drnoel:



Pls join the line and don't come here to blow grammar.

ConqueredWest:


Pls provide me a link concerning the Indian CB governor so that I can learn

Also expatiate your point

obailala:
The bolded part of your message above is where I totally believed Buhari goofed; you do not use a sledge hammer to kill a fly that perches on your scrotum, not especially if you intend to have kids soon.

The other parts of your message I do not agree; the increase in tariff was part of the power sector privatisation roadmap, it wasn't Buhari's making. Secondly, the increase in fuel price occasioned by the removal of subsidy and withdrawal of subsidised forex to importers was an inevitable evil considering the state of the nation. Could you have suggested a better option?

Progressive01:
Okay, president Buhari "has no idea what to do", agreed. Now, my question is: kindly suggest one thing he could do to pull us out of the doldrums.

Recession of this nature where your reserve has been drastically depleted and your major forex earner has lost over 50%
of its value is most difficult to surmount.

If you wanna diversify, where do you get the money to do so (remember you need forex to import the equipment for this since they aren't produced locally)?? You wanna export more of your nearly useless forex earner so you can start taking steps towards diversification and some criminals literally make that impossible.

I'm glad you admitted Jonathan wasn't an option no matter what.

Sanchez01:

Yes, they are. BRF is however a man with brain, he does not call the shots and cannot do things in isolation. They are two different things. Saying Fashola and Buhari being in the same boat is a justification for measuring Fashola's intelligence or ability is an insult to the Former Executive Governor of Lagos State.

HIGHESTPOPORI:
There was fuel scarcity because buhari said oil subsidy doesn't exist after he won d election,and oil marketers didn't want to bring in fuel when they are not sure if d new govt would pay them,that's simple logic.How was it GEJ faulth?

madapcmod:
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which fashola? the one messing up the power sector? he met over 4000MW and today we are hovering around 2000MW. forget about lagos, a non-entity can rule lagos well, when former minister of power was complaining of sabotage of pipeline affecting power generation, fashola opened his ewedu mouth to say power generation is not rocket science, today he is facing same problem but lost at solution.

fashola is overhypped arrogant loud mouth. wia is d change?

Sanchez01:
Just last year, I joined the many Nigerians who actually thought a dogged fourth time contestants woild be the best thing to happen should Jonathan be kicked. A year after, I have lost my voice around friends and family each time a political discourse comes up, most especially about the state of the economy.

Problems bothering on insecurity, power, state of the economy and corruption have all grown worse than it was under Goodluck Jonathan. Not like Jonathan would have been able to redeem the nation a second time though, and I would have still clearly voted against him if I had caught a glimpse of the anomalies ongoing before hand, but this time, I would have just given my vote to Kowa or Hope.

Without mincing words, Nigeria is presently on autopilot; President Buhari clearly has no idea on what should be done. The BBOG Buhari used as a tool during his campaign have been forgotten, more than ever Fulani herdsmen have been armed and fortified as they impact roads and streets with cow dung and horrible flies. The budget padding saga is still an issue to watch while daily corruption charges hover around the president and his minions.

Just a handful of the many APC faithfuls who are fast realizing that the Change we have is in reverse, it is worthy of note to clearly state that I have lost faith in the Buhari-led administration.

I sincerely hope Kowa would come out stronger with young, vibrant, intelligent and dynamic candidates in 2019.

Progressive01:
I edited my post, you may wanna review your response.

Now, what has "Fulani" got to do with anything?? If it is about appointments, let me ask, does appointing, instead of a Fulani man, an Efik, Igbo, Idoma, Kanuri, Yoruba, Ijaw, etc automatically translate into turning the tide in our economy?? When you raise issues and you bring in arguments regarding ethnicity, you just mess things up, especially on this forum.

The economy is what it is today not because of the pilots we have but because the fundamentals are in shambles!!

Cast your mind back to what it was just weeks before handover!! There was no fuel anywhere, no electricity, banks were closing by 12noon because there was no electricity. Telecoms companies were unable to sustain their activities due to issues bordering on availability of gasoline/diesel to power their generators, etc!!

All these happening when crude was still being sold @ $70pb!! Now, it is being sold at just over half that price and people expect to see miracles happen!! Brother, it isn't that simple.

When recession came calling sometime in 2006 (or thereabouts) with a crash in crude prices, Nigeria defended her currency and her economy with over $20billion. Imports was sustained and the value of the naira was hardly affected. We had over $60billion in our reserves then!

Today, we are talking about just over half that amount at the point of handover with a population increase of over 15million!! This implies that if $20billion was being used to keep the economy afloat then, we would require even more today to do same!!

Now, imagine the implication of pulling out over 20billion dollars from our current reserve about a year ago or even now, and being left with about 10-15billion in reserves!! Imagine a country that isn't credit worthy!!

Dude, these are fundamental issues that would take time to correct. People don't see these things because they are too emotional to analyse them dispassionately.

Everybody is feeling the pangs, but I foresaw this coming from day one, so did NOI herself and Sanusi. They warned that we saved for the rainy day but the admin they worked under never heeded that warning. Today, shiit has really hit the fan and everyone is pointing accusing fingers at this government. I'm afraid I won't blame her on the state of the economy- it has been a long time coming.


Ps: you still haven't suggested what you would have done differently though.

obailala:
[s]You made 3 points, but they are all flawed

1. The fuel scarcity experienced before the handover of GEJ actually occurred AFTER Buhari/APC had already won the election. Does it make any sense that APC would sabotage fuel supply or power supply even after they had already won?

2. Price of oil as at May 2015 was actually about $65 (not $70); you are a bit right about oil price being lower, but 65/70 isn't a big difference.

3. The same people who accuse APC of blame game still turn around to say Amaechi and Fashola are the ones who forced GEJ to share ECA, such amusing hypocrisy. And one begins to wonder whether these same governors didnt also pressure OBJ and Yaradua (even with court cases) to share this same money. now let's assume GEJ yielded because he is a man of peace and due process, the fact remains that states only took their share of the money, they took what belonged to them while the FG still kept the bulk (over 52%) of the total ECA funds. Since we love these baseless blame games so much, kindly tell us, was it also these 2 APC governors that forced the FG to squander its own 52% share of the ECA funds?[/s]

SuperPanther:


The Igbos are too big to be pushed under not to talk of adding the Niger Delta to it.

You cannot take the east for granted and have it smooth, never!!!!

Buhari's immaturity and arrogance has gotten us into this mess.

Many of us saw this coming but you omenka, fulanimafia and others kept cheering him on shouting the new sheriff is in town.

Buhari failed to handle the Biafra agitation well likewise the Niger Delta agitation.

Tell him to apologise for that 5% speech and after that, he should dress in Igbo & ND attires and go to the SE & SS and talk to the people, letting them know they are also Nigerians and that we can work together to make this nation great again.

Buhari should be humble for goodness sakes, this is not 1966 or 1983, this is 2016!!!

I am yet to see the sort of maturity one would have expected from Buhari to be honest.

Progressive01:
Okay, president Buhari "has no idea what to do", agreed. Now, my question is: kindly suggest one thing he could do to pull us out of the doldrums.

Recession of this nature where your reserve has been drastically depleted and your major forex earner has lost over 50%
of its value is most difficult to surmount.

If you wanna diversify, where do you get the money to do so (remember you need forex to import the equipment for this since they aren't produced locally)?? You wanna export more of your nearly useless forex earner so you can start taking steps towards diversification and some criminals literally make that impossible.

I'm glad you admitted Jonathan wasn't an option no matter what.

Sanchez01:
Just last year, I joined the many Nigerians who actually thought a dogged fourth time contestants woild be the best thing to happen should Jonathan be kicked. A year after, I have lost my voice around friends and family each time a political discourse comes up, most especially about the state of the economy.

Problems bothering on insecurity, power, state of the economy and corruption have all grown worse than it was under Goodluck Jonathan. Not like Jonathan would have been able to redeem the nation a second time though, and I would have still clearly voted against him if I had caught a glimpse of the anomalies ongoing before hand, but this time, I would have just given my vote to Kowa or Hope.

Without mincing words, Nigeria is presently on autopilot; President Buhari clearly has no idea on what should be done. The BBOG Buhari used as a tool during his campaign have been forgotten, more than ever Fulani herdsmen have been armed and fortified as they impact roads and streets with cow dung and horrible flies. The budget padding saga is still an issue to watch while daily corruption charges hover around the president and his minions.

Just a handful of the many APC faithfuls who are fast realizing that the Change we have is in reverse, it is worthy of note to clearly state that I have lost faith in the Buhari-led administration.

I sincerely hope Kowa would come out stronger with young, vibrant, intelligent and dynamic candidates in 2019.

BeClever:
You must keep faith.. .we no greeee!

Chiwude:
It isn't too late bro. Buhari should apologize to the 5% percenters. Run a conclusive government and bring everybody aboard. This may signal the start of his success story.

creserve:

My bros, the way some people reason is quite absurd! For someone to say Buhari is clueless shows their level of understanding the dynamic of governance or outright hatred for the man, his party, his tribe, religion or all of the above!
The truth is that the economy has been crippled by the previous governments ineptitude and corruption! And it's obvious that their is no magic wand that any one
possess that can turn things round in a jiffy!
Like someone rightly observed, it's only in this country that you have corruption and ineptitude being celebrated on the halter of religion and ethnicity and the same people doing this are shouting hunger! Are we serious at all?
We definitely need to be more responsible!!!

Progressive01:
Okay, president Buhari "has no idea what to do", agreed. Now, my question is: kindly suggest one thing he could do to pull us out of the doldrums.

Recession of this nature where your reserve has been drastically depleted and your major forex earner has lost over 50%
of its value is most difficult to surmount.

If you wanna diversify, where do you get the money to do so (remember you need forex to import the equipment for this since they aren't produced locally)?? You wanna export more of your nearly useless forex earner so you can start taking steps towards diversification and some criminals literally make that impossible.

I'm glad you admitted Jonathan wasn't an option no matter what.

Progressive01:
Okay, president Buhari "has no idea what to do", agreed. Now, my question is: kindly suggest one thing he could do to pull us out of the doldrums.

Recession of this nature where your reserve has been drastically depleted and your major forex earner has lost over 50%
of its value is most difficult to surmount.

If you wanna diversify, where do you get the money to do so (remember you need forex to import the equipment for this since they aren't produced locally)?? You wanna export more of your nearly useless forex earner so you can start taking steps towards diversification and some criminals literally make that impossible.

I'm glad you admitted Jonathan wasn't an option no matter what.

2sexynet:
BullSHIIITTT... complete BULLSHIITT.... the money currently spent on oil exploration in the North could do so much in agriculture within a few months. Task every state to invest HEAVILY into agriculture, get foreign farmers and treat them like king... watch them do magic and then we can export the surplus to bring home forex.


It is that simple yet you guys complicate things. We can not industralize under this state but AGRICULTURE will do WONDERS. How long will it take crops to be planted and harvested?

Sanchez01:

The truth is, no matter how hard I try, I just don't see it working.

A colleague engaged me at the office two days ago. It was an intelligent engagement, though our discourse was political. He clearly hates Buhari and his policies but he voted for him!

What changed?
Corruption is not the only problem Nigeria is confronted with. We have many issues unattended to and the President is all after corrupt public officials like that's the answer to solving our economic anomaly. Dogara, the number 3 man, and Saraki, the number 2 man, are all roped with corruption charges at the moment. Nothing so far about the girls. Militants grow with each passing day, Fulani herdsmen are kings of the bushes, forests, streets and roads, Buratai, the COAS, has corruption allegations on his neck too. How about the common man?

I might be comfortable and doing well but would most Nigerians say the same? We never bargained for this. This isn't what we asked for. The only reason I'd vote APC in 2019 is IF Fashola is allowed to run. President Buhari is clearly not the answer we seek.

blueto:
Lies.

The election was held on march 28th and fuel scarcity was already on ground before then! check the date of this news: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/177824-apc-behind-fuel-scarcity-plotting-sabotage-of-power-supply-jonathans-campaign.html


And stop all these spurious and illogical postulations.

when will zombies stop being delusional?.

4wrd9ja:

Here are some suggestions 1, ,He should stop taking photos and face governance 2He should only listen to his brothers and sisters he has appointed to office only on family matters and seek out competent hands to help him 3 He should not be averse to criticism cause he could sometimes benefits from it.4 He should use home e grown economics to solve our problems.e.g we need to urgently increase our refining capacity to save on forex wated on importation, we can't wait for dangote 2019
,this will bring a savings of over 60% of forex and improve naira value since more dollars will be available to channel to more productive sectors at reasonable cost 5 seek to lower cost of borrowing to the productive sector 6 improve the efficiency at the ports and reduce corruption there 7 esure. 24hours. of electricity as a matter of national emergency,WE are blessed with other source s of power aside niger delta gas if the will is there 8 Encourage and promote massive investment in agric,,guaranteed markets will encourage farmers including assistance with machinery.let me stop here

Sanchez01:

Yes, they are. BRF is however a man with brain, he does not call the shots and cannot do things in isolation. They are two different things. Saying Fashola and Buhari being in the same boat is a justification for measuring Fashola's intelligence or ability is an insult to the Former Executive Governor of Lagos State.

lecturerdabo:
Even your Fashola Bro, they are both in the same boat!

creserve:

My bros, the way some people reason is quite absurd! For someone to say Buhari is clueless shows their level of understanding the dynamic of governance or outright hatred for the man, his party, his tribe, religion or all of the above!
The truth is that the economy has been crippled by the previous governments ineptitude and corruption! And it's obvious that their is no magic wand that any one
possess that can turn things round in a jiffy!
Like someone rightly observed, it's only in this country that you have corruption and ineptitude being celebrated on the halter of religion and ethnicity and the same people doing this are shouting hunger! Are we serious at all?
We definitely need to be more responsible!!!

creserve:

My bros, the way some people reason is quite absurd! For someone to say Buhari is clueless shows their level of understanding the dynamic of governance or outright hatred for the man, his party, his tribe, religion or all of the above!
The truth is that the economy has been crippled by the previous governments ineptitude and corruption! And it's obvious that their is no magic wand that any one
possess that can turn things round in a jiffy!
Like someone rightly observed, it's only in this country that you have corruption and ineptitude being celebrated on the halter of religion and ethnicity and the same people doing this are shouting hunger! Are we serious at all?
We definitely need to be more responsible!!!

Not like Jonathan would have been able to redeem the nation a second time though, and I would have still clearly voted against him

obailala:
Fashola isn't the one blowing up gas pipelines.