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Abagworo:
Under Jonathan with Naira then valued at 120 to Dollar Nigeria paid a subsidy of nearly 3trillion in one year. Let us wait till year end to ascertain subsidy under Buhari. It might be less than 6oobillion thereby saving over 2trillion compared with Jonathan.

However the most important thing is to stop it and make our refineries work. I believe Buhari can.

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You should not be lying during your ramadam fasting period.

Fuel Shortages to Hit Nigeria in Three Weeks, Seplat CEO Says


Nigeria will probably be hit by fuel shortages in three weeks as the government doesn’t have enough money to pay for gasoline subsidies, according to the head of Seplat Petroleum Development Co Plc.
“In three weeks we will be back to scarcity because we simply don’t have the money to pay for the subsidy,” Austin Avuru, chief executive officer of Lagos-based Seplat, said on Thursday at a Bloomberg conference at the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
Nigeria almost ground to a halt last month during the country’s worst fuel shortage in a decade due to a dispute between oil-product marketers and the outgoing government. The shortage left service stations closed, aircraft grounded, and businesses unable to operate.
A lack of oil refining capacity means Nigeria subsidizes gasoline imports and suffers frequent fuel shortages even though it’s Africa’s biggest crude producer of about 2 million barrels a day. President Muhammadu Buhari, who took office on May 29, said this week his government is facing severe financial strain from a Treasury that’s “virtually empty” and billions of dollars in debt.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-25/fuel-shortages-to-hit-nigeria-in-three-weeks-seplat-ceo-says

Unable to choose his working team, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has been struggling to kick-off a regime he bragged so much about. The All Progressives Congress APC, it may be recalled, ran an electioneering race projecting their candidate, now the president, as a fiscally astute conservative who would curb corruption and appropriately manage the country’s economic and financial resources. The masses at this time are getting something entirely different.

While Buhari, a former dictator backflips with official duties in a representative system unfamiliar to his individual aptitude, his camp has been busy showcasing him with falsehood and deceptive fairy tales. To substitute for total lack of answers for his regime catastrophe, the APC social media warriors have been feeding disappointed masses with some worthless rooster-and-bull tales of what is now termed the ‘Buhari Wonders.”

The first fake story to justify Buhari’s humility, and considerateness to money matters came during the government transition period, when the APC claimed that predecessor, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan presented a billion naira budget for delegates’ lunch, but Buhari the “good money-manager” declined any expenses, saying that his transition team would bring their own lunch. Meanwhile this president was in London at the time on a controversial mission not properly communicated to his constituents.

A similar story yet made it to the network from the Buhari’s camp on how during the South Africa’s trip, Buhari paid the hotel bills for his staff, and asked the rest of the entourage to pay their own bills. This was a president yet to name a single staff till date. The propaganda continued with another rumor that hundreds of politicians, including the Petroleum Minister, Alison-Madueke had returned billions of Dollars stolen from the government – because they were afraid of Buhari the “respected honest money-keeper” and disciplinarian.

It is despicable that at this crucial time in the regime, the APC social media ensemble, running out of Buhari praise-worship songs are busy telling self-indulgent stories including comparing Buhari and Jonathan’s cars, use of presidential jets, Buhari’s choice of transportation, and ostensibly his suya flavor. But how long would they continue to feed the masses with these tommyrots.

As I write, the Buhari’s camp in the social media are still tagging around senseless stories about Buhari opting to fly in the economy class over first class; or choosing Okada over official convoy; or proposing to be eating on the floor instead of an official dining table; or heading to Alhaji Suya "bukateria" for his inauguration dinner rather than the traditional Aso-Rock in-house executive banquet.

Major questions remain – when would Nigerians start getting substantial information about the running of the government? Where are the ‘missing girls’? When is this ‘change’ going to start? Where is the unemployment salaries? Where are Buhari’s ministers? Who has been making all decisions so far? Is this still a democracy?

Indeed, Buhari and those who bejeweled him into his current executive predicament have been facing a more complicated political landscape. Even as Buhari announced as a terror-defense strategy, a relocation of the country’s armory to Borno State, Nigeria has remained under a terrorist attacks. In fact, last Monday's suicide bombing at a crowded fish market occurred in the northeastern city of Maiduguri – the same region where the regime relocated its arsenal.

Let us be clear then – that a president chose a wheelbarrow as an official car does not make him morally decent and fiscally astute; it only exposes his ignorance to issues of fiscal policies. Buhari, and indeed his Yahoo drum-beaters should explain their frameworks and preparedness to fiscal reformation. They should tell Nigerians how the regime can sustain in the long run, the existing spending, policies, and tax - without jeopardizing Nigeria’s creditworthiness, obligations or projected expenses.

Without Ministers; not a single known adviser, and without any working team besides obsequious cohorts who worship him, President Buhari is already abusing his official duties, making contradictory policy comments, dictating unmanageable strategy undertakings, and flip-flopping with dire issues of national significance.

As a matter of urgency, the masses are waiting for their new president to at least acquaint them with his plans to proceed. They want to hear about the machinery to translate electoral promises into action, not about limousines, and jets. In a government structure where the President cannot communicate, cannot relate, and worse, cannot corroborate his own policies, there is every reason to worry. It is torturing that under the current regime, citizens have to rely on repentant party bloggers to know the fate of their current economic woes.


http://www.examiner.com/article/executive-stalemate-nigeria-s-new-regime-grounded-confusion

passionate88:
I keep telling people, Buhari will be worse than any other president Nigeria has ever had. During his military regime, it was Tunde Idiagbon of blessed memory that was the brain and backbone of the regime, Buhari was just a figure head. He was easily overthrown when Idiagbon travelled out of Nigeria

Nigerians will enjoy their change

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
You can't comprehend the entire purpose of the article without freeing yourself from prejudice.

From the article, Buhari's government is hiding $3.4 billion paid into Federation Account by NLNG out of $5 billion credited.

In a bid to justify false claims of empty treasury the new government is about to open another London Account.

Remember, $2.8 billion of Nigerian money was traced to Buhari's personal account after he served as Petroleum minister.

, Imagine Nigeria has turned a country with a sole administrator, Our sophisticated almajiris have now lost their tongues.

Another thread about Radio biafra ends up becoming "WE SS, I AM SS, SS hates IGBOS" dumping ground. Please people deal with the topic and leave your Niger delta tribe boogieman alone. Tell your government to stop the Radio station if they can. My hope is to see more Radio stations like this spread across the villages and towns of the Niger delta. Radio stations broadcasting in our tribal languages.

We lived through 3 years of some of the most hateful media assault against Niger deltan tribes and Igbos in this country. Between 2012-2015, where was NBC, when Punch, leadership newspaper, Sahara reporters, Premium times, Osun Defenders were doing their daily and weekly tribal bashing in the name of Journalism. Most of you were not worried then?

You don't like Radio biafra, please start your own. I support freedom of information, nothing is more important than information, let's do everything possible, to keep Radio stations, like Radio Biafra alive.

Don't quote me, if you have nothing to say.

Unable to choose his working team, Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has been struggling to kick-off a regime he bragged so much about. The All Progressives Congress APC, it may be recalled, ran an electioneering race projecting their candidate, now the president, as a fiscally astute conservative who would curb corruption and appropriately manage the country’s economic and financial resources. The masses at this time are getting something entirely different.

While Buhari, a former dictator backflips with official duties in a representative system unfamiliar to his individual aptitude, his camp has been busy showcasing him with falsehood and deceptive fairy tales. To substitute for total lack of answers for his regime catastrophe, the APC social media warriors have been feeding disappointed masses with some worthless cock-and-bull tales of what is now termed the ‘Buhari Wonders.”

The first fake story to justify Buhari’s humility, and considerateness to money matters came during the government transition period, when the APC claimed that predecessor, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan presented a billion naira budget for delegates’ lunch, but Buhari the “good money-manager” declined any expenses, saying that his transition team would bring their own lunch. Meanwhile this president was in London at the time on a controversial mission not properly communicated to his constituents.

A similar story yet made it to the network from the Buhari’s camp on how during the South Africa’s trip, Buhari paid the hotel bills for his staff, and asked the rest of the entourage to pay their own bills. This was a president yet to name a single staff till date. The propaganda continued with another rumor that hundreds of politicians, including the Petroleum Minister, Alison-Madueke had returned billions of Dollars stolen from the government – because they were afraid of Buhari the “respected honest money-keeper” and disciplinarian.

It is despicable that at this crucial time in the regime, the APC social media ensemble, running out of Buhari praise-worship songs are busy telling self-indulgent stories including comparing Buhari and Jonathan’s cars, use of presidential jets, Buhari’s choice of transportation, and ostensibly his suya flavor. But how long would they continue to feed the masses with these tommyrots.

As I write, the Buhari’s camp in the social media are still tagging around senseless stories about Buhari opting to fly in the economy class over first class; or choosing Okada over official convoy; or proposing to be eating on the floor instead of an official dining table; or heading to Alhaji Suya "bukateria" for his inauguration dinner rather than the traditional Aso-Rock in-house executive banquet.

Major questions remain – when would Nigerians start getting substantial information about the running of the government? Where are the ‘missing girls’? When is this ‘change’ going to start? Where is the unemployment salaries? Where are Buhari’s ministers? Who has been making all decisions so far? Is this still a democracy?

Indeed, Buhari and those who bejeweled him into his current executive predicament have been facing a more complicated political landscape. Even as Buhari announced as a terror-defense strategy, a relocation of the country’s armory to Borno State, Nigeria has remained under a terrorist attacks. In fact, last Monday's suicide bombing at a crowded fish market occurred in the northeastern city of Maiduguri – the same region where the regime relocated its arsenal.

Let us be clear then – that a president chose a wheelbarrow as an official car does not make him morally decent and fiscally astute; it only exposes his ignorance to issues of fiscal policies. Buhari, and indeed his Yahoo drum-beaters should explain their frameworks and preparedness to fiscal reformation. They should tell Nigerians how the regime can sustain in the long run, the existing spending, policies, and tax - without jeopardizing Nigeria’s creditworthiness, obligations or projected expenses.

Without Ministers; not a single known adviser, and without any working team besides obsequious cohorts who worship him, President Buhari is already abusing his official duties, making contradictory policy comments, dictating unmanageable strategy undertakings, and flip-flopping with dire issues of national significance.

As a matter of urgency, the masses are waiting for their new president to at least acquaint them with his plans to proceed. They want to hear about the machinery to translate electoral promises into action, not about limousines, and jets. In a government structure where the President cannot communicate, cannot relate, and worse, cannot corroborate his own policies, there is every reason to worry. It is torturing that under the current regime, citizens have to rely on repentant party bloggers to know the fate of their current economic woes.


http://www.examiner.com/article/executive-stalemate-nigeria-s-new-regime-grounded-confusion

PvtParts:
Am sorry but the truth is meant to be very bitter

Carry on

EMANY01:
A trend that [size=15pt]snail buhari[/size] pioneered in 1983 and ibb escalated. We are watching them.

It would help some times if we could just do a little reading before we advertise of sophisticated IGNORANCE:




I said this in earlier threads and will not stop repeating it until it sinks into peoples heads this president is being whimsical and ILLEGALLY USURPING THE STATUTORY RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STATE SECURITY SERVICE.
I have made this point in an earlier thread discussing the same issue:

Most people have no idea that protection of government officials is an intelligence affair and not a military function other wise in the US for instance the protection of the president ,his vice and other high ranking officials would fall to the Special Forces in the various branches of the military.
The state security service function :protection of the Commander in chief and Head of state as well as other ranking officials down the line, as guaranteed by law it would be a violation of the law for the president to usurp the function of the Service on his whimsical reasoning.
Watching to see how this goes but this tells the story of how his presidency will be shaped.
If this speculation proves to be founded, it simply proves that this president has imperial ambitions/pretensions and is not the least bit interested concerned about building institutions that will serve the country regardless of who is the C I C .Former President Jonathan held on to that principle all through his tenure.

Not to mention the equipment and hardware:electronics and communications infrastructure and information technology setup that is required for the task of protecting the president.
Protecting the president is far more than just about having bodyguards,around the president.It's more about sourcing,analyzing,processing and visualizing threat data.Deducing intelligence on threats, some persistent,others random or deep seated that the president faces everyday.
Their other unadvertised major function is to ENSURE THE CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT.This in the event that the president (whomever he is) , is disabled by an attack, the protocol keeping the governing of the country continuously operating is successfully implemented
Most of that work/process happen far from Aso Rock and involve serious computing power/capability and expertise.
I know that the DSS has some sort of data center and a DSS acquaintance of mine is specializing in Geo-spacial analysis and intelligence.Not to mention the other expertise they are culturing into the fabric of the institution.
I don't imagine the DSS will just hand over everything:expertise, infrastructure , data with a smile on their faces .

https://www.nairaland.com/2376369/buhari-plans-military-shake-up-angry/3#34721115

https://www.nairaland.com/2376369/buhari-plans-military-shake-up-angry/7#34749269

https://www.nairaland.com/2403335/dss-driven-out-presidential-villa#35138888

What we are seeing is a President and an administration stuck in a time capsule. They have reduced protection to "bodyguards". The army does not have 10% of DSS's surveillance knowhow. Whatever they are doing, they're the ones putting their Dauara Dullard in danger.

Buhari has not seen anything and these losers are crying already

At this eleventh hour these people are still talking about criterias

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timota:
you ar scared of saying something

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timota:
what is right, legalising illegality is it not the supreme court that desqualified omeha . This what led to the downfall of pdp in the federal

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What happened to Mr Mohammed Dikwa

nigerianvenom:
Majek fashek ur greatest?
What about maxwell udo, peterside otong, ras kimono, bobo nesta marley, lucky dube, culture, etc.

Majek and mandators remain my choice.

Thanks for righting a wrong.

Image123:
The question? Okay, what is a Nigerian patriot and how do people join or become? You brought that up.

That's the question you need to ask yourself before quoting people to form love for Nigeria.

Image123:
No need for tears and unstable emotions, go and learn how to discuss intelligently without resorting to insults.

Tell us when you became a Nigerian patriot, that's the question

Okaka27:
TRASH

Almajiri, you have been seen.

vedaxcool:
More appalling is your spelling mistakes

Almajiri corrected already, unfortunately most of you like your Daura President cannot be helped. Are your three refineries not coming back online in 4 weeks again?

WHY WHY I THOUGHT THE REFINERIES WILL BE PRODUCING PETROL ACCORDING TO APC LATEST PROPAGANDA. JONATHAN IS NO MORE THERE, TO SABOTAGE THEM, ABI THE ALAMJIRI DULLARD FROM DAURA HAS NOT POINTED HIS MAGIC STAFF IN THAT DIRECTION.


THE STUPIDITYY AND IGNORANCE OF NIGERIANS IS APPALLING

Image123:
My OP? This is not in anyway about me. It's more about those of you that almost seem happy to hope that things do not go well for this country.

Hahahah, you can cry me a river, let me know when you became a Nigerian Patriot, awon oshi.

APC needs to count their votes again in the house of rep, they have become the minority majority party. They never saw this coming, Dogara has become an untouchable.

baralatie:
that is exactly the problem I have with the APC propaganda for the past 6 years.it just doesn't work.now it has turned full circle back to the APC!

In the words of my greatest reggae star majek, you cannot plant yam and reap cocoyam.

Image123:
Who cares about IBB's coup speech? Was he right at the end of the day? Repeat another IBB na, sebi na your country.

Ask your OP the town crier if IBB was right. I will leave the repeating to Saraki and Dogara They have done a bam up job so far.

Truckpusher:
I don't think so.


You already heard people like Omenka ,demdem,donphilous and the one with gender identity crisis(Ngeneukwenu A.KA. Cleverly) sounding like broken records.

They have not started crying. Nobody sows the kind of treachery these maggots gave Nigeria between 2011-2015 and walks away whole.

When Tambuwal closed the house of rep for 6 weeks after defecting, the same maggots crying here, were dancing and calling the move sophisticated. People, try and drink the medicine you recommend for others, that's the process of life. Never give, what you cannot take.

Is too early for the letter writing season, you people will need 10 pages to explain and ask the Daura President questions. Nothing is new here, go back and read IBB's coup speech.

No ministers till August then , the government of almajiris, you have to give it to them.

Nice to seen the humiliation of APC by their own members. Speaker Dogara, the lord is with thee, don't be worried of the Alamjiris. Their 5 mins of fame has expired.