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IGBOPRINCE:
omo nile, the op has spoken the plain truth

I was only trying to make common sense. This is not an ethnic battle, na just brotherly advice.

betterABIAstate:
the truth is that if you can't drop your pride and do the right thing then we all will suffer the economic woe. Invest in indigenous products and stop seeing sentimentality is my comment, it will help us.

All I am trying to point out is this, "it is not much about what you say, but rather it is about how you say it," this is common sense but its sad that many do not understand this. Just in case you are still wondering why just about every other ethnic group in Nigeria do not really like Igbos, it is exactly because of the very attitude you just displayed in your opening post, nobody likes an arrogant person (and do not try to mistake pride for arrogance). If I wasnt an Igbo person and I read your post, I would feel very discouraged buying any indigenous product from an Igbo man. Hopefully you get my point this time.

betterABIAstate:
It may sound bitter but the truth remains that Nigeria can be saved from its crashing economy if they invest in southeast.
We must start being indigenous and Southeast remain the headquarters of entrepreneurship as far as Nigeria is concerned, you tend to see more indeginous companies and investments in southeast that any other region.

Southeast is the will give more indeginous product than any other region, there lots of products you see in mainly southeast that you may not see any other place in Nigeria..for example, tummytummy noodles makes indomie ordinary here, life and hero lager beer beats star and 33 here.

Southeast have their own reliable indeginous pharmaceutical factories like neros and juhel pharmaceuticals, in southeast these companies compete with GSK, emzor and even any other renowned company you can think of.

A typical easterner will first ask for aqua rapha water before even thinking of Eva water.

We may not need to be importing wears if we can invest in aba (it will strengthen naira)

Innoson motor can be motivated with patronage and we will see other car companies sptinging up because i know southeasterners loke competition. (It will strengthen naira and also give more IGR).

Southeast is more self sustainable and can help Nigeria come out of this woe

It takes only common sense for anyone to know that when you speak with such a tone, instead of being patronised, you will only force people to despise, boycott and frustrate your efforts. We need to learn how to speak and advertise ourselves without sounding arrogant.

Balkan:
efulefu

Now I ask again, you say Rochas is useless because he supported Buhari and there are no proposed FG projects in Imo state in year 1 out of 4; meanwhile you chose to re-elect GEJ for a further 4 years, a GEJ who had already spent 5 years but did not do anything in Imo state. And you dare to call me efulefu?

I have gladly accepted that efulefu tag a long time ago. I would rather answer an efulefu and pitch my tent with common sense instead of sticking with some confused clannish loyalty n'enweghi isi n'odu.

MrGerald:
the 29 you saw there are number of projects and not money value you keep increasing to 100?

"For the South-East, it showed that some important projects are concession of 2nd Niger Bridge in Anambra and Delta States, N17 billion;"

The cost of the bridge project is N130bn; FG is to provide N30bn while the concessionaires provide the remaining N100bn. In 2014, the FG has already paid N10bn of its share. The bolded excerpts of the report above states that N17bn has also been set aside for this project in 2016; apparently, only N3bn will be left for the FG to pay maybe in 2017 in order to balance its N30bn share in the project.

Reading through that report again, the sentence I quoted above clearly states that the 2nd Niger bridge project gets N17bn out of the portion allocated for the south-east. If N17bn is included as part of the SE's portion, then it is obvious that the N2.9bn must have been a typo of some sorts. So far no other website has reported this information, so I choose to assume the N2.9bn is definitely a typo; but such a typo has come in very bad fate, because it has further divided Nigeria.

I can't wait for him to recover fully. His next movie or even youtube videos must be about taking bullets and still breathing #50Cents

Balkan:
Rochas APC how far for Imo state.? Any federal project for Imo in this Budget? Useless man

Which project did GEJ do in Imo state in his 5 solid years reign?

Now in your wisdom, you have the effrontery to judge the new administration in its first (out of 4 years) as being useless, but you did not think the last man who spent 5 years yet did nothing was useless. You even lent your support to extend the tenure of the man who did nothing for you in 5 years to rule for a further 4 years but you think Rochas is useless for withdrawing support from GEJ even after those circumstances?

In terms of reasoning faculty and based on the above circumstances, who do you honestly think is the useless man between you and Rochas?

Tufiakwa! the reasoning of some humans really stinks

MrGerald:
My friend where did you see 29b there? it says 2.9b, that SE got the least, in case of Onitsha niger bright, was already 17b concession

N17billion is the FG's contribution to the agreement, the concessionaires would bring the remaining 100 or so billion.

This news will be too painful for the wailers. PDP why? Of all the humans, it is this rejected man they choose to make their leader?

I sympathize with the wailers on this one, hoo haa!

1 school?

Teddeebear:
liar,
liar …


the answer is simple, Yoruba agenda politics

Are you aware that life is all about competition? Every business man or trader wants all the customers to come into his shop. So while the Yorubas are scheming for imports to come in through their ports/shops, what have SE and SS leaders been doing for decades? What did even Jonathan do about this in his 5 years?

Bro before you blame the other man for hustling hard to fend for himself and his children, ask youself what your own fathers/leaders have been doing to meet your needs when they get to Abuja.

Meanwhile you want customers to branch into your store yet you eulogise pirates and some common criminals who smoke weed and operate infront of your shop; and then when the customers are scared away, you blame the owner of the other shops of using juju. Wake up man! It's all common sense.

PhockPhockMan:
Ha ha ha ha ha ha, Ooohh, it has changed from not coming to Nigeria without either of his passports to unstamped passports.


Habitual Liars everywhere.

I'm sure you are well educated so you shouldnt be having problems with simple comprehension, use your brain man. If the news says his passports were seized, how can a passport which he didn't bring be seized?

If someone has the keys (passport) to a house but he chooses to enter the house through the window, this situation can be narrated in English language simply as "he came into the house without (using) his keys." Stop feigning illiteracy to drive home your point.

I hope we can finally learn a lesson or two from this present mess.

PhockPhockMan:
What Did he say?

He has 2 passports but didnt use anyone to come into the country (as none of the passports were stamped); that means he came in illegally. The offense isnt having 2 passports, the offense is jumping a fence or crawling through a tunnel into the country.

wite111:
This was written by a BIAFRAN Agitator, but made some sense to me, decided to share here, what do you think?



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laughable that Mohammadu Buhari the tyrant President of the murderous establishment called Nigeria who is totally in charge of the three arms of Government in Nigeria, as he makes Laws for the Legislature and convicts innocent individuals before trial in the Court of jurisdiction, he has declared the possession of dual citizenship an unforgivable and unbailable crime against humanity. In the Presidential maiden chat, Buhari stated "Nnamdi Kanu committed a huge crime, by having two passports. So he can't be bailed".

18012015C-zahra1.jpgNow, one will ask, if this same Man, who needs to present his certificate to the World, understands that a member of his Family is guilty of the same purported crime he publicly convicted Mazi Nnamdi Kanu for, Zarah Buhari is the Fifth Child of Mohammadu Buhari the tyrant President of the Lawless contraption called Nigeria. She is a British Citizen who lives in the United Kingdom and proudly told the World she is a British Citizen. Zarah Buhari lives and schools as a Medical Micro-Biology student of the University of Surrey in United Kingdom. This very daughter of the tyrant Mohammadu Buhari,is in possession of Dual Passports, a British and Nigeria Passport and her Father has never called for her detention or convict her through a media chat. The Puppet appointed Judge in charge of the trial against the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra Mazi Nnamdi Kanu by name Justice John Tsoho, made a ruling on the 29 of January and in his ruling "The defendant Nnamdi Kanu will not be granted bail, due to his possession of dual citizenship, he might jump bail and escape".

When Justice John Tsoho was accepting this judgment passed to him by the self appointed Judge Buhari in their secret chamber, did the Hundred Million Naira Bribe given to him, becloud his thoughts of reasoning that he couldn't ask his master, if a member of his Family is also guilty of the Dual Passport crime? How can the daughter of Mohammadu Buhari be in possession of dual citizenship and no Nigeria Politician, have deemed it fit to raise alarm against it for the World to know? Every member of Nigeria is obviously afraid of losing his/her jobs, as any exposing truth about Buhari will lead to a relief of duty.

Twice have the Court of jurisdiction ordered that Citizen Nnamdi Kanu be released, despite fulfilling his bail terms, tyrant Mohammadu Buhari has interfered with the Nigeria judiciary and ordered that Mazi Nnamdi Kanu shouldn't be released against the Nigeria constitution,"Under Section 287 of the 1999 constitution, all persons exercising Judicial, Executive or Legislative power must have respect for the order of the court". The Indigenous People of Biafra have not gained anything positive from the contraption called Nigeria, if not marginalization, subjugation to perpetual poverty, destruction of Biafran lives and properties and resources theft.

The Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra and Director of Radio Biafra/Biafra Television has done nothing wrong, which even the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) have aired through a press release. Nnamdi Kanu is a British Citizen, thus have the right to have a British passport, likewise Zarah Buhari who moves to various countries, with her dual passport. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu can't be on detention without bail on the basis of dual possession of dual citizenship, whilst Zarah Buhari is moving freely. Justice John Tsoho is indeed dragging his career into the mud, for making rulings against even the constitution of Nigeria, because constitutionally it is wrong to keep an individual on detention for more than 90days, but Citizen Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been unlawfully detained for over 90days against the constitution. If Mohammadu Buhari and Justice John Tsoho are indeed lawful as they claimed to be, they should get Zarah Buhari detained for been in possession of dual citizenship, same way he has done to Citizen Nnamdi Kanu.

The ipod writer of this article is an illiterate. Buhari did not say the crime of kanu was 'having 2 passports'

AtlanticBreeze:
Fashola the bigot cannot change his spot. I'll wait for the north to go after him like Ndume is doing. You want to use SE/SS resources to develop yorubaland. thief

This by-force attachment of SE to SS will only make the SS suspicious of the intentions of the SE. FYI, the resources you talk about are mainly from the SS. The SE states are presently as dependent as the rest of the country on resources from the SS.

If only it could be possible.

Geniro:
Hush it dude ! Didn't the FG blame boko haram for embarrassing their govt.

Now what are you saying ?

The fight against boko haram is an ongoing fight, the govt isnt folding its arms and blaming BH of embarrassing it. The example I gave was about a government official (abba moro) being involved in a questionable scandal, and instead of the FG then to simply call for an investigation as an immediate reaction, GEJ in his paranoia typically took it personal and blamed those calling for 'investigation' as opposition elements trying to embarrass him. Another example is the Sanusi $49bn scandal, when the letter leaked, the simple reaction any typical leader would have just been to say "I will investigate." But instead we get reactions like, "it's a lie, they are just trying to embarrass me"

Once again, these situations are not comparable.

Geniro:
Hush it. We haven't forgotten this



http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/204855/boko-haram-is-embarrassing-my-administration-buhari.html

Both situations arent comparable.

PreyingMantis:
My problem is with those who are celebrating Buhari's reactionary style of governance as an act of good leadership. If Buhari had been thorough, he wouldn't have subjected himself to this embarrassment of international proportions.

Everybody makes mistakes, but what matters sometimes is how a person reacts to his/her mistakes.

Emekamex:
2.9 billion for SE is abysmal.

Probably a typo from the report; I thought I saw 29billion somewhere else but now I think I'm confused

PreyingMantis:
Don't be fooled by Buhari's theatrics and grandstanding. The incompetent cattle-rustler is only trying to save face by scape-goating someone else. Did he not append his signature on that fraudulent document before presenting it to the National Assembly? Did you Zombies not hail the said budget of corruption as the best thing that happened to Nigeria since independence?

Unfortunately for you people, Nigerians are smarter now and you all got busted.

What Buhari just did is what is expected of any reasonable leader or boss. PMB did not write the budget himself, he appointed people to write and review the budget which he presented. When something goes awfully wrong like it just did, he takes the blame and the onus is on him to take disciplinary action on whoever he thinks is the weakest link that may have brought him such an embarrassment. Once again, that is what is expected of a leader.

Thank God we now have a leader who will react appropriately when things go wrong. I can bet my life that if this whole budget saga had happened under the last administration, GEJ's first reaction (instead of calling for an investigation) would have been to blame 'opposition' for trying to rubbish/bring down his administration and after it all, nobody would have lost a job (immigration recruitment tragedy still fresh on my mind).

So the whole beef was just promo for a new movie after all?

tuniski:
u surely do miss the dynamics.

Can you kindly explain the dynamics?

clemmonce:
Would the economy have been worse as this if Gej had won ? I don't think so. Nigerians made a mistake

Let me tell you a short story of what happened when the oil prices began to crash, just between October 2014 and May 2015 when GEJ handed over:

(1) The Naira fell from N166/167 to N220 to $1, meanwhile oil still sold at about $65/barrel as at May 2015.
http://abokifx.com/previous-rates-2/

(2) The nation's foreign reserves dropped from ~$38.5bn to $28.7billion, that's a drop of about $10billion in 7 months, with oil still selling at about $65/barrel as at May 2015.
http://www.cenbank.org/intops/Reserve.asp

(3) Nigeria's GDP growth rate which was maintained at an average of 6-7% suddenly dropped to its lowest since 1999 of 2.3%.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/nigeria/gdp-growth-annual

(4) Due to a severe cash crunch occasioned by fall in oil prices, the Nigerian government had to borrow about $2.4billion dollars early in 2015 to pay salaries. The FG could not also pay accumulated arrears of fuel subsidy since August 2014 to petroleum importers (this led to the fuel scarcity in May 2015 just before the handover and Lai Mohammed also blamed this owed fuel subsidy as the reason behind the fuel scarcity late last year)
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/nigeria-borrows-to-pay-salaries-with-cash-crunch-worsening/
http://www.channelstv.com/2015/12/21/lai-mohammed-blames-fuel-crisis-on-past-administration/

Note that all of the above happened at a time when oil still sold above $65/barrel; today oil sells for about $30/barrel

Now I do not want to imagine the kind of economic humanitarian crisis that would have enveloped Nigeria had GEJ continued in his usual manner of dipping his hands into the forex reserves; only God saved us as a nation else we would have been standing on long queues by now to receive one cup of rice daily from W.H.O or UN outlets.

tuniski:
u are drunk on the propaganda sold to you during election! Buhari won and we are in a complete mess. Let no one keep telling u it would have been worse, no, it wouldn't have.
Empirical evidence shows it won't have been worse cos there would have been policy continuity and stability not this trial and error!
They turn anti corruption noise to economic Policy while the real economic drive are comatose!
They were fighting GeJ on all fronts yet, he was making progress. Now they are cheering buhari and shouting down every other differing voice but, the economy is spiraling down. Apc/buhari shame

Did I just hear you say continuity of those four (4) negative events I just pointed out above?
Are you aware that the FG under Buhari has not borrowed to pay salaries? It even bailed out the states
Are you aware the FG has paid off subsidy arrears owed to oil importers even since the days of GEJ?
Are you aware the FG/CBN has been able to maintain virtually the same forex reserve amount that it inherited till date?... Unlike GEJ that crashed it by $10billion in 7 months of oil price crash?
And now all these have been done when oil sells for less than half of what it was when GEJ was handing over and you think the present government is more useless?? I challenge you to tell me that these figures and indices I have written here are wrong, kindly explain to us your 'empirical' evidence.

Mjshexy:
Hilarious...but since they have made it public now, won't the yam eaters (thieves) start relocating the stolen money from their soak aways

The next directive would be to abokii dollar vendors "if you receive any dollars smelling of shit, report ASAP to EFCC and DSS"

payges:
...irrespective of content.
"we don't care if we are told the soakaway is filled with excrement, we will search it to ascertain that ourselves", he said sternly during his Press Cofenference.
source: http://www./posts/252716/

BishopMagic:
You are irrelevant.

Your vote was a mere formality.

If it had gone either way, the powers that be would have supported a parallel govt to oversee the affairs of the Federal Petroleum Republic of Nigeria.

This thread is not about your vote but about how that process will only lead to recycling those who are willing to do the bidding of an international crime syndicate in the form of the Washington Mafia.


You my friend are deluded by thinking your votes ever counted in this fraud assembly.

No my friend, I can beat my chest anywhere in the world or beyond and tell you that a larger number of Nigerians preferred Buhari to GEJ as at the time of the 2015 elections and it not only reflected in hundreds of mock online polls and random TV interviews on the streets, it also replicated itself in the main elections. I wonder what you mean by 'fraud' or 'votes not counting' in that.

Whether you choose to agree or not, the fact remains that in the 2015 elections, Nigerians were saddled with 2 not-too-inspiring candidates; an ineffectual leader and an old retired grandpa and more Nigerians at the time preferred the old grandpa to the ineffectual one. Forget whatever conspiracy theories you choose to believe in your head to justify the election loss of your preferred candidate. I have no idea what you mean by Washington Mafia; probably the Washington mafia came down to Nigeria to vote, or maybe the Washington mafia influenced the hundreds of mock online polls on social media including here on nairaland?

Dudeweedlmao:
I know, i get it, jonathan fvcked up
But heres the thing, now that oil price is at an alltime low and knowing that nigerian economy is mostly import dependent
Why should he make it impossible for importers to source the dollar? I understand the benefits of being an export dep. country
But i believe it should be a gradual process not something you just terminate. We can't keep blaming jonathan forever.

How I wish some people like yourself can receive a vision of what can happen to a country like Nigeria if it runs out of forex, how I wish you can understand the kind of terrible humanitarian crisis the nation would be plunged into if we run out of forex reserves, then you wouldn't sit behind your desk and think the CBN are the villains in this forex hoarding game.

https://www.naij.com/434668-external-reserves-cant-pay-for-imports.html
If you read this simple article above, it would give you a little insight as to why the CBN as a matter of national emergency, has to hoard forex as much as it can. The CBN presently has less than $28billion as its liquid forex reserves, a value which cannot satisfy up to a 6 months import requirement. Can you imagine what would happen to a nation if it runs out of forex to the point of not being able to import essential commodities like food, petroleum products etc.?

BishopMagic:
And nearly 20yrs later... we are back to the same Abacha era.

The more things change, the more they stay the same

Next time you will apply some commonsense before you waste your votes.

And I suppose by your beautiful logic, a vote for Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan is the vote which wouldn't have been a waste right?... Clap for yourself!