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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica 26 Oct 2016

    Nigeria's president wants to get $30bn in foreign loans. That's more than the government's whole 2016 budget.http://bbc.in/2dKjbsv 

    7:52 AM - 26 Oct 2016
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    • Advorise Townsend Dorothy CHIKUIS Farah The Misfit uzonnamichael David Kola Iyke Emery S.O. Oloche ★☆
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      1. john‏ @okikeamaka1 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Ask Buhari what happened to all the recovered looted funds. He knew Nigeria has expired, so he needs his own loot for the North

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      1. Free Biafra‏ @Up_Biafra 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        #Biafra @BBCAfrica @WSJ @Pontifex nigeriA =FRAUD =TERRORIST https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rRCBZXRoVBo … 1914 EVIL AMALGAMATION =EXPIRED https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/06/nigeria-killing-of-unarmed-pro-biafra-supporters-by-military-must-be-urgently-investigated/ …

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      2. THIS IS BASHIR‏ @bashow 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Great move!PMB has to do something more positive.Most of the money has been looted by the immediate past regime especially.

        5 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
      3. Free Liah Sharibu‏ @AmeGerian01 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @bashow @BBCAfrica

        How many members of the past regime are in the current regime. And who has been convicted of looting 18months after the "previous"regime?

        1 reply 5 retweets 3 likes
      4. THIS IS BASHIR‏ @bashow 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @AmeGerian01 @BBCAfrica

        why the haste,PMB is just a year and half in power,wait and judge him after his tenure,Mr Wailer!

        3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Free Liah Sharibu‏ @AmeGerian01 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @bashow @BBCAfrica

        Who doesn't wail now? 1st lady?

        1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes
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      1. Annabel Annabel‏ @AnnabelAnnabel5 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Only a foolish country/organization will loan money to the most incompetent president Nigeria has ever had. *sigh*

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      1. Dokta Dolapor‏ @supaTOSH 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        and some people got pissed when i said PMB is a 2nd degree illiterate.. Ok oo

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      1. Minimalist‏ @adeyfayo 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        who pays back all these loans... Causing problems for the next gen😬😬

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      1. spyglass‏ @nkemdaniel6 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        this is wah we get by voting a strong man intend of an intellectual

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      2. Lawani junior‏ @ashanaegbe4life 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        so what best do you think we should do to come out of recession.?

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      3. C|RedQueen‏ @Chisobem 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @ashanaegbe4life

        Not borrow more than we need. Cut Costs. Not borrow more than we need.

        1 reply 3 retweets 3 likes
      4. Lawani junior‏ @ashanaegbe4life 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @Chisobem

        hmmmm

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      1. Annabel Annabel‏ @AnnabelAnnabel5 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        A president who doesn't know what Inclusive development is, thinks West Germany still exists and his wife belongs in the kitchen

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      2. Declan Ekenna‏ @chiedoziedeclan 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        .With the kind of leaders we have,its time we take palm wine & Native cola and beg Britain to please re colonize us or even china

        3 replies 8 retweets 0 likes
      3. Ibrahim Samuel Gbale‏ @yikansa 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @chiedoziedeclan @BBCAfrica

        that can't change anything. We just have to continue to try on our own. One day we will get there

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Dunu Anselem‏ @dunua 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Who wants to risk his hard-earned money to a clueless incompetent fool? The money is as good as flushed down the drain. Beware!!

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      1. john‏ @okikeamaka1 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        #MBuhari is not even quality to be a head boy of a primary school, not to talk of being a president of a country @NGRWailers

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      1. john‏ @okikeamaka1 26 Oct 2016
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        The solution to all this mess is #BiafrExit. The West want Africa to be impoverished and remains enslaved.

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