₦airaland Forum

BlackMbakara1:
Question begging for answers, the FIU what is their role if not to share intelligence?

Why shouldn't EFCC use such intelligence if the Egmont group doesn't have anything to hide?

No wonder they will always protect the identities of looters from 3rd world countries so as to impoverish them more.

Is Egmont group telling us that they don't share any details with American financial crime agency?

They should go ahead and remove us, afterall anybody that has any legitimate business or transaction will defend him or herself .

This was how PDP, Metuh, Diezani, FFK, Nenadi etc were shouting witch-hunting, not knowing they had skeletons in their cupboard...today, cancer, heart disease, spinal meningitis etc

Enough of oyibo using our head...

Almajiri, they are not talking about cattle rearing.

They are talking of confidential financial transactions getting leaked to the media.

In the 2018 world, the rest of the world don't use machete to slit people's throat because of allegations.

Stop dragging Nigeria back to Uthman Dan Fodio's 1804.

Mr. Professor, whoever is deceiving you is not doing you any good.

FULANI CANNOT TAKE ON THE WHOLE NIGERIA!!!

It is suicidal.

You simply CANNOT survive it.

You can take that to the bank.

It is in the interest of the Fulani to abide by the laws of the states in which they want to do "their business".

Nigeria is a very wicked, cold-blooded and ruthless country that deals with ANY recalcitrant group in the most MERCILESS way.

By the time Nigeria is done with you, your HISTORY will be a lesson to generations of unborn children.

You will be the same people that will be agitating to be allowed to LEAVE those so-called conquered land.

You will forget all this 85% protein supply in its entirety.

Some other fellows had also tried this kind of subjugation of other people in this same Nigeria.

You can check your history.

Nigeria is not loyal to any group.

It is just by chance that a Fulani is leading Nigeria at this time.

It is better you call your people to order before it is too late.

You cannot just be killing people everywhere and boasting about your CONQUEST like an insane person like this.

The Miyetti Allah group has left no one in doubt that the killings (still on-going) are due to the laws duly enacted by states to protect their citizens.

If you arrogate to yourselves the powers you are entrusted with at this time and using same to try your hegemony, it won't be long before you are shown the bitter consequence.

If you think otherwise you can continue with the killings.

Ovamboland:
One sided narrative, I used to think the Reno guy had a bit of intelligence. Of course he will make sense to unthinking wails.

What has been proven from events is that Jonathan did little or nothing to induce the 6-7% annual growth rate during his tenure. The growth was largely fueled by sharp and sustained increase in crude oil price. Immediately oil prices crashed mid 2014 to about $80 and to about $70 the growth rate slowed down to less than 3% average for all the quarters since the elections and handover.
But it can hardly be disputed that better public power supply could have taken our growth rate to about 10% during the oil boom years. And this could have served as a buffer to the economy during oil price crash.

After take over by APC oil prices crashed further to as low as $28 plunging the fragile economy and coupled with pipeline attacks we could only export 50% of our production at that time. There's no way the government could have raised money to finance itself and any project or investment. It can only keep afloat by borrowing.

The current recovery is fueled mainly by recovery in oil prices. Plugging of some loopholes and waste also helped

So why are we not growing at 7% right now with "all" that is being done to "induce growth", Mr. Pundit?

Subsidy was paid on imported petrol then - Subsidy payment was needless when price of crude was $28.

They said subsidy payments have stopped now. And "technical recovery" is being borne by Nigerians.

Petrol sold for N87/liter then - petrol sells for N145/liter now.

Exchange rate was N187/$1 then - exchange rate is now N306/$1.

Boko Haram was ravaging the North East then - Boko Haram, they said, has been TECHNICALLY defeated.



Also note: The CBN converts the dollar earnings to naira for various Nigerian governments.

$80 at 187 naira = N14,960 (2014)

$28 at 306 naira = N8,568 (worst case)

$70 at 306 naira = N21,420 (from 2017)

This statement has nothing to do with Dr. Alex Ekwueme

Tinubu is indirectly referring to his CAPTORS in Abuja.

Owe lesin oro, oro lesin owe.

Indirectly saying "if I had been given a proper role to play in APC the country would not have been like this".

His CAPTORS know he is talking to them.

valentineuwakwe:
don't we have respect for a sitting president. ...buhari may not be the best we all crave for now but then in 2015 he was the change option we wanted in GEJ...alot of his good works are being over run by the bad ones dines by his over zealous and ambitious aides but see what he has done...
buhari brought npower....
buhari brought TSA
buhari brought peace and save the nation from chaos and anarchy

Jonathan developed Whistleblowing, TSA, other anti-corruption measures but… – APC Lawmaker

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/jonathan-developed-whistleblowing-tsa-anti-corruption-measures-apc-lawmaker/

Jonathan government created TSA, but couldn’t impose it – Buhari

http://dailypost.ng/2016/02/05/jonathan-government-created-tsa-but-couldnt-impose-it-buhari/

He brought DEATHS

and

MASS GRAVES.

Hold Buhari, the minister of petroleum, responsible.

When did Shettima lecture at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State?

macdanpets:
A battle of the bigwig within ranks the ruling All Progressives Congressive, APC loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has begun following a strongly worded letter, written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President, News Proof has learned reliably

According to Sources, the All Progressives Congress has retreated to the boardroom, in search of an acceptable presidential candidate, come 2019.

A top source within the party according to The Point revealed to at the weekend that two governors – Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna, and Kashim Shettima of Borno – were now on the radar of the party.

A source within the party disclosed that Kaduna’s Nasir El-Rufai and Borno’s Kassim Shettima were being propped up by two diametrically opposed interest groups within the party.

“While the Buharists within the party may have settled for El-Rufai in case the President declines to go in 2019, the Tinubu Team are all for Shettima,” he said.

The source, who belongs to the Tinubu Team, said his group was in support of the Borno governor because he was less controversial and dogged, having weathered the storm of the Boko Haram insurgency, adding that he was also easily sellable in the South West.

He noted that Shettima was once a lecturer at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, and could speak the Yoruba language, which would be a great political asset.

A visit, last year, by Tinubu to Borno State to commission many projects executed by the Shettima administration, was described by top sources in the party as a clear indication that the governor was “being courted for a higher calling.”

It was, however, learnt that those who were rooting for El-Rufai were doing so mainly because Buhari would, any day, prefer the Kaduna governor as a successor. Besides, the Kaduna governor reportedly has some groups within the party, who are working for him, especially in the northern areas.

Obasanjo, in his letter entitled, “The Way Out,” had berated the almost three years’ administration of Buhari, faulting the President over the poor state of the economy and Federal Government’s inability to halt the wanton killings by suspected Fulani herdsmen in many states of the Federation.

The former president, as a result, asked Buhari to resist the temptation of seeking re-election next year, but retire home and become a statesman.

Though both the Federal Government and the ruling APC had replied OBJ, suggesting that the ex-president did not have a full grasp of events before writing his letter, party sources described the responses as mere grandstanding.

“We know this is a clear red card that can result in an electoral loss if we choose to re-present Buhari for another tenure,” an impeccable top source within the party disclosed.

A source particularly disclosed that last week’s visit of the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and a former party chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, to President Buhari, was only a prelude to what might be tabled before the President at a special stakeholders’ meeting of the party, to be held soon before its national convention.

The source, who opted for anonymity, owing to the sensitivity of the issue, said, “What Tinubu and Akande went to discuss with the President was the need for the party to fix an early date for its convention as against a June date being canvassed by some interest groups. In the course of the chat, they asked him to think critically and consult widely on the import of Obasanjo’s letter and act according to his conscience.

“But the President is not a kid; he has seen the direction of the wind within the party and he is not such a person who will do any abracadabra or break up the party to satisfy his personal interest. He may just have chosen to keep silent because any immediate statement on his plan for 2019 may heat up the system. His close aides have assured us that he will do the needful during the party’s convention.”

1978

$2.8b "oyel money is missing".

$2,800,000,000 in 1978 is equal to $10,593,147,239.26 in 2018

$10,593,147,239.26 is equal to N3,241,503,055,213.56 [N3.2trn] (at $1/N306)

Buhari is the first Nigerian leader to be accused of monumental corruption.

CoolAmbience:
What were the agricultural outputs during the last administration? Let me have figures on at least a few staple foods. What is the status of the cassava bread initiative? How many fertilizer blending facilities operated under Mr. Adesina? And why are the 11 fertilizer blending facilities revamped by the current administration the only existing ones?

Speaking of being shameless, how much did JAMB, FIRS, Customs etc. make between 2010 and 2015? Tell us.

I am sure you didn't hear of BH killings, destructions, maiming and complete shutdown and takeover of 14 LGAs and livelihoods in the NE, including the attack on UN building in Abuja etc, which of course does not in anyway justify the killings in Benue, Adamawa and Taraba, which the FG has owned up to and made unequivocal assurances to address.

You call N55million collection in 5 years vs more than N5billion collection in a year a nominal increase? Its either the word nominal has new sets of meaning or you do not know its meaning. Go and find out the FIRS now versus FIRS before, and you'll be swept off your feet.

I won't talk of the massive looting and recklessness that characterized that administration. What shame are you talking about?

Iru kantan kantan wo le leyi laro Thursday nsin?

Is it that you people have sub optimal IQ or just plain wicked?

What is the agricultural output your god met when he released 10,000 tons of grains from the strategic grains reserves as hunger was about wiping out Nigerians in April 2016?

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/hunger-buhari-orders-release-10000-tons-grains/

What! What is the meaning of this?

Did 10,000 tons of grains germinate in the silos by magic?

Is fertilizer blending plant the beginning and the end of agriculture in a country?

Akinwumi Adesina was honour as the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate in recognition of his works on agriculture in Nigeria.

https://www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm/87428/44008/tel:(515)245-3783

And your boasts are not based on physical food on the table of Nigerians but a PPP financed fertilizer plants?

Does it not occur to you that you should not be boasting of 2015 level price of fertilizer now that you have your almighty PLANTS?

If a bag of fertilizer was sold for 5000 in 2015 without plants, does it sound intelligent to roll-out the drums celebrating the reduction in price from 10,000 to 5000 with plants in 2017/2018?

It doesn't look like you can read and comprehend simple English.

Otherwise, you won't deceptively switch the word "nominal" used for the Customs Service in my comment for JAMB in yours.

So killings by Fulani all over Nigeria is your own equivalent of "BH killings, destructions, maiming and complete shutdown and takeover of 14 LGAs and livelihoods"?

Have they stopped the killings, destruction, maiming and takeover of military hardware now?

As at today policemen and policewomen, university professors (UNIMAID lecturers) and several other people abducted when your god took office are still in Boko Haram captivity.

It has not even been a year that a Boko Haram attack alert on Abuja was issued.

You people are so demonic.

coolscott:
He failed to state that when they took over, the inflation rate was a single-digit figure.
They succeeded in making it double digits.
So what he is telling us now is that they have only brought it down to the still high figure of a 15% inflation rate

Notice that he said that was the lowest it has ever been since Jan, 2017 not anything on or before May of 2015, confirming that the new levels of inflation highs have been recorded after this administration took over

Don't mind these disgusting fellows.

They destroyed Nigeria entirely and now claiming nonsense.

deomelllo:
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Why is this ipob rambling all over the place?


No be facts to support your rubbish with I ask for?


Nna, no dey spew rubbish you can not back up with facts while at the same time demanding facts from other people.


Stop hypocrisy and start practicing what you preach..

Do you want to see receipt of petrol?

Stay there and be looking for government document to give you "facts" about Lassa fever.

Just stay where you are okay, Buhari will soon send Lai Mohammed to give you the official documents.

deomelllo:
I was actually expecting you to show us the credible facts and official government documents you pulled your facts from.

....but of course, you have no facts, just the typical silly gibberish..

This is borderline delusion.

You need a government document to show you are buying fuel at 180 - 200 naira?

Na wa o.

You are waiting for government to tell you this is how many children have been sold by their parents.

What credible official paper do you need to tell you people have lost their jobs?

Are you of productive age or...

Were you just "rescued" from SLAVERY in Libya or what?

CoolAmbience:
On the contrary, every single achievement reeled out by Alh. Lai Mohammed is correct and verifiable. I don't see how he made Nigerians hate President Buhari. People don't need people to make them hate others.

Anyone who knows what recession means in an outrageously corrupt mono-economy, which is heavily import dependent too, will understand what this administration has achieved. Not only were oil prices down significantly, the wars against insurgency and pipeline vandals raged, milking hard on already lean resources.

While I concede that more has to be done in the areas of security of lives and properties, boarder policing and employment generation, I believe so much has been achieved in the face of prevailing economic realities.

Look at how JAMB, Nigeria Customs Service, FIRS etc, where smartly retooled for greater efficiency which helped in significantly closing the huge revenue gap occasioned by fallen oil prices. I need not mention how the Anchor Borrower's Scheme revolutionized the Agriculture sector creating millions of jobs. The Honourable Minister didn't even mention the 11 revamped fertilizer blending plants across the country that created employment for our teeming youths and helped pull down fertilizer prices from N10,500 to N5000 per bag, in view of increasing agricultural outputs, which will naturally address the high prices of food stuffs as is being currently witnessed in some parts of the country.

Let's learn to leave politics out of things that are of common good to us. Nigeria's progress is certainly a common good and I believe we are on track to achieving it. Everyone has to come on board and make their contribution if we must reach our desired destination.

Stop this disgusting reasoning, will you?

It's like there is no sense of shame.

You people took Nigeria's destiny and destroyed it beyond recognition and are now make unreasonable assertion with pride.

You took an entire nation into the abyss and now celebrating it shamelessly?

Fertilizer was sold for between N3900 and N5400 before Buhari brought his retrogression.

In fact, Akinwumi Adesina built his public career on fertilizer and agriculture.

He is now the current ADB president on account of his excellent performance in that sector.

Are the youths and women slaughtered in Benue, Taraba, Southern Kaduna, Adamawa etc also part of the "teeming youths" you have provided jobs for?

Customs is retooled for efficiency and celebrating a nominal increase in duty collection at N306/$1?

Which budget gap is JAMB's N5b helping to close, Oga?

Even FIRS that has consistently fallen short of revenue target is "helping close budget gap"?

deomelllo:
lol @ you quoting figures without facts, indices and all the things you are demanding from other people.


Stop the hypocrisy, practice what you preach.

You are barely coherent.

Everyone knows that a victim of hypnotism is helpless.

Help will come your way in due course.

umarazizz87:
I expected you guys to dispute his submissions, only you couldn't. He's outlined facts about the economic progress being recorded by the country, real progress.
Having no idea to deny his submissions, you have resorted to cheap insults to his person. I am not happy with Buhari, but I can't insult him just for the fun of it.

Where are the "facts"?

How do you measure your own progress?

Do you consider people selling their children to feed as an "economic progress"?

Is fuel price increase an "economic progress" in your economics textbook?

Over 15 million people have lost their jobs.

Thousands of companies have folded up.

Millions of children have dropped out of school in the last two years.

Where in the world is high cost of transportation and goods considered an "economic progress"?

What about suicides across the country, that's progress too?

Polio is back.

Lasser fever is ravaging.

These are economic progress?

Where are the economic indices?

Exchange rate remains over 300 naira/dollar from 198 naira/dollar.

Infant and maternal mortality rates are growing.

Inflation was 9.7% when Buhari came in, it is now over 15%.

What about GDP, from $522b to $406b - is that progress also?

12inches1:
It's not too difficult for an analytical mind to spot all the half-truths in the so-called achievements.

My brother, Buhari's matter has taught many of us a great lesson not to put any hope in the ability of our people to spot lies.

Do you know that people believe Buhari was going to sell fuel at 30 naira per litre?

Can you imagine highly respected people in the society - professors of many years standing - put their hope in 30 naira a litre fuel under Buhari?

12inches1:
Sometimes I wonder whether these politicians think all Nigerians are da.ft. All that Lai Muhammed has put here as achievements are related to the rise in oil prices in the international oil market. Rather than comparing the economy before and after the oil price went up, how about he compare the economy now when the oil price is stable and the oil price during Goodluck era when oil was stable as well. Can you imagine him saying inflation reduced. Before nko. Everyone knows that Nigeria is largely dependent on oil and when oil price goes up inflation in Nigeria will reduce.

They somehow believe too much in their JAZZ's ability to hypnotize their ZOMBIES eternally.

QuitNotice:
Most of the stuffs Mohammed listed out are facts and figures, but all the children can do is to condemn them even without verification. I pity Nigeria for the youths she is cursed with

What did Mohammed list that is not a shameful attempt at covering up.

Inflation was 9.7% when Buhari was elected.

Over 15 million Nigerians have lost their jobs since then.

Fuel price has increased exponentially, from 87 naira when Buhari was elected to over 180 naira currently.

Polio has come back with vengeance. Nigeria recorded a whole year polio-free before Buhari took office.

Lassa fever is rampaging and killing trained medical personnel with fury.

What is more, the food basket of Nigeria, Benue, Taraba, Plateau, Nassarawa States and Southern Kaduna have been turned to the biggest mortuary since the end of the Civil War.

Unemployment growing astronomically.

Suicide rate is at its highest since 1914.

Sudden deaths growing rapidly.

Killings everyday.

Mass graves all over the country - from bombed IDP camp, to Shiites, to Benue, Southern Kaduna, Aba.

Arson of monumental proportion.

Despondent Nigerians running away from sudden deaths are being sold into SLAVERY in Libya.

okoyemekun:
As a die hard buharist, it's getting very difficult to defend president buhari, as much as I have made up my mind to follow PMB to the end,but the president is making it easy for his critics to destroy whatever good work he has done.
There re things the president must do asap,
1) He must make an example of those fulani herdsmen,it's been almost a month since those killing and they haven't arrested any fulani herdsman,haba
2) Buhari is nepotic,he is very comfortable in the midst of northerns,the man is the president of Nigeria,not the north,for every northern he appoints,he must match with a southerner
I will vote for PMB in 2019, but I believe buhari's biggest problem was coming to power without an agenda, up until when tinubu joined buhari, his most intelligent personnel was EL-RUFAI, buhari's crowd can't move Nigeria forward, he has appointed all his inner caucus,the man should begin to look outside of his small inner circle if he wants to move this country forward

GOD BLESS PMB,GOD BLESS NIGERIa

If the quotes below are the appraisal of Buhari by these two people long before now, then what more are your expectations?

Exactly how do you people make personal decisions?

A

"... Tinubu admitted that... Moreover, Obasanjo is the only candidate who stands a chance of blocking his rival, General Muhammadu Buhari, whose ethnocentrism would jeopardize Nigeria"s national unity. Buhari and his ilk are agents of destabilization who would be far worse than Obasanjo. Tinubu and many other governors are therefore implementing a strategy to re-elect Obasanjo, partly in an effort to prevent Sharia from spreading." - Wikileaks 2003

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/03LAGOS369_a.html

B

"Mallam El-Rufai wishes to remind General Buhari that he has remained perpetually unelectable because his record as military head of state, and afterwards, is a warning that many Nigerians have wisely heeded. His insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus are already well-known." - Nasir El Rufai, 2010

http://saharareporters.com/2010/10/04/el-rufai-buhari-should-stick-facts

There are too many stupid people going about their stupidity in the most stupid way thinking everyone is stupid like them.

How anyone can make this stupid statement (in bold) is what sane people still find difficult to get.

Obasanjo's signature achievement (in fact the most visible, the most indisputable and most celebrated) is in the telecoms.

The liberalization of the telecoms sector beginning with the issuance of GSM license to ECONET WIRELESS and MTN was done in 2001.

Anyone who willfully lie about this in his bid to support the government for the COWS is satanic.

veraponpo:
Written By Olufemi Sunday Afolabi



2019 election is still about 12 months away but it is just like tomorrow because everything in the nation is now set to work in that direction.

There has been a coalition of people trying to create the third force that can hijack power from the incumbent and we have also seen PDP trying to put its house together to wrestle power from the APC which dislodged it in 2015.

One of the heavyweights in Nigeria’s political space today is former President Obasanjo who has written an 18-page letter to President Buhari not to seek for reelection. He advised him to go and rest after his first term in office.

We have also seen some moves by some people, for example, the wife of the president, claiming that there is a cabal that is influencing some decisions at the centre . She is trying to make it abundantly clear that a force, other than President Buhari, is in control at the centre.

There is also the general view of the opposition in Nigeria. Many of them think in the same direction with either Obasanjo or Aisha. Some people have combined the views of the two ( Obasanjo and Aisha Buhari), as a result, they support these opinion leaders.

What is the bitter truth that we should know about this situation on ground?

The very first thing that we need to admit, if we want to analyze this issue without any iota of bias and sentiment, everything in life is about interest.The question will now be what interest is Obasanjo fighting for? What interest is Aisha fighting for? What interest is FFK, PDP, Ezekwesili, etc fighting for? That is another question to be answered, but the truth that we must accept is ‘ it is all about interest’. You remember the common saying ‘ there is no permanent friend, there is no permanent enemy but permanent interest in politics’.
Who is the accuser? The second issue to address is who is the accuser or adviser in this case? Let us start from Aisha Buhari. This is the wife of the President. She is supposed to be the closest person to him. She is supposed to be enjoying some direct benefits from him, etc. Unfortunately, something is wrong somewhere. Aisha Buhari believes that there is a ‘Cabal’ that has limited her influence, strength and power. Being a woman from a royal root, there is nothing you can do to remove royalty from her gene, she wants to rule and reign. Unfortunately, she has a husband that believes in doing it in the interest of all and not in the interest of any. Aisha has seen the ‘Cabal’ as the second ‘wife’ to her husband and she believes the only thing to do is to break the cabal. She cannot influence any appointment, she cannot influence any contract, she cannot influence her trips, there was a time she was barred from seeing her husband because of his health status , this made her to cry openly. She therefore has issues with the ‘Cabal’. She wants her husband in power but doesn’t want the cabal around him. How possible, you will ask?
President Obasanjo: This is a great man by all standards. An ex military man, former military Head Of State, former President, a writer, a PhD holder, Balogun of Owu Kingdom, an elder statesman, a Christian leader, etc. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is indeed a great man. But let us analyze his message and the messenger. The message is that Buhari should not contest for second term in office because there are elements of nepotistic approach in his government, his health status and his shallow knowledge of economic management and internal democracy. These are deep issues and they should be looked into. Who is the messenger is the second question here? Former President Obasanjo is the least right person to condemn Buhari in this country. Obasanjo’s first term was so bad that there was nothing that could be pointed to as his achievement. When i say nothing, i mean nothing at all. He practically was rolling on the floor to get his party ticket in 2003bfor reelection. He prostrated for Atiku, begged some governors and made them (governors) party leaders in their states in order to influence things and people for him. He had nothing to show as his achievement in his first term. Obasanjo, as we know, pushed for his third term in office. This shows that the kind of people Obasanjo is. Obasanjo practically manipulated everything to amend our constitution to allow a third term for himself but was pushed back by other forces. He sent emissaries to institutions, schools, churches, mosques, to push for his third term. He introduced politics of Bags of money popularly called ‘Ghana must Go’. Obasanjo could not point to any physical achievement in roads, rail, airport, power or anything. His era in power was full of bloodletting both political killings like the death of his attorney general, the Great Bola Ige, the Cicero of Africa, the death of Harry Marshal, the wiping away of a community in Odi,Bayelsa, the killings in ZakiBiam, Benue, many air crashes that lost hundreds of lives, the Niger-Delta problems began with him. Many freedom fighters like Asari Dokubo were jailed. The closure of Nigerian Airways, the introduction of political victimization leading to Atiku running away from his party, Rotimi Amaechi running to Ghana to save his life, there was a palpable fear everywhere, the insecurity leading to state of emergency in Ekiti and Plateau. The problem with Nigeria began practically with Obasanjo. We cannot forget what he did to South West Nigeria, how the governors, 5 of 6 governors were removed and he installed his own footsoldiers for his own personal second term interest. How he held back the allocations for Lagos States local governments for many months just to use Tinubu to make a political statement. How he separated brothers like Obanikoro being used against his boss and friend, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, etc His method of using EFCC to fight his political enemies. Politics of calumny, vendetta, etc was introduced by no other but Obasanjo. He openly called 2007 election a ‘do or die election’ on the national TV. Obasanjo is the architect of our woes according to the believe of many. Yar’adua had to admit it that the election that brought him into power in 2007 was a fraud. Obasanjo asked INEC to just write out results as confirmed by residents of many places after 2007 elections. Elections did not take place at all in many places yet Baba pushed his candidate to the seat of power. This is the Obasanjo advising us today. This is the person playing god on good governance today. Going into his role as father and husband, his children have said things that proved he is not a so good father, how he abandoned them, he didn’t train them in school, etc. His first wife does not have a good thing to say about him as well. How then can we compare him with Buhari? Many other moral issues are too bad to mention here for many reasons. We all remember the accusations of Mojisola, his son’s wife, etc.
What does PDP want? PDP was the vehicle that was supposed to have taken us to our promised land in Nigeria. The windfall of 2003 to 2007 and of 2010 to 2014 could have rewritten the history of Nigeria. We had the opportunity to work on our electricity, over $15B was embezzled by the people involved. It was so bad that the legislators that were to even probe Obasanjo shared part of the money being investigated. Nigeria lost the golden period and ended up worse than it was before PDP took over. We lost the glory of being the giant of Africa in sport and sporting events, we lost in military, we lost in politics of Africa, we lost in the world, we are deficient in infrastructures, no road, no water, no electrical power, no savings, no good airport, no standard university, nothing that PDP gave to Nigeria for 16 years of leadership.
Who are the people who don’t want Buhari to go for second term in office? They are many and belong to different political classes. Many of them are the corrupt people who keep on losing their loots to the Federal Republic of Nigeria everyday. Some of them cannot spend their loots so it becomes a do or die between them and Buhari. Many of them have run away from Nigeria. We know that Muazu, former PDP Chairman, Deziani Allison Madueke former Minister of Petroleum Resources, etc have run away from Nigeria because of the fear of Buhari. We know what Patience Jonathan, many permanent secretaries, former ministers , former governors, etc are losing everyday being products of corruption. These sets of people don’t want Buhari to continue.
Another set of people are the impatient people. Itbis believed that there is always a time-lag between when something is planned and when it is executed. ‘No leader can fix Nigeria in four year’ in the world of Goodluck Jonathan the immediate past president of Nigeria. It takes patience to achieve some things in life, especially good things. Rails, power, roads, cannot just get better in one day, it will take some times.

Finally, Buhari as a person may not be perfect, he has his flaws and shortcomings as pointed out by former President Obasanjo but he is the fairest of them all. Even Obasanjo who wrote the letter could only mention just about 4 major issues. This is nothing but an evidence that Buhari is better than Obasanjo himself. Buhari has started to put Nigeria on a solid rock of good governance. He needs to do it better and quicker though. He needs to ensure that security of lives and properties are maintained. He needs to create more jobs for the youths and old. He also needs to avoid nepotism in its entirety.

If today we are not importing rice again, rated as best in portfolio and stocks markets in the whole world, one of the best emerging economies in the world, one of the best in the ease of doing business, improved agriculture, improved security, etc then it shows things are getting better but may not be what we want. We want more from him.

Buhari is still the best. Primus inter pares (Best Among the Equal)


http://newsechoes.com/2018/01/24/buhari-and-the-dont-go-for-second-term-crew-the-truth/

When you are ready to work people will know, you won't need anyone to explain your inaction.

SalamRushdie:
Agents of the divisive govt doing what they know best !!! Dividing Nigeria

Very outdated tactics.

Blood is thicker than fura de nunu.

They are wearing the badge of sorrow, tears and blood.

Buhari will leave free and fair elections legacy with his UNDER-AGED VOTERS in the north?

Maybe they don't even know what a free and fair election is.

Buhari's legacies are DEATHS, KILLINGS, MASS GRAVES, DESTRUCTION, BIGOTRY, ECONOMIC RECESSION, JOB LOSSES, INFLATION, LOOTING, BUDGET FRAUD, BUDGET DISAPPEARANCE, DESPONDENCY, MISERY, DESPAIR, SUICIDES, CHILD SALES, SLAVERY, MISFORTUNE, NEPOTISM, SECTIONALISM, SECTARIANISM, DIVISIONS, BACKWARDNESS, TARDINESS, VACILLATION, LIES, INSINCERITY, ETC..

He knew all this and then ended his own political career by backing such a divisive figure 12 years later.

Sokoto Gudali, eleyi o jawo mon.

Nigeria has now been turned to a mortuary by Buhari.

Billyonaire:
Y'all still think they are there to feed their cows. How convenient is ignorance.

The Sahara Desert is encroaching and those guys are nomads......they will destroy you all with fear and death except you wake up and smell the coffee.

Your land is theirs to keep, and abroad is where all your minds are.

That is the main truth our people have refused to internalized and act upon.

They think it is ALL about cattle grazing.

Didn't they say this Bello guy finished from ABU Zaria?

And a Ph.D holder signed this kind of nonsense?

deomelllo:
Do they do procurement formalities, tax ID check and contract terms for old projects that have gone through the same process before the contracts were awarded in the first place?

Obviously, the man was talking about new capital projects, this is common sense, read, comprehend and use your brain sometimes before the embarrassing yourself on the internet.


And even if you are talking about no old capital projects in general, you are still wrong because Lagos Ibadan Express is a capital project and it is ongoing like many all over Nigeria.


Stop arguing like a baby.

Another totally aimless fellow from their stable is here with baseless logic.

So Mr Adult Procurement Officer, tell us how it is done in your ministry.

Old projects don't need any form of documentation before they are paid for, huh?

No procurement formalities are needed, no assessment of the job done, no performance benchmarking, nothing?

Once you hear procurement formalities, you just use "common sense" to assume it must be for new projects.

Also tell us...

What was the performance level of capital projects in 2016?

How many of the capital projects in 2016 budget were new?

Did the Lagos-Ibadan expressway project start with 2016 budget?

How many of the project in 2017 is a new capital project and not a continuation of the previous budget's votes?

The question is why did your ministry record zero performance in the capital projects in 2017.

Doesn't it occur to you that Fashola was beating about the bush with his procurement formalities, tax identity mumbo jumbo.

The senators he was addressing were not so carried away by empty rhetorics like you.

Their next question showed just that.

The report says Fashola was unable to answer.

A member of the committee , Senator Barnabas Gemade had asked why the ministry (Works ) had zero performance of capital projects in 2017.

The minister , however , blamed it on the late passage of the 2017 budget .

Fashola said , “ The 2017 budget was passed in June. The procurement law requires a procurement plan which took till September. In following this law, the first release was in August. Most of the projects were going through procurement formalities such as tax identity , contract terms , even construction companies went on holidays . So , there were so many things.”

Chairman of the committee , Senator Kabiru Gaya , then asked about the amount of projects that were not procured in 2017 since there was a rollover of projects from 2016.

Fashola was unable to respond to the question , stating that even the Director of Planning in the ministry could not give a definite answer. He , however , pleaded with the committee to bring a detailed report later .

seunmsg:
A cattle colony is just a bigger cattle ranch. Just like any other business organisation, the colony/ranch will be subjected to the laws of the state and federal government. Most importantly, the land for the colonies will be purchased from willing land owners and not hijacked by force. I am open to all options that will end the killings in as much as it doesn't trample on anybody's right or property.

No, a cattle colony in Buhari's lexicon is more than "just a bigger cattle ranch".

The colony will not be subjected to the laws of the state.

The purchase will not be a "willing seller willing buyer" arrangement.

It will not end the killings.

It is not like whatever you "are opened" to is of any value, but for you not to continue to live in delusion, a few checks on the real meaning of grazing colony according to Buhari and his Fulani people (in their own words) should get you to keep your options to yourself and yourself alone.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Garba Shehu, said on Monday that the federal government planned to carve out grazing reserves as part of measures to end the clashes between farmers and cattle rearers. These clashes have resulted in the killing of hundreds of people. Shehu said troops had been deployed to some communities that had recently witnessed such bloody conflicts to try to maintain security.

“The president took the matter to the National Council of State where the governors sit with the vice president to solve problems of security,” Shehu stated. “Their decision was that they will go back to all the ideas that had been there before, which is to carve out grazing reserves for cattle rearers.”
He said, “With that, there will be a clear difference between farmlands and grazing land, because it is when cattle are driven into farmlands” that the trouble arises.
“As a long-term policy, ranching will be there. But do not forget that ranching also has its challenges in so many ways.”

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/04/24/president-buhari-standing-rooted-to-the-spot-with-grazing-reserve-disaster/

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the Fulani herdsmen crisis is as old as Nigeria itself.

Buhari also said that his government would develop the capacity to keep Nigeria united.

He made the comments while speaking to journalists during a recent trip to London.

Excerpts from The Cable below:

On a permanent solution to the herdsmen crisis

The problem is virtually as old as Nigeria itself. Culturally, the herdsmen don’t stay in one place. They move with the season. Normally, harvest is completed much earlier in the north. Then they have to move southwards for green pasture. In the first republic, there was what they called cattle routes and grazing areas.

They were marked. Infrastructure were put in terms of windmills, earth dams, even veterinary clinics. Now after first republic, people turned these places into farms. And if you have 500 cows, if they don’t eat for 24 hours, or need water, you can’t stop them [from moving around].

What they used to do then is that if anybody went outside the cattle route, or outside the grazing area, he would be arrested, taken before an alkali’s court, fined. If he can pay, okay. The money is taken and given to the farmer. If he can’t pay, the cattle is sold and the farmer is paid. People were behaving themselves.

So when people came and took away the land for the cattle route, for the grazing areas, you find out that from Kaduna to Bayelsa, Nigerians are fighting cattle rearers now. But when I was in the Petroleum Trust Fund, we made a comprehensive study of cattle routes and grazing areas throughout Nigeria. I am referring the governors’ forum and the minister of agriculture and rural development to the report. Let them see what they can do and save the situation.

http://www.pulse.ng/news/local/buhari-fulani-herdsmen-problem-as-old-as-nigeria-itself-president-says-id5037501.html

There you have it from the "horse's mouth".

To summarize what they are saying.

i) Land is already identified based on bogus colonial-era grazing route.

ii) It is the farmers that have encroached on the land/route.

iii) Fulani don't stay in one place. Ranching has it's own problems.

iv) Fulani are taken to Alkali court (Sharia court). Where there's none, it must be established.

v) Intolerant Nigerians are the ones fighting Fulani.

(Buhari believes that the rest of the country are the ones who need to learn how to make up their minds and accept being killed by the Fulani - He begged the Benue people in the name of God to accommodate their fellow countrymen.)

If you have these facts and still believe in a colonial-option then you are dumb.