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id911:
Atiku is detribalized, focused, amiable, patriotic. He's a catalyst of cohesion and has friends all over the country. He's productive and a successful business man.


2019 is his Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar year. Think a new Nigeria! Think Atiku 2019!!
Join us let's make a new Nigeria possible...

lol

maxiuc:


Just try and draw lie Mohammed

MAY YOUR GENTLE SOUL REST IN PEACE MADAM

ichommy:
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The first female chartered accountant in Nigeria, Chief Olutoyin Olakunrin, is dead.

She died at the age of 80. She was said to have passed on Sunday morning after she slumped during church service .

She was a foundation member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria in 1965. She was married to Mr. Simeon Olakunrin, a senior advocate of Nigeria.

https://www.emmy.ng/2018/06/first-female-chartered-accountant-dies.html

lol

NeeKlaus:
Ichoputa ya, jidesie ya ike o. Ogologo amu dikwa scarce kita.

fake news..show us the source for ur claimed fastest growing church..mtchewwwww

Omooba77:
To God be the glory; statistics are there to verify sir

rubbish..if i hear

9jaArea:
Not even Usman Danfodio hand this kind of charisma.
I don't think Nigeria will have another leader so loved by his people in many years to come.

PMB the man for the job till 2023

bad belle..choi

Ofodirinwa:
Crowd in matching clothes = fake crowd

I STAND WITH ATIKU

doneyor:
The former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has at yesterday 2nd of May, 2018, stormed Akwa Ibom State, to consult the Executive Governor, Emmanuel Udom, stating his intention to run for President in 2019.



http://www.ukrido.com/2018/05/2019atiku-abubakar-storms-akwa-i-bomb-state-consult-gov-udom-emmanuel-for-2019/

I STAND WITH ATIKU

Bede2u:
Atiku
This one is probably the most politically powerful among them. Popular in both North and South. But he is generally seen as corrupt and the APC would have a field day telling that to all voters. He would however most likely be a powerful, decisive president. His age is also against him.

it is not by going to America, even if Atiku cant travel to Ghana, we Stand with him..enuff of this job loss, enuff of the killings..Buhari must be sent back to Daura..who going to America help?go to Benue, pleateu, taraba, adamawa and tell them that you have a president that travels to America, and yet, they bury their brothers everyday, this woman na complete AGBAYA!

Ecstasy154:
By Nwafor Sunday

Following criticisms attached to President Muhammadu Buhari’s frequent visit to the United state of America, (USA), by some Nigerians, the social media aide to the president Mrs. Lauretta Onochie on Sunday said that ‘Nigeria’ will not have a president who cannot travel to America.

Not as she equally reeled out the reasons why Buhari has been travelling to US. According to her, Buhari travels to discus issues of paramount and mutually benefit for the country.


Read her statements below:

WE WON’T HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO CAN’T GO TO AMERICA.

PRESIDENT BUHARI ARRIVES WASHINGTON DC AHEAD OF HIS WORKING VISIT .

President Barack Obama, an African American was pained as the President of America. He could not embrace the rotten, morbidly corrupt government in place in Nigeria at the time. He was excited when Nigerians kicked out Fortunato Looter King.

President Obama publicly announced President Buhari as doing a great job in Nigeria. Now, President Buhari is in America on a state visit to discuss issues of mutual benefits with America’s President Donald Trump.

Here he arrives and is received by Nigerians who are obviously happy to see their hard-working leader.

Nigerians will not have a President who cannot go to America, the home of the United Nations. There are more Nigerians in America than in many cities in Nigeria. We can’t afford to have a President they can’t meet. God forbid.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/04/wont-president-cant-go-america-lauretta-onochie/

FOR THE FIRST TIME, LETS VOTE WHO IS READY FOR THE JOB....WELL ARRANGED PAPER, ATIKU ABUBAKAR IS READY FOR THE JOB..LETS GET IT RIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME BIKONU.....u neva can tell, Atiku might do the magic

Fyzt:
The Importance of Strengthening State Economic Management Systems

Being an Address Delivered by His Excellency, Atiku i

4. The sub-national economies will be assisted in reforming their economic management institutions, including the revenue generating agencies which are seen by many as failed and ineffectually managed institutions within the state service. They need to be reformed and strengthened to make them more innovative and efficient in service delivery. The reformed agencies will be expected to improve tax-payer compliance, develop potentials of non-tax revenue sources and block all leakages associated with tax administration.

5. Beyond institutional and administrative reforms to improve operational efficiency of the revenue agencies the federating units will be challenged to double their efforts in rebuilding the fiscal-social contract, by enhancing service delivery in key areas such as health, education, water supply and infrastructural development. Only this would change the predominant perception that government revenues are diverted to the private bank accounts of politicians and their cronies.

6. And it is for the purpose of making states lose their addiction to federal allocation, to make them look inwards, and return to the healthy competition of 1957-1966, when Nigeria practiced her unique brand of true federalism known as regionalism, that I suggest the introduction of matching grants to states, that have succeeded in increasing their internally generated revenue.

My idea is for the introduction of Matching Grants to be taken from the revenue accruable to the Federal Government for the purpose of matching the Internally Generated Revenue of each state in order to encourage states to become self-reliant. If I have my way, the Federal Government will match state’s IGR up to $250 million per state.
Even with this policy, the Federal Government will continue to offer support (in the form of intervention programmes) for states that rank below the average development index, until such a time as they are able to become self-sufficient and sustaining.

7. In furtherance of strengthening their economic management systems, another policy I would recommend to Nigerian state is to follow the example President Obasanjo and I laid between 1999 and 2007 when we privatized and liberalized many aspects of the Nigeria economy. It had the almost immediate effects of reducing our wage bill and increasing services, capacity and jobs in the private sector.

By privatizing those state government owned public enterprises that gulp huge sums by way of recurrent expenditure yet give little returns by way of return on investment, state governments can free more of their revenue from recurrent and devote it to capital expenditure.

8. We will promote and insist on fiscal efficiency at the federal level to lead other tiers of government by example. The states will be challenged to adopt sound fiscal management strategy so as to reduce wasteful spending. Many view government spending as wasteful, imprudent and lacking in priorities. Typically, recurrent costs constitute between 60% and 72% of state and local governments.

As I said in a recent interview, if I had the opportunity, I would disrupt Nigeria’s budgeting process. We would have a budget heavy on capital expenditure. Roads will be built in every state. Mass housing schemes would pop up in every local government area. Railways will be extended to every state capital. Rivers would be dredged to open up the hinterlands of the North. Licenses would be given to state governments to begin immediate exploitation of resources in their jurisdictions.

While this is happening on a macro level in the Federal Government, I would create the enabling environment for this to be done on a micro level in the states.

When citizens are working, especially in construction and the service sector, the economy benefits because they pay more taxes, they utilize their increased purchasing power in buying goods and services, which improves Value Added Tax revenue and helps the private sector. The multiplier effects are almost limitless.
I am not talking about what can happen. I am talking about what is currently happening in Rwanda. According to the International Monetary Fund, Rwanda’s economy is expected to grow by 7.2 per cent in 2018. This is an economy that already grew by 6.1% in 2017. Their growth is being driven by the services sector, construction and tourism.
In my private capacity, I am already doing this. There has not been a year in the last twenty years that I have not set up a new enterprise to employ Nigerians. The latest being that we brought the Chicken Cottage franchise to Nigeria which will be creating direct and indirect jobs all across the country.

If states are to strengthen their economic management system the Debt Management Office, which our administration set up in the year 2000 to centrally coordinate the management of Nigeria’s debt must be given more independence than it already has. The head of the DMO must be a person with proven ability to say no to powerful persons otherwise the states will keep on borrowing at an unsustainable rate as we see in today’s Nigeria.

In her just released book, “Fighting Corruption is Dangerous –The Story Behind the Headlines”, Dr. Mrs. NgoziOkonjo-Iweala, former Managing Director of the World Bank and two time Nigerian minister of finance and coordinator of the economy who served during my time in office, revealed that she almost got beaten up by a particular Governor at a meeting of the National Economic Council, because she would not approve his request to take out more foreign loans for his already over indebted states.

There are already statutory parameters in place before the Debt Management Office could approve foreign loans to states, but I would want such parameters strengthened such that Nigerian Governors who are close to the President would not use that relationship to get the ministry of finance and DMO to approve wasteful, unnecessary loans that in many cases are squandered on white elephant projects.

There are states in Nigeria who are unable to pay workers’ salaries, yet have taken out huge foreign loans to build stadia and secretariats. Projects that would not improve their financial position.

We have seen in recent years that both Fitch and Standard and Poor’s have downgraded Nigeria just as the Egmont Group has suspended us. As one who worked very hard along with President Olusegun Obasanjo between 1999 and 2007 to bring Nigeria back from the brink and pay off our entire foreign debt, these negative indices bother me.

9. It is also imperative that our foreign reserves and revenue buffers are boosted to insulate the economy against adverse shocks and to strengthen countercyclical fiscal capacity.

We will streamline the operations of the Sovereign Wealth Fund, the Excess Crude Account and the Stabilization Account which is currently embedded in the Revenue Allocation Formula for more effective stabilization outcomes.

Unless these stabilization vehicles are reshaped Nigeria will continue to be subject to the vagaries of the world oil market.

Let me end by providing more detail on restructuring - even at the risk of me repeating myself. Restructuring Nigeria is no longer an option. It is a necessity. This is why I said in February to Nigeria’s elite that ‘restructuring will not cheat you. It will free you.’

Restructuring will foster the spirit of co-operation and consensus in a nation of diverse ethnic groups, cultures and religions. It is desirable, in fact you may even say it is required to establish, nurture and sustain a strong and effective democratic government.

We must also remind ourselves that restructuring is not a new or strange phenomenon. A number of developing economies have had cause to restructure their economies, for greater efficiency or to correct imbalances or to reorient them towards, for example, more open and market-oriented systems with greater reliance on the private sector as engine of growth. Even the United Kingdom is restructuring its political and economic systems to enable a better union among its component parts. Businesses restructure for better performance. Even families do!

Faced with the reality of non-performance, Nigerians have clamored for the restructuring of the economy towards a more diversified structure. Similarly, in line with current global realities, citizens have come to appreciate that the old economic model, built on public sector supremacy is no longer a viable, sustainable option. They have therefore called for a re-orientation of the economy to leverage resources from the private sector and stimulate growth and development.

To make this, that is, economic restructuring happen would require appropriate political intervention. In particular, it would require that we establish and sustain a model of governance which would nurture a spirit of participation and consensus on key national issues and accommodate all the diverse segments of the society.

In other words, if we accept the wisdom behind calls for a restructuring of the economy, we must be ready to build a foundation for its success: we must, in other words re-structure the polity.

Nigeria has operated for too long a faulty system of federalism especially under military governments. True federalism ensures that a strong federal government guarantees national unity while allowing various parts of the country or the federating units to set their own priorities.

As a consequence, the Federal Government appropriates, along with these responsibilities, huge resources. For example, in the allocation of revenue from the Federation Account the Federal Government is unduly favoured at the expense of the States and Local Governments. Out of every Naira in the Federation Account, 56k will go to the Federal Government and four other ‘special accounts’ which it manages! This is neither efficient nor equitable.


Let me use this opportunity to once again emphasize why everyone of us must be involved in the discourse on re-structuring. When I carry the gospel of restructuring Nigeria around, I don’t carry it for mere political convenience, I am in this crusade for the purpose of making Nigeria work. Africa and indeed the world needs a Nigeria that is working.

While maintaining all the other niceties inherent in promoting the restructuring discourse in Nigeria, today, I want to add that beyond the healthy competition among the federating units which a restructured Nigeria would engender, is the unique opportunity for the retooling of the leadership recruitment process in the country. Governance would be elevated to a serious business manned by equally serious-minded people. The attraction to power would no longer be a chance to stumble upon privileges not worked for. But a carefully calibrated move to demonstrate ingenuity and quality in creating wealth for the country.

The restructured Nigeria that I talk about, is a Nigeria that not only provides opportunities for everyone to work but even more specifically challenges the leadership to demonstrate capacity to create wealth for every layer of governance.

It is time for serious minded people to get involved and take the lead in making our country work. It is time for citizens to demand as a matter of right, from people aspiring to lead them, a plan on not just how to manage their wealth but most fundamentally how the wealth is going to be created. Slogans cannot take the place of plans and propaganda is a poor substitute for proper agenda.

For long, our leadership has been pampered. We work into managing a wealth we have little input into how it is created. And because we are not involved in the creation, we rarely appreciate it. Hence, we turn out as either bad managers or killers of the greater Nigerian dream.

For instance, I insist, anybody who cannot tell Nigerians at the State level how, he/she is going to generate the required resources to run the State he/she is aspiring to govern is not worthy of the electorates’ votes. Nigeria needs a leadership that can create wealth for the country and make it work. Every part of Nigeria has enough wealth to sustain it. What is lacking is the leadership with the required capacity and vision to tap and manage the wealth on behalf of all.

To me, any skeptic of restructuring Nigeria, is submitting to the leadership indolence which has denied the country its cherished position of leading Africa to greatness.

Restructuring is not just about the devolution of powers to the states, it is about transforming the role of the federal government. In matters of territorial governance, the federal authorities must learn to cooperate with, and in some instances defer to state authorities; in matters of economic governance, the federal authorities must learn to cooperate with, rather than displace or ignore, the private sector.

If we want Nigeria to succeed, we must break with the misguided notion that the Federal Government, or the President, knows best, and that no one else can be trusted. When I talk about restructuring, I am not talking about just constitutional tweaks, I am talking about a cultural revolution. It is not about re-shuffling a few responsibilities or resources, but about disrupting the authoritarian politics our democracy has inherited from its military and colonial rulers.

And there is nothing abstract about it: just think about the open skies agreement [Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM)], which African governments agreed on in January, and which the Nigerian government underwrote without consulting our airline industry. You do not have to convince me that we must integrate African markets, that we need arrangements like the open skies agreement. I am a believer. But you will never convince me that a government can build an open market economy or transform trade relations if it refuses to cooperate with the private sector.

We, as a nation, must rekindle the spirit of enterprise we experienced two decades ago, when we prepared our return to democracy. We must rediscover the pragmatism that guided us through the difficult transition we were facing at the time. And we, as leaders, must recognise that this time, we cannot do it alone: we must encourage cooperation, we must embrace openness, and we must rebuild trust - with our people, but also with our international partners.

These are some of the ways I believe Nigeria’s states can improve their capacity, increase their revenues and better manage their local economies which are critical to the safety, prosperity, and welfare of all Nigerians and will allow my homeland to realize its true potential.

Let me end with these words: Some Nigerians states are poor not because they are not receiving a fair share of oil money but because they are not receiving a fair shot at true federalism. Only restructuring can correct that.

Thank you all and may God bless Nigeria.

dont go with sentiments, lets get our brain working again, stop looking at the messenger, get the message

michoim:
Lies &Trash

dont get with sentiments, lets get our brain working again, stop looking at the messenger, get the message

michoim:
Lies &Trash

yes oh..march Buhari back to daura

Bayajidda1:
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haha

Paradigm777:


From the way he is sipping that juice you could tell Linda bought it for him.

na lie oh..the previous government introduced e-wallet system, that technique even won the present African Development Bank MD an applaud because of that..This govt is full of lies..Chai APC

SamoaJoe:
http://saharareporters.com/2018/03/02/trucks-fertilizer-disappeared-under-previous-govts-buhari

this is mind blowing, serious anybody that will vote for buhari in 2019, should have his head checked

wrightangle83:
Source:https://guardian.ng/interview/buharis-return-in-2019-will-end-in-tragedy-says-junaid-mohammed/

WE ARE WAITING FOR SHEKAU VIDEO SOON, HE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN TELL US THE TRUTH, HOW MANY GIRLS?HOW AND WHEN THE KIDNAPPING HAPPEND.....I SHAKE MY HEAD FOR APC

Islie:
https://www.thecable.ng/breaking-yobe-gov-visits-dapchi-says-no-girl-rescued

get sense..olodo like u

salvation101:
Where is bazaar in d bible? Old nd new testament?

U do not collect tithe but collect multiple offerings

u need sense, i pity u

urchhhhh:
daddy freeze is stupid,physical devil

lol

madridguy:
Yah Rasululahi, see fleet of trains and here in Nigeria we're still debating over cattle colony in 2018
Someone should tell me where to get direct bus to China

I THINK, THIS COUNTRY HAS FINALLY FINISHED UNDER BUHARI....am speechless,the only way to bring this people to justice is to vote in anoda party, if APC wins, this mess will never come to the open

Nancy42:
http://saharareporters.com/2018/02/06/how-i-stopped-kingibe-abba-kyari-rufai-abubakar-stealing-44m-former-acting-d-g-nia

am very certain Buhari will go by 2019, this is the height of this rubbish, that man was treated that way, bcs he is Fulani,they cant accord the same privilege to yorubas or ibos..please, get your PVC, make sure you vote in 2019, dont just condemn online, make it physical..please vote them out

mcvities:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/257775-breaking-buhari-ignores-health-minister-reinstates-suspended-nhis-chief.html

u will get the shock of your life..APC is gunner

muykem:
2019 is a done deal for APC since BAT has accepted this role.

that feet is a message to the world..'greatness dont just come,there is a price to it..thank you usain bolt for reminding us..u rock

Prinq:
Former Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is currently the brunt of online jokes after he shared a snap of his feet online.

The Olympic athlete, while watching the Super Bowl, shared a photo of himself with his feet up, close to his TV, but everyone's attention went to his dry feet instead of the game playing on TV.



Usain Bolt

Social media users are now dragging him and telling him to do something about the state of his feet.

See reactions below.


Source:- http://www.lekkigists.com.ng/2018/02/usain-bolts-feet-causes-commotion-on.html

u need sense, i dont blame u

seunowa:
My vote is 4 Pmb come 2019

SHAMELESS PEOPLE, WE SHALL SEND THEM PACKING COME 2019

Malizumedia:
https://alexis.lindaikejisblog.com/photos/shares/5a687758c8335.jpg

President Muhammadu Buhari is currently presiding over the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting at the Council Chambers inside the Presidential Villa, in Abuja.

The meeting was coming a day after former President Olusegun Obssanjo released a special press statement asking President Muhammadu Buhari not to re-contest in 2019 Presidential Election.

The weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting was flooded with the campaign fez cap with the inscription, “Continuity ’19: Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo”.

https://malizumedia.com/just-in-buhari-presides-over-fec-meeting-as-ministers-flaunts-continuity-campaign-cap/

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this govt dont have shame,

maximunimpact:
@Financialwatchn

The Presidency has launched a weekly television and radio programme which is aimed at promoting the policies and programmes of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s led administration.

This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja by Abiola Olusola, Deputy Director (Media) in the office of the Vice President.

The announcement is coming 24 hours after former President Olusegun Obasanjo took the present administration to the cleaners with a 13-paged letter in which he urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to run for a second term as he had performed below his (Obasanjo’s) expectation.

According to the statement from the Presidency, the programme would air on a number of network television and radio stations across the country.

The programme is aimed at promoting the giant strides of President Buhari as well as the positive impact he had made in the lives of many Nigerians

“Members of the public are invited to watch the programmes on television:



Channels TV on Monday – 4:30pm



Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Network on Thursday – 6:30pm



Core TV news on Saturday – 12:30pm



Liberty television on Sunday – 4:30pm



“On radio, it will be airing:



FRCN network – Monday at 2:30pm



Raypower FM – Monday at 3:00pm



Bauchi Radio – Monday at 1:30pm



Heartland FM – Saturday at 10:30 am



Rainbow FM (Ogun) – Saturday at 8:00am



Capital FM – Saturday at 1:30pm



Liberty Radio – Sunday at 10:30am



Choice FM – Sunday at 6:30pm



Rivers Radio – Sunday at 9:30pm,” the statement from the Presidency read.

https://www.financialwatchngr.com/2018/01/24/presidency-launches-media-campaign-promote-buharis-policies/

I STAND WITH ATIKU

LadyNaija:
Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose with other dignitaries at the Akure Airport to welcome former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
Atiku is scheduled to meet with selected members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ado-Ekiti today.
Governor Ayo Fayose and other dignitaries welcoming former vice president and presidential aspirant of PDP Alhaji Atiku Abubakar @Akure airport.

http://www.naijanewspapers.com.ng/2018/01/photo-news-atiku-other-dignitaries.html



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bring your evidence if you say Atiku is corrupt, you have seen the consequnces of voting Mr Intergrity..how many people can he kill more

Dasini:
This is indeed the agenda, wike and fayose have been scheming underground to have atiku as their choice, we are not surprised, i dont see this going anywhere. It wont work ! a corrupt akitu and an inefficient/childish fayose(corrupt)are not the new Nigeria we should crave.

please tell them and remind them...Buhari has lost it, hoe doesnt care.

Ibegtodiffer:
NCAN..lol. For real, how on earth are you not suppose to notice the name? He studied French. And he's good enough to be a DG of the most Intelligent Agency of the country. Later, people will still be wondering why things are falling apart. #myonekobo

if she like, let her eat akara..she is on her own..2019 loading, we must vote dem out

biacan:
Election things