Hadesholla:
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Nigerians react

Almaiga:
Fake account, fake news, try harder.

Could be

modath:


Zahra is ZAHRA.M BUHARI INDIMI .... How you fell for this crude/cheap/obvious photoshop is amazing!!

That name you posted up there doesn't exist

fulaniHERDSman:

Senseless blasphemy!
He is a moslem .... a quote from the koran pls

alab alssamawi, wamutabaeat alrrayiys buahari mae alrruh alquds kl yawm 'annah fi mansibih litamin aihtimamih faqidi. fi kl zarf wafi kl lahzatin, 'an yakun masdar maelumatih. wakhilal lahazat thaminat min aleazlati, wawade fi qalbih alhunin 'iilaa yataqarrab lak wayasjud lak. wakama qal rayiys nayjiria, waqal 'innah hu zaeim bayn alzzueama' fi 'afriqia, wahafaz ealayh bialqurb min janibikum hatta 'annah qad yuaddi mae tuadue ahd alladhin yurkizun ealaa alllah aleali aleiniin. (1 taymuthawus 2: 1-8; lawqa 4: 4, 8-12)

Heavenly Father, pursue President Buhari with your Holy Spirit every day that he is in office to secure his undistracted attention. In every circumstance and at every moment, be his source. During his precious moments of solitude, put in his heart a yearning to draw close to you and worship you. As the President Nigeria, he is a leader among leaders in Africa, Keep him close to your side so that he might lead with the humility of one whose eyes are focused on the Most High God. (1 Timothy 2:1-8; Luke 4:4, 8-12)

In Jesus’ name, we take authority over spiritual strongholds that are operating in Abuja and the political arena. As Nigerians we confess with Ezra over the sinful condition of our nation: “O my God, I am too ashamed and disgraced to lift up my face to you, my God, because our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the heavens.” And together we invite your powerful Presence to inhabit our land, starting with our seat of government. We cover President Buhari head with the power of the cross so that he will be able to resist evil influences and temptations. (Matthew 17:21; Ezra 9:6-15; 1 Corinthians 1:18)

Zahra Buhari posted this on her Facebook wall

BREAKING NEWS
Report indicate that Mr. President's treatment was Successful. He is now in good and sound Health condition, he will come back to Nigeria after his break. Share the message to show the world you love your President. May The Lord Almighty Increase in PMB's health.

jpphilips:


Another rat just left his hole.
Mr Omokiri, thank your stars that majority of Nigerians are incredibly ignorant so there is always a segment of the population especially the unintelligent ones who read from your likes, FFk, Abati etc the same media hawks of the previous administration that looked on in silence when they looted us blind is now telling us what wrong this administration is doing to us.
Left for me, you dont deserve any response but I cant wait when you will join some folks in Prison. For the benefit of the unintelligent Nigerians who can barely think for themselves.

** Dangote lost money to the devaluation of the Naira, an economic move necessitated by forex shortages, all our oil producing competitors both OPEC and non OPEC did the same so why do you think Nigeria will have a different solution?
Your boss Jonathan between August 2014 when crude price halved, till May 2015, he devalued the naira from 197 to 220 to a dollar, may be he was stup!d as well.
The man who was tasked with the policy implementation allegedly made a mess of it, the CBN governor not Buhari. He was hired by your boss Jonathan not Buhari so if you and Dangote have any issues with his implementation framework it behooves common sense to write to one of the left overs of your boss's incompetence.

Back to Dangote, while you and I were losing money (ie if you are not too dumb to realise you lost money too) to devaluation, Dangote got more FG concessions than any other Nigerian company I know of, so if Dangote lost money where he made money due to unavoidable circumstances, in insurance it is called "act of God" regardless of what Dangote says in Kenya.


** The crisis in Southern Kaduna though regrettable due to the wanton loss of lives however can be bifurcated in two national security canopies. The herdsmen brigandage and the Shia rampage.
The herdsmen brigandage has gotten the attention of Buhari and the NA has launched Operation Mesa to combat it so far since they started the SE has not been attacked, for kaduna, operation Yaki was launched for the same purpose, personally something is done about the situation and sane Nigerians know that.

What baffles me as a Nigerian is that herdsmen went on rampage under the previous administration you served, as always, nothing was done and mischievous people like you developed leprosy that incapacitated you from writing the same way you are writing unde r the current administration, do you think we are stup!d?
Don't you think that the current herdsmen challenge is a carry over of the inactions and incompetence of the government you served? We have forgiven you guys but do not distract this government that still have the sincerity of purpose to do the right things.

On the Shia rampage, unlike the incompetent administration you served that slept with Boko haram for 4yrs this administration will not do the same, Iran is a huge threat to any country with substansive Sunni population using its Shia minions, so far they have destabilised 7 countries in the middle east, unless you want us to have an Ansarulla Allah or a Hezbollah in our back yard, The present administration has our mandate to crush any clandestine uprising .


**On Anti corruption, I am shocked that an appendage of the previous administration will wish to enlighten us on selective Justice. Where was Justice when your administration was stealing from us?
Incase you are too dumb to notice, the Nigerian people you have been stealing from have decided to bring a government that will teach you guys a lesson, its judgement day baby!! get used to it.


** Babachair Lawal has been stripped of almost all his responsibilities while we wait the outcome of the investigations.

Haha, look at this F.o.o.l.
Hope you remember me. If you do, I am sure you know why I call you in big F.o.o.l.

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HOW WE GOT HERE

He ruled from 1984-1985. He banned use and possession of forex and incarcerated many whose guts and faces he disliked, some for centuries. By the end of 1984, Nigeria went into recession and in 1985, IBB kicked him out. From 1985-2015, he didn't improve himself academically or in any way. He didn't have any trust fund or any other program to assist the less privileged. He had the exact same number of cows for almost 20 years, nobody in the history could be said to have benefited from him in any way while out of government. In short, the way he was in 1985 was exactly the way he was in 2015. Progress made, zero.

He was rehabilitated by Sanni Abacha who made him PTF Chairman. Democracy returned back to Nigeria in 1999. He started contesting to be President in 2002. For 13 years, you would expect him to already have an idea of how to move the nation forward. He failed severally till a man of peace, GEJ, conducted elections, the kind we could never have had under OBJ and we probably would never have again.

He campaigned under the 'Change' mantra and fooled many of my brothers from the South West.To the wonderfully intelligent Yoruba people, they yearned for proper change, one they thought would usher in new ways of doing things. And Buhari became President. What they didn't know was that their Northern partners only yearned for a change from Southern, Christian President to a Northern, Islamic one. My supposedly smart Yoruba brothers were fooled by their supposedly, less-smart Northern partners.

And then, the Chief Architect of Change, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is now left with 'RED EYES'. Architect of Change now dumped by Chief Beneficiary of Change.

We warned him, we warned them. They thought we were being sentimental and tribalistic. After campaigning for 13 years and waiting an extra six months to name angelic ministers, what did we eventually get? A dinosaur for Agriculture Minister, a lawyer in Housing, Works and Power Ministry in a nation where you have some of the best engineering brains in the world, the least intelligent appointee ever in Nigerian FG in the Sports Ministry, an lying, loud-mouthed English graduate in Transport Ministry and many more amoebic pegs in indeterminate holes. And like it was 32 years ago, forex was banned and made impossible to access.

And then for the second time, RECESSION happens.

And after trying all archaic methods, padding budget, stealing budget, re-padding budgets and releasing N3.6 trillion between March and November 2016 (only God knows where the money entered), recession bites harder. To curb rising inflation and raise funds,

- they now clamp down on bureau de change operators to control exchange rate.
- next they want to start arresting people and their families and organizations who have dollars and are not spending.
- and they want to start taxing any gsm call that exceeds 3 minutes.

Maybe next, they will start arresting all those who have more than N20,000 (twenty thousand naira) at home or in banks and not spending them. We call these economic policies 'buharimonics'

God help us.

- Ben Chux

HOW WE GOT HERE

He ruled from 1984-1985. He banned use and possession of forex and incarcerated many whose guts and faces he disliked, some for centuries. By the end of 1984, Nigeria went into recession and in 1985, IBB kicked him out. From 1985-2015, he didn't improve himself academically or in any way. He didn't have any trust fund or any other program to assist the less privileged. He had the exact same number of cows for almost 20 years, nobody in the history could be said to have benefited from him in any way while out of government. In short, the way he was in 1985 was exactly the way he was in 2015. Progress made, zero.

He was rehabilitated by Sanni Abacha who made him PTF Chairman. Democracy returned back to Nigeria in 1999. He started contesting to be President in 2002. For 13 years, you would expect him to already have an idea of how to move the nation forward. He failed severally till a man of peace, GEJ, conducted elections, the kind we could never have had under OBJ and we probably would never have again.

He campaigned under the 'Change' mantra and fooled many of my brothers from the South West.To the wonderfully intelligent Yoruba people, they yearned for proper change, one they thought would usher in new ways of doing things. And Buhari became President. What they didn't know was that their Northern partners only yearned for a change from Southern, Christian President to a Northern, Islamic one. My supposedly smart Yoruba brothers were fooled by their supposedly, less-smart Northern partners.

And then, the Chief Architect of Change, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is now left with 'RED EYES'. Architect of Change now dumped by Chief Beneficiary of Change.

We warned him, we warned them. They thought we were being sentimental and tribalistic. After campaigning for 13 years and waiting an extra six months to name angelic ministers, what did we eventually get? A dinosaur for Agriculture Minister, a lawyer in Housing, Works and Power Ministry in a nation where you have some of the best engineering brains in the world, the least intelligent appointee ever in Nigerian FG in the Sports Ministry, an lying, loud-mouthed English graduate in Transport Ministry and many more amoebic pegs in indeterminate holes. And like it was 32 years ago, forex was banned and made impossible to access.

And then for the second time, RECESSION happens.

And after trying all archaic methods, padding budget, stealing budget, re-padding budgets and releasing N3.6 trillion between March and November 2016 (only God knows where the money entered), recession bites harder. To curb rising inflation and raise funds,

- they now clamp down on bureau de change operators to control exchange rate.
- next they want to start arresting people and their families and organizations who have dollars and are not spending.
- and they want to start taxing any gsm call that exceeds 3 minutes.

Maybe next, they will start arresting all those who have more than N20,000 (twenty thousand naira) at home or in banks and not spending them. We call these economic policies 'buharimonics'

God help us.

- Ben Chux

Is this the CBN Governor?

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Awo On The Law Of Sowing and Reaping
"Like cause always produce like effect. In kind, we always reap what we sow; but quantitatively, we always reap much more than we sow."
- Lecture at the University of Lagos (1968): In Voice of Courage (1981)



Who are those investors?
I keep hearing about these investors but the more I hear of these investors , the poorer Nigerians become.
Poverty rates and unemployment have been increasing since 1960 regardless of how they chose to redefine employment and poverty.
A graduate of electrical engineering riding Okada is not employed according to the economics textbooks that I read whole growing up. A trained accountant selling provisions in a 4 x 4 shop in order to survive is not employed.
Maybe the fascist neo liberals have redefined employment.

Investors are people with dollars

AZeD1:

Its hypocritical suggesting the government spends massive amount of money on capital project when you(PDP) was initially against the proposed budget.

I get your point. It's a shame though that you still think 'hypocritical'PDP is your problem.

Find out how we are doing revenue generated versus budget YTD. Then you will understand.

bellville:
Great post. Reduce the use of insecticide to once weekly. Get mosquito nets for the family. You'll save some cash that way.

Yea. The only problem in saving in these times is that relatives are broke, some are out of work, some cannot pay school fees and house rent. Sometimes, you suffer,save and still give out.... Which in itself is not bad I guess

AZeD1:
When the present government proposed the budget of N6 trillion, this same PDP complained and said the budget should be reduced to less than N4 trillion.

So what's your point?

In this light, we can all agree that we need extraordinary leaders to solve our problems. This Present team do not have that capability. 2019 is so on my mind. To vote properly as citizens, we need to hear people with extraordinary plans that are workable. We need to ask our leaders or leaders to be how they are going to solve our issues from Power to corruption to bad roads etc. We do not want to hear the cliche that I will stop corruption. The deal here is how will you stop corruption, how will you diversify our economy. What are the details?

Brazil with almost the same population as Nigeria has a budget of 980 billion Dollars, guess what's Nigerian budget, more than 10 times less. Which leader will effectively harness our potential? Only people with capacity can. Even if we stop the looting of the money we currently have, we would still be in a mess.

The big problem is 70 percent of the people that will vote do not understand this problems. Bag of rice and clean stove is enough to sway their votes. Another 15 percent understand, but are to blinded by emotions. Tribal and/or religious sentiments. The remaining 15 percent don't have a better option, would not be bothered and not vote. So who will move us forward? Again, it only has to be an extraordinary leader devoid of tribal sentiment, that will first of all educate the 70% such that they can understand current reality, eliminate all forms of -isms tribal, racial, sexism, and so on.

We have to succeed. We alone have to bring ourselves up. The West and the East naturally do not want us to succeed. They will naturally want to keep us perpetually poor , so we continue to be at their mercy. Japan broke loose along time ago. China just broke loose, Brazil is breaking loose. What are we waiting for? Old and senile leaders? Vision less leaders.

My dear youth our issues are systematic. lets us debate systematic solutions to our problem. Let's us look for leaders that can deliver. Our destiny is in our hands

Even though I really don't like the PDP, for the first time, I think PDP's response looked so mature and credible

lalasticlala
You should put this on FP

kenny987:


She should be and must be seen to be above such a 'mistake' as u so conveniently put it. How can a Finance minister make such an unfeeling, insensitive and ignorant mistake and u pass it off as a mistake! You are part of the problem this country has got!

I know

lalasticlala
You should put this on FP

We will need to spend so much to get out of this. Hopefully, we can access loans or oil price increases.

More Tweets

In a series of tweets with chats and figures the PDP blast the finance Minister Mrs Kemi Adeosun. See Tweets below

plaetton:
Again, here we have a beneficiary of ASO Rock largesse, telling us that Recession is just a word.

This dovetails with my statement yesterday that when you have a N2b feeding budget, there is nothing like Recession.
It'ss just a WORD that hungry people make up to describe their current stomach infrastructure.

Is this government out of touch with reality, or what ?

She made a mistake. She has corrected herself and have since deleted the post.

Here are some things to cut down on in order to make it out of this recession financially sane.

Generator usage

It’s bad enough the economy is crumbling faster than a cookie but how many Nigerians can recall a lenghty spell of uninterrupted power supply.

Our standby household generators have for years, been doing what the government cannot do for us.

Now that the situation is getting dire, generator usage should be restricted to specific hours and to take care of necessities.

Comfort can wait till recession is over and we are out of troubled waters.

Eating out

Anyone who actually cooks will know that restaurants serve overpriced, often unsatisfying food.

So instead of taking your hard earned money to pay for ‘fancy’ food, go to the market, buy raw food and head to the kitchen.

You’ll save so much money.

Driving walkable distances

The cost of fuel is higher than it has ever been in Nigeria’s history, so why not kill two birds with one stone while going for short errands.

Take a walk or go for a run while running your errand. Your body and pockets will thank you.

Bulk buying of groceries

Constant grocery shopping can be such a chore so we tend to buy in bulk.

However, a disadvantage of bulk buying is that some goods may expire or spoil before you get around to using them, hence cut your grocery shopping list down to necessities.

Get what you need and not what you think you will need.

New clothes and shoes

Your old clothes are perfectly fine!

Oh you think people have noticed you’ve had that shirt for a while? Frankly, it’s nobody’s business.

As long as your clothes are not obviously tattered, there is no use going cloth shopping every week to impress people and depress your bank account.

Hanging out

We all love spending quality time with friends and family but instead of going someplace where you’ll spend more than you budgeted for (more often than not), invite them to your house and plan activities everyone can participate in.

You’ll create a stronger bond and more lasting activities while saving money.

Vacations abroad

Also known as “the king of excesses”, vacationing abroad is officially a luxury at this point in time.

Why go and spend your hard earned ‘naira’ in a foreign country contributing to the growth of their economy while leaving yours in the backseat.

Stay at home!

DSTV subscription

You don’t need to pay for all the channels. It’s not a competition.

You hardly ever watch more than 15 of the channels on the premium package, so why the bother?

The smallest bouquet has news channels for the grown-ups and cartoons for the kids.

Water as opposed to juice and sodas

Some people think there is an award for living lavish. News flash: there isn’t.

Most of these processed drinks you desire to gulp down your throat with every meal are not even good for your health and they definitely cost more than water. Drink water, you’ll live longer.

Unnecessary phone calls

Restrict your airtime to calls with purpose (work, business).

There’s no need to ask your friend what he/she is eating or staying on a call for an hour discussing what nail polish color to wear to an event.

https://lifestyle.thecable.ng/10-ways-survive-nigerias-worst-recession-29-years/

Lalasticlala

Reactions from Nigeria lns

Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun has assured Nigerians in a series of tweet to boost morale


The Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, on Wednesday admitted that Nigeria was in its worst possible time with the Gross Domestic Product figures for the 2016 second quarter released by the National Bureau of Statistics showing the nation’s economy now in recession.



The nation’s external reserves fell by 2.86 per cent to $25.45bn on August 29, 2016, the latest report from the Central Bank of Nigeria showed on Wednesday. The foreign exchange reserves stood at $26.2bn at the end of July.

The minister said, “I think that we have a long way to go. We’re not confused and we’re not deceiving ourselves that everything is rosy. It’s not.

“It’s a difficult time for Nigeria but I think Nigeria is in the right hands and if we can stick with our strategy… We still have some adjustments to make. I think we need to make some adjustments in monetary policy.”

Lalasticlala