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Stop this propaganda. If you are unhappy with Buhari's policies immigrate to Niger, Chad, Ghana or Malaysia. Stop disturbing people.
We are working on how we would make our economy independent. We want people to come to Nigeria to school not we to pay our money out to them. We need to generate revenue. PDP killed the nigerian system.

I found this article online thought to share


Another struggle for Nigeria’s independence is afoot. The one that ended in 1960 was for political (or, some say, flag) independence. Now the fight is for economic independence, which should have been the struggle all along.

In this fight, I can identify two camps: the Central Bank of Nigeria led by Mr Godwin Emefiele and supported by President Muhammadu Buhari and some of his advisers on one hand, and then some “seasoned” economists, traders and saboteurs with collaborator foreigners whistling from a distance. I have no difficulty in supporting the first group that campaigns for made-in-Nigeria products and detests devaluation of the Nigerian currency. The opponents want to slay the naira once more, make foreign exchange available to whoever needs it, and throw the borders open for foreign toothpicks, rice and wheat. I have taken sides with the former because those opposing “command and control” economy for Nigeria have yet to show us the benefits of “free market” economy. After 30 years of SAP, we have yet to see the gains of naira devaluation as promised in the Babangida era.

The antagonists of economic independence deserve pity. They are like subdued slaves. An old relation once told me how, in the pre-1960 struggle, Zik and other nationalists faced opprobrium from their own kinsmen: “Why do you want the white man to go? Are you the one to rule when the white man goes?”

The CBN should be supported by other ministries, departments and agencies of government in order to win this war for Nigeria’s economic independence. Ever since I was a child, Nigerian leaders have been preaching the gospel of diversification without taking any step forward. Our overdependence on oil has now brought us to the edge of a precipice. What should the nation do now that it has been confronted by low oil prices and shortage of petrodollars? The monetary authorities have been able to tackle round-tripping of foreign exchange by certain bureaux de change operators, banks and other dubious business people. It’s not the CBN’s duty to prohibit importation of 41 items, but it had to do so because no fiscal policy was forthcoming; there was no economic team in place.

The measures the CBN has taken, in my view, have been drastic but not drastic enough. More severe steps ought to be taken from the fiscal side. The apex bank’s defence of the naira should be strengthened by economic policies that would force us to look inwards. For any nation seeking progress and prosperity, self-sufficiency or economic independence is the only way to go.

Forex restrictions are, of course, meant to discourage imports and encourage exports as well as local consumption of local goods. It’s unfortunate that fuel imports still consume a huge chunk of our scarce foreign exchange. Minister Kachikwu’s statement, on Wednesday, that 100% of the fuel we consume now is imported and that fuel queues might not disappear until the end of May 2016 was most depressing. Here is an oil-producing nation that imports all its fuel! Never mind agric minister Audu Ogbeh’s joke about importing grass from Brazil.

I keep reminding Nigerians that, during the civil war 49—46 years ago, a part of Nigeria (Biafra) did not import even a litre of fuel. It refined petroleum products at backyards and kitchens. Biafra did not import spare parts, yet it serviced vehicles made from scrap. It made bombs and rocket launchers with raw materials sourced locally. The blockade imposed by the federal side was able to cripple the young republic only because the war prevented people from going to the farms.

Nigeria has, since the end of the war, chosen the path of laziness because of oil funds that are often stolen and stashed abroad. No manufacturing. Only yesterday, I looked round my living room and regretted that none of the items therein was made in Nigeria. Not electronic gadgets, not tiles, not phones or curtains. We pay to use the Internet or make a call. Yet, some buffoons never stopped describing Nigeria as “the giant of Africa” or “this great nation”.

The Ministry of Finance and the relevant agencies must discourage imports further by placing high tariffs on especially items that have local equivalents. At least we can produce the food we eat. The N360billion that goes into rice importation every year is just a waste: rice farmers in Adani, Abakaliki and Gboko alone can produce all the rice consumed in West Africa. [For good measure, I have not lifted the ban I placed on foreign rice seeking to enter my kitchen, since I visited Olam Rice Farm last October.] What’s special about rice anyway? Or sugar? Or wheat? Nigerians can adjust quickly whenever there is a shortfall in any of these items. If people can’t find or afford rice, they will eat yam, cocoyam and potato. Palm-oil is more nutritious than imported vegetable oil. Sugar has been implicated in some deadly diseases. Fresh local chicken supersedes old, chemical-coated imported chicken.

All of the CBN’s efforts to curtail imports and forex demands will come to naught, unless the Customs and Excise lives up to its mandate. Banned foreign items should not be seen in our markets. Anyone seen with a foreign banned item should have questions to answer, as should those charged with policing our borders. This is not the time to complain about having 1, 497 entry points. We have employed customs people to man them.

Industrialisation is not only about agriculture. That’s why CBN loans have been circulating among small and medium enterprises. But where is the electricity needed to make them thrive? Without adequate and steady power, industry cannot blossom. Industrialists also require good roads, clean water, and good rail network. Are the ministries of power, works, housing, and transport listening?

Again, one wonders if there is an industrial policy for Nigeria. Where are industrial clusters? The only places that come near America’s Silicon Valley are Nnewi and Aba. However, the budding entrepreneurs in the two Nigerian towns receive support only in newspaper pages and on television. Ministry of Trade and Industry, are you there?

The economic independence we seek will not come overnight. But we have to start taking small, small steps from today. While we cannot reinvent the wheel, we can start making our own wheels. That’s the secret behind China’s success: it operated a closed economy for 50 years before stepping out to become the world’s second or third largest economy.

Nigeria’s population is rising, despite the evil being done by terrorists and other violent criminals. The new mouths must be fed, clothed and then sent to school. Secondary and tertiary institutions are churning out millions of young adults each year. Jobs must be created to prevent them from joining the underworld.

I’ve been impressed by recent posts in the social media expressing the need to patronise made-in-Nigeria goods. “My next car will come from Innoson,” one wrote, after Senator Ben Murray-Bruce had paid for a car from Innoson. Nigerians ought to be assured constantly that their government means business.

Happy Easter Nigerians!

http://leadership.ng/columns/512682/renewed-struggle-independence

Let's be honest, Nigeria can never exist as a centralized state. We are too diverse for this. We need to consider decntralizing power from federal levels all the way down to state and LGA govt. This means that state resources would be for the state first and the development of the state then goes upwards to the federal govt. That way states have a say over how their resources are used, contribute at local, state and federal levels.
If we do this the north will rest, Nigeria will finally free itself from British and American claws and the issue of regional disputes would be eliminated. Because revenues would go up the chain and down again rather than the other way around.
I think this is how everyone will be happy in this nation.

If he can do two things chase britain and America away. Completely decolonize Nigeria. That will be ok. Then we will have to deal with the problem of the North

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The man Harold Smith is not new in Nigerian history. He is one of the architects of the colonial foundation that led to Nigeria’s independence in 1960. I met him in a meeting three weeks ago where he opened up a bit on lingering problems in Africa, especially Nigeria’s unbalanced so-political relationship. We asked if he could make this known to the media. His response was “I am in my 80s now; I have agreed. In the past ‘they’ did not want me to say anything, but now I don’t want to go to my grave without telling the truth about the atrocities perpetrated in Africa by the colonialists.




On a Ben TV programme last Thursday, Harold Smith spoke about what went on behind the scene before independence. The Oxford University graduate had this to say about his role in Nigeria’s pre- and post-independence era. “Our agenda was to completely exploit Africa.

Nigeria was my duty post. When we assessed Nigeria, this was what we found in the southern region: strength, intelligence, a determination to succeed, well established history, complex but focused life styles, great hope and aspirations… the East is good in business and technology, the West is good in administration and commerce, law and medicine, but it was a pity we planned our agenda to give power “at all costs” to (one region), Our mission was accomplished by destroying the opposition on all fronts. The West led in the fight for independence, and was punished for asking for freedom”.

Harold Smith justified the British agenda of colonialism in Nigeria, which he believed was originally to help build Africa after the ruins of slave trade, but lamented that the British only looked after themselves and not Nigerian interest. “The British really let Nigeria down. When I see Nigerians being accused of fraud and from what I saw on the streets of Lagos, the British were the worst fraudsters”, he said.

He said the time has come now to see people of intelligent minds with an open and inclusive agenda for all Nigerians in power, people who will really look after Nigeria’s large population. However, he added: “I still curiously and sorrowfully see now that the British have not let go of Nigeria, her wealth, her future”.

He said that Caucasians now assert themselves as the keepers of the “New Age” keys, adding that it was “only logical for Europeans to maintain their position of power, scientific superiority, economic exploitation; they must continue to perpetuate their lies and falsehoods and this is the most unkind cut of all in relation to the Nigerian situation”.

According to him, Nigeria, a great nation was crippled not because of military juntas or corrupt leaders alone but by the British and American fear of Nigeria’s great future. He confessed, “The fear of the place that will be our ‘dumping ground’ really occupied our minds”. Some of the things he said were not new to Nigerians or to the whole world but hearing it from the horse’s mouth is quite revealing and established more reality zones. He submitted that the colonial masters did a lot of havoc while they were in Africa, and planted time bombs when they finally left. “What we have seen since independence is an administration of new internal colonial masters, fellow Nigerians doing more damage to Nigeria. Instead of detonating the time bombs planted by the British, it is planting mines”.

He added that “It was my duty to carry out all of the above and I was loyal to my country. Nigerians should try to be loyal to their country leaders and followers alike. Love your country. You have got the potentials to be great again and the whole world knows this. I’m sorry for the evil done to Nigeria. I can’t say sorry enough’. My people, this is a great “expo” what do you think

http://www.peoplesdaily-online.com/opinion/letters/4096-harold-smith-on-colonial-britains-hidden-agenda-in-nigeria
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Re: Harold Smith On Colonial Britain’s Hidden Agenda In Nigeria by cap28: 3:58am On Jan 31, 2011
And the saga continues, Nigeria is still under the control of Britain, every single leader that nigeria has had since independence (with the possible exception of Buhari) has been an agent of British imperialism and their neo liberal economic policies.

I cant see Nigeria getting out of that arrangement because the consequences will be so severe, furthermore nigerians are not united and will never form a united front to defeat britain's stranglehold on it.

Instead we are more preoccupied with tribalism and placing our hopes in leaders who sold nigeria out years ago.

Is it Goodluck Jonathan that will defy the west and refuse to implement neo liberalism, or will he tell the IMF to sling their hook and take a running jump? not unless he wants to find himself being toppled and replaced with another traitor.

Nigeria is now so far gone that it will take a revolution of the masses to get britain and america off our backs - that will never happen in a country as divided and steeped in tribalism as nigeria.
Harold Smith

Saraki should better keep quite if he knows what is good for him. Nigerians are waiting for him to try any rubbish. They will bullshit him. He should just be on the downlow because his existence in senate house is irritable to some people. We want him out and out now.....

So the tactic now is to deny things. Good political move, if people were not living in Enugu.

psucc:
Dey deir. You will be surprised that at the end of this govt, it will be ranked among the most corrupt in the history of Nigeria.

Nothing except military rule will ever beat PDP in corruption. Actually i think they beat military because i did not see the difference between living under PDP and Abacha except at least in Abacha's time we still had some reputation

because Buhari has found his father's loot of $300 trillion in switzerland hehehehe. Inheritance suddenly gone. We understand your pain.

It is better. Let us all shut down. And rest no looting, or scheming

oyinkinola:
.....in the good old days,if you have a senior student at home you have a teacher, he will take charge of the lesson of all the children in the area, writing letters for every body, read letters for them, he has taken the responsabiity of the leadership in the area, and people know him, if there is any post in that area people no nobody than him, but today, just leave it!

This is not the good old days. It is 2016 21st CENTURY

ajepako:
shift to what? APC?

I dey craze?

PDP or maybe KOWA but NEVER APC..

Olorun maje oh!

I did not say APC, I say not PDP

All senators who signed such bill should be jailed on basis of treason and conspiracy to overthrow.

Saraki is so corrupt. That man and all his decendants need to be put on a restriction list to any public office. Seeing Saraki annoys me. I am just waiting for April. If they do not send him packing from senate house, not demote, packing i will gather everyone in my village.

Adebammm:
if them want impeach am make dem do quick b4 this man go finish us with yeye change make dem promise 9ja. No light, fuel self no dey and dollar self con dey high Pls make una impeach Mr change make we hear word

Please go to school

YouthsPC0:
Op when you an other paid "e- robots " including those invited to type nonsense here and the senseless children armed will Auto like buttons finish , you should kindly go and ask your parents how much is 2000k worth in Nigerian markets today.

So at your age you do not know that your national purchasing power will be determined by international markets if 90% of your goods are imported 2000K is not worth anything because, as expected US has increased interest rates slightly, but luckily Buhari has frozen Naira and cut them off cyphoning oil.

SleekAboki:
Pdp had their chance and blew it. Apc is just a different side of same coin With 80% of former pdp members, they have proven to be a continuum instade of change.

Kowa is next in line or we form a Marxist party.

Please when you are ready text me

TrueSenator:
Your pride is your hurt..... Nigerians clearly made the wrong choice and instead of repenting, they are busy feeling big to accept that they were selfish in their choice of President.

The maths is simple..... Continue to do the same thing but don't expect a different result. You have not seen anything yet....... You have lost your naira value, low fuel price, employment, INEC, integrity in fighting corruption, social decency..... Forcing little girls into marriage..... Etc.

Is this growth? You think this is football where you can shout.... Man United for life......

You better wake up.... Resist foolishness and vote wisely irrespective of the party.

Always listen to how they intend to achieve their promises and refuse to be excited about promises.

Learn from APC 2015 electoral promises.

We are not proud. PDP is the one that is living a misconception. Make no mistake, Nigerians voted APC to eradicate PDP, and they are doing just that. When all PDP politicians (including those that hav einfiltrated APC) have been jailed and money recovered, then i will personally write to buhari when nepa brings light on that day and say " YOU DO WELL".

We want roads, houses etc yes but first "WE WNAT THE ERADICATION OF ALL PDP OFFICIALS". That is why APC was voted in and they ae doing just that.

ridwanayo:
Mr.op as much as pdp is nt d best option, but its a better alternative compared to apc, am from sw nd if u think it's only ss nd se people dat are complaining mehn ya wrong, I know folks who voted for buhari but they are regretting now, things are getting worse than pdp regime bro, I wish we all cud stand for apga, but it won't happen so pdp is a better alternative, nd for u saying pdp wus lose 2019 election, do you you think people of benue wud vote for a fulani man despite what is happening nd bubu refuse to address d issue, do u think kaduna south wud vote for apc despite aw hellrufai is treating dem, do u think d shites wud vote for a sunni Muslim like buhari, most of dose people using fake yoruba nick praising buharo are hausa,2019 election is nt sure for apc yet.dy shud first perform well den we wud consider

Things will get worse of cuz. Do you know what PDP did?? Things will even get more worse. We have to prepare our minds. But i will try my best to help to the best of my knowledge.

Things are like this because Buhari has cut off all western powers and their dominations in Nigeria. He has frozen the Naira to counter act the imports and interest rates Foreign nations use to enslave us. We are also trying to put foreign companies that operate from the Nigerian markets but invest the money somewhere else, we are putting them out of business and developing our own.

What we all need to do is start working and helping however we can. The naira is frozen so purchasing power is reduced obviously. But it means we are not affected by fluctuations on what buhari has borrowed. If USA decides to increase interest rates by 51% (which they will do, it is their talent, that is the only way they can enslave african nations) We will be unaffected.

Buhari is thinking globally as well as locally. Because while we want these good things, it is pointless doing them if America can just increase interest rates again, drive us back down into unimaginable debt and send us back to the dark ages whenever they want.

He is reducing the effects of western powers on Nigeria, he is growing the naira, he is establishing as system where people can invest and make real profit, not PDP looted profit. He has to do this before anything else. Because if he builds schools with money borrowed from IMF or income from promising to ship oil to Europe, when these nations increase interest rates and the naira is still low, no one can afford school. So the effort of building schools if wasted.

ANTONINEUTRON:
@OP 2019 i will be eligible to vote. And u knw what, i am tinking of being a pdp member. just as i am a barcelona fan.

U can't reject ur family name becuz ur sista is a armed robber and brother a rapist.
What u are suppose to do is try to clean d family nd make tinz right.

We have done that for 50 years. No more. Moving On.

ajepako:
l will take PDP anyday..

They are thieves, looters and sinners but they dont lie or pretend to be saints and pious holy one and then rob us blind..

With PDP, what you see is what you get..

With APC, it is great pretention shrouded under thievery and sheer corruption..

So l will pitch my tend with the devil l know...

PDP is gone loot is not coming back time to shift ur aliances bro. We understand ur loyalty but shift it.

2sexynet:
you are dreaming... how do you the best candidate? I support the OP on this one. No to APC and PDP. we want a different party to take over.

That is where you make a mistake. And this is why Nigerians do not vote properly. Individuals can never exert their will. The follow party agendas. Regardless if state governor want to do borhole, PDP chairman say no, he wont. Vote for party agendas not people.

ddippset:
Op abeg chop knuckle. Imagine pdp still get mouth to tálk! If we don't like apc again we shall vote kowa party. If kowa party are not ready we shall willingly hand back power to the millitary. As for pdp, never again! never again!! never again!!!

I fully support you. And infact i am making a website to show all political figures in this country down to local govt level and what they accomplished in their time. No more nonsense. No PDP no PDP mindset. No PDP way of doing things ever again. Only God will give them what they deserve.

Look life and history has been unfair to us all. Misfortune and historical events have set us on a different and unique path from the rest of the world. Not just as Nigerians, but as African people. I would like to see Nigerians that identify as Nigerian first before they identify as igbo, yoruba, hausa, muslim or christains. We should all understand one thing that we are going to be stuck here on earth together for a long time. There is nowhere else to go. So we better make it work.

Stop all these PDP and APC propagandas, stop campaigning for PDP loot, stop crying because the looting system was disrupted before or during your turn. Stop it!!!

Our economy is in transition, we will suffer, more to be honest in the coming year. Buhari had 2 choices: 1) Borrow, build and hope we yeild enough from investments to pay back OR) don't borrow but reduce govt spending, and public purchasing power. Given that the idea is to build the latter is stroked out.

Let us help out where we can. I shared my rice, beans and food stuff with the women that sell fish on my street (I am not from Abuja, so it is not a political move). If you have, try identifying someone who does not have and give. Explain to people why we are going tru this because most of this women did not understand until i explain economic policies to them in hausa. They were happy. We are all in this together. Please make it work.

tolexy007:
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja
Despite getting 66.53 per cent of the total amount of domestic gas supply for one year, Nigeria’s electricity generation has remained low.
Figures obtained on Friday (5.21pm) by our correspondent from the country’s power System Operator indicated that electricity generation had dropped further to 2,035.20MW.
This showed a drop of about 800MW from 2,841.9MW, which was given as of 12.42pm on Thursday by the SO.
Ironically, the latest data from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation showed that the percentage allocation of gas to power plants in Nigeria from February 2015 to the end of January this year was far higher than what was allocated to manufacturing sector.
The report stated that although the power plants received close to 70 per cent of the total domestic gas allocation, power generation in Nigeria had continued to hover around 3,000 megawatts to 3,500 megawatts. The Federal Government had early last year set a 2015 target of at least 6,000MW.
Although there had been series of complaints of gas pipelines rupturing by vandals, the latest figures from the NNPC’s group financial report showed specifically that gas-fired power plants got an average of 701.84 million standard cubic feet of gas per day or 66.53 per cent from February 2015 to January 2016, as against the 353.06mmscfd or 33.47 per cent gas that was supplied to industries.
The NNPC said, “From the 1,134.41mmscfd of gas supplied to the domestic market in January 2016, about 733.5mmscfd of gas representing 64.66 per cent was used for gas-fired power plants while the balance of 400.9mmscfd or 35.34 per cent was supplied to other industries.
“Similarly, for the period of February 2015 to January 2016, an average of 1,054.90mscfd of gas was supplied to the domestic market comprising an average of 701.84mmscfd or (66.53per cent) as gas supply to the power plants and 353.06mmscfd or (33.47 per cent) as gas supply to industries.”
The corporation added that “a total of 734mmscfd was delivered to the gas fired power plants in the month of January 2016 to generate an average power of about 3,237MW compared with February 2015 to January 2016 average gas supply 699mmscfd and power generation of 2,990MW.”
Operators in the power sector as well their counterparts in the oil and gas industry on several occasions had blamed the poor performance of power firms on the recurrent rupturing of pipelines supplying gas to the plants.
Even as they admitted that gas supply to power had been high when compared with what industries got, they maintained that until the trend of vandalism in the power and oil/gas sectors reduced considerably or stopped, the issue of low electricity generation might persist.
The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, had during the first stakeholders meeting involving operators in the power and oil/gas sectors, said that he would ensure that there was adequate gas supply for electricity generation, but frowned at the level of pipeline vandalism.
Similarly, the Executive Director, Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors, Mr. Sunday Oduntan, told our correspondent that the low electricity generation was not entirely the fault of power firms.
He noted, for instance, that the fall in electricity generation earlier in March this year was as a result of the industrial action by workers in the transmission arm of the power sector.
Oduntan said, “The recent fall in power generation to 2,800MW happened when workers were picketing Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company and the union mandated the transmission persnnel in Osogbo to go on strike.
“After they embarked on strike, there was nobody to wheel the energy from generation to distribution companies. And this led to high temperature in the generation companies and they were forced to shut down. That’s what happened during that period early this month.”
On allegations that power distribution companies were compounding the sufferings of electricity consumers by not accepting the load allocated to them, Oduntan said such scenarios had stopped since last year.
He noted that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission had penalised the companies that were involved to ensure that it did not reoccur.
Oduntan said, “If your allocation is 20 per cent and maybe allocation to Kano is five per cent, but it could not wheel the amount to Kano and decided to give the Kano Disco maybe three per cent. That means there is extra two per cent, and it now wants to give this amount to you.
“Now, if you take it, that is fine. You will pay for the energy. But in addition to that, it will penalise you and you will pay the internal penalty. This scenario happened sometime last year, around the middle and late 2015. As a result, NERC called for a meeting on the issue and withdrew that practice. So, it has stopped since then and even now, we have very low generation, less than the wheeling load.”
www.punchng.com/power-generation-drops-further-to-2035-20mw/

Of course it has dropped. I am even surprised it still at 2000+. This is because buhari is chasing western powers out. So we have to begin refining our oil, and generating our power ourselves. Not china, Not america, not british companies, but Nigerian companies. More will drop and take a down turn in the coming year, but they will start to quickly shapen up by 2018. What we need to be doing is helping out where we can rather than staying here campaigning for pdp loot.

odikimi:
Then what make an organization a political party? Is the acronym or the individuals? If it is the later then apc is responsiblefor our mess since 1999 to date. Why because 70% of those who looted our money under PDP have all gone to APC. Obj ruled for 8yrs, Atiku ruled for 8yrs, Kwankwanso ruled for 8yrs, Tambuwal 15yrs, Amaechi 14yrs in PDP, name anybody and I will tell u. Your Buhari ruled in 1983 to 85 and looted as much as he could and also refer to Abacha as a none corrupt person.
Why are u guys mute in the Halliburton case? Let your Atiku visit USA so can know whether APC is not the problem of Nigeria from 1999 to date.

That is where PDP campaigners fail to understand the discussion. OPEN YOUR EARS. Noone is saying they did not loot. No one is saying they are not criminals as well. They are. I think even more than PDP. But in their regimes, the country grew economically, politically and internationally.
It is because of PDP western worlds can now use us to clean their mouth. PDP borrowed monies from IMF, just so they can have money to loot. No infrastructural development, left the nigerian child with no access to good education, living like destitute in our father's land. Look at the infrastructural and local developments and empowerment happening across Nigeria. It is slow, very slow, but it is happening for the first time in 50 years.

What PDP stole from Nigerians was not money, but our pride, dignity and respect, nationally and internationally. We have to suffer a bit. All these western powers visit Nigeria now because their slaves have broken free of those chains. If APC is dedicated to keeping the influence of western powers on our economy at the minimum, and they really do this, regardless of poverty within, I will vote them all the time.

You think Nigerians care that politicians looting money. They loot money everywhere in the world. Nigerians are angry because PDP did not care about us as a people. Did not care about our identity. Reduced our purchasing power, internationally and nationally, back-doored our oil production at the expense of the reputation of an entire generation of people. Thus making Nigerians beggars in the world. This would have never happened in Abacha's and Buhari's rule. (Although military is a no go. God forbid.) I do not believe Nigeria can be run with complete democracy. It can't. We need Buhari and Military minded people who understand power of the people by the people but also understand discipline, responsibility and service to a public office of authority. When we started giving our presidency to all these mallams with no political orientation our economy just faulted.

Every one is screaming Buhari. Buhari is cutting our dependency on the west. That means, your resources will stop going to west at your expense, it means they will finally respect you as a country. It means when you go to the market to buy fish, you do not have to carry 1000. eventually N2 may buy you fish. We will suffer, of course but we have been suffering for 50 years with nothing for us. Now we are still suffering, but with something for us.

everydayperson:
why not start a LinkedIn Group.. there are virgin opportunities for Big Data in Nigeria.. especially in the transport sector

Absolutely. Am sorry but I do not know you. I think we can begin. What do we name the group? Why don't you make it and send me the link.

chinjo:
The PDP u are talking about are now members of APC. I don't think you live in this country if not you would know the excruciating pains Nigerians are going through.

I do. We have been going through this for years. We voted Buhari to eliminate PDP. He is doing just that. After that we can begin to discuss the next step of prosperity. APC, PDP you are all out by 2019. Never again

odikimi:
how u guys reason with pdp this, pdp that baffles even the devil.
Please, is pdp a name of any government official? I guess Atiku, Kwankwanso, Obj, Amaechi, Dakuku, Boriface, Tambuwal etcetera were all pdp members?

No PDP is the name of a political party. A political party means there is an agenda; and all cadidates work towards fulfilling this agenda. PDP is just a hoax for continued western colonialism in Nigeria for the benefit of a few individuals.

Op you are the very definition of the problem we are trying to eradicate. PDP thinking politics is about constructing bore-holes and then turning Nigeria into their personal property. To be honest, Nigerians do not support your claim. Buhari knows exactly why he was voted into power, to eradicate you. And he is doing just that. We did not put him ther to create boreholes, he is there to ensure everyone in power do their jobs. He is there to gain our international perception as a strong independent country back again.
Please leave him ooo. I am not APC, but Buhari has done in 12 months, what PDP could not do in 50 years. PDP please giveup

millionaireman:
But Buhari doesn't seem to understand that he is president because of the goodwill of the people.

Buhari seems to still believe that he is in power courtesy of either his Fulani Muslim brothers, or by military coup.

He dosent think that. I am sure of it. He know how and why he is there. He has no doubts about this. He is doing exactly what we voted him to do. He hasn't failed us yet. He has disappointed me because Saraki is still free.