₦airaland Forum

pluto04:
NOI was a coordinating minister. She had her chance. We know what she did with that. Kemi has only been in the post for 2 months. She should also get her chance to implement her ideas. All the things you you are accusing Kemi off are actually the CBN Governors failings. He has been there since last administration and appears to be a clueless yes man. He doesn't report to Kemi. He reports to PMB. So answer to your question. Emefiele should be sacked and replaced by Soludo.

Is Emefiele in charge of both fiscal and monetary policies? You don't know that it's fiscal side we are largely currently struggling with? The two must marry for things to go well.

agitator:
You need to see the correlation between oil and non-oil revenue. The October Oil revenue dropped and the non-oil revenue also dropped by the same percent margin.

I know and I said it clearly on my comments. But some figures in the budget are unexplainable

Nalikedis:
so Adeosun should turn Nigeria into rice producer like thailand in 3 years? Meanwhile, the almighty, havard trained, world bank experienced, 10years minister of finance experienced NOI cannot stop us from being the only opec member worse still the only oil producer importing her domestic usage

No no... you didn't follow our line of argument. On this particular one where i mentioned Thailand and rice production, he was saying something about our mono-economy

Akathriel:
@OP - It is written - Amaechi have I loved, but Wike have I hated.

Can't you see the difference even in the pictures below?

Wike: Sleeping on duty as usual with his head like the head of an Azerbaijan baby hippopotamus?

Amaechi: Happy Go Lucky regal king - always killing the enemies with his shoki dance. Pls take a second look at his hand.

I swear, Dakuku don win already even because of this Amaechi's dance. You better join the winning team now before it's too late.

Hahahahaha... u want kill me with laff here o, which kind person u b, okooo

azzima:
Some Nigerians are just plain silly. Can someone tell us where how GLOBALLY renowned and esteemed Madam Puff Puff take us?where billions are being siphoned like nothing under her watch while crude oil was $100 a barrel? Same goes to the fools shouting that a seventy something years old man is too old to rule us. Can someone remind me where our younger Mr PHD took us ?ethnic sentiments have blinded our reasonings indeed.

I'm not supposed to dignify you with a reply because you don't deserve any. If our Oil stops flowing today or the price in global market goes down to btw $5-$10, will Nigeria cease to exist?

Does South Korea have Oil? What about Malaysia, Thailand, etc. Most of the rice we eat in this country comes from Thailand. What happens to our arable lands? We hear from ages of diversifying our mono-economy to agriculture but this year's budget to agriculture ministry is less than last year's. Why are you people not asking questions about it?

What are the qualities of a good leader? Did I ever tell you I support Goodluck or Buhari? I don't really care who is there. I only care about friendly policies for our suffering masses

gists:
dude, apart from the fact that they are not mono-economy like ours, what else can you tell us about their policy that you personally know that is absorbing the shock? Is it adeosun's fault that we are mono-economy?
The finance ministers (or equivalent) of those countries that you said I shouldn't mention have been in office far longer than adeosun. so what the heck is your point?
And you still have not answered the question even after all your rants. provide a solution or name someone else (if sacking is still your solution) from anywhere in the world that could have prevented/reversed our situation within the time-frame she has been in office.

We have been hearing of mono-econony for ages and nothing on ground to show it's being diversify esp from the budget presented.

What are the qualities of a good leader? When a creative and smart leader takes over power and sees that his country isn't doing well, he proffers solutions by looking at areas of comparative advantage instead of looking helpless on daily basis.

I'm not canvassing for her sack per se but to be redeployed to another ministry where she would give her best.

Since you are asking me to name someone that could take her place and perform better, the Minister for Industry, Trade and Investment seems your best bet among the current ministers for that Finance Ministry position

gists:
He asked you a simple question and you about ranting. Answer the question or forever remain silent.
Its too easy to criticize without having a shred of idea of what to do.
Is Nigeria the only country investors are leaving? Investors are not silly. They will take their money to more matured/secure environment (the US economy in this case because the US is just vexing trashing everybody - largely because of the contribution of their sales from oil)
Is it only the naira that is losing value? Have you checked out how mush canadian dollar, austrailian dollar, Rusian ruble, Chinese yen and many more advanced economy have lost to the USD? by your theory, all these countries should also fire their finance ministers abi?

Just provide a solution as you were asked or forever remain silent.

Stop mentioning all these countries because even with the severe strain they seem to be experiencing, there are clear policy directions by the managers of their economies to absorb shock and keep them afflot.

Please kindly tell me the ones we currently have or you perpetually remain silent whenever enlightened people discuss issues affecting the welfare of Nigerians

omowolewa:
See, we have Minister of Budget a department under MoF but now separated from Ministry of Finance, we have coordinating person for economy.

Budget is not MoF's sole responsibility, we have inputs from different sources/MDAs, we have political policies been interpreted through budget. Remember we are just running a Zero Based Budget for the first time, a policy prescribed even before she became the honorable minister. We have human factors too
We have imported issues which we are still battling with in our nation so we have to take every point at a time.

Hers is to formulate fiscal policies of which she is still gearing on at.


(am responding because we are on social media where anybody can take you serious) Cool down

"Hers is to formulate fiscal policies she's still gearing on at"? For how long? Do you know our economy is seriously going down south?

Do you people really understand what's happening to our economy at the moment? Everything shouldn't be politicized or done on sentimental ground. The president needs to urgently take another look at the Finance Ministry

pharmagba:
What exact are you expecting her to do elaborate so I can believe you are an objective critic.

Guy it's like you don't leave in this country or you don't understand economic indices very well. If you do you won't ask that question

Mrs Adeosun must be removed or redeployed to another ministry for the good of our economy. She does not understand the direction of our economic projectile.

I wonder what the President is still waiting for

gigabyte13:
SW hate wike? Hw? For what? Of what use is Wike to the pple of SW? Amaechi is only celebrated because, he has broken away from tribal politics, and over-saw the demise of PDP the largest opposition party in Africa, unlike Wike who is still a stooge and a learnee, even Ohanaeze gave him lgbo man of the year, are you aware of that?

Ohanaeze? Award? U must be a kid because u no sabi how naija works with this kind of award

IzonOwei:
have you not wondered why they still kick against trur federalism and eowhy baba chose to be minister of petroleum. ..what you hear many say here is just to make them feel good..

Allow for resource control they wouldn't. ..I won't be surprised if this present admin has started stealing so much money whilst covering up with EFCC probes here and there...I urge they face our economy and revive it..

Walai I don't tire for these set of people ruling us. My only problem is that why is Niger Delta not consistently fighting for true federalism and resource control? Their lands are damaged, fishing almost gone, pollution everywhere, etc

I don't understand it

OperationIgrigi:
**grins** you dey mind them? See the way the are lapping it up. One the chief zombies who to hates blogs is suddenly calling lalasticlala to take this blogstory to.the frontpage. **grins**

JUST WAIT AND SEE, THEY'LL PUT IT ON FRONT PAGE BECAUSE ALL OF THEM ARE IN THIS PROPAGANDA TOGETHER.

BUT THEY FORGET THAT MAJORITY OF RIVERS VOTERS DON'T READ ALL THESE STUFFS

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike and Ameachi had been very close pals for many years until they fell apart due to their political differences.

Wike was Amaechi's Campaign DG and Chief of Staff at different points to show you how close they were. When almost everyone deserted Ameachi during Ameachi and Omeya's election issue, when Ameachi left Nigeria and ran to Ghana, Wike worked tirelessly until he reclaimed his mandate and became Rivers governor.

In politics, there are always differences in opinions. In saner climes, neither Wike nor Ameachi is good enough to hold political positions.

My question therefore is: why is Wike so much hated by the media especially in southwest, even though majority of Rivers indigenes support him and, Ameachi so much love by the same media?

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
What I read is:

The CBN, in its Economic Report for October 2015, disclosed that oil and gas revenue in the 10-month period accounted for 55.93 per cent of the N5.847 trillion total federally collected revenue in the period under review.

ohw yeah I saw that point now. It's normally differentiated.

Thanks

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
The record included Gas revenue as listed in the second paragraph.

Guy read the article slowly again. It's only Oil and non Oil revenues not Oil and Gas per se.

Anytime CBN makes presentation about revenue from Oil and Gas sector, if NLNG revenue is included, they will make a separate page or pages dealing with NLNG alone.

In Nigeria, NLNG remittances doesn't come with Oil although some outsiders mistakingly or ignorantly used to lump them together with Oil revenue

Harrisonwo:
Some aides and close associates of Chief (Barr) Nyesom Wike, the Governor of Rivers State have expressed fears over what they referred to as the “uncharitable threats” by the Governor. Governor Wike who is said to be troubled by the spate of defections that is on going in his party, the People’s Democratic Party in Rivers State has issued a threat while meeting with selected members of the PDP leadership. Worried about the defection he said:
“Everybody is running away to APC and they expect me to stay calm and suffer the brunt alone. It will never happen. We were in it together and we must suffer together. If they say I stole money in the Ministry of Education, I didn’t eat it alone. All of you took part. Some of you built the Almajari Schools, some built the Unity Schools, some supplied books, others supervised projects. I have my proofs. Today everybody is shouting Wike killed to get to power. Did I as a person kill any Rivers man, No. They were killed in your LGAs by your boys. Now all of you are planning to run to APC for protection. I called you here today to inform you that I won’t accept that. I must fight back. If I go down, everybody goes down”
“Chief Awuse is now comfortable meeting with Andrew Uchendu. He does not remind us anymore of how Andrew Uchendu fought against him. Rather he has all of a sudden realized that Andrew Uchendu is Godfather to his son. See Ogiri. He is now running around Emeka Beke and sending people to Dakuku. Everyone wants to play safe, even madam. Nobody is talking; nobody wants to be on our side any more. I will fight oh. You see the way Dasuki did his, that is exact what l will do. I will name all of you one after another.”
One of the sources from Emohua Local Government Area who was also at the meeting said the “Governor has become very desperate and feels that blackmail, intimidation and threats can keep people around him.

http://newsherald.com.ng/2016/01/18/wike-talk-tough-i-

I WONDER WHERE NIGERIA IS HEADED WITH ALL THE LIES U GUYS CHURN OUT ON DAILY BASIS.

OUR COUNTRY HAS NEVER EVER BEEN THIS TERRIBLY DAMAGED WITH LIES AND PROPAGANDA.

WHY ARE U GUYS LIKE THIS? IS IT A MUST FOR APC TO RULE RIVERS? WHY NOT ALLOW RIVERS PEOPLE DECIDE THEIR FATE?

PLS STOP THIS DIRTY PROPAGANDA, IT'S BECOMING IRRITATING

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
Why was the $5 billion (one trillion naira) paid to FG in June by NLNG not captured?

NLNG money can't be captured because it's money from Gas not Oil. That one may be presented in a future date.

That's why when they tell you Oil accounts for less than 1trillion in the current budget. They lied, because they excluded huge monies from royalties and NLNG.

Even though Oil prices has gone down, Oil sales including royalties from IOCs and NLNG funds still accounts for over 60% of the current budget.

I like my country and Government and I want things to go well. But this government lies a lot, never seen before.

It surprises me how Nigerians, as educated and smart as many of them are, chose to vote for those who can't differentiate their left from right.

Our country is now a laughing stock around the world

Yet Some unlearned individuals on this forum will still say Oil is no longer important to fund our national budget simply because they told them lies about #800b and hid others from them.

Agreed the revenue from Oil has reduced due to crash in international market. But what about trillions these IOCs pay on royalties yearly? What about trillions Gas, through NLNG remits yearly?

Oil and Gas accounts for over 60% of the current budget but I don't know why they chose to lie about the figures in the budget

kropotkin2:
according to you be that. No evidence of any such meeting besides your oral 'facts'

No need replying u again bro. Good morning

kropotkin2:
bros Buhari has never met tompolo in any capacity that anyone can prove

I won't help u any further. It's clear that some people don't understand the power play currently playing out in this country.

For the record, President Buhari has met Tompolo in Aso Rock not once b4 they fell out recently. The Media will never report it. They only report what they want u to hear.

If Tompolo has agreed to their terms and demands, u won't hear anything about EFCC or Court case.

I won't say more

mrvitalis:
Who is wike men please.. .. An ordinary lga boss ameachi even help... I know wike he knows no body
Have u had of Iceland??

In Wike's issue i meant grassroots support, not the other way round if you can decode it. Take it or leave it, Wike has grassroots support just like Fayose in Ekiti.

If he was just an ordinary lga boss as u claimed, why was he Amaechi's campaign DG and Chief of staff? When Ameachi ran away to Ghana, so u don't know it was Wike that was working underground before the court finally gave the mandate to Amaechi.

Can an ordinary lga boss does that

kulikuli26:
These appointments are lopsided. There isn't any balance at all. This isn't how to be a leader. I just find it difficult to believe that Buhari is ignoring a lot of competent hands that worked so hard for the party's victory e.g Abike dabiri, wale Edun, Dele Alake, to mention a few. I hope his attention is been called to this anomaly.

Mr, stop complaining! Support our dear President. Someone like me likes him, not as a President, and can never ever vote him in any election either now or in the future because from available records, he perpetually dislikes the south esp Yoruba and Igbo.

Do a lot of research pls

EdCure:
He obviously thinks this is Jonathan's administration where political appointees were recommended by criminals.

You obviously don't know what happened underground before most of these guys were given appointments.
Many of them were appointed only by the President but some, like SA Amnesty and few others were recommended.

I just dey laff ur post. u may be a kid tho

mrvitalis:
What is tompolo feeling like??
To recommend a past governor??
This guy is really a big fo*l
No worry watery beans is ur passion

Tompolo may be an ex-militant, in fact, in a sane country he is supposed to be behind bars except that the Nigerian Government had some agreements with him but he is much more powerful, richer, and have so many men than some of these past or present governors in the Niger Delta.

In terms of men, only Rivers Governor Wike can boast of having more men than him and that's only in Rivers. But across Niger Delta, Tompolo has no equal

doctokwus:
U obviously have been sitting in one too many ogogoro joints feeding on rumors from grandpas.

OK Sir. But let me tell you something, you are not from my region and you obviously don't know who wields enormous influence and dictates what happens there.

And by the way, why is it that all the meetings Tompolo has been having with the President before they fell apart not reported by the media? So person wre no get influence they go Aso Villa in the past dey do secret meeting with the present President

doctokwus:
Grand delusions of grandeur.
When PMB didn't appoint those nominated by top party shots and state govs who sponsored his campaign,its a militants request he wud accept.
Tompolo obviously feels other Nigerians are as poorly educated as he is.

Do you Know who recommended the current Amnesty coordinator? From the available information, it was Tompolo.

That guy is more influential in the Niger Delta than you think. Not his fan though

blessingjude:
Nnamdi Kanu's wife, Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, told IBTimes UK she could not travel from London − where she lives with their 15-year-old son and her husband until his arrest − to Nigeria when the pro-Biafran leader taken into custody in October, as she was heavily pregnant.
She delivered a baby boy, Joshua Nnamdi Kanu, on 5 January at a hospital in London.


Source: http://www.zubbyblog.com/nnamdi-kanu-has-a-son-out-of-wedlock-irresponsible/

That's someone's personal life bro. None of your business.

Do you know how many children Olusegun Obasanjo has out of wedlock? Sometimes when I read some topics here I feel like throwing up

MEND founder High Chief Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo said former Bayelsa State Governor Timipre Sylva is against him because he didn't recommend him (Sylva) to President Buhari for appointment as Amnesty coordinator which was given to Gen. Peter Boroh. In his letter Tompolo said, ..."I wish to inform you that it has come to my knowledge that the leader of your party and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Bayelsa and a few young men from Warri South West LGA of Delta State who joined the party from the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP,after the 2015 presidential election are hell bent on linking me to the renewed vandalisation of oil facilities in the Niger Delta region,whereas they are the ones carrying out the act to smear my name.
“They are doing this in connivance with the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC lawyer,who is also a member of your party, is at the forefront of prosecuting me because I refused to buy property from him.
The crux of this letter is to let you know them that,they are dubious, mischievious, desperate,pretentious, manipulative and corrupt,therefore do not share the same vision and mission with you,as well as do not believe in good governance.
“ I will briefly tell you some of their antecedents in this letter.The leader of your party in Bayelsa State approached me shortly after my meeting with you in Abuja,that I should accompany him to meet you and plead for him to be appointed as Special Adviser, SA and Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty programme committee,which I refused to do because of his antecedents, as not a reliable and trustworthy person.
“ It was thereafter he forced his way into the governorship election of the state,which almost tear the state apart with violence,beginning with the party primary in which he demonstrated a high level of desperation as was recounted by the chairman of the committee and governor of Edo State,Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.”...

SOURCE: http://nigerianewsonline.com.ng/update-on-military-invasion-of-niger-delta/

Super1Star:
See who is talking!!!!!!!!

What happened to all the loans you collected and you never completed any of the projects that you borrowed money for.

Human beings dey talk Aregbe too dey join talk ...hmmmm, naija na funny place

Akathriel:
In the early hours of January 15th, Kaduna Nzeogwu disgruntled over a list of items with the ruling political class and with disdain for certain regionalists, led an army of fellow Igbo Majors and a Yoruba, Ademoyega Adewale, in a military coup against the political leadership of Nigeria.

He and his team of Igbo comrades murdered Nigeria’s top brass Hausas in that Coup. Prime minister, Tafawa Balewa, a federal minister and two top regional premiers were among those murdered.

Kaduna Nzeogwu’s Igbo squad killed the premier of the Northern and Western regions but of course left the Igbo Eastern premiere alive.

He killed the Finance minister (Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh), who was Nigeria’s #3 man, but left the number #2 man. Azikiwe was left alive.


***Now, Pay Attention, This Is Where We're Going***


The Igbo top commander and now first military president of Nigeria, General Aguiyi Ironsi, in a very careless and thoughtless move, aimed at suppressing the Nzeogwu ethnic coup sentiment and distrust, in his brief six months of reign, dissolved the regions.

So we ask the question - why did Aguiyi Ironsi dissolve the regions and create a Unitary republic?

It was in May, during Aguiyi Ironsi’s reign that the first of what is known today as anti-Igbo riots occured.

According to the story, an Igbo bakery made a loaf of bread, depicting Nzeogwu as the Saint in the ‘Saint George and the Dragon’ medieval crusader story, from the 7-11th century.

***See the 1st Attached Picture***

This depiction was highly provocative to a welcoming Hausa-Fulani, still licking their wounds and being hospitable, after an unprovoked Igbo led military coup and assassination of their finest.

This also while Nigeria was bleeding from being thrown into its first military government era. The military went on to rule the nation for 13 straight years.

As I was saying, the loaf of bread had Nzeogwu as Saint George, standing over and  killing Sardauna, who was depicted as the bleeding dragon.

***See the 2nd Attached Picture***

This triggered the first inter-ethnic crises in the North. Igbos fled to the East, and returned only later under guarantee of their safety by president Ironsi. Some say mischievous secessionist Igbos orchestrated the pogroms to get their people home.

Later that year, in July, General Murtala Muhammed, taking advantage of the precedent, led a very bloody, 4-day coup and overthrew the Ironsi Government.

At this stage, Igbos in the north were highly targeted in outbreaks of ethnic violence. Thousands were reportedly killed, though the numbers can not be verified. And this was the episode of the Igbo exodus to the South.


***Now, In answering your question, General Aguiyi Ironsi couldn't have been honoured with any of our currency due to the following 2 reasons:

1.) He was a power hungry & tribalistic bigot who effectively at Gun point, forced the remaining members of Balewa's Government to resign, he then made the Senate president Nwafor Orizu, another Igbo who was serving as acting president in Azikiwe's absence, to officially surrender power to him, staging a coup of his own and ending the First Nigerian Republic.

2.) His failure to punish the coup plotters and the promulgation of the now infamous "Decree No. 34"—which abrogated the country's federal structure in exchange for a unitary one— crystallized this conspiracy theory.

I hope I have been able to answer your question satisfactorily? - Nagode!

Thanks for your contribution Sir! I read through your comments and you made some vital points but couldn't really get convinced.

Two former Heads of State who died in a bloody coup against them, one on national currency and other things that immortalised him but the other without anything whatsoever