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Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
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Sunday, 6 November 2016

Buhari, wife, others shun made-in-Nigeria products

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President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha
Despite the Federal Government’s consistent calls on Nigerians to patronise Made-in-Nigeria products in order to strengthen the economy and aid national development, SUNDAY PUNCH’s investigation has shown that President Muhammadu Buhari and members of his team are using foreign products.

The investigation showed that except their clothes, the President and his team have been using foreign products ranging from their shoes to their cars.
For instance, there was outcry especially on social media platforms recently when Buhari was spotted in a pair of Gucci 1953 horsebit loafer shoes.
The price of the shoes was put at $640 at that time.
Not a few Nigerians were surprised that with his acclaimed austere lifestyle, the President could be spotted in such expensive imported shoes.
Further investigation showed that none of the vehicles in the President’s convoy was manufactured or assembled locally.
His official car is a Mercedes Maybach S600 described as “an extra highlight in the luxury segment.”
The vehicle in base-line configuration is said to cost around $258,000.
The President’s wife, Aisha, has also been attracting comments to herself lately over the various expensive and foreign fashion accessories that she uses.
She had earlier been spotted holding a Hermes Birkin 35cm Porosus Crocodile Gold Hardware Bag in Washington DC recently.
The bag was said to be worth over $70,000.
A Hermes Himalayan Crocodile Birkin bag was said to have been auctioned for $432,000 recently.
A news portal had claimed that the pink version of Mrs. Buhari’s Hermes handbag was auctioned in 2015 for $222,912 at a Christie’s auction in Hong Kong.
Shortly after that, the President’s wife was again on October 18 spotted wearing a $2,600 multicoloured cape to Brussels.
She was also said to have been seen with an expensive diamond wristwatch by Chopard.
A look at Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo’s convoy also showed that most of the cars are expensive imported cars except for the Nissan Patrol Sports Utility Vehicle being used by some security operatives.
The SUVs were manufactured in Nigeria.
Our correspondent also observed that Buhari’s 36 ministers have Toyota Land Cruiser VXR V8 cars as their officials cars.
The President’s security chiefs also ride exotic bulletproof BMW cars.
But when contacted on the matter, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, told SUNDAY PUNCH that the President and Vice-President are already leading by example.
Shehu however said it was not the idea of government that officials should stop riding cars made abroad simply because those cars were bought overseas.
Such, he said, would be ridiculous and result to a waste of resources.
He said, “It is not the idea of government that its officials should stop riding cars made abroad simply because those cars were bought overseas. That will be ridiculous, and a waste of resources.
“The purchase and use of home made goods and services is a new campaign that will take time to fully entrench itself. This country has not banned the importation of goods.”
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Friday, 16 September 2016

Buhari, APC and The street To 2019

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 Through abiodun KOMOLAFE
All matters viewed, I believe Nigeria has been punched into coma and best God can carry her again to life! From the person who opted for a bag of rice in alternate for his son; to the pregnant lady who stole N300 to reply the decision of a common symptom of pregnancy, there's a upward push in Nigeria's socio-political temperature and no person particularly is aware of the place Nigeria is headed.

Warningly, inflation expense is on the excessive side and our Gross domestic Product (GDP) progress cost is unsmiling either. From the cosmetic to the major, politicians have chopped our nation into pieces with each and every of the constituents selfishly stored to themselves even as the gladiators continue to combat in another person's nook. Buck will get worse with each passing day, which in flip deeply traumatizes the fortunes of our country.

While a Buharist whose fierce aid for'exchange'has been unflinching, I suppose it's time govt clipped the wings of this trajectory of sham and uncertainty that is able of corrupting our national brotherly love and countrywide peace. The threatening trend of poverty-motivated suicide circumstances among Nigerians calls for trouble and the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration need to to find imaginative method of destroying this deadly temple of need and turpitude before it springs into something else. In strict terms,Nigerians are tired of the ritual of wringing palms in lamentation. So, valuable authorities have to devise creative means of putting price on intentions before a line damages an whole track.

2019 is around the nook and forward of this politically-charged and enormously risky socio-financial atmosphere lies a fiercely-loyal-but-particularly-critical aid base. As we are aware, some of the largest challenges in strolling Nigeria's socio-fiscal panorama is that of guaranteeing that excellent practices are employed in growing ventures for the economic system to prefer up. However, the irony of our coverage somersault in this part of the sector is that it sympathies with the criminals but penalizes the victims. Clearly for that reason, the worry of failure must encourage the Buhari to travel back to the earlier, look on the dangers, weigh benefit choices, then make decisions which exhibit greater consistency, braveness and choice in stopping 'change' from being a danger to our survival.

Again, being in a recession is just not a dying knell. However, beyond economic jargons, movements taken to navigate through the temporary setback is what concerns. America of the usa, uk and Canada, have at one time or the opposite in their chequered historical past hit this bottom however they all came out of it, almost certainly bruised however unbowed. South Korea, by the way, Asia's fourth greatest economic climate, is presently having her technical dose of it whilst South Africa, Africa's touted biggest financial system, narrowly escaped it in the 2d quarter of this 12 months.So, what Nigeria needs at a time like it is a little bit of ingenious wake-up by way of introducing greater dimensions of realization into the complexities of governance.

With the benefit of hindsight, Buhari comes throughout an awfully one of a kind, precise chief with a magnetic and personable charisma, divinely positioned to rescue Nigeria from the dangerous and hazardous remnants of the previous. However, in his efforts at righting previous wrongs, he must at all times keep in mind that rumblings of dissent or wrangling of misery among participants of his social gathering can gravitate into a catalyst for implosion. So, he's going to be doing inner democracy a exceptional deal of good if, inside the dictates of the regulation, he offers with situations which might be incapable of selling team spirit within its rank with a protracted spoon.

For a truth, Nigerians are on no account in doubt of Buhari's ability to move the country up out of the fantasy of ancestral authority and the thrill of collective captivity which have come to be predatory threats to her survival into a hub of industry and cultural possibilities. Alongside this line is the saga of unpaid salaries which is currently rocking no fewer than 27 states. Govt needs to proactively remedy this hindrance earlier than the subsequent normal Election if the ruling celebration have to continue the boldness of this vital a part of the voters. Also in need of renewed vigour in its prosecution than it's witnessing at the second is the anti-corruption struggle, lest political principalities, terrorists and businessmen shortsightedly take advantage of its appear weak point as a bargaining device for entry to power in 2019.

Opposite to claims in some quarters, Nigeria's gigantic and various voting public just isn't perpetually the study room professor or the parasitic analyst but the terrible folks in the market who's even capable to die fora motive he believes in. Up to now, this classification of Nigerians has been the president's strongest pillar of aid and most-treasured asset. The poisonous actuality is that things are currently no longer watching excellent for them and this isas a effect of government's alternatively biting insurance policies.It's hence within the president's interest to roll out functional options that may support lighten their yokes and provides them some feel of direction earlier than matters get out of hand.If he succeeds in doing this, then, Buhari shall be chasing a place in the file books as the great president Nigeria ever had!

I've commented in other places that the way in which the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is making ready for the fight of 2019 has now not been all that encouraging and the occasion has to handle this particular temptation, exceptionally, now that ovation is still ascending.Elections in some materials of the country have proven that infrastructure progress without an accompaniment of its human complement typically contains along with it gigantic bad consequences and this might not be the great for a party that's looking for relevance within the awareness of the folks.

In my viewed view, a difficulty wherein dedicated participants are treated as permanent beggars precariously scrambling for crumbs below the desk of some clique isn't a powerful point in the defence of innovative occasion politics. It's intriguing to notice that particularly a big chunk of its patriots who dedicated fiscal and material assets toward its success in the final common election are still out within the open, with their innocence shattered and their expectations plummeted. Lamentably, there was no robust statement coming from the president or the country wide Chairman of the ruling social gathering who by way of legislation is its operational head.

Incidentally, will Buhari seek a 2nd term in place of work? For now, the sky is cloudy and response may also be confusing! Constitutionally, it's his right! But, it is his name! Good, while opinions could differ as to the propriety or in any other case of adventures in vigor, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Lee Kuan Yew,Robert Mugabe, Nelson Mandela, Jerry Rawlings, Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, even, Goodluck Jonathan have supplied various colours of opinions on this topical quandary. Although what these humans earned or didn't earn for themselves in phrases of untainted esteem and unrubbished sympathy is left for historians to reflect on, it's my honest want to dig deeper into this field of specified curiosity in my subsequent interventions.

Reckless temperaments! Hateful instincts! Look of impropriety! Why are the men and women hungry and irritated? Why are they terrible and unfed? How come we have instantly become a decadent and polluted society swimming, irresistibly, in a dysfunctional financial system, tradition of recklessness and pattern of hypocrisy? For God's sake, why do persons pleasure in making the most of others' misery and why are the led ideally stored in perpetual poverty for them to proceed slaving and serving the purpose as dictated by means of the master? However, how come the abolition of Navigation Act, which shipowners had once expected will be the damage of British shipping, eventually grew to become out to be some of the finest durations of growth within the history of transport in Britain?

May the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the sector, furnish us peace in Nigeria!

*KOMOLAFE writes in from Ijebu-Jesa, Osun State, Nigeria
(ijebujesa@yahoo.Co.Uk)
abiodun KOMOLAFE,
020, Okenisa road,
PO field 153,
Ijebu-Jesa, Osun State.
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Thursday, 8 September 2016

Edo Election Will keep – INEC

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The independent country wide Electoral commission (INEC) has resolved to go ahead with the Edo State Governorship election slated for Saturday, September 10, 2016, everyday believe as mentioned.

Credible sources established that the commission will quickly release a proper statement.

The Police and the department of State safety had advised the electoral physique to shift the election, citing safety concerns.

One of the crucial sources mentioned the police and the DSS didn't inform INEC  about their findings, including that the commission best acquired to know concerning the record by way of the media.
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