Billyonaire: Nigeria's problem is structural deficiency called Federal Character ... which is another way for 'we stupidly do not want to let the state governments have powers'. And the solution lies with the National Assembly. Some day, someone will teach us that the only form of government that can work is 'Confederal System' where each state will have their Police departments to tackle security and immigration. Each state will control her resources and pay royalties to Abuja. Each State will take her destiny in her hands and give her people a better life. There is no way on Earth that someone in Abuja will understand the plight of people in my village, but a state government and local government chairmen do. Even Jesus Christ cant be a good President of Nigeria cos the system has structural defect and the sooner we change it the better. China and USA got their governing structure right. AUTONOMY OF STATES OR REGIONS IS THE WAY FORWARD.

ballabriggs:

I do not need to be the President of Nigeria to show how confident I am. Besides I will not even go there if I know I am not ready and so I don't need a smelly human like you to tell me what to do. There you have a man standing like a houseboy in front of Hilary.

Simple, he is not ready, he is not inspiring, he does not know what it takes to lead, he denies responsibility, he is a big coward with no confidence.

lacasa: Summary of the brief Q&a:

Q) On extra-judicial killings, high-handedness driving more ppeople to Boko-haram... - U.S State dept

GEJ: it's not true

Q) On Corruption, lack of Power and basic amenities still unavailable to most nigerians? - Amanpour

GEJ; the chain has to be repaired before the bulb can light

Q) On Oil theft, excessive state funds stolen, even your Finance Minister admitted to Billions stolen,Crude-oi l shipped out illegally in your government? - amanpour

GEJ: the international community has to help us stop this stolen crude taken abroad, countries must work with us to stop this trend


My personal evaluation:

To be frank, having a 'Dr' tied to your name does not ensure one to be an exposed Intellectual anymore.

#God help his people sha, cos na one chance we don enter so.

onatisi: most people commenting on this issue or thread didnt even watch the interview ,they only read the thread heading or topic and started commenting

PEREP:

Your report of the interview here shows why Nigeria is not getting it right because you either intentionally give your own answers and put GEJ there or you are not good at 'Summary' in school.
For example, he confirmed that oil theft is still there and he is working to reduce it. Also,the crude is not refined in Nigeria and as such the international community must stand up against what is wrong by making it impossible for stolen crudes to be refined or allowed into their countries.
On the issue of power, he mentioned that even if the money to build power generating facility is available, the infrastrusture will not be ready immediately. You can check CNN for the full interview once again.

ballabriggs:

Fraudulent Nigerian, this man looking like a houseboy in this photo has "confidence"?

Pygru: Nigeria battles to stop spread of al Qaeda chaos in Africa
Posted: January 23, 2013 1733 GMT
By Samuel Burke, CNN
In her testimony to Congress on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cited jihadist group Boko Haram as part of the broader Islamic militant threat in Africa.
Clinton said that the West-African group, whose name means “Western education is sinful” is a major threat to Nigeria – Africa’s largest oil exporter.
In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday, Nigerian PresidentGoodluck Jonathan agreed that Boko Haram could pose an existential threat to his country.
“If Boko Haram is not contained, it would be a threat not only to Nigeria, but to West Africa, Central Africa and of course to North Africa,” he said. “Elements of Boko Haram linkup with some of al Qaeda in northern Mali and other North African countries.”
Emotional Clinton angrily denies Benghazi cover-up
For that reason, he said his government is “totally committed” to working with friendly nations to help contain problems in Mali. Like many other world leaders, Jonathan said the problem there has been exacerbated by the free flow of weapons out of Libya since the fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
President Jonathan admitted that initially Boko Haram caught Nigeria off guard; now, he said, the country has been making progress to contain “the Boko Haram saga.”
He said his government is working day and night to make sure that the deadly attacks on an Algerian oil field do not happen in Nigeria.
The Economist reports that the death toll fromBoko Haram attacks in 2012 was 1,099 – double was it was the previous year.
“If you look at the last six months, incidents of killing started dropping,” President Jonathan contended, insisting that the government is gaining control.
He denied suggestions from the U.S. State Department that the Nigerian government has conducted a large quantity of arrests andkillings that have been indiscriminate, possibly driving more people into the hands of Boko Haram.
“The United States of America is completely wrong,” he told Amanpour. “No security agency arrests anybody just for the love of arrest. We have intelligence that enables us toarrest the people who have been arrested.”
President Jonathan also insists that poverty and unemployment are not fueling the violentrise of Boko Haram – citing religion as the primary motivation of this jihadist group.
As part of a counter terrorism effort, President Jonathan’s national security adviserhas sought to engage in dialogue with Boko Haram.
Jonathan told Amanpour that the discourse has helped the situation, and that he will continue to pursue this strategy.
The Power of the Presidency
Christiane Amanpour was the first journalist to interview Goodluck Jonathan when he assumed the presidency in April 2010. One focus of that conversation was about the endemic electric outages that average Nigerians face.
Three years later, despite continued problemsand a report by Nigeria’s Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission that says 60% of Nigerians are without access to power, Jonathan said that the country has made significant strides.
“That is one area where Nigerians are quite pleased with the government – that our commitment to improve power is working,” he said. “I promise you before the end of thisyear, power outages will be reasonably stablein Nigeria.”
Endemic Corruption
“You cannot change the mindset of people bywaving your hand. You must take means to make sure that you don’t create an environment where everyone will be corrupt and we are doing it very well,” Jonathan said.
He cited the previous elections as signs of success against corruption. International observers, The African Union, and the Independent National Electoral Commission allpraised the polling.
But there is still widespread corruption in theoil industry.
Last April, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said that 400,000 barrels of oila day were looted from the country in just one month.
The International Energy Agency said that $7 billion dollars a year is lost annually to oil theft.
“Frankly speaking, speaking I want the international community to support Nigeria because this stolen crude is being bought by refineries abroad and they know the crude oil was stolen,” Jonathan told Amanpour. “The world must condemn what is wrong.”
http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/23/nigeria-battles-to-stop-spread-of-al-qaeda-chaos-in-africa/

Symphony007: so mr armchair expert, what's the glorious alternative? Please introduce us to that knight in shinning amour who will swoop in a change nigeria overnight. We're most anxious!!

skyfall: Stvpid responses to important questions. He completely evaded the question on corruption and was looking down like a m0ron.

Nigerians deserve Jonathan because most of them are cowardly, hypocritical & dishonest. Reading the comments on here attests to that.

fratochi: . I love you my friend, you spoke my mind and indeed the opinion of many intellectual and intelligent nigerians on this forum. God bless you!

gboss4sure: It pains me that there are lots of Nigerians who claimed that they are informed yet they are morons.

The case of corruption in Nigeria is not an easy fight, there are top countries funding the corruption in Nigeria because they do benefit from it and these people rely on top Nigerians and mainly northerners and that's why every move to fight corruption will be twarted by the northerners backed by these developed countries and yet Nigerians still blame GEJ for corruption, ok why didn't OBJ stop corruption? Why didn't yaradua? Why didn't past administration fight and stop corruption.

You guys think that its Buhari that will end this corruption of an issue, keep on dreaming.

Corruption has been before GEJ and will continue existing even after GEJ has left office and by that time I will see who you guys will start blaming.

GEJ stepped on toes and some world powers when he removed the fuel subsidy and that caused a fallout with most of the countries who benefits from the subsidy issue and instead of Nigerians appreciating him they allowed themselves to be decieved by these stinking dirty politicians/thiefs.
Thank you, Labaran Maku.

Imagine a thief like el rufai critising GEJ and some deluded people are following him around, have we forgotten so soon his role during the OBJ rule. I pity this country, every thief is now turning into activist and decieving the people who can't think independently, always looking to fault everything he says or do.

Let's all continue decieveing ourself that GEJ is our problem, with this mindset of so many Nigerians, come the next 20 years Nigeria will be worst than it is now.

Billyonaire: GEJ is the best president Nigeria ever had. I want someone to disagree with me. GEJ is not an orator, but he is sure to do the right things with principles of humanitarian alacrity, I want someone to disagree with me. GEJ is not the best Nigerian for the Top Job, but currently he is our President and merits our Respect, Love and Support as we can not take him off his job until his tenures expire, I want someone to agree with me. For those whose jobs are to criticize, I dare you to look in the mirror and prove to me that you are more educated, more intelligent and more humble than Lord GEJ. I will end it by saying, if you drag a man at the top of the ladder by the leg, when he is falling, he is pushing you all the way down and his impact at landing will mutilate your organs. Love your president, there is more to Patriotism, it is a Godly command. Peace Profound!

miiraaj:

Guy,you no wan gree say you Bleep up! Haba!

Billyonaire: Nigeria's problem is structural deficiency called Federal Character ... which is another way for 'we stupidly do not want to let the state governments have powers'. And the solution lies with the National Assembly. Some day, someone will teach us that the only form of government that can work is 'Confederal System' where each state will have their Police departments to tackle security and immigration. Each state will control her resources and pay royalties to Abuja. Each State will take her destiny in her hands and give her people a better life. There is no way on Earth that someone in Abuja will understand the plight of people in my village, but a state government and local government chairmen do. Even Jesus Christ cant be a good President of Nigeria cos the system has structural defect and the sooner we change it the better. China and USA got their governing structure right. AUTONOMY OF STATES OR REGIONS IS THE WAY FORWARD.

Symphony007: what a disgusting lie! Thank God their are still fact-checkers around. Hillary rodham clinton never questioned the ability of the nigerian government to contain boko haram she was simply listing terrorist networks in africa when asked by senator dick durbin(D)...i guess the comment just the way she said it was'nt sweet enought you have to garnish it with some lies so the jab at jonathan will be swiff!! Try again cause i gotta ya!!