obiageIi:

If only you read the last sentence of that post. My opinion anyways. Some sane mind mentioned power as one of the biggest failures of this administration, fixing the niger delta issue would have ensured power stability to an extent, in fact our forex problem would not be this bad

obiageIi:

More reason why we should start looking for options beyond the the major parties if they continue to produce poor candidates (not saying buhari is poor yet but he is heading in that direction)

obiageIi:
I would have expected a buhari in his first week to hold meetings with the stakeholders (including militants) in the niger delta, show them your working plan for the next 2yrs, do same with manufacturers, business community, miyeti allah (herdsmen), ipob and co.
Send bills to the National Assembly for special court for corruption, push for PIB, emergency economy power. All of these could have been achieved on goodwill in the first few weeks.

obiageIi:

I don't think this article says anything about gej being better than buhari, we probably didn't make the best choices.
I personally expected more from buhari, his government, his ministers are doing poorly

loopman:
The elite of the north, especially the elite of NE should be held responsible for these needless deaths of our soldiers
RIP to the gallant boys, may your deaths usher in the much needed peace in the NE and the nation in general

richidinho:
They dont have choice my governor

This man is the next big thing that will happen in the west after Tinubu

woodcook:
If the president's daughter with her level of education and exposures agrees to be the fourth wife this is an indication of her upbringing (which was influenced by her religion which she has every right to). The same guy that raised her with such world view is the same guy that over 170 million people are looking up to in this year and time.

Just thinking out loud!

mrjangaweed:
while we never eat finish?

useless, worthless, incompetent, docile and dumb administration full of propaganda
useless presidiot Buhari

sucess001:




they are only pummeled by governement sponsored persona like you...i am a member of the NBA and i allign fully with them...


for judges...their disciplinary process is different and handled by the NJC...


the reason is simple for anyone that has brains....if you arrest all the judges...who will judge their case?



and we have a principle in law saying you cant be a judge in your own case...DSS has started acting like judges...


we have laws....it should be respected...



instead of government to obey laws...they would rather pay pple like you to defend their indefensible actions on social media...

iflywithbuhari:
The Hammurabi code is derived from king Hammurabi, who believed in the notion of " An eye for an eye". So the Nigerian government should get ready for their eye to be punctured. By the time those wicked boys are through with Buhari, he will sell Aisha and Zahra together.

amuokuko:
By the time militants kill like 60% of soldiers sent, they will change their name to "Crocodile Tears"

Adiola:
rants, why are you pushing these soldiers to make their sons and daughters fatherless and their wives widows am sure if you are one of the soldiers you have applied for transfer to another zone anywAy I don't see the nigerian army having the upper hand

Pidggin:
I see many soldiers loosing their lives for nothing. If the NDA has agreed to negotiate why not allow peace reign?

They spent less than six months training, these millitants have lived all their lives in the creeks, can humans ever swim better than fishes?

Tomorrow when there are army casualties, one cursed being will say it's Jonathan's fault forgetting that Buhari has been in power for over a year now.

fattbabakay:
Forget story, study abroad is over rated...

Dreadful:
Oga keep quiet abeg. You failed to put all these in place during the oil installation bombings which is a threat to the Nigerian economy is it when they declare their independence you'll do all that? Immediately they declare their independence automatically they become a sovereign entity like Nigeria and will be recognised by so many countries or you think they've got no back up?

onnenka:
If Jonathan was stealing that much when oil price was $70 and the economy kept growing, there was still some money left to execute projects, why is Buhari that is not stealing anything still complaning about oil price?

emeijeh:
More blame game

I wonder when this govt will wake up to its responsibilities and stop blaming the past administration.
Anyways, 2019 is closeby

NextGovernor:
[b]When we told them that Fayose, FFK, Metuh and Okupe were been harassed, arrested and witchhunted only because they are mainly opposing the government not mainly because of the funds. [/b]Zombies said only a witch can be witchhunted.

Now they are coming close to those there former supporters wey there eye dey clear small small for the CHANGE scam. Now zombies are calling Nigerian's to intervene. Una never see anarchy.

Sinkills:
Majority of Igbos want Biafra, a minority prefer to remain in Nigeria. Majority of other Nigerians would want them to remain. I think the best way to kill the Biafra agitation is to allow only Igbos contest for the presidency in 2019 so that one of them can emerge president to give them a real sense of belonging. Let us then see if Igbos will still want out of Nigeria.

HammerTheirPapa:


your brand of dog-and-baboon politics is alien to a sound Igbo man, that's why there are succesful Igbo politicians in Finland, Poland, US, and Uk where sane people reside, but they can't just fathom how to play your "bloody" Allah-inspired politics of ISLAMOGERIA. Beyond that, Igbos are not interested in the presidency of your zoo. No matter who rules a zoo, it will always capitulate and never make head way. yorubas and hausa and fulanis have tried and FAILED.

Sinkills:
We used to accuse South Africa of Apartheid. They proved to us that they have matured beyond that racism by electing late Nelson Mandela as president. We accused the United States of racism, they proved they have gone beyond that by electing president Barack Obama. So when is Nigeria going to prove that we have gone past the civil war and anti-Igbo sentiments by electing a SouthEasterner as president?

Sinkills:
I actually knew that some people seriously dislike the idea of an Igbo man becoming president. One, there is this suspicion of the person demonstrating nepotism by favouring people from his tribe if voted in. Though this is not right if it happens, I don't think nepotism can be worse than it is now and I think people are getting wiser now. Secondly, Igbos do not need to unite to support their kin before he can be elected president.That would even make him to feel he needs to repay them and thus use the famous formula of 97% versus 5%. Apart from that, it is on record that president Obasanjo was not the candidate of the Yorubas. It was Olu False that was their preferred choice. However, the rest of Nigeria voted for Obasanjo while his Yoruba people overwhelmingly rejected him at the polls. Contrary to popular views, it is not all Igbos that demonstate hatred for other tribes. There are Igbos who are nationalistic in outlook. Examples include Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Dr Ken Nnamani, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, Ben Igbokwe, Dr Chris Ngige, Orji Uzo Kalu, Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka, Ike Nwachukwu etc. We can pick from among these. Thank you.

Sinkills:
You actually think some Igbo have not done that in the past? Who was the leader of the G -34, the group of eminent Nigerians who fought the Abacha junta to a standstill? Was it not Dr. Alex Ekwueme, a former vice president in the defunct (northern)NPN, an erudite, well educated well experienced and bridge-building Igbo man? The group later metamorphosed into the PDP. But when it was time to pick their presidentical candidate, they preferred Chief Obasanjo, a Yoruba man who just came out of Abacha's prison then. Although the Igbos are mostly proud and resist insolence, it is not true that they do not build bridges. They supported Obasanjo, Yar'adua and Jonathan who are non Igbo. But I know that hatred for Igbos accounts for the stereotypes.

plaetton:


The real disaster is when you read something, fail to grasp the full thrust of the argument, and then attempt to repudiate the argument from a very narrow perspective.

No one disputes that the government and it's agencies need to keep the track of incoming and outgoing incomes.
No one disputes the need to streamline and synchronize all government accounts.
No one disputes that the government needed a single Treasury account or something similar if it helps stem corruption and abuse.

The point, which eluded you in your haste, is that a responsible government, a responsible leadership, does an impact assessment before embarking on major and potentially destabilising financial and monetary policy.

Keeping track of government accounts in REAL TIME is not rocket science. Any armature programmer can write software for that.

The issue here is about the sudden withdrawal of N3 trillion, about 4-5% of our GDP from the banking system.
From an economic point of view, this is not only gross lunacy, but actually very very Stuupid, with a capital S.

The bank of Japan , the ECB, the US Federal Reserve , etc, have desperately been throwing liquidity into their banking systems almost every quarter since 2008, just to rekindle and eke out some economic growth.

In 2008, the US Treasury had to inject the equivalence of 5% of their GDP into the banking system in order to prevent a catastrophic end of the entire global financial system and economy.

With that in mind, just imagine the government doing the exact opposite here in Nigeria, by forcefully removing the equivalence of 4-5% of Nigeria's GDP from the banking system , and at the very worst time possible, during a period of economic contraction .

Do you see my point at all ?
Can you see the type of micro and macro economic havoc being created here?
Can you not feel the chilling effects already?
Can we, the Nigerian people not feel the already Impending economic nuclear winter that is encroaching upon us ?

Economic common sense vs political bravado and expediency.

Good leadership entails taking carefully measured steps , not bravado.

plaetton:
BLOODLETTING was an ancient, pre-science method of treating common and chronic illnesses by letting out blood from different parts of the body.

Back then, in around the 2nd century BCE, diseases were thought to be caused by imbalances of the humors, of which the blood was the most important.

Also tied this was the widespread belief that evil supernatural spirits were imbedded in the humors, which in turn, was the primary cause of diseases.

As with most pre-science practices, bloodletting caused a lot more VISIBLE harm than the IMAGINARY benefits for which the practice was promoted.

For good example, the side effects of bloodletting were:

1. Accidentally cutting off major ARTERIES , which leads to excessive hemorrhage, cardiac arrest and in most cases, death.
2. Anaemia.
3. Lowered immune response due to depleted white blood cells.
4. Infections.
5. Etc, etc.

Now, fast forward to Nigeria 2016 , when I think of the newly implemented TSA, when I hear all the chest beating, the celebration of this act as one of the cardinal achievements of the Buhari Administration, I am also forced to think about the PRE-science act of bloodletting ,and the EERIE similarities it shares with the TSA implementation in terms of Intentions, Envisaged benefits, and the inevitable Catastrophic side effects.

To be continued..

Rockquest:
Hail Trump....No better choice for him ! everybody have got a past. But good or bad , Trump knows her history as a model and has agreed to love her more. Americans may not use her past to vote against Trump The lesson from this, however, is that whatever we do or whoever we may think we are at the moment, our own day is near .

Uduak2019:
Nah...no one cares about nude women pics in this day and age when 9 yr olds watch porn. This was deliberately released by trump's campaign to counteract Khan saga. If they like release video of her having sex...Trump supporters are not moved...they are core loyalists like Buhari Apc zombies even if you release video evidence of Aisha collecting bribes, it won't change Zombies support for Buhari. Lol

TonyeBarcanista:


SOURCE: http://swiftreporters.com/pdp-national-convention-and-the-future-of-nigeria-youths/

bankylan:


Only the mentally enslaved and the gullible will believe this crap....I weep for Nigerian youths. When young men in their thirties and forties are saying Buhari is their saviour, how else can one define insanity in its purest form? The worst that could happen is the emergence of Buhari who lacks the mental capacity to drive a 21st century economy. As a financial analyst, I will say that besides fall in oil price, our removal from JP Morgan bond index and resultant pulling out of portfolio investors left a big hole in our economy. This has been compounded by lack of directions by our economic drivers. We talk about diversification as if it is a short term initiative. I pity the Nigerian youths who are repeating the mistakes of their fathers.

abubaka101:
There's an ongoing thread discussing why and how Tinubu got and maintains his "political clout".
For the record, am not saying Tinubu is not powerful. Rather what I want to open up is that the power of this "Jagaban" is grossly exaggerated. Let's begin!
His Exaggerated Power is Fueled By The Victory of the APC
When the APC won Tinubu used propaganda with his media influence via the Nation Newspaper, Faaji FM, the tv station TVC and even social media to flog the Jagaban term down our throats. Yet, the victory of the APC was not he's alone. Other powers in the North (Kwankaso, Atiku and Tambuwal, etc) and even in the South South (Ameachi, Timipre Silva etc), and even in the SW (Obasanjo, etc) played key roles in that victory. Some other powerful individuals who stay away from the media also played key roles. That was why when the National Assembly principal officers elections were held last year, none of Tinubu's "candidates" emerged victorious. And boy was he pissed! Thus the root cause of the media trial of Saraki and co. I'll write on this issue later.
Tinubu wanted the nation in his palm. But Buhari stayed out of the NA elections by travelling frantically as usual. But still Tinubu couldn't get it cause it was bigger than his clout.
He tried to wade his influence into making a House of Reps member, representing Ikeja constituency, become the Governor of Kogi State when the leading aspirant died mysteriously! This attempt was thwarted by "orders from above" as it was claimed.
Same thing goes for the ministerial list, he wanted more of his own, but national politics involves plenty of compromises and negotiations, something he had never been used to since he played godfatherism.
Moving on...

Tinubu's influence lies strictly in the South West :
Tinubu has been the predominant power in South Western politics since 2007. However, every attempt to spread his influence nation wide before 2014 had failed woefully. His party had never been strong in the senate/House of Representatives. His party had very few victories outside the SW. He knew this all too well. And all the political calculations he had made before 2014 shows that he knew that if he wanted to capture the center he needed strong support from the strongest periphery: the north. Thus in 2007, he fielded Atiku against Yaradua. He failed woefully. Again in 2011, he fielded the uninfluential Nuhu Ribadu against the PDP. He lost woefully again. But in 2011, the CPC was became a significant power in Nigerian politics after Buhari left the ANPP in 2010. And with him left a host of ANPP party whigs. And if you understood the CPC well you'd have known that a host of its members were northerners.
Tinubu realized that Buhari was his only option to capture the center. So in 2013 he teamed up with Buhari and his guys. This alliance saw the merger of three parties controlling two strongholds: CPC in the north, and ACN in the SW.
While the ANPP, the third party in that Alliance controlled limited parts of the North and some part of the South East.

3. Tinubu is an ardent lover of Propaganda and media distortion I want us to understand something about how Tinubu operates politically. He relies strongly on the media to project his reach for the people. Now he doesn't say much to the media directly, but heavily selects and distorts what stories come out about him and others.
For instance, he so easily flooded the media with news stories about how Fashola was corrupt, all in a bid to stop him from being made a strong member of Buhari's govt since it was obvious Buhari strongly liked Fashola. Ambode didn't have the balls to release such stories about Fashola on his own; but yet the stories emanated from the government of Ambode.
And do note that in Nigeria anybody who controls the media is extremely powerful and can send us going the wrong direction easily just by headlines and imagery. Tinubu has this; but not for long I hope. Sahara Reporters have fast gained ground as the most reputable media house Nigeria has ever seen since the time of Dele Giwa.






And that's all I have to say. And my closing remarks is to remain critical of any story you hear about Nigeria and any Nigerian especially politicians. They're all selfish and try to galvanise the country for themselves and their families.
Have a good day!