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One thing that is working for Buhari is nepotism and massive looting any other aspect of government is zero

kenzysmith:
The only person that can stop manutd for winning the league this season is Chelsea and ole our attack this season is one of the best in Europe if we can get a win and a draw against Chelsea I kW we surely beat city home and away and Liverpool . honestly I see no reason y we just can't. If we finish second this season is below expectations for me . manutd fans should not take it



Give us conte#

You did not beat liverpool last year when they were doing bonanza na this solid liverpool you want to beat? Liverpool is team to beat season forget Chelsea and their initial gra gra i watched them yesterday despite beating Tottenham they were not convinced at all

Nothing special about this Chelsea team any other top team in EPL would have score 6 or 7 against this Spurs team

This is early sign of madness

A lot is going on in this country i know one thing northerners don't do drivers licenses or renew their papers when it expires all this rules are for southerners

snowball11:
And how's that a topic for your consumption?

Idiotic noise makers of a club!

Chelsea is a small club where liverpool is just like there fellow London club Arsenal

Goal mane

snowball11:
Don't mind those loud mouth that have to wait until a spot kick was awarded to them for them to get their only goal in a game that had the worst of ref in English football officiating!

I thought deluded Chelsea fans said they will appeal James red card?

CSTRR:
No we no get attack.

Na tattack we get.
We will meet at Stamford bridge.

Liverpool have been winning there for the past 3 seasons

snowball11:
Abeg, which team dey with Europe champions league trophy presently? He get why I dey ask!

Who won it before Chelsea?

snowball11:
This one must be high on dry shit!

Deluded Chelsea fan. Upon how bad liverpool was last year they still managed to finish above Chelsea

snowball11:
I don't think Chelsea has got any! But considering the fact that Chelsea had to score first before Liverpool spot kick goal says otherwise!

Who scores first does not matter in football. Liverpool with full squad is still a step ahead of Chelsea

CSTRR:
Reading these Liverpool fans, you would think Chelsea came to park the bus as the main game plan.

As if they can survive a Chelsea attack.

Chelsea will always pack buses against liverpool

Lol. have op abandoned his thread? A northerner with cow brain want to teach Nobel laureate international politics

It will be calamitous to hand over Nigeria to another fulani man no matter his political leaning. Even if PDP will nominate a northerner let it be hausa, tiv or any other person except fulani. I will vote tinubu instead of another fulani. God forbid

August 26, 2021



By Ikechukwu Amaechi

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari never ceases to confound. Even his most strident supporters are gradually but inexorably coming to the inevitable reality: he is a study in hypocrisy. His claim to higher standards is a ruse. Too often, he fails to follow his own expressed moral rules and principles. I will come back to this shortly.
On August 19, the National Security Adviser, NSA, Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno (retd.), reported Buhari as telling his Service Chiefs that he was not ready to leave office a failure. Two days earlier, the Nigerian Army claimed that at least 1,000 Boko Haram/Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, members had surrendered and army spokesperson, Brig-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, said the terrorists would be received, processed and passed on to the relevant agencies of government for further assessment in line with extant provisions.
Of course, the extant provision is the “Operation Safe Corridor” – a programme of de-radicalisation, rehabilitation, and re-integration, DRR, into the society – created by the Buhari government in 2016 for so-called repentant terrorists. But the scheme is a farce to induce complacency. Nigerians must watch it.

As Thomas Jefferson, the primary draftsman of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the country’s third president, once noted: “It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active” because “the condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance, which condition if he breaks, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.” But I digress!
Buhari was said to be beside himself with joy at the marathon closed-door meeting with the Service Chiefs. “The President is quite happy that there has been tremendous success, especially with the advent of the new Service Chiefs and Inspector General of Police,” Monguno recounted to journalists after the meeting. “And he has also made it very, very clear that he is not ready to exit government as a failure. He is not going to tolerate that.” But isn’t Buhari already a failure? What difference will the remaining months make? If anything, the road to 2023 will be bumpier for Nigerians.
The President gave himself the task of accomplishing three major things in office – fight against corruption, reviving the economy and bolstering security. On all scores, he has failed.  Corruption under his watch is worse. Ironically, it took his nemesis in the military, General Ibrahim Babangida, to drive home that fact. Asked if he agrees with those who said his government was very corrupt in a recent interview on ARISE TV, Babangida said: “But what is happening now is worse than when we were in power… we are saints when compared with that.” But don’t take Babangida’s word for it. Just take a look at the yearly Corruption Perception Index, CPI, of the global corruption watchdog, Transparency International. It might help.

On the economic front, the statistics are damning.  In the fourth quarter of 2020 (Q4 2020), unemployment rate had climbed to 33.28 per cent. It was 8.19 per cent in Q2 2015 when he became president. The economy has slipped into recession twice in the last six years. The Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, said in 2020 that 40 per cent or 83 million Nigerians live in extreme poverty.
The World Poverty Clock made it more graphic in November last year when it disclosed that Nigeria had overtaken India as the country with the most people living in extreme poverty, thus making Nigeria the poverty capital of the world. To appreciate what this means, it is important to note that India’s population of 1.391 billion is almost seven times that of Nigeria estimated at 200 million.
Inflation was at a single digit (9.01 per cent) before May 29, 2015. Under Buhari, it climbed to double digits and has remained there ever since. The NBS said the rate stood at 17.75 per cent in June 2021 with food inflation at 21.83 per cent. Naira exchanged for N192 to $1 in 2015. Today, you will be lucky to buy $1 with N520. Petrol sells at N162 per litre. Yet, the Buhari government is subsiding the product.

There is hardly any Nigerian who can claim, honestly, to be better off today than when Buhari assumed the reins of office six years ago. Knowing how tenuous and untenable Buhari’s economic wizardry argument has become, the spin doctors have pivoted on what they call infrastructure revolution. They claim that Buhari has delivered on infrastructure more than any other Nigerian leader. That is a fat lie. But assuming, without conceding, that he is delivering on infrastructure, the question is, at what cost?
The Debt Management Office, DMO, said Nigeria’s Public Debt Stock was N33.107 trillion as at March 31, 2021. According to the DMO, Nigeria’s total liability portfolio as at June 30, 2015 stood at N12.12 trillion. So, in the last six years, Buhari has recklessly ballooned the country’s debt profile.
As Prof. Anya O. Anya, Nigerian National Medal of Merit awardee and former Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group, NESG, said in a recent interview with TheNiche: “Looking at this government from outside, all I see is when in trouble, borrow. And who will pay?” That question is germane because according to BudgIT, a civic-tech non-profit organisation, of the N3.42 trillion generated as revenue in 2020, Nigeria expended N3.34 trillion, a whopping 97 per cent, on debt servicing, not repayment.

So, the Federal Government is already in a mess with debt servicing. It spent N1.8 trillion on debt servicing from its N1.84 trillion revenues in the first five months of 2021 – January to May. As if these statistics are not horrifying enough, it was reported last week that the Federal Government’s total borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria through Ways and Means Advances had jumped to N15.51 trillion, a 2,286 per cent increase in six years. This humungous debt is not part of Nigeria’s total N33.11 trillion public debt stock earlier mentioned.
These Ways and Means Advances have breached extant laws. Section 38 of the CBN Act, 2007, states: “The total amount of such advances outstanding shall not at any time exceed five per cent of the previous year’s actual revenue of the Federal Government.” But as reported by a national newspaper on August 18, in the first six months of this year, the Federal Government borrowed N2.4 trillion from the CBN, more than half of what it got in 2020. The N2.4 trillion is also much higher than five per cent of the Federal Government’s retained revenue of N3.9 trillion in the previous year.
As at June 2015, a month after Buhari assumed office, the total government borrowing from the CBN stood at N648.26 billion. So, under Buhari, Nigeria is already a fiscally failed state.  But it is in security that his government is an unmitigated disaster because, as Dan Agbese noted recently: “Civilisation may follow the roads, as the Romans contended, but human development follows security of lives and property…The failure to do so delegitimises the government.”

Because of Buhari’s very narrow primordial ethno-religious and political calculations, Nigeria has slipped into the Hobbesian state of nature where life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Right now, the only laws that exist in Nigeria are principles based on self-preservation. Terrorists, without any deterrence from the Nigerian State, are on the prowl, killing and maiming innocent citizens without fear of any consequences. In the absence of the State, Katsina State Governor, Bello Masari, has urged beleaguered citizens to take up arms and defend themselves. That is anarchy writ-large.
It is, indeed, surprising that Buhari cares about his legacy because if he was conscious of that he won’t be insisting on revalidating a non-existent 368 grazing sites and routes across 25 states as he is doing, knowing full well that it is a recipe for more crisis and bloodshed. Back to the hypocrisy charge. Buhari’s son, Yusuf, wedded Zahra, the daughter of the newly crowned Emir of Bichi, Nasir Ado Bayero, in Kano, last Friday. It has been dubbed Nigeria’s royal wedding of glitz and glamour, one of country’s biggest celebrity events, ever. Private jets filled up the runway of the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport.
The lovebirds were said to have met at the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. That is instructive. Buhari’s children acquired the best of education in foreign universities while local universities have gone to the dogs under his watch. To be clear, there is nothing wrong in Yusuf getting married. But the mood of the country requires a more somber event.
As at the time Buhari and his friends were painting Kano red in honour of his son, well over 400 Nigerian children, some of them as young as five years, are still held by terrorists in captivity. Most of these hapless children have been in the forests for over 90 days. Government has abandoned them. This week, it was revealed that six of the 136 kidnapped Tanko Islamiyya School pupils have died in captivity. They were abducted from their school in Niger State in May. The terrorists called the school head-teacher, Abubakar Alhassan, to tell him.
Even with the death of the six, the terrorists still demanded that ransom be paid for the release of the other children. They had earlier demanded N110 million ransom but later raised it to N200 million. The beleaguered parents paid N30 million after selling their lands and other belongings, when the State abdicated its responsibilities and abandoned them.
In the midst of all this, the city of Kano was brought to a standstill because a privileged Nigerian child, who happens to be Buhari’s son, was wedding. Imagine if any president other than Buhari had indulged in such obscene celebration under the circumstance, all hell would have been let loose. That is the definition of hypocrisy.
Other than cows that are now prancing all over the place as lords of the manor, Nigerians have made up their minds on Buhari. His legacy is subject to interrogation.  Buhari has set Nigeria back by eons, sadly, deliberately by acts of commission. The worry now is how much more damage he will cause in the remaining 19 months of his presidency.



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/08/question-on-buharis-legacy/

Every northern Muslim is happy and pleased about Taliban invasion of Afghanistan including the mumu we have in aso rock

[quote author= post=104838365]Same trash he was saying back in 2014.
Despite all the rubbish documentary lies his PDP Tv station said, they all lost woefully back2back.
Bunch of Wailing looters and criminals.

Anyways,
Rumors are spread by fools and believe by idiots.


A party of looters and criminals that couldn't construct their national headquarters for 16 years want to build a country!
Awon werey 100%.

Perennial losers and thieves.
Party of confusion, looting and corrupt souls in disarray..

Truth is not bitter, just that people are bitter to the truth........

PDP in Nigeria again?!
God forbid bad thing
we rather vote for FRESH Party!!

We Rise. [/quote]No matter how bad PDP is they are still better than APC in all ramifications. APC is nothing but a death warrant for Nigeria anyone who survive this Buhari government will survive world war 3

Definitely he's not a fulani that's why he can be arrested under Buhari unfortunate government

Ordinary common sense the op no get

APC will have multiple problems in Anambra state

Never been to hospital since i grow up

Buhari the animal

sarrki:
I would rather say we need self check individually as a nation

Nigerians across religion, ethnic or tribe are the ones that damaged Nigeria

Nothing like Nigeria without the people

From ritual killings, drug baron, get rich quick syndrome, yahoo yahoo, bandits, Islamic fundamentals, bad governance, tax evaders and many more are all the most synonyms for Nigerians

Nigeria number 1 problem is it's leader every other thing is secondary, you don't have failure like Buhari and expect Nigeria to flourish. Tell me one thing Nigerians have benefited from Buhari government if not hardship and death

Op don't say i no tell you

Karlovych:
Tinubu giving out dental hygiene advice has to be the listed as one of greatest mysteries in human existence, Oluremi Tinubu must be an expert in holding her breath for a long time in order to limit health effects of perceiving the odour oozing out from his heroin-filled mouth

Nope, Tinubu brown teeth does not mean smelling teeth

The only mistake this people made was not killing that animal

It will never be well with Buhari and his gang of thieves