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If you like make yourselves the victim of every government policy, seeing that you suffer from a victim complex. The state government must remain steadfast in enforcing relevant laws that govern town planning.

It is evident that Ambode doesn't care about silly tribal opinions, and I couldn't care less either. Nobody will be allowed to pose as a nuisance to the development of Lagos, no matter the amount of crocodile tears shed.

If an Igbo governor enforces the law and embarks on demolitions in the SE, he only gets chastised for not being populist. A Yoruba governor does same in the SW and also gets chastised for not being populist, but a tribal slant is always introduced by a miserable set of people who are never the only ones affected, and who don't even love their hosts to begin with.

If a disjointed society must have order restored, chaos must be banished. Learn to position yourselves outside the path of fire.

TonyeBarcanista:
It took me time, data, energy and efforts. Enjoy...


Waiting for sensible contribution

This is the most patriotic thread that has been created during this economic crisis.

Thumbs up!

Unfortunately, I am so vexed with the failure of the past regime, but moreso with a very retarded citizenry who seem not to know the cause of the problems we are having now.

Infact I feel no pity for those who complain of suffering nowadays. They deserve every pain they get, not because Buhari was elected to rule, but because they are still the ones who daily frustrate the agenda of the government to retrieve funds stolen from the federal government by thieves who are not even feeling any stress in this recession.

AdeniyiA:
My deduction is that we've had leaders who are/were clueless, non futuristic, corrupt, lack vision and insight...
We lack revolutionary leadership. For instance, Our leaders at campaign rallies discuss nonsense nd trivial issues and never ideas...
I am just so disappointed in them all...

I concur.

FastShipping:
The reason why Nigerians voted en-mass for Buhari. Nigerians were disappointed in Jonathan and would have voted a dog in place of Jonathan. Buhari should never had been a choice if Jonathan had done well despite what was available to him to turn around Nigeria for good.

Here we are today with another failure called Buhari. Buhari was unprepared and lack economic direction. He seems out of touch with 21st century economic policies. I doubt he listens to his advisers. In the coming months we are going to be hearing the voices of reason from APC going after Buhari. We have started to hear dissent from the North with first salvo fired by Sultan of Sokoto and Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.

I don't care what anyone says at this point. Buhari has failed. It is a sad situation.

Buhari is failing because it takes time to grow cassava to make garri.
Anyone who is hungry yet celebrating Jonathan, should soak sand and drink to quench the hunger.

Every time Jonathan opened his mouth to talk on the campaign trail, the cluelessness that oozed out of that orifice of corruption and gluttony, ensured that Buhari got 10k voters more.

Jonathan was a failure in all ramifications.

The worst thing that could have happened to a growing economy like Nigeria was to have a dunce as president in the most fruitful years of our nationhood.

Now there is famine and people are still asking for food while celebrating an ineffectual buffoon who refused to store grain for the days of want.

How did OBJ and Yar'Adua manage to grow our reserves but Jonathan couldn't despite unprecedented higher earnings?

Even if he was too dull to grow the reserves, must he be irresponsible to have depleted what sensible leaders before him worked hard to store up?

Even if he was too irresponsible to deplete the treasury, must he be an enemy of the state to have borrowed so much money with only 2nd hand trains and the same 4000MW electricity that OBJ already achieved, as evidence of all the monies expended?

As at May 2015, Debt rose to $63billion(FG and States) with Jonathan's government accumulating $21.8 billion ALONE ($18.1 billion local debt and $3.7 billion external debt)http://www.persecondnews.com/index.php/psn-news/item/3643-total-nigeria-s-debt-soars-to-63bn-okonjo-iweala-jonathan-incurred-21b-of-national-debts . Meanwhile, Oil sale was between $100 and $110 dollar per barrel between 2010 and 2014.

Jonathan! Jonathan! Jonathan! Ko ni daa fun ee.

freshvine:
He was informed gubernatorial election will soon start in ekiti state

A typical polluted brain above.

Fayose must still complain about it.

He might see it as an attempt to bring herdsmen from Kano into Ekiti.

It is really sad that there's no cure for a polluted brain.

Wizzyblack3:
Pls lemme ask you this simple question; Assuming your FAMILY is STARVING and needs SHELTERs at the same time, which one will you FIRST take care of?

NOTE: You need to provide an honest answer to avoid THUNDER from firing you before the end of this new month.

The rational answer is food.

Your myopia is that you expect to harvest food that you have not cultivated.

Why did you not plant the food when seeds were plenty but being wasted and used as beauty beads?

Now a new government is making attempts to secure very scarce seeds and begin planting the seeds that would be cultivated as food years later.

If you and your family die before the food is ready for harvesting, you know who to blame for your predicament - the government that had seeds in excess but did nothing with it.

Unlike the popular parlance, food is not ready.

Deal with your "visionlessness".

cococandy:


Hunger will be killing your families and you will still sit ther me singing buhari's praises. And blabbing nonsense while at it.

I wonder what would have happened in GEJ was the person in power when all this hardship is sweeping the country. I'm sure y'all would have marched to aso rock to drag him out to the street and lynch him.

There's no shame in backtracking when you have made a mistake.admit you have made a mistake in supporting buhari's candidacy. Nigerians might forgive you. Instead of rooting yourselves in your mistake out of pride and shame that people might say 'we told you so'.
Any sane person knows that this is what it's all about. You are too ashamed to admit your mistakes.

Proffer a solution to problems that were not solved when we had the resources and time to solve it.

In truth if GEJ was still around, we would have ran him out of Aso Rock because he put us in this situation with his ineffectual buffoonery.

GEJ is very lucky he lost that election and he knows it.

We are only being empathetic to Buhari because we know he is only trying to solve a problem he did not cause.

cococandy:


Hunger will be killing your families and you will still sit ther me singing buhari's praises. And blabbing nonsense while at it.

I wonder what would have happened in GEJ was the person in power when all this hardship is sweeping the country. I'm sure y'all would have marched to aso rock to drag him out to the street and lynch him.

There's no shame in backtracking when you have made a mistake.admit you have made a mistake in supporting buhari's candidacy. Nigerians might forgive you. Instead of rooting yourselves in your mistake out of pride and shame that people might say 'we told you so'.
Any sane person knows that this is what it's all about. You are too ashamed to admit your mistakes.

Better tell your people in Nigeria to buckle up. The worst is yet to come.

We will all suffer for the cluelessness of the Jonathan era, in a time when we had the opportunity to grow and diversify our economy and foreign exchange reserves from unprecedented high earnings.

You should be directing all your questions on the state of the economy to Jonathan.

Jonathan needs to be arrested now!

Standing5:
It takes money to make money they say.

Can the brain of wailing people comprehend this. I wish it could.

I think they actually want Buhari to create money that does not exist, and print some dollars for everyone's vanity. They also want him to create jobs now that weren't created in a time of plenty.

Don't they get that you have to earn money to have money, and the government that handed over made no provision for such apart from the usual oil earnings that have slumped globally?

Yet when the government goes after those who have robbed the country, even non-politically affiliated suspects, those wailing now would still be the ones to come defend them while condemning the government.

Standing5:
@stOla, didn't I tell you?

The average Nigerian only cares about the food in his tummy, hence the misdirected anger.

Maybe Buhari should borrow ideas from Fayose whose people don't bother about infrastructure or economic indices as long as they get their stomach infrastructure.

There's nothing that can be done to stave off the harsh economic storm that is gathering. Now is not the time to act, the time for pre-emptive action was 5years ago when the money was flowing in.

Any action taken now to diversify the economy would be for the benefit of those who presently are too young to even know what's going on now.

We are suffering for the waste and gluttony of the past administration.

The only administration that could not increase the foreign reserve despite selling crude at very high prices, instead it depleted what the OBJ regime saved despite lower oil prices then.

If OBJ could increase the reserves from $3Billion+ to $45Billion and still pay a Paris club debt of $18Billion with an oil price ranging from $16pb to $60pb in his 8 year administration from 1999 to 2007, what exactly is Jonathan's excuse for not building on that especially when crude sold for about $100pb in 4years out of his 5years administration?

Yar'Adua built on the $45Billion inherited from OBJ and took it to $47Billion in less than 3years, while still spending about $16Billion to cushion the effect of the 2008/2009 global financial meltdown.

That Jonathan's regime left only $29Billion in the country's reserves without any tangible infrastructure, should be considered a treasonous offence.

What was the money spent on? The PDP envelope of dollars?

Was it spent to diversify the economy? Then how come an oil crisis has plunged our economy?

How come the Jonathan administration was already borrowing to pay salaries in February, March, and April 2015? This was just 8months into the oil price slump which was even still about $50pb then.

If it was in Nigeria, the impeachment would have assumed an ethnic colouration.

Her people vs the envious people. Eventually, sanity is lost.

Chukwu Okike Abiama boys have done their worst.

The Pope must hear about this.

Indeed! Many Nigerian politicians need to have their corruption filled belly deflated.

Leo Ogor would do well to take heed.

What bills have Ogor sponsored in the past 13years and how have they impacted his constituency and Nigeria?

This is called Reverse Propaganda.

Adiola, come and learn work.

Am I to believe that soldiers who cannot swim will assemble on a boat and set sail without life jackets?

The pictures released by the army showing soldiers in the creeks, had them wearing life jackets/work vest.

OP, confirm if your source suffers from the ipobic plague.

We know the miserable people of Nigeria have not been feeling too happy reading about the initial success recorded by the same army they once used to call gallant when battling boko haram, at a time nobody was calling for the actualization of Biafra.

Now only anarchy and chaos delights them.

Traditional rulers and sycophancy.

OVI75:
Some People be Shouting Envy.Am a Niger Deltan I Love and Respect The Yorubas.the Igbo's Are My Brother. But if This Hardship that Bubu and His crew are Subjectin us To Daily is Not Enough to See the Clear gap Between NOI and A Kemi Jst Becos of Tribal diffences,then Am Realy Considering My Stance about the Yoruba's.

Tell us what Ngozi achieved for Nigeria in a time of boom. Also tell us how she managed the economy in the last 1 year of financial crisis in the Jonathan administration.

My own stance on the intelligence of the NigerDeltan is buttressed by your shallow thought.

When the questions started rolling in, he became President "I will do", as Rotimi Amaechi rightly opined.

I will fight corruption in my 2nd term.
I will provide electricity by 2019.
I will repair refineries by 2018.
I will provide jobs by 2019.

Ogbeni, what did you achieve in 5 years?

Hmmmm!

I will do...

You are fired!

MrsPhyno:
Ah but I can decisively say that during the main yrs of Jona's regime (at least in Lag, I can't speak for all of Naija) light improved for upto a record of 20-23 hrs a day (yes I counted )

The thing is not so much the perfection as it is marked improvement. Let this administration improve significantly in anything first than we will all clap, after all no one wants to suffer.

In 2011 for the last 1 month leading up to Jonathan's election, there was electricity for 30 days straight. A refrigerator that was never so cold that I had to be putting my bottles of water in the freezer section, became so cold and had ice form at the inside back panel. This refrigerator was bought in 2009.

The moment Jonathan was declared winner, the electricity that seemed permanent returned to its true status within 3 days of the election.

That period never repeated itself again in the 4 full years if his elected term. Infact, even to save his own political neck, Jonathan was not able to reproduce campaign powered electricity supply in 2015.

Till today, ice has never again formed at the inside back panel of my refrigerator.

Joker123:
This is a complete waste!As a Deltan I hv No scholarships,running my masters wt my own money people need to feed and d useless gov is der spending money on Muslim pilgrims. Christian or Muslim...Religion isn't smthn u spend state funds on

You should be running it with your own money, or were you expecting freebies or are you not going to be paid for the job you hope to get with it? Or did you plan to work for free in the civil service of Delta state?

Your other complaints are rational, your feeling of entitlement to a free pursuit of your own academic ambition isn't.

Pidggin:
This is raining season the dams have enough water, it has always been like this during this season. He is still minister of darkness until we have light all through the year

We will get there one day, how soon I do not know.

When it finally happens, I hope you will say Shame on Jonathan, who couldn't achieve such with all the oil earnings in his regime.

Now you know why his regime was kicked out.

otukpo:
Where is the light?

Or is it the too much rain that is deceiving the OP?

Let the OP be reminded that by this time of the year, it is normal to have light 24/7.

That Fashola came with his total darkness at this period was an aberration and unheard of.

Normal to have light 24/7 at a particular period in Nigeria?

Why not complete the lie and tell us Jonathan's regime achieved such fallacy.

Let your friend quit the job and also become a lazy pastor who feeds fat on the sweat of hardworking congregation who have to toil in the sun everyday.


When everyone becomes a pastor, the older lazy pastors will beg the new ones to return into the world and apply for any job, even chief brewer, so as to keep the church purse full.

People like you told them to shut up in the past administration. You said they were jobless that's why they had time to be doing busy-body.

Now they are no longer jobless, so the onus is now on you to carry your own cross since you also have mouth to talk, and you have legs to proceed on your own protests.

Goodluck was handed a Nigeria that was thriving and set to finally actualise her potentials. By the time his tenure was done, he had balkanized the country and whittled down the country's foreign reserves despite earning more from oil sales in his own tenure, and the federal government was already borrowing to pay salaries.

Those that say Goodluck's regime was the best ever for our economy are yet to tell us a single commodity that was selling cheaper in 2015 when he left office, compared to the prices of commodities in 2010 when we became unfortunate with his badluck.

Goodluck was nothing but badluck to Nigeria.

To come and do what she couldn't do in the last 4years of the Jonathan regime?

To come and withdraw funds from the ECA account without states' approval?

To come and borrow money to pay federal civil servants salaries when crude oil was still selling at $50+ which was just 8months after the slump from $100+?

To come and reduce the foreign reserves from $47b inherited from Yar'Adua to $29b handed over to Buhari despite increased oil earnings of the Jonathan regime when compared to OBJ who increased it from $3b to $45b and still paid $18b to Paris club?

To come and grant import waivers to luxury goods importers to the detriment of the economy? Like Cosmas Maduka of Coscharis who imported 2 bullet proof BMW for Aviation minister Stella Oduah on an hyper-overinflated contract, then claimed it was a procurement for Lagos State government for the National Sports Festival.

To come and turn a blind bespectacled eye to money being looted with the authority of the president, and not detecting that monies that should accrue to the government from oil sales did not accrue?

She was minister for 4 years out of which 3 were solid economic years (June 2011 - June 2014).
Did the Naira ever gain against the Dollar? Did she not meet it at N160 and left it at N220?
Did she leave the prices of commodities cheaper than she met them?
Did she not meet petrol at N65 and tried to take it to N140 before the will of the masses force it down to N87?

Was destruction her success?
Can a chronic failure in a time of plenty become a genius in a time of want?
If the regime of failure had not ended, wouldn't the federal government have continued to borrow money to pay salaries in continuation of her borrowing for February, March, and April salaries?

Let her remain in the West where she can fashion out programmes to destabilise other 3rd world countries with economic potential. She is a puppet much loved by her destructive masters.

denko:
Shipping companies sending 3000 staff to already saturated labour market. what brought us here.

Failed economic planning.

Inability to move from important to exportation.

Dollar shortage due to slump of oil prices, which happens to be 90%+ of our foreign exchange earnings. Meaning crude oil is our only export trade, others barely make up to 5% of foreign exchange earnings.

Since we did not act when we had plenty, now we must suffer. Hopefully we would have learnt some valuable lessons by the time we manage to overcome this recession.

Self-defense is a fundamental human right.

If the federal government has failed to tackle this recurrent issue of herdsmen terrorism since the time of Obj through Yar'Adua/Jonathan and now Buhari, it is the responsibility of every living human in the affected areas to do everything to stay alive.

Everything is allowed to keep alive.

“Immunity clause should not be
used as a shield for delinquents in executive
positions.”

The nation will not forget how he belligerently
hampered the courts in Ekiti State when some
persons instituted a matter against him at the
Ekiti State High Court in the build up to his
election in 2014.

You cannot give what you do not have and a
man who is himself guilty of a human rights
violation, lawlessness and impunity cannot
become a judge, jury and crusader for any
advocacy for the sanctity of the law.

Fayose’s posture as a latter-day human
rights activist and advocate for the Rule of Law
distorts the authenticity of civil rights advocacy
because his political trail is muddied by his
inglorious acts of lawlessness, impunity and
flagrant disregard for the Rule of Law and
democracy.

Words on marble.