₦airaland Forum

Sunnybobo3: Show us a picture of Fashola and Obanikoro in a warm embrace.

Never, it can't happen in a region with brown roof ideology

berem: So because they snapped picture together,that means he is decamping out of APC? Remember Ngige won the senatorial election on the platform of ACN which was acclaimed to be a yoruba party and not Igbo APGA.

Remember he and Obi are from the same Senatorial zone, and now Dora is no more Obi has to block him with his stooge Obiano via financial inducement to rig him out

Abagworo: Lol! PDP is as Islamic as APC. Nigeria does not have a religious party and I don't think our constitution allows that. Stop spreading religious hate as more of your own Igbo brothers will die and lose their hard earned properties from its consequences even in Bayelsa.

You are a pathetic fellow

Anambra state educating the Nigerian populace on how to play advanced politics since the dubious amalgamation in 1914

Ndiofe assasinating their own in the name of do or die politics since 1856

dozzzybaba: Is this the best you can come up with? Why dont you tell me about your fake pastors and homosexual catholic priests.

I am an Orisha worshipper and a devotee of the Oro. Omo y1bo, you'v got any problem with that?

Shameless Imposter, you are still in possession of someone's trademark

JayJohnson: When your ex-convict and fugitive principal (ayo fayose) did worse than this in Ekiti, he wasn't a retired motor park tout! I implore you always apply brain effectively

This is politics, all interest is to score point

idumuose: Photos? Anago cannot leave Ede,he is a c0ward.
Secondly,anago does not speak igbo and if peradventure someone asks him the reason he is taking pictures in igbo dialect,what will he say?

But i can come to oshogbo or any of those south west states where rusted zinc is preponderous and take as many rusted zinc pictures as i please cos i speak yeriba fluently.

You see why i will always have advantage over you?

Unu ga-egbu mmadu o o !!

anago9010: and if there is no slum and sub human settlements and buildings in woliwo, fegge, akunnie, odokpor, opoko, ochanga and dulmedi market. may amadioha hammer you with bubonic plague plus Ebola virus and mad cow disease. can I get an ise.....

Tunde Salam

lakpalakpa: They will never open threads to discuss Uduaghan, T.A. Orji or Martin Elechi who happen to be the worse governors in Southern Nigeria...

Bring it on, what are you waiting for

djfaithy: what I don't understand is how you manage to sleep at night, do you sleep with happiness in your heart that you've made some people feel bad ? Or you sleep with sadness or are you plainly a bitter person, I heard you are a grown up and got kids, well I find it very hard to believe that you are not in your early 20's except if this is an ibo thing ? Do you want war ? Are you well prepared ? Will your children be safe if, you have any ? Now listen, you guys have started what you will never be able to finish, I heard you've stock a lot of ak-47 and RPG in ur shops, I heard you guys are ready for 2nd round of civil war, isn't that the reason you keep beating this drum while we are all trying to move on, idumose you may see this as politics, we see it as call for war, trust me when it start either you or your loved ones will share in it, contunu !

Park well like passat joor !! Politics is a dirty game and if you are not ready to fight dirty never park you keke napep here

idumuose: Do you do business transactions? The answer is no.i guess "get paid to post for APC on nairaland" where you sit under a brown roof in a swetering heat behind a desktop computer and typing lies for APc isn't the type of business i am talking about.

i am fully engaged in a business venture in the south west so why won't i be concerned about their political activities? i don't care if you vote a hooligan to oversee your affairs as long as the crook does not tamper with my business.‎​​ !

Gbam !!! That's my business with those in Brown Roof Republic

Ngokafor: ...All the APC stooges here blabbing about non-westerners meddling in the affairs of Osun should kindly keep quiet!..It is election time hence the 'interest' so what is all these blabs for?..of course PDP supporters will root for their candidates to win in all corners of this country.

..The attention osun is getting from 'outsiders' was exactly the kind that Anambra got during her gubernatorial election last year!..with all kinds of charlatans claiming to know more about what Anambarians deserve than even those from Anambra.Most of them from South-West, rooting for Ngige and villifying Peter Obi and Willie Obiano!...Osun State is part of Nigeria and until we go our seperate ways you lots just have to deal with it or be delt with...

..@op we are all aware that you do not like APC and what they stand for,but you guys should be more matured in your campaigns on-line seriously..no insult intended.

Nne, obviously they don't know that this is Nairaland Politics section. We .fight dirty here and the winner takes all

obyrich: He met them so. He has no right to distort the insignia of his people.

eaglechild: Look at the utter poverty in the background and people still gather to sing praises.

Besides only a retired motor park tout will do such.

Unu ga egbu mmadu o o

Is that all

Good

Nigerian Lionel Messi!!

Pension and gratuity awaits them from the Government

Happy Married Life

Unfortunately for him we have not forgotten

So sad. Promising generationjust gone like that

Good, peace must be supreme in our land

The alleged hack might be from the student IT professionals or careless handling by the Hosting site

GenBuhari: [size=18pt]Buharinomics - General Buhari’s economic program marshaled out to salvage the nation in 1984 [/size]

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Buharinomics was General Buhari’s economic program marshaled out to salvage the nation in 1984. He summarized the objective of his economic policy (as articulated in the 1984 budget) as follows: "To arrest the decline in the economy, to put the economy on a proper course of recovery and solvency, and to chart a future course for economic stability and prosperity" (West Africa, May 14, 1984). He had previously done similarly, in March while receiving the visiting Sudanese President, Gaafar Nimeiri. Upon his inquiring of what the new military government had in mind for the nation it then ruled, Buhari said to him: "The priority [of his administration] is for economic recovery, providing employment opportunities, improving people's living conditions, consolidating internal security and ensuring foreign respect" (Africa Now, March 1984). In a nutshell, Buharinomics set out to arrest the decline in the economy and refocus it towards recovery. Buharinomics was to wean the nation off consumerism and profligacy, while channeling it towards frugality and productivity. To accomplish this, the government was to cut down on its expenditure, engage in more efficient restricting and controlling of foreign exchange outflow, undertake the revival of the country's productive capacity (concentration was on agriculture), and broaden government's revenue base.
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The first test of Buharinomics was implemented to revive the comatose banking industry and arrest local currency hoarding. In April 1984, the government ordered a change in the color of the Naira. This action was dubbed the “real coup” by unscrupulous business men and politicians who had almost eliminated the need for commercial banking in Nigeria by keeping their moneys under their mattresses or by trafficking them into neighboring West African countries. This currency change, which forced all holders of the naira notes into exchanging them for the new naira notes at commercial banks, infused billions that had remained unaccounted for into the banking industry and eliminated counterfeited currencies, which had inflicted inflationary and other nefarious effects on the economy. This measure had an immediate revitalizing effect in the banking industry and was an unqualified success. Banks that were close to collapsing became vibrant again, to the extent that some of them began to hire hitherto unemployed Nigerians.
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To cut down on government expenses, the federal work force was cut by 30% and imports for 1984 pegged at 4 billion pounds (mostly on basic foodstuffs, spare parts, and raw materials for local industries), against 14 billion pounds spent in 1983. To ensure that Nigeria remained respectable on the international business world, Buhari committed to honoring Nigeria’s debt payment schedule irrespective of the limited earning potential of Nigeria. In August 1984, Buhari was on one of his meet-the-people nationwide tours, which he began as soon as the administration got on its feet. Everywhere he went, the people embraced him, coming out en mass and ushering him tumultuous cheers and unreserved applause. In one of his speeches to the people (this one in Owerri), he reiterated Nigeria’s commitment to honoring its debts, the dire economic situation notwithstanding. "The task of this administration is how to persuade Nigerians to understand that for a number of years to come, we would be paying debts, the roads may be long and thorny but we believe that on our shoulders lies the responsibility to save our fatherland from devastation that has resulted from mismanagement" (Newswatch, February 18, 1985).
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Buhari could not have been any more correct in his statement above. Assuming Nigeria took no further loans, its breakdown of loan repayments was as follows: 3.9 billion naira ($4.4 billion) in 1985, 3.7 billion naira ($4.19 billion) in 1986, 2.8 billion naira ($3.2 billion) in 1987, until a decrease to 703 million in 1991 (Concord Weekly, May 6, 1985). Nigeria’s precarious financial situation made it impossible for it to finance capital projects and meet up its balance of payment obligations. With oil export pegged at 1.3 million barrels per day by OPEC, borrowing from external sources became necessary. To this effect, Nigeria proposed borrowing 1.795m naira to finance its capital project from the IMF. The patriotism with which General Buhari handled Nigeria’s dealings with the IMF was the highlight and beauty of Buharinomics.

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In order to qualify for the loan, IMF gave Nigeria certain conditions which must be met. In 1984 when the naira exchanged for $1.34, the IMF demanded a minimum of 60% devaluation of it. Buhari refused, agreeing only to a "crawling peg"—a mechanism whereby government would realign the currency gradually, forestalling or minimizing economic and social dislocations because of such drastic devaluation of its currency. In addition to the devaluation of the naira, IMF demanded that government took other drastic actions: (a) The government must remove its subsidy on petroleum. (b) It must curtail its expenditure. (c) Government must rationalize its tariff structures. (d) It must put a freeze on its wages. (e) It must put a total end of non-statutory transfers to State governments, (f) Government must at least institute a 30% raise on interest rates—government resisted this because the decline in its revenue earnings and its debt obligations made it almost impossible to raise interest rates without triggering inflation (West Africa, May 14, 1984).
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The Nigerian government and veteran economists in Nigeria (like Aluko, Onosade, Okigbo, etc) could not make sense of being asked to devalue its currency when Nigeria’s imports were in dollar and its export (fixed quantity of oil) was also in dollar. The implication of devaluation was that Nigeria would pay more to import lesser quantity of goods than it did prior to any devaluation. It would also export the same amount of oil it exported before any devaluation and derive lesser revenue than it received before any devaluation The impacts of it debt payment would have harsher effect on the citizenry if the naira was devalued. This did not make any economic sense to Buhari; it struck him as an insult on the intelligence of the African. Finance Minister Onaolapo Soleye and Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji who led the Nigerian delegation to the last negotiation in Washington were chewed out by US Federal Reserve Chairman, Paul Volcker, for presenting the Nigerian governments rejection of most of these recommendations. For rejecting the IMF conditions and the loan, the Buhari administration got into the black book of Washington. Already, it had earned the dislike of 10 Downing Street for cutting down Nigeria’s imports from the UK by about 350%. In any case, without the IMF loan, government was still in a bind as to how to finance capital projects and pay for imports, especially spare parts for local industries, food items, etc. At this juncture, the genius and resourcefulness of Buharinomics illuminated to the delight of the African.
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First, the administration sent Oil Minister Tam David West to OPEC to seek a raise in the quantity of oil that Nigeria could export. If OPEC agreed, Nigeria would expect to generate extra revenue in the long run from any increase of its oil quota and this would assist tremendously in augmenting the shortfall in the nation’s purse. Professor West came back empty handed—the US and Britain had put pressure on their puppets in OPEC (like Saudi Arabia) to refuse Nigeria’s request.
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To counter OPEC’s bluff, the Buhari administration entered into a $2 billion barter trade agreement with four countries. Nigeria daily bartered 200,000 barrels of oil as follows: (a) completely knocked down parts for automobiles from Brazil. (b) Construction equipment from Italy (c) Engineering equipment from France, and (d) Capital goods from Austria. This barter trade took care of the administration’s need to have borrowed money but it intensified the ill will the US and Britain had for Nigeria. By bartering this oil, Nigeria was: (a) solving those needs which the proposed IMF loan was geared toward. Doing so without borrowing or feeling the pains of spending the meager amount generated from its OPEC approved 1.3 billion a day oil export is the stuff an economic wizard is made of. (b) Britain had been cut off as Nigeria’s major supplier of the goods which the countries in the barter agreement sent to Nigeria. (c) The US usurious money lenders were denied the chance to suck Nigeria dry through the IMF loan. (d) American and British oil companies were irate that the oil being bartered would flood the oil market, cutting in on their profits. (d) The oil being bartered was oil that used to be illegally bunkered before Buhari put illegal oil bunkering artist out of business. For once, an African country had put positive economic mechanism in place to salvage its ailing economy without swallowing IMF’s poison pills.
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As far as America and Britain were concerned, there was a price to be paid by this Buhari, who thought he was smart enough not to accept subservience to their authority. To begin with, a London newspaper (The Financial Times) published Nigeria’s barter trade agreement with Brazil (which, in truth, was done in secrecy because Buhari treated some aspects of his economic policy as State secret). The British thought it was going to incite OPEC against Nigeria since OPEC as a body did not support oil bartering. Oil Minister Tam David West, in a press conference, said, “If a nation believes it is part of its strategy for national survival to do this [barter trade], why not?” To assure OPEC that Nigeria was not indulging in barter trade in order to pull out of OPEC, he added ”Our strategy is to stay in OPEC and make its presence felt, and work together on programs that will be for the economic interest of all” (Concord Weekly, May 6, 1985). There is more to this barter trade than time will permit one to detail in this piece. For now, it is worth noting that it was the major reason for which Britain and America wanted the Buhari administration overthrown.
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The counter trade showcased Buhari as a visionary. He made America and Britain feel silly and they swore to get him out of office. When Babangida took over, on his maiden speech to the nation he promised to revisit the counter trade agreements. Within two weeks in office, September 17, 1985, he setup a panel to review it and recommend to his administration how to revive the economy without the use of counter trade. Babangida rolled back counter trade at the behest of his imperialist masters and at the detriment of the Nigerian nation and people.

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By the time the Buhari administration was overthrown in August of 1985, Buharinomics was beginning to yield dividends. For example, the inflationary rate had fallen from 23.2% in 1983 to 5.5% in 1985. Nigeria did not regret rejecting the IMF loan because it was meeting its obligation of prompt debt payment and the bartered goods were, to some extent, holding up within the austerity measure which had been in place since the Shagari days. Food was becoming reasonably available for two reasons: (a) The emphasis paid to agriculture had resulted in abundant food harvests, especially yam tubers. (b) The border closure made it impossible for unscrupulous business men to continue smuggling food items into neighboring countries where they sold for twice their value in Nigeria.

Had Buharinomics continued for at least five years, Nigeria would have joined the Asian tigers in economic growth and self reliance. We know that to be true because Babangida came into office and did everything the IMF asked and the Nigerian economy took a dive into the gutter and has not recovered yet.
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[color=#990000][size=18pt]for the corrupt, the fear of Buhari is the beginning of wisdom[/size][/Dcolor]

Damage control strategy !! He still a coupist and bigot

Ok

Bombshell: It stressed that Buhari lost three times to the PDP in presidential elections in the past and would lose the fourth time if he emerged as APC candidate in 2015.—Olisa Metuh