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doskie:
buhari never arrested nor even replied that man. It's his has a neighbour who's surname is buhari, and had a misunderstanding with the man that arrested him. buhari never said a word.

The presidency diplomatically allowed the man to pass thru all the ordeals before speaking. Garba Shehu spoke after the man was released that the matter is laughable as he's sure the president will only laugh over it. The police in an attempt to play clean after Shehu's comment now alleged contrary to what the man said after his release, that it was a neighbour that took it up and that the arrested the man to forestall breakdown of law and order. Isn't that draconian?

Dictatorial leadership with nothing to offer other than blames. Shameful change

ericsmith:
pls post d link whr d police/FG ban peaceful protest... as much as wana wail,, wat kind of protest involves carryin guns,,destroyin citizens vehicles,,n property on sight ..N u call dat protest !! police shuld fold there hands. ignorant citizens its democracy but even democracy has rules n regulations

I would like you to also post pictures of the guns and weapons the BBOG were carrying. In as much as you voted for this scam do not be timid and shy trying by deceiving yourself that you are good with all while in the secret you lament. It's only a matter of time you will be wailing-personified as you won't be able to hide it any longer like most of your guys who voted them in are doing right now

And you want us believe in a lie that you guys are feeling it too despite the reckless spendings we see around? Na wah ooo, Lienus Mohammed must be a very strong role model to many o

Wow kind gesture, God bless and replenish the man's purse.

But I de inquisitive, na lalas de the Ghana must go abi na the car particulars still full there?

Lienus Mba! IGP Ibrahim K. Idris we've known all these before now it's your office that placed a barn on all protest and after the public outcry some people went behind to advise you on the constitutionality of protest and you are turning around to tell us what you need more enlightenment on.

E good say u don sabi am but why you come Lie Mohammed na, Abi u be minister of information?

Rogues. They sell very expensive cars at very cheap rates amongst themselves, been jailed severally with little or no rehabilitation at all they return to their vomit. I know they will be jailed again, bailed and rearrested again and again... Nigerian Police no de ever tire after all they get something and "the Police is your friend" especially when some cash is involved no matter who you are or what you do....

He probably want to be self employed rather than working under some.
On the other hand he may be a spy and wouldn't like to leave his work undone

Police is synonymous with Lienus Mohammed, if it were to be the case of a man accusing the owner of the dog naming it after his father the owner of the dog wouldn't have mentioned PMB as someone he likes and models after whom he can't in anyway degrade. He responded after his release from detebtion base on what the accusation was which is naming his dog after PMB who is his role model.
NPF is only cooking this lie now coz Garba Shehu said its laughable that some people are making a case out of a thing PMB will only laugh over.
It's a shame and most laughable at this point sef

So much claims on the defeat of the boko haram sect, can't imagine beating my enemy to stupor and while he's on the floor gasping for breathe he's still giving me conditions... Na film trick?

Jitters and counter attack over mere criticism, what a government. Alas this government will end up chasing after imaginary corruption.. wild goose chase

Na wa o, fat from nyash go boobi, which kind milk this boobi go produce and wetin go be the name of that milk...
Na innocent question oo

Show me a man who is scared of open criticism and I will outrightly show you a failure.
If you can't bear the heat openly you won't take the secret one serious

Cluelessness personified!

LastMumu:
shut up and get some education first. Homosexuality isnt peculiar to humans alone.

You mustn't show that you are daft, frustrated and proud of the "mumuous" act your family indulges in, it is obvious. I won't grant you the cheap attention you are seeking for, from your name one could tell it's not a big deal as you already live a life tagged with foolishness and we are aware that it's peculiar to lame persons like you and not animals, but since you claim otherwise I won't be surprised knowing that you are grooming your pets to tow the same line.
I pity your miserable life

LastMumu:
Educate yourself bro



http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FeeyKiDk_xU

I wouldn't know what is contained there and don't think I want to know. If you know how to read and decipher you will understand what I meant. I don't think there is any moral justification for foolery or doing the wrong thing.

hahaha, he wasn't clean yet was casting aspersions on others... He got served

Human beings doing what animals wouldn't do, I've never seen any goat, dog, pig or even sheep stooping this low despite their low level of reasoning.
That's lame and I feel for such frustrated beings the world over

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By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Twitter: @farooqkperogi

I am aware that this article won’t endear me to several of my thin-skinned Buhari/APC partisan readers who, interestingly, wildly acclaimed my past articles that pilloried former First Lady Patience Jonathan’s sidesplitting grammatical transgressions.  But I am never one to shy away from embarking on what I’m convinced is a just and fair undertaking because of a fear of backlash from mawkish, hypersensitive crybabies.

In any case, in my Saturday column—and in my Facebook status updates—I have defended Wife of the President Aisha Buhari against Gov. Ayo Fayose’s brash and reckless calumny against her. In an ironic twist, it was her bid to give the lie to Fayose’s charge that she couldn’t visit the US without being arrested that caused her to come here and give a speech at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) that is the subject of this column.

Mrs. Aisha Buhari’s speech at the United States Institute of Peace didn’t rise to the level of former First Lady Patience Jonathan’s legendary contortion of English grammar, but it was inexcusably egregious nonetheless, not least because it was supposed to be the product of preparation and forethought.

In general, the speech was riotously incoherent, lacked lexical and semantic discipline, and was peppered with avoidably ugly and elementary grammatical infractions.  Mrs. Buhari vacillated between reading from a prepared script and speaking off the cuff.  But the prepared speech and Mrs. Buhari’s extemporizations were indistinguishable: both were tortured, infantile, error-ridden, and cringe-worthy.  Winston Churchill’s famous putdown of his opponent—"He spoke without a note and almost without a point."—seems to apply to the Wife of the President.

Below are highlights of the infelicities that stood out like a sore thump during Mrs. Buhari’s 10-minute speech at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC:

1. Subject-verb agreement. Like Patience Jonathan—and former President Goodluck Jonathan—Aisha Buhari doesn’t seem to have any respect for subject-verb concord rules in English grammar. These howlers illustrate this: “I want to…thank the international community for giving us a solutions…,” “those that needs to be…,” “the school have been running…,” “adult ones that needs the opportunity.”

Most people know that a singular subject (such as “the school”) agrees with a singular verb (such as “has”) and a plural subject (such as “those,” “adult ones”) agrees with a plural verb (such as “need” instead of “needs.”) That means the Wife of the President should have said, “those that need to be,” “the school has been running,” “adult ones that need the opportunity.”  

Of course, “a solutions” is a self-evident bloomer: you don’t pluralize a noun that is preceded by the indefinite article “a” because “a” signals nominal singularity. In other words, “a solutions” is both ungrammatical and illogical since it implies nominal plurality and singularity simultaneously. It is either “solutions” or “a solution.”

2. Redundant pronoun. Pronouns typically take the place of a noun and save us the torment of ungainly repetition. That’s why, in Standard English, pronouns don’t typically appear in the same sentence as the nouns they refer to. In her USIP speech, Mrs. Buhari said the following: “As you are all aware, Boko Haram issue, it is a global issue attached to terrorism, which need [sic] to be addressed globally.”

“Boko Haram issue” is the antecedent for the pronoun “it” in the sentence quoted above, which makes the pronoun superfluous since it appears in the same sentence as its antecedent. “Boko Haram is a global issue…” would convey the same meaning—and without the ungrammatical baggage. I admit, though, that redundant pronouns of the kind I identified in Mrs. Buhari’s speech occur in nonstandard native English dialects. But we are talking of an official speech in a formal context in a foreign, English-speaking country.

The sentence also violates the basic principle of pronoun-antecedent agreement. The principle says, “A pronoun usually refers to something earlier in the text (its antecedent) and must agree in number — singular/plural — with the thing to which it refers.” The phrase “which need” refers to “Boko Haram issue,” which is a singular subject that needs a singular verb, i.e., “needs.”

3. A curious resultant “done.” During her speech, Mrs. Buhari praised the University of Maiduguri for remaining open even in the worst moments of Boko Haram insurgency. “The university really done us proud,” she said. This is a misuse of the past participle “done” that linguists call the “resultant done.” It is curious because it is typical of the informal, nonstandard (and sometimes illiterate) speech of the American south.

In Standard English, the sentence would be reworded as, “The university has done us proud.” If we want to be faithful to Mrs. Buhari’s lexical and structural choice, we would rephrase it as, “The university really did us proud.”

4. Buhari’s government as a “recent regime.” Mrs. Buhari puzzlingly referred to her husband’s administration as “the recent regime.”  Here is the context: After thanking the “international community” for its military and financial support that led to the defeat of Boko Haram, in a rather awkward transition, the Wife of the President said, “In which the recent regime has done so far considering what we inherited—the level of insecurity in the country—we can now say that we successfully fought the Boko Haram insurgency.”

Apart from the weak, messy transition, that’s some really dizzyingly incoherent verbal blizzard!
But the bigger issue is that she called the current administration “a recent regime.” There are two problems with that. First, the word “recent,” especially when it is applied to administrations, implies an immediate past, that is, that which precedes the present. It is both ungrammatical and illogical to speak of an incumbent administration as “recent.”

Second, there is always a tone of disapproval when a government is referred to as a “regime.” That is why the word is often reserved for military and other totalitarian governments. Even the Associated Press Stylebook defines “regime” as “the period in which a person or system was in power, often with a negative connotation. For example, Saddam Hussein’s regime, the Nazi regime.” I hope Mrs. Buhari doesn’t consider her husband as the honcho of a regime.

5. “Academicians.”  Mrs. Buhari called university lecturers in the audience “academicians.” Well, it’s OK to refer to university teachers as “academicians” in Nigeria and in other non-native English-speaking countries, but it doesn’t hurt to learn the proper form when you address native speakers in their own territory. Educated native English speakers call university teachers “academics,” not “academicians.”

Here is an abridged version of what I wrote on this in my December 6, 2015 column titled, “Academician” Or “Academic”? Q and A on Nigerian English Errors and Usage”: [A]n ‘academic’ is someone who teaches or conducts research in a higher educational institution, typically in a university. In British and Nigerian English, academics are also called ‘lecturers.’ In American English, they are called ‘professors.’

  “An ‘academician,’ on the other hand, is a person who works with or is honored with membership into an academy, that is, an institution devoted to the study and advancement of a specialized area of learning such as the arts, sciences, literature, medicine, music, engineering, etc. Examples of academies are the Nigerian Academy of Letters, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, etc.

“Not all academics are academicians and not all academicians are academics. In other words, you can teach in a university, polytechnic, college of education, etc. and never be made a member of an academy, and you can become a member of an academy without ever being a teacher or a researcher at a higher educational institution. Note that while most academicians are also academics, most academics are never academicians.

 “A little note on pragmatics is in order here. Although many dictionaries have entries that say ‘academician’ and ‘academic’ can be synonymous, this isn’t really the case in actual usage, at least among educated native English speakers. It is considered illiterate usage in British and American English to call higher education teachers and researchers ‘academicians’; they are properly called ‘academics.’ Many dictionaries merely capture the entire range of a word’s usage without discriminating socially prestigious usage from uneducated or archaic usage.”

Concluding Thoughts
Mrs. Buhari obviously needs a lot more help than she is aware of and is getting. She is grossly ill-served by her speech writer, who also probably manages her social media accounts. The recent grammatical bloopers from her Facebook page (which were quickly cleaned up after she became the object of ridicule on social media) could be an indication that her speech writer is also her social media manager.

 Given how much she is thrusting herself into the public eye, her poor grasp of English grammar will soon become grist to the humor mills—like it was for Patience Jonathan. She can avoid this by doing the following: (1) recede to her quiet, unobtrusive self, (2) bone up on basic English grammar, (3) surround herself with people who give a thought to grammatical correctness and completeness, or (4) speak in Fulfulde or Hausa and get an English translator. (Watch the video below)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlaWEvLJLbk

http://www.farooqkperogi.com/2016/08/aisha-buharis-embarrassing-grammatical.html?m=1

stonemasonn:
It is so. That has been the modus operandi of the Nigerian army from Jos now to Niger. They disarm and even jail armed villagers making them vulnerable to Herdsmen attack.

Evil may prevail but for a moment...
God will expose and cause the wickedness they perpetrate to hunt them and their family

Lienus Mohammed is that what you've got for this quarter of the year or we should expect more?

I just hope it's not the army and the herdsmen that are being used to commit this nefarious acts by the powers that be. Could it be that the Fulanis informed the army of arms in tge village so it will be cleared to ease their planned mission to tge village? Or that the army actually came with the intention of wiping the villagers under the guise of herdsmen before the villagers action bursted it?
Because if such a clash have been on for a while around there and uniform personnels did not come to the aid or liase with the villagers until their resolved to adopting self defence then something is wrong somewhere and it goes beyond what we are hearing now.
This and many questions beg for answers coz it's amazing that of all the said herdsmen attack carried out have been done neatly without traces as though they are professionals.
God will sure expose every evil act in no time

Cowards bearing the name officers, they can't face criminals but are often hyperactive when they want to harras innocent unarmed citizens. Shame on our useless uniform personnels who lack the least among their rules of engagement

When the head is clueless...

I vote

Vizkiz


cc NLJega

The ignorant and myopics around here will still blame Buhari's cluelessness and total lack of sound economic policies on GEJ.
Brace up geriansriansrians coz it's only a year into the administration and our enemies of 1985 and the previous years that we contested and lost are very much around.

Of all his qualifications none relates to budget padding and wailing due to ousting....

Sauka lafiya Mallam Jibrin

And he's not ashamed to say generators are being rented... Na for Daura dem de rent gen

Faruk Lawan must hear this

Mr Jibril you claimed you resigned your position as chairman of the appropriation committee voluntarily which appear contrary to the speculation that you were relieved of it yet got angry that it was announced on the floor that you no longer chair that committee... Na your house Hon. Dogara for come announce am abi on BBC Hausa?

You claim the leadership of the house padded the 2016 budget yet you never said a word on this prior to this time... Abi na yesterday dem pad/pass the 2016 budget?

You also said the principals of the lower house are corrupt and should resign. Why didn't you make a move on this until now?

You may have a point in your submissions but it obvious that you are part of the corruption too and only crying foul now because you got stripped of your position as the committee chairman. Your case is already beneath the carpet as far as I'm concerned coz you wanted playing smart but got shot in the feet

Kyior kyior kyior I laff in pidgin Swahili.

That small mouth de talk all sort: rubbish, nonsense, shit and little sense wen no make sense