₦airaland Forum

Whynotthetruth:
Igbo presidency can't stand in the air...You need a political party with strong outreach...and two major political parties have zoned presidency to the north...

And we will continue the marginalization song. Anyone that votes either of those to major party in 2019 must be sick

zaimeg:
I watched the presidential debate then and decided to vote for Onovo. He was the only one who understood the issues with Nigeria. Majority of Nigerians fell for the propaganda from the top two political parties due to either sentiments, ethnicity, religion or the inability to critically analyze.

We need to get away from this 2 big party mess, i hope Nigerians are getting wise though

zaimeg:
I have always told people that Nigeria is on autopilot. Nigerians are not yet ready to make Nigeria better. Buhari's policy flip flops worsened the recession. There's no confidence in the government. No sane investor would bring his money to an economy where policy changes like the weather.

Agree with you 100%

phantom:
In many fora, I had expected my "we told you so" GEJ friends to criticuse objectively what moves buhari has made instead of this silly " rice is 20k under PMB" argument.

Borrow money.....they shot it down
Sell assets ......they shot it down
Raise taxes.....they refused.

What is the solution?

The bolded actually makes me pity the so called common man who stands behind selfish political animals this ready shut down the country for personal gains. Where i actually blame buhari is taking so long to make these proposals, these are things he should have worked on in first few weeks of the administration when his goodwill was sky-high.

HIGHESTPOPORI:
If GEJ was in power and things are d same,where then is d Change?

Good question

doctokwus:
So because PMB has failed means GEJ wud av been better?
If GEJ had been in the saddle by now,no state wud av been able to pay salaries.
By now recession wud av been worse because the Nigerian state wud av been bankcrupt to pay for any good or service due to massive looting,leakages and outright cluelessness coupled with the economic disaster that the BH insurgency wud av wrought on Nigeria.
By now BH wud av effectively carved out a caliphate from the north eastern states of Borno,Yobe,Adamawa,throwing not just Nigeria but d whole of West Africa into a humanitarian cum economic crisis.
If by their rigging machinery,GEJ had been returned as president,I bet anyone that a military coup wud by now av taken place because the economic crisis and d loss of territory to BH wud av been unbearable for all.
People due to their shortsightedness do not sit down to analyze issues and put the right parameters into place before writing whatever they feel like,thus making simplistic,road side analysis and conclusions.
PMB has failed but i am sure with GEJ at d helm,Nigeria wud av been reduced in territory dramatically and d economic hardship wud av been worse,no matter how some people fail to bliv it.
Buhari's failing is that he failed to arrest d tide which he cud,he is highly selective in his corruption fight and has a tribaslistic bend.
GEJ wud av been worse,several times over,cud and can never be an option to any objective mind!

I don't think this article says anything about gej being better than buhari, we probably didn't make the best choices.
I personally expected more from buhari, his government, his ministers are doing poorly

phantom:
Failed in what way?? So in effect you didn't think a country whose treasury has been looted on a massive scale and whose economy depends on a resource that is fast loosing value would go into a recession? ??
Come on..Let's call a spade a spade.
GEJ being in power today,this country would be the same.
It is obvious that 90% of Nigerians don't know what a recession is and its PRACTICAL & REALISTIC solutions. You want this govt to clean up the rot in one year

That i feel Buhari is failing does not mean Gej would have been any better. My problem is i haven't seen a decisive action from this government to get us out of this recession, heck we could have avoided it if the president hadn't wasted six months to form his government. We held several bilateral meeting but our counterparts couldn't we the direction we were going

It's really sad what this government is turning out to be, we agree we never had an economy (oil dependant), no reserve or savings but come on its almost 2yrs.

Our division and stupidity hasn't helped matter, we have refused to allow the government sell assets or borrow fund.

There was, an initial “bounce” which happened when
Buhari was sworn in. Too many made the mistake of
thinking that it was a sign of things to come, and to
be honest, it could have been. Sadly, the man did not
take advantage of it, but rather spent time glorying in
the victory of his office.


Was GEJ’s government better than Buhari’s?
The answer to this is straightforward — and it is yes.
Simply comparing some of GEJ’s cabinet, which I’ve
taken the liberty to do below shows it up in lurid
detail:



Category A
Environment -Amina Mohammed v Ogar Odey

Petroleum-Ibe Kachikwu v Diezani Alison-Madueke

Solid Minerals-Kayode Fayemi v Mohammed Sada




Category B
Attorney General -Abubakar Malami v Mohammed
Bello Adoke

Defence -Mansur Dan Ali v Bello H. Mohammed

Foreign Affairs-Geoffrey Onyeama v Gbenga Ashiru

Interior -Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau v Abba Moro

Labour -Chris Ngige v Emeka Wogu

Niger Delta-Usani Usani Uguru v Godsday Orubebe

Power, Works and Housing -Babatunde Fashola v
Chinedu Nebo; Barth Nnaji; Mike Onolememen




Category C
Agriculture -Audu Ogbeh v Akin Adesina

Aviation -Hadi Sirika v Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi

Communication-Adebayo Shittu v Omobola Johnson

Finance -Kemi Adeosun v Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Education-Adamu Adamu v Ruqayyatu Rufai

Health-Isaac Adewole v Onyebuchi Chukwu

Industry, Trade and Investment -Okechukwu Enelema v
Olusegun Aganga

Information -Lai Mohammed v Labaran Maku

National Planning -Udoma Udo Udoma v Shamsudeen
Usman

Science and Technology -Ogbonnaya Onu v Ita Okon
Bassey Ewa

Transportation -Rotimi Amaechi v Idris A.Umar

Women Affairs-Aisha Alhassan v Zainab Maina


Youth and Sports-Solomon Dalong v Yusuf Sulaiman/
Bolaji Abdullahi







By now, you must have guessed that those in
Category A are Buhari ministers that have
outperformed their Jonathan counterparts, those in
Category B are those who are on par with their
predecessors, while those in Category C have fallen
short of what their predecessors did in office. Yet,
there has been not a cabinet reshuffle, and we have a
minister saying that Nigeria will not go to the World
Cup, because we are too poor to go. No! We made a
foolish choice last year.



Now, how was the choice foolish?




Going back to the beginning of this treatise, the
argument can, and will always be made that the GEJ
government had to go, since we don’t want to reward
a bad government. BUT, did we have to replace it
with this failure? The answer is no, therefore our
first failure was cowardice.
We failed to be bold and look at the other alternatives
on offer. There were other candidates on the ballot,
bearing names such as Chekwas, Sonaiya, Okoye,
Salawu, Galadima. We did not give any of these a
look-in, but instead fell into the trap of binary
thinking. Truth is, saying that Buhari is running a bad
government, does not automatically mean that I’m
saying that Jonathan ran a good government. Sadly,
too many Nigerians are binary thinkers, and that is
why we are still seeing some of the frankly, ludicrous
arguments making the rounds on social media.
We replaced a government that was performing at
20% with one that is performing at 5%, and that is
because we were binary in thinking. What happened
to the protest vote? Why did we, when the APC
presented to us, a frankly bad candidate, not coalesce
around another party? Rather, we bought into the
hype, gambled, and now, we may well have lost it all.

Cheta Nwanze


https://medium.com/@chxta/we-made-a-terrible-choice-773d1cac50d0#.tmltxks0i

By now, it should be clear to any and everyone that
the current FG is on track to be the worst government
Nigeria has ever had, bar none. There is still time to
turn it around, but I am not optimistic for some very
simple reasons — the intransigence of our dear leader,
Muhammadu Buhari; the gridlock that has come to
characterise Executive/Legislature relations; the ill-
advised assault on the judiciary; the tightening of
government controls over everything; and many
more.
I think that at this point, a look at where we were last
year is in order. This is the fact — in the last year of
the Jonathan government, things had clearly begun to
slow down. The avarice of the political class was
beginning to show, and looking at our growth rate,
we had plateaued, and were on a downward
trajectory.
Looking at this, people who believed that we were
ripe for a change, were right. Added to that is the
simple fact that the man in charge at the time, in
character and temperament, was the best person
positioned to be Nigeria’s first incumbent ever, to
lose an election, and bow out gracefully. That he
played according to that script, and did bow out, is
Goodluck Jonathan’s legacy, and no matter what
vitriol is thrown at him, that will never be taken
away from him.
Unfortunately, the fact that we removed a sitting
incumbent increasingly appears to be the only gain
we made from the 2015 General Elections. The
government which was elected on the platform of
improving things has not only spectacularly failed to
deliver on its promises, but has taken us back in the
process.

When will we start pushing for credible igbo president? When

iFarms:
if u can do pickup tomorrow, u will get up to 30-40tonnes because tomorrow is maize market day.

Got some from kogi yesterday @ 100/kg

[quote author=fison post=51492628][/quote]Lucky you

Vanquay:
I am not in support of a vaccine, let it kill a few more hundred million people... The Earth's population needs to be reduced.

And you have not killed yourself to start with?

If this is true, God punish, Buhari, Apc and Ncc. Do these guys think we pick money from the ground?
It will be shameful if our youth don't protest this

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Happy Birthday to us sweethearts. wishing us more of God's blessings and the very best of life in good health of mind and body. Live long and prosper sweethearts. November babies rock. Wow I have a lot of birthday mates here ooooooooo. God bless you all. Once again many happy returns of the day! Have a blast dearies.

Thanks sis, i hope you had a wonderful day like i did

iFarms:
If you are in Ibadan. you can get maize for 120 from us.

My farm is in lagos.

fison:
₦140 per kilogram is still very on the high side, how then do you make profit? Although, I still buy at ₦100,000 per tonne and transportation is pegged at ₦2.50 per kg.

May I know your location?

Where are you located? My farm is in lagos. Men you are soooo lucky, its crazy here in lagos.

The last week has been the craziest i have experienced in my poultry years, getting as little as a tonne of maize is now rocket science, i had to buy from the food market at 140 per kilogram and this is supposed to be harvest season (bumper harvest for that matter).

Guys how are you coping?

This is really interesting.

This guy keeps fabricating these trash and abandoning them on the roadside when it breaks down. If you believe this scrap drives on water then you will believe anything. Nonsense

Survived several cia assassination attempt, including poisoning his jacket. What a legend

Caseless:
who am I seeing? Where have you been?

TonyeBarcanista:
Where you go hide?

Been around, Nairaland is boring these days

Caseless:
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TonyeBarcanista:
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[quote author=donphilopus post=50999674][/quote]Gathering of yeye boyz, really nice seeing your comments quoting one another after the pre election wahala. Nice one guys

ShinnBet:
Bloody liars


The worlds leading rice producer is China with just an annual turnover of 144,000 tonnes


Why must these people always lie?

apparently you don't understand the stat you quoted, check again its 144,000 x 1000 metric tonnes

Litmus:
[size=14pt]EXCLUSIVE: Lt. Col. Abu Ali’s Death: Why Boko Haram is killing more Nigerian soldiers – Top Military Officer[/size]

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Article: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/214716-exclusive-lt-col-abu-alis-death-boko-haram-killing-nigerian-soldiers-top-military-officer.html#.WCDNlV5eUFM.twitter

Ref: BEEGEAGLES BLOG
@beegeaglesblog

Nigeria has been in mourning since Saturday when news broke that Muhammad Abu-Ali, a lieutenant colonel, and Nigerian Army’s most efficient fighter died in battle alongside five soldiers during an exchange of battle with the terrorist Boko Haram.

Military insiders said the Army has launched an inquiry into the circumstances that led to the death of the country’s bravest commander and five of his troops.

But a top military officer with deep knowledge of the North-East operation has granted PREMIUM TIMES an exclusive interview detailing how the officer and his soldiers fell and why more and more soldiers were being killed by Boko Haram in recent times. The officer requested anonymity because he had no permission to discuss operational matters with the media.

EXCERPT:

Thank you very much officer for agreeing to talk to us. We are sorry to hear of the death of Lt. Col. Abu Ali, a gallant and brave officer who gave his all to his country. We also learnt that he was killed alongside some soldiers. What really happened?

What happened was that Boko Haram terrorists ambushed our troops on Friday night at Mallam Fatori. Lt Col Abu Ali was killed on his way to reinforce troops there.

Information available reveals that one officer and 49 soldiers were withdrawn from Mallam Fatori on Friday morning and Boko Haram attacked at night indicating they possibly had advance information of the troops reduction in number.

Six soldiers and 14 Boko Haram terrorists were killed alongside Lt Col Abu-Ali, who was granted special promotion in 2014 for his gallantry in the fight against Boko Haram.

There is great mourning across the theatre of operations. Everyone is in mourning mood. May God grant the senior officer Aljanat Firdaus.

But why are attacks and killing of Nigerian troops becoming rampant in the past weeks?

It is sad that the Nigerian Army is announcing that the attacks are being carried out by remnants of Boko Haram terrorists when all reasonable persons can see that Boko Haram is still a formidable force. The Nigerian Army is more concerned with pleasing the political class while the grassroots people are still suffering.

It is the duty of the Nigerian Army public relations department to make the Nigerian Army look good but it is also necessary for the Nigerian Army to take practical steps to end this insurgency by improving the equipment state of the Nigerian Army and telling the government the true state of affairs.

What is the true state of affairs?

The truth is that from September to November this year, we have lost so many troops that can’t even be accounted for.

Prominent amongst those lost are Maj DS Erasmus and 8 soldiers – 25 Sep 2016 due to IED / ambush along Bama – Banki road. Lt Col K Yusuf and 83 soldiers missing in action on 16 Oct 2016 when Boko Haram attacked troops location at Gashigar. Lt Col M Abu-Ali and five soldiers were killed on 4 November 2016 on their way to reinforce troops at Mallam Fatori during Boko Haram attack.

On 5 November 2016, two soldiers were killed at Kwada during Boko Haram attack on troops location. One soldier was wounded while another two were declared missing in action.

In another attack in Kangarwa on 6 November, one soldier was killed while four other soldiers were wounded in action. Thirteen Boko Haram terrorists were killed and unconfirmed number of them was wounded.
Why are attacks on troops becoming more and more regular?

It’s dry season here and the ground allows smooth movement of vehicles. Boko Haram terrorists have a better knowledge of the local terrain so they can easily access troops location and escape.

Furthermore, there’s pressure on Boko Haram terrorists around Sambisa general area hence they seem to have pooled forces together to concentrate on the northern Borno axis.

So what can Nigerian authorities do to reduce casualties on the side of Nigerian troops?

The major cause of casualties on troops at the moment is poor equipment state. At the moment, the equipment in the theatre are mostly worn out and almost obsolete. Provision of adequate equipment is the only answer for now. Troops confidence is a function of sound and functional equipment.

Remember that man without equipment is at best inefficient and machines without man are almost useless. This points to the need for adequate equipment in the theatre to minimize casualty rate in the theatre.

What kinds of equipment are obsolete, and what kinds are needed at this time?

The tanks (especially Vickers MBT) in the theatre are so worn out that they often do not get to action most times troops are under attack. This is why the semi-serviceable T-72 tanks are being moved everywhere in the theatre. This explains why Lt Col Abu-Ali was almost everywhere there was threat as he commanded the T-72 tank Battalion.

The artillery Shilka guns are even the worst. Boko Haram terrorists fear the effect of Shilka guns but I still wonder why almost all Shilkas are not serviceable in the theatre.

Even more worrisome is the fact that the Nigerian Army has not procured more Shilka guns because they are Russian made and the bottleneck to buy them is not too much like those of Western countries.

But the impression being created is that troops are better off now in terms of equipment than under Jonathan

Unfortunately, for every battle we engage in, the equipment keep wearing and to worsen issues, these equipment were not procured with their fast-moving spare parts. The big question is, how many equipment has the present government procured and where are they deployed for use?

So does it mean troops are using just AK 47 to fight Boko Haram?

That’s our personal assault rifle, which is needed after long range weapons have done much of the job but unfortunately the long range support weapons are inadequate. Eg AA GUNS, mortar tubes, artillery weapons like shilka guns etc.

So how did we achieve the initial upper hand, cutting down Boko Haram down and capturing territories from the terrorists?

The upper hand started in February 2015 due to the arrival of T-72 tanks in the theatre. Chadian troops also assisted in mounting pressure on Boko Haram terrorists at the same time. This resulted in Boko Haram splitting their forces to several places at the same time.

So how did we lose the plot?

Recall that there were mercenaries that fought with Nigerian Army troops in the first and second quarters of 2015.

Yes

Boko Haram seems to have good strategist who study our modus operandi and cause them to adjust accordingly. The Nigerian military may need to reappraise its approach to counter insurgency operations.

Those mercenaries really assisted us and their withdrawal signalled the gradual regrouping of Boko Haram terrorists. This is because their withdrawal was sudden and not in phases.

But why was their withdrawal sudden?

The new government terminated their contract.

What did the mercenaries bring to the table that our troops lack?

They came with armoured fighting equipment. Above all, they had night fighting capabilities.

Do you have any further information on the attack that killed Lt. Col. Abu Ali? Especially about attack coming after withdrawal of some personnel.

There is a plan by the authorities to carry out an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death. He’s to be buried by 5pm today (Monday) at the national cemetery.

But why were the men withdrawn?

They were to carry out attack elsewhere in the theatre. The only controversy is why they were suddenly forced to withdraw that fateful day.

Is it not standard practice to have replacement on location before pushing men elsewhere?

It is, but exigencies of duty make us to do things haphazardly at times.

Thank you very much for talking to us.

Thank you too.

I sincerely hope this is not true

how many eggs do snakes lay and how many of them get hatched?
This looks scary.

CC mynd44

Nigeria's problem is not devaluation or floating, the problem is trade in balance. We don't earn as much as we consume or produce. Even if we devalue to 1000 Nairal to a dollar, there will still be a parallel market selling at 1200.

Till we reduce imports and increase exports, we are just moving around in circles

nextprince:
U mean dis one

God bless you jare

This udoma Guy is so incompetent

NaijaEfcc:
nobi small long time recession don hit dem, money for data no dey again, now they have to decided whether to chop or browse ur former zombie colleagues modath and obiageIi, good for you that you have been delivered, continue to pray for ur pals to be delivered from zombiesm (pay per post) hahahaha

Nairaland and empty heads. SMH where is that zuma pic sef

Beremx:
baby is fine. He's moving around and scattering the house. No be small thing.

Welcome back

Oh, nice