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They prefer to talk about corruption and economy not about the state of the nation. Which foreign investor will bring his money into a country, into a state wnere such is the norm. I have said it time without number, without restructuring, we simply cannot become a nation. This place is just a collection of peoples. There is nothing two Nigerians share in common. Government is a just failure in continuum. You listen to radio stations like Nigeria Info in Abuja. Just raise a point of observation about these happenings and others critical of government and they angrily shut you down. All they want to hear is the praises of the government and to think the likes of Swat Duniya and co are from these areas ravaged by sectarianism begs reasoning. They don't want to squarely address them, they avoid them. All they rejoice about is Ipob, Ibori and Wike while their townsmen are continuously slaughtered. How long can this gathering of people continue to pretend before civil war explodes upon us all. Nonsense country. Useless people.

sekamykome:
Very funny, has there ever been elections where politicians did not heat up the polity? The sitting government do not want opposition obviously.

Good morning. Like you have been on an expedition to Antarctica the last couple of years.

Well, I think people accentuate whatever valuables they have. Tennis players insure their hands, footballers pamper their feet, bodybuilders spend time and treasure on their bodies. Now if there is nothing visually outstanding, expensive and well cultured the natural assumption will be that it resides on the inside, either in the brain or in the heart which leaves a lot to be expected.

So they assume rightly or wrongly, that..... that is all you have to offer, that is what you are about, that is where your time and treasure is expended and it kinda.... insufficient except if you are going to be a model or a world class hair dresser....

Just like when you see the fairer sex, ladies overdoing it. The natural assumption is that, that is their best foot forward and there probably isn't more to offer. People always put their best foot forward. Give them a break. They don't want you forming glass ceilings over your life.

ayobase:
Consumers sabotaging the collective efforts of Disco, Transysco and Genco.

If consumers don't pay Discos, Discos can't pay Transysco or rather reject allocations, and with this Transysco can't pay Genco.

it all starts from Nigerians - consumers.

Those in the industry know how terrible the situation of electricity theft is which is worsening with he the recession. Admitted it is the responsibility of DISCOS to protect their investments and there are many suggestions and proposals out there on how to tackle the menace but to think they will just go on and on incurring losses without side effects is just foolhardy. We will get the service we are prepared to pay for. This issue amongst others is one of the big reasons, the big, global players watch from the sidelines, that is weak corporate governance, weak regulations, weak enforcement. If you stole a pack of recharge cards and you were caught you will be charged. On the other hand, have you ever heard anyone arrested by the police for stealing power. The worst you get is a disconnect, a small fine and a reconnect even if you have consumed a million naira worth of electricity. No business can run like that and yet we want stability while right billing covers just a fraction of consumers.

progress69:
We should go back to PHCN. Simple. All this excuses are very silly ones. The truth is that this discos were sold to family and friends, political associates and the likes, instead of competent firms who are experienced. Some of the owners of these discos are actually major importers of Generators and petroleum products.

Sentiments as usual. I can only reply objective arguments on the subject matter: why power is rejected. And for your information it is normal in the energy industry worldwide. You simply cannot take what you cannot use. If you are not making profit, you are in debt, the consequences of which are worse. Transysco should study the pattern and advice the GENCOS to trim output whenever uptake is weak if not, it is they who will go bankrupt.

DirtyGold:
Imagine this guys using the welfare of Nigerians to do disco.
Chai.... diaris God o.
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Well, let them kwontinue

What's tha business?

Electricty is not welfarist in any part of the world. It is thinking like this that got us here and only reforned thinking can get us out.

agabusta:
The power problem in this country is multifaceted. It needs iron hand. Fashola seems inundated and too soft with these discos.

Mynd44, OAM4J, Lalasticlala please come and see this interesting report. Discos are turning down power supply despite that people are eagerly and prayerfully waiting to receive such electricity.

Something is definitely wrong somewhere with the power administration and management in this country.

There's nothing wrong. The industry is just maturing and I commend the DISCOS for flying an independent kite. Hopefully they will move to the next stage of diversifying their power purchase from Transysco and open up the whole market to whoever can supply them power and a favourable price to them which includes the general public.

Rejection means one or two things. Either the economics isn't right or the technical package isn't. Why will I buy power if I cannot make money selling it. Is that not a debt which will sooner or later destroy the whole industry. We all know that three of the biggest challenges faced today are: low electricity prices, poor transmission and distribution infrastructure and electricty theft and until these can be adequately addressed and surmounted, DISCOS will have no alternative than to buy only what they can sell and when they can sell to make a profit. This is purely business and if government as a whole operated like this, we will not be in the mess we face today.

DEBJOCH1:
these are the real uncivilized owners of ABUJA, they own ABUJA but yet, they are always afraid of staying in the city, they prefer staying in the mud, caves and mountain, up till tomorrow their women don't carry load on their head, they rather use their back in carrying a heavy log of wood, though their women folks are very hard working but reverse is the case for their men, most of their living huts and home are built by their female as suppose to be done by the male folks. That's the Gbagi's or better still you can call dem the Gwari's, they rather prefer the first name. They can be traced in FCT and also in the following states: Nasarawa, Kogi, Kaduna, Niger etc. Their men are very lazy and can drink for Africa.

Some still stay in the city. On my way home from Jabi shoprite they closed down a road section close to the Okonjo Iweala/Arab junction where they have a settlement, on Christmas eve....didn't get to see bare butts cos it was already dark.

COMPAQ:
Well said! My sentiments as well. The removal of the roundabout will help, but not the ultimate solution. Best solution would have been to provide u turn loops at areas where you cant go across the road, let people turn back fro say 300m before negotiating to the right. i'e the loops should be like midway between the current roundabouts.

Just replicate the Northern expresway and Airport Road designs in Abuja. It eil cut down the go slows by 50%.

wablex:
We hav two states in Nigeria. Lagos and odas. Eko oni Baje Ooo

It is still a terrible place to live in. I have several plots of land in Lekki and no one around me is enthusiatic to see me develop them. These pictures are just discouraging. Just cannot do Lagos abeg.

Instead of preaching real Christian values that warn about the consequences of greed and Christ being their sufficiency and wealth coming from sound wisdom, he is pleading for a bailout so that God will subsidize their stupidity. If or when they are rescued they will boast about their ability, testify about fheir 'righteousness' and having learnt nothing, return to the prodigal son pig slop where many more Mavrodis await. These are the people that give Christianity a bad name.

SCRABBLEBOARD:
George Michael provided the real cover for gays in the 1990s. He was an inspiration to the first set of gays of my generation. A culture which this generation has embraced with rapacious intensity.
Now that he is gone, his brilliant singing career will always be colored by his sexual preferences, sadly.

Won't be surprised if HIV was the grim reaper. The timing of his preferences lends to that, a perod of relative ignorance.

Bbklopsy:
U mean fg's recession legacy?

No, recessions are neither here nor there. What every Nigerian should be looking for in leaders is their ability to reproduce quality leadership. To institutionalise processes by which only the best subsequently comes. Ibori did not do that, if Buhari cannot do that he has failed, no matter how many roads he builds or hospitals he commissions. I will rather remember Buhari or Ibori for what CONTINUES to happpen. That is why I rate Jonathan high. He has left a great legacy that has enabled free transfer of power, so the opportunity for subsequent quality, sustainable quality is there. Can you imagine if Buhar was Jonathan's 'boy' or Jonathan was still in power overiding the electorate or still controlling the rudder of government....think pls.

nams77:
While I don't support embezzlement, but can you honestly tell me that ibori is the only corrupt person in Nigeria. Is amaechi, buhari, wike, tinubu, saraki etc not corrupt? What about babachir, Danjuma, abacha, babangida, sanusi, el rufai, kalu are these one saints also? I may not liked what he did, but ibori brought massive development to delta state. No governor dead or alive of delta state has surpassed his achievement. That is why he is so much loved. Come to delta state and see the up swelling of love for him.
108. nams77:

The desire of a hundred million people does not make it right. We have seen a classic example of this present Federal government so far. There is a lot of ignorance out there, that is why folks like Ibori, IBB, etc had support for so long. In 30, 50, 100 years from now, Deltans will rewrite history when they will have sorted themselves out.

nams77:
Corruption is relative. I am not proud of his actions but the way you guys go about him makes me sick. We have bigger thieves in Nigeria and we cannot be treating one small fry in isolation. I find your position quite worrisome. So because the topic centers on ibori, we cannot treat or discuss other issues related to this? This quite a narrow view.
I want to believe you are not situated in delta state and hence cannot measure the pulse of the people. I have spent over 3decades in delta state and I qualify to speak extensively on affairs that bothers on delta state and the Niger Delta at large.pls and pls, don't rely on news paper reportage. We are on ground here and we say the man did credibly well. End of Discussion

Credibly well in what way. The yardstick we use to rate leadership in Nigeria is just so ignorantly mediocre. The quality of leadership is legacy, the ability to sustain and improve quality. Even generation after generation of the humble mosquito has improved capacity and productivity. If a lion (what you call Ibori) gave birth to a dog (what you called puppy faced Uduagan) who did next to nothing in 8 years, then Ibori is the sole cause. Look at Lagos State. That is a small example of good leadership, the ability to REPRODUCE SUCCESS in increasing measure. That is why the expectations of Lagosians is so high and their governors have no option but to perform. What has been the performance of subsequent Delta governors. Lagos has developed a system of good governance.

The reason why folks are crazy about Ibori is out of starvation. They long for the 'good old days'. That in itself shows Ibori failed because he should have institutionalised his successes so whether he is there or not Delta will be great. So I don't buy this 'strong man' mentality. It is failure, pure and simple. And I say it for this federal government. The legacy it leaves will be the yardstick of its quality, not some borehole here and there or some tarred road, but the ability to build institutions by its selfless actions. IBORI BUILT INSTITUTIONS FOR HIMSELF. HE IS AN INSTITUTION. THAT IS FAILURE.

Hmmm...like when they line up for identification and the distraught lady behind the one way glass says,.....'yes, it is the second man on the left..... the one who.... raped me.'

Nigerians need enough suffering to elevate their thinking. Corruption CAN NEVER END under this structure. When they should all be there to konk his head and slap his face... what do you expect, a dog cannot eat a dog.

Poorly scripted. There is an enormous size difference between the two.

Sibrah:
Sometimes back I read of how India was able to generater solar power at a rate of N20/KWh. I use N320/$ conversion rate then. If I use N480/$ to be on a safer side that's still N30/KWh. And it was S-O-L-A-R for God's sake.

But another thing you have to consider is that solar is cheaper in India because they have an enabling solar industry, i.e they make every single component of the generating system locally so they are able to control costs. What I have often said is that Nigeria should invest in solar power component manufacture. Spend half the money we are currently spending building or rebuilding refineries and these so called gas plants in manufacturing solar panels and other components. Have total government support up to cabinet level, make the enabling laws to support it, waive duty on solar manufacturing tools and equipment and subsidize manufacture through the BOI. Set a target of having a manufacturing plant in each northern state up and running in five years, then watch and see how Nigeria becomes a global leader in solar and see how costs will drop so low, no one will wish to see fuel plants. Have the building industry adopt solar for the construction of new homes and offices as mandatory for their approval. There is a lot we can do. This tunnel vision we have for oil and gas is just stupid and highly risky. No nation worth its salt does not have a healthy power production mix. Even the uneducated farmer in the village knows that if he does not rotate and multicrop, his soil will be lost shortly and permanently. Can any man survive on one food source without serious illness. How can an economy survive with this visionlessness

ArabMopol:
The headline suppose to look this way..... (Sokoto big Generator set To Generate Power
At N178/kilowatt (more than 3x
Regional Price) how do we called it power plant when it consume more fuel than generator set... if they share that 33,900 litres of fuel it consume in daily to Sokoto ppl, it will even go a very long way for them

bloody socialist....but you've got a strong point there. The Sokoto plant economics is dodgy at best, but I think even at 178, it will no doubt be cheaper than individuals running their plants. Once you scale up, no matter how expensive things are, the unit costs always fall.

Sibrah:
You need to tone down your obsession with power topics you hardly understand enough.
Go research the average cost of solar power in India, then ask yourself what's the sense in Sokoto state generating power at N170/KWh.

Thank you. The guy has had more than enough baloney for Christmas. Solar in Sokoto is a no brainer. Back it up with piston driven diesels (not turbines) at night when consumption is typically lower anyway. Yes solar takes up space but it is not entirely wasted space. You can always elevate your panels and get back your land for whatever can be done in the shade. That N170/KWh will then be used to recoup costs and will last for only a few years then you have a plant that will charge 10/KWh for the next 50 years. You see the good thing about solar is that capacity can be increased by small margins every year if the government so wishes, diesel on the other hand na wahala, maintenance is a big big challenge and being a plant of continuous motion has to be staffed 24/7, salaries will be astronomical. If one single bearing fails the plant can be down for months, then if the turbine company has moved on with technology you will suffer, if the turbine company has folded up, you will fold up too. If you know the number of non functional turbines there are in the various plants across the country you will be shocked some of them for a N10,000 spare part that takes months to find. They will need the turbine company to be on the hotline 24/7 and that does not come cheap. Fuel fired power generation is not for the faint hearted and Sokoto is a far place to travel.

Blue3k:
No it wouldnt. Solar power is only help in the energy mix. Second solar is more expensive and power Is intermittent. If you look at various charts solar would offer a few 7 MW h per sq mt.

Btw Niger Delta should be happy to help them. Just a reminder we're supposed to be on eachothers team. Then there is also Niger Rupblic as an option. Which they'll gladly take opportunity since we're interconnected with they're grid in multiple zones.

My main gripe with article is how this would bring state to near constant power. Ikot Abasi grid produces 100 MW and didn't bring akwa ibom to near 24 hrs. Then there's also bigger independent power plants in all over Southern Nigeria with higher capacities even during worst bombing. They don't get those sort of results.

Are you thinking at all. How is solar more expensive. You guys have this tunnel vision than warps your thinking. Look at the big picture my friend. Solar is only expensive to deploy. It costs very little to maintain and in a region with lesser than average rainfall/cloud cover it should be a no brainer. Diesel on the other hand is derived from crude oil, mined 1500 kilometres away in Indian territory and the nearest refinery is 500 kilometres away in Kaduna and is totally moribund. Does this make sound economic sense when you know that anything called 'turbines' absolutely hates the turning off and on an epileptic supply of diesel will cause, so expect the plant to have serious maintainance issues going forward. To overcome this they will inevitably have to source diesel from 'suppliers' whose qualities cannot be guaranteed and whose prices will not be stable. As we speak diesel in Abuja is N250, not the 205 quoted. The instability of prices will cost the government millions in subsidies to maintain that N178 electricity price. God on the other hand gives sunlight on time, 6am everyday at no cost. Is this an argument. Pally, think again.

I commend the government for taking the initiative to be power independent but it should have not made the mistakes the feds are making which are two fold.

One, invest in transmission and distribution first. Build your own infrastructure independent of Transysco or the various Discos so you are not injecting into the so called 'national grid' which is a bottomless pit of corruption and mismanagement. Instead direct the power you generate to specific targets: industrial clusters which can afford the high tarrif and can be monitored for payment (i.e as opposed to individual consumers who are more likely to default, whine endlessly and end up bypassing metering), and intervention agencies such as medicare, fire, security.

Two, invest in an energy mix, not dumping all your eggs into the oily basket or investing in gasses you cannot see or hold with your hand. So the plant they have built should be a backup for when for instance solar is offline, at night or at gloom, not the major source of energy so you can afford to store diesel and thus gives you the market leverage to get best prices and overcome supply constraints. Ayade of Cross-River did it last year, a small 4 megawatt diesel plant but almost immediately saw how terribly expensive it was to run particularly when it was situated in his local government that produces next to nothing in terms of industrialization. It is a double edged sword my friend and most governments are holding the sharper edge.

tainot2002:
NIGERIA CBN GOVERNOR
Gowin Emefiele was
Quoted:

“It is either I do not understand economics and
how exchange rates work or a vast majority of us Nigerians still don’t get how we have wrecked our country with our own curious choices. Just this morning, I was listening to the radio and the lady on air went on and on about how she thought CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele was incompetent and should be sacked because the Naira was now exchanging at 309 or so to the USD.
“That view pretty much echoes the sentiments
expressed by many people I know and it amazes me that there are Nigerians who actually think there is some magic POLICY that can make the Naira strong in the near term. If my economics and my understanding of the way the world works are right, then that is as far from the truth as Jesus Christ is black.
“The simple fact of the matter is that apart from
oil that accounts for over 90% of our revenues, we really don’t have much of an economy. We hardly produce anything, we import even toothpicks, so exactly what policy is going to be implemented that will turn Nigeria into a top exporting economy in the near term? Where are our Apples, IBMs, Disneys, GMs, General Electrics, Coca Colas, Empire State buildings, Statues of Liberties, Lockheeds, Citibanks, JP Morgans, ExxonMobils, NBAs, Super Bowls etc? Let me bring that closer home.
“There was a time long ago when Nigeria had a
truly strong economy and the naira was one to
the dollar – even exchanged for higher than the
USD, but that Nigeria is not this Nigeria. Sadly
that Nigeria was laid by the British, and this
Nigeria (if you don’t believe in the nonsensical
imperialist conspiracies like me) – fueled by the
DAMAGING Indigenization Decree, has been the
creation of us Nigerians.Back then we had a booming economy. We were either the top, or among the top exporters, of timbre, cocoa, groundnuts, rubber, palm oil, etc, in the world. Nigerians not only holidayed at home in their villages, at Yankari Games Reserve, at Obudu Cattle Ranch, at Oguta Lake, at Ikogosi springs, at Gurara Falls, at Mambilla Platueau, etc, we attracted international tourists who brought in loads of foreign exchange. Even Nigerian schools were foreign exchange earners because they attracted foreign students.
“We had different car assembly plants – Peugeot, Volkswagen, Anamco etc. Nigerian government officials only bought vehicles assembled in Nigeria for official cars. We had a thriving sports industry. We were not Man United or Chelsea fans, we were Rangers or IICC fans. We had the Nduka Odizors, people made money from sports. We also had companies like Lennards and Bata producing school shoes in their thousands, we had the thriving Nigerian Airways and the Aviation School in the north that produced some of the best pilots in the world. In those days if you were brilliant you were respected much more than the crass money-miss-road contractors of today.
Most of the Aje Butters I knew had fathers who
were university dons. Back then it meant
something to ‘know book’. Our textile industry
was alive and well. Just recently I watched a
news report on the textile industry in Nigeria on
CCTV News. Though the main focus was on the
comatose status of the industry, I was stunned by the gigantic Kaduna Textile Mill built in 1957. I could go on and on. “Today however, no thanks to our parents (and we must call them out the way Wole Soyinka did his generation) and many of us (and we should be remembered for failing our children if we continue like this), we have destroyed everything.
Today for instance Nigerian football (which comes easy to me obviously) doesn’t appeal to us, we have to fly across thousands of miles to watch ‘our’ clubs play. Every year we collectively burn billions of Naira being fans of clubs that give us nothing back, but some ‘entertainment value’ –simple pleasures for which we are ready to destroy the future of our children.
“Well people, payback time is here. Even with our ta-she-re money we all want to wear designer clothes and carry designer bags, Armani, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton etc. We all want to drive jeeps with American specs, our children must now school overseas and acquire the necessary accents to come back home and bamboozle their ‘bush and crass’ contemporaries that they left behind. Who holidays in Nigeria anymore, is there Disneyland here? No one buys made-in-Nigeria school bags for their children, after all no Superman or Incredible Hulk or Cinderella on them.“We are no longer top exporters of anything and the demise of oil means we have zilch… zero.
A country of 170M fashion-
conscious people has no textile industry. We take delight in showing how our made-in- Switzerland Aso Ebi is different class to everyone else’s. When we help our musicians grow and pay them millions, they repay us by immediately shipping the monies overseas to produce their “i-don-dey- different-level” music videos. It makes no difference that distinctly Zulu dancers are dancing to a Nigerian highlife song. “As stars concerned they also wed and holiday overseas to impress us all. All the musicians who acknowledge their Ajegunle roots now speak in a cocktail of strange accents to symbolise how much they have blown their monies overseas. Were we a more serious people, the highly popular Kingsway Stores of the past would probably have a thousand outlets pan Nigeria today supporting a massive agriculture industry among others, but today we have the likes of SPAR, Shoprite, dominating the retail industry while Kingsway is dead. “And we Nigerians make it a special point to shop from the Oyinbos who have ‘cleaner shops’, ‘better this and better that’. For our personal pleasure we don’t mind them dominating us in our own backyard and shipping proceeds overseas. I could go on and on, but I don tire. Even as you are reading this, stop for a moment and look around you. What you see will probably explain why we are lucky it is not N1000 to the USD yet. And don’t think for a moment that it cannot get there. “Just continue to wear your Armani gear and Swiss-made lace, continue to spend your money on Man United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Barca and encourage your children to do same. (My article tomorrow in my Saturday column in This Day is on the Nigerian champions Enyimba FC –
Nigeria’s most successful club – not having a
sponsor, yet Nigerian brands pay over N600m to
Man United and Arsenal for sponsorship to
impress us.) Ehhh, no problem, continue to tell
me the NPFL is rubbish or the clubs should clean up their act if they want sponsorship, mo gbo . “Don’t curtail your interest in choice wines ( we were the number one champagne
consumers in the world in 2015), continue to love your American specs, cheer the education ministry for letting schools sink to pitiable levels, don’t fight them to improve our schools, don’t chide them for letting schools drop Nigerian history and embrace British, America and whatever else curricular. “Carry on with your love of French wines and Chinese silk, don’t bother about Jamiu Alli when there is Roger Federer. Stock up on your Italian, American, British products which you cannot live without, including the ‘baby soft’ toilet rolls produced only in that small unique village in England – the days are long gone since you were a broke student who used wet newspapers to wipe your butt. “Don’t even consider holidaying in Nigeria, it’s too dangerous – you have to fulfill your dream of being Nigeria’s Henry Ford. Don’t listen to people like me who have a wardrobe full of only cheap adire that is actually cheaper than just one of your Tom Ford blazers. Please keep dressing in fine silk made in some exotic place so you can be addressed accordingly.
“Finally keep letting corrupt leaders who have looted your commonwealth and shipped all the monies overseas get away because to attack them does not fit your political narrative. Let us continue with the fine life, let us all continue to work for Oyinbo. But don’t forget that there is a payback time: Worth sharing again. I must equally add, there is nothing wrong in wearing designers but it's the misplaced priority over the lives of children and the economy of a whole nation. Remember that Because you can afford it, doesn't make it compulsory to have it.

Pls pass round until it sinks

Pls spare me this stale tale this season of good chèer. Was it not one designer item after another displayed during the recent wedding of the President's daughter. Does that symbolize faith, passion, honesty in the very things they preach. Does that show leadership in any form or is this message for the faithfuls while sin rages on in the household of the messenger. If our leaders are the last to comply, the last to be patriotic, the last to be honest and forthright then there is very little hope at all for recovery.

I am not a child to swallow their spiced baloney time and again. I look at WHAT THEY DO!! as a marker to project the future and from what I have seen these two years and counting there is no difference whatsoever in attitudes which leads to habits, which leads to experiences. It is one hypocritical latrine after another opened up. My expectations have not changed. The best we can get from this government will be superficial. They cannot change this country, they cannot even scratch the surface.

Whytelyon:

I see it as a welcome development, at least every company who's registered can get the price of dollar for normal bank rates. Not buying a dollar for almost 500 Naira, its a good one, if implemented correctly.

Shows you don't understand anything concerning this matter. You cannot regulate an item of high demand if you cannot ensure supply. The Federal Government is a minority player in the forex market and cannot dictate the direction of the market. The result of any attempted regulation is to drive the players further underground and exchange rates up. In a supply, demand market, the only way to merge the rates is to float the naira. There is a lot of fx in Nigeria, people are just not selling because of uncertainty. The government is heading deeper into the wilderness, most folks are guarding their provisions. Government has no business in business. In 2016 it cannot dictate the exchange rates.

No sir, we are not yet ready for restructuring. The yam is on the fire but not yet done. We have not suffered enough to have our mindset changed.

This is normal and they have the absolute right to demostrate for whatever they see fit and it is up to government to listen and respond appropriately. The summit is welcome. The responsibility of government is not restricted to building roads and schools but more importantly building society by ensuring all peoples remain on the table of negotiations for a social justice and equity. This is where I fault the theme of the townhall. There is no security problem in the east except to those who wish to force their will on the peoples of that region and the economy ranks a distant second in importance to socio-political discontentment. The east I beleive remains at the very top of all national economic indicies, so it is not the absence of money but the paucity of opportunities. They never said they are hungry, but they are angry just like any foreign investor looks at Nigeria from abroad and returns his cash to his wallet.

So the government should go and engage, should do more listening than talking and more obeying than commanding if it will stand a chance at pulling this nation from the brink. Obasanjo has no business there.

Omeokachie:
This is what you get when you are unpresidential in your utterances...

Barrow won and Jammeh conceded, only for Barrow to start talking about probes of corruption and human rights abuses.
Why not wait until the transfer of power before making your intentions known?


Reminds me of Buhari making the 97% vs 5% unpresidential comment that have since polarised the country.

They should start thinking about compromises as Barrow has spoilt everything already. Jammeh being a soldier will not be a sitting duck, and would rather die than be humiliated by a civilian.

Diplomacy is what is needed now. Buhari is a square peg for this round hole, as I doubt he knows anything about diplomacy to have been asked to head this mission.

That's is the classic african ignorance exhibited. He must have followed the American election to the letter and thought he was Trump, making all sorts of incendiary statements but without the foundations of institutions to support them. He forgot Jammeh is an institution he is trying to abrogate while he himself stands on thin ice. Indeed he should see what the so called war on corruption has brought Nigeria, the destruction of institutions, the truncating of government and the recession, all because of careless, thoughtless statements and half hearted, random, flip flopping, the kind of vacuum only mediocrity exploits.

What has ultimately saved the Nigerian state from catastrophic implosion was the gentleman's agreement that spared ex-president's from probes, prosecution, persecution and all the bile of golgotha just so that they can let go of power. This expensive culture has no doubt aided at least one smooth transition of power betwèen political foes so much so that even states are beginning to adopt these measures. African countries ought to learn from this to keep the slight flame of democratic hope alive while they huff and puff to add more wood to the fires of change and development.

Both victor and vanquished are complicit in this sordid drama.

Full blown Feudalism. Cross-River is his empire and he is king. Job creation meanwhile is the product of sound economics they unfortunately have no idea about. And what do these 'aids' do except the slow, agonizing death of the State's economy.

Can Nigerians now see whay it is necessary to have strong opposition because it is only political opposition that will stop this government from imploding. If they felt they would lose power as a result of pressure from a 'waiting government', even the APC will have been united today, but because they have actively sought to kill the opposition, it is bound to rise within because power cannot exist in a vacuum. Now, the PDP remains weak, the APC divided, the governmemt at odds and the people who are the shareholders, swindled. Everyone has lost, or is losing.

The British Labour Party was ejected on economic grounds. They began to attack the Conservatives, the next day after election. Nobody told them that since they failed, they should not speak, thoughtless of not existing, but the black man likes absolute power, wants to become a feudal lord because he is lazy minded so cannot see that you can only win where there is a competition; and unfortunately the black man on the street wants sugar coated tales, someone to take his responsibilities so he has an inordinate belief in he who can promise heaven and earth while he does nothing. That is why Nigeria boasts of its oil resources, stupidly calling it wealth, because it does nothing to find it, produce it and sell it. Lazy ar.se.d people.

I said it in my historical posts, that a time will come when the people will look for political opposition and when they cannot find any, return to the catacombs to dig up the bones of the PDP, if only to ignite the fires of good government that comes with a balance of power. One party systems donot work. Dictatorships are always disastrous.

freeze001:
The report is from the Presidency; the DSS is part of the Presidency! What do u mean anyways? Will the presidency rewrite the report or stop the Senate from evaluating same?

Hmmm.... DSS part of Presidency and Magu's nomination coming from Presidency ?!@s*!!...errrrmmm..... exactly how many Presidencies are there or should I say... Presidents...

archipelago:
The man was just speaking English without proffering a single solution to the problems. If you are criticizing some one, don't just stop there, tell the person what he should have done. If he thinks he is God sent let him come and contest in 2019 and take Nigeria to the promised land. Leave America and come back home, you are in a foreign land, so come and build your father's land.

That is the exact problem. You can profer solutions in a proper democracy with working institutions, not in a dictatorship where one man's views on every matter alone, stands. He did not want to appoint ministers, his chief advisors and operators and uptil now they are more or less 'government fillers', having offices but with little impact. If they cannot advise their employer, what chance does the general public have of getting their views heard. Was it not Clinton that said, 'what Africa needs are not strong men but strong institutions', what did we do, we abdicated our responsibilities as citizens and cast all our lot for a strong man. We have a strong man now, so why are things this bad, we say the past. Then what is the need of a strong man then. And is it the strong man you want to advise now. Now you know people should come together and build. 2 years ago, it was Buhari my lord and personal saviour.... Nigerians are funny.

vodutive:
all these idiots saying they supported Buhari but are now disappointed. A professor is supposed to be a thinking man, what did you see in Buhari's past that suggested he had any clue on economic management, When Buhari was promising this and that, did your professorial mind not stop to think and ask this man is promising but has not said how he will fulfill his promises. Was the professor not around in 1984 when Buhari killed the economy? I understand the masses and our youth these days who are so dull, they are incapable of thinking but not a professor. The only thing any right thinking person could realistically have expected from Buhari was to fight corruption...that is the only thing he is known for but again a right thinking man would have been sceptical because how can you fight corruption when Tinubi is your sponsor and Saraki, Atiku, Amaechi are your allies? Any right thinking man would have known not to expect much from Buhari. He should blame himself for not engaging his brain. That said he is still a better choice than GEJ.

Exactly. Nobody read history, just fell for rhetorics. If one was investing in an instrument will one not look at historical performance before placing his order. What investment is greater than a vote for national leadership. Look at the billions lost to basic economic blunders, billions lost to rat chasing when fire is burning, Now the one and only pedestal on which this government owes its legitimacy, the anti-corruption war is in tatters. Zero convictions, weaker and divided more than ever institutions and a septic hand that undertakes delicate surgery. Like I said again, if OPEC does not come to our aid with massive production cuts, I cannot see any chance of averting total economic meltdown in the coming months. This government clearly has no ideas. Just playing for time.

Olalan:
People complain about the rate at which mmm topics are pushed to FP, but I think this would help Nigerians to be weary of money doubling schemes in the future. I wish people will get their monies back in January but also more importantly this freezing period should make everyone one know their monies aren't safe money doubling ventures.

It is the tragedy of a failed people. When the MMM virus was spreading they gobbled up the lies and deception like a famished man in reprieve, now the truth is out they don't want to hear it. MMM talk is now excessive. This is the hallmark of a person or people hell bent on destruction, living in self deceit. And they will say Nigerians are brainy but lack opportunities, they will say the people are hardworking but bad leadership is their bane. They will say Nigerians are righteous, that it is politicians that are corrupt. I have not seen anything to convince me that Nigerians are not responsible for the misery they experience day after day.