June. Tracking says it is still processing.

The event I am supposed to attend has already started. Has anyone applied recently at Abuja and gotten their passport back? How long did it take?

I applied on 4th July and I am suppose to be departing this Monday, 16th July. Have not yet gotten it.

Hello guys.

I submitted my application to VFS in Abuja on 4th July, but they told me it takes minimum of 10 days to process and I am suppose to be leaving Nigeria on 16th July to attend conference opening 17th. Please is there any advice? I submitted all the required documents. Thank you.

Please is there a way to read the original article? It seems I can't find it.

AutoJoshNG:


This month has been a worrisome month for Nigeria, almost in all aspects. No one prays for accidents, they can occur at any time. The recent tanker mishap on Otedola bridge, was quite tragic.
Again, we don’t pray it happens again, but what if it does ?
What safety tips can we put to practice to make sure we don’t experience such occurrences .
Here are some tips you should take into consideration when a tanker is involved in an accident .

1. Assume It Is Loaded With Fuel
Once a tanker is involved in an accident, it is safe to always assume its filled with inflammable content, even if you cannot see liquid coming out .Always assume it is loaded.

2. Don’t Try To Scoop Fuel
Even if you are very fast, in scooping liquid, at most you would scoop 50 or 100 litres.Is that how much your life is worth ?.Your life can’t be bought, fuel can always be bought.

3. RUN !
Run as fast as you can away from the tanker, you don’t have to wait to confirm if its spilling any content, just run away from it.
Don’t try to take pictures or videos, don’t try to observe. Run as fast as you can, don’t look back!! A split second can save your life
Note : If you notice it is spilling its content already, run in a direction that does not have a trail/flow of the liquid. This is important, because a trail of fire, is faster than you are.

4. Leave Your Car There
Just like the above, leave your car, especially when there is traffic congestion .Leave it !, don’t try to lock it. Just run, stand at an extremely safe distance and watch your car from there .Once the road has been declared safe by the authorities, you can go back and pick your car. If it gets burnt, hustle and buy another car. Your life is worth more than all the Toyota cars ever built put together.

If you are in a public bus, do the same thing.Exit the bus and run with the instructions given above.

5. Call The Authorities
Once you are at a safe distance, contact the authorities to report the accident.You can dial 112 or 767, its free .

Our sincere condolences to all those who lost loved ones in the recent accident on Otedola bridge

Please stay safe .

By Donald3d

https://autojosh.com/5-safety-tips-you-shouldnt-ignore-when-a-tanker-is-involved-in-an-accident/

I found these tips as one of the most important things I saw on the net today. How I wish all Nigerians will heed to them. May God save us tragedy like this. Condolences to the victims' families

Where is your location?

According to The Cable

Etisalat Nigeria is changing its brand name to 9Mobile, TheCable has learnt.
More to follow…

https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-etisalat-nigeria-changes-name-9mobile

Unfortunate...

Several people are feared dead after a military plane mistakenly dropped a bomb inside the Rann IDP camp in Borno State.
The Rann IDP camp in Kala-balge Local Government Area caters for thousands of persons displaced by Boko Haram.
A source at the camp told PREMUM TIMES that at least hundred people were injured and needed to be evacuated to hospitals.
At least two people are feared dead from the incident and the injured included officials of the Doctors without Borders, MSF.
The military spokesperson, Rabe Abubakar, a brigadier general, confirmed the incident but explained that it was an error that the military deeply regretted.
He explained that soldiers got information of movement of Boko Haram members and deployed ground troops and air cover to tackle the terrorists.
It was the air support that mistakenly dropped the bomb, he said.
PREMIUM TIMES learnt that the state government has already ordered all hospitals in Maiduguri to be prepared to receive and promptly treat the injured.
Also, an International Red Cross, ICRC, helicopter has been deployed to the camp to evacuated the wounded to the various hospitals.
The Theatre Commander of Nigerian forces in Borno, Lucky Irabor, a major general, also confirmed the attack at a press conference.
“This morning today, we received reports about gathering of Boko Haram terrorists somewhere in Kala Balge Local Government area of Borno State. We got a coordinate and I directed that the air should go to address the problem.
“Unfortunately the strike was conducted but it turned out that the locals somewhere in Rann were affected.
“We are yet to get the details of the casualties. But we have some civilians that have been killed, others are wounded and we also have two of our soldiers that were also wounded. Among some that are wounded are local staffs of the Medicine Sans Frontiers as well as ICRC,” he said.
Details later…

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/220776-breaking-many-feared-dead-nigerian-jet-mistakenly-drops-bomb-idp-camp.html

FINALLLYYYYYYYYYYY BOKO HARAM NO MORE.
What do you think?

President Muhammadu Buhari says he has received the long-awaited and most gratifying news of the final crushing of Boko Haram terrorists in their last enclave in Sambisa Forest.
Buhari, in his goodwill message to troops of Operation Lafiya Dole on the successful capture of Boko Haram enclave in Sambisa Forest on Saturday, said he was delighted at the news and was most proud of the gallant troops of the Nigerian Army.
"I want to use this opportunity to commend the determination, courage and resilience of troops of Operation Lafiya Dole at finally entering and crushing the remnants of the Boko Haram insurgents at 'Camp Zero', which is located deep within the heart of Sambisa Forest.
"I was told by the Chief of Army Staff that the Camp fell at about 1:35pm on Friday, December 22, and that the terrorists are on the run, and no longer have a place to hide," the president disclosed.
President Buhari urged the troops to maintain the tempo by pursuing the terrorists and bringing them to justice.
He also called on all Nigerians to cooperate and support the Nigerian Armed Forces and other security agencies by providing useful information that would expose all the terrorists hiding among the populace.
The president said further efforts should be intensified to locate and free the remaining Chibok schoolgirls still in captivity, praying that "May God be with them."
He congratulated and commended "the able leadership of the Nigerian Army in particular and indeed, that of the Armed Forces in general, for making this possible."
Buhari added: "This, no doubt, will go a long way in improving the security situation not only in the North East, but the country in general. But we must not let our guards down.
"Once more, congratulations to our troops and all who, in one way or the other, contributed to this most commendable and momentous effort. May the Almighty continue to be with you.
"I wish you a Merry Christmas and a most rewarding and peaceful Year 2017 ahead."

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/boko-haram-finally-crushed-buhari/177557.html

Nutase:
Like seriously your article is cool but you need an editor. If any daily published your article in its current state

Thank you.

pchukwudi:
One question please: "Were you writing to impress your readers or to communicate to your readers?"

I could no read, let alone comprehending, your opening paragraph. So no need to ask if I read the rest.

Thank you. Go to school and upgrade your English, then come back, read and perhaps you'll "comprehending"(sic)

This is my article published today Friday, 23-13-2016. Syndicated by many websites and newspapers including Daily Trust. What do you think?

With utter chagrin with president Goodluck Jonathan-led government's handling of Nigeria; and magnetizing ballyhoos, utopian promises and masses-proof campaign rhetoric of the then mega opposition party APC, Nigeria's disgruntled masses trooped to polling booths on 28th March
2015 and voted-amidst flurry of hope and optimism-for the APC's Muhammadu Buhari en masse. There was a collective sigh of relief when it becomes crystal clear Buhari won the election even before official announcement, outré jubilations leading to many deaths ensued.
Obviously, the disgruntled voters hoped for the new government to speedily reset the country to normalcy, arrest worsening security situation and improve the welfare of common Nugerian. Nobody, perhaps even the pessimists would have dreamt of the retrogression of Nigeria to the situation we're today.
Nineteen months down the line, the story is different and sadly, disappointing. Everything happened. Economy suffers the heaviest blow, and the masses are now just striving to survive. Fuel subsidy removal - which Buhari promised not to - and unofficial Naira devaluation ushered speedy hike of prices in the market. "The tempo at which things change for the worse in this country is so fast that, it is obvious the days of Jonathan must now be looked back upon with nostalgia" a worried Nigerian recently wrote on Facebook.
Buhari, as an opposition candidate, enjoyed the enormous goodwill, free confidence and touted by common man in Nigeria. Through Buhari Campaign donation card, the masses, pauperized by PDP's rule, financially contributed directly to Buhari's ascension to power, beside sacrifices in all possible way in ensuring his victory. But things has since fell apart and still falling day by day to even scarier level. Many small businesses crumbled, almost 4.6 million jobs lost according to 'official' publication. In his letter titled "What has gone wrong for Nigeria's President Buhari?" published recently by BBC, the editor-in-chief of Daily Trust, Mannir Dan Ali, quoted a viral Facebook status update urging the president Buhari to halt his esoteric 'Change' and kindly return Nigeria to the state it was before he became president. The post to me, speaks more than it seems. Behind being a sample of deluge of posts like it all over Nigeria's cyberspace and print media, it is also incisive encapsulation of what transpired daily in our markets as well as demotic conversations off social media.
Buhari, as a president, beside building a reputation of junketing the world at the slightest excuse, he also cultivated a wont of split-second response-condolence, felicitations to faraway foreign happenings, at the same time display insensitivity toward killings, incidents and bloodshed in the country. It took him few hours to speak to faraway Saudi Arabia over purported reprisal missile attack while on the same day dreaded Boko Haram killed an army lieutenant colonel along with unknown number of soldiers. When another lieutenant colonel was also killed recently, his disappointed brother had to write a brusque open letter on the insensitivity displayed to their family by the presidency.
On November 20, whilst over 40 hapless people were gunned down by gunmen in Zamfara, Buhari was mute, perhaps busy, but swiftly sent acondolences to faraway Republic of India over train derailment there.
When army killed scores of unarmed Biafra separatists, Buhari didn't deem it worthy of presidential action, and when he do, he dismisses their agitation without even a tangible intent in addressing their agitation or probing the impropriety of confronting unarmed demonstrators with full military might.
Between 12-14 December last year, a contingents of army displayed full military might in massacring defenseless members of Islamic
Movement/Shiites in what Amnesty International and other Human Rights organizations described as systemic repression. To cover up, the army in collaborating with Kaduna state government summarily mass buried the victims. Buhari - whose supporters trumpeted as an unrelenting humane and embodiment of human rights - this horrible massacre didn't evoke his 'symphathetic' heart; as a leader, he tacitly justified it, and this affirmative silence lead to another series of Shiite minority persecution the following months. A commentator Chris Ngwodo, aptly wrote: "Buhari risks leaving as his defining moral legacy, an indifference to human suffering and tyrannical oppression of minorities that will forever colour the memory of his presidency". After Chris' comment, many things happened and all substantiating his assertion.
Buhari no doubt, is the last - and to some, only - hope of the common man, having suffered for 16-year 'misrule' of PDP. He was elevated to saint station, touted and vaunted by supporters and posse as a no-nonsense, competent, sympathetic and a poor like the masses, who can't even afford to pay for his nomination form. With the unceasing precipitous decline of things, dwindling economy and excruciating hardship all this myth about him has been shot down and it beg to ask the question; what if Buhari hadn't won?.
Incontestably, had he (Buhari) not won the 2015 election he would have surely been celebrated and extolled alive and in death as a Nigeria's only saint and messiah, but that was then. The sorry status quo of Nigeria and the tempo at which things change for the worse exploded this mistakenly thought messianic prowess. The involvement of his top loyal officials in path breaking corruption scandals also demystified his assumed integrity and shattered his obvious selective war against corruption. When the chief of army staff, T.Y Buratai's evidence of diverting government funds to acquire properties in Dubai were published, he was speciously cleared in hurry by a 'special panel'. Another top loyalist, SG to the federation, Babachir Lawal was recently on the news about alleged mind blowing grass cutting scandal, all this happening whilst the opposition are arrested at slightest allegation and the masses are wallowing in unprecedented hyperinflation, hardship and worsening power supply.
His pre-presidency ascetic lifestyle and austere simplicity has already been rubbished by the lavish outrageous allocation to the presidential kitchen and zoo in 2015 budget, talkless of the Aso rock clinic which got share more than 16 teaching hospitals of the country combined. Many of the president's core supporters now have doubts in his abilities, while some are saying that it would have-perhaps been better if he had never won. Arguing that would have preserved the myth of his competence which is now shattered. He would have remained a presumed best president that Nigeria never had and would have enliven the legacy of extolling and singing him messiah praises after his life.
Now should we be contemplating for another messiah to clear 'mess' of APC's rule? Or should we be hopeless and just pray for God to fix things? Albeit, we are now bound to wait for remaining 2 years of APC, Me personally thinks, it is high time for Nigerians before rushing in search of another messiah, to start thinking out of the box; what's really the problem with the system binding the entity Nigeria? After all, it's proven now, the system transcends any supposed-integrity, competence or what all.
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Ammar Abdulhamid Katsina wrote this piece from Zaria.

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/opinion/nigeria-before-contemplating-for-another-messiah/177413.html

bolajoko007:
The money they are spending is the right and is for the progress of this country because it will be spent wisely in the right way.

Idiot. You're suffering from chronic disease called "Zombies". I pray you get healed soon.

Former staunch Buharist, an academic also columnist, Dr. Farooq Kperogi has been in the throat of the Buhari zombies for his incessant criticisms of the Buhari cluenesness and exposing their corruption in the recent.

He's back again, exposing the yet-to-be apparent corruption in the 2017 budget. He confirmed that 2017 budget is more depressing than 2016's. Sincerely, how can a sane person allocate 100 million for "Opinion Polls" or does "opinion poll" has another meaning? Plus, how can a saint government spend 25 million on existing website?. I salute APC's smart corruption, PDP operated 'random corruption'

Folks, take a careful look at this photo. It's a breakdown of the Ministry of Information's 2017 budget. Some highlights: the chief priest of "ChangeBeginswithMe," Lai Mohammed, will spend N409 million for "grassroots enlightenment" next year, N270 million for "town hall meetings," N100 million for "interaction with bloggers," etc., N100 million for "foreign media PR/lobby consultancy" (another word for bribes), and so on. Clearly, "change" hasn't begun yet with the patron saint of "change begins with me." Maybe that's why we haven't heard of the campaign lately. OK, I am dizzy. See the rest for yourself. By the way, this is authentic.

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Political cyber bullying is one of the things APC introduced in Nigeria

One of their 'achievement'