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Politics › Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by coolscott(m): 9:34pm On Mar 14, 2016

amuokuko:
I believe they re educated as their Daura King..

Bruce must ve eaten a contaminated apple from the North this weekend..

Go to UAE, virtually all their foods re imported but they ve the crude, can u even compare our economy with theirs..

The Pedophiles should keep their food..

[size=13pt]This is an old common sense position by Bruce.
He just put it in his book.

The man deserves the respect of the public politically because he has his position (which is not necessarily partisan)
The not above the squabbles of partisanship hate and deride him when his position seems not to favour them, and praise him when it supports them. The truth is his positions come from a clear mind and will hurt both parts of the divide where they are not in tandem as well as give them the thumbs up where he believes in the actions or positions taken.

Even as his opinions cause a ripple effect, he is not so much bothered about those that disagree with him as he is about getting his ideas and positions out (and that those ideas are in the public domain, being dissected by people's minds).[/size]
sinkhole

Politics › Re: Thisdaylive Provides Excerpt Of Tape Where Lai Said Economy Was Beyond Control by coolscott(m): 9:54pm On Mar 13, 2016*

Bevista:
TBH, I am now convinced beyond reasonable doubt that Nigeria's problems is beyond leadership, but a societal one. Are we just intellectually deficient or chronically prejudiced.
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This was an interview where the Minister was specifically asked about the exchange rate situation. He tried to explain the factors that influence the rate making reference to oil price. He simply said the SITUATION (exchange rate) was beyond the president since he does not control oil price. He never said the ECONOMY was beyond the President’s control as misrepresented by the media.
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How the media gets away with such mischief is beyond me. Worse still is the fact that 80% of readers do not even notice this distortion of facts. These are people that will later assume leadership positions. With such shallowness among citizens, the future is even more uncertain.

[size=13pt]Although I am not a Buhari fan at all, I noticed that he did not actually specifically mention the economy (but seemed to be referring to forces at play in the economy) in that statement.

That being said, I fault Buhari on "...spending countless nights lobbying, rallying other oil-exporting countries on how do we stabilize the oil price…." because I believe that that is chasing and clinging unto the past. Better use of administrative mental/physical energy and time would be to increase the agricultural (and other) output of the country steadily to race us out and as far away as possible from the dependence on oil.

Oil will finish someday. If it doesn't soon, all the many alternative energy sources being researched and developed right now by different teams around the world will further erode its value. I think clinging by trying to influence the worlds oil producers to take actions that could help improve the price of oil is a sad waste of administrative time at this junction in Nigeria's history (i.e if it is actually true that that is what the president is doing with his travels).

I say these things as a person from the oil-producing region of Nigeria. We cannot seriously invest in chasing that which is only likely to lose more value with time. The "oil" has long left the ground. It has now made its home in the minds of men.[/size]

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Politics › Re: #corruptionfightingback Trend Backfires On Apc Members by coolscott(m): 6:45pm On Mar 13, 2016

oyinkinola:
....criticize yah, but backing the looters is your right?

[size=13pt]Do you want me to back the looters? Please clarify what you are trying to say[/size]

Politics › Re: #corruptionfightingback Trend Backfires On Apc Members by coolscott(m): 3:30pm On Mar 13, 2016

mideactive:
We'v gota wait n see

[size=13pt]I think on that point, you can only speak for yourself.
You may choose to silently wait and see.
Others choose to criticize.[/size]

Politics › Re: #corruptionfightingback Trend Backfires On Apc Members by coolscott(m): 9:10am On Mar 13, 2016

mideactive:
Very irrational set of people,it's just 9months minus 16 years.give dis man @list 2 years

If we have retrogressed this much in 9 months, if Buhari and the administration do not start getting it right, how bad do you think things will be in 2 years time? How bad will things be if we don't criticize the free fall?

raker300 benpedro bugzbunny

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Business To Business › Re: Great Website Available For Your Biz. Giveaway Price by coolscott(m): 11:21pm On Mar 12, 2016

How much does this cost?

Politics › Re: Those That Are Supporting Buhari, Do They Go To The Same Market With Me by coolscott(m): 9:58pm On Mar 12, 2016*

SLIDEwaxie:
I am beginning to think that those who stand against buhari just wanted to do so because if different political views.

Now, tell me: na today?

Na today Nigerians dey suffer themselves?

Now, even if dollar stand tall, how e come affect pepper, garri, yam, and so on?

Sellers of these commodities go tell u say dollar don rise as if e concern them...

Shey na buhari dey dictate prices?

While PMS sells for 250 in the East, u get it for 120 in the SW...

But funny enuff, while it was being sold as 86.50 around SW, SE/SS are selling for 130 while the notht sells for 100.

Yam full North..u can get 10 tubers of yam for N1000 in Abuja, but here, u will suffer...

Na buhari cause dt one too?

If prices of simple food stuffs rises, pls, blame Nigerians!

[size=13pt]What we are experiencing is inflation and inflation can be caused by more than one reason.
When the price of a good number of things increase due to the weakening local currency, sellers of
other items and services may be forced to mildly increase the selling price of their goods/services to cope with
the increased cost of living. As some sellers increase their prices, the cycle repeats itself in a ripple effect.
So an increase in the cost of a significant amount of things in a society can create a ripple inflation effect.

When younger, the government increased significantly the salaries of civil servants nationwide (minimum wage increase).
This led to people across the country being able to buy more and the sellers being aware of this since they watchthe news too and live in Nigeria. There was a rather mild but noticeable surge in inflation at that time because
Nigerian sellers increased prices a bit convinced the buyers were able to pay.

Now these are just two scenarios. In the present case, the cost of TVs, phones, ACs, leather bags, clothing, building materials, generators, website hosting (the list goes on) has increased do to the weakened naira. This is inflation on its own and it brings to bear a ripple effect on society as everyone doing business that has these imported things as components directly or indirectly, must increase the selling price of their eventual product/service.

The small business owner who now spends more in the course of living (although he does not buy more than he used to before) feels forced to pass this cost to his customers by slightly increasing the price of his goods and services. And as stated before, a ripple effect occurs as these higher prices are borne by other members of the society, who feel forced to ease the burden on themselves by passing higher prices on to their own customers or clients.[/size]

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Politics › Re: Ben-Bruce Shares A Cartoon By The Sun Newspaper by coolscott(m): 9:18pm On Mar 10, 2016

Tinubutoto:
I guess u went through the four walls of class room? he is making jeers of apc for blaming Jonathan over everything in Nigeria. he is trying to educate dullardinhos like u that it is only one bereft of ideas that blame others for their problems.

[size=13pt]Please there is no need to have persecution complex here. Both members of the APC and PDP were made fun of in the joke?
Why don't PDP supporters get angry because they made fun of Murray Bruce too?
Even Ben Murray-Bruce himself considers it funny even though he is included in it.
What can bee seen here is a clear case of persecution complex
People with a persecution complex suffer from the feeling that other people are trying to harm them. ~ Cambridge dictionary online http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/persecution-complex
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Politics › Re: Ben-Bruce Shares A Cartoon By The Sun Newspaper by coolscott(m): 9:16am On Mar 10, 2016

solid3:
That common sense doesn't make sense here. Why will people b asked to stay indoors cos it's hot? What happened to the common sense of put the AC on, fan or get a hand fan?

[size=13pt]Of course you realise non of them said those things there. Those statements are just the jocular creation of the cartoon maker[/size]

Politics › Re: Global Crude Oil Prices Rises Above Budget Benchmark by coolscott(m): 11:03pm On Mar 09, 2016

NavierStoke:
Looking at the market, there is something called a "fear index", the current rally in prices has been due to several contributory factors,
1) is the production freeze for January by the 4 countries, Qatar, Saudi, Russia and Venezuela.
2) some reduced supply especially in Nigeria where 300000bpd has been shut in until april at the shell Forcados terminal.
3) the news of a possible producers meeting on March 20th in Russia.

Now looking at the rally in prices as I stated on passingshot's thread, there are no fundamentals at the moment to back this rise in prices, as the oversupply in the market still approaches 2 million bbls per day, and the storage at WTI's pricing pointin Cushing Oklahoma is already at 91% capacity plus eastern storage at over 80% capacity, together averaging over 88%. At the moment most traders are fleeing bearish bets and taking bullish positions because of "fear" which we Re seeing as a rise in prices, clearly not the doing of Mr. President.
(The amount of oil in storage at Cushing is what drives oil prices especially when over 80%).
So I had stated that we shall see a rise in price but it's obviously notthe anticipated recovery. Because after the meeting when everyone understands that the production freeze is Saudi Arabia and Kuwaits means of playing the good guy and passing blame to Iran (they have stayed that they will freeze production of Iran does same) then the traders will change their stance.

By the way do you realize that Saudi and Russia do not even have the capacity to increase production much more than they are already doing? The USA and Iraq have actually been the ones that added significant barrels since 2014.

In summary as regards the global Oil Market, Nigeria is a "price taker" rather than "price maker" and so Buhari's travels has nothing to do with the current rally we are seeing. If ws could alter prices we could have some that a long time ago rather than now.

PS I willtake a moment after now to check for a relationship between when forcados was closed and when Kachikwu made his declaration.

Edited: Kachikwu made this declaration after it's been established that Forcados will be shut in for an extended period of time. Almost like Nigeria is doing a Production Cut

flyingdragon

Politics › Re: Global Crude Oil Prices Rises Above Budget Benchmark by coolscott(m): 11:01pm On Mar 09, 2016

flyingdragon:
either oil price is low or high is dependent on the major producers. And its price directly affects every producing countries especially countries like Saudi and Nigeria which depend on oil monies as their foreign reserve. Saudi and others know how to go about it if oil price is to rise again, and one most effective way is to cut their daily production which will subsequently reduce availability in the market then increment in price. But a country like Saudi will take all the pains involved to maintain its market share of oil sales even if It's goin to plunge its revenue.

That said, cutting of daily production is not the only way to countrol oil price. We are talking about the country that countrols the world through oil. Saudi is OPEC and vice versa as US is NATO and vice versa. As much as I wouldn't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, I can't stop believing the plunge in oil price is a plan by Saudi kingdom to frustrate Iran's economy when they come back to the market.

Buhari's move and the beginning of rise in oil price is more than coincidence.

Please relax and re-read the things you have typed here (if possible, do it along with a cold glass of water) and see if you have actually made any sense.

When you are done, look at other informed depositions by others like navierstoke so you can avoid creating such a drastic difference between the quality of what you put out here and what certain others put out here. Believe me, what you have put up here is actually embarrassing

Politics › Re: Global Crude Oil Prices Rises Above Budget Benchmark by coolscott(m): 2:34pm On Mar 09, 2016

modath:
Mixed feeling...

Wriggle room for reprieve & diversification of this blasted monolithic economy

Apprehension that the past inertia will creep in & everyone will go back to status quo...

#fingerscrossed

I am from the south-south and have not hoped that oil prices would fall, but that the oil itself would dry up (for the very same reason)

Politics › Re: Global Crude Oil Prices Rises Above Budget Benchmark by coolscott(m): 2:32pm On Mar 09, 2016

amaechi1:
Those who are calling for the head of Mr President and his team for visiting the gulf nations should cover the faces in shame. You don't sit at home and play international politics. Life is in phase and nothing last for ever.

Nigerians, can we cement our differences and work for the progress of this project "the well being of every Nigerian".

God bless Nigeria.

PassingShot omenka NavierStokes1 flyingdragon
[size=13pt]What do you think is the relationship between the president's visit to the middle east and the rise in oil prices?
Let me tell you that many have known that oil prices would rise again and it is all down to the Saudis' stubborn refusal to approve a cut in production by OPEC countries.

That same stubborn decision was what helped the prices go down but was predicted by them to still get the prices up later and international powers (and the biting low prices) could not convince them otherwise, much less Buhari.

The entry of American Shale oil into the market caused a glut in the market. Shale oil is more expensive to produce and as producers of other types of cheaper-to-produce crude find it harder and harder to make a profit at low prices, what do you think would be happening to shale oil producers? They would be forced to stop/reduce production as they would have forced prices too low for them to make any profits.

It should be noted that they also suffer from the effects of the low prices but chose to endure this suffering along with everyone else for the materialisation of their plan.

This has been the Saudis' (and OPEC's) position since the beginning of the drop last year.

Since the total amount of oil produced monthly has not reduced,
we can confidently say that whatever you think Buhari did in the middle east to affect oil prices is more imagined than real.[/size]

Politics › Re: Heart Touching Post On Ex President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan's Facebook Wall by coolscott(m): 10:43pm On Mar 08, 2016

flokii:

you're calling ur president useless... imagine!

no go find better work do you hear? dey there dey wait for SureP and YouWin money.

kikikikiii

erunz
YouWin was not a raffle thin. You apply and if your application and business proposal has credibility based on the already laid out criteria, you were selected for different phases of training to ensure you ended up successful with the business venture they would help you fund in the end.

This is one big minus for Fashola for me because I watched him in a rally deliberately promote the false impression that it was a raffle. I understood it was inspired by the need to win an election for his party but there was no need lying to the public.
If there was anybody aware of the nature of YouWin, the well learned Fashola was and I was disappointed to see him deliberately promote an impression the falseness of which he was sure, on national tv

Politics › Re: Buhari's Social Program: Very Possible. by coolscott(m): 8:56pm On Mar 03, 2016*

Obiagelli:
If only you will show me where i mentioned unemployed youth.

I think it is now looking as if neither your original article nor your complete write-off of a response here deserved the dignity of a response.
The title of your post is Buhari's Social Program: Very Possible. Now can you please list the components of that his social program?

Politics › Re: Ohanaeze Bars Igbo In Diaspora From Acting As Royal Fathers by coolscott(m): 6:19pm On Mar 02, 2016

nairalandbuzz:
Ohanaeze bars Igbo in Diaspora from acting as royal fathers

LAGOS—To ensure harmonious co-existence between Igbo in Diaspora and their host communities as well as reduce the misunderstanding relating the use of Igbo words and culture, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has banned Igbo people from acting as traditional rulers outside Igboland.

They can function as cultural leaders but on no account should they use ‘His Royal Majesty, HRM, His Royal Highness, HRH or such other traditional rulers’ appellations.

These were part of the guidelines issued by the Ohanaeze Committee raised to investigate and provide guidelines for the installation of the Igbo Cultural Leaders outside Igboland. Chaired by Second Republic politician, Chief Guy Ikokwu with Chief John Uche as secretary, the committee, which was raised in May 2015, and the new guidelines were hammered out at a meeting held in Lagos on February 22 and 23, 2016.

The meeting, attended by various cultural leaders from Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Akwa Ibom, Republic of Benin and Ghana was presided over by the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Enwo Igariwey. In a joint statement, Ikokwu and Uche said the meeting came up with far reaching decisions on the issues.

The decisions include: ‘’No Igbo Cultural Leader in any local government area, State or community should be referred to as traditional ruler and none of them should as a prefix to their names use the words His Royal Majesty, His Royal Highness, or such other traditional ruler appellations. But any Ndi Igbo cultural leader anywhere in Diaspora can be made traditional ruler by the Government Traditional Council at the state or country in keeping with their custom and tradition with prior endorsement of the apex Ohanaeze body.

‘’A Council of Eze Ndi Igbo is now established for Lagos State, with a Council of 12 Eze Ndi Igbo from which council a Chairman of Eze Ndi Igbo Lagos State was chosen in the person of Eze H.N. Ohazuluike as chairman. Eze Ndi Igbo Eze Anthony Chigbo Elui was designated as Deputy Chairman, Eze Ndi Igbo John Nwosu designated Secretary, Eze Ndi Igbo Uche C. I. Dimgba as designated Treasurer, Eze Ndi Igbo Pat Eneh as Financial Secretary, Eze Ndi Igbo Christian U. Nwachukwu was designated as member of the committee.’’

The meeting also considered the regulations which will be adopted by Ohanaeze for the verification and certification of any Ndi Igbo cultural leaders in the Diaspora who want to be known as Eze Igbo (cultural leader) or Eze Udo (Peace maker).

: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/ohanaeze-bars-igbo-in-diaspora-from-acting-as-royal-fathers/

[size=13pt]Good and great move by the Ohanaeze. I have often wondered how people could just appoint themselves chiefs and it would stand. In no other culture would it work in Nigeria. Not in my ethnic group for sure.
Also, traditional seats are anciently placed stools in ancient lands. How can you have a traditional seat in other people's lands. That seat has no history.

The right move in the right direction of self-respect from Igbo people with the Igbo trad leaders taking the initiative[/size]

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Politics › Re: Buhari's Social Program: Very Possible. by coolscott(m): 9:59am On Feb 29, 2016

Obiagelli:
Did you see anything about unemployed youths there?

Is the promise to unemployed youths not a major component of the promised social welfare program delivered during the campaigns? Hmm.. you're beginning to sound like an information minister we all know

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Politics › Re: President Buhari Vindicates Barcanista By Abandoning N5k/month Social Benefit by coolscott(m): 11:45pm On Feb 28, 2016

vanguard90:
Anybody who went to school would know Nigeria doesn't have what it takes to implement that 5k social program yet, not because we don't have the money but we don't have a good database yet.

Guy. Nigeria does not have the money

Politics › Re: Buhari's Social Program: Very Possible. by coolscott(m): 11:34pm On Feb 28, 2016

Obiagelli:
Tonyebarcanist, there is no where on nairaland where i argured for payment of 5k to unemployed youth, it has always been the most vulnerable citizens. The president has not said it won't pay vulnerable citizens.

You will never find payment for unemployed youth in the Apc manifesto

What will you refer to this as? https://www.nairaland.com/2265908/buharis-social-program-very-possible

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Politics › Re: What Some Notable Nigerians Say About PMB by coolscott(m): 11:23pm On Feb 27, 2016

nnachukz dreamcast95 Khd95 nzeobi mynd1 JAHseal
[size=13pt]Do you guys need to be reminded that the campaigns and the elections have long been over?[/size]

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Agriculture › Re: Igbo Man's Tomato Company In Lagos In Trouble, Moving To Sokoto. Lol by coolscott(m): 11:36am On Feb 27, 2016

astrodome:
This useless (yes, useless to Igboland) Igbo business man, after contributing to develop Lagos is now doing the same in Sokoto and Jigawa while his backyard in Anambra is on fire (figuratively speaking) ****.

[size=13pt]His decision to invest in Sokoto is well informed because tomatoes will not grow well in his part of the country.
Also, the demand for tractors is very near zero in Igbo land. The farms are not laid out the way they are in the north where the full benefits of tractor use are well experienced because the farms cover vast flat lands.

The decisions to create tomato farms in the north and to build tractor factories there are sound.

Doing it in the south would have amounted to folly.

If he was in a different business suitable to the part of the country of which he is a native, then it would have been good for him to establish there. But for these ones, he has made the right decisions.[/size]

astrodome

Politics › Re: Buy Naija To Grow The Naira Probably Pointless But Potentially Dangerous! by coolscott(m): 11:00pm On Feb 26, 2016

1freshdude:
Ben Bruce is a clown who just regained his voice somehow after PDP lost power at the center. The idea that by buying made in Nigeria you grow the naira is fundamentally wrong. The price or value of a currency is driven by the demand for that currency, the naira will be strengthen if we have commodities that foreigners are buying in a large volume and as a result of this demand lots of naira. Don't let uncle Ben decisve you, he is just a paparazzi senator!

[size=13pt]This is how I know you fellows don't know Murray-Bruce. Because Murray-Bruce has been this way for donkey years.
Now he is in public office and the public eye, his ideas are now getting more media attention and are therefore more popular and folks ask where has he been all these donkey years?

The more I think about it, The more I realize the question is "Where have they been all these donkey years"?[/size]

2012 Nigerian Town Hall Meeting Below. Ben Bruce speaking on the strength of his personality not even as a political office holder. And he has been speaking in Nigeria long before that and after that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri5QKRBUvsM

Politics › Re: Pat Utomi: 'Nigerians May Soon Queue To Buy Salt' by coolscott(m): 10:45pm On Feb 26, 2016*

Elosky20:
as a prof in economics, why nt advice buhari on what to do rather than being a prophet of doom.

[size=13pt]Pat has said on TV (NTA One on One) that APC relied on him to a very large extent, in drawing up a constitution when they didn't have one but that ever since they won, no one wants to listen to or consult him (or others like him) again[/size]
Goke7 LordAdam

Politics › Re: Buy Naija To Grow The Naira Probably Pointless But Potentially Dangerous! by coolscott(m): 4:49pm On Feb 26, 2016

[size=13pt]Find the history of Sony below

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony#History[/size]

Politics › Re: Buy Naija To Grow The Naira Probably Pointless But Potentially Dangerous! by coolscott(m): 4:47pm On Feb 26, 2016*

investnow2013:
Buy Naija to Grow the Naira: Probably Pointless but Potentially Dangerous, By Nonso ObikiliPremium Times February 24, 2016 Buy Naija to Grow the Naira: Probably Pointless but Potentially Dangerous, By Nonso Obikili2016-02-26

And no, there is no country that corners its local market before going international. So the idea of producing for the local market first before heading abroad is moot. The largest firms, from KIA to Samsung to Sony to Michelin, all had to compete with foreign firms locally. After all if you cannot win at home then you certainly cannot win abroad.

More useful government policy would focus on helping our firms break into international markets. Infrastructure, power, security, red tape are all things that need fixing and that can encourage our businesses to go global.

[size=13pt]Why this argument is fundamentally flawed is that buyingnaijatogrowthenaira is in itself competing with international brands locally.
Also flawed it is, in not recognising that it is by courting the local market, improving in better satisfying it with its goods and services that our local companies grow a muscle for the international market.

I am also dissapointed that the author of this article did not make a research into the beginnings of companies he mentioned such as Sony and Samsung. These are old companies and a brief look at their history will show you how they started locally before foraying into the international market, leveraging on the strength they had built as local companies.

The one thing I could support in the author's position is that government policy would focus on helping our firms break into international markets but he made the noticeable error of referring it to a "more useful" govt policy when more correctly, it should be the complimentary govt policy which should be implemented as our companies acquire competency and for local companies that already have reasonable capacity.

Below are links to the history of Samsung and Sony.
I have also attached screenshots of the information you will find if you click on these links

1). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung#History
2). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony#History[/size]

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Politics › Re: Buhari, Sanusi And 4Governors Praying For Nigeria (Photos) by coolscott(m): 12:13am On Feb 26, 2016

Ahmedhussain3463:
lols,economically ur mind is small,pls upgrade stop listening to dem say

[size=13pt]May everyone's mind be economically small if it translates into their being aware that $1 to =N= 305 is not better than $1 dollar to =N=216.
May their minds never be upgraded if it that upgrade means their celebration of a near 50% decline in the value of their currency in less than 1 year.[/size]
drnelson

Politics › Re: Buhari, Sanusi And 4Governors Praying For Nigeria (Photos) by coolscott(m): 11:59pm On Feb 25, 2016

Akkord4gov:
Buhari is doing what all Nigerians should be doing every morning but yet some will still wail about it

[size=13pt]This is what El-Rufai said about GEJ praying.
https://mobile.twitter.com/adeyanjudeji/status/702792695681556480/photo/1
www.nairaland.com/attachments/3436523_el_jpega4c433115473fdd5475ba72f244b3cf1
[url="https://www.nairaland.com/2955757/what-elrufai-said-then-when"]https://www.nairaland.com/2955757/what-elrufai-said-then-when[/url][/size]
madridguy Mutuwa engrfaruq opalu rahman3853 Immatex olaolulazio bundur day11 HiddenShadow Eboh4z drnelson Coolgent jerryunit48 lanrei INTERMAN barbiesparkz2 Remii Remii engrfaruq mynd1 Ahmedhussain3463 Ecoterrorism

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Politics › Re: Nigerians Slam Ben-Bruce For Printing His Book In U.S: You're Hypocrite by coolscott(m): 9:29pm On Feb 25, 2016

folksync:
My post that you quoted was not written to rebuke Mr. Bruce but to rebuke the guy that tried to rubbish the Nigerian publishing houses.

And to the issue you raised, I must let you know that I don't have any issue with Mr. Bruce. Do I trust him? My answer is NO.

Noted

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Politics › Re: Nigerians Slam Ben-Bruce For Printing His Book In U.S: You're Hypocrite by coolscott(m): 1:59pm On Feb 25, 2016

folksync:
Your defence is annoying.

Even literary giants like Soyinka, JP Clark, Femi Osofisan have books published locally by University Press PlC, Ibadan and Spectrum.

An Orange Prize winner, Chimamanda Adichie's acclaimed novels, Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah were published by Farafina, a Nigerian publishing house.

Takadini was published by Literamed Publications Limited.

Hidden Star by the late South African literary genius, K. Sello Duiker was published by Cassava Republic.

Olusegun Obasanjo's My Watch was published by Farafina.

Go and check great and award winning books published by Krafts Books Limited based in Ibadan.

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The fact that his purchases are not 100% Nigerian does not take away credit from the idea that we must continue to shift our purchases towards Nigerian from non-Nigerian and does not erase everything done by him and others to encourage this trend.

:: Buying made in Aba shoes.
:: Creating space for made in Aba shoes to be sold in Silverbird malls nationwide
:: Public buying of Innoson Car. Good promotion for the Nigerian car maker.

It is foolishness to call a man that will invest his hard-earned money and not oil block money, into buying made in Naija and providing logistics for made in naija to thrive, a hypocrite, when he has put his money, and continues to put his money/resources, where his mouth is, simply because obviously not 100% of his purchases are currently Nigerian.

Is there anyone who has put his money (or even govt money) where his mouth is on this issue like Mr. Bruce? They have neither put their own money (nor govt allocations) where their #buyNaija mouths are and yet it is Ben Murray-Bruce that attracts such dubious and fraudulent criticisms.

It would seem to me, that folks found on this track are kantankerous souls not committed to any form of worthy ideal but are only driven by a dark heart against anything that seems to shine bright and good, which probably does not seem to be coming out of the political clique they wished it was coming out from.
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www.nairaland.com/attachments/3417232_buynaijatogrowthenaira_jpegc70298ca15811d833bef15ec948c605d

Politics › Re: Nigerians Slam Ben-Bruce For Printing His Book In U.S: You're Hypocrite by coolscott(m): 1:55pm On Feb 25, 2016

tinsel:
Ben Bruce has captured the mind and soul of ipob youths. Anything against this government is a welcome developement.

You think he is really against this government?
www.nairaland.com/attachments/3417232_buynaijatogrowthenaira_jpegc70298ca15811d833bef15ec948c605d

Politics › Re: Nigerians Slam Ben-Bruce For Printing His Book In U.S: You're Hypocrite by coolscott(m): 1:38pm On Feb 25, 2016*

abbeycial:
Simple Question- y preach a life u cannot live?
and is he just waking up?after donkey years in politics and after so many administration?

forget all this drill,na dem dem

[size=13pt]That is how I know you fellows don't know Murray-Bruce. Because Murray-Bruce has been this way for donkey years.
Now he is in public office and the public eye, his ideas are now getting more media attention and are therefore more popular and you ask where has he been all these donkey years?

The more I think about it, The more I realize the question is "Where have you been all these donkey years"?[/size]

2012 Nigerian Town Hall Meeting Below. Ben Bruce speaking on the strength of his personality not even as a political office holder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri5QKRBUvsM

Politics › Re: Nigerians Slam Ben-Bruce For Printing His Book In U.S: You're Hypocrite by coolscott(m): 5:54am On Feb 25, 2016

koboko69:
Bury ur face in b/w legs....

[size=14pt]Actually, his book is on Amazon. I am not aware that Nigerian publishers can get (or have been getting) their writers' books on Amazon.
I see it is on US Amazon (www.amazon.com) as well as the French, Indian, German and Japanese Amazon.
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