holatin: do you know ow old Mandela was when he saved south Africa has, keep living in the delusion world. only in Nigeria will people look at age instead of capability.
sai buhari
Stop comparing Buhari to Mandela, they're as different as light and day. Mandela was a genius, Buhari is an illiterate. Don't just compare people because they have same age. There are 73yr olds in my village, compare them to Buhari. Comparing an illiterate Buhari to a reknown south african master of jurisprudence shows your level of understanding.
otemanuduno: CHAI! Dis Jonathan can bribe o! He can even bribe Satan himself Can u imagine how the so-called president of the Washington times, Williams Reed is talking as if he is living in Naija with us? Hmm...I smell bribery.
This got me laughing though
You're obviously ignorant of the e-wallet fertilizer distribution n IPPS
What is however certain is that GEJ's administration has had the privilege of being the regime with highest earnings from crude oil sale. Unfortunately, his still remains the most corrupt and the most wasteful regime.
GMB is the right man at this point in time.
The printed paper you put out with your post are part of the dishonest propaganda by APC
ASSOCIATION OF PROPAGANDIST CRIMINALS.
YES, BY VIRTUE OF THAT PAPER, APC ARE LYING CRIMINALS.
Where did they get 9% unemployment before GEJ and 50% under GEJ
What about foreign debt of $70B, the way your Lamido Sanusi was shouting $20B missing.
Please understand that despite its public statements America can never allow a competent government in Nigeria, because it may lose control of Nigeria.
Redoil: Nigerians shine ur eyes ur destiny is in ur hand APC and their evil minions are the biggest problem we are having and facing if we make any mistake with these people then and then you are on ur own. Last warning
As I read through, especially the part where it says GEJ hadn't been making public his achievements as much... reminded me of my own governor that lets his enemies talk while he walks; and to a certain degree, those that have never visited Africa, which they think is a country, yet believe humans still live on trees. No joke.
There is no doubt a lie told for too long will begin to llok like the truth, but what is it they say? that the truth will always prevail?
In the last six years, the government has been confronting more fundamental issues of growth and development with the type of vigor and single-mindedness uncommon in Nigeria.
Stop comparing Buhari to Mandela, they're as different as light and day. Mandela was a genius, Buhari is an illiterate. Don't just compare people because they have same age. There are 73yr olds in my village, compare them to Buhari. Comparing an illiterate Buhari to a reknown south african master of jurisprudence shows your level of understanding.
Keep things in perspective. GEJ has a PHD in d study of animals but his govt will go down in nigerian history as one of d weakest, most corrupt & clueless. GMB, a general in d nig army & former head of state is an alumni of d prestigious US War College & also an alumni of d institution now called d NDA. In leadership terms, comparing an inept & failed president to d head of a corrective govt dat saved d nation frm d brink of economic collapse in d worst recession in our history is like comparing an ant to an elephant. We need a leader. GMB has done it b4, he will do it again. SAI BUHARI
Kola4uniadgog: Nigeria has a date with destiny as March 28 and April 11 draw near. These are two significant dates that, on one hand, present Nigerians with an opportunity to strengthen democracy through the ballot.
These dates, on the other hand, are also beaming scaring danger signals. No thanks to politicians who are beating drums of war, stumping across the country, making campaign statements full of fury, with little about issues of concern to most Nigerians. As is typical of Nigerian elections, the tension is thick in the air, so much so that the putrid smell of Armageddon has enveloped the country. Fears are palpable, generating serious concerns among Nigerians and within the international community.
Nigeria has traveled this route before, not once. There are however reasons for genuine and heightened concern this time. The last few years have seen widening cracks along the Nigeria’s well- known fault lines of religion and ethnicity. The security situation, especially in the northeast, has been a huge sore on the reputation of the Africa’s most populous country. The abduction of more than 200 girls from the Borno State community of Chibok nearly one year ago, and the perceived lack of enough effort from the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure they are rescued, are making the prospect of a peaceful poll a tall dream.
President Jonathan has had to take the blame for virtually everything going wrong in Nigeria. Admittedly, there are issues that currently feed this perception. They include the security situation, corruption and poor living standards of most Nigerians. Ordinarily, the buck stops at the desk of the president.
The opposition seems to have succeeded in creating the impression that Mr. Jonathan merely wakes up on daily basis and does nothing. But things don’t always seem as they look in Nigeria.
That the president has been doing nothing would not pass the muster of nonpartisan scrutiny. What would be correct is that the president has actually done little to publicize the many things he has been doing. In the last six years, the government has been confronting more fundamental issues of growth and development with the type of vigor and single-mindedness uncommon in Nigeria.
The Jonathan administration would trump any previous administration in the effort made to tackle the near-complete collapse of infrastructure such as roads, transportation and power supply.
The same can be said of employment generation and capacity development. Nigeria’s economy has not only survived major shake-ups affecting most advanced economies, it has actually also been growing in leaps and bounds, emerging as Africa’s largest.
He has perhaps taken an ingenious route to fighting corruption. He understands the difference between the symptoms of corruption and the underlying causes. While many had expected a frontal attack at the symptoms through demonstrative — even if unlawful — actions by deploying anti-corruption forces in a frenzy of mass arrests, media trials and public sentencing of suspects, Mr. Jonathan has chosen to allow the justice system the space to work. He hasn’t stopped at that. He is, with the skill of a surgeon, identifying the underlying causes of corruption and taking them out one after the other. This is what he did with a fertilizer distribution scam, which had hampered food production and diversification effort for decades. Perhaps, he did not make enough noise on this, but the result of his approach is loud enough for the thousands of Nigerian farmers who now have easy access to fertilizer, completely eliminating the meddlesome middlemen. The action is equally loud enough for the vested interests to fight back and join the now-profitable president-bashing choir.
The security challenge is a bit more complicated. Mr. Jonathan’s emergence represented a paradigm shift in the Nigerian political arrangement. He was the first person with no strong political background or affiliation, and from a minority tribe to become a democratic president in Nigeria. He had not benefited from any of the important pillars of power such as the support of a major ethnic group. The template for success in the Nigerian environment requires much more than the timing of response to a security situation, such as the Chibok abduction saga. It requires the willingness of the players within the affected area to put the safety of lives and protection of properties of the people ahead of their own immediate political advantage. It is not going to be easy trimming the hair of someone who continues to run. It could take time to either catch up with him or get him to willingly agree to the need to solve a problem. The ability to keep calm rather than adopt a knee-jerk and high-handed approach in the face of treachery and impunity is a great asset the president is endowed with. This, as the opposition is wont to do, can also be mistaken for weakness or incompetence.
Mr. Jonathan’s civilized approach to tackling issues is built around the need to ensure social justice, equity and the rule of law. This should, ordinarily, be worthy of global acknowledgment and commendation. But the concerted noise from the opposition camp and the penchant of some international observers to rush to judgment without taking full account of peculiarities of an environment are a bit deafening and blinding to the reality on ground.
As elections are getting closer, the president is faced with the facts that Nigerians are in a hurry. They’ve waited for too long. This is a situation that is being exploited by opposition leaders, who have been calling for mob actions as against the rule of law. Mr. Jonathan has equally shown that he understands that Nigerians are expecting a leader with a magic wand, who could with a snap somewhere, turn age-long and deeply rooted social decay into an instant state of bliss. But the magic wand could actually be a possibility if current efforts are allowed another four years to take root, grow and bear fruits.
• William Reed is president of the Black Press Foundation.
[size=18pt]LEVICK COMPOSED AND WROTE THIS ARTICLE FULLY PAID FOR BY NEWS AGENCY OF NIGERIA IN THE US$1 MILLION PR CONTRACT PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN PAID LEVICK. BUT THE COOKIE HAS ALREADY CRUMBLED. THE PRESIDENT HAS FAILED WOEFULLY WHERE IT MATTERS MOST TO NIGERIANS - NATIONAL SECURITY AND WELFARE. ONLY 40, 000 OF MORE THAN 400, 000 NIGERIAN GRADUATES GET JOBS AFTER THEIR NYSC EVERY YEAR. AND NOW THERE ARE OVER 40 MILLION JOBLESS YOUTHS AND THE BEST IDEA OF MASS EMPLOYMENT PRESIDENT JONATHAN HAS IS TO EMPLOY THEM AS TRAFFIC WARDENS.THAT IS ENOUGH TO SHOW YOU HOW CLUELESS HE IS. [/size]
Nigeria shine ur eyes ur destiny is in ur hand pdp and their evil minions are the biggest problem we are having and facing if we make any mistake with these people then and then you are on ur own. Last warning... Vote ApC... Vote for change.
How can a president that took him 10 days to accept that some 200 Chibok school children were kidnapped be taken seriously in any part of the world?
The President allows massive looting by his cronies without punishment, he has no single conviction after 6 years in power despite the massive corruption that has occured and made his friends and family members billionaires. He's your typical corrupt African leader,four more years of him is not what Nigeria needs. This was a poorly written PR piece, you can't improve the image of the President who is corrupt and protects his corrupt associates.
He has support from the political and military establishment because he allows corruption to flourish and turns a blind eye to it, despite many scandals of missing billions over the 6 years he has ruled no single individual has gone to jail. One of his closest associates Buruji Kashamu is a drug baron wanted by the United States and Goodluck Jonathan has refused to extradite him to face charges of running one of the largest drug rings while he lived in Chicago.
and who the hell is Williams Reed?
Govt closed the schools in chibok and asked that exams be held in Maiduguri. The governor said he would probide security which he did not. Allowed the boys to go and left the girls alone for boko to attack. If u were the president, you will be more interested in understanding what led to the kidnap than running after kidnappers which ur not sure happened.
would u prefer chasing after 1 person that collects money for fertiliser and than blocking the source of theft in agric and ghost workers.
U saw what happened during the subsidy issue. Those who have been stealing have the financial muscle to cause ethnic and religious wars in Nigerian. Best option is to block the source of stealing corruption has eaten so deep that if get decides to fight it on an individual bases u will be suprised that u might be a beneficiary .
As for drug, dont forget the change u are asking for is powered by a former drug lord tinubu.
Is GEJ a saint ? No. But he is systematic in dealing with issues. Proper consultation is required to rule Nigeria else, violence will errupt from the region that is well known for it. So he did well in consulting in regards to bokoharam.
How much do u think govt would have gotten from the subsidy, fertiliser and ghost workers cabal compared to how much we now save as a result of blockage.
With all Humility and insight given me by the ALMIGHTY Creator i confirm that the basic Fact of Nigeria Leadership is laid down in this right up! GEJ might not be doing wat we want but he is on the right course of a GLORIOUS Nigeria! GOD is fully in Nigeria rite now. There wld be Stressless peace before,during nd after the elections. Whoever is bidding for war is guranteed that he/she wld sleep nd not wake again
Keep things in perspective. GEJ has a PHD in d study of animals but his govt will go down in nigerian history as one of d weakest, most corrupt & clueless. GMB, a general in d nig army & former head of state is an alumni of d prestigious US War College & also an alumni of d institution now called d NDA. In leadership terms, comparing an inept & failed president to d head of a corrective govt dat saved d nation frm d brink of economic collapse in d worst recession in our history is like comparing an ant to an elephant. We need a leader. GMB has done it b4, he will do it again. SAI BUHARI
If Buhari has all these qualities why didin't you and others vote him in 2003, 2007 or 2011? What is bad is bad, no matter how you market a bad product people would eventually know its a bad product.
Kola4uniadgog: Nigeria has a date with destiny as March 28 and April 11 draw near. These are two significant dates that, on one hand, present Nigerians with an opportunity to strengthen democracy through the ballot.
These dates, on the other hand, are also beaming scaring danger signals. No thanks to politicians who are beating drums of war, stumping across the country, making campaign statements full of fury, with little about issues of concern to most Nigerians. As is typical of Nigerian elections, the tension is thick in the air, so much so that the putrid smell of Armageddon has enveloped the country. Fears are palpable, generating serious concerns among Nigerians and within the international community.
Nigeria has traveled this route before, not once. There are however reasons for genuine and heightened concern this time. The last few years have seen widening cracks along the Nigeria’s well- known fault lines of religion and ethnicity. The security situation, especially in the northeast, has been a huge sore on the reputation of the Africa’s most populous country. The abduction of more than 200 girls from the Borno State community of Chibok nearly one year ago, and the perceived lack of enough effort from the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure they are rescued, are making the prospect of a peaceful poll a tall dream.
President Jonathan has had to take the blame for virtually everything going wrong in Nigeria. Admittedly, there are issues that currently feed this perception. They include the security situation, corruption and poor living standards of most Nigerians. Ordinarily, the buck stops at the desk of the president.
The opposition seems to have succeeded in creating the impression that Mr. Jonathan merely wakes up on daily basis and does nothing. But things don’t always seem as they look in Nigeria.
That the president has been doing nothing would not pass the muster of nonpartisan scrutiny. What would be correct is that the president has actually done little to publicize the many things he has been doing. In the last six years, the government has been confronting more fundamental issues of growth and development with the type of vigor and single-mindedness uncommon in Nigeria.
The Jonathan administration would trump any previous administration in the effort made to tackle the near-complete collapse of infrastructure such as roads, transportation and power supply.
The same can be said of employment generation and capacity development. Nigeria’s economy has not only survived major shake-ups affecting most advanced economies, it has actually also been growing in leaps and bounds, emerging as Africa’s largest.
He has perhaps taken an ingenious route to fighting corruption. He understands the difference between the symptoms of corruption and the underlying causes. While many had expected a frontal attack at the symptoms through demonstrative — even if unlawful — actions by deploying anti-corruption forces in a frenzy of mass arrests, media trials and public sentencing of suspects, Mr. Jonathan has chosen to allow the justice system the space to work. He hasn’t stopped at that. He is, with the skill of a surgeon, identifying the underlying causes of corruption and taking them out one after the other. This is what he did with a fertilizer distribution scam, which had hampered food production and diversification effort for decades. Perhaps, he did not make enough noise on this, but the result of his approach is loud enough for the thousands of Nigerian farmers who now have easy access to fertilizer, completely eliminating the meddlesome middlemen. The action is equally loud enough for the vested interests to fight back and join the now-profitable president-bashing choir.
The security challenge is a bit more complicated. Mr. Jonathan’s emergence represented a paradigm shift in the Nigerian political arrangement. He was the first person with no strong political background or affiliation, and from a minority tribe to become a democratic president in Nigeria. He had not benefited from any of the important pillars of power such as the support of a major ethnic group. The template for success in the Nigerian environment requires much more than the timing of response to a security situation, such as the Chibok abduction saga. It requires the willingness of the players within the affected area to put the safety of lives and protection of properties of the people ahead of their own immediate political advantage. It is not going to be easy trimming the hair of someone who continues to run. It could take time to either catch up with him or get him to willingly agree to the need to solve a problem. The ability to keep calm rather than adopt a knee-jerk and high-handed approach in the face of treachery and impunity is a great asset the president is endowed with. This, as the opposition is wont to do, can also be mistaken for weakness or incompetence.
Mr. Jonathan’s civilized approach to tackling issues is built around the need to ensure social justice, equity and the rule of law. This should, ordinarily, be worthy of global acknowledgment and commendation. But the concerted noise from the opposition camp and the penchant of some international observers to rush to judgment without taking full account of peculiarities of an environment are a bit deafening and blinding to the reality on ground.
As elections are getting closer, the president is faced with the facts that Nigerians are in a hurry. They’ve waited for too long. This is a situation that is being exploited by opposition leaders, who have been calling for mob actions as against the rule of law. Mr. Jonathan has equally shown that he understands that Nigerians are expecting a leader with a magic wand, who could with a snap somewhere, turn age-long and deeply rooted social decay into an instant state of bliss. But the magic wand could actually be a possibility if current efforts are allowed another four years to take root, grow and bear fruits.
• William Reed is president of the Black Press Foundation.
Sometimes in a football match, people outside the pitch see better than the players in the field. That is why the referee most times gets instructions from the one outside the pitch with a clearer view.
Most times our understanding of things in Nigeria are not clear and influenced by people who might be pro or anti govt..
Someone who is a ghost worker and has been fished out by the biometric excercise will say the govt is bad.
Those who have been benefiting from fuel subsidy scam, would make the masses believe the govt hates them when they tried to remove it.
Like the issue of bokoharam, when it started elders in the north including buhari made the northerners believe the govt was against them while bokoharam was their friend. This led to northerners accommodating the sect members and withholding information.
In the case of unemployment , there has always been a shortage of employment and the govt will never have enough employment opportunities for all the unemployed youths. But the policies of govt encourages investors which in turn creates more jobs.
The rails are back but we dont see it as employment, neither do we see you win etc as employment.
As dangote, innoson motors aand other firms increase in their capacity due to govt support and patronage this also creates employment.
What about the single digit sme loans made available . When u wear red glasses, everything will be red to u. The enemies of this administration have succeeded in puting on red glasses in the eyes of most Nigerian youths.
Some are even inside the trains traveling from one location to the other and causing goodluck online.
Some are even buying food at the same price despite the fall in oil price but still insullt the president online.
Are you a Nigerian? I just wish 75% of Nigerian youths will have half the brain you have got and this country would have moved to greater heights.
Sometimes in a football match, people outside the pitch see better than the players in the field. That is why the referee most times gets instructions from the one outside the pitch with a clearer view.
Most times our understanding of things in Nigeria are not clear and influenced by people who might be pro or anti govt..
Someone who is a ghost worker and has been fished out by the biometric excercise will say the govt is bad.
Those who have been benefiting from fuel subsidy scam, would make the masses believe the govt hates them when they tried to remove it.
Like the issue of bokoharam, when it started elders in the north including buhari made the northerners believe the govt was against them while bokoharam was their friend. This led to northerners accommodating the sect members and withholding information.
In the case of unemployment , there has always been a shortage of employment and the govt will never have enough employment opportunities for all the unemployed youths. But the policies of govt encourages investors which in turn creates more jobs.
The rails are back but we dont see it as employment, neither do we see you win etc as employment.
As dangote, innoson motors aand other firms increase in their capacity due to govt support and patronage this also creates employment.
What about the single digit sme loans made available . When u wear red glasses, everything will be red to u. The enemies of this administration have succeeded in puting on red glasses in the eyes of most Nigerian youths.
Some are even inside the trains traveling from one location to the other and causing goodluck online.
Some are even buying food at the same price despite the fall in oil price but still insullt the president online.
Are you a Nigerian? I just wish 75% of Nigerian youths will have half the brain you have got and this country would have moved to greater heights. God bless you.
Chosen1984: With all Humility and insight given me by the ALMIGHTY Creator i confirm that the basic Fact of Nigeria Leadership is laid down in this right up! GEJ might not be doing wat we want but he is on the right course of a GLORIOUS Nigeria! GOD is fully in Nigeria rite now. There wld be Stressless peace before,during nd after the elections. Whoever is bidding for war is guranteed that he/she wld sleep nd not wake again
Peace will and must rainy in Nigerai... So also there must be change in Nigeria.... Vote GMB for the desired change and original transformation of She.
If Buhari has all these qualities why didin't you and others vote him in 2003, 2007 or 2011? What is bad is bad, no matter how you market a bad product people would eventually know its a bad product.
PassingShot: The writer must either not have enough facts at his disposal or just being economical with the truth.
GEJ's regime is the least effective since this democracy began in 199.
Please compare his performance with OBJ's.
there is sth called the time value of money. 100 naira in 2004 is not the same as 100 naira now. So 38 dollars might be as valuable as 100-140 dollars in 2015. When I was in primary school. I was given 5 naira to school everyday. And out of it, I buy 3 naira rice and 2 naira meat. That same meal would cost about 100 naira now or more.
So if at some point, crude oil was 38 dollars and later 140 dollars. It might equate to more money in the real sense of it. How much was tha average salary paid by goverment in 2004 when oil was 38 dollars and how much is the average salary now. How much did it cost to do a road then and how much does it cost now. We have to take all this into cognizance.
And what were the achievements of obj after six year in power?
If Buhari has all these qualities why didin't you and others vote him in 2003, 2007 or 2011? What is bad is bad, no matter how you market a bad product people would eventually know its a bad product.
My support 4 d People's General predates APC because i know what u don't know. I don't care 4 d PDP & APC but I care about d patriot, GMB. Knowledgeable people know what GMB did in those heady days in Nigeria & dat is why decades later & despite vicious media attacks people wit a sense of history still yearn 4 d good old days when Buhari was at d helm of affairs in our nation. We shall giv d People's General a historic mandate to clear d rot of d clueless GEJ yrs. SAI BUHARI
Every reasonable Nigerian who mean well for this country will know and accept the fact that "slow and steady" will always win the race. So far, President Jonathan is still the best president Nigeria has ever had aside from Ramat Muritala Muhammed-though Military Head of State. It is time for Nigerians to stop looking for how to put wounded cobra into the pocket. if proscription of Boko-Haram is injustice in the eyes and mind of .....then everyone of us should know better who the common enemies of this country are. God's own will be done.
Redoil: Never again should we fall into the hands of evil cabals been controlle by tinubu and his evil minions from the sea/hell Nigerians shine ur eyes ur destiny is in ur hand APC and their evil minions are the biggest problem we are having and facing if we make any mistake with these people then and then you are on ur own. Last warning
PDP ruled for 16 years and they are not evil?oloshi
