LordAdam:


Everything.

It appeared you just saw my username, didn't read my message and instead decided to take a jab at me.

Although, I have my reservations on the loan and have been very vocal against taking loans in the past, that was because APC did same in the past. However, now I am pursuing a more engaging policy of criticizing PMB and his government, something I have made mention of not too long ago.

That's good to know. Pls keep it up.

If the man says he needs a loan, then let him have it, and let's see what he uses it for. My only question is that the man is having a cold fight with the IMF and so there'd be no loans from that end. China is the only nation that can comfortably save our asses by giving us a sizable loan to efface a considerable part of the $11b. Yet he went there without his Finance minister, didn't get a cash loan to offset our $11b deficit and you want me to clap for him.

With Nigeria's present clout as the dominant economy in West Africa, 24th largest economy in the world (previously 21 as at last year), and the relationship PDP-led governments have fostered with China, $6b in investments is a normal development. Even if a chimp goes to China in the capacity of the President of Nigeria, he would be able to secure the same amount in investments.

Nigeria urgently need the loan to balance the deficit so there'd be no stalling when the budget is passed. Pardon me if I'm the only person in the country who senses the urgency and will not be wavered by propaganda.

-Lord

This years budget is having a deficit of N2.2T which translates to &11B but not all are going to be from external creditors. Internal instruments would be sold to also raise cash. The govt has said this repeatedly and I'm shocked that you of all people are ignorant of this. Even if IMF was going to give us a loan, they weren't planning on more than $3.5B.

Why buhari will want to avoid cash is simple and should be clear to you my friend. Nigerians will chop the money if you allow them. But with a foreign partner playing a major role beyond financing in the projects, you can have some level of confidence in deliverability.

Ask yourself why NLNG works but NAFCON is dead and NNPC is just a devourer and cankerworm in the nation's finances? The simple answer is that partners run the NLNG while Nigerians were solely in charge of the others.

We don't need to get all the money to run the budget today or does FIRS need to get all their projected revenue in the bank before the budget is passed? Buhari wants to use the deficit for only capital projects and as we proceed, more avenues will open up.

He might be wrong eventually but how will we know if he doesn't try?

Jidibia:

Even aboki sheep has sense than me. I'm a Coward

Is that all you've got?

laprince:


great one. you're a great mind.

Thanks friend....you're too kind

emmykk:



why the sudden tire

Go and ask him!

wexyee:
look at this ipop wre u not the same people claiming saraki is in this mess because pmb no like am?

My fellow ipoop, na we o.

LordAdam:


Bloody hell! For someone of your caliber to exhibit this copious amount of blind shenanigans is beyond me.

Alright, show me where I said he shouldn't have taken the offer of $6b in investments?

-Lord

Lord gawd!! For someone of your level to delve into insults on someone without provocation is horrifying.

Show me what was wrong with what I said in my first post which you replied that warranted insults?

laprince:


Am sure you are not up to 82: even if you are, what has been your contributions so far?

Though, your write up is insightful.

Its immaterial what I've done or not done.

What is immoral is casting aspersions on a man who spent his youth, money, freedom, prison time fighting for youths who would rather be on the internet arguing about the colours of tonto dikeh's panties.

I'm doing mine but since its not up to what Soyinka has done, I'll keep quiet and not join low lifes to insult him

Jidibia:

Obakpo....... No wonder ur friends call u waste of sperm. U really need a brain surgeon. B*stard

You don't know my friends so you have no access to what they say.

I'm however sure that you were dropped on your head at birth hence you flying mouth and hands first into an issue you were not invited to.

A brain surgeon can't even help you.

Sad son of akalogoli

modath:


Nitori oluwa!!

Eyii po die,

Eyan mi

Ode ni bobo yen...oro ti igun gbo to eti e fi di ni omugo yen fe gbo.

Ko kontinuu

Mamog:

Price modulation or not. The issue is that this Govt is paying over 9 naira per liter for subsidy and we are buying at over 160.. people like Wole should speak up.. he has a loud voice. If he has not sold out he shout speak up.
I have took the pages of 3 national dailies between 29jan - and 1st Feb to register my displeasure..with my name written on it. I am not a coward like u.. people in high places know who is speaking now.. they don't know u.. u are just a number (part of 170 million Nigerians).. so don't place yourself where u are obviously not.
QED

I'm not even speaking you air head. Why is Soyinka your problem? Were you dead when his calls for an economic summit forced the govt to organise one?

Were you in a cave when he voiced his support for the Biafra protesters and asked the govt to give them audience? Why have you not called upon Alex Ekwueme? Or didn't he also condemn GEJ?

Once again, Soyinka isn't your problem if you don't understand what kachikwu means by price modulation. A lack of proper education is.

Did you know he saved N8.50/ltr from January to March? Yet you're bragging about your name in the papers.

Dunce!!

jaybee:


God bless you for this post. I canvassed and voted for Buhari. Currently I'm not happy or satisfied with the situation in Nigeria including some actions and inactions of governments at the centre and in the States. But like you aptly put it, I can not, because of some ill-motivated parochial reasons begin to wish and profess evil on this country thinking I'm undoing Buhari or any other person.

Exactly. Hating buhari is OK but wishing evil on the country because of one man is idiocy on steroids.

Jidibia:

Dead brain...... Influence my ass.... With you type, Nigerian democracy will remain in darkness. With your poppycock thinking. Olofofo.

The grey matter for your head was obviously deposited in your ass you dunce.

Nigerian democracy is already doomed with humans like you and your empty head. Eleregbe.

LordAdam:


A very simple question to you: Are you daft?

A lot of you guys have major issues with comprehension of the English language.

Let me dumb it down for you, my very first post was to clear the fallacy by someone who clearly did not read the publication.

Maybe you were blind to this statement in my first reply, "Investments are not substitutes of cash loans. They are meant to be additions."

We have a $11b deficit. $6b in investments though laudable is no substitute for the $11b loan we need. Get that into your thick skull.

Bunch of dumb f***kers here!

-Lord

A simpler query for you, are you a slowpoke?

Were you dropped on your head at birth?

So he shouldn't have taken the offer of $6B investments?

We need investments to address our infrastructure deficit you certified dunce and partnerships of this nature are the way to go.

Apostle of idiocy, try and learn!!

Jidibia:

Olodo.... Is it the president that choose or select the Senate president? Senate president is been elected by the senators through voting OK. Hope you know that now.

Oponu, are you so ignorant you don't know the president has influence?

Hope you know now?

anonimi:


It is good to see you acknowledge your error of saying he fought for an individual.
Cheers.

Thank you

Mamog:


Yes he campaign for GEJ an latter lambasted him.. he took to the street to register his disdain for fuel subsidy removal.. where was he when this Govt announced the removal of subsidy before bringing it on again?this Govt is subsiding fuel at 87 naira and we are buying at over 160. Where is he now when we are buying fuel at over 160 per litre even in Abuja? Falana is going to court to stop this government from taking more loans.
A man of integrity stands for what he believes at all times even if he doesn't favour him.
I ask again why is Prof Wole Soyinka silent? Has he suddenly gone dumb or sold his conscience and lost his voice to a pot of porridge?.

Maybe we should sacrifice you to the gods for money making rituals. So with the current realities you expect subsidy? How many times do you want Kachikwu to explain price modulation to you?

And you'll also call yourself a youth Soyinka should use his grey hair and tired body to fight for?

If the Amaechi dinner is your problem, your problem isn't Soyinka, its the lack of a proper education.

vislabraye:


You are missing the point. I'm not saying he should fight Buhari. You guys are always quick to defend Buhari's government and anything concerning him.
First and most importantly, lives are being lost. You can't keep quiet when women are children are being butchered up and down. These people have no voice. It's people like you and I, and of course the Soyinkas that have better influence. Not just Soyinka but our MOGs. Our MOGs have so much clout. Politicians troop in to see them. Why can't they use their influence for the general good of all ?
You that advise people to get out of the public to air their voice, I hope you know that you're also indicting yourself ? We thank God that you are in a safe area, probably in Lagos. But think about others who are facing Fulani herdsmen on a daily basis.

Soyinka spoke up on the economy and because of him, the fg convened an economic summit. He spoke up on Biafra protests and kanu's detention. What else do you want him to do?

He's done his beat, let us do ours.

I voted buhari and I'm not happy at some issues but I won't join the paranoia and madness going on in the name of opposition.

Folks are wishing their country evil and they think they're opposing buhari?? Soyinka knows that's idiocy and I agree with him

lookingfly:
Gej was clueless and yet we had electricity, prices of food was not high, fuel yapa, the economy was OK with alot of reserves. Etc please tell me what your baba go slow super clueless Bubu has done since he ascended the seat than cause chaos and pain to Nigerians? When soyinka was vigorously blaming Gej some months back, where we're you, now that it's time for him to tell the world how Bubu is incompetent, he's now deaf and dumb abi?

GEJ also had the luxury of a robust fx reserve + $100/barrel oil. Did GEJ not leave fuel queue, no light and dwindling fx reserves for buhari?

Do you think that shouldn't count?

anonimi:


I thought he was fighting for NIGERIA's sake and not for the sake of any particular individual.
Did I make a mistake

No you didn't.

Any other observation?

IVORY2009:


Answer:

As a Nigeria, it is of his prerogative to carry out such fighting for the betterment of the country @ large, Perhaps his reward is coming from his maker.....

Exactly.

Imagine some dunce saying APC paid Soyinka with a dinner??

Do you know how many.presidents have hosted him in this one life?

He fought for GEJ because it was the right thing to do. He spoke up for kanu and ipob too because his conscience told him to.

You didn't force him to fight for Biafra in 1967, why will any one cajole him now?

Mamog:


82 years old man who mortgage his children's future over a pot of porridge provided by the lizard of Ubima should speak out and apologise to his children for deceiving them into voting a tyrant if he has any integrity left.

I guess he also deceived us into voting for GEJ in the name of fresh air. I guess you're one of the children whose future was mortgaged? You've sold your future on the altar of ignorance and pettiness my dear.

Presidents have been hosting him before you could hold your weeny to pee. Common sense should tell you Amaechi and his dinner pale in comparison

lookingfly:
the truth they say is bitter and I must say the op nailed it hard. Why are you trying to divert the topic....... Or is it now a crime to say the truth bare as it is. Let's call a spade a spade, wale Soyinka has been gag by APC 82 million dinner that's why he has lost his voice and to crown it all,Bubu is just clueless, the true defination of an illiterate presido.

What has gagged your own mouth? 10mb from etisalat? Enahoro was 22 when he started fighting for Nigerian independence, what are you waiting for? He's been having dinners hosted by foreign presidents in his honour since the '70s. Amaechi's dinner is way too small.

Buhari is clueless Just like GEJ was an ineffectual buffoon, how many times did you speak out against GEJ?

Are you not old enough? Malala @ 15 was already tackling the Taliban, what are you waiting for?

vislabraye:


Soyinka was vehement in his attack against Gej. At least it's expected that he should speak against the ills of this country today for CONSCIENCE sake. He was one of the reasons Gej was voted out. He gave Buhari his vote of confidence. 82 million was spent in hosting him. I guess his conscience has been bought.

He was also vehement in his attack against the cabal that held GEJ hostage. He didn't start speaking against GEJ until 2012, over 2 years after he fought to have him enthroned. How long has buhari spent?

How many fights have you done beyond ranting on NL? How many times did you condemn any.of the wrong moves of GEJ?

Malala was 15, Enahoro was 22, Soyinka was 28. you too get out into the public and get your voice out.

erudean:

Confra talk. Why won't you take sides?

My dear, let the man rest.

He hasn't got the energy anymore. Even granting interviews isn't easy.

There are still elders like Anyaoku, Ekwueme etc. Let them talk too.

But what effort are you putting in to the matter? Does your activism end on NL?

modath:


He was trying not to be a dictator , unfortunately his thinking probably never conceived the level of treachery & kleptomania in Crookola Saratiff

So he can't complain when mud from saraki rubs off on him.

It was a very naive posture and he and the country are paying for it.

bammy777:
. Who will the world listen to , soyinka or the unknown youth.

The world listened to an unknown 15yr old malala of Pakistan. The world listened to 23 year Bouazizi of Tunisia. The world listened to a 22 year old Enahoro

Try and speak to the world in an intelligent manner....they'll listen to you.

GudluckIBB:


I don't kno ere you belong! Are you been sarcastic or you trully meant what u just wrote?

Pls which of the divide are you?

Does it matter?

crixtex:
Buhari is an old crooked Ole conniving with Saraki to rob Nigerians....

I agree. How on earth did he allow Saraki become Senate president?

aresa:


Forbes Original Title.





The deceiving sourceless IpoD titles is



^^^^^From Ipod blog...

Really??

modath:


The USA'S contigent to the 2012 London Olympics' team uniform na "meid in shaina" .. ..


http://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/#5a18341d46a7

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/olympic-uniforms-us-china_n_1667780.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-07-16/made-in-china-olympic-uniforms-are-a-win-for-the-u-dot-s

Can you imagine?

In fact where is the link to show its from Forbes sef?

Kai OP don do wash wash for me

LordAdam:


The presidency said nothing of tolling about the greenfield expressway--http://www.channelstv.com/2016/04/15/buharis-china-visit-yields-billions-in-investment-for-nigeria-presidency/. About the Lagos Metro line, I wonder if you were one of the negotiators to know that the government would not repay a dime, but the Chinese would collect money from Nigerians to use the train (for how long, until what amount is reached, which percentage goes to the government afterwards).

Don't insinuate when you are not part of the delegation. When more information comes out you reference it, until then keep your personal opinion about the nature of a deal signed thousands of miles away in a place you'll never be able to enter, to yourself.

Conclusively if you actually read my reply and not try to do fastest-finger, you'd see that I called it is not entirely an investment (meaning some part is investment, some is loan). If you can't understand English, desist from quoting me or trying to enlighten me. I too know!

-Lord

Do you need special notification to know that the railways and power projects are not for charity?

Are you assuming that Nigerian citizens and coporate bodies who use them will do so free of charge?

Do you know the airport modifications of Stella Oduah were financed with loans from this same China? Did you have reservations about those too?