Fhemmmy:

Nigeria will rise one day

otukpo:

seconded.

OAM4J:

But she didnt deny it was presented by Jonathan less than 3 weeks ago as part of the supplementary budget.

Yes, Yardua set up the committee that drew the budget, [size=14pt]but Jonathan presented it to the National assembly because he agreed with the budget.[/size]

hatch#:

@ Otukpo

We shall rise again when people like Goodluck Jonathan begin to use his head to think instead of his hat !

jokingmary:

@poster

Upon all the development in Nigeria the only thing you can do is to criticize the president?

Why didn't you see Obasanjo and others?

deb:

we hosted the whole world for the under-17 world cup with #12billion and now we want to spend #10billion for a one day party that how many people will attend? INSANITY OF THE HIGHEST ORDER. We know where #9billion of the money will go, Private pockets.

hatch#:

Please can you kindly itemize the development that Nigeria has suddenly undergone since our new president assumed the power ? The issue at hand is quite simple, N10 Billion celebrating God know's what ?

Orikinla:

Your President Goodluck Jonathan does not want to take chances, because he is not sure of winning the next presidential election. Therefore, his wife who loves exporting millions of dollars overseas for shopping in Dubai wants them to start with ordinary N10 Billion for the 50th Independence Anniversary of Nigeria.

marvix:

My contribution is to leave Jonathan alone, there wont be anyother 50th anniversary and if the young man has decidedto spend 10b then it may just be a way of boosting our tourism potential, also note that he plans a big fiesta.

Yaradua, I will never forget, a man who returned home to have lunch after all the celebrations of victory at the 2007 elections was over and to his astonishment saw different types of food as if there was a big party going on, he had to ask that was he expecting guests!, they told him no, that he was to make his choice, the man went staright ahead and complained and told them never to waste food like that again but should get in touch with his wife to tell them what exactly he would eat.

They brought a budget of 51b not 32b to Yaradua to host the U17 Wcup he asked politely that can they reduce the budget the officials laughed and said it was impossible, that was when he lost his temper and told them that he would rather not host the tournament than spend 51b on sports when a large percentage of his people are hungary.

They paid his salaries and he compared it to what civil servant were earning and he said it was unjustifiable, he recommende for a paycut for himself and his aides, then set up a commitee to come up with a solution to the poor wages, that they should come up witha template that can be used to derive workers pay viz a viz the position of the economy so that workers would not have to protest before getting salary increase.

Oh! Yaradua you left too soon now someone here tries to blame him for the Abuja runway, it was only in a budget proposal it had not even been approved by the NASS, then you would have seen a Yaradua not executing it, these are the reasons why you always have unspent funds returned because once you come up with unrealistic figures the man turns you back so Aviation could have say 50b for construction of an airpory, Yaradua says follow due process when they follow it say only 20b is expended with some pple still stealin the 30b saved would not be spent but eturned as unspent funds that was y Yaraduas administration was always having large amounts as unspent funds, because if you cant justify your spending and cannot go thru all due process no body will approve money for you.

Yaradua rest in peace, Nigerians pray that those who have your interests last long in office to make a change.

misterh:

you never appreciate something until you lose it. The man was awsomely simple. Do you know that he had never been to the USA until he became the president? His family is reputed to have produced humble men who remain humble in spite of the huge money @ their disposal. May Allah forgive him his sins and provide for Nigeria another humble president. Amin.