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op thought he was smart see what you turned yourself into, next time keep shut... i didnt know buhari was this popular.... is this an issue. whether you like it or like it, i didnt make a mistake 4years must pass you by if its the will of God.

SAI BABA

Ishilove:
There are two sides to every story. Let us hear from the side of the bank before concluding.

am sorry you dont need to hear the second side. he is saying the truth, i was once in that line. they will use, drain and dump you. when doing such jobs your eyes have to be outside.

calebo101:
Amaechi should shut up. He talks too much like a woman. After looting River state dry he's lamenting that there's no money for Wike to run government.

Amaechi has used state funds to sponsor our[b] illiterate[/b] president and he will answer for it.

The judas of Ubima.
Driver general of APC.

thats what you are!!!!

EroticAngelina:
This one is small sef.
come to apo filling station here in abuja and see QUEUE
Shebi Una want change, we still dey wait for am.

change hasn't changed. your brother is still the C IN C. Thats the more reason we need change.

ronald4lif:
Oh Chimu! She could have set an alarm clock at 2hours interval while at his place. The embarrassment could have been prevented.

I think she should start setting an alarm on her phone every 2hours every night. Once she wakes up she reset again. Continue the process until she get used to waking up by herself.

you have a point bro but if you havent been there you wont understand . 2 hours is too long to bedwet. 30 minutes can embarass you lol

gogodaye:
Her boyfriend should be supportive........abi......
Men na mumu.......if na she....she go agree........
Make she find her level jor

did you say anything?

steams:
See how funny we Nigerians think, ok everyone is saying she should see a Doctor, probably a gynecologist lol, very funny, I wonder if that would be to stitch her closed.....bed wetting can be caused by a lot of things most times its genetic so she should ask her parents for help in explaining why they left her till she was 29 without doing some needful to help her stop it. And she should pray cause @29 and still bed wetting she surely need prayers.

its serious prayer oooooo, i didnt want to say this but its serious prayer, and those around her should be supportive, they think she loves to bed wet? hell no.

pretydamsel1:
Hello my fellow Nairalanders, my girlfriend has been suffering right from her childhood till now, please is there any solution for her because this bed-wetting issue is becoming something else. just yesterday she decided to spent a night in her boyfriend house since it was raining heavily ( note, she doesn't sleep outside because of this problem) only for her to come to my house this morning as early as 5:30am with tears in her eye and when I ask her what happen, she told me the same old issue of bed wetting and that the guy drove her out, call her names and ask her never to call him again.

please what can she do to stop this mess because age is no longer on her side.
mature advice please!

my first advice for your friend is to leave her boyfriend. he doesn't love her, he will only make her feel worse, drove her out of the house because she is bed wetting? hell of crap i call that, he doesn't understand what it feels like. i stopped bed wetting when i was about 16, it was hell on earth, my parents got tired of beating me, worse off i was in boarding school so it was tough, had to use mackintoch, the fact is i cant prescribe a solution because all what i tried as a human being didnt work, i didnt eat after 5pm, i didnt drink water after 5pm, i had to tie my private part so i wont bed wet, yet i will still dream am peeing in a toilet not knowing its right on my bed, but some how i just observed i didnt bed wet anymore and then i was in about 16. she has to stop sleeping in peoples houses, mentally its killing, so her boyfriend chasing her out is making things worse. i really feel for her.

Boss13:
Nice move. I wonder if the UK and US would do likewise. Both countries are quick to label Nigeria a corrupt country, but proceeds from corrupt countries are never repatriated.

bros you funny!!!! arent you aware how easy it is to deposit money in a bank but difficult to withdraw. the same rule applies.

that guy is funny!!! you talk about the general? even me i wont take it, after all i doubt if i will be that clueless!! when you lack ideas and you have the resources to put up a team to shield your lapses and fail to do so, even a child will insult you.

closed my second position on 195pips total of 295. thanks boss

126pips in the bag already, another 80+ still running. i even entered the second trade much later although at a better pricing. thanks boss.

shakazuldadon:
he cant



why can't he buy hull or Sunderland and make them a force to be reckoned with.....




by the way how many Nigerian clubs has he bought or sponsoring..

he is a business man bro. will you put your money where it will not yield profit in 100 years.? so many factors make it difficult to invest in our leagues, horrible patronage, lack of funds, worrying security for both fans and players, terrible pitch the list is endless. if he was wise he should have gone for a club in the ranks of aston villa etc get a good manager, invest a little , target europa spot and then gun for the big four in four or five years, for arsenal , the english people no go gree oooooo

SHARIAREPORTERS:
Buh if na oga Jonathan, dem go send lie muhammad to accuse d president of spending public funds
Never enter, he don deh use private jet
Hypocrisy, wad a fake pastor....
Soon Buhari and his household go dey move around wif private jet and sharia*reporters go kip quiet, I pity "change chanters"

its good he shows off now so people like you wont say its stolen money, if your brother can not probe them now obviously its too legit

needinfo:
Make una dey there dey deceive una self.it is too obvious to see everything that the same person is making all this to look too good to be true.the pips is just for mouth.same old made to believe sarcasm.this is not how to get followers.it only show how deceitful all this play to convince act is.i make 5k pips, tomorrow i make 8k pips, all na wash.all this thing you people are doing, there is ssssssssss

how did you grow up bro? are you kidding me!!!!

op you are a joke!!! you call these perfumes affordable? if someone earns 40k-60k will he be buying a perfume of that amount, i have used davidoff-deep, 212 men -carolina herrera, nice if the money is there, if you want affordable go buy smart products , you will still smell nice and you wont tear your pockets, its in the range of 1k-1k5, a friend bought a brand of david beckham from the US for about 8k equivalent and he regretted it, he sent a mail to them saying if this is what beckham was using he would definitely have suffered from goal drought. nice smell isnt about how expensive a perfume is, first do your personal hygeine and then use other anti persperants and perfumes.

correct guy !!!! he simply wanted to pass a message, its not about the money, but you aren't a wife material, you will wreck my generation.

this is simply mind game guys, i still see him as smarter than that otuoke warlord, its better to make you feel nothing will happen and then something happens than making you feel something will happen and nothing happens , that was where GEJ got it wong , under promise and over deliver. if he underperforms, just wait for him 4years isnt far off, PDP had 16yrs so lets enjoy o endue the ride.

mulante:
The sentence on each of the counts are to run concurrently (at the same time) not consecutively (not one after the other). She'll only spend 7 years or less in prison.

nice one, max 14yrs or less

kolomax:
Ok ayafu yhear. Since boko-haram top commanders are upto 100... This people keep on deceiving us have been hearing the killing of top commander since 2012 up till now them never finish

what you don't realize is there will always and always be a top commander, the moment the current one is killed, hours later someone else assumes his position of top commander, so if they keep on telling us they have killed a top commander they aren't in any way wrong, lets pray that with the gains so far, we have an end to the menace. atleast it has reduced very drastically.

SolutionTipster:
Lol.

I see you. You cannot get it free from me no matter what you say. you must pay to have .

it is test before paying. not pay before testing. so I don't see reason why you're bothering yourself.

No matter how much I make, that doesn't stop me from selling the idea. I have nothing to lose if I sell it. I'm a business man.

Dangote is the richest man in Africa yet he is still selling ten naira sugar.

to make things easy bro, give your signals for a day to one week let people see the worth then you go to sleep, nobody wants to be fooled, all of us dey claim sharpness. just my two cents

jimi4us:
I will only believe buhari only when I see or hear say tinubu have been jailed. if not they are all the same.

how many of them did your brother jail? or has he handed over yet... wait for things to unfold before you guys speak. thank GOD we don cross the bridge of certificate, old age, health issues bla bla bla... just watch and if you arent impressed you will be empowered in 4 years time to vote him out, until then keep quite and watch.

its only when it comes to election he remembers their is a need for prayer, God is not one to be mocked, you will reap what you sow. so kneeling down is a characteristic of a good leader? now i see why we are where we are.

lalax:
Very funny write.... Reading d article tells d write is a "Failbokohari" supporter.



GEJ till 2019
GEJ for 3rd Term.



Haters jump in front of a moving train.

pls dont say this outside you will embarass yourself.

all4naija:
TheEconomist is very biased! Nothing would make me read a partisan magazine like that, ever!

whats your definition of biased? your thinking seems distorted. say NO to religious and regional sentiments, its ruining the nigerian economy.

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Are you saying that Okonjo-Iweala, Fani-Kayode and others in the Federal Government are in denial with their outright rejection of Soludo’s argument?

What do you expect? Some friends and I used to have a gathering around the late Dr. Stanley Macebuh in his house and Patrick Dele Cole would be drinking good brandy and be laughing at me for drinking Fanta. I would raise an issue about government and public office holders, and they would reply, ‘If na you nko?’ That’s my question to you: What do you expect them to do?

Soludo scored the Federal Government an F on economy. What is your assessment of this government?

I don’t want us to get into emotive discussions. I don’t think the management of this economy by this administration is worthy of praise. [/b]I believe there is a complete misunderstanding. Because they are not sensitive to people, there is something that has developed in Nigeria;[b] I call it the new mercantilism. One of the biggest mistakes this President has ever made is to suggest that the ownership of private jets is an indicator of Nigeria’s progress. It is a terrible thing. I was praying hard after he said it the first time that he should realise he made a mistake; but he repeated it several times during the World Economic Forum and I was so embarrassed. I said, ‘Oh my goodness, we need help.’ That has been their orientation, they have not noticed that the Nigerian people are actually (poor).

The dynamic question during elections in the US is: Are you better off than you were four years ago? Forget the statistics that anybody may throw at you, because as they say about statistics, there are three things: lies, damn lies and statistics. Anybody can generate statistics to look good. The simple question to the individual citizen is: Is your life better today than it was when these sets of policies were put in place? My submission to you is that, as an individual, I am worse off today than I was four years ago. And I think most Nigerians who examine their consciences would say they are worse off today than they were four years ago. Forget about grades of A or F.

How do the issues you raised about economic mismanagement affect the electorate and the masses?

They are doing Nigerians a disservice by preventing the people from discussing the issues and learning, with this emotive abuse of anybody whose view does not eulogise them. The numbers are there. Soludo points to the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics’ poverty incidence figures. There is this nonsense going around now; I think it was (Femi) Fani-Kayode that said Nigeria was given an award of the biggest economy in Africa, as if it as an award that is being bestowed on them.

The size of an economy is a function of the number of the people in the economy and the productivity of those people, that is, output. If there is a huge population like Nigeria, and the people are producing seriously, it is only logical that the size of the economy of Nigeria should be bigger than the economy of South Africa, which is producing more per person with a much fewer number of people. But because there are more of us, our general output will be bigger than South Africa’s. So, what is the big deal about it? It is simply ignorance that is making people celebrate what they don’t know. I heard President Goodluck Jonathan two days ago (Tuesday) saying, ‘Is there anybody in Nigeria who understands economy better than the people at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund?’

It is disgraceful for the president of a country to speak like that. He should be the first person to be proud to say his people are better than any other, even if they are not. But in this case, many of our people have worked in the World Bank, and we know that the boys in those places were not half as smart as us in class. So, why should the President make that kind of statement?

Have you made these recommendations to government?

The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was present at the lecture, and she made her remarks when I finished. She said she agreed with me, but that even the small excess crude that they were struggling to release, the politicians were fighting against it; that even after warning them to save for a rainy day, the politicians kept saying, ‘Look, it is already raining torrents.’ I then said to those sitting with me, ‘We are missing the point. We have a duty to educate and teach these politicians. In ignorance and greed, they want to share everything immediately and cite as their basis the constitution that says it can be s hared.’

We should educate them that when you have these kinds of funds, it does not take away the share of any state government, because they will own their exact proportion of that fund and the management of the fund will be made up of people that will ensure that their portion is not abused. I also further said there that many of our technocrats that are going into government are missing an important point: the power of resignation, to send a message to politicians. I began to give the example of Malaysia. Malaysia would not be what it is today if one young technical medical doctor in government called Mahathir Mohammed did not see something wrong in the prime minister’s policy, which was then referred to as the give-and-take policy.

When he complained about it, he was not only thrown out of the government, he was expelled from the ruling party and he went to write a book titled ‘The Malay Dilemma’. His book literally generated uprisings in Malaysia and the prime minister had to resign. Eventually, he was reabsorbed into the party, became the prime minister and the story of Malaysia changed permanently. Malaysia, which was once worse than us, is now far better.

Why are our technocrats in government not realising this power of resignation to mobilise the public to learn the right thing and to force politicians who are adventurers to behave appropriately? This happened at the LBS. Half of Lagos’ elite business people were there. It is not a secret. All the things I predicted would happen have since happened. So, why should people attack Soludo for saying that it is like 1982? I have said this many times.

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What are some of these mistakes?

I’ll give you a good example. When oil prices began to rise, we had a visit to Nigeria by the former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Reagan, Joseph Stiglitz, who is also a Nobel Prize-winning economist. He gave a lecture at the Lagos Business School, which was attended by a significant part of the Lagos business community. I was a discussant at that lecture, at which I made the point that the way we were going about managing our economy in the face of this oil price rise was dangerous, unsustainable, and showed that we had not learnt from the past. I then suggested at that lecture that under no circumstance should we use more than $40 a barrel for our budget process.

[b]Because the price of oil in those days was so volatile—rising and falling drastically—my argument was that if oil prices rise to $70, everything from between $40 and $70 should go into a stabilisation fund and not be budgeted. Whenever oil prices fall, we have all kinds of abandoned projects, so I said, ‘We don’t want to continue this kind of foolish way of doing things.’ Using that stabilisation fund, when oil prices fall to $10 as in 1998, our budget would remain funded at $40, even though oil price is as low as $10.

The reason is that we would have been saving $30 in the stabilisation fund when it was $70. If it were to then go above $70, as it did go to $130 and more, my proposition was that everything above that should go into a future fund and that this fund can be invested abroad so that future dividends will flow in or in long-term infrastructure because all the children that will be born in Nigeria even 500 years from now have the same right as us to the oil that is put in the ground by God for all of us.[/b] Unless some of that money is being used for infrastructure, which they (unborn Nigerians) can use in their time, then we have cheated them out of their own heritage.

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Do you think former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Prof. Charles Soludo’s argument, depicting the Federal Government as incompetent, was factual?

[b]Absolutely. [/b]There are things I want to disagree with there, but there are many things I agree with. And this is really the nature of what political campaigns should be: to raise strong ideas that affect polity, in terms of the quality of life of the citizens. The truth is that there is no one solution in this world; perspectives on that issue can then allow society to find a more robust response. I do think that it is demeaning of the democratic process for people who are responding, instead of looking at the issues he has raised and providing facts to dispute or support, to then embark on ad hominem and personal broad fights against him. By making the whole thing emotive, rather than rational, they take away from quality democracy and this is part of fanning the embers of violence that is going on in this environment.

On the general state of the economy, I agree completely with Soludo. The economy is inchoate as it is. Even more importantly, I agree with him that we have showed no learning (desire), because what is happening now is a complete replica, as he suggested, of 1982.

I have, in fact, given at least five lectures on this subject within the last couple of months, and I said exactly this. Thus, he was not saying anything new. One of the things that strikes me is that in this age, we lack institutional memory to the extent that we repeat so completely mistakes of the past. If the (Shehu) Shagari administration (1979-1983) is blamed for not knowing, surely that mistake should not repeat itself later, because we should have learnt from it.

this oracle is high on otuoke wine!!!!

clevvermind:
the mentality of some Nigerians is baffling. people still behave abnormal in this 21st century. anyway, rip to the dead.

that should tell you the level of poverty in the land where people create a larger problem because of minimal benefit like a daily bread

to be very candid i never took time to read lengthy write ups or interview but i actually did take time to read this one, and my question was what percentage of the Nigerian citizens actually own jets? or did he mean to say private cars??