₦airaland Forum

Experience is the key thing, the key barometer.

Everything is an illusion, until it is consciously experienced.

Experience leaves an imprint on consciousness.

The universe, all things evolve by going through experiences.
Each experience adds something ' other' that was not previously there.

A conscious being or mind cannot stand outside of time and space, for the simple reason that it would be devoid of experience. And without the flux of interactive information, there cannot be experience, and there cannot be consciousness.

Sounds confusing, even to me.
But then, it is a deep and confusing subject.

ISpiksDaTroof:
They really think $26Billion is a lot of money for a country thats resource rich (and earned a lot of money during that period) like Nigeria. That amount is what CITIES use as transportation and education budgets in the U.S. Ask Reno what the yearly Transport budget of the city he's hiding out in California is.

Reno makes People despise GEJ the more he tries to extoll all his failures.

Shut up.
When did a third world country like Nigeria become the USA ?

Gosh!!
Where is common sense ?

Mynd44:
Someone should tell Reno that his knowledge of economics is hilarious. A Nigerian treasury with a little above $26 billion in foreign reserve is as good as empty. Heck can $26 billion be enough to service our forex market for a year?

Reminder: OBJ met $3b in reserves, $38b in debt, empty Treasury and social chaos.
What did he do ?
He reached out within and outside Nigeria to assemble technocrats and experts, NOT HIS EXTENDED FAMILY, to tackle Nigeria's numerous problems, and without so much whimpering and SULKING.

Buhari is not, and has never been leadership material.
Simple.

nghubs1:
buhari-and-jonathan
The former aide of Former President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri on Monday accused President Buhari of lying against his former boss Goodluck Jonathan.

Pastor Omokri said this in a Facebook post he published this morning after President Buhari on Christmas day said he met an empty treasury. Reno Omokri said that former President Jonathan's administration left $29.6 billion dollars in foreign reserve and $2.07 billion in excess crude account.

Read his full post below

On Christmas Day of 2016, President Muhammadu Buhari hosted leading citizens of the Federal Capital Territory led by the minister of the FCT, Muhammad Bello, and during the visit he returned to his old habit of blaming and said, and I quote, "there was no money saved, no infrastructure built, and power is still our main problem."

This is patently untrue and without mincing words, President Buhari lied.

Former President Jonathan left $2.07 billion in the Excess Crude Account when he handed over to President Buhari on May 29, 2015. He also left Foreign reserves of $29. 6 billion for the incoming government in May 2015.

If ex President Jonathan left no savings, with what money did President Muhammadu Buhari use to bail out those states that could not pay salary (mostly APC states) after he assumed office in May 2015? Of course the Central Bank of Nigeria did not print money! That money came from somewhere.

On Tuesday the 26th of July, 2016, President Buhari commissioned the $1.457bn Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge rail project. This was a project built and COMPLETED by the Jonathan administration. It is a 187 kilometer railway that enables Nigerians to live in Kaduna and work in Abuja. Is this not infrastructure?

The only federal university in President Buhari's state is the federal university Dutsin-Ma was built by former President Jonathan who also built 11 other federal universities in Zamfara, Yobe, Nasarawa, Kogi, Taraba, Gombe, Jigawa, Kebbi, Ebonyi, Bayelsa and Ekiti states.

By building 12 new federal universities and 165 almajiri schools and renovating 507 additional secondary schools all over Nigeria through the Universal Basic Education Commission, the Jonathan administration not only increased access to education, the policy also had the intended side effect of putting hundreds of thousands of youths to work which stimulated the economy and contributed to GDP growth. Are these not infrastructure?

To prove that former President Jonathan prudently and judiciously developed all parts of Nigeria, I will now list, state by state, the infrastructure that the Jonathan administration invested in every state of Nigeria. I challenge President Muhammadu Buhari to contradict me.

In Abia, Jonathan completed power plants in Aba and Alaoji and reconstructed and reopened Ohafia barracks to stem kidnapping.

In Adamawa Jonathan constructed 5 Almajiri schools and the NAF Comprehensive Sec School and a Terminal at the Yola airport.

In Anambra Jonathan completed Onitsha River Port, repaired Onitsa-Owerri Rd and kick started the process of the 2nd Niger Bridge.

In Akwa Ibom Jonathan established a new Federal Polytechnic in Ukana and the Nkari Earth dam and rehabilitated FG rds.

In Bauchi Jonathan equipped the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital Bauchi and built 5 Almajiri schools.

In Benue Jonathan is building the Loko-Oweto bridge, completed the Makurdi Water Supply Scheme supplying to 1 million people.

In Borno, Jonathan has fought desertification with the Great Green Wall Project and rehabilitated the Uba – Mbalala Road. He also set up the Presidential Initiative for the Northeast and the Victims Support Fund which raised ₦59 billion for the Northeast. Interestingly, it is from this PINE that a certain Babachir Lawal is accused of pilfering ₦270 million from.

In Cross River Jonathan rehabilitated the Margaret Ekpo Int’l Airport and Modernised the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital.

In Delta Jonathan has taken Itakpe-Ajaokuta-warri railway to 80% completion and kick started the $16B Gas City Project at Ogidigben

In Ebonyi Jonathan established the Fed University in Ndufe – Alike, repaired over 250km of roads and built power substations.

In Edo Jonathan completed the Ihovbor power Station, reconstructed the Benin-Ore-Sagamu and equipped UBTH.

In Ekiti Jonathan established the Federal University in Oye – Ekiti, and repaired hundreds of kilometers of Federal Rds.

In Enugu Jonathan gave the S. East their first International Airport and revived the PH-Enugu rail line.

In Gombe Jonathan established the Federal University in Kashere and built 5 Almajiri schools.

In Imo Jonathan rehabilitated the Sam Mbakwe International Airport and completed power stations and built sub stations. #GEJisworking.

In Jigawa Jonathan established the Federal University in Dutse, built 5 Almajiri schools and built silos.

In Kano Jonathan revived the Lagos-Kano rail, built 5 Almajiri schools, renovated the MAKIA Int’l Airport and built silos.

In Kaduna, Jonathan has just completed the Standard Gauge Kad-Abj rail that enables you work in Abuja and live in Kd.

In Katsina Jonathan established the Federal University in Dutsin-ma, built 5 Almajiri schools and multiple silos.

In Kebbi Jonathan established the Federal University in Kalgo, built 5 Almajiri schools and multiple silos.

In Kogi Jonathan established the new Federal University in Lokoja, and completed the Geregu power plant.

In Kwara Jonathan revived Jebba-Kano & Ilorin–Offa rail lines, built Almajiri schools, ongoing reconstruction Ibadan Ilorin Rd.

In Lagos Jonathan revived the Lagos-Kano rail, introduced inter city air conditioned diesel trains and is rehabilitating MMIA.

In Nasarawa Jonathan established a new Federal University in Lafia and rehabilitated the Lafia–Makurdi Rd.

In Niger Jonathan dredged River Niger up to Baro, Baro Port at 95% completion, Zungeru power plant ongoing.

In Ondo Jonathan completed and commissioned the 500 MWs Omotosho Power Plant Phase 2 & renovated the Akure airport.

In Ogun Jonathan rehabilitated the Sagamu-Ore road as well as the Ijebu Igbo Ajegunle–Araromi–Ife-Sekona Road (Section II).

In Osun Jonathan re-equipped OAUTH, constructed silos, built power substations, repaired Efon Alaaye-Erinmo Ijesha-Iwarga Rd.

In Oyo Jonathan is reconstructing (not repairing) Lag-Ibadan Rd and has commenced constructing the Lag-Ibadan hi-speed rail.

In Plateau Jonathan repaired the Vom-Manchok Rd, construction of earth dam in Heipang and power substations.

In Rivers Jonathan revived the PH-Enugu Rail, Rehabilitating the PH International Airport & upgraded Uniport Teaching Hospital.

In Sokoto Jonathan is fighting desertification with the Great Green Wall and built 5 Almajiri schools.

In Taraba Jonathan established the Federal University in Wukari and constructed the Kashimbila Multi-Purpose Dam Project.

In Yobe Jonathan established Fed University of Gashua, Almajiri schools & Gashua–Hadejia 132KV double circuit trasnsmission line.

In Zamfara Jonathan established the Federal University Gusau, built multiple Almajiri schools and constructed silos.

Omokri is the founder of the Mind of Christ Christian Center in California, author of Shunpiking: No Shortcuts to God and Why Jesus Wept and the host of Transformation with Reno OmokriOmokri

http://nghubs.com/president-buhari-lied-against-jonathan-on-christmas-day-reno-omokri/

Jesus !!

And silly Nigerians said they wanted " Change ".

Well, they got their " Chains ".

Mujaheeeden:
This man has joined bad gang. Just 10 bags of rice from a so called billionaire


When you join APC you join bad gang

DeepSight:
^^^ Fair enough. But this is not the sort of illusion being discussed here. I refer to an existential illusion rather than an economic or systemic one.

What is the difference between existential illusion and an economic or systemic one ?

If, from infancy , we are sold the first illusion that resources are scare and must be competed for, then that forms the foundations of our perceptions or worldview, and upon which other existential illusions are constructed.

From this illusion of scarcity, we compel our selves to spend almost 100℅ of our lives struggling to accumulate as much of the so-called scarce resources as possible.
Therefore, our consciousness, our conscious perceptions become limited, unable to expand beyond primitive accumulation.

Now , here is the funny part.
Because we spend so much our lives trying to accumulate, we develop a natural fear of death. We complain that life is too short.
We then create an after-life , eternal life illusion to assuage our fears.
In other words, we create an illusion of time, more time to do something other than primitive accumulation.

This is why heaven is sold as a paradise, with no work, no strife, no economic structure, no usury.

PentiumPro:
Stop barking and go get a hang of your silly emotion that is running rampage

To a fool, every wise counsel sounds like a bark.

nwamehn:
U said "man"? No be woman she be? What's the point being a man but hiding in a female moniker?

A lot of these online miscreants disguise their gender as part of the paid hack jobs they do here.

nwamehn:
In as much as I don't buy the idea of people engaging in e-fights on a forum like this, I still don't think there is any need abusing one another's tribe in the midst of those fights.

Pentiumpro is a well-known Nairaland Igbophobe who cannot get an erec.tion unless he insult Igbos.
It's time I begin to put the little insecure man in his right place.

PentiumPro:
Shut up and stop barking like a dog in trance.

I am not barking.
I'm actually whispering.

Of course, to a fool, every wise counsel sounds like a bark.

nwamehn:
U claim to be civilized and u say they ar uncivilized in their comments, now what is civil in this ur comment "Ibos mode of insults"? Na the whole Igbos insult u? Why insult a whole tribe if u know u ar really civilized?

" Igbos mode of insults ".

Is that even proper English for an educated person ?

Don't mind that empty vessel.
She or he obviously have a deep inferiority complex.

I can bet anything that he /she has a who-is-my-daddy issues.

PentiumPro:
You are the illiterate here, of you have no enough brain power to dispute what I've suggested but to resort to well known Ibos mode of insults

Who is the complete idiot here reverting to tribal insults ?
Not me for sure.

I don't really give a Bleep what tribe you pretend to represent here. You're probably the lowest scum of that tribe.

Here , I simply called you out on your sheer idiocy on national economic and monetary matters.

I don't know what compels fools like you to comment on matters way outside the scope of your tiny fish brains.

PentiumPro:
Why are you people so uncivilized in your commmets ?

Calling a spade a spade is actually being civilized.

PentiumPro:
The solution is simple.
Simply create two bands of forex and bring back the 41 items to the second band.
The parrel market will drastically fall
Thr emefiele man is too timid to face Buhari with solutions to his forex gaffe

Spoken like an illiterate.

Simply create two bands of forex ?
How many do we currently have , slowpoke ?

Too many fools with Internet data.

drizzymtbee:
God will deliver you from hopelessness

I am not as hopeless as a colony of fools , led by fraudulent pulpit charlatans, who look sheepishly to the empty sky for solutions to the basic challenges of existence.

sarrki:
The General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor William Kumuyi, on Sunday said that in 2017, God would grant President Muhammad Buhari the solution to the numerous challenges facing the country.

Kumuyi gave the assurance while speaking with newsmen when he played host to the Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Mudashiru Obasa, who led some members of the Assembly on courtesy visit to the church’s December Convention.

The cleric said, “We talk of the hours of recession, difficulty, distress and all that, but God is granting us His promises. We are not going to carry over our problems. “We pray and believe that the Lord will answer.

“As you will see, as we get to the New Year, there is no carryover of our problems. God will give solutions to the problems of our lives, families, communities, the state and our nation.”

The pastor said that with prayer and faith in God, the country would get out of all its challenges, including the economic recession.

The founder of the church said that God created “us and wants everything to be sufficient for everybody



http://punchng.com/god-ll-give-buhari-solution-to-nigerias-problem-in-2017-kumuyi/

Stuuupid bullshit.

Useless pulpit charlatans.

I guess god forgot to give Buhari solutions to Nigeria's problems in 2016, or was it that Buhari's brain was blocked in 2016?

If god hasn't answered Nigerians prayers for prosperity since 1914, despite the megatons of prayer-power every single day, then only a colony of fools would still be looking to the sky for solutions to their basic problems of nation building.

yeyenaija:
http://punchng.com/t-b-joshua-parable-mmm/

A million likes.

A herd of sheep will always attract a pack of wolves.

babadee1:
Nigeria is in trouble. I hope this country will be able to survive at the rate we Nigerians are using our own hands to sabotage our own economy. No Indians can be exporting moin moin and egusi into our country if some of us are not helping them out.

My friend, go back and read that article with your open eyes, with your comprehension skills.

It's FAKE.

falconey:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/shocker-imported-ogbono-soup-jollof-rice-india-got-nafdac-numbers/

Fake NEWS.

I hope no one was foolish enough to take this Fake story serious.

First clue: Mr Donatus Onwuegusi

Why didn't the op show the package?
Did the product not come in a package ?
Did it come in a plate ?

kettykin:
For the government to deploy soldiers where there is currently no demonstration of war going simply means that the government is very much afraid of its perceived enemies.

Nigeria's case can be likened to that of a man who on sighting a uniformed policeman picks race even without the policeman noticing him.

Sometimes I really very much sympathise with a country that can be held at Ransom by a single man with large following.

By shooting the innocent, the military might be giving Amnesty International enough evidence to nail it's coffin.

Exactly.
The irony is that a man, a treasonable felon at large, who is insisting that Nigeria must remain one, is the single person doing the most damage to Nigerian unity since he took office almost 2 yrs ago.

HungerBAD:
This writer and write up is very biased.

This does not require a lot of write up. What exactly do the Easterners want?how did this guy even come up with the N250 Million figure?

I mean,why do the Easterners have to always view anything done by anybody not an Easterner suspicious?like sending of security Agents to the East this EMBER month?and even if an Easterner is sent out to offer help,they still view them with distrust.

Same Igbo people that call Okorocha an Hausa man,and have labelled Ekwueme a sellout to the North.

To the Writer. For many years now,the East has gotten a reputation as a place where nobody goes near in the festive period.

This Government saw this as a problem,and deployed security apparatus to help the Eastern Citizenry,from Kidnaps and Robbery,and this writer is comparing it to an occupation of the East by the Federal Government.

If this same Government don't help to protect the East,same writer will say the APC Govt hates the East.

When was the last time anybody heard of kidnappings or Robberies in the East again?

This is a mischievous write up,and this victim playing card bandied around by the Easterners should stop.

You guys should tell Buhari THANK YOU.

You are welcome.

Shut the Bleep up.

Must you show up to insult Igbos on every Igbo related topic ?

We know you are paid for this crap, but the insensitivity of paid lackeys and Anal Retentives like you to serious issues affecting the 40 million southeasterners is proof of the insincerity and insensitivity of the buffoons that pay you to do this job.

Shame on you.

What a bunch of clowns this government is.

For those of you who are too young to know or remember, the black market in foreign exchange EMERGED DURING THE FIRST BUHARI government of 1983, when the buffoon , in his whimsical fashion, imposed restrictions in foreign exchange IMPORT and export.

Ever since, and IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER, the Naira went into a nosedive from which it has never, and will never recover.

Ever since Buhari's first failed MISSIONARY ( more like missionless ) journey into the political and economic life of Nigeria, Nigeria and her currency have been falling down the abyss.

Here the clowns are again trying to legislate against the natural Market forces of Supply and Demand.

The more you restrict the free flow and exchange of something, the more scarce it becomes.
The more scarce it becomes, the higher the value and the natural tendency to emerge a black market.
Duuhh!!

The black market is not something you create and uncreate by whims.
It emerges and evolves an independent and impervious will of it's own when the natural forces, the factors of demand and supply are interrupted or ruptured.

What school of Clown economics do these people subscribe to ?

Anyone who thinks that they can whimsically eliminate the foreign exchange black market in Nigeria without satisfying the natural demand is a deluded fool.

EgusiSoup:
go to the church and do the needful to the pastor.

I absolutely agree.
And don't be discrete about it.
It's time we start shaming those slimy scums.

islam1001:
In as much as i am dissapointed in the excessive increase in the budget, we have to take into consideration the fact that we are in recession now so 1billion in 2015 and 2016 is now like 4billion now in 2016 so there definitly be increase in the budget

Cow brain spotted.

So, by your stuuupid logic, the education and health budgets, for examples, should also have increased by 400℅.
Not so ?

idupaul:
For years we were brain washed into believing that Babangida and Abacha destroyed Nigeria while in essence the person who did was General Buhari, The rot he started in 1984 took 30 years to try to even fix it and we then made the same mistake and voted him in again , this time it will take another 60 years to clean it up, today Nigerians in Lagos are already queuing for rice and they dont even know it

Thank you, thank you so much.

This is what I have been saying all along.

Buhari is the single biggest catastroph to hit Nigeria.

I want to vomit when I hear that crook blaming other past leaders for Nigeria's problems.

gunther6:
I supported Buhari and had so much hope for this country but I saw the 2016 budget and wept, this is much worse, worse still he wants to mortgage the future of unborn and young Nigerians to finance this grand larceny... Impossible!!!

Grand larceny is the perfect word.

hotice01:
Wonderful piece!
And they claim to be fighting corruption!
This country will never develop until the high cost of governance is reduced to the nearest minimum.

This government is as corrupt as the past administration!
Nothing has changed except for the worse!

I'm afraid when this administration comes to a close,the level of corruption that will be uncovered and revealed will be mind blowing and devastating,if trends like this continue.

This budget should be tagged "Budget of wickedness,suffering and armed robbery!"

Seems our leaders have no empathy for the common man,only their selfish,wicked,greedy,power drunk and nefarious ambitions.

With this above analysis,the $30B loan should not be supported by any patriotic Nigerian who has genuine love for this nation.

As it stands now Nigeria is completely finished,if nothing is done about this evil trend and daylight robbery,Nigeria will be Finished completely!

I love my Country but I'm very ashamed of our leaders!

APC NL zombies will avoid this thread like a plague.
Sarrki(Oba of Zombies),Madridguy,Ngene......etc.

Cc: Seun,Lalasticlala,Mynd44

Again, just like the 2016 voodoo budget exposed their yansh and pretty much predicted the economic feminine of 2016, once again the 2017 abracadabra budget clearly clearly shows the sad hopelessness that awaits Nigeria.

Just imagine the shitheads who are deluding themselves that one iota of tangible good will come from this administration.

As anyone can clearly see in the last two budgets, the cost of governance and corruption has gone up by astronomical amounts during Buhari's " change" Regime.

What an Irony, a very sad one.

opalu:
You just sit with your phone ad type things that you have no clue of! People can attract God's wrath by judging issues they know nothing of! If we take a break and judge our own selves, this world would have been a paradise

God's wrath?

Big laughter.

You should be concerned about incurring Santa's wrath this Christmas.

MrMontella:
just imagine!
This is what religion does to someone..

The pastor would be ''all smiles'' now..and planning on how to use his new car ---Thats if he doesnt sell it..

As for the woman!

Hilarious.

She sowed a seed and reaped a divorce.
Poetic justice.

Please read the WORDS " sticky and plastic in nature "

Rice is usually sticky when it's cooked with too much water.

This is absolute nonsense coming from a public official.

How about a simple scientific analysis ?
Did he ingest the price for taste and digestion ?

Shouldn't it have been NAFDAC or an agro- scientific agency that should have done a thorough analysis ?

sarrki:
The way Nigerians are treated at different points of entry.

I called it precautionary measures

No one should give it tribal coloration

Shut the Bleep up, you paid lackey.

We know that you're probably one of the beneficiaries of Lai Mohammed's N100m budget for bloggers.

Even if you're being paid to defend this useless government, your job description doesn't have to involve insulting our common sense.

If you were any smarter, you would not inject your nauseating shallowness into every discussion.

I can bet anything that you have never in your life travelled from Ore to Onitsha.

When idiots like you do your knee-jerk stuuupidity to very important and very sensitive issues affecting millions of people, you further poison the atmosphere and create an even bigger wedge between the government and the people.