₦airaland Forum

moiaimi:
I believed that by wrapping stone in a white paper and throwing it far away would take away memories of bad things I did recently therefore my parents would forget to beat me

Loyalblak007:
I USED TO THINK;


-whistling at night calls snakes.

-Eating while standing gives you "yam leg".

-Black cats are witches

add yours

babablogger:
I still see no big deal in posting her step son's picture and wishing him a happy birthday if she no post am na Nigerians go talk say she no like the boy cause if it was her son she go post am



People taking panadol ontop another person headache

shamecurls:
His policies does not favour them so I wasn't expecting a compliment.


Mahatma ghandi faced more dehumanising and derogatory journalism when his policies were against the West.

Nigeria’s president is missing in action
Muhammadu Buhari’s absence sends the rumour mill spinning

YESTERDAY by: David Pilling

For two weeks, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s septuagenarian president, has been out of action, receiving medical treatment in London for an undisclosed illness. His absence has sent the rumour mill of Africa’s most populous nation spinning, with frequent erroneous reports that the president is dead. The tragedy for Nigeria is that policymaking has been so ponderous during the 20 months since Mr Buhari took office that, dead or alive, it is not always easy to tell the difference.

Under Mr Buhari’s slow-blinking leadership, Africa’s largest economy has drifted into crisis. Brought low by the weak oil price, on which government revenues are woefully dependent, the system has been starved of dollars. That has driven businesses into the ground, people on to the margins and the economy into its worst recession in 25 years. What had been a growing middle class is being daily eviscerated. High inflation, especially for food, is damaging the poor in whose name Mr Buhari ran for office.

There are signs that Nigerians — among the most resilient and adaptive people on the continent — are losing patience. This week, there were small, but rowdy, protests in Lagos and Abuja, at which demonstrators complained about their “missing president”.

There is an irony that Mr Buhari, a retired major general, is missing in action. He ran the country as a military ruler in the mid-1980s after seizing power in a coup. In civilian guise, his leadership style has verged on the invisible. After winning power in 2015 on the fourth attempt at the ballot box, he set out at a pace that has marked his presidency: it took him six months to name a cabinet. Hopes that he had surrounded himself with a lean team of capable technocrats empowered to get policy cranking have come to naught. Policymaking — such that it is — has been crafted instead by a tiny cabal of loyal, less qualified, stalwarts. Mr Buhari has failed to articulate anything approaching a vision.

During his campaign, Nigeria’s soldier-turned-politician promised to train his sight on three main objectives: to improve security, crack down on corruption and diversify the oil-dependent economy. Progress on the first two has been patchy, and on the third dismal.

On security, Mr Buhari has managed to galvanise a demoralised army and make gains against Boko Haram, a terrorist organisation that had been metastasising beyond its northern base. Boko Haram has been pushed back into a north-eastern redoubt and across the border into Cameroon and Chad. But that displacement has been offset by security flare-ups elsewhere, most seriously in the Niger Delta where militants have been sabotaging oil production.

Mr Buhari’s anti-corruption drive can be boiled down to a few symbolic gestures and a few high-profile cases against members of the previous administration. Yet, systemically, little has changed. The confused exchange rate policy — in which the central bank doles out scarce dollars at an advantageous rate — is a recipe for opacity. The dollar shortage is killing off industry rather than nurturing it.

Seventy per cent of Nigeria’s 170m people were not born when Mr Buhari was last running the show, so they might not notice that his policies are stuck in the same 1980s groove. Statist and redistributionist by inclination, he finds himself in charge of a dysfunctional state and an economy with few revenues to recirculate.

To be fair, Mr Buhari inherited a dire situation courtesy of his hapless predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan. He did the country a service simply by beating Mr Jonathan in an election and sparing the country of further wilful misrule. Yet Dele Olojede, a Pulitzer prizewinning journalist, says Mr Buhari’s government has been “spinning around in circles”.

As well as the president’s flawed policies, he blames a bloated political system in which most of the 36 states (far too many) spend their time grovelling for federal funds. The mosaic of Nigerian politics is complicated by the need to balance power between north and south and between the plethora of regions and linguistic groups represented in the cabinet. That makes for a parasitic state, not one that can solve problems. “This is a system designed to fail even if you have capable people in charge,” says Mr Olojede, who does not put Mr Buhari in that category.

Nigeria has drifted before, though rarely at a time of such pressing crisis. In 2010, President Umaru Yar’Adua died in office after months in which his illness had been covered up. The man supposedly in charge of the country had been literally sleeping on the job. Mr Buhari may not be as ill as the rumours suggest. Politically, though, rigor mortis set in quite some time ago.

Ighoga898:
and what will history remember u by? my papa na coward

freeborn76:
We cannot deny the fact that Tuface's early involvement in the protest built momentum and a critical mass that shared the ideals, we should stop criticising the dude, he played his part well...history will remember him for sensitizing Nigerians.

segzyogondus:
Everyone is shouting Tuface has failed do you know if his life or that of his Family is under threat ?? una dey blame the poor guy his life and family comes first...He was the one who talked about it and few hours to it he cancels it let us check the bottom line you do not expect him to say I was threatened to be dealt with including my family if not it would cause war instead he would face the shame to protect his family and life.... This is Naija Politics anything can happen at anytime

pato1:
I pity this country, how I wish fella can rise up from his sleep and give us more of his music, I think I need em to cool my nerve. His children can't continue from where he stopped and certainly 2 face don't have such courage to lead any protest. Shame on our Government, shame on all this blood tasty politician and shame on 2 face who raised the hope of Nigerians and killed it with some mins video.

dayowunmi:
Some people are asking if any positive thing has emanated from previous protests. So if no results came from past protests you just shut up and keep mum in the face of inflation and government indifference to the plight of its citizens? Silence can never be the solution to oppression and marginalization. The protest will remind the government that the electorate are conscious and taking note, cos it's we are throwing up a proverb that come 2019 if things remain like this, e be like say we go CHANGE the CHANGE.

back2sender:
this carnival with an illiterate as the convener!

ivandragon:
the funniest thing is that when this regime starts to 'try' to do the right thing because of pressure from those who are protesting, people like the op would not be sincere enough to recognise the impact of a mass motivated protest.

if not for more people criticizing this regime...

ProudOlodo:
I don't know what he is afraid of or if he's afraid of anything. But what I am afraid of is that nothing will happen after the protest, and that some faith in such movement that could be useful for another day in the future would have been wasted out of lack of thorough thoughts and plan

TheGoodJoe:

I am not defending anyone. I am talking to the youths. We are too docile when it comes to leadership. Application of Intelligence and hard work will propel this nation. If we want to end our suffering, we have to stop being followers but leaders in our disciplines. We have to show we have ideas to help this nation. .

alfsalami:
2face is a good example of an unintelligent and corrupt youth

TheGoodJoe:

So much knowledge and education in this post. So enlightening from a so called youth, ready to lead.

Mavrick2012:
@op, i have taken some few minutes to go through your topics and comments, i observe 2 things,
1)you seem to be in tandem with this administration, are you being objective or just being sentimental?
2)i observe you are a Muslim, could this be weighing your sentiment.?

TheGoodJoe:

Go and browse. There are many projects the government partnered with enterprising youths that yielded dividends. There are large farms the government supported financially, through loans and subsidized fertilizers. There are young enterprising youths engaging different government offices. We need more of these. We need our youths working hard to educate themselves in different projects. Many reach schools and do not read. So they have nothing to offer.

Our Celebrities should stop showing us their cars and bring the government closer to the people.

TheGoodJoe:
maclatunji


Nice post. Unfortunately, many will not look into the message. About from my disappointment in our so called stars during the rots we encountered, I do not buy the motive. I am no more interested in who feels the current government is failing. I am interested in solution providers. This is what I expect Tuface to look for. Instead of marching youths out to slaughter.

There are channels to get our voice heard. There are channels to show our potential. Instead we want to carry placards, screaming enough is enough. Is that honestly a solution to our problems?

It is time for the youths to wake up and start proposing solutions to move the nation forward.

A wise man once said, he who washes his hands well, eats with Kings.

deobaba:
...Are you telling me that not even one of you kids here see any sense in what the op is writingGosh....ohh now i remember why i stopped reading Nairaland forums and discussions.Too many shallow minded, tribal infested internet surfing jobless dudes who just like being anti-anything that criticizes what they like..To be clear...I am a strong Tuface fan that probably knows 85% of all his songs off hand, grew up listening to him and cant seem to find anything wrong in what he does (even with the baby mamas and all) but does that make me not admit to the truth when i hear or better yet read t?Please please all you quick to type/insult trolls kindly highlight the portion of the article above that is false (with facts) so i can see the extent of how deluded you people really are . And to think that this write up is original yet people will read and type rubbish...wow sad sad generation.At least if you must criticize cant you even admit that he has a point outta many
Anyway @ OP...thanks for making my day, unfortunately this forum is too polluted to expect kudos from anyone besides afew...I will definitely use your points above as reference when im engaged with some friends later this evening to see their own views on it.
and op....please rethink and subsequently try not to post anything about cerlebrities, politicians, religion e.t.c cause half of the pple here are minors whose idea of hero worship disillusions them from being objective and realistic....a few don't....very few

Heavance:
In every nation of the world that you see any protest, you will hardly see any citizen putting such write up somewhere before the protest....
That number 6 sounds so funny, so is the OP telling everyone to remain quiet and not protest?
If we continue this way, we will suffer in quiet ways that will make the next generation curse us with sadness in grave. Leave 2face out of it, it is a protest against the inhumane state Nigerians are experiencing.