Monday, November 30, 2015

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: if-saudi-arabia-isnt-fuelling-the-militant-inferno-who-is

Re- "Western governments have detailed the production of oil wells in Isis territory"

The intelligence people (their governments) and certainly some of the people fighting there know that (1) there are dozens of oil companies plundering and profiting from cheap oil in that vast, newly found kingdom of oil (2) that there are dozens of separate groups collectively being blanketed under an umbrella called IS (3) and the cynics say that what is being stage managed by media  is really a proxy "war between the generals" on behalf of the profiteers and  (4) It's Nation after nation committing themselves to "bombing IS"  - and "wanting to  get rid of Assad "

Sad. It's a bad world.

Cornelius

We Sweden


On Monday, 30 November 2015 00:49:41 UTC+1, villager wrote:

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RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Igbo Question

My brother, 
IN your posting you seemed to want to eat your cake and have it too. My only beef in this debate is that I love Nigeria from the bottom of my heart. From the day I landed at the University of I bad and as a grad student in 1975, yes, the good old days after the civil war,  to my return to Nigeria to head the Technology Planning and Development Unit of the Tech faculty at Great Ife, I have had nothing but admiration for the potential of a great African country. A giant of a country even if people choose to refer to it as a sleeping giant.
This potential is not only being delayed by the behavior of corrupt and criminally inclined politicians but also by the inability of our various tribes to work together. In my own Ghana it does not take long for most policy debates to degenerate into an Ewe-Ashanti binary. A similar situation in my beloved Nigeria ensures between the Igbos and Yorubas.
OA, if you re-read your own posting you see that your apportioning of blames is biased, and you in which direction the bias points.
I know and respect where you are going with your narrative.  As I said earlier I am no stranger on the Nigerian scene. I went to graduate school at UI with some returning civil war officers. And I served on the same faculty with some brilliant Nigerians from the 3 major tribes. I can assure you that no Yorubas or Hausa-Fulani will read your posting and believe that you are fair to them.
And this, in my opinion, will not improve the human development agenda of Nigeria and Africa. 

 




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From: "Anunoby, Ogugua" <AnunobyO@lincolnu.edu>
Date: 11/30/2015 8:14 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Igbo Question

Hello Kwaku,

 

I am sorry but you seem to me to have misread my posting. "Unhealthy Yoruba competition and healthy Igbo competition" are your thoughts and words not mine. You ignored my premise completely.

I posted among others as follows:

"The Igbo it seems to me are just pleased to be in the game with the Yoruba and others in healthy competition as Nigeria develops and grows."

If the above the case, the course of development in Nigeria will very likely be advanced in positive ways.

I wish to remind you that life many cases is a competitive sport. It is usually not competition by itself that is the challenge. It is the nature and spirit of the competition that usually is. If Nigerians like people everywhere in healthy competition with each other to contribute their utmost as they better themselves, their country, and the world, their country will the best that it can be.

Be well.

 

oa

 

From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mensah, Edward K
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 5:24 PM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Igbo Question

 

Dear oa,

 

Your narrative of 'unhealthy Yoruba competition vs. healthy Igbo competition'  will not advance the course of development  in any positive way in a country all Africans wish to be proud of. The debate about the Nigerian agenda has more often than not been dominated by a scenario that pitches Yorubas and Igbos against one other.  Other Africans pray for the  day that all tribes will simply get along and realize that their  main problem is how to reform the behaviors of the political entrepreneurs  and the criminals in power  who misappropriate the wealth of our nations for personal gains.

 

Best regards

 

Kwaku ( Omo UI)

 

From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anunoby, Ogugua
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 4:56 PM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Igbo Question

 

Hello Ken,

Good questions on complex relationships.

There are no simple answers. My quick but considered response is that the Igbo and Yoruba are  "competitors" not because they need to be but because the Yoruba seem to me to have an innate fear of Igbo domination even though there is little hard evidence of any desire on the part of the Igbo to do anything like that. I am confident to make this statement because prominent Yoruba leaders in the past have always alleged that the Igbo (Azikiwe, Ojukwu, and others) sought to lord it over the Yoruba even though they neither did nor have.  Some Yoruba leaders still nurse and stoke that fear today and continue to make that claim. You may recall the shameful role played by the Oba of Lagos during the 04/2015 gubernatorial elections in Lagos State. Some of that fear has been expressed in conversations in this forum.

Igbo leaders do not make the same allegations against the Yoruba and have no fear, real or imagined of Yoruba domination. They do not now and never have. The Igbo it seems to me are just pleased to be in the game with the Yoruba and others in healthy competition as Nigeria develops and grows.

The fear of Igbo domination I believe is in play in the difficulties the Igbo have had in Northern Nigeria, mostly with the Hausa/Fulani who dominate public affairs in many Northern Nigerian States. There is the added poison of religion- the mostly Wahhabi  strain of Islam. The Hausa/Fulani are generally Muslims. The Igbo are mostly Christians and will not convert to Islam as many Yoruba have done.  

Let me add respectfully that there are also other Nigerian ethnicities who come into play and have in different ways and to different degrees, shared some of the bad blood against the Igbo if I may say so, that has broadly shaped Nigeria's political landscape.

The Igbo are mostly a self-made people.  They are the most travelled Nigerians within Nigeria. They are the most settled Nigerians outside their home land. They are the most culturally adaptive Nigerians. They as a group, have benefited the least from federal government development infrastructure. All one has to do is visit any Igbo state to experience the stark federal government absence in the states. The Igbo in my opinion speak more Nigerian languages than any other Nigerians. They need to if they are to make good their lives far away from home. How any such people will desire to politically dominate their host communities away from home defies logic and reason. That remains the narrative though.

 

oa

 

From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of kenneth harrow
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 1:46 PM
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Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Igbo Question

 

dear oa,
mine is a quick question. when i read about the igbo situation, and biafra, it is cast entirely around the question of a separate state, about ethnic division and conflict, with a lot of ugly things being said. but to the outsider to nigeria, it would seem that this represents some kind of exceptionalism.
for some reason, i am always pushed to ask whether, in fact, there aren't resemblances between situations. so, boko haram and the north also represents a site of difference, of all the negative things i mentioned above. and in fact, if you want to say, with the north it is religion, but with the east it is ethnicity, isn't it also a general religious difference there as well--between catholic vs evangelical or protestant--and isn't the religious difference with the north somewhat overdetermined, since there are other major differences as well?
is the conflict between igbo and yoruba or the rest of Nigeria so terribly unique, not only in nigerian germs, but also more broadly in african terms?
lastly, i take your point about the history of nigeria being central to our thinking, and that there was a strong, or too strong, northern domination of the political scene due to the british.
but beyond this particular difference--which is how history always works, that is, w particularisms--i am asking whether the divisions within the nation aren't indicative of something with a broader range than simply nigeria vs igboland?
ken

On 11/30/15 1:37 PM, Anunoby, Ogugua wrote:

The opinion expressed below would ordinarily not have mattered much if they were shared in a private conversation. There were posted in public space however. They must therefore be corrected before they assume the undeserved status intended for them by the writer.

There is really no Igbo question. There is the Nigeria Question. The Igbo are not the only group of Nigerians that are uneasy with the ethos of the Nigerian state. Other groups have been at one time or another and many still are, at this time. No one needs reminding of the enduring call from many parts of Nigeria for a sovereign national conference. The calls have not gone away. Having incorrectly defined the question, it is little surprise that an inaccurate, convoluted narrative followed.

I believe that bondage is extreme and not exactly appropriate for Nigeria's situation. Oppressed it seems to me is more appropriate. That all groups are oppressed in a country does not mean that they are for the same reasons and to the same extent. They usually are different reasons- class, ethnicity, geography, and religion for example. When oppression happens to a group because of who they are, it more unbearable because one cannot cease to be who they are. They di not choose to be who they are. They cannot un-choose who they are.  

There is broad agreement in Nigeria for example that the northern states of Nigeria are relatively less "developed" than the southern states of the country. That this is so does not make more bearable the reality that this relative regional underdevelopment is no longer the responsibility of some and not all groups of northern Nigerians, and there is little likelihood of change. All groups may be oppressed but some groups are less so than others. Privilege can be unequal within and across different oppressed groups. In such a situation the extant inequity of the situation becomes a basis for resentment and a possible driver of palpable disaffection. Pain is more bearable if the cause of your is not outside the pained body.  

History does not do things to people. It is people- self and others, and events that do. The Igbo are egalitarians. That is not to say that their society does not share with societies everywhere the co-existence of the rich and the poor. Theirs is a society in which what one gets to become does not inevitably depend on to whom or where the one was born. This is why the Igbo despite all real and imagined odds against them in Nigeria, have much of the success they have rightly been given credit for. They are fiercely competitive. All they ask for is a fair playing field. For the Igbo, privilege must be earned by enterprise and industry, not birth or circumstance. The Igbo believe for example that work pays, equal work should pay equally, and less work should not pay more that more work if personal and societal successes will not be minimized. This grain of their way of life, it seems to me, is one reason for their disappointment and frustration with Nigeria.

There is no fracture between the Igbo elite and their masses. There may be one between some of their opportunistic politicians and their masses. This is an important distinction. Is it not reasonable to expected that serious allegations against a former state Governor and Obasanjo be proved to be false before they are used to discredit the allegers. Disaffected Igbo who try to keep the Biafra issue in view are nothing like the Boko Haram insurgents who are an existential national security threat and have been for years now. It is an obnoxious false equivalence. It is shocking that anyone in good conscience is unable to discern the self-evident false equivalence of this common  characterization.  

Igbo intellectuals have developed a "coherent marginalization thesis". It is based on facts and experience. While some Nigerians may choose to deny the thesis, they cannot deny the facts- the injustices of state creation and the targeted economic policies of the immediate after war years for example. There is no denying that many of the policies were developed to hold some (Igbo) back and allow others to get ahead. Why the hurry  so soon after the war and the skewed implementation as happened to be the case?

Should there be consequences for losing a hard fought war? Not if the post war proclamation by the victor was "no victor, not vanquished". A fraudulent promissory note was apparently issued to Nigerians by that proclamation. Was the fraudulent promissory note the result of a complicity or a conspiracy of Alfa characters in the federal government at the time? Everyone must decide for themselves.

There was a war. It is a fact that starvation was publicly professed to be and used as a legitimate weapon in that war. The federal side choose it to. The disingenuity is its denial after the war. Gowon did offer aid through a land corridor but only under his government's coordination and supervision. He rejected all management of the process by independent third parties including the International Red Cross and many voluntary relief agencies.  He sought a military advantage through it.  Gowon's humanitarian aid was rightly believed to be a potential Greek gift. No adversary in any war would have accepted it. Gowon would not have if he knew what he was doing. How many non-combatant men, women, and children died in that was? Was it a million, two. More? Less? It does not matter. Too many people died. It is outrageous that anyone would make an issue of the numbers of innocent people who died because of the federal government's starvation as a weapon of war policy. A similar argument would be to argue that Boko Haram insurgents are not evil because only a few scores and not thousands of innocent people died as a result of their insurgency?

Ojukwu was Biafra's leader. There is no one anywhere who knew the man who will argue that he did not expect Nigeria to try to stop Biafra's exit from Nigeria. He was well aware of the U.K.'s position on Nigeria and her influence on and support of the Gowon government. He might have believed for some time that the West Provinces would follow. He knew that belief was forlorn before he made his move. It is denied by some today that it was Ojukwu and not Gowon that freed Awolowo from Calabar prison. Ojukwu could have kept the man in prison up until what ever happened. He chose not to. The above and other disappointments and misinformation frayed feelings, hampered trust after the war, and made moving forward together more difficult.

Nigerians who do not fear the Igbo know that the Igbo are a freedom loving, can do, competitive people. It is these qualities that are mistaken innocently or not as they being an aggressive, arrogant, and clannish people. They are a much travelled people. They marry, are married and make home anywhere and everywhere. They are personal achievement driven. They buy, sell, invest, trade, and build anywhere and everywhere. The Igbo are the most invested in fixed assets outside their homeland. You do not do all the above if you have a short-term orientation to the life and relationships that you have, and the country in which you live.

As important as the presidency is, the Igbo desire the office more for its symbolism and what an Igbo president will do for Nigeria's political/economic and other development and growth than anything else. They know that to hold the office could not mean that they would be much better off than they are as individuals or as a people. Anyone who disagrees with this fact should look to see what Igbo Governors and Ministers have done for the Igbo on one hand and non-Igbos on the other, compared with what Non-Igbo parallel political office holders have done for their "people".  The Igbo pride themselves in individual success that is achieved "in spite of" rather than "because of". They respect and value that variety of success much more highly. The Igbo language is stuffed with phraseology that esteem self-made success and denigrates the opposite. It is in this context that the Igbo case of their marginalization should be understood and appreciated. That case has never been about "give me this day my daily bread" as it seems to be for some others.

It is too soon it seems to me for anyone to gloat over the end of the Jonathan presidency and the failure of the Igbo to see it coming. The Igbo did not see the Jonathan presidency as an Igbo presidency and therefore its end as a loss to them. They had no illusion that an Igbo was going to succeed Jonathan. Their concern about the Buhari presidency was mostly to do with the man's pedigree and their real and imagined group political knowledge and experience of him. Buhari now has a chance to change any  perceptions of him he believes might be unfair and wrong. Political battles in politics are characterized by swings and turns. Things change. Quite often times one outcome directly leads to an opposite outcome. Overtime the correlation of election outcomes are negative. You win the next election because you lost the last one.  You lose the next election because you won the last one.

Chinua Achebe was grossly misunderstood by anyone who believes that he meant to "hit the Yoruba hard" when he should be building alliances.  He never considered himself to be a politician much less an Igbo one. He joined the Aminu Kano's Peoples' Redemption Party in 1978, in the full knowledge that he was expected by those who did not know him to join the Nigerian Peoples' Party. His "There Was A  Country" was his attempt to document Nigeria's history as he say and lived it. Many of his critics were falling over themselves criticizing him without research-based knowledge of that history or even reading the book. Many still may have not. They will have to buy it first. He never believed that it was for him to forge an alliance of the Igbo and any other group. What he wanted and was grossly disappointed about was Nigerians and many other colonized peoples' failure by choice not hindrance, to make life more abundant for their people, as people of European ancestry and now some Asians have done by properly and rightly taking their destiny in their own hands.

Is the Nigeria project working? Not for the largest number. Can it work better? Yes but only if mass disaffection and frustration are seen for what they truly- a cry for credible and productive change for the better.

 

oa  

 

 

From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jibrin Ibrahim
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 1:44 AM
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Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Igbo Question

 

Resolving the Igbo Question

 

Jibrin Ibrahim, Deepening Democracy Column, Daily Trust, 30th November 2015

 

In 1843, the German historian and theologian Bruno Bauer, wrote the polemical book, "The Jewish Question", following strident demands by Jews for emancipation. He argued that Jews could achieve political emancipation only if they relinquish their religious consciousness, since political emancipation requires a secular state, which he assumed did not leave any "space" for social identities such as religion. Bauer contested the assumption that a people can seek emancipation based on religious particularism, while following the French Revolution, the world was moving in the direction of equal rights for all. In his response to the debate, Karl Marx queried the notion that one group could seek emancipation while the reality was that every group was in bondage.

 

The Igbos, we are told need emancipation from an oppressive Nigeria which has been oppressing and marginalizing them since independence. Karl Marx would ask them if all groups in Nigeria have not been oppressed and marginalised as well. In addition, he would point out what history has done to the Igbos since colonisation, transforming them from an egalitarian society to one of the most unequal societies in the world in which abject poverty cohabits with the opulence of some of the richest people in the contemporary world. I fear for a Biafra in which these two groups will confront each other. Above all, I fear for a Nigeria in which similar inequalities exist and the masses from all ethnic and religious groups have been systematically oppressed and marginalised since independence.

 

The current movement for Biafra is a very serious one because it represents a complete fracture between the Igbo elite and their masses. In the Internet, former Governor Peter Obi is accused of using Nigerian soldiers to massacre an estimated 5,000 militants of MASSOB in the period 2006 to 2009 under the direction of former President Olusegun Obasanjo who was said to have given the  'Shoot-at Sight Order'. During the period, "Nigerian soldiers were said to have been on rampage at Onitsha, Nnewi, Oba, Ihiala and environs shooting, killing, and maiming anything that has a suspicion of being MASSOB." If today the disaffected and poor Igbo youth, just like the Boko Haram fighters, are defining their governors and elite as central to the problem, there is no surprise that no one has a clue in terms of responding to Lenin's question – what is to be done.

 

What the Igbo intellectual class has done is to develop a coherent marginalisation thesis, which the Igbo lumpen proletariat took and is running with. The thesis focuses on the issue of state creation, the Igbo presidency and the impact of the civil war. We recall Chinua Achebe's book – "There Was a Country", in which he made unambiguous comments of the complicity of the Nigerian state and its leaders at the time, Yakubu Gowon and Obafemi Awolowo in starving over two million Igbos to death, why should not be surprised that the Igbo youth are be furious at what was done to their grand parents. Why should they have listened to General Gowon when he responded denying the charges and claiming that it was Ojukwu who refused the offer of a humanitarian corridor? Even the number of two million starved to death, who is checking its veracity. Gowon's "no victor, no vanquished" sounded generous but maybe all it did was block debate on the issue for too long.

 

There is no doubt that the civil war of 1967 to 1970 was the most serious threat to the existence of Nigeria as a country and it led to the loss of one to two million lives, depending on whose figure you accept. It should be recalled that just before the war, Western leaders had warned that if the East goes, the West will follow. That threat was not put into action and Awolowo, the Western leader was released from jail to serve as Finance Minister and Deputy Leader of the Federal Executive Council.

 

The fact of the matter is that the Igbo elite has a strong empirical basis to read Nigerian political history as one of failure and frustration for them. It's a narrative that sees a proud and hard-working people, "the Jews of Africa", that have been forced to play second fiddle to the other for too long, especially the Hausa-Fulani ruling circles. Following the coup and the subsequent massacre of Igbos in 1966 in the Northern region, and the subsequent declaration of secession by the Eastern region in May 1967, the Igbo elite had assumed that other Nigerians would not fight to keep them in the Federation. They were wrong. Other Nigerians fought to preserve the Federation and the result was the thirty-month civil war and the heavy death toll.

 

In his book, "Igbo Leadership and the Future of Nigeria" Arthur Nwankwo argues that "Nigerians of all other ethnic groups will probably achieve consensus on no other matter than their common resentment of the Igbo". Nwankwo tells us that the Igbos are more cosmopolitan, more adopted to other cultures, more individualistic and competitive, more receptive to change and more prone to settle and work in other parts of the country than other Nigerians. This reality, he says, is overshadowed by the myth other Nigerians persist in spreading that the Igbo are aggressive, arrogant and clannish. This purported attitude of other Nigerians towards the Igbos he points out has led to the development of a "final solution" aimed at neutralising and marginalising the Igbos after the civil war. This is seen to have occurred in two ways.

 

After the civil war, there was a coordinated policy of pauperising the Igbo middle class by the offer of a twenty-pound ex gratis award to all bank account holders irrespective of the amounts they had lodged with the banks before the civil war. This was followed by routing the Igbos from the commanding heights of the economy by introducing the indigenisation decree at a time when the Igbos had no money, no patronage and no access to loans to compete for the companies. In addition, landed property owned by the Igbo was declared to be "abandoned property" particularly in Port Harcourt. In the public service, the Igbo elite were marginalised by the refusal to re-absorb most of their cadres who had attained high positions in the armed forces and the federal public service.

 

It is in this context that many within the Igbo elite have come to understand the policies of "no victor, no vanquished" and "reconciliation, reconstruction and rehabilitation" announced after the war, as a lie. There is room to debate these issues today as they feed into persistent demands for the creation of an additional state in the South East and the clamour for an Igbo Presidency, which increasingly appears to be a mirage. Of course since the end of the civil war, there has been a remarkable Igbo economic and commercial élan. The marginalisation did not work at the economic and commercial level and the success of the Igbo come back is one of the remarkable stories of our time. It might be precisely because of this success that bitterness persists among the Igbo elite on why other Nigerians appear to believe that they should continue with the politics of second fiddle. The problem has been that as they Igbo elite became more successful, they refused to change their narrative about the Nigerian State and today the initiative is out of their hands.

 

The biggest failure of the Igbo elite is the incapacity to play the political game. To be major players in politics requires team and coalition building. If the Igbo elite really wanted to get the presidency, they should have developed a more inclusive narrative about the Nigerian State, they needed to convince and reassure the others not frighten them about a revenge mission. Chinua Achebe hit the Yorubas very hard at a time he should have been thinking about an alliance with them to confront the North. Teaming up with Goodluck Jonathan produced petty rewards for a few but it rolled back the schedule for an Igbo Presidency. With this failure of the elite, the Igbo lumpen have seized the initiative of following the path of disintegration. Its time to talk frankly.

 

 

 

Jibrin Ibrahim PhD

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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [africanworldforum] SUNDAY MUSINGS: President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) at Six Months: My Score-Card



Kits:

You seem to think that Social Media is now the real world, all the real world,  that what everybody says that is gospel truth, and determines reality.  You are wont to quote Facebook, and Twitter, ad nauseum.....and young persons who you don't know what they really do for a living, just that they are as mad as hell....

I don't.


About "wailing wailers", I keep reminding people about Obama's first year as President,  He got all kinds of pastings,  but he stuck to his guns.  PMB just needs to stick to his guns, and I believe the difference in Nigerian lives will be see soon.

And there you have it.  You are not the enemy, and I am not .


Bolaji Aluko


On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:
 Bolaji,

No need to be testy; you write these things and I am sure you are expecting feedback. My feedback was honest and polite. You have responded with ribaldry and rudeness. I give it to you, you can be funny when goaded. I didn't think I was goading you, though. Your conclusions just seemed totally disconnected from, out of touch with reality, which is that Buhari and his band of (alleged) thieves are now the laughing stock of Nigerians. By the way, even your numbers don't add up; how can you give Buhari an "A- overall" when he had 2 As, 1 A-, 2 B+ and a regular B. He gets a B, even by your generous, some would say, partisan grading system, lol. And still, don't bring these grades to social media o, they will show you pepper, those rude young ones who have been routinely screwed by our generation of leaders, rulers and looters.

One thing I failed to mention; Buhari as a matter of urgency needs to fire his entire PR team (Garba Shehu and Femi Adesina) and get real professionals to sell his message (whatever it is)  to the Nigerian people, in a credible, holistic and articulate manner. Right now, he is taking a shellacking on social media, it is painful to watch. And it is easy to do, he comes across as someone stuck in the 80's in the worst possible way.


Here is an example of the beating he is taking on Facebook. Once you get over the bad grammar, you can feel the disappointment:

"After six months, nothing has Changed. No one charged and successfully prosecuted and jailed for corruption. Power outages are worse than under GEJ era. Fuel scarcity has remained the order of the day. Insecurity has worsen under PMB. Our gallant armed forces are being slaughtered daily without response from the government The economy is in total comatose. Yet, PMB continue his globetrotting. Where are the much anticipated revolutionary Changes in fatherland? It is time to wail."

The BBC today posted Bloomberg's lamentation on our tanking economy that you gave Buhari an A for:

"Nigeria stocks fall to three-year low
Posted at 16:50
Nigeria's stocks fell to their lowest level in almost three years as foreigners exited the market amid fading hopes that President Muhammadu Buhari's government can revive the Africa's largest economy, Bloomberg news agency reports.
All Share Index dropped 0.8% to 27,385.69 at close in the commercial capital of Lagos, the lowest since December 2012.
The gauge declined on all but three trading days in November for a monthly drop of 6.2%."

Even Tinubu who gave us this monstrosity is tired, he has now joined comedians like Dele Momodu to be a Wailing Wailer:


Tunde Bakare too. The situation is dire.

Here Shaka Momodu:

"The promoters of "change" only preach "change", but pay lip service to the attitudinal change required to bring about real and enduring change. The followers on their part have embraced well packaged falsehoods as a way of life. They have even crowned well known villains heroes of a new democratic order and yet yearn for change. Sadly, the country's resources have become the gift of a few people. And Nigeria gets nothing but mismanagement, corruption and devastation in return. The people have been sold on a change that does not exist and they can't seem to see or better still have become numbed by unfolding events."


The situation is dire. We should all put our heads together and find ways to help Buhari get out of the mess he has put us in. I stand ready to help. Always.

Kits
 
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From: Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com>To: Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> Cc: "usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com" <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>; "africanworldforum@googlegroups.com" <africanworldforum@googlegroups.com>Sent: Monday, November 30, 2015 1:11 PMSubject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [africanworldforum] SUNDAY MUSINGS: President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) at Six Months: My Score-Card







Kits:


You talk and write too much, and too loudly.....if I did not know you face to face, I would tear you to pieces with all this your loud-mouth-edness.

But I will spare you.......for old time sakes.

I advise you to set up your own parameters, and judge Buhari yourself......I won't criticize you for whatever grades you give him.  I have given mine, and no amount of literary terrorism - which is what you tend to be: a literary terrorist, despite all your attempts at democratic credentials.  Anybody who does not agree with you should maybe be - eliminated?

As to doing a doctorate under me at Howard or any where else, I would ask you a few questions, and if you shoot your mouth the way you often do around here, I would not even admit you.

And there you have it.  Behave yourself.



Bolaji Aluko


On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:

Bolaji,

This your grading system sha. Disappointing is not even a word I would begin to use. If you really believe these grades, if you are really this generous with grades, I fully regret not taking a doctorate in engineering from you at Howard. I would have earned 10 of them, By your standards.

Please do not share these grades on social media. You will suffer an extreme case of high tech lynching. The youngsters who helped propel that man into Aso Rock are really upset and are taking no prisoners. Buhari is being lampooned and ridiculed in ways that even I did not think possible. It is pretty bad.

With all due respect, these grades are inappropriate; they lower the bar for acceptable governance to an unsustainable low. And the are quite patronizing. To call Fashola and Amaechi, especially Amaechi "proven performers" seems insensitive to the outrage out there over their alleged looting of state resources. People are really angry. I know they have not been found guilty of anything. No one has since Obi Okonkwo was convicted in Achebe's No Longer at Ease. As you know that was fiction. Obasanjo is a holy man, Goodluck Jonathan is a saint, IBB is a statesman, the treasury simply emptied itself.

This is what you and I know, Buhari is an unmitigated disaster. It is time for good people like you to step forward and be productive. Suggest practical ways to get Nigeria out of the mess that those who engineered his rise got us into.  Once I go past your hagiography (a lead balloon by the way, guessing from the wooden response here) you have started something.  You have asked that he be judged on three areas: Security, Anti-Corruption and Employment. That is exactly what Buhari and the APC should be doing; focusing on a few measurable areas and securing quick wins. I would replace "Employment" with "Economy."

The focus on "anti-corruption" by Buhari as a means perhaps of funding a moribund economy is silly. This is where Nigeria has been failed with loud-mouthed, poorly educated social media overlords and some public intellectuals with zero idea about managing sophisticated systems. Even were we to recover funds from these alleged looters (Fashola, Amaechi, OBJ, GEJ, Diezeani. and co) these would be one-time funds that would only be useful for one-time expenditures like capital projects (razing down OAU hostels and building brand new ones so that children will not be doing 'shot putt' with faeces!). Nigeria needs funds that can be replicated every budget cycle, to pay her bills and revamp the economy. Buhari is quite frankly clueless and you should be alarmed.
 
Buhari needs to talk to our people. Come up with a plan, including a Marshall Plan by the way that hands him and Nigerians some quick wins and some long term sustainable gains. Right now, he has no idea what he is doing.

By the way, I did a survey on Twitter and on Facebook; 3 out of 4 respondents strongly believe that Buhari is leading us on the wrong path. Some of the comments are quite disrespectful of him. He has been demystified. This is what happens when you delete history from the classrooms, youngsters learn painfully.


- Kits
 
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Joe Attueyi:

Some quick response, before I head off to do other things:

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 4:47 PM, 'Joe Attueyi' via AfricanWorldForum <africanworldforum@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Prof Aluko,
Things must getting very desperate in Otuoke --the land of 5 citizens and 5 crocodiles according to my brother Abba. 


No desperation whatsover...Otuoke has never been a "land of 5 citizens and 5 crocodoiles."   In fact, with 1,800 staff and 2,300 students, the once-sleepy town is bubbling with activity..... 

Abba is given to hyperbole, and you are given to rumor-mongering...  He should visit sometime, and you should visit again soon.......

 
Why? Hehehehe!

PMB gets an 'A' on the basis that we had a free and fair election in May, Jonathan peacefully handed over? Really? 


To have gallant loser in GEJ, you got to have a gallant winner....PMB scores an A for being the gallant winner.

 
I waoh for WAEC. 

It would seem you need some lessons on objective appraisals. You know the type that sets Specific Measurable and Time bound goals BEFORE and measures results against these objectives AFTER.  

A good starting point for your sunday lesson would be the Buharimeter maintained by the folks at BudgetiT et al


Did I hear you say thank you? You are welcome. My public service



To fulfil all righteousness, I have added this table, which I call Project 222 of Buharimetry...:

 
Table 3:  Project "222" of Buharimetry…..

 
Sector
Number
Of
"Promises"
Supervising
Ministry
1
19
Agriculture
2
13
Presidency
3
30
Education
4
10
Labor & Employment
5
13
Environment
6
7
Foreign Affairs
7
8
Health
8
6
Housing
9
4
Science & Tech
10
13
Industry, Trade & Investment
11
18
Power, Works & Housing
12
22
Defence, Interior
13
3
Niger-Delta
14
11
Petroleum Resources
15
1
Health, Labor & Employment
16
11
Presidency
17
3
Budget & National Planning
18
13
Sports
19
5
Water Resources
20
12
Women & & Youth
 
TOTAL
222
 
 

You are welcome to judge PMB's ministries on 222 promises.  I judge PMB only on three promises - Security, Anti-Corruption and Employment.

By the way, please note that "Buharimeter" is an initiative of Center for Democracy and Development (Solids Mineral Minister Kayode Fayemi's is its 1997 founder, and importer into Nigeria in 1999 see http://ngmanifesto.org/about-cdd/), but sponsored by OSiWa, with BudgIt as a listed partner (and designer of the website).  So don't go saying as if it is a BudgIt initiative - it is not.


And there you have it.  Did I hear you deflate - a lesson in objectivity?


Bolaji Aluko
Having a belly laugh....

 
Joe
Having an Alukosque belly laugh!

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On Nov 29, 2015, at 2:18 PM, Mobolaji Aluko <alukome@gmail.com> wrote:




 
 
SUNDAY MUSING:  PMB @ SIX MONTHS:  MY SCORE-CARD

By

Mobolaji E. Aluko. PhD
 
November 29, 2015


 
TABLE 1: A Score-card of PMB at Six Months
 
S/N
Item
Date(s)
Remarks
Grade
Basis
What is there left to be done?
1
Ascension to Presidency by Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) and Vice-Presidency by Yemi Osibajo (VYO)
May 29, 2015
Preached "Change", he "belong(s) to everybody and to nobody" in particular…..
A
Free-and-Fair election; Goodluck Jonathan handed over peacefully
Focus on mandate delivery in the next three-and-a-half years
2
Filled Various Administration Positions that don't require Senate Approval (SGF, etc.)
Various dates
Criticisms of ethnic unfairness, etc.
A
Has a right to choose these officials; within his constitutional limits. 
"6,000" more positions yet to be filled…
3
Filled Ministerial positions (36 in 25 Ministries)
Various dates
Some portfolios were surprising, but all in all competent hands, but will they succeed in present positions? (see Table 2)
B+
Fashola, Fayemi, Ngige, Audu, Amaechi, Udo Udoma…these are proven performers…the taste of the pudding will be in the eating
Ensure that each minister and ministry fit into the three-point agenda of Security, Anti-Corruption and Employment, with growing an INCLUSIVE ECONOMY as the over-arching ambition, not just INDICIAL DEVELOPMENT
4
Security
Various
Chose physically-fit and performing Heads of Military service branches; offensive strategy; increased morale, equipment, intelligence and information.  Gave a target deadline for eliminating Boko Haram; degraded, but not fully yet
Regional and international collaboration on cross-border security matters
B+
Whole tracts of land have been recovered from BH, and many IDPs are returning to their homes.  However bombings continue – to be expected of insurgencies of this type
Pressing on with the offensive strategy
Looking out for security challenges elsewhere in the country (SE, SS), using lessons learnt in previous instances to stem further conflagration
Establish state and community policing in the shortest possible time
5
Anti-Corruption
Various
Initial focus on stemming corruption in Federal public service, in conjunction with its interface with the private sector (particularly oil and gas, as well as agriculture and insurance)
Enforcement of Treasury Single Action, Bank Verification Number (BVN) and the banning of payment of foreign currency (cash) into Deposit Money Banks (DMBs) inside Nigeria.
Re-energizing EFCC and ICPC, and going after loot recovery, both at home and abroad
A-
These are far reaching steps, that may not yield all fruits right away, but in time, I am absolutely confident that they will.
Asset Declaration by all public officials should be accessible to all registered  NGOs who have "right-to-know"
Amend Section 308 of Constitution to enable criminal prosecution of Executives at Federal, State and Local Government levels.
Institute absolute zero tolerance for bribery and corruption among (1)  the Police and (2) Judges…zero tolerance…even a hint of it.
6
Employment
Various
PMB has identified ECONOMY DIVERSIFICATION – in non-oil sectors such as solid minerals, agriculture, culture and tourism, infrastructure and service industries – as the key to increasing employment, both on the short run and the long-run
B
Our oil economy has tanked, unlikely to recover any time soon…..yet we still have oil than most countries in the workd, and also have 1 million square kilometers of fertile and God-endowed land, sea and air….Competent ministers have been placed to guide these vital sectors
I am looking forward to the 2016 BUDGET – it will give an indication of the true direction of PMB's ECONOMIC POLICY.  I expect (1) removal of subsidy (2) conditional cash transfer (3) massive infrastructural development coupled with work corps (4) agricultural incentives with low-interest-rate loans, (5) a better balance between recurrent and capital expenditures (6) a quadrupling of the budget quantum etc.
7
OVERALL GRADE
 
 
A-
 
 
 
 
Table 2:  PMB and His Ministers – My Charge to Them
 
S/N
 Zone
S/N
S/N
States
Minister
Portfolio
My Charge
A
North-West
A
A
Katsina
Muhammadu Buhari
President & "Prime Minister"
All buck stops at his desk as the only elected "Minister"; all blame on him, all praise to his team
B
South-West
B
B
Ogun
Yemi Osinbajo
Vice-President & "Deputy PM"
Ditto – Economy matters in particular, as Chair of NEC
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1
South-West
1
1
Ekiti
Mr.
Solid Minerals
Diversify, diversify, diversify the economy; there is solid mineral of commercial value in each state, unlike liquid mineral (oil)
 
 
2
2
Lagos
Babatunde Fashola
Power, Works & Housing
As "Infrastructure" Minister, Ensure Reliable power, good roads, affordable housing
 
 
3
3
Ogun
Kemi Adeosun
Finance
Manage our money better, re-balance our capital and recurrent expenditures;  balance our budget
 
 
4
4
Well
Claudius Daramola
Niger-Delta (State)
Enrich, empower, employ the Golden Goose area that lays the national egg
 
 
5
5
Osun
Isaac Adeyanju
Health
Strengthen the national health system, particularly health insurance and primary health care
 
 
6
6
Oyo
Adebayo Shittu
Communications
Strengthen our national communication system (postal, tele- and other electronic), remove customer exploitation
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2
South-East
7
1
Only
Okechukwu Enelamah
Industry, Trade & Investment
Enlarge our national industrial base, seek international markets for our goods, increase FDI
 
 
8
2
Anambra
Chris Ngige
Labour & Employment
Increase employment, reduce labor tensions
 
 
9
3
Ebonyi
Ogbonnaya Onu
Science & Technology
Deploy 21st Century S&T in all ramifications, including in education delivery
 
 
10
4
Enugu
Geoffrey Witness
Foreign Affairs
Complement our domestic policy in economy, education, security and anti-corruption; engage our Diaspora more positively
 
 
11
5
Imo
Anthony Anwuka
Education (State)
Lift education standards, increase access, including for the girl-child
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3
South-South
12
1
Akwa-Ibom
Udoma Udoma Peace
Budget & National Planning
Re-balance capital and recurrent budgets, and offer quality evidence-based planning
 
 
13
2
Bayelsa
Heineken Lokpobiri
Agriculture & Rural Development (State)
Diversify our economy, feed the nation, increase employment,  reduce urban drift
 
 
`4
3
Cross-River
Usani winter
Niger-Delta Affairs
Enrich, empower, employ the Golden Goose area that lays the national egg
 
 
15
4
Delta
Ibe Kachikwu
Petroleum Resources (State)
Manage our main resource better, reduce corruption in the industry,   enlarge the value chain
 
 
16
5
Or
Osagie Ehanire
Health (State)
Strengthen the national health system, particularly health insurance and primary health care
 
 
17
6
Rivers
Rotimi Amaechi
Transportation
Build a national integrated transportation network of land (road and rail), sea and air; improve air service nationwide (including at Port Harcourt Airport)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4
North-West
18
1
Jigawa
Suleiman Adamu
Water Resources
Water is life; enliven the nation for food, transportation and industry
 
 
19
2
Kebbi
Abubakar Teacher
Justice
No justice, no peace - Ensure peace through justice; Justice delayed is justice denied – ensure timely justice. Pursue corruption without fair or favor
 
 
20
3
Kaduna
Zainab Ahmed
Budget & National Planning (State)
Re-balance capital and recurrent budgets, and offer quality evidence-based planning
 
 
21
4
Katsina
Hadi Syria
Transportaion (Aviation, State)
Build a national integrated transportation network of land (road and rail), sea and air; improve air service nationwide (including at Port Harcourt Airport)
 
 
22
5
Kano
Abdulrahman Danbazzau
Interior
Police our nation within its borders; democratize police operations through establishment of state and community policing
 
 
23
6
Sokoto
Aisha Abubakar
Industry, Trade & Investment (State)
Enlarge our national industrial base, seek international markets for our goods, increase FDI
 
 
24
7
Zamfara
Muhammad Dan Ali
Defence
Protect our territorial integrity; crush insurgency of all types
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5
North-East
25
1
Adamawa
Muhammodu Beautiful
Federal Capital Territory
Improve Abuja as national capital, and as a model for state capitals and local government headquarters
 
 
26
2
Bauchi
Adamu Adamu
Education
Lift education standards, increase access, including for the girl-child
 
 
27
3
Borno
Mustapha Baba Shehuri
Power, Works & Housing (State)
Ensure Reliable power, good roads, affordable housing
 
 
28
4
Gombe
Amina Mohammed
Environment
Make our country "green", ensure attainment  of relevant sustainable development goals (SDGs)
 
 
29
5
Taraba
Aisha Alhassan
Women Affairs
Lift our women, unleash their energy into the economy, remove all cultural and religious exploitation
 
 
30
6
Yobe
Khadija Abubakar Abba Ibrahim
Foreign Affairs (State)
Complement our domestic policy in economy, education, security and anti-corruption; engage our Diaspora more positively
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6
North-Central
31
1
Benue
Tissue Ogbeh
Agriculture & Rural Development
Diversify our economy, feed the nation, increase employment,  reduce urban drift
 
 
32
2
Kogi
James Ocholi, SAN
Labour & Employment (State)
Increase employment, reduce labor tensions
 
 
33
3
Kwara
Lai Mohammed
Information
Inform the nation about government business, banish ignorance, shed light into darkness
 
 
34
4
Niger
Abubakar Bwari
Solid Minerals (State)
Diversify, diversity, diversity the economy; there is solid mineral in each state, unlike liquid mineral (oil)
 
 
35
5
Nasarawa
Ibrahim Usman Gabriel
Environment (State)
Make our country "green", ensure attainable of relevant sustainable development goals
 
 
36
6
Plateau
Solomon Dalong
Youth & Sports
Give hope to the Youth, train their minds, enlarge broad sports participation nationwide, and curb strife in national sports administration
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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