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I like his type of news. But I hardly believe any news under this administration

They can keep their apologies. Will they say they did it by mistake

They keep traveling at tax payers expenses

My ucweb browser is always on incognito before now

Dead or alive their works are been appreciated

rossy8:
Who made him a governor?

Rivers people

– Former Obasanjo’s adviser speaks with the journalists on the current Nigeria’s challenges

– He explains why Nigeria needs restructuring and why the North is afraid of this

– Former Obasanjo’s adviser speaks with the journalists on the current Nigeria’s challenges

– He explains why Nigeria needs restructuring and why the North is afraid of this

Professor ABC Nwosu, who served as political adviser to ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, has granted an interview to the Sun news explaining why the North is afraid of restructuring.

Mr Nwosu was speaking on the current issues of Nigeria and the incumbent government.

The former minister also argued that those kicking against restructuring are doing so because they are benefitting from the current damaged system.

He said: “I am not in government, I’m not a prophet, neither am l Rev. Fr. Mbaka to see through prophecy how it can be done. All I know is that many Nigerians, good Nigerians have said, if something is not working, try to see how it can work. That’s how I see the word, restructuring. Our federation is not working. It hasn’t been working. Therefore, restructuring is the best thing that should be done now to see if it will work. But I’m baffled that a government that says Change cannot understand change, even when it comes to structures.

“You said change personnel, we accepted. Nigerians have voted your change personnel. They are saying change structure. You say no way. How and why? Because the same problem is there, you need to change structure. Change structure is restructuring. Economic change is diversification. If government says it wants to diversify, it has accepted change in diversification.

“The old people have been changed, what government is finding difficult is change of structure and I don’t know why? Fine, but it is going nowhere until it changes items in the Exclusive List, even in Legislative List.

“We must re-examine that item 39 that says petroleum under the liquid, gas and solid are the exclusive preserve of the federal government. We must ask why we are still finding it difficult to pass the petroleum industry’s bill. These are the cob webs government has to remove. Restructuring is not going back to regions. I’m shocked at that kind of ignorance and nonsense. Who says restructuring is going back to regionalization?

Prof Nwosu also served as Minister of Health under Obasanjo government.

Niger Delta militant groups from the oil-rich region and pro-Biafra campaigners call for Nigeria restructuring.

While some politicians, like President Muhammadu Buhari, stand firm against the restructuring, others, like former vice president Atiku Abubakar suppose that it’s not bad idea if it could save the nation.

Carry my darling governor

Caseless:
Confused man!

he is confused and he is a governor. You that is not confuse what have you achieved with your life?

This is inhumane

modupe2:
And who are those? Your fellow incurable wailers?

nd u ar a cursed zombie

The man killed this huge snake at Laula Asalasi in Ilorin , Kwara State capital recently and showed it off...

No hating! But this is rubbish

Nusaf:
Really? Then why starting what u don't have time for Go and get English teacher bro, otherwise u have just gotten one

I laugh in swahili

Pretty much the same. No difference atoh

Good info

exemen:
......
i gues they are for farm...... som group will just stand up nd hold Nigeria into ransom

I guess that's the Nigeria we find ourselves in now

Are those millitants or farms and hunters? No millitants in the creeks will be carrying those piece of shxt I see there they call guns

A 31yrs woman still making reference to the fact she don't have a mother for her stupid act. When She was busy fxcking anyhow she don't know she might end up getting pregnant abi? My pity is for her.

Nusaf:
This can't be English language .
The next shall be ur subsequent posts, cheers.

really don't have time for kid internet dingbat

Nusaf:
Human beings can be funny. Why is it that whenever an allegations of stealing are laid against office holders, people like u always get uncomfortable? Do u know what is 76B? Even the beneficiaries of these loot are not even as touchy as u and ur folks on matters like this, so I ask; are these the youths clamouring for leadership positions? God forbid.

Why is it that whenever an allegations of stealing are laid against office holders, people like u always get comfortable? My pity is for you

Nothing to help this dying economy, is a welcome development

I really like this woman. She helped built Nollywood

It was like film trick recently when a popular ‘big girl’ of the University of Nairobi, Kenya, turned into a big snake few minutes after she was dropped by an alleged sugar daddy. According to Gossip Mirrors, she was dropped at her hostel residence in the early hours of last Saturday, September 10. One of her close friends who witnessed the shocking scenario, said:

“Everything happened so quickly, she had just alighted from the vehicle and I saw her walk into her room, I was on my way to her room when I heard her screaming, I quickly pushed the door open an behold I saw her turning into a snake,on her bed, right before my very own eyes”

Authorities from the school have issued strict warning to the female students of the institution to avoid going out with strangers. Security operatives are currently searching for the suspected man.

Nawa oh!

This is just the beginning

placeofallure:
I know Jumoke well, actually she is more beautiful without the make-up.

OK oo

Too Much makeup. I bet she won't be this pretty without it

modupe2:
I am very fit and healthy……

dats wat dey kip telling der sef

Girls are not smiling

Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has slammed the PDP for once again asking President Buhari to resign, calling the former ruling party a shameless irritant which is bent on distracting the government from its rescue mission and returning the country to ''Egypt''.
''We are on a rescue mission to resuscitate Nigeria after the PDP left it in a coma, and the noise from the same PDP seems designed to sabotage the rescue efforts. But we are not deterred,'' Lai Mohammed said in a statement released today via his Special Adviser, Segun Adeyemi
According to Lai Mohammed, if the PDP had understood the meaning of shame, it would never have dared to even make a single comment on the same economy that it did everything to kill. ''While the PDP was emasculating Nigeria on all fronts, including social, economic and political, the rapacious party was deceiving Nigerians by giving them the illusion of growth and prosperity.

Instead of showing remorse and rebuilding itself to a strong opposition party, the PDP has continued to blame the successor Buhari Administration which is left to pack their mess. PDP undertakers have continued to engage in a blame game, when they should be hiding from the shame they brought upon themselves and the nation,'' he said.

Mohammed said what the PDP has consistently put up as a vibrant economy under its watch was nothing but a bubble that was buoyed by massive corruption and chronic incompetence, an economy in which someone without any known means of earned livelihood would boast of $31.5 million! ''They keep saying we should stop talking of the past, yet the past will not stop rearing its head.

They keep saying we should no longer refer to the past, but how can we forget so soon that our foreign exchange reserves plummeted from $62bn in 2008 to $30bn by 2015, at a time when oil prices were at a historic high, reaching a level of $114 per barrel in 2014.

By comparison, Indonesia, another oil producing economy with a high population, increased its reserves from $60 billion in 2008 to $120 billion in 2015. The candid truth is that we failed under the successive PDP administrations to save for the rainy day, and we need to constantly remind ourselves of that so that we won't repeat the mistake.

Take the excess crude account which fell from about $9bn in 2007 to about $2bn in 2015. The argument that it was the State Governors that depleted the account does not hold water since there were Governors in place when the account was being built up. Worse still is the fact that up to $14bn in revenues from Nigerian LNG remains unaccounted for and indeed until the Buhari Administration came to office, State Governments never got any allocations from this source of funds which properly belongs to the Federation Account. The naked fact on the revenue front is that there was just a failure of leadership.

This was compounded by the non-transparent uses of funds. We are all witnesses to the sacking of a Central Bank Governor because he raised an alarm about $20 billion that had gone missing. We are indeed still trying to recover huge sums looted from the national treasury under the PDP's watch, with $15 billion stolen from the defence sector alone.

Perhaps most painful is that because of the way funds (about $322m) returned from Switzerland were mishandled, we now have to accept conditionalities before our stolen assets are even returned to us,'' he said. Mohammed said one of the achievements that the PDP has been touting is that it reduced the nation's national debt. ''However, at the time that we were earning such large revenues from oil, we only managed to double our external debt from $5.6 billion to $10.7 billion between 2011 and 2015.

The case of domestic debt was even worse, almost tripling from N888 billion to N2.1 trillion in the same period. Even these figures mask the extent of unpaid obligations to contractors and the huge plethora of uncompleted projects on which money continued to be spent without visible results. Payments to contractors stopped several years ago while not a single dollar was contributed to the Joint Venture activities.

Over N4.5 trillion was spent on fuel subsidy in just two years under the PDP! Despite a recent oil boom, Nigerians are indeed all victims of the dilapidated and decrepit infrastructure. The economy that the Buhari Administration inherited was certainly in dire straits, if the huge amount of salary arrears that were being owed at various tiers of government is anything to go by. If, after earning so much resources and increasing the total debt stock, our governments were not able to meet salary obligations, sometimes for up to seven months, then something was definitely wrong somewhere and if this is not evidence of a collapsing economy, one wonders what it is.

Indeed, it was not so long ago that the fuel subsidy regime almost bankrupted the country. Through credibility and commitment to good governance, the current administration has managed to save up to N1.4 trillion that would have been spent on subsidies for PMS. Moreover, the daily demand for PMS has halved from 1600 trucks a day to 850 trucks a day.

If we could achieve such savings, then clearly the petrol sector which was and remains a huge source of foreign exchange demand was not being well managed. It is also important to point out that the poor security situation in the North East has had ripple effects on the economy.

Apart from the dislocation of daily lives, there was extensive loss of agricultural production arising from the fact that our citizens in that zone could not go to their farms not to talk of planting and harvesting produce. Yet, in just a space of about 15 months, the Buhari Administration has liberated this region from the clutches of Boko Haram, which is now left to release meaningless videos when it could no longer carry out spectacular attacks,'' he said.

He added that the government will continue to welcome constructive criticism, it had nothing to learn from a party that was in charge of the nation's affairs at a time of plenty, but ended up frittering away the commonwealth, looting the nation blind and setting the stage for today economic crisis, which the Buhari Administration is working tirelessly to put an end to.

mdean17:
We are moving

mark Zuckerberg really mean business. I pray to God for his type of intelligence

Roman Catholic Mission (RCM) Bishops in Nigeria have called on President Buhari to take full responsibility for the poor state of the economy and stop blaming his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan.

Speaking through the Arch-Bishop of Sokoto Dioceses, Mathew Kukah at a dinner organised on the occasion of the Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) 2016 by Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, at the International Event Centre, Akure on Tuesday September 13th, the clergymen said Jonathan was no longer president of the country and no amount of insults heaped on him will make things change.

According to them, the reason why the new government was elected was to come in and provide solutions to move the nation forward rather than the point fingers at the ills of the past governments.
“If the previous government did badly that is why we voted a new government. We didn’t vote a government to complain about wednesday. If we wanted wednesday, the new government would not be there. It is really about taking responsibility. No matter how much you praise or abuse Jonathan, he is not the president of Nigeria. I think that people must understand, you take power to solve problems not to agonise. As the head of a family, no matter how bad things are if there is no food in the house; you as a father can’t enter the house crying. It is the question of developing the mechanism. You can’t solve the problem by guess work. Even my best friends in APC now realise that nobody can sing the song about Jonathan being responsible for the problems we are in. We are not asking you to change the whole world.”
According to Kukah, it was better for this administration to identify the good in the past administration and improve on them than become slaves to its shortcomings.
“We are now riding a train between Abuja and Kaduna now. The train wasn’t there before. Things that Jonathan did that can help Nigeria, let’s continue with them. The bad things that Jonathan did and those who deserve to go to prison should go to prison. But sending people to prison will only be useful if it puts bread on the table of people. I think the challenge government is facing is this: just to be able to explain to the people that this suffering has something redemptive about it because if you know that at the end of this suffering something good is going to happen, people will be ready to live with the consequences. But so far, I don’t think government is communicating effectively with ordinary Nigerians and to know where we are and the state of things. So, this is why you increasingly have a situation which people are not willing to make sacrifices because they still believe that their obligation is to protect themselves.”
On the current war against corruption by this government, Kukah said
“I have always said, you can’t cure malaria by just providing tablets. You might provide tablets to cure malaria but you have to look at the cause of malaria. As long as dirty waters and mosquitoes are around, there will still be the disease. My argument has always been that we are not really fighting corruption. We started off with the assumption that corruption is all about people stealing money. But stealing money is actually the other end of corruption. The reason we don’t seem to make much progress is based on the kind of diagnosis; how we diagnose the problem. I still believe that unless we get to the root cause of poverty, inequality, which is really the evidence and symptom of corruption, you can talk of fighting corruption all the rest of your life and very little is going to happen.”