Nigeria has been sold since 1980

that is why we need to separate or else

those thieves that sold and bought Nigeria will continue to milk our children yet unborn
and they are doing everything in their power to keep us together as yams in the barns made only for eating and planting

Be wise free your further kids
Ask yourselves why will our so call Constitution won't have
Referendum or
have Independent candidates run for elections for any positions of this land.
and State police to keep tab of Federal misrule/abuse

have our chief Judges elected by lawyers and judicial staff who knows who is who ( now we have one Malami vs Salami acting a movie called Mr incompetence vs Mr. corruption in our judicial top echelon

Y is he not making biblical quote and examples, better still, let ask the Israelite about tithes and how its collected and how or ways it can be spent simple.
The bible said gather it and choose a venue where the have and the have not will come together and enjoy a feast and drink wine even alcoholic wine (its a day of merriment) to see that the poor are happy in the land,
Mark you money was not the main item for tithing but farm produce and livestock only those who live far from the tithing arena are advice to sell and bring cash so as to save them the stress of moving their items from far and remote locations. But today's pastors are asking only money, if ur a yam farmer, bring 1 tenth of ur harvest, a plantations owners bring the same cow herdsmen same but when you offer services u bring from your net profit and not gross profit yes profit after taxes and miscellaneous deductions, like doctors teacher and real estate consultant etc, again the value such money is to purchase food items and expended only on the issue of tithing day feast of that year. Like rentals, paid cook, suppliers cleaners etc.

Again tithes is to gather items to share for the benefit of all but especially for the poor in our societies period.

Even if you own a land or plantations by God's wish you are not to clear everything on harvest time, yes you must leave some and ask the widows and orphans or orphanage to go into your land to clear the left covers. By so doing you reap blessings from God and love or likeness from people.

So give no pastor your tithes better still church should create a tithe committee mandated to collect and agree on the venue to celebrate the feast for their members that will be a better option or you give ur tithe to the less privilege people you know but be sure its 10% o!
TITHING WAS A PART OF THE LAW OF MOSES; BELIEVERS ARE NOT UNDER THE LAW.

BELIVERS ARE NOW UNDER GRACE SO TITHING IS NOT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, AS CHRIST HAS REDEEMED ALL BY HIS DEATH ON CROSS CAN YOU PAY 10% FOR THAT? NO

rather, as Christians we are to give from our heart to support God's work by donation to the true church or the deserving less privileged around us. Give from your heart not by force and not by 1% or 100% just be truthful to your desire to give unto God's work or people in need for no reward in mind, as God is not interested in measurements but true love for giving.

If you like your pastor why not give him gift from time to time and not your tithes mandatorily like a tax

TITHING WAS AN INVOLUNTARY TAX TO SUPPORT ISRAEL; BELIEVERS ARE NOT A PART OF THE THEOCRATIC NATION.In the Old Testament, there was both required and voluntary giving. The tithe was required. It was commanded for every Israelite to fund national worship and help the poor. In actuality, there was not just one tithe, but rather two or three ([1] Lev. 27:30-33, Num. 18:20-21; [2] Deut. 12:17-18; [3] Deut. 14:2
so that the total was not 10 percent, but more like 22 percent
Generous grace giving is the New Testament standard and letter to the early churches on tithe but giving for love was more advocated



So give freely and truly to any deserving person or cause or pastor as a support and expect noting in return only but thanks and love to share with men and extend to God. E.g bro John just paid my rent help me thank him! Then bro John will smile and say let's all Thank God who truly provide the money, love and opportunity for His works and Name to be praised. That all folks! No tithes but show true love and support to one another and to each other. ��

Sorry folks the surgery was not a success but a fatal disaster and a sad disappointment. Here is why:
1 million was spent
2 prayers was offered on his behalf by family and friends
3 best of Doctors were employed and engaged
4 but sadly, they remover by error the brain that was good in place of the one Gucci virus affected
We know when Hushpussy woke up and shouted where is the Gucci nurses ���� we all fainted and the doctors ran away with their theater robes�

Sorry folks the surgery was not a success but a fatal disaster and a sad disappointment. Here is why:
1 million was spent
2 prayers was offered on his behalf by family and friends
3 best of Doctors were employed and engaged
4 but sadly, they remover by error the brain that was good in place of the one Gucci virus affected
We know when Hushpussy woke up and shouted where is the Gucci nurses ���� we all fainted and the doctor ran away with their theater robes�

@topic
all you need is prayers and luck. no woman or man that is 100% reliable.
but make sure your would be partner is
1 Hardworking
2 Less talkative.
3. has personal ambition s/he wish to pursue with serious effort in that direction.
4. healthy and fertile and free from known marital and reproductive issues like
( SS. AS, monthly, period, physical appearance e.g thin turn fat, mood swing, hot temper, social class, tribal and racial sentiments etc)

don't forget those simple manners too. e.g cleanliness, truthful is simple day to day affairs good cook must for he/r yes both parties.
and both should know how to hand their parents to stay away from too much and @topic
all you need is prayers and luck. no woman or man that is 100% reliable.
but make sure your would be partner is
Hardworking
less talkative.
has personal ambition s/he wish to pursue with serious effort in that direction.

don't forget those simple manners too. e.g cleanliness, truthful is simple day to day affairs good cook must for he/r yes both parties.
and both should know how to hand their parents to stay away from too much and undue interferences.

but above all pray for luck and blessing from above!
but above all pray for luck and blessing from above!

be ready to quit if your life is no longer secure from the fight that may become the new normal.
abusive marriage is deadly, know when and how to quit.

thanks

This is amongst the reasons white garment churches wear uniform garment in their aim for uniformity in worship.
White garment symbolises purity of hearts and cleaniness of body wear, uniformity of purpose and modesty in dressing.
Even to MOSES he was told to remove his sandals for the land he stood on was holy!
Does that mean other lands are not holy? No it means when in the present of God you must humble yourself and remove any sense of pride and self dignity. God can only relate with you when you humble yourself to Him. And He sees your heart but still you must physically show humility and modesty,

That is why men are not allowed to cap their head in prayer and women cover their pride in scarf (the hair of women are God given beauty that's why the can spend fortune or family future to maintain their hairs)

Please Google the Internet for pics modest dressing and search the Holy scriptures for how to approach the Place of worship . and gospel arena

The holy books told us to obey our Prophet/Prophetess and I say do so to good pastors and good members too. At least it is not a do or die affair yet obey first then search the holy book for guidance later.
The main reason you go to church and other gospel arean is to seek the face of God and in that you must dress simple and modesty is the best approach.
No judgment is intended here.

Now to the main topic
You need to see yourself in God's rules and laws when you dress to look too casual or too expensive then you have lost modesty and humble not yourself before the Lord.
Rather you may be disattracting other people with your looks directly or indirect.(your pastor is one already)

Even for ladies with big boobs and back sides, wearing clothes that reveals them the most is considered indecent and may cause temporary dementia for onlookers to the glory of the devil and not to God as you may well intended.
Church and God's centres are not the place to show fashion style sense

The Lord Jesus has been in the business of chasing evil people away from the synagogue for a long time now.

why?, didn't He came for the sick and the sinners of this world?

Yes but first you must be ready to atorn for your wrong in the past and willing to repent you old ways too.

Always pray and wait for clear thinking before acting on your anger. If you understand Jeremira 5:12 it means you have to pay God his dues and not make excuses for your actions and inactions. So I pray,
Our every step guide us through it O Lord

Brought two Tecno W1 and I have the same problems on them.
I called my doctor only for my gas supplier answering the call, in fact I have reset them to factory default and still have same issues, Tecno fall my hand. This is the worst thing to have a phone do, mixing contracts like soup ingredients and condiment.. Too bad, and Tecno seems not to have any solution or suggestions sad!

Please people stay away from Tecno W1 and low grade Tecno with 1.3 mhz processor 1gb rom and 8gb
internal memory.
It's just a fraud.

Yes that is the hallmark of a good Mother.
Her hope is without limitation. Even when she knows that the end is here. She still prophesied life for her son.
Emotional intelligence she is right. Let's just sympathize with her and watch over her too or else devil will find a way to get her too. Mama take heart your son will be with you again in paradise, where we all shall depart no more.

The red pill always talk about speaking less. I never found helpful advice on how to speak less. So here are 11 steps on how to speak less and how to be more liked.

1.) Don't argue, people who talk a lot tend to argue a lot. Stop fucking arguing. Its so unattractive. If someone wants to argue you, just Agree and amplify, or ignore them.

2.) Bait people to come to you. Some people won't talk to you unless you bait them (start the convo and let them continue).

3.) It will take people time to change but be patient. People will start talking to you more when you shut your mouth, but they are use to you talking, so give them sometime.

4.) Think before you speak and state your opinion clearly. Learn how to filter out useless topics and words. You'd be surprised how much stupid shit comes out of your mouth when you talk to much.

5.) Only speak about postive things, nobody gives a flying Bleep about you, your feelings, your drama, ect. At first it was a hard pill to swallow now I accept it. People react so well about postive topics. Even the ones who like to gossip with you or says its okay to vent about your problems with me, will think less of you when you talk about negative shit. Do you want to be remebered as the guy who is negative or postive? I am pretty sure everyone wants to be the person everyone wants to hangout with to have a good time. Be postive!

6.) If you feel angry, sad, ect. Vent online on a throwaway account, you'll feel better. You can get good advice for free. Trust me, if people think you're happy all the time, you'll become 10x more attractive. Also once you say something in person you can never take it back, but online you can always delete it.

7.) With a girl, talk less, speak more with touch and body language.

8.) If you say something funny, don't repeat the joke 100 times. Say it once and let the others repeat it.

9.) Don't repeat the same convo 20x a day. If you like talking about cars, mention it once a day or at most 2x a day. The more you mention, the more boring it becomes.

10.) Don't talk about despoil (Religion, Abortion, Politics, Exes). People who talk a lot probably mention the above shit a lot. Don't fucking talk about this shit. Also don't give your controversial opinions like, Bleep gays or Bleep libearls. Law 38 (think as you like but behave like others).

11.) Lastly, don't gossip and shit talk people. You think you're making that guy/girl look bad. All you're doing is making that person look good. Show you're the prize and don't give those other people relavance. Also trust me people will talk shit about you all time, if someone comes to you and say (bro john called you stupid) Just laugh and say okay.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRedPill/comments/5untd4/11_steps_how_to_talk_less/

Na we them they fool b4 u know what!


NEW PARTY GO LAND
And we go vote them in again.

The pics looks like oga is taking madam to the other room abi na just victorypose be this?
And madam don dey happy as e don tay when she last see the other room let alone take orders on how to style it out
Thank Gwad o this banana reccession is over at last

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The pics looks like oga is taking madam to the other room abi na just victorypose be this?

Well NCC according my Jamb question and answer key point is
Network Criminal Collaborators.

Next question please
And another bottle of Rum beer jare
2019 shall be a change
In order not to waste your Times
I clearly saw a Womatiku

Well i can see that PDP need the APC broom simple to keep warm and what other way but a burn fire!!

the question is
"what can any 1 do with torn umbrella" ? it's useless for rainy days as well as sunny days.

APC all the way!

EUROBOMBER:


I just don't know why these people will not leave us alone, more than 60% of the topics on the political board is about the Igbo.

it shows you are yet to understand the politics of our times Democracy is a game of number and 60% means you igbos have 40% and still a looser get wise and play the game as if your life depend on it. USA is everywhere because they want to benefit in every good out come, china is now doubling her effort for the same reasons too. Igbo wake up and take your place in the comity of nations in Nigeria.

Gucciboss:

I'm sick and tired of this hopeless party called APC. What is it with this Igbo Senate president Bla Bla Bla... I'm yet to hear anybody discuss about Senate president post down here in the east. APC failed woefully in the East. I expected this divisive ethnocentric party and their chestbeating surporters to do a Soul searching and know why they were rejected by a whole Region that is capable of being a country They are here bleating like foolish goat.

now i know you don't know politics if you said rejected or fooled to vote a party the leader was rejected via votes?
the igbo did not really reject APC(we know PDP over rig your states with propangander and fake promises (3rd Niger Bridge 3more states) haba just like that? and you all followed without putting 2 and 2 together,

in lagos igbos bought another dummy when PDP candidate promise to give them Eze Ndi Igbo the same status with oba of Lagos
and they belived Imagine! just like that? the Oba stool in oba land now with an igbo rival? sorry o!

if igbos are successful let them stop dying on the street of Lagos Kaduna Kano and as far as maiduguri all in the name of business (shop of petent medcine sellers or shoe seller aticle seller.

we are advising Igbos to become political relivent to theirselves,
cos no one hate Ndigbos just that they don't play according to the rules(common interest first before personal interest)
regional interest first before states

they always rush to conclution thinking they are wise and others are fools.
if you are a good politician you must build bridge across all parties so that you can pull your common interest in any direction to your favor, period.

what is the need you work like elephants and eat like rats?
the Ndigbo are truly the fiber of development in Nigeria, but fail to work for their common political interest all the time

when its time for presidetial election each south east state will present more than 3 candidates per state while the south west will present 2 candidates same as with the entire north.

who do you blame when you spred your votes in your states and lose in the other states?

why won't Igbos care about political post?
they do the only problem is that they always go about it the wrong way
always with personal interest in place of regonal interest.

when have the Estern Governors agre ed or disagreed in one voice
or demand from any party in power to settleany common issue with the eastern people?

it's always checkmate games they play on each others interest(personal interest for that matter)

tell me why can't the eastern governors come togerther and develop joint projects Like brigdes markets at comon boders
eventhe so called 2nd Niger Bridge and collect tolls just as lagos state has been doing over the years

the south east need big infrastuctures from their State Governors, Federal govermnet and even tangible joint Eastern Governments for the south east people to feel the true sense of belonging to a democratic county! for so long the money bags and top goverment personel that represents the south east have minded only their selfish, sinster interest and turn blind eye to the needs of the common igbo man. To eke out his livelyhood from the streets of Lagos and kaduna or kano at his own peril even if he dies so be it. They only need him to vote or sell his vote cheaply for their political ambition to take flight and he is forgoten till another election month or week!

The federal Government may have maginalised the South East but the State governors and influential money bags lack of true cooporation is the main culprit and source that keeps the maginalisatiion active and alife!

and the common Igbo man must sourch his political infromation from independet sources like BBC radio national dailies and not from their money bags who main intrest is to undermind their common interest by selling the fake and conspirency theories only to achive his selfish interest at the expence of the common man needs. In the north even the so called beggers have radio tune to BBC hausa services to get ture info. and which of there leader is straight and in tune with their needs and who is not.

Igbo man it time to take political stocks and make your infromed chioce based on your convictions and not to following the word of Ohaneze who truly has not achive any relivance in nigerian politics.

well sorry o Ibo man is qalified to hold this office BUT CAN WE FIND ONE?
they have never played politics by the rules (which is CHANGE AND FLOW WITH THE WAVES TO STAY AFLOAT)
DONT JUMP INTO NEW WATERS WITH BOTH LEGS (TEST THE WATER) OR CARRY ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE pARTY SORRY BOX SORRY BASKET
and you can't reap where you never even watered(assuming some seed on ground failed by force of nature)

Please read till the end and DROP comments



By Jesef OmorotSionmwan
WANTED URGENTLY: President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria – the nation’s Number Three Citizen. QUALIFICATION: Minimum, Primary Six Certificate; Applicant must be of the Ndigbo extraction – from the South-East Geopolitical zone; and must have won election to the Senate on the platform of the APC.

EXPERIENCE: Any warm body can apply – No formal experience required. Ability to handle the gavel and shout at the top of the voice in a rowdy session is an added advantage.

How liberal could any employer be – courtesy, the Federal Character requirement as enshrined in Section 14(3) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999?

The advert above, directed to the entire South-East, as simple as it seems, we were unable to find a suitably qualified candidate for the position. Going by the original three-regional arrangement for the country, President-elect has emerged from the Hausa stock of the North; his running mate has emerged from the Yoruba stock of the old West; but with no Senator-elect on the platform of the APC, from the eastern zone, it became obvious that the Senate President has eluded Ndigbo of the old Eastern region, now predominantly the South-East geo-political zone.

It must be painful that the Ndigbo leaders saw change and did not embrace it. The inalienable truth is that the leaders could not calculate that the formation of the APC meant that the majority had shifted to the new party. By ignoring the wind of change, Ndigbo shot themselves on the foot.

Some saw it coming. For instance, people like Chiefs Ralph Obioha, Enechi Onyia, Onwuka Ukwa, Dozie Ikedife, etc, have been in the vanguard, agitating most relentlessly, that the Igbo nation cannot, and should not, jeopardise its destiny and viability on the flimsy excuse of “We are PDP and we must continue to vote PDP”. In essence, they have always pointed out the clear and ever present danger in swimming or sinking with any political party.

They have consistently maintained that the Igbo nation cannot gamble with positioning themselves in the Nigeria political equation. Ordinarily, the Igbo man is hardworking and deeply determined to excel in any personal or professional calling. But essentially, politics is not in his blood and he may not necessarily test positive for politics, hence he can be easily misled by the political class.

It is not every time those political leaders recognize when desirable change is coming their way. Just see how they dispatched all their first eleven to the abyss! Is it not highly inconceivable that Senator Chris Ngige lost abysmally in Anambra State? Some time, some day, the location where the manufactured results was concocted will be known. Meanwhile, Ndigbo remain the worse for it.

Times are changing and it is only those who are prepared to change along that will not be shut out in the system.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/when-ndigbo-shot-themselves-on-the-foot/

final part


Despite presiding over the biggest oil boom in our history, it has not added one percentage point to the growth rate of GDP compared to the Obasanjo regime especially the 2003- 07 period. Obasanjo met GDP growth rate at 2% but averaged 7% within 2003- 07. The current government has been stuck at 6% despite an unprecedented oil boom. Income (GDP) growth has actually performed worse, and poverty escalated. This is the only government in our history where rapidly increasing government expenditure was associated with increasing poverty. The director general of NBS stated in his written press conference address in 2011 that about 112 million Nigerians were living in poverty. Is this the record to defend? Obama had a tough time in his re-election in 2012 because unemployment reached 8%. Here, unemployment is at a record 24% and poverty at an all-time 71% but people are prancing around, gloating about ‘performance’. As I write, the Naira exchange rate to the dollar is $210 at the parallel market. What a historic performance! Please save your breathe and save us the embarrassment. The President promised Nigeria nothing in the last election and we did not get value for money. He should this time around present us with his plan for the future, and focus on how he would redeem himself in the second term—if he wins!
Sadly the government’s economic team is very weak, dominated by self-interested and self-conflicted group of traders and businessmen, and so-called economic team meetings have been nothing but showbiz time. The very people government exists to regulate have seized the levers of government as policymakers and most government institutions have largely been “privatized” to them. Mention any major government department or agency and someone will tell you whom it has been ‘allocated’ to, and the person subsequently nominates his minion to occupy the seat. What do you then expect? The economy seems to be on auto pilot, with confusion as to who is in charge, and government largely as a constraint. There are no big ideas, and it is difficult to see where economic policy is headed to. My thesis is that the Nigerian economy, if properly managed, should have been growing at an annual rate of about 12% given the oil boom, and poverty and unemployment should have fallen dramatically over the last five years. This is topic for another day.
So far, the Government’s response to the self-inflicted crisis is, at best, laughable. They blame external shocks as if we did not expect them and say nothing about the terrible policy choices they made. The National Assembly had described the 2015 budget as unrealistic. The fiscal adjustments proposed in the 2015 budget simply play to the gallery and just to pander to our emotions. For a $540 billion economy, the so-called luxury tax amounts to zero per cent of GDP. If the current trend continues, private businesses will come under a heavy crunch soon. Having put economics on its head during the boom time, the Government now proposes to increase taxes during a prospective downturn and impose austerity measures. Unbelievable!
Fortuitously, just as he succeeded Shagari when Nigeria faced similar situations, Buhari is once more seeking to lead Nigeria. But times have changed, and Nigeria is largely different. First, this is a democracy and dealing with corruption must happen within the ambit of the rule of law and due process. Getting things done in a democracy requires complicated bargaining, especially where the legislature, labour, the media, and civil society have become strong and entrenched. Second, the size, structure and institutions of the economy have fundamentally altered. The market economy, especially the capital market and foreign exchange market, impose binding constraints and discipline on any regime. Third, dealing with most of the other issues— insecurity, unemployment/poverty, infrastructure, health, education, etc, require increased, smarter, and more efficient spending. Increased spending when the economy is on the reverse gear?
If oil prices remain between 40- 60 dollars over the next two years, the current policy regime guarantees that foreign reserves will continue the precipitous depletion with the attendant exchange rate depreciation, as well as a probable unsustainable escalation in debt accumulation, fiscal retrenchment or taxing the private sector with vengeance. The scenario does not look pretty. The poor choices made by the current government have mortgaged the future, and the next government would have little room to manoeuvre and would inevitably undertake drastic but painful structural adjustments. Nigerians loathe the term ‘structural adjustment’. With falling real wages and depreciating currency, I can see any belated attempt by the government to deal with the bloated public sector pitching it against a feisty labour. I worry about regime stability in the coming months, and I do not envy the next team.
The seeming crisis is not destiny; it is self-imposed. However, we must see it as an opportunity to be seized to fundamentally restructure Nigeria’s political economy, including its fiscal federalism and mineral rights. The current system guarantees cycles of consumption loop and I cannot see sustainable long term prosperity without major systemic overhaul. The proposals at the national conference merely tinker at the margins. In totality, the outcome of the national conference is to do more of the same, with minor amendments on the system of sharing and consumption rather than a fundamental overhaul of the system for productivity and prosperity. President Jonathan promises to implement the report of the national conference if he wins. I commend him for at least offering ‘something’, albeit, marginal in my view. I have not heard anything from the APC or Buhari regarding the national conference report or what kind of federalism they envisage for Nigeria.
In Nigeria’s recent history, two examples under the military and civilian governments demonstrate that where the political will exists, Nigeria has the capacity to overcome severe challenges. The first was under President Babangida. Not many Nigerians appreciate that given the near bankrupt state of Nigeria’s finances and requirements for debt resolution under the Paris Club, the country had little choice but to undertake the painful structural adjustment programme (SAP). I want to state for the record that the foundation for the current market economy we operate in Nigeria was laid by that regime (liberalization of markets including market determined exchange rate, private sector-led economy including licensing of private banks and insurance, de-regulation, privatization of public enterprises under TCPC, etc). Just abolishing the import licensing regime was a fundamental policy revolution. Despite the criticisms, these policy thrusts have remained the pillars of our deepening market economy, and the economy recovered from almost negative growth rate to average 5.5% during the regime and poverty incidence at 42% in 1992.
Under our democratic experience, President Obasanjo inherited a bankrupt economy (with the lost decade of the 1990’s GDP growth rate of 2.2% and hence zero per capita income growth for the decade). His regime consolidated and deepened the market economy structures (consolidation of the banking system which is powering the emergence of a new but truly private sector-led economy and simultaneously led to a new awareness and boom in the capital market; telecommunications revolution; new pension regime; debt relief which won for Nigeria policy independence from the World Bank and Paris Club; deepening of de-regulation and privatization including the unbundling of NEPA under PHCN for privatization; agricultural revolution that saw yearly growth rate of over 6% and remains unsurpassed ever since; sound monetary and fiscal policy and growing foreign reserves that gave confidence to investors; establishment of the Africa Finance Corporation which is leading infrastructure finance in Africa; backward integration policy that saw the establishment and growth of Dangote cement and others; established ICPC and EFCC to fight corruption, etc). The economy roared to average yearly growth of 7% between 2003 and 2007 (although average monthly oil price under his regime was $38), and poverty dropped from estimated 70% in1999 to 54% in 2004. Obasanjo was his own coordinating minister of the economy and chairman of the economic management team— which he chaired for 90 minutes every week. I met with him daily. In other words, he did not outsource economic management.
We expected that the next government after Obasanjo would take the economy to the next level. So far, we have had two great slogans: the 7-point agenda and currently, the transformation agenda. They remain empty slogans without content or direction.
Let me suggest that the fundamental challenge for the next government on the economy can be framed around the goal of creating twelve million jobs over the next four years to have a dent on unemployment and poverty. The challenge is to craft a development agenda to deliver this within the context of broken public finance, and an economy in which painful structural adjustments will be inevitable if current trends in oil prices continue. Most other programmes on corruption, security, power, infrastructure, etc, are expected to be instruments to achieve this objective.
So far, neither the APC nor the PDP has a credible programme for employment and poverty reduction. The APC promises to create 20,000 jobs per state in the first year, totalling a mere 720,000 jobs. This sounds like a quota system and for a country where the new entrants into the labour market per annum exceed two million. If it was intended as a joke, APC must please get serious. On the other hand, President Jonathan targets two million jobs per annum but his strategy for doing so is a Job Board— another committee of sort. Sorry, Mr. President, a Job Board is not a strategy. The principal job Nigerians hired you to do for them is to create jobs for them too. You cannot outsource that job, Sir. Creating 3 million jobs per annum under the unfolding crisis would task our creativity and audacity to the limits.
I heard one politician argue that once we fix power, private sector would create jobs. Not necessarily! Well, this government claims to have added 1,700MW to the national grid and yet unemployment soars. Ask Greece, Spain, etc with power and infrastructure and yet with high unemployment. Structural dislocations play a key role. For example, currently in Nigeria, it is estimated that more than 60% of graduates of our educational system are unemployable. You can understand why many of us are amused when the government celebrates that it has established twelve more glorified secondary schools as universities. I thought they would have told us how many Nigerian universities made it in the league of the best 200 universities in the world. That would have been an achievement. Surely, creating millions of jobs in this economy would, among other things, require ‘new money’ and extraordinary system of coordination among the three tiers of government plus the private sector. Unfortunately, from what I read, the CBN is largely likely to be asleep at this time the country needs the most revolutionary finance. This is a topic for another day. Only the President can lead this effort. Moreover, we are waiting for the two parties/candidates to spell out HOW they will create jobs, whether it is the 20,000 jobs per state by APC or 2 million per annum by President Jonathan. Let us know how you arrived at the figures. Whichever of the two that is declared winner will have his job cut out for him, and I expect him to declare a national emergency on job creation.
Surprisingly, none of the parties/candidates has any grand vision about African economic integration, led by Nigeria. There is no programme on how to make the naira the de facto currency of ECOWAS or the international financial centre that can attract more than $100 billion per annum. Where is the strategy for orchestrating the revolutionary finance to power the economy during this downturn? For President Jonathan, I find it shocking that the most important initiative of his government to secure the future of the economy by Nigeria refusing to sign the ruinous Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union is not even being mentioned. President Obasanjo saved Nigeria from the potential ruin of an ECOWAS single currency while to his credit Jonathan safeguarded our industrial sector/economy by refusing to sign the EPA. Or does the government not understand the import of that? It will be interesting to know the APC’s strategy for exploiting strategic alliances within Africa, China, and the world for Nigeria’s prosperity.
If Buhari wins, he will ride on the populist wind for “change”. Most people I have spoken to who have decided to vote for Buhari do not necessarily know the specifics of what he would offer or how Nigeria would be different under him. I asked my driver, Usman, whom he would vote for President. He responded: “If they no rig the election, na Buhari everybody go vote for”. I asked him why, and his next response sums it: “The man dey honest. In short, people just want to see another face for that villa”. But if he wins, the honeymoon will be brief and the pressure will be immense to magically deliver a ‘new Nigeria’ with no corruption, no boko haram or insecurity, jobs for everyone, no poverty, infrastructure and power in abundance, etc. As a first point, Buhari and his team must realize that they do not yet have a coherent, credible agenda that is consistent with the fundamentals of the economy currently. The APC manifesto contains some good principles and wish-lists, but as a blue print for Nigeria’s security and prosperity, it is largely hollow. The numbers do not add up. Thus, his first job is to present a credible development agenda to Nigerians.
The second key challenge for Buhari and his team will be to transit and transform from a group of what I largely refer to as aggrieved people’s congregation to build a true political party with a soul from the patchwork of political associations. It is surely easier to oppose than to govern. This should not worry us much. After all, even the PDP which has been in power for 16 years is still an assembly of people held together by what I refer to as dining table politics. I am not sure how many members can tell you what their party stands for or its mission and vision for Nigeria. The third but more difficult agenda is cobbling together a truly ‘progressive team’ that will begin to pick the pieces. The lesson of history is that the best leaders have been the ones who went beyond their narrow provincial enclaves to recruit talents and mobilize capacities for national transformation. In Nigeria’s history, the two presidents who made the most fundamental transformation of the economy, Babangida and Obasanjo, were exceptional in the quality of the teams they put together. I therefore pray that Buhari will be magnanimous in victory – if he wins—to put together a ‘team Nigeria’ for the rescue mission.
If Jonathan wins, then God must have been magnanimous to give him a second chance to redeem himself. Most people I know who support Jonathan do so either out of self-interest or fear of the unknown. As a friend summed it: the devil you know is better than the angel you do not know. One person assured me that we would see a ‘different Jonathan’ if he wins as he has been rattled by the harsh judgment of history on his presidency so far. I just pray that he is right. In that case, I would just draw the President’s attention to two issues:
First, beside the coterie of clowns who literally make a living with the sing-song of transformation agenda, President Jonathan must know that it remains an empty slogan. His greatest challenge is how to save himself from the stranglehold of his largely provincial palace jesters who tell him he has done better than God, and seek out ‘enemies’ and friends who can help him write his name in history. Propaganda won’t do it.
Second, Jonathan must claw back his powers as President of Nigeria. He largely outsourced them, and must now roll his sleeves for a new beginning. I take liberty to tell you this brutal truth: if you are not re-elected, there is little to remember your regime after the next few years. On 7th January 2004, I made a special presentation to an expanded economic management team to set agenda for the new year (as chief economic adviser). The focus of my presentation was for us to identify seven iroko trees that would be the flagship markers for the administration as well as how to finance them. I use the same framework to evaluate your administration. What I say to you, Mr. President, is that your record of performance so far is like a farmland filled with grasses. Yes, they are many but there is no tree, let alone any iroko tree, that stands out. Think about this. The beginning of wisdom for every President in his second term is to admit that he is racing against time to cement his legacy. So far, your report card is not looking great. You need a team of big and bold thinkers, as well as with excellent execution capacity. So far, it is not working!

Under the executive presidential system, Nigerians elected you to manage their economy. You cannot outsource that job. Our constitution envisages a federal coordination of the economy, and that function is performed by the National Economic Council (NEC) with Vice-President as chairman. Indeed, the constitution and other laws of Nigeria envisage the office of the VP as the coordinator on the economy. All major economic institutions of the federal government are, by law, chaired by the Vice-President including the national planning (see functions of the national planning commission as coordinator of federal government economic and development programmes), debt management office, National Council on Privatization, etc. As chairman of National Planning (with Ministers of Finance, Agriculture, CBN governor, etc as members), the VP oversees the federal planning and coordination. Then the Constitution mandates the VP as representative of the federal government to chair the NEC, with only CBN governor and state governors as members—to coordinate national economy between federal and states. No minister is a member of NEC. Many people do not understand the logic of the design of our constitution and the role of the VP. Of course, the buck stops on the desk of Mr. President. Only the President and VP have our mandate to govern us. Every other person is an adviser/assistant. I bet that you will only appreciate this article AFTER you leave office. Now that you are in power, truth will only hurt! Be assured that those of us who are prepared to die for Nigeria will never spare you or anyone else this bitter truth.
Nigeria must survive and prosper beyond Buhari or Jonathan!

Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR, was former CBN Governor

continuation


Third, the rate of public debt accumulation at a time of unprecedented boom had no parallel in the world. While the Obasanjo administration bought and enlarged the policy space for Nigeria, the current government has sold and constricted it. What debt relief did for Nigeria was to liberate Nigerian policymakers from the intrusive conditionalities of the creditors and thereby truly allowing Nigeria independence in its public policy. How have we used the independence? Through our own choices, we have yet again tied the hands of future policymakers. This time, the debt is not necessarily to foreign creditor institutions/governments which are organized under the Paris club but largely to private agents which is even more volatile. We call it domestic debt. But if one carefully unpacks the bond portfolio, what percentage of it is held by foreign private agents? And I understand the Government had removed the speed bumps we kept to slow the speed of capital flight, and someone is sweating to explain the gyrations in foreign reserves. I am just smiling!

In sum, the mismanagement of our economy has brought us once more to the brink. Government officials rely on the artificial construct of debt to GDP ratio to tell us we can borrow as much as we want. That is nonsense, especially for an economy with a mono but highly volatile source of revenue and forex earnings. The chicken will soon come home to roost. Today, the combined domestic and external debt of the Federal Government is in excess of $40 billion. Add to this the fact that abandoned capital projects littered all over the country amount to over $50 billion. No word yet on other huge contingent liabilities. If oil prices continue to fall, I bet that Nigeria will soon have a heavy debt burden even with low debt to GDP ratio. Furthermore, given the current and capital account regime, it is evident that Nigeria does not have enough foreign reserves to adequately cover for imports plus short term liabilities. In essence, we are approaching the classic of what the Shagari government faced, and no wonder the hasty introduction of ‘austerity measures’ again.

Fourth, poverty incidence and unemployment are also simultaneously at all-time high levels. According to the NBS, poverty incidence grew to 69% in 2010 and projected to be 71% in 2011, with unemployment at 24%. This is the worst record in Nigeria’s history, and the paradox is that this happened during the unprecedented oil boom.
One theme I picked up listening to the campaign rallies as well as to some of the propagandists is the confusion about measuring government “performance”. Most people seem to confuse ‘inputs’, or ‘processes’ with output. Earlier this month, I had a dinner with a group of friends (14 of us) and we were chit-chatting about Nigeria. One of us, an associate of President Jonathan veered off to repeat a propaganda mantra that Jonathan had outperformed his predecessors. He also reminded us that Jonathan re-based the GDP and that Nigeria is now the biggest economy in Africa; etc. It was fun listening to the response by others. In sum, the group agreed that the President had ‘outperformed’ his predecessors except that it is in reverse order. First, my friend was educated that re-basing the GDP is no achievement: it is a routine statistical exercise, and depending on the base year that you choose, you get a different GDP figure. Re-basing the GDP has nothing to do with government policy. Besides, as naira-dollar exchange rate continues to depreciate, the GDP in current dollars will also shrink considerably soon.
We were reminded of Jonathan’s agricultural ‘revolution’. But someone cut in and noted that for all the propaganda, the growth rate of the agricultural sector in the last five years still remains far below the performance under Obasanjo. One of us reminded him that no other president had presided over the slaughter of about 15,000 people by insurgents in a peacetime; no other president earned up to 50% of the amount of resources the current government earned from oil and yet with very little outcomes; no other president had the rate of borrowing; none had significant forex earnings and yet did not add one penny to foreign reserves but losing international reserves at a time of boom; no other president had a depreciating exchange rate at a time of export boom; at no time in Nigeria’s history has poverty reached 71% (even under Abacha, it was 67 -70%); and under no other president did unemployment reach 24%. Surely, these are unprecedented records and he surely ‘outperformed’ his predecessors! What a satire!

One of those present took the satire to some level by comparing Jonathan to the ‘performance’ of the former Governor of Anambra, Peter Obi. He noted that while Obi gloated about ‘savings’, there is no signature project to remember his regime except that his regime took the first position among all states in Nigeria in the democratization of poverty—- mass impoverishment of the people of Anambra. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, poverty rose under his watch in Anambra from 20% in 2004 (lowest in Nigeria then) to 68% in 2010 (a 238% deterioration!). Our friend likened it to a father who had no idea of what to do with his resources and was celebrating his fat bank account while his children were dying of kwashiorkor. He pointed out that since it is the likes of Peter Obi who are the advisers to Jonathan on how to manage the economy (thereby confusing micromanagement which you do as a trader with macro governance) it is little wonder that poverty is fast becoming another name for Nigeria. It was a very hilarious evening.

My advice to President Jonathan and his handlers is to stop wasting their time trying to campaign on his job record. Those who have decided to vote for him will not do so because he has taken Nigeria to the moon. His record on the economy is a clear ‘F’ grade. As one reviews the laundry list of micro interventions the government calls its achievements, one wonders whether such list is all that the government could deliver with an unprecedented oil boom and an unprecedented public debt accumulation. I can clearly see why reasonable people are worried. Everywhere else in the world, government performance on the economy is measured by some outcome variables such as: income (GDP growth rate), stability of prices (inflation and exchange rate), unemployment rate, poverty rate, etc. On all these scores, this government has performed worse than its immediate predecessor— Obasanjo regime. If we appropriately adjust for oil income and debt, then this government is the worst in our history on the economy. All statistics are from the National Bureau of Statistics.

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Buhari vs Jonathan: Beyond the Election, by Charles Soludo

on January 25, 2015 / in Elections 2015, Viewpoint 9:41 am / Comments


I need to preface this article with a few clarifications. I have taken a long sabbatical leave from partisan politics, and it is real fun watching the drama from the balcony. Having had my own share of public service (I do not need a job from government), I now devote my time and energy in pursuit of other passions, especially abroad. A few days ago, I read an article in Thisday entitled “Where is Charles Soludo?”, and my answer is that I am still there, only that I have been too busy with extensive international travels to participate in or comment on our national politics and economy. But I occasionally follow events at home. Since the survival and prosperity of Nigeria are at stake, the least some of us (albeit, non-partisan) must do is to engage in public debate. As the elections approach, I owe a duty to share some of my concerns.
In September 2010, I wrote a piece entitled “2011 Elections: Let the Real Debate Begin” and published by Thisday. I understand the Federal Executive Council discussed it, and the Minister of Information rained personal attacks on me during the press briefing. I noted more than six newspaper editorials in support of the issues we raised. Beside other issues we raised, our main thesis was that the macro economy was dangerously adrift, with little self-insurance mechanisms (and a prediction that if oil prices fell below $40, many state governments would not be able to pay salaries). I gave a subtle hint at easy money and exchange rate depreciations because I did not want to panic the market with a strong statement. Sadly, on the eve of the next elections, literally everything we hinted at has happened. Part of my motivation for this article is that five years after, the real debate is still not happening.

The presidential election next month will be won by either Buhari or Jonathan. For either, it is likely to be a pyrrhic victory. None of them will be able to deliver on the fantastic promises being made on the economy, and if oil prices remain below $60, I see very difficult months ahead, with possible heady collisions with labour, civil society, and indeed the citizenry. To be sure, the presidential election will not be decided by the quality of ‘issues’ or promises canvassed by the candidates. The debates won’t also change much (except if there is a major gaffe by either candidate like Tofa did in the debate with Abiola). My take is that more than 95% of the likely voters have pretty much made up their minds based largely on other considerations. A few of us remain undecided. During my brief visit to Nigeria, I watched some of the campaign rallies on television. The tragedy of the current electioneering campaigns is that both parties are missing the golden opportunity to sensitize the citizenry about the enormous challenges ahead and hence mobilize them for the inevitable sacrifices they would be called upon to make soon. Each is promising an El-Dorado.

Let me admit that the two main parties talk around the major development challenges—corruption, insecurity, economy (unemployment/poverty, power, infrastructure, etc) health, education, etc. However, it is my considered view that none of them has any credible agenda to deal with the issues, especially within the context of the evolving global economy and Nigeria’s broken public finance. The UK Conservative Party’s manifesto for the last election proudly announced that all its programmes were fully costed and were therefore implementable. Neither APC nor PDP can make a similar claim. A plan without the dollar or Naira signs to it is nothing but a wish-list. They are not telling us how much each of their promises will cost and where they will get the money. None talks about the broken or near bankrupt public finance and the strategy to fix it.

In response to the question of where the money will come from, I heard one of the politicians say that the problem of Nigeria was not money but the management of resources. This is half-truth. The problem is both. No matter how efficient a father (with a monthly salary of N50,000) is at managing the family resources, I cannot see how he could deliver on a promise to buy a brand new Peugeot 406 for each of his three children in a year. Even with all the loopholes and waste closed, with increased efficiency per dollar spent, there is still a binding budget constraint. To deliver an efficient national transport infrastructure alone will still cost tens of billions of dollars per annum even by corruption-free, cost-effective means. Did I hear that APC promises a welfare system that will pay between N5,000 and N10,000 per month to the poorest 25 million Nigerians? Just this programme alone will cost between N1.5 and N3 trillion per annum. Add to this the cost of free primary education plus free meal (to be funded by the federal budget or would it force non-APC state governments to implement the same?), plus some millions of public housing, etc.

I have tried to cost some of the promises by both the APC and the PDP, given alternative scenarios for public finance and the numbers don’t add up. Nigerians would be glad to know how both parties would fund their programmes. Do they intend to accentuate the huge public debt, or raise taxes on the soon to-be-beleaguered private businesses, or massively devalue the naira to rake in baskets of naira from the dwindling oil revenue, or embark on huge fiscal retrenchment with the sack of labour and abandonment of projects, and which areas of waste do they intend to close and how much do they estimate to rake in from them, etc? I remember that Chief Obafemi Awolowo was asked similar questions in 1978 and 1979 about his promises of free education and free medical services. Even as a teenager, I was impressed by how he reeled out figures about the amounts he would save from various ‘waste’ including the tea/coffee served in government offices. The point is that at least he did his homework and had his numbers and I give credit to his team. Some 36 years later, the quality of political debate and discourse seems to border on the pedestrian. From the quality of its team, I did not expect much from the current government, but I must confess that I expected APC as a party aspiring to take over from PDP to come up with a knock-out punch. Evidently, from what we have read from the various versions of its manifesto as well as the depth of promises being made, it does not seem that it has a better offer.

Let me digress a bit to refresh our memory on where we are, and thus provide the context in which to evaluate the promises being made to us. Recall that the key word of the 2015 budget is ‘austerity’. Austerity? This is just within a few months of the fall in oil prices. History repeats itself in a very cruel way, as this was exactly what happened under the Shehu Shagari administration. Under the Shagari government, oil price reached its highest in 1980/81. During the same period, Nigeria ratcheted up its consumption and all tiers of government were in competition as to which would out-borrow the other. Huge public debt was the consequence. When oil prices crashed in early 1982, the National Assembly then passed the Economic Stabilization (Austerity Measures) Act in one day— going through the first, second, and third readings the same day. The austerity measures included the rationing of ‘essential commodities’ and most states owed salary arrears. Corruption was said to be pervasive, and as Sani Abacha said in that famous coup speech, ‘unemployment has reached unacceptable proportions and our hospitals have become mere consulting clinics’. General Muhammadu Buhari/Tunde Idiagbon regime made the fight against corruption and restoration of discipline the cardinal point of their administration which lasted for 20 months. I am not sure they had a credible plan to get the economy out of the doldrums (although it must be admitted that poverty incidence in Nigeria as of 1985 when they left office was a just46%— according to the Federal Office of Statistics).

We have come full circle. If the experience under Shagari could be excused as an unexpected shock, what Nigeria is going through now is a consequence of our deliberate wrong choices. We have always known that the unprecedented oil boom (in both price and quantity—despite oil theft) of the last six years is temporary but the government chose to treat it as a permanent shock. The parallels with the Shagari regime are troubling. First, at the time of oil boom, Nigeria again went on a consumption spree such that the budgets of the last five years can best be described as ‘consumption budgets’, with new borrowing by the federal government exceeding the actual expenditure on critical infrastructure. Second, not one penny was added to the stock of foreign reserves at a period Nigeria earned hundreds of billions from oil. For comparisons, President Obasanjo met about $5 billion in foreign reserves, and the average monthly oil price for the 72 months he was in office was $38, and yet he left $43 billion in foreign reserves after paying $12 billion to write-off Nigeria’s external debt. In the last five years, the average monthly oil price has been over $100, and the quantity also higher but our foreign reserves have been declining and exchange rate depreciating.

I note that when I assumed office as Governor of CBN, the stock of foreign reserves was $10 billion. The average monthly oil price during my 60 months in office was $59, but foreign reserve reached the all-time peak of $62 billion (and despite paying $12 billion for external debt, and losing over $15 billion during the unprecedented global financial and economic crisis) I left behind $45 billion. Recall also that our exchange rate continuously appreciated during this period and was at N117 to the dollar before the global crisis and we deliberately allowed it to depreciate in order to preserve our reserves. My calculation is that if the economy was better managed, our foreign reserves should have been between $102 –$118 billion and exchange rate around N112 before the fall in oil prices. As of now, the reserves should be around $90 billion and exchange rate no higher than N125 per dollar.

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