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To whom much is give, much is expected. In this case Jonathan was given much but delivered absolutely nothing tangible other than the outdated rail coaches on already established rail tracks. Building universities when the already established ones are not functional says nothing other than cluelessness at it's peak. The callousness of this man when school girls were kidnapped and his aides tried to deny this fact will never be forgotten....and now is the time to pay. Nigerians must wake up and demand what is rightfully theirs. Jonathan must go, we know our people deserve better and no amount of 'egunje/aka stomach infrastructure, can make us sell our souls.

suwailad:
https://media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2013/06/Otuoke_Hospital-e1372574863282.jpg

If GEJ loses and goes back to otuoke, will he be facing this type of flood?
That will be bad, seeing that he did not use his reign to tackle flooding in Otuoke

dis guy relli is a disaster... ;Dwat else does he want...does he not have enough shoes already

ibietela2:
Is that Carlos Slim?

Edited.......

All this APC liars sef

No education is better dan a limited one.... ....reread my post again... and again.... .....I was referring to Putin and not Carlos...Putin according to Forbes is worth more than Carlos Slim...

quality always speaks.....sai fashola...sai ambode...sai baba.....

CecyAdrian:
We have bought him enough shoes to last his life time and extend to his generations to come.
If he is really a wise man,he should have refused to contest or resigned honorably. We Nigerians massively voted for him in 2011,nobody noticed Buhari and These same Buhari ran with him in 2011.he should be asking himself what went wrong. how come the people that voted him in are against him now and are all supporting the person they never noticed in 2011

d man is either...clueless.... ..or an invisible brilliant strategist..NOT...

ephemm:
Whoever advised GEJ to put that boy in his team hates GEJ.

APC is lucky to have gotten rid of FFK.

he is our best weapon ....sai ffk...kontinu....

without a doubt...he will be charged....n if found guilty.....he will be jailed or executed... ..if not found guilty...he will be retried again..till he is found guilty...mama peace will....simply join her sister.......simone gbagbo

janadaft...d worst president in 9jerias history...

pendy79:
Currently, the Nigerian government is running low on revenue due to the steep decline in oil prices to less than 50 dollars a barrel. This has led many analysts to question how the national and state governments are going to fund their development when 90% of their revenue is derived from oil exports. Many have called for a diversification of exports, which is indeed a major issue, since 70% of Nigeria’s export revenue comes from crude oil. Looking beyond a diversification of exports, since 90% of government revenue still comes from oil revenue, the real issue is that public officials and lawmakers throughout the country have failed to develop alternate ways the state can increase revenue and diversify its funding structure so that they rely far less on oil revenue. Even the ministry of finance with all their claims of efforts was only able to increase tax revenue by half a billion dollars, (see the minister of finance brag about a paltry increase of half a billion dollars in taxes: There is a measure floating among state lawmakers to double VAT taxes, but this measure will do little more than put a tiny band aid on the gushing wound caused by declining oil revenue.

One key overlooked area is parking revenue. Throughout the entire developed world, governments at all levels generate substantial amounts of rents and fees from charging motorist fees to park on public streets. Those who travel abroad know, that meters are placed almost everywhere to collect parking fees, even in towns as small as 7,000 residents. Today in a city as large as Lagos, it is mind boggling that motorists are still able to park for free on some of the most prominent well traversed public streets on the planet. Motorists are the primary users of the road, and are known in Nigeria to deliberately ram and speed into pedestrians with no regard to the right of pedestrians to traverse the streets alongside them. Accordingly they should have no issue with paying parking fees to maintain those same streets and help sustain the state that helps to regulate them. By not charging motorists appropriately Nigeria’s states and local governments are robbing themselves of billions of added revenue that they could generate instead of relying primarily on handouts from the Federal government.

To look at the numbers closely, in 2009 Lagos State had over 1 million registered vehicles. Every year the state was registering over 200,000 more vehicles. Today there is estimated to be over 2 million vehicles registered in the State of Lagos alone. That amounts to 1 car for every 10 people in the state. This number does not include the hundreds of thousands of vehicles on Lagos State roads that are registered out of state. If half of these vehicles paid 300 naira to park their vehicle every day for 1 hour only, the State of Lagos would generate over half a billion dollars a year. In reality the density of street parking usage throughout Lagos would likely be far greater than this estimate. In fact it could reach as much as 4 times this level of usage for Lagos State alone. In addition to Lagos State, in the 36 states, the FCT, and in each of the 774 local government areas there are no less than 3 towns and cities where paid parking meters could be implemented immediately. By not doing this, local and state governments across the federation are sitting on their hands like little babies waiting for handouts from the federal government, and robbing themselves of no less than 10 billion dollars annually.

Given the current propensity of micro-corruption among underpaid civil servants throughout Nigeria, some of whom go months without receiving their due salary, there are many who question the viability of trusting these same civil servants to reliably collect parking fees and remit them accordingly. Even more daunting a question is if civil servants actually do remit the parking fees they collect, will the internal revenue collection officials across the federation honestly report how much revenue they are collecting from the meters within their territory? If you ask the average Nigerian, the obvious answer is no! With good reason, nobody has any confidence in public officials to handle this process professionally and honestly, and in a manner that would benefit everyone. Fortunately, technology has a solution for all of this. Parking meters in much of the world are outfitted with auditing and tracking systems that can be independently verified, tracked, and reported. It is virtually impossible for any of the meter maids to get away with not remitting funds collected from meters on their route. Further, the auditing technology also allows for third-parties to independently verify and track usage. By taking samples on random dates analysts can reliably project annual revenue in entire towns and cities to within a couple percentage points utilizing basic statistical models. Accordingly, it is actually very difficult for even “the oga at da top” to manipulate revenues that would benefit them personally beyond basic pocket change.

Moving forward, local and state governments are going to have to implement revenue diversification measures like these immediately. It is actually quite pathetic that even some of the largest cities and states in the federation are yet to do so, but perhaps the current budget pinch is a perfect catalyst to get public officials to start doing their jobs.


David O. Kuranga, Ph.D. The author is the Managing Director and Principal of Kuranga and Associates, a full-service investment, political and economic risk consultancy, and asset management firm that specializes in Africa.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/03/18/nigeria-loses-over-10bn-annually-in-parking-revenue/

great post.... APC thinking solutions ....PDP stealing n bribing ......d diff is clear. Vote Buhari...

but we r all guilty....we bought d no shoe story n voted him in....now we r his captives ....for d time being ...not long to go now...

Clerverly:
They must have sold, albeit unsuccessfully the idea of Interim government to him, if not for anything to gauge his position towards the wicked option! Jonathan is so evil, selfish, clueless and heartless!

without a doubt.....n his end will be disastrous...mark my words....

'businessmen' using debts..... .to finance their lifestyle....

We have had enough people of influence come out to voice the fact that the kite of interim government being flown is not without wind. Professor Soyinka is not a man known to speak frivolously, only the deep can call to the deep.

iliyande:
Hahaha, now I know who I am arguing with. The last thing those countries you listed will like to do is to enter war with Russia. The only country that can stand Russia is US, but fear of Russia embarrassing them will not allow them to first challenge Russia.

no you are confused....... Russia cannot challenge any one of those countries.....individually or together....all have nuclear weapons n even if u remove dat, der conventional forces will annihilate Russia....Russia was defeated by Afghanistan........but Afghanistan did not last one month b4falling to the USA...

if buhari by default loses....it has been rigged n we will not accept false results.... Sai baba

iliyande:
So different America you Mean? My brother don't beat around the bush. All crime is crime for you to justify one and criticize the other is called "hypocrisy". It's a fight for power not for your benefit neither mine. If it is for the benefit of poor masses then America should confront Russian in cremea then the whole world will know they are fighting for justice.

dat is why we have laws....dat must be enforced......Americas interests in crimea is not enough to start war.... let putin try UK, france, Alaska den, we go see...

d jonathans sacrificing d blood of 9jerians for power....first patience supporters die....then jonathan outrider follow....

vote okija shrine out from aso rock..

Aooux:
[b]Read along and share it to your loved ones ......

Buhari's child, Zara, is paying over £40,000 / #12million Naira as school fees developing her future and career.
*Jonathan's Children Have Being Moved to London for Studies and Residence while
Developing Their Career and living In Affluence.....
*Atiku Abubakar Children Are Abroad Schooling....
*Tinubu's Children Are Abroad Schooling and living in affluence,
They Are All Developing and Investing In their children to continue to rule us after they are gone.....
You are there wearing APC and PDP customized vest and polo, SHOUTING
"Change" Holding Brooms and Carrying Umbrellas
SHOUTING "Transformation". SHOUTING "SAY BABA " Killing Yourself,
If the so call Buhari, Jonathan, Tinubu and other fools who called themselves NIGERIAN POLITICIANS will Not Bring All their Children, Blood BROTHERS / SISTERS and PARENTS to the street for campaign then stop masquerading yourself as PDP , APC , ACCORD, SDP.....and other party member/ agents for nothing because up till now, I have never seen Buhari 's , Atiku And TINUBU's children on the street wearing APC Vest and Holding Brooms, neither have I seen
Jonathan's children carrying The PDP umbrella even on social media let alone in the Street....

A WORD IS ENOUGH FOR THE WISE.....


I'm Aooux[/b]

so because der parents r politicians....d children must be too...

iliyande:
But in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Afghanistan war....justifiable n supported by much of the world....Iraq war....unjustifiable.....prosecute bush... ..My opinion.

Appleyard:
Interesting! you truely sound like your name. So, you think the recial killings of blacks is as a result of more and more black people?

You are truely funny in some way..

poor police training led to those deaths...use ur brain...and stop being paranoid...nobody is chasing u...no spirits hiding in d cupboard.. ...u said more black pipul were killed in US dan Russia....and I pointed to u dat d number of blacks in America to Russia is like 100 to one...... ...so therefour more blacks will die there..just like more blacks in Nigeria dan us...

Appleyard:
And your Americana stance is not as a result of American propaganda? Just do yourself a bit of a favour; check out which Nation is ranked as the greatest threat to world peace. Google and co are your friends. Goodluck.

not at all.....my research is not limited to one source only..... ..there is plenty of trash on d internet.....don't believe everytin' u hear....

iliyande:
Google and estimate those Innocent people killed by American vs USA led coalition in both countries. I go with Russia.

America is not in crimea or Ukraine...no need 4 google...

Appleyard:
Hear your own words. The US has killed more people than Hitler's holocaust and all terrorists networks put together.

d US is not perfect....but ten times safer than Russia.... especially for a nigga....there will be more bleck deaths in America just because there are more black pipul... ...in Nigeria...there is more black deaths too... because there are more black pipul....

they shd make d python confess...

NairaMinted:
Wow, controlled. You really do sound controlled - like a bot spewing preprogrammed propaganda. Why don't you read and watch this and then let us know if you still feel the same afterwards

http://scgnews.com/the-ukraine-crisis-what-youre-not-being-told

receive sense..... .. dat video is Russian propaganda..

everybody looking for der share..... ....everybody endorsing janadaft but still, he is scared of elections...

No fewer than 800 plain clothe and regular policemen were deployed to provide security for wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan, at the North-West Peoples Democratic Party women rally in Kaduna on Wednesday.

But the wife of the president was absent at the rally held at the Kaduna Township Stadium.

She was said to be attending another rally in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, but a security source told our correspondent that the President’s wife stayed away as a result of the attack on the convoy of Mrs. Aisha Buhari, the wife of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, in Ilorin on Monday.

Aside the 800 policemen, other security agencies like battle-ready soldiers, were stationed at strategic streets leading to the venue of the rally.

Motorists and other road users were barred from taking the Independence Way, leading to the venue.

This resulted in a gridlock in the Tafawa Balewa/Ungwar Rimi area of the city.

Motorists, held up in the gridlock, groaned under the scotching afternoon sun.

At the rally, Kaduna State Governor, Mukhtar Yero, boasted that the Peoples Democratic Party would win the March 28 and April 11 elections in the state without qualms.

He said the state was a PDP state and would remain so even after the elections.

Yero said he was not at the podium to campaign for either himself, President Goodluck Jonathan or other candidates as he was sure of victory at the polls.

The governor said,“The Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is from Zazzau Emirate and we’re very proud of him because even his principal, President Goodluck Jonathan, has described him as a faithful and loyal deputy.

“Our son has also brought in some developmental projects to the state like the Gurara and Kudendan Power stations, which are expected to reactivate moribund industries in the state.

“The resuscitated Lagos–Kano rail line definitely will pass through Kaduna State and our people will be beneficiary not to talk of the new Abuja–Kaduna fast track, where people can work in Abuja and live in Kaduna.

“All these are Jonathan’s gifts to the people of Kaduna State and the only way to reciprocate the gesture is to support him for another term.”

The convener of the rally, Dame Patience Jonathan, was represented by the wife of the Vice President, Amina Sambo.

we can now see fashola was right ...... .if 1st lady in a smaller state like Kaduna can get this amount.....then think lagos with Janadaft........

smh@oritsejafor.....pastor bling bling.....

No fewer than 800 plain clothe and regular policemen were deployed to provide security for wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan, at the North-West Peoples Democratic Party women rally in Kaduna on Wednesday.

But the wife of the president was absent at the rally held at the Kaduna Township Stadium.

She was said to be attending another rally in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, but a security source told our correspondent that the President’s wife stayed away as a result of the attack on the convoy of Mrs. Aisha Buhari, the wife of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, in Ilorin on Monday.

Aside the 800 policemen, other security agencies like battle-ready soldiers, were stationed at strategic streets leading to the venue of the rally.

Motorists and other road users were barred from taking the Independence Way, leading to the venue.

This resulted in a gridlock in the Tafawa Balewa/Ungwar Rimi area of the city.

Motorists, held up in the gridlock, groaned under the scotching afternoon sun.

At the rally, Kaduna State Governor, Mukhtar Yero, boasted that the Peoples Democratic Party would win the March 28 and April 11 elections in the state without qualms.

He said the state was a PDP state and would remain so even after the elections.

Yero said he was not at the podium to campaign for either himself, President Goodluck Jonathan or other candidates as he was sure of victory at the polls.

The governor said,“The Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is from Zazzau Emirate and we’re very proud of him because even his principal, President Goodluck Jonathan, has described him as a faithful and loyal deputy.

“Our son has also brought in some developmental projects to the state like the Gurara and Kudendan Power stations, which are expected to reactivate moribund industries in the state.

“The resuscitated Lagos–Kano rail line definitely will pass through Kaduna State and our people will be beneficiary not to talk of the new Abuja–Kaduna fast track, where people can work in Abuja and live in Kaduna.

“All these are Jonathan’s gifts to the people of Kaduna State and the only way to reciprocate the gesture is to support him for another term.”

The convener of the rally, Dame Patience Jonathan, was represented by the wife of the Vice President, Amina Sambo.

when fashola said over two thousand were deployed to protect janadaft in lagos....some pipul said he was lying....now we can see it is d truth.. ...i just hope der is no robbery in kaduna today... as they seem to follow their master, janadaft around....

iliyande:
And what of Iraq?

what of chechnia.....or crimea...and..Ukraine... think bro.....America is not a saint...yes...but compared to Putin's Russia...they win with me any day..