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3bn what? Why won't the Niger Delta Avengers be as serious as hell? Militancy pays far more than politics- but only in Nigeria.

Buhari should resign and Jonathan should take over!! Kilode?

PLUNGING NAIRA – BEFORE YOU BLAME
EMEFIELE LOOK AT YOURSELF

It is either I do not understand economics and
how exchange rates work or a vast majority of
us Nigerians still don’t get how we have wrecked
our country with our own curious choices. Just
this morning I was listening to the radio and the
lady on air went on and on about how she
thought CBN governor Godwin Emefiele was
incompetent and should be sacked because the
naira was now exchanging at 309 or so to the
USD. That view pretty much echoes the
sentiments expressed by many people I know
and it amazes me that there are Nigerians who
actually think there is some magic POLICY that
can make the Naira strong in the near term. If
my economics and my understanding of the way
the world works are right, then that is as far from
the truth as Jesus Christ is black.

The simple fact of the matter is that apart from
oil that accounts for over 90% of our revenues,
we really don’t have much of an economy. We
hardly produce anything, we import even
toothpicks, so exactly what policy is going to be
implemented that will turn Nigeria into a top
exporting economy in the near term? Where are
our Apples, IBMs, Disneys, GMs, General
Electrics, Coca Colas, Empire State buildings,
Statues of Liberties, Lockheeds, Citibanks, JP
Morgans, ExxonMobils, NBAs, Super Bowls etc?
Let me bring that closer home.

There was a time long ago when Nigeria had a
truly strong economy and the naira was one to
the dollar – even exchanged for higher than the
USD, but that Nigeria is not this Nigeria. Sadly
that Nigeria was laid by the British, and this
Nigeria (if you don’t believe in the nonsensical
imperialist conspiracies like me) – fueled by the
DAMAGING Indigenisation Decree, has been the
creation of us Nigerians.Back then we had a
booming economy.

We were either the top, or among the top
exporters, of timbre, cocoa, groundnuts, rubber,
palm oil, etc, in the world. Nigerians not only
holidayed at home in their villages, at Yankari
Games Reserve, at Obudu Cattle Ranch, at Oguta
Lake, at Ikogosi springs, at Gurara Falls, at
Mambilla Platueau, etc, we attracted
international tourists who brought in loads of
foreign exchange. Even Nigerian schools were
foreign exchange earners because they attracted
foreign students. We had different car assembly
plants – Peugeot, Volkswagen, Anamco etc.
Nigerian government officials only bought
vehicles assembled in Nigeria for official cars.
We had a thriving sports industry.

We were not Man United or Chelsea fans, we
were Rangers or IICC fans. We had the Nduka
Odizors, people made money from sports. We
also had companies like Lennards and Bata
producing school shoes in their thousands, we
had the thriving Nigerian Airways and the
Aviation School in the north that produced some
of the best pilots in the world. In those days if
you were brilliant you were respected much more
than the crass money-miss-road contractors of
today. Most of the Aje Butters I knew had fathers
who were university dons. Back then it meant
something to ‘know book’. Our textile industry
was alive and well.

Just recently I watched a news report on the
textile industry in Nigeria on CCTV News. Though
the main focus was on the comatose status of
the industry, I was stunned by the gigantic
Kaduna Textile Mill built in 1957. I could go on
and on.

Today however, no thanks to our parents (and
we must call them out the way Wole Soyinka did
his generation) and many of us (and we should
be remembered for failing our children if we
continue like this), we have destroyed
everything. Today for instance Nigerian football
(which comes easy to me obviously) doesn’t
appeal to us, we have to fly across thousands of
miles to watch ‘our’ clubs play. Every year we
collectively burn billions of Naira being fans of
clubs that give us nothing back, but some
‘entertainment value’ – simple pleasures for
which we are ready to destroy the future of our
children. Well people, payback time is here. Even
with our ta-she-re money we all want to wear
designer clothes and carry designer bags,
Armani, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton etc.

We all want to drive jeeps with American specs,
our children must now school overseas and
acquire the necessary accents to come back
home and bamboozle their ‘bush and crass’
contemporaries that they left behind. Who
holidays in Nigeria anymore, is there Disneyland
here? No one buys made-in-Nigeria school bags
for their children, after all no Superman or
Incredible Hulk or Cinderella on them.

We are no longer top exporters of anything and
the demise of oil means we have zilch… zero. A
country of 170m fashion-conscious people has
no textile industry. We take delight in showing
how our made-in-Switzerland Aso Ebi is different
class to everyone else’s. When we help our
musicians grow and pay them millions, they
repay us by immediately shipping the monies
overseas to produce their “i-don-dey-different-
level”music videos. It makes no difference that
distinctly Zulu dancers are dancing to a Nigerian
highlife song. As stars concerned they also wed
and holiday overseas to impress us all. All the
musicians who acknowledge their Ajegunle roots
now speak in a cocktail of strange accents to
symbolise how much they have blown their
monies overseas.

Were we a more serious people, the highly
popular Kingsway Stores of the past would
probably have a thousand outlets pan Nigeria
today supporting a massive agriculture industry
among others, but today we have the likes of
SPAR, Shoprite, dominating the retail industry
while Kingsway is dead. And we Nigerians make
it a special point to shop from the Oyinbos who
have ‘cleaner shops’, ‘better this and better that’.
For our personal pleasure we don’t mind them
dominating us in our own backyard and shipping
proceeds overseas.

I could go on and on, but I don tire. Even as you
are reading this, stop for a moment and look
around you. What you see will probably explain
why we are lucky it is not N1000 to the USD yet.
And don’t think for a moment that it cannot get
there. Just continue to wear your Armani gear
and Swiss-made lace, continue to spend your
money on Man United, Arsenal, Chelsea and
Barca and encourage your children to do same.
(My article tomorrow in my Saturday column in
This Day is on the Nigerian champions Enyimba
FC – Nigeria’s most successful club – not
having a sponsor, yet Nigerian brands pay over
N600m to Man United and Arsenal for
sponsorship to impress us.) Ehhh, no problem,
continue to tell me the NPFL is rubbish or the
clubs should clean up their act if they want
sponsorship, mo gbo . Don’t curtail your interest
in choice wines ( we were the number one
champagne consumers in the world in 2015),
continue to love your American specs, cheer the
education ministry for letting schools sink to
pitiable levels, don’t fight them to improve our
schools, don’t chide them for letting schools
drop Nigerian history and embrace British,
America and whatever else curricula.

Carry on with your love of French wines and
Chinese silk, don’t bother about Jamiu Alli when
there is Roger Federer. Stock up on your Italian,
American, British products which you cannot live
without, including the ‘baby soft’ toilet rolls
produced only in that small unique village in
England – the days are long gone since you
were a broke student who used wet newspapers
to wipe your butt. Don’t even consider holidaying
in Nigeria, it’s too dangerous – you have to fulfill
your dream of being Nigeria’s Henry Ford. Don’t
listen to people like me who have a wardrobe full
of only cheap adire that is actually cheaper than
just one of your Tom Ford blazers. Please keep
dressing in fine silk made in some exotic place
so you can be addressed accordingly.

Finally keep letting corrupt leaders who have
looted your commonwealth and shipped all the
monies overseas get away because to attack
them does not fit your political narrative. Let us
continue with the fine life, let us all continue to
work for Oyinbo. But don’t forget that there is
payback time and Emefiele is not your problem.
Time for us all to look in the mirror and take
responsibility.

www.theheraldng.com/see-why-the-naira-may-fall-to-the-dollar-at-1000/

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How easily and quickly could these people have forgotten the struggle for the emancipation of Niger Delta, a cause they pursued violently at the start of Late President Yaraduaa's regime. .

Now that they have become overnight billionaires
under Jonathan ' s regime, they wantt to quietly enjoy their money abandoning the fight for their people. Of course, they are too rich to go back to the creeks. Thank God we voted wisely regardless of the current economic recession - we will be better off at the end.

God bless our President! !!

God bless Nigeria! !!

Only if PDP had known, they would have renovated our debilitated prisons and even built executive prisons with AC.
Since oil price is dwindling and with all these monies hanging on our corrupt politicians, I think proceeds from the recovered loot can solely fund the 2016 budget.

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LAGOS — PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s
assignment of portfolios to the ministers, who
resumed duties, yesterday, elicited mixed views
in the polity. While some hailed the distribution
of the ministries among the component parts of
the country and expressed optimism that the
team would drive the president’s change agenda,
others thought otherwise.
Indeed, the national leadership of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, took a swipe at
President Buhari, saying the portfolios given to
some of the ministers did not in any way inspire
confidence that the All Progressives Congress,
APC-led government wants to pursue change.
In a statement by its National Publicity
Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, the PDP, however,
urged the ministers to urgently settle down for
business and concentrate on the economy.
According to PDP, the present administration
has so far played heavily on what it termed,
dramatizing routine procedures and processes,
which was even glaring in the prolonged
swearing-in ceremony of the ministers.
Metuh said, “The much-expected assignment of
portfolios to the ministers did not inspire
confidence that there is indeed any change
being introduced in the system. With the
inauguration, the APC administration should fully
resolve the issues on the actual position of the
nation’s economy and the direction therein.
“Whereas President Muhammadu Buhari had
announced that the nation is bankrupt to the
extent he cannot pay his ministers, his new
Minister of Information had contradicted him
directly by stating how the government is
buoyant and ready to deploy $2.5 billion
infrastructure fund, saved N1.4 trillion with
another N2.5 trillion ready as special
intervention fund, which goes to say that the
country is not actually broke.

“These new ministers should note the challenge
before them regarding the image of the country
which the APC government has changed from
being the ‘Heart of Africa’ and a country of
‘Good people, Great nation’ to that of ‘Corrupt
people, Broke nation’.
“Furthermore, we counsel the ministers,
especially those who will be the face of the
government, to note that the campaigns are
over. Nigerians, therefore, will no longer
condone propaganda, lies and deceit but expect
a responsible dissemination based on truth,
honesty and openness”.
Concentrate on Power transmission, Barth Nnaji
urges Fashola
Also yesterday, former Minister of Power,
Professor Barth Nnaji, urged the Minister of
Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde
Fashola, to concentrate on transmission process
of the power sector because of its constraints.
Speaking to journalists shortly after he appeared
before the Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Power,
Professor Nnaji said: “I know that Fashola is an
excellent administrator and manager. I can
imagine what Lagos State used to be like before
he became governor and what it is now. It
comes with dedication and that is what we need
in this country.”

Buhari fair to South-East —Egolum
A former chieftain of the National Democratic
Coalition, Chief Chuba Egolum, okayed President
Buhari’s handling of the ministerial appointments
and distribution of portfolios and disagreed with
those who said that the South-East has been
short-changed.
His words: “Devoid of sentiments, Igbo didn’t get
it right in the last election. Our strategy was
wrong. We put all our eggs in one basket. I
won’t join the bandwagon of those complaining
about the appointment. Those who expect juicy
political appointments for the South-East have
misplaced expectations. What did the South-East
do towards the election of President Buhari? If
he gave us juicy appointments what about those
who worked for his election? Appointment is the
exclusive preserve of the President. We can fight
for even spread of projects not appointments.’’
Speaking in like manner, the Ndigbo Cultural
Society of Nigeria (NCSN) congratulated
President Buhari for appointing Ndigbo with
worthy ministerial portfolios which compliment
the appointments of Federal Permanent
Secretaries.
NCSN President, Chief Udoka Udeogaranya, in a
statement said “these recent conducts by
President Buhari indicated that the president is
beginning to re-write himself from an earlier
posture of sectionalism into a worthy national
posture.”

Fayose tasks Fayemi on Ekiti

Meanwhile, Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti
State has congratulated former governor of the
state, Dr Kayode Fayemi, over his appointment
as Minister of Solid Mineral, urging him to use
his position for the commercial exploitation of
the abundant solid mineral resources in the
state.
The governor in a statement issued in Ado-Ekiti
by his Special Assistant on Public
Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka,
said President Buhari must have considered the
need for commercial exploitation of the solid
minerals spread across towns and villages in
Ekiti State before arriving at the choice of
Fayemi as Solid Minerals minister.
Fayose spoke as Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital,
erupted in celebration over Fayemi’s new
position.
As early as 8 am, live bands were stationed at
the APC secretariat along Ajilosun Street as
party members and supporters trooped in,
waiting for the inauguration and allocation of
portfolio to the former governor.
Crowd of supporters at the secretariat spilled
over to the main road along the busy Akure-Ado
Ekiti road as they went into jubilation when
news broke that Fayemi had been named the
Minister of Solid Minerals, the sector the
President has marked out as the second golden
egg of the nation’s economy after oil.


www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/ministers-mixed-reactions-trail-assignment-of-portfolios/

Buhari did a bad job restructuring the ministries. If he retained the ministry of Niger Delta, He should also have created the ministry of Biafra. Wailers would say

Naija politicians slapping and fighting themselves over what goes into their pockets since the days of John the Baptist. .Why not slap yourself over millions of unemployed graduates out there or even over our dwindling economy? No change in sight in our democracy. Na chop make me too chop. God help us.

It can only work in the North.....

Shut it! What us your state contributing to the Federal purse? This is best time to look inward at the state level and see what you can do for your people. The Federal government can't pay all your bills. The national cake is finishing so fast. My comment applies to all State governments.

Wike is sweating. He hasn't said anything about the corruption against Ameachi recently. While he's busy trying to save himself from drowning Ameachi is soaring high. This is what delights me the most. May God occupy my enemies with problem so they won't even have time to persecute me

aba made guns at best good for hunting.

See who is talking of corruption. You are lucky Baba allowed sleeping dog lie. We all know where you would be cooling off now.

Why is Saraki wearing white and not black?

Lovely Quotes.

No more ' Stealing is not corruption'.

Stoning the devil is one the doctrine of Islam. The judge should know that these people were only exercising their their faith just as it is being done in Mecca. Come to think of it- Saraki denied anybody throwing stone.

Yes nothing to celebrate because Nigeria moved from paradise to hell in the last 4 months.

Mr Fayose see the baba u wished had died before election standing tall and making us proud all over the world. I know by this time next year, your mouth would have been completely shut.

We are just too rich in this country. Imagine our politicians over inflating projects to the extent of stealing billions of naira and yet the government did not shutdown. God must have grieved for giving us so much.

El-rufai should not misinterprete the humility of our pastor VP for cowardice. Osinbajo is the sole reason I supported Buhari. Nigeria will be doomed if we were to have a man like Sambo as VP. Buhari should watch that green snake in the green grass.

Yes screening of your boss at the CCT will be more thorough. No longer business as usual. Honorable Bodyguard.

Saraki has found himself in the middle of Atlantic Ocean but still believing he can swim to the shore. Let's see how you will get out of this.

So FG arranged his kidnap abi. Ranting nonsense as usual. You had better go on kneels for Baba to come back alive. Maybe this is the first time kidnapping is taking place in Nigeria.

Imagine Saraki making Baba to sit with Ekeremadu to discuss his policies any time baba is to meet with the leaders of National Assembly all because of Saraki selfish ambition. This is payback time. Like Judas Iscariot: Your seat shall be given to another.

When a flat-bellied and snake-wedging Army Chief replaces a drum-bellied one, we can begin to take his words serious. Sai Buratai! Sai Buhari!