Billyonaire: You father is a total failure for raising such a wayward son, Are you mad or just plain silly ? 17 unused Ambulance cost how much ? I can singlehandedly buy 17 ambulances and dash your entire village. Nigeria is a rich country and we have average of 180 private jets so far from mostly Private citizens, if you are a failure, do not blame to President. Blame who ever fathered you.

israel007: Let me ask: did this corrupt practice start with GEJ? All the progressive promising change, as far as memories go, corruption has been eating Nigeria, has there ever been a day they come out to ask for a change and then be noble enough to. 'Make an attempt at stepping down so they are not part of the corruption? Nooo. They stayed in the system, enjoyed, spent their time, replaced. That seat with their candidates and once they fall our they come out with a front of saying we need to change somethings for the better. Betterment of who?

Exaggerated lies with truth to make everything look real!


Only one third has access to toilet?

israel007: Let me ask: did this corrupt practice start with GEJ? All the progressive promising change, as far as memories go, corruption has been eating Nigeria, has there ever been a day they come out to ask for a change and then be noble enough to. 'Make an attempt at stepping down so they are not part of the corruption? Nooo. They stayed in the system, enjoyed, spent their time, replaced. That seat with their candidates and once they fall our they come out with a front of saying we need to change somethings for the better. Betterment of who?

Exaggerated lies with truth to make everything look real!


Only one third has access to toilet?

Rossikk:

For a person who's worked with the New York times Mr Brinkley, you are unbelievably stupi.d and ignorant. Do you think the Nigerian govt takes all the earnings from each barrel of oil produced? What about the multinationals and oil majors? Last time I heard it was a 50/50 sharing agreement, bringing the actual income to Nigeria down to $112 million a day, NOT $224 million. Of that $112 million, at least half goes on recurrent expenditure and debt repayments, meaning app $56 million a day is the actual income from that oil per day.

That may seem like a lot to you for a country of 170 million people since you are just an ignorant hamburger and milkshake quaffing American dunce Mr Brinkley.




No. The United States where you come from is by far the most corrupt nation on earth. You come from a country that admits to assassinating foreign leaders who don't do their bidding, a country that attacks other countries killing millions of innocent people based on lies in order to steal their oil and feed fat your already bloated elite, even as millions of your countrymen languish in homelessness, joblessness, destitution, gun crime and hunger.




And you agree to this dubious report. Why did you not tell your readers that the countries 'surveyed' were only 80, out of 130 nations on earth, with islands of peace and prosperity like Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, Sierra Leone, Iraq among others left out of the 'survey'? Is it because you're a dishonest anti-Nigerian basta.rd who thinks his audience do not read and research?



All WHAT wealth? You totally miscalculated the 'wealth' of Nigeria by a factor of 75% you dunce.



Mixture of half truths, innuendo and lies. Nigeria's literacy rate is 75% NOT ''half''.



You are unbelievable stup.id Mr Brinkley. Nigeria has 170 million mouths to feed. UAE has a population of 7 million people and produces 4 times as much oil as Nigeria per day, yet you compare them in the same sentence? Chief US aid recipient Israel has less than 7 million people with a GDP the same as Nigeria, and you are expecting the average Nigerian to live like the average Israeli?

Are you just being mischievous or are you really this reta.rded Mr Brinkley?



I doubt he was aware of your dumbitude before now.



It's time you got a proper education Mr Brinkley.




He's a bumbling illiterate and a complete, utterly irredeemable dunce where Nigeria is concerned.

bubadaniel13: OP just a question for the confused Mr Joel Brinkley,Is GEJ the first leader of Nigeria?how many years has he spent on power so far?Nigeria has been ruled by bad leaders for decades and u expect GEJ to turn bad things around within three years,the writer of the article must be dreaming.

lorretta u: and because of that,it should continue?pls don't speak what u don't knw.in rivers state where I am,there r no toilets.ppl go to the river side,u have no idea hw polluted this place is.plust the refinery waste surrounding us every inch,the air is thick with nauseating odor.so goodluck be him the first or last should take care of it.PRESIDENT that's what he is.what r u defending?mtcheeeeeeeew

vanunu:

My friend more schools * nine new federal universities plus alimajeri schs here and there) are being built, more fg roads are being reconstructed, our railways are now working, power is now almost stable, more health centers and hospitals are being built, our airports are now very very beautiful and clean.
We now have very peaceful and free and fair elections here and there, no more fuel scarcity, subsidy thieves are being jailed, even children of big men. If you are not seeing these things, that means something is really wrong with you.

Imanuelle: Even i, would wish for a military comeback.
Our saintly civilians have caused us more pain, and deaths.









I was never a fan of the western world, but now, i just need to take my family out of the country, where my kids have a future, and never look back! Never! Never!








Where the hell were my great-grandfathers, when africans were being picked as slaves?
Maybe he would have suffered for a while, and i'd have had a better future by now.

bubadaniel13: OP just a question for the confused Mr Joel Brinkley,Is GEJ the first leader of Nigeria?how many years has he spent on power so far?Nigeria has been ruled by bad leaders for decades and u expect GEJ to turn bad things around within three years,the writer of the article must be dreaming.

pro01:

Get your facts right bros. Oil prices were at the highest in Nigeria's history under OBJ. . .and in fact this was almost always the case throughout his eight long years in power. I therefore agree with you that "to whom much was given, much was expected.

vanunu:

My friend more schools * nine new federal universities plus alimajeri schs here and there) are being built, more fg roads are being reconstructed, our railways are now working, power is now almost stable, more health centers and hospitals are being built, our airports are now very very beautiful and clean.
We now have very peaceful and free and fair elections here and there, no more fuel scarcity, subsidy thieves are being jailed, even children of big men. If you are not seeing these things, that means something is really wrong with you.

bubadaniel13: OP just a question for the confused Mr Joel Brinkley,Is GEJ the first leader of Nigeria?how many years has he spent on power so far?Nigeria has been ruled by bad leaders for decades and u expect GEJ to turn bad things around within three years,the writer of the article must be dreaming.

Lucasbalo: Like I have already said, Nigeria is a God forgotten country.
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bubadaniel13: OP just a question for the confused Mr Joel Brinkley,Is GEJ the first leader of Nigeria?how many years has he spent on power so far?Nigeria has been ruled by bad leaders for decades and u expect GEJ to turn bad things around within three years,the writer of the article must be dreaming.

henryskywalker2003:
You and the 39 fools/idiots that liked ur comment are part of the reason this country will remain in the dark ages. Let me ask u fools/idiots a simple question. How long was President Sirleaf in power before the country turned around. Let me save u fools a bit of google search. She has been the president of Liberia since right after their SECOND CIVIL WAR. You fools talk about GEJ's humility and trash like that. Can GEJ agree 2 leave the safety of Aso Rock and govern from his house in the creeks? When the presidential mansion of Liberia got burnt just less than a year, after she was elected, this Lady deferred any diverting of funds to fix the palace and placed it low on their priority list and relocated her office to another ministry's building nearby and also relocated to her personal house. Can u imagine gej going to the office everyday from a location probably far from his office just after coming out from a civil war? She secured debt relief for her country few years after the war, she has once sacked her entire cabinet and replaced them with totally new people because of corruption, unlike ur beloved gej who knows how to reshuffle old hands. Even her brother who was a minister was not spared when allegations of missing funds was levelled against him and was subsequently sacked and yet another was sacked just because $200,000 went missing from his ministry meanwhile over here, we see cases of people stealing billions and still walk freely and ur gej promised us zero tolerance on corruption. Among her other achievements she was named among the tope 10 female leaders by Time magazine 2010, 10 best leaders in the world by Newsweek in 2010, 51st most powerful person by Forbes in 2006 and The Economist called her the best president the country has ever had. Can u imagine, if gej continues on this his current path, what the above mentioned would write about him? Oh sorry, I forgot. Fools like u can't do that. So, let me ask u fools one more time. Is it when gej has spent 3terms in office before it is ok for him to start doing something about the country and people can then question his actions? Or is it when we go through a 2nd civil war? Or probably after another military take over. Please help me understand why a woman is actually doing beta than this clueless fellow when all odds are stacked against her.

P.S. Do you know that Liberia is having a steady power supply more than we are? This was achieved right after the war that destroyed most of their power infrastructure.

Capnd143: why dont we all match down in one voice to the National Assembly . . . .calling 4 the downfall of the regime! Lets #occupyNIgeria

Camilia247: Mr. Brinkley wrote a column for Tribune Media Services (http://trib.in/WeyJsR) that contains largely inaccurate facts, poorly- (or un-) researched information, hear-say and grossly xenophobic opinions about Vietnam and Vietnamese culture, and disguised it all as legitimate journalism. When called out about the errors in his so-called journalism, Mr. Brinkley not only defended his writing, but further disparaged other Southeast Asian countries.

Why should such an unethical professional be able to shape the minds of young scholars at such a well-regarded institution such as Stanford? Shame on you.
https://www.change.org/petitions/professor-joel-brinkley-stanford-university-resign-from-teaching

ANYBODY WILL JUST SIT SOMEWHERE AND WRITE RUBBISH..IS NIG IS THE ONLY COUNTRY? YES WE HAVE PROBLEMS, BUT I THINK EFFORTS ARE BEING MADE TO CORRECT THIS ABNORMALIES, WHY SHOULD ONE WHITE GUY THAT BELIEVES HE KNOWS EVERYTHING JUST SIT AND TRY TO CREATE CHAOS IN OUR MIDST...HE SHUD WRITE ABT HIS COUNTRY, COS THE HAVE THEIR OWN PERCULIAR PROBLEMS TOO..

achu442: If the foundation be corrupt,what can the righteous do?.,How many of you take time to pray for the leadership of the nation?Cos one day u might be the culprit.

Sunny_bobo: Some ignorant nairalanders are here mouthing 17 ambulances and relating it to how they don't have ambulances in their respective states and local governments.

Just in case you guys don't know, it's not the duty of the Federal government to provide Primary and secondary healthcare to the masses. [size=14pt]The Local Government Authorities have the responsibility of providing primary healthcare via setting up of primary health centres and dispensaries[/size] while the state government has the responsibility of providing secondary healthcare by building an equipping General hospitals and the states are also involved in tertiary care via state universities teaching hospitals and specialist hospitals. The Federal government is partly responsible for tertiary healthcare.

So, if you lack basic medical facilities, you know who to hold responsible; your governors and/or your LGA chairmen.

indoorlove: Nigeria is in perpectual darkness that can only be brought to light by her youth- how many of us (the youth) is/are ready to match to national assembly to make our grieviances known, How many of us will vote someone who does not have a direct influence on us and does nt belong to thesame tribe as ours. Stop putting the whole blame on the leaders(though they have their own fair share of the problem) but followers(mostly youth) should also be blame because a larger percentage of us have limited our responsibilities to complains and prayers . Sad!

degamonn: I second to the opinion expressed here!