some critics would throw in alternatives or proffer solutions to problems; while the cynics never see anything good in a situation.

While President Buhari is yet to speak, his body language alone is sending shivers across the land. Lately, even the electricity companies are gasping for breath, trying to stay afloat in the new order. Suddenly, those embalmed chicken and turkey meats are disappearing from our markets because the Customs Officers at the borders have woken up. The same thing is happening to all banned items. The thief catchers and the courts are waking up. “Ikoiko” is around. These are happening, not so much because the people like the administration but because they know the consequences of non-compliance. That’s leadership! And that’s what we call governance by body language.

osaslord500:
Am no more a fan of that old cargo

sheymoni:
I am loving this slow & steady race. I'm now enjoying close to 15 hrs supply of electricity & the Nepa people now respond to complaint almost immediately. Something we never enjoy during past administration. Baba should please keep the slowness & steadiness steadily

igahdavid:
[b]Slow but Steady
Gradually, Nigeria is taking shape and I believe with time we will surely get there

I like the phrase "work work is better than talk talk"

PMB's administration is more of work work (with picture evidence ) and less talk
Though this doesn't apply to Osho Baba ]

osaslord500:
Am no more a fan of that old cargo

AderibigbeAAA:
[s]EVERY society has its stock of critics and cynics.
Quite often, the former are preferred to the latter
because in the course of their criticism, some
critics would throw in alternatives or proffer
solutions to problems; while the cynics never see
anything good in a situation.

The past six weeks of President Muhammadu
Buhari’s re-entry into government may have
produced a lot of cynics among Nigerians who
see Buhari as running the country like a Sole
Administrator because of the leadership tussle at
the National Assembly.

While they hurry to the conclusion that the
stalemate at the National Assembly cannot be
totally blamed on President Buhari, they refrain
from saying what Buhari should have done in the
circumstance – maybe he should have adopted
the Late Bola Ige’s prescription of “sidon look” –
just look on and do nothing!

All the same, there is a silent revolution going on
in Nigeria today. The Buhari-led Administration is
still making haste slowly. But apparently, the
citizenry is not being adequately informed of the
goings-on in government. The ordinary Nigerian is
hungry for information. He wants to know.
Luckily, he is able to decipher when publicity
degenerates into sloganeering.

We remember Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), one-
time Prime Minister of Britain, who opined that in
times of war, the Ministry of Information should
be re-named the Ministry of Propaganda. To
Macmillan, governance is war by another name.
We see here, the heavy emphasis he places on
information.

For the third President of the United States of
America, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), “Were it
left to me to decide whether we should have a
government without a press or a press without a
government, I should not hesitate a moment to
prefer the latter.”

There is no suggestion here that in government,
the time for performance should be squandered
on sloganeering as we witnessed during the
immediate past administration. In any situation,
“work-work” is better than “talk-talk”. After all,
hard work still remains the major antidote for
success.

We want to welcome Nigerians to our glorious
past, where there was voluntary compliance to
lawful orders. In those days, at the mention of
“Wole-wole”, “Ikoiko”, or “Edokita”, people cleaned
up their environment without waiting for anyone
to stand by them with the headmaster’s cane.
Government orders were obeyed by faith. People
did not need to see government officials before
they obeyed.

While President Buhari is yet to speak, his body
language alone is sending shivers across the
land. Lately, even the electricity companies are
gasping for breath, trying to stay afloat in the
new order. Suddenly, those embalmed chicken
and turkey meats are disappearing from our
markets because the Customs Officers at the
borders have woken up. The same thing is
happening to all banned items. The thief catchers
and the courts are waking up. “Ikoiko” is around.
These are happening, not so much because the
people like the administration but because they
know the consequences of non-compliance.
That’s leadership! And that’s what we call
governance by body language.

The present scenario becomes the more relevant
against the backdrop that Nigeria’s problem has
never been the absence of laws but the near-
absence of enforcement. Evidence of this has
always been in the preponderance of the same
banned products on our streets and markets. The
moral messages communicated by our laws are
sharply contradicted by the absence of
enforcement. The public sees the conducts
condemned in words but also sees in the
dramatic absence of enforcement that they are
not condemned in deed. This is undermining of
fate in the entire system and, in the long run, it
breeds cynicism and indifference to the process
of law, which augments tendencies towards
disrespect for those who make and enforce the
law.

Full disclosure is not always desirable. But people
want to be carried along. A situation in which our
friends in Washington, DC were the ones that
informed us that Buhari’s cabinet will not be in
place until September, is not neat enough. It
should have been the other way round. After all,
charity should begin at home.


Still achieving, still pursuing. The Buhari
administration has terminated two obviously
repugnant contracts that were entered into by the
immediate-past regime of Goodluck Jonathan: the
$103 million (about N21 billion) maritime security
contract awarded to Global West Vessel
Specialists Nigeria Limited, GWVSNL, believed to
be owned by former Niger Delta Militant,
Government Ekpemupolo (alias Tompolo); and the
Pipeline Protection Contract awarded to the
Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, and Niger Delta
Militant Group. The two most unconscionable
contracts were terminated just a few days after
Buhari’s re-entry.

Meanwhile, the Federal Government has given a
marching order to the Nigerian Army and Navy to
take over their constitutionally-assigned
responsibility of protecting the pipelines and our
territorial waters.

For too long, Nigerians have been opposed to the
idea of outsourcing the security of our vital
assets to the militants and ethnic militias. While
the contracts lasted, the contractors were smiling
all the way to the banks and our security
agencies that had the constitutional mandates
were starved of funds.

Among other things, the Jonathan arrangement
exposed the nation to ridicule and open
embarrassment because it has no parallel
anywhere in the world. Besides, Nigeria did not
get value for money as more than 400,000 barrels
of crude oil were constructively stolen from us on
a daily basis. There is no telling whether the
contractors were the same people that were
colluding with international shipping companies to
steal the oil.

We commend the Buhari administration for doing
the needful.

Need we advise that the security agencies that
have just got back their constitutionally-assigned
responsibilities must be properly equipped to
perform? From whom much is expected, much
must also be given. President Buhari has started
well. But nothing vitiates the need to constantly
tell the people what he is doing, for even the Bible
enjoins us to, at least occasionally, make a joyful
noise.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/buhari-is-still-making-haste-slowly/#sthash.PQrgiUJ3.dpuf[/s]

Whynotthetruth:


Trash and lies...

1)Why did same body language not end NASS unending crisis led by party?

2)Why did his body language not end boko haram?

3)Why did his body language not stop Europe from banning our export products?

4)Why did his body language not stop stock losses, food prices rise, etc?

5)Body language abi body odour

6)OPC and co contract expired and was NEVER terminated...

7)Name the work done and not empty rhetorics...

List the systematic foundation being laid and benefiting MDAs...

Shameless liars

Whynotthetruth:


Trash and lies...

1)Why did same body language not end NASS unending crisis led by party?

2)Why did his body language not end boko haram?

3)Why did his body language not stop Europe from banning our export products?

4)Why did his body language not stop stock losses, food prices rise, etc?

5)Body language abi body odour

6)OPC and co contract expired and was NEVER terminated...

7)Name the work done and not empty rhetorics...

List the systematic foundation being laid and benefiting MDAs...

Shameless liars

nitt:
We are positive that PMB is on course.
Patience is a virtue.

baralatie:

your power supply is from gej not PMB