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ECOTERRORS:
I ll sponsor your next hajj trip for the Stone throwing, maybe Saudi Arabia will do that thing which I can't get my hands to do to you.



See you in next hajj but where is my MEAT

Oh! So you still want meat from me after the emboldened?

Don't worry ehn! You ll get it

A man that denied being stoned even with video evidence at people's fingertips shouldn't be taken seriously.. Even in this Address, I see lies.

I can also see that the senate is yet to receive Baba's ministerial list. Baba better not disappoint us this time

joseph1832:
Well I wouldn't be so sure about that, most wailers wail because they're bitter because their so called hero failed and he was sent packing out of Aso Rock.

A man who is bitter doesn't care much about the truth, he concerns himself with spreading his bitterness and bile and consuming himself or herself.

ECOTERRORS proved the above when she allowed her bile and bitterness overshadow her when she vehemently told me how she hates me!.

Its such a pity!. I guess that's why they say, "truth is bitter'.

E-terrorist can't get over that defeat.

True..but I mean, deep within, many wailers have the same feeling as the 26yr old who said Buhari is good for us. Its just too obvious.

joseph1832:
I bet when that 26 year old dude goes home today, there is a 70% chance of him sleeping with light.

But during his brother's administration, that one na ghen ghen!. "Better thing no dey hide".

True that bro! I love the fact that the guy didn't lie. He said the truth..and I can say without a doubt that he spoke the mind of many wailers

"I had voted for Jonathan because I wanted to support my brother but now I think Buhari is good for us," said the 26-year-old, speaking on a central Lagos street where he sells cheap jeans.

Hmmm..

* On streets, Nigerians retain faith in former dictator

* Buhari makes faltering progress against Boko Haram

* Takes on big Nigerian institutions

LAGOS, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Nigerian beautician Rasheedat Lawal has seen sales at her cosmetics salon plunge since President Muhammadu Buhari came to power but she still thinks the 72-year-old former dictator is the right person to fix Africa's largest economy.

The ascetic, sandal-wearing general's first four months in power have coincided with a renewed slide in global oil prices, which has slowed economic growth in Africa's top crude producer and weakened the naira currency.

For Lawal that means a 20 percent price hike for the imported makeup and other beauty products at her small Lagos salon - an increase most of her customers cannot afford.

Yet after five years of ineffective and corrupt government under former President Goodluck Jonathan, she is pinning her hopes on Buhari's pledge to end the corruption that has kept Nigeria's oil wealth in the hands of a tiny, hyper-rich elite.

"You need to give Buhari some time," said Lawal, standing in a salon almost devoid of customers. "We want changes. We don't want to continue what was left behind by Jonathan."

Buhari made history in March by becoming the first candidate to defeat an incumbent at the polls. Improving security in a country where violence has torn both north and south was one of his key pledges, but since he took over as president on May 29, it has been two steps forward and one step back.

On the plus side, the oil-rich and volatile southern Niger Delta, the back yard of Jonathan, a Christian like most of the Delta population, has stayed calm since the accession of Buhari, who hails from the predominantly Muslim north.

The same cannot be said of the bloody Islamist insurgency in the northeast led by Boko Haram that Buhari vowed to crush.

Since he took over, the group has killed at least 900 people and efforts to find some of the 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in the town of Chibok more than a year ago have come to nought.

However, the army, backed by troops from neighbouring states, has continued a steady recapture of territory from the militants, who have killed thousands and displaced more than 2 million in their six year quest to establish a mediaeval caliphate on the edge of the Sahara.

The military achievement, highlighted in state media, appears to have made people across the country feel more secure.

Metus Maduka is from the Delta like former president Jonathan and, like many Nigerians, voted along religious and regional lines.

"I had voted for Jonathan because I wanted to support my brother but now I think Buhari is good for us," said the 26-year-old, speaking on a central Lagos street where he sells cheap jeans.

"He is trying to fix corruption, and security is better now."

SECOND TIME LUCKY?

Buhari first came to power in a 1983 coup, and quickly set about "fixing" a country saddled with corruption and inequality via an eclectic mix of economic nationalism and military autocracy.

Neither approach yielded any results in the 18 months before he was ousted in another putsch.

His expulsion of thousands of Ghanaian migrant workers to try to free up jobs for Nigerians hit the economy, and the jailing of opponents and deployment of soldiers armed with whips to ensure orderly queues at bus stops met widespread criticism.

Three decades later, half of Nigeria's 180 million people still live in poverty and life expectancy is just 52, according to the World Bank.

In the interim, he has declared himself a convert to democracy, losing and conceding three elections, but has failed to appoint a cabinet after four months in office, to the frustration of investors and big business.

The cabinet could be announced this week, political sources say, and Buhari has already taken aim at some of Nigeria's biggest institutions, including the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the state energy firm accused of losing $20 billion dollars in Jonathan's time - a charge it denies.

Some senior officials are also feeling the judicial heat, most prominently Senate President Bukola Saraki who pleaded not guilty in court this month to charges of falsification in declaring his assets.

Critics say corruption is still deeply entrenched in Nigeria, but Buhari's plans to tackle graft have gone down well on the streets.

"Buhari is scaring the corrupt people. You notice a difference now," said Adeloa Olabode, who runs a one-room textile shop in Lagos' sprawling Balogun market.

She and others are even starting to think the unthinkable - that since Buhari took over the power supply in Lagos, a sprawling megacity of 21 million people inured to blackouts and the thrum of diesel generators, is getting better.

"We use the generator much less," said Olabode. "I used to pay up to 16,000 naira for diesel every month. But not any more." (Editing by Ed Cropley and Philippa Fletcher)

http://www.trust.org/item/20150929114909-4lfgu/

Lalasticlala

The senators are only masturbating. They have enough time to do this till the 23rd of October, when the Code of Conduct tribunal will decide...And then, they ll cum

..And maybe when the CCT decides, A vote of confidence will overturn the courts decision. #BunchOfTheivesMakingLaws

joseph1832:
Its funny how FFK omitted the name of Major Adewale Ademoyega in the names of those who orchestrated the first military coup.

I now see that he shares some traits with his brother in political prostitution TonyeBarcanista, that is the twisting and omission of facts.

FFK is no longer content with slaying igbo punnies but he has now decided to tow the line of nationalist despite doing so deviously.

Bro, whoever takes FFK seriously will have himself and herself to blame.

FKK is just like paper, anywhere the wind blow, that's where he goes.

modath:
Oga ju, waiting for the oleku ija ore & the epe his Ibo friends in the Goodluck struggle are going to direct at him...

They don't see nothing wrong when he calls northerners terrorists, but watch the claws come out..

I just remembered that FFK thread titled "if the igbos are ever butchered again, Nigeria will break"..lol..you need to read the comments there again.

The bitter truth indeed. I can see in the emboldened

A friend of mine works here. I hope he's not outside

PDP should leave this "Orobo houseboy" alone. Let him do his job

"The most Wanted and Unwanted Senate president"...I like that

Wanted as a suspected criminal...Unwanted as an opposition senate president

KruggerINC:
Not only Goebbells would this guy make envious but also Okupe, Abati, Chukwumerije, Oliseh Mettu and maybe even Femi Adesina.
Midolians are you sure you're Kenyan?

I am Nigerian

IamPatriotic:
I sympathize with these people, PMB will give them at least 5 ministerial post, it's left for the politicians of igbo extract to accept or decline in line with the directive of the Ohanaeze, trust human being, the same people issuing directive will jump at the opportunity to be given the posts if only their names can make through DSS screening,.....

Exactly

chuna1985:
im allergic to nonsense.

Some people are just too greedy..and maybe they are cursed..and maybe they are possessed. How can you leave a job that pays for an illegal one that would never give you rest of mind?

chuna1985:
So phcn made buhari their chief engineer. ok.

I don't understand you, Mr chuna. Like a ghost, you always appear from no where to tackle every pro-buhari thread

hinwazaka:
YOU AND THE OP ARE WHAT WE CALL MUFU: MUMU + FOOL. THE OP PUT ON HIS THREAD THE PICTURE OF AN EMIR ON A HORSE AND BASED HIS THREAD ON THE FACT THAT THE PRESIDENT WHO, WITH THE EMIR ARE MEMBERS OF THE SAME TRIBE, IS THE BEST THING FOR GOVERNANCE IN OUR COUNTRY SINCE FRIED EGG AND BREAD( MAISHAI). IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE OP IS A SLAVE TO THE HAUSA/ FULANI TRIBE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER, AND EVEN ARE THE OWNERS FOR THE CLOTHES ON HIS BACK AND OFFER HIM UPKEEP ALLOWANCE. MAYBE YOU AND HIM ARE COLLEAGUES. RUBBISH!

Mr hinwazaka, what have I done wrong again? Why won't you stop attacking me?

billyG:
Wow!Woow!!D wailing Dogs hav started wailing.Midolian let d sleeping doggs lie,Bikonu!

mrklock:
Tonye nonsense that illiterate that thinks its APC that blocks his FB accounts? who take that foolish guy serious again.

abduljabbar4:
Midolian why do you want to kill the wailers na?

Nice one bro

bro, the wailers deserve this. They just won't stop mentioning me. If i comment, na trouble; If I no comment, na still trouble

mikolo80:
one only wonders how they were able to rule for the past 16 yrs

Honestly

Jayne2014:
Bros, no vex oh. Are you paid to hype the government? Seriously, Goebbels will be envious of you.
Please note that I am neither APC nor PDP.
I am for total restructuring of the foundation.

No babe..you can check my threads. They are not always pro-government. Just that, in a situation like this(where other countries celebrate us), we just have to celebrate it too. Nigeria is gradually getting her lost glory restored.

HzRF:
U thought everybody's brain is like u r already stationary brain?

Kep fooling ursef

Ore, bawoni?

IbnIslam:
why can't u think outside d box bro?

Don't mind hinwazaka, the name Buhari sends shivers down his spine. Something tells me he is a corrupt politician

hinwazaka:
SO IN ESSENCE, FROM THE PIC OF THE EMIR ON YOUR THREAD, ONLY THE NORTH CAN LEAD US TO THE PROMISED LAND. ZOMBIE, YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SAUL AS YOUR LEADER, WHEN MOSES AND JOSHUA ARE AVAILABLE. AS THE BIBLE SAYS" OBEDIENCE IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE".

Mr Hinwazaka, I am glad you have no problem with the article but the pics attached to it. So if I had removed the pics before opening the thread, you would have completely agreed with me that the fear of Buhari has whipped Nigeria into shape

owobokiri:
A prehistoric political dinosaur from the most conservative-illiterate part of Africa obviously lacks the cerebral gravitas to become the beacon of change and the driver of modernization in Africa.. The whole of Africa is not as dumb as you think, my good friend midolian.. A man who derided ministers as some inconsequential "noise makers" belongs to the days of Ovaranwen and has nothing whatsoever to do with running a modern economy.

bro, Nigeria is getting the respect and recognition she has long lost. Are you not supposed to be happy?

The fear of Buhari, Long may it continue

Evening, Mr hinwazaka

“If Nigeria moves, then Africa moves. If not, then we must wait”. True? Seems like it.
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The Katsina Durbar, a parade of the Emir and his entourage on horseback that draws visitors from miles around. Nigeria is on the move, and Nigeria moves Africa. (Photo/File).

“IF Nigeria moves, then Africa moves. If not, then we must wait.”

I don’t remember where I first read that, but as a Kenyan I could never find a good reason to agree with it. That’s until I begun to interact closely with Nigeria. Over the past two years I have been a part of the Vecna Cares team that is working on designing and implementing an electronic health records tech tool for low resource settings in several Nigerian states.

I am just concluding my second trip to Nigeria in two years. The first time out, I spent all my time in Abuja and the outskirts of the FCT (Federal Capital Territory). This second time, I swam in the belly of the monster, venturing to some of the smaller rural towns of Ondo State, and then wound up my trip in Lekki area of Lagos. 

I have changed my stance. There’s no doubt in my mind that Nigeria moves Africa.

This is a huge country. The number that I was operating on when I first arrived was 140 million people strong. But having spoken to a few people here and seen it for myself, I dare say that we should be pegging that number at about 190 million if not 200 million. One of the most mind-boggling statistics that I heard is that Nigeria now has 120 million active cell phone users.

I am here shortly after an election that saw a former military dictator win by a landslide. Think about that for a minute. Where else in the world would such a sentence be written, read out aloud and make sense? 

It is said that during President Buhari’s first stint as leader of Nigeria, back in the 80s, Lagos was a hub for drug trafficking. Upon his assumption of command he decreed that drug trafficking would from then on be a capital offence. 

Then he backdated the law and declared that all those that were in jail having been convicted for it would now be executed. Nigerians watched the public executions one after the other in utter shock. Needless to say the drug trade ground to a screeching halt, or so the story goes.

His was a no-nonsense regime, they say. He did not tolerate theft. He threw people in jail for mere suspicion of theft.  When he left the throne, the weeds soon returned.

Sheriff back in town

Fast forward to 2015 and the sheriff is back in town.

It’s now September 2015, only months since President Buhari took over. The national electricity utility, the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), which was never known to supply electricity for more than 2-3 hours a day is now consistently powering the cities for 20+ hours.

Port Harcourt petroleum refinery that had not refined even a litre of petrol over the last 15 years is now pumping hard, and Warri and other refineries are about to come back online. “To the best of my knowledge,” my host says, “there’s been no extra funding, technical assistance, or anything new given. This is happening because of the fear of Buhari.”

The fear of Buhari. What a wonderful phrase. Who would’ve thought that a president who wins a landslide election victory would be termed as being fearsome.

Still, I cannot find anything to disagree with this view. President Buhari has not even named his cabinet and all these things are happening. The terror group Boko Haram which was advancing southwestwards into the country is now said to be just months, maybe weeks, from being snuffed out. How is it that Nigeria is now winning a war that it was steadily losing for almost five years?

As I write this, the sitting Nigerian Senate President, a key member of the President’s party and one of Nigeria’s most powerful men, is facing trial for false declaration of assets. His trial is being broadcast live all over the country. No matter the outcome of this process, the message is that there are no sacred cows in Nigeria.

Waiting for Buhari

Since their election, none of the state governors have named their cabinets either. They are all waiting for President Buhari to set the tone, and then they will align. It is expected that some of the best performing governors who couldn’t stand for election by a two-term limit rule are competing to be in President Buhari’s cabinet. 

I never thought I would write such a thing when I came here. That governors in Nigeria would be angling for a cabinet position using their excellent past performance as credentials, in order to get to do even more transformative things on the national stage. Confusing, I know, in a continent where people just do a smash-and-grab on power.

“A governor in his state is more powerful than the President of Nigeria in the whole of Nigeria,” declares my host. So why would a person with near absolute authority feel the need to compete at all? It’s a sign of an emerging meritocracy, which the cynics had long-said was impossible in Nigeria.

Times have changed here. Nigeria has managed over the past few years to create a demand for more accountability, more thinking, more prosperity. It’s why the former president Goodluck Jonathan had no chance in his re-election bid. He has sunk into mediocrity, become out of touch and got comfortable. He didn’t take any decisive action against Boko Haram until six weeks before the election. The people saw through this.

Now, of course not everything is rosy. It is now emerging that former president Goodluck Jonathan withdrew almost $300M is cash from the Nigerian National Bank just as Nigerians went to the polls. 

Many of the governors who have taken office have complained bitterly that the bank accounts of their states are empty having been looted heavily just before their election.  As a result some states have seen industrial action by state workers as they have been unable to pay salaries, and many have gone home with empty pockets.

There’s blatant and open corruption everywhere you see somebody wearing a uniform. Murtala Muhammad International Airport in Lagos is a shakedown experience like none you have ever seen. 

The check-in counter guy will shake you down, the civil aviation authority official issuing directions will shake you down, immigration people will bleed you dry and the the customs people will eat your bones. Then you will go to the loo and the cleaning lady will ask you to leave her “something for the weekend.”

Still, there’s a lot of fresh air in this country. A renewed expression of critical thinking, innovation and commitment to public service. Of course nobody knows how things will turn out over the course of this presidency but one thing is for sure Nigeria is on the move and the rest of Africa is likely to benefit.

The fear of Buhari. Long may it continue.

http://m.mgafrica.com/article/2015-09-28-the-fear-of-buhari-whips-nigeria-into-shape/

Lalasticlala

PDP! Party full of clowns

These clowns must have been praying day and night for Baba to give excuse instead of forming his cabinet this month as he promised(so they will have something to wail about)

...And now that its clear baba's cabinet will be ready this month, they have resorted to noise-making. What a way to play opposition!

To be frank, if the PDP continues to play opposition this way, APC would remain in power for over a100years, regardless of how it performs.

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Ofiliganga!