Isnt it clear now to all of you that Jonathan is clueless?
The total paralysis of the important sectors - talking of strikes here and there from Education, to Labor to Health, to worsening Security?

Jonathan is clueless! Lets boot him out now. Impeach the President now before its too late.

Please register your intent and displeasure.

Kidnappings in Nigeria

[size=18pt]A clueless government[/size]

The incompetence of Nigeria’s president and government is hurting the country’s reputation at home and abroad

FOR the past few years President Goodluck Jonathan has publicly shrugged off the deaths of thousands of people, mainly in the north-east of his country, portraying them as the unfortunate but unavoidable result of a fanatical insurgency for which his government cannot be blamed. But in the past few weeks the plight of 200-plus girls abducted from a school by Boko Haram, the extremist group chiefly responsible for the mayhem, has put Mr Jonathan and his government under an international spotlight, [size=15pt]exposing them not only as incompetent but callous, too.[/size]

As outrage spread beyond Nigeria’s borders, Barack Obama and other Western leaders, hitherto watching more or less silently from afar, have felt obliged to offer help as well as sympathy. West African leaders, led by Ghana’s president, have expressed unusual solidarity. The surge of global horror mixed with curiosity and bafflement was particularly embarrassing, at a time when Mr Jonathan was about to host a glamorous gathering of leaders, including China’s prime minister, at the World Economic Forum in Abuja, his capital, where he was hoping to celebrate the recent international re-evaluation of Nigeria’s economy as by far the biggest in Africa, well ahead of South Africa’s.
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Not that there was the slightest sympathy for Boko Haram and its maniacal leader, Abubakar Shekau, who purported to be the man pictured in a video released on May 5th, making blood-curdling threats to kill all Christians. “I took the girls,” he declared, standing in front of a tank, flanked by masked men in uniforms. “By Allah I will sell them in the marketplace…I will marry off a woman at the age of 12. I will marry off a girl at the age of nine.” Some of the girls, it has been speculated, may already have been forced to marry their abductors for a bride-price equivalent to $12. The UN warned members of Boko Haram, which means “Western education is forbidden”, that if they carried out their leader’s threat they would be committing war crimes.

The girls, abducted on April 14th from a school in Chibok, a town in the north-eastern state of Borno, are probably being held in a rebel stronghold. One of these is in the dense Sambisa forest, 60,000 square kilometres (23,000 square miles) in area, south of Maiduguri, Borno’s capital. The other is in the Gwoza mountains, which straddle the cave-ridden border with Cameroon.

Boko Haram, which was founded in 2002 but began its violent insurgency in 2009, has been responsible for at least 4,000 deaths, mostly in the north-east. But it has also demonstrated an ability to strike at the centre of the country, setting off a bomb last month at a bus station in Abuja, killing at least 70 people, and another one on May 2nd near a police checkpoint, also in Abuja, killing around 20. The capital is now beset with checkpoints, snarling up traffic just when the government wants to show off the place to its foreign visitors.

In recent months Boko Haram has been aiming with increasing ferocity at soft targets such as schools and marketplaces, though it had not previously attempted a mass abduction. On May 5th, however, it was reported that it had kidnapped another eight girls from elsewhere in Borno. On the same day it was reported that Boko Haram had killed 300 people in the Borno town of Gamboru Ngala. Most secondary schools in the state had been closed before the mass abduction, for fear of an attack, but the education authorities had convened the girls at a boarding school so that they could take their final exams.

As worldwide outrage grew over the abductions, the American and British governments offered to help. A White House spokesman said that experts in intelligence, hostage negotiation and victim assistance would fly to Nigeria. The British offered to send surveillance aircraft along with soldiers from its special forces.

The Nigerians have been loth to accept such help in the past and are wary of perceived encroachments on their sovereignty. America has operated drones from a base in neighbouring Niger since 2012, but Nigeria’s government has long refused American requests to be allowed to do the same from Nigerian territory. Moreover, Nigerians are proud of their army ( ), the biggest in Africa, with its long history of contributions to peacekeeping missions, most recently in Mali. And they are also notably secretive and prickly about its operations—and the low standards of soldiery which foreign experts would see. Though Mr Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the north-east a year ago, his army has dismally failed to defeat Boko Haram.

Indeed, it has itself perpetrated numerous atrocities against civilians suspected of harbouring or lending sympathy to the rebels, who thrive among embittered young Muslims in the north, the poorest part of the country. The army was widely castigated after a military counter-attack on March 14th following an attempted jailbreak by suspected members of Boko Haram detained at a barracks in Maiduguri. According to hospital sources, around 500 people were killed, mainly at the hands of soldiers. Such human-rights abuses by the Nigerian army make Western governments edgy about offering to join the fray, for fear of being deemed complicit.

Corruption, Nigeria’s great scourge, is another reason for foreign military advisers to keep their distance. Nigeria’s soldiers say that commanders pocket the bulk of their salaries, leaving them with little incentive to fight a well-equipped guerrilla movement that knows the rugged terrain and forests. Why risk death at the hands of Boko Haram for no reward? It is hard, in such conditions, to see how outsiders could raise Nigerian troops’ morale, let alone improve their military skills.

Patience not always a virtue

Perhaps the worst aspect of the Nigerian government’s handling of the abduction is its seeming indifference to the plight of the girls’ families. It took more than two weeks before Mr Jonathan addressed the matter in public. His government’s sluggish response and its failure even to clarify how many girls had been abducted provoked protests in several cities across Nigeria—itself an unusual event.

[size=15pt]To make matters worse, the president’s wife, Patience, ordered the arrest of two leaders of the protests, bizarrely accusing them of belonging to Boko Haram and of fabricating reports of the abduction to smear the government. In a televised broadcast on May 4th, the first lady, who holds no official position, warned against further such marches. “You are playing games,” she said. “Don’t use schoolchildren and women for demonstration again. Keep it to Borno, let it end there,” the official News Agency of Nigeria reported.[/size]

Such statements do not give the impression that Mr Jonathan or his colleagues, who face elections next year, take the worries of ordinary Nigerians to heart.

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suwailad: Isnt it clear now to all of you that Jonathan is clueless?
The total paralysis of the important sectors - talking of strikes here and there from Education, to Labor to Health, to worsening Security?

Jonathan is clueless! Lets boot him out now. Impeach the President now before its too late.

Please register your intent and displeasure.

Lets boot him out on d internet. Nansense!

Lead the way.

Tazmode: Lead the way.

The Change.org petition will be coming up soon and protests are being organized under way. This will be way bigger than the subsidy crisis.

supporter of APC, another hopeless APC Jonathan till 2019 if don't want go to Liberia, contact ebola and die

suwailad: Isnt it clear now to all of you that Jonathan is clueless?
The total paralysis of the important sectors - talking of strikes here and there from Education, to Labor to Health, to worsening Security?
Jonathan is clueless! Lets boot him out now. Impeach the President now before its too late.
Please register your intent and displeasure.

supporter of APC, another hopeless APC Jonathan till 2019 if don't want go to Liberia, contact ebola and die

IMPEACH GOATLUCK EBOLA JONATANK NOW

ProfessorPeter: supporter of APC, another hopeless APC Jonathan till 2019 if don't want go to Liberia, contact ebola and dieJanjaweed, another hopeless APC Jonathan till 2019 if don't want go to Liberia, contact ebola and die

Idiet, you should know this supporter of APC and jonah till 2019 is very stale.

Now take a reality check, are you on the right side? every where is you go in nigeria things are falling apart. whats wrong with you guys?

Why not go and throw bombs like BH so as to register ur protest?

So that the process of systematically islamizing nigeria from west to east can begin in earnest

2cato: Why not go and throw bombs like BH so as to register ur protest?

That means you agree your president is a worm hole failure because for you to open your smelling and disgusting mouth this morning to say that solidifies my statement that jonathan is a failure. how can a citizen open his dirty mouth to say that? because you have lost faith in the nations security

@op you really have a serious mental, psychological, emotional and a political "problem" even if there exist non.

OP na where you dey buy your weed abeg?

So that ur boko haram brothers wil take over and send Nigeria backward again. Keep sucking ur own wounds, it's jonathan or Nigeria splits shekina

suwailad: Isnt it clear now to all of you that Jonathan is clueless?
The total paralysis of the important sectors - talking of strikes here and there from Education, to Labor to Health, to worsening Security?

Jonathan is clueless! Lets boot him out now. Impeach the President now before its too late.

Please register your intent and displeasure.

suwailad: Isnt it clear now to all of you that Jonathan is clueless?
The total paralysis of the important sectors - talking of strikes here and there from Education, to Labor to Health, to worsening Security?

Jonathan is clueless! Lets boot him out now. Impeach the President now before its too late.

Please register your intent and displeasure.

No way!!!

'The Wrong Solution Is To Impeach President Jonathan Now!'

My president stays till 2019.

Op, he go better if you go hug wet transformer or better still port to Liberia..

Ha! What did I say? The rogues arwe here already.

Ohh uncle Jona!! @ op u canny impeash God's elect.

suwailad: Isnt it clear now to all of you that Jonathan is clueless?
The total paralysis of the important sectors - talking of strikes here and there from Education, to Labor to Health, to worsening Security?

Jonathan is clueless! Lets boot him out now. Impeach the President now before its too late.

Please register your intent and displeasure.

You have tried every single trick in the book and it has yet to work for you guys.

An impeachment will fall flat. I suggest you get one of your boko commanders in the Caliphate Army of Nigeria to stage a bloody coup and get rid of him.

Useless supporter of APC posting crap

BishopMagic:

An impeachment will fall flat. I suggest you get one of your boko commanders in the Caliphate Army of Nigeria to stage a bloody coup and get rid of him.

and you freaking think that cant happen? ewhumerije

suwailad:

and you freaking think that cant happen? ewhumerije

In your deluded state of hate you forget to understand that Nigeria is not composed of daft xenophobes and tribal goats like yourself posting from a shanty crusty hut dwelling in downtown Osogbo.

I dare you to go and stage a violent coup and watch the ND pull out with their petro dollars.

Maybe then will you know how good you ingrates have had it since.

With all honesty, only lazy Nigerians will oppose Jonathan.

Jonathan is moving the Federal Govt towards fiscal responsibility.

In 10 years time, I CAN BET THAT THE STATE OF OSUN WILL LOOK MORE LIKE A STATE OF DISASTER

suwailad:

The Change.org petition will be coming up soon and protests are being organized under way. This will be way bigger than the subsidy crisis.

You people should bring it on!

Just know that the bitter kola does not taste the same way it sounds when it is chewed!

Cheers!!!

okosodo: So that the process of systematically islamizing nigeria from west to east can begin in earnest

pple like u are d greatest problem we hav wen it comes 2 religious issue.d writer might not be a muslim &not talking 4rm religious perspective but u cant do witout spewing out ur poo.

@OP, I hope you know what you are asking for. We know who are the problem of Nigeria and is definitely not Goodluck Jonathan.

Like I have always said, there is one man that can't be impeached and that man is Goodluck Jonathan and he will remain the president of this country till 2019.

He will fix this country that you people have destroyed as much as possible, he has already started, the economy you destroyed is now back on track, the railway you destroyed is now back on track, the airports you left to rotten has been revolutionised under him, his youwin has empowered lots and lots of Nigerian youths. What has the people that ruled Nigeria for over 30yrs achieved?

Ever since Goodluck Jonathan became the president, you guys have never stopped throwing bomb everywhere like candies and you want to rule this land in 2015? This country don pass una. The earlier you understand that the better for you to help call your brothers to order.

The education system in Nigeria was destroyed by the north, ASUU, ASUP don't care for anything except their pockets, until they are de solved nothing will change in our tertiary institutions. They complained about poor teaching facilities, bad environment and under who's watch did all those things get spoiled? Now GEJ has released the money, is been several months now so list what ASUU has achieved with the money given to them except lecturers buying new cars.

The fight against thieves and criminal created by the north through years of misrule will be WON, that I guarantee you.

@ op, you haven't experienced fustration yet..you would be frustrated beyond 2015 if you don't know that Nigeria belongs to all of us and no tribe or region has monopoly of it.

I think this is the right step, would Nigeria survive till 2015?

THE SANITY OF ANYBODY THAT WANT TO OPEN THREAD SHOULD BE FIRST OF ALL CHECKED TO SAVE US THIS INCONSEQUENTIAL AND ILL THOUGHT THREAD!!!

I HATE READING TRASH

suwailad: Isnt it clear now to all of you that Jonathan is clueless?
The total paralysis of the important sectors - talking of strikes here and there from Education, to Labor to Health, to worsening Security?

Jonathan is clueless! Lets boot him out now. Impeach the President now before its too late.

Please register your intent and displeasure.

my sister if it is as easy as u said there wont be corrupt leaders in nigeria.if a leader knows dat he/she can easily be shown d way out if performance is below average he/she wont abuse d office/post.GOD bless dis country abundantly yet we're wallowing in poverty.many foreign analysts always say dat nigeria is too rich to be poor.leave d jonathians alone let dem be supporting d administration dubbed by d international community "d most corrupt one "in d history of d nation democracy.
God dat put him there knows d appropriate time 2remove him.i pray God should wish him all dat he wishes 4 nigeria.
Lets join hands in prayer dat God should forgive us all our sins &help dis great nation.

Clueless Janjaweedians that can't see how silly their Ratardee Tinubu and slowpoke fashola is running lagos like family biz plus the un patriotic Buhari ,their plan is to bring down nigeria ,your plans would fail,all of them seeking for self glory we are ready for you guys,go and impeach your father who failed to guide his family well and that's why you are frustrated nigeria is moving,slowly but surely tell your muslim brotherhood party to stop throwing bombs and those of you that go to all level and places to seek GEJ downfall, all of una go waka lost IJN.