₦airaland Forum

Obiagelli:
Even if he fails to catch the terrorists? Civilised people don't think like you and your president.

Obiagelli:
atlwireles you were one of those that attack me on this forum when i created a thread asking Nigeria to deploy all its troops to the northeast, the nairaland data loss just saved your hypocrisy.

Obiagelli:
Watch France tear Hollande apart if the crisis is not brought to an end in 2 weeks.

Nigerian opposition gave this government 3yrs.

MalcoImX:
Tell Namadi Sambo to bring his first. When Biafra annexed you, is it not the Almajiri you called to save you. Look at this ungrateful ND man.

MalcoImX:
Yes, all these for your treasonable and unpatriotic conjectures. If not Nigeria has spoiled finish, how would a 'bloody' civilian be asking old soldier and a war veteran all these mundane questions. Ask Namadi Sambo to bring his first. Or is it because he's in PDP?

MalcoImX:
John 20:24-25
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24: Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came.
25: So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
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In the year of the lord 2015, 'wireless like Thomas of old is asking me whether a General of the Nigerian Army and a war veteran has a School Cert.' I am saving you the sweat; he has, but don't ask me the grave of his Principal - I don't know.
'member the Chibok girls: You guys were asking for pictures of the girls, their ages, the school buildings, the principal, their parents, and their religion until the the Americans arrived at your doors.

MalcoImX:
Whatever qualifications that enable Aguiyi Ironsi, Yakubu Gowon, Murtala Mohammed, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida, Sani Abacha and Abdulsalam Abubakar to rule Nigeria as Heads of State General Buhari has.

maestroferddi:
See bravado!

The whole gamut of APC propaganda machinery has been rendered ineffectual just by a test rally.

Their media platforms from TVC to The Nation were left tongue tied today.

I was watching Dapo Aruwojaye on TVC's This Morning today. The programme that is designed to wash unsuspecting viewers. At some point, the man was inadvertently campaigning for Jonathan to the chagrin of the two guests, hirelings/cheerleaders masquerading as journalists.


I felt for the presenter because a query might be awaiting his performance...

MalcoImX:
Even though you live in the ND and see oil being produced everyday, you cannot in any way be more knowledgeable about the world oil market than a former Minister of Petroleum Resources. Or do you want his pictures attending OPEC meetings.

MalcoImX:
Oh, oh, sorry. I forgot you can't understand elementary economics if oil is not involved. It was for a reason they call you "The Headmaster of Nigerian Oil Wells." I would rather be an Almajiri Major General than a Ph.D that avoids debates.

MalcoImX:
I thought you will thank Adminisher for his efforts, instead all he got was insults.
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Let me answer you in the language of bus-stop economics. During Shagari's regime essential commodities were scarce. You don't see soap, detergents, foodstuffs, etc. in the markets. The few available is beyond the means of the ordinary people. Businessmen hoard the goods in order to make higher profits. When Buhari came, these warehouses that hoard these goods were identified, opened and the goods sold at government controlled prices. People queued to buy these scarce goods at a price they can afford. That was where the "queue" came in. And for your information, the masses were happy and in some cases they were the ones who pointed out warehouses who hoarded the goods.
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So, Buhari wasn't the one who caused the scarcity. He was just doing his best to correct a problem he met.

LRNZH:
People like you should be court jesters.....like Labaran Maku for example.

You can't contribute valuably to serious matters.

diluminati:
[size=1pt]ochejoseph and reno omokri, you guys have failed.

You kids of 1993, you believe the lies your devious uncles tell you.

Shame on you. Your propaganda will not work.
We all know your type and have seen through the lies. Go spread your propaganda in your shytty buildupnigeria trashy blog.

Reno Omokri, hope you have found a safe place to run to, because when GMB takes over from the CLUELESS ONE, you will have no hiding place.

You better be afraid Oche Otorkpa and you Reno Omokri. Be very Afraid.[/size]

Adminisher:
Interesting question. Shagari' s regime squandered money and were the inventors of the word "essential commodities". In fact Umaru Dikko who was nearly put in a crate (heroically) by the Buhari regime used to be called Minister for Rice derogatorilly. You won't believe the corruption of that time and you should not because of politics refuse to say the truth. They were selling import duties tor RICE. Can you believe that?..somebody a party member lobbies and gets import duty for river automatically he knows he is a millionaire (billionaire now) so if his wants to make his money quickly, he sells the license to Mr B, who sells to Mr C, who sells to Mr D. Mr D now imports the rice. All the costs get passed on to the poor consumer. The goods were AVAILABLE BUT VERY EXPENSIVE during Shagari period.
Also Dangote was a young favoured importer at the time, I am not denigrating his efforts but it is good to understand that the odds were sometimes stacked in favour of some of the big shots we have now

The Shagari regime got us into serious trouble with long term loans which was bad enough but also heavy short term instruments like Export Credits, Letters of Credits and so on that were not being serviced. The short term loans were what ruined Nigeria..

During g IBB he devalued the currency massively, had Falae and others as Ministers of Finance and we were not queuing for goods. It is so important to emphasize that queing or not queuing is not the issue. If the problem is one of temporary shortage that is being addressed via local production and solving of logistic issues then no problem. The problem is when you have to sell your future and that of your children because of sugar, milk and rice.
The IBB regime rendered the Naira useless and all.infrastructural.problems we have now could be traced to that regime. It became very expensive (x100) to build roads, bridges and schools. Every time you wonder why Dubai is so much finer than Nigeria think of the decades we operated under the terrible exchange rate regime. Our currency was N0.55 to the US dollar and the Shagari regime first got us into trouble, Bubari true to correct things but IBB parked Nigeria's bus inside trouble.

The problem with Jonathan is that he is empty in economic terms and he does not have an ideology. Ngozi Iweala, Sebum Aganga, Akinwunmi Adesina and Johnson are very very smart but they are all products of a certain tendency that likes foreign financing for everything and foreign loans for everything. I actually admire Aganga, what he has done for industries in the East and manufacturing in the industrial estates of the west is commendable but we need a president who is bright enough at meetings to ask about jobs for his children, taxes for his people and training and skills for his young graduates. This one is too busy counting executive jets.

Meanwhile take a listen to Osinbajo. They are also targeting local manufacturing but it will be local technology development focussed and they will target Textiles, Agro Allied, Machine building et.c

otokx:
They love the 2k promised them for sitting down in the sun all day today. At least it will reduce the number of kidnappers and armed robbers in the environment today.

Same thing goes for APC before you accuse me, we are not yet ready for good things in Nigeria.

What am I even saying sef?

Adminisher:
My major problem is that he was too dumb as a Masters student to understand what was happening. He queued to buy milk that he could afford. If the Naira had been devalued he would not have been able to afford the milk, he would not have been on the milk queue, he would have been on the garri/sugar queue.

The problems did not last more than one year before local manufacturing took up the slack in supply with cheap dollars at N2 to $1 and we were able to weather the storm now those companies Nestle, Cadburys, Chuchgate, Honeywell, WAMCO et.c are very strong on the stock exchange with market capitalization of billions.
Thanks to Buhari and stubborn Idiagbon especially.

Adminisher:
No body s queing to eat anymore. All these products are now made in Nigeria. Essential commodities are now common commodities thanks to Buhari' s support that protected local manufacturers from imports at a time local average earnings would not have been able to buy even one tin of milk.
Please go and talk to MAN reps in your area. Buhari saved the local FMCG industry with his policies.

The Jonathan regime would have done the same type of import restrictions if they would have won in February although we all know they are going to lose.

They are already tariffing luxury goods heavily and moving down to FMCG. There are already thirty brands of imported corn flakes in Nigeria, I would advise you if you have a friend in that business to start local production or go into something else

asha80:
If buhari's regime is going to encourage indigenous production of goods and services variants of imported goods that cab easily be produced here then it is laudable but the issue is if elite and middle class Nigerians are ready to curtail the avariciuos taste for those foreign imported goods for their locally produced variety.

ogb5:
OP you are insulting those of us who went through the horror of the Buhari evil regime in 1984 to 1985.

It is evil to want to re-write history just to sell a dummy politician.

No one in any country of the world like to spend days in queue trying to buy bread to feed his family. today the Syrians are queuing to buy bread due to the war in Syria, some are bombed while on the queue, It will be criminal to claim that the Syrians queuing for bread today like it.

Under Buhari not only did people queue for bread, we queued for cooking oil, we queued for washing soap, we queued for salt. many people collapsed and died from exhaustion in the queues. And this was a time when Nigeria was not at war.

And to worsen things soldiers were flogging people mercilessly on the queues, who likes to be flogged? why do you think Fela called Buhari a craze man in animal skin?

Your claim that profiteering was reduced shows your lack of understanding of economics, just like buhari, people go into business to make profit.
Using the military to break the locks of peoples shops and auctioning private goods at less than the cost price was not only wrong, it was evil. At the end of the day shops like Kingsway, Bata, Leventis have to close shop. People like you go to malls today to gloss around, the same malls Buhari killed by auctioning away their goods and rendering bankrupt in 1984.

Children who did not suffer through the economic stupidity of Buhari in 1984 and 1985 can vote for him, but people like us who saw the effects of his stupidity leading to scarcity of simple things like bread, sugar, oil, salt and soap and the closing of many factories will never vote for Buhari to come and repeat his economic stupidity.

spenca:
Do you kno how rich nigeria is , do you know how many private jets exist in this nation ? I know it sounds strange to you only because you have been fed on many decayed information which makes you reason it is impossible , a word for you mate it is I possible till it is done and it was done. Choose to believe or not , it is still yea mind no matter how much evidence is produced you won't still accept the truth.

jmaine:
According to your link after the purported 541 Aircrafts bought by Buhari (1984-1985)

IBB regime added additional 201 (1986-1993). . .

Abacha added 20 (1994-1998)

Obasanjo added 94 (1999- 2007)

Yar Adua before he died added 231 (2007-2010)

GEJ added 20 ( 2011- 2013)

It is even more shocking that the Buhari regime bought more Aircrafts than the USA (398) despite stories of how broke we were that even warranted salient projects like the Lagos Metroline truncated . . .

It is not out of place to doubt the factual authenticity of the site with the glaring realities on ground . . . . Where are all these Aircrafts packed




P:S ==> The Shagari govt. is even credited to have bought a whooping 105 Aircrafts and 547 ships . . .

Dannyset:
Issue based campaign indeed.
The same man who told us MEND wasn't responsible for the bomb in 2010, is now telling us that MEND was paid to assassinate him, all because dey endorsed Buhari. Is dis man logical at all? Is dis not a shame to Phd? This cluelessness is getting out of hand.

semitunde:
I'll take a buhari without certificate instead of an IBB riddled with corruption any day. Besides how are you sure IBB has certs?

People know Buhari as being [b]incorruptible [/b]but harsh. IBB, GEJ's mentor is more genteel. But cold bloodedly corrupt.

I think you are mixing these gentlemen up.

semitunde:
By fellow soldiers you mean like Babangida? The acclaimed Maradona? The person under which Nigeria personified the word corruption? The same man who has now endorsed GEJ?

semitunde:
I knew I was playing into a corner with my last post. But you have to admit everyone knew buhari even at that time didn't stand for laziness,laxity, and indiscipline. It worked in other areas but your barracks I guess.

What can you say about the zoologist?