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Im not interestes in reaing that gibberish. All i want to know is where is Ngwakwe and his No girls are missing Army?

idumuose: Buhari knows if doesn't win 2015 election,then he can never contest election again because age will no longer be on his side.

Therefore it is very possible that Buhari will employ all the tricks in his arsenal to win public sympathy including hiring some touts to pull those stunts in Kaduna.

If he could hire criminals wearing the garb of Mossad to Kidnap Dikko then what stops him from hiring some hoodlums to bomb his convoy.

Even your fellow illiterate that you guys queue behind, in person of Asari Dokubo has a contrary opinion and was scared to death should anything have happened to Buhari. He has enough money to abscond for life, its u and your fellow wretched e-warriors i feel sorry for.

*editted* since this poo made FP

Buhari never overthrew any government

Major-General Buhari was selected to lead the country by middle and high-ranking military officers after a successful military coup d'etat that overthrew civilian President Shehu Shagari on December 31, 1983. At the time, Buhari was head of the Third Armored Division of Jos. Buhari was appointed Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, and Tunde Idiagbon was appointed Chief of General Staff (the de facto No. 2 in the administration).

Ngwakwe: By these two statements below, The Secretary-General of ASCSN, Mr.
Alade Lawal is lying

The organisation also stated that records at its disposal showed clearly that the staff strength in the entire public service was about 870,000, and not 1.2 million being carried about by the minister, “unless there is a hidden agenda somewhere.”

- whereas the staff strength of the core civil service is about 100,000, as against 870,000 staff for the entire public service.

Who are core civil servants?

The Pension thieves, NNPC Staff, Custom and Immigration Staff or who?

Do you read to understand at all? Go back and read that article yourself, and you will understand. Dont just skip through cos your sister is in question here.

No $1 billion loan.. Retake Damboa or not.

Training mission in a war torn zone. Ok na

Goddex:

This Mind44 is just becoming so. . . omg!!!

That is why he hurriedly moved this thread to homepage. In his mind, to "expose" Okonjo-Iweala.

See, that woman is not in the class of Mr Alade Lawal. Trust her, she will provide him detailed evidence on that.

Besides, Alade may be talking from the narrow perspective of Civil Service while excluding the billions of personnel cost in the Police, Army, Air Force, Navy, Civil Defence and other para-military forces since this group do not form part of his union.

Civil Servants partner with politicians to steal our commonwealth but will be quick to segregate their wagebill from that of politicians in times like this

pro01: The OP asked a simple and legitimate question, but rather than answer with FACTS, some clowns here resorted to diversionary quips about "poverty mentality" and all that rubbish. Many Nigerians criminalise poverty, and this is a big reason why people try to make money at all costs and by any means - leading to the problem of corruption and crime that you hypocrites conplain about.

What has poverty got to do with the OP's question? If you know exactly how Buhari acquired his bullet-proof SUV(s), why not enlighten us, rather than resort to senseless rants about poverty - whilst dodging the main question?

So u decided to join the train of foolish chlidish newits. A retired 3 star General, former head of state, a political leader, can not afford bullet proof cars, when ordinary citizens can? Even if he doesnt buy it himself, do ypu know how many people can give him one? The way people think this days is so pathetic. Damn!

activatenigeria: Who intends to gain from the whole attack? Buhari, seeking for sympathy from Nigerians, by trying to wash himself off the BH stain, the attack was planned and staged, don't worry we will all get to hear the truth very soon.

Your foolishness has gotten to an extreme level. If i ask you now, you will claim to be a graduate. Had it been anything happened to Buhari, i will see if you will still be sitting behind that ur pentium ll laptop or using ur cheap phone to post poo here. There have been several attempted assassinations on political leaders worldwide, u can as well tell us it was also stage managed by the victims. You are trying so hard to be relevant here, but your useless, senseless, and childish posts does not even make your fellow cankerworms recognize u. If you intend to get of the good books of government by creating a website and posting nonsense to probably get some pay, you will die of hunger, you lazy newit. I choose to believe that you were not hired, cos you are the real definition of incompetence! Nonsense.

VocalWalls: Nwanne, I'm just pretending that I don't know what's up.




@OP, thanks for coming out clean.

Best thing to do is get 5 persons with 2 k each, subscribe and share the data at once.

I once fell for the Glo plan, octavo never came out clean, I didn't bother asking him anything about it, all I did was move on!

Octavo did the same to me on glo. Didnt bother asking him too. But he gave me 2 gig i think for just a week. And i paid 1k5. Originally it would have been 1gig. I didnt even know it was 2gig until i got a text telling me my plan will soon expire and my volume remains bla bla.

Omexonomy: The cluelless one is tormenting and defeating the cluefull ones
Little by little all gej enemies will bow to him. Tinubu will soon go and prostrate b4 gej.
Koboko69
berem
and the rest supporters of APC on nairaland claiming apc will be left to fend for themselves.

Cant u make a contribution without spamming my mentions. Does mentioning us increase ur pay?. Your post is even so foolish, didnt buhari visit aso rock too sometime this year? What difference does it make. That Don Jazzy and DBanj performed on stage together does not mean they settled their skulls. Desist from spamming our mentions, i have been ignoring u since....its an order!

God deliver us from this PDP led government. $14bn on security in 5years with little or no result

God deliver us from pdp.$14bn on security for 5 years...little or no result.

solomakindees: The script-writers of these impeachments saga must tread softly.
What goes up must come down. Obj during his time did not pretend, as he enjoyed throwing out perceived 'enemy' governors.
But when his nemesis 'Third term' came, he became a totally-confused man and all his shenanigans led Nigeria to where we are today.
Those who fail to learn from history must step on their own banana peels too.
The cow thief, chasing pigeon pickpockets!

I made have been making this assertion but this Jonathanians are always so daft to think of the future. This might just be an end game by the north and APC. By the time 2 apc govs are lost to impeachment, jonathan would have no moral right to accuse apc/north of deperation for power if an impeachment notice is issued against him.The public sympathy he would have gotten wpuld have been lost. Even hard general Obasanjo was wise enough to know where to draw the line. Some people will argue that pdp are the majority in the house of assembly forgetting that it takes just 1 swoop for that to turn around just as it happened before. The speaker is not even pro-jonathan.we are watching closely.

chimerase2: yes is true but if 40% northern PDP is boko haram then u knw dat 98% Northern APC is boko haram that is the obvious truth deal with it

Oh you goons have started dividing PDP into 2 now. There is now northern pdp. . You goons are bunch of clowns. Why not tell Jonathan to creat his own party and name it 'SAINT PARTY'

YEYE DEY OOZE

Omexonomy: sweery, in order to stop the carnage and the supporter of APC action of BH i will suggest you tell ALL APC GOVS TO STOP SPONSORING BH WITH THE FED ALLOCATION And start people orientatiön programme.

im sure u sound daft even to yourself

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collynzo2: Another of the poorly thought out statements we have come to expect from APC.
These are policies that will take years before we start seeing results, by the way what exactly could that ''new initiative'' be? While the children are being sent back to school (if they agree to) what will the government do to ensure those schools are protected from Boko haram attacks? Isn't it the same military offensive with weapons?
Since they are policies that will take time to yield results, will the APC refrain itself from lambasting the govt for every single boko haram attack that takes place while the scheme is being implemented? I don't thinks so
APC has previously declared through several of its members that insurgency will end ''once they take over power'', is it these same measures that they will use to bring an immediate end to insurgency? Hell no!

They know the problem has been due to years of bad governance (by northerners), so why do they expect Jonathan to solve it in a day?

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Garbage....oga answer the bolded and stop whinning all over the place. Metuh is not even half as intelligent as Lai...not to talk of you. I wll also like to know how long we are supposed to wait...next year will make it 6years.

''Between 2010 and 2014, a total of US$14 billion has
been allocated for defence, security and the police.
This year alone, the total sum is US$4 billion. Now, if
US$14 billion has not clipped the wings of Boko Haram
in five years, what difference can US$1 billion make if
thrown into the crisis in the same old way?

NgeneUkwenu: Useless gossip!

Brainless would have made more sense sef. I nor know wetin concern mace for the matter.

Intelligent and objective write up. Points alighted are really important in tackling insurgency.

''Between 2010 and 2014, a total of US$14 billion has
been allocated for defence, security and the police.
This year alone, the total sum is US$4 billion. Now, if
US$14 billion has not clipped the wings of Boko Haram
in five years, what difference can US$1 billion make if
thrown into the crisis in the same old way?

The proposed $1billion is for funding 2015 reelection agenda. Do not be deceived.

Na you thief the mace?

Desperate PDP....all to score cheap political points. Maybe they can also do well by telling us how pdp led government spent 1trillion on security with little results.

This impunity seed Jonathan sowed....

if u sow mango.....you cant reap water melon.

If you sow impunity you will definitely reap impunity.

I hope Jonathanians will not come and start lamenting when Jonathan start reaping what he sowed.

authority2006: One has to twist the original title of any news before it can make front page. People have been commenting on this same topic I created since yesterday, but someone who created the same thread today by twisting the title had it moved to the front page.

How much do they pay u for making FP?

Buhari the people's general is really giving some goons heart burn. Imagine recycling 2012 garbage in 2014.

Morninic pdp leaders. What do you have to say about a full grown man like Metuh eating back his own words about saying APC has islamic agenda? The mods and seun have refused to move that thread to FP.

When every riffraff thinks they have an idea. Who is gonna waste precious time read a very long epistle of garbage. Imagine how much time and resources the op used in creating a moronic thread that will not surpass a page. *spits*

Thread locked

https://www.nairaland.com/1823324/pdp-makes-u-turn-denies-saying

otokx: Where are the many that said chibok is a hoax?

You mean Ngwakwe and his troops?

youngmonie: IF the MOD's are sincere people this should be bold on the front page!!

I wonder what Mynd_44 is waiting for. I know Ngwakwe and obionoscopy will never see this. If it was APC chewing back its vomit, they would have seen it.

Noctec: Na soooooo??

Oga randy...how market? I know person like sincere9gerian fit don call u. Abi i lie?

[size=18pt]Buharinomics - General Buhari’s economic program marshaled out to salvage the nation in 1984 [/size]

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Buharinomics was General Buhari’s economic program marshaled out to salvage the nation in 1984. He summarized the objective of his economic policy (as articulated in the 1984 budget) as follows: "To arrest the decline in the economy, to put the economy on a proper course of recovery and solvency, and to chart a future course for economic stability and prosperity" (West Africa, May 14, 1984). He had previously done similarly, in March while receiving the visiting Sudanese President, Gaafar Nimeiri. Upon his inquiring of what the new military government had in mind for the nation it then ruled, Buhari said to him: "The priority [of his administration] is for economic recovery, providing employment opportunities, improving people's living conditions, consolidating internal security and ensuring foreign respect" (Africa Now, March 1984). In a nutshell, Buharinomics set out to arrest the decline in the economy and refocus it towards recovery. Buharinomics was to wean the nation off consumerism and profligacy, while channeling it towards frugality and productivity. To accomplish this, the government was to cut down on its expenditure, engage in more efficient restricting and controlling of foreign exchange outflow, undertake the revival of the country's productive capacity (concentration was on agriculture), and broaden government's revenue base.
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The first test of Buharinomics was implemented to revive the comatose banking industry and arrest local currency hoarding. In April 1984, the government ordered a change in the color of the Naira. This action was dubbed the “real coup” by unscrupulous business men and politicians who had almost eliminated the need for commercial banking in Nigeria by keeping their moneys under their mattresses or by trafficking them into neighboring West African countries. This currency change, which forced all holders of the naira notes into exchanging them for the new naira notes at commercial banks, infused billions that had remained unaccounted for into the banking industry and eliminated counterfeited currencies, which had inflicted inflationary and other nefarious effects on the economy. This measure had an immediate revitalizing effect in the banking industry and was an unqualified success. Banks that were close to collapsing became vibrant again, to the extent that some of them began to hire hitherto unemployed Nigerians.
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To cut down on government expenses, the federal work force was cut by 30% and imports for 1984 pegged at 4 billion pounds (mostly on basic foodstuffs, spare parts, and raw materials for local industries), against 14 billion pounds spent in 1983. To ensure that Nigeria remained respectable on the international business world, Buhari committed to honoring Nigeria’s debt payment schedule irrespective of the limited earning potential of Nigeria. In August 1984, Buhari was on one of his meet-the-people nationwide tours, which he began as soon as the administration got on its feet. Everywhere he went, the people embraced him, coming out en mass and ushering him tumultuous cheers and unreserved applause. In one of his speeches to the people (this one in Owerri), he reiterated Nigeria’s commitment to honoring its debts, the dire economic situation notwithstanding. "The task of this administration is how to persuade Nigerians to understand that for a number of years to come, we would be paying debts, the roads may be long and thorny but we believe that on our shoulders lies the responsibility to save our fatherland from devastation that has resulted from mismanagement" (Newswatch, February 18, 1985).
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Buhari could not have been any more correct in his statement above. Assuming Nigeria took no further loans, its breakdown of loan repayments was as follows: 3.9 billion naira ($4.4 billion) in 1985, 3.7 billion naira ($4.19 billion) in 1986, 2.8 billion naira ($3.2 billion) in 1987, until a decrease to 703 million in 1991 (Concord Weekly, May 6, 1985). Nigeria’s precarious financial situation made it impossible for it to finance capital projects and meet up its balance of payment obligations. With oil export pegged at 1.3 million barrels per day by OPEC, borrowing from external sources became necessary. To this effect, Nigeria proposed borrowing 1.795m naira to finance its capital project from the IMF. The patriotism with which General Buhari handled Nigeria’s dealings with the IMF was the highlight and beauty of Buharinomics.

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In order to qualify for the loan, IMF gave Nigeria certain conditions which must be met. In 1984 when the naira exchanged for $1.34, the IMF demanded a minimum of 60% devaluation of it. Buhari refused, agreeing only to a "crawling peg"—a mechanism whereby government would realign the currency gradually, forestalling or minimizing economic and social dislocations because of such drastic devaluation of its currency. In addition to the devaluation of the naira, IMF demanded that government took other drastic actions: (a) The government must remove its subsidy on petroleum. (b) It must curtail its expenditure. (c) Government must rationalize its tariff structures. (d) It must put a freeze on its wages. (e) It must put a total end of non-statutory transfers to State governments, (f) Government must at least institute a 30% raise on interest rates—government resisted this because the decline in its revenue earnings and its debt obligations made it almost impossible to raise interest rates without triggering inflation (West Africa, May 14, 1984).
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The Nigerian government and veteran economists in Nigeria (like Aluko, Onosade, Okigbo, etc) could not make sense of being asked to devalue its currency when Nigeria’s imports were in dollar and its export (fixed quantity of oil) was also in dollar. The implication of devaluation was that Nigeria would pay more to import lesser quantity of goods than it did prior to any devaluation. It would also export the same amount of oil it exported before any devaluation and derive lesser revenue than it received before any devaluation The impacts of it debt payment would have harsher effect on the citizenry if the naira was devalued. This did not make any economic sense to Buhari; it struck him as an insult on the intelligence of the African. Finance Minister Onaolapo Soleye and Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji who led the Nigerian delegation to the last negotiation in Washington were chewed out by US Federal Reserve Chairman, Paul Volcker, for presenting the Nigerian governments rejection of most of these recommendations. For rejecting the IMF conditions and the loan, the Buhari administration got into the black book of Washington. Already, it had earned the dislike of 10 Downing Street for cutting down Nigeria’s imports from the UK by about 350%. In any case, without the IMF loan, government was still in a bind as to how to finance capital projects and pay for imports, especially spare parts for local industries, food items, etc. At this juncture, the genius and resourcefulness of Buharinomics illuminated to the delight of the African.
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First, the administration sent Oil Minister Tam David West to OPEC to seek a raise in the quantity of oil that Nigeria could export. If OPEC agreed, Nigeria would expect to generate extra revenue in the long run from any increase of its oil quota and this would assist tremendously in augmenting the shortfall in the nation’s purse. Professor West came back empty handed—the US and Britain had put pressure on their puppets in OPEC (like Saudi Arabia) to refuse Nigeria’s request.
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To counter OPEC’s bluff, the Buhari administration entered into a $2 billion barter trade agreement with four countries. Nigeria daily bartered 200,000 barrels of oil as follows: (a) completely knocked down parts for automobiles from Brazil. (b) Construction equipment from Italy (c) Engineering equipment from France, and (d) Capital goods from Austria. This barter trade took care of the administration’s need to have borrowed money but it intensified the ill will the US and Britain had for Nigeria. By bartering this oil, Nigeria was: (a) solving those needs which the proposed IMF loan was geared toward. Doing so without borrowing or feeling the pains of spending the meager amount generated from its OPEC approved 1.3 billion a day oil export is the stuff an economic wizard is made of. (b) Britain had been cut off as Nigeria’s major supplier of the goods which the countries in the barter agreement sent to Nigeria. (c) The US usurious money lenders were denied the chance to suck Nigeria dry through the IMF loan. (d) American and British oil companies were irate that the oil being bartered would flood the oil market, cutting in on their profits. (d) The oil being bartered was oil that used to be illegally bunkered before Buhari put illegal oil bunkering artist out of business. For once, an African country had put positive economic mechanism in place to salvage its ailing economy without swallowing IMF’s poison pills.
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As far as America and Britain were concerned, there was a price to be paid by this Buhari, who thought he was smart enough not to accept subservience to their authority. To begin with, a London newspaper (The Financial Times) published Nigeria’s barter trade agreement with Brazil (which, in truth, was done in secrecy because Buhari treated some aspects of his economic policy as State secret). The British thought it was going to incite OPEC against Nigeria since OPEC as a body did not support oil bartering. Oil Minister Tam David West, in a press conference, said, “If a nation believes it is part of its strategy for national survival to do this [barter trade], why not?” To assure OPEC that Nigeria was not indulging in barter trade in order to pull out of OPEC, he added ”Our strategy is to stay in OPEC and make its presence felt, and work together on programs that will be for the economic interest of all” (Concord Weekly, May 6, 1985). There is more to this barter trade than time will permit one to detail in this piece. For now, it is worth noting that it was the major reason for which Britain and America wanted the Buhari administration overthrown.
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The counter trade showcased Buhari as a visionary. He made America and Britain feel silly and they swore to get him out of office. When Babangida took over, on his maiden speech to the nation he promised to revisit the counter trade agreements. Within two weeks in office, September 17, 1985, he setup a panel to review it and recommend to his administration how to revive the economy without the use of counter trade. Babangida rolled back counter trade at the behest of his imperialist masters and at the detriment of the Nigerian nation and people.

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By the time the Buhari administration was overthrown in August of 1985, Buharinomics was beginning to yield dividends. For example, the inflationary rate had fallen from 23.2% in 1983 to 5.5% in 1985. Nigeria did not regret rejecting the IMF loan because it was meeting its obligation of prompt debt payment and the bartered goods were, to some extent, holding up within the austerity measure which had been in place since the Shagari days. Food was becoming reasonably available for two reasons: (a) The emphasis paid to agriculture had resulted in abundant food harvests, especially yam tubers. (b) The border closure made it impossible for unscrupulous business men to continue smuggling food items into neighboring countries where they sold for twice their value in Nigeria.

Had Buharinomics continued for at least five years, Nigeria would have joined the Asian tigers in economic growth and self reliance. We know that to be true because Babangida came into office and did everything the IMF asked and the Nigerian economy took a dive into the gutter and has not recovered yet.
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For the corrupt. Fear of Buhari is the beginning of wisdom

activatenigeria: Buhari is a brutal extremist he vowed that there will be unrest in Nigeria if PDP wins PDP did win and now we all know the story, I am very sure you dont know what civilian dictatorship means, even Buhari will not take the nonsense APC and co are dishing out if he was in GEJ's shoes, Jonathan has continually abide by the constitution and has repeatedly refuse to use his power to cause havoc like Buharia and OBJ did................very soon Buhari will expose his true self, he cant pretend for long, relax and watch as hell will be let loss during APC primaries. APC is a disaster that is about to happen

Can you provide a link to buttress your point about buhari vowing unrest if pdp wins? If you cant forever keep shut in this section. All i see in ur post is tribal and religious sentiments. If you were recruited, you are really doing a bad job.

egift: Did the DSS delay and withhold any other persons traveling documents? Oby nearly missed her flight because of the SSS. If now that she tweeted it in time and the reaction of Nigerians, the SSS would have succeeded in frustrating her.

Exactly my thoughts. As soon as they realised she had tweeted about it, they sharply released her. Their plan was to make her miss her flight.

Activatenigeria, PDP recruiting incompetent computer lap dogs since 1999.