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otukpo:
That is the groundwork jona has been doing.

Ozin:
Even with their evil plan to derail the economy of this country, Nigeria is still moving forward

rozayx5:
http://www.punchng.com/feature/osun-communities-sleeping-on-gold-living-in-poverty/


Picture Of Maternity Ward In Igun Hospital In Osun Under Aregbesola

Poverty everywhere

Like Owu-Epe, Igun lacks a functional hospital, a secondary school, potable water, roads and other basic social amenities that make life worthwhile despite being blessed with so much gold. The people live in poverty, wuth daily survive. Many households survive on less than N500 a day. The bulk of that sum goes into providing water and food ingredients. To support their families, many women have taken to petty trading in Ilesa while the men sign up to menial jobs in nearby towns.

Peter Oluduro, another leader in the town told Saturday PUNCH that successive administrations at every level of governance have done nothing to address their sufferings. He said they have been left at the mercy of illegal miners who invade their land and steal their common wealth – gold.

“If our government were sincere, our community would have been very beautiful going by all the promises they have made to us. We have benefitted nothing from the government over the years despite all the wealth that has been taken from our land.

“There is nothing in our hospital which is about 50 years old. There is no single drug there. The health workers don’t even come regularly because there is nothing for them to work with. My daughter who fell into labour recently was rushed to Ilesa because the hospital cannot even take care of her. The situation is that bad,” he said.
Ajilore, Durojaiye

Ajilore, Durojaiye

But while residents in places like Owu-Epe, Igun and Ijana decry the destruction of their environments and sources of livelihoods, things are not also completely rosy for the young men who dig through their farmlands every day, hoping to hit gold. For many in this category, the search for the precious metal and hope of a better life often end in total disappointment, sometimes disaster.

“I was introduced to this business when I was 15 by my brothers,” Hassan Ahmed, 23, told our correspondent who stumbled on him and his gang in the forest through the help of a commercial motorcyclist who understands the terrain. “Two of them died in Niger State when the pit they were inside collapsed on them,” he continued. “Before we noticed and could rescue them, they were dead already. It was a bad experience for me as a little boy then but it did not make me stop the job because I have to survive.

“Recently, I was badly injured when a pit I was inside collapsed on me. I still feel pains all over my body but I have to continue or else there would be no food for me. If I am able to raise enough money to buy a motorbike, I would leave this job,” he said.

Ahmed had a deep cut on his palm when he climbed out from one of the pits on the field. A sharp object had inflicted a two-centimeter wound on his right hand while sifting through mud in search of the precious metal. With no analgesic within reach, he simply tied a rag on the cut, before hitting it hard with a small stick.

“That would stop the bleeding,” he said, turning to our correspondent with a friendly gaze. “This is part of what we face every day on this job. Many of us did not attend school and so this is the only means we know by which to feed ourselves. But I don’t plan to continue with this job for long, it is killing me gradually,” he said.

At 27, Sanni Mohammed, is another young man whose hope of an instant jackpot at Owu-Epe’s gold field is gradually turning into frustration. Journeying from Kaduna to the area in search of a new life, Yusuf told Saturday PUNCH that the trade is no longer as lucrative as it used to be.

“On several days we dig for hours without finding a trace of gold. But sometimes when luck smiles on us, we could leave the field with N2, 000 each. But for several weeks now, all we get after digging for so long is not more than N1, 200 when sold. By the time the group shares the money, each person could get around N300, it is from that money that we feed and buy drugs,” he said.


https://punch.cdn.ng/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Maternity-ward-of-Igun%E2%80%99s-hospital.jpg

Obinoscopy ishilove lalasticala do the needful

Obiagelli:
POVERTY INDEX

2004 = 54.4 %

2010 = 61.2%

2011 = 71%

2014/13 = no figures yet

The National Bureau of Statistics on Monday said that 112.519 million Nigerians live in relative poverty conditions.

Apart from the relative poverty index, other poverty measurement standards are absolute measure, which puts the country’s poverty rate at 99.284 million or 60.9 per cent; the dollar per day measure, which puts the poverty rate at 61.2 per cent; and the subjective poverty measure,
which puts the poverty level at 93.9 per cent.

The 26-page report, which provides details of poverty and income distribution across the country, put the 2004 poverty measurement rate at 54.4 per cent.

The Statistician-General of the NBS, Dr. Yemi Kale, while unveiling the report, noted that the figure might increase to 71.5 per cent when the 2011 figure is computed.

www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/112-5-million-nigerians-live-in-poverty-nbs/

omenka:
These are the kind of stats you would never find on NOI polls. That fluffy cheeked crook is gonna join the rest of the bandits counting boxes in the ceiling in kirikiri few months after Buhari is sworn in.

alaoeri:
With this statistics can someone tell why Jona should stay in Aso rock beyond May 29.

Obiagelli:
Unemployment rate

The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, yesterday reported
that the national unemployment rate as at the end of 2013
stood at 23.9 per cent.


From 5.8 % in 2008


www.tradingeconomics.com/nigeria/unemployment-rate


www.nucleus.com.ng/article/national-unemployment-rate-now-239-–-nbs/1760

ceejayluv:
Daft!! Nigerian unemployment has NEVER been as low as 5.8% ... Tell another lie...

madjune:
I beg your pardon.
In what way(s) did Tinubu and co rubbish all that jonathan has achieved?
When did the opposition parties start their campaigns sef?
Jonathan has been campaigning for over a year before november and december when the oppositions started.
For over a year, TAN has numbed our senses with pro jonathan adverts on our TV stations and as it lasted, they didn't deem it fit to list in detailed terms how jonathan really imroved the Nigerian economy.

Now the question is, where they failed, perhaps you can do their job an tell us what jonathan achieved in his 6yrs of governance.

eyenibibio:
APC desperately hungry for power since 1999. They shud park well and let us march4GEJ.
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Bad belle is allowed.

emiye:
If Febuhari scares them, we must March 4 Buhari to victory.



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dynamitee:
[color=#770077]@madjune has made a valid statement.

If Good luck had done one thing that was spectacular, just one thing, we the people would have been the one begging to re elect him. he would not need to campaign.

spott:
Ode... it means march the clueless one and his corrupt cohorts out to either Otueke or Kirikiri maximum prison

People once asked..
"Why would Jonathan and PDP be behind Boko Haram? What do they have to gain?"
Dear People, you now have your answer.

#SaiBuhari
#March4Buhari

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Buhari faults crackdown on Boko Haram

Presidential candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 Presidential election, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has frowned on the emergency rule in parts of the North. He alleged that innocent civilians were being killed in the states.

Buhari speaking during a Liberty FM Hausa Service Programme, Guest of the Week, on Sunday in Kaduna said that Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished unlike the “special treatment” given to the Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government.

More from: http://www.punchng.com/news/joining-apc-not-about-2015-presidency-buhari/

I’ll meet other generals to draft anti-terror plan – Buhari

The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Wednesday said that though Nigeria is a rich nation, its people are extremely poor due to bad governance.

He also promised to involve serving and retired military generals to devise an effective strategy to crush insurgency in the country, if elected as President in 2015.

More from: http://www.punchng.com/news/ill-meet-other-generals-to-draft-anti-terror-plan-buhari/

Boko Haram wants talks …picks Buhari as mediator, Saudi Arabia venue …demands ex-gov’s arrest, compensation
NOVEMBER 2, 2012

More from: http://www.punchng.com/news/boko-haram-wants-talks/

babarazy:
Strongly, I am supporting General Muhammadu Buhari because he is not a corrupt politician.

MuguliciousMUGU:
FUTURE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

GEJ TILL 2019

UrennaNkoli:
How can you cheaply believe such propaganda ...?

UrennaNkoli:
As long as GEJ is not on seat.

Buhari faults crackdown on Boko Haram

Presidential candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 Presidential election, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has frowned on the emergency rule in parts of the North. He alleged that innocent civilians were being killed in the states.

Buhari speaking during a Liberty FM Hausa Service Programme, Guest of the Week, on Sunday in Kaduna said that Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished unlike the “special treatment” given to the Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government.

More from: http://www.punchng.com/news/joining-apc-not-about-2015-presidency-buhari/

Matthewbriggs:
Jaybee my stance on Nigerian politics is very simple. PDP and APC are the same. They filled with the same touts and criminals. Elections in Nigeria are not yet completely free and fair but they are better than before. Both parties rig elections. We are just lucky to stumble on this piece of propaganda. Their are so many dirty things going under the hood in APC and PDP we will never know.

One looks like a demon, The other disguises as an angel but they far much worse.

Moreover what I have been focused so far is simple .... which is highlighting the hypocrisy of the APC and her supporters.

You cced me to this thread, and yet I wonder why you are yet to cc me to this thread other >> https://www.nairaland.com/2131946/bakare-bombshell-how-forced-sign

I intentionally cced to that comment among many other things to point out how you are

1. Making selective decisions
2. Failing to condemn an act irrespective of the party
3. Failing to Demand answers as a responsible citizen of the entity called Nigeria

You only do all of the above if it suits or favors you political inclination and you turn around and demand the same from me. What do we call that.

OrlandoOwoh:
Like ordering Obanikoro to use the military to rig the Ekiti State election in the recently leaked video?

HNosegbe:
Chai. Democracy is sweet.

naturally:
Lolllll. This man don suffer

Lagos reiterates plan to construct Fourth Mainland Bridge
12 February 2014

The Lagos State Government has reiterated its plan to construct the Fourth Mainland Bridge.

The project was government's response to the need to create a ring around the state which would allow ease traffic movement.

The Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, stated this on Tuesday during a press briefing in Alausa, Ikeja.

He added that the bridge was the missing link, saying despite challenges being faced, the government was determined to get it done.

He said, 'Three alignment options are being proposed for the bridge construction. The options come with its own financial implications and challenge. Bridge component is only about 3.5 kilometres, while the rest are road component.'

He said part of[b] the reason government was taking its time on the project was that it had tried to avoid demolition, adding that the citizen's attitude of purchasing lands indiscriminately without verifying government's interest was a major issue.[/b]

'For now, most of the preliminary works involving soil test, environment impact assessment, survey of topography and biometric survey have been conducted,' Hamzat added.

He assured the state residents that government would continue to engage them on the progress of the project.

The commissioner said, 'This represents more than a transport facility, it will afford students of engineering in Nigeria an opportunity to see such development first hand. Capacity building is also a core consideration in the effort at building the bridge.'

From: http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/137846/1/lagos-reiterates-plan-to-construct-fourth-mainland.html