₦airaland Forum

tundafayaBuhari:
He is an ex pastor. I learnt he doesn't go to church again. Buhari is a curse to Nigeria QED

alezzy13:
The number of illiterates on this thread is astounding.

What the CBN was simply saying is that FG is not meeting its domestic obligations ie payments to contractors, etc. And its affecting the economy. He never said he's against borrowing.

The questions therefore is where will the money come from? printing more naira?? OF course not. We just have to borrow externally

cckris:
1. Money has TIME value.
2. Money has VELOCITY.
3. You can't bring back Akinwumi Adesina. Geniuses are RARE. Charlatans are dozens for the penny.
4. Ngozi isn't prepared for another round of SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, especially without a proper Economic Team that understand her vision.
5.

Flets:
This is a country that was the biggest economy in Africa less than 15 months back (How do you measure an economy? By production, which then guarantees stable income. Please tell us what Nigeria was producing apart from Oil and Cement, that made it the biggest economy in Africa?)

This is a country that had unprecedented FDI inflow ( Which FDI inflow? Hedge Funds using your Stock Exchange for gambling? Remember that they satrted moving out their funds way back Nov 2014 when they saw the handwriting on the wall, one of which was NOI budgeting to borrow =N=1 trillion to pay FG salaries)

This is a country that had significant investors (foreign and local) blowing hot in many sectors (Pls name the significant investors. Foreign investors were raping us & Local investors were playing around with slush funds, thats why 1 man like Ben Murray Bruce can be owing Union Bank =N=11 billion. Multiply that by the other so called big men in Nigeria & see the damage we had done to ourselves before now)

This is a country that had relative peace in the Niger Delta and stable crude productions and sales (You had FALSE relative peace because (1) 25% of our oil was bn stolen by the militants and their protectors & (2) Tompolo was buying warships and was given the security and Tax collection of Niger Delta water ways by NIMASA, so, how was the criminal meant to report criminal activities perpetuated by himself)

And a man came forward, implemented TSA, took war to the Nigerdelta, divided Nigeria into the 97% and 5% regions, tightened FX cash flow, frightened investors, gallivanted the globe telling the world how useless an corrupt Nigerians were, went after his political enemies, refused to provide an economic blueprint, murdered Shiites and IPOB, sponsored herdsmen, conducted inconclusive elections, created high level forex corruption platform for his northern elites, took nepotism and extremism to a brand new height ....... and in less than 15 months reduced a once hitherto promising economy/ nation to the mockery of all nations. (TSA is one of the best things to happen in Nigeria to curb stealing & it has shown how the banks were hiding away money for civil servants. BAnks were declaring =N=100 billion profits but the other sectors of the economy they were meant to be servicing were dying. How do you reconcile that. TSA is wonderful!. FX is demand and supply. There is no supply becos you are not selling oil becos NDA are blowing pipelins, s, we shall all suffer it together. @globetrotting: You have to identify that the countries PMB has visited are strategic. Dubai; Qatar; U.K; Equatorial Guinea; USA....signed MOUs on recovery of stolen money. U.K has put their own recovery into motion and you shall see the results soon.)

Now he stupidly comes back to tell Nigerians that the change he carefully destroyed begins with them. And we now have to borrow funds that will enslave our kids for many years to come just because we have an illiterate, undiscerning, old, evil and nomadic president.

May the lot who knew better but still took the path of tribalism to vote in the sufferings we are experiencing today never find things easy in a long time.

Jcob:
Was she not the one that said NPA female workers should not put on trousers?

Trailblazer1:
Buhari was an evil sent by God to restore our lost sense and bring us closer to Him.
In times like this, you have no other option than to seek succor and solace in God.
I have renewed my relationship WITH God in other to survive this present evil called BUHARI

dridowu:
President Muhammadu Buhari has requested the Senate to confirm nominees into positions of Chairman, Executive Commissioner, and Non-Executive Commissioners of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).

The President made the request in a letter dated August 2, 2016, sent to President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki.

Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye (South West) was nominated as Chairman, while Mr. Sunday Dare (South West) got the nod as Executive Commissioner, Stakeholders Management.

Those nominated as Non-Executive Commissioners are: Aliyu Sa’idu Abubakar (North East), Clement Omeiza Baiye (North Central), Chief Okoi Ofem Obono Obla (South South), Pastor Ezekiel Yissa (North Central) and Senator Ifeanyi Ararume (South East).

The nominations are in accordance with Section 8(1) of the Nigerian Communications Commission Act 2003.

http://www.channelstv.com/2016/08/02/buhari-nominates-chairman-commissioners-ncc/

cktheluckyman:
Kemi Adeseoun should be first on the list

clefstone:
They keep blaming previous administrations, but during the previous administrations things never got this bad. No light, no money, no food. Next thing they will point at is d price of crude, but the price of crude can affect capital projects not common salary. Afterall, it's not like the crude is now 0 dollar per barrel, it still has half it's value


meanwhile
Teacher: spell lie
Student: L A I
Teacher: not correct
Student: but the man that lied that body odour can generate electricity has 'Lai' as a title before his name Mohammed
Teacher: *faints

byteem:
IT TOOK THE LAGOS STATE GOVT FIVE YEARS TO COMPLETE THIS SIMPLE STRETCH OF ROAD THAT IS COULD BE MORE OR LESS CALLED A STREET... SO WHATS ALL THE FANFARE ABOUT... ... ABBI .. THANK YOU ..SINCE WE HAVE TO GO DOWN ON BENDED KNEES AND THANK THEM FOR DOING THEIR JOBS ..

lalasticlala:
http://saharareporters.com/2016/05/19/rescued-chibok-girl-tests-negative-hiv

adiguns3:
The People’s Democratic party, PDP, has alleged that
despite the hardship and economic meltdown
currently rocking the nation, Hanan Aisha Buhari, 16-
year-old daughter of President Muhammadu Buhari,
reportedly flew first class on British Airways, BA,
flight 083 to London from Abuja on Tuesday.

This disclosure was made known via PDP Nigeria
Twitter account, @PdpNigeria on Tuesday.

According to the tweet, “Hanan (Aisha) Buhari – 16yr
old daughter of our president flew first class on BA
flight 083 to London from Abuja today.
“Her seat number was 2k. She is a Secondary School
Student.
“So much about the people’s president. #
BuhariAndCorruption.”


https://mobile.twitter.com/PdpNigeria/status/722359091558031360

tankara1010:
I warned about this to SE people....they will make sure that Billion worth of Sport Complex in SE doesn't happen. They are out to cut this Igbo man to size as the largest oil distributor in Nigeria...they have been plotting this! THERE YOU HAVE IT!

A lot of Nigerians are oblivious of the systematic marginalization of SE and SS. There is a reason why Onitsha, Calabar, Port Harcourt and Warri ports are not in operation or fully functional as Lagos ports despite SE and SS/energy companies accounting for nearly 70% of all imports. There is a reason why Enugu, Port Harcourt, Calabar, Asaba Airports are not as functional as Lagos, Abuja and Kano despite SE and SS accounting for nearly 75% of all international travels. Something is not right if you have conscience and ability to reason!

As I write now...Niger Delta is under attack by Nigerian Navy in the name of Fishing Out Militants!
https://www.nairaland.com/3051660/navy-launches-massive-operation-secure

Alertz3:
Serious guyman doing everything possible to penetrate the present govt. Buhari must give you attention sooner or later.

TheGoodJoe:
You took the words out of my mouth. The President should sack whoever released this statement. It is the height of ignorance.

An Economic team with two lawyers.

Let me laugh.

If there is anything we learnt from the Ifeanyi Ubah case, we need people who run day to day businesses in large scale. Men who knows the importance of sound economic policies. Men who built and pushed the rate of domestic production and exportation of our local goods.

This report is a joke and the height of incompetency.

Note, I am a strong Buhari Supporter.

ceo247frolic:
enate president, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, who had been stressing the need to patronise Made-In-Nigeria products has received some locally made trendy outfits from Adic Designs as gift.


The Senate president revealed that he met the gentleman who brought the clothes at the Made in Aba Trade fair a few weeks ago.


Saraki reiterated the need for all Nigerians to make conscious effort to patronise Nigerian designers, saying such patronage can help reignite the textile industry that once contributed over 2 billion Dollars to Nigeria’s GDP in the 80’s


http://www.newshelm.com/2016/03/photos-saraki-receives-made-in-nigeria.html

989900:
Bring in technocrats from the private sector -- the roof is on fire!

EasternActivist:
[s][/s]

Misappropriated priority. And mischanneled contribution.

You should be addressing that to the finance minister by name kemi who in her foolishness and unprofessionalism is trying to ground this economy to a halt.

TonyeBarcanista:
Virtually every Nigerian from Abia state to Zamfara state is complaining that are things moving from bad to worse in all sphere of the economy. The story is the same from the creeks of Bayelsa state to the deserts of Adamawa state, the rhetoric of mirage of change is growing loud from Ibadan the heart of Yorubaland to Sokoto, the seat of the caliphate. The messianic "government of Change" as promoted by the APC appears to have become a government of Blame and confusion.

While I sympathise with Nigerians, particularly those that sincerely believed, campaigned and stood for General(now President) Muhammadu Buhari during the electioneering period, it is in my opinion that the man, Muhammadu Buhari and his party, APC showed all the signs of unpreparedness for leadership and governance all through the electioneering and even after taking office in May 2015.

Buhari/APC Displyed Signg of Incompetence During Campaign
Firstly, a look at the APC candidate Muhammadu Buhari campaign promise basically are; Asset declaration for the President, his Vice, and his appointees; payment of N5,000 stipend to 25 million unemployed youths, elderly and disabled and free meal per day for pupils and students in public primary and secondary schools respectively; Empowerment of 740,000 graduates annually across the country, provision of 3million jobs per year etc; payment of one year post service benefit to passed out youth corps members(Corpers); Bringing back the kidnapped chibok school girls etc. The list is virtually endless and can be seen here
https://www.naij.com/473147-know-the-81-campaign-promises-of-president-buhari.html

The party presented Nigerians with a glimpse of eldorado even when it they were aware that they lack the capacity nor intellectual ability to fulfil even 10% of their promise. To mask their disability, they shielded General Buhari and Prof Osinbajo from every form of political debate. Instead, they resorted to prepared speech making in Chetham House, London(UK), and padi-padi town hall meeting where participants, who are their party sympathisers and paid agents would discuss pre-arranged questions. Participation in debate would have presented Nigeria electorates the opportunity to know "HOW they intend to achieve the utopia" when the oil price was falling like the walls of Jericho. They relegated debate that would have given Nigerians the benefit of separating campaign promises from the competence of the candidate Buhari. On March 28, 2015, fifteen million Nigerians fell for their "wish list" to thumb-print for the broom with the hope of Change.

...And Started Failing From The Day of Inauguration
After taking over office from predecessor Goodluck Jonathan, reality started dawning on Nigerians and Sai Buharists. Firstly, the adored General and the pious VP refused to publicly declare their assets. In fact, Presidential Spokesman Shehu Garba even told us to go get it from Code of Conduct Bureau. It took about three whole months before the President and his VP released a vague statement, calling it asset declaration. The funny twist is that almost NINE months of taking office, non of President Buhari's appointee has publicly declared their asset. This is in contrast to his campaign promise when he said public asset declaration will be a pre-condition for appointment.

Secondly, like an unprepared man, the President came on board and ran the show with civil servants for SIX months even when the economy was going on comatose. When asked, he echoed that cabinet ministers were noisemakers, and his fans re-echoed same sentiment. We reminded him that civil service is for policy implementation not policy-making but his supporters shouted us down. Today the controversial 2016 appropriation bill that has become a national embarrassment was majorly prepared by the civil servants that Buhari so much trust. In fact, ministers of government repeatedly denounced part of it. For face saving and in the spirit of "scapegoatism", the President fired the DG Budget Office instead of firing himself for allowing the DG Budget to work unsupervised. And by the way, we have a huge budget proposal of N6trillion for 2016, meanwhile more than 70% goes to recurrent expenditure and increased overhead in a period of economic decline. Oil price is pegged at $38 per barrel even when oil was selling under $35 per barrel as at when the budget was presented to the parliament. Where in the world does that happen?

The economy is spiralling downwards but the President in his wisdom is yet to inaugurate an Economic team to bring in immediate and long term solution. Instead, the government rely on "blame game", and prayer session in Medina, Saudi Arabia(when demons aren't responsible for the downturn).

In this our dear Nigeria, electricity has become a scarce commodity, Naira is trying to rival Zimbabwean dollar, price of commodities are shooting up, sachet water aka pure water is fast becoming a premium product selling at N20-N25 per sachet. Instead of job opportunities, thousands are losing their jobs. Very unfortunate. But what do you expect from a government and party that failed to thoroughly appreciate the challenges that we were facing as a country and pitch their promises based on reality? What do you expect from a party that made use of beautiful and colourful speeches and slogans to capture power without any defined plan on how to use power into meeting the needs of the masses? Can one give what he doesn't understand?

As for the growing numbers of disappointed Sai Buhari die-hards that allowed the love they have for the Daura born General to eclipse their sense of inquisition on what their idol is bringing to the table when/if elected, they should take heart because the deed has been done. I sympathise with Nigerians because they'll have to put up for at least three years. We in opposition shall continue to constructively criticise the government while we restructure our party in preparation for Aso Rock takeover in 2019(God sparing our lives).


Just 2 questions for you.

(1) If your main income dropped by the same % that Nigeria's income dropped, would you still live the lifestyle of $135 or readjust to lifestyle of $35.

(2) If you were PMB, what would you have done differently?







May God Bless Us All and Bless Our Nigeria

iamodenigbo1:
have you blamed GEJ today?

OLADD:
Rubbish. Do you think I am one of gullible Nigerians you can fool with this nonsense? Even Fashola did not deny the fraud. His only defence in the Senate was that he "didn't sign the cheque for the expenses" Why are people like you so shameless in defending evil? I am sure you would have passed a verdict of guilt if it was a PDP member that's leveled with such allegation. Obviously, it would be difficult for the country to move forward with people like you around. It's a shame. Pls don't bother to quote me again because you won't get a reply.

OLADD:
Stop that mad talk! That's how you people run your mouths like untamed patriots calling PDP this, PDP that. Was is only PDP that ruled the country for 16 years at both state and Federal levels? Many of you would never bother to talk about gigantic fraud also perpetuated by APC in all the states under their control. Virtually every Nigerian is corrupt including the sycophants that vilify PDP on Nairaland but associating corruption with that party and leaving out APC is not only a sin, it shows how wicked, insincere and mischievous you people are. How come you and your ilks suddenly went mute on Fashola's N78m Website Scandal? What about N300m he spent on Borehole? I can tell you that's just a tip of frauds perpetuated in Lagos. Was Fashola a member of PDP? Accusing and jailing all PDP members in Nigeria, I can tell you for free, will not rid Nigeria of corruption.

eyeview:
Can we ask the President a simple question.
'If 2.2trillion has truly been recovered under the TSA regime,how come we want to borrow 2.1trillion to fund the budget when this 'new income' isn't reflected in the budget?'
Something is not right somewhere

Urine:
This was Ooni Sijuade's last interview before he joined his ancestors, please read it, once you are done, mention me if you think you know more about this issue.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/07/30/oba-okunade-sijuades-last-interview-how-awolowo-persuaded-me-to-be-ooni/

TplenT:
Awolowo and the late Ooni Sijuwade were 2 parallel line......they were never in the same camp. Late Ooni's political leanings were Pro NPN; Pro Babangida; Pro NRC and Pro PDP



sorry Boss..The above is absolutely incorrect.Infact,Sijuade was a core Awoist(even to the extreme).Also note that the Awo political machine facilitated his ascension to the Ooni throne and Sijuade was Coronated by the UPN government of Bola Ige in old Oyo State.(1980)

Ooni Sijuade was from his youth a surrogate son of Late Ooni Adesoji Aderemi who was also a core Awo loyalist.

Personally,I even think Sijuade's pathological hatred for MKO Abiola must have stemmed from Abiolas actions in '79 and '83 when he was one of the major NPN forces that truncated the most promising political chances of Awolowo of becoming president.

Indeed every major progressive of that era so loathed Abiola and there was even talks that Awo placed a political curse on him that he will never reach his promised land.(Just as Zik was said to have cursed Okadigbo).

though I have my misgivings about Ooni sijuade too,but history must be placed in the right perspective.

coolitempa:
Hahahaha...you are a funny guy.....Awo and Oba Sijuade opposed to each other.....

jay2pee:
Chaiiii........ Nigeria is doomed
Why is he so scared of information leakage if he has good plans and agenda for this country?
Very soon the zombies will say he is right cos their brain has been formatted already. I just pity we commoners in this country.
As an economist, what I am foreseeing in this country is so pathetic, based on the situation of our economy and the kind of economic policies that are made by the financial managers and regulators of this country..... Which way Nigeria, I weep for this country.....
What we need in this country is REVOLUTION. The smart and brilliant ones know what I mean

coolitempa:
I think the Ooni realises that we are in a unique era of great possibilities and has therefore taken an approach that recognises that.... ....I understand his predecessor Alayeluwa Oba Okunade Sijuwade, used to visit Awo too...

Urine:
Over the years, there has always been a thin line between spiritual and political institutions in Yoruba land. For example, Awolowo practically dragged and supported Ooni Sijuade to the throne, don't forget that the previous Ooni before him Ooni Aderemi was also a close ally of Awolowo. It's nothing new if you are a keen student of Yoruba history.

loveuGOD:
Ife people and yoruba culture don enter one chance with this king. ife king as most respected king in yoruba land has sundenly become junkenta in chief.
As much as i love his style he should also respect that stool. Last time i saw him flying boat with life jacket taking selfie.
Ah ah. Oni of ife for that matter. That stool will soon loose its honour.