₦airaland Forum

By Reno Omokri

Did you listen to our President’s broadcast to the nation on October 1st? If you listened to it objectively you must be wondering if the President and his advisers live in a parallel Nigeria that you can only access from a spiritual portal at Aso Rock Presidential Villa.

Somebody ought to tell President Muhammadu Buhari that it is better to create a life that makes you feel good on the inside than one that makes people impressed with you outside. The reason I say this is because his Independence Day speech appeared to be the work of a man who knows that he has not delivered the goods he promised and yet rather than admit that, he wants to put up a front by painting an imaginary picture of things not as they are but as he wishes them to be.
The President should be made to understand that using lies to lure people into a false state of security is like using a basket to gather water. The basket will get wet, but it won’t get full.

What I find most Ironic about this past October 1st is that Peter Obi and President Muhammadu Buhari both spoke on Independence Day yet we cannot remember what President Buhari said and cannot forget what Peter Obi said. Days after, the Nigerian media have moved on from President Buhari’s speech and are still digesting and re digesting the powerful points that Peter Obi gave WITHOUT READING FROM A SPEECH!!
President Buhari read from a prepared speech yet made little impact. Peter Obi spoke from his heart and made lasting impact on Nigerians! How can you, a sitting President, give a prepared speech, yet what the nation you govern is discussing is an unprepared speech by an ex Governor? Does that not show the degree of relevance you have in your own country?

And I began to ask myself, when will we get leaders like Peter Obi and Ben Murray-Bruce. People who know our problems and proffer solutions?

Why are we, as a people, so ‘blessed’ with people who think there is virtue in knowing how to blame others for things that they should be responsible for?
I listened to the President’s Independence Day speech and there was no clear cut plan to inspire Nigerians that our leader knows how to pilot us out of the recession.

I listened to Peter Obi’s speech on the same day and I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that there was a man who knew what to do to get Nigeria out of recession.
For a President who prides himself on personal integrity, President Buhari’s speech was full of lies. I think it is better to plagiarize than to lie. If the President could fire the deputy director who allegedly plagiarized President Obama’s speech for him, then he should consider sacking the man or men who wrote the pack of lies that was his Independence Day Broadcast.

Hear the President: “investors from all over the world are falling over themselves to come and do business in Nigeria.”

Really Mr. President!

The sad thing is that three days before President Buhari made that unfortunate statement, the World Economic Forum had just released its 2016 Global Competitiveness Report and their verdict was that of the 138 nations ranked, Nigeria is the 127th worst nation in the world to do business!

Just weeks before the President’s statement, Bloomberg had reported that there is a massive disinvestment of foreign investors from Nigeria!

I later found out that President Buhari had appointed a second Personal Assistant on Social Media to add to his four existing media aides bringing the number to five! Maybe they are the foreign investors that are ‘falling over themselves’ to invest in Nigeria!
But on a serious note, the exact amount of Foreign Portfolio Investment that existed in Nigeria in the second quarter of 2015 (Jonathan’s era) was $2.81 billion. The exact amount that existed in the second quarter of 2016 (President Buhari’s era) is $245.3 million.

Mr. President, your advisers have deceived you. The truth is that foreign investors are falling over themselves to get out of Nigeria!
No fewer than eight international airlines have left Nigeria. This was the headline of Bloomberg just six months ago ‘Nigeria Promise Turns to Peril as Investors Head for the Exits’. Many of those airlines which have chosen to remain in Nigeria have instead moved their office and staff to Ghana and only come to Nigeria to pick up passengers!

And yet our President looked us right in the camera and said “investors from all over the world are falling over themselves to come and do business in Nigeria.” No wonder we all forgot about your speech almost as soon as it was over! Who needs their intelligence insulted by such blatant lies?

Peter Obi and President Buhari are a perfect example of Mind Power (Obi) and Might Power (President Buhari). Which power do you think Nigeria needs? That is a question I will leave to your conscience!

www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/president-buhari-peter-obi/

seunmsg:
See, how Ibos will vote in 2019 is not my business. All i know is that Yoruba's will always vote based on merit, patriotism, national interest and the dictates of the time. We voted against Buhari in 2011 despite the fact that Tunde Bakare was his running mate so, spare me the crap about tribal voting. If you guys want to do tribal voting in 2019, please go ahead but stop trying desperately to use the Yoruba's as an excuse for your voting pattern.

remember that obj and pdp where still much at play then! So dis ur statement dnt hold water in dis case.

ZubbyGodson:
What if We(Scientists) decides to stop producing 'em?.......................We actually control the world by default

dude i got 81 in phy in jamb! I love science. But u telling me it will make the world a better place is a lie. Everything has it advantages and disadvantages

ZubbyGodson:
I Love Science.....................The World Will Soon Be A Better Place #Proudly A Scientist

Hehehe same science that produce mc^2 etc... used to destroy and kill pple. Bro the world cnt neva be a better place hv that at the back of ur mind.

All the way boyz

Fada2000:
Arsenal will loose

Hehehehehehe is that all u can offer!
Arsenal to win First Half, First half most goals.

SEOManiac:
Burnley will embarass Arsenal today.



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JackBizzle:
You do realise that as a christian you have no moral standing to complain about groupthink! Your whole religion relies on it!

Hey bro, i tot atheism isn't a religion, so why v group. What do u guys discuss abt? There isn't any need of iron sharpenth iron here, in ur case, every one for them sef. That is how atheism should be. U guys shouldn't even be talking to each other abt it. Just do ur thing nd they do theirs. What is their to even discuss. U blive in nothing now... Guy happy Sunday.

allanphash7:
They have succeded in brainwashing your parent and your pareants are working tirelessy in brainshing you so that you can do the same to your children and the brainwashing continues





RELIGION IS NOTHING BUT A SCAM !!!

Instead of correcting how he talks and thinks u r here saying his family are all been deceived. Hope u too eat money given to u for another thing and insult ur uncle who gave u that money. Wow atheis they can seem to surprise me..

ElsonMorali:
Impossicant.

This is the kind of thing I read that gives me brain freeze.

See ehn, to me all dis twitter stories are all cooked up by bloggers, just to draw traffic. How get time to dey narrate their life story, piece by piece on twitter. Even does that comment are part of the drama.

GenBuhari:
Happy Independence Day Nigeria!

I hail my people.

Greetings to Una.

May all our endeavours be fruitful.

The gods of our land shall continue to protect us from all enemies of Nigeria.

May the gods guide our leaders to deliver on their promises and punish their enemies.

Saw these on someone fb timeline

To whomsoever is on this list
# F*CK # U!
Mr Buhari
Mr GEJ
Mr OBJ
Gen Abacha
Gen IBB
Gen Buhari
Gen OBJ
Gen Murtala
Sir James Robertson
Elizabeth II
and indeed
Lord Lugard may u continue to rot in hell!
Happy independence day my foot! A failed country! Call Nigeria.

Too bad!

mukina2:
oxlade needs a slap

serious wan, he is still a child! He should be sent on lone to oxford united

Arsenal wan chop possession ni! Abeg more goal!

FunkyMetahuman:
I really want them to lose


Damn guidola benching iheanacho again

lol, na ur reason be that. I do understand

Man city are receiving it hot

I love u guys!

Here we go boys, amaka me proud.

hopeforcharles:
Nigeria which way forward, If I am the man I will expose Buhari and his tyranny and nepotism,

No body was sacked! No name were mention. It all tactics! Fear apc.

FunkyMetahuman:
[s][/s]

so much ignorance in one post

u r the one who is ignorant. Guy stay of my mentions. Till they find any atom of life out of earth, then let me know. For now keep deceiving urself.

FunkyMetahuman:
you people are one of the reasons why Africa will never be great..you are so engrossed n your gods delusion that you are scared of other possibilities ...

smh

hehehe i laugh at u because u also belief in these men! They are ur God's.

Am very much a scientific guy, but bro tell ur sef the truth, if all these alien did exist, why vnt we seen any. Some group of pple came up with the big bang theory as if they where there when it happened and u sheepishly agreed just as i did(in believing in Jesus). Ride ur boat bro i will ride mine. Pls when dey discover the lowest level of life in that planet pls let me know, den i will blive in ur atheist god's. Scared of possibilities my foot.

Explorers:
Three of the world’s richest and most intelligent men are hoping to be the first to find alien life. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Russian entrepreneur Yuri Milner and physicist Stephen Hawking have revealed exclusively that they will be listening to signals from 'Earth 2.0'.

Officially named Proxima b, the rocky planet is believed to have the right conditions to harbour life and is just four light years from Earth.The trio are funding an ambitious $100 million (£76 million) project known as ‘Breakthrough Listen’, which will use the world's most powerful telescopes to listen to messages from ET.


BREAKTHROUGH LISTEN.

Breakthrough Listen is a search for intelligent life using two of the world's most powerful telescopes.

It was launched in January with the aim of scouring one million of the closest stars to Earth for faint signals thrown out into space by intelligent life beyond our own world.Scientists taking part in the £76 million ($100 million) project are also scanning the very heart of our galaxy along with 100 of the closest galaxies for low power radio transmissions.Breakthrough Listen will collect data over a 10-year period. Search capacity will be 50 times more sensitive, cover 10 times more of the sky, five times more of the radio spectrum, and at speeds 100 times faster.



Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3765291/Mark-Zuckerberg-Yuri-Milner-Stephen-Hawking-begin-100-million-search-alien-life-nearby-Earth-like-planet.html

no matter what how they look and find. Dey are just wasting money. Dey should better channel it to smth more useful. God is always gr8.

My boys dem making me proud, teach them football.

ruggedtimi:
Relocate to ghana...haven for internet fraud

dnt even know pple still do yahoo in 9ja, GH na the sure place where demand dey plenty. U can do it and post ur dollar online (dey do show off on Facebook) nobody go ask u any question.

But i dnt blive in all dis, u mks d money u and ur live is still de same when u leave it, cos they dnt even save, and dey don't know when to stop. Well money wey person steal will neva be useful. The bible said we v to sweat b4 we eat. Here dey just lie.

VolT0xic:
That's why Dea Gea and Neuer are the best keepers.
You just can't catch them off guard and score that shit.

no keeper can catch that ball. It angle 90¤. Except u stand at that edge, which is not possible.

dermmy:
Many christians don't understand this restitution of a thing. The only man that did restitution in the new testament was Zacheus and Jesus christ didn't force him to do so. Jesus christ didnt suggest it to it him. He didnt command him to do so. He did it willingly because he was so happy the day Jesus came to his house dine with him.

Why was he over joyous because he had longed to see Jesus. a short man who had tried to meet Jesus one on one many times but could not. And the moment he tried to do something surprising Jesus saw him and told him he would come and dine in his house.

Now my question gies thus. An armed robber that has stolen cars and defrauded people of their valuables, sold those things and later repented, how do you want him to return all those cars he stole at gun point after becoming a born again. May cars and other valuables have been stolen by armed robbers on the highways and have been sold and the money spent by the armed robber so how do you want them to return all these things to the people they dont even know?

Many people were big liars before they gave their lives to Jesus so how do you want them to remember the people they lied to and go back to them to make restitution thaf they lied to them sometime ago.

zacheus had the resources to pay back. I mean if he hadn't he wouldn't v even pay half of wat he stole, not to talk of paying up to 4 fold. So if one has the resources nd chance to do restitution, one can. And it not a must or a visa to enter heaven, this is were one can be said to v attend a certain level in one Christian life. And i guess dis guy v reach that level where any little thing wic seem evil is rejected. I just pray the fire keep burning.

ChinonsoDike2:
Only death and pain in black Africa. As expected from a low IQ society.

It everywhere bro! It even worst in America. U see one guy hv a gun just walking into a place an shot for no just reason. So stop all dis ur senseless talk.

EazyMoh:
God help us!

so if u want to do something like dat, u den print ur logo on it so that every one will see it u, doing smth bad publicly. It one of the propaganda of apc, and e neva clear for ur eye. no worry enjoy ur change.

Emmanueloy:
Today 25th august, I got to Ojota, bus stop around 5:00am waiting for a bus going to Ojuelegba, which is close to my workstation. After like 3 minutes, I heard a guy from a normal yellow danfo bus calling "Ojuelelgba" and as expected I hopped in, along with a Police Officer. Another person boarded some few metres away and the journey continued.
And just like a film scene, i discovered everyone in the bus (about 8 of them) are part of the "one chance" crew, you know what I mean and this included the supposed Policeman. They told me to sit on the floor, searched my bag as if their lives depended on it, took my atm cards and mobile phone. They requested for my pin under the threat of a gun and i obliged. Funny part, they had a POS machine to verify my pin. Alas, it was correct and right there they started sharing the loot, electronically. All these happened while the bus moved at break-neck speed. I even begged them to give me my SIM but they didn't.
Anyway, I thank God cos I wasn't hurt at all, they dropped me around Mushin and sped off in the dark. I got a glimpse of the plate number LAGOS-JJJ-86-something something sha.
I believe God had a purpose for everything that happens to man. I have blocked my SIM and ATM card this morning ASAP.

I'm not a fan of front page stuff but i hope this info will help some commuters and warn them about these criminals here in Lagos. Even when you see an alleged "staff", it does not guarantee the safety of the bus. Only God can protect.

Shey u know u could v reach ur bank and tell them to track does pple. Dey transferred moni into their own diff acct right. They can be traced.

bimbor:
Hello guys,

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Big bro, owfar now, bro i need to pay for my sch fees oh! Hp u can help me out.

seguntijan:
They all stood up when the former mistake we had as president tried to rename Unilag to Maulag.
Source: http://schoolhelp.com.ng/threads/femi-adeyeye-faces-4semesters-rustication-for-facebook-write-up-in-unilag.334/

These guy deserve what every he got with dis statement. He insult even person wey no dey involve for their matter, watin carry GEJ enter here. Chai!

seunmsg:
Sincerely, it's just plain stupidity to think the president ordered the arrest of the dog owner who named his dog Buhari. Like seriously, is the president that jobless?

I know it's not that wailing losers like Reno Omokri and FFK who are spreading the falsehood are not aware of the truth behind the arrest, they are just a bunch of dishonest characters who are hell-bent on mischievously discrediting the person of the president.

well that is what dey are paid for, just like Mr lie mohd