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E be like say gmb don warn dis guy "just face your work"

OP it is the same Jonathan administration Chief of Defence Staff that said no new ammunitions were procured in the last decade. It is also the Jonathan administration National Security Adviser that claims our military hardware are still on transit. So in the midst of these conflicting claims may we know who you are in the last administration?

Don't worry oga dasuki we'll wait for its arrival.
Even the one million barrels/day we sold and we didn't collect money, we'll wait for that one too.
And all other contracts awarded and not executed, we are waiting for the contractors.

God bless PMB

bonechamberlain:
na real demolition man. but if its for the good of the state its welcomed but those whose houses are demolished must be compensated this is were govt always fails.

I doubt, the state government is calling it reclamation, that is those that built or acquired state lands illegally, mainly land earmarked for schools.

This was how he started in abuja

Don't worry OP the biggest catch r yet to be caught. All these without Buhari saying anything - Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? (art of war)

Buhari is a true general the enemies of this country do not yet know what will hit them hence some of them are feigning illness, some are leaving the country and while some are foaming their mouths on social media, others remain quite. - Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack (art of war)

Normally by bowing to NASS members, they are bowing to the representatives of the electorates, and the electorate elected the CinC that appointed them. But we all know Nigeria is not a normal country hence your question

Yet the wailers will have us believe otherwise. I have concluded that convincing a wailers is futile. So I'll just allow baba's silent achievements keep knocking them down day in day out.

Please what's his background and profile and source of his wealth. Congrats to him.

Can efcc cope with this barrage of corrupt officials it's investigating....

Even this guy that is a staunch critic of Buhari?

My advice to kwaruft foliticians is to run to obj in advance before efcc invite u, Bcoz the way it's going the bvn registration queue we witnessed will be child's play by the time pmb is done with kwaraftion

whirlwind7:
Well...as innotivative as this solution seem, nothing really stops the herdsman from removing and destroying a tracking or homing device embeded just underneath the skin of his cattle.

The idea is superb....that is, until the agency charged with procuring the devices begin to inflate the contracts, or it's personel collude with the herdsmen and tag just a fraction of the incoming cattle....

Lots of things to consider. Fulani herdsmen just don't like the idea of cultivating, processing and producing livestock feeds. They do not want to pay for it either. They believe that nature should take care of that aspect for them, in the form of natural forages and pastures.

What's more, most of these cattles are owned by wealthy northern political elites. That they haven't really done much to discourage the nomadic lifestyle of their people speaks volumes.
Times have changed, but they'd rather live in the past. I would really love to see this idea implemented, just so that I can see how the herdsmen and their employers respond to it.

Nice points u raised, but I still think it is better than doing nothing. Definitely the bill if sponsored can be refined further and other checks added

I tell you Buhari is silently strangling all enemies of Nigeria. By the time ministers touch down they will have a clear and concise job description handed to them. If you have a legitimate business get a bvn, and be sure u also have a genuine explanation on how u came about the forex (just in case efcc comes asking)

In other news...
Wahala dey for my neighbourhood. A former minister in the previous government stashed dollars in the trunk of exotic cars parked in his house and decided to go for lesser hajj in Saudi. He just returned to find out that his cousins and younger brother have made away with the cars and its contents. As I type this its family meeting marathons that is going on in the house coz he can't report the case to police talk less of efcc. I tell u this one an original gobe.

will shock Nigerians to know that more people have died as a result of Fulani/indigene clashes in the last half a decade than have died from terrorist activity occasioned by the Boko Haram terrorist sect. As horrific as individual Boko Haram activities are, they pale in comparison to the barbarous slaughter of over 500 men, women, and children in a single night of terror at Dogo na Hauwa village of Plateau State of 2010


Terrorist activities occasioned by the Boko Haram terrorist group have been largely localised in Nigeria's North-east save for some sporadic attacks in other parts of the North and the Federal Capital Territory.


However, Fulani/indigene clashes have occurred in every state of Nigeria bar none! Needless lives have been lost all over Nigeria in these clashes and this will continue in perpetuity if as a nation we do not take steps to change the conditions that give rise to these clashes.


Just as with the Romany Gypsies of Europe, it is very easy to blame this itinerant group of cattle herders, buying such an exercise would in my opinion be an exercise in futility. I share the same view as movie producer, J. Michael Straczynski, who famously said: "People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives." Nigeria must grow out of her past and that cannot happen until Nigerians stop pointing in blame and starting pointing to solutions.


Even before there was a nation called Nigeria, the Fulani had been passing through several nations en route markets all over West Africa. Year in and year out, they followed established grazing routes and as long as their cattle had grass and vegetation to feed on, they coexisted in peace with communities along their grazing routes. But as West Africa became increasingly urbanised, it was and is a matter of time before increase in population put pressure on local communities to use the ancient Fulani grazing routes for farmland or residential purposes


It is the competition for the scarce commodity of land that has brought about friction between the Fulani's and the indigenous people along these reserves. So what do we do? What is the solution? Obviously we cannot do nothing and watch as people continue to die all over Nigeria.


We must do something and I propose that Nigeria should take the following series of steps.
We should restore the ancient grazing routes of Fulani pastoralists. Both the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and the Federal Ministry of Lands should work with the apex Fulani pastoral association, the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, to revive these routes and where there have been farms or houses built on these routes, alternative routes must be found.


Next, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture should give a deadline of no less than 10 years to the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association to convert from pastoral cattle rearing to the modern business of cattle ranching in which cattle are reserved, reared and bred at a central location suitable for such purposes


Measurable timelines should be agreed with the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association for progress towards this objective and penalties for failure to progress towards these timelines must be clearly spelt out.


Next, the Federal Ministries of Finance and Defence must collaborate through their agencies to monitor and ensure proper taxation of the informal cattle rearing economy and also to ensure that the government can trace the whereabouts of individual Fulani clans. This can be done easily by identifying the cattle rearers entry point into Nigeria and stationing mobile border posts there with armed officials of the Nigerian Customs Service Department of Animal Control.


Upon entry into Nigeria, every cattle must be shot with a homing device which will enable Customs officials and the ministry of defence track each cattle as they enter Nigeria and to pin point their location anywhere within our borders These devices are cheap and practical.
There is a huge informal economy that is not taxed by the various governments in Nigeria. Tagging these cattle as they enter Nigerian soil will not just have positive security implications, it will also affect the economy positively as the federal government will have accurate numbers of the total cattle on the hoof that enters Nigeria and how much to charge as duty on each cattle.


By tagging the cattle, Nigeria will not only increase her revenue base in a world of falling oil prices, but we will have the additional benefit of knowing in real time where each herd of cattle are within our borders and how to proactively deploy our police and military for internal security issues to prevent Fulani/Indigene clashes Nigeria has too many intellectuals who know how to analyse problems and give angles to them. But we do not have enough minds working on solutions. We will make more progress if our public intellectualism is geared towards solving than the analysis of challenges. Nations make more progress when their leaders are more concerned with accepting responsibility than with apportioning blame.


This is the mindset to solving the Fulani/indigene and all other similar and related incidences of insecurity. We should be looking for solutions and those in authority should reward such intellectual efforts by adopting them. It should be clear to the discerning that terrorism, Fulani/indigene clashes, ethnic and religious strife and corruption are not really the problem of Nigeria. They are merely the symptoms of our problems. The main problem Nigeria has is that we have moved from a nation of about 50 million people in 1960 when we got independence from Britain, to a nation of close to 200 million people today.


While our population has quadrupled, opportunities have not quadrupled and in some cases they have reduced rather than increased. So the problem is that we have more people competing for fewer resources and when you have this scenario, civil strife is inevitable.
Factor in the dwindling revenue from oil, which is what fuelled our unprecedented population growth, and the situation is even more dire. The job of a leader in this type of situation is not to point a finger and say you are to blame and you are not to blame. No!


The job of a leader is to surround himself with people who know the root cause of problems and can come up with creative solutions to them because as Albert Einstein said: "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it". If we have a roadmap for the future where cattle can be ranched in Nigeria by the Fulani and any other group that want to go into this form of business, Nigeria can become an exporter of beef thus turning a problem (Fulani/Indigene clash) into an opportunity. Some might read this and think this is far fetched, but they would be wrong.


About 10 years ago, a certain Fulani man named Abubakar Bukola Saraki introduced modern cattle ranching to Shonga in Kwara State when he, as Governor of Kwara State, invited the White Zimbabwean farmers that had lost their lands in Robert Mugabe's land redistribution programme to Nigeria. Saraki's government assisted the White Zimbabweans with financing, land and other necessary resources needed to resettle them in Nigeria. These farmers have successfully and profitably ranched cattle at Shonga and are contributing significantly to the economy of Kwara State and Nigeria without clashing with local farmers and other indigenes


As a matter of fact, rather than clashes with the indigenes, they are employing the local farmers and indigenes and Shonga has become an epitome of peaceful coexistence in Nigeria. If one Fulani man in the person of Saraki can do this, then other Fulani can do it as well. There is money in cattle ranching. Make no mistake about it.


Take Argentina for example, 3 per cent of all exports out of Argentina is beef which provides an annual revenue of $5 billion to the Argentine government. Argentina provides 7.4 per cent of the world's beef exports and this is a market that has not been exhausted. There is room for growth in the global market for beef exports and Nigeria can key in to this by harnessing the resources of the Fulani through modern cattle ranches that will provide the domestic market with inexpensive beef and improve Nigeria's balance of trade position by exporting beef and cattle to other nations.


This will provide revenue for the government and jobs for the people. This is Ben Murray Bruce and I just want to make common sense!

Cc: lalasticlala

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/integrating-the-fulani-into-modern-day-nigeria/216392/

Did he ever say he wasn't, in fact he made it unequivocally clear at his Chatham house address that "dictatorship comes with military rule.... And I take full responsibility of my actions then...."

That's a man who doesn't shy away from taking responsibility. That's why u all can wail till eternity, Buhari's gonna do what Buhari's gonna do, cos at the end of his tenure he's gonna take responsibility, and not u wailers.

Funny but nice.
But in the interim, with refineries back online and customs tightening the noose on smuggling, that should ease the pressure on foreign exchange (less demand for dollar) and help our naira back to its feet.

Cc: lalasticlala

I guess Africans are so used to African time that we are surprised when some one keeps to time. It's called military precision and the man is muhammadu Buhari


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVTyohtK8GU

They will tell us it is GEJ now, whereas it was unequivocally stated by a GEJ minister that the soonest they (GEJites) can get the refinery operable was in 2016.

Ride on my presidio, building institution rather than people so that even without him Nigeria will never be put on reverse gear again.

was Obama ever in Kenya in 2009?

All these people calling on Buhari to act fast that even fayose of pdp is asking Buhari to probe, I just hope by the time baba starts hauling people left and right into jail these same people won't come and start crying witch hunt. Because even madam 'most beautiful' minister is trying to get a hospital order restraining Buhari from probing since no court will grant her that.

For heavens sake these delegates (reps of WB) came alone, while Buhari went with a 32 men delegates which includes secretaries and PA's seated at the background taking notes. Common enough of these myopic threads

Imagine a federal government project vs a state government. Until Nigerians start asking the right questions this country will never progress.

Right question 1: how much did the state university cost and how much did the federal university cost?

Source : Facebook

Cc: lalasticlala

This is what I call change. These are the fundamentals of our economy being structurally and strategically realigned with realities, but sensational wailers will not see this, they are more concerned with appointments in acting capacities (which are purely temporary) and strictly procedural.

I don't know if the Internet is making this generation dumber by the click. People just display their unfiltered thoughts these days. Then later think about what they write after its posted.

Common guys what do you think the 32 aids that went with the president were meant for - vacation? It's not for rochas or oshomole to take note there are myriad of aids for that purpose.

Besides that's not the whole picture, there are people at the background doing just that.

Ok check out obama's gaffe on this thread at 6.05 to 6.10 were he referred to Nigeria in East Africa instead of west Africa.

https://www.nairaland.com/2467089/buharis-gaffe-vs-obamas-mistake

That doesn't changes the fact that Obama remains a master orator

Saifullah01:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdXDJrzLgP4

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tdXDJrzLgP4

This is the video. The Obama "mistake" is from 6'05" to 6'20"

Thanks for the link

Cc lalasticlala

I know the company, and a smart person can buy this post identify the company.

Please anybody that can embed the channels TV video report on the presidents meeting with Obama can embed it here, I'll try to do same

Did anybody here see where Obama (mistakenly) referred to Nigeria bringing peace and stability to the eastern part of Africa? Instead of Western Africa.

The point is we are all humans and are fallible. So those that in the name of opposition discuss people instead of issues should seize and desist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdXDJrzLgP4

From 6.05 to 6.20

Cc: lalasticlala

Bross bravo start now already?