₦airaland Forum

Buhari is going to crush them

Aren't we all tried of all these problems, militancy today, terrorism and Boko Haram tomorrow. These problems always appear for a reason, they are not just there. Why can't Nigerians come together and ask ourselves what the problem really is? Why is everybody complacent, docile and unconcerned about the national question. Everybody thinks corruption is Nigeria's problem.

The national question is a bigger problem than corruption. How can we live together and share governmental responsibilities without much problems? That is the question.

You voted Buhari to fight corruption. OK, he's fighting corruption but isn't there a bigger problem facing the country now? Militants have reduced government revenues by a quarter all because of what? The NATIONAL QUESTION!!!

Let Nigerians continue to act like they don't care, that we are one fantastically united country and that corruption is our major problem. Militants, Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram will keep teaching y'all a lesson.

legalspices:
He is from IMO...orlu to be precise

I'm also from orlu, we marry other tribes a lot. In fact, the wife of our village king is a yoruba woman.
The only thing keeping you from getting married is you and your fiancee. If you people want to get you'll get married. After you're married you can appease his parents with your charm and goodwill.

Nigeria was structured so that the northerners can afford to be uneducated and unproductive but still reap financial and political benefits.
Who am I to blame them anyway, the most cowardly and shortsighted West Africans are Southern Nigerians.
The productivity, innovation, economy, academia and anything Nigeria can be proud of is anchored on the south. Why can't southern leaders come together and structure this country in a way that is geared towards progress and develoment? They would rather play second fiddle to northern politicians.
This Country called Nigeria has been cursed by the devil.

This is actually the only important decision this new government has made.
The question to be asked now is? What happens to the 27 billion Dollars foreign reserve now that it is no longer needed?

You're a fraud and a false prophet.

mentorken05:
Enugu shouldn't be on that list at all...@OP I think the richest man they have is the deputy senate president...

Samuel Maduka Onyishi. Do you know who he is?

Progressive01:
But I can see a car parked there. Probably pulled over to see what happened. Is he a mad man to driven on the lane under repair

The truth is that most parts of the other lane are bad so drivers use the good lane to evade bad spots on the other lane. I suspect the driver did nothing wrong, the truck driver was speeding.

Progressive01:
What was the bus driver doing on that lane for God's sake??

The other lane is under perpetual repair.

This is horrible. If the other part of the road was motorable the driver would not have collided with the truck. Just imagine this nonsense.

If Wike crowns you chairman, you are chairman indeed.

Taxation from where? Who are you going to tax in an economy that is in recession?

Billionaire in dollars or in naira?

No one state has the most dollar billionaires (Judging from the forbes list).

The state with the most naira billionaires will be between Ogun and Anambra with a slight bias towards Anambra.

Prosecuting people perceived to have been involved in diverting public funds does not translate to fighting corruption, neither does it mean that corruption has reduced in Nigeria.

Nigeria is unarguably still the most corrupt country in Africa.

The so-called constitution, is nothing but a fraud.

After Abacha died, the new military regime setup a constitution review committee and in less than two months, they came up with a constitution. What's worse, they did not consult with the Nigerian people during the constitutional making process and they handed it down to Nigerians nonetheless.

With the 1999 constitution still being used as the sovereign law of the land, social, political and economic development will continue to elude Nigeria.

Nigeria will not progress with such an injustice that they call a constitution.

Cheerleaders? What for?

Why should I be patriotic to a useless country like Nigeria?

If Nigeria was not a useless country, these guys would have no business being billionaires.

Dragonking:
Osadebe is not from delta state na

Osadebe is from Delta state

So Okene is more populated than Lokoja and Nnewi? Lol.

The Ibru's - One of Nigeria's wealthiest families
Stephen Osadebe - Legendary Igbo Musician
Stephen Keshi
Sunday Oliseh

I don't understand the furor over David Cameron's comment. Nigeria is a dysfunctional and corrupt country. There's no denying that, it doesn't matter who said it.

Last week the budget was passed and the national assembly (comprising of less than 500 people) will "legally" receive the sum of 155 billion naira for the fiscal year. That is not corruption but a symptom of a dysfunctional society.

Now Dino, who is obviously a beneficiary of such injustice has the nerve to go on TV and call out foreign banks for aiding Nigerian politicians.

Nigerians are hypocrites.

papparatzzi2013:
Those are all effects of GEJ's actions.

I repeat, our economy will not be like this if GEJ and his cronies never looted our treasury. There would have been fund to defend Naira, because dollars would have been available.

GEJ was the most divisive president ever -- he called some people rascals, his wife had the audacity to say some people are 'born-thro-way''.

People complaining are the people GEJ described as his pillar.

You are a hypocrite. When Okonjo was begging Nigerians to let go of petrol subsidy in order to enable the government save money, did you Nigerians agree? When you were enjoying stress-free fuel with no queues under the last administration, didn't you know it was being paid for by the government?

If GEJ was a divisive president what will you call Buhari with 97 percent versus 5 percent comment and so many others? What has Buhari done to unify the country?

Everybody is complaining under Buhari's government. Inflation does not discriminate, unemployment does not discriminate.

papparatzzi2013:
People protested because they do not trust his sense of judgement.

People will not protest because people still trust Buhari for now. he still has goodwill with the people and it seems the mental social contract with the people is still intact.

it was alleged that SW people were the ones that kicked against subsidy removal under GEJ, let under regions that are displeased with the removal also lead the protest this time around.

Wow. So people trust Buhari's sense of judgement? How exactly do they trust Buhari's sense of judgement?
The way you people tell lies is amazing.
Are you not in this country? Where it has been extremely difficult to get fuel at designated prices;
inflation has skyrocketed, the naira depreciated to an all time high again against the dollar, unemployment is at the highest level in years, ethnic tensions in the country has reawakened. You witness all these and you're telling me people trust Buhari? Which people?

papparatzzi2013:
Abeg park well.

GEJ was able to do that because his predecessors saved money for the country, which he looted with his cronies.If he had saved too, we will not be in this mess.

Do you think he is being called the Clueless One just for fun? He single handedly looted our national treasury from 62bn dollars to 35bn. Even his Min for Finance said he lacks th political will to save. His Cluelessness landed us where we are today and thank God patriotic Nigerians saved this country by voting him out.

May we NEVER have his type again as President.

It is high time some of you sit down and see beyond voting out GEJ and think about the future of your children. Was GEJ laying a good future for my children and children's children with his ''America will know'' ''Stealing is not corruption'' ''yam and goat tales'' ---- capital NO.

Under him, this country went to the dogs. Can you imagine someone confessing he was paid 90m for doing nothing. Do you know how much theMandela of Otuoke spent in dollars in SW when he postponed election. That was our national commonwealth the Doyin Okupe's Jesus Christ was using to do Father Xmas and ATM. We are all here today, suffering for his unpatriotic act.

I don't care about GEJ. I'm no longer his supporter. I'm only calling out the hypocrisy of you Nigerians. If GEJ wanted to remove subsidy during his regime and some nigerians rejected they should reject subsidy removal under Buhari's regime.
By the way, how much was spent to make Buhari president and where did the money come from?

Nigeria is a fantastically corrupt and dysfunctional country. Cameron didn't lie.

Businessideas:
They bought it at over N150 under GEJ yet they brought his government to his knees.
What just played out is one of the disadvantages of democracy:even if those in the majority are wrong, they will still have their way. This is democracy at work. Those opposing the government are in the minority. They could be right if they oppose the current government, but they won't have their way because the majority of Nigerians trust this government and wants it to succeed.
One funny thing you've not realized is that this same majority will benefit if the minority successfully force the government to reverse it's decision.
This is why I love sociology. These are complex sociological dynamics already explained in sociology under conflict theory.There is an intellectual angle to what's happening.You need to be open minded to learn.

Before GEJ removed subsidy in 2012, fuel sold for 65 naira. The only time fuel sold above 100 naira in GEJ's government was at the twilight of his administration when there was scarcity because the govt owed marketers.
This government has created a Nigeria that is more fractured and delineated by ethnic and tribal sentiments. Hence saying that "majority of Nigerians" support the government is very untrue. Things change, the status of Buhari's popularity has changed.

Businessideas:
Ignorance of what happened under GEJ?
Very funny.
This government is just enjoying the same goodwill enjoyed by the GEJ administration in its early days.If there's no goodwill so what would you call this? A government removed subsidy and the majority of Nigerians are not throwing tantrums except majority of those who never voted for him and largely those from the usual quarters.
The southern part won't even suffer from deregulation as much as the northern part so could the sin of the Buhari also include being anti-north?
For me o, I want my country to succeed and wish the president well. He's older than I so I technically have more years to benefit from his patriotic actions and decisions.

People aren't protesting because majority of the masses are already buying fuel at over 150 naira per liter for the past few months. People are just fed up! It has nothing to do with goodwill.

Businessideas:
Very funny.
I think that the silence of Nigerians so far shows that this government enjoys a great amount of goodwill from Nigerians akin to a willingness by a majority of Nigerians to make the necessary sacrifice so that Buhari will succeed and they believe any amount saved will not be looted like the GEJ administration. One interesting fact is that at the onset of GEJ's government, he enjoyed a similar goodwill before Nigerians wised up .The GEJ leadership was a casualty of the same corruption perception he gave Nigerians about his government and from the corruption exposed so far, Nigerians were actually smart and right by opposing that government because they never trusted them.
The lesson is that leadership is about trust and perception .
The right question should have been :What did GEJ do with the goodwill Nigerians gave him?

No offense my friend but your comment reeks of hypocrisy and ignorance.
The silence of Nigerians may also mean they have lost hope in the government. This government has subjected the masses to brutal economic hardship ever since it was installed. It has nothing to do with goodwill. Buhari has no goodwill left, especially in the southern part of the country.

How much will NNPC be selling a litre? Are we going to buy locally refined fuel from government refineries for 145 naira?

Shame