ijija:
Please somebody should advise Mr president that this country is bigger than any one individual including him. If he is yet to b convinced about devaluation inspire of the glaring consequences of his insistence on a dual exchange rate ,then he should as he says just please accommodate the economists and let our economy move. It smacks of double standards for him to decrying our over reliance on oil yet one of his first actions in office was to release funds for oil exploration in char basin and the only ministry he chose to head was the ministry of petroleum not agriculture. All these press statements he makes about the country are doing more harm than good. He needs to lament less because he is beginning to sound like a broken record. He ran for president four times. Does he in all honesty expect us to believe that he was hoping to come and meet the same conditions he left in 1984?

dre11:




......tell me if I should change ministers
onyeori na akpo ndi ozo onyeori!!!!!






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Kastonkastroll:
PDP are thieves, dangerous pen-robbers and heartless evil criminals.

idupaul:
I can't believe I voted for this man ..well the way I see it Nigerians should be ready to queue for food by 2017 ..this man is just an orders and fiat man and not a visionary and wisdom lead leader..My apologies once again

Inspectahdeck:
Please leave your ministers for now. It is to early to appraise their performance. Also, they just got their budget to work with so time will time.

Sack fashola after 2 years if he can't come up with innovative ideas to energy other than gas. A region should never hold a nation to ransom. Also, carry all stakeholders in the energy sector along e.g. generator sellers, diesel seller etc. If not they will keep sabotaging your effort.

Nigerians are generally lazy and greedy people, we want fast money. surprisingly, unavailability of raw materials, lack of energy, machineries, staff know-how discouraged local investors from manufacture. [color=#000099][/color]

the greedy marketers took control of the industry, killing every production company and potential ones. They buy cheap and substandard products from China and sell at high prices to us, thereby controlling the market.

Like the sustainable economist said on channels daily yesterday, we Nigerian like to artificially create inflation and scarcity to enrich a few. He mentioned the fuel issue, diesel (went up immediately form 125 to 142), food stuffs etc.

We are our problem, not the government per say.

Paperwhite:
So APC are what since majority of former PDP member decamped in mass into it? What about the budget padding as far as APC is concern? Reason objectively!

Akshow:
Ogbeni baba sofoo, the country is not smiling. Leave all this long tale.

dre11:




......tell me if I should change ministers






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chiedu7:
This man na hypocrite oh.

We dont have foreign reserves yet he imports grass for his fulani cattle.

Imagine

YourFatherYansh:
The one thing Africans and its leaders/rulers lack is foresight. We only dwell in the now and damn the consequences of what ever the future holds..4getin that that future is 2day's inputs.
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Greed is also one of our greatest undoing as a race, until our government begins to build institutions that will outlast them as well as have a positive multiplier effects on generation unborn, Africa will still remain in poverty maybe till eternity.
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Partisanship and discontinuation of preceding government policies have stagnated the continent as an entity. No rapid progress comes from setting completely new agenda by every successive government...That's why the African race still battles with fundamental problems as electricity , portable roads, adequate housing, polio etc in the 21st century.

vedaxcool:
PMB underscores a serious problem with our economy the lust to taste foreign goods eventually leads to depletion of scarce resources and a wobbly economy

989900B:
While all those 'silly items' are wrong, they account for less than 20% of our Forex demands.

Repatriation of funds and other 'technical items' (according to CBN), accounts for 30%-40% demand.

Imported refined fuel accounts for 30-40% (Which is the real travesty!).

What measures have the past governments since 1999, done to arrest the importation of agric. products, while we have arable lands and excess supply of manpower?
Where are the single digits soft loans, where are the campaigns, the programs to encourage able bodied men and women to make us not only producers/consumers, but net exporters of these items?

Did we also comatose the refineries?

Or prevented government from building new ones either by PPP, or any other means?

Are we also responsible for not checkmating cross-border smuggling of fuel, and other diversion/fraud of imported fuel which accounts for roughly 30% of the 40m litres of PMS alone that we pay for on paper according to Kachikwu (I don't understand the 'dust' Buhari is 'yarning' up there)?

Stop blaming the people for failures of the government!

SAINTSAMURAII:
so why his he telling us as at now when the economy is almost down? is it to seek pity or for Nigerians to hail him. well i agree with him concerning Nigerians running to the city to pursue oil money but one thing he failed to do is to invest in our Agricultural sector, since he realised that Nigerians are importing food, why not focus more on Agriculture instead of preaching corruption for a year now and nobody has been arrested, the money and the time used in travelling and fighting corruption should have been centered in Agriculture and other sector of the economy. that might have return made Nigeria export food rather and in return put money in national purse. he can face corruption later but definitely not now. the economy needs to be stable.

Pidggin:
So world bank adviced him to remove subsidy in 1984, but he stated clearly that he has never heard of subsidy when asked in 2014.

The issue of smuggling PMS is not new, all previous administrations have dealt with this issue effectively till date. If PMB cannot handle this, he should humble himself and seek solution from OBJ who is now a fellow party member.

You don't have to place the burden of your incompetence on us sir, please seek solution from those who have done it before.

SAINTSAMURAII:
so why his he telling us as at now when the economy is almost down? is it to seek pity or for Nigerians to hail him. well i agree with him concerning Nigerians running to the city to pursue oil money but one thing he failed to do is to invest in our Agricultural sector, since he realised that Nigerians are importing food, why not focus more on Agriculture instead of preaching corruption for a year now and nobody has been arrested, the money and the time used in travelling and fighting corruption should have been centered in Agriculture and other sector of the economy. that might have return made Nigeria export food rather and in return put money in national purse. he can face corruption later but definitely not now. the economy needs to be stable.

Kastonkastroll:
PDP are thieves, dangerous pen-robbers and heartless evil criminals.

ibedun:


You spoiled your good points at the end. STOP BLAMING GOVERNMENT FOR FAILURES BLAME THE PEOPLE.

Our people behave like animals and extremely difficult to govern. When was the last time you heard about an American or European economic saboteur, smuggler, infrastructure destroyer etc etc.

Our unruly, lawless people are responsible for their woes. Sai Baba! Ride on!

saxtaiwo:
May God help this man, why is he thinking privatisation too? I thought he visited several countries and he shd av seen how government manage every of it parastatals, hope we are not coming back to the clueless regime?

989900B:


Privatization, or PPP is the best for Nigeria -- everyone knows that now already.

ibedun:


You sound more like an empty head ruled by emotions. A usual partisan IPOB trait. Assume you are in PMB shoes, offer possible solutions. We did not save our precious foreign exchange during a mighty boom, we import just about everything, we don't produce anything and on top we import food? Now our OYEL price has fallen. Buhari is not a magician.

vascey:


Nigeria's are neither lazy nor greedy. Maybe your family or kindred, I don't know. But not Nigerians.