barcanista:
You noticed that I've not said anything on job creation? This is because we need to get our fact right and not say my neighbour was employed by NTA under Obj, hence he is better than Jonathan. Let me restate that Jonathan often times goofed in his handling of the economy especially the free role given to NOI, that doesn't make his predecessor Obj better. Nigeria as at today is moving towards capitalist economy, this means the civil service will continue to experience a downturn in employment while the private sector will employ more but admittedly the process is slow due to corruption in the system. With the exit of some rogues and the availability of FOI we shall continue to push for the War against corruption and will continue to disgrace corrupt officials, while we appreciate the government drives in his expansion project of the economy. The Agric, transport and manufacturing sectors that are expanding is capable of creating lots of jobs that will make our country progress and not civil service redundant jobs. Should the government up its power reform effort and pursue the provision of relevant infrastriucture as well as close up in fighting corruption, the sky will be our starting point. Thankfully, we are witnessing signs of seriousness, all we need is continuous support of the Government and criticism where possible.

With respect to Obasanjo, he KILLED the banking sector and almost destroyed our financial market, Sanusi Lamido had to clean up the system from scratch. That is why their jobs weren't sustainable. I am watching the new CBN boss and the Trade and Investment Minister closely.

Sammiejokes:
Fellow nairaland I have been thinking lately over all this employment FG is saying they are creating, but when I look back @ OBJ regime, I must say graduates around me even though I was just in secondary school were getting jobs, Telecoms,Banking,oil and Gas industry, public sector(FCSC, IFRS) really developed which. Created Jobs for guyz then, most of them are big boyz now that am now a graduate. It is now a tragedy that even private sector now experience all sort of bribe to get a job because of few good jobs around. Please which sector has developed and creating jobs for common Nigerians now under GEJ?

Promhize:
Dumb graduates. Look at their discourse like that of Secondary school drop-outs, now I see why employers threat you guys like thrassh.

patmaine:
even if you 're blind. you can never compare obj time with GEJ. 're u guys blind not to notice the news companies springing up here and there....all the vehicle Manufacturing companies. all the agric companies springing up. here and there. who do they employ.


How can you guys lie so openly.

Nigerians who 're hard working 're sucking up to the goods of this administration and is creating jobs...

Nigerian economy is growing at increased pace. while u 're hear ranting. no worry stay home no go find wetin u go do. wait for Goodluck to spoon feed you...

AreaFada2:
Considering the huge increase in number of graduates now and the fact OBJ took over from a military regime, the need to hire staff was higher then.

Then came the world economic crisis just as OBJ left power. Then came the banking sector crisis in Nigeria with thousands sacked.

The room to create jobs has been far less in GEJ's time. The sectors creating jobs like Agric is not popular with many graduates.
GEJ has not done bad at all.

MrNiceGuy5:

Please give us source and don't just come here to cook up stories. Vehicle manufacturing and agriculture companies?

jpphilips:



This is the most ridiculous post of 2015, you deserve a circus time in a Nazi theatre, do you reside in Nigeria?

DoctorMcgruff:


but explain how this is the most ridiculous, surely u have a basis? can you dispute anything said?

jpphilips:


Are you this low? Traffic warden jobs, farm laborer jobs etc.
Please who are you guys?

DoctorMcgruff:


Nissan? Hyundai? GE?

DoctorMcgruff:


Nissan? Hyundai? GE?

Kingspin:
Dont claim ur blind more than a blind person. U have a state let him get u a job. 2015 election #Vote not Hate.

Emeca:


these are all part of the private sector. do u really expect Jonathan to run both the private and public sectors as president. i hope u do know he is not Superman and he can only be in one place at a time. the prevailing economic situation then in OBJ's tenure is not the same with GEJ. GEJ's tenure has experienced the effects of the economic crisis of 2008 which started a year after OBJ's tenure and is still felt till today plus lost oil revenue as a result of militancy then coupled with Nigeria's perennial economic woes through our over-dependence on oil.

i dont know why most of you chose to blame GEJ entirely for the nation's problem. he merely inherited a rotten corpse of a nation. u cant expect him to revive a 54-yr old nation with severe problems across all sectors in just 6 years. its definitely going to take time.

jpphilips:


Culpability has shifted from Mazi Jonathan to state Governors?
lolzzzzzzz.
Nigerians will never learn, do I really sound unemployed to you? just curious.

Kingspin:
Whats ur complain? That 4yrs now this govt has done nothing is that ur point. Am nt into APC blind argument if u tell me their is need for improvement 'YES' BUT, we are mature enof nobody can transform or change things overnite in this country. The journey will always be a continue one in the life of a nation. Nobody can do magic for this nation till tomorrow. Let everybody do his/her job.

jpphilips:


Today's parliament seems to be a little different from other parliaments because one of us complained of unemployment in the face of several lies and mystic transformation, in his words he said he is "pained", based on that, fellow parliamentarians have decided to look into his ordeal with facts void of sentiments.

Unless you have a few facts to throw around, I rather you excuse us, the era of propaganda and shooting blanks is over.

Kingspin:
So u get the magic stick for Nigeria?

jpphilips:



There was no economic melt down with GEJ only fall in crude price at the lowest of $41/bbl, there was two Global Economic melt down with OBJ, OBJ actually operated an economy with $38/bbl. Jonathan's incompetence made us know that Nigeria was paying subsidy, before now, other administrations shielded us from its adverse effects.

Jonathan's incompetence made us to know the effect of drop in crude price, conversely, OBJ had the lowest drop yet our economy was immune according to Prof. Soludo. Obj's economic team deserves a standing ovation.
Jonathan was just a distraction in government with kindergarten policies, a trainee president to say the least

Like Soludo asked, what is the "Iroko" in Jonathan's field of achievements, none.

MrNiceGuy5:

Professor in English please read your senseless english again

Kingspin:
Monkey!

jpphilips:


are they your facts?

jpphilips:


Gej was not the President in 2008 wake up!

Nigeria under GEJ is loosing over 400,000bbls of crude daily as alleged by Soludo and confirmed by Shell.

Entertain yourself here: thenationonlineng.net/new/thieves-steal-n7-3b-oil-daily/

Jonathan is responsible for the accruing loss in revenue.
when oil was at $115 that loss is $46,000,000 Daily.

Are you still worried why we couldn't save during the rainy days? oh! the thieves are invisible, meanwhile two of Jonathan's c0ck mates are patrolling our waters with our $1b, Entertain yourself here :
m.dailytimes.com.ng/article/actors-foes#.VKnUAMXgHa8

who else do you wanna blame, Buhari?

Please lets have a good laugh, BTW did you hear what the money was used for?

have another laugh here: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/173222-norway-sells-warships-combat-boats-ex-militant-leader-tompolo.html.

lol, country for the blind.

You noticed that I've not said anything on job creation? This is because we need to get our fact right and not say my neighbour was employed by NTA under Obj, hence he is better than Jonathan. Let me restate that Jonathan often times goofed in his handling of the economy especially the free role given to NOI, that doesn't make his predecessor Obj better.

Nigeria as at today is moving towards capitalist economy, this means the civil service will continue to experience a downturn in employment while the private sector will employ more but admittedly the process is slow due to corruption in the system. With the exit of some rogues and the availability of FOI we shall continue to push for the War against corruption and will continue to disgrace corrupt officials, while we appreciate the government drives in his expansion project of the economy.

The Agric, transport and manufacturing sectors that are expanding is capable of creating lots of jobs that will make our country progress and not civil service redundant jobs.

Are you not tired of making blank statements? I have challenged the Agric sector pundits and so far, nobody can prove, that Jonathan has done anything different in that sector, as a matter of fact, most of the things Jonathan is making noise with in the Agric sector is what previous administrations don't even talk about, let me give you some examples.

Babangida and Abacha's PTF built the 13 existing Silos we have in this country, Jonathan promised another 20, so far, he has been able to deliver just 9, the rest are voice mail, so what is the noise about in the Agricultural sector?

Fertilizer distribution under Abacha's PTF revived NAFCON, kept it in business for years, today Jonathan's Fertilizer achievements cannot even revive NAFCON let alone keep it in business, sorry I forgot, NAFCON is now Notore, so what is that "iroko" that cannot have a meaningful impact in this country?
Rightly put, a chemical engineer could be employed by NAFCON before Jonathan, now, a graduate of chemical engineering is a beneficiary of fertilizer to start farming

On transport, he upgraded Akanu Ibiam airport to international status meanwhile, employment and revenue goes to the Ethiopian govt whose national carrier "Ethiopian airlines" is plying the airport

How about the fact that he forgot to do a rail line from Apapa to Onitsha housing the biggest market in west Africa, that rail line alone will knock off 40% of heavy duty trucks on the Lagos-Benin highway, he opted to repair the existing portharcourt to Enugu route, with zero economic relevance to the Nigerian people, as a matter of fact, a journey from PH to Enugu will cost you less than 2k for 3.5hrs, Jonathan's trains will probably cost less for 10hrs

Should the government up its power reform effort and pursue the provision of relevant infrastriucture as well as close up in fighting corruption, the sky will be our starting point. Thankfully, we are witnessing signs of seriousness, all we need is continuous support of the Government and criticism where possible.

With respect to Obasanjo, he KILLED the banking sector and almost destroyed our financial market, Sanusi Lamido had to clean up the system from scratch. That is why their jobs weren't sustainable. I am watching the new CBN boss and the Trade and Investment Minister closely.

"It did not cost Nigerian taxpayers one penny. Twenty-five new, stronger banks emerged but the powerful idea behind consolidation ignited something even more powerful—‘the race to the top’. Banks raised more capital, and even banks like First Bank, Zenith, GTB, etc that did not merge with others went on capital raising several times. The consequence was higher levels of capitalization and within two years, 14 Nigerian banks were in the top 1000 banks in the world and two in the top 300 (no Nigerian bank was in the top 1000 before I came). Even after I left office, still 9 banks were in the top 1000. Our vision was to have a Nigerian bank in the top 100 banks within 10 years. As I see the new Access bank; Zenith, GTB, Fidelity, Diamond, UBA, FBN, FCMB, Skye, Stanbic IBTC, Union, Ecobank, etc, I cannot but feel that we have taken giant steps forward"...........Chukwuma Soludo Prof..

9jatriot:


Even Obj did better with agriculture. Not TV film trick development in agric but real development. Then you heard of cassava initiative, local rice production, agro allied, fish farms etc.

i said his tenure had been been affected by the 2008 crisis as opposed to OBJ's tenure. I'm talking abt the affter effects of the crisis like capital flight, loss of investor confidence. The prevailing economic conditions under OBJ was better than GEJ.

Btw....so Jonathan is responsible for oil theft and for oil companies experiencing production shortfalls. I hope u know how deluded u sound. Do u remember dat it was during Yar'adua' tenure dat we had d biggest loss in oil ouput and revenue due to bunkering and sabotage by militants. U still remember the part GEJ played as VP and a niger-deltan to end militancy.

Why we couldn't save during the rainy days?? Do u remember the finance misnister complaining dat governors bluntly refused to have some money put away. They asked for the money to be shared....a right enshrined in the constitution. Jonathan is to be blamed for dat too

Well, I don't know if you are a personal friend to the finance minister to be privy to her bedroom talks, what we know as Nigerians is that, the Governors decided to take the FG to court to share the ECA because they found out that it was used to bankroll, Jonathan's 2011 election, if that is not misappropriation, what else? the governors lost confidence in the ability of the FG to remain the sole custodian of their general wealth.
The ECR has been in existence since OBJ's days and no Governor has ever asked for his share, can we safely assume that OBJ amidst his corrupt tendencies never tampered with those funds?

[color=#990000]"Why did we save under Obasanjo but not under Jonathan? Two keywords explain it: leadership and integrity. Governor Amaechi said the governors insisted on sharing the funds because they found out that you were illegally fiddling with the savings. So, as Nigerians still wonder, if billions of dollars are now ‘missing’ under your nose, why should governors trust you to keep their money? ".........Prof chukwuma Soludo.


"Furthermore, did the governors also stop the Federal Government from saving part of its share? If you ran a surplus budget at the Federal level, you would have had credibility to blame others or to say they did not listen to your advice. The key point is that since you were running huge deficits yourself, it was also in your own interest to share the ECA. You did not show leadership or credibility, full stop!"..........Soludo

We also know that before the Governors asked for their share of the ECA, the FG is already running a budget deficit, in court, the FG did not wait for judgement but agreed to settle out of court where they both agreed to share the funds, can we safely assume here that it was equally in the interest of the FG to share the funds (budget deficit concerns) irrespective of the fact that the governors were doing the asking?

We equally know that after the money was shared, the FG mapped out $1b from her share and called it SWF, till date we have not heard where the money is invested and what was done with it.

Finally, we know that the ECA account is entirely different from the foreign reserve account, under Jonathan ECA was shared and Foreign reserve depleted.

To answer your question on whose fault it was, Jonathan shared an ECR account created by OBJ, how many did he create?
Jonathan depleted the Foreign reserve account, another OBJ's brain child, how many did Jonathan create?

The norwegian boats u mentioned was acquired to stop piracy and consequently...oil theft. So Jonathan is wrong to commission the task to people who know the creeks more than the Nigerian military.

, who will refund our $48,000,000 stolen daily under their watch?

Your buhari and his cohorts from the north are the reason why d country is in the current mess. They laid no credible foundation as ex-leaders but rather spent their time abusing human rights and stiffling freedom.

Go sell ur garbage to d naive and uninformed.

The only mess I am seeing here is Jonathan till you prove otherwise.

Kingspin:
Am asking u? since to you no sector of the economy is receiving any attention. And u are convince by that so who will make this country be like the US and Britain?

jpphilips:


Anything that is not Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan GCFR.

MrNiceGuy5:

Please give us source and don't just come here to cook up stories. Vehicle manufacturing and agriculture companies?