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Meanwhile a busy-body Lagos lawyer has filed a suit against Buhari for delaying in appointment of Ministers.

This is comical. Wetin pesin no go see for dis naija sef

[quote author=.]Controversial Lagos Lawyer and Activist, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, Esq., of ‘Kogun Chambers, has filed a fresh suit against the government of President Muhammadu Buhari over what he tagged extreme delay in the formation of his cabinet and for running the affairs of Nigeria as lone ranger as well as in a dictatorial manner.

In a suit he filed today at the Federal High Court, Lagos, a copy of which was made available to DAILY POST, the lawyer said the continued stay of action of President Buhari on the appointment of his Ministers was contrary to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.[/quote]

Feranmicharles:
How many people read that long epistle like me

Certainly, not me. I get time??

The President seems seriously pained that Nigerians are piling pressure on him to get moving.

Can't really blame the people, because the impression given was that immediately he assumes office, action will follow without any delay.

I do sympathise with the President, though. The man seems to be walking on egg shells, and he does not want to break any.
My believe is that President Buhari, should just get moving. He should go ahead and appoint his ministers, if it turns out that any of them is involved in past misdeed, he should not drop him, he should make an example of such fellow.

With the culture of corruption and graft that has characterised governance in Nigeria since Babangida's time, Buhari will have to wait till 2019 and beyond to get perfect Ministers, without blemish. Even, after then he still will not find enough to make up his cabinet. That is the bitter truth.

[quote author= ]Abuja— President Muhammadu Buhari explained, yesterday, that he was yet to appoint his ministers because his predecessor’s transition committee submitted its report on the previous administration to him late. Buhari, who spoke to newsmen at the Summit of the African Union in Johannesburg, South Africa, said he was being careful in order not to make mistakes in appointing individuals especially to key positions such as in the finance and petroleum ministries.

His words: “I don’t know why people are so anxious about ministers. But eventually we will have (them). But the main reason is that I have an interim committee which I agreed with the former President Jonathan that the ministers of the outgoing government should hand over their notes or their documents to this interim committee so that a position can be prepared for the new government to start from with clear records from ministers.

“I was waiting for this report because I would like to know the position of things in the government especially in terms of finance and petroleum industry. So, I am not in a hurry to get ministers.

“I want to get ministers after at least I have seen the report because I don’t have to appoint a minister today and sack him the next week because this report would give me what actually happened in terms of security, and economy of the country.

“And since I have to have ministers from politicians and technocrats, I wouldn’t (like to) make the mistake of getting somebody, who has been involved on account of accountability.“ Buhari added that he, Jonathan and former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, had agreed to let the former ministers hand over their notes to the interim committee he had formed.[/quote]

Earlier Presidential Transition Committee had indicated that subsidy will be removed. This was reported in Vanguard newspaper of today, 22 June 2015. The Transition Committee is yet to deny the report.

Difficult to know what to believe again. Too many conflicting policy statements from the new government. It is not healthy.

vanguard: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/buhari-to-remove-oil-subsidy/#sthash.xfkFqSxK.dpuf


ABUJA—President Muhammadu Buhari plans to totally remove fuel subsidy and use the proceeds for the provision of free and compulsory primary/secondary education across the country. The administration is also said to be working on unbundling the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to make it more efficient in the production and delivery of products to Nigerians.

These proposals form part of the strong recommendations made by the transition committee raised by Buhari to work out a blueprint for his administration. Asked if the proposal for total subsidy removal had been discussed with labour, the source said that members of organized labour in the country were consulted by the committee and they made presentations on what should be done over the matter. The source said: “ Labour is part of the decision; they have accepted the proposal of fuel subsidy removal. “A committee is likely to be set up by the federal government to work out the modalities of what is to be done in that respect. “But the truth is that total removal of fuel subsidy has been recommended with adequate provisions for palliatives on free education and social welfare for the unemployed”, a member of the transition committee said.

President Buhari has not made any decision to eliminate the oil subsidy for Nigerians, according to a phone conversation SaharaReporters had with Femi Adesina.

Mr. Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President for Media and Publicity, told Sahara Reporters that “those reports have not come out of the President’s Office, so I cannot confirm them.”

It was previously reported that President Buhari planned on carrying out recommendations from reports out of the Transition Committee, including the removal of oil subsidies to fund education and food for students across the country.

In addition to these recommendations, earlier reports said that President Buhari planned to decentralize and split the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to ensure the production and delivery of petroleum products is efficient and cheap.

Mr. Adesina also could not respond to rumors that President Buhari planned to run the Oil Ministry himself, to maximize efficiency and prevent corruption in that sector.

Just had to share this comment by @bugatie in another thread. See bold text

bugatie: Meanwhile, in other news, Buhari is paying his cows presidential visit while we are here killing ourselves

Just had to share this comment by @bugatie in another thread. See bold text

bugatie: Meanwhile, in other news, Buhari is paying his cows presidential visit while we are here killing ourselves

Ahmed4002:
Op.
I would have take you serious if only your monicker is more than a year.
You just created account and a thread just to create enemity between the different regions.
God pass you all. We are here to stay in this one nation peacefully.

True. OP @AhmedKano created his moniker about 2 hours, today 20th June 2015 just to stoke ethnic war.
His expectations will not happen by God's grace.

anonimi:
Na real true you talk. Man must wack, e nor matter if country dey spoil dey go as far as bloated belly gets filled, not so

Is this the APC philosophy or your [& Dele Momodu's] own personal philosophy?

I guess next time I read you complain about how bad things are in our country, one should simply IGNORE you- fair

How is HYPOCRISY defined again?

Was just speaking tongue-in-cheek regarding his pot pelly.

But seriously, his Ovation business is not political in orientation. He features everybody who pay him and their social events. It is just like social advertisement. He features both his political opponents and friends.

It is like running a supermarket, private school or hospital. You don't offer service only to those who agree with your political views.

I like the idea of the Presido, chilling out on weekends in his farm to take a break from the tedious task of running Nigeria.

These breaks at his homestead are healthy for him, rather than what we used to hear before his inauguration that he is going to London to rest.
We should encourage this.

What I would worry about is if he tries to micro-manage the running of the farm now that he has a huge job to run Nigeria, and deliver on his campaign promises as the first picture seems to suggest. He should appoint capable and trusted hands to run things for him.

Kudos to the Presido. Carry on.

Click "like" if you share this view.

Pirates who hijack and rob ocean going vessels do not hide in the creeks and villages of Akwa Ibom.
They operate in the high seas especially in sea approach to Lagos, Port Harcourt and around Benin Republic. Lots of imported petroleum products are hijacked at high seas this way with active connivance of Nigerian Navy senior officers.

Criminals who steal crude oil and ship them out using large tankers clearly aided and abetted by Nigerian Navy and JTF operate offshore Rivers and Bayelsa states. There is no JTF commander (usually, officers of the rank of Major General or Brigadier General) or Navy Commander of Eastern and Western Naval Command who is not involved in these illegal stealing and sale of Nigerian crude oil from pipelines. This is why the lobbying to be posted to these "juicy commands" is usually very fierce.

These so-called bombings of Akwa Ibom creeks to kill pirates is a ruse and a big fraud to deflect the attention of Mr President from their lucrative business.

Click "like" if you share this view.

President Buhari should start the clean up from the within the military hierarchy. The enemy is residing within.

anonimi:
Many thanks for your concise narrative.

Most of us Africans are too emotional in a very crude, raw primitive way and not ready to make the NEEDED long term sacrifice, as individuals & societies for our personal & collective success.

There is a reason why China COLLABORATED rather than confront or antagonise its worst enemies- Japan, Britain, USA- while it invested in massively educating its people to develop its own technological capacity to generate wealth!!!

True bro.

And like I added later "if Mandela had allowed emotions to rule his heart, he could have reduced South Africa to ruins as well. Thank God for that wise Madiba. He tempered the anger and impatience of South African blacks yearning for economic empowerment. For this he received many accolades including the Nobel Peace prize".

I agonise a lot about the condition and plight of the black man everywhere. Whether in Africa or in America where they have been there for over 2 centuries. They simply don't seem to get their acts together in areas where they have total control. Either, they are messing up what others have laboured to build, or they fall flat on their faces if they have to start from scratch.

Sad thing is that the secret to building a prosperous and successful society (modern nations) is not hidden in a text book. You don't even need to have a great education to know it. Living examples like China, Singapore, etc are all there for them to simply copy. Yet, they won't. Are we eternally doomed to failure and backwardness?

anonimi:
Largely desolate based on what criteria/data?

Kindly share. Thanks.

I think what @bushdoc9919 meant by "desolate" is that some of the huge track of land held by white farmers were not cultivated, whilst many blacks had no farm holdings at all.

It was a ZANU-PF key promise during the war of liberation from white rule. Mugabe had to implement land reforms, but he went about it in a land grab manner. Taking very productive land under cultivation and giving them to ZANU-PF party officials on cronyism basis.

The black party officials who took them over simply wanted to do land speculation (re-sale to make profit). They never cultivated the land or kept livestock to generate economic activities the way white farmers did.

Many white farmers still wanted to stay, but there were consistent raiding of white farms, killings and rapes as a form of retaliation by so-called ZANU-PF war veterans. Mugabe did nothing to stop it. Eventually, one after the other the white farmers relocated to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, America, or UK. Some even came to Kwara State in Nigeria as late as during Gov Saraki's time.

And off course, with the way white farmers were being treated, most of whom were of British descent and were loyal to the old racist Rhodesian regime which Britain supported, Britain did their own damage by engineering economic sanctions. Over time, this tipped Zimbabwe over the scale. A very big lesson, that we have to pick the fight we can win in the long run.

If Mandela had allowed emotions to rule his heart, he could have reduced South Africa to ruins as well. Thank God for that wise Madiba. He tempered the anger and impatience of South African blacks yearning for economic empowerment. For this he received many accolades including the Nobel Peace prize

anonimi:
And has been LAUNDERING the image of those who LOOTED our country serially in his Ovation magazine, not so

True sha. But na business na.

Man must wak. Think say dat pot belly wey Momodu dey carry na balloon dey inside??

benedictnsi:
Bros no panic you hear Just save up to 20k, carry am go ZIMBABWE, you go buy their Federal Government ....... Plus change you go use marry mugabe Daughter

Bros, if I wan carry 1 naira reach dia, I need to hire Boeing 747 pack the Zim $ wey I go change.
I wonder how Bureau de Change mallam dey manage for dat side

Just to prove that these people are all trillionaires. Let us do some Zim mathematics:

Let us assume every Zim should be worth at least 1US $

If 40 cents (0.4 US$) = 100 trillion Zim $
Therefore, 1US$ = 100 trillion Zim $ /0.4 = 250 trillion Zim $.

See what I mean??
They are all rich folks

barcanista:
May God not relegate us to Zim kind of Trillionaires

Ameeen oooooo

barcanista:
trillionaire

Very correct.

They are all trillionaires or perhaps quadrillioniares. That is why I said Zim people are the richest people on planet earth.

yurme:
na mr president new name jawe

Ewho oooooo

They will soon kill this poor man with high BP.

I take God beg una, the Duara Dullard is enough na. Please don't add to it.

Allow the man some peace of mind to work na.

Boko Haram have revised their killing campaign. No salaries for civil servants.

No light, no water, no jobs, no nothing. We need real change oooooo

Eshinwaju:
....150 cows alone translates into 12 million naira out of whatever he declares....

And 12 million naira is approximately equal to 1 billion naira abi

Choi. This country. They will kill pesin with lafta

yurme:
Dogo yarooooo

Wetin dat one (Dogo Yaro) mean again oooooo?

chinchum:
We wont know if that is just a rumour or not, even if it was the truth, Buhari came in to the country that morning after an exhausting G7 meeting attendance, if he came back very tired and wants to steal a sleep, he can barely be faulted, and there are rumours he asked the clerk to delay the inauguration.

Haba! Everything is rumour

Buhari's media aide was on Channels TV live that day stating clearly that there was a letter to the Clerk of the national assembly to delay the inauguration.

Or is Shehu Garba now a rumour monger

In Nigeria, we are still talking trillions or billions as dressing allowance for senators.
In Zimbabwe they are counting quadrillions (never heard of that one before) .

These Zim people are so rich .....

Not enough space on the currency to write all the zeros ......

The money useless gaaaaan ni

ellechrystal:
I thought this man said he is a Tinubu's boy?
Or am I wrong?

Sons rebelling against dia fadas since 1854

The Central Bank of Zimbabwe has announced a plan to completely phase out the Zimbabwean currency. Beginning on Monday, Zimbabwean bills can be exchanged for U.S. dollars at the rate of 175 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars for every $1 US Dollar.

That means a holder of a 100 trillion bank note will only get 40 cents in US Currency.

Zimbabwe abandoned its currency in 2009 for a system based on the U.S. dollar and the South African Rand.

At the time even street hawkers refused to accept the country’s highest note of $100 trillion. At the peak of the nation's inflation, Zimbabweans had to carry plastic bags full of money to buy basic goods like bread and milk. Prices of goods were rising at least twice a day.

Some members of President Robert Mugabe’s party, the ZANU-PF, have called for the return of the Zimbabwean dollar.

However, even the country’s Finance Minister, Patrick Chinamasa, has repeatedly said that the U.S. dollar “is here to stay.”

chinchum:
What is all these unnecessary ado over Tinubu sef ?? hian.

The moment , APC national assembly members put up more than one candidate for the two key positions on the floor of the house/senate, there was nothing Tinubu could have done to stop one of the candidates winning with more of PDP votes and even seen as a win for PDP. Buhari meeting was only meant to see that just one consensus candidate was thrown open from APC to be voted for, who knows whether he could also have failed with that mission .

And the man who was supposed to chair the meeting was fast asleep in Aso Rock. And this man is known being punctual to meetings.

Choi. Tinz are happening ......

Maxymilliano:
Like i said earlier, Dele Momodu should keep shut.

He knows where and how to channel is reservations rather than seeking relevance on social media.

How about ex-Gov Goje, now APC senator. Hope you heard what he said on Channels TV outside National Assembly complex after Saraki's election as Senate President. Is Goje also seeking relevance? Ditto ex-gov Yerima of Zamfara and now, APC senator?

byrron:
POINT OF CORRECTION:

Im not an APC party Faithful nor one of Tinubu's apps nor fans, but your initial concoction was really dumb and u know it.
As regards what you wrote up there, i agree with you that there will be some ugly development from the presidency but to say APC will not survive beyond 2015 is another dumb exaggeration because the party has been elected to be the ruling party in Nigeria until 2019 and nothing is gonna change that.

Tinubu will surely hurt himself if he continues to behave like the king of the manor as u rightfully stated and will remain relevant if and only if he tells himself the self truth which is that he is not occupying any elective position at the moment, neither is he the C in C.

Recent events at the upper and lower NHA's should have given him a clue that he is not the only one that has the sole monopoly of political wizardry which he now calls treachery simple because he was checkmated.

APC as Tinubu wants it to be will end before 2015 runs out. The APC that we shall seen from next year will have its epicentre at Daura.
That is the message. Period!!!

If Tinubu cannot see this, then he does not have the street sense and intellect we have so heaped on him. If he is not careful, he might find himself in prison if he does not watch his language.

How dare he allude to Atiku/Buhari actions in installing national assembly leadership that will be loyal to the President, and not to Tinubu as "treachery"!! Treachery against who Against Tinubu? Abi?

Doesn't he realise there is a huge difference between party leadership and national leadership

The North have collected the power they came for..... The rest is just stories