₦airaland Forum

Joshmodest:
Did buhari not raise ganduje's hand in the presidential campaign, in Kano...what else do we call that if not endorsement , abi u no see the picshure..
His deputy governor's arrest , has nothing to do with buhari , it's the effort of the CP, who is interested in the goodwill of the people...if buhari had his way he would rig it like he did with the presidential election..

Naijaguy123:
Now is the time to jail saraki and his errand boy governor.

modath:
With all shame & total humility do I proclaim that : This is the kind of petty level I aspire to .

Esseite:
If only Nigeria progressed on GEJ's antecedents, by now we may have been looking at a reasonable GDP figure and not 0.5% from a whole construction industry [s]which majorly accounts for our growth on infrastructure.[/s]

- [s]Just maybe we would have been getting ready to initiate online voting for 2023.. now it seems like we have retrogressed to 2007.[/s]

The manufacturing sector of the economy was one out of four major sectors in the non-oil sector that helped Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grow by 2.38 percent in real terms (year-on-year) in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to figures from the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

Joromi12:
cos atiku is a thief

Esseite:
Oh... they meant transacted amount, inflow and outflow, the onus lies on how much was retained. Moreover the major bulk of that transaction rests on the CBN with its dollar push in millions into the forex market on a two weeks basis and massive bonds and bills sales of 2018 at a 14% interest rate.


There it is...



This is when the FG commemced treasury bills and bonds sales in massive scale, the question now is.... When the bonds mature, what is left after we pay back with its interest at 14% which obviously would leave the shores like it came because they chose investment in bills and bonds due to mistrust of our financial policies ?

No hate... just being logical[/s]

Base1line:
Craz de worry your head who was CBN governor when we went into recession ?

iammo:



Emeifiele, the unpraised hero of the Nigerian economy. He took some of the boldest and sometimes craziest monetary policy moves with the backing of FG, led by tough guy buhari. Since 1999 no cbn governor/FG were able to succesfully diversify our economy by delibrately withholding forex from politicians , smuggglers and importers of rubbish

Esseite:
[s]Oh... they meant transacted amount, inflow and outflow, the onus lies on how much was retained. Moreover the major bulk of that transaction rests on the CBN with its dollar push in millions into the forex market on a two weeks basis and massive bonds and bills sales of 2018 at a 14% interest rate.

This is when the FG commemced treasury bills and bonds sales in massive scale, the question now is.... When the bonds mature, what is left after we pay back with its interest at 14% which obviously would leave the shores like it came because they chose investment in bills and bonds due to mistrust of our financial policies ?

No hate... just being logical[/s]

Further analysis showed that in 2018, the I&E forex window attracted $33.34 billion inflows with, foreign investors, exporters and other non CBN players injecting $23.89 billion.

Foreign exchange inflows through the Investors and Exporters (I&E) foreign exchange window hit the $50 billion at the end of February. This huge inflow was instrumental to the stability of the naira against the dollar since 2017.

The Investors and Exporters (I&E) forex window allows investors and exporters to purchase and sell foreign exchange at the prevailing market rate. Prior to the introduction of the I&E window on April 2017, the nation’s foreign exchange market was bedevilled with acute shortage of supply of foreign exchange due to apathy of foreign investors who exited the nation’s financial markets in droves in the wake of the sharp decline in the nation’s external reserve caused by sharp decline in crude oil prices between starting from July 2014. The scarcity triggered sharp depreciation of the naira with the exchange rate rising to N520 per dollar in February 2017, while the gap between the official exchange rate and the parallel market rate rose to 70 percent.

Anago50000:
. We are not interested

Aboki

Skiilashi:
In a typical way elections are rigged in Nigeria ,you quoted me half way removing my two last line.

In any ways a man will always know the truth in his heart.

Posterity is the true judge!!!

Skiilashi:
Well I can see you are not objective.
I am not here to support any party but a crusader for true democracy.

A Democracy with clear separation of powers.
A Democracy that will work for the people
A Democracy where the executive will respect the rule of law,as mpunity is the order of the day.

CrtlAltDel:
Fake pastor without congregation....you mates are waking the dead. Go and perform miracle for Atiku

Skiilashi:
You seem not to understand basic Government!

You do not understand the principle of checks and balances.

They already have the judiciary in their pocket.

Is it democracy we are practicing or something else?

Skiilashi:
So where is the independence of legislative arm of gov't ,if the executive will decide who heads the Senate. Where is separation of power?

We don't want a rubber stamped Senate.

I will forever respect saraki,he might have failed in this last fight,but there are still many fight in the future. It is time for him to re strategize.

Excaperx:
oga saraki is no longer in senate so stop acting opposition politics

Awol1:
The problem of most of your kind is that you swallow every poo thrown at you from Bubu and his handlers hook, line and sinker.

The report in Vanguard quoted Femi Adesina as saying that Mike Pompeo as congratulating "Nigerians" for a successful election, and not "Buhari" for victory.

Why would Pompeo's statement be conveyed by Adesina, which but raises a lot of questions.

Mike Pompeo has a twitter handle, and so does the White House. Why hasn't any official statement come from these avenues?

How does congratulating Nigerians for a successful election translate to congratulating Buhari for victory?

makzeze:
What happened yesterday in NASS would most likely boomerang and hurt APC in the near future, and by extension the President and his policies. In power play, you don't allow those who do not share your ideals and their cohorts in the opposition to hijack important organ of government as the legislature, and expect smooth sail of your policies - anti corruption, austerity measures and sociopolitical reforms.

PMB must act fast..the forces against the power blocks that gave him the APC ticket are getting stronger. They may decide to slow his progress in the face of high expectations from Nigerians, and before you know it, 2019 is around the corner. They could push their luck further by working with the opposition PDP in the countdown to next general elections.

festacman:
What is the basis of the so-called success other than fighting for political offices and taking undue advantage of one's authority and influence to steal public money. For example, what productive activities made Saraki, Ekweremadu, Akpabio, Modu Sheriff, and such other 'public fund thieves' wealthy? We must villify ill-gotten wealth to encourage productive activities.

Bouyed by bountiful earnings Venezuela was import-dependent and has corrupt visionless leaders like Nigeria. The fact is that if Buhari did not take over in 2015, Nigeria would have been like Venezuela today. But his conservatory tough decisions stemmed the slide moving Nigeria in and out of inevitable recession. He insisted on taking advantage of our other areas of comparative advantage through diversification and local production.

So I believe Buhari's 2nd term can only lift Nigeria forward to significant real economic growth. The worst is over.

kayfra:
Awww you got me.

It must suck for you that someone is calling your bluff. Your usual coping mechanism of empty and hollow chest beating put on the spot

Jman06:
lol...the election was obviously rigged! Besides, it seems the northerners had a last minute conspiracy against Atiku.

The analysis though was that we all expected Atiku to score higher in the north than GEJ did in 2015. My expectation was that he would score at worst twice Jonathan's score in each of the northern states and win all the PDP states in the north like sokoto, Gombe, taraba and Benue with wide margin. Such performance in the north added to southeast and south south would have ensured victory for Atiku. The original result arising from PDP's PVT showed my predictions to be almost correct, but the powers that be conspired to rig the election.

Cc: @APCsupporter

9jaRealist:
Dude, do not know you from a can of beans so will not presume to speak for your personal standards or expectations, but I would like to think that most Nigerians do not consider themselves children of a lesser God and thus are in pursuit of the ideal in all spheres of their lives. The notion of settling for less should be anathema for anyone/everyone with high expectations for themselves and their country. Even if the ideal ultimately proves unattainable, it’s pursuit should ALWAYS be our collective aspiration for as the saying goes (and I paraphrase), “when you aim for the sky, you would tend to excel even if you fall short”.



Here, you just sound confused because the ability to sell one’s program is not synonymous with UNANIMTY of opinions.

This may be even further confusing for you, but a DIVERSITY of opinions and viewpoints is actually a GOOD thing - not least because no one person has a monopoly of wisdom (not even the President, as you appear to think). In fact, the ideal process is to subject ideas and opinions to competition in a free marketplace of ideas until the ‘best’ ones win or otherwise emerge therefrom. Accordingly, quite often, the ‘best’ and most effective laws and policies are a result of compromise, resulting from the meshing of a variety of different interests.

Meanwhile, you keep harping on and idealizing about a president’s “excellent” agenda, but what if the president’s agenda is horrible (or as previously proffered, parochial, primordial, partisan or pecuniary-driven)? Should the parliament simply be compliant and roll over? The Nigerian President is NOT a Sultan, Emir, Oba, Igwe, Obong, Tor, or any other such feudal monarch. Rather, he is constitutionally RESTRAINED by a system of INDEPENDENT check and balances, which if/when eroded inflicts incalculable damage to our constitutional democracy.