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1999-2015 will forever be etched in annals of Nigerian history as the Golden Era of Nigeria's economic Renaissance.
FACT.
From 1999 -2015 every index of political and socio-economic life shot up to levels never seen in almost 3 decades.
FACT.

Nigeria recorded year after year of consecutive economic growth from 1999-2015 .
FACT.

The Nigerian middle class, the standard measure of economic prosperity, grew steadily for the first time in 40yrs.
FACT.

But I guess we all missed the lessons of the movie 'Jurassic Park's , that no matter how nostalgic, reviving extinct Dinosaurs and putting them in a modern ecosystem can be very very destructive indeed.

Since 2015, Nigeria has been dragged to depression by a bunch of very dishonest, very corrupt cabal led by treasonable Felon at-large, a self-confessed Grand NEPOTIST, a man of no character, progressive ideology nor vision , who has also turned Nigeria into a WAR zone, literally and figuratively.
The Buhari is like a horde of locusts, a harbinger of Famine, that invades a once robust farm and destroys everything in sight.

No matter one's feelings about politics and politicians in Nigeria, PDP remains the only party with a broad Pan-Nigerian National reach and infrastructure capable of shaming this useless government out of power come 2019.
It is very very simple.
It doesn't require debate or argument.

There should be NO Ambivalence about voting out Buhari.

The only choice before Nigerian people hoping to recover and rebuild is unequivocally to vote PDP.

Fellow Nigerians, we fell for cheap lies and sentiments in 2015.
Shame on those that fooled us.
But if we fall again for the cheap lies and sentiment and Buhari wins another 4yr, this land will become sooooo DESOLATE that some or all of us might resort cannibalism for survival.

Don't fall for APC recycled lies.

Mynd44:
While some of the concerns are valid, some can also be explained by "Affirmative action".

Why can someone in Zamfara who scored 28 be admitted? Because you want them to attend. You want it as a way to entice them

There is nothing wrong with affirmative action, or trying to encourage Northern children to attend school by bending the standards for them.
The problem here is that they are deliberately denying those that are qualified even though there is more than enough capacity to accommodate them.

SLIMDON88:
Yes he has every right to reject or accept just like he has the right not to eat akpu or ewedu, Presidential Debate is not where to know a good leader

Can you name any country in the world where the top presidential candidates refuse to participate in a presidential debate ?

Aside from campaign slogeneerings , talking points, campaign propaganda, etc, a presidential debate is the best forum for candidates to face off against each other to articulate their own policies, economic visions, agendas, etc, as well as poke holes or repudiate those of their rivals.

A candidate , like we witnessed in 2015, who refuses or has to think twice about participating in a presidential debate either has no vision worthy articulating to the voters or doesn't have the intellectual dexterity with which present his vision, whatever that may be.

Therefore, any candidate lacking the former or the latter is surely unfit for the high office of president, one whose job is to deal with the very complex , very religiously and culturally plural nation such as Nigeria.

Fool me once , shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.

awesomeJ:
What is this one saying now?

Who told you men before Louis whatever didn't know germs to be the cause of ailments? since his discovery, what is it that has changed? Has he taken germs out of existence? Has he been able to stop people from falling sick? if you say his discovery has helped provide cure, who told you there weren't cures and treatments before his time.

Come out of your ignorance!

If you had the understanding that Christians possess, then you would know that the basic principle we live by is that every thing in our lives has been made subject to our instructions by virtue of Christ's authority given to us.

When drugs fail you, you become hopeless. As a Christian, all you have to do is cast out the ailment and it goes, isn't that way more awesome?

You want to go on a journey, does Louis' study make your flight or ferry guaranteed? Sure not. If you had the privilege of being a Christian, all it'd take would just be for you to speak smoothness upon the journey, and you'd have it.

Christ came to among other things:

1. pay the Ransome for the sins which every human is naturally guilty of. He has paid now, so we can become exempt from every penalty.

2. He came to conquer death, and put him under the feet of bus Christians.

3. He came to give us Christians authority over forces, principalities and powers in all realms.

So now We have dominion over the devil and his cohorts, as well as over death, poverty, sickness and pain. So you're only being in utter ignorance to think that the devil or sickness still oppresses any Christian.

I hear the BULLSHYT alarms going off everywhere.


You have said not one single sensible thing up there.

If you are a sincere subscriber to all the aforementioned Bullshyts up there, then I'm truly sorry to inform you that someone has left hold the bag, a big bag full of dung.

FOLYKAZE:
Christians are the most confused folks on earth. I wonder sometimes if they read their bible or if they read it without putting their thinking cap on.

Ecclesiastes 1:1-14 New International Version (NIV)

Everything Is Meaningless
1 The words of the Teacher,[a] son of David, king in Jerusalem:

2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them.
12 I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom
all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy
burden God has laid on mankind!

14 I observed everything going on under the sun, and
really, it is all meaningless--like chasing the wind.

David is a great philosopher. Even if I am not a Christian, I still read some of his thoughts in Ecclesiastes and Proverb. The philosophy are rich and full of wisdom. The particular quoted verse ends the whole bullshiit any Christian will say. Life, with of without God is meaningless except for how one define it. Bible says, it is vanity upon vanity.

Correction my comrade.

David didn't write proverbs or any book for that matter.

Remember, according to the Bible, David was a poor Sheperd boy. This would mean that he would have had no formal education of any sort, and therefore would have been incapable of reading and writing, let alone perfect prose.

In those days , they had well trained scribes who were responsible for keeping written records of events for posterity.

Since the scribes were appointed and worked at the pleasure of the ruler, it is not surprising that the scribes tended to make up, embellish and exaggerate the lives and achievements of their employer kings.

Secondly, a large part, if not the entire book of proverbs are verbatim from the works of an Egyptian scribe named Ptah-Hotep, as recorded in the Egyptian Book Of The Dead many thousands of years before the supposed reigns of David and Solomon.

Many works in the Bible were outrighly plagiarised from Ancient Egyptian, Babylonian and Assyrian sources.

FOLYKAZE:
Christians are the most confused folks on earth. I wonder sometimes if they read their bible or if they read it without putting their thinking cap on.

Ecclesiastes 1:1-14 New International Version (NIV)

Everything Is Meaningless
1 The words of the Teacher,[a] son of David, king in Jerusalem:

2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”
3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 No one remembers the former generations,
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them.
12 I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom
all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy
burden God has laid on mankind!

14 I observed everything going on under the sun, and
really, it is all meaningless--like chasing the wind.

David is a great philosopher. Even if I am not a Christian, I still read some of his thoughts in Ecclesiastes and Proverb. The philosophy are rich and full of wisdom. The particular quoted verse ends the whole bullshiit any Christian will say. Life, with of without God is meaningless except for how one define it. Bible says, it is vanity upon vanity.

Correction my comrade.

David didn't write proverbs or any book for that matter.

Remember, according to the Bible, David was a poor Sheperd boy. This would mean that he would have had no formal education of any sort, and therefore would have been incapable of reading and writing, let alone perfect prose.

In those days , they had well trained scribes who were responsible for keeping written records of events for posterity.

Since the scribes were appointed and worked at the pleasure of the ruler, it is not surprising that the scribes tended to make up, embellish and exaggerate the lives and achievements of their employer kings.

Secondly, a large part, if not the entire book of proverbs are verbatim from the works of an Egyptian scribe named Ptah-Hotep, as recorded in the Egyptian Book Of The Dead many thousands of years before the supposed reigns of David and Solomon.

More like a Global Slave Trade Alliance to retain and capture more market share of the Mental Slavery Market in Africa.

With Christianity on a steady decline in Europe, it is not surprising that both the Anglican and Roman Churches are seeking trading alliances with Africa's foremost Slave Drivers like Adeboye to help them tap into, retain and permanently consolidate Africa's inexhaustible misery , ignorance and Mental Slave Market.

hopefulLandlord:
Christianity in a nutshell: More than 1 billion churches, 4 billion members, 4200 religions, for more than 6000 years fighting 1 Satan

And the son of skydaddy came down from heaven to Earth to save humankind from something or someone, and immediately thereafter and for the last 2000 years, humankind still hurls itself from one problem, conflict and calamity to another.
What exactly did Jesus achieve if his followers are still being mentally and emotionally being tormented by the one and only Satan ?
Jesus supposedly cured leppers and polio victims, but he couldn't even identify germs as the primary causes of bodily afflictions.
Louis Pasteur did a million times more for humanity than the supposed son of God.
Louis Pasteur identified germs as the cause of diseases: and the world has never been the Same.

Can we please kneel and pray to the true saviour of humankind, Louis Pasteur.


Hilarious when you think about it.

modik:
Drugs and church.... Any meeting point?

Obviously, religion is the opium of the masses but not a negative mind bender like drugs. How many religious Christians are admitted to Yaba left cos of their faith?

Lol.
So you don't see the striking relationship between religion and mental illness?
I see it every day.
If you admit that religion acts as an opiate for the masses, then what happens when people get addicted or overdose on opiates ?

hopefulLandlord:
People like Olukoya are part of why we're in this sheet

These guys would encourage the country to pray its way out of issues rather than study it with commonsense and get solutions like developed countries do

Don't mind these charlatans .

If anything, Nigeria's situation is the best proof that God is just a silly figment of the human mind.
The sillier the mind , the sillier the God of their beliefs.

One million Megatons of prayer power every single day, all a waste of mental energy that could be used more creatively and constructively.

prof12:
Subsidy is paid directly to the source from where the commodity is bought from which is the right thing for any government to do ..

WTF ?

First of all, so there is something called subsidy that this government is paying ?
Hhhm!!
Very very interesting.

Secondly , I am 100% sure that just like Buhari, you do not understand what subsidy is.
Otherwise, you wouldn't have volunteered to come out here in public to make a fool of yourself with that very very brilliant statement about subsidy being directly paid to the source where the commodity is purchased.
Very brilliant.
Let's have a standing ovation for your brilliance.

ukejejohnson:
The level of low understanding or should I call it naivety and ignorant in this country is alarming mehn.

Reno should focus in pastoring and forget about politics. Bcuz ain't no space for him and FFK again

Y'all should please take some time out and read about this administration before condemning them

Read about what our former coordinator minister of finance plus CBN governor said during 2015 election

Take your time and see what was left before APC took over. It is not easy

The way some of Nigerians talk and reason eh , it scares me and also tells me social media isn't enough to educate us.

Spoken like a typical zombie.

Now, if you are sincere and you really believe in what you have just posted, then kindly do yourself, your fellow supporters and the rest of us a great favor and public service by posting and educating us , with publicly available facts, on the state of the social, political and economic affairs in Nigeria prior to and 3 years into this administration.

We are very very eager.
NB: And please remember, FACTS please, no INNUENDOS or Propaganda talking points.

omohayek:
It's hilarious seeing an ignorant clown like you trying so hard to string sentences together in an effort to appear intelligent. Like I said, OMockery is an imb.ecile, incapable of formulating an honest, serious thought if his life depended on it, and that is why he garners a readership constituted of the stupid and the unschooled like yourself.

Yawn!
So you have all this time and energy to attack Reno, and now me ?
And yet you're still unable to string up the feeblest of an argument to refute the simple,fact-based arguments put forward by Reno ?



Reno didn't appear here as beauty pageant contestant. Therefore, you were neither required to like or dislike him, nor offer us your personal opinion of him.
You were simply required to read his fact-based arguments , comprehend, digest, agree , disagree, and if warranted , put forward a counter argument or counter narrative with your own set of facts.
Duuhh ! !

This is why you have been failing English Comprehension since primary school.
They give you a set of facts with which to articulate an argument, but you ignore what is given to you and embark on a needless and useless fishing expedition.

Good heavens !
Where are they getting this breed of lobotomized ZOMBIES from ?

omohayek:
Why is it that an imbe.cile like Reno OMockery constantly gets headline articles, but when some like Reuben Abati has intelligent things to say, he gets no attention at all? Of course, I'm merely making a rhetorical question, as I already know the answer: because most Nigerians are simply not bright enough to appreciate a well-reasoned argument devoid of appeals to tribal or religious sentiments.

Well, if you had any well-reasoned argument to, at the barest minimum, debunk or refute Reno's argument, we have no doubts that you would have offered it here.
But Since you haven't, then we are right to assume that indeed, you have no well-reasoned argument devoid of tribal and religious sentiments to offer.

Our advice to you then is to keep silent until such a moment that you are able to muster and articulate even a feeble counter argument to Reno Omokri's very simple argument.
Thank you.

fiizznation:
Africans are something else. What the fvck is the "1st lady" of a state doing with a convoy? What the heck is even wrong with us(africans)?

Anyway may the deceased souls RIP

You took the words right out of my mind.

This article is a big fat lie.
I can bet you that the writer of this article knows zero about Nigeria, and is just regurgitating old stereotypes about Nigeria.
His or her ignorance is clearly highlighted by the statement " middle class starved of technology".
Tens of thousands of used phones, mostly iPhones and Samsung phones, enter the Nigerian mobile phone market every single day from UK, USA, Canada, Dubai and South Africa by entrepreneurs who take advantage of the price differentials to make a profit and a decent living.

With modern security features embedded in almost every iPhone and high end Samsung phones, everyone knows that a stolen phone from UK would be completely useless to both the buyer and seller in Nigeria.

guterMann:
There's an air of negativity and bad news hovering around Buhari.

(1) Went to Germany--said West Germany, my wife belongs to the kitchen.

(2)Went to the UK--Nigerians are criminals.

(3)Went to Ghana---promised to help a country way less corrupt than Nigeria fight corruption.

(4)Went to Dapchi walked on 'red carpet'.

(5) Benue--- I didn't know that my IG didn't come.

He's helping to batter the already battered image of Nigeria abroad.

THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN

How Nigerians voted Buhari to be president is going to be in the future, a mandatory course in reverse psychology for university students .

It appears that individually, Nigerians are deemed intelligent, but collectively, they are dumb as a rock.

Buhari is the poster boy of the mirror opposite of leadership.

He is insincere, corrupt, aloof, clueless, incapable of learning anything, has a feudal mindset, extremely tribalistic, and worst of all, is incapable of taking responsibility.

If all these allegations of collecting monies from the NSA were all the looting that went on during the 6yr tenure of GEJ, then all Nigerians should be celebrating GEJ as a Saint.
In the 3 yrs of this Buhari government, we have seen financial scandals in Also Rock alone that almost match the entire sum allegedly looted under GEJ.

By the time APC is booted out of government, then we would see the full scale of corruption and looting by Buhari's cousins , inlaws and nephews.

The Op has taken a Very very narrow view of reality.

First of all, crowds of people , mostly organized and funded for the purpose of cheering a visiting leader is nothing new, and is definitely not expected to show the bitterness and frustrations that the far far majority of Lagosians feel towards the federal government.

Secondly, there is zero evidence, no polls that suggest that the majority of the registered voters in Lagos state have a favorable opinion of Buhari and the federal government.

This idea that Tinubu is the most influential politician in Nigeria is a very very silly myth, especially given the clearly disgraceful manner that the Aso Rock cabal had rendered him impotent . It is very very debateable that Tinubu even has the greatest political influence in the current Southwest, talkless of Nigeria.
Tinubu is man who pretends to be a man with a modern progressive political ideology, yet he easily dines and wines, and goes out of his way to ingratiate himself with Feudal autocrats with medieval mindsets.

One can even make the argument that Tinubu is a political fool, a mere political opportunist who pretentiously weaves a larger than life image for the purpose of projecting an influence that , in reality, he does not have.

RZArecta2:
Why does the Nigerian police keep disgracing itself ?

The funniest and most ridiculous part of this charade is the one about alerting interpol to arrest Dino for supposedly passing false information about an attempt on Dino's life.
I just couldn't stop laughing.

So these mofos see Interpol in their own disgraceful image.

What a disgraceful police force of a disgraceful government.

revolt:
Is this not the guy tht murdered ironsi n fajuyi, n was rewarded handsomely .. Lol glad its in his lifetime.

Lol.

Danjuma is perhaps the only human being for whom I have fervently prayed and wished for a slow painful death, similar to the way he and his gang of mutineers murdered his former boss, Aguiyi Ironsi.

But now, I pray for his fate to be delayed. I wish him live longer and conscious enough to witness and reap the rotten fruits of his murderous labor.

The weight of the injustices against the Igbo people shall inevitably weigh down and break all their bones, one by one.

iliyande:
By Justin Tyopuusu, Jalingo.....

The former Minister of Defense and an elder statesman, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.) on Saturday urged Nigerians to defend themselves against killers in the country.

Danjuma made the call while speaking at the maiden convocation of the Taraba State University, Jalingo, Taraba State.

“I am not a politician and politics is one profession I don’t want to belong to because if I am a politician, I would not say what I am going to say to you now.

“When I arrived this arena, I saw rich cultural display, and I was amazed at the rich cultural heritage of our people. Taraba is a mini Nigeria with diverse ethnic groups living together peacefully, but the peace in this state is under assault.

“There is an attempt at ethnic cleansing in the state and of course, some rural states in Nigeria. “We must resist it. We must stop it. Everyone of us must rise up.”

Details later.

http://punchng.com/breaking-defend-yourselves-against-killers-says-ty-danjuma/amp/#click=https:///wJMfEYZtnl

To TY Danjuma, I say hahahahahaha.


You sowed murder, you are reaping genocide.
Who is holding the bag now ?

ceoreportnaija:
https://www.reportnaija.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/5ab6248c2a2a0.jpg
Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, says at least 7.4 million pupils are benefitting from the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) of the Federal Government.



Osinbajo who was represented by Boss Mustapha, Secretary to Government of the Federation (SGF), made the disclosure at a National Symposium on NHGSFP on Friday in Abuja. The symposium, organised in partnership with the National Social Investment Office, was in honour of the African Day of School Feeding. NHSGSP is one of the pillars of the social investment efforts of the Federal Government.



“I am amazed at the level this wonderful programme has attained; this is a major success recorded. The programme provides a social safety net that improves the health and education of the poorest and most vulnerable children. NHSGSP is among our efforts to combat poverty; it is anchored on ensuring nutrition for our children. It is our attempt to reach the family unit in very real times; we have some good work in this regard; it is currently operating in 22 states in Nigeria with 7, 487, 441 pupils as beneficiaries. We must appreciate the micro-economic effect of this; it has engaged 75, 330 cooks; over 8000 persons are employed in the value chain– that helps in fighting poverty,’’ he said.



Mustapha said that there was need for all stakeholders to scale up their efforts at making the programme a huge success. He called on all arms of government to strengthen their commitment to NHSGSP.

source
https://www.reportnaija.ng/2018/03/24/7-4m-pupils-are-benefiting-from-our-school-feeding-programme-vp-yemi-osinbajo/

Where in Nigeria ?

The Federal government of Nigeria is now the official financial sponsor of Boko Haram.

Need we say more ?

buhariguy:
Idiotic pigs of Biafra will not be happy with this fulani lady.
They said she was the dilector of the movie.

Meanwhile, late nnamdi KANU will be turning in his grave, as he is not alive to watch this most interesting movie of all time.

Only a lobotomized zombie would believe the words of Boko haram spokespeople over what are clearly obvious indications, even from previous situations of payments of ransome money to Boko Haram.

The federal government of Nigeria is now the Official sponsor of Boko Haram.
Only Zombies can be repeatedly fooled by this government, the government of fools, for Fools, by greater fools.

Fraud coalition.
Subterfuge coalition.

Only in Nigeria can a fantastically corrupt ex president, the CEO and number one beneficiary of Corruption Nigeria PLC, a man upon whose reign and on whose behalf the goodwill of the PDP was thoroughly exhausted, is the chief BackStabber of the same party, the saboteur in-chief, the party on whose platform he rode to Glory and stupendous wealth.

Only in Nigeria.

This saboteur in-chief is only doing his dirty work in an effort to divide and cannibalize the opposition votes against Buhari in the South for the upcoming elections next year. This is a carefully concocted plan to maintain the status quo. Nothing else.

A true and genuine grassroots movement for change does not have to emerge during and for the sole purpose of a particular election.
Secondly, a true and genuine grassroots movement would never emerge from the a lifelong parasite of our common wealth such as Obasanjo.

Caveat emptor.

EODforce:
Op ,how about listing to us as well the choiced properties of Tinubu

don't forget to add Lagos state as one of tinubu's property

good luck on that

Don't mind the useless idiot.
He is not even intelligent enough to quote the source of this information.
Selective stupidity.

Why not do Nigeria a favor by publishing same for all senators, all governors and former governors ?

Let us see the choice properties of Buhari's cabal, his family and extended family.

Harbdulrasaq:
Former Special Assistant to President Jonathan on New Media, Reno Omokri has offered single women advice on how to make their partners propose.

The US-based pastor gave the advice on Thursday morning in #RenosNuggets, his early-morning inspirational piece on Twitter.

Omokri said single women fail to get their men to propose because of giving them pre-marital sex.

He added that denying a man sex would only make him more willing to get married so as to have access to the sex.

He tweeted:

http://newshelm.ng/how-to-make-a-man-propose-reno-omokri/


cc lalasticlala mynd44


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Bullshyt Reno.

Sex is sooooo cheap in Nigeria that if one woman denies you sex, there are 10 others offering to you at any given time.

In fact, men often use marriage proposal to lure women into easy sex.
In as much a woman has the right and is encouraged refuse a man sex until the man shows commitment, the idea of no sex before marriage is a giant FRAUD, the greatest hypocrisy, unless the woman is a virgin.

Most women, most Nigerian women, see relationship as a commercial transaction where they earn something, a profit of some sort, in exchange for companionship.

Guys are fully aware of this, and play the MUGU when necessary.

A man proposes to woman when he takes a second look at her and makes a future projection of her beauty, her support and her enduring personal attributes.

Parents should, as a matter of duty, nudge, and when necessary, push their children away, far away from the Judeo-Christian Bullshyts.
Carrying an imaginary father in one's head is an unnecessary yoke that distorts positive thinking , kills the gift of healthy skepticism, impedes the intellectual development and scientific curiosity.

Anyone, any child whose worldviews in this modern era, this age of information, are anchored in stone age superstitions that fall beyond the laws of mathematics is to be considered a maladjusted person or child. Same as for nations.

Nigeria is my shining example.