ellahzy:
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pls what's d meaning of Iyalaya?

The meaning of iyalaya is 'I am blessed' So if someborry ask you How are you? Simple look at them and say Iyalayami.

Today we hear arms were purchased by the past administration to fight boko haram, Tomorrow the story changed that Jonathan never bought any arms. The question every sensible Nigerian should ask this administration is that if they claim no arms were bought then where did the army get the arms they are currently using to fight boko haram? did President Buhari purchase any arms in the past 7 months of his administration? Abeg who is fooling who? The greatest atrosity is for a leader to play politics with the lives of the helpless citizens. It is just so sad that the youths of the country that is supposed to take their future in their hands are busy taking selfies and posting trash on social media.

By Femi Aribisala

FABU” is a Yoruba slang denoting an exaggerated lie. It points to a tall tale; a gross distortion of the truth. “Fabu” is a shortened form of the English word “fabulate,” which refers to the composition of fables or stories featuring a strong element of fantasy and lies. Without a doubt, within the Nigerian political stratosphere, APC is a party that lives in “fabuland.”

Mastering the Art of fabulation:

The chief exponent of APC fabulation is Lai Mohammed. He was formerly the party’s National Publicity Secretary, a post in which he distinguished himself. This has now earned him promotion to the post of Minister of Information and Culture. In this new capacity, Mohammed has already begun to fine-tune his art of fabulation. No sooner had he become Minister than he went ahead to tell Nigerians that fuel scarcity would soon be a thing of the past.

These are his words delivered with characteristic aplomb at the Abuja office of Daily Trust newspapers on 2 December, 2015: “We can confidently announce here today that the (fuel) scarcity will end in a few days. The National Assembly has approved subsidy payment till the end of the year. As you know, we can’t spend money without approval. We can assure you that we won’t be caught in this kind of situation again.” They call this kind of “fabu” “famous last words.” Anyone living in Nigeria this Christmas season can bear witness to the extent to which Mohammed’s words have originated from APC’s fantasy fabuland. In Lagos, for example, the roads are completely clogged like at no other time because they have been overtaken by cars queuing for fuel. More than ever before, it now takes literally hours on end to go from A to B.

Confusion galore:

Ibe Kachikwu, the Minister of State for Petroleum, has quickly come out with another pie-in-the-sky from APC’s “fabuland,” conveniently changing Mohammed’s fabulous goalpost without even batting an eyelid. Speaking to the party’s big-guns from Delta State, Kachikwu promises to bring about fundamental changes in Nigeria’s oil sector not before the end of 2015, but before the end of 2016. Hear him: “The country’s oil sector will experience a turnaround such that the refineries will work effectively and products will be made available to the people at an affordable price within 365 days.”

You begin to wonder whether APC members even bother to coordinate their own fabulations. Would any right-thinking Nigerian buy a used car from any member of the APC today? I doubt it! Apparently, the government has determined that we should fill our tanks with “fabu” instead of petrol this holiday season. What does this mean for those planning to travel home for Christmas and the New Year?

Non-existent petrol subsidy "fabu"

During the heated debate in 2012, when President Jonathan sought to remove the petroleum subsidy, the APC championed national revolt against the government. People occupied the streets and the government was forced to back down. General Buhari came out to tell Nigerians that the whole issue of petroleum subsidy was one big government scam. He said: “I don’t understand what the Nigerian economists and the members of the government are calling subsidy. Who is subsidising who? If anybody says he is subsidising anything, it is a fraud. So all these people talking about subsidy; who is subsidising who?” But now that Buhari is not only president, but also the unofficial Minister of Petroleum Resources; the subsidy is apparently no longer fraudulent. His position now is that this “fraud” is in the interest of Nigerians. Speaking at a briefing by the petroleum ministry on 13 July, 2015, the president said: “I have received many literature on the need to remove subsidies, but much of it has no depth. When you touch the price of petroleum products; that has the effect of triggering price rises on transportation, food and rents. That is for those who earn salaries, but there are many who are jobless and will be affected by it.” We may well ask why Mr. President is now trying to defend and retain something he claimed was fraudulent and even non-existent. “Who is now subsidising who?”
“Buhari tax”: Under Jonathan, Senator Bola Tinubu, the so-called National Leader of the APC, rallied Nigerians against the removal of the petroleum subsidy. He castigated the government’s attempt to remove the subsidy as a wicked tool designed to impoverish Nigerians. These were his words: “As there is progressive politics, there is progressive economics. As there is elitist politics, there is elitist economics. It all depends on what and who in society government would rather favour. The Jonathan tax represents a new standard in elitism. Because he is slave to wrong-headed economics the people will become enslaved to greater misery.

Same petroleum subsidy "fabu"

This crisis will bear his name and will be his legacy. The people now pay a steep tax for voting him into office. The removal of the subsidy is the ‘Jonathan tax.’”
But now that the APC is in power, Tinubu is calling for the removal of the same petroleum subsidy he lampooned Jonathan for trying to remove. Speaking at the memorial anniversary of the passing of the late Bala Usman on 18 December, 2015, Tinubu said:
“I have reached the conclusion that there are too many demons in the system for that hell to be turned into heaven. It is better that we remove it, not for the austere purpose of saving money but to use the money more wisely that we might better save the people. Let us begin a process of a thoughtful, but decisive subsidy phase-out.”

What are we to make of this hypocrisy? According to Tinubu, the removal of the petroleum subsidy under the PDP would amount to a Jonathan tax designed to enslave the people to greater misery. But under the APC, the removal of the subsidy would be a Buhari tax that would save the people. Which of these “fabu” are we supposed to believe? I repeat, can any right-thinking Nigerian buy a used car from any APC member today?

The end of Boko Haram "fabu"

In an interview with Christiane Amanpour of CNN, Buhari boasted he would defeat Boko Haram within two months if elected president. This was how the “fabu” was expressed at the time: “We know how they started and where they are now and we will rapidly give attention to security in the country. And I believe we will effectively deal with them in two months when we get into office.”But once elected, the president insisted this “fabu” was the creation of his opponents. He said: “I think I am too experienced in internal security to give two months deadline on Boko Haram. I don’t think I would have made that statement. I didn’t.”
Nevertheless, the president could not resist coming up with another “fabu” to replace the earlier one. At a meeting in October 2015 with General Rodriguez, Commander of the United States’ Africa Command, the same President Buhari who said he could not have declared it would take only two months to defeat Boko Haram, now said the insurgency would be defeated in three months.

Structured attacks "fabu"

Hear him: “Structured attacks by the insurgents have reduced and by the end of the year, we should see the final routing of Boko Haram as an organised fighting force.” He again reiterated this “fabu” on Al Jazeera’s Up Front magazine: “As soon as the rainy season comes (to an end), which is by the end of the year, Boko Haram will virtually be out of their main stronghold and that will be the end of it.”
Only God knows why the president finds it necessary to come out with this kind of “fabu.” It is the kind of thing even the president of superpower United States would not dare to make. However, our very own APC members live permanently in fabuland. Their “fabus” are on never-ending auto-pilot. They come one after the other and are never impeded by reason, logic or even outright contradictions.
The government spends a lot of time coming up with “fabus,” denying them, defending them and varnishing them. The president has even found it necessary to reassure his teeming supporters that he will not resign because a “fabu” is discovered incontrovertibly to be a “fabu.” He told Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan that if Boko Haram is not defeated by December: “I will not resign.”
But why declare the “fabu” in the first place if it can later be ignored? The “fabu” is simply a hyperbole to be fed periodically to the public, in lieu of concrete public policy.

Anti-corruption “fabu”

One of the biggest, if not the biggest, “fabu” of this APC government is that it is fighting corruption when, in actual fact, anti-corruption is merely an instrument for decimating the PDP and establishing a one-party APC state. Today, APC carefully ignores its own corrupt members while going after the PDP exclusively.
In order not to scare off dodgy members of his party with his anti-corruption “fabu,” Buhari promised to let corrupt sleeping dogs lie if elected: “A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue,” he said. He further elaborated on this at the APC campaign rally in Kaduna: “Whoever that is indicted of corruption between 1999 to the time of swearing-in, would be pardoned. I am going to draw a line, anybody who involved himself in corruption after I assume office, will face the music.”
But now that that “fabu” has fulfilled its purpose, it has been conveniently jettisoned. Of course, APC members remain untouchable; Buhari’s anti-corruption is now only applicable to the PDP. However, it might not be so cut and dry as the president would like. Buhari himself is implicated in the “fabu” of Dasukigate, which would have Nigerians believe that while PDP used public funds illegally for party-political purposes, the APC did not.

In July 2014, Buhari’s SUV was attacked and damaged. Two SUVs were given to him to replace the damaged one. The two-for-one replacement contravenes section 3(1) of the Remuneration of Former Presidents and Heads of State Act of 2004. According to that Act, Buhari is not entitled to any new vehicles until 2016; and certainly not from the office of the NSA. We can expect to hear more “fabus” on this issue as the case continues to go out of control.

Would any right-thinking Nigerian buy a used car from any member of the APC today? Only Buharimaniacs still seem inclined to do so.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/apc-in-the-land-of-fabu/

Chai, this boy no wan be like him papa.

metroparrot:



http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/buharis-trips-are-not-for-enjoyment-by-garba-shehu/

Nigerians are wiser now, get that into you thick skull, Nigerians are well informed now...better not to waste your time and energy trying to defend the indefensible. In this time of political and economic crises even an illiterate knows he is needed back home as soon as possible to deal with our gigantic internal problems.

PassingShot:
Boko Haram is still a legacy of GEJ. In fact, everything that is currently wrong with Nigeria has GEJ written all over it. PMB is on a mission to solve the multitude of the problems left behind by the Clueless One and he will succeed even though it won't be easy.

Oya, children of hate and anger, swoop on me as usual for saying the bitter truth

People have been telling me that you are dumb, now I believe you lack a reasonable amount of sense...so the situation this country is now a joke to you, pray you don't loose any of your relatives in this mess, how would you feel if boko haram boko ya papa and mama? will you still should "sai Buhari"?

The President of Nigeria, Mr. Muhammadu Buhari is engaged in a frontal war with corruption as he promised during his election campaign. He has the support of many Nigerians and we all wish him success. But a frontal confrontation with corruption will not succeed because corruption, the Nigerian specie, is a hydra-headed monster. If you cut of one head it will continue to live using its other many heads. The approach must be multi-pronged aimed at cutting off one of its head at a time until most are trimmed to make room for a frontal approach.

One head of corruption is made up of evil people who would steal from the government, or corporations or friends and relatives. Corruption is in their DNA. This type of corrupt people are all over the world and ply their trade everywhere. This corruption may account for as much as 10% of lost funds and are perpetrated by as few as 5% of the population. It is the group that would be dealt with last and frontally after the other heads had been trimmed.

Another head of corruption is made up of opportunity thieves. These set of Nigerians steal because they discovered that that they could steal and get away with it. They are the big “Ogas” in our system of government: heads of departments, politicians, university professors, ministers, etc. They discover that the institutions are weak and has extremely weak Internal Controls that could not catch them; and even if caught could not convict them; and even if convicted would let them get off free by crossing GO. They see the opportunity and they exploit it. This group is responsible for about 50% of the loot in the country. This group may be as many as 10% of Nigerian population. The fight against this group would start with building and strengthening our institutions from police, courts, judges, congress, civil services, banks, local governments, etc. and constructing Internal Controls that would not only detect corruption, but would be able to prosecute, to find guilty, and ensure that that the sentence is served as ordered. It should be the war that would be fought after economic war has been won.

The third head of corruption is the economic head. This is the most ubiquitous of the corruption. This group consists of up to 65% of Nigerians. I hastate to call what they do corruption as I see it as obeying the first law of nature. The first law of nature is survival. Mankind would do whatever is necessary to be alive, to survive. Take the case of a teacher who is paid a miserable salary but even the pitiful salary is owed for three months. In addition the students have no copies of books needed to learn. If such a teacher makes copies of parts of the prescribed book and sells them to her students and demands that all the students must buy the copied papers to pass her exams, thereby violating all kinds of laws, from copy rights to creating illegal student fees, etc. is she corrupt?. In law she is a felon but in my books she is a mother trying her best to provide a living for her family. Her other alternative is to quit teaching but would she find another job? Will that job if found pay her better and not owe any of her alleged salary? The answer is no for if that were possible she would have done that. If you do not like the teacher example you may choose from the list that includes police officers, government clerks, meter readers, drivers of public buses and cars, reporters, pastors, etc. This group which had been estimated at 65% of Nigerians is the group where the war against corruption should start because it is the weakest link in the chain and the possible solution can be implemented.

Three federal minsters and their state counterparts can begin to solve this problem if PMB would give them the freedom and tools they need to engage the evil head of corruption. They are Messrs. Fashola, Amaechi and Lokpobiri, the ministers of works and housing, transportation and agriculture. Collectively they are responsible for infrastructural development and food. The resources they need is money, tons of it. If PMB lets them loose they would put our boys and girls to work. If they are paid even the minimum wages, they would be taken out of the 65% group. Our roads would be less congested, our food prices would be lower and therefore affordable and self-preservation will be easier and done honestly.

If the at the same time PMB and his team begin to strengthen the institutions so that crime cold be detected and punished, then the war on corruption would have a chance of success. Arresting and detaining known corrupt officials and sentencing them to long prison terms will not create a corruption-reduced-Nigeria so long as the conditions that made them do the crime still exists. It is only when the environment has been cleansed that real progress can be expected. Pouring new wine into old wine bottles will not bring the change we want.

Nigeria has gone through frontal confrontation that PMB has embarked upon before. I remember that billions of dollars’ worth of loot was recovered from Abacha’s family. Whatever happened to the recovery or was it just looted back by another set of criminals. This is the result that we should expect from the most recent recoveries. Doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result is the definition or a common word we know.

President Muhammadu Buhari and Mr. Lokpobiri should invest in agriculture to provide abundant food and employment to our teeming population as a part of the war on corruption. Mr. Buhari and Mr. Fashola should start housing construction to provide roofs over the heads of our booming population as another part of the war on corruption. PMB and Mr. Amaechi should start improving our roads, railways and waterways including canals and deepening River Niger all the way to Onitsha and Lokoja as even another war on corruption and providing employment. This would make the distribution of food and cattle to all parts of the country possible and the movement of industrial output accessible to south to north and vice versa possible.

When all these are done, a head on confrontation with corruption becomes easy. Mohammed Ali would first soften his opponents in early rounds in a boxing tournament and then throw heavy punches to defeat his opponents.

One Muhammadu can learn from another Mohammed.

Written by Benjamin Obiajulu Aduba.

http://thewillnigeria.com/news/opinion-it-is-not-corruption-it-is-the-economy-stupid/

Abeg, where is that idiot called demdem?

Ephemmm:


16 years of deception. 16 years of window decoration and dressing. 16 of impunity. 16 years of failed infrastructure, 16 years of oil booming without diversification of economy, but you expect change in 6months: what an irony!

Was Nigeria like America before the 16 years? or has Nigeria only existed for 16 years? Do we have fresh blood from the same old face that have ruled us since the beginning? So if Jonathan port to APC tomorrow he automatically inherit the right to condem PDP abi? Nigerians will never learn.

Pheals:
U must be a prisoner !!! I wonder y U are insulting me... and changing my words... empty skull .. ..U die because of politics la beriii U.. .am free with words so was U... y insulting me. . don't quote me again NEVER IN YOUR LIFE

Is it that you dont understand English or English don't understand you? The dude only ask if you are a slave and all you relate to is that he is insulting you. Abeg na when question become insult...Chai Naija babes sha.

Demdem:


Ur opinion. U are entitled to it. What he stated had nothing to do with state of the economy.

Wow...clap for urself, how dumb. So you mean the economy is in good shape, you don't seem to feel well. Buhari admitted the economy is not in good shape. No amount of word typed can change your state of stupidity. I am not surprised about your mental state, your mum knew she gave birth to a fool.

Demdem:
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Thrash

Truth is bitter, sorry it hurts.

1. He didn't know Nigeria is in a great mess - Evident from his continued blame on the past administration, but his campaign before the election suggest he is well aware of Nigeria's problems, so why the complaints or ignorance now.

2. He didnt have a clear plan or blueprint on how to fix Nigeria - A man prepared for leadership will focus on the job. President Buhari doesn't look prepared for the job and seem confused.

3. He didn't know he would be declared the winner of the Presidential election - President Buhari still thinks he is still in the campaign period set by INEC, this is why 60 percent of his speeches are campaign speeches. Is he going to spend the rest of his tenure campaigning?