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A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by tawa89(f): 4:51pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
Almost a year after winning an election on promises to fix Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari's grand vision of reform is fading, with power centralized in his increasingly remote presidency and the bureaucracy in disarray. After axing almost 50 top civil servants and 40 ambassadors and shaking up ministries in a bid to excise endemic graft, the 73-year-old former military ruler has even started cancelling some weekly cabinet meetings. His aides said this was because under his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, the meeting had become a forum for ministers to hand out over-priced contracts to friends. Critics say the effect has been to leave government rudderless while Africa's biggest economy flatlines. Power is concentrated in Buhari's office, where files pile up on the desk of his chief of staff. Ministers appointed only in November - more than six months after Buhari's victory - are reluctant to make decisions, diplomats say. Government insiders admit things may be getting worse before they get better, but say that is to be expected given the scale of the task in hand. Of course it's chaos. We're rebuilding a whole system. There is no depth in the bureaucracy," said a senior government source who asked not to be named. Buhari is too often absent to provide enough personal guidance, according to his critics. Since taking office in May, he has been on 26 overseas trips, visiting Saudi Arabia and Qatar this week, where officials say he hopes to drum up interest from investors. His opponents complain that his external focus comes at the expense of the two pillars of the domestic economy - the oil-producing Niger Delta and Lagos, the sprawling megacity that serves as Nigeria's commercial capital. He has visited neither as president. NO BUDGET Buhari has won plaudits from ordinary Nigerians for fighting graft as part of a crackdown on an elite whose wealth has grown for decades while most of the country's 170 million people remained in poverty. The army under his command has also reconquered territory from the Boko Haram group in the north, though the jihadists still regularly stage suicide attacks. But the ascetic general has not yet delivered on a promise to create jobs by ending reliance on oil. His civil service cull has cut avenues for graft but also created knowledge gaps, to the point that the government has so far been unable to produce a viable budget. Buhari last week fired a senior budget official who had been appointed in August, after he helped to produce a draft which labeled car or computer purchases as capital expenditures, according to Nigerian research group Budgit. One billion naira - more than $5 million at the official exchange rate - had been budgeted for office furniture alone. "This was really depressing when we expected that this should be a total shift from the wasteful culture that we had in the past," said Oluseun Onigbinde, founder of the group. Buhari fired most of the top management at state oil firm NNPC but his replacements have struggled to get a grip on the massive and opaque entity, officials say. Some projects have been delayed as the newcomers struggle to locate the relevant files in the four NNPC towers. With no regular meetings, ministers are still trying to figure out what they can achieve, officials say. Buhari merged several ministries but since a cabinet retreat in November, he has left them to drift. Buhari's aides counter that the cabinet meets whenever there is something to decide, and that the government needs time to work out detailed plans - including funding - for such daunting tasks as road-building or the improvement of Nigeria's notoriously erratic power supply. But a senior civil servant who asked not to be named said ministers struggled to get the attention of Buhari's office. "There is a proposal, a consultancy does a study but then the report gets ignored," he said. Buhari asked Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to coordinate economic policy, but diplomats say he is being sidelined as the president personally handles all key issues, including a freeze of the naira exchange rate that is crippling investment. That leaves businessmen wondering how the West African oil producer can survive its worst economic crisis for decades. "Policy statements hang but there's no trickle down," said Prince Ike Ubaka, head of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria. www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-politics-idUSKCN0VY1H5 7 Likes 7 Shares |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by tawa89(f): 4:58pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
This deserves Front Page status....Lalasticala and Seun 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by Amazondepth(m): 5:15pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
Hmmm.dis PMB is looking like a triangular peg in a hexagonal hole.dis one is one chance of the highest order.Sai Baba! |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by tawa89(f): 5:24pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
coming from Reuters this is a damning verdict. This publication portrays him as an inefffective administrator. Furthermore it shows his inability to delegate functions to his vice and ministers. Amazondepth: 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by tawa89(f): 5:28pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
this deserves Front page Mynd44 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by TonyeBarcanista(m): 5:30pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
Coming from Reuters... This isn't Barcanista's piece o, na Reuters talk am. Even the International community recognise the leadership ineffectuality of President Muhammadu Buhari and APC. 6 Likes |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by TonyeBarcanista(m): 5:30pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
tawa89:Cc Lalasticlala.... 1 Like |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by tawa89(f): 5:38pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
I think they were too hard on Mr President but it has been almost a year since he got elected ...Yet nothing TonyeBarcanista: 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by Truckpusher(m): 5:42pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
Any Nigerian that still feel that Buhari can fix this country surely deserve a seat in a psychiatric facility . 6 Likes |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by TonyeBarcanista(m): 5:45pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
tawa89:I don't think Reuters were hard. In fact, I think they were lenient. 2 Likes |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by tawa89(f): 5:48pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
LOL. I thought you were a supporter of this administration? Anyways i dont understand why he doesn't delegate some of these things to Prof Osibanjo....He is a professor for the love of God TonyeBarcanista: 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by Nobody: 5:51pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by tawa89(f): 5:52pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
I dont understand why Mr President will abandon piles work that needs his attention and be globetrotting while he has a Professor of law as a vice. Maybe if he been allowed to select his own man as vice without Tinubu imposing Osibanjo on him ...Things would ve turned out differently. 1 Like |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by TonyeBarcanista(m): 5:57pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
tawa89:Because I support corruption fight? Well, I've never declared being pro-Buhari or his administration since I left their camp last February. However, it doesn't make me to lose my patriotism and objectivity; this some people regard to "moving back to APC". In fact, if you follow my activity, I do advocate for a rebranded PDP. I'm still #ProudlyUmbrella As for Yemi Osinbajo, the truth is that VeePee and Deputy Governors are "spare tire" in Nigeria. They are at the mercies of the oga... But how they run their government is their problem. All we want is result!!! 1 Like |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by AceRoyal: 6:12pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Even the international community is wailing on our behalf. Can wailers start selling forms to internationals? "Maybe it's IPOB Reuters". 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by MansaMoussa: 6:13pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
My only problem with the administration is the soaring of Drug Prices...patients who hitherto could not afford "essential drugs" in the past, are now being forced to pay three to four times the former price for their routine drugs. Some cannot, thus,they sit there silently dying from Diabetes, to HTN..othrrs have resorted to patronising charlatans and quacks. There's nobody to tell their story since they are mostly people at the extremes of ages who are not tech savvy and have no access to social media to vent their frustrations. GalvusMet is now 14k ( that's an amount an 18k minimum wage earner had to spend in a month to stay alive..others are no different) Does this Govt have any plans for healthcare at all? Just asking. 3 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by Ximonak: 7:11pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
Buhari asked Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to coordinate economic policy, but diplomats say he is being sidelined as the president personally handles all key issues, including a freeze of the naira exchange rate that is crippling investment. 2 Likes |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by Nobody: 7:17pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
Wicked from Reuters! |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by Jokerman(m): 7:36pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
Reuters... International IPOB magazine.. International PDP news agency according to the APC.... |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by LordVarys: 7:56pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by ZKOSOSO(m): 8:00pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
The ORIGINAL INEFFECTUAL BUFFOON just got confirmation from Reuters................. chai...chai....chai....chanji..... 1 Like |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by Goddygee(m): 9:50pm On Feb 25, 2016 |
I smell Fp... |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by tawa89(f): 10:20am On Feb 26, 2016 |
How does publication from internationally acclaimed news agency like Reuters about the state of our country failed to make it to the front page when threads of Ebube nwagbo and her ilks dancing are on the front page beats me. |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by pedestal82(m): 11:53am On Feb 26, 2016 |
Change, God help us all |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by drss(m): 11:56am On Feb 26, 2016 |
when u reject a digital computer in favor of anolog one wetin una expect slowliness, unproductivity, unflexibility n inefficency n unreliability go be oda of d day. buari dullard na outdated product. enjoy una change. |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by drss(m): 12:14pm On Feb 26, 2016 |
AceRoyal:we wailer need to meet n decide whether to start producing international wailing form. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by Ximonak: 12:43pm On Feb 26, 2016 |
tawa89: Minus politics what surprises me more is thread like.. See what iyanya wore and cossy b**bs makes fp without stress but important issue don't after calling the mods attention to those informative threads. Media is the bane(opum) of the world, brainwashing the humans |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by HARDDON: 4:34pm On Feb 26, 2016 |
Njoy your change people. The world is watching n will join in d wailing one after d other. |
Re: A Year On From Nigerian Election Victory, Buhari's Reforms Founder......reuters by romme2u: 1:08am On Feb 29, 2016 |
u will see that some people will avoid this thread like ebola but where are navierstoke and anonimi ngenekwenu, beremx, passingshot, gbawe midolian oya come and defend ur messiah here |
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