₦airaland Forum

"I am the most abused and insulted president in the world, but when I leave office you will all remember me for the total freedom you enjoyed under my government".

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan
December 2014


Lalasticlala over to you.

tdayof:
Op get your facts well! Nairaland is being accessed all over the world and one person will come online to spew rubbish. Go and watch combat videos of the Nigerian Military on YouTube, you will find vehicle loaded with foodstuffs. There are some where the Nigerian Airforce AW109 came to deliver foodstuffs including noodles. Enough of this shitty posts.

You that you ain't fighting bokoharam don't you take garri?

Just like there are videos of trucks delivering foodstuffs to IDPs but we all know the truth.

babyfaceafrica:
which of the states has more population than kano?..only lagos I know

There you go again. Lagos is not more populated than Kano.

babyfaceafrica:
population

Whichever elementary school you attended (cos I'm sure you didn't go beyond that) should withdraw your Primary school leaving certificate ASAP. That's all I can say

olubenjazzy:
Are u kidding.

Nigeria is a very poor country by every available standard.

Nigeria is not a rich country but it has got potentials to be a rich country.

babyfaceafrica:
kano is bigger than all combine

In terms of?

superstarDikk:
and so fuckiiing what?......make we hear word jare......Enugu got more than most states why didn't u guys complain?....always claiming victims.....mtchewww

Why are you talking out of your ass. Dis you ho to school at all and if you did, did you not study statistics and how you compare sets of data?

Enugu as the state with the highest allocation in the South East should not be compared with states with the lowest allocation in other zones but with states that have the highest allocation also in other zones.

Little wonder you lot have cut of marks of 2/100 and still go to the same school with someone from Anambra who needs a cut off mark of 139/200.

egift:
This should also make frontpage for balanced few.

Am glad this administration is determined on completing old projects to ensure the money invested in the was not a waste.

There is nothing balanced there. This even makes matters worse as we can now see that it is a real 97% vs 5% scenario considering the fact that removing the projects for FCT, the allocation now follows the pattern of votes delivered to Buhari in that particular order.

DaudaAbu:
This is what the PMB state got



compared to what a state in the South east got

Shut the F up and don't try to rewrite whats out there. The allocation to Kano State alone is more than total allocation for the entire South East region.

Sirwallace:
You are the biggest ignoramus if you think Nigeria is not the destination for business in Africa.
Our population alone is the biggest for any market to strive. We are the biggest user of internet in Africa if your hatred for the country doesn't open your clueless mind to this.
Why do you think China, america, UK, US, Germany and other major worl power voluntarily offer help to our defence system when book boys just broke out.

That aside, why do you think famous american musicians and celebrities see Nigeria as home to promote their music in Africa?

I agree we have our woes, but this country is the best thing that could happen to any human being if her full potential is harnessed.

Smh! Now let's start from the basics.

What is Nigeria's GDP per capita?

elego1:
He also met my aunty.

I was there. I wasn't allowed to get close to him by his security details.

So degrading!!!

What does ur aunt do?

Kwamecron:
Any rich individuals has is success story linkin to nigerians or nigeria .... Hes here to make more money from nigeria in disguess

Shut your trap mate! Nigeria is a damn poor country.

How much money is there to be made from Nigeria?

Bolustic:
Another Jamboree in this period of want.

Just imagine if Aisha Buhari had organised anything like this, they would have started pricing the bags and shoes on her.

It still marvels me that our brothers from the **** wouldn't condemn anything PDP when it's obviously reprehensible but will mastubate on any Buhari/Aregbe/APC/South West issue.

You see your life? This is sponsored by the APC led govt of Imo state.

Bolustic:
Another Jamboree in this period of want.

Just imagine if Aisha Buhari had organised anything like this, they would have started pricing the bags and shoes on her.

It still marvels me that our brothers from the **** wouldn't condemn anything PDP when it's obviously reprehensible but will mastubate on any Buhari/Aregbe/APC/South West issue.

You see your life? This is sponsored by the APC led govt of Imo state.

MalcoImX:
So leaving the Avengers to continuously cause havoc like your brother left Boko Haram to annex part of Nigeria is what sounds like good governance to you? Buhari doesn't talk too much. With or without them the light situation has improved, and they're already on the verge of becoming useless with Buhari's broadened exploration of hydrocarbons.

What light situation has improved? The improvement is relative, if you compare the improvement with the zero megawatt Buhari threw us into, then yes there is an improvement but you cannot say overall it has improved over what obtained in previous regimes. Besides, the rainy season is at its peak and power supply always improves at this time, remember same time last year when all "zombies" were shouting "body language".

Boko Haram is still occuptibg territory, killing and abducting daily but there's been a govt induced media blackout of their operations.

This is from an APC senator from Borno - http://punchng.com/boko-haram-controls-half-of-borno-senator-garbai/

Now, this is from UNICEF about a month ago;
"There are two million people we are still not able to reach in Borno state, which means that the true scope of this crisis has yet to be revealed to the wor," - Manuel Fontaine, Unicef's Regional Director for Western and Central Africa - http://www.unicef.org/media/media_91911.html

Finally, no one is saying Buhari should leave the NDA to cripple d economy. He should go about his duties without making empty noises that more than often amounts to nothing and most of the times become counter productive.

MalcoImX:
What has changed for the Niger Delta Avengers to have called their most hated figure in this century, "Dear President?"

How could these people capitulate so easily like that when they and their supporters say they're no match for the army, having a better mastery of the creeks that surpassed those of the crocodiles?

What happened to their missiles that they said would be launched on us, our infrastructures and our seat of government? Are they also forsaking the awaited 1st October independence declaration? Did Buhari release Kanu, Dasuki and/or agree to bring back their corruption?

Kai, what has changed for the Avengers? Or, is it the content of this letter shared to us on a WhatsApp group that has made the sponsors scampered for safety?

BOOM! The truth is that PMB has concrete evidences linking Jonathan to the Avengers and he had given the evidences to Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar, the Chairman of the Peace Group that encouraged Jonathan to concede defeat. Hence the cease fire announced by the Avengers!!! Now there will be peace and there will be dialogue. But all the already identified loot must be returned so said PMB.

Credit: Sir Ayo Ojeniyi

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My people, what has really changed for the 'almighty' Avengers to have become ice cream sellers overnight?

Hmm, over to you! This na end time surrender.

It's now getting g to 16 months and you guys are still on these stories?

Does this govt realise it's used up more than 31% of their lifespan vomiting lies and propaganda?

When will they settle for governance?

Free36:
See earlier thread about the discovery of Nickel In Nigeria https://www.nairaland.com/3316997/nickel-discovered-dangoma-kaduna-nigeria

Here is what I came on after my findings on NICKEL. ..

Cautiously optimistic about nickel price

Frik Els | Jun. 29, 2016, 11:33 AM |

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Base metals have enjoyed a solid 2016 so far with only lead (-3%) in negative territory for the year. While the likes of zinc (+28%) and tin (+16%) have rallied and steelmaking raw materials iron ore (+24%) and coking coal (+12%) have come back strongly, nickel remains stuck in the doldrums.

On the LME nickel jumped back above $9,000 on Wednesday, but hasn't been in five-digit territory for nearly a year and is worth half of what it was early in 2014 when Indonesia's ban on ore exports led many to believe the volatile metal is entering a bull market.

The subdued pricing environment has mostly been blamed on elevated inventories and both the LME and particularly in Shanghai although stock levels at the former has recently been falling.

In a new report on the prospects for the steelmaking ingredient BMI Research says "the market will gradually begin to tighten as elevated Chinese imports start to erode global stockpiles" but the firm also warns "investor sentiment towards industrial metals will remain cautious as Chinese economic data will continue to disappoint."

BMI expects strengthening fundamentals in the nickel market and a more general bounce in metal prices for the second half of the year which "will start to push nickel prices towards $10,000 per tonne."

Longer term there is further upside although the frothy days of 2007 when nickel peaked at more than $50,000 look forever gone.

BMI is of the view that Indonesia will relax in part its ore ban but with Indonesian nickel pig iron smelters coming online by 2017 there won't be supply-crunch in the refined market.

That would keep a lid on the price which BMI forecasts to average $9,000 per tonne and $10,500 a tonne in 2016 and 2017, edging up to $11,500 a tonne by 2019. BMI's predictions are also above consensus.

http://www.mining.com/cautiously-optimistic-about-nickel-price/

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Nickel = $9,700 per tonne

Nickel = $657 per 1 KGS

My friend why are you spreading fallacies? Where did you see 1kg of Nickel at $657?

Lalasticlala and Mynd44 rake note.

maxti:
For?

Squabbles I've gubernatorial primaries.

Photos courtesy Sahara Reporters

https://twitter.com/SaharaReporters/status/770153903077941248

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Joel3:
so the chickens are not left out. but also starving.

that means the chicken would grow poorly. low nutrition for chicken this Year

Which translates to low nutrition for Nigerians.

The recent increase in the cost of poultry feed in the country has been forcing farmers to ration food for their birds.

Findings have shown that the cost of ingredients for the composition of poultry feeds, particularly maize, has increased by 100 per cent.

For instance, a 100kg bag of maize, which used to cost about N6, 000 in April 2016, is now being sold for about N12, 000.



Also, the cost of fish meal, another important ingredient in poultry feeds, has increased by 60 per cent. A kilogramme of fish meal that used to sell for N500 now costs about N800.

However, the price of egg in the market has not enjoyed similar increase.

Before the hike in the cost of poultry feed ingredients, a crate of eggs used to sell for N600. It is now being sold for between N650 and N700, depending on the egg size.

This development has led farmers to be rationing food for their birds or mixing their feeds with lesser nutritious ingredients.

This has consequently led to a drop in egg production as malnourished birds do not produce eggs maximally.

Findings also showed that the high cost of maize was due to low cultivation as a result of the activities of Boko Haram insurgents in the north, recurring attacks by Fulani herdsmen and flooding.

This situation was confirmed in the 2016 Maize Outlook by a consulting firm, Novus Agro Nigeria Limited.

According to the outlook, the price of maize hit N65, 000 per metric tonne in January 2016, up from around N45, 000 in October 2015 and has been on steady rise since then.

The Director-General of the Poultry Association of Nigeria, Mr. Onallo Akpa, said the poultry industry in the country was in crisis.

He said, “Last year, Nigeria produced over 14 billion table eggs and was recognised as the number one egg producer in Africa. But we have not been able to calculate the production figure in the last one year because of the crisis we are going through. But surely, our egg production figure has dropped. The industry is being threatened now due to high cost of poultry feeds.

Akpa also said the problem arose as a result of neglect of the agricultural sector and the non-supply of inputs like fertiliser to the “few” farmers in the country.

He said, “Maize was being bought between N4, 500 and N5, 000 per 100kg bag in October/November 2015. But now, it is about N12, 000. Now there is pressure on maize by the poultry industry which consumes over 2.5 million metric tonnes annually. The breweries and other industries also compete with us.”

The Chairman of Dedora Nigeria Limited, Lagos, Mr. Emmanuel Omokwale, said his farm had been recording loss every day.

He lamented that before, his farm used to produce 300,000 crates of eggs per day, but could hardly produce 1,000 crates now because of the rise in the prices of raw materials.

He said, “The prices of raw materials keep on increasing every day. Maize is a major example. I have been in this business for over 25 years, I have not bought maize above N80, 000 per tonne. But the price is now N180, 000 per tonne. With the way it is going, only God knows when it will end.

“Other problem is non-availability of vitamins and others which are used to produce amino acid to enrich poultry feed. All these things are not produced in Nigeria. Maize and soya beans are locally produced, but soya beans are sometimes imported into the country. The foreign exchange crisis has compounded the non-availability of vitamins.”

Omokwale added that the foreign exchange crisis, increase in fuel price and high interest rate have also contributed to the problem the poultry industry is facing.

“We are not breaking even because we cannot meet the cost of feeding the birds. In my farm, I provide water, electricity, labour and security. For instance, I buy diesel at N200 per litre and I use a minimum of 200 litres of diesel per day, that is, N40,000 on diesel alone daily,” he said.

Omokwale added that these problems had led to a sharp decline in the production of eggs on his farm.

He said, “We can’t meet demand for eggs because we don’t have enough birds. We don’t have the capacity to stock now. The problem is that the more we produce, the more we lose. We cannot just expand because to feed the birds alone is difficult.

“Some poultry farms ration the feeding of their birds. But the problem with that is that if you adopt that method, you will be worse off. That is why you have to cut down your stock. It is too expensive to stock now. Everybody will soon see the effect of what is happening now in the country.”

The Managing Director of Abibcom Farms in Ogun State, Dr. Habib Stephen Temitope, also said insecurity had contributed to the non-availability of raw materials for poultry feed.

He said, “How do you feed your birds when the cost of raw materials is increasing every day? The best thing is to reduce your stocking capacity. A kilogramme of maize cost N44 before, but it is being sold for N105. So, if you are buying 100 kilogrammes of maize, you need N105, 000 to do so unlike before when it cost N44, 000.

“But in spite of the rise in the cost of raw materials, poultry farmers cannot increase the price of eggs. Vaccine is another problem. You are to vaccinate your birds. Some farmers are rationing food for their birds just to keep them alive because of these problems.”

A poultry farmer in Ibadan, Oyo State, who has about 2,000 birds, Mr. Isaac Oguntuase, said he had started rationing feeds for his birds because of its cost implication and the financial crisis he was going through.

He explained that the adequate quantity of poultry feeds required daily for his birds is 250kg as each consumes an average of 125 grammes of food per day.

He said, “I can tell you that the cost of poultry feed has increased by 100 per cent. My birds have not been eating as they should; instead of giving them 250 kg of feed daily, I have reduced the ration to about 200kg.

“But the problem with that is that their egg production has dropped by 30 per cent already. If birds don’t eat well, they won’t produce eggs as they should and the little they produce might also be small in size.”

A poultry farmer in Ogun State, Mr. Johnson Anwuzie, said he had been substituting maize with dried garri (koko) and fish meal with soya beans.

But he noted that the move had reduced his birds’ egg production rate. Instead of an average of 180 crates of eggs daily, Anwuzie has been getting less than 140 crates since he started adulterating feed for his birds.

“I have been losing a lot of money because of the high cost of maize and its unavailability,” he said.

A poultry farmer in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Mr. Oladapo John, said he had reduced the stock of fowls on his farm.

He said, “Instead of adulterating their feed, I have reduced the stock of fowls on my farm. But unlike before when I used to produce 100 egg crates on my farm, I only produce 30 now.”

A poultry farmer, Mr. Azeez Gbolahan, described the rising cost of feeds as disturbing, saying the trend has had enormous effect on his business.

Gbolahan, who rears layers and cockerels, lamented that in spite of the increasing cost of the feeds, any attempt to increase the price of their products would lead to loss of customers.

He said, “The prices have skyrocketed. It is killing the business and eating into our profit. For instance, at the beginning of the year, a bag of layers mash was around N2,200, but now it’s N2,900. It was about N2,650 just three weeks ago, but now it has increased again.

“Painfully, you can’t just increase the prices of your products like that, else you will lose customers. I tried it. I raised the price of a crate of eggs from N700 to N750, but I lost a lot of customers as a result.”

Findings by Saturday PUNCH also showed that many poultry farmers are moving out of the business as it has become difficult to sustain their farms under the current circumstances.

For example, a farmer with about 1,000 birds in Ibadan, Oyo State, Mr. Busuyi Olalekan, said he was already searching for a buyer for his birds and other assets on his farm.

He said, “A lot of farmers are moving out of the business, particularly small farm owners and that is what I’m about to do. The cost of feed has increased drastically, but the price of eggs has not increased considerably.”

An agricultural consultant and Publisher of Farming Advice Digest, Dr. Joseph Deji-Folutile, said in his interaction with farmers, most of them had kept on lamenting a drop in egg production because of the high cost of maize.

He said, “Most of them have been rationing what they feed their birds because more than 85 per cent of poultry production cost is on feeding. A farmer was telling me that he was thinking of closing down because production was not picking up on time. It is from the sale of eggs that farmers make money to remain in business, so once the birds are not producing eggs, they will be running at a loss.

“The major thing is that the maize is expensive and not even available. And when it is available, it is at a high cost and the quality may not even be as high as expected. And when farmers don’t have what they want, they make do with what they have, so it is really a major problem.

“When birds are not well fed, their immune system will not be at peak level and whatever infection they are exposed to will get them down. Maize which gives energy is the major ingredient in feed production, so the high cost of feed and other attendant problems have really affected the farmers.

“I have a client who used to produce about 1,500 crates of eggs daily and because of starving the birds, production went down to about 700 crates. If they get the maize in the right content, it takes some time for the birds to pick up again. These are not the best of times for farmers.”

Likewise, a veterinary doctor who consults for poultry farms, Mr. Adedayo Ojo, said underfeeding poultry birds could affect their immunity and expose them to infections.

http://punchng.com/chickens-forced-skip-meals-cost-poultry-feed-rises-100/

Lalasticlala over to you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QzqgRBT4KM

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braine:
No text formatting. Can't read this lump of words.

Formatted.

LAGOS—MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, yesterday, said no fewer than 20 shipping companies, had shut operations in Nigeria due to unfavourable government’ policies, leading to the retrenchment of over 3000 workers in the last one year.

At a briefing, President-General of the union, Mr. Anthony Emmanuel Nted, among other things, lamented that the jobs of over 2000 workers were also on the line and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene to save the sector from imminent collapse.

Nted who declined to name the affected shipping companies, said they were verifiable in the ports, however warned that many more shipping companies were on the verge of folding up and were only doing skeletal services at the moment.

Continuing, he said:” Today, we lament the action of the management of Nigeria Ports Authority, NPA, in also planning to sack a section of the Dockworkers, especially the Tally Clerks and Onboard Security men in spite of their importance and relevance in the Port operations, as it affects the reoccurring scourge of tonnage under declaration and its negative impact on the nation’s economy.

“The leakage of revenue through under declaration of tonnage should be seriously tackled. In this regard, we reiterate that Tally Clerks and Onboard Security men should be allowed to continue the critical job of uncovering and discouraging under tonnage which is often done with the unholy collaboration of NPA, shipping companies, agents and terminal operators. The Tally Clerks and onboard security men are capable of preventing these economic crimes as they were doing through their independent and physical tallying process. “Over 2000 workers(Tally clerks and onboard security men) are involved. Their reinstatement will go a long way in reducing the number of unemployed Nigerians, and also reducing the misery of their families.”

The union demanded among others that “All access roads to the ports as a matter of urgency, should be expanded and rehabilitated to handle cargo traffic in the ports. The traditional rail operations in our seaports should be restored to reduce the pressure on our highways and daily fatal accidents and deaths from containers. Waterways should be developed for delivery of laden containers and heavy equipment through our coastal waters into the hinterland. The tank-farms which are now dangerously located close to the ports, residential areas and along the expressways and access roads close to the ports should be relocated far away from the seaports to stave-off the perennial gridlocks on the roads.

“The volume of vehicles imported into Nigeria through Nigerian ports has collapsed to an all-time low, with consequent loss of thousands of jobs in the maritime sector. The new duty regime for vehicles introduced since 2004 and application of the new rate of exchange rate for duty calculations have made the importation of cars and trucks into Nigeria far too expensive. In the last two years, the number of vehicles arriving Nigeria has shrunk by almost two thirds, while the volume of cars smuggled through the Cotonou Border has continued to rise unabated. It is therefore necessary that the Federal Government reviews its stance on the Automative policy so as not to inflict any more suffering on the workers who are already having a hard time with price increases every day.

“The Federal Government should look at making the importation of cars and trucks more competitive to enable the economy to grow. A significant reduction in the duties applicable on cars and trucks will go a long way in alleviating the challenges of our people and spur economic activities. “Government should as a matter of urgency adopt policies towards resuscitating the export of agricultural produces and mineral resources that were hitherto the main stay of the Nigerian economy before the discovery of oil. This will no doubt create jobs in our seaports and increase revenue for the government.”

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/3000-dock-workers-retrenched-20-shipping-companies-shut-operations/

Lalasticlala over to you my brother.

In his recent article titled ‘This is the Change’, presidential spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu embarked on an arduous but unsuccessful task of attempting to justify the economic hardship, biting hunger, political retrogression, judicial rascality, executive recklessness, electoral inconclusiveness, etc which have all become the indelible insignia of the Buhari-led administration. Reading through the essay, one would have no choice but to have pity on a spokesperson who has nothing positive to write about his boss but must still write something positive all the same in order to help shore up his diminished rating. Honestly, I feel for the president’s spokespersons; this is not the kind of president anyone would want to speak for as evidenced in Shehu’s and Femi Adeshina’s futile attempts to always want to ‘squeeze water from stone’ in order to convince Nigerians about Buhari.

Expectedly, Shehu started that essay rather lamely by reminding Nigerians of how they are now being asked after Buhari in London, Dubai, Beijing, Washington, New York or Tokyo. According to him, “Nigerians get the good feeling of being asked the question, how is President Muhammadu Buhari?”

There is no gainsaying the fact that this is very far from the truth. In Atlanta where the Dream Team VI were left stranded and got to the Rio Olympics same day they had their opening match in a Games of the Olympics magnitude says much about how other countries view our president. Rather than ask how is President Buhari, Americans, Brazillians and indeed the world, who have never in the history of the world heard about a contingent arriving the Games the same day they have a match, would rather ask, what is wrong with President Buhari?

It is such a shame and smacks of excessive executive irresponsibility to allow athletes representing our great country to fend for themselves. Not even Syria or Iraq or any of the war-torn nations treated their athletes in such a shabby manner. As if that was not enough, it took a patriotic John Obi Mikel to take up the responsibility of a highly over-rated federal government to settle the hotel bills of the country’s football team to the tune of 4,600GBP singlehanded.

This should not be a surprise to anyone, it is only a reflection of how bad things have gone back home, so bad citizens of other countries now ask if there is a government in Nigeria.

Shehu in that his brazenly bizarre essay alluded to the fallacy that the current perception of Nigeria is the type that can lead to attracting foreign investments to the country. With such falsehood, one need not wonder why our economy is as bad as it is now, for while the economy is officially in recession, our stock market has lost close to a whopping N2trn within just 15 months, while foreigners are running away in droves, yet, Shehu has the temerity to talk about attracting foreign investments into Nigeria?

What this simply means is that people who are closest to the president have detached themselves from the reality on ground, no wonder they are driving Nigeria remorselessly into economic oblivion and political obliteration.

It is laughable that Shehu and his ilk still bask in the false euphoria of a non-existing support for Buhari “among the lower segment of the local population”. Such support which, in truth, did exist in mass at the early life of this administration has since faded into thin air. The fact of the matter is that in the days leading to the general elections and the ones immediately following, a good part of Nigeria’s populace supported Buhari even up to a fanatical point. Taxi drivers, commercial tricycle operators, shopkeepers, okada riders etc, did not only chant “Sai Buhari”, a majority of them proudly tied the broom which is the ruling party’s symbol and had APC and Buhari’s stickers wantonly displayed on their wares, their vehicles and every other place possible as a sign of solidarity and support for the president.

In fact, one embarked on the needless and self-inflicted punitive journey by foot from Lagos to Abuja just to celebrate his ‘hero’ in the aftermath of that election. A few others soon joined, trekking from one far city to another as it created a bandwagon effect.

But just 15 months after his inauguration, the people have realized that Buhari’s promises to them during the campaigns were nothing but a mere mirage and hoodwink; these same set of people who just 15 months ago chanted “Sai Baba” with reckless abandon have hurriedly and angrily removed anything that has to do with Buhari and APC from their wares and vehicles and have since dissociated themselves from the president and his obviously incompetent party. The urgency with which they have done this is akin to the urgency needed to remove a cancerous growth from the body. The song has since simply changed from “Sai Baba” to “Chai Baba”.

To make matters worse, Garba Shehu in his frustration, inferred that the press has given more prominence to the activities of Boko Haram, the same one they claimed they have defeated, and “pipeline vandal from the Delta region…than the Minister of Labour, Governor Ngige or the Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, talking about job creation in the economy”.

Shehu should know that there is nothing new in this as a good section of the media is already used to this line of reportage having been used by the APC to spin and report only negative stories and falsehood against the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan while under-reporting or even ignoring his achievements, all in a bid to score banal political points. The presidential spokesman should stop complaining about this; he and his principals are only naturally reaping whirlwind today from the wind they sowed yesterday!

The deserved criticism of the government of the day has, as usual, been placed at the door step of officials of the last administration as its sponsors. Nothing can be further from the truth. Nigerians do not need anyone to tell them how biting the current hardship on them is. No matter how much the Buhari administration tries to cover up its mess, they should know that you can only tell a blind man that there is no oil in the soup but you cannot tell him that there is no salt in it.

In trying to further vilify the past administration as is their practice, Shehu claimed that the ‘war on corruption’ “has forced the return to the treasury of billions of Naira and millions of Dollars stolen by past officials”, yet, Buhari keeps telling Nigerians that we are broke and uses this as a reason for his obvious economic incompetence. What then happened to the billions of Naira and millions of Dollars always gleefully claimed to have been returned by suspected ‘looters’? Have they also been re-looted?

What has also happened to the N2trn claimed by Garba to have been saved annually by this government from the removal of fuel subsidy? Does this not mean that some good money must have been saved between when the subsidy was removed and now? What is happening to those funds?

What about the money Garba also said have been saved from reducing the number of ministries from 46 to 24? The height of sophistry is when in one breath you say Nigeria has recovered and saved billions of naira and millions of dollars from various sources but also say that the country is broke because oil prices have dropped! Garba Shehu and his masters speak from both sides of the mouth and seem to also have a case to answer!

The continued excuses that low oil price is a major factor militating against Buhari’s performance is nothing but a frequently rehashed story concocted to cover up the failure of this government. Does it mean that if per adventure Nigeria’s oil dries up today, Buhari would be justified for making Nigerians hungry and leaving many more die needlessly?

Even in the face of prosperity, Buhari and his men have proved to be bad managers of resources. Or, how else can one explain the avoidable death from malnutrition and other health factors of over a thousand Nigerian children and women placed in the direct care of government in internally displaced persons, (IDP) camps in the northeast despite the abundance of resources, some from international agencies and donors?

Just like Prince Deji Adeyanju, an aspirant to the office of National Publicity Secretary in PDP’s last convention at Port Harcourt, said in one of his facebook posts, before this government came to power, they had all the solutions to all our problems but now that they are in power, they have only excuses for all our problems. How apt!

The likes of Garba Shehu should not think they can succeed this time in deceiving Nigerians. One is sure that APC and their goons now realize that it was easier to lie to the people when they were in opposition than now that they are ruling. The lesson in all this is that propaganda, lies and deceit may get you power, but performance, and not excuses, is required to remain there!

Buhari and APC now know better. The people have also come to realize that the change agenda of the federal government is nothing but a ‘one chance’ agenda!

Someone should tell Garba Shehu that this is certainly not the change!

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/garba-shehu-definitely-not-change-buhari-promised/

spartacus11:
can u even read, i should tell u what is happening to d case, when u are in a trend that just gave u the details of the trip of the EFCC chairman. are u dat clueless. so u said diezani case has nothing to do with the nigeria authority dat its about the 27000 pounds found in her home, so i did post a link to d case so u will see she is been charge with money laundry and bribery so before u get heart attack take care.
it dos not matter how long justice must been done, where is ibori today, is ibori case imaginary too

Money laundry and bribery involving who and who and at which court? When is the next hearing?