AjanleKoko:

Nobody is over-intellectualizing anything.
And your comment is the example of the partisan-ship I mentioned in my post. Most of Jonathan's touted policies have not even gotten off the ground yet. This isn't a defect of his administration, everybody in Nigeria knows that execution is our greatest challenge. Not that I was defending the man. He just has not gotten started yet, simple.

obowunmi: Jmaine: money miss road. If you have a learning or reading disorder, don't come and embarrass yourself here. I've never claimed Youwin is a free launch and once again, I don't know any you winners that have run with UK or American visas....so pls I beg- this is not the romance section. Get off drugs if ure on it.

obowunmi:

In a country and culture where no one likes to take responsibility for anything. Is it?

I sympathize with GEJ. Its not easy to rule a country like Nigeria.

chucky234: He just has not gotten started yet" after two whole years,how is it going to take our dear president to his so called touted policies started?
You are the dumbest person out here,olodo rabata.

obowunmi: @IdokoJimmy - can you read to understand this article and not just post something from a website?? Thx.
What's the point of it? The argument here is not whether or not Nigeria's GDP is growing or whatever else. The UN has a criteria for claiming why Jonathan's policies are failing. Unemployment and extreme poverty are amongst these reasons.
What is in it for the "common man"? How does a growing GDP translate into wealth or growth, or merely a job for the common man?

You need look no further than the educational sector to confirm this
All the BRICS nations{emerging economies] have educational institutions in the top 400-700 universities
Even the CIVETS& 7percent club nations have schools in there too
Nigeria is not in the top thousand but comfortable like a bedbug somewhere in 4000& something
Are our students not enriching Ghanian universities?
Do you think America, Japan and EU nations [Chinese na to steal & copy, no originality] who drive innovation get the ideas from drinking beer and sipping pepper-soup?
Except we have the political will to tackle corruption and rebuild our archaic educational model, we ain't going nowhere
BRINCS ko,7percent ni, Shior!

jmaine:

I love qurantining ediots .
Wonder why you disrespect peeps for revealing your shallow grasp of certain issues . . .

.no make me vex abeg cos i have been polite so far . . . .

AjanleKoko:

Laughable.
You don't even know how to quote a post properly on Nairaland, for heavens sake. And you're calling someone dumb.
You're obviously one of the many people on here who have progressively shat out their brains over time. Shake your head for a minute, does it echo back to you? That's because there's nothing in it

bubadaniel13: What yardstick is the UN using to measure failure?abeg make dem leave us with their imperialistic programmes.

Kx: He said Ojota anti fuel subsidy protesters were sponsored.

Can he now come out and tell us if the same sponsors of ojota protest sponsored this UN report?

Dis Guy:

Well knowing that you choose your team wisely and make swift changes

look at the power sector its eventually picking up and mos tpeople are seeing the effort of that team

naijababe: Then I hope the folks behind the program spoke to the people that it's meant to target to address this sort of setback.

AjanleKoko:

The publication, launched on Thursday in Addis Ababa, was presented by the Director, Economic Department, NEPAD division of UNECA, Emmanuel Nnadozie. The publication, which is the 11th edition, however, described Nigeria’s economic growth in 2011 as “robust.”

The robust growth recorded in Nigeria’s economy, according to the publication, was driven mainly by the non-oil sector, and in particular, telecommunications, construction, wholesale/retail trade, hotel and restaurant services, manufacturing, and agriculture. (Premium Times)

Source: http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/news/176795-jonathans-economic-policy-failing--un

vislabraye: What are the criteria for development? Job creation and poverty alleviation are the two most significant criteria. This is not rocket science, there are things we can see to know whether the country is moving forward or not.
The president has down quite well in the power sector after a huge price from the consumer. If this can stabilize many SMEs will survive.
There's still more work to be done. But having stable security and good judiciary system would go a long way to help the economy.

obowunmi:

How is the UN imperialistic? Many Nigerians and Africans work there

Fhemmmy:

Wonderfully said, cos there is a difference in setting up a program and it is another for it to really to the people that it was meant for.
I will like to know how many people are aware of it.

Fhemmmy:

Wonderfully said, cos there is a difference in setting up a program and it is another for it to really to the people that it was meant for.
I will like to know how many people are aware of it.

obowunmi:

I too, have been polite so far.

Where in my post did I indicate that folks received "full" funds. I was giving @naijababe, a brief summary of the program. I never even delved into details.

No one needs to know people where blacklisted or banned. For you to bring it up here shows you LACK PROFESSIONAL etiquette.

Its no one"s business on this forum who was banned, blacklisted, and such. Even you bringing this up doesn't show you know anything about the program.

Zeus I: And so what? Who makes the decision, Nigeria?

jmaine: If we must discuss this thread . .we must eschew all manner of bias and discuss the full weight of the article highlighting the cons & pros been portrayed . . .

The indicting issue in the article was the increasing rate of unemployment over a two year span, and this also corrobrates with NACCIMA report of about over 800 factories who folded up in a 2 year span of 2009 - 2011, add that to the massive retrenchment in the financial sector and the deductions won't be far off since they incorporate such available data . .

But the article did still term the Economic growth as robust for 2011 . . . .

Current developments shows promise if followed up, notably MAN who recently applauded the FG policies in reducing some tedious processes the manufacturing sector faced. They asserted that 240 new factories were established with over 250,000 jobs provided in 2012 . . .Negligible you might say but still a good start since it is a direct input of recent policies propounded by the current FG as established by MAN

jmaine:

LOL @ lack of professional etiquete . . no be small thing oo !! . .

Bros, sorry for busting your swag on this thread. . . .wasn't intentional . . .

At least you learnt one or two things about the prog today in addition to your array of knowledge . . . . . .

Now, make we die the matter . . . .Cheerssss . . . . . .

AjanleKoko: It's difficult to say the policy is failing, actually.
Much of the policy hasn't even been implemented. There's also a significant lack of alignment between the tiers of government, and even inside the executive.
Everybody is running around in different directions, all chasing moving targets.

The partisan-ship is also at its highest level since the military left the reins of power.

obowunmi:

I too, have been polite so far.

Where in my post did I indicate that folks received "full" funds. I was giving @naijababe, a brief summary of the program. I never even delved into details.

No one needs to know people where blacklisted or banned. For you to bring it up here shows you LACK PROFESSIONAL etiquette.

Its no one"s business on this forum who was banned, blacklisted, and such. Even you bringing this up doesn't show you know anything about the program.

AjanleKoko: It's difficult to say the policy is failing, actually.
Much of the policy hasn't even been implemented. There's also a significant lack of alignment between the tiers of government, and even inside the executive.
Everybody is running around in different directions, all chasing moving targets.

The partisan-ship is also at its highest level since the military left the reins of power.

AjanleKoko:

Nobody is over-intellectualizing anything.
[b]And your comment is the example of the partisan-ship I mentioned in my post. [/b]Most of Jonathan's touted policies have not even gotten off the ground yet. This isn't a defect of his administration, everybody in Nigeria knows that execution is our greatest challenge. Not that I was defending the man. He just has not gotten started yet, simple.

obowunmi:

Who can claim they haven't heard of the YouWin program? But my question remains: will the amount spent on the program, yield expected results in terms of job creation numbers?

That is yet to be seen and I highly doubt it.