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vislabraye:
I hope you are not referring to Bath Nnaji.

I posted a link, you should have opened the link.

vislabraye:
You guys are funny. Did you actually read the caption well ? The all time low during Gej's era was 1327mw. But the time of change, the all time low is 0mw. Btw 0 and 1327, which is more

Bro, it is all the same thing; the power system in the country is rotten and it is only because of this rottenness that power could drop from the highs of 5000mw to a low of 1000 or zero. With only 11 months spent in office, I can accuse PMB and Fashola of being slow to fix the rotten mess they inherited, but I would be silly to accuse them of being responsible for the mess. I'm not trying to exonerate PMB or Fashola here, I was only trying to expose the folly of those who claim GEJ and his lieutenants were saints, yet they handed over a heap of mess after 5 years and over $8billion spent on power.

erico2k2:
Are you Ok?who do you want us to blame? Our headmasters? ?

I didn't say you shouldn't blame who you want to blame. If you like you can blame even Abacha. But in my comment, I was only attempting to deflate the logic of someone who claimed we have a bad power situation because the power minister is a lawyer. I simply questioned him about the rationality of a professor of engineering who claimed we should blame witches and wizards.

christopher123:
When a man, a lawyer is manning serious set of Electrical, Civil and Design engineering why wont the power drop.

This is not the abracadabra that they did in Lagos. This is on a National scale, I think the best thing for the minister is to do the hummable and honourable thing...Which is just resign or throw in the towel. He should go back to what is known for...LAW CHAMBERS

The last person who manned it was a professor of engineering. When power kept fluctuating erratically from 4000 to 2000 to 4500 to 1000, the learned professor claimed witches and wizards were responsible. Keep blaming Buhari and Fashola

http://www.nigerianeye.com/2013/01/witches-demons-hindering-electricity.html?m=1

kennygee:
Fashola is working.

We are not even asking them to add to the MW GEJ's government could generate. All we ask is that they maintained it, but even that task is hard.

And they said our power issues would be over in 6 month, now na gas story we dey hear.

Maintain the 1327mw generation that GEJ handed over to Buhari?.... I know we love playing blind politics more than anything else in Nigeria but be mindful of what you wish for.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/183496-nigerias-power-generation-at-all-time-low-crashes-to-1327mw.html

What exactly is the relevance of this thread?

bejeiodus:
And who told you I haven't done so? Madam Oby had her mouth in every issue when Jonathan was in power, but today she has become dumb. My friend, it is time we began to tell ourselves the truth, Madam Oby silence is just not good enough.

There are 170 million people in Nigeria, madam Oby cannot be the only one to do all your protests and fight all your battles. She is entitled to her freedom to choose the battles she wants to fight. There were thousands of attacks here and there during Gej's time, including countless fulani herdsmen attacks, but she picked the Chibok issue and followed it up. You also have the right to pick up any issues which touch you and follow them up. It is not her job alone to protest.

This your stance reminds me of a shameless lad on this forum who recently called out Wole Soyinka for not speaking up or protesting the anomalies in Nigeria. While a youth sits down sucking his mother's breasts, he expects an 81year old man who has been involved in countless protests since the 60's and who has spent several years of his life in prison for this to stand on the streets protesting for him in 2016; that is quite silly.

Once again, Oby is one out of 170million Nigerians, and she has a life to live. She will protest when she feels the urge to protest and not when you think or want her to. She does not also stop you from protesting.

The face of this man sends cold chills down the spines of the 'lover-of-thieves.' This thread doesn't come as a surprise. Jonathanians, ndo!

Of course, beans was the main commodity which was banned. Had no idea other items were included.

bejeiodus:
There you go again. You guys need to rid your minds of the belief that anyone who served in the previous administration and now speaks against this government is a sore loser. Reno called out Madam Oby because this attack took place in her state. Isn't that why he tweeted that charity begins at home? Reno is just acting as an alarm clocking trying to wake Madam Oby from her self induced slumber.

Yes Reno Mkpi was very silly to come up with this meaningless tweet. The only motive driving this tweet from Reno is politics, the pain of losing an election and the fact that Oby didnt support GEJ.

There are very plenty activists in Nigeria that could protest over this incidents, Oby is not the only one out there and that she felt touched by the plight of little girls and decided to protest, that doesnt mean she doesnt have other things to do than protest any and every incident. There were thousands of similar incidents which occured during GEJ's reign, Oby chose just one and decided to pursue it.

Since Reno so believes that charity begins at home, and since he can tweet about the plight of people in enugu, can Reno kindly show us what he tweeted when these same fulani people attacked his own people in 2013 when he was even in govt?

All in all, this 'callout' by Reno is just an imbecilic expression of deep pain, being a fallout of election loss.

bejeiodus:
Is that what is holding her fingers from tweeting against the attacks of the marauding Fulani's herdsmen?

Is she the only human in Nigeria?.... Do you think she's got no day job that she must tweet against any and everything that happens?... what stops you from tweeting against these other incidents?.... What do some of you even use your brains for?

matrix199:
History wld only remember her as a hypocrite who chose to politicize the #bringbackourgirls#, the kidnap of over 200 ''northern girls'', under the Jonathan's administration, while she kept quiet about the attacks and killings of innocent farmers in the NC, the SE, the SS, and the SW, under Buhari's administration.

Must she wait for the herdsmen to attack her village and kill her immediate or extended family members before she begins a protest against the activities of the herdsmen?


Every life is equal, regardless how young or old the life is. The lives of the farmers and villagers are equal to the lives of the kidnapped chibok girls.

And in your mind, you think the Chibok incident is the only incident that happened under GEJ's regime?.... I suppose you are ignorant of the fact that thousands of innocent farmers in the NC, the SE, the SS, and the SW were also killed by fulani herdsmen under GEJ's administration?.... You expected Oby to demonstrate against any and every single unfortunate event to prove she was sincere?..... How do some of you Honathan supporters even reason?

Just imagine the nonsense coming off the head of a so called pastor Reno?... A person who prides himself as a pastor yet has no iota of humanity, he choses to politicise the death of innocent women and children.

Kencruz:
Gay Protest led by Gaylord Mr Omoyele Sowore owner of Saharareporters.

Here's his phone numbers:
National-08097048153
International -
+16467045433 and +12013641254
Phone him and tell him gayism is a no no in our culture.

Where did you get this information from?

Sounds like a good thing for businessmen

NavierStokes:
Float the currency and reserves will remain at best constant levels all modern nations operate a floating currency exchange. If only the currency has been billed in the bus when the slide began we wouldn't have been here at this point. I will tell anyone who cares to listen, with falling oil prices out currency was twice devalued, but inflation was single digit, negligible effect of prices of things in the market. Now our currency is fixed and we read sad news everyday. To what end are we maintaining a strong naira, that sanusi would spend over 117billion usd defending the currency? To what end are we maintaining a strong naira if it can not be exchanged in the intl scene?
The government's insistence on a strong naira at this point has been more of political rather than economic. And this government is banking on dumb luck that the price of oil will rise soonest, not because there is any calculated plan in place. Imagine what is happening to our revenues, customs isn't maing as much as projected because of largely reduced imports, marketers haven't been importing petroleum products due to forex shortage, FIRS by nexus isn't also recovering as much. To say our projected non oil revenue so greatly reduced.

Even the government meeting IOCs to provide forex to oil marketers, you think IOCs don't know black market? If PZ and others can patronize the black market, what stops the IOCs from valuing their cash at black market rates.

Those who are against devaluation to not love this country more the those who do. We all want a better Nigeria, one we can be proud of.

Spare me this weak argument, twice devalued from 150 to 197 when oil still sold at over $65 and when forex reserves was still between $30-$40bn, that is not the same as being devalued from 197 to 320 in the parallel market; you can't expect the same inflationary effects on things in the market especially as these effects take their toll gradually.

To what reason are we maintaining a strong Naira?... Did you just ask this question?... It is to ensure import of selected items remain cheap.

Enough of all these your long epistles, the problems we have in Nigeria today is a scarcity of forex which is due to the low oil prices and Nigeria's over-dependence on imports. As long as oil prices remain low, forex will continue to be scarce and there is no way devaluation can solve that. If devaluation could have helped in any way, then the devalued parallel market should have helped a bit, but that is obviously not the case.

NavierStokes:
You make it seem like if the currency controls are out out of place we will have zero inflows and all outflows. The government should jettison this idea of attempting to fix the currency. allow the market decide (float the currency) and watch our reserves relatively remain at the current level, we have too little forex to want to fix the price of our currency . The same thing is happening in the petroleum downstream sector.

You can not control the value of the currency, capital flows as well as the monetary policy. It is a rule I can't recall the name. Will search and update as soon as I do.

So in essence, it's still all about devaluation?.... It's quite amusing how people scramble to blame every forex related issue on Buhari's refusal to devalue. Sometimes I just wish this devaluation would be done so we can rest, and then I wonder what next our expert economists would put the blame on.

Foreign airlines are requesting passengers to pay only in dollars, the implication is that a $1000 ticket when purchased by passengers with dollars from the black market would cost roughly N320k instead of N200k which it should have cost if paid for in Naira. Now the very same people lamenting this higher cost of acquiring tickets are blaming Buhari for this hike and are suggesting devaluation of the Naira as the solution. I'm still wondering how some of you economic experts think a devaluation of the Naira can bring down the cost of anything (including flight tickets).

“Ongoing road projects alone awarded by the government before we came– about 266 roads awarded in the various states– the liability to complete them is about N2trillion.
“So, when you look at N400billion,you know that that that is not enough, but when you compare what this administration is going to do with the N400billion, with what the last administration did,you will know it is much progress.
“What the last administration did was to budget N18billion for all the roads in the country, knowing the liability was in excess of N2trilion.

N18billion paid for projects worth N2trillion; the strategy here is that it will always be on record (for bragging rights) that GEJ's government awarded 266 road contracts and even if these projects are completed in the next 20 years, empty skulled jonathanians would still be screaming "it was Jonathan's project."

NavierStokes:
Source:https://businessdayonline.com/2016/04/nigerian-travellers-squeezed-as-foreign-airlines-stop-ticket-sales-in-naira/

Ladies and gentlemen, this change is getting real!!!
We warned about this on here a few months ago. Its a "Venezuela" on our hand, our government should be looking out for everything they did and do the opposite. But sadly they replicate all their policies here, of course we will have the same results.

@NavierStokes
I'm sure you are an intelligent person, can you please suggest what you think the government should do about this knowing fully well this caused by a forex shortage?

Do you suggest the FG/CBN opens the reserves and pays out the remaining forex in the vault to the foreign airlines to maintain their business?

jamesibor:
The problem with you 'change agents' is that anybody who opposes your demi god Buhari must be Pro-GEJ. Were Buhari and GEJ the only candidates in 2015 election? Did we not have KOWA party and NCP with fantastic programmes and candidates?

Face reality man, there were only 2 candidates in the 2015 election. The existence of any others is insignificant, irrelevant and largely negligible.

Now to face the subject of argument, it makes no sense politicizing the issue of the fulani killings especially as most people just like yourself keep emphasising that the killings are here because Buhari is president. Nothing could be further from the truth and there are several reports to this effect; I just stumbled upon another report which claims over 3000 were killed by these marauding herdsmen between 2010 and 2013 alone. That it wasn't reported or publicised does not mean it did not happen or has increased in geometric proportions.
http://www.trackingterrorism.org/group/fulani-herdsmen-nigeria

On the bright side, the age long atrocities of these marauders is beginning to get the much needed attention and publicity purely because Buhari is now the president. People who hitherto kept quiet about the killings are now speaking up, not necessarily because they care so much about those being killed, but rather because the case of the killings serves as a very suitable political tool to fight and oppose Buhari. We must learn to play politics with wisdom, a sense of humanity and devoid of treacherous lies.

jamesibor:
Have the Fulani herdsmen become more brazen abd bold since Buhari cane to power? Has the number of casualties not increased in a geometrical progression?

What has been Buhari's reaction since these latest series of onslaught? Is Buhari not the life patron of Miyetti Allah cattle breeders association, the umbrella body of Fulani herdsmen? Are the activities of the Fulani herdsmen not in consonance with their method of spreading Islam by conquest? Did Buhari not say openly tgat he is committed to the implementation of Sharia nationwide?

Let's take it from there.....


I don't know how old you are but I'm old enough to know how they operate.

Because Buhari is Fulani, and Fulanis are killing people, therefore anyone that voted Buhari instead of Jonathan must have committed a grave sin; very interesting line of reasoning for someone who prides in his age and wisdom.

Until we learn to stop playing politics with tribe, ethnicity, religion, crime, terrorism etc, we would continue to fool ourselves. Fulani marauders have been annihilating villages for ages; in 2014 alone, over 1200 innocent people were killed by these Fulani beasts but it was hardly ever reported by our media (probably because boko-haram took the centre stage):

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nigeria-fulani-militants-herdsmen-accused-killing-1200-people-2014-1530042

That it was not reported and that it was totally ignored by the government of the time does not mean it never happened. As far back as 2008/2009, I remember a Tiv friend of mine narrating graphic details of how these herdsmen attack her community on a regular basis leaving death and destruction in their wake.

That successive governments were totally insensitive to the plights of the middle-beltans and paid zero attention to this issue, that does not mean it started recently. The main reason it is being reported today and is getting the much needed publicity and attention is purely because of politics; since the president is a Fulani man, this is a good time to bring up these cases as a political, being that Nigerians love politics more than human lives. However, I believe these cases being publicized today is a very good thing because it will certainly mark the end of the atrocities. I have some hope that the president being a Fulani man himself may be in the best position to bring this age long menace to an end. But for you to come here and further politicise this by spewing the trash that 'voting Buhari instead of GEJ is the reason behind these attacks,' that leaves one wondering about the level of your intelligence and wisdom.

jamesibor:
You will soon understand Fulani and their agenda......
..

I ask again, are you saying buhari is responsible for the fulani killings?... If you say YES to this question, who then is responsible for the Fulani killings that took place under GEJ, Yaradua and even OBJ?.... Also going by this logic, can we also say GEJ is responsible for the over 15,000 boko haram deaths that happened in the NE?

Going by your judgement that "Anybody who helped install this Fulani supremacist govt owe God an apology," are you by any means remotely trying to insinuate that there were no Fulani killings under a GEJ presidency or are you saying the killings would have been checked if GEJ was the president?

If you think that those who helped boot out GEJ and instal Buhari as president owe God an apology, what do those who fought for the perpetuation of an ineffectual leader like GEJ owe God?

Some of you guys need to grow up and liberate your minds from this post-election loss trauma you've been suffering from since April 2015. Not every issue must be turned to politics of GEJ vs Buhari because most times you try to do this, you mostly end up churning out the most ridiculous arguments.

jamesibor:
Anybody who helped install this Fulani supremacist govt owe God an apology.

Are you saying buhari is responsible for the fulani killings?

drss:
foget dat f..ool. d man has sold his soul to d devil.

Because he supported Buhari over GEJ, he has sold himself to the devil?... hahaha... you delusionists never cease to amaze.

Otenestbestyaho:
:PWhere is father mbaka when fulanis have just killed 96 persons this morning. Hope he is singing buhari's praise as usual , shameless man of God. I even doubt if he's a servant of God. Rest in peace to those that died.

By now am expecting war against muslims in the whole east, let it ignite bloody Reprisal in the whole zoo and let the zoo end.

HiddenShadow:
Please post source.

Father Mbaka you see how your greed has brought calamity on we Igbos.

I won't be surprise if God makes Mbaka a victim to teach greedy pastors a lesson.

I suppose the idea behind this thread is that we should all have voted GEJ in the 2015 election?

In other words, Buhari is supposedly the one attacking people and Fr. Mbaka was foolish to have supported Buhari when he should have supported your GEJ. Going by this logic, it is safe to say GEJ is the one who murdered over 15,000 people in the north-east in the past few years.

You guys should wake up and understand you are no longer suckiling infants; use your brains for once.

drss1:
his point is dat sanusi lamido is corrupt n was booted out of CBN by GEJ wen it was discovered by d financial times dat he's engage himsef in financial rascality. remember d 100 million donation he unilateraly donate to kano bomb victims, plus oda illicit activities
d same man wasted d con3s international reserve defending d naira against dollar. na sanusi wey deplete nigeria's international reserve.

A very lame attempt at playing the blame game. I suppose Emefiele should also be blamed for all the economic woes of the country today?... The military chiefs and police/civil defence chiefs should also be blamed for all the insecurity in the country today?

aloeman15:
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How do you enforce forex restrictions without IMMEDIATELY carrying out MASSIVE infrastructural development?
...

Would you rather have all the restrictions lifted and the nation brought to ground zero in a month?... Any suggestions?


I agree with the idea that soooooo much was being squandered by past governments to defend the Naira. I may not be an economist to know how these things work, but channelling those funds into massive infrastructural development should have been a better alternative instead of spending billions of dollars defending the Naira. Unfortunately today, the billions are no more and the Naira cannot be defended. Massive borrowing to support massive infrastructural development seems to be the option being taken now. Hopefully, it helps.

KwoiZabo:
Fashola & Amaechi that took FG to court for saving excess crude are now in Buhari's cabinet. GEJ had to obey the courts and used the cash for infrastructure while they used theirs to bankroll Buhari to power

A very stale and shallow argument and a very lame attempt at playing the blame game. This pointless excuse has been deflated several times on this forum but it isn't too surprising that some not-too-smart people still regurgitating this lame excuse.

1. Amaechi and Fashola did not take the FG to court, 36 governors did and up to 25 of those 36 governors were from the PDP.

2. Governors also took OBJ and Yaradua to court, but they didn't bend because they had the political and moral will to save. But GEJ quickly shared the money within a year even without waiting for the court case to be concluded.

3. Even while the governors were not too comfortable with the FG saving their moneys for them, GEJ repeatedly dipped his hands illegally into the collective funds and made withdrawals without informing the governors thereby further betraying the trust. This singular irresponsible act forced the governors to mount more pressure. Even PDP governors also lost confidence in the integrity of GEJ to save their money; if you doubt me, kindly point out one, just one single governor who wasn't opposed to this idea of GEJ saving their money since you ignorantly claim it is Fashola and Amaechi?

4. Let us assume it is APC (which wasn't even formed back then) that forced GEJ to share the money to states, the national sharing formula allows the FG to keep over 52% of the funds as FG's share. If GEJ really wanted to save, kindly explain why GEJ didn't save the 52% which was the FG's share?.... Did Amaechi and Fashola (as you love to blame) use juju on GEJ to squander the 52%?

I would really love to hear your meaningful response to this.

This is bokoharam migrating...

Guyman02:
And your boss PMB wants to share it out for you hungry supporters to save you from kwashiokor

Naaa... it's being shared to the hungry wailers who have not let Buhari sleep since GEJ lost the election. The last time I checked, its the Jonathanian wailers that have been weeping and wailing about hunger.

Guyman02:
Strategic Grain Reserve to be released and they said Jonathan did not have the political will to save? APC = double speak

People dey save billions in forex reserves, Jona dey save corn. And we should all be clapping for him for this wisdom?

KwoiZabo:
This APC Government is the most Hypocritical Government in History. They've released strategic grain reserve kept by GEJ's FG yet they say they inherited rot. GEJ never owed salaries and also left enough for the new Govt. to bail out States yet they say they inherited rot. Is it power supply or fuel supply, free & fair elections, infrastructure etc yet they say they inherited rot. I just hate this govt.

OgbonnaUbani:
Fulani fool.
Wasting other people's savings.

While others were saving billions in forex reserves and also additionally stocking grains in grain reserves, someone was busy saving only grains whilst sharing forex reserves worth billions. And here we are, some humans actually think that is an achievement worth celebrating; someone even called it "GEJ's brainchild" and you begin to wonder whether Nigeria never stored grains before GEJ became president. If we even do a little investigation, it would most likely be revealed that GEJ in addition to depleting the forex reserves, he must have also left less grain stock in the strategic grain reserves than what he met in 2010.

#Iberiberism

Coming from a poor state, this is fair enough. But the quality of some of those roads though...