Roughly three years ago, President Muhammadu Buhari visited the Kingdom of Morocco. He asked King Mohammed VI to give Nigeria from their rich phosphate mineral so that fertilizer can be produced here at home for the teeming farming population. Agreement reached, President Buhari set up a Presidential Fertiliser Initiative in his office.
Three years down the road, 24 moribund blending plans are now working, providing 100,000 direct and indirect new jobs to Nigerians. The cost of fertilizer is down by more than 50 percent. Nigeria makes a saving of USD 200 million used for its annual import and a further N60 billion in budgeted annual subsidy.
Nigeria wanted to build a power plant at Mambilla in the Northeast. The plant design had been made in 1959, a year before independence. We have dreams of modernizing our railway system because, without power and railroad, National development will continue to be a pipe dream.
In planning for his trip to Beijing for a meeting with President Xi Jinping, President Buhari rightfully chose to prioritize his requests, put Lagos-Kano railway and Mambilla power plant on top: President Xi’s word is the silver bullet. Today, China is giving these projects together with the finance and many more.
On the recent trip to Russia, President Buhari had a wish list that included railways, power projects and military procurements. He had a wish to get the Russians who own the Aluminum smelter plant, built at a whopping USD 4 billion to operationalize it; Ajaokuta Steel plant built at a similar cost, with 20,000 engineers trained to operate it, many of whom are now dead from hunger and lack of engagement is another 40 year – old problem. To these and others, President Putin held the keys to the solutions. President Buhari asked, and he was given. It will take volumes of books to document the achievements of these trips.

When I go through the media, including today’s edition of the Daily Trust, the social media blogs and those jokes, through funny cartoons, there is a mistaken sense that active diplomacy is the cause of some kind of governance deficit, assuming there is any. Channels Television, last night confronted me with a litany of countries the President visited this year and the number of days he spent abroad. The mistaken opinion among many is that the President spends too much time abroad and this is affecting his domestic responsibilities.
The reality is very different. The success of the visits to Morocco, China and Russia reported here represent just a fraction of the achievements recorded. Many countries and major corporations have listened to our leaders and agreed to come here and put their money in the economy in win-win deals.
In the last few years, global giants like Siemens, Toyota, Hyundai, General Electric (GE), among others are talking to Nigeria about their commitment to investing billions of dollars through manufacturing and other forms of Foreign Direct Investment. Add these to the many Chinese companies that are involved with us in the construction of railways, roads, airports and power plants. These Chinese engagements are coming, complete with succession plans in which thousands of Nigerians are being trained over there, to ultimately manage the new projects.
Other global giants are talking to the government at the centre and the States, with declared interests in projects like highways, metro rail networks, roads, railways and investment in the clusters of manufacturing hubs, the Special Economic Zones, in each of the geopolitical zones. In the coming years, the Qatari and Saudi sovereign wealth funds, the Russians and the Americans amongst the world’s richest are working with Nigeria towards investments in oil and gas and other infrastructure.

President Buhari’s strategy of selling Nigeria’s infrastructure priorities to countries with economic clout is paying off handsomely is in reality, doing Nigeria proud by tackling the gaps in infrastructure deficit.
The records of some of his predecessors in office bespeak a greedy trail, when they go abroad they first ask: what is in it for me? What is there for my family? President Buhari is different. Understood correctly, he is an opportunity manager who knows the worth of person to person contact in a working relationship.
https://dailynigerian.com/buharis-frequency-of-foreign-trips-a-big-plus-not-a-problem-by-garba-shehu/?
Mynd44 oam4j lalasticlala

We trust and believe in your leadership. I think we should stop worrying over those who pessimist who don't believe in Nigeria project. The infrastructuraldecay in Nigeria is so much that people will not notice whatever you have put in place. We are with you always General.

GOD BLESS PMB

GOD BLESS NIGERIA.

Of course it can only be a gospel according to a sai baba zombie.These idiots so called praise singers see nothing wrong in a senile dull incompetent man junketing round the world @ the expense of taxpayers monies while Nigeria continues to have all the worst assessment as far as human and developmental indices of good governance are concerned.

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ManirBK:
We trust and believe in your leadership. I think we should stop worrying over those who pessimist who don't believe in Nigeria project. The infrastructuraldecay in Nigeria is so much that people will not notice whatever you have put in place. We are with you always General.

GOD BLESS PMB

GOD BLESS NIGERIA.

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You and the author who wrote this nonsense deserve a special place in hades

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ManirBK:
We trust and believe in your leadership. I think we should stop worrying over those who pessimist who don't believe in Nigeria project.

The infrastructural decay in Nigeria is so much that people will not notice whatever you have put in place. We are with you always General.

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However, the Buharimaniacs are, well, maniacs. They are maniacal. They are attack dogs. They are bull-terriers. They can no longer even engage in rational logical discussion about the president or his policies.

Buharimaniacs are of the conviction that Nigeria is now legitimately the property of the president. The rest of us are here simply by his grace and generosity.
https://opinion.premiumtimesng.com/2018/08/21/buharimaniacs-and-buharideens-by-femi-aribisala/

lol, he can reduce his travelling for his aides and ministers. He shouldn't be the one going for every tour

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[b]However, the Buharimaniacs

If PMB talks, they say he's a dictator and if he keeps quiet, they say it's the cabal ruling. Wailers have 4 more years to wail

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You and the author who wrote this nonsense deserve a special place in hades

We dont have enough words to thank PMB, deligence and hard working, you are the best president ever, we believe Nigeria will soon be the great under your leadership.
NEXT LEVEL

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ManirBK:
If PMB talks, they say he's a dictator and if he keeps quiet, they say it's the cabal ruling. Wailers have 4 more years to wail

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ManirBK:
We dont have enough words to thank PMB, deligence and hard working, you are the best president ever, we believe Nigeria will soon be the great under your leadership.NEXT LEVEL

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"...The yardstick His Excellency, President Buhari uses for others is quite different from the one he uses for himself. He wants to reduce the rate at which other public servants travel, but maintains his own frequent and pointless trips..."

https://www.thecable.ng/buhari-a-public-servant-on-a-private-visit-with-public-money

This is the same hypocrite who senselessly critisized his predecessors.Guess you remember his statement on reducing wastage by converting almost all the presidential fleet to a viable national carrier?

What about abolishing the "office of the first lady, seeking foreign healthcare, failure of the BH war/insurgency, holistic fight against corruption among many of his failed promises?

Infact Buhari have done more worst of all he has ever reprimanded others.Hence he is the biggest hypocrite Nigeria has ever had as a president.Do zombiesm with some dignity.Dont be a blind follower.

Zombies are not wise. Why are you still marketing a dead product? Abi is Buhari still coming back in 2023? We have already accepted our fate. Even if Buhari decides to rule Nigeria from France? We won't say anything again. Buhari is a failure. Period!

Cost vs Results?

Sorry I forgot you guys don’t believe in real data

It seems like this daily Nigeria media is all about Northern affairs