Pataki: How can the World Bank say this?!

Have they not seen that 1.2million jobs has been created by the mining sector?

Have they not seen that our legislators are the most paid in the world?

Which President can boast of a billion naira food budget?

Why must all these scamming agencies continue to pull down the hard-stealing efforts of Jonathan and his crooks? Why why why?!!!

Dagoma: This means that the rich are getting richer to the detriment of the poor which indicates that level of corruption has gone very high. If this is allowed to continue for the next five years, many neighbouring countries like Cameroon, Togo, Benin Republic and even Niger/Chad will receive migrants from the Giant of Africa and the most populous black nation in the world. May God help us.

oyb:

this actually does sound like something we would get from team gej

okija, your guy to dey f up

anonimi:
That should not be so difficult to understand, or should it

Our GDP is driven by Niger Delta oil sales that has increased in quantity (due to less violence in the creeks) and in price over the past three years. This has been shared among the three tiers of government - federal, states and LGAs.
That explains GDP growth.

Poverty growth is due to MISPLACED priorities that do not address the BASIC drivers of growth- education, pipeborne water, good feeder/rural roads etc that are mostly the responsibility of states and LGAs. Rather you have hyper-inflated expenditure for stealing by politicians on questionable infrastructure such as:

* N29b for a fancy cable bridge of less than 1.5kms
* N30b to EXPAND 13kms of Ikorodu Road
* N2b for Mokola narrow bridge

etc. etc.

Easy

oyb:

this actually does sound like something we would get from team gej

okija, your guy to dey f up

Youngzedd:

YES.

She would have covered the mess.

thelastPope: Typical ACN/CPC propaganda thread...

So because world bank released a may 2013 report and indicated an increase in poverty rate, they are indicting GEJ? dumb propaganda!

So anytime the US jobs report comes out and is poor, they are indicting Obama? The UK poverty rate is growing too so they must be indicting the PM! lol

You people dont know the difference between criticism and hatred. If a world bank report comes out, you create a thread and debate all the issues sorrounding it, not tag it an indictment on GEJ. Stop playing politics with everything, duh!

Anyway, what do you even expect from people who oppose the flushing out of Boko Haram.

Pataki: How can the World Bank say this?!

Have they not seen that 1.2million jobs has been created by the mining sector?

Have they not seen that our legislators are the most paid in the world?

Which President can boast of a billion naira food budget?

Why must all these scamming agencies continue to pull down the hard-stealing efforts of Jonathan and his crooks? Why why why?!!!

Promhize: What is world bank's business with our own. Leave us alone pls
The other time UN said the military are killing innocent people in the north, thank God for CHANNELS TV for showing us the truth, the northerns are prraising military.
EUROPE esp US leave us alone, what is ur business

Abali1: Abati is compiling a list of abuses for this World Bank people.
Let them wait and see.

hikmoj: Dis world bank sef, dey tink we no go know say na buhari dem plus including tinubu bribe dem?dey no know say since 4rm d time dis wayo wayo DEMONCRAZY start,ghana must go sac dey sell wel wel 4 abuja?make dem come build factory wey dey produce d sac 4 abuja dem go know say business dey 4 naija wel wel

anonimi:

That should not be so difficult to understand, or should it

Our GDP is driven by Niger Delta oil sales that has increased in quantity (due to less violence in the creeks) and in price over the past three years. This has been shared among the three tiers of government - federal, states and LGAs.
That explains GDP growth.

Poverty growth is due to MISPLACED priorities that do not address the BASIC drivers of growth- education, pipeborne water, good feeder/rural roads etc that are mostly the responsibility of states and LGAs. Rather you have hyper-inflated expenditure for stealing by politicians on questionable infrastructure such as:

* N29b for a fancy cable bridge of less than 1.5kms
* N30b to EXPAND 13kms of Ikorodu Road
* N2b for Mokola narrow bridge

etc. etc.

Easy

Penboy: With this kind of news on ground, some fellas will still be comparing Andriod to Blackberry or Ios. (for fun though..|o|). Anyway na God's kingdom we they pray for.

Sincere 9gerian: It is the JOINT responsibility of the states, federal and local govt to create jobs and eradicate poverty.

The national purse is shared 50-50 by the federal govt on one hand and the states and local govt on the other (via state-local govt joint account).

So, while we ask how many jobs the federal govt has created in the last few years and what percentage of Nigerians have been lifted out of poverty through policies and programmes at the federal level, we should NOT forget the states.

How are the states and local govts creating jobs and eradicating poverty with their share of the national purse? How many jobs has Fashola or Sullivan Chime created in the last few years? These are critical questions that demand answers.

The problem of lack of jobs and increasing poverty cannot be solved without looking at the issue of exponential increase in population. But how can we tackle the problem of population if Buhari and other northern leaders see population as a tool for winning elections, wrecking havoc and earning more funds from the national purse?

In the long run, if we TRUELY want to drastically cut down unemployment rate and poverty, we MUST re-structure this country. Power must be de-centralised down to the states. The present arrangement where Abuja tries to feed 160million people can only breed more poverty and unemployment. It should be the other way round. It is the 160million people that should feed Abuja. In other words, the states must be allowed to harness their human and material resources for development and pay taxes to the centre. This is the only way forward.

But unfortunately, the northern politicians, with eyes fixated on oil money, will resist any attempt to re-structure this country. Currently, even passage of PIB is witnessing major resistance from the north.

Until the much needed re-structuring happens, we have to make do with what can be achieved under the present arrangement. Also the Boko Haram madness must have impacted negatively in the poverty and unemployment rates in the northern states in the last 2yrs (usually the bulk of these negative data emanates from the north and weighs down on the rest of the country)

thelastPope:

You lot are just funny. Poverty rates are increasing the world over. The world is on the verge of another major recession. Italy, France, Spain, Greece are already in the mud. Now the ever strong Germany and the UK are on the edge, yet you open a thread claiming poverty is increasing in Nigeria and that it is an indictment on GEJ?


Comedy central!

ShyM-X:


^^^^^^Bwahahahaha.. Scrap that - it's not even funny. This is bewildering and pitiful. Nigeria has to be the only country on this planet where the GDP is growing at alarming, yet poverty is also growing at alarming rate. Foreign investment is increasing, yet unemployment rate has also doubled.

However, when you highlight the problematic situation the country is in, to these educated-illiterate/lazy-thinking folks; they will start witch-hunting your posts. Everything in that country defies logic!

What a country!

“While the officially reported growth rates of GDP well exceed population growth in the country, the pace of poverty reduction does not."

"If confirmed, the 40 percent upward revision would bring Nigeria's GDP to about $370 billion (229 billion pounds), just shy of South Africa's output ($391 billion forecast for 2012), with the country subsequently becoming the largest economy in Africa within a year or two."
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/uk-nigeria-gdp-reaction-idUKBRE83O0UY20120425

Nigeria’s annual growth rates that average over 7 per cent in official data during the last decade place the nation among the fastest growing economies in the world. This growth has been concentrated particularly in trade and agriculture, which would suggest substantial welfare benefits for many Nigerians.

50calibre:


It baffles me how any sane human being seeing the state of affairs in Nigeria, can blindly rise to the support of GEJ and discredit a solid report (based on careful study and observation) by a global organisation such as the world bank. I can guarantee that even you the defender of GEJ isn't finding life very easy.

FYI the world bank gives appraisals from time to time of the world economies, not just Nigeria, and I haven't for once seen anybody discredit their findings.

I said this back on a previous thread, that said the Nigerian economy was growing, I said the economy was growing on paper, and why it isn't evident in the lives of average Nigerians is a mystery, ignoramus attacked me from all angles. Now they've heard the same from the world bank.

Nigerians need to rise and remove their government, Nigeria is regressing.

50calibre:
I remember a thread few weeks ago, talking about this issue, lots of people jumped to the defence of the Nigerian government.

Now the world bank has made similar observation, yet you see mad hungry people running their mouths. You keep telling a hungry man he is hungry, he keep telling no he is fine, yet you can see he look wretched.

Sincere 9gerian: It is the JOINT responsibility of the states, federal and local govt to create jobs and eradicate poverty.

The national purse is shared 50-50 by the federal govt on one hand and the states and local govt on the other (via state-local govt joint account).

So, while we ask how many jobs the federal govt has created in the last few years and what percentage of Nigerians have been lifted out of poverty through policies and programmes at the federal level, we should NOT forget the states.

How are the states and local govts creating jobs and eradicating poverty with their share of the national purse? How many jobs has Fashola or Sullivan Chime created in the last few years? These are critical questions that demand answers.

The problem of lack of jobs and increasing poverty cannot be solved without looking at the issue of exponential increase in population. But how can we tackle the problem of population if Buhari and other northern leaders see population as a tool for winning elections, wrecking havoc and earning more funds from the national purse?

In the long run, if we TRUELY want to drastically cut down unemployment rate and poverty, we MUST re-structure this country. Power must be de-centralised down to the states. The present arrangement where Abuja tries to feed 160million people can only breed more poverty and unemployment. It should be the other way round. It is the 160million people that should feed Abuja. In other words, the states must be allowed to harness their human and material resources for development and pay taxes to the centre. This is the only way forward.

But unfortunately, the northern politicians, with eyes fixated on oil money, will resist any attempt to re-structure this country. Currently, even passage of PIB is witnessing major resistance from the north.

Until the much needed re-structuring happens, we have to make do with what can be achieved under the present arrangement. Also the Boko Haram madness must have impacted negatively in the poverty and unemployment rates in the northern states in the last 2yrs (usually the bulk of these negative data emanates from the north and weighs down on the rest of the country)

samkoro: Its a tradition of the world Bank to deride any Government that effectively tries to eradicate poverty. World Bank is mearnt to spread poverty while claiming to eliminate it.

thelastPope:

You lot are just funny. Poverty rates are increasing the world over. The world is on the verge of another major recession. Italy, France, Spain, Greece are already in the mud. Now the ever strong Germany and the UK are on the edge, yet you open a thread claiming poverty is increasing in Nigeria and that it is an indictment on GEJ?


Comedy central!

muami: Better to read the entire report before commenting rather than rely of headlines!
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2013/05/14/000333037_20130514101211/Rendered/PDF/776840WP0Niger0Box0342041B00PUBLIC0.pdf

ShyM-X:


Bruv, these guys aren't hungry mouths - they're crumb-munching selfish political jobbers who only care about where their next meal is coming from and not the country. Most of them hide under pseudo-patriotism to deceive the gullible ones among them. And it's just a pity that most Nigerians would rather swallow every propaganda hook, line and sinker - as long as there's a little tribal colouration in it.

This administration has done absolutely nothing since it assumed office.

Lagos State has the lowest estimated poverty rate of 22.9%, while Jigawa has the highest at 77.5%. Figure 3 confirms the fact that poverty is particularly concentrated in the Northern part of the country, while the South West experiences the lowest poverty rates. Average poverty rates for the North East and North West areas are 59.7 and 58 percent, respectively, while the North Central has an average rate of 48.8. By contrast, average rates in the South West, South East, and South South are 30.6, 39, and 37.6 percent respectively