PDP, its not about developing Nigeria, its about controlling it.

As a matter of human talent, population size and natural resources, Nigeria has the potential to be easily one of the five most anything in this world you can think of, that's a lot of potential and what it means is that if Nigeria turns herself around and fixes her problems, any nation would want Nigeria on their side and that is what Obama is buying. For all you fools and idiots out there.

You people keep talking about Americans poison money or whatever, who do you think rebuilt Western Europe after WW2? The Europeans certainly didn't, they were all broke, their women were raped and they were half dead. Today the Europeans aren't slaves to the Americans now are they? The English are relatively subject to the Americans though but Europe is run by Europeans, namely Germany and France. All America does is put money were they see potential so that when you blossom you will be friendly towards them so shut up, accept the money, fix your nation for yourself and your children and appreciate Obama's god damned charity.

What GEJ is doing is a job of decisions and there is no 100% performance rate, no such thing as a perfectly run government and as such there is guaranteed to be people who feel he or any other person who is running the country can do better. Also, its not like our GDP has increased, unemployment rate has not been slashed, electricity is not getting better, as a bottom line issue any change in this nation is so far neglegible, you can talk about his massive projects in one aspect or another but the fact is the average Nigerian does not live any easier today than they did when OBJ took over, if you were not a fanatic you would have to accept that even though GEJ is a good president there is bound to be people who are not quite impressed but instead you call them fools.

You are just another delusional fanatic for one camp or another, you have picked a side, whether its GEJ, ACN or anti one or the other and have thrown all your weight in it and forgotten your brain at home. I will throw you a bone and say GEJ may be setting up a foundation but as far as what matters goes he has done nothing substantial on a national level and its just that simple.

sublimes: Many who complain about the government have never done anything in their life time to add value to Nigeria. Let us be the change we crave for in nigeria. In our own little way, we can do something positive and inspire the younger generations. Many are becoming legitimate millionaires in Nigeria today, many are touching lives today in Nigeria, let us check inwards and ask ourselves, what have I done to improve Nigeria today?

In a nation where many millions are poor and uneducated its not really their fault that they cannot do anything, now is it? and any millions anybody has made is in spite of our government and most importantly, public officials will be criticized, it comes with the terriotory, they have taken up the mantle of shaping our nations destiny, we have every right to scrutinize and criticize them, you guys tend to take wrong approaches to everything.

Idoma Likita: 1st President in Nigeria to Probe the Downstream Sector

1st President in Nigeria to Preside over free and fair elections

1st President in Nigeria to allow State Governors run with full autonomy

1st President in Nigeria to let us see the Corrupt people ourselves instead of covering up

1st President in Nigeria to grant Minorities Unprecendented access to the National Cake

1st President in Nigeria to bring forth a Concrete plan to reform agriculture

E.t.c

I am not a GEJ fan but considering the Odds he faces and what he has achieved so far..I think he's the best

Enough of the Agbero approach to leadership.
Educated people hold the reigns now..they may not be perfect, but they sure are serious!

You are misreading things, those actions only mean GEJ means well not that he is doing well. And to say "he may not be perfect", you think that it is so difficult to improve Nigeria? 4 years is enough time to see significant improvement in Nigeria. If GEJ had more than just good intentions the very first thing he would have done would have been to change the provisions and definitions of the constitution, the document is the dumbest thing ever. Also, Jonathan, just like most of the politicians in Nigeria do not have a healthy grasp on most of what is meant to govern a country. Lemme explain:

With the martial law declaration in Bornu, Adammawa and Yobe states the senate voted to remove the governors
and give their powers to GEJ, GEJ did not seem to find anything wrong with this, at least he did not oppose.
Those governors were punished for failing to deal with insurgency in their states but given that the only
police force in the nation is federal, the responsibility to defend, secure the nations and enforce its laws
is the responsibility of the federal government. Did they expect the governors to suppress Boko Haram with
their convoy, aren't they the ones who said the states cannot have police? When things go wrong
someone it is the state governments fault and GEJ is just looking on with no opinion?

It is so illogical, the states are expected to deal with so much but the power to do them is given instead to someone who is too busy with so much, as you can see they were about to give three full time Jobs to the president and he didn't object, as if he doesn't have too much work already. The first thing the president should have done was to reshuffle the powers at the federal and state level and abolished local governments(the reason it is so hard to implement them is because under federalism they have no place).

Imagine having two students, the prefect and the the junior then asking the prefect to supervise the junior as he sweeps but instead of giving the broom to the junior you give it to the prefect(the 1999 constitution). The very first thing the prefect has to do is to give it to the junior but after 8 years OBJ held that broom and complained why the job was not getting done and now GEJ in 3-4 years in and he is still holding the broom. He is stupid, no matter how he probes and is genuinely interested in a developed Nigeria he has no idea how to go about it and needs to move aside. The Fiscal federalism that Fashola asks for is figuring out what responsibilities are best handled where and giving the powers to handle them(the broom) to the person who is going to be using it. Incompetency, I am afraid is not a reason to be impeached but come 2015 it will be very unfortunate for us all if our president wins agina.

KINGwax: What is the cause of his country's youths' engagement in shooting sprees and high drug intake?

This id!ot is jes annoyed we aint taking them serious anymore!

He is insane!

Wtf does that have to do with what he is saying? No country is perfect and he never claimed that America was, but as the leader of a country that is better than yours he certainly is in a position to get on his high horse and lecture you fvcking ass.

sammyzacks: Obama, I thought you were smarter.

If you think he is wrong why don't you tell us why people like boko haram exist. Don't blame it on Islam, outside of their dislike for the prime minister turkey is largely stable and so is Saudi Arabia.

KwoiZabo: Mr Obama what is the bane of your support for gay marriage and overall gay craze in the west. Imagine Arnold scwaz.. Standing in place of michaelle and sasha & co were adopted.

American's don't think that being gay is a problem so there is a problem in your logic there mate.

The is a classic case of not being able to take criticism, even if someone is wrong in their criticisms for the simple reason that Nigeria is a dustbin we really should be too ashamed to stand up and defend it. The unskillful's path to the top level is to know your own unskillfulness as your first step

Nigeria's biggest problem right now is a poor government structure, relationship between the state and federal government and their respective powers. Our failure as a nation is guaranteed by the 1999 constitution which instated a flawed relationship, yet, after multiple PDP led government this part of the constitution is still in tact and nobody is talking about it, instead they are more interested in local government autonomy. It should be the first priority for any new president, to fix the government structure especially one that was a former Governor. After all these years, GEJ has not moved a finger in that regard, there's no reason to believe he will in the next 2 years or over another term. What I am saying is that there will be no significant improvement under GEJ, why not vote APC? I will. There is not other reasoning.

9ja_I_hail:

Now i got it. You are a Northerner hence the reason you want the status qua of one sided army to remain untouched.... But how long do you children of pharaoh think you can hold the rest of Nigerians to ransom?

Well, at least you didn't disappoint.

9ja_I_hail:

It is pathetic and act of cowardice the way some of you desperately,relentlessly defend northern Nig whenever anyone points out their sins or cheat of decades.... I am fully aware that most of you do so just to make everyone believe that Nigeria is balanced.Most of you are doing so because you don't want war or division of Nigeria forgetting that we all cannot be cowards who die in silent, I am ashamed of most of you who chose to live with this fraudulent foundation laid by Britain..... Some of you appeared satisfied to live with this status qua because you are afraid Northerners may took up arms if Southerners challenge their dominance..

How can you say Nigeria army officers are predominantly by igbo without facts to back up your claim? Now you are referring us to Nairaland thread. My advice to you is, Stop smoking some dangerous chemical as evidently, the chemical is fast drilling your sense of reasoning dry.

I believe that Nigeria is largely a farce, I don't defend the north but the solution to our situation is not to give the other guy his own gun, it is to create the situation where both sides are not afraid of one another. Fixing Nigeria is a very basic thing, I could tell you everything exactly as it needs to be done. this ethnic paranoia and hostilities coupled with absolute stewpidity is what it ruining Nigeria.

alex101: Before we go further, can you, for the record(s), state your ethnic background. I'm Igbo, for the record.

I am Tiv, from Benue state. Born and raised Catholic, just to put that out there. Though Benue state is largely considered part of the north we obviously have no connection to fulani/hausa. perhaps my removal from the situation is why I can be objective. No doubt you will find a way to use this against me

asha 80: i never knew igbos are from the southwest.

They aren't from the North either so his point would be moot all the same.

http://www.naijapundit.com/news/aftermath-of-gumi-s-warning-northern-senators-meet-over-igbo-domination-in-army

http://elombah.com/index.php/articles-mainmenu/14389-sheikh-ahmad-gumi-rants-on-igbo-domination-of-nigerian-army

P.S. I never said they should not open another academy, I think it is a good idea, not in the Niger-Delta though, those people just want an official militia training facility, I was objecting to the following.

alex101:
One of the main ways to tackle this problem of northern domination of the armed forces is to push for a geopilitical/state police force,,,that will allow each zone/state to arm her/its police force to the brim, with some of the best equipment, with which they can even defeat an army. This is why the wicked northerners are kicking against state/regional/zonal police .

This dude basically said we should arm ethnic interests with the means to wage civil war, one army is fine for now.

PointB:

In which way is the Nigeria Army predominantly Igbo? What evidence or records do you have to back that up? I hope you are not referring to the roundly discredit petition against promotion made by unknown faces recently?

The thread is on Nairaland, it had multiple lists that showed army "officers" (believe it or not there is a difference when you say officers) to be largely from the south west.

alex101: One the reasons I detest the dungeon called nigeria is the mere fact that majority of nigerians are predominantly blind and can never reason like humans. People, especially certain folks in southern nigeria hardly see the domination of the army by the north as a major threat to all in the south. Little wonder why most of the military rulers we've had were/are northerners. To this day, most of the comptrollers of customs (if not all) are northers; majority of the police IGs are northers,,,et.al.

All these are vital security outfits and are manned predominantly, by northerners. This is the reason why you have fulani cattle pushers fighting their hosts in various communities in nigeria, because they have their people in the armed forces to back them up.

One of the main ways to tackle this problem of northern domination of the armed forces is to push for a geopilitical/state police force,,,that will allow each zone/state to arm her/its police force to the brim, with some of the best equipment, with which they can even defeat an army. This is why the wicked northerners are kicking against state/regional/zonal police .

First of all I saw it very recently, the Nigerian army officers are predominantly Igbo people so that notion goes out the window.

Secondly your solution to the problem is absolutely horrible, Nigeria is full of regions always arguing and accusing one another and your suggestion is "let us give each one of them the means to destroy the other"?, are you trying to start a second civil war?

We should have state police but they should have no more than a standard glock 45. Your reasoning is just as bad as MOST Nigerians.

sambos994:

The aid that US has given us hasn't reached the general population, so don't need them. Russia is a no-no I agree with that. China, we'll have to be careful with them.

That is not exactly the Americans fault now is it and besides unlike Nigerian money, aid money is American so they can keep an eye on what is done with it and the money we get as aid is ultimately more likely to be used productively, for example do you think we'd still be getting aid money if it randomly disappeared like our budget often does? That morphine you got when you went to the hospital last could well have been procured with that aid money, you have no way of knowing. My problem with you guys is that you have a tendency to skew things to fit your assumptions which are often based on assumptions that you thought up yourself. Nobody is that stupid, the US will not continue to give a corrupt country like Nigeria money unless it has some notion of what is going to happen to that money and they have some way to verify that it is at least largely going where it ought to.

sambos994: Eh, we can do without the US. What have they done for us, honestly? I can't think of one thing. The only thing I saw them do is protest to the State of Emergency.

They give a lot of US Aid even to us(I don't blame you for not knowing, people don't even remember what you did for them), unlike easterners that try to take over your country( Russia and their USSR, China's grasp on Tibet, Taiwan and Hong kong), in the west a country is expected to deal with its own problems and be independent. Nobody is here to give us handouts and while Nigeria doesn't necessarily need the US, we don't need Russia or China either and we certainly don't need their tendency to oppress and dominate people.

Nigeria is so funny, who was responsible for the money? You lock whomever it was up, its that simple.

As long as we do not adopt their policies and ideologies, I am cool with this.

There is a comparable difference though, the south were unhappy because they couldn't keep their slaves, the major source of their economy, with other sources discovered they got over it but Nigerians are unhappy because they are being oppressed by the federal government and that has to change so while the American problem would have naturally been overcome in a matter of time ours still needs a bit of work.

In case you haven't noticed, its not exactly a happy union.

musiwa25: meaning is population claim by nigeria govt and you can see, the government of nigeria tells lies about population of states.


now let me help you out what % of investment comes into nigeria in ratio to africa. let than 5%.


What are the chances of an investor investing in nigeria. it is probability of 1: 54because there are 54 countries in africa.


what will happen if we go back to what is legally government which is 3 countries which are legal. it means 1:18 the investment will be in Nigeria.

This is the main reason why investment down not come to nigeria.

Now what % of grant and investment. that comes to Nigeria.. it will increase investment into nigeria by above 15% to africa.


You are also a better society with less security problem and also very stable country. So it increase your investment potential.. But now, you are an unstable and an unsecure society.

That is the dumbest reasoning I've ever heard. Investment is not random, splitting the country into 100 pieces will not increase investment by even a fraction, I know that you will not understand since you came up with that garble and were confident enough to post it here. People invest in a particular place based on opportunity because it is the most ideal for what they want, Enugu will always be the most ideal or not for whatever you want no matter how you slice and dice the country, if the government is stunting investment then the solution is a change in policy, splitting boarders does nothing in itself. Safe to say there is no atom that is correct in what you just said.

Chances of investment is not 1:54, I am sure Nigeria gets more investment that chad, Niger, Mali, Central African Republic, Somalia and a host of other countries, the only way it would be 1 in 54 would be if every country in Africa got equal investment and by virtue of size alone Nigeria will surely get more than at least half the countries in Africa, in any case there are no hard values involved with what you said, you are just feeding us the crap you are cooking up in your head. You want to deceive Nigerians into accepting YOUR dreams?

98% of those peoples failures can be blamed on the nation, while it is quite true that some of them would have failed no matter where they where, they were never really given the chance to fail by themselves, the country failed us for us.

We don't serve the system, it should serve us so if it doesn't encourage us to succeed then it is faulty and should be thrown out, hope you'll keep that in mind Mitt Romney.

The very things preventing us from prospering are the same things that will prevent us from breaking up. If we can ever reach a time when breaking up is realistic there won't really be a need to anymore and it will be in our interests not to.

It is horrible, there is no upside to it but in Nigeria when things aren't working we simply change whatever random thing we can in the hope that by some miracle it will fix likely unrelated problems.

The suggestion that we will continue to increase by EXACTLY 1600 MW every twelve years is quite shocking.

Immigration is something the federal government is empowered to tackle, assuming we are talking about the illegal kind so that doesn't count as an excuse . More importantly do you know that the federal government has more powers within a states than the state governments themselves? In addition to this they also have overruling powers on any move made by the states, security and law enforcement within the states is also federal jurisdiction, it can be argued that the mandate to govern states is federal and the states are just there for babysitting, crossing t's and dotting i's. So yes, considering that the only person paying any real attention to Lagos is Fashola any good that comes out of there is definitely his doing but since the federal government has claimed most of the powers in the state they must take the blame of whatever goes wrong there.

If you'd notice, the biggest problem in Nigeria is the structure of government, the federal government has claimed responsibility and means over places it does not intend to govern, leaving these lands to governors and then limiting their means to do anything productive so if anything good it done it will always be in spite of the federal government and when bad things happen it will always be because of the federal government. Unfortunately the system is excessively weighted towards nothing positive happening and this is ingrained largely because while states are technically individual their finances are not so while you are planning for the economy of one state your formula would have to include 35 other states and a federal government that you do not have any power over, also whatever plan you have will require that all the others, I mean all of them are equally prosperous, which is impractical and grossly improbable. So, if by correct direction you mean giving the states the financial autonomy and considerable powers over their states they need then yes I agree with you, otherwise they are just throwing good money after bad. These are the problems that must be fixed otherwise its all moot.

mmark12:

NO OFFENCE OR RESPECT BUT THE REALITY IS THAT 2050 NIGERIA WILL STILL BE STRUGGLING WITH ELECTRCITY ISSUES.

No offense but there is no way to now that, if that is pessimism please keep it to your self and if you are wishing Nigeria bad I pray you get the same fortune for the next 40 years. mtcheew!

ITbomb:
Are we not saying the same thing @ the bolden?
I dont understand what you meant by higher price.
Still using petrol as an example, Nigeria has a low petrol price in the world at $0.62 compared with Ghana at $0.92, SA at $1.38, Kenya at$1.37, US at 0.97 and UK at $2.17. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EP.PMP.SGAS.CD
Same with cars ordered and sold at global prices in Nigeria.
Even in most establishments, Salaries are paid at globally competitive rates and a Samsung phone launched in US is also launched in Nigeria selling at the same price and more Nigerians are buying comfortably than before..
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You want to know what inflation is? Go to Zimbabwe .

The price of oil could and should be much lower and in the united states things like htc one, iphone 5 are pretty standard items, in Nigeria they are luxury. People were buying the latest Nokia by the bulk when it was hip in the early 2000s as well so buying latest phones doesn't mean jack, how many of those people actually bought it within budget, are they more than there are people in villages with out jobs or clothes, are they more than the people who live in dumps and zinc houses? The country is not working, it is that simple. You are like one of those nobles in France who saw their friends living large and assumed king Henry must be working, until the commoners came and beheaded the full. Go to the dumps in the country and tell me if the number of people who live there has reduced then tell me if those people who no longer go there have found jobs, until then stop judging the nation by the lives of people who live in your directly observable range. I doubt you pay much attention to the people who live under bridges when you drive by.

ITbomb: In my own assessment, poverty has reduced in Nigeria.
I went to buy fuel and saw others also buying comfortably at N97 per litre, I thought to myself, is this the same product that caused mass protest when its price was increased from N26 to N42 in 2003?
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What is the difference?
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Although things cost less then but because of poverty then people could not afford it at that price.
Today because of the improvement in the economic welfare and purchasing power of the people, someone can afford to buy 10litres of fuel to enable his family to watch Super Story.
Prices of cars are many times higher than 2006 but people are finding it easier to buy cars and fuel them.
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People may talk about the exchange rate but economically that is a one-sided view of the whole picture.
The Japanese Yen to is 97.55 to a dollar, that is high but the economy is strong.
It is the stability of the exchange rate that matters and not the value to the dollar. And in that regards, GEJ has scored another high.

Its called inflation, poverty reducing is when the people can afford to buy more things, not the same things at higher prices, inflation is unavoidable.

Dracula27%:
Why are we being taken on an intellectual ride?
Has Fashola's good governance in Lagos reduced poverty in Lagos state?
There a foundations on which the future can be built and that is what is really important.

It is hard to reduce poverty in any state if you have limited powers to regulate the population or economy. What happens in Lagos is greatly influenced by forces Fashola has no power over, much of this is thanks to the constitution but most straight forward is the fact that we have a constant stream of poor people running to Lagos every day, that there is the nugget. Even if the lives of residents living in Lagos when Fashola assumed office has improved it won't mean much owing to the fact that a few million more people have moved there and have now become his responsibility. For any governor to enrich his state, they all must and that guarantees the failure of Nigeria.

There is no question that PDP has failed, whether APC can do better is an unknown and quite frankly it is beside the point, voting PDP out in 2015 is a national imperative, their ineptitude is palpable.

A bunch of illiterate old farts.

GreenBobo:

SORRY BRO....I dont play the blame game.... people should always do what is right... thats my simple submission!

What is there to blame anybody for here and what did GEJ do right that you brought him into the issue? What do you do when people do those things that are wrong? Who said anything about blame?

My point here is that Tinubus action had nothing to do with GEJ so why did you brong GEJ into it? I observe that you are a GEJ fan first and foremost.

GreenBobo: YOU SHOULD GO TO LAGOS ISLAND RIGHT NOW AND SEE WTF AM TALKING ABOUT...

The correct form here would be to criticize Tinubu, not to use this as a tool to praise GEJ.

Anybody care to explain wtf he just said?

Oil money is enough? Soon become world power? haha, you guys made me laugh.

sheyie2007: Who cares shove ur aid up Elizabeth's asss

I don't agree with your position but I had to like your post, it is easily the funniest thing I've read all week.