₦airaland Forum

Eprosper:
This is regrettably lugubrious to hear that the incumbent president was not invited rather it's the former president that's invited. Hope this is not a message in disguise...

Buhari was invited for Obama's inauguration while gej a sitting president watched it on TV. Tables do turn

Jokerman:
Huh....??

I am no fan of Buhari, buh it shouldn't be so....

He is the president for crying out loud... well except he really actually funded Hilary's election with that $500 mil he was accused of...

Well, more grace to GEJ...

Karma is a beach as they say...
Obama invited buhari for his inauguration while gej was president. Now tables have turned.

This two guys I mean gej and pmb will dominate our polity for a long time.
Buhari can now feel how it feels to be snubbed by a world power... An irrational Trump from that matter

Why waste all the goodwill?

OK. Just happened when she was supposed to be in that region and would have possibly visited an IDP camp.
People so much mistrust this government. Even oby did not agree to be ferried to the northeast without Lai mohd on board the flight to avoid stories that touch.

This is such a disaster. This is making the rounds because it's an IDP camp. How now do we believe that all those pictures of dead bodies said to be bh are not innocent civilians bombed in their homes and then accused in death of being bh without independent sources confirming such fire fights.
In other climes, folks will tender their resignation tonight but in Nigeria, a twitter condolence is all that is required and life goes on till the next IDP camp is bombed to oblivion. Afterall, government wants to close the IDP camps by fire by force

Xbee007:
Shame on all these Children of Hate posting nonsense above me. Have you really gone that low?NAF has one of the best record of Air Operation succeses in the world. The issue of blue n blue is extremely rare in their airstrikes. In 2015, the United States of America, with all their sophisticated equipment and warplanes, conducted an airstrike on an hospital for three good hours killing dozens.
As saddening as this incident is, it is an inevitable casualty of war and no one in his right sense should go down to the level of mocking the NAF.

How many planes do the Nigerian airforce have to have issue of blue and blue?
This is a clear case of negligence, in capability and carelessness.
The identity of the killer pilot needs to be unraveled to determine his motive and his competence.
You would recall that some months ago, a presidential jet donated to the airforce crashed and it was as a result of poorly trained airmen. They crashed that plane in less than two months.
The Nigerian airforce has lost so many planes in the northeast. Check the records. They are poorly trained and equipped.

The pilot must be a bok.o
What happened to precision bombing, does the pilot understand simple geography? Was the Idp not outlined on his map?
How many bombs did he detonate in the camp?
Was he under ground fire around the camp?
Finally, this is the airforce we want to use in Gambia!
What Nigeria will pay in damages to the Gambia from war crimes will be more than Buhari’s budget.
All these soldiers in the barracks that would turn general without firing a pistol...
Nigeria is such a joke!

Most times it does not work. I dated a colleague of mine only recently, but due to family pressure, I had to succumb... I told her we couldn't continue...
Now to greet me na war!

Another disadvantage is colleagues mounting pressure and others making jest of you two... Till you don't know who shows genuine concern.
Another is seeing same person everyday whether you breakup or just want a break...
Finally, it's quite regrettable

They were forming tough abi. Nigeria today has changed! U can't be in Abuja and promise violence against a people.
Osibanjo's. Visit goes to show that buhari has lost legitimacy in the SS.
A good one after all... They allowed common sense to prevail.

Prices will continue to go up until bubu is forced out! As long as he remains... Inflation remains with us like siamese twins

All for 2019. The same people commending him today criticized gej for visiting churches.
It's unfortunate that the church was scammed into believing the change mantra.
Now that recession has caught up with the churches, I can only laugh when my pastor says offerings have dwindled and a third basket for welfare has been introduced because more people are in need of welfare.
The church shouldn't be allowed for politicians to scam gullible citizens.
I await to see osibanjo in a molue or brt just as he did prior to 2019.
This same osibanjo was the one using projector slide to tell gullible citizens how he would provide 3 million jobs, free education etc.
Most of the apc promises were osibanjo's not buhari that's why buhari disowned all of them in its entirety. He is back to the church were he started his scam

Buhari is quick to fly to ask him to relinquish power. The same buhari that went to the Supreme Court 3 times should allow Jammeh go to court too.
Buhari that toppled a democratic government asking another to relinquish power?
Buhari is a comedian...
Jammeh be like... Buhari come and be going... I learnt from you.

For the third time brother.

I stayed at lekki, worked at phase one, lived at Agungi. The truth is most people are struggling to keep up with the bills. Your have to pay service charge, a parallel electric bill, etc.
It's just over hyped...
As a tenant in some apartments, you just have to bring in your box of clothing as everyother thing is already provided such as gas cooker, wardrobe, television etc. It has its disadvantages such as u are unable to buy your personal belongings. When u Park out, you park out virtually as you came in

No railway crossings?
Before, at railway intersection, the roads and are closed to traffic but don't know about now.
Trains always have right of way

It must have been an Eke market day. The most powerful market day in ngwaland were the spirits come shopping too. The strike any person on this day... Sort if a day of judgment by the Spirits of the land.

People who die like this don't get buried with their head. There heads are chopped off and put in front of the diety to serve as deterent to others

herzern1:
It seems they forqot the President has Veto Power.

PMB can veto that bill and it won't see the liqht of the day.

Oh!,I forqot,Most of them are only interested in the paddinq of budqet.

If he vetoes it, it comes back to the house, after passing through 1st, second and third reading and it's adopted, it becomes law without presidential assent.
Legitimacy rest with the people and the National assembly is a representative of the people.
Only our desert brothers would not like to hear this until babu finds what he is looking for in the Chad basin

I'm just hearing of his company. Nairaland is still ahead

He wants to warn buhari to stay off balkanising his country and withdraw support for saharawi Republic. Ogas cluelessness has gotten to Morocco hence a presidential warning

Jesusloveyou:
and the deputy senate president seat is met for apc

Quote a section of the constitution that says that.

This one of vacating the seat when a senator decades has judicial precedence on which to argue upon.

Since it's the party that is votes for and not the candidate, he should leave and leave the seat for pdp. Akpabio is right!

Our governor... Apc hungry sympathizers above me though.... Abia thrives on IGR

mich24:
Chia, Ndoo but you would have sent it to calabar for a pay

I remember some years ago, I lost my dog to pavo, I couldn't just throw it away. I sold it's carcass to a wiling buyer in Jos.
It consoled me a bit.
Dog meat us a delicacy in Jos and pankshin all in plateau state

Aba is developing. No brown roofs... Proudly nwaaba

This cjn sounds so honorable. He was firm in this judgements.

Muhammadu Buhari
promised to embrace
democracy as president, but
turned out to be the same
autocrat who failed the
country 30 years ago.
ARGUMENT
Fool Nigeria Once, Shame
on You. Fool Nigeria Twice
…
NOVEMBER 20, 2016 BY AMETO AKPE
I t’s been a tough year for Nigerian President
Muhammadu Buhari. The mood in Africa’s
most populous nation is a far cry from the
euphoria that greeted his historic 2015
election — the first time in Nigeria’s
history that an opposition candidate unseated
an incumbent president in a democratic
election. For weeks and even months after the
vote, Buhari was a media darling, praised at
home and extoled abroad.
Since then, the cheers have turned to jeers —
even from members of the president’s own
party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Meanwhile, his administration cowers under
attacks from a disillusioned electorate,
members of the opposition, and even Buhari’s
wife, Aisha, who said she might not vote for
him in 2019, when he is up for re-election.
What’s behind the swift unraveling of Buhari’s
presidency? His inability to formulate a
coherent economic plan as Nigeria tipped into
recession and unwillingness to make crucial
decisions — as basic as appointing a cabinet —
in a timely manner certainly didn’t help. But
the main reason Buhari has lost the support of
his countrymen is that the last year has
revealed the central premise of his candidacy to
be false: The man who claimed in the campaign
to be a “reformed democrat” has proved to be
the same old authoritarian showman who ruled
Nigeria in the early 1980s.
Buhari’s first attempt to run Nigeria ended
after a year and a half in the same manner it
started: a coup d’état. Back then, Buhari
launched a campaign to root out corruption,
dubbed the “war against indiscipline,” which
was accompanied by restrictions on free trade
and free speech, as well as repression of his
political opponents. Soon Nigeria was
embroiled in a political and economic crisis that
paved the way for his ouster.
By 2015, however, many Nigerians were ready
to give him a second chance. Growing economic
hardship and rampant corruption — and the
seeming inability of then-President Goodluck
Jonathan to tackle either — convinced them to
embrace Buhari again despite his checkered
past. To many he seemed like a competent
leader — at least more so than the weak and
feckless Jonathan.
But there is already a strong element of déjà vu
in Buhari’s second stint at the helm. He has
again staked his presidency on an anti-
corruption crusade and again used it as a
vehicle to target political opponents. Now, as
before, Buhari’s legitimacy was built on empty
showmanship, a hyped-up claim of superior
morality and discipline coupled with a healthy
dose of disdain for elitism, all quickly
overshadowed by an economic crisis that he
wasn’t equipped to tackle.
Part of the problem this time is that he
promised much more than he could ever have
hoped to deliver. On the campaign trail, he
pledged to create millions of new jobs and
make Nigeria’s currency, the naira, “equal to
the dollar,” two Donald Trump-worthy
whoppers that were about as likely to
materialize as a border wall paid for by
Mexico.
The fact that the media didn’t hammer Buhari’s
campaign on the ridiculousness of many of his
pledges speaks to the quality of journalism and
punditry in the country. (Nigerian journalists
have a reputation of being easily “bought” with
cash in notorious brown envelopes.)
In any case, the results have been predictable.
Instead of creating jobs, the Nigerian economy
has shed half a million of them since Buhari
took office, swelling the already bloated ranks
of the unemployed to 13.3 percent. The current
dollar exchange rate for the naira is about 455
to 1, compared with 260 to 1 around this time
last year. Food prices have reportedly doubled
across the country, forcing millions of people to
go hungry as a famine looms in the north .
Not all of this is Buhari’s doing, of course. He
inherited an oil-dependent economy only to
watch the price of crude crater. He also
inherited an empty treasury, the result of past
administrations’ unchecked venality and failure
to save when oil prices were high.
But Buhari’s actions, inactions, and posturing
against free enterprise have helped make a bad
situation worse. Despite spending the better
part of the past decade campaigning for
president, Buhari came into office with no idea
who to appoint to his ministerial cabinet. Most
presidential aspirants would have vetted
potential appointees during their campaigns or
at least during the transition. But Buhari didn’t
name a cabinet until about six months into his
presidency, blaming his inability to compose an
economic management team on the fact that
Nigerians were all “compromised.” During that
time, capital projects like the building of major
roads were stuck in limbo ; protracted delays in
approving the national budget also meant that
federal ministries were unable to perform their
basic functions. By the end of August, the
economy had slipped into recession .
Admitting he’s no economist , Buhari’s
economic decisions have been eccentric. Despite
all indicators pointing to the need to devalue
the naira following the loss of oil revenue,
Buhari has declined to do so, insisting on
applying stringent controls on the foreign
exchange market and the importing of
commodities like rice and frozen chicken.
Buhari seems to be betting on his
administration’s ability to boost domestic
production, even though the critical
infrastructure needed to do so, like a stable
power supply and functional roads, is not in
place. The closest Buhari’s administration has
come to articulating an economic plan is
announcing its intention to borrow as much
as $5 billion from foreign countries, including
China and Japan. Meanwhile, disappointed
investors are fleeing (or refusing to come) due
to the unfavorable business climate. More than
250 companies have reportedly shut down in
the past year alone.
Buhari’s much-heralded anti-corruption
crusade has also largely proved to be a
charade. The administration has initiated
several investigations into financial fraud or
misappropriation by former government
officials, but so far there have been no
convictions. The president has refrained from
going after his close associates, individuals like
Bola Tinubu, a powerful figure within the
ruling party who was once described as
“ corruption personified .” Instead, it has been
opposition politicians and members of his
predecessor’s administration that have been the
focus of his anti-corruption efforts.
Last month, he dispensed with due process
altogether and ordered the state security service
to arrest and raid the homes of judges who
hadn’t been charged with a crime. According to
the Buhari administration, the judges were
corrupt. But the judges claim they were being
framed as punishment for granting bail to
critics of Buhari’s government. The incident
caused a popular uproar and was described by
the head of Nigeria’s judiciary as “ deeply
regrettable .”
Buhari’s gradual turn toward authoritarianism
has revealed the emptiness of his central
campaign pitch: Far from embracing the
democratic process, he has sought to
unilaterally impose his will and whims on the
country, even when it means subverting the
rule of law. There was perhaps no starker
illustration of the president’s illiberal streak
than his response to his wife’s suggestion that
she may not support him in the next election:
My wife, he said at a press conference on Oct.
14, “belongs to my kitchen and my living room
and the other room.”
It is safe to say that Buhari’s misogynist
remarks won’t bring his administration down
or even diminish his popularity going forward.
The truth is that many Nigerian men (and
women) hold similar views. But if he wants to
avoid a drubbing in the 2019 election, Buhari
must put forward a realistic plan to fix the
tattered economy while showing voters that he
is indeed a “ reformed democrat ” and not the
same old strongman they remember from the
last time around.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/20/fool-nigeria-once-shame-on-you-fool-nigeria-twice-buhari-presidency/

Muhammadu Buhari
promised to embrace
democracy as president, but
turned out to be the same
autocrat who failed the
country 30 years ago.
ARGUMENT
Fool Nigeria Once, Shame
on You. Fool Nigeria Twice
…
NOVEMBER 20, 2016 BY AMETO AKPE
I t’s been a tough year for Nigerian President
Muhammadu Buhari. The mood in Africa’s
most populous nation is a far cry from the
euphoria that greeted his historic 2015
election — the first time in Nigeria’s
history that an opposition candidate unseated
an incumbent president in a democratic
election. For weeks and even months after the
vote, Buhari was a media darling, praised at
home and extoled abroad.
Since then, the cheers have turned to jeers —
even from members of the president’s own
party, the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Meanwhile, his administration cowers under
attacks from a disillusioned electorate,
members of the opposition, and even Buhari’s
wife, Aisha, who said she might not vote for
him in 2019, when he is up for re-election.
What’s behind the swift unraveling of Buhari’s
presidency? His inability to formulate a
coherent economic plan as Nigeria tipped into
recession and unwillingness to make crucial
decisions — as basic as appointing a cabinet —
in a timely manner certainly didn’t help. But
the main reason Buhari has lost the support of
his countrymen is that the last year has
revealed the central premise of his candidacy to
be false: The man who claimed in the campaign
to be a “reformed democrat” has proved to be
the same old authoritarian showman who ruled
Nigeria in the early 1980s.
Buhari’s first attempt to run Nigeria ended
after a year and a half in the same manner it
started: a coup d’état. Back then, Buhari
launched a campaign to root out corruption,
dubbed the “war against indiscipline,” which
was accompanied by restrictions on free trade
and free speech, as well as repression of his
political opponents. Soon Nigeria was
embroiled in a political and economic crisis that
paved the way for his ouster.
By 2015, however, many Nigerians were ready
to give him a second chance. Growing economic
hardship and rampant corruption — and the
seeming inability of then-President Goodluck
Jonathan to tackle either — convinced them to
embrace Buhari again despite his checkered
past. To many he seemed like a competent
leader — at least more so than the weak and
feckless Jonathan.
But there is already a strong element of déjà vu
in Buhari’s second stint at the helm. He has
again staked his presidency on an anti-
corruption crusade and again used it as a
vehicle to target political opponents. Now, as
before, Buhari’s legitimacy was built on empty
showmanship, a hyped-up claim of superior
morality and discipline coupled with a healthy
dose of disdain for elitism, all quickly
overshadowed by an economic crisis that he
wasn’t equipped to tackle.
Part of the problem this time is that he
promised much more than he could ever have
hoped to deliver. On the campaign trail, he
pledged to create millions of new jobs and
make Nigeria’s currency, the naira, “equal to
the dollar,” two Donald Trump-worthy
whoppers that were about as likely to
materialize as a border wall paid for by
Mexico.
The fact that the media didn’t hammer Buhari’s
campaign on the ridiculousness of many of his
pledges speaks to the quality of journalism and
punditry in the country. (Nigerian journalists
have a reputation of being easily “bought” with
cash in notorious brown envelopes.)
In any case, the results have been predictable.
Instead of creating jobs, the Nigerian economy
has shed half a million of them since Buhari
took office, swelling the already bloated ranks
of the unemployed to 13.3 percent. The current
dollar exchange rate for the naira is about 455
to 1, compared with 260 to 1 around this time
last year. Food prices have reportedly doubled
across the country, forcing millions of people to
go hungry as a famine looms in the north .
Not all of this is Buhari’s doing, of course. He
inherited an oil-dependent economy only to
watch the price of crude crater. He also
inherited an empty treasury, the result of past
administrations’ unchecked venality and failure
to save when oil prices were high.
But Buhari’s actions, inactions, and posturing
against free enterprise have helped make a bad
situation worse. Despite spending the better
part of the past decade campaigning for
president, Buhari came into office with no idea
who to appoint to his ministerial cabinet. Most
presidential aspirants would have vetted
potential appointees during their campaigns or
at least during the transition. But Buhari didn’t
name a cabinet until about six months into his
presidency, blaming his inability to compose an
economic management team on the fact that
Nigerians were all “compromised.” During that
time, capital projects like the building of major
roads were stuck in limbo ; protracted delays in
approving the national budget also meant that
federal ministries were unable to perform their
basic functions. By the end of August, the
economy had slipped into recession .
Admitting he’s no economist , Buhari’s
economic decisions have been eccentric. Despite
all indicators pointing to the need to devalue
the naira following the loss of oil revenue,
Buhari has declined to do so, insisting on
applying stringent controls on the foreign
exchange market and the importing of
commodities like rice and frozen chicken.
Buhari seems to be betting on his
administration’s ability to boost domestic
production, even though the critical
infrastructure needed to do so, like a stable
power supply and functional roads, is not in
place. The closest Buhari’s administration has
come to articulating an economic plan is
announcing its intention to borrow as much
as $5 billion from foreign countries, including
China and Japan. Meanwhile, disappointed
investors are fleeing (or refusing to come) due
to the unfavorable business climate. More than
250 companies have reportedly shut down in
the past year alone.
Buhari’s much-heralded anti-corruption
crusade has also largely proved to be a
charade. The administration has initiated
several investigations into financial fraud or
misappropriation by former government
officials, but so far there have been no
convictions. The president has refrained from
going after his close associates, individuals like
Bola Tinubu, a powerful figure within the
ruling party who was once described as
“ corruption personified .” Instead, it has been
opposition politicians and members of his
predecessor’s administration that have been the
focus of his anti-corruption efforts.
Last month, he dispensed with due process
altogether and ordered the state security service
to arrest and raid the homes of judges who
hadn’t been charged with a crime. According to
the Buhari administration, the judges were
corrupt. But the judges claim they were being
framed as punishment for granting bail to
critics of Buhari’s government. The incident
caused a popular uproar and was described by
the head of Nigeria’s judiciary as “ deeply
regrettable .”
Buhari’s gradual turn toward authoritarianism
has revealed the emptiness of his central
campaign pitch: Far from embracing the
democratic process, he has sought to
unilaterally impose his will and whims on the
country, even when it means subverting the
rule of law. There was perhaps no starker
illustration of the president’s illiberal streak
than his response to his wife’s suggestion that
she may not support him in the next election:
My wife, he said at a press conference on Oct.
14, “belongs to my kitchen and my living room
and the other room.”
It is safe to say that Buhari’s misogynist
remarks won’t bring his administration down
or even diminish his popularity going forward.
The truth is that many Nigerian men (and
women) hold similar views. But if he wants to
avoid a drubbing in the 2019 election, Buhari
must put forward a realistic plan to fix the
tattered economy while showing voters that he
is indeed a “ reformed democrat ” and not the
same old strongman they remember from the
last time around.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/20/fool-nigeria-once-shame-on-you-fool-nigeria-twice-buhari-presidency/

seXytOhbAd:
I was gonna just "spread my mat" , lie down and sleep this one off, but it seems that we have a lot of ignorant people here. Please let me explain like you are five years old.

Most governments in the world take debt. They use this debt to strengthen ties with world powers(US, China, Germany, the Rome Club, IMF etc), build infrastructure, fund social and Healthcare projects, etc. Now president Buhari is trying to get this fund on the presumption that the oil industry will rise again. It may not reach previously recorded highs, but it will certainly reach mid 80s according to oil industry analysts. The loan will be based on the current oil price as at when applied for ,not when approved. So he is hoping we can offset our interests, pay off the loan, build good networking tools to attract more investment. Let us exercise a bit of patience (Jonathan) lol.
Happy Sunday guys

Like if you're having Jollof rice for lunch today

You got me laughing.
Are u aware that oil prices will continue to crash? USA is about to start export of crude to other markets such as China, France, Germany and even India. USA was a net importer of Nigerian crude before the advent of shale oil. Now, reverse is the case. With a Republican in the white house interested in the Texas shale development, sorry for Nigeria.
This is the loan that will sink Nigeria faster that a civil war.
Immediately you mentioned oil, your argument lost all the fabric it was made up of... It stands on nothing!
http://www.forbes.com/sites/thebakersinstitute/2016/11/17/reversing-middle-east-dependence-us-begins-exports-of-shale-gas-to-oil-rich-uae-and-kuwait/#664efc9b7cdb

TVTKOKO:
AND YOU WONDER WHY THE HAUSA/FULANIS WITH THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN AIN'T THERE

Actually, some people can sell there women for a boutique and spare part shop

The op is ethnocentric. He didn't do his research well. The shuwa Arabs are the most expensive.
The are the most expensive ladies to marry and maintain. They play with gold and they are monogamous.
He should research about the shuwa.
The mangu or mwagavul people in plateau state are also expensive to marry

Lucky dube sang.. Even though police cut it down, sometimes the burn it down... But it grows again... Thank you Father

Rasta man prayer....

While oga believes they belong to the kitchen and the other room.
The other is seeing scientists and engineers.