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Strikers baloon over the bar from six yards, midfielders can no longer run for thirty minutes, defenders crawl at the feet of swift attackers and goal keepers... like Rufai in his ending days.... like Van Der Saar looking at his gloves in embarassment.... like Cech these days.... like Buffon yesterday.... time is up.

skales67:
We are talking about WORLD RATED CARS not crap Nigeria where Toyota is worshipped!

Back to topic...that Volvo XC60 Hybrid na where Sweden finish work. I read about the reviews online. The car is everything a vehicle should be.

Seriously considering the brand. The ambitious target of a zero accident target is just phenomenal.

wirinet:
The keyword is supposed. In reality it does not work that way. OBJ was changing senate presidents at will.
If the national assembly and the executive is at loggerheads, the country would be at a standstill or at best move slowly. This had been the situation in the last 4 years.
It is very difficult for the president's party to be in majority at the national assembly and not have the president's input in choosing its leaders. Even in the US, the republican leadership of the Congress are always carrying out the wishes of Donald Trump. Since the Democrats has taken over the house, very few progress has been made as regards actual governance.

Well it really depends on what each citizen defines as progress or development. Some see institutional building as the real progress while others watch out for the fruits, the direct benefits. In developed democracies the watch is always about the Constitution. They are always wary about the protecting the bigger picture be it immigration or gun laws in the US which are Constitutional matters.

In Nigeria most believe the Constitution is a hindrance and it doesn't permit the leader the total authority he needs to get things done. I think this is wrong. Nations are not built by individual leaders but by the collective wills of the people. The Legislature or Judiciary should not be viewed as an anchor to national development as this President has often portrayed, instead he should work with them even when they oppose his views because no one simply knows it all. I will dare to say it is maxim leaders who are bound to err and in history very few had been long term successes.

There are very few things Mr Buhari intended to do between 2015 and 2019 that he did not despitethe Legislature and judiciary. Electoral reforms were resisted, the EFCC chair continued unapproved in office, the 2 billion dollar defence fund was withdrawn without consent, no single individual indicted by the Legislature was prosecuted.... and on and on, so what more power or leverage does he want or does he need to do what he intends with Nigeria..... none.

My suspiscion is that he just wants to ride on the back of a Legislature to legitimise certain agendas he knows will be deeply unpopular and potentially dangerous to the Constitution for which under normal circumstances he could be 'walking the plank'. OBJ tried it and I am in no doubt another ex-general and military HOS will want a shot atthe past era of rule by decree.

This is the concern.

cnwamo:
The Senate is supposed to put the Executive in check but rather some people want to be ass lickers for what? Why should a President get to choose the next senate president? Where in the world does that happen?
This defeats the concept of Separation of power, President Buhari has been given way too much leverage, He wields too much and does not respect the rule of law, A man that does not respect the Constitution of the country that he presides over and now you’re giving him power over the Senate too? God help us all

The path to learning is not always smooth. Sometimes it is necessary to fail in order to succeed. If people feel giving a sitting President absolute power without checks is progress then so be it. After this experience we will all sit back and decide in 2023 whether it was worth it.... whether we have indeed moved forward as a country. My delight is that in this scenario there can no longer be any excuses for failure.

We now have 8 solid years of the Buhari administration, the maximum permitted by law and hopefully part two will be as maxim leader without distraction, without excuses of past PDP misrule, without opposition and most of all without the need for politically correct compromises especially within his party. The second tenure is strictly about him and his legacy.

We were seeking for stability, now we have it. No excuses are left on the table.

9jaRealist:
Should give them the benefit of the doubt all the same.

Many Nigerians act as if they let even one car pass them by in traffic the price of bread will quadruple. SMH

One car?....then you either donot drive or live in Nigeria because.
Please Nigerians tell him what comes after the emergency vehicle...

Same reason why a lot of folks refuse to pay taxes.... its called the chicken and egg syndrome. The thinking is 'what comes first, their responsibility or mine'.... society in a raging flux.

Pascopele:
When fuel subsidy cost N600billion at 87naira per litre,it was corruption. Now, it's N2.95trillion at 145naira per litre there's no corruption. No protest, no outrage. Truth is, the Buhari effect on Nigerians is no longer ordinary, it is now spiritual!!!


Jonathan:
Petrol - #87 per Ltr.
Subsidy - #600 Billion
Nigerians - GEJ is a thief. GEJ MUST go!

Buhari:
Petrol - #145 per Ltr.
Subsidy - #2.95 Trillion
Nigerians - Buhari has integrity.
He's a honest man. He's fighting corruption.

Our Mumu is on "Microwave Mode" . e dey hot

Not to talk of the fact that oil prices then averaged 90 dollars as against 50 dollars now which the administration is quick to use as its defence on the earnings side but is silent on the expenditure/accountability side. And now that fewer players control the market, scrutiny is completely lost in that tower of corruption called the NNPC they blatantly refuse to reform or shutdown.

Anyway we are still in the season of elections. Nothing can be seen dispassionately so we just wait till governance resumes with our criticisms and alternate ideas.

The man lived in self delusion, the lion wasn't.

That is what happens to great empires. They get eroded from within by the corrosion of ego and when they crash, how mighty will the rumble be.

Perez.... ego.
Ramos...ego.
Solari....ego.

An egoistic bunch confined to the dustbin of history.

mightyhaze:
Chai,..These are the kind of people that determine who rules me,...


tell me difference btw these ones and terrorists
Person when get mind guzzle gutter water,to knott suicide belt no go be anything to am na

Indeed. I have an equal stake in this country as such a fellow.... just one vote. And that is why I did not bother to register as a voter and will not bother to to vote in the foreseeable future until Nigeria is restructured and a clear line is drawn between sanity and insanity.

President De Gaulle survived 140 rounds of mainly GPMG ammo at the hands of the OAS.... it happens.

Elections have been rigged since 1999. The problem I have with most Nigerians is that they do nothing about it in the interim. Even the direct victims and potential direct victims, the politicians, Legislators will do nothing between now and 2023 to reform the process and institutionalise the electoral body until another electoral cycle and the same story repeats itself.

We blacks have this short term inertia challenge. We just seem incapable of organising, building, things. We rather want instant solutions and when these donot come we jettison the equation. If we cannot lynch the criminal we rather let him go. The will to investigate, understand, appraise and logically solve problems is lost on us.

By May 29th all will be forgotten and forgiven till February 2023.

No comment. We are still caught in the election contrails. Any response will not be received dispassionately.

Brazilian footballers never learn. The DNA strand that is responsible for self control, fidelity and professionalism that is totally missing in the Negroid is fully manifest here despite the close example of his felow country man, the great Ronaldinho. In five years time it will all be over and his case will be one of study in various Brazilian colleges of psychology.

Hmmmm.... society turning on itself.... I think this doubled edged sword is taking political awareness to a new and dangerous level. I have heard that some employers and business people are already taking partisan political positions in relationship with their staff....

Asshurbanipal:
Rig within certain limits that you won't get caught. we will seek redress. He has appointed his man in supreme court quite alright but we will try

Instead of doing Supreme court emergency room treatment every four year election cycle why not just move legislation to make safety belts of best practices the DNA of INEC durung the off season. Mark you, seat belts and airbags are not made in hospital operating theatres but in car component factories.

The seeds of failure and the seeds of success lie in the National Assembly, the PDP has thirty or so Senators, not enough to scale a motion but they can lobby their APC counterparts who may see reason in being potential victims down the line..... a 300 pound gorilla Saraki did not see coming as a whole Senate President until he was crushed by its powerful arms.

I remain adamant that prevention is better than cure but even in an accident sich as this election the surgery of Legislation is better than the pills of the courts.

Oyimeoyimemua:
On the anti corruption war, I think he will be stiffer in this second term and may not shield those in this party, I this we will see more of those around him in the courtrooms if not prisons.... I feel they were shielded in the first tenure because of his second term ambition.... However it goes, we just hope for a better Nigeria

Hmmm.... ' a better Nigeria' in my opinion is just too vague and not worth the price of 1 vote not to talk of the near 100 billion naira expended by government on the elections.

I think it is time people start getting serious with government and and start demanding 'measurable deliverables'. I am afraid, putting criminals in court rooms does not sit with me as the job description of a President nor the ultimate function of a government.

Anyway, I have been on a two week recess from public affairs including the electoral process in totality. Now that the elections are over, my own election wahala starts.

Look mister as a young man try and engage on issues like your counterparts in other climes around the world. There are far too many childish conversations on an electoral exercise that has come at far too profound a cost.

Instead of playing games all around begin to use your thought process to generate the ideas and the will to better yourself and your community. You have given someone a precious gift of power to rule over you for the next four years and this is all you have to discourse about it....

Disappointing... and that is why those who are accorded with such power do as they will... those who should hold them to account are just plain useless....

The mods should help us out and push things that add value to people. Issues with a potentially positive effect on us. Cerebral issues.

What upsets me so much is that you will find that within two weeks all the lessons of the transition will be forgotten and lost. The promises, the manifestos, the points of debate, the agendas, the philisophical outlines, everything. Not lost by leadership but lost by the very people promised but who are here trading the will for a better life with irrelevant banter. Why won't those who promised those things smile.

Totally agree sir. Same thing I have been saying from a slighty different perspective all day. We simply cannot be self serving all the time. Someone must step back to make the sacrifices to check the health of the system. At some point in time the vehicle of democracy must be serviced. If we let the Judiciary run this democracy then we will weaken beyond recovery the will of the people to shape it.

It is the court of public opinion that should determine if the elections were credible and if not it is the critical mass of those people that will force a change through their elected Representatives of laws that create the loopholes unsavoury politicians exploit.

I did say that I advice Mr Atiku to concede, congratulate the elected President and swiftly get to work on those issues that his supporters canvassed for in strong opposition. Only then can the country benefit from this exercise and recover the tens of billions expended.

Adefemiaderoju1:
So because of thieves could gather up to 15, 16, 17, etc votes we should be putting them forward this the reason why Nigeria might never be prosper if this is how majority of Nigerians are reason.

I have told you severally. You and I have just one vote each. Your ideology and my ideology cannot change Nigeria without tens of millions of folks agreeing with it. That is the fact. So I advice you to accept the present realties and work your way from there to build a critcal mass.

I don't vote. I am not even a registeted voter and I support no party as I am not a card carrying member of any because like you I donot see a candidate that shares my ideals or a process, system or structure that will make it possible for any leader to succeed but that does not stop me from speaking put to alert those that do and to create a critical mass of thinkers.

LukeSavage:
The world know what happened on Saturday. Must people from the SS, SE were mostly de-franchise. How can states wit 2mil accredited voters be producing a total vote of 600k?

Lagos had close to 6mill accredited voters but see the outcome of total vote cast.

APC is truly an evil party. For does who Fink Buhari has integrity should have his head examined. After Endorsing Gandollar i just tire for this country.

So take your battle to the National Assembly. You have equal represetation there. Let the Senators and Reps from those affected regions table the matter and have things changed. That is how democracy works. But no you folks will not. You will rather be looking for Constituency Projects and how many boreholes your Senator sunk or how many roads he built in your town.... but to get him to do his real job.... no.

I sincerely hope, none. Like I said earlier, I think this is beginning to sound like a 'Democracy by the Judiciary' or a Democracy founded by Court Judgements rather than a 'Democracy by The People' or a Democracy by Laws.

To constantly depend on a panel of ten or twelve men rather than 180 million citizens election after election is not a sign of a maturing democracy. Everyone wants to watch a football match decided by the artistry, dexterity and tenacity of the contestants rather than by the referee or these days by VAR. And if the football body continues to decide matches by the umpire then it risks bringing the entire game into disrepute and fans will generally lose interest.

So what the sports ruling body, the Executive should quickly do is to revise the Laws of the Game through the Legislature to tie up all loose ends and clear up all ambiguities so that contests are more about the game rather than the referees.

I said earlier, that our Legislature missed it when it allowed the Executive ride roughshod over it on the Electoral Reforms. Mr. President, a victim of bad elections in the past, on his part could not summon the courage to make needed reforms so I hope the Judiciary will fail the opposition so that it takes its responsibility of shaping institutions more seriously the same way opposition parties all over the world battle to have laws that sanitise and develop society as a whole.

We cannot run our democracy and our country by the courts in perpetuity. We need to be a nation of laws.

lexy2014:
How do u "create chaos thru courts"?

Look mister. There has never been a credible election in Nigeria as per international best practices. If the judiciary had pronouced the President of Nigeria since 1999 in the true spirit of justice we will not be having a democracy by now but either military rule or pure anarchy. The electoral process as inadequate as it is for now must be allowed to be the only basis for appointing or removing the top leadership. When the electoral process becomes institutionalised then the Judiciary can come in to support it.

It is the truncating of nascent political processes that brought in the military first in 66 and then in 83. If you continue to threaten the system before it matures you will never have long term development. The Judiciary should take it easy. They are the last card. There are many options to straighten out the system before the courts.

If Mr. Buhari had won in the courts in 2007 or 2011 before the maturing of his political base or the electoral system do you think the incumbents then will have willingly reliquished power to him without plunging Nigeria into a chaos that will have brought military rule back.? Right now there are a few more important things than who is President of Nigeria namely internal security, stability and peace.

And the options are clear and were available before the elections that the PDP failed to capitalise on namely the Bill on Electoral Reforms which Mr. President refused to sign into law. That is where the election were lost. The opposition Democratic lawmakers today in America will fight and hold their President to a standstill. In Nigeria, the weak PDP couldn't effect a change of laws in its favour. You cannot do it for yourself, you want some other entity to do it for you. That is anarchy.

They should forget about the courts and mature their ranks brfore taking on the system. They still are not ready to take power.

Adefemiaderoju1:
Pdp messed up the day they present Atiku as their presidential candidate despite the brilliant people we have across the country

So who should have been presented that would have amassed 15, 16, 17 million votes. How many individuals standing today can amass that number. I think it is better you folks rather focus on the process itself rather than the players and try an improve that is creating a level playing field for all to aspire. That is the peoples responsibility. No leader can do that. No one will willingly uoset a system he benefits from.

For what abeg.? This is very disappointing. Whatever the shortcomings of the election process, I don't think it can over shadow the critical mass that voted for the ruling APC. The polls clearly indicates Mr. Buhari and the APC remain very popular . Nothing like the tectonic tilt in the polity as in 2015 happened, so I cannot see what the benefit of trying to create chaos through the courts.

However it is his civil liberty. The judicial process may throw new light into the electoral process which may in turn catalyse the much needed reforms.... but for the next one in 2023. What Atiku and the PDP should however do is to continue engaging on the issues they propsed to the peoples of Nigeria in their manifesto to see that this government gets serious about the economy, restructuring, etc. Then and only then will the 100 billion or so naira expended on the elections be worth it.

The PDP should not cause a crisis. With the margin of victory I cannot see the need to call to question the elections.

Oh great. Congratulations to Mr. Buhari on his election as President for a second term. I wish him and his government the very best of success and the fortitude to deliver on the campaign promises for a better Nigeria. Congratulations to the ruling All Progressive Congress for a dogged victory at the national polls.

More reactions to follow as the dust settles.

Just ended a long, tedious but profitable day.... much progress.... so tired.... cold water has never tasted this good....

OP,... man you need a vacation. Clear your head first.... take a week off.... travel to somewhere remote.... where there are no base stations and mobile signals... where you can watch the waves pound the beach all day long.... or the sunset behind the rolling hills....

..... just a week....then we can talk....

His people have decided that they want at best, sick representation and at worst, no representation. This only happens because of our structure. If the tax payer was responsible for his upkeep and his bills, who will pay or risk jail time to fund this sort of thing. If his folks were paying a third of their income to state will they not ask for a functional and effective tool of representation. Will they not be doing the arithmetic of how many days he will be fit for office and shaking their heads in dismay. Will any person or organisation employ an individual with a stroke to work.

The true test of popularity and desire of any contestant in an electoral process is how much it costs a people to put him or her there and keep such an individual for the duration of the assignment. I am certain that if the people shared the true cost of governance, they will naturally learn to make better electoral choices. Without restructuring Nigeria simply cannot develop.

stagger:
You see the bolded? That is the work of government, not the church. So if you like, vote back APC and you will know that the 21 million jobs lost in the last 4 years is going to be like a child's play during their 2nd term.

It is not right to 'scaremong'. No matter who wins the elections, Nigerians must come together to make it work by the winners being magnanimous in victory and the defeated not being embittered and recalcitrant. Nigeria belongs to everyone of us. The election of its leaders should not bring it to its knees.

The role of the church is to be a Light to the country and being a Light means a custodian of the solutions to the challenges all men of all religions have. The closer you are to church leadership you are, the further away you should be from partisan politics because you know God doesn't work that way. His objectives will always be to save man from sin and its devastating effects on the basis of love.

So Christians and the Church should continue to love their country, love her government and love her fellow citizens no matter how the outcome of mundane issues of elections and democracy are.

abdulkayus:
Lol. It is definitely Kano, that skyscraper u are seeing is the headquarters of Bank of the North. The building is now use as Skyline University building own by Kwankwaso.

you don't mean it. How did he manage that. Kai, these politicians eh...

Abagworo:
This photo is definitely not Kano

It is Kano alright.