₦airaland Forum

Is there still hope for this country?

Could this be true?

His assumption.....

LORDOFAFONJAS:
TINUBU is about to go down there

That is if he is not on the ground already.

ucdeboy011:
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Not now, he still enjoys the support of the executive.

yahrant140:
like we care! all we know is pdp and apc.....

PDP and APC? 2019 might be different.

patriotic9jaboy:
I declare peace on the federal Republic of Nigeria. May we never experience war or political instability. Anytime i see Syria in the news i pity Syrians caught up in the war. Lets embrace peace for the sake of our nation

Take this message to buhari

SIRTee15:
FG should focus on the economy n forget all these beer parlour gist......
2019 is closer than u guys think n it will do Buhari like magic........
besides when will all this highly placed source tell our 'junk status' media outlet that Buhari is planning to sack all his cabinet ministers......
that's the news Nigerians want to hear......

Votes don't really count. Relate to Edo if you doubt me

Leave sickness and cure what brought it. It's not about those who are agitating. The question should be why are they agitating? Are they allowed to fare well in a country they are said to belong to? Is there balance and equity in the system? You don't beat a child and tell him not to cry.

shegxi:
D hypocrisy here can be sometimes nauseating. See how people are conveniently ignoring d fact dat d wife did something very wrong.
The wife is now saint, d man is d bad guy.......we just know how to turn logic on its head.

Lying to ones spouse is bad and I don't think anybody is encouraging that here. What the comments above imply is that the institution of marriage was never perfect and shouldn't be seen as so. The man should have a way of expressing his displeasure over the wife's shortcomings and then offer her a room for change. Quitting is hardly the best option.

Love and danger!

Just wish her the best and move on. This will avert u a whole lot of future misery.

By Kingsley Omonobi, Abuja Following the rescue of the wife of the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mrs Margaret Emefiele, from her abductors, Sunday Vanguard gathered, yesterday, that the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, ordered the deployment of the ATR 42 maritime surveillance aircraft to comb the creeks of Edo and Delta states in search of the kidnappers.

Also, the Commander of the 61 NAF Detachment Station, Warri, Air Commodore Sani Zakari, was said to have been directed to relocate to Warri, to coordinate the airforce personnel in the search and eventual rescue of Mrs Emefiele.

Aside the airforce, operatives of the Defence Intelligence agency (DIA), DSS and the police, led by the Commissioner of Police, Delta State, Ibrahim Zanna, moved to the suspected location of the rescued victim after the abductors were tracked by security systems.

Security sources told Sunday Vanguard that Mrs. Emefiele, abducted three days ago at Uvbe along Benin-Agbor Road, was rescued between 1 and 2 am, yesterday, at Ugolekii in Edo State after security forces stormed the den of the abductors.

The CBN Governor, yesterday, expressed gratitude to God, President Muhammadu Buhari and security agencies for the rescue of his wife.

In a statement in Abuja, Emefiele thanked God for the rescue and praised security agencies for their gallantry. Mrs. Emefiele had been kidnapped by the armed men on Friday, at Ugoneki along Benin – Agbor express road.

Sunday Vanguard gathered that she had four armed police men with her as the kidnappers ambushed them.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/cbn-govs-wife-four-armed-police-men-kidnap/

It is natural for a woman to submit to her hubby, and the man loves her in return. So it was in Africa in the days of ZARR before the arrival of strangers.

Why is Justice John Tsoho not on that list?

nnachukz:
This man just talks as if this is the first he is sitting on that seat. Please keep blaming them and never blame yourself. I believe OBj, Yaradua and Jonathan caused the 1983/84 recession. Blame is a sign of incompetence and confusion. Only the habitual zombies can be deceived by your leaking mouth and lazy hands.

The whole thing is just getting sickening.

otukpo:
But coup can be good in some situations.

Abi ooooo

•Wants to know where restructuring will lead
Nigeria
•Describes some of Buhari’s ministers as
misfits, Says the way to recovery is for
ministers to be experts or knowledgeable
in their assigned areas
•TSA is contributing to the recession

Tanko Yakassai, 90, is Chairman, Northern Elders
Council, NEC. He was Liaison Officer to President
Shehu Shagari (1779-1983). He is also a founding
member of the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF. In
this interview, he blames the entire problems of
Nigeria on the three military coup de’tats of 1966,
1975 and 1983, as he forecasts that getting out
of the current economic recession may not be
soon. Excerpts:

Nigeria is 56 today but things have gone wrong
and Nigeria has disappointed the world. Some
people think that part of the solution to our
problem is restructuring the country. What is
your take on this?

The problem with people calling for restructuring
is that they have failed to tell us what they aim
to achieve. What are the details? What is Nigeria
going to look like when we restructure it? What
could be the initial and aftermath expectation of
their dream if Nigeria is restructured?

They are only making and shouting slogans. Restructure!
Restructure! Some of them are calling for ‘True Federalism,’ as if
there is anything like True Federalism. The truth is that every
federation in the world is unique, because of
several factors. So, I think the agitators of this idea
need a lot of work to convince Nigeria about
what they need to achieve, not driving
Nigeria into a hole.

Looking back these years, are you happy with
the Nigerian polity of today?

I cannot be happy. Who is happy with the Nigeria
of today? I am one of those who called for the
independence of this country. Then military
came and destroyed all the efforts that our
founding fathers did in building this country.

There are three coup de’tats that did a lot of
harm to this country: The first was the 1966
coup; the second was the 1975 coup and the
third was the 1983 coup.

Each coup destroyed a certain aspect of
Nigeria’s political life and values. Each coup
destroyed some political aspects of Nigeria’s life.

The first coup destroyed the political clout; the
political parties that our founding fathers
laboured to create. At the same time it
destroyed the system of government in the
country. The 1975 coup, of Murtala/Obasanjo,
destroyed the Nigeria Civil Service.
It destroyed security of tenure in the civil service
of Nigeria. When they came they started
dismissing people without following due process.

A Permanent Secretary would leave his home for
the office. Before reaching his office, his name
was already on the radio that he had been
dismissed, just like that without any excuse given
him.

Because of that the Civil Servants who were
once loyal to their service and their country,
decided to look for money for themselves. They
reasoned that they could be dismissed anytime
without any retirement benefit. They decided to
look for money so that they could have security
for themselves and their children in the event
they were suddenly dismissed. Corruption took
root in civil service.

The 1983 coup destroyed the political class and
institutions created by the disciples of the earlier
political leaders. The coup destroyed the effort
to rebuild political culture in Nigeria. The
implication was that we ended up in most of
Nigeria’s life with a military culture of
governance.

Name them: Buhari, Babangida, Abacha,
Abdulsalam. And if they were not in Khaki, they
were in mufti: Obasanjo, Buhari, they are still
military men and they rule with military
mentality. So, in a nutshell, these are the major
things that set us back or destroyed Nigeria from
the fast pace developments we were witnessing
after independence. And things cannot be fixed
overnight. It’s going to take time. It is going to
take time to re-establish order and right the
wrongs.

You have attempted to capture how we got here.
What is the way to recovery?

The way to recovery is to allow political culture
to flourish uninterrupted. It is only a democracy
that can build a democracy. Unfortunately in
most part of our lives it is the military that has
dominated, not democracy. The military are
limited in their training, in their psyche, in their
mentality; their ego is military.

This is why you direct all national funds from the
banks into a single treasury account at the
Central Bank without taking into consideration
the wider effects of that policy. Government’s
agencies put their monies in banks under certain
conditions which are both benefiting the banks
and government. And it is from these deposits
that the banks lend out to people and corporate
bodies at an interest rate, and they go into all
manner of businesses creating wealth and
employment.

But, suddenly, you decree that all the monies
must be taken to the Central Bank under a
Treasury Single Account, TSA. In the first place,
government loses the interests that were
supposed to accrue to these accounts. Again,
the banks lose revenue and they will not be able
to pay to government the taxes expected of
them. The banks dwindling finances mean that
they will not be able to pay their workers, and as
such they have to cut down their work force.
So, government loses money through loss of
interest rate, taxes and job losses. This is the
military mentality I’m talking about. Policies are
not well though-out but just ordered out. The
TSA could have been implemented carefully,
phase by phase and the effect on the economy
and society studied to decide how best to
implement it or not.

You sound like you are not optimistic about
Nigeria getting out of its present recession.

To be honest with you, I am not. I pray that we
get out of this recession very quick, but I am not
optimistic. I read from our Central Bank Governor
saying that by this time next year we will be out
of recession. But I also read from the IMF saying
that the earliest Nigeria can get out of its
present predicament is 2020.

If the IMF or the World Bank makes firm
statements on the economy of a country and the
Central Bank of that country comes out with a
contrary stand, I will believe that of the IMF or
the World Bank because they are more
experienced than the Central Bank of any
country. That is why I don’t believe our Central
Bank Governor more than the IMF. So, I don’t
think that we shall get out of our economic
problems soon.

Some people say that the kinds of political
appointees by the president is partly responsible
for the present economic situation we have
found ourselves. And that the core north got
more than its fair share. Do you agree with that?
Look, I am a Nigerian who looks at every citizen
as a Nigerian first. I look at Nigeria as a single
entity. Every qualified Nigerian can be appointed
to any office irrespective of where he comes
from. You can never hear me say, ‘there are few
northerners or Southerners’ in political
appointments. All I’m after are good people who
can discharge their duties in the best interest of
Nigeria.

That leads me to say that some Ministers today,
as good as they appear, are misfits in their
present offices. Take the case of the Minister of
Communication (Barrister Adebayo Shittu). This
is a first class lawyer – a Senior Advocate of
Nigeria, SAN. He is posted to a Ministry where
he is learning from the scratch. It is the same
with the Minister of Budget and National
Planning (Sen. Udo Udoma).

He is a lawyer. He is now in charge of planning
and the Nigeria budget. He has to start from the
scratch. Thank God he was a Senator and he
once served on the budget or finance committee
or something. But that does not make him an
expert in that field. It is the same with the
Minister of Foreign Affairs (Barr. Geoffrey
Onyeama), he is a lawyer. That ministry is not
his area of expertise. They are all novices in
their areas of postings and you cannot expect a
contrary result.

If President Muhammadu Buhari should ask for
your advice on how to get Nigeria out of its
present situation, what would you tell him?
I will start with his political appointees. People
should be appointed based on their competence
and be put in the right places. I will advise that
the constitution be amended so that when
Ministers are appointed, the ministry which they
will be appointed to will be attached and
submitted to the Senate.

Also, political parties should not make
manifestoes before elections, but should be
tested on their manifestoes before elections. For
instance, this government came on the slogan of
‘Change.’ They never explained what their
Change meant: Change from what to what?
That is why we are in trouble today. For one and
half years now, this government is still learning
on the job. But if they had articulated and
understood what change they wanted and how
to go about it, they could have achieved much,
not minding other distractions. One and half
years is a lot in the life of a government of four
years.

www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/how-1966-1975-and-1983-military-coups-destroyed-nigeria-tanko-yakassai/

President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed never to stop blaming his predecessors for the current economic woes of the country despite the public outcry against the buck passing.

He said it was necessary to let Nigerians, especially the youth to know the state of the nation for them to properly evaluate the performance of their leaders.

It will be recalled that the president at a function in his Daura home during last Salleh celebrations came down hard on former President Olusegun Obasanjo, late Musa Yar’Adua and Goodluck Jonathan, saying that the 16 years rule of the Peoples Democracy Party, PDP, left no legacy for the country.

Also, speaking on Thursday night at an interactive session tagged: “Conversation with Creative Youth,” with some distinguished Nigerian youths from the entertainment and fashion industry at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja; the president insisted that the PDP ruined the economy.

The president used the occasion which also featured the official launching of a Pictorial Book compiled by his personal photographer, Mr. Bayo Omoboriowo to assure the youth of his government’s commitment to security amongst others.

He said:“My dear countrymen especially the youth, you have a fantastic country, God has endowed Nigeria with human and material resources.

“I am not going to bore you with what we met on ground, I know when I say this, I am going to be accused in the papers of passing the buck, but passing the buck is sometimes absolutely necessary, to remind people who take things for granted.

“When we came in by some unfortunate coincidence, I screamed to high heavens because I had promised a lot while seeking votes.

“I asked where are the savings? There were no savings. There was no infrastructure: power, rails, roads; there was none. I then asked, what did we spend our money on? I was told we spent it on buying food and petrol.

“We conducted a study to find out where the billions of Naira had gone and found out that the oil marketers were committing fraud on at least one third of what they were importing, which is about 25 per cent of our foreign exchange.

“This brings me to the youth, as youths we must watch our elites, the condition we found ourselves, it is unpatriotic for anybody to pretend that economically we haven’t got a problem.

“Today a lot of people have gone back to the farms; I congratulate some of the governors and by the grace of God, by the end of this government we will be exporting rice and othergrains. So all the money alleged to have been used to import it will be available to sustain development.

“I have bored you with this long explanation, because there are things that could be hidden from you by those that have mismanaged the country in the last 16, 17 years.

“I assure you that we will set the ball rolling… in terms of security, industrialization, manufacturing and food security.

“I said it more than five years ago, and I still mean it, we have no other country than Nigeria; we will stay here and salvage it together.”

Impressed by the exploits of the Nigerian youth in the Nollywood, President Buhari said he would ensure that a reasonable portion of the 2017 national budget is given for the development of the youths.

“In this short while, I have learnt a lot and I know much about our limitations with respect to power, manufacturing and how all these can help the creative industry thrive.

“We have been focusing on security challenges so as to create room for prosperity and progress, so be rest assured that the government has done its work to identify our problems and work is going on to address them.

“Today, the film industry which comes under Nollywood can now compare favourably with Hollywood. Nigerian youths have indeed, done the country proud,” he said.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/recession-cant-stop-blaming-obj-yaradua-jonathan-buhari/

The dog is bitterly snarling at the owner. If nothing is done, it will bite.

Sometimes, I think true justice is a myth.

Julietcutie:
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below is. the cream

*sighs*

Would've loved to chip in something here but that threatens the exclusiveness of the thread.

Wow...adorable indeed.

lol

papaejima1:
This tells us this woman is really not in govt.
A whole minister of finance telling the world "WHATEVER" the govt is spending the money on. So she does not actually know what govt is spending the borrowed money on?

Oh Lord Almighty, when will you rescue us from these people?

Imagine!

Let the world hear us now, we are in a precarious situation.

has buhari started listening?

Who still celebrates black magic?

You can make every idea count.

Lol

You can make every idea count.

You can make every idea count.