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monkeyleg:
@Beaf,

[size=33pt]You say I have very low IQ[/size], but yet you can not tell this forum why you think GJ is worthy of anyones vote. I have seen your sort on here so many times, they give you 500Naira, and you are ready to become the village .

I want to believe that you have some sort of education, if you do? I worry, if you dont, it explains a lot.

monkeyleg:
I am glad there are still some right thinking people in our country. this is what give me hope to keepm talking and speaking to people about what really matters in our country.

I have been falsely accused of hating GJ, even when he come from ND like I do. The fact is that he belongs to a party that has contributed to the absolute wrecking of our country. i really do fail to see how he can be effective in  Party full of thieves, there is just no way, even the blind can see failure ahead, but in the interest of Nigerians, i hope and pray i am wrong, but the evidence is just too stack.

cap28:
I have just given you two factual examples and you are still asking me to prove my words, okay, it looks like you are one of those people who have to learn things the hard way, I give this your honeymoon period with Jonathan just 6 months and I can guarantee that you will be singing a different tune - don't say i didnt warn you!

MaziUche0:
I hear they have power in Guinea and Senegal. Especially in Guinea where they control the military apparatus.

[size=14pt]FG budgets N1.6bn to compute states’ contribution to national economy [/size]
Friday, 17 September 2010 01:16 Onyinye Nwachukwu

The Federal Government said it has budgeted about N1.632 billion to carry out a “first ever” exercise that would enable states of the federation begin to compute their individual Gross Domestic Products (GDP) to the national economy.

The exercise, which starts almost immediately, would help the Federal Government monitor what each state is contributing to the national GDP, thus generating some form of competition among them. Shamsudeen Usman, minister of national planning commission, said on Thursday that the process would come in two phases: the first, covering the planning and pilot study while the second phase would comprise the training of enumerators and the actual field work survey.

He announced that the budgeted sum for the exercise is to be shared among the Federal Government, sub-national and the development partners in a 40:30:30 ratio, bringing their expected contributions to about N652,800,000, 489,600,000 and N489, 600, 000, respectively. GDP is the most comprehensive parameter for measuring the level of economic activity in any economy over a particular period and can be computed at the national and sub-national levels. Nigeria’s GDP, at the moment, is only computed at the national level but the minister said the disadvantage is that it does not provide information on the size of the sub-national economies that make up the overall GDP as is done in other countries like India, Ghana etc.

At the opening session of the first two-day sensitisation workshop on state GDP computation for Nigeria in Calabar, Usman said sub-national GDP computation which is relatively new globally is the most comprehensive and reliable measure of economic activity at the sub-national levels in federal economies. He said monitoring output at sub-national levels would serve as a basis for benchmarking the economies of the states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as well as generate healthy competition amongst them on periodic basis, while providing disaggregated data and information for improved management of the states’ economies. The minister was optimistic that computing GDP at state level would help facilitate transparency and accountability as well as help monitor and evaluate key programmes of government.

He further told the gathering that state GDP is expected to be developed within the national framework, using standardised methodology and procedures to ensure consistency and credibility of the results, adding that the exercise is intended to draw from experiences and lessons from these countries. “Given the renewed interest in expanding the policy space at the lower levels of government of Nigeria, it has become more necessary than ever before for the Nigerian statistical system to further improve its data generation efforts, especially in the area of revenue and expenditure. It is in this context that efforts are being made by the Federal Government to commence the production of state GDP for Nigeria,” Usman said.

At the event, Slyvester Monye, secretary to the planning commission, noted that the computation exercise is expected to produce the quarterly and annual GDP series reflecting detailed characteristics of the economy at the sub-national level.

cap28:
Have you forgotten how his wife appropriated over 100 million naira of the bayelsa state treasury's funds?

He is not what you think he is, he is a western puppet with nothing new to offer nigerians except more looting, are you aware that he recently signed an agreement with america allowing them to deploy troops onto our soil under the fictititious pretense of securing regional security, bros, you need to wake up and stop all this psychophancy.

cap28:
I really do not understand why people are jubilating over jonathan's declaration - what has he done for nigeria in the short time that he has been in power, it appears most of you have very short memories, you seem to have forgotten his disastrous tenure as Bayelsa state governor when him and his wife looted over 100 million naira from the state treasury, or doesnt it matter any longer.

Can someone please clarify for me why this man is any different from his predecessors, what is he offering nigerians, how can people be so naive as to think that this man is some kind of messiah given his devious track record as a state governor.

aikokoro: for those asking what GEJ has achieved, pls pardon my naivety. but I still wonder how come filling stations don't have queues any more. I mean some are even advertising N64/litre just to make sales. can you believe that? the funny thing is no noise from this guy. just like that fuel just full everywhere.

BoboYekini:
@Beaf,
how u go knw wetin dey happen for the 'real' world when na so so argue u go dey argue for Politics section?

chyz:
He thought it was a way to control the Niger Delta rebellion? Makes no sense at all. Would you want another country to set up a military base in your country permanently? During that term date he gave them to turn in their arms,if they resisted it he would has immediately sent out the military and wiped them completely out. Go and learn why other military countries rejected Africom.Since you don't believe the video then go read about it. Everything to you people is a conspiracy theory when it goes against anything the west says.

Clearly the Nigerian Government is planning on working with the US military in the Niger Delta – whether this will continue in a low profile advisory capacity or escalate into something more is not clear. But the US Marines / US Government are not going to carry out their own research into the region unless they are going to use the information to pursue a specific set of agendas presumably with the knowledge of the present Nigerian regime.

13volts:
The brone of contention here is not limited to pollution but poverty, militancy and other issues at stake. Odili and others like him ve and wil cöntiune to divert funds meant for pollution control 2 their personal pockets, likewise youth wud aggravate d issue thr oil bunkering. The whole issue is a coin wit 2 sides. Yeye Ppl tend 2 100% direct it 2 d north or FG

proudly9ja:
if this is truly a IBB vs GJ battle as you claim then we don't have to wait too long do we? Both will meet at the PDP primaries sin't it?

janus05:
Let's clear sthing here. This race is not between GEJ and IBB. IBB is going nowhere. IBB's history will definitely work against him. The question here is - Can GEJ record(if there are any) make him the winner?

We are still hoping to see more people declare n decisions will b made in individual homes n hearts over time. Nigeria is TOO Large to tolerate a one horse race

ikeyman00:
BEAF

telll me what your man did when he was a governor??

janus05:
Just give us a tip of the iceberg, [size=14pt]if we dont like it, We will go and drink acid or hug the transformer[/size]

truly:
It is about PDP
And if GEJ remains in PDP, he is part of the nest of killers, garrison/do-or-die donor democracy

debosky:
With the likes of Gemade, Akala and Anyim and others supporting GEJ's campaign, this looks like more of the same to me.

Sad to see Beaf so taken with GEJ - maybe it's regional sentiment, but there's been little or nothing to show he'll  be different to what we've gotten in the past - beyond declaring on FB that is.  

No rational assessment of what his achievements are - sad to know that his birthplace/tribe hold more value than what he can contribute to Nigeria.  

We've heard flowing speeches before, we've heard poverty to riches stories before. . . .I hope I'm wrong, but I'm not very optimistic at the moment.

monkeyleg:
I dont know why we are even bothering ourselves, Beaf and his cohorts can not even answer simple questions like what GJ did while he was Governor of Bayelsa state, and why he thinks Gj is better than the other candidates.

truly:
You know that the picture of GEJ you have been painting is not really true!
If we were talking about an event of some decades in the past I can understand

GJ claims that he wanted free and fair elections and gave us an INEC of credible people
FACT - He changed Iwu due to pressure
You have claimed he is civil, took a motorist who ran into him to court
FACT - this is a legacy of Yaradua's rule of law philosophy

There is a limit to propaganda
But to say that those newspaper reports debunk my assertions is a new level that Goebbels would be proud of

janus05:
@ Beaf,

Pls sincerely tell me what you feel about someone hugging a transformer?  I noticed u were ROGL

truly:
PDP - The nest of killers
An abduction of a whole governors that could have led to the man being killed was called "family affair"
            But if I run past a traffic light, it would be treated like treason
The party says a city is garrison beholden to a thug
It says winning an election is a do-or-die affair
we can go on

And I am expected to vote for somebody who has been part of that establishment since 1999?
And he is being touted as a reformer
For the love of this country - we don't need to call 1300hours in Abuja midnight

truly:
Please read the thread
I debunked some false claims about Johnathan
and backed it up with evidence

And really if events of 2007 and today is antiquity
then what about events of between 1986 and 1993?

BTW don't you think we have the right to know the truth about GEJ
while we are being told daily about the ills of IBB
Both are aspirants

Anybody who wants us to vote for Johnathan must tell us the whole truth
It is not enough to tell people who raise questions to go and drink acid
Note that if he fails, some people rooting for him today may also have to drink acid

You actually have the right to put questions to IBB's people - but I am neither  Kassim Afegbua nor Dokpesi

janus05:
@ Truly is drinking acid not somewhat milder than hugging a transformer? One of GEJ campaigners in another thread told someone that [size=14pt]it is GEJ or nothing, n if he doesnt like it, he can go n hug the transformer![/size]