₦airaland Forum

asuustrike2009:
are you alright at all?

Why do you ask?... I am alright, are you?

The worst international airport in the world.

Some buffoons are already saying Buhari is an Ekuri man.

kcmichael:
You heard a man who we flogged mercilessly in election.
A man who was sleeping in Ghana and I woke him up to come and be governor talking carelessly.
A man who went to about 4 5 secondary schools before he had a certificate.
They gave me huge ministry.
Have you ever heard fashola brag about the ministries they gave him
They are collecting result sheets they have sent list of INEC returning officers what is my business nau when they finish writing the vote we will see how they submit it.
And while trying to submit anything they see let them take. "
"It is our prayer that they continue to change commissioner of police until all the CPs in Nigeria work in Riverstate".
"Look at how he ordered the beating of a police officer thats to show you the mental state Amaechi is".
Is Riverstate for sale? Wike asks!
The people Echo with a Resounding NOoooöoooooöooooooooooooooooooooo....
"I promised God that if he forgives me that i will not watch[with my two eyes open] any body rob the people the choice to choose who governs them.. So i stand by what i have said over and over again - if you will be used to rig this election you better write your will before coming out on sunday. "
"Let them go and bring that man in Abuja (President Muhammadu Buhari). I will send him to his ancestors with only few punches. [size=14pt]Amaechi and me are from Ikwere, one day I meet him in the alley or corner of the street, I will cause him to summersault several times before he lands on the ground ..."[/size]

Taking a proper look at Wike, he looks like someone who could actually do a thing like this.

LOL... Rivers state people and electoral violence sef... Na only una waka come?

segtak25:
WHAT DO Y0U THINK ?

Source :http://streetgist.com/president-buharis-shoes-really-8000-photos/

These Jonathanian wailers knowing fully well that corruption was one of the biggest impediments which brought down their lord and messiah would continue making desperate attempts to throw the corruption mud at Buhari. Sometimes I feel nothing but pity for these guys.

vosquare:
http://jaguda.com/2016/03/14/7-reasons-falz-soldier-video-best-video-youll-watch-year/

Link to the video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6rHcFvdSWA

Wow!.. This is a movie, not a music video.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKgZ9b4SBI8

dtruth3:
According to your previous logic, the oil price started crashing when Gej was in power, and rightly so. Everyone remembered how APC and buhari was very critical of Gej and PDP, even in the midst of obvious reasons that oil crash was responsible.


Now here are the Posers..

*Did Buhari and APC not remember that Nigeria is a mono economy, before promising heaven on earth?

*Was Buhari and APC not aware that oil was crashing, before boosting they were going to make 1naira equal to a dollar?

*Was APC and Buhari not aware that when 'Oil crashes, Nigeria economy crashes directly proportionally' according to you, before promising they were going to Feed our school children, pay 5000 to 25million vulnerable Nigerians, generate 20,000mw electricity, and even promised to stabilize global Oil price?

Pls kindly answer this few questions before we move ahead to the next stage.!

Your questions have nothing to do with this thread (except you would want to open a new thread). Remember this thread is about how Buhari's incompetence has led to a crash of Nigeria's GDP growth from the high figures Nigeria enjoyed during the heydays of GEJ? I have simply come in here to puncture that lie and expose the ignorance of the Op and those cheering him on.

Regarding your diversionary questions, politicians are politicians and they will always make incredulous promises towards elections. GEJ promised heaven on earth, we had the opposite which even worsened when oil price began to crash; likewise Buhari and co. It is left to me and you to use our intelligence to discern realistic promises from unrealistic ones. Something else you need to note is that Buhari hasnt spent up to 25% of the tenure time (and he still grapples with rock-bottom oil prices), so it is pointless to judge his reign now or to compare his short reign with that of someone who spent over 5 years (when the nation had unprecedented oil boom). In all fairness, if oil prices remain low, the only reasonable assessment of Buhari's government should be in his ability to reasonably diversify the economy within 4 years; any attempt to make a direct comparison between he and GEJ (in terms of infrastructure) especially with the rock-bottom oil prices is not only unreasonable but also silly (but even at that, I'm sure he would do better at infrastructure because we wouldn't be having incessant cases of contractors pocketing money and disappearing).

anonimi:
I don't think anyone would say that any governor did NOTHING.
Even the worst governor and LGA chairman would still point out to one little thing that he did.
However, as you rightly said Amaechi did NOTHING compared to the resources that he had at his disposal- annual budgets of about N500 billion with federal allocation as highlighted below.



www.nairaland.com/attachments/2578022_iweala_jpeg0858fd35c7757170d8155dae6623e1c2

In comparison with his peers, he did excellently well; that's the point I was making.

DauraDullard0:
Are you sure the said Charles Anyanwu isn't Obailala of Nairaland The persona fits his character perfectly well without any blemish. Just wondering.

Obailala, you see your life? What shall it profit a man...

Lol... Shouldn't an adult enjoy his God given freedom to support whichever candidate his heart desires?.... Na by force to support who u support?... If the father disowns Charles, Charles should also disown the father. Case closed!

dtruth3:
You're such a funny character dude, just imagine your smartness! But guess what? You're not too smart. While I won't waste my MB on that your faked sit,

Now let me give you small ORGASM

Using your own screwed logic, the fact is; as at 2015 when Gej was still in power, Nigeria's GDP rose to 7% as seen in that chat.

Then came the General Election and all the baggage that goes along with it. Including but not limited to Economic tension, lack of confidence on the part of investors.
The fear was that the incoming administration would not continue with the already well established Policy direction.

Indigenous and Private investors were not let out, skepticism was felt in almost all the sector of the economy, particularly because nobody knows what the direction of the new administration would be.

So everyone was waiting, and what did Buhari do? He came and hit the ground siting as evident in the time it took him to constitute ordinary cabinet, instead of hitting the ground 'Running' as promised during the campaign.

He introduced 'body language economics' in our political and economic lexicon, he refused to act. He refused to reassure investors, all these and many other ineptitudes' culminated to where we found ourselves today.
And you dare wanna put it on Gej?


Obviously you need cognitive reconstruction!
Okay, assuming without conceding that Gej was responsible, is it safe to say that Bubu came and still lacks the capacity to Up-the-Ante?

The point I'm trying to make is very simple, Nigeria is a mono-economic nation solely dependent on the sale of oil. The oil price crashes and Nigeria's economy crashes directly proportionally. A similar trend happened in 2008 the last time oil prices crashed and several oil producing countries are presently suffering exactly the same calamity as Nigeria. So quit your political sentiment fuelled 'I-am-too-smart' position and get your elementary facts right.

Habakus:
I remember vividly some few months back before Buhari took over,how the Nigeria was globally acclaimed as one of the fastest growing Economies and the largest in Africa. We saw a lot positive economic activities going on in the country; the agric sector was booming; foreign investors were trooping into the country; businesses were opening up and expanding; countries were practically tripping over themselves to partner with Nigeria; and Nigeria hosted world economic forum. All these were achieved not by serial senseless foreign trips,but by a team who understood the complexities of the country,and were core technocrats ready to sacrifice and work. But alas! Nigerians allowed themselves to be deceived by the same cabal who have kept the country in shackles for ages. Now what are we seeing? All those gains have completely been eroded. This is a sad case of falling from grace to grass. Pity.

All those achievements were simply a direct result of high oil prices. If you doubt, kindly tell us what those figures were reduced to between October 2014 and May 2015 when the oil price crash began?.... Quit deceiving yourself, the info and statistics are all available for your consumption.

OZAOEKPE:
LET ME EDUCATE YOU A LITTLE SON, THIS CHAT IS DAMN TOO 'UNTRUE'. THE REASON WHY I SPIT ON YOUR COMMENT IS THAT THE SOURCE IS SO SO FAKE. GET A RELIABLE SOURCE, THEN WE CAN START FROM THERE. I GOOGLED YOUR SOURCE, AND IT FAILED TO POP UP

The only reason why you spit on the comment is because you've got absolutely nothing to say. You claim you googled my source?.... Bro, you dont even need to do that; I pasted the direct link. But if you claim you didnt see it, here it is again
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/nigeria/gdp-growth-annual

Also if you feel this 'sauce' isnt sweet enough, here is the direct link to the GDP growth info page on the website of the NBS which conveys exactly the same info.
http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/nbslibrary/economic-statistics/gross-domestic-product

ammyluv2002:
Akuko!

Akuko ifo!

Come up with a counter argument please.

DauraDullard0:
My friend, you need to do a serious introspection. You brought in politics into this thread with your 'Jonathanians' mumbo jumbo when the discussion was all about plausible reasons for the never-ending Fulani onslaught against the South. Stop deceiving yourself. The elections have been won and lost. Jonathan has gone but you APC e-rats cannot stop dragging his name into every discussion. You guys seem to be permanently on Campaign Mode. Are we still electioneering?

No! I wasn't the one who brought politics into this, this also isn't the first thread where this issue has been discussed and in all cases, it has been graced with all manner of political interpretations. I wouldn't just wake up and drag GEJ into a matter if something didnt prompt it. Kindly go back and read from the first comments on this thread.

Only ethnically/politically/religiously sentimental people with a prejudice for Amaechi can open their mouths and say Amaechi did nothing in Rivers state. Another set of people who may also say this are ignoramuses who do not even know where Rivers state is on the world map. That being said, even though Amaechi was 100 times better than Odili and also better than almost all other southern governors, he could have actually done more with the resources at his disposal. Hopefully, Wike would break his record.

DauraDullard0:
You seem to be more interested in focusing on the 'divide and rule propaganda' than the daily massacre of innocent Southerners/Middle-Belterns by the Fulani ethnic militia. When are you going to speak up? Is it until a member of your family dies in their hands?

By the way, what is divide and rule? Who are they dividing and who are they ruling? Do you in your wildest imagination believe that you have anything in common with the Fulani man? Do you think the Fulani gives a rat-arse about your miserable existence? Naive and self-destructive people like yourself have fallen victim to senseless murders by irate Muslim youths in several uprisings in the North. Be careful my friend. He who wants to dine with the devil comes to dinner with a long spoon. A word is enough for the wise.

I am human and I am also seriously disturbed about the animalistic nature of the fulani invaders but what I find silly is when people choose to politicise a problem of this nature, just like the bokoharam problem was politicised. When people start making assertions that my choice to vote out an adjudged ineffectual leader is equivalent to a vote in support of the devilish fulani massacre; I find it repulsive and outright foolish that people choose to play politics with everything they can lay their hands on irrespective of what long term damage this may cause.

There has always been irate Muslim youths killing people in several uprisings in the north before 2015, there have always been fulani massacres in the middle-belt region long before Jonathan vs Buhari. So trying to imply by any means that my support for a Buhari presidency over Jonathan means a support of this killings, or trying to preach to people to vote Jonathan or a Christian or a southerner as the ultimate solution to the killings, I find that to be an imbecilic political divide-to-win tactics using religion/ethnicity which doesn't do any society any good.

dtruth3:
Pls can you give us a more credible source in the ranks of CNN?

Only then I would engage your logic!

www.tradingeconomics.com is a renown site which provides up to date world economic data. There is a reason why it is the first site which pops up on a google search for economic indices of different countries. But since the info supplied is to your disappointment and you have chosen to discount a credible source, kindly go to the National Bureau for Statistics' webpage below and download the exact same information:
http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/nbslibrary/economic-statistics/gross-domestic-product

betterABIAstate:
crap from the pit of hell

dtruth3:
real NONSENSE

I wasn't expecting you to be impressed or excited with the raw facts.

OZAOEKPE:
A FAKE PASTOR

Frustrated jonathanian pained that a pastor and the general kicked out his ineffectual lord and saviour GEJ. No surprise that you think the pastor is fake

OZAOEKPE:
NONSENSE

I wasn't expecting you to say anything else.

https://news.hiphopearly.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Drake-laughing-11.png

Silly title and silly report meant to put butterflies in the tummy of ignoramuses. I can already see OZAO-EKPA gleefully leading the celebration of this ignorance on behalf of the jonathanian pack

Nigeria's GDP growth rate fell to 2.3% in 2Q 2015. Please remind me who was ruling Nigeria then?

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/nigeria/gdp-growth-annual

https://cdn.tradingeconomics.com/charts/nigeria-gdp-growth-annual.png?s=nigeriagdpyoy&v=201603120907n
@stephenduru,
Even a primary school pupil with basic understanding of figures and dates can see from the chart above how the GDP growth began to plunge uncontrollably from over 6% in 3Q 2014 (when oil crash started), to 2.35% in 2Q 2015 (when oil was even still selling above $60). Yet some ekpas are here celebrating that Buhari is responsible.

cc: ammyluv2002, OZAOEKPE, hurricaneChris, dtruth3,
You guys should fall in here and cure your ignorance.

imhotep:
To help you appreciate the type of dull@rd in aso rock

To help you appreciate the calibre of human that was kicked out of Aso Rock, just days after Obanikoro and others admitted that the ekiti audio tapes were indeed real (but denied foul-play), Wall Street Journal asked uncle Jona whether he was going to investigate the contentious audio recording and his response was:

"It's all fabrications, why should I investigate things that are not real?"


http://www.wsj.com/articles/nigerian-president-wants-u-s-troops-to-fight-boko-haram-1423850893
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/177009-without-investigation-and-despite-admissions-by-fayose-adesiyan-jonathan-says-ekiti-rigging-tape-fabricated.html
http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/15/jonathan-claims-rigging-audio-tape-secretly-recorded-army-captain-during-ekiti-poll-was

imhotep:
LMAO

What does that statement have to do with the topic?

imhotep:
We don't need dull@rds in abuja
www.nairaland.com/attachments/3492394_ajbiggest_jpeg9e25fffcb2d163cb76251b734331701e

"...After a rebasing exercise almost doubled its GDP to more than $500bn..."

When I see such arguments, it clears all doubts about the intellectual capacity of most Jonathanians.

After seeing the above, they still celebrate that GEJ 'increased' Nigeria's economy to no 1 in Africa and then you wonder whether these folks have an idea what 'rebase' means.

cassyboy:
When God gave us a savior like president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, we never appreciated it. Some where saying he is not going anything in his regime.
1. GEJ increased our economy to African no 1,
2. rain transport came back,
3. we never lacked fuel,
4. We saw infrastructure around Nigeria,
5. Stable light
6. Our naira was 189
7. Salaries were paid. Since we didn't appreciate it God brought Buhari. Even the sai bubu is still suffering all I am suffering that's my happiness. Now we have know what we had but it is 2 late to correct it. APC is a scam to Nigeria. Change to chains

Lol.. The delusion of an ignorant Jonathanian knows absolutely no bounds. Living in a pool of lies and deceit is the only reason why any normal human can think GEJ was a saint.

1. GEJ did not increase Nigeria's economy to No. 1 in Africa; only ignorant people or just plainly dumb people do not know this. Nigeria had risen to the top spot long before GEJ ever dreamt of being president. We only realised we were no 1 when the economy was rebased under GEJ, but that does not mean GEJ 'increased' our economy to no 1. An average student should be able to understand this.
2. Pre-1960 narrow gauge rail tracks (which are no longer used anywhere in the world) were refurbished and some snail speed trains which derail weekly and which takes 2 full days to travel from Lagos to Kano were planted. That does not seem to me like progress especially in 2016; if it's progress to you, fine!
3. In 2011 alone, GEJ paid over N2.1trillion to the fuel import cabal to flood the markets with fuel. The importers were over-satisfied as they kept dribbling the maga president and feasting on our collective resources. It was a good thing though that we had fuel, but the real question smart people ask is, "at what price did we get that fuel?" If I send a little 8 yrs old kid to go buy me some fuel and he actually delivers, I would be impressed that he was able to get me the fuel I needed, but I would surely be dissappointed when I hear he bought a litre for N1000.
4. Which infrastructure?... the ones on paper or the ones on ground?... The deceivers know how gullible most of you are, no wonder someone cooked up a report that 'Fashola said' GEJ built 25,000km of roads. And then I begin to wonder how many roads are even in Nigeria for 25.000km to be built in the last 5 years yet all the federal roads in my neighborhood (the entire SS and SE) are still in a sorry state. Gullibility reigns supreme!
5. Steady light under GEJ?.. I would take it from you that you are joking right?.. or maybe you live in Saturn?
6. Naira was roughly 150 when GEJ took over and it was stable almost all through cos oil prices and earnings was high. Within the last 6 months of GEJ (when oil prices began to crash), the Naira fell from roughly N166 to N220 meanwhile oil still sold above $60. We know what oil has sold for as low as $28 since PMB took over hence the reason behind the fall in the naira is clear to anyone with even half of a brain.
7. In early 2015, GEJ borrowed to pay salaries. Today with oil pprices significantly lower, the FG isnt borrowing to pay salaries.

An advice for you, go treat yourself of your crass ignorance, open your eyes and your mind, purge yourself of ethnic/religious and tribal bigotry and then you would be able to see and discern properly.

To correct your Israelite analogy, Buhari is presently the Moses who has come to take Nigeria out of the hands of selfish thieves, diabolic squanderers and lootocrats who have held Nigeria in bondage for decades. It isn't strange that Nigerians are complaining about the painful process because even the Israelites lamented and threatened to stone Moses when they were still in the wilderness on their way to the promised land; most of them even prefered to go back to Egypt.

The guy has got weak genes...

Jonathians will not like this thread. Countdown to the wailers descending on this thread with hard venom. 3-2-1...

Jesus!!... This power station looks like post-WW2 Berlin

egalitarian78:
The corruption in this country is just too endemic for anyone's liking but d state agents must also be told that dia penchant for rushing to d media when investigation is yet to be concluded, obviously to make us know they're active in their job, might be having a negative effect as d suspects and their lawyers will immediately modify dia strategy and build a stronger defence against d state. This has been why Efcc has not won most corruption cases dat looked too gigantic at onset by dia media propaganda only to be soon deflated at d courts. The portion dat said his father giving some instructions; were they referring to d boy's father as d minister or as d husband of d minister. The govt must also be reminded dat anti corruption fight must go on with governance as abandoning d later completely is what has left d country in d present day economic hardship and confusion. Personally, most truthful Nigerians will not change dia 'persecution ' impression about this fight if only d opposition members are being caught by dia net. Every thief must be brought to justice.

Have you imagined that most times, it it the media that runs to EFCC in search of food (news) and not the other way round?... Hence the reports are always being incomplete with the EFCC officials refusing to give full details.

What would an Obama visiting Nigeria do for Nigeria?. .. Is that also a sign of progress?

No need to tell Nigerians all this anymore, I think we've heard enough already. Just make the moves to recover the recoverable portions of these funds, use the funds to surprise Nigerians with development and jail the perpetrators for life.

ilawanson44:
There is nothing to be happy about it! You know why?

Cos the infrastructure for these manufacturers to source their local content has not been put in place! Our steel industry is dead! here are no glass smelting plants for those who produce local drinks to mold bottles etc. Why not ensure all these were in place before banning importation? Buhari just put the cart before the horse

It is an emergency situation and in emergencies, people improvise to survive. The manufacturers are improvising to survive and it is indeed a good thing.

Furthermore, Buhari did not put any cart before any horse, he isnt the one who didnt diversify our economy, he isnt the one who crashed global oil prices and he isnt the one who led Nigeria into its present economic woes where we are currently having a negative balance of trade. In view of the present circumstances, the restrictions on forex is an inevitable move aimed at saving Nigeria from an impending collapse due to the negative balance of trade. Go and read about what is happening to nations like Greece or Venezuela and you will not jump into the same boat with the mass of ignorant/prejudiced critics who think Buhari or the CBN are being silly or are being the villains by restricting the distribution of forex.