Most of you have immersed yourselves in the Buhari certificate saga, do not forget so hastily that Namadi Sambo did not present his bachelor or master's degree certificate either claiming they were both burnt in a fire.

Likewise, we are yet to see proof that Goodluck Jonathan did in fact complete a Phd programme.

Let's be fair and demand answers.

http://www.punchng.com/news/my-certificates-consumed-by-fire-sambo-tells-inec/ - Namadi Sambo certificate incident

Sambo presented a covering letter from ABU Zaria who conducted examinations for BSc and MSc and that's sufficient,

The examiner of Buhari's WASC is WASC and not Katsina Government College nor Katsina Ministry of education. Buhari should have approached WASC for a certificate or covering letter. Katsina Ministry can not issue a statement of result in an examination it did not conduct!

Stop fooling urself
Sambo certificate got burnt
Went back to his school and came out with evidence that he not only attend but got a degree in architecture

Oya tell GMB to tell liar Muhammad to write Cambridge University they are expecting him

Astonishingly, both of you have conveniently vouched for Sambo, yet you neglected to mention GEJ and the false premise that he actually holds a Phd degree. He is incoherent and illogical and often appears perplexed when discussing even the most trivial issues, yet he expects us to believe he defended his Phd thesis in the English language.

How many of you have seen his presentation at the council of foreign relations for example, that shamble of a performance was disgraceful and quite frankly embarrassing to watch.

How many of you his past students and fellow lecturers have come forward?
Where is his thesis?

Even Obasanjo has claimed that the PDP covered for Jonathan.

okok0bioko:
Astonishingly, both of you have conveniently vouched for Sambo, yet you neglected to mention GEJ and the false premise that he actually holds a Phd degree. He is incoherent and illogical and often appears perplexed when discussing even the most trivial issues, yet he expects us to believe he defended his Phd thesis in the English language.

How many of you have seen his presentation at the council of foreign relations for example, that shamble of a performance was disgraceful and quite frankly embarrassing to watch.

How many of you his past students and fellow lecturers have come forward?
Where is his thesis?

Even Obasanjo has claimed that the PDP covered for Jonathan.

Talking of PhD and thesis when you support a semi illiterate, abeg waka.

okok0bioko:
Astonishingly, both of you have conveniently vouched for Sambo, yet you neglected to mention GEJ and the false premise that he actually holds a Phd degree. He is incoherent and illogical and often appears perplexed when discussing even the most trivial issues, yet he expects us to believe he defended his Phd thesis in the English language.

How many of you have seen his presentation at the council of foreign relations for example, that shamble of a performance was disgraceful and quite frankly embarrassing to watch.

How many of you his past students and fellow lecturers have come forward?
Where is his thesis?

Even Obasanjo has claimed that the PDP covered for Jonathan.

because GEJ's degree certificate is not in question

Did he not provide a copy of his degree issued by his University of Port Harcourt? who were the examining body for his PHD.

If you have reservations about the validity of the legitimate certificate he issued then approach Uniport for cross-reference by all means!

Buhari on the other hand is yet to produce evidence from WASC that he sat for WASC!
Buhari seems to be willing to go to everywhere else to prove that he sat for WASC instead of WASC itself!

I don't know about you but the bolded above rings alarm bells to me

Why swear an affidavit when you can go to WASC to obtain a certified true copy of your WASC?
Why go to court when you can go to WASC?
Why refer INEC to Military board when you can obtain a copy from WASC and attach it to your INEC form?

Why travel from Port Harcourt to Kaduna via Dubai when you have Abuja?

It just does not make sense! Buhari is hiding something!

Mogidi:


Talking of PhD and thesis when you support a semi illiterate, abeg waka.

How could he possibly be semi-illiterate if he completed a course at a war college in the United States?

Besides no educational system in Nigeria is comparable even in the slightest to that provided beyond the coasts of Africa.

I won't even point to universities in Europe, you can't compare 99% of universities in Nigeria to a similar one in South Africa, Kenya, or Egypt for example.

Next time offer a constructive argument first

Oga don't you understand that Buhari doesn't have a certificate

okok0bioko:


How could he possibly be semi-illiterate if he completed a course at a war college in the United States?

Besides no educational system in Nigeria is comparable even in the slightest to that provided beyond the coasts of Africa.

I won't even point to universities in Europe, you can't compare 99% of universities in Nigeria to a similar one in South Africa, Kenya, or Egypt for example.

Next time offer a constructive argument first

mikeansy:
Why swear an affidavit when you can go to WASC to obtain a certified true copy of your WASC?
Why go to court when you can go to WASC?
Why refer INEC to Military board when you can obtain a copy from WASC and attach it to your INEC form?

Why travel from Port Harcourt to Kaduna via Dubai when you have Abuja?

It just does not make sense! Buhari is hiding something!

First let me remind you that the PDP promised to make the nature of this campaign an issue based one. While Buhari would have been better served to go directly to his school, I feel he overestimated how mature the Nigerian population really are and felt it was not necessary to get bogged down in trivial issues.

Our political affiliations aside, it is very obvious that the PDP lack a vision that is beneficial to the poorest Nigerians. Therefore, they have decided to indulge country in trivial issues, that are frivolous in the context of the grand scale of things.

Why did Jonathan so impetuously express his condolences to France immediately after the Paris attacks, yet both and his administration insensitively disregarded the massacre that took place in Baga. Satellite images proves the attack on that village did take place.

Under Jonathan, we have experienced a heatwave of one corruption allegation after another, the list is exhaustively long and it is tiresome to attempt to even list them.

Before Nigerian youths proclaim "GEJ till 2019" - Just remember your peers who didn't make it to 2015, those who died due to the fraud perpetuated by this administration. Where in the world does a federal government charge an application fee in order to screen candidates?

Before Nigerian youths proclaim "GEJ till 2019" - Remember your peers who didn't make it to 2015

okok0bioko:


First let me remind you that the PDP promised to make the nature of this campaign an issue based one. While Buhari would have been better served to go directly to his school, I feel he overestimated how mature the Nigerian population really are and felt it was not necessary to get bogged down in trivial issues.

Our political affiliations aside, it is very obvious that the PDP lack a vision that is beneficial to the poorest Nigerians. Therefore, they have decided to indulge country in trivial issues, that are frivolous in the context of the grand scale of things.

Why did Jonathan so impetuously express his condolences to France immediately after the Paris attacks, yet both and his administration insensitively disregarded the massacre that took place in Baga. Satellite images proves the attack on that village did take place.

Under Jonathan, we have experienced a heatwave of one corruption allegation after another, the list is exhaustively long and it is tiresome to attempt to even list them.

Before Nigerian youths proclaim "GEJ till 2019" - Just remember your peers who didn't make it to 2015, those who died due to the fraud perpetuated by this administration. Where in the world does a federal government charge an application fee in order to screen candidates?

Before Nigerian youths proclaim "GEJ till 2019" - Remember your peers who didn't make it to 2015

There is nothing immature about vetting the records of a Presidential candidate. Buhari is only being asked to defend his records by Nigerians and if APC have a problem with that then APC can only ask themselves why.

There is also nothing trivial about filling your INEC forms correctly as required by law. Here is a man who as Military dictator told people how to stand in bus queues telling us that obeying the law, filling his INEC forms correctly and attaching his appropriate supporting documents is trivial?

There used to be a old saying that says "Charity begins at home!". On this occasion "Anti-corruption, transparency and due process begins with Buhari's certificate". He must approach WASC to produce his certificate!

WATER
•The Jonathan administration has remained committed to the UN resolution in July 2010 on the “Right to Water”, which formally acknowledged the right of every human being to water.
•Pursuant to this, in February this year it organized a Presidential Summit on water to seek more effective ways of preserving national water and make same available to Nigerians.
•To check the menace of flooding and prevent a repeat of the flood disaster experienced last year, the Federal Ministry of Water Resources recently released the 2013 Annual Flood Outlook for Nigeria
•The document evaluated the flood scenario in 2012 and analyzed the most likely areas to experience flood in 2013. It has also offered suggestions to all stakeholders and the general public on how to reduce the anticipated flooding as a result of expected increase in rainfall this year.
•The Jonathan administration has revitalized the 12 River Basin Development Authorities (RBDAs) nationwide.
•The RBDAs have helped in boosting food production through resuscitation of equipment, rehabilitation of production units such as processing of rice milling, palm oil, fisheries, palm oil, bottled water etc.
•The RBDAs have also helped in redistribution and redeployment of idle equipment, improvement of water management within basin catchment e.g. the Chad and Hadejia-Jamare basins, where the Ministry of Water Resources repaired the Challawa Gates for release of water downstream.
•Nine dams completed in 2012 and 125,000 jobs created in the process.
•Ten irrigation projects deployed in 2012 for crop production. Four other irrigation projects completed and ready for commissioning.
•Residents in125 Local governments sensitized via sanitation programme for attitudinal change.
•52,384 jobs created in 2012 four completed irrigation projects costing several billions of naira.

PENSION REFORMS
•Before the Jonathan administration came on board, the pension funds administration regime was one the major channels through which public funds running into hundreds of billions of Naira are misappropriated by corrupt officials.
•Problems associated with the pension management system include embezzlement, falsification of records, Ghost pensioners, obsolete administrative structure and denial of pensioners their due entitlements. This was what necessitated the setting up of the presidential pension Reform Task Team. The activities of this important task force resulted in the following:
•Detection and deletion of over 73,000 Ghost/Fake pensioners from the Head of Service/police pension office.
•Stoppage of a monthly theft of over N4 billion from the National treasury.
•Saving a monthly sum of over N1billion from the police monthly pension releases.
•Discovery of over 50,000 unpaid pensioners and immediate payment of their entitlement.
•Discovery of over N2.7billion fraud by the Nigeria Union of Pensioners.
•Seizure of about 200 properties including choice hotels and cash worth billions of Naira from corrupt public officials.
•Arrest and on-going prosecution of pension fraud suspects by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
•Introduction of a more efficient tamper-proof pension funds management system.

OIL INDUSTRY REFORMS
•In line with global best practices and the principal aim of the Nigerian Extractive industry and Transparency Initiative (NEITI), President Jonathan recently forwarded the Petroleum Industry Bill to the National Assembly for passage into law.
•By the time the Petroleum Industry Bill is passed into law, Nigeria would have successfully broken the jinx of being a Nation where global business rules and practices are flouted with impunity. Estimated annual earnings of 680 billion dollars would be added to our Gross Domestic product. Crude oil theft and other sharp practices are also being combated with much vigor by various security and regulatory agencies on the president’s instructions.
•Furthermore, the fuel subsidy regime which had been a conduit pipe through which huge funds were siphoned from the National treasury has been subjected to forensic scrutiny by various agencies and committees set up by Mr. President in the last twelve months.
•The Aig-Imoukhuede Presidential committee on verification and reconciliation of subsidy claims and payments led to the arrest and arraignment of a number of individuals and firms by the EFCC.
•It is also on record that the president, upon receipt of the House of Representatives subsidy probe panel report, forwarded same to relevant security agencies with a firm instruction that there must be no sacred cows in the prosecution of culpable individuals and corporate entities.
•The on-going implementation of this and other reports has resulted in huge savings of money hitherto stolen by corrupt public officials.’
•These are initiatives which had not been taken by any other previous government.

ELECTORAL REFORMS
•President Goodluck Jonathan that this important process has been sanitized in a manner unprecedented in our political history.
•The reform carried out in this sector is responsible for the conduct of elections assessed by local and international observers as credible, free and fair.
•He has given the Nations electoral body a free hand to carry out its statutory duties without any form of direct or indirect manipulation. It takes a man who is committed to eradicating political corruption to do this in view of the apparent desperation of some politicians to capture power at all cost.

PORTS REFORMS
•Opportunities for bribery, documents forgery and other sharp-practices in the Nigerian ports have been substantially removed through a number of measures introduced by both the Ministries of Finance and that of Transport.
•A Presidential committee on ports reform and monitoring has worked assiduously to reduce congestion in our ports with the ultimate goal of a 48-hour goods clearing policy. The reforms in this sector are helping:
• To improve efficiency and transparency in ports operations and management.
•Reduce charges and promote competition.
•Facilitate the development of the transport sector.
•Eliminate ports congestion.
•Reduce government’s financial burden.

LEGAL AND JUDICIAL REFORMS
•The Jonathan administration has since its inception been concerned securing convictions of suspects accused of economic crimes within a reasonable time frame.
• On the occasion of the swearing in of Justice Miriam Aloma Mukhtar as Chief Judge of the Federation in July 2012, President Jonathan admonished the new CJ to consider the creation of special courts and designation of special judges to adjudicate on corruption cases.
•In addition, the President as the head of the Executive Arm of government has also initiated a reform of the criminal justice system as a means of plugging loop holes often exploited by counsels to delay trial of persons accused of corruption.
•The office of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice has completed a new set of proposals which has been sent to the National Assembly. This bill, when passed into law, will remove incidence of frivolous injunctions, interlocutory motions, adjournments and other abuse of court processes by counsel employed by suspects in corruption cases.
•The CJN has keyed into the crusade for a reform of the judicial system by President Jonathan by taking steps to weed out judges who acts of omission and commission are subverting delivery of justice.

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT
•The signing of the Freedom of Information Act into law by President Jonathan in May 2011 represents a water-shed in the anti-corruption crusade in Nigeria.
•This piece of legislation which had been virtually stalled by successive administrations since 1999 was signed into law by President Jonathan to usher Nigeria into the league of countries where transparency in governance is entrenched and citizens are granted access to unfettered information about government activities.
•It is noteworthy that the present administration took the bull by the horns to lay this very important foundation for the war against corruption in Nigeria in the early months of its inception and 24 hours after the bill was presented to him by the National Assembly

POWER
• Launch of the Roadmap for Power Sector Reform. The Roadmap launched sets out a clear implementation plan of the Electricity Power Sector Reform Act (2005) as a reaffirmation of the commitment to resolve the power crises and setting the path for power sector Improvement.
• The Re-instatement of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission. The regulatory body was strengthened with a new Chairman and Commissioners sworn in for the purpose of providing appropriate regulatory functions for the electricity market in Nigeria.
•The Jonathan administration unbundled the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) into 18 successor companies for greater efficiency and effectiveness in power generation and distribution.
• Creation of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc. The President inaugurated the CEO and board of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (also known as the Bulk Trader) in August 2011. The requisite environment for private sector investment in the Nigerian Power Sector has been created by establishing a credit-worthy offtaker of power, NBET Plc, who provides confidence to the power generating companies that they will be paid for power produced.
• The Jonathan administration launched the Energy Efficiency and Energy Conservation Lighting Scheme. This is to promote and encourage the use of energy efficient bulbs and lighting systems in order to create an energy conservation culture
• The Federal Government of Nigeria entered into an MOU with worldwide leaders in the power sector, General Electric. The MoU stipulates that General Electric will invest up to 15 percent equity in power projects in the country summing up to 10,00MW capacity by the year 2020. General Electric also proposes to establish local packaging facility for small aero-derivative turbines in Nigeria which will promote job creation.
• Signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the US- ExIm Bank. The Ex-Im Bank of the United States of America signed an MoU with the Federal Government of Nigeria to provide an investment window of up to $1.5BN for investors willing to invest in the Nigerian Power Sector. This is the first time such quantum of money will ever be made available by the US Exim Bank for a specific sector in Africa.
•The Goodluck Jonathan administration has improved the power generation from around 2000 megawatts to 4502 megawatts in December 2012 the highest since Nigeria returned to democratic rule in 1999.
•By July this year, power generation will hit 6,000 megawatts and by December this year it will hit 10,000 megawatts (assurance given last week by Minister of State for Power).
•All ten Power Plants under the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) scheme to be commissioned by the end of this year. At the moment, majority of them have reached 95 percent completion stage.
•Improved power supply has been boosted in part by the emergency declared in the Gas sector last year by President Jonathan. At the time gas supply was insufficient. But now, thanks to the intervention by Mr. President, Nigeria now produces more gas than is required for domestic consumption.
•For more efficient power supply, the Jonathan administration has privatized the power distribution companies (DISCOs) under a most transparent bid process.
•Today, large parts of an unprecedented number of cities and towns across the country are enjoying between 14 to 16 hours of uninterrupted power supply, except in some few areas where localized problems of power distribution network have created bottlenecks for smooth transmission.

AGRICULTURE
• In 2012 14 new rice mills with capacity to process 240 metric tons of rice were set up by the private sector while in addition, a sum of 1.2 billion dollars was secured by the Federal Government to install 100 large scale rice processing mills to produce 2.1 million metric tons of rice annually.
•This and other initiatives of government in 2012 resulted in the creation of about two million new jobs among rural dwellers. In 2013, the Federal Government will implement a Young Graduates Commercial Farmers Scheme, which will absorb 780,000 graduates in its first phase and provide an estimated four million jobs in the agricultural sector in the first year.
•Today, Nigeria has reached an unprecedented 60 per cent sufficiency in rice production, a feat, which the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) recently described as capable of raising world rice output to a record high in the next 12 next months.
•The Federal Ministry of Agriculture has set a clear goal to make the country self-sufficient in rice production by 2015 and end the N 356 Billion currently spent on importing rice annually, as well as replace up to 40% of the wheat imports for which the country spends over N 635 Billion annually, by 2015.
• The Nigeria Agricultural Bank is being restructured and recapitalized to provide loans to peasant farmers at single digit interest rates. This will be the most remarkable fund injection initiative ever undertaken by any government to empower rural peasant farmers and create wealth for rural dwellers.
•Export of dried cassava chips began in July 2012 and this represented the first time that Nigeria will achieve commercial scale export of dried chips, which will earn the country $136 million annually in foreign exchange.
•The Jonathan administration is resuscitating the production of Cotton particularly in the Northeast and Northwest zones of Nigeria through the provision of improved cotton seedlings, which have been given free of charge to farmers. This will definitely result in the resuscitation of the upstream and downstream cotton/textile subsector before the end of 2013.
•Nigeria is the largest producer of cassava in the world with 34 million MT produced per annum
•In the last one year following the efforts of the Ministry of Agriculture under the Agriculture Transformation Agenda of the Jonathan administration, around $8 billion in private investments have been attracted to agricbusiness, crop production, processing and other forms of value addition.
•The Jonathan administration cleansed the rot in the fertilizer distribution system. Under the previous system, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development procured and distributed fertilizers to farmers. The system undermined the private sector and only about 11 percent of the farmers received fertilizers. The rest were sold to friends and `political farmers’ whom exported them. President Jonathan’s intervention dismantled in 60m days, this corrupt system, which had existed for over 40 years and fertilizers are now sold directly to farmers and not to government.
• The Ministry launched a Growth Enhancement Scheme, where farmers receive 50% subsidy on fertilizers, for a maximum of two bags, through the use of their mobile phones or what we call Electronic-wallet system (or E-wallet). In 120 days, over 1.2 million farmers bought their subsidized fertilizers using the E-wallet system. Over 1.5 million farmers will be reached by the end of the dry season. A total of 138,802.7 metric tons of fertilizer and 10,974.78 metric tons of seeds in 517 active redemption centres out of all the 804 centres spread across all states of the federation. The E-wallet system is the first of its kind in Africa and already several African countries have indicated they want to implement the Nigerian system.
• Multilateral and bilateral agencies are providing donor-related investment support and have shown enthusiasm for the major reforms on-going in Nigeria’s agriculture by committing more $1 billion towards Nigeria’s Agricultural Transformation Agenda. The World Bank Group is providing $500 million. African Development Bank (AfDB) has committed $250 million. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has selected Nigeria as a priority country for its investment in agriculture. The International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) has put up $80 million. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has committed $60 million. The UK Government, through DFID has committed £37 million. The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Ford Foundation and UNDP are providing significant technical support facilities.

ROADS
•A total of 651km of roads was paved in bituminous layers in 2012.
•A total of 32 Highway projects were completed in 2012.
•Following the recent effects of floods in some parts of the country, the administration intervened by constructing new bridges and re-instating washed out embankments.
•The Ministry of Works on the order of President Jonathan unveiled Operation Safe Passage, a programme aimed at recovering deplorable sections of major roads in the country to ameliorate the sufferings usually experienced by road users during festive seasons. Under this programme, key roads in the six geo-political zones of the country, were rehabilitated.
•80 projects prioritized in 2012 two have been completed, three are over 90 percent completed, five are over 80 percent completed, eighteen are between 50-79 percent complete while the rest are in different stages of completion.
•The radical intervention by the Subsidy Reinvestment Programme SURE-P in the road sector in 2012 resulted in accelerated work on the rehabilitation of the following projects: Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja; Benin-Ore-Sagamu dual carriageway; Onitsha-Enugu-Port Harcourt dual carriageway; Kaduna-Maiduguri dual carriageway; East-West Road The Second Niger Bridge for which a sum of five billion naira has been set aside.
These roads cover a distance of 1,664 kilometres and are at various stages of completion. Most of these projects are due for completion and commissioning in this year..
•As a major turnaround Federal Government also terminated the concessioning agreement with Bi Courtney company on the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway. The road rehabilitation work is currently been handled by two construction firms and will be completed this year.
•The Jonathan administration has entered into collaboration with multi-lateral agencies under the Road Sector Development Team (RSDT) scheme.
•Under this framework, the RSDT is currently implementing road rehabilitation, upgrading and maintenance, institutional strengthening and policy reform, and road safety improvements with the credit from the World Bank; and additional funding from the Africa Development Bank (AfDB).
•The RSDT in collaboration with multi-lateral agencies rehabilitated/ maintained a total of 257 kilometres of road length in 2012. Two projects under the scheme, the Mokwa-Bida Road and the Akure-Ilesha Road will have their contracts awarded in June.
•Also, the Ministry of Works is currently working out modalities for the execution of the dualisation of the Keffi-Lafia-Makurdi-Enugu (9th Mile) roads in Nasarawa, Benue and Enugu States with funds from the Export-Import Bank of China.

AVIATION
•The administration at the end of 2011 earmarked 22 airports for rehabilitation and reconstruction and by the end of October 2012, over 50 percent had been commissioned for public use with. The remaining eleven would be completed in 2013.

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mikeansy:


There is nothing immature about vetting the records of a Presidential candidate. Buhari is only being asked to defend his records by Nigerians and if APC have a problem with that then APC can only ask themselves why.

I'm happy you used that statement "defend his records". Buhari has heeded your calls and his certificate has been presented. Note that Cambridge didn't even deny that Buhari attended school or that he completed WASC. They noted that he could request his results - that signal supports his claim if only partly.

Note also that when I referred to the expectation that Nigerians are mature, I meant the ability of sensible Nigerians to recognise the distracting tactics being employed by PDP. In order to become president of the United States, you need to be born in that country, yet the Tea Party pestered Obama about his birth certificate which he initially refused to produce because it was a trivial issue and one that is distracting given assumptions of any reasonable person who is aware of his life history. The same tactic is in play here.

While we are on the point of defending records, might I ask why Jonathan has been unable to defend any record over the course of his tenure?

Lets focus on four key areas - Security, Economic management, Employment, and Corruption

Do you agree that Jonathan cannot satisfactorily defend any of these areas?

Very comprehensive list, let me start with water, according to Bloomberg, polluted, unsanitary water killed more people in Nigeria last year than Boko Haram.

"The lack of running water killed more people in Nigeria last year than Boko Haram.

While the terror campaign claimed more than 4,000 lives, the shortage of potable water and poor sanitation led to about 73,000 deaths, according to WaterAid, a London-based nonprofit. - Bloomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-26/nigerian-water-shortage-is-bigger-killer-than-boko-haram-cities.html

So your UN statistics is discredited I'm afraid. You can't pit statistics against the reality of millions of Nigerians



[quote author=Ikengawo post=30196661]WATER
•The Jonathan administration has remained committed to the UN resolution in July 2010 on the “Right to Water”, which formally acknowledged the right of every human being to water.
•Pursuant to this, in February this year it organized a Presidential Summit on water to seek more effective ways of preserving national water and make same available to Nigerians.
•To check the menace of flooding and prevent a repeat of the flood disaster experienced last year, the Federal Ministry of Water Resources recently released the 2013 Annual Flood Outlook for Nigeria
•The document evaluated the flood scenario in 2012 and analyzed the most likely areas to experience flood in 2013. It has also offered suggestions to all stakeholders and the general public on how to reduce the anticipated flooding as a result of expected increase in rainfall this year.
•The Jonathan administration has revitalized the 12 River Basin Development Authorities (RBDAs) nationwide.
•The RBDAs have helped in boosting food production through resuscitation of equipment, rehabilitation of production units such as processing of rice milling, palm oil, fisheries, palm oil, bottled water etc.
•The RBDAs have also helped in redistribution and redeployment of idle equipment, improvement of water management within basin catchment e.g. the Chad and Hadejia-Jamare basins, where the Ministry of Water Resources repaired the Challawa Gates for release of water downstream.
•Nine dams completed in 2012 and 125,000 jobs created in the process.
•Ten irrigation projects deployed in 2012 for crop production. Four other irrigation projects completed and ready for commissioning.
•Residents in125 Local governments sensitized via sanitation programme for attitudinal change.
•52,384 jobs created in 2012 four completed irrigation projects costing several billions of naira.

okok0bioko:


I'm happy you used that statement "defend his records". Buhari has heeded your calls and his certificate has been presented. Note that Cambridge didn't even deny that Buhari attended school or that he completed WASC. They noted that he could request his results - that signal supports his claim if only partly.

Note also that when I referred to the expectation that Nigerians are mature, I meant the ability of sensible Nigerians to recognise the distracting tactics being employed by PDP. In order to become president of the United States, you need to be born in that country, yet the Tea Party pestered Obama about his birth certificate which he initially refused to produce because it was a trivial issue and one that is distracting given assumptions of any reasonable person who is aware of his life history. The same tactic is in play here.

While we are on the point of defending records, might I ask why Jonathan has been unable to defend any record over the course of his tenure?

Lets focus on four key areas - Security, Economic management, Employment, and Corruption

Do you agree that Jonathan cannot satisfactorily defend any of these areas?

He has not presented any certificate

Katsina ministry of education can not issue a statement of result in an examination it did not conduct. Let Buhari approach WASC.

There is also the pending issue of filling his INEC form incorrectly and I can not wait for the courts to disqualify Buhari in accordance with the rule of law!

Cambridge has not confirmed nor denied his participation. They have only said only candidates can request their own results!

The only person causing distraction here is Buhari. If he did not send INEC on a wild goose chase, we wont be having this debate in the first place.

How can everyone else fill their INEC forms correctly and only Buhari thinks he is above doing the right thing?

okok0bioko:


I'm happy you used that statement "defend his records". Buhari has heeded your calls and his certificate has been presented. Note that Cambridge didn't even deny that Buhari attended school or that he completed WASC. They noted that he could request his results - that signal supports his claim if only partly.

Note also that when I referred to the expectation that Nigerians are mature, I meant the ability of sensible Nigerians to recognise the distracting tactics being employed by PDP. In order to become president of the United States, you need to be born in that country, yet the Tea Party pestered Obama about his birth certificate which he initially refused to produce because it was a trivial issue and one that is distracting given assumptions of any reasonable person who is aware of his life history. The same tactic is in play here.

While we are on the point of defending records, might I ask why Jonathan has been unable to defend any record over the course of his tenure?

Lets focus on four key areas - Security, Economic management, Employment, and Corruption

Do you agree that Jonathan cannot satisfactorily defend any of these areas?

It would be better you don't misinform those who do not know. Buhari hasn't presented any certificate, what we saw was a hurriedly prepared statement of result from a school in Katsina when all buhari needed do was write WASC or Cambridge for authentication of his certificate. You don't expect Cambridge to wade into the matter as no formal request has been made to it by the only man whose duty it is. Cambridge is surely waiting to disgrace him as it can't cover his lies like you do here.

About this issue being a distraction, I know you wouldn't want this issue to be discussed because it exposes the lack of integrity of a self acclaimed man of integrity. I don't know what is distracting in Nigerians asking their presidential candidate to submit to the law of the law. How would your man uphold the constitution when he can't obey a requirement as simple what we want him to do?

Yeaa the Tea Party disturbed Obama over his birth certificate which he initially declined to produce but did eventually, now the question is if Obama can do so even when it's not required by US laws why is Buhari failing to do his (which the law demands)?. Does Buhari think that by organising press conferences and blaming PDP the matter will go away? No certainly not.

mikeansy:


He has not presented any certificate

Katsina ministry of education can not issue a statement of result in an examination it did not conduct. Let Buhari approach WASC.

There is also the pending issue of filling his court incorrectly and I can not wait for the courts to disqualify Buhari in accordance with the rule of law!

I am glad you are persistent about this certificate issue. Let me just say that your failure to address the policies and failures of GEJ clearly shows that you lack confidence in discussing his performance.

Since you have precluded yourself from acknowledging his failure as head of state, I can only hope that you'll come to your sense and drop your bias. Evidently, you have adopted the strategy that the PDP have come to cherish so much. You cannot attack his policies so you attack the man .

I will address the certificate issue because I have nothing to hide. The military ransacked Buhari's residence following the coup that put him out of office. Therefore, it is not surprising to learn that he naturally assumed that his documents were with the military. However, we know the military for what it is - a political entity that has been corrupted by successive governments. They have naturally come out in defence of the president and claimed not to be in possession of the military.

Can we take the military's word as gospel? Clearly not, The country under GEJ allocates $6 billion annually for defence and security as you are well aware the military men on the front line are ill-equipped to face Boko Haram.

The military lacks credibility, therefore we cannot take their word for it. In spite of the failings of military, one needs to question GEJ's oversight, however given his lax moral judgement (stealing is not corruption) it will come as no surprise that the military and other institutions continue to embezzle billions of dollars annually at your expense.

I have no doubt the certificate issue will be resolved by Cambridge in earnest. Yet sensible Nigerians recognise that Jonathan is woefully incompetent and is not suitable for such an intellectually challenging job.

Evidence of defence budget: Nigeria spends $6 billion a year on defence and security but soldiers often mutiny or desert, in part because senior officers skim off money for kit and pocket the lower ranks’ wages. Many citizens are almost as terrified of the undisciplined army and police as they are of Boko Haram. Systemic corruption and misrule have fed Islamic radicalisation and ethnic militancy in other ways, by robbing the poorer north of its share of federal oil revenues and stunting its development. If Mr Jonathan or his successor does not start dealing with the insurgency and its causes, the government may well find it does not have a country to govern.

Link to the Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21640348-only-if-government-tackles-misrule-and-endemic-corruption-will-jihadist-group-be

ManUtdholic:
Stop fooling urself
Sambo certificate got burnt
Went back to his school and came out with evidence that he not only attend but got a degree in architecture

Oya tell GMB to tell liar Muhammad to write Cambridge University they are expecting him

Your a big hyprocrite!Buhari went to his school and they came with evidence he attended the school if you have any problems with what his school presented go to court.. Regardless, the minimum requirement is a primary 6 certifacte for a Presidential candidate contrary to the WAEC being bandied around.

mikeansy:


because GEJ's degree certificate is not in question

Did he not provide a copy of his degree issued by his University of Port Harcourt? who were the examining body for his PHD.

If you have reservations about the validity of the legitimate certificate he issued then approach Uniport for cross-reference by all means!

Buhari on the other hand is yet to produce evidence from WASC that he sat for WASC!
Buhari seems to be willing to go to everywhere else to prove that he sat for WASC instead of WASC itself!

I don't know about you but the bolded above rings alarm bells to me

Primary 6 certifcate is the minumum requirement for a Presidential candidate no where in the electoral act did it say specifically a WAEC certificate was required. If you have any reservation about what Buhari school issued feel free to go to court.

On the economy various international institutions and media agree that our economy has made progress and Nigeria is the number 1 investment destination in Africa, CNN recently recognised Nigeria as the 3rd fastest growing economy in the world

On employment I am sure this administration can defend their records as all the road construction, railway, power facilities, airport renovations, boost in local agriculture will all gainfully employ labour

On corruption the government's institutionalisation of the fight against corruption or more like preventing corruption in agric sector using e-wallet and getting rid of ghost workers is one the Government is also proud of. Arresting political enemies and locking them up for 100years does not rid the Nation of corruption otherwise Buhari's attempts in the 80s and OBJ's Presidency would have eradicated all corruption in the country!.

On security I agree that Jonathan needs to do more. But I also reject the use of terrorism as an election weapon for judging the President on that point alone might just amount to falling into the hands of terrorists. There are allegations that people are undermining the efforts to tackle Boko Haram because of perceived political benefits and the last thing we want is to reward that clandestine move by purnishing the President. This moment calls for rallying round the President and telling the terrorists and their agents. "You simply are in on a long thing! You can not outlast us!"

APContherun:

It would be better you don't misinform those who do not know. Buhari hasn't presented any certificate, what we saw was a hurriedly prepared statement of result from a school in Katsina when all buhari needed do was write WASC or Cambridge for authentication of his certificate. You don't expect Cambridge to wade into the matter as no formal request has been made to it by the only man whose duty it is. Cambridge is surely waiting to disgrace him as it can't cover his lies like you do here.

About this issue being a distraction, I know you wouldn't want this issue to be discussed because it exposes the lack of integrity of a self acclaimed man of integrity. I don't know what is distracting in Nigerians asking their presidential candidate to submit to the law of the law. How would your man uphold the constitution when he can't obey a requirement as simple what we want him to do?

Yeaa the Tea Party disturbed Obama over his birth certificate which he initially declined to produce but did eventually, now the question is if Obama can do so even when it's not required by US laws why is Buhari failing to do his (which the law demands)?. Does Buhari think that by organising press conferences and blaming PDP the matter will go away? No certainly not.

You know Nigerians also expect GEJ to abide by the rule of law and heed the citizens' demands. For example, he could start by releasing the KPMG report, or naming the Boko Haram sponsors he claims to know in his government. In the same vein, he would be well advised to reveal to Nigerians why the man who orchestrated the immigration jobs scam is still in his job, or how Nigerians were taken for a ride over the fuel subsidy scam.

I could go on...

mikeansy:
On the economy various international institutions and media agree that our economy has made progress and Nigeria is the number 1 investment destination in Africa, CNN recently recognised Nigeria as the 3rd fastest growing economy in the world

On employment I am sure this administration can defend their records as all the road construction, railway, power facilities, airport renovations, boost in local agriculture will all gainfully employ labour

On corruption the government's institutionalisation of the fight against corruption or more like preventing corruption in agric sector using e-wallet and getting rid of ghost workers is one the Government is also proud of. Arresting political enemies and locking them up for 100years does not rid the Nation of corruption otherwise Buhari's attempts in the 80s and OBJ's Presidency would have eradicated all corruption in the country!.

On security I agree that Jonathan needs to do more. But I also reject the use of terrorism as an election weapon for judging the President on that point alone might just amount to falling into the hands of terrorists. There are allegations that people are undermining the efforts to tackle Boko Haram because of perceived political benefits and the last thing we want is to reward that clandestine move by purnishing the President. This moment calls for rallying round the President and telling the terrorists and their agents. "You simply are in on a long thing! You can not outlast us!"

Do you honestly believe the rubbish you just wrote?I don't think we are living in the same Nigeria,the majority of Goodlcuk Jonathan achievements are just on paper even the so called agriculture development which we can't see in our local markets. The common man does'nt feel it price of fuel has gone up(65-87),power,food prices etc

mikeansy:
On the economy various international institutions and media agree that our economy has made progress and Nigeria is the number 1 investment destination in Africa, CNN recently recognised Nigeria as the 3rd fastest growing economy in the world

On employment I am sure this administration can defend their records as all the road construction, railway, power facilities, airport renovations, boost in local agriculture will all gainfully employ labour

On corruption the government's institutionalisation of the fight against corruption or more like preventing corruption in agric sector using e-wallet and getting rid of ghost workers is one the Government is also proud of. Arresting political enemies and locking them up for 100years does not rid the Nation of corruption otherwise Buhari's attempts in the 80s and OBJ's Presidency would have eradicated all corruption in the country!.

On security I agree that Jonathan needs to do more. But I also reject the use of terrorism as an election weapon for judging the President on that point alone might just amount to falling into the hands of terrorists. There are allegations that people are undermining the efforts to tackle Boko Haram because of perceived political benefits and the last thing we want is to reward that clandestine move by purnishing the President. This moment calls for rallying round the President and telling the terrorists and their agents. "You simply are in on a long thing! You can not outlast us!"

I wish you never replied him but since you have good and fine.

seges:

Your a big hyprocrite!Buhari went to his school and they came with evidence he attended the school if you have any problems with what his school presented go to court.. Regardless, the minimum requirement is a primary 6 certifacte for a Presidential candidate contrary to the WAEC being bandied around.

I don't suppose you know statements of results expire after a while to be replaced by a more authentic certificate. If after 54 years all Buhari can 'produce' is a hurriedly prepared statement of result which doesn't even bear his name to start with, then we need to ask question like we are doing. If actually Buhari has a certificate, it shouldn't be difficult for him writing to the body that administered the exam to authenticate his certificate since he claims the Secretary Military Board has it in affidavit.

mikeansy:
On the economy various international institutions and media agree that our economy has made progress and Nigeria is the number 1 investment destination in Africa, CNN recently recognised Nigeria as the 3rd fastest growing economy in the world

On employment I am sure this administration can defend their records as all the road construction, railway, power facilities, airport renovations, boost in local agriculture will all gainfully employ labour

On corruption the government's institutionalisation of the fight against corruption or more like preventing corruption in agric sector using e-wallet and getting rid of ghost workers is one the Government is also proud of. Arresting political enemies and locking them up for 100years does not rid the Nation of corruption otherwise Buhari's attempts in the 80s and OBJ's Presidency would have eradicated all corruption in the country!.

On security I agree that Jonathan needs to do more. But I also reject the use of terrorism as an election weapon for judging the President on that point alone might just amount to falling into the hands of terrorists. There are allegations that people are undermining the efforts to tackle Boko Haram because of perceived political benefits and the last thing we want is to reward that clandestine move by purnishing the President. This moment calls for rallying round the President and telling the terrorists and their agents. "You simply are in on a long thing! You can not outlast us!"

I'll focus on two of your points - corruption: stopping "corruption" in the agric sector is trivial in the big scheme of things. In fact what happened in the agric sector and the case of ghost workers is actually a fraudulent act.

Plucking tuna out of the water is by no means catching a great whale. Corruption is happening on a grand scale in government where billions are missing, public officials are bribed and ministers loot the treasury unimpeded.

Jonathan failed to tackle the real perpetrators because he is one of them. What his administration has done is similar to how police forces in developed countries target petty criminals in order to improve statistics.

Economy: You can list all the acolades and awards till next year, the economy is taking a hammering here, when oil accounts for over 95% of revenues you can hardly call it a performing economy. Compared to Norway and Russia our reserves are nothing to write home about. Norway built up theirs to over $959 bn, Russia $400bn

I'm glad you agree that Jonathan has failed woefully in terms of equipping the military and even in his insensitive attitude to Northerners.

mikeansy:
On the economy various international institutions and media agree that our economy has made progress and Nigeria is the number 1 investment destination in Africa, CNN recently recognised Nigeria as the 3rd fastest growing economy in the world

On employment I am sure this administration can defend their records as all the road construction, railway, power facilities, airport renovations, boost in local agriculture will all gainfully employ labour

On corruption the government's institutionalisation of the fight against corruption or more like preventing corruption in agric sector using e-wallet and getting rid of ghost workers is one the Government is also proud of. Arresting political enemies and locking them up for 100years does not rid the Nation of corruption otherwise Buhari's attempts in the 80s and OBJ's Presidency would have eradicated all corruption in the country!.

On security I agree that Jonathan needs to do more. But I also reject the use of terrorism as an election weapon for judging the President on that point alone might just amount to falling into the hands of terrorists. There are allegations that people are undermining the efforts to tackle Boko Haram because of perceived political benefits and the last thing we want is to reward that clandestine move by purnishing the President. This moment calls for rallying round the President and telling the terrorists and their agents. "You simply are in on a long thing! You can not outlast us!"

Institutionalisation of the fight against corruption?hahahahahahhah...I don't know what you have smoking,please answer this:
1)Mohammed Abacha N556 Billion case stopped
2)Refusal to investigate and prosecute the $553 million bribes collected by Nigerians officials from Eni in oil deal indicted by an Italian court in October 2014
3)Subsidy Scam of N2.3 thrillion naira
4)Farouk Lawan $600,000 bribe
5) Stella Oduah BMW Scandal
6)Diezanni Allison-Madueke fraudulent transfer of oil blocks owned by goverment owned NPDC to Seven Energy and Atlantic Energy owned by Kola Aluko and Jide Omokore as revealed by Sanusi Lamido
7)Malabu Oil Deal scam
Pardon of Alameishegha
9)Missing $20 billion and refusing to release audit by PWC

seges:

Do you honestly believe the rubbish you just wrote?I don't think we are living in the same Nigeria,the majority of Goodlcuk Jonathan achievements are just on paper even the so called agriculture development which we can't see in our local markets. The common man does'nt feel it price of fuel has gone up(65-87),power,food prices etc

Yes Lagos- Ibadan rd is on paper, Benin-Ore, Kano-Maiduguri, Ogoja-Abakilki, Enugu-Abakiliki, Vom-Manchok, Sokoto-Tambuwal, Katsina-Daura, Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja roads and many more are on paper.
Yes the PH-Enugu rail line flagged off in December is on paper, Enugu-Makurdi flagged off last week is also on paper.
It's also on paper that dry season farming which has been seriously boosted by the govt and which has led to a year round farming is also on paper. A bag of maize now sells for just #3000 naira as against over #7000 last year. Yeaa thats on paper too.
Mehn that paper must be very rich, may I take a look?

APContherun:

Yes Lagos- Ibadan rd is on paper, Benin-Ore, Kano-Maiduguri, Ogoja-Abakilki, Enugu-Abakiliki, Vom-Manchok, Sokoto-Tambuwal, Katsina-Daura, Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja roads and many more are on paper.
Yes the PH-Enugu rail line flagged off in December is on paper, Enugu-Makurdi flagged off last week is also on paper.
It's also on paper that dry season farming which has been seriously boosted by the govt and which has led to a year round farming is also on paper. A bag of maize now sells for just #3000 naira as against over #7000 last year. Yeaa thats on paper too.
Mehn that paper must be very rich, may I take a look?

Lagos Ibadan road that will not be completed until 2017 is what you are bragging about?

Only 27% of the road has actually been completed so there is nothing to brag about

http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/lagos-ibadan-expressway-to-be-completed-before-august-2017/

Remind me when did this project commence again? I guess Jonathan has only remembered these projects since election is so close.

Ikengawo:

Nigeria: Jigawa Polio Free for 2 Years - Emir


http://allafrica.com/stories/201501270511.html

Just while we are on health - Cholera outbreak in Bayelsa has claimed the lives of 30 people.

Would you like to guess the reason for the exacerbation or the outbreak? Lack of portable water

It seems the deficiency in the system that took the lives of so many Nigerians last year has continued doing so this year.

The transformation is particularly glaring.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/01/27/cholera-outbreak-30-die-bayelsa