Criticism from Afar.

Nigerians have been known to criticize their presidents not because they are never satisfied but because each of them failed. Nothing hurts like when you have your hopes dashed by whom you placed so much trust on.
On the political front we Nigerians need delivery of promises.

Someone has said, 
"BELIEVE ME OR NOT THIS IS THE MOST CLUELESS GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA'S HISTORY EVEN ABACHA WAS BETTER
DON'T BLAME GEJ HE CONTESTED IN 2015 AND HE FAILED (for the first time) . GEJ IS USED TO GETTING EVERYTHING SO EASY FROM DEPUTY GOV TO PRESIDENT HE WAS RELAX THINKING 2015 WILL BE LIKE 2011. GEJ TRUSTED PEOPLE BUT THEY FAILED HIM.
BUHARI WAS READY IN 2015. .THAT'S WHY HE SAID EVEN WE MUST ALL DIE 2015 IT MUST BE HIM BUT UNFORTUNATELY HE WAS JUST READY FOR POWER AND NOT TO RULE"

It's not just Nigerian Now who sees the error of Buhari.

"President Buhari administration lacks vision" so says a USA ex lawmaker, Mr pete Hoekstra revealed.

1. He said, president Buhari was Nigeria problem, not its solution

2. The US lawmaker noted that president Buhari anti corruption drive was selective

3. He said, an anti corruption drive, that is selective and focus on senior member of the opposition party create deep political division.

4. He said, members of president Buhari own cabinet, accused of large scale corruption walk free.

5. He said, seventy percent of the national treasury is spent on the salaries and benefits of government officials.

6. He said, the manufacturing sector, essential to Nigeria diversification, has been hardest hit in president Buhari one year reign in office, exacerbating an already fast growing employment crisis

7. He said, foreign investors have started to flee in mass.

Alright, who are the corrupt APC members in president Buhari cabinet? Let us have your input on this platform. May God deliver Nigeria.
Amen

British Military Advisory training Nigerian Army

Mr. Buratai, a Lieutenant General, represented by the Chief of Administration, Nigerian Army, A. B. Abubakar, said, “The joint military training conducted with the British Military Advisory Training Team is aimed at modernising the initial training.

This is to ensure that you are introduced to contemporary training method and improvised explosive devise awareness training and survival skills to make you a strong force to be reckoned with.’’

According to the COAS, this training is very important particularly given the security challenges currently confronting the nation.

He charged the newly graduated recruits to exhibit high sense of disciple, loyalty, integrity, selfless service courage and respect for others.

Mr. Buratai advised them to imbibe and retain the mental, physical and spiritual training given at Depot and others they would be exposed to at their respective units, formation and corps.

He said that the security challenges confronting the country would soon be a thing of the past as necessary measures were put in place to achieve the set goal.

“Today’s occasion is another milestone in the history of Depot Nigerian Army and indeed the country at large.

“This highly reputable institution established in 1924 has remained pivotal in the production of soldiers for the Nigerian Army.

“The institution provides a platform for the transformation of able bodied young men and women from civilians into combatant soldiers capable of defending the territorial integrity from all threats,” he said.

He said realistic training was the best means of preparing the Nigerian Army personnel toward achieving its goals as enshrined in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Mr. Buratai lauded the efforts of management and the entire staff of Depot Nigerian Army for what he described as improvement in every aspect of realistic result oriented training.

“This improved standard is yielding positive results as evident in the robust fighting spirit exhibited by our troops in North-East and excellent display of discipline and coordination witnessed during this raid.

“I am indeed pleased; this institution remained distinguished among its contemporaries within and outside the country.

“I am without any hesitation assure you of my untimely commitment and support toward improving the standard of training and welfare of recruits and staff of Depot Nigerian Army and indeed the Nigerian Army in general,” he said.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that over 2,900 recruits graduated in the 74 regular recruit intake.

Madam-Olowolafe suggests the way out for Nigeria.

According to Vanguard the following below are her humble suggestions to effect change for the better for Nigeria:

Nigeria must reactivate her refineries and build some more by the Government building or by collaborating with private investors or by creating enabling environment for private investment in the sector. We must stop relying on China and other foreign countries for refined products. It must be noted that for the size and population of Nigeria there cannot be too many refineries.
    We must reactivate or resuscitate our industries, particularly the Textile industries. Closely connected to rejuvenation of our industries is the need to do something about our power supply. This is because industries can hardly thrive where there is no power supply.

iii. Importation of foreign goods that could otherwise be produced in Nigeria should be stopped or discouraged. This could be done by imposition of heavy tariffs and duties on importation of non-essential goods and goods that are being produced locally.

    Exportation of raw materials that could be used to develop Nigerian industries is to be stopped. This should include the exportation of crude oil.
    Agriculture should be given its former place of pride. Farm settlements should be resuscitated to address unemployment and reduce crimes.  If our boys who now resort to kidnapping are settled and gainfully engaged they may notthink of kidnapping people for money.
    The President should use the Prisoners Exchange Program between Nigeria and China to recall Nigerians who are reported to be languishing in Chinese jails but whom China is exploiting to drive her economy by using them as human machines to produce what Nigerians and other nationals rush to China to get (See THIS DAY Publication of 17th March, 2016).

Nigerian government is to investigate the cases of these Nigerian prisoners in China to see those were not tried or given fair trial before they were lurked into jail and take necessary action on them. The real offenders who are in Chinese jail should be made to come back home to continue their jail terms and be made to work for Nigeria as they were doing for China while in Chinese jails.

vii. Government to sponsor Nigerians to foreign countries notable for assembling of vehicles to learn how to assembly cars, trucks, motor cycles, etc so that we may start assembling them ourselves.

viii. Nigerian educational system should be technical oriented so that our young graduates and school leavers may learn and know how to make and repair simple household gadgets.

    After reactivation of our industries, the government should create an enabling environment for the industries by creating market for them. For example, government must encourage the use of locally made cloths by the Police, the Army, NYSC and all such organizations to have their uniforms made of made in Nigeria cloths.
    From the mass of land that we have in Nigeria the government is advised to create a New Town – a city of hope for Nigerians abroad who want to come back home after their sojourn overseas and probably for those who are repatriated.

The New Town to be made conducive to good living by having amenities such as electricity, water supply, schools, hospitals, shopping centres and markets.

Who says this cannot be possible or that we do not enough resources for such? Nigeria was not as buoyant as it is now when Abuja was conceived and built!

Let all the stolen monies that are being retrieved now be plunged into the project and I am sure there will be a great change for the better for Nigerians. We have solid minerals in abundance in the northern part of the country and also in commercial quantities in some southern states. I remember that as young girl my father used to be involved in gold mining activities in and around Ilesha, Osun State.  I am sure the gold is still there! This can fetch Nigeria money. The government should establish or encourage the establishment of gold mining and stone polishing industries as necessary.

Nigeria should please wake up and tap these resources which are wasting away underground when she needs them overland for her development.

Nothing will please me more than seeing some of my suggestions being implemented in my lifetime as I am now in my 80s.

The Anti Corruption bill in a nutshell.

Is obvious the government was never really fighting corruption. When events will begin to unfold even a baby in Nigeria will understand the mirage Buhari and his cohorts of Buharimaniacs are creating. APC is just another PDP waiting to happen.

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has said the new money laundering bill will weaken President Buhari’s anti-corruption fight.

The lawyer also revealed that he has some serious objections to various provisions and sections of the bill.

Falana said “Instead of addressing the challenges encountered in dealing with the menace of money laundering, the federal government has submitted the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, 2016.

“In view of the serious objections to certain provisions of the proposed Bill by the EFCC, the National Assembly is urged to conduct a public hearing with a view to ensuring that the limited success recorded in the fight against money laundering is not sacrificed on account of expediency.”

The money laundering bill stipulates that financial and non-financial institutions found guilty of the crime, will pay N25m and N10m respectively.

It also states that anybody found guilty of money laundering will serve a jail term of not less than seven years.

Vanguard reports that the bill describes someone who has committed money laundering as “a person who knows, ought reasonably to have known or suspects that property has a criminal origin, commits an offence if he conceals, disguises, converts, transfers or removes the property from Nigeria.’’

Femi Falana also said courts are not supposed to grant bail to looters of public funds.

Will You Eat Genetically Modified Corn?

The National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), the regulatory body for biotechnology in Nigeria, has issued two permits to Monsanto Agriculture Nigeria Limited for the commercial release and market placement of genetically modified (GMO) cotton and the confined field trial of GMO maize.

The two permits were signed by NBMA director-general Rufus Ebegba last month May 1, which happened to be a public holiday.

According to the Premium Times, this comes despite assurances from Minister of State for Environment Ibrahim Jibril that “Nigeria would not mortgage the safety of its citizens by introducing unproven products into the country.”

The move has sparked widespread condemnation from 100 organizations representing more than 5 million Nigerians, including farmers, faith-based organizations, civil society groups, students and local community groups.

The coalition has previously expressed concerns about the human health and environmental risks of genetically altered crops. They noted that Monsanto’s genetically enhanced crops are designed to tolerate the use of the herbicide glyphosate which was declared as a possible carcinogen by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in March 2015.

“This is extremely shocking,” Nnimmo Bassey, the director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, said in response to the development. “Little wonder officials of NBMA, National Biotech Development Agency (NABDA) and their pro-GMO train have been fighting tooth and nail to fool Nigerians by claiming that GMOs are safe! They approved the poorly concocted applications and issued these permits on a Sunday when government offices do not open. In fact, 2nd May was also a public holiday.”

Bassey has been one of the most prominent opponents of genetically modified foods in Nigeria, ever since former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan signed the National Biosafety Management Bill into law last year, basically opening the doors to GMOs cultivation in the country.

Bassey has accused NBMA’s governing board of having GMO proponents such as NABDA and the Biotechnology Society of Nigeria as members.

“Those GMO promoters are concerned with ensuring the profit of biotech entrepreneurs rather than the health and environmental concerns of Nigerians,” he told the Premium Times. “A case in point is that NABDA, a member of the Board of NBMA, is a co-sponsor with Monsanto of the application for the field trials of the GMO maize. We are also appalled that an agency saddled with defending Nigeria’s biodiversity is actively promoting these risky technologies.”

Nigeria’s Guardian has published the reasoning behind group’s objection to Monsanto’s recent permits:

In the objection to Monsanto’s applications, the concerned Nigerians stated that in its application MON 15985, Monsanto is using genes referred to as cry2Ab2 and cry1Ac, which produce Bt toxins that have been synthetically manufactured with no history of safe use in nature.

The insertion of the Antibiotic Resistant Marker Gene (ARMG) causes concerns regarding the potential transfer of antibiotic resistance to other living organisms.

This concern, which is dismissed by the applicant, has been raised by a scientific panel of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) stating that this particular ARMG should be restricted to field trial purposes and should not be present in GM plants to be placed on the market—unfortunately this is what NBMA has released into the Nigerian market.

NMBA’s latest action has also provoked the NGO Global Prolife Alliance to call on Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari to dismiss the agency’s management and board.

The recent actions of the management of the NBMA are clear manifestations of the undue interference by biotechnology firms who dictate the actions of their government regulators,” Dr. Philip C. Njemanze, MD, Global Prolife Alliance chairman, said. “These actions of the NBMA are dangerous and unpatriotic. They are in violation of food and environmental safety laws in Nigeria. These actions of NBMA display total incompetence and unprofessionalism by the management, and calls into question their fitness to administer such a crucial job of securing the food security of the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

He called the action a “total disregard for the food safety concerns regarding GMOs crops expressed by leading governments around the world, who have had first hand experience with genetically modified maize,” pointing to France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Luxemburg, Austria, Hungary and Greece that have banned the same insect-resistant corn variety citing environmental concerns.

Following the intense outcry, Egbeba, the NBMA head, announced at a press conference that no GMO product has been officially released into the Nigerian market yet. He said the agency will be assessing the potential impact of GMOs on human or animal health, the environment as well as its socio-economic impacts before its official release, according to The Leadership.

“The NBMA is poised to effectively regulate modern biotechnology for the benefit of Nigerians and to allay the fears of members of the public who so wish to consume GMOs in Nigeria,” the director-general said. “It should be clear that no one would be forced to use or consume GMOs in Nigeria. GMOs would be labelled. The agency bases its decision on science, taking into consideration national interest, socio-economic issues, human health and safety to the environment.”

Egbeba also dismissed safety concerns of GMOs, saying that “the controversy surrounding the food and feeds are quite germane. However, suffice it to say that [to] date there is no reliable evidence that GM crops pose any health risk whatsoever. Recent FAO, World Health Organization (WHO) and other credible authorities attest to this. The public should therefore trust the agency’s decisions and avoid unscientific information and acts capable of causing public distrust and panic.”

Is Nigeria ready for GMO?

It has been a debate, are we ready for a genetically modified organism? Personal I don't think we need it.  But experts believe we are. Reason being that For every laudable evolutionary agricultural discovery in Africa and the globe, Nigeria has either missed out of the pudding completely, or takes a queue from behind, a decision many agriculturalists have found appalling and a setback for national development.
Thus
Recently, Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, announced that the country has finally resolved to join the rest of the world to start harnessing bio-technology. He said Nigeria will increase its food production with the use of Genetically Modified (GM) crops.
Most analysts believe the decision is belated given that not a few African countries had already started benefiting a great deal from bio-technology driven farming system or GM crops for over a decade now.
The minister said, “a regulatory system will be put in place to adequately test the technology. But then, the bio-safety act that passed by the Senate is yet to be signed into law by President Jonathan. Further, he assured that, “When the bill is eventually signed into law, it will also play a significant role.”
Considering the positive impact of GM crops on some farming communities around the world, Adesina’s proclamation on it ignited ‘mix-grill’ reactions among stakeholders in the agricultural sector just as issues of GM food had done around the world.
Ever since GMOs resurfaced on national and international discourse, specific ‘unhealthy’ debates, arguments and criticisms have ensued as to whether or not consumers should accept GM foods.
Global media have launched intensive campaign against anti-GM technology because according to them, there have been no traces of any disease caused by the consumption of GM diets, to justify the claims.
Protagonists of GM foods have tended to highlight its numerous advantages even in the face of stiff oppositions by some European countries. Whereas observers believe the United States of America champions the campaign and promotion of the consumption GM foods, Europe has vehemently opposed its consumption. Ironically, the same Europe prefers to lend support to the use of bio-technology in agriculture.
This contradiction has prompted some nagging questions chief among them: What is bio-technology all about as the GMOs?
It is obvious that issues on GM foods between Europe and America, as seen by many analysts, are simply an ego problem and the quest to woo economic benefits. The result invariably leads to their toying with the interest of the rest of the world to the detriment of global food security. Their contradictory stance mocks the projected determination to achieve food security by 2050 when as much as 9 billion people are expected to be on earth.
Isn’t it rational for people to gain insight into an issue before cricitising it? Or is the world losing confidence in scientific research and discoveries?  Should we blindly discard innovations and innovative ideas just because they at first don’t seem right to us?  One had thought we should draw strength from previous findings that later benefited humanity?
As for Nigeria, if the government is that skeptical about GM foods for citizens, which seems obvious, what would they say is wrong with adoption of genetic modification in cotton production, which is non-edible?
The argument on cotton is imperative because Nigeria could derive huge windfall, especially in northern part of the country where cotton could be easily cultivated. Even at present, farmers in the north made huge proceeds from exporting the commodity. Remember the illustrious Kaduna Textile Industry, and how its eventual closure had a multiplier effects on families as thousands were rendered jobless?
Many have asserted that the fastest means of achieving food sufficiency, food security and rescuing the rural poor from the pangs of hunger, lies with bio-technology driven agricultural system. Scientists have listed several usefulnesses of GM foods but have said nothing really negative about their consumption.
From available records, while genetic manipulation of foods can be traced throughout history, the modern marvels of GMOs and transgenic plants have come to light in just the last few decades. In the 1980’s, scientific discovery proved that specific pieces of DNA could be transferred from one organism to another. This became the basis of the genetic modification process.
In 1983, the first transgenic plant, a tobacco plant resistant to antibiotics was created. Then, genetically engineered cotton was successfully field-tested in 1990. Five years later, Monsanto, then leading bio-tech Company, introduced herbicide-immune soybeans otherwise known as “Round-Up-Ready”.
The promise of genetic modification was enhanced even further in 2000, when scientist discovered that the modification process could be used to introduce nutrients and vitamins to enrich foods. Today, biotechnology and the process of genetic modification is emerging and advancing throughout the planet.
“As at 2004, genetically modified crops were being grown by 8.25 million farmers in 17 countries. Commercially, four genetically modified crops dominate global biotech agriculture with soybeans accounting for 60% of GM crop area, maize accounting for 23% of GM crop area, cotton accounting for 11% of GM crop area, and canola accounting for 6% of GM crop area (James, 2004).”
With the above statistics, what other conviction do we need to accept GM crops, not only as consumers but as producers?
For Nigeria in particular and Africa as a whole, bio-technology, GMO or whatever it is called, needs priority now, if the continent must exploit the abundant-vast arable agricultural lands and harness the myriad of available crops to engage and feed its teeming population.
The challenges for Africa are enormous. It is projected that by the year 2050, the population will double to two billion people while the land available for cultivation will decrease by two thirds.
These two factors combined raise the question of how to produce food and nutrition for the growing population. Moreover, this will also affect the development of the volatile African economy, since 65 per cent of its labour force and 32 per cent of its gross domestic products currently come from the agricultural sector.
In recent years, however, a remarkable change has occurred. Many countries on the African continent have refocused and strengthened their areas of strength and have accordingly gained comparative advantage, thanks to genetically modified crops. While North and South America and Asia are well-known growers of GM crops, Few Africa countries, sadly Nigeria inclusive, somewhat lack behind in the latest biotechnological developments.
As far back as 1998, South Africa became the first African country to approve genetically modified (BT) cotton and is now the eighth largest producer of GM crops worldwide. Since then, more and more African countries have followed suit.
Although only three other African countries – Egypt, Sudan and Burkina Faso – are currently producing GM crops, many more African countries are investing in research and field trials. Even countries that used to oppose GMOs have altered their tough stance and have embraced the new technology for food security.
For example, in May 2013, after banning GM crop imports the year before, Kenya announced that it would rethink its stance and begin field trials in the coming year with GM bananas engineered to resist bacterial disease.
Also, a lot of research is being conducted into indigenous parasites and plant diseases, which used to cause large-scale crop damage. In Nigeria for instance, the pest Marucavitrata causes crop damage worth nearly USD 300 million annually. Scientists from the Ahmadu Bello University in northern Nigeria have developed a pest-resistant black-eyed pea variety to control this particular insect.
Similarly, in Uganda, Xanthomonas wilt that has affected banana plants and costs farmers several hundred million US dollars annually. But, Ugandan researchers are currently working on a transgenic banana to control Xanthomonas.
Of course, this experience prompted discussions about the pros and cons of GM crops in Uganda. For example, a biotechnology and bio-safety bill was hotly debated by lawmakers, scientists and activists, but finally passed at the end of 2012.
This was also the case in Nigeria, where tensions over GM crops ran high and a bio-safety law that was to be ratified at the end of 2012 was halted. However, in June it was announced that President Goodluck Jonathan will sign the bill, while the Minister of Science and Technology, Professor Ita Okon Bassey Ewa, added that the most populous African country will start selling GM crops by 2015.
On the other hand, for Africa, the benefits outweigh the costs. Keep in mind that genetically modified crops help increase yields and reduce input costs, thus, growing more food in less time, with less money, and labour.
These foods will not only be produced in more quantity but can also have a longer shelf life with less labour and natural materials (water, soil, and energy) to produce. These modified food crops can produce the needed better nutritional foods that African people need.
It will generate vast improvement in food security and ensure availability of sufficient food for its hunger-ravaged Africans. This could be a huge relief for Africans and indeed Nigeria which is blessed with arable lands, dynamic and ever adventurous population.

Misbehaving Nigerian so called Elders

When an Elder misbehaves rarely can they be cautioned, so it is when an elder statesman and former Commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), retired Major General Paul C. Tarfa said that with the various steps that the current administration has taken, Nigeria is finally gaining back her respect and pride of place within the community of nations just as he called for men of goodwill around the country to rally round the administration in its efforts to reposition the country.

Giving reasons as to why corruption had grown to become the monster that the administration is trying to defeat, General Tarfa stated that over the years, people especially those saddled with leadership were never reprimanded or punished for breaching public trust. It leaves me to wonder what kind of an elder he is, a hero worshiper or one who is blind to the ordeals of the young ones.

This general must be one of the buharimaniacs, and his speeches are questionable, has he not heard Cameron's speech about Nigeria being fantastically corrupt?  Did he not hear Trump's speak so badly of Nigeria and Nigerians? Was he deaf when an Indian ambassador spoke concerning Nigerians?  This man deserves to be stoned to death. But if he is then freedom of speech would have been defeated. He is just a buharimaniac seeking the crumbs from the Villa.

The Nigerian Blame game Continues.

Nigerians have always played the blame game. Government and citizens alike. We blame the president, we blame his vice, the Senate and Senators, Governors and the local government.
Aside the government we blame rich family members, we are waiting for that uncle or that aunty  to  do this or that. We are never thinking in our capacity for ourselves, if we do, just very few of us. We wait for government intervention on even proper disposal of our waste in the right other at designated places of disposals. We are like the proverbial young man whose father married for him and he kept waiting for the father to impregnate his wife and on his dying bed he blamed his father.

We have not realized that it's not about what Nigeria can do for you but what you can do for Nigeria. It is so every where, don't point fingers at any country.

We are the ones exploiting ourselves, we enslave our fellow Nigerians, we over work and over use them while under paying them, when they die at 40, we blame the government for making the nation harsh.

We have refused to obey our own laws and constitution, we are all lords and therefore above the law, but wait until we are victims, then we blame the system for not being just.

In the capacity of our economy, one will think Nigeria will experience a decline in baby production, but since there is no OPEC to regulate, we are all determined to out do our forefathers, who had twenty and pushed them all into farming. Our neighbor has eight and therefore we must pass our neighbor. And when we can't train them, we blame the government for poor policy and child care support.

We go to China and request for a substandard product, so we can make massive gains. Wait until we buy one fake product and we will lament on how much corruption has eaten deep into the political system.

Our lecturers want to be sorted, if you cannot afford it, cash or kind, then you must fail. Yet he will join and complain Nigerian youths are unemployable. How can they be when the real graduates are still in queue waiting to graduate from various universities.

Politicians will embezzle money meant for one health care program or the other, and when they become ill they run to one foreign hospital for medical care and blame the lack of quality medication in Nigeria.

It's high time we rethink our methods in Nigeria and realize that no one is coming to build Nigeria for us, if we don't.
Nigeria is depending on you.....don't depend on Nigeria.

Do not declare Buhari incapacitated....!

Do not declare Buhari incapacitated a Nigerian university student warns.

Abeg..Buhari should not be declared incapacitated Biko!..mbok! let him complete this work him don start.
He must bring back the price of fuel to #87 or #40 im promise.
Price of tomanto to #50 for 6-7 pieces
bring back dollar from dah electric pole wey im dey..
Match box should be #5 now!..atleast Tafawa Balewa will stop turning in his Grave for rendering the note which his head occupies useless
Garri price seff don increase..it should relax and come back because Nigerian students can't do without it!
Price of Maggi and crayfish will have to come down as im dey before then they can declare him incapacitated..

Do you agree with this Uni Uyo student?

The Yaradua Come back. Buhari will remain in London.

For all Nigerians expecting the return of Mr President. President Mohammadu Buhari would be back to the country, Nigeria, on Sunday, Vice President Osinbajo has said so.

Recall that President Buhari left Nigeria for London, United Kingdom on a 10 day medical trip to treat an ear infection on Monday, June 6, 2016. He was due to return to Abuja at the expiration of the 10 days leave today to resume duties on Thursday, today.

But Vice, Osinbajo has said he would stay back in London to rest a while.

Speaking to State House Correspondents shortly before the commencement of the National Economic Council, NEC meeting yesterday, Osinbajo said the president would come back on Sunday.

He added that the president was in good health. “The President will be back on Sunday. I spoke with him yesterday evening and I think it is just the best that he takes the weekend off. He will certainly be back on Sunday.

“I think the most straightforward thing is when he will be back. He will be back on Sunday. There is no point rushing back on Friday or something like that. “He will just take the weekend off and be back on Sunday. “He is in perfect health and ready to resume work on Monday morning.

“Mr. President is in good condition, he is fine, he is very well. He should take a day or two off in London and rest a bit and come back hale and hearty on Sunday and be ready for work on Monday.

“So we expect him back on Sunday”, he said.

For a man of Osibanjo's status, saying there is no need for a president to be in the country just because it's weekend, sounds out of place coming from a lawyer. Is Buhari a traveling president?  Did Nigerians elect him to take frequent leaves?  If he is perfectly fine as Vice President insinuates then I see no reason he should still be away. Unless we are having a repeat of Yaradua.

If only Nigeria learns or listens

Nigerian government and its unrealistic dreams.

Create jobs. No country has 100%entrepreneurs as citizen. We will soon be filled with men battling with certificates and firms looking for 80 years experience.
I believe entrepreneurs are the backbones of every economy. The availability of fund (capital)  has been the major problem of theNigerian Entrepreneurship train. Poor government policies and unrealistic dreams and visions. I don't hope to play the blame game but during yaradua's 50billion naira niger delta amnesty......Thousand where trained and the government dreamt of when they will come back to build industries, like oshomole, I ask where is the industry?  Even at that the government did not think that the expertise of this group of persons could be utilized and thus didn't prepare for their return or provide funds or aid to have them implement what they have learnt.We all know how it ended same persons regrouped and today are deadlier that they were before now.
One would think that a government that spent billions would have learnt that first, provision of place of employment or accessible fund for capital before commencement of training would yield. Why take the same route and expect to arrive at a different destination?
The buhari regime has taken same route every other administration took. How will he achieve differently? The next few years if not months will tell.