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callmenow: Nigeria is doing well with Jonathan onboard. It is only blind no-gooders on this forum that cannot see.

LEADERSHIP is not about your ethnicity.

Jonathan has done wonders for Nigeria. The first democratic leader in Sub-Sahara Africa.

bayulll01: The ibo and the south south shld vote for him,minus edo,rivers and imo,useless pathetic man that don't know anything politics smh for him ,how did we end up with that man seff

ilugunboy: Any false move by GEJ now can definitely precipitate impeachment move against him.....

It's not looking nice for him......the north is now more determined to get him out.

He made two costly and strategic mistakes that exposed his gross naïveté

1: Treating the Yorubas as inconsequential

2: trying to bribe the north with heavy..juicy political appointments and other political patronage in the hope that they will soft-pedaled in their determination to produce the President


To me...he should have treated the whole South as his constituency and not just the SE & SS, by now the Yoruba media propaganda would be working full blast to support him against any Northern political maneuver.

His own choice of words and those of his aides too messed things up for him.

phase1: Why are confusing yourself?..i thought Logic (GES 112) was part of Awo's free education largesse, where were you when Baba Awo was sharing his free education cake. Read what you wrote initially and re-read yourself again. Like seriously....hello!...are you making any sense here?

ROSSIKE: This thread is useless without pictures.

phase1: [s]

If i agree with your bolded that Igbos are crazy...aren't you also implying that you are poor...just saying. I mean this is logic here

Logic1:mad people go to poor places for greener pasture
Logic2: Igbos are crazy.
Logic3:Igbos go to yorubaland for greener pastures
Full Logic: Yorubas are poor.

na your mouth talk am o...no b me. [/s]

shine eye: is it lagos? osun boy your dry hot state generate merely 200 million naira a month na that one dey enter ur head?

shine eye: we spoon feed the nation oill give them oxygen right now so if GEJ one day decide to switch off the power it will be a desaster for our parasite

eeeeeee: What i gave you is from the British council not some uninformed newspaper journalist.
Thanks.

Kale said the South-West geo-political zone recorded the lowest with 59.1 per cent. .


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/02/93-9-nigerians-considered-themselves-to-be-poor-nbs/#sthash.NyV2bizX.dpuf

eeeeeee: [s]Outdated Yoruba newspaper quoting stale statistics
Their source is old,i read it.

The proportion of people living in poverty in the
South East region rose from 13 percent in
1980 to 53 percent in 1996, before falling back to 27 percent in 2004. In the South West,
the poverty rate was 43 percent in 2004, up from 13.4 percent in 1980.
The South East’s infant and child mortality rates, at 66 and 103, respectively, are the lowest
of Nigeria’s six regions.
9
Not surprisingly, the region also exhibits the highest immunization
coverage among children ages 12 to 23 months (45 percent fully vaccinated), the lowest
percentage of children under age five who are stunted (20 percent), and, among women
giving birth, the highest percentage who receive antenatal care from a health professional
(96 percent), two or more doses of tetanus toxoid (77 percent), and assistance by a health
professional during the birth (88 percent).

SOURCE
Nigeria: The Next Generation – Literature Review
1
May 2009
This literature review was undertaken as a part of
the Nigeria: The Next Generat
ion project, funded by the
British Council Nigeria. The review was prepared by Akochi Agunwamba, David Bloom, Abby Friedman, Marija
Ozolins, Larry Rosenberg, David Steven, and Mark Weston

Poverty rate is 43% in SW
and 27% in SE[/s]

Mr. Sheme described Mr. Jonathan as a reckless speaker who hardly thinks before speaking and then only react to the implications of his comments.

“The President should know that whenever he speaks in public, he is talking to Nigerians who are intelligent to make sense of whatever he says. They are just managing the information and they did a bad job of it. The president was quoted correctly and we stand by our story,” Mr. Sheme added.

Also, the Editor of Daily Trust newspaper, Habeeb Pindiga, whose paper owns the “Terrorism Far From Over” headline, simply sent a text message saying “We stand by our story”, when asked to comment for this story.

eaglechild: I don't get all the noise about IGR.

The SE has the lowest poverty rate.
The north has the highest, followed by the SW, so where is all the ghost IGR going?

Please beg your government to use their ghost IGR to empower your poor populace.

superstar1: Such as Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, West bank, Haifa

Video evidence shows Jonathan lied on claim he was misquoted in Christmas Day comment
Sani Tukur
Published: December 27,2013

Video shows the media didn’t misquote President Jonathan. It’s rather him who lied against the media
A review of the video recording of President Goodluck Jonathan’s speech at a Christmas Day service in Abuja has shown that the president lied to Nigerians in his claim that the Nigerian media misquoted him.

Mr. Jonathan had claimed on Thursday that the media quoted him out of context in their reporting of the remark he made at a Christmas Day service that the war against insurgency in Nigeria could not be totally won.
[b]
In the statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Reuben Abati, the president lambasted a section of the media for carrying headlines, which, in his estimation, suggested that the war against terrorisms might never be won in the country.

He particularly criticised two headlines “Terrorism Has Come to Stay” and Insurgency Far From Over – Jonathan” by two newspapers he did not name, saying they were most incongruous with the thrust of his remarks and amounted to taking extreme editorial liberties with his comment at the church service.

Mr. Jonathan, accompanied by members of his family, his aides and some ministers, worshipped at the cathedral church of the Advent, Life Camp, Abuja on Christmas Day during which he made the remarks.

In the Thursday’s statement titled, “Stop this reckless scaremongering” the president said, “Reports in a section of the media today which quoted President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as saying at a Christmas church service on Wednesday in Abuja that “terrorism has come to stay” in Nigeria are completely untrue and a mischievous misrepresentation of the President’s remarks,” Mr. Jonathan said.

“President Jonathan’s verifiable remarks at the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Life Camp Abuja were to the effect that in comparison with some other countries which have experienced the scourge of terrorism, Nigeria has made remarkable progress in dealing with the security challenges posed by terrorism and insurgency.

“Headlines such as “Terrorism Has Come to Stay” and “Insurgency Far From Over – Jonathan” are therefore most incongruous with the thrust of the President’s remarks and amount to taking extreme editorial liberties with his comments at the church service.
“It is apparent that in their indecent haste to cast the most sensational and negative headlines, some editors never paused to consider that it would have been most absurd for a President whose administration has done so much to reverse the tide of terrorism, to publicly assert the contrary.”
The statement said the president merely pointed out that whereas terrorism remained a global challenge, Nigeria had done comparatively better in reducing the incidence of terrorist attacks within its borders to a reasonable level.
However, a thorough review of the recording of the event revealed that Mr. Jonathan actually said Nigerians should not expect to see terrorism disappear entirely in their country.

He also said terrorism was far being over and that Nigerians should thank God it has been reduced to a manageable level.
A transcript of Mr. Jonathan’s comment on terrorism reads, “For those who know about terrorism, countries that are infested with terror will hardly get out of it. If you look at country like Pakistan, we even go to Pakistan to train our soldiers, in some parts of Pakistan as we are talking now, there appears to be no government.

So this country could have been worst.“Look at the incidences in Abuja, even the police headquarters was bombed, the UN Building was also bombed right here in the seat of government. Maybe the next target would have been the State House.
“So we have to thank God that we have been able to bring it to a reasonable level, though we are far from getting out of it. There are a lot of challenges but we have to thank God.”

Meanwhile, the newspapers which published the story with the headlines : “Terrorism here to stay” and “Terrorism Far From Over” told PREMIUM TIMES Friday they are standing by their stories, saying they did not misquote the president in any way.
“There is no contradiction in what we reported, and I believe the response from the presidency is just an afterthought from Reuben Abati,” said Ibrahim Sheme, the Editor of Abuja-based Blueprint Newspaper, which ran its own story with the headline “Terrorism here to Stay – Jonathan”.
Mr. Sheme described Mr. Jonathan as a reckless speaker who hardly thinks before speaking and then only react to the implications of his comments.

“The President should know that whenever he speaks in public, he is talking to Nigerians who are intelligent to make sense of whatever he says. They are just managing the information and they did a bad job of it. The president was quoted correctly and we stand by our story,” Mr. Sheme added.[/b]

Also, the Editor of Daily Trust newspaper, Habeeb Pindiga, whose paper owns the “Terrorism Far From Over” headline, simply sent a text message saying “We stand by our story”, when asked to comment for this story.

ketoprofen: Are there xmaz tree decorations in Oyo, ondo, osun, ekiti?
Show us pictures a d create ur threads for once

eaglechild: Why all the noise?

Lagos belongs to nobody.

Segeggs: Why is this woman always order SE and SS governors like school boys?

Pukkah: Free this guy na in the spirit of the season.

ilugunboy: Why would you want to come and protest in Ojuta Ojota?

Do you see men carrying ladies handbag while in women wrapper in Ojota among the protesters?

We do real protest in Ojota..not skelewu competition..

Jman06: lmao. You think i can ever get mad at any crap people write on NL? No way!

Sincere 9gerian: GEJ is a nationalist and patriot who is not out to favour any particular region.