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Thai and Indian business men are already bringing their improved seeds to plant in Nigeria.
The border closure is a blessing . It will bring FDI into Nigeria. Dangote and Coscharis are going into rice big. OLAM and STALLION are already making big.
If anyone criticizes Buhari fo.r closing border, you have my permission to curse him

Let me rephrase. Nigeria can raise money hut we dont have enough fiscally now. Its s $400bn economy. It should be raising $50bn from taxes alone. Another $40bn from oil and gas income. We have been corruptly slack for too long.

We should put defence/security on first line charge on the federation account . Maybe even statutory transfer. We should be spending minimum of $5bn on defence. If we do that we would be compelled to develop local defence industry which will probably make $8bn from arms exports alone and employ possibly 500,000 people down from local foundries, machine shops to electronic manufacturing complexes.

Jephtah resigned from PDP. That's huge

Most Nigerians have said this. Ex Governor Igbinedion is one of the most STUPID Nigerians alive. Completely off the scale in that regard. Same guy once said it was his fathers money he was using to run Edo State.
What Nigerians should be asking is why they continue to permit these double jeopardy (stupid+corrupt) people into governance.

Osinbajo for President

Aldebarann:
Have you ever wondered why Russia has variants of the surface to air missiles from SA-10 Grumble to S-500? They do not have the striking force of the US. B-1 Lancer, B-2 Spirit, B-52 Stratofortress, F-35 Lightning Thunder, F-22 Raptor, F-18 Super hornet, F-16 Falcon, F-15 Silent Eagle, A-10 Warthog et al. The B variants are bombers. F variants are multirole fighters (flanking, dogfighting, attacking), Warthogs are tank busters. You know what they say: Attack is the new defense. I can’t even begin to talk about naval warfare . They will both incur huge losses but the US will still come out tops. I have read & watched videos enough to know it is almost impossible for a single country to win the US in conventional war. And if they resort to nuclear, MAD comes into play; 66 nuclear weapons & everybody dies.

Russia does not have money and they are losing technology capabilities. To develop major weapon systems they are going to need JVs with India or China however they have not been good at managing these large cross border international projects.
What they are doing now is trying to raise defence technology development money by selling competitive wares to rich third world countries without making any political judgments or setting human rights criteria.
Nigeria should go for the best of the best and not offer cash but commodities and mineral development joint ventures.

Russia needs to work fast in development of AI, robotics, advanced data processing and cutting edge information technology to be respected. They should also stop doing stupid stuff like they did in.the Crimea and Ukraine. The economy is almost ruined now because of the sanctions and only commodities are sustaining the country. Like a third world country.

This is a common 'beast '. A small MRAP. The picture is US troops leaving positions in Syria for Turkey to occupy in order to destroy Kurds (PKK) who were instrumental in defeating ISIS.

hillsiderfak:
Those General with big belly.

Please guys should stop mentioning SU 25s. The planes are not as good Super Tucanoes. This is not my opinion. Its the opinions of those who have compared them criteria by criteria. Besides where are you going to get SU 25s. They are too old. Russia itself does not have it as part of the strategy for dealing with massed armor attacks any longer.

If you need to take out AAA guns from Boko, long range missiles and super accurate rockets from 3km away is what you require. Super Tucanoes, Russian Yak 130s and and to some extent NAFs upgraded Alpha Jets/L 39ZA are good enough. Forget this idiocy about armoured cockpits. Whats armoured cockpit? ISIS damaged 50% of Iraqi Airfirce's MI 35Ms by AAA fire and rendered them out of action. MI 35Ms have armoured cockpits. There is no such thing as a "flying tank". It just depends on where the bullet hits
ISIS could not bring down KI 35s or kill the pilots but they rendered the choppers inoperative. The solution is in tactics and using star off weapons not armouring cock pits. Besides SU 25s are old tech and very expensive to upgrade....still they are not cost effective

hillsiderfak:
Oga, you sell this jets abi.?

Yes. He is right. Russia has started exporting these choppers. They were not doing that some years back. They really want to make money from this war on terrorism .
Kamov helicopters and US Super Tucano can wipe out Boko in two weeks. It's all in the sensors, speed and stand off weapons. Super Tucanoes coming from The US have some super accurate but cheap rockets and bombs.

Buhari should lease-to-buy Kamovs with Russian pilots while we pay small small
In return we give them a gas field and Ajaokuta re commissioning contract.

This trip, Buhari will mist likely sign.a deal for MI 28NE helicopters if Russians offer it.
For those posting pictures of jets, Adesina did not mention jet aircraft but fighter helicopters. Only MI 28NEs are the choppers Nigeria does not have now.
They are faster, deadlier and carry more stand off weapons than MI 35Ms that we have now and they dont carry troops

adecz:



He won't send technocrats that
understand economics & global
trade & finance dynamics.

In stead, he will go & be disgracing
himself & de-marketting our country,
telling the world that his country is full
of lazy youth, women should remain in
"za oza room", how wonderful Fulani
cattle are, how herdsmen are misunderstood
& giving different answer
to serious questions.

The man wey no sabi use computer,
leading a country in this age!! No wonder
the country is broke & the only fire brigade
approach is to tax the half dead citizens.








Boohhari, come back!!!

You need some education in governance. Actually you need some education in a lot of things. Technocrats dont mean shit. They are two for a penny.

Only a President has the authority to sign some treaties on behalf of Nigeria. He is Head of State and Head of Government.

He is going to meet the President of Russia. They will talk high level talks which is not technocratic ( its something like " we need this from Russia". Putin also says "we need this very much from Nigeria". They will agree verbally, then the technocrats will negotiate and give them broad encompassing treaties to sign. Presidents have power, technocrats are just specialists in narrow fields of endeavour. Putin also is NOT a technocrat.

Try to get some education before making dumb comments on social media. Also understand the way the world is run.
Its not a video game or using a computer Its long range thinking, strategising, positioning. Its not kid stuff

Toju200:
As for the MI35 we have already signed the deal but not paid for all.Its every year we pay for two each or something Four...But as for this year it's like we paid for only one and it's coming possibly December..It might be The yak and MIG deal hopefully

Yaks or MIGs?
To be financed from where?. Except we buy the ones Russians are already using and pay with a gas deal or minning lease for oil or a strategic metal. Nigeria has NO money

jteku:
Bubu on his way to Russia right now, what is the best deal he can get

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/10/insurgency-nigeria-to-procure-additional-fighter-helicopters-from-russia-presidency/

I always knew it was just going to be fast tracking of remaining MI35M, some vehicles and artillery (maybe MLRS) in the short run.
Yaks and SUs or MIGs, no money yet.

I think a large haul of hardware financed by ECA money is coming over the next 18 months and it will make big difference to security

What was gentleman, man of peace, saviour of democracy GEJ doing for six years and with over $450bn.

If his supporters are too sentimental to ask, know that God will. He has x-ray eyes. You dont fool him and he is not mocked.

Buhari is the BEST President Nigeria has had since Yakubu Gowon/Awolowo. If you dont think so maybe you are so much a product of the Nigerian system that you not using your full faculties to see the need for economic restructuring .

Economic restructuring should start with taxation reform. You will be surprised how much national restructuring comes from this when "regions" and "states" start getting stronger and more powerful out of self generated revenue improvments driving infrastructure and growth

When Tinubu money hits your brain. The entire thing will just scatter. You will see blue and call it red.

I suspect Iranian Revolutionary Guards Troops and Special Forces embedded with Houthis.

kikuyu1:
Saudi armour losses updated! What do you do when you have more money than sense? Keep doing the same thing over & over til either smth good happens or the dollars run out-800+ MRAPs and 265 MBTs and counting among the Riyadh led coalition consisting of the Saudis,Qataris,Pakistanis (nemesis8u,why are your pals so talented in unwinnable wars?)Sudanese and Moroccans til they recently pulled out! These are known M1 Abrams,Le Clerc,LAV,Spartan etc,etc losses.

https://lostarmour.info/yemen/

At least this year their losses seem to have dipped though there are still almost 2.5 months left in 2019. I always knew they'd bit off more than they could handle but dammnn! Btw,don't blame the OEMs for all these torched weapons systems-despite fangirlism nothing on earth is indestructible especially when infantry support is poorly coordinated


Sometimes I wish Congolese could be just half as determined as Houthis,those desert Gurkhas! Instead their sole competence is to flee from trouble and take refuge in escapism in this case dressing up.

https://latinglam.com/wp-content/uploads/screen_shot_2016-12-13_at_3.00.49_pm.png

I've seen a nigga in a kilt!?

Beremx:
IMF.... International Mother Fuckers!!!


Always supporting anti -people policies and they are happy at the high cost of food.

Ndi ara

You eat smuggled food and you want it to continue. What a generation? Inferiors everywhere. Smuggled food, second hand clothes discarded by prostitutes in Europe, second hand cars, et.c.
What a SHAME.

Yusman316:
My brother, Aisha's problem is that she is not getting her way (getting juicy appointments to her cronies) and she blame the people closest to her husband i.e, Mamman Daura. But the truth is her husband doesn't want to interfere in such matters and so also the people closest to him. She let all hell break loose in the recently conducted elections, in her state of Adamawa because her preferred candidate (a relation) didn't get the party ticket

She is a bad woman. A weakness to her husband. Someone lied to her that Turai Yaradua and Patience Jonathan were gold standard in first ladies. They were not. Their husbands were weak and STUPID.

PDP supporters are all crooks and prideless. They go through every week inventing 'underdogs' for Buhari's 'tyranny'. The latest is Aisha, Buhari's wife. A wife they were accussimg of being wanted for money laundering in.the US. The wife they were saying was the owner of the cash seized from a Buhari aide some weeks back. So we have to swallow that this woman is now being persecuted in.her own home and how should that be our business btw?

Thus woman may just lose her home and face EFCC. Buhari has done worse in the 80s. If she wont take her place or concentrate on the 'oza room", the Presidency is within rights to resource "better qualified personnel" fir those places

GreyLaw:
This is what we call, "Finish him!"

What nonsense that guy wrote up there. Imagine saying that a cousin, or whatever Daura is, knows a husband (Buhari) more than his wife (Aisha) of over 30 years. All this in a bid to manufacture excuses for Buhari.

I was saying the truth.
The age difference between Buhari and Aisha demands that the woman faces some hard facts.

Pray what excuse does a wife have fir criticizing her husbands policies in public days yo the election.
How does a wife assume that she can produce two state governors against the wishes of power brokers in a party just because a previous president permitted that nonsense.
Lets say the TRUTH always. Nigerians need to mature above childush sentiment.

Aisha is an embarrasment and she might just become a divorcee soon.
I know most PDP supporters dont reason properly but most woulf remember the only.corruption rumours against Buhari were from the side of the wife, Aisha including the latest one about some guy they seized a lot of foreign currency from in the UK which probably explained why Aisha had to come back so soon because she ran out of cash.

LocalNietzsche:
Buhari style of governance in my observation is protectionist economically, socialist in governance and conservative in social values. I support conservative social values but I am strongly against protectionist and socialist ideals. How I miss OBJ.

I don't support protectionism but the US, the great defender of seamless world trade allowed Trump to come to power so we should scatter everything and gain all we can.from the confusion. I think Nigeria will evenyually lead African countries in retaliating against low primary commodity prices - oil, lithium fir batteries, copper, palm oil and cocoa. As that fool Trump was shouting "America first", let Africa shout " Africa first". We will cause a global depression in two years, then the whole world will come begging.

Second point, Buhari is not a socialist but Nigerias poverty level is intolerable. It is a big crime and unbelievable senselessness to have 70% poverty and it is not business friendly policies that will eliminate poverty. It is rather taxation, social welfare and social investment. Nigerians are such natural capitalists, that every 1% improvement in poverty alleviation will grow the GDP by at least 5% and unleash 1 million new traders, craftsmen, transporters and farmers ..but we need to endure policies that will appear like negative socialism for a while.

SarkinYarki:
Daura for President 2023

I will use this to reinforce the point. Mamman Daura is NOT interested in the Presidency. He is knowledgeable, capable, deep and profound BUT he wont be President.
You guys should get things straight about influence and power. My humble lecturer in fluid mechanics in school was ten times better than me in most things BUT I earned salaries equal to all his earnings in a life time in one year working abroad. Office, money and position are ordained by God. Let us always show understanding.

Daura for all his depth and capability WILL never be President BUT a joker like Dino Melaye may be in future depending on.how effectively he yanks the chain of youths whi like him and how much he defers to the hidden powers that be .

The Americans have a saying " too smart to want to be President " to describe the irony of democracy

Oblongata:
Good development...

There are many roads that needs rehabilitation, you need to do that first before moving to water.

You are thinking in Nigerian. Think hard in English then repost a better comment afterall your name is oblibgata. Use it. You cannot rehabilitate all roads before you develop alternative solutions that will reduce the wear and tear on roads. Its not chicken and egg. Its a part solution not an alternative

J111333:
If I'm President today, my mentor Rt.Gen John W**** will live at the White House with me for advice, no apologies for that.

What Edwin Clark was to Jonathan is what Mamman Daura is to Buhari and I don't have a problem with that.

My problem is that Buhari is not competent enough and too outdated to be a president in a today's country.

The last paragraph is your opinion that I disagree with. Buharis focus has sometimes being rebuilding statutory , fiscal and operational integrity of the country that was lost. There are no modern ways to do leadership. Its the same principles since 0 a.d. You cannot computerize it. Same principles, set a vision and get people to buy into it and follow it. Buhari style is even far better than Putin, Erdogan and Trump. At least, he was through governance structures as a former military man. I find his style better than OBJ's bullying (I too know) or GEJ (appeasement of powers and bribing people to pacify them). Buhari will simply take you out if you cross boundaries ofvsovereigjity

Bede2u:
Lol....this writer don't get the point. Nobody has ever said that the Daura man is not intelligent or resourceful. What has been said is that Buhari who was elected and is the visible face of this administration has once again left key decisions to unknown and unelected persons.

A cabal is a small group of people united in some close design, usually to promote their private views of or interests in an ideology, state, or other community, often by intrigue and usually unbeknownst to those outside their group. The use of this term usually carries negative connotations of political purpose, conspiracy and secrecy.

This writer does not know Buhari or Mamman Daura more than Aisha so he should talk small small

The writer knows Daura and Buhari more than Aisha. You need to realize Aisha is second wife and came into the picture when the first phase of Buhari's life had passed. He had practically lost his entire first family to divorce and later bereavement.
Nigeria is also demographically young. Most Nigerians only of Daura in 2015. We who were in secondary school in mid 1970s in Lagos and were politically aware read editorials in New Nigerian penned by Daura. Some of us were critical of the backwardness and conservatism of the North BUT it was Mamman Daura, Bala Usman, and a few other guys mostly university lecturers that we saw as hope of the region.
I bet the fact that the man is even educated to Masters level is a shock to most ignorant lazy youths who comment on social media.
The other idiocy is the one about Daura living in Aso Rock. Pls shut up if you dont know. Buhari can bring any relative into Aso Rock. GEJ did and even brought extended family members. Trump has all his family in the White House with his son in law making foreign policy. Such is the power of executive presidency. If you dont know, find out or shut up. The President can make a relative part of his personal staff and instruct him to be accommodated in aso rock. The power behind the mandate we give our Presidents and governors are massive and encompassing.

Talking about a cabal is amateurish. Every presidency has a cabal. GEJ had a cabal. OBJ had a cabal. Everytime you a President says " you guys will work with me closely but I wont give the most important amongst you any appointments but you will make policy with me" then you have a cabal. Cabal also arises when a Vice Presidency is resourced from another faction of a party. George H Bush (father of George W Bush) was vice president to Ronald Reagan but throughout his VP days there was always a group (cabal) around Ronald Reagan running things and George Bush was an outsider to governance most of the time. There is a cabal around all state governors in Nigeria. There has to be. You cannot be governor without an informal group feeding you info and extending your insight into society that institutions of government dont give because they are too structured.

GeneralFarouq:
Wait so ezugwu have already been deployed to the NE, this is a great news
Provided it doing its job the Army should embark on large production...

They are producing 130 pieces of Ezugwu in one year at the least.

dnawah:
oga please talk how u protect Americans both home and abroad.leave Trump Twitter alone.it is not 0.0000000000000000000000000000001 of am American problem.

Trump is 'protecting' Americans by posting low IQ stuff on twitter at the age of 70. I weak for dis world. The brains are evaporating. It must be global warming

A fool in the White House. This is the trash some inferiority complex ridden Nigerian youths are comparing with Obama.
OUR mentality is so degraded in Nigeria we cant even think straight anymore. You see truth and you are scared...pudding your Pants.
Americans will shoo off this in experienced amateur with the IQ of a third grader before the next elections.

A third world president in.the white house. SHAME

Nigeria may be interested in JV manufacturing and sales of IFVs and artillery pieces..

godofuck231:
The theatre commander should apply this and Boko haram should have been ok by now

Nigeria bought smaller versions of this type of thermobaric bombs and we are using them already. ISWAP is coming south into Nigeria but they will be defeated

komekn:
100% correct l said this about 6 years ago.

As usual some people consider it to be unpatriotic to say the truth.

However, at the core of the issues is the in depth ignorance if our over sight functionaries in the National assembly and Executive arms of government.

They simply don't have the capacity to ensure compliance. Look at the over sight committee and the composition. Then ask how many have left the serenity of Abuja to go to the northern East to ascertain facts on the ground.

Army aviation is very necessary. It is the missing capability in the theatre. Its not about the hardware or even the operating procedures. It is a force multiplier and morale booster. NAF will never provide enough CAS capability to cope with an insugency. It wont happen. The two forces will always work in silos.

Army aviation is a ground based capability operating from the air. It is intimate to operations launched at the company or battalion level.

No army aviator will leave trapped comrades running out of ammo and encircled by Boko Haram. Why would he?. He was exchanging stories and jokes with those guys just yesterday.
The General who said "the Chopper will be there with us in the trench" was 100% doctrinally correct. He and people who know understood what he meant.

Patrols, cordons and search, area denials, recce, resupply, et.c are that much easier with Army Aviation. I actually advocate the transfer of the six new MI 35s being expected to Army aviation. This is because airlifting of IFVs are a secondary capability required to kill BHT/ISWAP quickly

supercase1:
!!!!!!!! This is a serious issue and I have decided to address it on this thread!!!! B4 we start let's know the definition of a zombie
a. a half dead person
b. Someone that can not reason with his brain
U see for Nigerians to be suffering in this government and yet still support and defend this evil govt means that zombie epidemic is high in Nigeria now let's consider the following
A.high cost of living
B.increased rate of corruption and impunity by the ruling party and faithfuls
C.worsening security situations
D.lack of power supply
E.ability to create unemployment by part of the govt
F.lack of foreign investment by foreign personnel in the country
G.poorly maintained fed institutions,road and agencies desipite high oil revenue and taxes
F.ability not to differentiate between a scammer and an intending to scam politicial parties therefore making a dcieving between either a black devil and red devil
G.a total crackdown on you by your fellow citizens when u try to raise credible points on our cause for survival or how things ought to be done properly
........ These are symptoms and signs that 90% of Nigerians had been infected with this zombie virus and something has to be done about it.!!!!!!

PMB government is resetting all brains. The solution that will tackle all ills is taxation reform. Let everybody pay up to 25% tax at least from okada rider to perm sec. If you dont see this as the real national restructuring then you are the one that is a dunce.

When everybody pays his tax (CORRECTLY) this country will change. All the sentiment you.have for your tribesmen who sell you tribal superiority to steal your tax money will.dry up
You will demand public service for your taxes. Politicians will be tied to trucks and driven around the town.square luke they did in S. America early this month.

I thank.God for PMB. For tax net expansion, border closure and anti corruption fight. Of course its painful, of course its annoying if you are a PDP supporter. However it is necessary. The pain and the anger are completely irrelevant. Pain, anger, anxiety, stress, joy, happiness, success and failure its only the living that feel them and we thank God we are living but if they are necessary for progress we will endure them. Otherwise if its too much for you, try to forment social trouble and reap consequences.