Ilekokonit:
culled from Hilary Clinton's memoirs - Hard choices

No country has suffered more from the resource curse than Nigeria.

Nigeria could be a G-20 member and an influential global voice if it made the hard choice to overcome the resource curse.

When I visited in 2009 and 2012, I stressed the urgency of Nigerians tackling corruption and investing revenues to improve millions of lives, not swell personal fortunes.

http://www.amazon.com/Hard-Choices-Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-ebook/dp/B00C69EP1S

Obiagelli:


1985 $26.92 $58.54
1986 $14.44 $30.80
1987 $17.75 $36.54
1988 $14.87 $29.45
1989 $18.33 $34.58
1990 $23.19 $41.40
1991 $20.20 $34.70
1992 $19.25 $32.09
1993 $16.75 $27.13
1994 $15.66 $24.71
1995 $16.75 $25.72
1996 $20.46 $30.50
1997 $18.64 $27.17
1998 $11.91 $17.10
1999 $16.56 $23.20
2000 $27.39 $37.19
2001 $23.00 $30.40
2002 $22.81 $29.64
2003 $27.69 $35.22
2004 $37.66 $46.60
2005 $50.04 $59.88
2006 $58.30 $67.63
2007 $64.20 $72.30
2008 $91.48 $99.06
2009 $53.48 $58.20
2010 $71.21 $76.38
2011 $87.04 $90.52
2012 $86.46 $88.11
2013 $91.17 $91.54

Rawani:
In other words, if we come together to vote in General Buhari, Nigeria will have the greatest chance in its history to join the envied league of the G20 nations through the decisive eradication of corruption in government and the private sector, which has seen us suffer from increased cost of business for decades and unappealing investment climate and has kept us running in circles in our quest for economic rebirth.

Rawani:


The boy has been making me laugh...keep schooling him.

EMANY01:


Who is schooling who?
"The boy" asked a simple but very valid and very deep question and all your co-traveler could do was stutter irrelevant and unrelated trash.

EMANY01:

Who is schooling who?
"The boy" asked a simple but very valid and very deep question and all your co-traveler could do was stutter irrelevant and unrelated trash.

Really? Its not surprising considering what you posted after him . I was going to ignore but since you called:

EMANY01:

III,Population:Obviously Nigeria was far less populated in 1983-20013 than it is now.[b]Less population obviously means more resources such as they were at any given year to take care of each individual's needs.
IV,Federating Structure:Nigeria has far more states and governance structures/units today than it did between 1983-1999.To be honest we have far more parastatals/ministries than we had in 1999/2000 which means resource going to each one is more tightly contested.This means each federating unit has less that what that unit might consider as optimum for it to function.[/b]

EMANY01:

FACTS:
II,Exchange Rate,do i really need to explain this

EMANY01:
I've had it with folks pulling figures out of that place( where the sun never shines unless they are at the beach) and claiming we all submit to their superior arguments.

arresa:


They are not talking about your silly and irrelevant numbers that doesn't alter the fact your people are still poor, in darkness, lack quality healthcare, good education and all the basics

They are talking about corruption and your crooked and corrupt president's incompetence and inability to fight corruption..

They are talking about your crooked and corrupt president appointing and parading around with crooks, ex convicts, treasury looters and pardoning criminals and international fugitives...

They are talking about your crooked and corrupt president's corrupt way of life and corrupt utterances like stealing is not corruption and corruption in Nigeria is a figment of our imagination.

Rawani:


Really? Its not surprising considering what you posted after him . I was going to ignore but since you called:



Anyone with elementary knowledge of what GDP is in the first place, would know it is concerned with production and not consumption.


Obiagelli already enlightened you guys that GDP and oil prices are both in USD so i wonder what you are on about.




You and the person you were trying to defend were victims of ignorant arrogance, which usually ends in this way.

atlwireles:
Nigeria's GDP was $83B in 1983, with all the so called civilian corruption. Two years after Buhari and his mad men took over, Nigeria's GDP dropped to $43B. In 1999 it was $36B, so, the saints from the Nigerian army starting frfom Osama bin Buhari, took our economy from a $83B in 1983 under NPN to $36B in 1999. After 15 years of PDP corruption rule, we are now $522B. I will remain with the PDP corruption rule.

edo3:
How has this impacted the lives of common citizens on the street? Don't be deceived bro..

Obiagelli:

You are not bright, both gdp and oil prices are in dollars, what value are talking about?

chinwike2:
Who still wants to be USA's ball-boy ?

psalmizt:


You need to account for inflation.... that is what atlwireless is referring to. $1 30 years ago is not the same as $1 today. So his point is that the value received back then was more in terms of purchasing power compared to the price of oil today.

OtunbaJega:


oponu ni e

atlwireles:
Nigeria's GDP was $83B in 1983, with all the so called civilian corruption. Two years after Buhari and his mad men took over, Nigeria's GDP dropped to $43B. In 1999 it was $36B, so, the saints from the Nigerian army starting frfom Osama bin Buhari, took our economy from a $83B in 1983 under NPN to $36B in 1999. After 15 years of PDP corruption rule, we are now $522B. I will remain with the PDP corruption rule.

Jesusloveyou:
dat is why we need change of attitude and leadership,we need buhari.

chinwike2:
we need change but NOT buhari. CAPITAL NO !