₦airaland Forum

AdeniyiA:
The woman should go and oversee her affairs o jare...

she's just gallivanting about as if Nigeria na her country ...

na wah for you bros...is it not her 'affairs' that brought her to Nigeria in the first place?

ICEFLAME419ja:
Day by day the likes and shares for the zombies on comments are reducing ,you zombies might wanna change lanes soon but you know what !!!! Huh !!! ,,,I'd love your president to rule even beyond 2019....lol ,Kuz y'all zombies gonner be gunners then,oluwa noni ,I ain't feeling shit n I'm gonna stay that way .

e pain am!!!

weed don scatter all these ones brain. ''government is bad, government is bad'' doesn't mean people should analyze these issues sentimentally. IMF boss is not here to dictate to us what we should do with our money. THERE IS A FALL IN REVENUE SOURCE, BUT THERE IS AN INCREASED BUDGET. Is that not enough to tell this weederman that government is trying to take citizens out of suffering rather than the other way round?

some are wailing for relevance, some are wailing to escape kuje, some are wailing to support those that are wailing to escape kuje...but you should rather wail when there is a good reason to.

Rose2014:
Ngeneukwenu won't like this

Shame on sycophants. While they're on one end defending the budget, Buhari has withdrawn it from the other end

My observation is that Sycophants will ruin this administration faster than the opposition

you are blind abi? is it the whole budget that is being altered or the budget of the presidency? even progressives had a problem with that.

Validated:
Incompetence is going to announce a budget you know nothing about!
Buhari sef

Is this the Change

wailing is criticism where commendation is necessary

Christine Lagarde is star struck.

sorry Mr Ben Bruce, you are in a very useless political party. PDP has nothing to offer than to loot the treasury. where is the effetive opposition going to come from? is it fayose or olisa metuh or ffk or dasuki or asari dokubo...kai pdp.

divinehand2003:
My goodness, so the bloody EFCC haven't even concluded the investigations of the missing or misappropriated $2.1 billion arms deal, but they have the guts to detain the suspects against the court orders. There is great anarchy in Nigeria perpetuated by EFCC.

Call it what you want, the ATM of the last administration will rot in jail.

ta4ba3:
But I dey part of naija with am.. so u mean say na only him carry naija problem for head

you are right with that one bruv.

that one will be hard to curtail...begging is an occupation in the north. how do you differentiate?

because, it's so sad now, the question; where will the first bomb in 2016 go off. Adamawa, yobe or borno?

well, my prayer is for thunder to fire boko haram this year.

ta4ba3:
Pray for me too.. I really need that prayer more than bubu

bros your problem nor big pass naija own o.

I don't think these Africans know yet that this giant is about to wake up. Gabon be warned.

As for countries like SA and GH, you better respect yourself this year.

Rockyrascal:
Nigeria should go back to pre-colonial era then.

I don't understand why.

Rockyrascal:
Singapore is also new to democracy. Infact we gained independence before them,the problem with Nigeria is Nigerians.

but if Buhari should say this, you will shoot the messenger. Our attitude to some certain issues like work, public places conduct and respect of government laws needs to improve positively for any meaningful change in our individual lives. The ones willing to change positively will surely reap the benefits this year.

Buhari to change Nigeria in 2016...

OLADD:
Do you know the percentage of the borrowing earmarked for capital projects? Are you aware that a whopping N500billion was proposed for the so called social welfare? Imagine if that amount was injected into large scale commercial farming, do you know its likely impact on our economic diversification drive? Borrowing money to finance recurrent expenditure is not only insensitive, it can be economically suicidal.

my understanding is that the budget will be funded by both revenue (exports, tax, fines, etc) and borrowing ( domestic and international). what economist will tell you is that it doesn't make economic sense to borrow to fund even 1% of recurrent expenditure. it is an illogical move. So therefore, i think the government with all its experienced ministers in the finance and national planning sectors will already know this. There is enough revenue for recurrent, so i think all borrowed funds will be used for capital projects which will in turn raise revenue over the long term. As for the social welfare, i hear that that too will be done in a way the government will also get its money back in the long term. I think the government has a good budget 'if and only if' it is well implemented.

OLADD:
A template has already been set in Lagos by APC's local champion (Fashola) who left a debt burden of N160billion with a borehole and website costing N300m and N78m respectively. It's only in this part of the world that a govt will borrow money to finance welfarism. Aregbesola did the same in Osun by taking loans for the so-called school feeding project and left the State "technicality" bankrupt. I haven't seen any Nigerian parents who complain of inability to feed their wards in primary schools but Buhari wants to mortgage Nigeria for the sake of 2019.

government is wise enough to borrow for capital projects only. Buhari is not mortgaging Nigeria, instead if that budget is properly implemented, you might not know your country again. and yes it will have the ability to pay back.

fhelihx:
Hope this ll have a positive impact towards the masses

nope it won't. na for him, Aisha, Zahra ,gbo gbo e belle alone. except na u wan dey wash the plate or cook the food.

Whites will always want to talk for talking sake...dont the OP know that African governments too have to first provide the basic infrastructures, security, education for a stable society. a stable society is a productive society. The OP said ''An intelligent entrepreneurial populace creates the economic growth/Bourgeoisie class which leads to an accountable government''. From my point of view which is so clear, i disagree with that. Rather, it is the visionary government that puts in place the adequate infrastructures necessary like quality schools, healthcare to turn its youths into an intelligent entrepreneurial populace in the first place. But if you look around Africa, you wont find such visionary governments. So i again totally disagree with you when you say the problem with Africa is not bad leadership. It is bad leadership, wrong leadership.

I think subsidy has gone.

Pidggin:
GEJ is a nationalist, he will not indulge in such because he knows the consequences of being sectarian, and he cares. A whole president of Nigeria has consistently chosen to grant formal interviews in his mother tongue, and you call be a tribal bigot? Your hypocrisy is epic.

but the interview was in hausa, na hausa people organize that service, where ibo, Yoruba and ijaw people dey

DerideGull:
Of course, he believes in Northern Nigeria yet some dumbass fools in the zoo called Nigeria will to preach useless "One-Nigeria" to us.

do you even think before you write? is it a sin to preach unity, that the heavens and the whole world is preaching?

murphyibiam15:
SOME ZOMBIES WILL STILL COME TO BLAB

because those zombies are actually more reasonable than you.

Proudlyngwa:
You have very valid points and I appreciate that, but I heard the interview was granted by BBC HAUSA and he also did an interview for BBC world service, I don't know how true that is and when i can confirm . I will modify this post.
Back to the topic, granting an interview for the beeb hausa is not bad, most hausa fulani's nairaland is their transistor radio ( no insults intended ), I hope we will not interpret this wrongly.

the interviews are on YouTube there but he won't check, he prefers to sit here and cry.

Pidggin:
Read my first post, don't you think those issues I raised are important concerns

ol boy its a free world oh, BBC has a hausa service, it communicates to its followers in hausa. unfortunately, it doesn't have ibo and Yoruba. So if Buhari is met by the bbc hausa service for an interview and he grants them, it is only fair and right that he replies in the language he is questioned. and because he knows people like you will cry, he also did a second session in English for you. and you're still not ok with that? does Buhari reply amanpour in hausa

Pidggin:
This is not about wailing, please don't get me wrong. He should stop granting formal interviews in Hausa, that's all I am saying.

can you tell me the crime in doing that?

OldJohn:
Someone is indirectly saying somewhere is a zoo

someone is making it seem that someone is from the east, but someone is not from the east, and somewhere is not a zoo.

Pidggin:
Where did you hear me say i don't like Buhari? Be nice now, why are you trying to drive me away from my own country?

it is clear you don't like Buhari, dont even try denying. I have seen the French president grant interviews in English. if he can do that, why can't Buhari grant interviews in hausa moreover, Buhari on that same day and place did the interview in hausa, and after that in English. check YouTube for confirmation. You wailers cannot just take a break, and it's not that you have done a background check before creating a thread.

all these wailers above me should give nairaland small breathing space...you have reverted to northern propaganda as a strategy for creating hatred for the government. you won't give him a chance to set it up first, because you think every president must be clueless like your hero. Even when your leaders are already falling in line. well, as the saying goes, what elders (pdp) sees sitting, their children(e-wailers) cannot see it standing on top of Everest.

let everyone carry out their business with international best practices in mind. I support this demotion/sack/retire strategy of this current government. If this continues, before the end of 2016, people will stop behaving like animals in the zoo.

Tolexander:
N250billion for just a road 127.6km long??

An average of 2billion Naira per kilometer approximately in the South West, not even South South!

APC, I hail una o!!!!!

we hail you too...

all you GEJ supporters should thread carefully...more 'gates' will surely open up in 2016. If Buhari continues to stands firm on corruption, big time humiliation awaits that man. I shall join sonala to say goodluck to him.