As you can see in this photo, President Jonathan was using the YouWin programme as a bait for Nigerians to support his collapsing fraudulent empire. Only 1,500 people were benefitting annually out of millions of Nigerians yet the president was using it to boast of meaningful job creation. The programme was supposed to continue this year, at least for the last time since his government was ending, but instead, they kept postponing it till after the election and since then, nobody has even updated the website. I know some people who voted him in anticipation that the programme will benefit them. Pity!

The president has instead embarked on last minute appointments and "share remaining political offices" before he leaves on May 29.

When you're told that Jonathan loves the cabals more than he loves Nigerians, believe it!

Real scam!

D man dey work till d last days of his stay in office, dem say him wan chop money
If him relax dem go say he no do anytin

Wetin person go do for nigerians weh dem no go talk

Say no to change
Let's say yes to transformation
May our lives be transformed
Amin

The OP should get a life and stop being a silly nuisance . . .

OREMUSSANCTUS:
D man dey work till d last days of his stay in office, dem say him wan chop money
If him relax dem go say he no do anytin

Wetin person go do for nigerians weh dem no go talk

Say no to change
Let's say yes to transformation
May our lives be transformed
Amin

If he works, Nigerians will feel the Impact now, you won't need to be told.

jmaine:
The OP should get a life and stop being a silly nuisance . . .

A Stern Critic of mediocrity, that's who op is

OREMUSSANCTUS:
D man dey work till d last days of his stay in office, dem say him wan chop money
If him relax dem go say he no do anytin

Wetin person go do for nigerians weh dem no go talk

Say no to change
Let's say yes to transformation
May our lives be transformed
Amin

They didn't allow him to do the works he was elected to do. Always bashing,distracting and making spoil his works. He tried joor,its difficult for anyone to rule successfully under the conditions which he did.

EverestdeBliu:

They didn't allow him to do the works he was elected to do. Always bashing,distracting and making spoil his works. He tried joor,its difficult for anyone to rule successfully under the conditions which he did.

He was given all the supported he needed o. Or was it Russians and not Nigerians that voted for him in 2011? The problem is that many, unlike you, refused to be blinded by mediocrity after they had enough of his nonsense

socialmediaman:



A Stern Critic of mediocrity, that's who op is

Mediocrity is when your allow an innate and obscure idiocy to diffuse out to the public intentionally via ill thought deductions.

The YOUWIN has always shifted their deadline date to accommodate more business plan submission from aspiring awardees.

That programme is capable of raising the next Dangotes and Adenugas if the beneficiaries make judicious use of their merited privileges.

Only myopic,lazy and dumb fools castigate YOUWIN for their clear inefficiencies in putting up sound business ideas that can create wealth.

Really

Actually, mediocrity is when you approve of senselessness as superior reason because you think the best you can offer is foolishness.

jmaine:


Mediocrity is when your allow an innate and obscure idiocy to diffuse out to the public intentionally via ill thought deductions.

The YOUWIN has always shifted their deadline date to accommodate more business plan submission from aspiring awardees.

That programme is capable of raising the next Dangotes and Adenugas if the beneficiaries make judicious use of their merited privileges.

Only myopic,lazy and dumb fools castigate YOUWIN for their clear inefficiencies in putting up sound business ideas that can create wealth.

If you were half the human being God created you to be you would have put on your thinking cap and develop a good business plan and win just like the 1500 people you claim win annually. While you are on nairaland making noise, many are smiling to the bank courtesy of YOUWIN.

socialmediaman:
Actually, mediocrity is when you approve of senselessness as superior reason because you think the best you can offer is foolishness.

Mediocrity is when as an OP, you can't even defend your foolishness to some reasonable extent. . . . . .



Nairaland is a zone where acute stupidity as represented by your thread isn't permitted in what ever form . . . . . .

APContherun:
If you were half the human being God created you to be you would have put on your thinking cap and develop a good business plan and win just like the 1500 people you claim win annually. While you are on nairaland making noise, many are smiling to the bank courtesy of YOUWIN.

Dude is one of those slow shaft who loves blaming others for his glaring inefficiencies in life changing endeavors . . . . .

APContherun:
If you were half the human being God created you to be you would have put on your thinking cap and develop a good business plan and win just like the 1500 people you claim win annually. While you are on nairaland making noise, many are smiling to the bank courtesy of YOUWIN.

I know you're so pained that he was voted out. Sorry. Time for real empowerment and job creation is here Mr APCNotOnTheRun

jmaine:



Dude is one of those slow shaft who loves blaming others for his glaring inefficiencies in life changing endeavors . . . . .

This post really got to your nerves! Beware of High BP

socialmediaman:


This post really got to your nerves! Beware of High BP

Bizarre doses of foolishness like your thread gets on sane peoples nerves . . . . . It is one thing to criticize but it is different issue entirely to do that in the most childish manner . . . .

jmaine:


Bizarre doses of foolishness like your thread gets on sane peoples nerves . . . . . It is one thing to criticize but it is different issue entirely to do that in the most childish manner . . . .

Now that you attacked the issue, I'll answer you objectively. You're entitled to your opinion. I find it rather unacceptable that the president budgeted only N15 billion Naira for the programme when we were paying N2.5 trillion naira to subsidy cabals comfortably. Who was fooling who? Youwin was just a lottery if you ask me, the real empowerment should benefit at least 50,000 Entrepreneurs to be considered a meaningful job creation programme

socialmediaman:


Now that you attacked the issue, I'll answer you objectively. You're entitled to your opinion. I find it rather unacceptable that the president budgeted only N15 billion Naira for the programme when we were paying N2.5 trillion naira to subsidy cabals comfortably. Who was fooling who? Youwin was just a lottery if you ask me, the real empowerment should benefit at least 50,000 Entrepreneurs to be considered a meaningful job creation programme

You simply lack the intellect to engage in this discourse, N50 billion naira and not 15 billion was budgeted for YOUWIN. And calling it a lottery further exposed your ignorance cos YOUWIN is strictly merit based. The word "Lottery" shouldn't even suffice in this discussion.

The subsidy cabal you mentioned were empowered by ignorant people like you who went protesting on their behalf when GEJ decided to remove fuel subsidy. Men like us who had foresight on the benefits of such a daring move supported it against the odds. To further compound your problem, failure to pay such humongous amount will lead to wailings and gnashing of teeth as currently evident in most states of the Federation.

Now back to the topic of discourse, those awardees are capable of sparking up the SME sector if their current growth rate is sustained and improved upon, empowering fully 1000 people is greater than giving meager amount to 100,000 people who won't be even able to feed properly in a day.

Huge numbers doesn't necessarily translate to impact . . . . . YOUWIN awardees are growing and providing jobs. Don't fault their success on issues that borders on your "mediocre" entrepreneurship antecedents . . . . .

You're too angry to have an objective discussion with your display of arrogance and lack of reason.

To the topic, personally I support removal of subsidy, but not by a government who cannot fight the corruption in the sector. If you remove subsidy without fighting corruption in NNPC and the ports, you end up creating artificial scarcity because importers will hoard the product so the pice can go up before they sell, and you end up plunging the nation into crisis.

On the Youwin programme, yes it's a lottery. Even with a good business plan, you could still not qualify because only 1,500 have to be selected out of 6,000 finalists. And I wasn't talking about a welfare package, 50,000 entrepreneurs can be empowered with 10million naira each, yes that's just 25% of what the government was paying subsidy cabals and nothing happened. By the way, I never supported that money being a grant, this is a support programme and the money should be in form of a repayable long term credit facility, like on a 20-year repayment plan. Any serious business entrepreneur would even want to take a Loan for his business, but since Nigerians were not getting business loans without collateral, this should be a way of giving them non-collateral interest-free credit facility for viable businesses.

jmaine:


You simply lack the intellect to engage in this discourse, N50 billion naira and not 15 billion was budgeted for YOUWIN. And calling it a lottery further exposed your ignorance cos YOUWIN is strictly merit based. The word "Lottery" shouldn't even suffice in this discussion.

The subsidy cabal you mentioned were empowered by the ignorant people like you who went protesting on their behalf when GEJ decided to remove fuel subsidy. Men like us who had foresight on the benefits of such a daring move supported it against the odds. To further compound your problem, failure to pay such humongous amount will lead to wailings and gnashing of teeth currently evident in most states of the Federation.

Now back to the topic of discourse, those awardees are capable of sparking up the SME sector if their current growth rate is sustained and improved upon, empowering fully 1000 people is greater than giving meager amount to 100,000 people who won't be even able to feed properly in a day.

Huge number doesn't necessarily translate to impact . . . . . YOUWIN awardees are growing and providing jobs. Don't fault their success on issues that borders on your "mediocre" entrepreneurship antecedents . . . . .

jmaine:
The OP should get a life and stop being a silly nuisance . . .

Jamiu elepon blue.

socialmediaman:
You're too angry to have an objective discussion with your display of arrogance and lack of reason.

To the topic, personally I support removal of subsidy, but not by a government who cannot fight the corruption in the sector. If you remove subsidy without fighting corruption in NNPC and the ports, you end up creating artificial scarcity because importers will hoard the product so the pice can go up before they sell, and you end up plunging the nation into crisis.

On the Youwin programme, yes it's a lottery. Even with a good business plan, you could still not qualify because only 1,500 have to be selected out of 6,000 finalists. And I wasn't talking about a welfare package, 50,000 entrepreneurs can be empowered with 10million naira each, yes that's just 25% of what the government was paying subsidy cabals and nothing happened. By the way, I never supported that money being a grant, this is a support programme and the money should be in form of a repayable long term credit facility, like on a 20-year repayment plan. Any serious business entrepreneur would even want to take a Loan for his business, but since Nigerians were not getting business loans without collateral, this should be a way of giving them non-collateral interest-free credit facility for viable businesses.

you should commend the program then you go ahead to offer the solutions to inherent set backs. I commend you for this suggestions.
To move this nation forward, programs like this should be brought to the online platforms to be discussed and analysed. It would help in improving the goals of such programs and benefiting us on the long run.

Not seeing up lazy committees to squander money

socialmediaman:
You're too angry to have an objective discussion with your display of arrogance and lack of reason.

To the topic, personally I support removal of subsidy, but not by a government who cannot fight the corruption in the sector. If you remove subsidy without fighting corruption in NNPC and the ports, you end up creating artificial scarcity because importers will hoard the product so the pice can go up before they sell, and you end up plunging the nation into crisis.

On the Youwin programme, yes it's a lottery. Even with a good business plan, you could still not qualify because only 1,500 have to be selected out of 6,000 finalists. And I wasn't talking about a welfare package, 50,000 entrepreneurs can be empowered with 10million naira each, yes that's just 25% of what the government was paying subsidy cabals and nothing happened. By the way, I never supported that money being a grant, this is a support programme and the money should be in form of a repayable long term credit facility, like on a 20-year repayment plan. Any serious business entrepreneur would even want to take a Loan for his business, but since Nigerians were not getting business loans without collateral, this should be a way of giving them non-collateral interest-free credit facility for viable businesses.

What you call anger is simply disgust seeing this trash content in the thread. Everybody now supports fuel subsidy removal after their thick scales has taken leave off their eyes, I will give you the benefit of doubt for now.

The fight against corruption in the sector was supposed to start with fuel subsidy removal, removing that sleeze was the first major step in getting our petroleum sector up and doing. The fuel marketers may deploy hoarding in the short term but that will fizzle out if the competition makes fuel available, infact they will be killing their enterprise doing that unlike the current template where they are lords where their financial risks are adequately covered by the state.

Insisting that it is a lottery is a joke, 1,500 to be choosing out of 6,000 entries on merit can't be classified as a lottery. the best 1,500 was choosing in a population of 6,000 with a biased emphasis on "merit". Lottery has to do with random selection which YOUWIN is clearly not.

You do have a salient point in your 20 year long term loan approach but the instability in our political clime will hinder that approach, since we don't have a fool proof and self sustaining system of governance independent of regime change. When our democracy has matured to the level where regime change doesn't automatically equate to policy change, your idea will be the best feasible route to take and for self sustainability of the scheme.


The 2.5 trillion you keep touting is just an exaggerated and alarmist stance. Moreover, that amount was spent servicing tens of million of Nigerians and not just 50,000. Nigeria is not an ultra rich country and we don't have the billions to engage in grandiose schemes when we have about 8,000 abandoned infrastructural deficit that requires trillions of naira to solve. The current YOUWIN template has a maximum of N10M but not all recipients receives that amount, your business niche and ideas determines what you get.

socialmediaman:
As you can see in this photo, President Jonathan was using the YouWin programme as a bait for Nigerians to support his collapsing fraudulent empire. Only 1,500 people were benefitting annually out of millions of Nigerians yet the president was using it to boast of meaningful job creation. The programme was supposed to continue this year, at least for the last time since his government was ending, but instead, they kept postponing it till after the election and since then, nobody has even updated the website. I know some people who voted him in anticipation that the programme will benefit them. Pity!

The president has instead embarked on last minute appointments and "share remaining political offices" before he leaves on May 29.

When you're told that Jonathan loves the cabals more than he loves Nigerians, believe it!

Real scam!

If you continue with this manner.

Trust me hate will continue to love you.

My bro stop the hate embrace love.

Love you. ...

You know. ....

My brother, I advised the government severally on this issue, but arrogance will not let them listen. They only started realizing they have erred when they lost election. when they refused to listen to voices of reason, they end up where others like them ended.

tempest01:
you should commend the program then you go ahead to offer the solutions to inherent set backs. I commend you for this suggestions.
To move this nation forward, programs like this should be brought to the online platforms to be discussed and analysed. It would help in improving the goals of such programs and benefiting us on the long run.

Not seeing up lazy committees to squander money

It takes will to fight corruption, it's not something you play with kid gloves, moreover the outgoing president was even defending it as if it didn't exist, and by the way they kept blaming former opposition for everything, even petrol scarcity. Chai! Cluelessness is a disease.

Well, I still maintain my stance, if at least 50,000 were not able to benefit from the program, then it was a joke to be called an employment scheme, or better still, a bait to earn the support of Nigerians for another 4 year corruption empire rule.

Come to think of it, 15 billion was budgeted for the programme annually, while we were spending 2.5 trillion paying cabals. If you don't believe subsidy was a scam, then you didn't follow events where the ex-CBN governor explained how it worked. You can check some of my earlier topics on the issue.

jmaine:


What you call anger is simply disgust seeing this trash content in the thread. Everybody now supports fuel subsidy removal after their thick scales has taken leave off their eyes, I will give you the benefit of doubt for now.

The fight against corruption in the sector was supposed to start with fuel subsidy removal, removing that sleeze was the first major step in getting our petroleum sector up and doing. The fuel marketers may deploy hoarding in the short term but that will fizzle out if the competition makes fuel available, infact they will be killing their enterprise doing that unlike the current template where they are lords where their financial risks are adequately covered by the state.

Insisting that it is a lottery is a joke, 1,500 to be choosing out of 6,000 entries on merit can't be classified as a lottery. the best 1,500 was choosing in a population of 6,000 with a biased emphasis on "merit". Lottery has to do with random selection which YOUWIN is clearly not.

You do have a salient point in your 20 year long term loan approach but the instability in our political clime will hinder that approach, since we don't have a fool proof and self sustaining system of governance independent of baton change, just like what we are about to experience after May, 29. When our democracy has matured to the level where regime change doesn't automatically equate to policy change, your idea will be the best feasible route to take and for self sustainability of the scheme.


The 2.5 trillion you keep touting is just an exaggerated and alarmist stance. Moreover, that amount was spent servicing tens of million of Nigerians and not just 50,000. Nigeria is not an ultra rich country and we don't have the billions to engage in grandiose schemes when we have about 8,000 abandoned infrastructural deficit that requires trillions of naira to solve. The current YOUWIN template has a maximum of N10M but not all recipients receives that amount, your business niche and ideas determines what you get.

socialmediaman:
It takes will to fight corruption, it's not something you play with kid gloves, moreover the outgoing president was even defending it as if it didn't exist, and by the way they kept blaming former opposition for everything, even petrol scarcity. Chai! Cluelessness is a disease.

Well, I still maintain my stance, if at least 50,000 were not able to benefit from the program, then it was a joke to be called an employment scheme, or better still, a bait to earn the support of Nigerians for another 4 year corruption empire rule.

Come to think of it, 15 billion was budgeted for the programme annually, while we were spending 2.5 trillion paying cabals. If you don't believe subsidy was a scam, then you didn't follow events where the ex-CBN governor explained how it worked. You can check some of my earlier topics on the issue.

Your stance is not the law, the scheme was set out to focus on a highly skilled few with impressive business plans, and so far, they have been keeping to the terms of reference guiding the scheme.

So your insistence of 50,000 or nothing is is weak and baseless cos someone else will say, 100,000 or nothing e.t.c.

Again, your 2.5 trillion assertion is a fraud, I did like you to show me where the FG paid 2.5 trillion to fuel marketers on a yearly basis. Even the huge amount spent on fuel subsidy was enjoyed by several millions of Nigerians , so am wondering what you are straw grasping on.

If you believe fuel subsidy is a scam then why are the fuel marketers holding the nation at the jugular whenever their bills are owed them . . . I don't need to consult any old thread of yours when I see a thought process that doesn't apply logically to real time events.


If you were quality enough , you would have been a beneficiary.So please, sheathe the tear shedding episode and pray the incoming admin improves on that template for the benefit of intelligent and willing Nigerians not too lazy and dull to feel government must perpetually feed him/her to survive . . . . . . . . .

i do feel your pain, really. Just like your mentors who tried to disrupt election when their boss was losing, your objections are duly noted on the subject matter. GMB will show you guys how to do it though. Next

jmaine:


Your stance is not the law, the scheme was set out to focus on a highly skilled few with impressive business plans, and so far, they have been keeping to the terms of reference guiding the scheme.

So your insistence of 50,000 or nothing is is weak and baseless cos someone else will say, 100,000 or nothing e.t.c.

Again, your 2.5 trillion assertion is a fraud, I did like you to show me where the FG paid 2.5 trillion to fuel marketers on a yearly basis. Even the huge amount spent on fuel subsidy was enjoyed by several millions of Nigerians , so am wondering what you are straw grasping on.

If you believe fuel subsidy is a scam then why are the fuel marketers holding the nation at the jugular whenever their bills are owed them . . . I don't need to consult any old thread of yours when I see a thought process that doesn't apply logically to real time events.


If you were quality enough , you would have been a beneficiary.So please, sheathe the tear shedding episode and pray the incoming admin improves on that template for the benefit of intelligent and willing Nigerians not too lazy and dull to feel government must perpetually feed him/her to survive . . . . . . . . .

Mtcheeeew.......Nothin to Contribute.

socialmediaman:
i do feel your pain, really. Just like your mentors who tried to disrupt election when their boss was losing, your objections are duly noted on the subject matter. GMB will show you guys how to do it though. Next

When given an opportunity to do justice to your stance, you always disappoint by making silly references of pain . . . . . . It's obvious you are just one of those shallow arm chair critics whose investment in their unfounded myopia become impervious to logical processes of reasoning . . . . . .


You can now enjoy the thread . . . . . . . .

socialmediaman:
You're too angry to have an objective discussion with your display of arrogance and lack of reason.

To the topic, personally I support removal of subsidy, but not by a government who cannot fight the corruption in the sector. If you remove subsidy without fighting corruption in NNPC and the ports, you end up creating artificial scarcity because importers will hoard the product so the pice can go up before they sell, and you end up plunging the nation into crisis.

On the Youwin programme, yes it's a lottery. Even with a good business plan, you could still not qualify because only 1,500 have to be selected out of 6,000 finalists. And I wasn't talking about a welfare package, 50,000 entrepreneurs can be empowered with 10million naira each, yes that's just 25% of what the government was paying subsidy cabals and nothing happened. By the way, I never supported that money being a grant, this is a support programme and the money should be in form of a repayable long term credit facility, like on a 20-year repayment plan. Any serious business entrepreneur would even want to take a Loan for his business, but since Nigerians were not getting business loans without collateral, this should be a way of giving them non-collateral interest-free credit facility for viable businesses.

The youwin grant is meant for entrepreneurs with the most feasible and viable business plans. It is NOT a lottery. If you apply and you were not selected among the finalists, it means that your business plan was not impressive enough and it was deemed to be unfeasible.

Sweetguy25:


The youwin grant is meant for entrepreneurs with the most feasible and viable business plans. It is NOT a lottery. If you apply and you were not selected among the finalists, it means that your business plan was not impressive enough and it was deemed to be unfeasible.

You cannot give 10 million naira to fifty thousand entrepreneurs, thats five trillion naira and its above our annual budget. Giving such an amount will cause inflation.

I think it will amount to N500 billion and not 5 trillion . . . . . .Kindly recheck your calculation . . . .

It's N500 billion actually, not N5 trillion, it's very feasible. As long as it's not a grant. Some developed countries give this in form of credit to their citizens as a social security benefit. Serious people will succeed when given opportunity

Sweetguy25:


The youwin grant is meant for entrepreneurs with the most feasible and viable business plans. It is NOT a lottery. If you apply and you were not selected among the finalists, it means that your business plan was not impressive enough and it was deemed to be unfeasible.

You cannot give 10 million naira to fifty thousand entrepreneurs, thats five trillion naira and its above our annual budget. Giving such an amount will cause inflation.