₦airaland Forum

koruji:
@Beaf
You and mikeansy are not going to see eye to eye. Mike has a candidate too - I just don't know who exactly (most likely Donald Duke) - but please don't stop the debate. We need it to focus on comparative strength of the candidates rather than showing someone to be generally unsuitable.

Now on the issue of quietness it would help for GJ to get out there more on the issues, since even when they are talking gibberish like IBB the louder you are as a politician, the more serious people are likely to consider you.

On the other hand, President GJ has delivered a couple of nationwide addresses, but that is what all his predecessors did. My hope is that GJ would find campaign managers that can get his message out - whatever it is. I believe he has the best interest of the nation at heart, unlike some other selfish contenders whose hands are soiled by past misdeeds, bad judgements and blatant corruption. The problem is that, while all those things are needed, they alone don't get you elected - you must simply play politics!

monkeyleg:
U see our is there is not credible opposition, that is just the problem we have. Nigeria is a 1 party state, no opposing parties challenging whats going on. This is were opposing leaders should be taking a good swipe.

Where is Donald Duke, Buhari, Atiku, etc. I expect the opposition to be cririsizing the government, when they get it wrong, but they are not, probably because they will do the same when they get it.

Buhari, should be questioning why the presidency sees it fit to spend $150m on presidential jets when Nigeria is in the middle of a major economic crisis, why they plan on spending in excess of 74BN on voters register, and 12BN on independence day party?

mikeansy:
The man is neither speaking nor acting.

By the way the office of President is not for introverts. because it is the duty of the President to lead and not to hide.

wise son:
What troubles me about Jonathan is very subtle and fundamental, blink and you might miss it. It is not so much what he has done, as what he has not done. Has he ever come out to state his stance on corruption? Has he ever come out to say that we can trust him never to be involved in any corrupt practice? Has he ever come out to say that he will defend the interests of the ordinary Nigerian against entrenched interests and self-seeking groups and individuals? Has he ever come out to say that he will always stay on the side of truth and justice no matter the cost?

What I am getting at is that almost no one knows what he believes in, what his moral principles are, how deep they run, the things that he will do and will not do. Nigerians are totally clueless about his values, his ideology. Many of us harbor the fear that the failure to circumscribe his moral boundary may suggest that he has none or it is very poorly defined.

When a man does not come out to declare his principles and moral boundaries clearly, he does not give you a yardstick for judging his actions, and evaluating his past. [size=14pt]In short many of us are clueless[/size] about what he stands for.

How can I evaluate the actions of a man who has refused to give me a basis of doing so. We totally have no idea what he may do or may not do. Let us know his minimum standard of acceptable conduct as a politician, so that we can hold him up to it.

mikeansy:
. . .
Everything is shrouded in mystery, speculations, secrecy, assumptions etc.

100days in office no address by Jonathan Goodluck to the country to defend his administration so far.

I will not be suprised if we don't even get to here from our President address us on Independence day after spending 15billion on celebrations.

ziddy:
nigeria is about to get its first bisexual president lol.
this development has a global significance to the gay rights movement, nairaland gay.gots take note hahahaha

mikeansy:
But the problem is there is nothing new about big plans to restructure NNPC or build refineries. If we search the news archive we will also see 10 points and 20 point plans made by Buhari, IBB, Abacha, Abdusalam etc that did not come to past. so nothing new about deals or plans or what have you.

Please advice us on what specific steps the Jonathan administration took that resulted in the elimination of fuel queues. Thank you.

Please don't tell me the announcement to build refineries eliminated fuel queues.

[size=14pt]Figure tied to Jefferson scandal running for president of Nigeria[/size]
By Bridget Johnson - 08/15/10 01:52 PM ET

A Nigerian leader accused of bribing former Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson (D) is now running for president of that country.

Former vice president Atiku Abubakar, who served under President Olusegun Obasanjo during his eight years in office, told reporters Sunday that he would seek the People's Democratic Party backing to run against President Goodluck Jonathan, according to the Associated Press. Elections could be as early as January.

Abubakar was tied to the Jefferson scandal when a Nigerian businessman testified last year that Abubakar had paid Jefferson $100,000 to make contacts in Washington. Abubakar's lawyers denied the allegations.

Jefferson, a nine-term congressman, was sentenced to 13 years in prison in November after his corruption trial. His seat was filled by Republican Joseph Cao.

mikeansy:
What specifically did the Jonathan administration do to achieve this?

What are they also doing to ensure that the country with 6th largest crude oil reserve does not import petrol?

Thank you.

"NNPC aims to accelerate the construction of new refineries in Nigeria to stem the flood of imported refined products into the country, currently estimated at 10 billion dollars," the statement said.

monkeyleg:
@beaf,

Listen, some of GJ gaffes go beyond mistake. How can you justify 74BN for voters registeration, 12BN for Independence day celebration, $150m for presidential jets, abi Jonathan is the only guy in town that does not understand there is serious global economic crisis, more importantly Nigerians are hungry.

And if I am being honest GJ hasnt got a clue, and all these name dropping doesnt mean a thing, these same guys came to see Obj while he was in office, did he not loot the treasury dry? Sentiment and emotions apart, GJ hasnt got what it takes to move Nigeria in the right direction. does not mean he cannot be the president of Nigeria, anyone can, after all we have a lot of agbero's and area boys in the senate and house of reps

gadogado:
And this makes me ask another question, for those saying that Africans are as intelligent as Europeans, How come there isn't a single group of Africans that developed their own writing system or script besides the Ethiopians (who distant themselves from being "African) and claim a semetic root. We couldn't develop a written form of communication at any point in time, i think this goes to say that we are in fact less intellectually endowed but when it comes to athletics, we're very much gifted. The black race might have been created for work and not thinking.

Nsibidi (also known as Nsibiri,[1] Nchibiddi or Nchibiddy)[2] is an ancient ideographic writing system (argued to be logographic or even syllabary)[3] that is indigenous to what is now southeastern Nigeria. Nsibidi is said to date back between 4000 and 5000 BC[1] or at least as old as the Cross River monoliths which date back to AD 170.

gadogado:
Ok beaf, your ignorance is getting a little serious now! what and who is a shuwa arab. Shuwas are mostly people of mixed African and Arab descent, being shuwa doesnt change my nationality neither does it affect my desire to see my nation grow. There are many shuwas in the nigerian government. for example, abba aji is a shuwa man and he's Jonathan's liaison to the national assembly, the current minister of works father is 100% shuwa but can you say these people arent black?? look at a pic of Abba Aji, the man on the right

"This is not the time for a novice. This is not the time for ill-prepared leaders. This is not the time for risky experiments," Abubakar said as he announced his bid, an apparent reference to concerns about ending the PDP "zoning agreement".

Jakumo:
The benefits of access to uninterrupted electrical power will soon be available to all of Nigeria's hitherto dying industries, and to every living Nigerian, for the first time in 30 years, thanks to the urgent priority given that VITAL sector by the Jonathan Goodluck administration.

While all previous heads of state stopped at trumpeting patently bogus assurances of their intentions to lift the thirty year old blackout under which Nigeria has languished, Jonathan Goodluck quietly slayed the dragon by personally taking over the Ministry of Power and then promptly firing the hordes of squalid saboteurs who lived to profiteer from that perpetual darkness.  With those urgent steps taken, unprecedented funding poured forth into the energy sector, resulting in the vast improvements already in evidence thoughout the land, with the best yet to come.

Go Johnny Go !

Mbeki:
Why are these fowls transported in this barbaric manner? Are there no cages in Nigeria? Animal rights activists in Nigeria should rise up for these poor chickens!

gadogado:
accepting reality need not be depressing! Its just a realization that different groups of people are endowed with different gifts.

[size=14pt]Customs shuns FG, auctions NIPP equipment[/size]
Cover Stories, National News Aug 25, 2009 Share | By Godwin Oritse
LAGOS—THE Nigerian Customs Services (NCS), has auctioned containers laden with equipment for the National Independent Power Project (NIPP), while diverting others, dealing a major setback to the 6,000 Megawatts (Mw) electricity supply projection of the Federal Government by December. . .

Abuja, Nigeria - Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, gave the Kick Polio Out of Africa (KPOA) campaign a boost on Monday

Bloomberg

[size=14pt]Goldman Sachs’ Aganga Named Nigerian Finance Minister (Update4)[/size]
April 06, 2010, 12:39 PM EDT

By Paul Okolo and Dulue Mbachu

April 6 (Bloomberg) -- Olusegun Aganga, a managing director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., was today named as finance minister of Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer and most populous nation.

Aganga, who has degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Ibadan, will head a team that will brief acting President Goodluck Jonathan every two weeks on the state of the economy, Jonathan said at a swearing-in ceremony in the capital, Abuja.

On Tuesday, Mr Jonathan, gave the go-ahead for the construction of a new National SuperGrid that will address most of the country’s current power transmission problems.

The president made this decision after receiving projections of an increase in power supply to 6939 MW by April 2011 and 14019 MW by December 2013, submitted by the Presidential Task Force on Power. The new 700 KV SuperGrid, which is to be completed in four years at a projected cost of $3.5 billion, is expected to fulfil Nigeria’s need of increased power supply.

[size=14pt]The Genius of Professor Barth Nnaji[/size]
18 May 2001

Lagos — World-class scientists are hard to come by. Professor Bart Nnaji is a very precious personage, a scientist in a class of his own in esteemed international circles. He recently won two global science awards, namely: the Baker Distinguished Research Award administered by the 53 year-old Institute of Industrial Engineers, and the ARCO Petrochemical Gold Award for Engineering Excellence administered by the America-based ARCO Petrochemical Engineering Company.

Born in 1956 at Enugu, Prof. Nnaji is the ALCOA Foundation Professor of Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Nnaji has done his pioneering work in the field known as Geometric Reasoning. His research is sub-divided into three broad areas known as Robotics, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Visualisation Machines and Technologies in Medicine.

He also made history as the first Nigerian leader to embrace social networking as a tool of governance, with a popular page on Facebook.