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Buhari why?

Da fvck!

Izonpikin:
he is part of the problem..these guys presented themselves as saints and saviors...they freaking lied to gullible nigerians...the hand writing was glaring for all to see but gullibility took the best of many nigerians..now this is the result...

God is sure punishing nigeria..


we are like the isrealites that when ever they offended God they were punished with bad rulership either from close by pagan nations or an obstinate isrealite king...i think Gods punishment for nigerians is buhari both in the past and present...

The curious choices of Nigerians is what is punishing Nigerians not buhari. When a nation with abundant human and natural resources chooses to rely on only one unstable commodity for its income, it's a no brainer that a recession will visit when that commodity becomes more than half-worthless.

After Joseph interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh warning him of 7 years of plenty and 7 years of famine, imagine what would have happened had the Pharaoh not heeded that warning and stockpiled food?.... That's exactly the case of Nigeria, but obviously, instead of Nigerians to now digest the fact that the error has already been made and seek proactive ways of coming out of it, it seems we are more interested in blaming and insulting the new Pharaoh for not conjuring food from the spirit realms. We are more interested in crying about how things were much better under the previous pharaoh without paying any attention to the famine which wasn't in existence previously.

Most absurd is how we even applaud the vermins who seize the little grains left in the barns and throw them in the Nile, we applaud the vermins because we believe they are making leadership difficult for the new Pharaoh, even though it is our own families that die of the eventual starvation.

Leopardd:
Rambling of a Sai Baba loser!
Have u stopped hailing the pathetic fool u called president? Rubbish.

I don already dey comot my family out of nigeria one by one, if no be my dad's biz, na make im and mom go Ghana go stay low key, who cares what happens to nigeria.

We must enjoy one nigeria in recession and hunger.

Keep insulting buhari while you encourage/glorify people blowing up pipelines. As the refineries go dead and we import 100%, as gas supply is cut to zero and we remain in darkness, as oil export is cut by 50%, just continue glorifying avengers maka ha n'emegbu buhari. Anyway who am I to judge, maybe insulting buhari is already putting food on your table.

Izonpikin:
na him you join hand dey support this clueless directionless and mouth making administration...you sure say God go fit forgive u??...

you dey enjoy for london dey fuel support for buhari and him cabinet to suffer us..

Lol.. Buhari is not the problem, and I would repeat it, 'Buhari is not the problem!'

LadyExcellency:
What are you trying to prove? Jonathan had it worse but managed the circumstances as a leader.

https://cdn.akamai.thisdaylive.com/0bef99d6-acf5-4e2c-9779-8fa02ba3fcd4/assets/4454-Joseph-Dawha.jpg?maxwidth=400&maxheight=540
Group Managing Director (GMD) of the NNPC, Dr. Joseph Dawha

1.3mt of crude lost to pipeline vandalism
Chika Amanze-Nwachuku

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has disclosed that about 34,047 cases of pipeline vandalism were recorded in parts of the country between 1999 and 2013. Also, about 1.3 million metric tonnes of crude oil was said to have been lost to the illicit act between 2009 and 2012.

The Group Managing Director (GMD) of the NNPC, Dr. Joseph Dawha, stated this yesterday at the annual NAEC conference with a theme: ‘Pipeline Vandalism and its Socio economic Impact on the Nation.’

Providing details of how incessant pipeline vandalism have hampered supply and distribution of crude oil and refined petroleum products, the GMD, who was represented by the Managing Director of Pipeline Product and Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of NNPC, Mr. Haruna Momoh, said these heinous acts not only adversely affected the capacity of Nigeria’s oil and gas assets to function optimally, but have resulted in colossal product losses and cost of repairs of damaged pipelines.

Given the breakdown, he said, these over 34,047 breaks/ruptures were recorded in its pipeline networks in Gombe, Kaduna, Mosimi in Ogun State and Warri.

He said in 1999, when activities of vandals became noticeable in the PPMC operations, a total of 497 incidents were recorded.

The act, he said began progressively from Port Harcourt and Warri areas of PPMC operations and spread to every part of the corporation’s network, resulting in 999 cases in 2000.

Further breakdown showed that between 2001 and 2004, the corporation recorded over 2,473 breaks across its pipeline networks, while 2,258 cases were recorded in 2005 alone.
The GMD also noted that 3,674 cases were recorded in 2006; 3,258 other cases in 2007 and 2,318 incidents in 2008.

According to him, the year 2010 recorded the highest incidents of acts of vandalism as 5,518 cases of pipeline breaks/ruptures were reported across the NNPC pipeline networks nationwide, as against the 1,305 cases recorded in 2009. In 2011, 2012 and 2013, the corporation recorded 4,468, 3,708 and 3, 571 cases respectively.

In terms of products losses, he said, a total of 712,776 metric tonnes (MTs) of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) were lost to act of vandalism between 2009 and 20012. During the period under review, the nation also lost about 9,548, MTs of Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK), 37,054 MTs of Automotive Gas Oil (Ago) and 1,310,130 MTs to act of vandalism.

The GMD said, aside from products losses and colossal cost of repairing the damaged pipelines, pipeline vandalism is harmful to our environmental and results in loss of human lives.

He explained that the corporation resorted to the use of marine vessels for crude oil deliveries to the refineries due to heightened incidents of pipeline vandalism, adding that the Port Harcourt Refinery operated for only 82 days in 2013 due to pipeline vandalism. 

The NNPC boss urged the federal government to develop a national plan for critical infrastructure and key resources protection similar to the United States’ National Infrastructure protection Plan (NIPP), pointing out that the US government recognised the critical nature of pipelines to national security and treats them as strategic national assets.

“The federal government should likewise declare the pipelines as strategic national assets and set up a special force to protect them”, he said.
As at 2010, the NNPC said it lost N174.57 billion in product losses and repairs of products pipelines within the last 10 years.

Source: Thisdaylive News

I did not say it started happening today, the point isn't when it started happening. The point is that we now have people (both educated, uneducated, enlightened and unenlightened) fully frontally celebrating the acts of sabotage because they believe they are punishing buhari. For how long shall we continue to encourage and glorify things that would bring hardship to ourselves and millions all because we think we are 'punishing' one man?.... That is my point.

Izonpikin:
where do you reside??

london

Leopardd:
Just like others have gathered sense, u go soon gather sense.

Stay there and keep hailing ultimate warriors and avengers thinking you are 'doing' Buhari, N200/litre fuel loading very soon. Not a big deal for me cos I already pay almost 3 times that amount for fuel where I stay.

See all these mumus who some months ago were celebrating the blowing up of pipelines delivering crude to the refineries and in your minds "anyi n'emegbu buhari." Today dollar don reach N500, fuel price is about to skyrocket again and the hediots are calling buhari's name.

Mrsparrow:
Good Morning Nairalanders!

Who will vote for president buhari in 2019 elections??

I need your solid answer with adequate reasons!!

Depends on who the opponent is..

progress69:
The recession today was an inevitable event as Nigeria is a "mono revenue driven economy". More than 70% of our income as a sovereign nation comes from sales of crude oil. Hence rise and fall in global proce of crude is bound to affect the Nigerian economy positively or negatively.
In this article i will be using Vanguard newspaper mostly as my reference. This is for obvious reasons

The Facts:

1. It takes about $30-$35 to get a barrel of crude from the ground.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/oil-crash-nigeria-producing-at-5-per-barrel-loss/

2. Oil price slid from about $60/barrel when Buhari came into power in May 2015 to as low as $28/barrel in June 2016.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/oil-prices-hit-fresh-12-year-low-trade-below-28-per-barrel/

3. In view of the above, Nigeria was practically selling crude at a loss at a particular point in time. (Read link in point 1 above)

4. Nigeira produced about 2.2 million barrels per day, but as at now, she only produces about 1.4million barrels per day due to terrorists activities in the Niger Delta. This simply means Nigeria is selling lesser quantity of oil with the slump in oil prices. This simply means lower revenue.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/pipeline-bombing-nigerias-oil-export-dips-21000bpd/

5. A Paltry 30 Billion dollars was left in the national reserves for the incubent government despite the previous government inheriting above 40 Billion dollars with crude oil sold an average of $100/barrel before the gradual slump in oil price in 2014.
http://www.nigeriannation.com/news/i-left-30bn-in-the-treasury-for-you-jonathan-replies-buhari.aspx

6. During the global recession in 2008/2009, the CBN actually defended the Naira and economy with a Whooping $20 billion.What the CBN did to drive down the value of the dollar against the naira was to flood the foreign exchange market with dollars in exchange for naira. It is important to note that the naira still lost about 20% of its value by mid-2009 despite CBN intervention
Get more enlightened here; http://www.myfinancialintelligence.com/banking-and-finance/limitations-nigeria’s-foreign-exchange-policy

7. The much celebrated economist by a particular political party and some sets of people in Nigeria actually warned about a reccession in Nigeria in 2012 due to a slide in oil price. Oil price then was actually just abit below $80/barrel. I am talking of Madam Okonjo Iweala.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/06/okonjo-iweala-warns-of-economic-recession/

Oil sold below $30 ber barrel and as remained below $50/barrel for above a year now. Is it safe to say reccession was inevitable by the above assertions of the ex-minister of finance.


8. There was a steady increase in oil price from 2012 to late 2014, with oil selling @ an average of $100/barrel. But according to the ex minister of finance in person of Madam Okonjo Iweala who is well celebrated by the opposition party and some particular sets of people in Nigeria, Nigeria could not actually save at that point because the previous government had zero political Will to save.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/nigeria-had-no-political-will-to-save-under-jonathan-okonjo-iweala/


9. Nigeira is an import driven country, hence there is always high demand of dollars thereby putting pressure on the value of Niara in the time of scarcity.

CONCLUSION

In view of the above it is safe to say;

1. With a reserve of about $30bn, it is practically impossible to defend the Naira/economy as done in the past with the reserve as the nation may go bankrupt in the process. Besides, defending the Naira with the national reserves is not sustainable as long as oil prices remain low. Naira still lost 20% of its value despite using more than 50% of the national reserves to defend the it between 2008 to 2012.
For more in this kindly read link below
http://www.myfinancialintelligence.com/banking-and-finance/limitations-nigeria’s-foreign-exchange-policy


2. There is urgent need to diversify the economy, as it is being witnessed today. Diversification is a process and does not happen over night.
FIRS, Customs, and others have started making positive impact in to national reserves. New mineral resources are being discovered but there is still more to be done.

3. Nigeirans have no choice than to endure the pain and inflation at the moment while efforts are being made to revamp the economy. Effects of the low oil prices would have been minimal should we have saved enough for the future

4. President Buhari may habe made errors, but Nigeira being a mono revenue driven economy, reccession was bound to happen sooner or later.

Thank You and God bless

Written by KOBOKO69

Editted and Published by Progress69

A very simple explanation, but there are 3 reasons why this wouldn't be understood by most people:

1. Sentiments: Some people hate the president so much that the emotions of hate has drowned their ability to reason, discern or be objective.

2. Hunger: Hunger has reset the brains of plenty people that they have lost the ability to reason, discern or be objective. With their brains reset, they now fall victims of the mental manipulations of people within category 1 above.

3. Ignorance: A lot of people (both educated and uneducated) are just ignorant and expecting them to discern might just be a chasing of the wind. Most people fall within this category, especially the multitude of illiterate or semi-literate compatriots we have on the streets. Imagine trying to explain the link between crude prices and the cost of bread to the okadaman or the market woman on the streets? It would most likely be a wasted effort especially with 'hunger' being in the picture. You cant really blame these set of people, especially the uneducated ones. But the unfortunate part is that some in this category are well educated; a friend of mine who even studied for his masters in the UK once asked me how the bombing of pipelines would affect him seeing that he isnt working in the oil industry and doesnt have oil wells. Such is the kind of reasoning we get from even highly educated ones.
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Stingman:
Should it be so..should a nation be a jungle? A normal country with conscience should see that all projects in regions are shared appropriately. There should be no need for leaders to be fighting themselves in Aso rock begging the president. I still don't blame SE leaders for this. There is generally, a script being played by Nigeria state against SE region...and it is a shame...

Unfortunately, it is what it is, a jungle. Nigeria is a jungle, Africa is a jungle, there's a reason why it's still called the third world, and it's unrealistic to compare it with thw developed world.

Now that notwithstanding, even in developed nations the same scenario plays out. Have you ever asked yourself why every little unit of the nation has a representative at the centre?... It is exactly for reasons like this that each hamlet has a representative at the capital even in developed nations.

Regarding your conviction about this being just a gang up by probably other big tribes against the SE or to 'bully the SE', as much as I find this a rather belittling and condescending theory, you may be right, millions of south easterners also harbour this conviction and have strongly held on to it since 1970 to date (46 years), but I'm at a doubt whether holding on to this age long theory (whether true or not) has really helped anyone. I'm also at a loss at how this same trend also continued unabated even under GEJ.

Stingman:
Continuing from the article "Injustice:why Are They No Rail Projects In South East?",

I want to seek public opinion, on why major federal government projects in SE are by public private partnership while those of other regions are done all by the federal government. For example, in SW, Lagos third Mainland bridge was constructed and repaired by the federal government, Lagos- Ibadan express road is being handled by the federal government with a N50billion budget, Oyo-Ibadan road is undergoing repairs, in the north, the Ilorin-Jebba road is undergoing repair, as well as Kaduna to Maiduguri road...and other road and bridge projects...

In SE, the 2nd Onitsha bridge is being expanded under PPP, and the terrible Enugu-Onitsha roads is being considered to be repaired under PPP with a Chinese firm...

Mind you this type of depravity was not corrected under by GEJ either...and also note that these has nothing to do with leaders of SE, as I'm referring the federal projects and not state issues...

The questions are:

1. Is SE Nigeria not part of Nigeria?

2. Why do successive goverment treat the SE like a leper colony?

3. Is there a hidden/secret document given to any Nigeria president, not to touch the SE territory?

4. Does the secret document, say that the SE and affected Igbo people from parts of Rivers, Delta, Benue, Cross River will merge and form a new nation, so no need to develop the SE like other regions...Or if the government must assist, the SE people most pay part of the projects?

5. An exception seems to be the Enugu AIA airport built by GEJ and Stella Oduah... but people have seen how GEJ and Stella have become some of the most hated Nigerians...for giving the SE international airport (though work in progress)

6. Would people still accuse the youths of the Nigeria for migrating to other zones or for wanting their own nation state?

Please no insults...Can we put our minds to these...as what is happening is not coincidence...

@Op
What you have observed is a fact and it's a sad development. However, something which can never be wished away is the influence and inputs of SE leaders and representatives in Abuja; for these sort of things to happen over and over again from regime to regime, it means there is something SE leaders/representatives are not doing right when they get to Abuja.

Nigeria is a jungle and every tribe has leaders in Abuja scrambling for what they can scratch out for their people, it's always been a winner-takes-all battle and no one is ever gracious enough to watch out for the other tribes. So the point is, if minority tribes and regions lament insufficient representation in ABJ, can the SE also lament the same?... In the last 17 years of democracy, we've had OBJ 8yrs, yaradua 3yrs, GEJ 5yrs and Buhari 1yrs; even if we are to say Yaradua and Buhari (4yrs combined) are Hausa-Fulani who despise Igbos, can we also say the same of OBJ and GEJ (13yrs) and can we say OBJ and GEJ were unapproachable by SE leaders/representatives in ABJ?

When the story of the 2nd Niger bridge broke in 2014 and it was being proposed as PPP, I remember some of us on this forum raised our voices wondering why the longer Lokoja-Oweto bridge would be built by the FG for free, but Igbos were being forced to pay for the 2nd Niger bridge. I remember being shouted down by compatriots on this forum as being a GEJ hater and an Igboland progress hater (a particularly absurd allegation), but the fact remains that, that was a beautiful opportunity for this anomaly to be fought and corrected by SE leaders seeing that GEJ was very close to the SE and he desperately needed 101% SE support in 2015. But I still cant understand why none of our leaders thought of using the golden moment to whisper reasoning into GEJ's ears.

Now if this anomaly couldn't be corrected under OBJ and then GEJ, I wonder what will be the case under bubu.

Yyeske:
Why wasting your your precious time and MB educating these wailers, they hate PMB and will never see anything good he does. NOI predicted this recession and her explanation was that the government of GEJ didn't want to save. Oil is about $40 now unlike $100-140 under GEJ yet that buffoon couldn't save, even depleted what OBJ and Yar'adua saved and all the wailers want is a miracle. Save yourself the stress of educating those haters, you can never help their state.

Sometimes it's really difficult ignoring some ignoramuses. Even though I know most of these folks are intentionally inflicting themselves with this ignorance just out of their prejudice for buhari, I sometimes just explain these things cos you never know who else might be reading; there might be a genuine passer-bye who might find this info useful.

jadakiss213:
Pray tell..Did Muhamadu Buhari not Inherit foreign reserves?

"Why are civil servants who receive a minimum wage of N18k complaining of suffering?.... Don't they receive their salaries?"

The above statement is exactly how meaningless your question above is. An import dependent nation of 170 million people with a foreign reserve of $28.5billion, an amount which can't meet up to our 3-month import cover, and this meagre sum is accompanied by a significantly dwindled income, and yet someone here thinks it is only when foreign reserves drops to zero that there is a problem. SHould I really be responding to this sort of thing you wrote up there?

Oil production even tho our biggest source of income. Is less than 15 percent Of our GDP.

Here we go again, quoting another statistical figure he knows nothing about. Oil makes only 15% of GDP but are you aware oil accounts for up to 90% of the Nigerian government's income?

Guy,a drop in. Oil prices is not An excuse for watching the Economy slip into recession.

Without adequate infrastructure on ground, with oil boom years wasted without any commensurate capital projects on ground to support the GDP, with power supply as erratic as if it never existed, Nigeria's GDP growth is absolutely tied to oil price; oil price rises, GDP growth rate rises and vice versa. Many ignorantly blame the present government for drop in GDP growth, oblivious of the fact that the free fall started right from the moment oil prices began to decline, long before the new govt came on board. Here's a chart below for your consumption:

www.nairaland.com/attachments/4178677_gdpvscrudeprice2_jpegc5856f214a58ffdca179aefcd84d6ffd

If the oil price drop has nothing to do with the recession, how come the economy started tumbling from mid-2014?... Within the last 6 months of GEJ, the following happened; Naira nosedived from N160 to N230 to $1, GDP growth rate which was comfortably within 6-7% crashed to 2.3%, the nation's foreign reserves dropped rapidly from $38.5bn to $28.5bn, that's a drop of a whooping $10bn in 6 months. As early as February 2015, the FG had to borrow over $2billion to pay workers' salary, petrol importers were owed there subsidies for 9 months leading to an excruciating fuel scarcity in May 2015 before handover (the arrears in owed subsidies were eventually cleared in Nov 2015 by the new govt). All of the following happened when oil still even sold above $65 (as at May 2015) yet someone here thinks oil price has nothing to do with recession in a mono-economic nation which sells only crude, very intelligent!

INCOMPETENCE,obviously flawed and ARCHAIC POLICIES,unguarded Statements by the C. In C. and the now usual flip flops by the govt of the day would certainly take any economy there.

Once again, a man struggling to feed his family on his salary of 100k suddenly gets this salary slashed down to 40k, and we have some smart asses sitting at home saying incompetence is the reason behind the recession. No need to exchange banters with you; 3 reasons explains why this above logic is too difficult for anyone to discern:
1. Sentiments: hatred for buhari and a pre-programmed prejudice has blocked the ability to be objective.
2. Hunger: The prevailing hunger in the land has reset the person's ability to be objective
3. Ignorance: The person is just ignorant of what's going on in the country and how the economy works.

I set my bet on No. 1 and 3 above for most people in this forum.

jadakiss213:
Make we hear Word Zombie! In 2008,crude oil prices fell from 135 to less than 40USD per barrell,did we go thru all these.

2008 crash lasted just 6 months and $20billion was injected from the nation's fat savings to cushion the effects of the crash so you and I didnt feel it. This has been explained 1000 times by even NOI who pointed out the refusal to save as the cause of the present hardship. It's pitiable that someone who isnt aware of this still wants to join in economic arguments.

Justcash:
You, definitely, are ignoring the antecedents to the 60% loss. Would it have been a 60% loss if Niger Delta was peaceful and there was no NDA? Would it have been a 60% loss if a more gradual approach was used to implement the TSA?

No doubts, the things you mentioned made it feel worse, but the crux of the matter is definitely the oil price; everything else only scratches the surface.

What sort of thread is this?.. nothing we no go see!

#EarlyMorningDaftness

Justcash:
No, I don't think he ordered it. I know that his faulty policies led to the rise in prices, and that he has no clue about how to reduce the prices and improve the value of the Naira. If he had, he would have been working towards creating incentives to attract foreign direct investments i.e. Foreign manufacturers, while subsidizing local manufacturing as a means of making importation less attractive, than simply using executive powers to stall importation. He should have done everything to prevent the outflow of foreign investors to begin with.

Bro, no need for long talk. Life can never remain the same for a struggling man if he suddenly loses over 60% of his routine income. No amount of FDI can perform any magic to print dollars or to match the lost 60% revenue overnight. Oh yes! Oil price has been used as an excuse for too long, but the fact remains that this 60% loss in revenue can never be overemphasized.

Enuguboy4nsk:
why are they no federal rail projects in south east Nigeria....
we've heard about the recently concluded Abuja-Kaduna rail line
also is the recently awarded Calabar-Lagos rail line; Lagos-kano rail line and Lagos-Ibadan rail line...Also we've seen in the news here on nairaland about cattle been transported from Zamfara to Lagos... https://www.nairaland.com/3327503/fg-flags-off-transportation-cattle-railway

but in all these south east is left behind from the commercial cities of Onitsha and Aba to capital cities of Enugu; Abakaliki; Owerri, Awka and umuahia..then i ask what is actually wrong

Railway not passing through the SE, is this also part of Buhari's fault?

SpeedOfLight:
Why are you complaining? The first thing the dullarrd will ask you is "is Calabar not Igbo?" the way he asked "is Kachukwu and Emifele not Igbo? What do they want?" Once you divide a people you rule them. That's why they are laboring day and night unofficial to make sure IPOB doesn't complete their unification process of SS/SE the way God made us as organic state and a choosing race. The chief contractor of this divide and rule is Edwin Clark, Edwin Clark has being the figure head used by FG since Era of this divide and rule. If time permits me I will carryout more research on this divide and rule FG contractors.

But are the duo of Emefiele and Kachikwu not Igbo?.... With this your comment above, in all honesty, between yourself and Buhari, who do you think is doing the division?

Justcash:
Scarcity drives up prices. High unemployment rate combined with high prices increases hunger and poverty. The solution is to use government expenditure to stimulate investment in the private sector with an expectation that it will facilitate domestic consumption and make the market more attractive for more influx of private investments. This will naturally create capitalist competition and naturally drive down prices.

You don't stall importation and increase prices in the face of high unemployment rate and low investment rate. You'll simply drive your country or business into an abyss. Contrary to what people are thinking, Buhari is hoping on God to answer the prayers of the pilgrims that he subsidized Forex for.

By the way, if this government continues the way it is going, you will go to the market one day and you will not find tiles to buy either because they will be too expensive or you just won't have the money to buy them.

So you think buhari ordered the increase in prices?

Very long overdue.

Good news! It's just sad that there are a lot of devils in human skin who actually wish and pray that Innoson 's production should go down so they can have another shot at buhari. God pass una!

Op you dont expect people to act mature when they really aren't. But then sometimes you have to cut some of these kids (and adults) some slack, these banters sometimes can just be a way to distract and ease blood pressure from the bad news we hear everyday in this country.

APC was formed at a time when Nigeria enjoyed an unprecedented boom in oil income. As at the time, the biggest problem hindering Nigeria's development was corruption, impunity and general mismanagement. Several beautiful policies were formulated but were unfortunately never implemented because of the same issues of corruption, impunity, cronyism and general weak management. It was painful standing by the sidelines watching how a nation which had every reason to progress remained stagnant. Corruption was just about the biggest problem and this was the main monster to be tackled by APC.

Unfortunately, as soon as APC came on board, oil price crashed, the nation was plunged into instant recession and even though the corruption and mismanagement (which was identified in those boom years as the biggest problems) has now been curbed reasonably, there is currently a bigger problem being the oil price related recession. Truth is that Nigeria presently needs high level brainiacs to speed up the process of salvaging us from the current recession, and that's a quality the current leadership doesn't obviously have in its CV; APC wasnt prepared or armed for the present situation.

Sinkills:
My friend, enough if this 'post election trauma victims' propaganda. If there are people who are after abusing the president, I am not one of them. I am only interested in the government working to solve the problems instead of blames, blames and more blames. But what I see is a government that is not sincere, that has nothing to offer, that rode to power via propaganda and want to continue on that election mood till 2019 while the economy goes into shambles and people suffer untold hardship. Let us see what plans they have. Let them eschew politics and face governance squarely. It is fanatical and sentimental supporters like you that make the government not to sit up. May be you are even a paid propaganda agent. Those who voted for president Buhari are also suffering from this recourse to blame game instead of serious governance. May God help you to repent I J N, Amen.

There is a very clear difference between a person criticising a government and a person who is just wailing and throwing irrational childish tantrums. I can assure you that I only mock the latter.

AsoRockz01:
He won in 2011 because he had the backing of Obj the Yoruba demi God plus the votes he garnered from the wholee of the southern Nigeria. When the Yoruba demi God discovered he was not doing his bidding he dumped him and the whole of southwest followed suit. I hope your question has been answered? Please don't ask again. Thank you.

Lol... very amusing reasoning.

AsoRockz01:
Did Buhari accept thhe election was won on a fair ground? I do not need to banter words wit you. It would look childish.
But I am sure you know he tried all he could to develop Northern Nigeria.

You said GEJ was voted out in 2015 purely because he was from a minority tribe and I asked you whether he wasn't also from a minority tribe when he was voted in massively in 2011?.... I also wouldn't bother exchanging banters with you because it's absolutely pointless especially as you cant answer my simple question above.

tempest01:
what is ''insult elders''? Is it respect that will take you out of the condition you are in?

I repeat, if i saw scientists and geologists studying the geography and drilling wildcats for exploration i would have commended. What i am seeing in this pictures is foolishness of the highest order if it relates to finding oil.

So because you see a picture of a few men on a speedboat, you jump into conclusion that that is all that is being done?.... Probably someone would just jump down from the sky and start drilling wildcats without any single site visit, without any direct survey to even ascertain a suitable place to drill?... Wonderful!

You must surely be a very smart petroleum engineer who knows it all, even NNPC officials don't know jack and deserve all your insults. By the way the report talks about an ethanol plant...

AsoRockz01:
GEJ did apparently nothing in the SE and SS because he concentrated all his energy trying to fix Northern Nigeria by getting rid of their almajiri and allievating poverty in that region. Yet all they wanted was for a NNortherner to rule Nigeria. For those of us that supported hhim,we were sure he was going to construct this road and the second Niger bridge. I am still not disappointed in him.
He tried to woo the north with the projects he did there forgetting that they do not value any otherr tribe in Nigeria. His only crime for loosing the election was that he is from the minority.

And this same shallow mentality still prevails even in 2016... I guess he was from a majority tribe in 2011 when he won Buhari with about 10 million votes gap no be so?

tempest01:
These fools wasting resources on needless ventures. They must have budgeted a whole lot for this.

Since it is Nnpc I guys they are there for oil.


Why not contact a geological firm to study the basin if the five steps needed for oil to accumulate are present, then contract exploratory firms to drill exploratory wells instead of this nonsense they called "looking for resources".

Its funny how some individuals just go online under the cover of anonymousity and insult elders with reckless abandon without recourse to prior reasoning. Now this one here actually thinks he is smarter than the entire NNPC, he believes he knows better than NNPC regrading the steps to follow in oil exploration.