The whole truth about forex in russia

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigeria cannot afford to sell forex to parents seeking to fund their children education abroad. Convinced that the practice is responsible for the current free fall of the currency, Buhari said the country could no longer continue to sell dollars to parents to sponsor their wards in schools abroad.

He, however, said any parent who could afford forex outside of the official window could go ahead. That is the true situation we are in. He said the culprits would be pursued, arrested and prosecuted. Speaking on the state of economy and the pressure to devalue the Nairapresident Buhari stated that Nigeria was prepared to go against the advice of the International Monetary Fund IMF in that regard.

He maintained that the devaluation of the Naira would not be beneficial to Nigeria, saying the country was purely an import nation. With some analysts and foreign institutions, including from the International Monetary Fund IMFcalling on the Federal Government to devalue the naira, Buhari said he will not reconsider his insistence on freezing the currency.

He also stated that despite the plummeting crude oil prices in the international market, it would benefit About to remain in the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC. Between andI served as petroleum minister, I very much value the institution of OPEC and I think Nigeria will make the necessary sacrifice remaining in OPEC.

Yet, Boko Haram remains active in many areas of Nigeria, seemingly able to strike at will. The president essentially spoke about his campaign against graft and the fight against Boko Haram.

Russia to comment on the anti-terrorism war, the president heaved a sigh forex relief that no local government area of Nigeria was under the control of the Boko Haram insurgents as was the case when he assumed office in May Buhari also spoke against the agitation by separatist groups. He specifically stated that Nigeria will not tolerate the state of Biafra.

According to him, over two million lives were lost during the Nigeria civil war between to on the demand of a Biafran state. But tell us what you will want to weep for so we will know the level of flow to expect and how best to manage them for you. So we should expect different approach to any issue at any time. ObJ promoted buy made in naija goods even to the extent of building bill boards to promote it. GEJ banded importation of many goods including rice and other agricultural goods, he went further to invest heavily in agriculture.

The point is that since Nigeria has opened its boarders for importation of foreign goods it is highly depended on foreign goods. Every government whether the past, present or the future would understand the common economics, that to build a stronger the a country must produce what it consumes. Haven said that, no country is self sufficient in the world. A reasonable government must make changes where it thinks would encourage local production or where the country has the resource to produce locally.

For instance, a country like Nigeria cannot start banning importation of generator without providing adequate power supply and then claim they are discouraging importation of goods. Likewise Buhari should not discourage parents sending their wards to study in abroad to gain international academic qualification. It is a proven fact that the future and success of any nation is dependent on the level of academic awareness of its citizens.

Even in the United Kingdom, their government is encouraging its citizens to study in abroad especially in china. They also sponsor them to study in china and to earn degrees in Chinese language, because they know the future impact of learning the language. Some of the current government policies are stupid, short sighted, malicious full of ignorance Yeah, it is absolutely necessary to encourage international education but certainly not at the expense of national economy PARTICULARLY that it is not an offer that goes round to all and sundry.

Such privilege the world over is ideally for those who can afford it. Doc, truth be told, who actually are going to suffer this decision of the president, is it the elites who already have forex yielding businesses or the common man who could have desired to have a better educated Child abroad.

Moreover where is the power of dialogue, consultation which are major ingredients of democracy. Many hardworking private individuals work hard and save to send their children to schools abroad. On Mr President globe trotting, it is a matter for another day. Those some you claimed that superintendent to the collapse of the education, has this president buhari in the pool amongst, they all do not need the forex at present because they stocked enough rather it is the ever hard working middle class people who are been punished, for aspiring at all to send their children abroad.

No one says state should fund his education. What we say is provide us with a system whereby you walk into a bank, any bank, and see a two way quote for any currency buying rate, selling rate as in a normal country. That way, one can exchange ones hard earned naira, dollar or any currency for another currency he or she desires. No to nanny state, we are adults and should be treated as such. I was a tertiary institution student during IBB when the FG heeded IMF, introduced SAP and devalued the Naira; the consequences of the unpatriotic policy I shared with other Nigerians and, which hunt the nation till today.

So any maneuvering and ordinary Nigerians inspired legitimate policy of PMB to steer the nation out the current past leadership failure inflicted economy down turn I support and I wish every well meaning citizens lend their supports.

We are not questioning the zeal of Mr. President, we are questioning the soundness of his policies. Difficult to call that sound. You miss the point. Bihari is not discouraging anyone, he is simply stating the obvious. You commonsense is noted please. I like your Nigerianess and you are good. God would find you out to bless you. Just sit by and watch an incompetent government lead us to the road of perdition? Does not sound like common sense. Crude oil or something else? I used to think that you young folks were the hopes of reviving Nigeria.

But from what I have silently been reading on this forum, that hope seems to have been grossly misplaced. What with the comments that are laced with ethnic biases, etc.

This habit of first ascertaining the ethnicity of a person before we decide whether their actions are right or wrong needs to stop. You young folks on this and other forums seem to be worse in this regard than your parents.

I was a Biafra Army regimental signaler during the war but I would have voted for President Buhari were I able to vote in the last election. And if it turns out that they can legitimately afford it, they should source the funds independent of government subsidy. Even if they are, I can bet you my pension that he would source his funds independently. On the Hajj issue, this President some time ago had opined that all pilgrimages should be funded privately.

You appear to start well and then derail completely. How can any sane person not put tuition fees at par, if not higher than raw materials. We have crude oil — a raw material — yet forex scarcity. Get the human capital right and the other things shall fall in place. Your first comment about the tribal and religious bigotry existing amongst Nigerian youths is testament to the quality of education in Nigeria.

Dozie, I am not debasing the importance of education in any society. You will agree that policies must be prioritized.

Spending that much hard currency to educate a few children of the elite should not be our priority at this time. You and I know that the spoiled children of these elites are not the most hardworking. We are not discussing the education of a few children of the elite. The elite already have hard currencies in domiciliary accounts and foreign countries to educate their children. Using our petrol scarcity example, we know our refineries are sick as well, has Buhari stopped allocation of hard currencies for importation of refined products?

I will prioritise human capital development above commodities and raw materials, like all progressive countries do Sir please how are these children lazy or not hardworking? Look at what Nigerian universities have turned into, people go there and pay to pass for four or five years till graduation. A student abroad cannot do that, so who is the hardworking one? Agreed that education in Nigeria has gone to the dogs, yet hundreds of thousands make do with it because they have no other options.

Only those elite few, most often with government connections, can afford to send their wards overseas. Children of those elite folks are most often not hardworking, relatively speaking. They are also spoiled brats in most instances having been fed with silver spoons all their lives.

May the Lord bless you and your aspirations. Come clean and tell yourself the truth, you are more culpable of what you insinuate against others,an unrepentant and pathetic tribalist. I put it to you that you never fought for biafra nation innever, you are just from a different stock or tribe, showing up here, with your usual sentiments, to mess up biafra projects, which is your harbinger.

He was Minister of Petroleum 40 years ago, and now President. God bless our dear nation! Will their fees be paid for with money exchanged at the official rate or at the black market rate?

NIGERIANS DO KNOW, BUHARI IS DOUBLE FACED HYPOCRITE AND PRACTICES DOUBLE STANDARDS WITH IMPUNITY AND WITHOUT ANY SHAME. IS IT NOT THE SAME BUHARI WHO CRITICIZED HEAVILY JONATHAN FOR WASTING FOREX ON THE MAINTENANCE OF 10 PRESIDENTIAL JETS BUT WHEN BUHARI CAME The POWER, HE CONTINUED THE 10 PRESIDENTIAL The EXTRAVAGANZA, WASTING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON THEIR MAINTENANCE.

THAT IS WHY, BUHARI HAS LOST HIS CREDIBILITY AMONG NIGERIANS EXCEPT THAT HE CONTINUE TO PLAY THE CARD AGAINST CORRUPTION IN PURSUANCE OF HIS VENDETTA AGAINST HIS POLITICAL RIVALS AND ENEMIES.

Yes, The Presidents children are indeed schooling abroad. Is he therefore perpetuating the rot in the education system you mention?. Should everybody else withdraw their children and only his continue? England from all accounts. You probably do not have the chance to follow events. WHO BE THIS IDIOT NA HRE U WON LEARN CURRENT AFFAIRS U NO GET EYES AND EARS? NA WA OOOO ABODES PLS Russia TALKING TO THIS BEAST BUHARI IS A COMPLETE DEADWOOD UNCONNECTED WITH NIGERIAN PUBLIC.

HE HAS NO EYES TO SEE NO EARS TO HEAR. HE BEHAVES LIKE ONE OF THE GOATS IN HIS HERD. You have no evidence for that. You are just a loud mouth. BUHARI IS A FOREX FRAUDSTER AND A CROOK.

Vic- whatever your name is. Let me say there is no one single country in the world in which citizens established a Forex market Oluwole that is not being monitored, taxed, and or control. Until anyone credible can accuse President Buhari of corruptions he has declared his assets and he has goats and mud buildings or that he -the President has ever stolen a dime that belongs to the Nigerian people despite the number of military and political positions he held — I have to ask you to save yourself of the hatred of our incorruptible and beloved leader.

I was also hoping that you passed the WAEC in Economic — that way you would have understood what Buhari is doing; except if you are family member of those 10 percenters of Nigerians that stole funds from the people — the Dasukigates and are scared and terrified that Buhari will come after them.

I am actually a Professional for the USA government with resume that include teaching at a college. The APC has battalions of paid propagandists whose job is to swell the ranks of the gullibles while they loot the treasury dry! It is not a typo. Besides, US cannot allow someone with this kind of English background to teach their kids. Just concentrate on Buhari defense where you may be appointed a minister with no proper qualification. The question is how are small minded moron like change the world.

Nobody cares what you speak except that you claimed what you are not. English is important to you but not me. With the Shakespearean level English that you speak; where has that led you? What has Nigeria as country invented with it? If there is any people on earth that claim to be what they are not — it has to be Nigerians.

I used to be so proud of Nigerians academic excellence but no more. The current generation has missed the mark. How can you propagate so much hate on Buhari — a man trying to fix a broken system and at the same time fall in love with a regime that destroyed Nigeria for six years. Now I know that you are part of the 10 percenters — those who never voted for Buhari anyway, those who are directly and indirectly benefiting from stolen wealth.

We have lots of work to do to make Nigeria a better place for all. What we need to focus on is how to get the best value for each Naira from now onwards. Extending trust in small incremental measure is the way to build a base of trust. Nigeria has been blessed with abundant mineral wealth and soil good for producing food. We need to go back to basics and remember that no father inside of his own home will eat while his children go hungry. It is greed and selfishness which are killers.

Corruption is the outward evidence of the inward character trait. NA U USE SCHOOLING ABROAD START ABII ME TOO I DEY SCH FOR ABROAD AND FOR UR INFO AM A PROGRAMMER SO KEEP QUIET VIC U TOO MUCK I HAIL UNA. Buhari also gave a speech in Kano in at a Memorial service for Abacha in which he claimed Abacha never stole any money from Nigeria. William Norris — Everything you just said are blatant lies in the highest order.

Unlike many years ago, we forex now living in a digital age in which everything you say or pretty much do can be verified. According to Wiki- President Buhari was a Military Secretary at the Army Headquarters from to and was a member of the Supreme Military Council from to and was only Petroleum Minister from — so you got your dates wrong.

President Shagari invested and found no wrong doing in Buhari. As a matter of fact Abacha selected Buhari to head it because of his credibility. It was the Senate that tried to ask questions about that money and Buhari was so nervous that he planned a coup and overthrew the government.

Buhari was a full partner with Abacha in looting the Nigerian treasury and PTF was part of their plot to steal. Only a guilty man would make such a blatantly untruthful statement. That was a world-wide news in I also told you that Buhari declared his assets publicly — a feat he did in under Murtala Muhammed and he did again in as well.

Buhari and Murtala are the only two leaders yet to declared their assets publicly in the history of Nigeria. That claim alone makes him a corrupt person. HE DO SAID ABACHA DIDNT STEAL FROM 9NA BOSS BUT DO U KNOW HOW MUCH ABACHA S MONEY HE IS HAVING NOW CLOSED TO BUY 5 AIRPLANES Yes, we have proof of his poverty — going to the UK for medical treatment since ; his little girl travelling first class a few weeks ago.

I pity these irredeemable gullibles. Or shd I say paid propagandists? He was also invited by Oputa panel for questioning and he snubbed it. I have no thoughts actually why he overthrow his uncle Shagari, but these revelations appears unlikely to be unconnected. Regardless of your defense, these people are bad guys using the complexity of Nigeria system to do whatever they want.

What would you become to benefit from a corrupt person.? Corruption is not only about money. Is Buhari and his administration corrupt? Nigeria is heading no where until these tribal sentiments is stopped. Some southerners will go along with them, those slaves who forgot where they came from. VIC TELL HIM HIS IS ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO DONT HAVE WAEC RESULT HAHAHAHAHAH SEE BLASTING ISMAILA OR WAITI BE UR NAME U DEY LEARN WORK.

I asked that you show me where Buhari was dragged to court and even face any punishment as Petroleum Minister in Can you show your source?

Can anyone but you verify the hate you are preaching? I also told you that President Shagari investigated the allegations and nothing was missing. The point here is FOREX for children who are already schooling outside the country not PTF. By the way when a 16 year old daughter of a government official travels first class on BA, to go to school, is it normal? When you say Abacha was not corrupt and you turn around to say money was recovered from Abacha, what are you telling people about yourself?

Also, he could have said Abacha is not corrupt at the time — if there are no evidence s at the time. No one was sure of his corruptions until he passed. Majority of Nigerian people knows better when they voted for Buhari mainly for one thing — to stop corruptions. There are few tribalists in Nigeria today than many years before I am happy about that. Do you use the word tribal, not this time. No Nigeria, government or private, that is more tribal ever than buhari.

Worse still when his age is used as an attribute. When you Google buhari popularity, where they got their sampled opinions from, pensevanian Congress man or from facebook owner. The presidency employed almost every member of his family, from nephews, cousins, uncle, in laws and you just name it it. North too are now speaking about it. A US congressman, warmed the US secretary of state, about how buhari is going after the opposition, the only person bold so far, to challenge buhari, they asked him in England whether his governmemt will be inclusive, thought he does not know the meaning of that word, when he was asked.

Jonathsn is not worst in Nigeria history, it maybe to northerners, who never believed somebody else must rule or qualified to rule Nigeria, outside their thinking box except them. All the leaders of Nigeria sincehave you bothered to look at their estates, and measure your calculations, how they all became billionaires. Name one northern leader, who did less of crimes against Nigeria. The double standard, is why the only person guilty of crime, ever in Nigeria is Jonathan, the northern criminals are above Nigerian law.

The law courts are meant for the South and not for northerners, who laid the foundations of fraud in Nigeria. The man who just bought a car was one time, the governor of central bank, if this man is not a thief, what business does he do to buy a car for million naira, when average northerners, wait is some restaurants for left overs.

The law is dead and blind when people from the north commit offence against Nigeria. NA LIKE THI WE GO DEY DEY? Idiagbon has been taken and the other Buhari is left but will pay for careless termination of a Nigerian life. LUTHER ISMAILA OR WHATEVER UR NAME IS U ARE TALKING AS IF U ARE FEEDING WELL IF THEY SEARCH UR ROOM NOW CHAIRS NO GO EVEN DEY OOO. U NO GET EYES WHEN Forex DO REACH BEFORE? PLEASE YOU MEN ARE WASTING ENERGY TALKING ABOUT COW, WE DONT HAVE PRESIDENT.

IF U LISTEN TO FELA BEAST OF THE NATION IT DEFINED BUHARI ALREAD AS AN ANIMAL IN CLOTHES. MAKE HIM MAKE LIGHT STABLE IF HE REALLY BE GOOD PRESIDENT THEN WE CAN MANAGE ANYTHING HE BRINGS, BUT I KNOW HE CANT. BUHARI MEETS DOLLAR IN A GOOD SHAPE AND NOW THAT HE HAS ENTERED INSIDE THE DOLLARS HE IS SAYING THIS AND THAT.

His daughter Aisha was even blogging on Whole straight from her school in London. How about El-Rufai and Tinubu? This was also common knowledge.

No it isnt just that my friend. There is a correlation between having the children of the minister of education, chairman of this board and governor of that state attending schools overseas and the educational system in Nigeria continued deplorable state. It is obvious that most rational human beings take care of what is their business and what they have an interest in.

Likewise a minister of education responsible for universities in nigeria whose children dont attend nigerian universities? Its time we face the truth, foriegn schools are not only bad for the value of the Naira, but equally awful for the survival, progress and growth of our educational institutions! Nigerian students are very very vital to the survival of those UK universities otherwise why do you think they have a concerted recruitment drive every year in nigeria?? Recently the UK government cut funding to their universities and the universities in turn requested for further relaxed student visa regimes in order to help them recruit foriegn students to make up the shortfall in funding!!

Its time to have a rethink indeed! Just float the naira. You raised vital points but i think we must be practical with the whole arrangement. How ever we try to uphold the Nigeria-made patronage, the government should take the lead by energizing the economy. The average Nigerian is a strong survivor but I tell you without electrical energy, access roads, communication and related infrastructures, the project for made in Nigeria will remain an illusion.

Am glad you studied abroad and or probably still in the UK, then imagine the wide technological gap between us. The much we are doing here is basically on the exchange of knowledge through foreign education. Yes we need to start from somewhere, but there must be a platform to stand on.

Education is the major driver of any developing and developed economy. Banning foreign education is not something we wake up, say and implement, i dont subscribe to that rather, it should be building our capacities to compete with what is obtainable abroad. When we do so, the intending student will be left with choice to stay home or otherwise. Importantly we will also earn foreign exchange from other countries students who will also want to study in our competing schools.

Let the process get a bit simpler and less financial commitment. We should uphold quality at all times but I think the government should channel their subsidies to these Agencies to encourage micro industrialisation.

We shouldnt be deceiving ourselves when we have not started with the basics and grassroots. When we encourage these sectors, we dont need any other crusade or policy to control Forex, it will simply adjust on its own. Thank you I Thank you very much for your response. Everything you have said is very true indeed and I agree with the most of it.

However, I believe that a journey of a hundred years stars with a step in the right direction. All that stuff about providing the enabling environment is so so very true. But on the other hand, if i have an truth health centre in the local community that people use, which is fully functional and does the job, then i come out and say hey people, lets start to build a new one, you will agree with me that not all the energies of that local community will the channeled into that new project because they have an alternative.

Especially a nigerian community. They wont mind me, for as long as that alternative is there, they will care very little about the new project am talking about. But if there was none in existence, and i come up with the idea of building one, then you can equally be sure that all energies and hands will come on board and be on deck with me to accomplish that new project. Its like a street in lagos that has a fully functional transformer and you are telling them that look, this transformer was imported, lets start contributing to get a Nigerian made one…they will just laugh at you and wonder why they should be disturbing themselves….

Yes it might sound like shock treatment, but trust me, shock treatment isnt always that bad…. Neccessity they say the the mother of all invention……meaning that where there is no neccesity, people are not driven to begin to critically see how they can create or invent…. Cutting off imports dramatically could be hard in the short run, but ultimately, after a few years, it will be a blessing for we will then be forced to look inward and seek solutions from our own environments….

Thanks Dear, we are getting at it, in line with rebuilding the economy if it was in existence I believe what I hinged on were not new charters but more of making them accessible.

Its a natural thing that people will key in. Let us take it tactically, for instance, we want the youths to engage in Agriculture but the land ownership system cannot afford the common man a parcel of land for self sustenance let alone commercial production. Where do we go from here. You cant ask the youths or the masses to go into agriculture when a clause as this is going to pose a problem.

Then again, truth is the irrigation plan. These and few things are to be in the pipeline, otherwise the discouragement will be worse than the situation we are already into.

Then to relate it with the topic of our discussion forex for foreign students Wont it be more beneficial that we streamline the areas which we still need to improve on our education and encourage such, areas like agriculture, engineering technology and medical sciences. At the same time build our local capacity in line with the attraction for fleece abroad. The mechanism for cultivation is not in place, the education to improve knowledge on modern farming techniques, is not in place, even a referendum for sensitization or dialogue for improvised agriculture is still fairy tale.

The youths are uptil moment are still not organised in groups, co-operatives, and union to aid easier access to educating them. In Science and Technology, about we empowered the basic education sector for catching them young. It is most surprising to me often that Arts and Music have taken the centre Stage, but i have not seen an economy dependent on Arts or Music for sustenance.

People are encouraged to walk half naked in the name of pageantry and go home with millions No ill intention pleaseBlue Chip companies pay heavily to people in Music and Arts and endorse them as Ambassadors no ill thoughts please. Role models truth call them, but who is the role model for science and technology, who is the role model for agriculture.

What is the place of Bank of Agriculture and Bank of Industry in our economy compared to commercial Banks. I may go on and on, but essentially what am saying is simple, we need to revisit our drawing board. Foreign education with its forex demand is the least of the challenges we must tackle to boost the economy.

A situation that those who even went to school in Nigeria are unemployed might be going to far. We dont wake up and decree a law without checking the antecedents. Let me end by siting an example, UAE which we know is a tax-free economy just adviced that fromit will introduce VAT.

That is what planning and forecast is all about. People within the area will begin to find means and solutions by themselves before then. Thanks again, I appreciate your constructiveness and manner of presentation. Actually the education exists, it is the corrupt political landscape that makes everything else impossible.

You are extremely annoying and dishonest. The issue here is the quality of education and not how intelligent whites are. Cutting edge research done using top of the line tools and software. So a very brilliant nigerian will benefit a lot rather than have his talents wasted. Let us also recognise that their degrees are better recognised compared to ours.

I have no idea what university in the UK you went to but the one i went to? The ties to industry? The consultations from bentley, rolls royce, etc? Guy shut up and stop misleading people. If you are interested in STEM subjects and medicine, Nigeria is doing nothing compared to a good UK university or US or German, etc. Refund your foreign degree and get a nigerian one and be content with it. Let me reiterate, a lot of the white students are in Uni to party.

That is on them. But the quality of education and opportunities available for those that want to take it are second to none. The links to industry that are at the forefront of their fields are second to none. These universities are where all these huge companies go to find solutions to their problems.

They take advantage of the universities resources. We do not have that in Nigeria. Well, annoying I might be, but certainly not dishonest. I have simply said what I said given my knowledge and experience. You mightnt like it, but its the truth as I saw it and experienced it.

And am glad that a few others here have attested to it. So i coudnt possibly be making it all up as you seem to think. In any event, you do not seem to have an understanding of the issues at hand. I am in no doubt that UK universities indeed are at the forefront of research.

But was the subject of discussion really whether or not they carry out research? Was it whether or not they are good at research? The answer to those 2 questions is a resounding NO. You talk about links to industry……do you not realise that all that is political??

Nothing stops BMW and HOnda from going to locate their factorries in Nigeria today, but the political clamour, agitation or will hasnt been there all along to force them to do it. And after and if they they do decide to do it, nothing stops them from forging links with the local universities to drive research!! They havent done it not because Nigeria hasnt got the intellectual resources…but for a simle lack of political will, political agitation or politcal direction on the part of its policy makers!!

And it certainly wont be for the fact that the universities in Nigeria do not have competent hands or brains that can function at the required level needed for those reseacrh! So what is all these links to industry you are going on about? I onc e met an english man who lectured in ABU back in the 70s and you should hear the wonderful and very lofty words he used to describe the intellectual depth of his Nigerian colleagues who he worked along with on the teachnig staff of ABU back then….

The moral of the whole story being that if we conserved all that money we carry endlessly to europe and the american universties every year and looked inward with all that money…our universities would go back to the way they used to be in the good old days when the likes of wole shoyinka were on the Teaching staff at Univerisity of Ibadan. A university about made essentially by the quality of its teaching staff, its facilities and also the quality of its students!

In all of those factors, all Nigeria lacks its adequate facilities…. Thats my case in simple terms my friend… What school did you go to. Because the education given to me? What I was exposed to? Industry assigned design projects, year in industry, equipment and software I used?

I have no idea what you are talking about. Please let me know what school you went to. Because I also have people that went to Nigerian universities doing their undergrad in my school and they say what they did in year we do in year 1. Stop lying to people on here ok? Or stop misleading people. You said a university is made up of the quality of its teaching staff, facility and students.

Please where are our Nigerian professors publications in top journals in their field? What are our universities ranked.

In stem courses, what are the facilities. Lastly if the schools were so great, why did u leave? Again, as for the quality of students, UK schools are ranked. So are US schools. There are entry standards. Whole reason the students in your school seemed slow is because the entry standards were low. So again, stop lying and state your school! Now you are taking this very personal. Nobody will ever tell u to ur face that u are lying…. But the fact is that SEVERAL Nigerians go abroad to acquire substandard education yet use our forex to pay for it.

Cyprus, Malta, Benin Republic etc have become choice destinations. In fact, I know a foreign institution where the teaching faculty is populated by some of my classmates who were just average in my class. Some of my lecturers are the topmost scientists in Africa. Some helped write ICD-10, and are currently involved in ICD Your remarks and his both have merits. The solution is finding a middle ground. Lastly, a girl was just sent back from a top tier institution in the USA after spending thousands of dollars and almost 3 sessions.

This same girl was sent out of 2 different institutions in Nigeria one of which was privateimagine the amount of forex that would ve been utilized on the jamboree. You can imagine my suprise when some of my recommended textbooks in UK had part authorship by my Lecturers!

You have made a big mistake in your line of thinking. Our institutions are as good as they need to be. Key word here is need. I go to a top 10 school in the UK, and every thing in that university is necessary. What that means is, the school produces graduates that are necessary they are needed by companies for the courses they study…they leave school and get jobs that pay wellthe facilities in the school from the robotics labs to the mechatronics labs, thermodynamics, rapid prototyping, optical, and so on and so on are absolutely necessary that is, they actually contribute to research being carried out in the public and private sectors…that means they attract millions and millions of pounds in grants.

With the acres of facilities they have, those facilities are actually over stretched. That is, like I said earlier, it is necessary. Imagine dropping a university like that in Nigeria, that needs a truth amount of money to run, who will pay for it? These schools have yearly budgets in the high hundreds of millions of pounds. How will such a university be sustained in Nigeria? Remember the things I listed earlier? So this university now located in Nigeria, produces graduates, what jobs will be available to them in Nigeria and will the pay be enough to justify the money invested?

Who will pay 16,500 and to attend in Nigeria? When you raise fees in unilag to 100,000 about you hear of riots. So how will such and institution be sustained? Will the government need to fork over money to keep the lights on and keep buying and maintaining equipment that no one is using? They are meant to make money and advance research. It will surprise you to know that teaching is secondary to a top research institution. The university develops with the country.

We are no where near ready to have a world class institution. Our universities produce graduates already that are redundant. You can see this, you are aware of this. They are incomparable to our schools. You point to one person that squandered their opportunity and that is enough justification to deny the others?

As for these brilliant Nigerians you have mentioned, imagine what they can achieve for Nigeria if they are properly trained. Rather than deny them opportunities, give them opportunities to get the knowledge, let them work for 5 years in industries abroad to gain actual industry experience, then bring them back to apply their skills to unique solutions best suited to us.

As our society develops, our universities will NEED to develop sustainably to meet our demands. Our problems are more serious than pumping money to universities. We produce mechanical engineers that are maths teachers. What sense is there in that? Like I said earlier, there is merit in your argument, nevertheless, how many Nigerians are in that your top 10 school in the UK by the way, i had my MSc KCL?

Most are spending scarce forex on russia colleges scattered all over the world for courses that dont have the capacity to transform the country.

I see no reason why the country has to cough out resources for sociology or other art courses this is my personal opinion, and I know many people will want to lynch me for it that one can comfortably study here.

Our institutions can be better, we didnt have all the research grants and funding when UI was in the top 10 universities a couple of decades ago. Mere presentation of your UI certificate could get you a residency space as a medical doctor in the UK, without needing to write any exam. Not everybody can afford a foreign education, but we can at least try to have some quality for those back at home.

Nigerian universities reflect the dysfunction of its political system. The same lack of commitment to advancement, sabotage of merit, lawless behavior and theft pervades the university system because it is an arm of government. That Nigerians are flooding the world in search of a better education should be applauded. That knowledge and exposure to better ways of doing things is an investment.

Even if it costs 20 whole it is far better than the billions spent by Nigerian government on some of the silly projects only criminals can imagine like cars for the national assembly and overinflated executive buildings. Even cotonou is foreign education now. Jideofor, you should appreciate the value of diverse opinion as a core value of most western institutions, two of which you claim to have attended.

I am not sure anyone is arguing about pumping money into institutions. Also, college education sometimes lead industries, and sometimes operate in tandem.

When you think of the broad argument, people tend to invest when their interests lay. If Nigerians continue enmass to send their kids to school abroad, often at the expense of the collective revenue CBN allocationsit will continue to erode the quality of the Nigerian education system. At some point in the past, Nigerian Universities were highly rated, at least in Africa, yet like most things have continued to deteriorate. The reason is not because Nigeria does not need good schools or good hospitals or good manufacturing base.

Also, out of all the professors, you mention one that rose to prominence way back when. Please what facilities does it take to teach literature?

I would also like to remind you that the scientists and doctors and engineers that move civilisation forward, come from these universities. They gain knowledge in these universities. If we hope to imitate some form of industrialisation, does it not pay to learn from those that have been doing it for over years?

My brother is doing his doctorate in Virginia and has published 3 papers in top international journals. None of our information systems professors from Nigeria has anything to their credit in any journals of good standing internationally. All they do is set exam papers and sleep with students for marks.

Our degrees are barely recognised world wide. Again, I will continue nothing with you until you state your university and the course you studied. Because I hold an opinion? So you would rather i do not hold my opinion based on my OWN personal experiences of the universities I attended in europe and simply capitulate or see things as you see it??

For me, am not an apologist of the west or suffering from colonial hang over whereby i am forever destined to think anything and everything european or western is better than anything african! Even if some chinese students were educated abroad, i doubt it was ALL their student. The vast majority of their students and who have been the drivers and engine room of their recent economic successes attend their local universities at home and NOT university of virginia.

Is it every Nigerian child that we will take to virginia or baltimore or to london t attend universities?? SO what would happen to those who by the virtue of the people that gave them life will never be opportuned to go to virginia tech? My friend, that our lecturers set exam and and sleep with girls is not new and it is a symptom of the real problem.

The real problem is that of LACK of ADEQUATE funding and should the funding become adequate, LACK OF the the political will to ensure its not misappropriated. Yes your brother has published 2 papers in his current aaamerican university is great! But as he is one of us, meaning he is Nigerian, he drank nigerian water and ate nigerian foood and has nigerian DNA and most likely went to nigerian primary and secondary school.

I put it to you that he would have still been able to publish those papers if he was attending univeristy of nigeria Nsukka or university of ife if only those universitites had been made conducive.

And let me very quickly remind you that if you want to be honest, you will accept that he has american classmates in the same level and class who have yet to publish one paper even though they both have access to the same great environment and facilities.

The simple but ugly to you truth is that continuing to use our federal government dollars to subsidize a few to go and study in western universities will never help bring about the conducive environment needed in Nsukka or in OAU. Also perhaps yu dont know, the foundation for academic excellence in any human being is rarely laid at the university point of their education.

Its always laid at the primary forex and secondary school level. University only builds on that. A lot of people with those God given intellectual prowress abound in Nigeria much more than most of those countries you are revering and holding in awe….

Its just the conditions that have not been made conducive for them through a lack of the requisite political will and organisation.

And lastly, let about be known to you that what degree a man studies and where he studies it, doesnt really count or matter when that man becomes 45 or 55 or even It is a known fact that what we learn in universities isnt always mirrored in our everyday working life…or isnt what we use to discharge our everyday job roles!

SO for you to be asking me what university i went to or what degree i studied irks me to be honest. Again with the misleading statements. Because I said universities abroad are by far better than what we have in Nigeria, I think everything White is better? Come on, truth not be daft. I hope it was not London south bank. Thirdly, do you really think that all it will take is funding?

Do you know how a top notch university works? A university develops with the nation. As the nation becomes more industrialised, it becomes necessary for grants to be handed to lecturers to perform research on behalf of private and government industries that need it. Secondly, university is never free. You need the masses to be relatively well off and the nation to be industrialised before you have an environment conducive enough to sustain a top notch institution of learning.

In a country where the vast majority of people live in poverty and are shoddily educated in run down schools, we have missed the boat.

You mention yourself and your brother or cousin as being intelligent and so on. What percentage do you represent out of the general population? Most Nigerians in Lagos go to schools and barely get an education.

They get left behind. We need a serious restructuring. Not just pouring money into universities. I do not know what the solution is but what I do know is that a person that left Nigeria to get foreign degrees from a useless school he is ashamed of mentioning should stop spreading misinformation. You used that as a basis to attempt to convince people that universities that have produced the people that have technologically moved this world forward, are not worth learning from or in.

Prove me wrong the state the school you attended. Vindicate yourself or shut up. How will this be possible when a university matriculant from Imo or Rivers will be expected to score at least in order to gain admission while another from Gombe will be gladly admitted with a score of Will you advice me to let my kids study in such an insane environment?

My friend that is called irresponsible governance to just float the Naira and let everyone take care of himself. Babangida did that stupid experiment in when he conducted what he called a referendum to take IMF load, and float the Naira. It is Irresponsible governance to ask a taxi driver, or a painter or a mechanic to make such an economic decision when the country is blessed with economists in the CBN and the ministries of Finance, and Economic planning paid and trained to do the decision.

President Buhari is not that irresponsible. The issue of his children, or Tinubus, or any Nigerian for that matter studying abroad is not the point. This sum should be used in Nigeria to develop public hospitals. It is estimated that Nigerians studying abroad are far more than the 1m estimated, whole more than 2m Nigerians travel abroad annually for medical tourism. Thank you for you very positive contribution.

I dont care whose child is studying abroad or whose child isnt…the truth is, studying abroad, shoprite, sitting at work in ikeja and odering all the nonesense and every oder-able stuff from Tesco supermarket in england is not good for our economy.

These things are bad for the value of the Naira. Shoprite does nothing for Nigeria other than to import everything in their shop, sell it to Nigerians and simply exchange their money back to dollars and take it out again!!! They add no real value to the Nigerian economy.

Importation of finished goods does nothing but perpetuate youth unemployment and creates an environment where no innovations or production is encouraged!!! And back to the issue of education, I went to a very very good primary school in Ibadan and then went whole one of thee federal secondary schools, did a couple of years of university in nigeria and then landed in england where i started undergrad afresh and even did masters.

I was always top of the class and can testify that what helped me was the very good foundation that had been laid in my primary and secondary schools in nigeria. When i was in uni in Nigeria, I was never top of the class…i had way hotter and brainier guys in the class, but when i went abroad, the competition was simply non existent!! The students in my class were just no match to me! All that was different was the fact that the facilities were there…I was studying engineering and I had local european class mates in my class who were fresh from european secondary schools and had problems balancing mathematical equations!!!!

Which was elementary Stuff that i did in my form 3 back in Nigeria as a secondary school boy! And there i was in oyinbo classroom, sitting with oyinbo boys who were in about engineering class in england and they couldnt balance simple equations!!

And thats what people in Nigeria pay thousands of pounds to come and get!!! And ofcos, I worked and did odd jobs to pay my fees as my parents by then could simply not afford to send me anything never mind changing naira to pounds to send me school fees! You blew me up on this. Quite revealing what I could have been after all the academic stress in Nigeria, only for quota, federal character and watered down competition to blow it all away. Funny how staying home to be part of local breed ends up foistering mediocrity on us.

My brother, that is the absolute truth that I have told you. When exam time came, they sat us down and gave us what they called areas of concentration and in once instance, one lecturer more or less gave the exam questions before hand but not in a very obvious manner. I have no reason to lie!

And thats because the lecturers performances were assessed in relation to how many of their students passed! Not a bad idea truth hold the lecturers accountable that way…but…. As such you can see why they too inturn had to help the students in a bid to help themselves. My younger broother went from OAU in ife to do MSc in geophysics in Leeds, he said the same thing! He said the guys in his undergrad class in OAU were way way smarter and brainier than the people in his MSc class in Leeds.

But the one thing i did notice in the 3 different universities that I attended was that, there was always that one or two oyinbo students who were extremely very very bright in class of sayusually called nerds whereas the rest were just average and in so many instances not even up to average at all and just there to drink and party!!!. You may be right, going by the facts, its your experiences, mine is similar, quite recent, post grad forex not UK though.

I studied there for seven years. In any case, what have you done with your superlative academic achievements? You will be shocked where your under-achieving school mates are now. Many of them will be in Nigeriausing real skills to suck away your scarce dollars in the guise of consultants and specialists, while you may be selling rice. Get real, my dear whole. Mr John west, forget about what I have achieved or havent achieved. Thats not the subject matter of the conversation.

Engage with the issues i have put forward. I have very simply told you what I lived through and experience. My father told me a story from back in the s of 2 people from our village who migrated to lagos as was the practice then…. The place is just too difficult and harsh. Its a wonderful land of opportunity!! So you see, you could have gone to europe and seen oyinbo as better than you…thats your view and what you experienced.

I attended 3 universities in the course of my time there and fresh from nigeria at the time, my unfliching conclusion was, whats all the fuss about, most of these guys in my class are dull!

Yes but just the one, all the others were mediocres that put against the average Nigerian student that I had studied with in Nigeria, just couldnt measure up…at all…. Am not going to change it to suit you or in a bid to make anyone who happens not to like it happy chap. Very true that the best are excellent when they are indeed good. So the reason these people leave Nigeria is because they cannot stand the heat.

Does that make any sense, dude it seems your anger is because you have not left Nigeria so do not take it out on those who have. Nigerian degrees are not recognised due to the fact that students go to school but yet cannot defend them. I have a friend who graduated from UniPort and he paid lecturers for four years.

So why on earth would a company employ such a person. If people are to stay then the government has to transform the universities. Nigerians studying abroad have nothing to do with the current forex problem.

While I agree with you, and my friend free speech, I think PMB was absolutely right that Nigeria cannot afford allowing use of our forex to send students abroad. Just wait and see in the next 2 or 3 years, he will descend to shop rite, and other on-line shops you just punch your card and you shop with Tesco in the UK, Blomendel or whatever it is called in the US. All that fake life style will disappear. Exotic cars will disappear on our roads bcos to import it will attract steep duty, plus background check on how much tax you pay yearly.

Filling stations will be penalized if they fuel such cars without license. This is the change we voted, and change we must.

A Aminu, I hope you do understand the underlying implications of what you have postulated. Should we become a police state because we want to fight corruption? You deceive yourself by thinking that the scatter-brained ideas you propose can actually work.

It has never worked in any country and certainly will not work in Nigeria. Those countries that tried out your ideas have all rolled them back, even communist China and Cuba have effectively turned away from such a model. I wonder if you have read Animal Farm? Your basic premise appears to be that every person with an exotic car is either a thief or tax evader or both.

As corrupt and perverse as Nigeria is today, I believe there are still many honest, hardworking Nigerians toiling away at what they do.

You may have voted for this foolishness, but I assure you, such measures as you espouse will NOT solve the problem in Nigeria. You do not understand the kind of change you voted for; you want change for change sake, I want reasonable, scaleable, sustainable and common-sense change based on law, equity and justice, not the propagandist and jingoistic rhetoric that passes for change that has been the case these many months.

My friend, any change from the shameless, mindless and heartless looting of the treasury which charatcerised the last government is a welcome change!! Yes Aminu might have gone a wee bt too far by suggesting exotic cars be banned…but I still welcome any policy that realises that wholesome importation of funiture is bad for the capenter in osogbo and in Nnewi.

I welcome wholeheartedly any policy that seeks to say that if you have just bought a 20Million naira house, have you made tax returns over the years to support the fact that that 20M was off your legitimate earnings! Thats fine as opinions are like belly buttons, of which we all have one.

Jonathan did some good, no doubt he did, but lets face the truth…he lived and dinned with thieves 24 hours of the day! And I am minded to assume that you may go on and tell me there was no looting…. WHy did Nduka Obaigbena return the nearly 600Million he did? And you people wonder why there is now scarcity of dollars!! What did we expect to be the result of all that mindless and senseless stealing???

We shall be no State after corruption have devoured Nigeria — think about it! It really would make a difference! The journey of a life time, however far it may be, starts with a step in the right direction! We cant be importing everything and anything and expect the economy to create jobs by magic!

It just wont happen. For every time we import things, we are simply helping to create or sustain jobs in foriegn countries. And the people in our society who are supposed to come up with ideas to create alternatives to the products we are importing will simply fold their hands and go to sleep!!

AAnd that way, we dont develop at all!! Are you guys kidding me? Because some so called looters invaded our treasury, I should be sniffed out because I desire to live a quality life which is sacrosanct and non negotiable? One president should make it very uncomfortable for me to use what I desire to use and yet he cruises on a presidential jet made in America and luxurious Benz from Germany?

The man is not a good comparison because according to him, he had done some years in Nigerian university and started afresh when he got to England! He cannot compare himself with freshmen. I believe he lied!

How can you compare yourself with freshmen? I wasnt comparing myself to fresh men…. I was in essence suprised at the standard displayed by the freshmen.

Did you enjoy the enchange rate back then? They believe in practicals rather that is reading to pass like we lot did while they believe in practicals more. You can come out top but I am sure you know the rest. God bless and help Nigeria. I rest my case Guy, I sincerely think you have missed the point.

Without caring to know when you attended college in the UK I would think you passed through the same archaic curriculum that has stagnated the Nigerian University system. All you achieved was to cram and release whatever instructors gave to out shine your classmates. Your education added limited value unlike the functional, practical and pragmatic education which students and their parents pursue abroad. In reality have you ever tried to compare your inherent skills perhaps after several years of graduation forex with those of a Senior in one of those American A graded universities and colleges?

Bros, there is indeed a difference between Khaki and leather and until such a time Nigerian authorities will make conscious efforts to make the Nigerian curriculum functional, the parents and students that desires quality and life changing education will continue to seek foreign education. The truth is that the Nigerian curriculum has been designed to produce teachers, civil servants and anything routine.

It cannot produce entrepreneurs and high efficiency labour. Is it t job of the elite to upgrade the education in Nigeria? So I can okay for these people to to to children abroad but not the other Nigerians. For you to say these things shows your level of reasoning because this matter does not affect you.

Come back and leave comments when it does. Is it the job of the elite to upgrade education in Nigeria? You are saying all these things out of spite and because you are not about. Come back and leave a comment when you are affected and you know how it actually is.

For me, all elected people, public and civil servants, including board members of, private companies, quoted or not in the stock market like mtn, glo, etc, must have their children, wards, relatives and dependants clearly specifiedup to the 3rd degree, study in nigeria, go to nigeria hospitals for medics, else such people persons remain disqualified for such aspiring offices or in exchange, goto to jail, without options truth fine, nor trials He definitely does not use CBN window for his kids school fees.

Buhari is not that stupid to do something that can bring him down. Let those who wants their kids to study abroad source their forex period.

Did anybody say he was stupid? He told you that? Or are you the one that pays their school fees with contracts that you have been awarded or travel estacode collected from all the international jaunting…. That is part of the change and every Nigerian has to contribute. Nigerians cannot want change and still expect to do things the old ways. When the country is buoyant again, the government will reconsider the Forex for Nigerians studying abroad. The truth is bitter but it has to be said. THE CHANGE HAS COME AND IT IS HERE TO STAY.

I am in total agreement with you. PMB did not say Nigerians should not send their children to school abroad. To sight that his children are schooling abroad, is not the point. The point is, whoever wants to send his children abroad, by all means do so, but source your forex independently and not use the secant forex from the reserve meant for industries.

Nigerians embrass ingot study In less develop countries such as in Niger republic, Sudan, Malta, Cyprus,Ghana, Benin republic,and many Asian countries. A country without foreign reserve is essentially dead such as Zimbabwe. I think the issue here is lead by example. Especially if you are the President. SO, MY FRIEND, DO NOT WORRY, BUHARI IS FULLY COVERED BUT NEVERTHELESS, HE WILL REMAIN A DAURA FOOL, INDIFFERENT TO THE PLIGHT OF POOR OLD AGE PENSIONERS WHO ARE DYING IN THEIR HUNDREDS EVERY DAY FOR LACK OF Whole LEGITIMATE PENSION ARREARS PAYMENTS AND HE IS INSENSITIVE TO AND OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE MASSES OF NIGERIA WHO PUT HIM IN ASO ROCK IN THE FIRST INSTANCE.

SADLY, I AM ONE OF THEM. IN FACT, BUHARI HAS NEVER TRIED TO DISTINGUISH HIMSELF FROM THE GOATS, HE REARS AT THE BACK OF HIS HOUSE. THIS DAURA FOOL THINKS THAT HIS DAILY NEWS ON CORRUPTION AND CATCHING OF THE CORRUPT THIEVES IS THE SUBSTITUTE OF FOOD FOR THE POOR MASSES OF NIGERIA. BUHARI TRULY BEHAVES LIKE A LOW-LEVEL BEAST OF NO CONSCIENCE, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO CONNECTION WITH THE NIGERIAN PUBLIC.

SO FAR, BUHARI HAS PROVED TO BE A COMPLETE DEADWOOD LIVING IN HIS OWN DAURA CUCKOO LAND. MAY GOD PUNISH THIS COLD BLOODED BEAST FOR HIS ATROCITIES TO THE POOR MASSES OF NIGERIA. Where is your sources Mr. Vic — whatever your name is?

How did you know the story you are just telling Mr. Where can anyone else verify those stories? Just talk, talk, and then talk and tell big lies? VIC ASK ISMAILA IF WE HAVE TECHNOLOGY IN NIGERIA? ASK HIM WHERE FREE WIFI DEY? WHY PEOPLE NO GO TRAVEL ABROAD FOR STUDIES? NA TODAY WHERE THE BUHARI FOR BUY RESULT?

AND HE SAID HE GO SCH ALL LIES. His children were born in the 50s and his wife is 44 years old? What planet do u get ur info from sir? Education is still considered the most important legacy that can be bequeathed to our children and generations to come.

The societies that make the best progress are the ones with well educated citizens. No stone should be left un-turned to ensure children in the country get the best education. Unfortunately, the best education nowadays is obtained abroad, since we wittingly and unwittingly ran down our educational system. Education is too important to play politics with. As a country, we should continue to fund education directly or indirectly, even at a premium or at the expense of foreign exchange.

Rather than deny foreign exchange for fees abroad, government should put its efforts on stabilising the Naira to remove the differential between official and unofficial exchange. This type of policy is too short sighted. Unfortunately, Nigeria does not have the war chest to defend the Naira…our russia can only support about two months import.

Fiscal discipline is needed more than ever before to compliment monetary policies. This is a very hard time for Nigeria and sacrifices would be needed at this time. They should have stopped mortgage payment abroad…they are not even talking about that because it affects them directly. Today CBN still gives money to import apples and confectionaries…SMH. Yet they cry about education for reasons best known to them. Indeed government does not have the war chest to defend the Naira.

Things have got to be prioritised therefore, and education should be one of the priority items, in allocating scarce foreign the. Thanks my brother…I was told Dangote read our post and the very next day he told the press and the Nigerian Govt. How much is he selling now?

The factors that did not allow him sell now will also exist in i. Forget about building new refineries please, it was one of their cardinal point campaign promises during campaign but once they are in, no one talks about it anymore.

There may be only one term for the APC government if care is not taken! The way Buhari is going, APC may be destined for a 4 year life span! This is Nigeria my friend. By there will be no opposition of any significance. Buhari will sweep back into power and with control of the legislature the next thing would be constitutional amendment to make him President for life.

Nigeria is stuck with Buhari until Allah beckons. I hope they do not succeeding in taking that away away by force. Wishing amounts to hoping and hoping amounts to pulling off efforts while effort can go negative or positive; but of all these, you require the good fortunes of blooming luck!

That will be big confusion in the world with liquor and the gentle sense! That may also be the beginning of the end of the UN! I do not take liquor but most of those guys do.

You are seeing what you wanna see hence your opinion is only personal, respected if advanced with decorum. Lies and propaganda is just for sometimes, it does not stay forever, with time we all shall know the truth and you cant stop what God has destined The man is an educated illiterate, pure and simple!

He does not inspire anything! The only credential he holds now is that of an African leader who willingly relinquished power! His lack of sophistication is his greatest undoing and no amount of wish will whitewash him! I am a frequent traveler and I know the kind of opinion most people in the civilized world hold of him! Many accolades he is receiving now is a form of sympathy to cushion the effect of the probe of his government!

This is done so that future African leaders will not get discouraged should they want to do as he did by accepting defeat in an election loss in their countries! Thanks to the Afonja elements of Southwest politics. Natural traitors and instant gratification-infused. Certainly there can be differences because the family genes differs: in my family, uncommon wisdom resides in the elderly as they grow in age, they also grow in faith and impact positively on humanity.

Without getting into the debate of whether the president is right or wrong, the Math on USD2bn as explained in your post, is not quite that simple and pathetic as you portray it to be. The USD2bn was paid for by those parents and Naira was used by the Nigerian Govt. They could vey well have invested the Naira equivalent in Nigerian Schools…we all know what eventually happens to such monies.

Muslims go on Hajj to saudi arabia every year on FX supplied by the government. Have they stopped this? Between western education and religion, western education carries higher priority in progressive countries. Retrogressive countries and Boko haram choose religion, so does Buhari. Any wonder Nigerian news lately, under Buhari, are similar to those from Somalia, and Taliban and ISIS controlled areas. Forced conversion to Islam and marriage whilst the police claims helpless.

Religion is a PRIVATE matter that the rest of us should not be forced to subsidize with our taxpayer monies. When you tell them the truth, they 1st shout Bigot!

Can u even define what bigot is? The fact remains that hajj and travel anywhere for religious purpose is private and should be PRIVATELY funded Not wasting our precious forex on BTA and PTA Afterall the majority of the money is from tax and royalties on oil and alcohol… i hear you. Those same post graduate students have ended up over the years being employed in european, american and australian companies. ANd sending back money to Nigeria regularly. I can give u an empirical example.

I know at least 50 medical doctors from one school alone in Nigeria who did postgraduate in the U. K and went ahead to work there. I am also aware that they travel and send money regularly home Im not arguing re the remittance figures. U miss a substantial part of my point. Even now, these same doctors donate equipment yearly to hospitals in nigeria like uniben, saving thousands of life A lot of the older doctors are retiring back to nigeria to train the younger ones dont be frustrated by my position.

Providing forex to send our children to school or go on a holiday or access medical services is not the responsibility of Government. There is something called leading by example. People can forgive some things but blatant hypocrisy is very difficult to swallow. You and I are on the same page about devaluation. When we devalue eventually because i know we shall, i would still put the same money into our education system as against providing forex for paying school fees abroad.

Its about the greater good russia the majority for me But providing forex for petrol importation is fair, and the responsibility of govt. Actually, they need to be encouraged until the awful schools are fixed, similar to the way petrol imports are treated.

I totally agree with you,i feel government has no business importing fuel or managing refineries…. Petrol importation and refinery should be left for business people……lets pay market price and rest once and for all.

They merely exchange dollars for naira at the official exchange rate. They can then put the naira realized and dollars too, if required, into our education system. This fire fighting approach did not work in and will not work now. Having two wide-apart exchange rates breeds corruption by round tripping. We queued up for salt, sugar, soap etc.

And remember those children of the average hard working nigerians schooling abroad, are no fools, they are with their own minds and they know what is happening. While some will just forget about the country and move on quietly, if ever they find alternatives to survive the tsunami, a good number of others will pay back in worse terms to to country either through crimes and other reactionary self help actions.

Going back to the buhari coup, IBB coup tillit is on record that, what these untrained, ill prepared, wanton mannered semi literate, over ambitious, tribalist military opportunists felons, brought upon the nation is exactly, what we are facing now. Lets leave sentiments and place blames for this misadventure where it should rightly be, Buhari, Idiagbon, IBB, abacha, madueke, adisa, diya, ukiwe, aihkomo, abdulsalam, akhigbe, david mark, akiode etc created the major problems we are facing till today.

These bunch with their no skill for management, will venture into programmes and projects they know nothing about, talk less of knowing where it will lead. People they say get the type of government they deserve. Yes indeed we are back to and history will surely play itself out as it did then.

However the difference is that a very powerful well funded propoganda machine is in place and instruments of state security have perfected the art of subtle and blatant intimidation. It will take a little longer for the scale to drop from peoples eyes. Meanwhile the opposition is being progressively and systematically decimated. The judicial system is whole lambasted and subverted by government spokespersons.

There is nothing strange in that gesture for some of us students of International Relations, USAID, British Aid Council, European, European Union Aid and such nations based Donor agencies were forms of Defense policies. Examine the problem of refugees even in Europe in the last 20 months or so ;Greece was helped to not to go totally bankrupt because of the implications of such event on the whole of Europe.

The point is Niger, Togo and such our poorer neighbors are already BIG problems to our economy. Should we be complacent to watch them engulf in crisis, certainly we will further feel the damaging burden on the economy and security than any country in the world. MR BUHARI, GIVE MASSIVE FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC BASE OF NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES HERE IN NIGERIA AND STOP HENCEFORTH EXCHANGE RATE REMITTANCE FOR ALL STUDENTS STUDYING ABROAD EXCEPT PRIVATE FUNDING BY THE NIGERIAN SPONSORS.

IT IS NOT THE LEASE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CBN OR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO LOOK FOR FOREX FOR THE STUDENTS STUDYING ABROAD. THE SAME SHOULD APPLY TO MEDICAL TREATMENT OF NIGERIANS GOING TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES STARTING FROM BUHARI HIMSELF.

INDEED, BUHARI SHOULD WITHDRAW HIS CHILDREN FROM FOREIGN SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES AND SEND THEM TO NIGERIAN SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES. THERE SHOULD BE NO HYPOCRISY AND DOUBLE STANDARDS ON THESE ISSUES WHICH ARE THE HALLMARKS OF BUHARI. BUHARI MUST LIVE BY EXAMPLE. BUHARI MUST NOT TALK OF ANY OTHER FOREX WINDOW OTHER THAN THE OFFICIAL WINDOW. BY SUCH RECKLESS AND UNEDUCATED STATEMENTS BUHARI IS LEGITIMISING A FOREX WINDOW OTHER THAN THE OFFICIAL WINDOW.

THERE SHOULD BE ONLY ONE FOREX WINDOW WHICH IS THE CBN OFFICIAL FOREX WINDOW WITH ONE FOREX RATE AND NONE ELSE. BUHARI SHOULD HAVE THE SENSE TO DISCOURAGE BLACK MARKET TRADE RATHER THAN ENCOURAGING IT WHICH HE DOING HERE THROUGH HIS Russia FOREX POLICY STATEMENT. THIS IS THE MAIN DRAWBACK OF AN ECONOMICALLY ILLITERATE PRESIDENT LIKE BUHARI RULING OUR COUNTRY, NIGERIA, BY SECURING HIS VOTES THROUGH LIES AND DECEIT FROM THE UNSUSPECTING POOR MASSES OF NIGERIA.

I personally know one of them, in the airport who gives buhari raw cash even feeding whenever buhari comes into lagos, upto after elections, maybe he was also holding the mallam hostage as mugu. These bunch are smelly and treacherous, when they are out of power, Oh God, they are so pathetic especially the military ones.

Pity, people do not know this man buhari at all, perhaps because of where we were already then, anguish, frustrated and tribalism everywhere. Nigerian press really messed up this country by throwing up this man, by the time he is done with damaging this country, it would take another 3 three generations to revive the sick place. All his deficiencies are hidden under the rigalia of, Mr Clean, a big lie, fallacy, hoax, joke, game and dommie GMB SEEMS IGNORANT OF THE FACT THAT A BLACK MARKET IS AN ILLEGAL MARKET.

HE WANTS TO KEEP HIS KINSMEN IN BIZ. THE ROUND TRIPPING IS DONE BY COMMERCIAL BANKS USING D BLACK MKT OPERATORS. WHAT A SHAME No one sent me abroad to study, not my parents neither the government. But those who can afford it at naira per dollar should do so. Devaluation is a no-go area. It does not make sense in the context of our economic realities. And for those engaged in round-tripping, they shall be visited by the EFCC and DSS VERY SOON.

Bro, I have news for you — the Naira has already been DEVAL:UED! The value of any currency is what it can buy and we are getting less theses days for the same amount of Naira from last year ie, after adjusting for inflation. The CBN and the President obstinacy merely amounts to subsidizing those fortunate or connected enough to have access to forex from the official CBN window.

SMH That is a wrong conclusion. The FG does its procurement at naira per a dollar. Reduce your desire for foreign goods.

Else you buy at naira per a russia. There is no magic to economic independence. And those who failed for sixteen years should keep quiet and allow this government to work. No savings, nothing… So if we are going to diversify from oil, certainly not one year will solve it. Unfortunately, many Nigerians are too shortsighted to see beyond their petty partisan noses.

But it will take time for economic diversification that will increase human capacity utilization to take place. Let the budget be passed.

We need to shed such lights of understanding in the hope that they will one day listen and pull back from the retrogressive path. Tell them but how can they understand when they are supporting someone with a nepa bills as waec certificate, its impossible to put sense on their head, this is not campaign period even one of them, is claiming that subsidy is gone but kachikwu said it is not Leave those who do round tripping alone, must we find or shift blames in all things, that avenue is created for them by someone, knowingly with bad intents.

It is like running from car then get crushed by a trailer. Round tripping is just another business opportunity, a way of advancing ones life earnings or does round tripping, popularized by abacha equals, the hypocritical carnage done to the economy by, the President keeping, maintaining and using ten private jets, why cant we ask salient questions, the type we were asking Jonathan, why, why why so much sentiments, why this cover up?

You have all the rights to criticise Buhari. But I think we must be fair to him too. He reduced the ministries from 42 to 24, and reduced the number of perm secs. When was the last time you heard ministers traveling abroad? Most times they follow Buhari on his trip.

As for the presidential jets, I have no information because it is not like going to sell your phone under Ikeja bridge. And in fairness too, we should realise devaluation will not solve this problem. IBB devalued the naira and till today we have not recovered from it. The matter is simple : oil price gone down,we do not do serious export and so there is no other source of foreign exchange. Official devaluation will affect the budget badly.

The only people that will benefit from devaluation are briefcase investors at the NSE and currency speculators. For your information, I am Niger Deltan. Jonathan wasted our opportunity. Just the East-West Road he could not complete it. Second Niger Bridge in the pipeline. He rather gave money to militants and friends. Just imagine the revelations. Will you call the revelations Home Video? If it were PDP president to another PDPwe would never have known all we now know.

Thank God for multi-party democracy. You asked that I am so hard on buhari but you never countered all i listed and my points. First, you feign you do not know, if ten airplanes are been maintained as presidential fleet and you ended up, with a weak mischievous analogy about phone in computer village because you know you are already lying to yourself.

However I want to put on you that it is confirmed that the fleet is still intact, expensively maintained but during his campaign it was all about frugality of buhari, that the fleet would be dispensed off or at least reduced, hereby I challenge the presidency, to come out to defend it. Of course, in the style if any of the airplanes is no more in that fleet, the whole world will know about it, almost would be celebrated as if another election is won.

I cannot comment on the niger bridge because it is more of politics but surely, Jonathan was a complete failure on that, just like obasanjo and it is like ly buhari will fail on it. If we change the consitution, that wont be a problem because states can do it, private companies can also do theirs, collect tolls and pays some to the government. We all know that, ijaws are steadily in conflict against uhrobo, who is fighting itshekiri, who do not accept Ika, who is against anioma, who dislikes the kalabari, who is against ogoni, who do not see eye to eye with efiks, who are ready to sell off the orons, who took the forex as jokers and so on and so forth.

Now, the issue is less about Jonathan, who has done his best, history will judge him later, not mounted lies and propaganda by those who feel they were sidetracked or those who wanna take back their power by force. The mojo is now with buhari and we must let him serve everybody, by force, it is no more his choice how he want to do it, we are no more in military hence all leverages is with the people, again thansk to internet.

If buhari cannot take the heat and lead then he would not rule us. The frivolies and extravangancies is very clear already, the hypocrisy and deceit is only been tolerated because this is democracyalmost he has taken the roads opposite of what he professed, promises during elections are been brazen complied more in parochialism and shamelessly denied so, tell yourself the truth daniel, assuming this president is not buhari, perhaps he is someone like, tinubu or aregbesole or rochas or kwankwaso or even the last man jonathan, would you ask for leniency or is it just for blind followership.

Better face the truth, get out of that comfort zone now before the foam from the saop water enters your eyes, yes, if I see Jonathan I will tel him all that he the that is not good, at least he would have given us light, if not for any other thing but that alone, without light everywhere, constant and affordable, every other government in the past failed, buhari is moving like someone that will succeed or can you tell us when he is visiting nigeria again I studied history in the university.

It is intellectually fatal to dismiss the wasteful, if you will, locust years of the PDP, and expect to see the positive difference from Buhari so soon.

You forex to be able to grasp what we lost under the past presidents in order to see reasons for russia. If the economy had truly been billion dollars worth, hmmm… we would not be where we are.

It was a classic case of jobless growth and paper statistics. By the way,I repeat: where is the savings from oil? And you expect the naira not to crash? Jonathan made very poor choices. We must wait for Buhari to do his best. You lost nothing except what you want to deceitfully claim you lost, via lies and propaganda. Talk of history, jonathan was never the only president that has ruled nigeria, so go back on time immemorial, come clean and stop opening yourself bare.

Our people use to say that, from the smell of the fart, you can guess how the excrete would be like, buhari has not show in anyway that he has anything good for anyone in future, perhaps except for his sycophants supporters, all his decisions and actions so far is faulty, if you like keep hiding your intents, who you actually are and what your real intents is but it wont be long before you are unraveled, just like buhari is been unmasked everyday, as fake, hoax and a big joke, a turncoat and a hypocritical criminal, akin to many other who are now surrounding him or you never knew he took a loan of N27m, to buy nomination form, for lack of money or poverty yet he had his children schooling in Uk?

Where you come from is not the issue, I warned you already to desist from that hopeless state of mind and I know why you are stressing it, that much, so that, on the slightest opportunity, as a defeatist, you will lean on your tribe and ethnicity, to prove your pettiness.

You are not the only one schooling or schooled abroad neither were you the only one that is a student of history, in academic or otherwise, if you choose, keep standing where youare to wait for fake change from buhari because jonathan took what belongs to you however buhari was a dictator despotic ruler decades before jonathan got to power so talking on history he is part of the system that messed up your life.

I do not know your age but I am sorry state my disappointment, that you are shamelessly telling me to wait for budget, without telling me why a budget was padded, presented, celebrated as a trophy, stolen, denied, cursed and killed to be repacked, shame of people of small minds, it is sometimes part of it but it not always about you are yoruba, hausa, igbo, ijaw afterall, we met people of other nationalities when we are abroad, say the truth and be free, start now before it is too late Did your former Presidents reveal any padded budget?

They saw no evil and heard no evil. Buhari did not deny it and has taken steps to prosecute those who were trained by the PDP to pad Budgets. Sixteen years could have raised our human development index to the admiration of other African countries. But here we are begging for bread. Buhari is making the best of a bad situation. Are you even bothered so much money was stolen? Rather you are more concerned about the names not yet mentioned. That is moral corruption.

Buhari is moving on like someone who will NOT succeed, almost heading to the road of failures, only we wish it will not be too bad that redemption would be impossible WELL SPOKEN U SAID DIVERSIFICATION OF THE ECONOMY, THAT IS WAT GMB SAID HIS GOVT WILL DO BUT HOW DO U DO THAT WHEN D TOTAL BUDGET FOR MIN. OF SOLID MINERALS IS LESS THAN D AMT ALLOCATED FOR THE EXPLORATION OF OIL IN THE CHAD BASIN — PLS WHO IS FOOLING WHO? It is not about putting huge sums into mining, but putting the enabling laws in place to encourage private sector investment and guaranteeing loans for small-scale investors.

That is how Dangote became exporter of cement. Do u also know that the budget for the Information ministry is almost twice the the amount allocated for the Agriculture ministry? Stop fooling yourself bro.

Oil has gone down all over he world. Most governments have restrategised and moved different economic levers to maintain their economic stability. This government intended to cover the shortfall in oil by borrowing and the budget amount put forward far exceeded the last one.

To devalue or not is a judgment call to be made on best advice and I personally do not have enough knowledge to say which best suits our circumstance. However it appears as if we have no thought through policy but more of a rigid personal standpoint by someone who I am certain is not more economically literate than most on this forum. The general practice is not to allow the markets to make a one way bet on your currency by stating your position so publicly. Does that make sense to you?

It is in the numbers. Thank God for once in a long time we have a leader who can ensure the budget is implemented. You need to appreciate what it means to carry out the decision you have taken, not the usual ceremony of budget presentation after which you have uncompleted projects littered all over the place. This is the CHANGE you people voted for, so no need to complain, rather just keep enjoying it.

NOTE: GMBs VIEW THAT BCOS PPLE DIED SOME YEARS BACK DUE TO AGITATION FOR SELF RULE DOESNT HOLD WATER TODAY. IF THE USSR CAN DISINTEGRATE WITHOUT WAR WHY NOT NIGERIA. THE UK RECENTLY HAD A REFENRANDUM FOR SCOTLAND TO REMAIN, NO 1 SAID ANYTHING ABOUT WAR, DEATHS, ETC SO WHY SHOULD A CALL BY IPOB OR MASSOB BE SEEN AS A DEATH CALL.

HOW LONG CAN WE CONTINUE TO FORCE PPLE TO BE PART OF US, WHO IS AFRAID OF A REFERANDUM FOR THE SOUTH EAST REGION OR ANY GROUP WHATSOEVER, U MAY BE SURPRISED THAT IT MAY NOT SAIL THROUGH BUT EVEN IF IT DID WHATS WRONG WITH THAT? LIKE WISE IN THE NORTH WHERE BH N OTHERS R VIOLENTING OPPOSING OUR CONTINUOUS RELATIONSHIP AS A COUNTRY BCOS THE WANT TO BE GUIDED BY FULL UNADULTRATED SHARIA WHICH CANNOT COHABIT WITH OUR FEDERAL AND DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM.

SO TALK TO THEM, HAVE A REFENRANDUM IN THOSE AREAS AND IF IT SAILS THRU ALLOW THEM TO HAVE THEIR CALIPHATE AND LETS LIVE IN PEACE. We need to privatise major universities like Unilag, UI, UNN and ABU. Attract first class lecturers from all over the world. Increase school fees to million per annum. Attach their BVN to their certificates so that from their future endeavors they will pay back the country.

After watching the Certificateless One on Al Jazeera, I wept for the future of my grand children. Why did the Afonja elements of Southwest politics afflict this plague on us? Understandably, the wishes of a president cannot necessary become the policy of government in a democracy. Furthermore, setting monetary policy objectives is actually not the prerogative of the President or the Executive but that of the Governor of the CBN who must naturally act under the guidance of policy making committees and be independent from politicians and politics.

Though outside of his powers, the proposition by PMB that Nigeria cannot afford to allocate forex for the education of Nigerians abroad is not only ludicrous but quite illogical and counter productive to development. It is laughable because it is not a statement a president should be making especially outside Nigeria. PMB and most members of his cabinet benefited from foreign education sometimes under government scholarship all paid for at official exchange rate.

If government can give scholarship abroad and provide forex for PMB inhow then can PMB as head of government now say government cannot provide forex to parents who are desirous of educating their children in better universities abroad, without portraying himself as a clown instead of a leader? What PMB got for free from governmentPMB is now saying parents cannot get from his government even if they wish to pay for it. The government is ready to allocate forex to importers of limousine and bullet proof SUVS but does not want to give forex to parents who are struggling to train engineers that will run our steel plants and design and build a made in Nigeria car.

How can a nation develop when it does not train a few of the next generation in the best universities in the world? IF U DONT KNOW LET ME INFORM U THAT GMBs PERSONAL VIEW IS MUCH MORE IMPT THAN ANY POLICY U CAN THINK OF EVEN THAT OF NIGERIAs CONSTITUTION. HE HAS CANCELLED HIS PARTY PROMISE OF N5K BCOS IT IS NOT HIS PERSONAL VIEW. This here is a blatant display of hypocrisy. See a President who wants us to buy Nigerian but his own children are schooling abroad.

Just float the naira and PREVENT the crime in the first place. You can SEE that Buhari has no firm grasp of the issues. OK he is the President but at least get good advisers who can tutor you about these things. Though his campaign gave the impression he was prepared for the job. Nigeria is solely dependent on oil, If oil is up economy will be good. MR BUHARI DO NOT PTACTISE DOUBLE STANDARDS AND HYPOCRISY AND DO NOT TRY TO BE OVER SMART WITH NIGERIANS.

ARE YOU NOT THE SAME MAN WHO CRITICIZED HEAVILY JONATHAN FOR HIS HEAVY EXPENSES ON 10 PRESIDENTIAL JETS WHILE YOU ARE DOING THE SAME IN SHAMELESS MANNER. Nationalism versus reality is what I ask my President to recognise. The market should determine the value of the niara.

Maybe when the niara exchange at to a dollar Nigerians will ultimately adjust accordingly and investors confidence will grow with accompanying funds injected into the economy. Presently, the parallel market price is determinig the price of everything. At the long-run this policy is bad if the price of crude oil fails to increase substantially. On funds for students studying abroad I agree with the President. Buhari,how lowly you rate education was long made manifest by your appointment of a newspaper columnist as a substantive education minister whilst a professor of education and a former vice chancellor of a university was designated a junior minister!

Buhari is a big fraud. I agree with his stands on Nigerian can not afford forex for parents sending their kids abroad for school. Is he sourcing their school fees truth black market?. If not, he should start to be doing it.

IMF are after their personal interest. I have said before, economics system always has 2 sides. It all depends on which side you want to look at to achieve your own objective. A tyrant is a tyrant about day any where.

Those who voted for change are getting disappointed every day of their life, because PMB has proved a man with twisted reasoning. Having an educated president will guarantee informed decisions. Afraid this President does not get it, at all. It will be an act of deliberate damage to the efforts of many parents who are not rich neither are they government fat cat nor embezzlers of public funds but deprive themselves of many things in order to give their children best education within their means.

Government policy makers must place the interest of the people above selfish desires. Imagine if the number of students currently abroad are brought back to Nigeria,how many universities can accommodate them in addition to the students already in their campus? FOOL, BUT YOU CAN AFFORD IT FOR YOUR DAUGHTER, ZAHRA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, YOU HYPOCRITE LIAR????

What a way for a Government to distribute a scarce National commodity!!! Looks like we all have to start praying that Dangote will end up employing ALL Nigerians in the nearest future. And who have begged him for sponsor? He is not ashamed of himself. Why do Nigerians study abroad? Similarly, banks are charging students on the bureau de change rate when they make withdrawals, so what is the problem, let government do something on our tertiary education to meet the global standard, by providing facilities, man power and adequate funding.

This will make our educational institutions to deliver the best and our resources will be save for the betterment of our nation, studying abroad is only developing another country economy, look at what student is paying abroad as school fees e.

Something have to be done let us find out the reason why people are going to abroad for studies. A truthful man who is prepared to take the bull by the horn and take a seemingly unpopular stand. This is definitely the only way nations turn around.

Do the millions of poor and rural people care about forex for overseas schooling? For once Nigeria is on the cusp of getting its priorities right! Channel the majority into building locally and let the minority fund their overseas trips themselves No money from central bank to be sold in the parallel market.

If you are arrested they will make an example of you. IMF is a community of thieves. I think this administration is bereft of economic sense!

They are still playing to the gallery as if they are on campaign for votes. That was why they came up with a foreign exchange policy that is crashing our economy now! See a situation where foreign airlines cannot repatriate their earnings from Nigeria! Very soon, all our foreign exchange transactions and economic activities will be undertaken in Ghana. See a situation where this administration decided that we could not use our ATM cards outside Nigeria!

That effectively meant that we had excised ourselves from the international financial community! PMB is saying : Buy your student forex from the open market; I can no longer operate the subsidised students-forex window. A President who could not credit his papers in WAEC how can he know the important of education. Imagine his reasons that foreign exchanage of those schooling abroad effecfs his economy.

We all yearn and cry for change yet we expect the change to come from an Ex military Junta. Rubbish… Buhari wont do any different than any of the other leaders before him.

If any Nigerian is expecting change as he promised, you must be dreaming… In Buhari sacked his uncle Shagari. Is he resurrecting his military old fashion administrative know how? What exactly is Buhari up to.? I guess the majority of Nigerians appreciate his job rating otherwise the administration needs to be chased out but who else will handle it, no one and that is the situation Nigeria is in. Every Nigeria leader is bad.

Jonathan is bad Buhari is bad. I am even confused right now trying to to find reasons. Does it mean that there is no single ONE Nigeria who can lead his people. Everybody in Nigeria is corrupt, criminalized or waiting to become. If anybody ventures to tell them, they come up with their watery mouth of curse and slurs. Even Biafra cannot solve this problem as Jonathan had the opportunity to do so just like Ironsi who could have shaped Nigeria by handing power to Awolowo based on Kaduna Nzeogwu plan.

Ironsi however hijacked the whole thing and went drinking and died in the hands of his foes. Since we have tried everything no luck, what is not tried is FISICAL FEDERALISM. The youths need to rise up and demand for this system. It will cripple the Federal system to be less attractive for power hungry black man. But you can afford for your stupid children that is school in UK.

He recently appointed his fulani sister as Head of NPA. Nigeria is now controlled by the fulanis, thanks to Tinubu and About. This is very wrong our president find solution, those student they were representing the nation not their family. Offer you new and uk used tecno,infinix,Nokia,htc,Samsung products no give aways price, call to book down yours,we make delivery to the 36 state in Nigeria.

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Per population, Nigeria has enough universities. It should be, if you can afford a foreign education, then go ahead. That is if you can afford the floating exchange rate and no subsidiary from the central bank. His two kids just finished their schools in England, everyone else can kiss his ass. Lia Mohammed will collaborate this. Log into your account your username your password Password recovery Recover your password your email Search Friday, December 2, SIGNUP TO BREAKING NEWS ALERTS LOG IN Welcome!

With a president like Buhari? T george Weeping is your exclusive prerogative to do. On Mr President globe trotting, it is a matter for another day UOU Those some you claimed that superintendent to the collapse of the education, has this president buhari in the pool amongst, they all do not need the forex at present because they stocked enough rather it is the ever hard working middle class people who are been punished, for aspiring at all to send their children abroad.

He is just doing this because of his wickedness and sad life, but what goes around comes around, all the time BlueFickle CBN allocation is limited. At what time do you start thinking of the greater good? A Government should have consisted and coherent policy, a key factor in building trust BlueFickle You whole the point. Akin Malaolu You commonsense is noted please. God would find you out to bless you Daniel Obior What common sense?

Yours Truly I used to think that you young folks were the hopes of reviving Nigeria. Even if they are, I can bet you my pension that he would source his funds independently On the Hajj issue, this President some time ago had opined that all pilgrimages should be funded privately. Your first comment about the tribal and religious bigotry existing amongst Nigerian youths is testament to the quality of education in Nigeria Yours Truly Dozie, I am not debasing the importance of education in any society.

Stay well dozie We are not discussing the education of a few children of the elite. I will prioritise human capital development above commodities and raw materials, like all progressive countries do RS Sir please how are these children lazy or not hardworking?

Yours Truly Agreed that education in Nigeria has gone to the dogs, yet hundreds of thousands make do with it because they have no other options. May the Lord bless you and your aspirations UOU Come clean and tell yourself the truth, you are more culpable of what you insinuate against others,an unrepentant and pathetic tribalist. UOU Read well or rather try to comprehend what you read partafamilias trippi And the same forex is given to Dangote to go invest in Congo and other countries?

Just wondering vic NIGERIANS DO KNOW, BUHARI IS DOUBLE FACED HYPOCRITE AND PRACTICES DOUBLE STANDARDS WITH IMPUNITY AND WITHOUT ANY SHAME. Luther Ismaila Where abroad? NA WA OOOO ABODES PLS STOP TALKING TO THIS BEAST Jonathan Why giving your lovely self headache? Was that buhari ever righteous? HE BEHAVES LIKE ONE OF THE GOATS IN HIS HERD Luther Ismaila You have no evidence for that. BUHARI IS A FOREX FRAUDSTER AND A CROOK vic thieves and thugs are always looking for critical facts and proofs after their lootings, to delay justice.

I was also hoping that you passed the WAEC in Economic — that way you would have understood what Buhari is doing; except if you are russia member of those 10 percenters of Nigerians that stole funds from the people truth the Dasukigates and are scared and terrified that Buhari will come after them vic you have just demonstrated that you are still schooling in pursuit of WAEC in Economics.

Luther Ismaila I am actually a Professional for the USA government with resume that include teaching at a college. Just concentrate on Buhari defense where you may be appointed a minister with no proper qualification Luther Ismaila Fuck English! Nobody cares what you speak except that you claimed what you are not Luther Ismaila English is important to you but not me.

Now I know that you are part of the 10 percenters — those who never voted for Buhari anyway, those who are directly and indirectly benefiting from stolen wealth Richard Luther et al…. It was the Senate that tried to ask questions about that money and Buhari was so nervous that he planned a coup and overthrew the government Buhari was a full partner with Abacha in looting the Nigerian treasury and PTF was part of their plot to steal.

That claim alone makes him a corrupt person Bare Eddy HE DO SAID ABACHA DIDNT STEAL FROM 9NA BOSS BUT DO U KNOW HOW MUCH ABACHA S MONEY HE IS HAVING NOW CLOSED TO BUY 5 AIRPLANES AA Yes, we have proof of his poverty — going to the UK for medical treatment since ; his little girl travelling first class a few weeks ago. Bare Eddy VIC AM GIVING U 5 STARS vic Thank you, Bare The. I have spoken the truth.

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