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Sibe007:
Still don't understand this report. What was she trying to sell

Buhari's Sick Leave Re-energizes Nigeria's Presidency - Reuters

When protesters marched on Nigeria's presidential villa earlier this month to complain about a biting recession, they were not repelled by baton-wielding policemen, the usual fate for anyone arriving uninvited at the gate of the country's power center.

Instead, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who is standing in for the country's sick leader, sent a vehicle to ferry the protest leaders to his office, where they complained about widespread corruption.

In a frank admission, Osinbajo acknowledged the government had failed to make as much progress fighting graft as it had hoped.

"We hear you loud and clear," he told the protesters.

President Muhammadu Buhari has been in London for six weeks on medical leave, raising questions over his capacity to govern Africa's largest economy.

In his absence, diplomats and business leaders say the presidency has acted with an energy rarely seen in the two years since Buhari, 74, was elected.

Civil servants say they are handling heftier workloads, while investors are praising a new, long-needed foreign exchange policy. Meanwhile, diplomats say Osinbajo's inner circle is gaining influence inside the presidency.

To be sure, Osinbajo has made clear his loyalty lies with Buhari, a retired general who has struggled to define a clear strategy to deal with Nigeria's slide into recession and stands accused by opponents of inaction.

But the 59-year-old lawyer is getting work done. He has relaxed visa rules to lure foreign investors -- a plan drawn up by Buhari but which like others got stuck in his chief of staff's office, according to diplomats.

Officials in the Aso Rock presidential complex in Abuja have seen their working hours extended to 7 p.m. when Osinbajo leaves, or later. Buhari and his aides typically close shop at 4 p.m., officials said.

"This man is a workaholic," one presidency insider said. "I wonder whether he rests at all because he even shifts some of the meetings to his official residence."


"BACK ON TRACK"

Nigeria tumbled into a full-year recession in 2016 for the first time in a quarter of a century as a slump in crude oil revenues hammered the OPEC member's public finances.

The Treasury has faced an acute shortage of hard currency that has piled pressure on the Naira, which still trades at a more-than 30 percent premium on the black market even after policymakers effectively devalued the currency for private individuals last Monday.

After stiff resistance from Buhari for a full devaluation throughout last year. With the president absent, last week's move was seen as testing the waters for a broader weakening.

The central bank's move came after the National Economic Council, an advisory body headed by the vice president, called for an urgent review.

"We believe the reform agenda is back on track," said Bismarck Rewane, CEO of Lagos consultancy Financial Derivatives. "The reform agenda has always been there but is more visible now with the vice president," he said.

The president's office has posted pictures on social media of Buhari recuperating to allay rumors his health was worse than publicly acknowledged, though none have been published for more than a week.

For now, there is no clarity on when Buhari, from the predominantly Muslim north, will return.

Osinbajo's leadership appears to have been accepted in the north, which under an informal deal with the Christian south should have its turn at the helm of power.

And he has won praise from southerners who felt neglected by Buhari, visiting both the commercial capital, Lagos, and the oil producing Niger Delta on several occasions. Buhari has visited neither as president.

Local residents say militant attacks on pipelines in the Delta have fallen since Osinbajo promised to drag the region out of poverty in a flurry of speeches.

Moreover, Osinbajo has showed himself to be swift to act.

On one trip to Lagos' international airport, he challenged officials on why the air conditioning and a luggage carousel were not working, and even inspected the toilets. The next day he fired the bosses of Nigeria's civil aviation.

Aides to Osinbajo stress that he is acting with Buhari's consent.

"President Buhari ... ensures that everyone falls in line," said Osinbajo's spokesman, Laolu Akande.

It is a message that Buhari loyalists are quick to reinforce. The president's political adviser, Babafemi Ojodu, said the two men spoke every day.

"There is nothing that has been done since the vice president started acting that is not something that started far back in the past," said Ojodu.

CHARLYX9:
what makes you think he is not a christian like you said that he is a mason and have done my research and have not found him wanting so where is your evidence@chuose2,makewetalk,emperor4God.At least evidence of kirk franklin,oyedepo,fred hammond is cleared then were is that of adeboye cause it seems to take much of your time in creating a tangible post about him beng a mason#loser

omokab:
[b]as you can see how you are contracting yourself. Jesus that is alive and died for you. [/b]How can somebody be alive and as well died? Even your bible says that you should die once in life. After life is heaven. Which means she is more wiser than you for knowing the truth. She knew that is foolishness to call a person that eat after hungary.the person that slept off inside boat. The person that course a pawapaw tree because he was Hungary and the tree does not have a fruit. The lazy person that was killed on the cross with nail and had drink. The person that pray for forty days not to be killed but God said no to his prayer. So use ur sense any other day to write rubish about islam.

Adeoba10:
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mpowa:
And we're supposed to listen to you because You're who?

mpowa:
The question I have for people like you is, why do you waste time on a fake man. spend precious time attacking someone who is not important.

"The Ammunition Your Enemies Use Against You, Determine Their Fear Of You" - Wise Anonymous

Nobody throw stone at a fruitless tree

Oh Lord, I pray Let the whole world talk about me, either for Good or for Bad.

uvalued:
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CHARLYX9:
this is just a tip of an iceberg still not convincing and what are the more that you are talking about because this ain't evidence anyone can make this up so i need you to give me good evidence to believe just like the case of david oyedepo and wait for a minute why has emperor4God not updated his blog for some time now is it that he is short of materials or what?pls i need to know am curious about it

analice107:
Pity.

analice107:
Pity.

tomakint:
The real men of God holding forth in the journey of serving the Lord and Worshipping the Master, Jesus Christ.

analice107:
If you indeed attends Church and have a Bible, then you are a disgrace to yourself not to the body of Christ. You should read your Bible, for if you do, you know that satan owns nothing in the world. he is a usurper, A lying thief. A maskman who has got you and your likes woodwinked.

You call yourself a Christian, yet you ascribe everything on earth to Satan?

Mention for me what and what Satan created and has control over.

Yahweh owns the earth, He is the King of ALL CREATION. HE IS THE ETERNAL LORD. BEFORE HIM SATAN CAN NOT SHAKE.

that He allows satan and you his agents to roam free doesn't make the earth Satan's. At the appointed time, him and you all shall be kicked out of His earth.

You, the evil men of the world ascribe to satan the power he doesn't have. Satan has powers only to you who do not know him, and you can't know how weak satan is, if you don't know how strong God is.

People like you make satan the Almighty. You call him the all-seeing-eye, ascribing to him the status of Omnipresence.
Is satan all knowing?
Can he see and know everything everwhere? Then, why does he needs Familiar spirits to monitor and tract peoples movements and activities? Why does he need monitoring agents like you?
Why is he fighting so hard to possess people so that he can use them for his work?

Satan has got you fooled.

And, Hey, keep my Moniker away from your mouth. I don't mingle with dirt.

May the Curse you bring on yourself by touching God's anointed be upon you alone.

let me leave you with this.

Palm 89:20-23. go and read it, meditate on it.

Can you do that? will the spirit of criticism allow you do that?

analice107:
Really? You mean you arrived at this all by yourself or someone helped you get here?

hahahahahahahahahaha, you are so slow.

iglimen:
If northerners catch u

TrumpDonald2:
Guy, u dey work for CIA

Obascoetubi:
look at those chairs, are they not different?

BUHARIISCURSED:
muslim and redeem are 5 & 6