₦airaland Forum

bloodyBLOGGER:
One of the major problems wrong with Nigerians is that we forget easily. This is the reason why hardened criminals and looters in the past can easily come back and contest for public office to the extent of winning. It is so sad that some people, mostly youths who are the leaders of tomorrow are going about with the slogan "#BringBackOurCorruption". They say they want the last administration presided by Good luck Ebele Jonathan back in power cos they can't stand the current fuel scarcity amidst other challenges that I believe the Nation will breeze through in due time.

This brainwashed blind bats who love to view things ethnically are quick to forget that the fuel scarcity experienced towards the end of the last administration's tenure was really unbearable compared to what we are currently facing now. Then, major sectors were shutting down, from telecommunications to the media, from aviation to banking. Nigerians were literally cut off from the rest of the world during that period. A period in which getting a bus to the bank to withdraw money was difficult cos buses had no fuel. When you manage to get to the bank, you are told you arrived late cos they close early due to shortage of diesel. Was the power sector any different?

Take a look at the pictures of fuel scarcity events that took place in the last administration below and tell me that Nigerians didn't make a good choice in voting them out.

How many days did that last? And mibd you, it was towards the end of the last administration when the principal officers have lost election. Jonathan lamented openly then that all his friends have deserted him, so who is left there to give you that service when all the political jobbers in civil service as as well as opinion leaders were busy dancing to make face for Buhari?
Let Buhari surrender today, and see what will become of him and his supporters. Friend, this is the early part of this administration and whatever step they put up now is what people will use to judge them.

tomakint:
@ op, be sincere it was not this bad under Jonathan, mind you the shortage of fuel towards the end of Jonathan's tenure was a grand manipulations from the detractors of his government just to whip up sentiments from the already angry electorates who are hell bent to get him out. Jonathan's government had the singular honour of stopping our seasonal December 24th-28th shortage of fuel we witnessed for 6 years under Obj's eight years.... This is the noble truth.

GBAM,please remind the deluded and brainwashed zombies

Lying liars.

The zombies incredible level of idiocy is beyond redemption.

Tufiakwa

francizy:
So he's definitely part of APC, so don't still come up here and tag him among the 16 years of PDP..

Really? When he (OBJ) was president from 1999 to 2007. Was APC a political party then? Or did he (OBJ) rule Nigeria under APC?

Pidggin:
Abuja? That's where they are deceiving you people na, ask people living else where, we do not buy fuel from filling stations at the regulated pump price.

Yes we are... Here in Oyo state... Bovas, forte oil nd Asset re selling @ d normal price...

I just pity Nigeria, we know nothing about economy and governance.

For good 16 years of PDP we keep importing instead of refining locally, wasting our forex on importation. How can a nation survive been an import depending economy, please students of economics.

For 16 years of Oil boom Nigeria only manage tos ave $30 billion when Algeria save $155 billion. Our survival resources is zero compares to other OPEC members.

Marvel1206:
The Unscientific Defence for Buhari

Soon after Buhari administration took off, debate about whether it’s going in the right direction begun in earnest. There were mainly two camps in this debate then: those mainly APC supporters who so much believed in Buhari administration, I also believed in it, and PDP sympathisers who Femi Adèsina, the president’s media aide, called, unapologetically, WAILING WAILERS. This group would go to any length to convince us that Buhari is failing even whereas he is doing his best. For this group, Ayo Fayose, the Ekiti State Governor, is their chairman.

Lately however, the polity swings into serious crisis: There is acute shortage of fuel supply; electricity has gone from being epileptic to obsolete; there is forex issue; delay in signing the terribly padded budget into law. The economy is to say the least stagnant. There is no clear direction so to say as to where the administration is heading and people on the street are feeling it hard. They begin to complain and demand that Buhari should sit up and address these challenges for which he was elected. For this simple and civil demand, those whose approach of defending anything Buhari whether wrong or right the ace columnist Segun Adeniyi dubbed in his last Thursday column as BUHARIDEEN reacted angrily and issued an order; that Nigerians especially the northern recalcitrant should either shut up and wait for things to begin working or be just patient because Buhari cannot fix 16 years of PDP sabotage. Instead they open a door for discussion, they shut it up with these two unscientific premises.

When Buhari came to power either of the two should have happened ideally. What he had met on ground be maintained or improved. If there is need for dismantling all the previous legacies then we should be told what the administration will do to construct new ones, which could in turn have explained why we are in this so difficult a situation. Thus the need for us to exercise more patient. Neither of these is forthcoming. Earlier last year we witnessed improved, some would even say relatively stable, electricity supply, availability of petroleum at filling stations and naira appreciating against the dollar. Rather than we employ a scientific reasoning to analyse the developments to see if they are sustainable, we simply attributed them to Buhari’s body language and integrity– two critically important, of course, ingredients of leadership’s ability to deliver, but perhaps archaic without clear policy direction.

The stability of the electricity supply for example could be because we were in rainy season and when the dry season begins we may go back to where we were. We posed this but nobody wanted to listen. We wanted then a further interrogation into the possible cause, but no one seemed to want to think beyond the belief that things will naturally work because Buhari is the president. The quality of these services today we have seen have so much deteriorated and begun to have far-reaching impacts on the lives of the common man and it’s therefore only natural for the common man to react. Body language and integrity alone cannot fix a system. They are only a contributory factor. It’s unscientific to rely on just these two therefore to deliver result.

Is a nature of man to complain. Man will never ever be satisfied. Yes, man is never patient ever since and will never be, on anything. His creature described him as being in haste and impatient in achieving an end. He would ask his creature for a thing and will be haste to see it fruition. He just can’t wait. He expects it at a certain time and if the time comes to pass without that which he asked for being granted, he starts to complain that his creature has abandoned him. God would grant man many, many of his desires however, but when HE put him once in a trial, may be even meant to prepare him for a near future challenge that will see him soaring into prosperity, he groans, ‘oh! My creature has put me in a difficult condition despite I being an obedient servant’.

If man can be this impatient and to some extent ingrate toward his creature’s benevolence, I wonder why or how he will ever be different toward president Buhari. To ask him to be patient with Buhari in this situation is to ask him to act outside his normal human nature, which isn’t possible. Of course patient is a virtue, but we should understand that virtue is never conventional. It’s given to a very few privileged ones regardless of their social status. Man’s rationality of virtue or even need of it flees in the face of severe condition. That’s why he is allowed to, to an extent, transgress in such condition.

What then do you think? If Nigeria becomes like Beijing by the expiration of Buhari administration Nigerians will still be satisfied? They will never. Don’t even deceive yourself. Man anywhere on earth is complaining; from Washington to Johannesburg, all the way to Iceland. But being man an impatient rational animal has its advantages. If man is that patient he won’t have been conquering nature to arrive at all these grand technological discoveries we today enjoy. Lest we forget, himself Buhari, was a beneficiary of Nigerians’ impatient impulses. They couldn’t just any longer tolerate Jonathan’s ineptitude. They therefore booted him out and brought in Buhari to address all their sufferings. When they are not seeing the result. It’s only ideal to expect reaction.

Faruk Danmadami poses a serious scientific challenge. It could sound rhetorical but is at the same time very scientific. He says those who ask us to be patient should have the decency to tell us ‘for how long’. He adds when I speak with him that; if we are convinced with cogent reasons that by a so time things will work, he laughingly concludes, “Baba-Bala we will go back and lock ourselves away in the room and wait. No matter the difficulties we will not talk until at the expiration of the time given”. He means that, if the time comes and there are still issues unaddressed, the Buharideens could give space for intellectual discussions on the administration’s policies. Without a proper plan in a certain sector to be achieved at a stipulated time even if you address a challenge now it will only be cosmetic, which will collapse in due course. And I agree with him.

Human being by nature as social animal has his demands changing according to how satisfied he is with his preceding demands. His priority may be at first security, but once he got that, he will begin to demand for food. When food becomes available and has enough in store, he will cry out shelter. He should be given shelter or he goes to war over it. This is a natural human behaviour. To know that human demands are according to his satisfaction, we can see how our demands vary from one place to another and from one social status to another. What Americans demand from their government is different from what we demand here. But the moment we are given that which we want for now and are satisfied, we will, like Americans, begin to demand for LUXURIES. Just look at the beginning of man to date to understand this theory. We can see how his priorities keep on changing and in accordance to his satisfaction. It was food first, then shelter, then leadership, then recognition and then this and then that, and even to the level of making smart phone part of his basic needs. For this I know Tijjani Ahmed will refer us all to Abraham Maslow law of HIERARCHY of NEED.

Francis Fukuyama in his roundly countered book The End of History and Last Man, predicts that, at the end of history the last man in the part of the world he describes as POST – HISTORY will be tired of peace and therefore goes to war, which will hence cause him to return to his old order of daring violent death for recognition. Some would give example of world war to rationalise this point; that despite all the conventional causes being given both remote and immediate such as nationalism, armament, balance of power, assassination of Prince Ferdinand and name them, there is the tendency that man had lived in peace and prosperity occasioned by Industrial Revolution for about a century in Europe and then decided to go for war.

You need to put yourself in place of that who’s genuinely complaining to understand his feelings. Many lost their jobs because of this economic crunch. Someone observed that the rate at which people are losing jobs in private sector, you will be forgiven to think that at the time this administration creates 1000 jobs, some 700 may be lost somewhere within the economy. For someone whose work solely depends on electricity supply, his family will have to go to bed with empty stomach because whereas there is no electricity for about two or three days, he couldn’t get fuel to power his generator for same number of days in order to work to meet his family’s end. If this man complains. Comfort him or give him hope with explanation of what the administration is doing to fix the problem not insulting him for daring to protest.

If for nothing but for two Buhari’s recent retraction and denial of his action and speech about sacking Universities Councils and 5000 naira stipend to unemployed youth will make us adjust that “Buhari is always right” propensity. We should understand that we are making Buhari lose supporters every blessed day with this attitude, and this kind of support is only a recipe for failure. What common man wants is result not shouting match and the earlier we open our minds for critical discussions on the national policies, the better for our collective growth. MAY BUHARI SUCCEED.

Why am I the only one to give this wonderful piece a like. ?

if only u have sense u wld have checked the date and see it was 4days 2 d inauguration and it was caused by PMB,when he caused uncertianity among importers by saying "he doesn't knw what is fuel subsidy",pls check ur facts b4 u post rubbish.

Thnx jare bros. Nigerians forget too soon. The hypocrites will never admit that the sorrow of today is a fallout of past administration's ineptitude. Call him whatever names u can concoct, PMB remains the majority's choice.

diegwu01:
If you follow the News and press releases from NNPC and kachikwu, you would see they have been plagued from One problem to another, When 1 issue is corrected another brews up, when its corrected, yet another crops up, The situation is really terrible, but my confidence grows everyday because i see genuine efforts by the Minister of State to fix things,
So far its been
Paying Outstanding Subsidies last year
Removing the Subsidy
Regulating Prices
Fixing the obsolete refineries
Filling the Gap by Making NNPC a major importer instead
Proposing over 150 new mega filling Stations
to Begging the CBN and Multinational Oil coys for forex for Private Marketers
reintroducing the major marketers that pulled off to ease shortfalls while short term plans takes off
Restructuring the NNPC for better productivity
Approving licenses for Modular refineries
Engaging the International Oil coys to manage existing Refineries..

Nigerians are not very patient people but we should cut the Ministers some slack, he's promised the queues would end 2 weeks into april

Oga I understand u wanting to believe anything to soothe ur bruised ego and pride.. Of d so-called efforts u listed, who exactly is fooling who?? Dis scarcity was neva about subsidy claim payments, neither was it about obsolete refineries d govt has been continuously playing d more u look d less u see with. Anyways we all want to believe somehow things get beta but whether u want to believe it or not, d govt is getting most of it's moves wrong and eventually going to have to eat its words time and time again. Whether u want to see and acknowledge d facts or not, dey are there and staring at everyone in d face

Wailers just keep wailing and I aint 'really' sure about what they are wailing about..smh

seunmsg:
I bought fuel at N86.50 this morning at Total filling station, opposite Nigeria Army post service housing estate, Kurudu, Abuja.

Linus...u dnt eva mk a sound argument

tomakint:
@ op, be sincere it was not this bad under Jonathan, mind you the shortage of fuel towards the end of Jonathan's tenure was a grand manipulations from the detractors of his government just to whip up sentiments from the already angry electorates who are hell bent to get him out. Jonathan's government had the singular honour of stopping our seasonal December 24th-28th shortage of fuel we witnessed for 6 years under Obj's eight years.... This is the noble truth.

And the same people are still the one sabotaging the APC governmentm

With time everything will. Come back to normalcy and the bad eggs (Sabotours) would have being spoted out

The Chairman of a company hired you to work and all you keep on doing is blaming the man that you took over from. Will the chairman keep you for the job?

bloodyBLOGGER:
One of the major problems wrong with Nigerians is that we forget easily. This is the reason why hardened criminals and looters in the past can easily come back and contest for public office to the extent of winning. It is so sad that some people, mostly youths who are the leaders of tomorrow are going about with the slogan "#BringBackOurCorruption". They say they want the last administration presided by Good luck Ebele Jonathan back in power cos they can't stand the current fuel scarcity amidst other challenges that I believe the Nation will breeze through in due time.

This brainwashed blind bats who love to view things ethnically are quick to forget that the fuel scarcity experienced towards the end of the last administration's tenure was really unbearable compared to what we are currently facing now. Then, major sectors were shutting down, from telecommunications to the media, from aviation to banking. Nigerians were literally cut off from the rest of the world during that period. A period in which getting a bus to the bank to withdraw money was difficult cos buses had no fuel. When you manage to get to the bank, you are told you arrived late cos they close early due to shortage of diesel. Was the power sector any different?

Take a look at the pictures of fuel scarcity events that took place in the last administration below and tell me that Nigerians didn't make a good choice in voting them out.

You don't have anything to say. PMB and his wrong/false agenda APC and their war against GEJ. Everything going wrong with this administration. Naso we see am ooo.........

bloodyBLOGGER:
One of the major problems wrong with Nigerians is that we forget easily. This is the reason why hardened criminals and looters in the past can easily come back and contest for public office to the extent of winning. It is so sad that some people, mostly youths who are the leaders of tomorrow are going about with the slogan "#BringBackOurCorruption". They say they want the last administration presided by Good luck Ebele Jonathan back in power cos they can't stand the current fuel scarcity amidst other challenges that I believe the Nation will breeze through in due time.

This brainwashed blind bats who love to view things ethnically are quick to forget that the fuel scarcity experienced towards the end of the last administration's tenure was really unbearable compared to what we are currently facing now. Then, major sectors were shutting down, from telecommunications to the media, from aviation to banking. Nigerians were literally cut off from the rest of the world during that period. A period in which getting a bus to the bank to withdraw money was difficult cos buses had no fuel. When you manage to get to the bank, you are told you arrived late cos they close early due to shortage of diesel. Was the power sector any different?

Take a look at the pictures of fuel scarcity events that took place in the last administration below and tell me that Nigerians didn't make a good choice in voting them out.

this is where you got it wrong. no one has ever said there has never been scarcity but it has never been as bad as this. fine, there is scarcity, but has it ever been prolong as this? has the NLC been this quite when there is scarcity? where are they now, no one has the gut* to talk for fear of being crucified, are we in Military regime? this is Democracy for crying out loud! this man made unending promises during his campaign, this is part of the reason people shout, pls get it right ok? please wake up and call a spade a spade.

bashydemy:
And you and your co wailers are serious sick and need serious medical attention by judging this administration with just 10 month out 48/96 month of this administration.

So if a party promised change and all they provide is chain , you expect people to suffer in silence? Go for your psychosis test ASAP.

How long will you continue to blame GEJ?

Well, 'v you blamed GEJ today?

Blaming GEJ is like a religion for buhari, apc and their insignificant foot soldiers.


This is just the beginning, please give buhari more time. Am sure he won't disappoint me.

Only lack of the knowledge of history brought us here.

HE has started failing already.

dilini:
Wailers just keep wailing and I aint 'really' sure about what they are wailing about..smh

you will never every be sure, keep watching till eternity

I don't even compare the two administration. six 6 years is quite long time compare to just ten 10+ months.

President Buhari might not be the Joshua that will take us to the promised land, but he is the Moses that will lead us thru the wilderness. Even though he might not be the Joshua, I do not seek to compare him to Jonathan, because GEJ was not an option for continuity. If you read all that was stolen, all that were lost and all not done, could we have continued with him? I wonder why some people still remain in delusion despite the reality of huge resources squandered under the last administration. In a time we should be looking forward some choose to look backward asking " IS THIS THE CHANGE"? When the Israelites left Egypt, yes they moaned, grumbled & complained, they want to go back to Egypt. They had forgotten all they suffered in the hands of Egyptians. They had lost faith in Moses while in the Wilderness. Their attitude cost them spending 40yrs for a journey of 40days. Yes there are challenges in Nig. Of Course Plenty of them. Yes the outlook is bleak. Yes there are queues in petrol stations and poor electricity. Yes the economy is bad, yes youths are still out of jobs, But these are all temporary. You got to understand that When a system is disrupted for several years, there must be hiccups trying to restore normalcy. When people have organ transplant the host body rejects it. Drugs are now given to suppress the resistance. Gradually, the whole body will accept the new body and things get back to normal. There has been a change at many levels of govt. And usually there must be pain and discomfort associated with it. It is normal But to look back and say we sho uld have continued? I say emphatic no. We demonstrated the power of choice. We demonstrated we mattered as people. Collectively, we will defeat those cartel and the monsters holding us back as country. Don't look back........... ........

vaca1:
Abegii Gerrarahia mehn

What GEJ couldn't do during his administration which was obviously due to corruption, PMB is winning the war.

Wait there! Before you shout about the economy, Security MUST come First.

Check this out....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3dBk2D9FVQ&feature=youtu.be

This is one of those times I just wish Zombies should suffer the present situation and God revert to pre Pmb status quo for wailers. Op if you were to choose which era would like to be in right now? Anyways, I know what your answer will be in public since you are zombie. Can't be sure though of what you secretly wish.

Pidggin:
Abuja? That's where they are deceiving you people na, ask people living else where, we do not buy fuel from filling stations at the regulated pump price.

I also got it at Total fillin statn here at pako/isolo lagos for N86. No matter how tins are currently, Ibe Kach gets a thumbsup 4rm me

Pidggin:
Abuja? That's where they are deceiving you people na, ask people living else where, we do not buy fuel from filling stations at the regulated pump price.

I also got it at Total fillin statn here at pako/isolo lagos for N86. No matter how tins are currently, Ibe Kach gets a thumbsup 4rm me

agabaI23:
No, the last administration wanted to take care of fuel scarcity forever and you refused. It was subsidy removal protest. Now your messiah socialist government wants to let it go too.

who and who refused? GEJ has no any genuine reason at dt time dt was y he failed to remove d fuel subsidy.

tomakint:
@ op, be sincere it was not this bad under Jonathan, mind you the shortage of fuel towards the end of Jonathan's tenure was a grand manipulations from the detractors of his government just to whip up sentiments from the already angry electorates who are hell bent to get him out. Jonathan's government had the singular honour of stopping our seasonal December 24th-28th shortage of fuel we witnessed for 6 years under Obj's eight years.... This is the noble truth.

Honestly there were serious crises during Jonathan administration morethan under Buhari. There were fuel scarcity and total power outage during last administration especially from febuary till the first week of June. Just that we Nigerians forgot so easily.

precious1967:
who and who refused? GEJ has no any genuine reason at dt time dt was y he failed to remove d fuel subsidy.

lol, please yourself sir

onetouch04:
The simple and only solutions:
1. Removal of subsidy
2. Refurbishing our existing refinaries
3. Building of six or more new refinaries for local consuption
4. Banning the sale of products to jerry cans
5. Constitution of a special task force to ensure that products are not diverted and that filling
stations sell at approve love-vendor prices.

We do not need #4 .cos as it stands speed boats will need it.#3 is the key.
If the boys in the creeks can refine crude why is it so difficult for the FG.
Build the refinaries at the source no long piping and that will reduce vandalization.

rumaabk:
Honestly there were serious crises during Jonathan administration morethan under Buhari. There were fuel scarcity and total power outage during last administration especially from febuary till the first week of June. Just that we Nigerians forgot so easily.

During GEJ tenure did we every produce 0 megawatts?
U managed to say Jan to 1st wk of June
I presume that must be a local problem if not plz name the area and state .
With PMB the way I'm seeing things.we might struggle untill 2019. It's almost a year now.nothing new to offer same old and in some cases even worse true or false?

bloodyBLOGGER:
One of the major problems wrong with Nigerians is that we forget easily. This is the reason why hardened criminals and looters in the past can easily come back and contest for public office to the extent of winning. It is so sad that some people, mostly youths who are the leaders of tomorrow are going about with the slogan "#BringBackOurCorruption". They say they want the last administration presided by Good luck Ebele Jonathan back in power cos they can't stand the current fuel scarcity amidst other challenges that I believe the Nation will breeze through in due time.

This brainwashed blind bats who love to view things ethnically are quick to forget that the fuel scarcity experienced towards the end of the last administration's tenure was really unbearable compared to what we are currently facing now. Then, major sectors were shutting down, from telecommunications to the media, from aviation to banking. Nigerians were literally cut off from the rest of the world during that period. A period in which getting a bus to the bank to withdraw money was difficult cos buses had no fuel. When you manage to get to the bank, you are told you arrived late cos they close early due to shortage of diesel. Was the power sector any different?

Take a look at the pictures of fuel scarcity events that took place in the last administration below and tell me that Nigerians didn't make a good choice in voting them out.

I remember being stranded in the airport for more than 10 hours last year. I remember being on a fuel queue for over 4 hours. I remember radio stations and banks shutting down. I remember MTN shutting down base stations because they did not have diesel.
Thank you for the gentle reminder

chris81964:
I remember being stranded in the airport for more than 10 hours last year. I remember being on a fuel queue for over 4 hours. I remember radio stations and banks shutting down. I remember MTN shutting down base stations because they did not have diesel.
Thank you for the gentle reminder

Bro these days people's home are shutting down you talking about banks and radio stations.