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vivalavida:
I love how you put out your points.
Economically,you are sound

#ThumbsUp

Thanks.

Nigeria's polity is the greatest single obstacle to true development.

-Lord

shakaZuIlu:
during Gej's administration apc as an opposition party supported anything that will bring down Jonathan and his administration including supporting the same USA for not selling arms to Nigeria all in the name of bringing Gej down by any means today Buhari and apc are being served by karma and you expect me to support him and stand in the way of karma NO! it doesn't work that way
what ever a man soweth he shall reap and apc are already reaping theirs.
am sorry this thread is already DOA and no sane pdp supporter should endorse this thread.

did you see any apc bastard that stood with Gej then?
Gej was called ineffectual buffoon and apc bastards celebrated it so is buhari special? nope because Buhari is a useless uncircumcised bastard mallam
as for me anything that will bring Buhari and this useless, incompetent, docile and dumb administration is welcomed with open arms.
Thunder fire Buhari Insha'Allah amin

Thank you for this brilliant piece. Those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat them.

I stand with you on this.

The same idiots that parleyed with the West to discredit GEJ and the Nigerian government are the same people calling people to be patriotic.

The most audacious part is that after branding some people 5%, killing innocent protesters, keeping mute about the atrocities of and actually protecting the fulani demons; they now want all of us to say one Nigeria and provide support while they confront their former comrades.

The same way Buhari and APC sided with the West to pull GEJ down, I'll side with the West to pull Buhari down. It is tit for tat.

Plus, I have plenty of valid reasons to do so. I'm not a kid.

-Lord

Starting off, I should say I'm pro-GEJ.

With that said, the situation we have found ourselves is that we need loan. We need $11b to finance our budget deficit.

IMF do not want to give us. The Middle East big players cannot afford to offer us the whole amount because they do are reeling from the oil price fall. AfDB can only give us some amount. Only China can give us a huge loan.

That's the fact we all should be aware of. Buhari has been pushed to a wall, and China is our last hope.

So whatever the terms of the deal, Buhari will have to accept. That's how bad things are now.

The only thing we can hope now is that Buhari can negotiate a good deal and use that loan effectively.

Even a good deal on paper would have to be implemented well to be of benefit to Nigeria.

However, this is where there is a problem. We are talking about a person that orchestrated the worst budget saga in the history of West Africa. A person that cannot wade in on Fulani rampage. A person that says A today and denies it tomorrow. A person who cannot maintain fuel importation or maintain electricity at the rate the met it.

So, if you ask me, I am not opportunistic based on the antics of the Buhari-led APC government since May 2015. An adage says the best predictor of the future is the past.

Maybe, Buhari can carry out implementation fine and use the loan effectively. Let's assume he finds his mojo after navigating through this mudbath he made for himself.

For me, I am observing closely.

-Lord

NaijaTalkTown:
God bless you for this bro. I have to ignore him because he seems to have little or no capability to comprehend how world affairs are managed. He is obviously a Buhari-hater because Buhari is not Jonathan. Every single Nigerian knows that the current economic woes we are facing today is the direct result of Jonathan's mismanagement of the country's economy. But I did not create this thread to blame anybody. This thread is clearly meant to unite Nigerians against external forces that are trying so hard to destroy our country. He even vowed to support those external forces against Nigeria. This type of people are diseases to our society and we must ignore them while at the same time we try to purge them from our society.

If your kind of people had supported Jonathan, I wouldn't have to be a Buhari-hater.

Let me assume I did not read this reply. Nigeria is controlled by the West. If the West choose to destabilize Nigeria, there is nothing your nationalistic types can do about it.

Keep blaming GEJ for your problems while Buhari plunges you to the abyss. Pray to heavens he doesn't mess up with his Western masters.

GEJ wasn't a fool when he sided with the East over the West, Buhari being a dullar.d is just realizing that now. Pray he can demonstrate some tact going forward or he would pay a hefty price.

-Lord

udumosam23:
This is dangerous if true. I don't think the president is concern about all this antics. He just wants what's best for the country from wherever he can get it.


you've got to understand one's motive before you blame his actions. would you rather we continue suffering because we want the Americans to remain our friends.

we needed help, we got it in china at the time our American friends feel so reluctant to help, how is that an offence?

Anybody who criticises the govt. because of western propaganda is capable of divorcing his wife because of neighbours gossip.

our govt. should be judged based on what we have seen to be wrong not by what others see.

In fact, I have an attitude of defending my wife ( even when she is wrong) before strangers. we can fight when we get home.
if we inculcate this attitude, I don't think any foreign media or personnel can intimidate us.

This doesn't make me stand this govt though, I still have a lot of issues with it. but with their alignment with china, I'm with the govt 100%.

The question is not what was done, but how it was done.

Every mainstream economist including Sanusi and Soludo have been proponents of devaluation from day 1. PMB was against it. IMF was in support and everyone knows they would not give Nigeria the needed loan to fund our deficit unless we agree to the devaluation.

Knowing this, why did Buhari shun China all these while, when they are our only hope? GEJ had made great strides in Nigeria-China relations, but Buhari dished it all because he was hopeful for IMF handouts.

Now that he has come to his senses that the West do not have our interest at heart, he has turned to China who now realize our desperation and are giving us deals that hurt us more. It is because of this desperation that they are giving us loans that would require us to contract Chinese companies rather than indigenous companies (so you can forget about the jobs that should be created for Nigerians from the projects these loans will fund). Then we just ok'd a renmibi deal that would make it very easy for Nigeria to be the dumping ground of Chinese goods, which is an awful development when we should be pursuing increase in exports.

The timing is wrong on all levels. If we had maintained negotiation on two fronts (China and IMF) we would have had better deals with China. Rather, we just showed China all our cards, and they've done what they know how to do best, rip people off.

Who suffers all this? Is it Buhari and his family or Nigerians?

And we're not talking about the impact of the loan yet. We already spend N1 trillion to service debts, expect that to grow to N2 trillion by next year at the rate we are borrowing.

When Western propaganda was attacking GEJ because of his East-centric foreign policy, PMB and his cohorts were not nationalistic. Now, you and them want us to be nationalistic? On what grounds?

I and my region know the West is evil. The amalgamation of the entity of Nigeria is the oldest proof we have. However, there is ZERO benefit of being nationalistic and siding with our oppressors within the country to make a confrontation. The North and SW can maintain the confrontation. If it ever comes to a point where we have to choose between Nigeria and siding the West to destabilize Nigeria, the choice we would make is very clear.

We all were in this country when the Northern Elders vowed to make the country ungovernable because the President was from the SS region. In the end with the help of the West, they made the country ungovernable and pushed him out. Now, the North wants the support of the same SS/SE regions to confront their former allies? How stupid do you guys think we are? Really, how stupid?

Nigeria is the Yugoslavia of Africa and the Northerners are the Serbs. When the time comes we'll all take a bow.

-Lord

NaijaTalkTown:
You made sense, but you are wrong. GEJ's administration is the cause of the country's current economic problem not Buhari. And Buhari cannot be blamed for biting the "hand that fed him". He did not sign any deal with the West, he only asked for their help. In politics, especially international politics, this is allowed. Even Putin had to seek support of the West in 1999. In fact, Putin and Tony Blair were best of friends back then but today, he is considered the number one enemy by the West. You are also wrong if you actually think Buhari is not tactful enough. The way he has handled the Biafran issue, the Book Haram issue and the pressures from international forces is amazing. He has done perfectly well. He knows how to play the diplomatic board game. Turning to China few days after returning from the US was the right thing to do and it was very well anticipated by the US and those who understand international politics. We cannot chose to remain in ruins because of the fear of the Americans. We will rather confront our problems while we continue to build our economy, develop our infrastructure and develop capable defense forces. No the Americans are not going to send F22 Raptors to Nigeria and bomb our asses to hell. No they are not going to be able to send trained terrorists into our territory if outlr borders are well protected. No they are not going to succeed with their color revolution if we, the people do not let them and their media outlets tell us what to do with our own country. The Russians have done it, the Chinese have done it, the Iranians are doing it so we can do it. All we have to do is support our government to the end.

You do know all of what you typed is trash right?

You say Nigeria's woes is caused by GEJ alone, and you're absolving Buhari who cannot keep fuel supply coming, keep electricity at the level he met it, has not made any economic policy 11 months after he resumed office, orchestrated the worst Budget saga in the history of Africa? Are you an adult or a teenager?

Next you say he did not sign any deal with the West? Really? When he was a regular guest of Chatham house and having so much as President Obama's campaign staff on his campaign team. Do you think the West does anything for free? Without some motive or backside agreement?

You're actually comparing Putin to Buhari? How low can you go really? Do you know how old the Russian Empire is? The Soviet Union fought on the side of the Allied and helped stopped Hitler. Russia is a superpower and Putin is a tenured ex-KGB agent and politician who has been in power for over 1 decade. Buhari lost elections 3 consecutive times and won one after doing a merger. Putin and Buhari are not mates. Putin is the world's most influential person on Forbes for crying out loud.

When you say Buhari is tactful in the way he handled the Biafran and Boko Haram issue, I try to imagine how old you are? If he handled the Biafran and Boko Haram issues well, why is the ICC chief prosecutor currently in Nigeria to investigate both incidences. Don't type trash, it's annoying. Would you also say he handled the Shiites issue well? What about the Fulani herdsmen issue?

Buhari has had no international pressure safe from the Iranians and up till this point has enjoyed the goodwill of the West, Saudi Arabia leading the Middle East Sunni bloc. Any president who enjoys the support of the West and Middle East Sunni bloc can literally do anything and get away with it. But Buhari has bleeped up so bad that the ICC is letting the 6 petitions against his government stand. In less than 1 year. How many years did GEJ stay? Aside the Amnesty International/West-backed report of army excesses to discredit his war against terrorism, did GEJ receive any ICC petition in 6 years?

Buhari that couldn't attend a crucial UN meeting on Boko Haram while he was in New York is a kindergarten when it comes to diplomacy. For the last 11 months he strung along with the US and the West hoping for hand-outs and shunned the Chinese. Who does that? Even the Americans run a special relationship with the Chinese where they do not agree on security, cyber, and East China sea; while they work together in commerce and finance. China is America's biggest lender.

Buhari shunned them as if the US have ever had our backs. That is suicide. So after giving the West green light all this while, you make a U-turn to China, and you call that a tact move? That is what any 5-year-old kid would do, it is not tact, it is a reactionary measure. What's wrong with maintaining talks with the US while we get involved with China? Egypt maintained a two-prong relationship with the US and Soviet Union during the cold war under Nasser. Thanks to a luminary like Nasser and also a middle-man foreign policy by ousted Mubarak, Egypt had the most-sophisticated military in Africa, second most sophisticated in the Middle East and stable economic outlook.

GEJ lost his presidency for confronting the West, I hope Buhari does not end in Hague for confronting them, because the SS/SE will be willful tools in their hands if the color revolution starts. After the many killings, marginalization, and insults, we would take the "an enemy of our enemy is our friend" approach.

If you do not know, America's policy in the event of a calamity in Nigeria is to send marines to the South to secure the oil rich south. To find more details, read the US War Game on Nigeria. They are not our savior, but we'll be better off siding with them than the devils in the North.

The SW media will be useful tools in their hands too, once they guarantee the West that Lagos will remain the hub of the West African region. If the media can already turn on Buhari without backing, imagine what it would be if the West gives their backing.

Nigeria is disunited. SE/SS/NC (MB) are up to their throats in this unholy amalgamation. We do not have the internal unity that Russia, China, Iran, and Cuba have. Nigeria will fall like a pack of cards if the West go full throttle on Buhari. The signs are already here. Two damaging reports from the West and the visit of ICC chief prosecutor after a failed plan to convince Buhari to let the naira slide in Washington is clear enough for the blind to see that Buhari is currently walking on a rope.

The SS/SE/NC will side with the Americans. After calling us 5%, killing innocent protesters, letting the Fulanis go on a rampage with killing, raping, and kidnappings, and villifying our sons (GEJ and Tompolo); you want us to be nationalistic. F**k all you opportunists. Pray the day never comes when we have to choose between maintaining the Nigerian commonwealth and siding with external aggressors. Because, we will choose the latter with ease.

I don't think the West is ready to go full throttle just yet. They are just giving Buhari signs and warning him that he has crossed a line he shouldn't. If he has wisdom, he would be careful going on from this point. But if he doesn't, as I suspect he wouldn't, I fear for him and the entity called Nigeria especially since we have 3 more years to go.

-Lord

GEJ lost his election majorly because the West was against him.

Obama sent PMB one of his campaign staff. And I can remember a vivid warning from the US and UK that GEJ's government should not tamper with the elections prior to the elections been held.

Part of the anti-GEJ rhetoric that culminated in the "ineffectual baboon" tag placed on him by The Economist was orchestrated by the West because GEJ was pro-China.

Unfortunately for PMB, he used the West's help to ascend to power and is nothing but a pawn. If the West sees him to be pro-China, China will not stand for him and leave him up to the West to manhandle. He has bitten the hand that fed him, and seeing how he was used by the enemies of Nigeria (the West) to destabilize the country (look at the current state of our economy), I have no pity for him.

He could have demonstrated tact, but someone that cannot even manage the sensitive nature of Nigeria's ethnic divide or present a budget hitch-free cannot possibly develop a tactical foreign policy with two superpowers.

It is wrong timing to pick a fight with the West and China is not Russia who stand toe-in with their allies even through the worst.

The next couple of months will be interesting, since it appears he is fighting with everybody both domestically and internationally. The only person he is not fighting is himself.

-Lord

seunmsg:
You bigots have no shame I swear. How is this rail project about Yorubas being cunny? Why you guys are trying desperately to destroy a project that will benefit all southerners is what I don't understand.

For your information, the Lagos-Calabar coastal railway project was conceived and designed by the Goodluck Jonathan administration. The PMB administration only saw the sense in the project and decided to continue with it. It is not a Yoruba project as you are desperately trying to portray it.

Cross River is a state with huge tourist potentials. Making the state easily accessible to almost all parts of southern Nigeria through high speed rail is a project that should not even cause any argument. How can you develop calabars tourist potentials if people can't access the state easily?

And please, stop comparing the ibaka sea port with the railway project. They are two distinct projects meant to serve different purposes. Both are desirable and one should not be cancelled for the other. Any reasonable person from the south south should support the Lagos-calabar rail project and still push for the Ibaka sea port. Calling for the cancelling of the rail project because government is not finding the sea port project is simply crass.

You don use your brain today. Finally!

Six of the locations this rail will cross are in my home state. So put away SW, SE/SS rivalry aside; I hope at the end of the day, that project will see the light of day.

The Ibaka sea port is a nice idea, why it hasn't gotten off the ground is appalling and every right thinking SS knows who to blame for that.

Those issues aside, I do not like the distortion, controversy, and politicizing of issues by the APC-led government. That is my major gripe. APC is an opposition against itself.

The executive is fully APC. The legislature is led by APC. So, what exactly is the issue?

Must the APC leadership drag internal ego quambles into core nation-building?

That Buhari cannot wade into this mess and tell both parties to keep their differences away from policy is very unfortunate.

I notice he has held at least 3 meetings with high-profile individuals from NASS on this budget, but of what use is a meeting if the agreed position after the meeting is not adhered to?

For a man who calls himself Mr. Integrity and problem-solver, all of this tarnishes his already battered image.

It is his government. In the end, the buck rests on his table. All the blames will go to him.

So, if he thinks people will spare him because other actors in the APC ruined his government while he stood idly by, he should start thinking straight.

It is bad enough that the APC government is visionless. But must they add crass stupidity to the mix?

-Lord

VanUrch:
I see your point sir.. Some guys can be funny.. the first lady I tried this shit with actually turned it against me...I was actually in love with her but she had a boyfriend who nobody knows apparently so I thought it was one of those things..when I insisted she practically made me the prime minister of her "friendzone"..she was in my dept and we stayed in the same lodge..so I practically did everything for her in hopes that she might actually "like" me...just like...everyone thought we were dating..everyone except us ofcourse...well it happened one day..I mean the "sex" and I actually thought it was a beginning of "something new" until later when she told me shit like "she was experimenting, that she missed her boyfriend so much and she was weak,that it was nothing, that we could have sex but we can't date......", I should have accepted that offer of "sex with dating" but I was hurt ...totally hurt,.she obviously wanted to tie me down with the sex cos of the "benefits" she gets from having a loyal friend like mua. Well it ended there and here I am...cutting my own pound of flesh.

In retrospect, can't say the end was entirely that bad.

Most of us have that experience of one girl that we'd rather have had a thing with, but who fell through the fingers. However, only a few can say they got the "you know what," before she fell through.

Regardless, sex is overrated. That's how I see it.

Nice having a convo with you. All the best in your endeavors and stay safe.

-Lord

VanUrch:
I never saw it like that naa... Does anyone really lay claim to a lady he is not married to..Shit happens!...a lotta 'em don't even give a damn...in the western world sex is not that big a deal...well I will try and be discreet

No sensible person does. But there are a lot of effed up people. That I'm certain about.

Had some nigg* call me late in the night then I was in school warning me not to see his girl at her place again. Apparently, that was a courtesy call. The a**hole was a paranoid bastard.

Guess, he had been nursing the thought. Believe it or not, he manipulated the girl into giving some information by telling her that I told someone about the escapade and the "person" I told, told him. The girl had to spill some to save her relationship, so it seems.

I swear, if I had a Glock and the guy said that sh** to my face, I would have sent him to his creator. Was really peeved about how it went down.

Never really got a confrontation from him after that even though I visited the girl and the girl visited me for an umpteenth time after that ish happened.

The girl still wants to visit to this day. But I'm prepared now, if the f**ker makes that mistake again, Imma make sure he regrets it.

The moral of the story is not to bleep those in relationships, although everyone would admit the taboo part takes the fun to an all new high. The moral is to know what the risks are and be prepared.

If I slapped a guy from an average background on the streets of NY, I'll spend a couple of time in the police cell. If I slapped a member of the Colombo crime family, I'll be dead before the police arrive.

-Lord

VanUrch:
Acid ko holy water ni..Who will tell him?...Definitely not me..and I don't try it with the "fiancees" or "engaged"...that's wickedness

The reality is that you make preparations for exigencies. Do a checklist of what-ifs.

Fiancees, engaged, bethroted, boyf, wifes. All of it, depending on how you see it, is wickedness. You did talk about Karma.

But, I ain't preaching. Far from it. I'm just telling you what every new employ at an Oil & Gas coy is told--SAFETY first.

You can pull out that shit on most people and the girl involved will receive the burden of being tagged a slut if the escapade should come to light.

In other cases, you get a stab wound, have acid thrown on you, or some embarrassment in your workplace, or boys get to beat you up. There are so many options for the twisted mind with no iota of self-respect.

From a concerned citizen.

-Lord

VanUrch:
Downsides to FRIENDZONES!..
1. If the guy is too nice and funny(like me) and seem to have your time all the time..you will end up comparing him with your bf...asking for more attention which he your bf can't give. Meanwhile I'm patiently giving you the attention waiting for no2....I'm a very patient dog...I'm kinda attracted to ladies in a relationship.
2. Then there comes the relationship fight..Who do you talk to if not the president of your "friendzone"...yours faithfully..then you rush over to my hood..I pretend to listen and you lean on my shoulders to cry..next thing bra is off..I just need two fingers for that..after the deed ofcourse I will apologize but that will forever remain our secret. Small small "Friendzone" will turn to "Friend with benefits"..Keep Friendzoning oo

Until person pour acid on top your body.

Just be careful who the boyf, fiance, husband b4 u use this strat.

-Lord

ashjay001:
Study ur morality! List or probably mention d ability this ur GEJ has over PMB?
Compare and contrast his best performance/s and how tangible/viable it was in relation to past govt efforts?

Hear urself-"no messiahs, just pple with better abilities than others"; since he supposedly has better abilities, isn't he supposed to put it to good use? What is a messiah, if not someone with better abilities?

A supposedly Phd holder, who doesn't even know how to motivate his people, propagate his message or possibly even bully opposition into submission? Just what d nepa certificate holder is doing presently! I know stark illiterates who'll reason u into d ground, leadership no be by book; abinibi>ability!

This is one of d instances I wish to play God; just give u wailers ur utopia with GEJ as ur president! Mofos

Are you high? Even a blind, deaf, and dumb person will not make the mistake to compare GEJ and Buhari.

Should we start with the growth rate, inflation rate, amount of FDI, power, price of fuel, ease of doing business, economic rating, agriculture, rail, automobile, steady reduction in unemployment rate, electoral reforms. Please, don't be a Zombie!

OBJ's only tangible achievement was clearing our debt. Yaradua's only achievement was putting rule of law in the foreground (something PMB is bent on destroying). The only star in the military era is OBJ, the others were idiotas including the few democratic despots like Shagari. So there's no one there to compare with GEJ.

GEJ had better abilities than PMB or any other leader in Nigeria's history. It is a fact.

All those who wanted Jesus Christ or Mohammed like yourself are kids on the inside of an adult frame.

You guys wanted him to solve Nigeria's power problem, he sought out to privatize it, you guys said he was dashing it off to his cronies. Nigeria's power problem cannot be solved by a government. We need over $100b to get constant power in Nigeria. That is the entire sum of 5 years of GEJ's budget.

They say he didn't build enough roads, but they were unable to track the number of roads he constructed which was attested to be more than any other government.

They say he allowed corruption to thrive unhindered, and we ask why has PMB not prosecuted any body in his party? But you wanted GEJ to prosecute people in his party? You say he was weak, but when NOI uncovered thousands of ghost workers, there was zero fanfare.

They say he didn't save, but when he took the governors (led by Ameachi) to the court about depleting our savings and lost, Nigerians who were not queuing to buy fuel did not think it was their business.

They say he was soft, but when he started the War on Terrorism against threats by the Northern elites, he was not strong. When he resolved a 13 year (1998-2011) minimum wage dispute barely months after being elected and increasing the wage by 200%, he was not strong. When he stood against the fuel marketers cabal to remove subsidy, and Nigerians foolishly sided with their oppressors, he was not strong. When he fought against the generators and power cabal to disband PHCN (something OBJ could not do in 8 years), he was not strong.

You said he was not able to address terrorism but the ammunitions he bought are still being used to prosecute the war 10 months after he was gone. He set up military tribunals to try treasonous soldiers who were sabotaging our war efforts.

You said he is a PHD holder that wasn't able to motivate people, and if you were not motivated by his "I had no shoe" speech, or his "my ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian". You said he was not able to propagate his message and I begin to wonder if you have been living under a rock in 6 years when he was able to carry out the largest privatization sale in Africa without a hitch from workers, NLC or private partners. Do you know what a disaster that would have been if Buhari and his 40 thieves had oversaw that sale?

Show me one functional democracy where the opposition is bullied? Is bullying the opposition the mark of a great leader or that of a tyrant? So you want him to be like OBJ or Chadian, Cameroonian, Zimbabwean presidents where opposition figures are thrown in prison and there is no freedom of speech. If bullying the opposition is the only achievement you can point to me as the achievement of Buhari, then you are an enemy of democracy, an enemy of Nigerians, and an enemy of free speech.

You deserve what you get in PMB.

GEJ is not and will never be in the same league with PMB. PMB is a senile trash that rode into power on the back of acclaimed thieves (Tinubu, Amechi, Saraki) and disillusioned amnesiac vegetative Nigerians like yourself.

-Lord

While he maintains a fleet of 10 jets. Hypocrisy at its peak.

What happens to leaders being servants and leading by example?

The same way he can pay his children school fees with dollars at N199/$1 while Nigerians have to pay school fees of students abroad at N320/$1.

As Buhari said it is tough luck.

This change dey sweet me.

-Lord

Anyone that voted Buhari and complains that Buhari is out of touch with the suffering of Nigerians, the thunder that will strike you is receiving instruction from Sango, Amadioha, and Zeus.

When you were shouting that Buhari has guts, he is a hard man, were you expecting him to select who he will be hard to and who he will be soft to? He is for everybody and nobody. So whether you like queue for 2 weeks, don't have light for 4 months, or a fulani herdsman rapes your mother, or you buy sachet water for N20. As Buhari said on Al-Jazeera, it is your tough (bad) luck.

-Lord

ashjay001:
Read ur reasoning: u called me an ass-hole earlier, then towards d end u try being polite and tell me not to end up a dullard?

Who do u tink is d ass-hole? Since u've got half-baked reasoning like other wailers, PMB was already winning 12 core north states b4 Tinubu! Oyo, Kwara, Ondo, Kogi, Benue and even Ekiti will never vote Tinubu! During elections in those states, Tinubu is always lowkey. So, Tinubu might be taking d glory, but deep down everybody realised d Buffoon fuc-ked up big time! Everybody, except tribalistic buffoons like u! The whole democratic world, turned against him and insulted him to his face! Was that propaganda too?


Did u know when soldiers where deployed to welcome Yar'Adua's body into d country, without GEJ, as a acting presido, knowing anything about it? I almost bursted a vein on fb. Do u even know anything about d 'doctrine of necessity'? I jubilated for over a week, when it was applied. I registered to vote because of d bloody buffoon!

What broke my delusions of GEJ's messianic abilities, was when he appointed achike udenwa, a minister; I served as a corper during udenwa's tenure, it was terrible! Imagine my saviour president appointing such a deadbeat as his minister?

I'm gonna shut my trap and allow u enjoy ur tomfoolery, while I bid my time and pray PMB doesn't fu-ck up, but if he does, the kicking out circle begins again!

No more will mediocrity be allowed to get 2 terms! We need true change

Your types are the problem in Nigeria. Thinking because you voted him in 2011, you somehow are of a higher morality to justify voting a senile trash in 2015.

Your illusion is your undoing. There are no messiahs. Just people with better abilities than others. And as far as history and reality goes, GEJ has better abilities than PMB. That was the singular reason why I supported GEJ in 2015. I will not choose a goat or a nepa bill certificate holder over the president who had made the best performance since Nigeria's independence.

That you did proves that you need adult supervision around sharp objects.

-Lord

Anyone comparing Obasanjo to Buhari is an animal.

Anyone comparing GEJ to Buhari should be exterminated.

Those who fail to learn from history are bound to repeat them.

Obasanjo is the only president who grew Nigeria's economy twice in two different decades. Look at Nigeria's growth rate from 1960 until date.

GEJ is the only president in the history of Nigeria to reduce inflation from double digits to single digits consecutively for a 5 year period. Even then, GEJ spent less on power than OBJ but produced more power than OBJ. GEJ resolved the minimum wage ish that had been lingering from 1998 to 2011. The largest expansion of Nigeria's rice, rail, and automobile industries happened under GEJ. The only large expansion of a major industry in Nigeria's other top-performing administration (OBJ) was the telecoms industry.

Buhari destroyed Nigeria's economy in 1985 within 10 months. Buhari destroys Nigeria's economy in 2015/2016 within 10 months.

That is no coincidence. When someone does wrong the first time, we call it mistake. When he does the same again the second time, we call it a habit.

Buhari is a habitual failure.

I am thankful that Buhari is ruling Nigeria at this time. The West said Jonathan was too soft. Nice!

Now we have a hard man that is not soft. All this hardship is just the beginning. You can't have your cake and eat it. Buhari will ignore all your suffering. There will be no Babangida to rescue the nation from his grip this time around. You finally have what you want, enjoy it.

-Lord

bezimo:
I did a research recently on the sustainable gas to power project in Nigeria, the possibilities, current realities and challenges.

Nigerian natural gas has the possibility to meet Nigerian energy needs sufficiently but the major problem militating against the sustainable use of the natural gas to generate electricity is pipeline vandalisation which is a deliberate effort to sabotage government effort to solve the power problem. The problem has always been there, the Buhari administration is only been confronted with the realities.

Its quite unfortunate that the we have certain group of people who have chosen to sabotage government effort. This is most unfortunate because this obtains only in Nigeria worldwide. A number of solutions are possible but their effectiveness is limited.

Though Femi adesina was so wrong to have placed the blame on Nigerians complaining of frequent black out.He could have done a better job explaining the situation.

I'd like to read the report of that research. I will send you a mail.

-Lord

Pidggin:
Who told you this? You don't live here so why make such assumptions. Even small businesses pay tax and levies here to Federal, state and even local government, stop this insult, you don't live here stop taking us for granted.

Don't mind those idiots. Them dey were make sense dey dictate how we go tk live our lives for hia. Iranu them.

That's how they foisted an slowpoke on us, because they know, anyhow e b, e no go affect them. That's why I don't pity the Nigerian students abroad. Make all these diaspora ppl go and die!

What I am waiting for is for the government to start taxing them wherever they are like USA. Since they can afford to send home roughly $20b per year. If government tax them the normal 25% Income Tax, we would be able to realize at least N1t every year which is something.

Make person reason PMB that idea, I go support am to hell and back.

-Lord

FredN:
Great write up. @op ....Looking at the current sitiations on ground, this write up should be revisited to re access your position on some of the issues you raised as against current statistics.

I wish it were possible for people to state their views on these issues raised which may help drive the conversation constructively without resorting to inter party bickering


It should also make fp; @ seun, lalasticlala

If there is the demand for my views, I will revisit the myriad of issues. However, I think people are still giving Buhari (me inclusive) a benefit of doubt.

The FG recently decided to stimulate the economy with N350 less than $2b dollars. For a $500b economy, that's not exactly encouraging. But it is something. Coupled with the $30b budget, and the rising oil price, we should get somewhere or at least prevent the recession that should hit later in the year.

However, if with all these things, nothing meaningful happens, then my disappointment in Buhari would reach a new high. From when I wrote that piece to now, things had gone worse. Yet, I'm not making a verdict yet. I'll make a verdict after this fiscal year is over.

And when I do, it will be justified, because oil prices are above the benchmark, they have the largest budget till date to use for just 9 months, insurgency is being managed, and the opposition is not as strong/vocal as in the last administration; if Buhari screws up with all this pluses, then there's no hope for the APC presidency.

-Lord

vedaxcool:
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Where did you find $6.06t from? Lying wailing zombies.

Na mistake na. Abi na job I dey apply for?

Na only that one u c. Typical zombie.

So they passed that budget of corruption with the same amount (N6.06t) and even have the guts to say some agencies were not included, opining that there will be a supplementary budget later?

When I said APC legislators were just blowing hot air over the budget because of Saraki's troubles, some uninformed elements thought otherwise.

How do you explain that APC caucus meeting held, Saraki's and anti-Saraki's camp met, then magically the budget that had been held hostage was hastily passed 2 days later with the omissions still inside.

If after all this thievery, no change happens this year, APC better start preparing for their exit in 2019. Na opposition party fit them.

-Lord

NavierStokes:
There is already a terror alert for london. May God help us all and our loved ones

Yea, heard about it. If not for the very competent MI5/6, it should have happened already. UK citizens top the number of EU foreign ISIS fighters.

It is the governments that are playing with fire. Even in Syria, the UK, US, France and the rest of the West are sending weapons and dollars to so-called "moderate" rebels that may have harbored terrorists in the past and still do. Or would become terrorists in the future.

They've done this right from the Russia-Afghan war during the cold war. Osama happened because of that, and they still have not learned their lessons. So, it is valid to say that these people actually have sinister motives with this terrorism thingy.

-Lord

Not really bothered about the attacks. There are too many behind-the-scenes hullabaloo that makes commenting on terrorism in the West a difficult endeavor for me.

However, my major concern is the EU migrant crisis. I salute countries like Slovenia that have said their lands are not meant to host illegal Muslim occupants, refugees or not. Let Germany, France and the other pro-refugee countries be held responsible the increase in spate of attacks. Thank heavens the attacks are majored in pro-refugee EU countries. Remain UK.

The universe will pay them in equal measure for turning Libya and Egypt into Hades.

-Lord

MRSALT:
Again politicians with smooth tongue. He promised to create jobs and alleviate poverty. But he failed to explain how he can do that. With dwindling monthly federal allocation, aspirants must give us figures and statistics of what they want to do and the plausible effective method to achieve their targets

Allah, Your head correct well well!!!

Abeg chop knuckle.

Whether APC or PDP or KOWA sef, the time of blind, stupid, baseless promises are over. Say what you want to do, how you intend to do it, the time frame within which you want to do, the problems you expect to face and how you expect to efface such problems. Every thing should be with verifiable figures and statistics.

If you cannot do that, better shift.

-Lord

akinsbaba2015:
The information available to Nigerians was that the GENCOs & DISCOs were totally privatised. The privatisation was done over several months in 2013 and so you are getting your facts enrirely wrong. The government did not privatise TRANSMISSION but sold the entirety of the Generating companies & Distribution companies, that was not done in secrecy and the technical panel was chaired by Atedo Peterside. Don't misinform the public and if you have a contrary view pkease expansiate appropriately particularly as touching the GENCOs. Good morning

That is the information your simpleton mind can find.

Nigeria has 23 grid-connecting power generating plants with a combined total installed capacity of 10,396.0 MW and available capacity of 6,056 MW. http://www.mondaq.com/Nigeria/x/292662/Oil+Gas+Electricity/A+Guide+to

Of this number, only 5 were privatized as at 2013 to the GENCOS. http://www.nigeriapowerreform.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=755:fg-moves-to-conclude-sale-of-15-gencos-discos&catid=36&Itemid=336

Below is a list of those plants:

1. Geregu Plant I
2. Kainji Plant
3. Shiroro Plant
4. Ughelli Plant
5. Sapele Plant

Between then and now Afam Plant in Abia state has been sold. You can find more of those sold here -- http://www.nercng.org/index.php/industry-operators/licensing-procedures/licencees.

The sale of the 10 NIPP Gencos also started at around 2013 and was recently completed.

It's difficult to gauge the current stage of the privatization process but as at May 2015 we were far into the second phase as the first phase was completed in November, 2013.

Mr. Man, watch your tongue and do not mislead the public.

The Thermal GENCOS are facing hell because of the recurrent gas pipelines vandalization. The government cannot guarantee consistency of the gas supply and are currently doing little or nothing about it. But if it is to draft army personnels to look for Tompolo, they would be able to.

So when I say Buhari and Fashola should be blamed for the depressing power generation I know what I am talking about. The Hydro Plants only have an available capacity of 1,060 MW. While the Thermal Plants have a combined available capacity of 4,996 MW. You do the maths. Between the plants still run by the government and the inability of the government to protect gas pipelines, the federal government shares the bulk of the blame for the current power crisis.

-Lord

noblegrex:
stupid elf. I pitty your kind. Fool. No brain at all.all what you have in your big head is just pawpaw seeds. Nothing more Ode,Ewu. No sense of reasoning at all...abusing someone who's old enough to be your great grand pa and even your president. You're a FOOL

****

-Lord

akinsbaba2015:
You are wrong, generation is not run by government the GENCOs were equally privatised leaving only the transmission for the government which the previous government also contracted out to MANITOBA ELECTRIC under a management contract. Always get your facts right.

Not all the generation facilities are privatized, I did say some of them were sold to gencos like the Shiroro dam. Get your facts right.

-Lord

Kagawa10:
Who dey lie?
I could still remember then how our tenants used to stay in our living room for morning to night to watch africa magic movies. But now, it's a different gist.

And you expect me to believe that? Guy your case is critical. Receive sense.

-Lord

noblegrex:
he who knows not but don't know that he knows not is a fool. You need sense boy.

****

-Lord

Yksoul:
GEJ HAS DESTROYED PHCN.YOU ALL CAN SEE THAT PRIVATIZATION MAY NEVER WORK IN THIS COUNTRY.HOW CAN YOU PRIVATISE PHCN TO SYCOPHANTS IN THE SEASON OF 'STEALING IS NOT CORRUPTION'?

Was your relation one of the incompetent idiots that was sacked when PHCN was unbundled?

Pained enemy of progress!!!

Ask Buhari to stop privatization now? Both *** and Buhari are dullards. If you are asked to provide a solution now, you would start spinning tales by moonlight?

-Lord

Kagawa10:
Eediot, Ondo state esp. Ondo town do enjoy close to 12 hrs of light before the stup!d privatisation.
Now, if we have just 4hrs of light, we should be happy. As a matter of fact, the epileptic light started the moment it was privatised.
Abeg swerve! Yeye loser!

12 hours of light everyday before privatization with only 2000MW of electricity supply nationwide.

Uncle, you can lie oooo.

-Lord