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Politics / Re: Corruption: Buhari Has Letters Implicating Jonathan - PMB Biographer, John Paden by basingstoke: 12:41pm On Oct 06, 2016
I have letters showing that Buhari does not have certificate
Politics / Re: Nigeria Has Realised N2.7trn From TSA – Buhari by basingstoke: 12:39pm On Oct 06, 2016
SamuelAnyawu:
2.7 Trillion? Nice


How much of it was used in the Edo Guubernatorial election?

How much will be used for the Next upcoming Ondo gubernatorial election?


How much of it will be transferred to APC stalwarts as "Goodwill packages"



grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin
God bless you
Family / Re: Should I Marry A Man With A Low Sperm Count? by basingstoke: 12:08am On Oct 06, 2016
Low sperm count can be treated. But azoospermia can not
Politics / Re: Budget Padding: Jibrin’s Suspension Is Unconstitutional – Femi Gbajabiamila by basingstoke: 1:41pm On Oct 05, 2016
Tunubu spirit speaking in gbajabiamala's body
Politics / Re: Why We Didn't Release Dasuki Despite ECOWAS Ruling - Justice Minister by basingstoke: 1:38pm On Oct 05, 2016
RedCapChief:


Simple English language has become difficult for the FG to understand cheesy

The instruction is clear: Release the man

Zombies will say the ECOWAS court has been infiltrated by Igbos grin grin
are u surprised. Can't u see bubu has no cert.

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Business / Re: Ethiopian Protesters Attack Dangote's Factory (Photos) by basingstoke: 1:32pm On Oct 05, 2016
Holywizard:
Allah Akbar!!!

grin grin grin
Politics / Re: Zahra Buhari Rocks N210,000 Dior Earrings (Photos) by basingstoke: 1:27pm On Oct 05, 2016
nnokwa042:
grin grin grin grin grin grin no kill with this ur slang burukutu sipping gworo chewing nnna men boys adi achi
nna , how man go do . before these Fulani people kill person with hunger
Politics / Re: Zahra Buhari Rocks N210,000 Dior Earrings (Photos) by basingstoke: 12:52am On Oct 05, 2016
tellwisdom:
Foolish misplaced abboki priority kunu drinking daughter of a cow trainer.....Anuofia jati jati angry
it is not kunu drinking, it is brukutu sipping, gworo chewing bastard

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Politics / Re: Buhari Proposes N6.8trn 2017 Budget, N1.6trn For Debt Servicing by basingstoke: 7:47pm On Oct 04, 2016
You never spend the one of 2016
Politics / Re: Buhari Should Probe Himself, Shehu Sani Says by basingstoke: 9:35pm On Oct 03, 2016
blueto:
Did you read the article? if yes then did you comprehend?

He wasn't only referring to Buhari as the only person that should be probed, he was indicating that Buhari should extend his anti-corruption war beyond GEJ's administration He wasn't actually supporting GEJ, neither was he against Buhar so I will advise you illogical zombies to stop making distorted and doltish comments on this forum.
zombie means some one with no brsin
Foreign Affairs / Re: Saudi Arabia Drops Islamic Calendar Over Oil Crisis - Adopts Gregorian, Cuts Pay by basingstoke: 3:54pm On Oct 03, 2016
And the abokis in Nigeria are adding more days to the holiday

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Politics / Re: The Bitter Truth By Sanusi Lamido Sanusi by basingstoke: 1:45pm On Oct 03, 2016
Now it is ok to preach one nigeria . when the north loses power you guys will waste no time in invoking the almajaris on nigeria

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Celebrities / Re: Rahama Sadau Suspended From Kanywood: The 'Immoral' Video That Caused It by basingstoke: 1:39pm On Oct 03, 2016
emeijeh:
Just like that?!
laugh wan kill me. But it's true. It is oil that will remain in his hands. The irony is that this is how this governm entire reasons .
Politics / Re: EFCC Returns Sylva’s ’48 Houses’ Seized Under Jonathan by basingstoke: 10:16am On Oct 03, 2016
DIKEnaWAR:
Before the elections, we - the proud 5% people of Nigeria - alerted the people we share this cUntry with that Buhari is a cancer cell that should not be allowed to fester. That he suffers from selective amnesia, vindictive, tribalistic, a bigot and fights corruption selectively. They said we are hating.

We gave examples of his antecedents in his first outing as Head of state, his sojourn at PTF and others. We begged that he should show his qualification for the office. They asked for NEPA bill. We called him to debate. They asked him to continue chewing his gworo and not mind us. We are here...

Where did Timi Sylva work before to have 48 houses? What is he even doing with 48 houses? I yaf tire for my Cuntry.
brother let these people enjoy there zoo.
Politics / Re: CCB  to Probe The  assets Of Amaechi And 29 Ministers, 46 Other Public Officers by basingstoke: 6:28pm On Oct 02, 2016
So during the 6 months bubu was screening them for ministerial positions, they were not investigated. Kai this country na zoo walahi
Politics / Re: I Can’t Fight Buhari In Public –tunde Bakare by basingstoke: 7:34pm On Oct 01, 2016
Preacher man dont try yourself . buhari will mess you up. So na only Jonathan good fit for public criticism. See your life

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Politics / Re: Nigeria Already Getting Out Of Recession –adeosun by basingstoke: 11:01am On Oct 01, 2016
jahsson:

i don laff throway my Iphone7 insyd toilet... Mtcheew... grin cheesy
Bros I throway salute. happy to some one laugh. But I need the IPhone 7 sha
Politics / Apc Sets Own House On Fire By Dele Momodu. by basingstoke: 9:16am On Oct 01, 2016
Source http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/10/01/as-apc-sets-fire-on-the-roof/
Again Dele Momodu comes to Tinhbh rescue,berates APC Buhari. Please read on
me Backpage AS APC SETS FIRE ON THE ROOF
AS APC SETS FIRE ON THE ROOF
October 1, 201631053

PEDULUM By Dele Momodu, Email: dele.momodu@thisdaylive.com


PEDULUM By Dele Momodu, Email: dele.momodu@thisdaylive.com

“… President Buhari, on coming into office in 2015, ignored the looming economic danger and focused single-mindedly – and, in retrospect, unwisely – on the fight against corruption and the recovery of stolen asset which had populist appeal. This could have proceeded hand-in-hand with a focus on the management of the Nigerian economy to prevent the present crisis…”

– PREMIUM TIMES EDITORIAL: HOW BUHARI HELPED NIGERIA INTO RECESSION AND HOW HE CAN TAKE US OUT OF IT




Fellow Nigerians, let me quickly congratulate all of us on this special anniversary of our Independence before returning to the quote above. Against all odds, we stayed together as one indivisible country despite agitations here and there for the collapse of the current problematic union. We even fought a very bloody civil war which terminated the lives of millions of our brothers and sisters. Since then, we’ve continued to fumble and wobble along.



In the middle of this celebratory mood, the ruling party APC is in a messy and not so merry situation despite winning the gubernatorial election in my home State of Edo just days ago. The reason is not too far-fetched. As a matter of fact, it is a self-inflicted injury. A political party that came to power with so much credibility and adulation last year is already becoming a house divided against itself by fighting on all fronts from within and outside its folds. I would have expected that useful lessons would have been learnt from our recent past. Alas!



The prophecy of this war of attrition had been long foretold by those who saw this marriage of different political parties as an amalgamation of strange bedfellows. The election that ushered in the government of President Muhammadu Buhari travelled with so much hope and promise. This promise also carried within its underbelly the burden of heavy expectations. Many had hoped and expected that the APC was ready to hit the ground running from Day One and that President Buhari had a masterplan ready and handy. Nigerians actually expected instant magic. President Buhari was believed to possess talismanic powers to solve all problems and the capacity to sweep out the sins of Nigeria, especially the endemic corruption that has grown malignantly cancerous, within a twinkle of an eye. But so far, nothing of the sort has happened. Many Nigerians are already in a state of stupor trying to figure out what went wrong and what go right in the near future.



Trouble started as soon as the government started. It was as if the government was conceived in perfidy and had to be delivered in strife. First, they started fighting over positions once it was time to share public offices. The National Assembly was the hotbed of rebellion and hullabaloo, the place where the falcon refused to hear the falconer. For whatever reason, the party picked on one of its bright stars, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, who had chosen to fulfil a lifetime ambition of becoming Nigeria’s President of The Senate by fire and by force. The party apparatchik would never agree to such heresy. This would cause so much rancour and put the ruling party in disarray. The ding dong affair between The Senate and the Federal executive would be a test of will and strength between the warring factions. Try as it may, the Senators overwhelmingly supported their leader and the seed of discord had been sown almost permanently.



The Federal House of Representatives suffered its own version of the crisis but its Speaker appeared more amenable to control from the invisible but supernatural forces from outside its chambers. The party was thus able to keep the combustion from exploding while real fire burnt wildly in the nearby Senate chamber. It was in the midst of this that the Senate went through the screening exercise for Buhari’s cabinet nominees. The time it took to announce and release the list of Ministers was another case of hocus-pocus. Mercifully, the screening and ratification commenced and was dispensed with after some melodrama. But the ember of discord was still burning slowly and steadily away from public or prying eyes. After some unsavoury sessions at the Code of Conduct Tribunal and a few complicated legalese, members of the public lost interest and attention and concluded the case was possibly dead on arrival.



As if this war was not bad enough, the economy took a nose dive and the Naira has continued to sink deeper and deeper in the abyss. There was a gale of arrests of allegedly corrupt people reminiscent of Buhari’s days as a military ruler. The enthusiastic supporters of the war against corruption would soon turn against the same government that seemed determined to restore sanity to our socio-political climate. Buhari and company had failed to study the psychology of homo sapiens. If Nigerians had lived and survived substantially on corruption, it should have occurred to Buhari and his team to replace something with something. A hungry man is an angry man. Enu ofifo kii dun yanyanmu, (an empty mouth can never make sufficient noise), according to a Yoruba adage. If as corruption collapsed like the walls of Jericho, food prices also crashed and prosperity beckoned, there would have been no problem. In fact, things got worse rather than change for the better. Nigerians are angry not because they hate Buhari or really miss PDP but life is just becoming unbearable while the politicians to live large in most cases.



The government itself has not provided palliatives and even reneged on some of its campaign promises. The government has turned to preaching and heaped all the blames on its immediate predecessor who became the lamb of God programmed to carry away the sins of PDP in 16 years. Members of opposition protested vehemently against what they called a vengeful witch-hunt against their party, the PDP. The ruling party says PDP has put Nigeria in this mess and should pay dearly for it. No doubt but how do we move forward?



There are important issues to tackle and it seems the Federal Government has not been able to overcome the many challenges confronting it. The economy has been its greatest albatross as well as the cold but volatile wars between its gladiators. The tussle for power started so early. Nigerian politicians do not joke with power. They start jostling for power from the end of the election. Nothing should pass them by. And those who manage to grab power often forget those who brought them to power. In fact, they usually have a mortal fear of the kingmakers and try to keep the distance from them. Afobaje loba koko nge lori, (the King wastes no time in beheading the kingmaker). The reason is simple. No one wants to be reminded of his past or be held to ransom by those who helped him climb the ladder. Such is life.



There is no doubt that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was in the forefront of those who midwifed this government in cash and in kind. But despite his humongous efforts, the relationship between Asiwaju and this government has been that of cat and mouse. It did not start today. It actually started being frosty long before the election. First, Asiwaju wanted to be the Vice President but Buhari was said to have excused himself on account of Muslim/Muslim ticket and skilfully settled for one of his close associates, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, a technocrat and Pastor of The Redeemed Christian Church of God. Next, Tinubu was interested in who becomes Senate President and Speaker of The House of Representatives. Somehow, this also became elusive. It is not clear till this day if the President was actually interested in any preferred candidates. But it was certain that some subterranean forces were stylishly blocking Tinubu from having too much clout and stranglehold on the party. While I do not think he can have his way always, I believe he should be carried along. His vast knowledge of politics and governance would be very useful at this critical moment.



Tinubu has remained a loyal party chieftain brushing off every act of provocation, according to impeccable sources. But the hawks of power are worried because of the suspicion that he is still nursing a presidential ambition. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is also believed to be eyeing the presidential seat. He and Tinubu are being systematically side-lined and checkmated. Matters are beginning to get to a cataclysmic climax with the recent decision to block a Tinubu-backed Governorship aspirant in Ondo State. In another ugly twist, the recent face-off between Tinubu and the national chairman of APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun who enjoyed Tinubu’s encouragement to emerge chairman of the party has raised more questions than answers.



As someone noted “why are they all hell bent on humiliating Tinubu after all his support for Buhari and their party, the APC?” I have no idea but I know that there is fire on the mountain. After reading a Press Release from Tinubu’s media office, it was obvious Tinubu has had enough of this surreptitious victimisation. He and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar are obviously angry about developments and I won’t be surprised if they join forces again and dismantle both APC and PDP to forge a new alliance. The two are experienced and formidable enough to even run as President and Vice President respectively. The theory is that with the growing unpopularity of the Buhari government anything can happen. I don’t know but if you don’t try you can’t know what’s impossible or not.



It seems APC has already touched the tiger by the tail and should seriously watch out for possible backlash. My honest advice to President Buhari, as always, is not to listen to those goading him on and telling him he can win all battles. I will borrow him a Yoruba proverb: “bi adete ko le fun wara, o le danu!” (if the leper cannot milk the cow, he can spill the ready milk!). President Buhari should remember the conspiracy that ruined PDP and eventually catapulted President Goodluck Jonathan out of power. If we don’t know where we are going, we should remember where we are coming from.
Politics / Re: Borno To Rebuild Churches Destroyed By Boko Haram by basingstoke: 8:54am On Sep 29, 2016
Nothing more to bomb.
Politics / Re: Nigeria Already Getting Out Of Recession –adeosun by basingstoke: 10:30pm On Sep 28, 2016
Wee you keep kwayet

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Politics / Re: EdoDecides: Youths Storm The Street To Celebrate As PDP Wins In Idokapa(pic) by basingstoke: 6:51pm On Sep 28, 2016
Neimar:
FTC finally - afta 3years of waiting grin

On a day PDP defeats APChit grin tongue
akpomwonsa. Domo sir
Politics / Re: Edo Governorship Election 2016: Live Updates (Pictures) by basingstoke: 1:41pm On Sep 28, 2016
This same oshimole will be accusing Jonathan. Today na today. APC is going away from south south

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Politics / Re: Buhari Presides Over FEC Meeting (Photos) by basingstoke: 1:40pm On Sep 28, 2016
President Buhari
Culture / Re: Emir Sanusi Visits The Archbishop Of Canterbury In Lambeth Palace, UK (photos) by basingstoke: 6:01pm On Sep 27, 2016
Dem pursue una from Afghanistan ?
Politics / Re: POLITICS OF BETRAYAL: The Unfair Criticism And Treatment Of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu by basingstoke: 1:43pm On Sep 27, 2016
All of them including bubu will taste what unfair criticism is like. Amaechi oshiomole el rufai dele momodu all loading

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Politics / Re: President Buhari Lied About No Railways And Forgot He Commissioned One Recently. by basingstoke: 11:31am On Sep 25, 2016
Such a fool
Politics / Re: Yes Dele Momodu Declares That Buhari' S Government Has Failed by basingstoke: 12:21pm On Sep 24, 2016
ehizzybaba:
#NIGERIAN NEW KJV.
A Letter of St.GEJ to Nigerians.
#APC Chapter 1vs1-8
1. And it came to pass, when the Lord would punish Nigeria, that he gave them a president under whose hand they were mightily oppressed. 2. Before he ascended the throne, he made them hope, with all manner of promises, that he would bring them to the promised land before the coming year began. 3. Thus the inhabitants of Nigeria grew restless with their good condition, and sorely vexed the president under whose hand they had prospered, so that he would not have the office of the president again, but rather resented it. 4. In those days also the Boko haramites laid siege to the north, and slew of the people three and twenty thousand, intending to set up a kingdom which would be ruled by Islam. 5. Thus the inhabitants of Nigeria remembered not the good deeds of Jonathan, but thrust him out of the throne, and made Buhari president in his stead. 6. Buhari was seventy and(?) years old when he began to reign. He reigned one and a half years in Nigeria, and the land became impoverished under him. 7. He persecuted also a few of the people, accusing them and casting them into prison. Thus, the opposition was subdued, the people could not find bread to eat and there was hunger in the land. 8. And the end become uncertain as there was wailing and gnashing of teeth.
God bless you sir.very true
Politics / Yes Dele Momodu Declares That Buhari' S Government Has Failed by basingstoke: 11:14am On Sep 24, 2016
We all woke up this morning to this shocking write up on Thisday's Newspaper back page by Dele Momodu.
Please read on. Source :http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/09/24/believe-me-this-buhari-cabinet-isnt-flying/

BELIEVE ME, THIS BUHARI CABINET ISN’T FLYING
September 24, 201662525

PEDULUM By Dele Momodu, Email: dele.momodu@thisdaylive.com



PENDULUM BY DELE MOMODU

Fellow Nigerians, let me start by thanking all the blogs, WhatsApp groups, Facebook and Twitter wizards who make the incredible efforts and sacrifice to mass-circulate my Pendulum column every week. I’m sincerely grateful for your abiding faith in the written word. Let me assure you that you push me to write this piece regularly no matter how tough. I must also salute all those who reach out to me via emails, SMS and telephone calls offering their appreciation of my humble contribution to nation-building. I’ve just received one such call from a businessman who believes so much in Buhari but feels the man has been encircled by desperate political jobbers who are not bothered whether he fails or succeeds. They are only interested in the allure and lucre of power, he says and he may not be far from the truth.

I truly appreciate the men and women of power who see my weekly sermon from the perspective that I mean no harm but that I am determined to prop up a government I helped bring to fruition in my own little way. It is impossible to forget and ignore my own critics who can never agree with my position on any national or international issue. Unknown to them, they keep me on my toes and force me to hone the elementary logic I learned as an undergraduate student at the then University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.



I wish to say categorically and with all emphasis at my command that the Buhari government is flailing. And only the ubiquitous hypocrites and cheer leaders would fail to say it as it is, that the grunts of the people are fast turning into deafening lamentations. No amount of approbation by a President Obama can detract from the plaintive suffering and cries of the Nigerian people. Indeed, much as I love Obama, we must remember that his primary interest is America and the fight against corruption which is a sub-plot in America’s fight against terrorism.

In case our dear President is unaware, and he feels only the wailing wailers are grumbling, I wish to assure him that this is not the case. Some of the President’s friends and supporters are deeply worried at the sad turn of events. They are wondering what went wrong and what can be done to turn the dangerous slide around. In fact, everything looks to them like a bad dream, a nightmare in reality. But on a personal note, I don’t think the situation is as irredeemable as it seems. The solution lies squarely on the President’s table. Only he can salvage his government from this stupendous slump from grace to grass.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s biggest equity is in his legendary incorruptibility. He must have assumed that this equity is rock solid and unassailable. But while the people truly want a reduction in the level of corruption and general indiscipline, you must replace something with something. Buhari’s team believes the problem they have is as a result of waging a relentless war on corrupt people and the freebies that have suddenly frozen up for their friends and acolytes. Not so simple folks. Where are the jobs to occupy and engage the innocent beneficiaries of corruption? A lot of those who had jobs have lost their means of livelihood. Companies are sacking their workers, as if with a vengeance. Foreign investors are running helter-skelter and many have closed shop already running back to wherever they came from. Everyone wants stability and not sermons. And there is no stability, either in the polity, in the economy, in our currency or indeed in our social life.

Unfortunately, this government has been very high on proselytising and low on performance. Their swansong has become abysmally boring. The people are now less interested in the results of President Jonathan’s recklessness in office but more in President Buhari’s remedial panacea. It is shocking that 16 months after our friends took over power they are not yet tired of moaning and groaning about Jonathan. But we sacked Jonathan because we knew and felt his case was very bad. We supported Buhari because of the mystic that he had the magic wand. We didn’t want to be accused in the future of wasting yet another best President Nigeria should have had, after Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. That is why we worked assiduously for a man we had rejected serially in the past. We must beg this government to wake up from its deep slumber. It would be a huge embarrassment and an unmitigated disaster if it fails. So many Nigerians risked everything to midwife this change. I’m willing to support this government to the very end but they should please listen to our pleas and humble suggestions.

The President needs to re-energise his team. Nigeria is too big and too bold to be controlled by a timid cabinet. We need eagles who can fly high. We should be able to find them in a country of nearly 200 million people. There is no doubt that President Buhari has some good hands in his team but most of them have refused to fly, because they are scared. Many have melted into oblivion and irrelevance. We do not need to mention names. Some jobs are so visible that we do not require masquerades to handle. Some jobs require common-sense and not loquacious rabblerousing. Some members of the team have attracted public odium to this government. They make Buhari look so pitiably bad and that should not be so.

The human rights records should also have been better handled and managed during this second coming after the massive damage he suffered in the past. Fighting wars on all fronts from day one distracted and occupied the government. That game-plan was clearly faulty. They should have known that the temperament and tone of a democratic government is ostensibly different from that of a military junta. I once read that too much anger sometimes beclouds reasoning. The government failed to take certain steps to mitigate against the expected backlash of its many wars. It did not reason that hungry people are not always reasonably tolerant of the cause of their social conditions.

No one is sure if President Buhari was ever inclined or advised by his team to plan its offensive well or if he thought he had the same omnipotent power he had from 1983-85. He would have waited a bit and stabilised his government before unleashing mayhem against the enemies of state. I’m told surprise is one of the deadliest strategies in warfare. Most of the looted resources would have remained in our banks if government had not shown its fangs too early. As a lay man in Economics, I will never understand and appreciate the decision to ban people from paying dollars into their own accounts. What did it matter if dollar was paid in cash or by transfer? That was the beginning of the free-fall of our currency down the economic ladder. A large chunk of the money looted has invariably vamoosed into foreign vaults or under some beds or dug-up holes. Shame!

I strongly recommend that the President rejigs his cabinet, especially his economic team and even replace some of the members. This is what a bank would do if some of its managers were not meeting their targets. No manager is too big to be fired by football clubs. There is nothing new under the sun about this approach to governance. There are so many global examples. In 2014, when Saudi Arabia experienced a surge after the outbreak of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (MERS) disease, Saudi King Abdullah fired his Health Minister Abdullah al Rabeeah. In July this year, President Raul Castro of Cuba removed his Minister of Economy Marino Murillo from his portfolio amid the economic hardship that was plaguing the country. Just two weeks ago, Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos fired the country’s Finance Minister Armando Manuel. Manuel had presided over an economic recession caused by a sharp dip in oil prices that weakened dollar inflows, hammered the Angolan Kwanza, leading to heavy government borrowing.

The President should borrow from such examples and do the needful without further delay. I’m happy that even the National Assembly is thinking along the same lines. The government does not have time on its hands and at its disposal. Two years would soon evaporate and the third year will come knocking. It has to start working for those Nigerians who put their fate and faith in the hands of Buhari. We have had enough of the blatant excuses that sound more like expressions of hopelessness and helplessness, thus leading to deja vu.



A few priorities must be tackled speedily. None is greater than the issue of power generation which is already witnessing appreciable progress. I believe the Minister of Power, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, should be allowed to concentrate strictly on power and give his other portfolios to equally competent people. I would love to see a former Governor Donald Duke take over works. I do not care WHICH PARTY HE BELONGS. I have deliberately mentioned this great Nigerian who could easily have been our own Obama if we were a country where merit and achievement catapulted people into the highest office. This government would do well to consider a government of National Unity. Since the suffering we are enduring does not discriminate along Party lines, the solution should not ostracise any capable Nigerian.

On the economy, President Buhari should invite and involve the best brains at home and abroad including non-Nigerians. The Bank of England brought in an expert from Canada as its Governor. Dubai invited a Briton to run one of the most ambitious airports on planet Earth. The London Gatwick Airport was sold to a consortium led by a Nigerian. Ghana has just built a world-class Cargo section by Swissport. Before our very eyes, Ghana is attracting the biggest aviation businesses in West Africa. The world has moved beyond our jejune and archaic style of doing things. Our parastatals have become too unwieldy and totally wasteful. We have so many agencies all over the places managing nothing but eating everything. That does not mean a wholesale sale of our national assets but recourse to effective and efficient lean management wherever that may come from. I say emphatically, nothing would change unless we change our retrogressive ways.

Instructively, the National Assembly and the Executive arms of government must cut down on government expenditure drastically. The National Assembly is making sense with some of its recommendations but it is has to go beyond that by actually implementing those recommendations and putting pressure on the Executive to do the same. All the legislative aides, executive aides, delegations to foreign assignments and government’s fleet of aircrafts and motorcades are atrociously over-bloated and unnecessary. I stumbled on a video footage of President Vladimir Putin of Russia’s motorcade. It had nothing more than four (4) vehicles accompanied with escort motorbikes. In 2012, President Putin even went as far as announcing that he and his prime minister will work more from home to cut the disruption caused by their motorcades in the city of Moscow. That is Russia, a global super-power making an effort to run a leaner and more effective governance structure.

In Ghana where I have lived for over a decade, I have seen the simplicity of the Presidential system of governance from Rawlings to Kufuor to the late Atta Mills and now John Dramani Mahama. Her Majesty, the Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth II in all the glory of her monarchy goes around in a simple motorcade of usually two or three vehicles. The accompanying vehicles are oftentimes unmarked. But the case of Nigeria is a stark contrast. It sometimes looks as if we are war with some imaginary alien foe. Every security outfit competes to feature in the entourage of our respective leaders. Then there are the support vehicles, including ambulances, bomb disposal vehicles and anti-tank machines!

Everything is collapsing except the business of politics. Every government that comes to power seems to be in competition with previous governments in the craze to practice capitalism without capital. Clearly, this is not sustainable and we cannot continue like this. Something has to give. President Buhari must restore confidence again by allowing the change millions of Nigerians voted him for in March 2015 to begin from his desk. It is commonly said that, “desperate times call for desperate measures.” Our time is now.

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Politics / Re: Have You Released Kabiru Sokoto? - HURIWA To Buhari by basingstoke: 6:46pm On Sep 12, 2016
Anytime, if Bubu has to choose between Nigeria and the north, he will simply choose the north. DULLAR DIN HO

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Politics / Re: Ezekwesili Digs APC's Tweet About Chibok Girls In 2014 by basingstoke: 1:43pm On Sep 11, 2016
mightyokwy:
she is not only daft, she is also shameless grin cheesy
grin grin grin grin grin grin grin grin

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Politics / Re: Ezekwesili Digs APC's Tweet About Chibok Girls In 2014 by basingstoke: 1:32pm On Sep 11, 2016
mightyokwy:
Madam oby what will it take you to understand that you have been used nd dumped.
my broda, i never know she is this daft

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Politics / Re: Ezekwesili Digs APC's Tweet About Chibok Girls In 2014 by basingstoke: 1:31pm On Sep 11, 2016
STFUand4kMeHARD:
grin Na dem dem grin

Abeg make somebody give Oby pain reliever grin
I dey bow for you ooooo, wetin she need na sense, nor be pain reliever.

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