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gistabout:
Very funny

No be lie

DickDastardly:
No hate speech bro, the thing is that you naturally buried your head in the sand like the ostrish at the mere sight of the topic. Topic is reality 101 for you & buhari

Bruce is only playing to the gallery. When did he advice the man to whom he is LOYAL to reduce presidential fleet, reduce allowances etc.

He should stick to business. He's not a politician at all.

Ben Bruce has got it absolutely right here: Rather than looking backward to dwell endlessly on what the predecessors got wrong, all concerted efforts should be placed on sustaining the parts of growth already achieved, then setting the priority straight for all other parameters intended to curb corruption, insecurity and unemployment being the major core values upon whom his administration tries to succeed. Regulating prices of oil is not an individual program, the invisible hands will regulate that as usual....charity must be preached from room to room first...

SuperSuave:
I didn't read the thrash cos I know its full of hate speech. That man is a doubting Thomas, he still doesn't believe change is here, well he shall see it with his own eyes oniranu oshi

But did you read his epistle at all I guess No. Or may be you read and don't understand Ben has not say anything wrong he was saying his mind and from all I read I don't see anywhere hate come into it. It's left to Buhari to yield to good advise or throw it off because it's from opposition. Nigeria did not vote for apc but voted for buhari please get that fact. God bless.

Seriously?

ikaboy:
why didn't he advised his brother like this?

I can't blame him. That his brother must be allergic to truthfulness, uprightness, credibility and thriftiness. Jonathan, a man that said 'stealing is not corruption' would never take to this kind of advice.


Baba Buhari, abeg listen to Mr. Ben Bruce for this free consultation and advice. It's well with Nigeria. We have potentials of becoming a great nation but the alibabas won't allow for that. Thank God we've taken the first and the right step by voting out that clueless fisherman and his thieving crews.

Buhari...my Hero.

I've always loved this guy since the days of NTA his entreperneurail drive, tenacity, faith etc nice write up too.
True role model of mine
For the bitter souls asking who he is he's a multimilinaire whose coys provides jobs for thousands across africa,yes he's at a level your bitterness won't allow yall see.

Yall say he didn't criticise jonathan...well its shows u pipo are not well versed in what ur talking about..clearly during the protest about subsidy removal during jonathans time, bruce has his own ideas about subsidy which wasn't in support of the then president and he explained his ideaology day and night on his station..google is you friend. In as much as this man benifited from pdp, you know a real one when you see one(he will do what his haert tell him) as seen from the letter above when he mentioned unapolegetically that he's a jonathan supporter.

Mr bruce is true role model of mine...even with apc led government if care is not taken this guy may end up rulling nigeria one day mark my words....real recognise real

Ngasky:
The multiple citizenship destroyer of NTA has spoken.
APC should make sure nobody with more than one citizenship (NIGERIAN) should be given any role not even as a messenger in government parastatal

he's a full blooded nigerian http://www.biographyhome.com/2013/03/ben-murray-bruce.html

SuperSuave:
I didn't read the thrash cos I know its full of hate speech. That man is a doubting Thomas, he still doesn't believe change is here, well he shall see it with his own eyes oniranu oshi

I don't know why people like you will always choose pettiness and emotion over tact and wisdom What Ben Murray Bruce said is nothing but cold facts and its people like this honorable man that really wishes Buhari well, not blind sycophants like you that would shy away from giving valuable advice because you feel it might embarrass your principal. On may 29, we will separate the ideal that was used to win election and face the reality which even to the incurable optimist looks very daunting but if Buhari will take valuable advice whenever it is offered irrespective of who the messenger is, then he is halfway to success

DickDastardly:
No hate speech bro, the thing is that you naturally buried your head in the sand like the ostrish at the mere sight of the topic. Topic is reality 101 for you & buhari

man u and ur tanoids are just the thrash we not ready for in this country anymore..come may 29th u will see change in ur life and ur family cos I know u still a stagnant fellow now.

some people say expectations are high, yes, because it's occasioned by frustration from years of mismanagement.

China is running a one country, two systems and it's working beautifully well for them, why can't Nigeria come up with such a system that will work in our peculiar circumstances?

Ben Bruce, as a senator elect, u need not advice Buhari from NL, it's incumbent on u to help make the in coming government succeed in moving our country forward.

"APC may have styled itself as a progressive party, which in itself is a contradiction because Buhari is a conservative, but Buhari should not bother about that."
#Epic

Mr Ben Bruce has spoken well and I am sure GMB's camp has taken note.
However, who told him GMB does not have what it takes to put in place or implement the elementary advices in his statement? Any novel ideas there?

I use to hold this psuedo american in high exteme b4 now,who made him an adviser to GMB,has he told Jona his kinsmen d truth B4,he is 1 of d cabal,sycophant than brought jona down,d last time i checked he was contesting 4 guvnorship ticket,i jst wonder how he hijack d senate ticket & rig himself to d senate?

Depressing!

How can he give such pieces of advice to an already prudent person like GMB whilst the person, GEJ, he pledges lifetime loyalty to was the most wasteful leader in Nigeria, someone who boasted of the number of Private Jets owned by Nigerians so much that we were the butt of jokes of the Kenyans. Why he never gave these pieces of advice to GEJ is obvious as he was heavily benefitting too!

Ben Murray Bruce does not have moral or professional standing to give anybody pieces of advice becasuse the state of NTA is an indication of his plundering of govt money

ajalaolanr:
Ben bruce, you waited 6 years to write this bullshit because you are looking for relevance.

All the truth and nation building suggestions of yours would have made utmost sense were you to have written this 3-4 years ago..alas you also enjoyed from the rot that characterized the Gej govt.

Now you want to play holy.

Ferk you!!

On point.

eazisky:
Buhari has a lion heart... not a fish heart like GEJ

To me I prefer fish to lion; fish is everywhere; How many times have you seen a lion?

Tru talk from an opposition, like i said, Tru Talk

SuperSuave:
I didn't read the thrash cos I know its full of hate speech. That man is a doubting Thomas, he still doesn't believe change is here, well he shall see it with his own eyes oniranu oshi

That makes u and Buhari! Both of you never examine things before pulling conclusion. If Buhari was intelligent, he would have known there's no way 1 dollar could ever come to equality with N1

This man truly loves buhari and this also highlights his patriotism to Nigeria. There is no better advice but this that he has given.
Be open minded to your critics and watch as you progress. The thieves surrounding Pa Buhari now can not do the required magic, credible people must be sought to join hands in building this nation. As for me, I have a very high expectation for his government and though I will be patient but the patience will wane if our expectations are not being met and if our situations remains the same.
God bless Nigeria

ideykwum:
Ben Bruce hit the nail on the head! There is a vibrant reality that ushers idealism out of the window! One of such realities is the fact that Nigeria is limited in resource spread! Another is that running costs must be compressed to reasonable limits! Anything short of that would be disastrous!

However, if the above is not handled well, it would be political harakiri for Buhari. Where I disagree with Ben Bruce is that Nigerians by the very same rabble rousing nature and a natural desire not to bite their words, will endeavour to give Buhari a lot of understanding, and it will take a lot of debacle to start any murmuring!! It won't be because Buhari is efficient, rather it would be because he has literally been deified and is the choice of the owners of media houses!

You are quite right, deified people tend to have the luxury of being given more rope. I mean take a look at Jesus, 2000yrs gone past and people are still believing he is coming soon.

A PDP senator elect advising APC President elect........ What kind play do dogs play with lion? he should write this kind of epistle to his soon to be opposition party. This is hypocrisy at its height.

u try, easier said than done.

Novaworld:
Now that Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) has been chosen by the Nigerian people, it is my duty as a patriotic Nigerian to help him succeed even though my candidate was President Goodluck Jonathan, a man to whom I will always be loyal and appreciative.


General Buhari is about to mount the saddle and I for one am in a very good position to tell him some home truths because as a senator-elect, I have a very fulfilling job awaiting me and I do not need a job or favours from Buhari so I do not have to play nice.


Looking at the personalities he has appointed to his transition council, I am wont to believe that General Buhari needs to expand his circle of friends and advisers.


As a military strategist, the president-elect must be familiar with the principle that the people you use in subduing an opponent are not necessarily the same persons you will need in rebuilding the territories you took. I may be using military terms, but I am sure General Buhari is aware that politics is war by other means and therefore many of the rules of war and peace apply to politics.


The General will be best served if he thinks of what is best for Nigeria rather than what is best for his party, the All Progressive Congress (APC), and its chieftains.


He must remember that in Nigeria’s subjective politics, it was his person that the people voted for not his party and he should therefore serve the people the dish they are angling for.


And what are the expectations of Nigerians from General Buhari? Definitely not business as usual.
The president-elect ran on a promise of change and while that change was not really defined by its chanters, Nigerians defined it as a change in their situation.


To borrow from the famously potent prayers of Mountain of Fire and Miracle members, the Nigerian masses defined change as a situation where wealth and power must change hands from the elite to the masses by fire by force and they see General Buhari as the enforcer angel that will bring about this change.


With this type of expectation, Buhari’s honeymoon period with Nigerians will not last very long if he does not take drastic steps to adjust Nigeria’s economy to the realities of falling oil prices and a dearth of buyers for the Bonny Light Sweet Crude.


To put things into perspective, when the United States started buying less and less of Nigeria’s oil, we looked to China as an alternative buyer of oil but it has since come to light that whereas America spent $101 billion on clean energy between 2012-13, China spent $125 billion within the same time frame.


The above data should alert Nigeria and other nations that look to China for oil markets to the fact that China is even ahead of the West in the search for alternative to fossil fuels as a source of energy.


Buhari may wish he did not win the 2015 elections when the reality of our economic situation sets in.
In his December 2014 Channels Television interview, Buhari said he was going to “stabilise the oil market”. The General will learn soon enough that today’s oil market is a buyers’ market.


And the General’s choices are limited because he cannot (unless he is extraordinarily brave and politically callous) do the obvious and sack civil servants. Yes, he will eventually have to reduce the over bloated federal civil service, but before he can do that, he has to build up political capital by reducing the overhead of the Executive and persuade the Legislature to follow suit.


Austerity measures must start from Aso Rock. This means that luxurious multi car convoys must be reduced. The presidential air fleet has to go, by way of being auctioned off or sold to local airlines. Estacode allowances must be slashed and the president’s entourages should be lean while non-essential foreign travels should be banned.


The president-elect should not underestimate the big difference these small changes can make and their capacity to buy him enough credibility with the labour unions, the kind of credibility that will see them accepting cuts in the federal workforce and reduction in pay and entitlements.


A small change like flying commercial instead of by private jet saved Britain a whopping £200,000 when the thrifty British Prime Minister, David Cameron, flew to America to meet President Barack Obama on a regular BA flight.


Nigeria is in for very desperate times if we do not tighten our belts while our major foreign exchange earner is facing global challenges.
Russia, a nation that many will say is more prepared than Nigeria for the shocks occasioned by the drop in the price of oil devalued its currency by 11 per cent in just one day.


While Russia is taking these steps, the world is watching to see if Nigeria will continue to spend hundreds of billions annually sponsoring its elite on pilgrimages to Mecca and Jerusalem.


I mean, no economist will get why a nation with over 60 per cent of its people living in poverty at the best of times, will spend almost 1 per cent of its annual budget sponsoring pilgrimages for its elite who can afford to go to the Holy Land on their own dime.


I for one do not get it. A pilgrimage is meant to be a sacrifice of a believer. How is a pilgrimage still a sacrifice when someone pays for you to go? The Nigerian government is sending people on holidays not pilgrimages!


I daresay that the money being spent by the Nigerian government to airlift pilgrims to both Holy Lands is enough to educate all the almajiri in Northern Nigeria. Wouldn’t God and humanity be better served if we looked after the less privileged in our midst?
General Buhari has his work cut out for him and he does not have time to be bitter about who said what, when and where. He must let go of any desire to pay any of his traducers back whether they be from the last 16 years or as far back as 1985.


Four years is only enough time to fix Nigeria. Any time spent on other ventures is time taken from this most important of assignments.
And let me say that General Buhari should not allow himself to be pigeon holed by people who dangle ideologies instead of realities. Yes, the APC may have styled itself as a progressive party, which in itself is a contradiction because Buhari is a conservative, but Buhari should not bother about that.


Whether the philosophy is progressive or conservative or liberal or free market, he should go with what works because as Deng Xiaoping once noted: “It doesn’t matter whether a cat is black or white, if it catches mice it is a good cat.”
And it is fitting for me to end with a mention of Xiaoping. No other contemporary world leader, in my opinion, closely mirrors Buhari as does Xiaoping.


In 1966, Xiaoping was dethroned from his powerful party positions by loyalists of Chairman Mao as was Buhari in 1985 by loyalists of his Chief of Army staff.
Xiaoping suffered house arrest, loss of earned privileges and was consigned to political limbo for almost a decade as was Buhari.


But then Xiaoping bounced back into favour and became China’s leader in 1976 and thereafter jettisoned his life long belief in Mao’s Cultural Revolution and introduced the “one country, two systems” policy that allowed communism and capitalism to coexist in China. This is similar to Buhari’s conversion from an anti-democrat who believed power flowed from the barrel of a gun to a democrat who accepted democracy as the best form of governance and capitalism as the natural economic policy of a democracy.


But this is where Buhari has to learn from Xiaoping. Xiaoping refused to demonise Chairman Mao, his predecessor who had purged him from power and placed him under house arrest after stripping him off his privileges. Instead of bitterness, Xiaoping believed that Mao’s “accomplishments must be considered before his mistakes”.


This is how Buhari must treat his predecessors. He must not demonise everything that was done by previous administrations and mark those who served in those government as persona non grata. He must take the bitter with the sweet and make use of the best brains Nigeria has to offer, for as he said on December 31st, 1983, “This generation of Nigerians and indeed future generations have no other country than Nigeria”.

• Mr. Murray Bruce is a Senator-elect and CEO of Silverbird Entertainment Group




http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/it-doesn-t-matter-if-the-cat-is-white-or-black/208021/

I like the story of Mao tho- but Bruce should know that to be overwhelmed by the power you will wield is to be consumed by it. Jonathan Lack leadership trait. He has not leadership character-i am not saying he can't lead but he is not cut out for nigeria politics. Nigeria does not need those who are sound like ben muray bruce or who thinks they are historically sound or book sound. All what nigeria need and what leadership entails is ability to make decision. Jonathan can not make decision on his own and he made nigeria look so ungovernable. This big words Bruce is reading may not be that big. Nigeria may be simple after all- someone just need to frown at corruption and take Nigeria Job seriously. If Buhari can just be one thing-Persistence-he will be everything- Jonathan allowed many things to be swept under carpet failed for it. He should have shown. Seriousness for a long time- sack people,let head roll and make people scapehoat then they will take their job serious. Tho I saw some point in bruce advice ooo. Its needless appointing All this politics has his cabinet- if they fail,he won't be able to castigate them-

It is you who will regret being made a senator as you have nothing to offer rather than tribalism; what progress did you bring to NTA when you were in charge? Nothing as you simply destroyed it the way your Brother Jonathan was with Nigeria but you were rather sleeping with other people's wives. Abeg let better people make meaniful comments not you bad character Ben.

Yes, the APC may have styled itself as a progressive party, which in itself is a contradiction because Buhari is a conservative,... - Ben Murray Bruce.
Can't pretend I did not see that.

SuperSuave:
I didn't read the thrash cos I know its full of hate speech. That man is a doubting Thomas, he still doesn't believe change is here, well he shall see it with his own eyes oniranu oshi

Since you didn't read it, why not remain silent rather than let us know another definition of stupidity

SuperSuave:
I didn't read the thrash cos I know its full of hate speech. That man is a doubting Thomas, he still doesn't believe change is here, well he shall see it with his own eyes oniranu oshi

all govt be it obama govt must face criticism to be on its toes.

have gone thru the writeup and its not even a hate speech.it's just a wake up call.all leaders and with buhari as no exception must be ready to face corruption.

so please let's help buhari by criticising constructively.

IdiAmin1:
Only a fool reads a different meaning to a useful advice such as this.

Buhari, be guided

Well said bruce, why this advise now? why not. For ur benefactor since he became presii? Why didn't advise him of all ur said here?? Useful advise indeed.. Pls keep ur advise .. No thanks

Oga why didn't you give same advice to you Otueke mini god, if he had won, will you sincere adviced him to reduce Presidential fleets.

SuperSuave:
I didn't read the thrash cos I know its full of hate speech. That man is a doubting Thomas, he still doesn't believe change is here, well he shall see it with his own eyes oniranu oshi

I swear you'll withdraw this statement if you patiently go back n read Ben's intelligent submission

Instead of bitterness, Xiaoping believed that Mao’s “accomplishments must be considered before his mistakes”. - Ben Murray Bruce.

Word.