deantimes:


http://www.socialtimesng.com/2016/12/why-igbos-are-now-decamping-to-apc-official/

HungerBAD:
Chief Rotimi Akeredolu.

It is just too early for you to start this way.

Your explanation is even more of an insult to Tinubu, and those sending you to ridicule him, will leave you out in the cold when it is your time to face the heat.

You are new in Politics, and this is how you want to start?remember there is a reason why Western Politics is called the Wild Wild West Politics, and towing this line will educate you on how that name was gotten.

When Tinubu congratulated you on all National Dailies, he specifically mentioned your name and wished you well. The path you are towing, is exactly why i do not like Lawyers, who for some strange reasons think they are smarter than everybody, with their knack for twisting the English Language.

You refused to mention his name, and as a man own up to it, instead of trying to twist words. Chief Rotimi Akeredolu, if i were you, i will quickly close rank with the Tinubu faction of the APC because as they say, Politics is local.

When the time comes, Oyegun will not leave Benin to come to the West or Buhari the North for you.

galeiiTNA:
While 5% are making Nigeria proud, afonjas are busy rigging headies awards


Modified: Moses is from the SOUTH SOUTH and proudly 5%.

AFONJAS BE RIGGING HEADIES AWARDS, WE THE 5% ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN INTERNATIONAL AWARDS

henrydadon:

even for london..

bros for don invest that 9 millon for naija use am build wan small hotel..

make him thank God say them no cut him hand join

[img]http://i./x6vwBFiFDRNiU.gif[/img] 9 million fit build hotel,you just dey miss yarn,how much is a plot of land,how much is cement,how much is iron rod,sand, paints, finishing touches, bedding, TV,AC, fridge, bla bla bla,abegi think big,except say you mean to say mosafueto, like all this short time of like 6 rooms on half plot of land, that is not even a motel,it is called guest house

GossipHeart:


Buhari

You will never go unpunished

Came:
Who go marry the one way dey abroad as pastor don marry this one ... This man just dey shoot without plans.

PMBNG:


http://www.socialtimesng.com/2016/11/boko-haram-reacts-to-trumps-victory-says-war-has-just-begun/

kenonze:
The Minister of Sport cannot even afford N750 "armpit roll on"

Came:
So him dey carry knife dey waka ... See people role model. Yeye dey smell.

iliyande:


http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/how-nigeria-swapped-21-chibok-girls-for-four-boko-haram-commanders/166622.html?platform=hootsuite#Qe92z1vGwci2aFuH.99

sukkot:
basketmouth done take him mama do money ritual so hin career go blow. walahi this year you will see basketmouth doing standup in wembley arena to a crowd of 100,000 people. the sacrifice has been made

conspiracy theorists

dre11:







…over Biafra Agitation,Niger Delta Militancy



https://newtelegraphonline.com/fg-places-prominent-nigerians-watch/

henryanna36:
His Excellency Atiku Abubakar, GCON,former Vice President Federal Republic of Nigeria,Chieftain of APC, Bola Tinubu,Ex-governor of Anambra state Peter Obi and others attended the Investiture of Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers, in Lagos.

Below is a speech presented by Atiku Abubakar titled
'Growth: The Only Nigerian Imperative. My speech on restructuring, economy and governance'.

Protocol

Let me start by commending the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers for its patriotism in using the opportunity of this investiture ceremony to plan a discussion on the Nigerian economy. I thank you for inviting me to be part of it.

And I congratulate Mr. Oluwaseyi Emmanuel Abe on his election as the President and Chairman of the Governing Council of this Institute and his investiture today. I wish him and the Institute enormous success during his tenure.

The theme of this gathering, “Growth: The Only Nigerian Imperative,” is a very important one. We can debate whether growth is the only imperative for us or how to achieve that growth. However, the message conveyed by that theme is clear at this moment in Nigeria’s evolution.  Of course, it will be up to the Guest Speaker to give the theme the treatment that he deems fit.

Let me, however, use my privilege as co-chair of this event to say a few words about our economy and some of what needs to be done to get it growing again and creating jobs and wealth for our people in a sustainable manner.

I will go straight to the point: our economy is broken, and if we wait for the oil price to rebound or for crude exports to bounce back or for oil receipts to recover, we may wait for very long and may not be able to fix it.

I say this because our constant complaints about the oil price, pipeline vandals and lack of funds tend to divert and distract us from the real challenges we are facing. To me, our economy is broken because our economic model doesn’t work, and to fix it we need the resolve to restructure our government finances so that we politicians have a real incentive to create a more conducive business environment.

Yes, the current market environment hurts us. Yes, the collapse of crude exports is causing immense hardship and we need new drivers of growth and additional sources of export earnings. Yes, the irresponsible raiding of the Excess Crude Account and the siphoning of money that should have gone to the Federation Account are awfully bad. And yes, the massive corruption at the highest levels that have recently been revealed are important blows to the economy and society.

However, our biggest problem is our addiction to oil revenues; the belief that we are doomed unless oil flows and oil money fills the Federation Account for our tiers of government to share.
Another related, and flawed, belief is that the federal government alone is the only force, the know-all, be all, and do all that would direct and bankroll the diversification of our economy. And we have convinced ourselves, again wrongly, that the only reason that the federal government

is unable to spend money to do all we expect it to do is that the money has been stolen. We must erase that mindset in order for us to begin to climb out of our current depths.

Of course government can use oil receipts to improve the lives and livelihoods of our people, to fix our horrible roads, crumbling schools, ramshackle hospitals and to pay its numerous, but hardly busy, workers. However, oil money is not a requirement for diversifying our economy.

Rather we need federal government officials who are willing to step back and carefully work out how they can empower the private sector to grow the economy and create jobs. And I don’t mean selecting a few companies deemed worthy of government support. No, we need radical reforms that streamline our bureaucracy and eliminate rules and regulations that stifle innovation. We also need robust management processes that ensure that public money buys us better infrastructure, education outcomes and healthcare.

And above all else, we need to understand that our most valuable resource is not our oil; it is our people. All of our people.

The good news is that most Nigerians have forgotten about the oil money and moved on with their lives. The bad news that our governments and political leaders don’t seem to have noticed that shift. A few numbers will illustrate this. When we were still under military rule, through the 1980s and 1990s, oil and gas accounted for roughly one third of our GDP. When I joined the government in 1999, oil and gas accounted for 29%, though at the time – remember that was before the rebasing – we thought oil and gas accounted for almost half of our economic output. But by 2007 the oil and gas share of GDP had already dropped below 20% and by 2015 it had fallen to less than 10%. So while petroleum production levels stayed flat, our people have made all the difference.

But don’t get me wrong: oil revenues have helped. In addition to infrastructure, oil revenues support professional service firms, real estate, the arts and so on. So the indirect effects of the petroleum sector are bigger that the headline figures suggest. But this doesn’t change the fact that due to the ingenuity and hard work of the men and women who looked beyond oil, our economy is much more diversified than we usually acknowledge. In 1980 agriculture contributed 15% of our GDP but by 2015 the figure rose to one quarter.  Services which were almost non-existent in the data now add more than one third to domestic output.  Even our manufacturing, despite all odds, increased its share from 6.5% of GDP in 1999 to almost 10%, quadrupling its value in real terms and moving on par with oil and gas production.

Unfortunately the move away from oil hasn’t reached all parts of our economy. As you know, our non-oil exports are nowhere near where they ought to be to balance our non-oil imports. But what worries me much more is that even though oil receipts have dropped from a long term average of about 70% of Federal Government revenue to about 50% in the first half of 2016, non-oil receipts are also falling – fast. Between  January and June, the federal government collected 1.2 trillion naira in VAT, corporate taxes, customs and excise duties, and various other levies – 13% (or N150 billion) less than it collected over the same period in 2015. Corporate income taxes dropped by 40% over the past two years.

In short, whereas our economy diversified because our non-oil activities took off, the oil share of revenue dropped because our oil revenues have nose-dived, not because the government found new revenue streams. This worries me because I think one of the main reasons why we are suffering, the reason why we are so vulnerable to swings in the oil price, and one of the reasons why we can be held hostage by those willing to blow up export pipelines is that unlike our private sector, our governments have not really embraced diversification. And this at a time when major oil consumers are making massive investments in alternative and renewable energy.

And it has huge implications. The fact that our government literally runs on oil means that we cannot rely on public spending to mitigate the impact of oil slumps in the commodities cycle. Unless we don’t mind going back into a debt trap.  According to the Central Bank of Nigeria, in the second quarter of 2016 the Federal Government collected less than half what it expected. It also spent 13% more than it had planned. Consequently in just three months 1.1 trillion naira shortfall was created as well as roughly 700 billion naira primary deficit, about the amount the federal government budgeted for the entire fiscal year.

In the same second quarter of 2016 the Federal Government’s interest payments already exceeded its Federation Account allocations, and debt servicing absorbed almost 60% of retained revenue. In fact, 57 out of every 100 naira the federal government received went straight to its creditors.

As you can see, that doesn’t give us a lot of room to maneuver. And it is the reason why government’s efforts to get us out of the current difficulties should proceed in a manner that targets infrastructure improvements, public education, public health and, above all, reforms that remove obstacles to our people unleashing their creative and productive energies to set up and run businesses and create jobs and wealth in the process.

Investors have noticed our predicament. Foreign investment has nearly dried up. In the first half of 2016 the total amount of capital brought into Nigeria was less than $1.4 billion compared to $5.3 billion in the first half of 2015. Direct investment has fallen by half, portfolio investment is down by 87% and our capital and financial accounts are deep in the red. A number of long established foreign businesses announced they were planning to leave and many of those that decided to stay are cutting costs and trimming their payrolls to balance their books. Some respected Nigerian companies are folding up as well.

It is, therefore, clear that rather than praying for higher oil revenues, we should seize the current opportunity to get over our addiction to oil revenues. Discovering new oil wells in the north or south is no substitute. Government should look to sustainable sources of revenue, mainly taxes, duties and other levies. And it can only enlarge the tax base by encouraging diverse economic activities right across the country and investing in human capital development to produce the entrepreneurs, inventors and workers of the future.

We can’t just borrow our way out of our oil addiction. Our governments must live on taxes, the way other democracies do. It will help us live within our means, as it means government can only spend what the people can bear. It will help ensure accountability as tax payers are more likely to ask for accountability when the money comes directly from their pockets.

My dear friends, a move away from oil rents will change our economy for the better. And it will also change our politics for the better.

Thank you for your attention.



Source: http://www.trezzyhelm.com/2016/09/tinubuatiku-abubakar-peter-obi-at.html

Davash222:

Are you sure

No sane person will vote for your APC in this present condition.

McBrooklyn:
A Nigga will be hustling overnight when you people are busy sleeping and he would have become rich before daybreak when you people don wake up and you people go dey question what he did overnight to become rich

olukenny:
My sister I want you to first understand that every marriage has is ups and down,take this as the down moment..I guess your husband is trying to run away from his responsibility,you can't stop him from having affair outside the marriage right now.Its even good that he used condom,try to be more submissive for him.Try to overlook his character for now then you call him when his in good mood and discuss everything you need to with him.....I guess you are depriving him sex too because he doesn't perform his duty,I think you also need to look for job too so that you won't depend on him so much..If you can try all this,I think you will gain some respect from him.he doesn't respect you like he used to before you got married.Good luck

forlahkhe:
Anytime i have disagreement with my husband, he would always tell me that "I WL GO OUTSIDE, PLENTY BABES DEY OUTSIDE DAT NEED MEN AND I WONT EVEN SPEND MUCH B4 THEY OPEN THEIR LEGS". I always feel hurt by this statement because I believe that we should BOTH be committed to make our home work. If i wont go out there to look for men why should he?

My marriage is just 2yyears but i have never enjoyed 1month happiness. My hubby would prefer to stay late @work because he doesn't want our baby to disturb him with cry cry. I'm a sit @home mum, I resigned my marketing job because I want to have time for my baby but now my husband would not give me money anytime we have misunderstanding, not even for my baby too.

I have called his parents' attention to this but his people call me "ABOKOKU". That because he is married to me doesnt mean he should not enjoy himself, afterall, there are times someone is tired of eating rice and you would want to taste beans and other varieties. His father (57yrs) still has concubines which his mum can't do anything about. But the truth is that this thing is wearing me out emotionally.

I AM MARRIED BT LONELY

OreMI22:
[size=14pt]But, al least Daura has a public library Emeka Offor can repair to please Buhari.

Does Emeka Offor even have a library at all in his hometown- Oraifite?

Lol.....[/size]

gragraboy:
I wish say Buhari go seize am

Zaramdgreat:

Pls visit MFM

YonkijiSappo:
Brainless Wailers be like......

NO!! NEVER! Aisha Buhari is not in the USA... I still don't believe this!
This is Photoshop! She is Somewhere in Abuja or Daura. She is not in the USA. How many people saw her flight ticket and when the plane took off?

LMFAO!

Goke7:
I think the FG is bringing unnecessary panic on itself. Things are not as gloomy as being painted.

The refineries can be sold and all the airports in the country concessioned for a start. Govt has no business running all our airports.

Wizzyblack3:
Seen..

So this old man life is in the hand of an IPOB man.

metromediaboss:
A commercial yellow bus was burnt down due to overheating yesterday at Grammar school Ojudu Berger in Lagos. Lagos State Emergency Management Agency officials towed the bus off the road. See photos below

http://www.metronaija.com/2016/09/photos-commercial-bus-catches-fire-in_16.html

emmalezy:
Veteran comedian, Ali Baba shared beautiful new photos of his wife and Heritage bank executive,Mary Akpobome...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BKaW8hOAxIe/?hl=en

TuneChi369:
I go first ask her if i be oracle to her cos this na burnt offering...

DTRUMPER:
Hmmmmm, Restitution on point.

If my child try am, na slap he go chop first.

I wish all our governors and senators will do this kind of restitution in Nigeria.
Well we both know the answer to that.
Bukola saraki come n do restitution oooooo



Anyway, check my signature and smile to the Bank forever BELOW

gbolakpine:



http://punchng.com/abandoned-nine-month-old-baby-found-crawling-road/

goshen26:
*This is Nigeria of 2016*

The Minister of Agriculture studied French

The Minister of Education studied Accounting

The Minister of Solid Minerals studied International relations

The Minister of Power studied Law

The Minister of Communications studied Law

The Minister of Transport studied English.

Minister of Labour and Employment studied Surgery

Minister of Budget and national planning studied law

Minister of Foreign Affairs studied Medicine

Minister of Petroleum studied Law

IGP studied Agriculture

I didn't say anything o