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LordMecuzy:
[s]He left $30billion?

How much be our budget?

Nigeria is broke Abeg with massive corruption and reduction in the price of World oil market[/s]

lukecent:
You re on point.
One won't expect them to move for impeachment against the governor for they must ve benefited from the loot.

HzRF:
CAN I get those excerpts

oshyno:
Any governor that does not have another way of generating resources to state coffers aside allocation from FG dpoes not have business with governance.
I felt like punching my TV when I saw him on tele with other governors beging Buhari for a bail out. And that brings me to the opportunist activists. Where are the likes of Falana, Soyinka, Odumakin, Ogundamisi, Oby , NLC, Nupeng n Pengason. In sane clime, this man wud av honourably resigned. U can't be presidng over a failed state , somebody else- deputy, speaker or wateva just fresh hand shud step in and clean up this mess.

lukecent:
Then the HOA members should heed the call from the honourable learned judge and serve him an impeachment notice

lukecent:
I suggest he resign honourably b/cos he has failed his people and the office he swore to uphold.

donphilopus:
[s]I can see a gathering of nincompoops. Y'all should continue in your foolery![/s]

donphilopus:
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Calling on your fellow nincompoops!!

MKO4ever:
[s]Find below analysis of your results:

An ugly baby boy that joined nairaland five days ago_on June 18, 2015
Just in five days, you have already created 11 posts
All your threads are in one direction-saTAN
Unfortunately none of your eleven post has made front page (including this one)
Infact you did not even get any comment in some of the posts
I am only stating these facts so that you can repent because you still have a long way in life
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oluwafemi113:
Good for her

IsraeliAIRFORCE:
Blame morons who believe Nepa bill can serve in lieu of Cambridge WASC Certificate

The report is not worth discussing because it lacks every intellectual exercise.

Just a political masterpiece meant to kill the peoples expectations from Buhari, their "political god and magician"

Anmich:
what about this MTN 4.5gb night plan..how many mb can one use for 24hrs from it

Trailblazer1:
Let me help you tell them what they really want to hear.


Ok
GEJ actually campaigned with 2trillion
He also left a debt deficit of 10trillion


And because of this ..........buhari failed

Clerverly:
IMF only picks what the FG wants them to "Pick" now there is a change of Government, everything is bare!

FastShipping:
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[s]Trash.

milvet:
Just bought a new lumia535...welcome me fellas n do I need 2 download antivirus?

joker5180:
am a big fan of nokia phones but my experience with windows phone have been frustrating. I got a lumia 920, for almost a year I cant upgrade to window 8.1 even with 12G data on my phone. Took it to nokia care and was told am out of warranty and must therefore pay 6k for upgrade, I left them out of anger. Am using nokia x200 now, i use the lumia ONLY to take pictures.

ibnjarir93:
[s]BY FAROOQ KPEROGI

I have read people refer to President Buhari as “clueless”- and suchlike adjectives of disesteem suggesting cognitive incapacity - for his recent reference to German Chancellor Angela Merkel as “President Michelle of West Germany.” That is ignorant. And I will explain why shortly.

There are many things to criticise about President Buhari, but cluelessness isn’t one of them. His thought-processes are clearly complex, sophisticated, and high-level. If in doubt, get hold of any of his off-the cuff remarks; go beyond the distractions of his accent, and you will see a man whose intellect is deep and whose understanding of governance and world politics is admirably advanced. I have interviewed him twice - first when I was a journalist in Nigeria and later from here in the US for the Nigerian Village Square website in 2010.

You’re probably wondering where I am going with this. How could someone call Germany ‘West Germany,’ mangle its president’s name and official title, and I not only say he isn’t clueless but insist he is, in fact, intellectually deep?

OK, let me start by saying I am not some viscerally one-dimensional, unreflective Buhari apologist who is wedded to what I call the misguided philosophy of Buharist inerrancy, that is, the wrongheaded idea that Buhari can’t ever be wrong. Buhari is only human who is liable to errors and lapses of judgment. Many of us who criticised him, and will criticise him in the future, do so not because we are better but because, as the saying goes, the onlookers, not the participants, see most of the game.

Now, when Buhari called German Chancellor Merkel “President Michelle of West Germany,” he was merely suffering from what Americans call a “senior moment,” which is the momentary lapse in memory occasioned by old age. As psychologists know only too well, as we age, the speed with which we retrieve information from our cognitive reservoir slows. Age-related memory lapses, experts tell us can start as early as the late 30s and get worse as we get older.

Nobel Prize-winning neurobiologist Eric Kandel and his colleagues published a well-received study in 2013 in the Journal of Science Translational Medicine where they, among other things, reveal that a “memory gene” in us appears to get weaker as our brain ages, causing us to forget easily, mix things up, and be unable to easily recall information stored in our memory banks.

Buhari is not the only president who contends with age-related memory impairment. The late President Ronald Regan, America’s oldest president, who was elected at nearly 70 years in his first term, was famous for his bewildering senior moments. I will give only a few examples. Sometime in 1984, when he was 73 years old, during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, according to TIME magazine <http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,951325-3,00.html>, President Reagan constantly referred to his own Vice President, George Bush, Sr. (father of George W. Bush), as “Prime Minister Bush.” (Remember Buhari’s reference to Vice President Osinbajo as “Osunbade” during a campaign rally in Owerri?)

And, according to Tom Friedman’s 2006 book titled You Are Not Alone: 1,000 Unforgettable Senior Moments: Of Which We Could Remember Only 246 <https://books.google.com/books?id=-l0-QJkwNRMC&printsec=frontcover>, “President Ronald Reagan’s senior moments were legendary. He often forgot what foreign country he was in or the name of the dignitary he was meeting. When he visited Brazil, he referred to it as Bolivia. He greeted Princess Diana as ‘Princess David;’ at a conference of mayors once introduced himself to Samuel Pierce, the only African-American member of his cabinet, who he thought was the mayor of some American city; and called President Samuel Doe of Liberia ‘Chairman Doe.’” (p. 85).

Have you seen any similarities yet? Well, another US president, Richard Nixon, had a senior moment when he went to France in 1974 to attend the funeral of French president Georges Pompidou. Nixon had a lapse of memory and totally forgot why he was in France, so he said: “This is a great day for France!”

There will be many more age-related memory lapses from President Buhari. Get used to it. It’s no big deal. It’s part of the normal process of aging, and has no impact whatsoever on cognitive ability or performance. In spite of his notoriety for embarrassing “senior moments,” President Reagan has often been ranked as one of America’s greatest presidents. In fact, a February 2011 Gallup poll placed him ’as Americas greatest president <http://www.gallup.com/poll/146183/americans-say-reagan-greatest-president.aspx> of all time - ahead of Abraham Lincoln.

Like Buhari, Reagan lost in a past presidential election, but went ahead to defeat a younger incumbent in 1980. He won re-election at nearly 74 years with the biggest Electoral College victory in American history. When he left office in 1989, Reagan had an approval rating of 68 percent, which is the highest rating for a departing president in America’s modern history. Only Franklin D. Roosevelt and Bill Clinton rival this feat.

I am not implying that Buhari will be a Nigerian Ronald Reagan, but his age-induced cognitive impairments and slips should not cause us to dismiss him. When he recently said to Nigerians in South Africa <http://saharareporters.com/2015/06/17/old-age-will-limit-my-performance-%E2%80%93buhari>: “I wish I became Head of State when I was a governor, just a few years as a young man. Now at 72, there is a limit to what I can do,” he was referring to the inevitable impediments that age imposes on people. But senior moments don’t impair performance if the will to succeed is there, as the example of Ronald Regan clearly shows.

Although I think it’s ignorant to hold up Buhari’s senior moments as evidence of cluelessness, it’s fair game to poke fun at them. That’s the nature of democracy. Even Reagan laughed at the humour his senior moments actuated. I hope Buhari - and his legion of zealous, humourless supporters - will learn to laugh at his senior moment jokes.



http://dailytrust.com.ng/weekly/index.php/notes-from-atlanta/20827-criticising-buhari-over-president-michelle-of-west-germany-gaffe-is-ignorant
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