celemel:

It's no surprise though that most posters on this thread feel no qualms about the personality of our leaders so long as they can deliver electricity (which they haven't any way).

mobuch:

@ babsmii

Mr young man without issues, English is our language okay, so get that into your head, maybe you are one of those who find it difficult speaking impeccable English.
let me tell you something, I am a complete Igbo man, and I am yet to get  the kind of education which our Acting President has, neither  have I gotten  the kind of exposure he has, but mark my words, I grew up in Nigeria and schooled mainly in the east, yet my English is impeccable and is spoken without any primitive accent.  Any white man that listens to my accent here, gets this impression that Nigerians have very good English speaking accents.

We should try and do the right thing, if there is a part of our culture/life and native accent which is faulty, I think we should do away with it, and if there is a part of the western life/ culture which is faulty, then We should reject it and accept the good ones.

be rest assured his next outing would be a much more better interview

celemel:

Maybe, we need to turn the thread to that of highlighting "common mistakes in english language".  It may pay off. It's like, a great majority of our people don't even understand the rules of grammar. Plenty of us won't do better than uncle GEJ. Take a look:
You either "rest assured" or "be assured" not "be rest assured". Tautology!    

celemel:

@JAKUMO: I stand by my statement. There's no statistical basis for your conclusion. My house in Abuja has experienced less power now, than in the last 6 months. Same as in Lagos. Also in Calabar, we mostly get power at night (as it was before). (This post is powered with laptop battery. PHCN disappeared at daybreak as is customary) Communication is key in leadership. The first quality of a good manager is his ability to communicate. Anything short of that isn't good enough for a country of a hypothetical 150 million (a number I still dispute for we are less than that, any way!)

This thread has no anything of important let it be over, Jonathan has spoken and well understood by the audience. shike nan!!!

Sun of god:

If we are now statistically analysing data and publically making inferences from data on electricity provision within Nigeria, can somebody quickly forward me the link to the data being analysed.

Let me draw my own conclusions after analysing the data myself - I choose not to rely on the conclusions some are trying to make without granting access to the data they have apparently studied.

And I would prefer quantitative rather than qualitative data! I want the raw data!

I'm waiting - 

celemel:

@ Abu-Maryam:
Geskiya!! Sanu de aiki!!!!! (Your own is Made in Japan!)

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I tot wat matters in communication is understanding not the skills. in my opinion Jonathan is perfect. I stand to be corrected.

Sun of god:

Preferably month by month or even week by week data on transmission and consumption covering the lasts 12-24 months.

If you can break it down state by state, or ideally town by town.

In excel format!,

(Vista - )

celemel:

@BEAF:
Attack vector? Who's attacking who? And why bring matrix into the picture? Maybe, you believe I'm from the "cabal" side! I must quickly say, I'm 100% Niger Deltan.  I'm a proud one at that! I'm also proudly Nigerian! We can only make progress when we demand the best of everything from our leaders, irrespective of their tribal colorations. For far too long, we've been coccooned within the limited shells of our circumstantial ethnic origins, and we tend to only see things from that narrow prism.  That blinds us from the bigger picture and our potential ability to "reach the skies" and "break the glass ceiling" given the abundance of our resources. It's the reason we must be vigilant, refuse to praise-sing them into stupor and demand as of right, that they harness our abundant endowments to serve us well and above all, give us the right to freely chose who is best to be our leader.  Goodluck is just one out of millions of other very good people who have the capacity to give us effective leadership.  I have nothing against him. If he does well, I'll thank him and if he gets a less-than-good outing, we should be willing to have our say so.  That would make him sit up and ultimately lead him to becoming a better leader!

@ALL:
I don't believe in power rotation (or zoning) just for the heck of it.  I believe in good and quality leadership, irrespective of where it comes from!

BBCLagos:

My people we try too hard to copy other people.Everybody has an accent, hear the Chinese, Malaysian, even in England you can have several accents, people from Newcastle for instance Jordies have a deep accent, people from the midlands also have a distinctive accent. We should learnto tolerate and be proud, accents are not errors, they simply identify people.It should be noted that he is a scholar with a PH.d which he studied for not acquired .My thinking is that we Nigerians should simply put him to task regarding the comments he has made in the electronic media internationally.

mobuch:


  PLEASE AISHA AND KOSOVO, CLOSE THIS THREAD BECAUSE [size=14pt]I HAVE LOST MY SANITY[/size].
 
I am a one man avalanche of grossly uneducated minds on Nairaland and it is really a pity.
  This is really a sad commentary on the state of education in Nigeria, where  a supposedly Phd holder is given excuses for his inadequacies.

   I weep  for this country and its just so sad
 
  The so called improvement in power situation  is just a farce, there is no statistic or accurate data to back it up.

Sun of god:

How the heck did this topic made it to the front page? (OluwaKANYE)

Answer - Possibly because of grammar like your own being used in public!

Its a concern to many Nigerians who are considering who's best to lead the country in 2011.

OluwaKANYE:

Look nobody cares what medium is being used to communicate, China is way ahead of you and English isn't their language, all you lot can think of is the number of grammatical errors your president made while ignoring the big issue. Come on man stop embarrassing yourself and cut the president some slack, let him tackle the problem however medium best suited.

mobuch:

If people like OLUWAKANYE  and BEAF represent the future generation of Nigerians, I am afraid then that Nigeria is already a failed project, because majority of the youths who are meant to be the ones to run the ship of the state called Nigeria, are  gross illiterates and completely unredeemable.

It is just a pity, I shed tears for motherland.