info henry: . Just imagine what how you reason wit all this big grammar you disappoint me.You are saying because those before him performed woefully, nigeria should accept anything he gave us. Don't forget nigerians voted for a change.

Braincheck: Hey mod i wrote IMBE.CILE not slowpoke.. Imebe.cile cuz that's exactly what your president is. Now change Ma post to the way i authored it.

pro01:

I sympathise with you over your lack of discernment. What I'm saying is that since others before him - most notably OBJ - performed woefully, why should he be condemned more vociferously and unfairly than the others? If the others were not impeached for their woeful failures, why should GEJ be impeached for his modest attempts (in just 2-3 years) to clear the accumulated mess inherited from his predecessors, particularly OBJ?

Eko Ile:




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You are a little bit slow regarding this issue. The FOI is a phony and bogus law designed by lawbreakers with no intention to ever respect and abide by the same laws the signed into the Nigerian constitution.


There are outstanding FOI requests for GEJ's declared assets and till this very second, his cronies CCB are not only disobeying and violating the same laws the swore to obey and abide by, they are protecting and hiding his assess which is and should be public records.


They are all phonies and crooks..

trillville:

Oil prices were much lower during obj's tenure than during gej's tenure. To he who much is given, much is expected.

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.

Sunny_bobo:

See dem. oil price peaked at $140/barrel during OBJ's time. Talk is cheap...

trillville:

Oil prices were much lower during obj's tenure than during gej's tenure. To he who much is given, much is expected.

vicope:
I'm with you on this! I also campaigned against him and did not vote for him in 2011. I proudly voted for Buhari. Just last two weeks ago during the area council elections in FCT, a friend of mine who is 35 years old, a university graduate and still unemployed hitherto, voted for PDP candidate in Bwari Area Council after been bribed with #1,000. I couldn't but marvel at the hopelessness of Nigerians!

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.

sweet_gala: GEJ has tried enough and unfortunately has drawn more anger and resentment than any President ever. When a man lifts a load not sanctioned by God it ends in shame and that is the story with GEJ.

He is not necessarily worse but has been both mediocre and hasn't done better. He is weak and entangled in corruption, his wife is a illiterate (just can't help that feeling) a PhD holder in an anglophone country should have a better control of the English language no excuses.

Is only crime is promising much but changing nothing. If not for the presence of okonjo and Sanusi he'll be a complete failure

trillville:

Obj never had the sort of money gej has at his disposal. Oil prices started to rise around 2006 and was about 50 to 70dollars a barrel then. Gej has had only prices over $100 for quite a while now. Yaradua had the Niger delta issue reducing our production levels so he did not have as much money as gej.

What further compounds gej's problems is that there is an expectation of increased supply of crude oil from shale sources and if this occurs, oil prices are surely going to fall. We have little savings, not much investments and a growing disenfranchised adult population so this spells out a revolution to any sensible person viewing our situation.

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!

jerseyboy: Nigeria's Squandered Opportunity By Joel Brinkley-LA Times



By Joel Brinkley

Just outside President Goodluck Jonathan's office sat 17 ambulances, just in case he or one of his aides fell ill. They were seldom if ever used.

No actual health-care facility nationwide had as many, and in fact a few still have none at all. But as soon as a Nigerian newspaper took a photo of the ambulances and published a story about them, they suddenly disappeared -- probably to an underground garage.

Jonathan is president of Nigeria, which should be among the world's most prosperous nations. After all, it produces an estimated 2.4 million barrels of oil each and every day. With oil now selling at $93.61 a barrel, that's $224 million in income daily. And yet many hospitals can't afford to buy an ambulance. The reason, in my view: Nigeria is the most corrupt nation on earth.

Sure, Transparency International lists almost three dozen states as more corrupt -- Chad, Haiti, Laos, Yemen, Cambodia and the like. But are any of those nations as wealthy as Nigeria -- taking in $81 billion annually, just from the sale of oil? No, not even one of them. So Nigeria steals and squanders more money than any other nation, making it the world's most corrupt, by that measure.

Nigerian journalist Musikilu Mojeed finds all this so discouraging.

"With its geopolitical power, economic resources and middle class," he laments, "no country (with the possible exception of Saudi Arabia and Egypt) has the power to change the course of black/African civilization like Nigeria." After all, Nigeria is Africa's most populous state -- and large, twice the size of California.

So Nigerians are living an opportunity squandered -- particularly now. Egypt is in turmoil. In just the last few days, in fact, many Egyptians have been calling for a military coup -- anything to rid the state of its widely despised Muslim Brotherhood government. And a new report by the World Economic Forum ranked Egypt the least safe and secure tourist destination among 140 tourist nations evaluated.

Egypt has lost its place as the Arab/African worlds' leader, and Saudi Arabia never had it. So for Nigeria, the time is ripe. But its leaders seem interested only in stealing the state's money to make themselves rich beyond imaging. Think about it: $81 billion a year just from the oil, while most every local government official still tells his people the nation just doesn't have enough money to fix the roads, schools or hospitals. (Roads are in such terrible shape that government officials generally travel any distance by helicopter.)

And Nigeria's people -- well, they are as mistreated as any on earth. In only nine nations -- among them Liberia, Sierra Leone and Somalia -- do more mothers die during childbirth. And in only 10 states, including Chad, Afghanistan and Zimbabwe, is the average life expectancy lower. Right now the average Nigerian's average life span ends at 52. That may be why the median age of Nigerians is just 18.

A few months ago, the Economist Intelligence Unit published an evaluation of the best places for babies to born in 2013, given their probable welfare as children and the chance for a safe, comfortable, prosperous life. Switzerland, Australia and Norway were the top three. The United States came in at 16th, largely because "babies will inherit the large debts of the boomer generation."

Dead last: Nigeria. "It is the worst place for a baby to enter the world in 2013," the report said.

Even with all that wealth, only just over half the population has access to clean drinking water, and one-third to a toilet, UNICEF says. Two-thirds live below the poverty line. Only one child in four who contracts pneumonia is given antibiotics, and only about half the population is literate.

The CIA also cites endemic "soil degradation; rapid deforestation; urban air and water pollution." All this in a county whose gross domestic product stands at $236 billion a year, in the same league as Denmark, Chile, Israel and the United Arab Emirates -- prosperous, successful states to be envied.

Goodluck Jonathan is certainly aware of all of this. After all, taking the oath of office, he swore to "devote myself to the service and well-being of the people of Nigeria. So help me God."

Well, just last week he demonstrated who he really is and what he stands for when he pardoned a former state governor who'd been convicted of embezzling state funds and laundering the money. That pardon triggered a broad, angry uproar.

Good luck, Mr. Jonathan. It's time you were impeached.

(Joel Brinkley is the Hearst professional in residence at Stanford University and a Pulitzer Prize-winning former correspondent for The New York Times.)



http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sns-201303191300--tms--amvoicesctnav-c20130319-20130319,0,2415012.column


Well said,I agree with his impechement,cos tins ant goin 4 us all.Ðат bin said however,to ma brothers who belive Ðат come 2015,voting 4 d right person wil solve all our problems?nw I ask,what's Nigeria 2 υ?to ♍Ɛ its a situation of υ make ur plans,God laughs.regardin election,I̶̲̥̅̊n Nigeria its υ cast ur votes jega laugs,dt PDP man wil do all he can I̶̲̥̅̊n his power to keep oga at d top I̶̲̥̅̊n power,remember พϵ don't av a free n fair election I̶̲̥̅̊n Nigeria,nt wen PDP is stil at d centre.พαт dis country needs is a strong revoulation directed too all dis men I̶̲̥̅̊n power,พϵ need to clean up d whole system.

vanunu:


You are a big fool, what concerns you with his wife, You must unemployable.

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.

Sunny_bobo:

Why not go to court to enforce the release of such public records? Is GEJ the Chief justice of the federation?