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nwosupato:
. If I were the admin of nairaland I will simply block u for calling him names..without going true his write up. U need to b brain washed.

....with Hypo.

dude just registered himself amongst the top 5 infamous lineup of dumbasses on NL.

I think we may need to have a collective prayer and fasting session for common sense f him... ..

why can't he give GEJ these advices in the 1st place

Chinom:
I strongly disagree with the bolded. When the National assembly passes the budget, it is just an appropriation act. The president, Buhari, must accent to it by signing it. Then it becomes a bill that can be implemented. Buhari can and should refuse to sign any appropriation act with 'mega wage packages' as you put it. All he has to do is get his PR people to shout from the roof top that the National assembly is holding the Nation to ramsom. Leave the rest to civil society groups, Charley boy and okada riders and the Nigerian masses.
Buhari can surely make them reduce their wages. It is the executive arm that decides what all government officials will earn. The NA only has to approve it or not.

Good point, however don't forget the appropriation act is a bill like any other and the NA CAN pass any bill with a 2/3 majority. I agree ultimately Buhari could make them back down, if he goes to the court of public opinion (Like Obama and Clinton did to the Republican congress) but I doubt he would have the political skill to do it.

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!

In as much i like your support for Bruce comments, i take exceptions on the new found advisers. They re complaining about the economic reality and the need to tight our belts, i don't have any objection to that but they re in this country (Ben) when Jonathan was wasting Nigeria resources meant for common man, I have never seen or read Ben bruce come hard on Jonathan for buying more Jets and high level of corruption in his administration, working and hoping for Jonathan to be re elected until he was rejected at the poll. Would Ben Bruce say the same thing if Jonathan was re elected? NO, it will be business as usual.

naboy:
Hypocrite! You are loyal and appreciative and can not give GEJ this advice before he was kicked out??
And looking at what you said critically, are you telling Buhari not to probe GEJ's adminiration
This senator really loves Nigeria.

"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"

tabisegroup:
No be lie

Na lie, he said nothing but the truth

[color=#990000][/color]Oga Bruce. Mr. I too sabi, where have you been to give Gej ur advice? Or are you just realizing that something is wrong in Nigeria?. Or is it that you won't be getting contracts again or what?.
Hmmm... Suddenly, every Tom and Dick just knowing that the economy's bad.
Sir, the General too, is In for business so he's not coming to play. He will succeed, ok.
And meanwhile, no F.k.up o else, you will have yourself to blame.

Make I here say you open another station or cinema branch

With all what thid bruce man said up there he has dealt jeg a great nasty blow. From his speech he was able to point out most of the failings of the out going admistration.

He said he holds gej in high esteem but i wonder why he couldnt tell him the bitter truth about his admistration and peoples peception. I guess he joined in the praise singing to grab the bayelsa senatorial seat.

Murray bruce should just keep quiet and play a progressive progressive part in the red chamber.

The pples general already stated most of the things he listed.

He talks about the general not discarding off the good works of gej but kept mum on the apc transition terms of refernce which favoured continuity. The out going govt has tagged that move "setting up a parallel govt".

Murray bruce should keep his english till he becomes a senator. I believe the gemeral is prepared for the tsk ahead. Offenders must be purnished to serve as deterant not some Mao style solution.

Thx and God bless.

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

You would have seen a lot of sense in what he wrote if only you could change your ideology of commenting before reading.
The caption did not befit the article. Now, go back and read and thank me latter

This is Igbos and SS forum they can only say what favour them not what favour us that voted in Buhari. And Mr Bruce I think you and ur GEJ are from the same state You should have told GEJ before he spoiled things for us in Nigeria now Mr know all, or is it now that ur brain is open? Keep ur doom prophesy cos aftrall you are part of those that bring down Nigeria to this level. Buhari is here for good those of you grunting keep watching cos to me u don't have idea.

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/

This is the real deal.

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

How will Nigeria move forward with irritants like u as its citizen?

You didn't bother to read yet u went ahead to comment brainlessly yet u seek for change?

SMH

By asking Buhari to do away with Jonathan's wasteful spendings and poor governance which have taken a heavy toll on Nigeria, Ben Bruce is indirectly indicting Jonathan whom he claims to be loyal to! By the way, did he give this advice to Jonathan? If he did and no change occurred, why is he still loyal to Jonathan? Bruce should keep his self serving advice to himself and rather, explain how he ran NTA and established Silverbird TV and Radio stations

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This guy is Nigeria's next president in 2019. He has been found at last
He has the right credentials and can make it.

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kalohkaloh:
By asking Buhari to do away with Jonathan's wasteful spendings and poor governance which have taken a heavy toll on Nigeria, Ben Bruce is indirectly indicting Jonathan whom he claims to be loyal to! By the way, did he give this advice to Jonathan? If he did and no change occurred, why is he still loyal to Jonathan? Bruce should keep his self serving advice to himself and rather, explain how he ran NTA and established Silverbird TV and Radio stations

On the contrary, he used his radio and TV stations to improve the image and management of NTA.

Hypocrite, what did you do to advice GEJ in his time if you are really loyal and faithful to him as you claim. Probably what you were benefiting from him beffudles your sense of reasoning and judgement. GMB doesn't need your advice, he has competent hands already.

mbulela:
Do you have to expose your daftness in public?

If reality is what you called daft, then you need serious brain check...

All ds cannot be possible becoz we don't have anything in common we are not one different views and cultures and religious belvs we are not same wake up.

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

Gof bless you bro. That's why they fail simple tests by taking liberal views as against their apologist stance, without giving the senator-elect a fair hearing by simple reading what he has to say.

Don't mind d old fool

Go sidon Ben mo b siliver bed cinema be dis or d nta u nearly wreck if not 4 d coming of Tony Iredia

stinggy:
Bruce is being truthful, expectations are just too high and Nigerians lack patience. Even the core Buhari supporters don't need more than a month or two before they start faulting him.

. THANK YOU BEN. I HOPE YOU WILL BE ON THE SIDE OF THE PEOPLE IN THE SENATE.

TRADELYN:

The biggest problem Nigerian Politicians have is that they are never prepared until they win.

#NicePointsThere.

Good thinking, good product!!!
This is why in Nigeria during campaign, a politician can say something like this :
"I will stabilize global oil market "
"I will pay 25million unemployed N5000 monthly "

1. He promised to work with the man Nigerians just elected based on his duty as a Nigerian while at the same time pledging loyalty and allegiance to the man the same Nigerians just rejected and drove out of office for good reasons.

Where is the sense and wisdom in that kind of thoughtless, ambiguous, bogus and absent minded talk?

2. How do you pledge loyalty and allegiance to the most crooked, corrupt and incompetent president in the history of this country? Shows how crooked, personally and mentally bankrupt he is...

3. GMB is yet to pick his official team, advisers, ministers, ambassadors, directors and so on, but this thoughtless man who just in the same breath questioned a still non existing government and not yet named team members, while in another pandering and pledging loyalty and allegiance to the man Nigerians just rejected and chased out of office.

4. He's reminding the elected president that Nigerians voted for him and not his party as if the elected president doesn't know this already. Besides, the elected president knows a whole lot about governing that this clueless man who was just voted in to work with the elected president but instead pledge loyalty and allegiance to another man, a man the Nigerian people doesn't want.

Shouldn't your loyalty and allegiance rest with the people of Nigeria and the man the people of Nigeria pinned their hopes, desires and future on?


We hope and pray the elected president is our moses, but if not, we all have our PVCs to use against him 4 years from now so he should just shut his mouth and render whatever assistance he can to the elected president on behalf of his constituents and the people of Nigeria instead of the crooked, corrupt and incompetent man he's romancing and idolizing.


His rubbish is nothing but thoughtless, lame and disingenuous nonsense.

Well said sir.

omojeesu:
. THANK YOU BEN. I HOPE YOU WILL BE ON THE SIDE OF THE PEOPLE IN THE SENATE.

Sir, I'm not Bruce. Trust me, you quoted the wrong person

I can see the hatred in run in the blood of Bruce.. A big thief that used our money to financed his own private media houses when he was GM at NTA now come to open his rotten mouth to advised or critisized GMB because his brother of another mother lost at the presidential poll.Let me tell you Bruce,your critisisms is of no use,keep it to yourself and stop looking for a cheap popularity here. Being a senator- elect in your constituency does not make you known here.

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

u r such a fool n coward. y didn't u read n see dat all d man said was true n buhari shud bcareful. idiot

Sconty09:
In as much i like your support for Bruce comments, i take exceptions on the new found advisers. They re complaining about the economic reality and the need to tight our belts, i don't have any objection to that but they re in this country (Ben) when Jonathan was wasting Nigeria resources meant for common man, I have never seen or read Ben bruce come hard on Jonathan for buying more Jets and high level of corruption in his administration, working and hoping for Jonathan to be re elected until he was rejected at the poll. Would Ben Bruce say the same thing if Jonathan was re elected? NO, it will be business as usual.

The problem with some of you Nigerians is you don't bother to crosscheck facts before opening your mouth. Even here on nairaland, there is an article where Bruce chastised the GEJ govt for spending $8 billion on fuel imports.

http://
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/
its-crazy-to-spend-8bn-on-
fuel-importation-ben-bruce/

For those of you cretins and keyboard warriors who are saying Bruce didn't advise GEJ during his tenure as President, please read this article and learn why its important to crosscheck facts before speaking.

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

What is wrong with what he said?

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

Hahahaha, this IS the Temitemi version for the APC. You did not read but you are disturbing the universe and the milky way. I am certain that you cannot match that man when management, intelligence and brain making analysis is involved. You know why? You don't read!!!!!