Our Human Development Index Best Ever – Jonathan
leadership newspaper 3-01-2012

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that in spite of the challenges that laced the preceding year, Nigeria has continued to make progress in some key areas.

Jonathan, in his New Year message posted on social media platform Facebook yesterday said that Nigeria’s investment in the health sector is yielding positive results.

According to him, Nigeria’s Human Development Index has improved appreciably.

“Also in the year 2011, the Human Development Index (HDI) released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) established that the life expectancy of the average Nigerian had grown from 47.56 years last year to 51.9 in 2011, representing a 10% increase, which itself is the largest ever increase of life expectancy in Nigeria since records were kept,” he said. “This increase is an affirmation of this administration’s investment in the health sector, especially towards reducing maternal and infant mortality. In fact, the International Social Security Association (ISSA) independently corroborated the UNDP’s findings by awarding Nigeria a prize for the best intervention in reducing infant and maternal mortality in Africa in 2011.”

Apart from the UNDP report in the health sector, there was a positive indication from other international ratings agency.

Jonathan said that, in 2011, government’s efforts to prudently manage scarce resources by engaging in economic reform brought Nigeria international recognition.
“While the credit ratings of many nations had been revised downwards, Nigeria’s ratings were revised upwards. First, in October of 2011, the Independent International Ratings Agency, Fitch, revised the country’s outlook to Stable from Negative.”

This was not manipulated considering that the Fitch ratings were affirmed at the year’s end by another upward review by internationally respected and independent ratings agency, Standard and Poor’s, which revised Nigeria’s ratings from Stable to Positive.

You go baby!
You are doing great!
Just don't let that your 'Mgbeke First Lady' open her 'Okrika Trap'!

Mu che che che che che

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How do you know a coward? He ignores reality, and this is what you have in the weakling called Jonathan the Fisherman,