BeeBeeOoh:
It is only Buhari that could share $322m Abacha loot, then travel to China to borrow $328m.





If you are searching for definition of emptiness, just look at Buhari

yeyerolling:
the black man no get sense. until we admit we no get sense we will not progress.


"In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person, lacking in self-control, discipline, and foresight. Naturally courageous, and naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewellery. His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals' placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the state he has reached.

"Through the ages, the African appears to have evolved no organised religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural. He lacks the power of organisation, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility - he will work hard with a less incentive than most races. He has the courage of the fighting animal, an instinct rather than a moral virtue. In brief, the virtues and defects of his race -type are those of attractive children, whose confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy. Perhaps, the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his lack of ability to visualize the future"
Lord lugard in his book dual mandates

trillville:
Cocaine is a helluva drug and our choice of drug is crude oil.

Cocaine keeps you in a state of bliss, masks all your problems and can lead you to become less productive when you abuse the drug. Many may not know this but cocaine used to be seen as a stimulant similar to caffeine so it has its positives but when wrongly used leads to problems. The mythical character, Sherlock Holmes regularly smoked cocaine using a pipe.

The term Dutch disease did not originate from Nigeria. It implies that a nation loses its ability to be productive because it sole focus and revenue source comes from the sale of a commodity (raw material, e.g Oil). We are addicted to oil money and as drug addicts, we need to be gradually weaned off of our drug of choice. A cocaine and heroin addict can kill a person for another fix because nothing in life is sweeter than his choice of drug.

How to wean Nigeria off crude oil. We need to be SMART

1. Specific:
A) Put a 10 to 15 year deadline on using income from crude sales to pay government workers (both civil and public services) salaries. All salaries must come from taxes.

B) Use crude oil revenues for Infrastructure such as renewable energy facilities which are cheaper in the long run but costlier to setup, schools, hospitals, roads, low cost housing, water plants, telecommunications infrastructures, and to set up cottage industries in all 774 lga's using a pop framework. Basically, government must use oil money for the benefit of the majority of Nigerians and not pay a few people salaries and believe that the money will trickle down.

C) Introduce policies of low corporate (business) taxes but high personal taxes on things like vehicles and houses. Also raise the VAT to the same level as neighboring African countries.

2. Measurable:
Three key services, security, healthcare and education, need real time information systems to collate a manage data to enable better decision making. Nigerians will also want to demand a higher standard of transparency because they are paying taxes. Information on oil sales and revenue from taxes must become a right for all Nigerians.

3. Actionable:
All Nigerians have a part to play. The government needs to collect revenue and manage it appropriately for the people and the people need to hold the government on account when their desires are not met. Removing the immunity clause from public officers and strengthening the judiciary would speed up the progress of this nation.

4. Relevant:
This policy of getting off our addiction lead to fewer people living in extreme poverty. As a result, security would improve, high birth rates would reduce, quality of life and life span will improve. Happiness and fulfillment of one's abilities would also become the norm.

5. Time: every year, a review of what percent of crude oil is used to pay salaries should be carried out. If government insists on maintaining it's full work force, it would have to increase taxes by the same amount it is forced to reduce from oil income. In economics, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Government must be efficient in making decisions and not carried away by day to day whims.

This is a basic blue print to restructure Nigeria. Every other option in my opinion will end in blood shed. Once more cocaine is a helluva drug. We need to get off it.

Bitterleafsoup:


Africans belief in nature & everything it is a pure existence.

Ha living in the past and dreading the future is why most Asians and Caucasians commit suicide easily and at alarming rates.

They did not meet us unorganized we were fine, happy organized in our own way. They learned democracy from west Africa and also took one of the spiritual systems and called it Kabalism to make money and rule the world. But I get your point.

Racoon:
Do you need failure to tell you that failure is failure
Buhari Spent $322m Abacha loots and borrow $328m.

"What Nigeria have today is a failure.Never you reinforce failure."-OBJ.

yeyerolling:
we were not fine, human sacrifice was rife, killing of twins was the thing in some places, wars and capture of slaves, health care we relied on herbs which cant cure certain diseases no invasive surgery too. technology wise we were no where that is why oyinbo could use mirror and wine to exchange for slaves

yeyerolling:
the black man no get sense. until we admit we no get sense we will not progress.


"In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person, lacking in self-control, discipline, and foresight. Naturally courageous, and naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewellery. His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals' placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the state he has reached.

"Through the ages, the African appears to have evolved no organised religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural. He lacks the power of organisation, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility - he will work hard with a less incentive than most races. He has the courage of the fighting animal, an instinct rather than a moral virtue. In brief, the virtues and defects of his race -type are those of attractive children, whose confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy. Perhaps, the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his lack of ability to visualize the future"
Lord lugard in his book dual mandates

miqos02:
I thought this man is no longer a Nigerian

tigerclaws:
thunder scatter Buhari Insha'Allah amin Thunder scatter Buhari Insha'Allah amin Thunder scatter aisha masha Allah amin

BabaO2:
It is better to be in debts with basic infrastructures such as electricity, trains, motorabe roads etc than to be out of debt without working and useful infrastructures

lloyds:
Like him or not, OBJ is the only president craving for one Nigeria.

He is the best president since the republic, and did many monumental things.

BeeBeeOoh:
It is only Buhari that could share $322m Abacha loot, then travel to China to borrow $328m.





If you are searching for definition of emptiness, just look at Buhari

Demgohearword:
So obj is a hero now