₦airaland Forum

GoodGovernance:
Is anticipatory approval constitutional?

Lawyers please enlighten us.

Otherwise,impeachement loading........

They're using plenty grammar and writing long epistle in the hope of confusing us! Ordinarily, this would be a impeachable offence, but this is Nigeria we're talking about here so i'm not holding my breath!

Can someone remind me what Senator Oduah did when she was Aviation minister that the very same peeps supporting this failed gov't forced GEJs hand to sack her? Can someone remind me what these hateful APC retards accuse GEJ of doing with the ECA?

AntiWailer:
Kanu is Ghana.


That is why we advised u guys to se common sense.


If he had successfuly started another war, this is how he will run away.

You dont have passport but you are joining some one with britiah passport to sing war song.

You're a compound fool! Bands of bloodthirsty marauders are having free reign all over the north and parts of the south as we speak....leaving a trail of heartbreak, tears, destruction and death in their wake, yet this is not enough to 'successfully start another war'! But a person questions the very basis on which this fake union you call Nigeria exists and you scream for his head on a platter!

Talk about getting ones priorities back-to-front!

Goahead:
But seriously, how could forget to take pictures of this place?
https://www.ebonyistate.gov.ng/Admin/file_upload/images/gallery_pics/201709060955254375junctionabt.jpg

Abakaliki looks like obodo oyibo!

deomelllo:
1. The incompetent woman warned us about recession back in 2012. Why? Was this under PMG or Jona?

2. The same incompetent and Jona introduced austerity back in 2014 when oil was selling for $78. Why? Was this under PMG or Jona?

3. The same incompetent woman and Jona borrowed money from 2012 till Jona's last month in office/May 2015.

She was practically borrowing hundreds of billions to pay workers salary.

4. The same incompetent woman was the economic coordinator, but she was so dumb, clueless and colluding with looters that she left a battered and unversified economy.

5. The so-called finance minister couldn't even account for every kobo of public funds. The whole economy was leaking funds from NNPC and other money-generating agencies looting funds and refusing to remit funds into federal accounts.

6. Madueke opened dozens of illegal accounts and looted billions of dollars under her nose, but the incompetent woman looked the other way.

7. The same incompetent and clueless woman and Jona stole $2 billion and gave it to DASUKI ATM to share with their crooked and corrupt PDP cronies.

So, the useless woman managed our economy so good that she was prescribing recession, introducing austerity, borrowing hundreds of billions till her last day in office to pay workers salary.

She was so good that she left us with a battered and undiversified economy, depleted ECA and foreign reserves.

You people are just too ignorant and clueless, you think we arrived at this stage by accident.

This woman introduced austerity measure and asked you to get ready to suffer when oil was selling for $78, but you want to like like a king when oil is selling for $27.

You ippbs are just too mentally clueless and lazy

As per your first attached link in which Okonjo-Iweala warned of a possible global recession; you conveniently overlooked the time the warning was given (2012), and the reason for giving it (a slide in the price of crude oil as well as the dire economic situation in Spain and Greece as possible triggers for another round of global recession). M'oron, the recession she warned about was a global recession, which she said may affect Nigeria. She never blamed the immediate past gov't like your god is doing.

Besides, the warning was given in 2012 and by the time they handed over to the incompetent, certificateless, waste-of-space that is Buhari, Nigeria had weathered the forewarned storm due to the steady and competent hands managing the economy at the time. By 2015 (a whole three years after), there was still no recession in the country. So you have inadvertently shown that the capable Okonjo-Iweala and her team should actually be commended for weathering the storm and seeing Nigeria through it.

As per the other link you attached in which the GEJ gov't was said to have borrowed in 2015 to pay salaries and fund the 2015 budget; yet again you're acting true to type by spinning each and every story to suit your hateful agenda.

Due to the fall in oyel prices, the budgeted benchmark was not met. What did this mean? It meant that for the 2015 budget to be executed with some level of success, funds had to be found to pay salaries and pay contractors so work wouldn't stop on contracts awarded. This is totally different from the assertion of the guy i responded to earlier on in the thread in which he boldly asserted that GEJ and Okonjo-Iweala borrowed billions of dollars to pay salaries. You see how a mischievous fella can lie, be economical with the truth and spin a story just to suit his agenda?

You claim the GEJ gov't borrowed hundreds of billions of naira from 2012 to 2015 to pay salaries, yet you only provided a link for the borrowing done in 2015...borrowing which i have given a satisfactory reason for. You see what i mean when i say you're devious and possibly suffering from a strong aversion to the truth? Give me links showing where billions of naira were borrowed to pay salaries in 2012 and 2013....i'm waiting!

You asserted Okonjo-Iweala left us an undiversified economy? It's like you never heard of the achievements recorded in agriculture (particularly rice cultivation) under Adesina. She left an undiversified economy, yet for the first time entertainment (nollywood and music), I-technology, E-commerce and agriculture sectors of the economy were so robust as to bump up the nations rebased GDP calculations to be able to surpass that of South Africa. Remember there was a time when Nigeria was mentioned in the same breath as the BRICs nations of Brazil, Russia, India and China?.....Well we can kiss that ambition goodbye thanks to your god Buhari and his deplorable team of incompetents!

You talk of billions of dollars being stolen by Allison-Madueke and Dasuki. When will you pathetic beings recover this purported billions you claim was stolen so we can hear word? This is three years now since Buhari has been in power; how much has actually been recovered from Dasuki and Allison-Madueke? Recovering the billions of dollars should be a doddle since you have proof! James Ibori and Alamesiegha were convicted in London for having sticky fingers, since you lot have proof that Allison-Madueke stole 'billions of dollars', how come she's still walking about free in the UK? Why haven't the purported billions been recovered?

You can pull that 'Dasuki and Allison-Madueke stole billions of dollars' stunt on anyone else but me mate! I ain't buying your bullshit!

kalu61:
some people will wake up and post thrash. I base in Umuahia and these picture are not related to umuwaya road

Good! Since you're in Umuahia could you go to the exact spot and take pics, so we know the op is lying like you accuse him of.

obailala:
That guy wasnt wrong; just about all the great achievements NOI made under OBJ were reversed under GEJ, and that was because GEJ as the boss couldnt hold things together.

Is it in terms of national debt?.. is in terms of the ECA or the foreign reserves?... NOI cleared all the nation's debts under OBJ and was able to accru national savings up to $60bn. But in a period when Nigeria enjoyed the largest unprecedented oil boom, national debts grew steadily to higher levels than it was before being cleared and no defined projects can be pointed out which those debts were used for. Similarly for foreign reserves and ECA, under OBJ NOI supervised these accounts growing from about $5bn to over $60bn. But under GEJ, the same NOI saw that same $60bn vaporize down to $30bn at a time when Nigeria earned its largest income.

Talking of economic indices all looking good under GEJ, that was just a function of high oil prices, high oil income and indiscriminate spending. When excess money is in the system and it's being spent indiscriminately, it tends to show positively on the economic indices like GDP growth rates et al. The real report card on whether the money was well 'spent or not usually shows up when the excess money supply dries up; and that takes us to late 2014/early 2015 when contractors started being owed, billions of dollars were being borrowed to pay salaries, next to nothing was being budgeted for capital expenditure in 2015 etc.

Some might pop up the "biggest economy in Africa" story, but that certaintly isnt an achievement which could have happened under a year of GEJ's rule; it is something which was built up over several years prior to 2010. In a nutshell, like I said before, all the great achievements of NOI happened when she was under obj, and those achievements were largely reversed when she served under gej.

Of course i know your type, so i'm guessing this back and forth could go on forever without you ever admitting that the country..and by extension, the economy was better run during GEJs time as compared to today. We could argue from now till the cows come home, or we could go to the masses on the streets and ask if they're faring better today when compared to the immediate past admin'; we could ask all the millions that've lost their jobs how far; we could ask those seeking foreign exchange to either import goods or travel abroad; we could ask the mother whose wages are still the same but have fallen in real terms thanks to inflation and the devaluation of the naira, yet who has to go to the same market and buy goods and food for the family that has doubled in price since GEJ left; heck, if we could we could even ask the many that just couldn't go on any longer but decided to commit suicide due to your gods wonderful handling of the economy, or those that have been slaughtered by foreign, Ghadaffi-trained monsters masquerading as Fulani herdsmen (remember your god advised Benue people to try and accommodate these foreigners); we could ask the thousands of businesses that have closed shop since the coming of Buhari; we could ask why the FDIs aren't coming in as they were b/4 during the GEJ regime (probably they don't want to deal with the 'lazy yoot' that abound in Nigeria according to your man). We could ask all these people in the real world how their lives have improved now Buhari is President.

I don't think i ever claimed Nigeria was El-Dorado during GEJs tenure. What i took exception to was someone saying that Okonjo_Iweala ruined the economy...nothing could be further from the truth. It was during her tenure that the idea to save for the rainy day by way of the Sovereign Wealth Fund was first mooted...this was to compliment the excess crude account for which the GEJ gov't was sued in court so the money could be shared....guess who the linchpin was in that endeavour?

If you're still asking what projects GEJs gov't spent money on, then it's clear you're either being deceitful or you're seriously suffering from selective amnesia.

Can you provide a link showing where 'billions of dollars were borrowed' to pay salaries by the GEJ regime. I do remember Okonjo-Iweala saying that the country should brace up for a bit of belt-tightening since the oil prices were falling at a fast rate, but i never heard her saying things would be so dire to the point of Nigeria going into recession. It was Buharis' demarketing the economy and not hitting the ground running when he took over in 2015 (it took him about 7 months to appoint ministers as he said they're noise makers), coupled with the initial Forex policies of his admin....it was all this and more that led to recession. There was capital flight, little or no new FDIs, the nairas value headed south, businesses were failing left, right and centre, and there was the resultant loss of jobs arising from all this. The excuse the Buhari admin gives for the failure of their gov't being due to the fall in oyel prices shows how unimaginative, lazy and ill-prepared they are....they have no business being in gov't if all they do is hope oyel prices are favourable so they can carry out their plans and obligations. What was the price of oyel when OBJ took over in 1999, and why didn't we go into recession then since the price was so low at at the time?

Like i asked earlier, how come that since your 'man of action' Buhari is now President and corruption (which you lot claim was one of the reasons there was no money for governance during GEJs regime) has now been reduced to its barest minimum; that oil prices have on average been above budgeted estimates for at least the past two budgets; and that since the Buhari gov't, having done 3 years already, has recovered all those billions of dollars they claim was looted during the GEJ/PDP (of course they claimed billions were looted, so i'm assuming they'd have had their proof ready to show the court)...how come with all this going for them, we're yet to achieve Uhuru? After all, shouldn't all these 'positives' cancel out the corruption alleged to have taken place during the GEJ years, and still leave the Buhari gov't a few spare billions of dollars more to play with?

Onechancearmy:
I think what is really telling here is that she did not say Saharareporters published defamatory news about her. She only said that they carried "negative" news. There is a difference between false news and negative news.

I have an uncle who is a journalist and he told me that before any controversial publication is made about a person, a responsible journalist will always try to arrange to have an interview with that person to give he or she a chance at responding to the allegations in the story. I feel Madam Iweala should have at least heard out Mr. Sowore and discovered what his intentions were before hanging up on him. He's an investigative journalist and he was only trying to do his job.

If he had wanted an interview with Okojo-Iweala, he could have arranged one with her office couldn't he? Instead he (to all intents and purposes) waylaid her for an interview...and on he private number for that matter! And when she objected to him calling her on a line reserved only for family and friends he was busy claiming right. He's lucky it wasn't someone like me he was dealing with, i'd have given him an earful of abuse and slammed the phone down on his sanctimonious arsse!

Sirjamo:
Well, looking back now, I wish she had taken Mr Duke's advice, she eventually messed up our economy.

Messed up which economy? You must be referring to a Nigeria in a parallel universe!

Nigerias' economy was on an upward trajectory when GEJ and Okonjo-Iweala were in charge. Almost all socio-economic indicators were positive. This kwarruption-kwarruption you numbskulls keep on parroting about just to try and deflect blame for Buhari and APC gross incompetence and running the economy aground....you know Nigeria performed better in the corruption perception index during the time of GEJ? Even regarding security, can you actually say Nigeria is more secure today than when GEJ was President? Wasn't the naira better valued during the GEJ years than it is today with you 'man of integrity' in power? The present job losses nko.....can you compare the present job data to those of the GEJ years?

Come to think of it, since your 'saint' is now in power and corruption has purportedly been reduced to its barest minimum...since the price of oil has been above the budgeted estimates for at least the past two budgets....since the Buhari gov't has recovered all the billions of dollars they say GEJ gov't and PDP stole since 1999...since all this is now the case shouldn't we be experiencing economic boom and happiness?

You guys are so annoying walahi!

kostadinis:
From what I am seeing, deputy governors have little or no input in policy making in Nigeria. Governor Nweze Umahi was the deputy to Martin Elechi who didnt do quite well as governor of Ebonyi state.

How could Elechi have had a smart and strategic thinker as Umahi and didn't tap from his ideas for good eight years? Yes, what Umahi is currently doing in Ebonyi must have been in his thought box all through the Elechi years.

South East is yet to have a tourist destination where individuals and families can relax in a clean, man-made lake/cannal with modern boat ride. South East needs it for God's sake. A facility as this would have made the Coal City a tourist destination but Sullivan Chime missed it. Ebonyi state is doing good. I can't wait to take my good friends on a weekend boat ride in Abakaliki.

You know, this is another angle to the argument i never really thought of. But now i think of it, that new state secretariat built by Elechi could have been done better had a younger, more bold and more visionary person been in charge. The buildings are old fashioned, boring, ugly, and they take up too much space that could have been used for either a state park or business district. They remind me of the old faculty of social sciences buildings at UNN built in the sixties.

If i were Elechi, what i would have done was make a statement of intent by building at least 3 high-rise buildings instead of those multitude of low-rise ones....each at least 15 stories. They would have been designed by a world-class architect, and would help conserve space at the now renamed Centenary City, as well as improve the skyline of Abakaliki.

The issue of NEPA taking light and people being stuck in lifts is a valid argument, but if we can have the Point Block in Port Harcourt, and a multitude of high-rises in Lagos and Abuja, then why should the case of Abakaliki be any different?

CSTR1003:
If I tell you what is on my mind I will get banned.

They ask your president a simple question of how should Nigeria be helped.

Your president then abandon the question and went around to demarket what should be the strongest selling point of the country.
What else is buhari doing in London? Is he marketing our world class power , infrastructure, tourism ,or what?
What else does Nigeria have as its advantage if not the enormous youths that buhari has just rubbished.

Your president is without doubt the worse leader in the world.

Don't mind the guy.

What he mentioned are just symptoms of the problem and not the problem itself. The main problem of Nigeria is and always has been the core muslim north that don't want the status-quo changed because it would mean the end to their leeching and hegemony. Buhari is their current point-man, and he's doing exactly what they want. Him blaming everyone else but himself and his northern brothers is just a convenient way of deflecting the blame on someone else.

All other problems in Nigeria today are as a consequence of this main problem (the Hausa/Fulani hegemony). We can pretend all we like, but this is the painful truth!

hammer6F:
This same useless man that said he will put the white first before other fellow Nigerians that are not from his tribe.

The guy love white shit to pieces. Real one man rubbish is another man food.

The father of hate speech in Nigeria, Buhari still dey learn work for him hand.

Corruption personified!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WSosECbcmM

It's the likes of Zik i blame. He heard stuff like this yet it didn't sound any alarm bells?

eezeribe:
Cry me a river....
Just as Nigeria Lords herself over other African countries as the most populous black nation on earth,blah blah blah etc....
That is also how the North Lords herself over the rest of Nigeria. The truth is bitter but Northern Nigeria controls the structure of Nigeria using all available tools at their disposal including population,politics and government,civil service,military,national assembly,house of Representatives,Nigerian constitution,federal character and quota system that are used to manipulate most entry level criteria be it in admissions,appointments,promotions,etc.
Even the zoning system adopted by political parties will always favour the north more.
As long as politics remains a game of numbers,the situation wouldn't change anytime soon.
That is why they are vehemently opposed to the ideas of restructuring or 'real' ammendment of the Nigerian constitution.
My people in the middle belt,South,East and west;you just have to live with the reality until God knows when... Byeeeeeeeee

Hehehehehe

Quite brutal!

Cooly100:
Imagine we have one regional seat of power. Do you know how much will be saved from the government houses, state assemblies, judiciaries, cars, houses, emoluments, of government officials from the states? This runs into hundreds of billions. This money could have been used for infrastructural development like rail, roads, power, and industries...etc, etc

Unfortunately what you've stated is exactly why regionalism wouldn't be allowed to return; too many greedy and self-centred individuals masquerading as politicians and public servants for regionalism to be revived. It's also mainly because of them that Buhari found it easy to kidnap or kill Mazi Kanu and his parents.

Fact of the matter is that whether by omission or commission, Nigeria has turned out to be very bad for Ndigbo....it has stripped us of most of the values and characteristics that always made us and our region stand out pre-1966. This is exactly what some of our enemies wanted and still want, hence their intense hatred of IPOB!

spyder880:
Project implementation. ......

I think this is the canal Governor Umahi is constructing in or near Abakaliki, fashioned after a similar one in Disneyland, Florida. It will be used for scenic boat rides and to improve the tourism potentials of the state.

Spyder, i think the pics you posted earlier are of the new ecumenical centre in Abakaliki and not Shoprite. The beginning of the attached video shows a similar structure which they said is going to be the ecumenical centre.

Start video from 11.57 to see them talk of the canal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPS-H6CUe9k

Develpeast:
It was a very funny idea when I raised the idea that igbos all over the world and in the different parts of this country need to be levied so as to get the required funds for developing the region because the government do not have enough money to make the project see the limelight. Even if they dare go into these projects, it will be grossly under-funded and it will look like all these secondary school projects. If we really want to make a difference, we need money. I mean plenty money but if we think release 2000 naira only by leviable adults (employed workers and entrepeneurs) to finance projects in the region is making stupid comments, then I have nothing to say about the development of the region.

It is imperative we see these projects as a collective work to make the region more economically viable to enable our businessmen and our talented youths to stay back and improve on our hardwork over time.

Could someone help us crunch the numbers: if all (capable and willing) Igbo adults at home and in diaspora are encouraged to commit to paying in at least 12,000 naira a year for say 10 years, how much do you think could be realised? I personally wouldn't mind committing to 120,000 naira a year for 10 years.

If it's possible, then a platform like say Facebook or twitter (open to members only) could be used to document all contributors so we know how many we are and how much is being raised. The forum will have the states and preferred projects of contributors highlighted. A percentage of contributions could go to the state of origin of the individual contributor, while the rest will be used for pan-Igbo projects like railways, airports, education (scholarships and professorial chair endowments in selected universities) and power plants.

Of course this project would have to be seen to be above board, and would have accomplished and notable Igbo sons and daughters overseeing things.....credible individuals like Emeka Anyaoku, Okonjo-Iweala, Soludo, Bishop Chukwuma Of Enugu, Eze Onyekpere, etc.

Cjrane2:
1. Power plants especially Gas and/or Coal and

2. Regional railway links are what the regional government should find Chinese financiers.

For a Total length of <1,000KM, to link key SE cities to the SS cities, this is a highly bankable venture for any investor.

These are the only projects that will give the region any hope of creating jobs within the region and cheaply moving goods and services from point A to point B.

Every other thing is secondary to these two major things that must happen. A lot has been said about this in numerous threads. I wonder why it has not started.https://www.nairaland.com/3780758/ohanaeze-sets-up-committee-design

CJ', as per the bolded: why they've not started is due to lack of political will on the part of SE Governors; and lack of political will as well as wickedness on the part of the federal gov't. Abuja/APC only talk of returning to Enugu coal when they want to pull wool over our eyes and make it look like industrialisation is moving at breakneck speed in the SE because Buhari loves Igbos. It's the same trick they use on the poor Ogonis' with all the talk of $1 billion oil-spill clean up which is yet to start two years after it was launched.

As per the economic drivers you mentioned in your first paragraph: don't forget to include at least one viable int'l airport in the SE. Access to seaports, access to the ouside world without first having to go through Lagos or Abuja, ease of movement in the region, and adequate/constant power supply to industrial zones in the region...these are the catalysts needed to kick start the regions economic prosperity.

Concerning the talk of linking Alaigbo up with one or two seaports. If Obuakwu can't be a reality for now, we have at least up to four other options to consider, namely Ibom, Calabar, Bayelsa and Port Harcourt. We should think of floating a pan-Igbo investment corporation that will (amongst other briefs it will have) enter into negotiations with at least two of these options, and then extend any railway network built to these ports.

The investment corporation should ensure they are part owners of the ports chosen as its going to be a quid-pro-quo arrangement in which traffic would specifically driven towards these chosen ports.

The finer details can be worked out later, but the idea is that we as a people should not help to create wealth, and others cream off the entire profits as is presently being done in Lagos where the federal and Lagos state gov'ts take all the profits from the ports even though Igbos make up a large percentage of the users.

spyder880:
This thread is dedicated to all our traditional and indigenous entertainers, comedians, musicians, dancers, actors and actresses who has been making is happy from time immemorial. This list is by no means exhaustive, we continue to add names as we remember, both ancient and modern.

The Peackocks international band
Oriental brothers international band
Dr Sir Warrior
Osita Osadebe
Onyeka Onwenu
Semi Colon
Oliver De Coque
Celestine Ukwu
Nelly Uchendu
Gentleman Mike Ejeagha
Morocco Maduka
Ozoemena Nsugbe
Obiligbo
Bright Chimezie
Williams Onyebor
Patty Obasi
Chika Okpala
Gozie Okeke
Phyno
Flavour Nabania
Zoro
B
Pete Edochie
Nkem Owoh
Amaka Igwe
Patience Ozokwor
Nkiru Sylvanus

Spyder, how could you forget Joe Nez?

I make bold to say that Igboland gifted the world (not just Nigeria) the best musicians and songs in the years preceding and just after the uncivil war.

The funny thing is that, with these classic tunes, the older you get is the more you tend to appreciate them. Songs i used to turn my nose up to as a child are songs which i now listen to and marvel at how they were able to craft such evergreen tunes even way back then! Some times i listen to some of these songs and i feel melancholic.

1 Echi di ime (Joe Nez)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEO56gRRc9Y

2 Bulie aha gi elu (Joe Nez)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Re2bZFSQIs

3 Landlady (Joe Nez)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJyIWXSlfWo

4 Okwukwe na nchekwube (Celestine Ukwu)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8JL_4C7JRs

They don't need to. Buhari is doing a good job of it himself!

There's something about that party that attracts undesirable elements.

Develpeast:
These people just do not want to spend money on quality drainage system. Why are we still building these kinds of drainage systems in 2018. Who did we offend to the extent that this is the only thing we can come up with.

Nwanne, the thing tire persin! I'm glad i'm not the only one complaining of this lest i be accused of being a fusspot.

Besides the fact that like you stated developers of new estates just want to cut corners to save money, i reckon the major reason is that there's a lack of effective building and town planning laws in the entire country, not just states in the South East.

When i see some of these pics of new and upcoming areas, i tend to wonder just what it is the owner/developer is actually investing in by way of initial surveying of the area and mapping out of plots, provision of a central sewage system, provision of underground or just covered drains/gutters, underground fibre-optics and electricity cabling, provision of open green areas and parks where families can go and chill under the trees and have a good quality of life, and organised tree panting on the new streets and avenues.

As it is now, what happens is that a investor just gets approval from the state ministry concerned and then starts selling land willy-nilly. I even doubt if there's any environmental impact assessment done so houses are not built on water channels, flood plains or protected areas.

Go and see what Apkaka Forest that the colonial gov't mapped out in the then outskirts of Onitsha has become today....all built up haphazardly in the name of development. It was meant to serve as a lush green area where the citys residents could go and be one with nature....where nature could thrive....a place which would have served as the lungs of the city to help it breath. If Nigerians owned and occupied the area called London today, i can guarantee you there'd be no Green Park, Hyde Park, etc....they'd all be built up areas.

Our present crop of leaders seem to have no appreciation for nature and order. Quite sad really.

spyder880:
Dr. Michael Iheonukara Okpara

This man and Dee Sam Mbakwe have a special place in my heart!

Only the somewhat reasonable ones capable of independent thinking are on here. The ones you want to reach out to, like a poster pointed out above, can only be contacted via their almjiri mallam or their Imams on friday.

But the quickest way to contact them? Go to any market in any of the states mentioned and shout out a few unprintable words about Islam.....they'd surround you in seconds! I can't guarantee you'd live to tell the tale though!

99miles:
If this statement made by our president were to be made is some countries, it would have resulted to a bloody revolution.
Is just that our youths are tolerant, which also reflect the fact that a good number of us are educated and hard working, so we are just taking this humiliation with ease.

Tolerant keh...Nigerian youths?

I think the word most suitable to describe a people who don't care who rules them and who do little to effect a change is docile.

It beggars belief that we're actually talking of the real possibility of this man coming back for a second term.

The man has absolutely nothing to offer, and if Nigerians know what's good for them they should stop at nothing to ensure the core muslim north doesn't rig him in come 2019. There's no way Buhari can win a second term without the usual machinations of the core muslim north in partnership with INEC.

He needs to improve on his lyrics...and stop mentioning girls names all the time. Besides that he's ok.

These m'orons are so fixated with kwaruption, blaming PGP/GEJ, and abusing the Nigerian youth. Quite convenient for distracting attention as the country sinks faster than the Titanic!

You get the impression that even if the country is being invaded by aliens from outer space....blowing up every structure in sight, that Lai Mohammed and Buhari still wouldn't deviate from the script!

martinosi:
interesting point you mentioned...They are not asking for Nnamdi because Nnamdi is not the focus of the protest by the
people that are handling them..they are all just being used..paid protestors...

Nnamdi Kanu seems to be your greatest nightmare! Does it make you sleep better not seeing any placards mentioning Nnamdi Kanu? You must have been a paid protester in the past to think that money has to change hands before someone can go out to protest for something he/she believes in.

Biafrans and other freedom seekers came out to protest in the SE and some SS states last year, tell me if they were paid too and what Buharis' response was to their protest?

Krossman99:
Mr greatest regret ever is casting my vote for a leader who can come out and call Nigeria's you lazy

Hindsight is twenty-twenty vision. Nothing like being called a bum arsse youth to help reset the brain back to factory settings!

Omololu2121:
I so much hate this buhari right now,I can kill him if I have the chance

Nigerians are been killed under his watch,yet the foolish man is in London saying bullcrap about Nigerian youth

What actually is buhari children doing? Are they working? Yet his son was driving a bike of about #58m yet the foolish man is complaining about the Nigerian youth been lazy

I've never enjoyed anything from the Nigerian state,I struggled to be who I am today without any help from the Nigerian state

Health care is rubbish
Security is rubbish
No student loan
No loan to borrow, to start your own business
No good roads
No allowance from the government to jobless graduate
No 24/7 power supply
No clean water
No good roads


As a Nigerian there is nothing you're gonna enjoy.

People are killed almost everyday in this country by Fulani herdsmen, yet this foolish incompetence man is in London, saying trash about the Nigerian youth that has not enjoy anything from this useless and very foolish man called a president,all what the idiot knows how to do is to blame and tell you about how the unity of Nigeria is non negotiable.

What's even the essence of this country called Nigeria sef

Why is Nigeria existing?

Is Nigeria existing for the people in government or it's existing for the Nigerian people?

What's more important between the unity of Nigeria and the welfare of the people that found their self inside the country called Nigeria

On the bolded question: i think we all know the answer to that...unless we want to kid ourselves.

InvertedHammer:
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I don't think Spyder880 is starving without your recommendations. Just saying...

Moving on...anything investment anywhere in the SE is a welcomed development. I love Enugu and Owerri.

I pray Owerri folks gravitate more towards industries and factories than building hotels at every corner.

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I think every state in the SE has carved a niche for themselves.

Enugu is supposed to be the spiritual capital of Ndigbo, and this is partly responsible for the boom in real-estate in the capital. Contributions to the state economy also come from agriculture, from manufacturing, aviation, and potentially from coal powered power plants.

Anambra has carved a niche for itself in commerce and industry; with contributions coming from agriculture, real-estate and potentially aviation.

Ebonyi has carved a niche for itself in agriculture and quarry; with contributions from tourism, and this could be central to the states economy if Governor Umahis' plans come to fruition. Abakaliki has the potential to be the most beautiful capital in the SE.

Imo has carved a niche for itself in tourism, real-estate and oyel and gas. It could have had contributions coming in from agriculture if Governor Okorocha had been serious with his 'ikwuola nku' initiative. Owerri is on course to be the Las Vegas of Nigeria if it plays its cards right, and Rochas seems to be doing the right thing with regards to developing and expanding Owerri. He just needs to improve on the quality of the roads his gov't delivers.

Abia has likewise carved a niche for itself in commerce and industry, specialising in fashion and fashion accessories like belts, handbags and shoes. The state gov't needs to clean up Aba and make it a beautiful, clean, green and welcoming city. Aba has the potential to be the 'Milan' of Africa if the state gov't plays its cards right.

So you see, Imo is on the right track concentrating on tourism as its core developmental strategy.

Oh, so now he's being addressed as a sir? Now i've heard it all!