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khattab02: One may ask, what is the NDDC and Ministry of Niger delta doing? Is the federal government not pumping money there? Hear this statment '' it not oil theft, it is making use of God given resource'' may be u should build your own refinery and extract the oil your self. It Really absurd to make these statements

ziccoit: Ex militants the SS & SE Boko harams are criminals like their counterparts in the North. The government must declare a state of security emergency and clamp them down now. Who are they to dictate for the rest of Nigerians. Bunch of unserious bingos.

Sincere 9gerian: The reasons for the poor ranking of Nigeria, according to the report, are:

-weak institutions (ranked at 129th out of 148)
-engrained corruption, undue influence, weakly protected property rights, insecurity (ranked at 142nd),
-poor infrastructure (ranked at 135th)
-poor primary education (ranked at 146th)

Well, many of those criteria are either joint responsibility of all tiers of govt or responsibility of other tier of govt. For instance, primary education is not the responsibility of GEJ. It is the constitutional responsibility of state and local govt. So @Gbawe and other APC sycophants should tell their masters that the poor primary school education in their states is affecting the ranking of Nigeria.

The other criterias including weak institutions, corruption, poor infrastructures,etc is an indictment on all tiers of govt- state, federal and local govt. It shows that they ALL have to do MORE.

Maxymilliano: Nigeria is not moving backwards in all aspect, except you are the one moving backward. The index only confirm the statement credited to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,  Nigeria’s Minister of Finance recently that the country’s economy is“strong but with vulnerabilities” ...

Nigeria dropped five places from last year's 115th position to 120th.

It worries the compilers of the index that Nigeria's economy is struggling to keep up despite overt advantages over other African countries.

It identifies weak institutions (ranked at 129th out of 148); engrained corruption, undue influence, weakly protected property rights, insecurity (ranked at 142nd), poor infrastructure (ranked at 135th) and poor primary education (ranked at 146th) as the reasons for the country's abysmal rating.

“I hate to hear the word ‘oil thieves or oil theft’ because the people you want to label as thieves are simply trying to make use of their God-given resources. In other words what they are doing is the legitimate ‘resource control’ that we have been talking about.

“The truth of the matter is that the Niger Delta people are simply controlling their resources and not stealing any oil,” Boyloaf said.

omenka: It would be a sheer waste of time engaging you in an arguement.

humblesteve: Transformation my foot. *Hiss*

DonColz1: Nigeria has a serious problem, jonathan government is a confused government, there is too much money in nigeria, but they would be using it to buy yatch, jet, and luxurious that are not adding anything to the growth of the nation, jonathan government does not focus on economic growth but focuses on personal growth, after all the promises he made during his 7 point agenda, nigeria is still the same, the problem with jonathan government is planning, and this is going to cripple the nigeria if he does not plan how to use the resources of nigeria..

Nigeria ranked among world’s poorest competitive countries
News Friday, September 6, 2013


Nigeria dropped five places from last year's 115th position to 120th.

Despite the efforts to diversify the economy and attract investors by the Jonathan administration, Nigeria is still ranked among the stragglers in the Global Competitive Index, GCI, 2013-2014 released Wednesday by the World Economic Forum.

Nigeria dropped five places from last year's 115th position to 120th among the 148 countries profiled.

The GCI, which was introduced in 2004, measures how the set of institutions, policies, and other factors determine the level of productivity of a country. The GCI scores is calculated by drawing together the 12 pillars of competitiveness namely: institutions, infrastructure, macroeconomic environment, health and primary education, higher education and training, goods market efficiency, labour market efficiency, financial market development, technological readiness, market size, business sophistication and innovation.

According to the ranking, Nigeria is placed in the poorest pool of economic development possible. Nigeria ranked as a "factor driven" economy with the likes of Liberia, Lao, Mali and Yemen.”

There are four stages of development with innovation-driven economies being the best pool of nations.

It worries the compilers of the index that Nigeria's economy is struggling to keep up despite overt advantages over other African countries. For instance, the report noted that Nigeria, due to its population, enjoys a large market size (32nd position) "which has the potential for significant economies of scale and is an important factor for attracting investors."

It identifies weak institutions (ranked at 129th out of 148); engrained corruption, undue influence, weakly protected property rights, insecurity (ranked at 142nd), poor infrastructure (ranked at 135th) and poor primary education (ranked at 146th) as the reasons for the country's abysmal rating.

It also points to the over reliance on oil and the poor penetration of ICT as the other reasons for the country's poor showing.

Meanwhile Mauritius has overtaken South Africa as the most competitive country in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ranked at 45th position the country moved up nine places this year. The country's enviable showing is bolstered by "transparent public institutions (ranked at 39th) with clear property rights and strong judicial independence and an efficient government (29th)," the report noted.

reflx: this is simply mental incapacitation, please he should honorably step aside.

Akamu and Stew: Where are the sycophants??

Where are the attack dogs and lions??

What deafening silence from the fools...

payless: Surprisingly, they have left Buhari alone in the last 10 days. Atiku is their next target of GEJ enemy. Only God knows who they fight next as GEJ enemy. Whoever chooses to aspire to be president is an enemy to them. Let them keep doing what they are doing and see where it lands GEJ and his supporters. GEJ is currently facing an impeachment threat from Northern legislators. It is quite clear that PDP they've been voting for is owned and controlled by Hausas. Jagaban Tinubu, Buhari and APC in general are the wilcards here when it comes to any impeachment in the National Assembly. APC can let it go through or stop the impeachment on its track. The same APC they have been berating for the last two years.

2015: Jonathan faces impeachment threat
POSTED ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2013


•Mark warns against another civil war

By Habib Aruna (Lagos) and Chinwendu Nnadozie (Minna)



Leaders of the factional group in the troubled ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seem to be consolidating their hold on the party with moves for possible impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan if he refuses to jettison his yet to be declared aspiration to contest the 2015 Presidential poll.

The ‘New PDP,’ as the splinter group is known, it was gathered, has started to compile signatures in both chambers of the National Assembly to move against the President if their conditions for resolution of the crisis currently rocking the party were not met.

Apparently realising their possible superior numerical strength and the fact that the balance of power may have tilted in their favour, the new group is telling the President to either forget his 2015 ambition or get ready for impeachment.

The crack in the ruling party widened on Tuesday when no fewer than 57 members of the party in the House of Representatives declared their support for the splinter group.

The lawmakers made the declaration a day after 22 of their colleagues in the Senate took a similar step.

Even so, sources said on Wednesday that some other lawmakers who would have signed the allegiance document were not in town as the House is on recess.

The sources were sure that those members of the House now on break would endorse the document when they return.

The ‘New PDP’, whose birth was announced on Saturday by its Chairman, Kawu Baraje, originally had in its fold former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and seven state Governors elected on the platform of the crisis-torn party.

The Governors include Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara) and Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano).

The others are Chibuike Amaechi (Rivers), Sule Lamido (Jigawa) and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto).

The defecting lawmakers in the House were essentially drawn from the seven states whose Governors led the revolt against the leadership of the ruling party on Saturday.

A top member of the ‘New PDP’ who would want to remain anonymous said going by events of the past five days, the party under the leadership of Bamanga Tukur should know that they were not joking.

“We are tired of meetings upon meetings, the ‘New PDP’ wants the President to come out with a categorical statement that he is no longer interested in contesting for the Presidency in 2015. That is what will soothe the nerves of many of us for now,” the source said.

He continued: “Apart from the pressure on other lawmakers to join the fold, we are also reaching out to the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) through their members in the National Assembly to checkmate this abuse of power by those we consider as enemies of democracy.”

Daily Independent reliably gathered that Jonathan had been told by promoters of the splinter group that not only should the National Chairman of the party, Bamanga Tukur, be sacked, the President must honour the alleged agreement with some party chieftains in 2011 to serve only one term or face impeachment.

This development may have reinforced the belief of those who had always said the fight for the soul of the PDP was to deny Jonathan the platform to consummate his yet to be declared second term ambition.

The source further said the planned impeachment move was meant to force him to reconsider his position on 2015.

“You can call it a bargaining chip in the hands of his opponents. But if he is pragmatic enough he would think twice before jumping into the fray. So, the factionalisation of the party was a signal to Jonathan to halt his ambition to run for a second term,” the source said.

“We are demanding that he publicly renounces any ambition to run a second term or face impeachment in the National Assembly. The choice is his.”

At the moment, PDP has 204 members in the House of Representatives, All Progressives Congress (APC) has 137, while the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and Accord Party have five members each.

The Labour Party has eight, while the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) also has five members.

But with the defection of 57 PDP members to the ‘New PDP’ and more expected to join their ranks, they could combine with the 137 members of the APC to effect a change of leadership in the lower chamber of the National Assembly.

In the Senate, the PDP, before the new faction, had 74 members, APC 33 members and Labour Party, two members.

The power equation in both chambers has changed dramatically with the latest development and some are already calculating that National Assembly leadership may become the first victim of the power play if they act as a stumbling block to the plans of the ‘New PDP.’

And as the crisis within the PDP is getting to a feverish pitch, Senate President, David Mark, on Wednesday warned Nigerians, particularly the political class beating the drums of war ahead of the 2015 general elections, to have a change of heart because “Nigeria cannot afford another civil war.”

Speaking when he led other members of the Alumni Association of Course 3 of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) who were in Minna for their Annual General Meeting (AGM) to pay a courtesy call on Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu, at the Government House, Minna, Mark reminded all that “war does not build but rather destroys a nation.”

“The strength of Nigeria is in our unity and not in our division, so let us all work together for the unity and progress of this country.

“Wars will do no one any good. The best thing Nigerians as individuals can do to promote peace and live in peace with one another is by disregarding acts that separate us as a people not withstanding tribal, religious and political differences,” the Senate President said.

Speaking against the backdrop of threats to the unity of the country ahead of the 2015 general elections, Mark reminded Nigerians that “the unity of Nigeria is extremely important.”

“We urge Nigerians to ensure peace and not shout wars because when there is no peace there will be no development. I will work for the unity and peace of this country because our strength is in our unity, not in our division; so we must all work for the unity of this country.

“The peace and unity of this country cannot be compromised for anything. We must look at some fundamental issues in this country and we should also not talk about secession again in this country.

“Many lives were wasted in this country in our first attempt at secession, so we are calling on all Nigerians to embrace peace and stop war slogans. There cannot be development without peace and our strength lies in our unity as a nation,” he added.

ckkris: There's no battle yet. People are just declaring where they stand. Actions will commence from June 2014, except that greedy people have shown their weak hands too soon. When TEAM JONA emerges, you must be impressed.

PDP Splitsville: Baraje Faction Threatens Bamanga Tukur With Jail
Posted: September 5, 2013 - 20:24

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"Aboki" Atiku and the boys are not smiling at all !!!!

By SaharaReporters, New York
The New PDP, under the leadership of Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, has asked its lawyers to press contempt charges against Alhaji Bamanga Tukur for flouting the orders of a Lagos High Court which asked both sides to maintain the status quo pending the resolution of the case before it on who should lead the party.

A statement issued last night by the National Secretary of the Baraje-PDP, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, condemned the press conference addressed by Tukur in Abuja on Wednesday during which he threatened to sack members of the National Assembly who have declared support for it, and arrest its officers.

Recalling the instructions of the court, Oyinlola said his faction would ask the court to commit Tukur to jail for his disdain for the law and the judicial system.

"We have always been saying it that Tukur represents everything that must not be seen in a democratic organization,” he stressed. “His statement demonstrates not just impunity but also lawlessness and crass ignorance of the tenets of the law and democratic ethos.”

Oyinlola said Tukur displayed his disdain for law and order with his threat to order the arrest of law abiding persons in a democracy.

“We ask what powers he has under our laws to make that statement and what gave him the impression that Nigeria has become a police state where impunity reigns and citizens can be arrested at the whim of any power drunk tzar. Fortunately, our country is a democracy under the rule of law and not under the rule of man. The police and our other security agencies cannot be used to further such agenda as being nurtured in the dictatorial mind of Tukur.”

He asserted that only an ignorant person would threaten to sack elected Senators and Representatives for staying on the side of truth, justice and fairness, reminding Tukur that members of the National Assembly were elected by the people of Nigeria and are not his appointees whom he can dismiss like the minions in his private residence.

On Tukur’s reference to the Baraje-led leadership of the PDP as “impostors,” Oyinlola asked if Tukur does not know that the endorsement of their faction’s cause by elected representatives of the people across all tiers of government has vindicated their position that what they represent in the party today is what the people want.

“We challenge him to call out those who are with him in his clear journey to perdition even as we add that Tukur should come to terms with the reality of the end of his reign of terror, impunity, dictatorship and lawlessness in our party."

bloggernaija: How men like these ever got to power is one of the biggest mysteries ever.
This man has the carriage of a motor park tout

cKaiser: Have we had a more useless President?

Always looking for someone to blame

OCt 1 2010 bomb blast he blames IBB and Dokpesi

NLC subsidy protest, He blames Tinubu and Fashola

Boko Haram He blames Buhari and Emirs

Rivers crisis he blames Amaechi

PDP crisis He blames OBJ

Thats what you get when you vote a morron who has never learnt to be held responsible for anything in his life

When would this useless Retardeen know that he is the president and accept responsibility for once.

anago12: oga pack well you no dey make sense. You know my problem with all y'all gej yansh lickers stop selling him with all this religious, ethnic and self pity lines. Sell him with his performance unfortunately it's like looking for water in sahara desert.

Standing5: I am recommending ''The Art of Party Reputation and Ideology Building'' by Tinubu B. To all PDP members in the house. The materials details the polical version of counter attack move in football.

Lagos APC Sees Implosion of PDP As Good Omen For Nigeria
Posted: September 5, 2013 - 11:31

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By Joe Igbokwe
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress sees the protracted crisis presently rocking the Peoples Democratic Party as good omen to completely free the country from the vice grips of a desperate cabal that is behind the ruination of the country and its enormous resources in the past fifteen years. The party urges all Nigerians to project beyond PDP in their search for redemption from the farcical mess the PDP has made of governance and the lives of Nigerians.

In a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Interim Publicity Secretary of the APC, Joe Igbokwe, the party says that the disintegration of the PDP is long overdue as nothing built on greed and corruption lasts. It says that the time has come for Nigerians to rally round the APC to banish the long years of misrule, ineptitude, corruption, decay and poverty which have been the hallmarks of PDP’s sad and unfortunate rule these past fifteen years.

“What is happening in PDP today is a reflection of the base foundation that has been responsible for the artificial growth of the party. The contradictions in the PDP and its continued manipulation of the country’s electoral process to stay in power is returning horrible results for the party presently and we see this as a natural outcome of a party built on false grounds and grown by intense corruption and brigandage in governance. We see the implosion of the PDP as a great necessity for the progress of the country and the present democracy and we restate out belief that this is of tremendous positive impact to the general life of the country and indeed all Nigerians.

“Lagos APC knows, as other Nigerians, that the growth of the PDP had been artificial and had been nurtured by greed, corruption and impunity, to the detriment of the general masses and the entire country. We know that PDP had achieved artificial growth at the expense of Nigerians who have been witnessing geometric worsening of their fate in the face of an unceasing oil boom for the past fourteen years. We know that while poverty, want and despair had been ravaging Nigerians, the members of the PDP have been smiling home with their rich harvest, which was preened from the resources that would have improved life in Nigeria. We know that the PDP had been deploying state resources these past fourteen years to plug the raging tempest and insurrection within the inchoate party while Nigerians suffer their worst ever economic peril these past fourteen years.

“We see the degeneration of the crisis in the party at present as a demonstration of the limited capacity of greed and corruption to serve as glue to arrest the predictable war in the PDP. We see the continued fracture of the party as a proof that a people are not foaled all the time even as they are fooled most of the time. We therefore urge all Nigerians to dump the rickety umbrella with its retinue of corrupt and amoral leaders and join the train of salvation, which the APC has become in the face of the historical failure of the PDP in the past fifteen years. We want to let Nigerians know that the APC is a sound and competent alternative to the PDP’s misrule and Nigerians should join now and start the quest to recover what is remaining of the country after fifteen wasted years in the hands of the PDP.”

Joe Igbokwe.
Interim Publicity Secretary,
Lagos APC.

anonimi: Do you want to continue spewing your propaganda rubbish and keep giving us the opportunity to show you for exactly what you are
Na your choice oh Misitah Gbawe.
There are states even in the north doing school feeding as recently as this report in July.



You must be thinking this is still 1949 wey dem dey take pen pal letter dey do 419, abi?

https://www.nairaland.com/1425511/nigerian-yahoo-boys-scamming-westerners

Osun State's Transition Strategy Sign Off


Last Updated on Friday, 15 February 2013 17:19
PCD board member Uwem Esiet shakes hands with deputy governor for Osun State Otunba Titilayo Laoye-Tomori at the Transition Strategy Plan sign off in Osun State

A ceremony was held on November 22 seeing the official sign-off by the Osun State Government on its Elementary School Feeding Transition Strategy Plan (TSP).

The TSP document was developed at the request of the State Government to strengthen the capacity needed to implement the state's school feeding programme effectively; to benefit schoolchildren as well as smallholder farmers.

It is the result of a joint analysis led by the Ministry of Education, Schools Feeding and Health Programme Unit and the Ministry of Agriculture, in collaboration with Ministry of Health, the Partnership for Child Development (PCD) and its development partners.

At the ceremony Osun State Deputy Governor, Otunba Titilayo Laoye-Tomori, PCD Nigeria Programmes Manager, Abimbola Adesanmi and PCD Board Member Uwem Esiet came together to oversee the signing.

The Osun State, Nigeria Home Grown School Feeding programme (known as the Osun Elementary School Feeding and Health Programme (O’MEALS)) was re-launched in the state on April 30 2012, which had originally been piloted in 13 states across Nigeria in May 2006, as part of the country’s Home Grown School Feeding and Health Programme (HGSFHP).


Since its re-launch the Osun State pilot immediately saw food delivered to 1,378 primary schools in Osun. This provision of free school meals works towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, particularly those focused on Education.

[b]One of the objectives of the O’Meals programme is to increase enrolment and retention of pupils in schools. It is aimed at improving the nutritional and health status of pupils. It is also aimed at reducing poverty and stimulating development of small and medium scale enterprises.

Since the programme was launched, it has impacted positively on school enrolment with an increase of approximately 38,000 pupils going to school; representing a 25% increment after only four weeks of its introduction.

A total of 58,540 pupils were projected to enrol as new entrants to primary level one across the state in the current academic session. However, data collected after four weeks of the school term in October 2012, revealed that a total of 86,851 pupils enrolled as new entrants in primary level one across the State. There have also been low and minimal incidences of absenteeism in schools as compared with the period before the start of the O’Meals.

Plans are currently being made to increase the number of pupils benefiting from the programme to over 252,793 pupils from 194,253 pupils in primary level four.[/b]

The O’MEALS Programme has also helped to improve the production capacities of local produce, particularly poultry farmers and beef suppliers, who supply the protein contents of the school menu. The farmers in Osun are involved in all the components of the food menu and this has led to increased prosperity for smallholder farmers.

The programme is thus far an example of best practice in providing a win-win for children and local livelihoods through the provision of school meals for improved school health and nutrition locally sourced from smallholder farmers.

herodotus: who is deceiving who? It was oyinlola that started d programme of feeding primary school pupils nt d 'brainchild' of aregbesola...haba. And wikipedia as source ke? In academics, wikipedia isnt a veritable source. And pls tell aregbe nt 2 demolish FAKUNLE COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL!, d school is a legacy abeg!

Home Grown School Feeding in the State of Osun
The State of Osun school Feeding Programme (O’Meals) was initiated as a pilot from the federal Government in 2006. O’Meals had progressively grown to serve 1,382 public schools with over 190,000 pupils in all the 31 LGAs in the state of Osun. As a strategy to Banish HUNGER by increasing food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the O’Meals programme has become popular with the indigenes of the state of Osun.

SimonAndal:
Report by Wikipedia? Excuse me while I roll on the floor and laugh.

SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAM IN NIGERIA: A VEHICLE FOR NOURISHMENT
OF PUPILS
Isa Yunusa
Kano University of Science and Technology

Malnutrition disorders affect more than 42% of school children in Nigeria and are
responsible for 49% absenteeism of primary school age children. School Feeding Program
(SFPs) is designed to overcome malnutrition disorders through regular school-feeding to
improve the health/nutrition status and the education abilities of school children. This paper
reviewed Home Grown School Feeding and Health Program (HGSFHP) as an innovative
approach that may boost nutritional status in the public primary schools in Nigeria and their
levels of implementation by stake holders. The paper recommends to the Federal Government
that the program should be a national policy in order to boost the literacy and
health/nutrition status in the country.

Effect of HGSFHP on Enrolment in the Public Primary Schools
As it is in some of the nations of the world such as Brazil, Philippines, Cambodia,
Mali, El Salvador, Indonesia, Ghana, Bangladesh, Ecuador where school feeding program is
in place, data indicates that the program has also increased attendance and enrolment rates
over the years (Akanbi and Alayande, 2011). In Nigeria, worthy of note and disheartening is
that out of the twelve (12) pilot States, Osun State is the only state, as at today, still
implementing the program. All other states have abandoned it due to reasons best known to
them .

According to Garram Children’s School (2010) school feeding contributes to the
education and well-being of children. A hungry child does not grow, cannot learn as well and
faces many health risks in the future. School feeding can bring children into school and out of
hunger. School feeding responds directly to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
related to hunger and poverty (MDG 1), education (MDG 2) and gender equality (MDG 3),
and indirectly to child mortality and maternal health (MDGs 4 and 5) (Table 1):

Akamu and Stew: 1. Firstly, Second to comment isn't a bad at all. I dedicate my second position to the following people;

- Gbawe
- Katz
- Naptu2
- Musiwa
- Jarus
- OAM419
- Berem


2. Kudos to AregbeRascal for his relentless efforts to transform the State of Osun in all areas. The Rascal Governor is truly a visionary leader and an excellent administrator.

3. May God continue to bless and strengthen Tinubu and the APC for giving the people Of SW the most capable and result oriented Set of Governors in the whole of Africa.

4. May the fire of God, and thunder from Amadioha burn to ashes all enemies of SW Nigeria. Including but not limited to;
- PDP cockroaches and flies e.g. Beaf, Insincere Liberian, GEJ, Obj etc.
- Flat Headed tribal bigots from that side..

5. Anybody who doesn't vote for APC in the State of Osun is a MOR0N and an enemy of progress.

Last but not the least..

God bless me and my household