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Supported. To add to that, all currently well performing GEJ ministers were inherited from the Obasanjo administration or nominated by him personally. You can go and check this fact.

Compare a Nigerian university graduate of the 70s with a graduate of now then you will know the meaning of this picture.

THIS IS A BIG LIE.
Cocoa exports have improved commendably but to say it is $10bn a year is being very dishonest from the minister. People should be careful the way they bandy figures about.

Mr Omokri, be careful as people are now more likely to post pictures from Adamawa which will paint a more pathetic picture than this ordered migration.

omololu2020:
4:09:18 PM 4:09:22 PM col agwu shuld b fully dealt wit.

Please stop this foolish talk. This Lt. Col Agwu has been in the eye of the storm more than once and he keeps going back to the front. I think he is a fairly good officer with very bad superiors and some really bad soldiers. I am more worried about the northern officers who abandoned ship as this might have been an act of sabotage and a rather successful attempt to donate weapons to BokoHaram.
The major damage to the Nigerian Army is coming from the Commander In Chief himself, how could one man set out to damage everything he met that was okay when he came in?. If we have the right president the army will have a sense of belonging. This GEJ government is too watery and decadent for the structured leadership that the Nigerian army needs. He would prefer a military of hemp smoking ijaw militants.

2sureguy1:
Souce : www.punchng.com/news/fg-created-1m-jobs-in-transport-sector/

Big liar. NURTW has millions of members and completely private sector. Lagos State alone has hundreds of thousands employed in the transportation industry and regulatory bodies ...all not involving the FG.

Nosa77:
Watch the video and see for yourself -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6DwUoqzaeI - this was not a structural issue but an ATTACK. I don't know who from - whether its MEND, Boko Haram or whoever - but the way and manner this building fell was abnormal. Let's pray God brings to light those behind it!

Bullshit. No explosive residue on all the bodies recovered. Please think of something else. Maybe the MEND angle is even a more creative lie to tell. Let them tell us about their new type of explosive material that forensics cannot detect at least we will give them some points for originality.

Ihedioha will not be impeached. He will play neutral and watch events develop.

mikeansy:
Once again Nigeria is at cross roads and the crisis we are facing right now is simply man made and it has resulted from Mr Aminu Waziri Tambuwal's stubborn refusal to do the right thing, take responsibility for his choices and resign from office.

But after further thought on the Tambuwal issue and eventhough the correct thing would be for Ihedioha to call back the house and discuss this man-made crisis created by Tambuwal it may not necessarily be the wise thing to do.

Nigeria has an unfortunate polity; our ethnic and religious make up makes it practically impossible sometimes for common sense to prevail. The correct thing to do is not always the wise or pragmatic thing to do.

While Yar'adua laid on death bed in Saudi Arabia, the correct thing was for Jonathan to step forward and take responsibility for Government but because of our ethnic/religious divisions it is questionable whether it was the wise thing to do. At the time I was frustrated at Jonathan's slowness but in hindsight perhaps Jonathan's reluctance was probaly strategic and gave no room for anyone to accuse him of being lawless and trying to displace the President thereby giving a dog a bad name to hang it.

David Mark's leadership at the time was also very strategic in that he waited for the situation to come to a head before inventing an extra constitutional "doctrine of nessecity" which everybody bought into because the situation had lingered for so long and the forces of darkness had no other defence.

This moment calls for Ihedioha to be wise. The wise thing to do may not necessarily be the correct thing to do. But for his sake and the sake of Nigeria; Ihedioha should sit back, do nothing and allow our institution to self correct!

December is only a matter of weeks away, February which is the election time is also weeks away! so lets not continue this crazy dance Tambuwal is trying to drag everyone into. If Tambuwal wants to preside over the house as Minority Speaker in December then Ihedioha should not stand in Tambuwal's way. It will go in Tambuwal's record all the attempt to circumvent the constitution and bend the rules.

It might take longer than we will all like but in time the courts will throw Tambuwal out of office!

Ihedioha can grant a Press confrence making the following clear:

1. Pledging his loyalty to the PDP and the Government of Jonathan goodluck.
2. Stating his respect for the constitution and his appreciation of section 68 (1)g of the constitution which he believes will resolve the crisis in due course but let the courts decide
3. Remind everyone of his right to associate with all Nigerians including Tambuwal and Jonathan.
In time the Tambuwal side show will be resolved!

This is political amateurishness you are displaying here.
What you are suggesting for Ihedioha is political suicide. Some people think Jonathan is the only politician in Nigeria. Please be realistic.
I want to remind you of what Abubakar Rimi said on June 12, ...'i am not in politics because of MKO Abiola''. So many people on the street don't think deep and understand Nigerian politicians. Self interest is everything. It pays Amaechi who needs national exposure to rubbish Jonathan as it will pay Inedioha to think about his national political career in all he is doing, this involves keeping relationships and not burning bridges. The Hoise of Reps in particular is one tricky body, something has been brewing there.
Jonathan has at most 4 more years if he wins the next elections. What happens to other politicians from Eastern Nigeria after that?, you think Rochas Okorocha is an idiot?. If I am a politician in my late forties or early fifties would I burn bridges with the north and west because of one man who is leaving office in four years?. How did Jonathan become consensus candidate of the PDP?..Was it out of love and affection or a business negotiation giving all incumbent governors a second term and all 2-term governors a seat in the senate or ministerial appointment?
Why don't you realise yet that that the House of Reps is a movement that will develop into a new party that will be built on the carcass of the current PDP and ultimately APC. People are mapping themselves into relevance at the national level and positioning themselves long term and you are thinking only about GEJ.

I think Ihedioha should go with the majority tendency of the house, there might be a lot of cross carpeting before December so it is hard to define what majority is for now.
Abeg park well.

Why leave out the CDS?. This is CAN showing itself as a political and very selfish organization. That the NSA and Minister of Defence are bad is agreed but what of the diarrhoea mouthed ineffective CDS?.

These people are coming to loot. Eedris Abdulkareem is the only contemporary musician who has a social conscience and courage. All these finely made up, coiffed young men and women are thieves.

This website content could only have been amended by NASS staff with the authority of the House of Reps principal officers. If the deletion was made by any other party, say the executive branch or the PDP then we have a serious problem in this country.

This is another big lie to confuse the under 35 generation. Gowon was between 33 and 40 years old and Head f State when Nigeria built 450, 000 kilometres of roads, bridges and highways in just a few years. Before all that, during the first republic, comprehensive free education and the building of the largest middle class in the black world by Obafemi Awolowo who also achieved the first TV station in Africa. The northern region government achieved unbelievable agricultural development. On the military side, after Gowon's overthrow, the Murtala/Obasanjo regime continued Gowon' s developmental pace with added focus on corruption, achieving growth rates of 11% and more, Nigerian shipping line was the largest in the third world, Nigerian airways one of the best, all refineries, petrochemical plants, steel plants and fertilizer plants were built . Even the Shagari regime did more for industries and defence than GEJ. IBB overthrew the Buhari regime and with the connivance of the western world completely destroyed Nigeria.
That is the story kids, Uncle Doyin has been lying to you.
Nigeria was better governed than at any time in history till IBB came in. Jona does not even come close to the first four in terms of good governance and is well known as the least intelligent president we have ever had.

The demographics of Nigeria is actually a big problem. Most young people 35 and below don't know the issues. People have been lied to by their parents. The big problem in Nigeria is corruption, not religion or tribe. There is whole sale stealing of the future of our children by entrenched interests, ten percenters and the people they put in government. These people regard government and politics as a business. A very profitable business involving stealing our wealth and our sweat. GEJ is just one of them and he is essentially a patronage distribution node nothing more. Some of his critics are also part of them but of these people, most of them will be settled and finally support the President. The only outsider is Buhari.

All these articles are wasted on our President. Jonathan cannot understand most of these and if he did would not be able to do anything about corruption, the stolen defence budget or income inequalities. He has even been heard to gloat over the number of private jets owned by billionaires, his people in Otuoke don't have light and millions of young people in the Niger delta are bursting crude oil pipes and engaging in crime and militancy. Is that a normal human being? Many people do not understand the serious intellectual limitations of our President. He was chosen carefully by the Godfathers for qualities that he lacks. The man is a delight to all those who work for him because they can do and steal anything and get away with it. He just does not understand much about anything, a complete blank tabular Rasa. This is the man they need to stay in office, speaking unintelligibly, blinking and flinching confusedly while they take apart the whole country.

harde2lah:
Sorry oo but I don't agree with him and I don't think I am under any obligation to agree because he's the president. I still stand by my stance. That statement is unpresidential. I don't know why you think anybody that does not support/agree with the president must be APC. for the record, I an not affiliated to any party whatsoever. But if you also believe that corruption is perception, not reality as the president had said, then I give up o! Have a nice day Sir!

Where your president got it wrong is that all the noise about corruption is not on the alleged numerical dollar value of the aggregated accusations but the pervasiveness of the practice. From the airport officials, to the police on the roads pinning a false allegation on you for money, to the lecturers in university asking to sleep with female students for grades... you have 80% of Nigerians engaging in corruption. Where is the country going with that. Go to your president and tell him that you pray that his great grandchildren will live in a country as corrupt as Nigeria is now and he will quickly retract and beg you. You have to be cowardly and clueless as a president to say corruption is over exaggerated. I think both are true of GEJ. He was making the statement to impress godfathers Anenih, Babangida, Arthur Eze and his other masters not us Nigerians.

He knows that, stop stating the obvious.

GMB

Goddex:
9/10

This is sentiment working. GEJ himself scored himself B minus one year ago so you are being dishonest here.

rallymento:
Bro when Nigerians are ready for change we will know. APC is not fighting for the change of this country. They want to take over from PDP. I swear even if they take over government Naija will be in a more pitiable state. We are just being tribalistic for now. Wen a true Leader will emerge we won't hesitate to put him in power irrespective of his political party. For now we are just playing sentimental politics, beneficial politics, selfish and self-centered politics

There is the PDP evil and there is the APC evil. That is not what is at play here, afterall APC senators are also enjoying $1.2million salary. What is being asked is personal. Is GEJ deserving of another term in office. The answer is NO. The PDP knows it has people who are better but everyone has been partially bought.

Omimah:
I believe Tambuwal had done some underground work before his defection. I've always known him to be smart. He may have the support of members of the House who are even PDP members.

The PDP majority is a mirage. There are even no more political parties as far as I know. There are nexuses of interests that will shock people who still dont realize that GEJ is only leading a faction of PDP that is agreeable to his 2015 ambition. If things are pressed into play too soon, yawa go gas.

Now I am getting really scared for Nigeria. The joke is becoming even more 'jokey'.
Only in Jonathanian Nigeria.
We are also waiting for Afrocandy, Mikel Obi, Tontoh Dikeh, Genevieve Nnaji, Oge Okoye and Maheeda.
Once you have your name in the papers, the notoriously 'blank' uncle Jona and his lightweight PDP machinery are ready to sign you. No need for ideology, political philosophy, programs or even a social conscience ...just popularity and you are in. Let the looting begin.

3/10; some very good ministers, very very bad President. Unfortunately no minister can assume the job of president. So vote him out.

[quote author=manutdadex post=27598145]wtf is dis man Well its not ur fault jst thank ur star dat we re in a civilian dispensation. Una go jst dey abuse Gej as una like forgetting he is ur head. God bless Nigeria. God bless Gej and God bless whoeva bcomes our next presido!!![/quote
GEJ is not my head. Please stop insulting me.

11Willywilly:
Kool, Nigeria soldiers on their heels,
Why are Yoruba/Northern Soldiers running away from Battle field. haahaa, only good in killing unarmed civilian.

This is idiotic.

horpe132:
Its not Possible......................#Tanbuwa holds an elected public office..............................Jonathan Can't do that.......

This is an impeacheable offence by the President. You cannot do this against a sitting speaker. How do u produce a court order so fast even before the event. How can you now remove him as Speaker in december when you have already acted too fast and given the guy a lot of moral support. This again is one of those Jack Daniels/Hennesey/Remy Martins fueled decisions taken at the dead of the night in Aso Rock. Prepare for another major distraction in december with serious impeachment and counter impeachment moves that will create more drama before the elections.

major466:
I think it's high time federal government forget about the cease fire agreement with the terrorists. Root them out. Kill them all!!!
Some evil elements trying hard to frustrate the negotiations for the release of the Chibok School Girls.

What Federal Government?. Cant u see your President is at wits ends. He has overpromoted his loyalists as generals and they dont have the competence. Some internationally connected ex Godfathers are blocking the re armament of the armed forces which is almost unbelievable, the defence budget has been stolen wholesale and the guy is showing himself as a weak figure head president without authority. This is what you get when you send a boy on a man's job. However as some funny people would say here GEJ till 2100.

lonelydora:
For now GEJ is the best among all.

Now you are insulting us. Within PDP alone, almost all the governors minus three are better material than GEJ. The senate president, VP and almost all the ministers would make better Presidents than GEJ.
In APC, all the Presidential aspirants, governors, Speaker of the house are all better than GEJ. People should be honest. GEJ is not even in Nigeria's second eleven and he himself has said as much in many interviews. Please dont insult this most blessed black country by saying the hapless accidental president is the best.

tebirim:
GEJ till i marry in 2020

With GEJ, there will be no girl to marry in 2020. BH has already finished with the 200 girls and they are coming for more.

chamboy:
best of what, 89million possible presidential candidates.... I don't think u want anything good for the future of this country

Most people who grew up (around 10 years old) during Abacha regime are forgiven for thinking this core less, simpleton is a good President. They dont know better and have not seen better. They can only compare GEJ with Obj and Yar adua. Even though GEJ is not as good as any of those two but at least they can relate to him on a personal level and they think he has brought governance closer in terms of personal style.
My own take on all this: GEJ is the kind of person you dont trust your destiny and the future of your children with. The man does not know what he is doing in govt

SenseiX:
Reuters couldn't be more right

This is a satirical article, they have insulted your president and all Nigerians more than some unreasonable people realise. I have said it that Nigerians would have a lot of explanation to do to the whole world if Jonathan is re elected. A knowledgeable person once said during Obj's third term attempt that if you had a live monkey in Aso Rock as President dispensing patronage such a monkey may even do 10 terms if he wanted.Such is the quality of the political class in Nigeria that a Monkey can control them through the use of money and patronage.

Aktor365:
Many nairalander are aware that today is Gen Yakubu Gowon's 80th birthday.

Well a thanksgiving service took place at the National Xtian Centre and in attendance was president Jonathan and his daughter.

She Def. looks as simple as her dad. isn't she?

See more pics> http://www.whonaija.com/2014/10/photos-president-goodluck-jonathan-and.html

I don't support Daddy at all but I loved the way this young lady was taking notes throughout the service especially during preaching. Very well brought up girl. Still GMB for President 2015 though.