₦airaland Forum

Scholes007:
op you really need to come to east and see for yourself... i have once promise some people to post development in master energy industrial city where 7 companies are current been constructed...i will one day spare out my time and do that. As for now the fertilizer and plastic industries are 95% complete, the foods department that will most base on noodles and biscuits are attaining completion,for the steel fabrication and petro-chemical industries work is heavily on going and many other industries that has recently shown their interest also close to the industrial city lays a very vast farmland also owned by master energy conglomerate although not much have started on those farm but i believe it will mostly serve does industries . so pls if you have the money to invest try do it in the country not going to import

Scholes007:
what it means is that the govt is fighting to sustain its local economy and currency...not against ndi igbo
At least the importer should consider investing in economy to tap from govt reforms thats why there is development of indigenous industral complexs in south east especially in Abia and anambara states...

Scholes007:
you don't really know the economic hob in south east
anyway let me help you
1:commercial hob=onitcha and Aba
2:industrial hob=Aba nnewi and onitcha ...uturu(in Abia state)1 will be included if master energy city is completed.
3:Administrative hob=Enugu, owerri,awka,umuahia and finally Abakaliki

Scholes007:
on electricity in south east have you had of afam power station and where it is located...do you know this adminstration paid attention to that... have you heard of the proposed rehab of oji river thermal power station to be powered by coal in Enugu state...also are you aware of the 250MW thermal power station yet to be commissioned in aba so pls east is benefiting from this adminstration prove me wrong if you can.

Scholes007:
op you really need to come to east and see for yourself... i have once promise some people to post development in master energy industrial city where 7 companies are current been constructed...i will one day spare out my time and do that. As for now the fertilizer and plastic industries are 95% complete, the foods department that will most base on noodles and biscuits are attaining completion,for the steel fabrication and petro-chemical industries work is heavily on going and many other industries that has recently shown their interest also close to the industrial city lays a very vast farmland also owned by master energy conglomerate although not much have started on those farm but i believe it will mostly serve does industries . so pls if you have the money to invest try do it in the country not going to import

Scholes007:
what it means is that the govt is fighting to sustain its local economy and currency...not against ndi igbo
At least the importer should consider investing in economy to tap from govt reforms thats why there is development of indigenous industral complexs in south east especially in Abia and anambara states...

Scholes007:
op i think you lying here jst say what you no master energy deport have working since 2007 and pump price have been as stipulated by the govt even in the far East like Ebonyi and Enugu...where did you even get this?

aguiyi:
anuofia, simple economics you don't know yet you will be typing trash every now and then on topics that are way beyond your mental capacity.

demand and supply is what determines price in a free market.

have you asked yourself what Nigerians are doing with the US dollar that has made it so scarce that the price is heading north.

has it become our legal tender or we are experiencing an artificial scarcity created by those who have an agenda.

suddenly in this period of election the dollar is no more available. the naira started losing its value when the abokis gave their brother licence to buy and sell other currencies on the streets.now they are hording it creating panic in the process.

we no longer import much of rice
we no longer import cement
we no longer import much of cars

what then is the new line of business that is drying up the available foreign currencies. those who stashed the green back in their house with the hope of releasing them when their candidate wins election are only fooling themselves because they will regret it with the new policy that is coming.

that is how they intend to stabilize the naira

“In 2015, the federal government will be ramping up the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS)/McKinsey initiative to contribute an extra N160 billion in tax receipts and an aggregate of about N460 billion over and above the 2014 levels in the 2015-2017 period,” Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala said.

“There will be a surcharge on Business and First Class Tickets on Airlines. There will be no surcharge on economy tickets. There is also an imposition of 3 per cent luxury surcharge on champagnes, wines and spirits to generate about N2.3 billion in 2015;

In taxes, the minister hinted of a possible but gradual increase in Value Added Tax (VAT) but only as a long term measure, but in the medium term, focus will be on tax policy to see where opportunities lie to streamline and rationalize certain taxes and levies whilst looking to boost others.

Since 2004, no South Easterner can boast of buying any petroleum product at the government approved rate always, while the Govt approved rate is 97naira, south easterners buy between 110-115 naira, have you guys bothered to ask why? Ans; Enugu Depot is not working.

This is how it works, Petrol used in Enugu, Ebonyi, and Anambra come from either Portharcourt or Warri, if the right thing is done, it is supposed to be coming from the Enugu depot, the increased transport fare (tanker hire) will be added to the products so it hardly sells for the Govt approved rate.

Now you know, for a pretty long time, you guys have suffered this and Govt after Govt including Jonathan your beloved didn't care as much as OBJ never cared, do you know what the problem is ?

There is a pipeline section at Okigwe, it is not like the whole pipeline have to be replaced but just the Okigwe section, that is the Genesis of your suffering. I am yet to understand the zombie follower ship Jonathan has in the South East, South- South his father land has already dropped him like a hot object (Rivers and Bayelsa), what is the SE waiting for?

According to Patrick Obahiagbon " there is no reason for Nigerians to pontificate the faucet origo of a presidential aspirant" whatever that means .

There is an Igbo adage that says that the Local dog follows a man with running stomach with the hope that if he doesn't vomit, he will defecate, so far, Jonathan as the man with the running stomach has refused to defecate nor Vomit, it is mind bugling why the South easterners are following him about.

Chillisauce:
They dia, make this mexican drug pusher called truckpusher dey deceive you.
Time for yall to stop licking sh1t from ass holes
You dont even know he is a roasterbout.

Truckpusher na here you dey dey razzle small small girls as per say you dey work for oil rig.
You no tell them say na roasterbout you be ni
you don die for my hand today.
I dey come make i go drink my drugs.

Roast about, the giant ladies of the deck

Kingspin:
Am asking u? since to you no sector of the economy is receiving any attention. And u are convince by that so who will make this country be like the US and Britain?

i said his tenure had been been affected by the 2008 crisis as opposed to OBJ's tenure. I'm talking abt the affter effects of the crisis like capital flight, loss of investor confidence. The prevailing economic conditions under OBJ was better than GEJ.

Btw....so Jonathan is responsible for oil theft and for oil companies experiencing production shortfalls. I hope u know how deluded u sound. Do u remember dat it was during Yar'adua' tenure dat we had d biggest loss in oil ouput and revenue due to bunkering and sabotage by militants. U still remember the part GEJ played as VP and a niger-deltan to end militancy.

Why we couldn't save during the rainy days?? Do u remember the finance misnister complaining dat governors bluntly refused to have some money put away. They asked for the money to be shared....a right enshrined in the constitution. Jonathan is to be blamed for dat too

Well, I don't know if you are a personal friend to the finance minister to be privy to her bedroom talks, what we know as Nigerians is that, the Governors decided to take the FG to court to share the ECA because they found out that it was used to bankroll, Jonathan's 2011 election, if that is not misappropriation, what else? the governors lost confidence in the ability of the FG to remain the sole custodian of their general wealth.
The ECR has been in existence since OBJ's days and no Governor has ever asked for his share, can we safely assume that OBJ amidst his corrupt tendencies never tampered with those funds?

[color=#990000]"Why did we save under Obasanjo but not under Jonathan? Two keywords explain it: leadership and integrity. Governor Amaechi said the governors insisted on sharing the funds because they found out that you were illegally fiddling with the savings. So, as Nigerians still wonder, if billions of dollars are now ‘missing’ under your nose, why should governors trust you to keep their money? ".........Prof chukwuma Soludo.


"Furthermore, did the governors also stop the Federal Government from saving part of its share? If you ran a surplus budget at the Federal level, you would have had credibility to blame others or to say they did not listen to your advice. The key point is that since you were running huge deficits yourself, it was also in your own interest to share the ECA. You did not show leadership or credibility, full stop!"..........Soludo

We also know that before the Governors asked for their share of the ECA, the FG is already running a budget deficit, in court, the FG did not wait for judgement but agreed to settle out of court where they both agreed to share the funds, can we safely assume here that it was equally in the interest of the FG to share the funds (budget deficit concerns) irrespective of the fact that the governors were doing the asking?

We equally know that after the money was shared, the FG mapped out $1b from her share and called it SWF, till date we have not heard where the money is invested and what was done with it.

Finally, we know that the ECA account is entirely different from the foreign reserve account, under Jonathan ECA was shared and Foreign reserve depleted.

To answer your question on whose fault it was, Jonathan shared an ECR account created by OBJ, how many did he create?
Jonathan depleted the Foreign reserve account, another OBJ's brain child, how many did Jonathan create?

The norwegian boats u mentioned was acquired to stop piracy and consequently...oil theft. So Jonathan is wrong to commission the task to people who know the creeks more than the Nigerian military.

, who will refund our $48,000,000 stolen daily under their watch?

Your buhari and his cohorts from the north are the reason why d country is in the current mess. They laid no credible foundation as ex-leaders but rather spent their time abusing human rights and stiffling freedom.

Go sell ur garbage to d naive and uninformed.

The only mess I am seeing here is Jonathan till you prove otherwise.

You noticed that I've not said anything on job creation? This is because we need to get our fact right and not say my neighbour was employed by NTA under Obj, hence he is better than Jonathan. Let me restate that Jonathan often times goofed in his handling of the economy especially the free role given to NOI, that doesn't make his predecessor Obj better.

Nigeria as at today is moving towards capitalist economy, this means the civil service will continue to experience a downturn in employment while the private sector will employ more but admittedly the process is slow due to corruption in the system. With the exit of some rogues and the availability of FOI we shall continue to push for the War against corruption and will continue to disgrace corrupt officials, while we appreciate the government drives in his expansion project of the economy.

The Agric, transport and manufacturing sectors that are expanding is capable of creating lots of jobs that will make our country progress and not civil service redundant jobs.

Are you not tired of making blank statements? I have challenged the Agric sector pundits and so far, nobody can prove, that Jonathan has done anything different in that sector, as a matter of fact, most of the things Jonathan is making noise with in the Agric sector is what previous administrations don't even talk about, let me give you some examples.

Babangida and Abacha's PTF built the 13 existing Silos we have in this country, Jonathan promised another 20, so far, he has been able to deliver just 9, the rest are voice mail, so what is the noise about in the Agricultural sector?

Fertilizer distribution under Abacha's PTF revived NAFCON, kept it in business for years, today Jonathan's Fertilizer achievements cannot even revive NAFCON let alone keep it in business, sorry I forgot, NAFCON is now Notore, so what is that "iroko" that cannot have a meaningful impact in this country?
Rightly put, a chemical engineer could be employed by NAFCON before Jonathan, now, a graduate of chemical engineering is a beneficiary of fertilizer to start farming

On transport, he upgraded Akanu Ibiam airport to international status meanwhile, employment and revenue goes to the Ethiopian govt whose national carrier "Ethiopian airlines" is plying the airport

How about the fact that he forgot to do a rail line from Apapa to Onitsha housing the biggest market in west Africa, that rail line alone will knock off 40% of heavy duty trucks on the Lagos-Benin highway, he opted to repair the existing portharcourt to Enugu route, with zero economic relevance to the Nigerian people, as a matter of fact, a journey from PH to Enugu will cost you less than 2k for 3.5hrs, Jonathan's trains will probably cost less for 10hrs

Should the government up its power reform effort and pursue the provision of relevant infrastriucture as well as close up in fighting corruption, the sky will be our starting point. Thankfully, we are witnessing signs of seriousness, all we need is continuous support of the Government and criticism where possible.

With respect to Obasanjo, he KILLED the banking sector and almost destroyed our financial market, Sanusi Lamido had to clean up the system from scratch. That is why their jobs weren't sustainable. I am watching the new CBN boss and the Trade and Investment Minister closely.

"It did not cost Nigerian taxpayers one penny. Twenty-five new, stronger banks emerged but the powerful idea behind consolidation ignited something even more powerful—‘the race to the top’. Banks raised more capital, and even banks like First Bank, Zenith, GTB, etc that did not merge with others went on capital raising several times. The consequence was higher levels of capitalization and within two years, 14 Nigerian banks were in the top 1000 banks in the world and two in the top 300 (no Nigerian bank was in the top 1000 before I came). Even after I left office, still 9 banks were in the top 1000. Our vision was to have a Nigerian bank in the top 100 banks within 10 years. As I see the new Access bank; Zenith, GTB, Fidelity, Diamond, UBA, FBN, FCMB, Skye, Stanbic IBTC, Union, Ecobank, etc, I cannot but feel that we have taken giant steps forward"...........Chukwuma Soludo Prof..

Kingspin:
So u get the magic stick for Nigeria?

Kingspin:
Whats ur complain? That 4yrs now this govt has done nothing is that ur point. Am nt into APC blind argument if u tell me their is need for improvement 'YES' BUT, we are mature enof nobody can transform or change things overnite in this country. The journey will always be a continue one in the life of a nation. Nobody can do magic for this nation till tomorrow. Let everybody do his/her job.

Emeca:
these are all part of the private sector. do u really expect Jonathan to run both the private and public sectors as president. i hope u do know he is not Superman and he can only be in one place at a time. the prevailing economic situation then in OBJ's tenure is not the same with GEJ. GEJ's tenure has experienced the effects of the economic crisis of 2008 which started a year after OBJ's tenure and is still felt till today plus lost oil revenue as a result of militancy then coupled with Nigeria's perennial economic woes through our over-dependence on oil.

i dont know why most of you chose to blame GEJ entirely for the nation's problem. he merely inherited a rotten corpse of a nation. u cant expect him to revive a 54-yr old nation with severe problems across all sectors in just 6 years. its definitely going to take time.

Kingspin:
Dont claim ur blind more than a blind person. U have a state let him get u a job. 2015 election #Vote not Hate.

DoctorMcgruff:
Nissan? Hyundai? GE?

DoctorMcgruff:
but explain how this is the most ridiculous, surely u have a basis? can you dispute anything said?

barcanista:
You noticed that I've not said anything on job creation? This is because we need to get our fact right and not say my neighbour was employed by NTA under Obj, hence he is better than Jonathan. Let me restate that Jonathan often times goofed in his handling of the economy especially the free role given to NOI, that doesn't make his predecessor Obj better. Nigeria as at today is moving towards capitalist economy, this means the civil service will continue to experience a downturn in employment while the private sector will employ more but admittedly the process is slow due to corruption in the system. With the exit of some rogues and the availability of FOI we shall continue to push for the War against corruption and will continue to disgrace corrupt officials, while we appreciate the government drives in his expansion project of the economy. The Agric, transport and manufacturing sectors that are expanding is capable of creating lots of jobs that will make our country progress and not civil service redundant jobs. Should the government up its power reform effort and pursue the provision of relevant infrastriucture as well as close up in fighting corruption, the sky will be our starting point. Thankfully, we are witnessing signs of seriousness, all we need is continuous support of the Government and criticism where possible.

With respect to Obasanjo, he KILLED the banking sector and almost destroyed our financial market, Sanusi Lamido had to clean up the system from scratch. That is why their jobs weren't sustainable. I am watching the new CBN boss and the Trade and Investment Minister closely.

Kingspin:
We have the sure-p, youwin programs. The new agriculture sector is absorbing our unemploy youth today. This is a special measures taken by this govt and it yielding results.. The fact that it has not gotten to you doesn't shows that nothing is being done. The major work of any govt. is not to create direct job but to provide the enable enivronment that can drive and attract empowerment to it people especially the youth(unemployed). Programs like, education and training(skills) grante(loan),infrastructures etc. It about good policy moreover, govt cannot give everybody job. This is a new era of governance about millions of our youths have be empowered in the last 4years more is coming. Go do ur research incase ur doubting ?

ideologies:
reading through some post here, i pity some Nigerians who just stay in their bedroom, listen to propaganda spreaded by opposition. Without being objective, waiting for government to employ them.

1. There is no bank in Nigeria that have not recruited in the last 12months graduate trainees not to mention other positions.
2. Telecom is expanding, more recruits eg MTN/ETISALAT,
More SME's in the industry
3. The number of farmers in Nigeria is on the increase.
4. More enterpenurs - in the last 4years, have seen new brands of soap, fruit juice, creams, etc. Are people not working there??
5. E-commerce is on the increase, just go to business section and advert on Nairaland here and take your statistics. How many people knew konga, jumia, kaymu, dealday etc as at 2007
6. Companies in oil sector as recruiting weekly.
7. The number of tertiary institutions have increased since 2011, are they not recruiting new lecturers
8. More logistics and haulage firms

Have not even mentioned govt agencies, NNPC, CUSTOMS, NAVY, ARMY, FAAN, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, IMMIGRATION, Road safety, civil defense, etc.
THERE IS A BAKERY JUST AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE ESTATE, WHERE I LIVE, HE OWNER IS A BENEFICIARY OF YOUWIN.
The bakery is a product of YOUWIN, THAT BAKERY HAS 30staff.
Don't forget there are other beneficiary across the country,

SURE-P is also giving recent graduates, a-year experience in various fields to aid them get employment, some have been retained by the firms they worked

Some Nigerian are very funny, keep waiting …, instead of improving your skills, adding more value so that they can fit in the any job available, they keep spending hours on social media and waiting for government to spoon feed them.

People are changing jobs like tomorrow no de, as I speak, I had an interview today that O rescheduled for Thursday.
Check this jobs threads on all jobs advertised and find out the statistics.

I pity some people

You seems not sure of what you are saying, or i should say you don't know what you are saying, how many of your brother were employed and how many were employed from your street during OBJ's regim. He was the who kill our economy and thereby cause a lot of unemployment in the society, they did not have any arrangement with private industry on employment issue rather they focused on their personal revenue, do you know how much he collected from MTN and every 1% card recharged goes into his personal account......I can vividly remember one of OBj's statement " That he has not found anyone killed hunger and that many can afford to buy gulder for N200"

GOODLUCK CAME UP WITH:
1: HE INCREASED WORKERS SALARIES....WHEN I WAS SERVING I WAS PAID N9,500 WHICH IS NOW N19,500.

2: WE NOW HAVE SCHOLARSHIP BY THE FEDERAL GOVT TO ALL FIRST CLASS GRADUATE

3: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TO REVIVE ALL OUR DEAD INDUSTRIES THAT WERE KILLED DUE TO PAST LEADER PERSONAL EGO

4: SURE-P TO ENCOURAGE YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS

5: GRADUATE INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME ,TO MAKE ALL OUR GRADUATE MORE EMPLOYABLE

6: WOO INVESTORS, SO AS TO HAVE MORE INDUSTRIES BECAUSE WITHOUT INDUSTRIES THERE WILL ALWAYS BE UNEMPLOYED GRADUATE

you woo industries but your people are complaining of employment, who did the industry employ, ghosts?

7: MANY WERE EMPLOYED IN THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND OTHER MINISTRIES

juman:
Both are useless governments.
In this kind of third world country, provision of electricity 24/7 is important, both government failed woefully on that. Availability of 24/7 electricity would create millions of jobs.
Also development of agriculture is very important to complement money from oil, but both governments failed to improve agric significantly. nigeria can get more money from agriculture than from oil.

Also corruption were rampant, the country resources were milked away.
pdp is this country's nightmare.

Osakah24:
I wonder if its the same Obj I know. How much did he spend on insurgency? and how many people destroyed nigeria just to discredit him? smh.

9jatriot:
You mean he has made more noise about it on the media. Nothing really on ground to show development except what the government itself tells us, no blueprint for development, no real tangible improvement. the only area they seem to have done well is fertilizer distribution, even then I am taking their word for it and not from real farmers.

Hope you know that real farmers are in the villages not those portfolio farmers always attending one meeting or the other in Abuja.

Acidosis:
I think you should also consider the number of businesses the Corporate Affairs Commission has registered over the past 4 years.

By "job" do you mean those who wear suit and resume office 7 am? or those engaging in profitable and legal ventures?

Take a trip to CAC office at Ikeja and you will be amazed at the rate at which Nigerians troop in to get their businesses registered.

I won't stop insulting Nigerians because our level of reasoning is sooo low.

How can a normal human being examine job creation in the context of Immigration and UBA job? Are you guys really du.m b or you just choose to be du. mb on special threads against GEJ?

Do you know the number of graduates who now own their private schools? farms? e-businesses? where was nairaland 6 years ago and where is Nairaland today? who are those paying for the massive adverts on Nairaland today? What are they advertising? Poo?

Why not take statistics from CAC, FRSC? Why don't you analyse the rate at which youths get legal wealth, build houses, buy cars these days?

The world has moved away from the era of Civil Service/Servant most of you are advocating. This is the same evil your past military governments planted in your fore heads & corrupt eyes such that your eyes now view JOB creation ONLY in the context of SHELL, NNPC & CBN - that can barely take 100 employees (all together) in a whole year.

By the way, who says Govt aren't recruiting? The army Is currently recruiting graduates; go and get a form and stop perpetrating propaganda on the Internet. Some of us are not blind. We are aware of the fact that Dangote has recruited thousands of graduates over the past few years. We can see new lecturers In the new institutions, etc.

No government is perfect; none can do all; no one!

chinose:
It very unfortunate that we play politics with every topic, NNPC has employed graduates under GEJ,employment in the Banks which we tot was a good omen , sanusi came and showed that the boom in the banks under OBJ was fraud, now the local content bill wic has empowered local contractors wic should inturn create more jobs is not because of our black nature.GEJ is setting up processes that we will reap in the long run.channel just aired live SURE-P score card yet those that are afraid to write aptitude test by runing away from any structured employment exercise are talking any how.

fm7070:
There is employment opportunity for those who care to embrace it.
AGRICULTURE! AGRICULTURE!! AGRICULTURE!!!
There is no perfect government anywhere in the world that can provide adequate employment for her citizen
Let's have a paradigm shift from looking for a job to creating jobs.

Because you are running around Bird flu you think you are doing something, Jonathan has killed the ambition in the youth, imagine this one, don't you want to be among the govt employed veterinary team to be inspecting poultry and emergency response for epidemic diseases? Why must you be the laborer packing sh!t in the poultry? he actually thinks he is self employed at an SME level with small scale farming . Have you ever asked yourself what your credit options are in a corrupt Jonathan's Govt? One bad Govt policy, you will not remember where you started from. damn!! so many nitwits in this space.

Jonathan shared SMS fertilizer you are dancing, meanwhile behind your back yard in Ghana here, they have Agro Cargo export zone, with full storage capacity in most of their international airports, wont you like to be employed as an inspector for export agric products?
Damn! the average Nigerian on the street is not better than toad in reasoning.

realbomax:
get ur fact right b4 castigating someone. everything might nt be right with job searching but surep GIS has been fair in selection for d past 12 months eventhough it is nt permanent job but it's mission is still on course. GEJ has nt done well in stamping out corruptn finally but many pple who castigate him are as bad as he is. my experience is with state civil service job which fed govt is nt handling,can someone tell us how fairly has recruitment been conducted in his state without nepotism recently be it pdp or apc state?

kloride:
Did you guys consider economy melt down during this regime? Base your benchmark on this factor alone then you'll understand who have done more. My 10 kobo opinion though

ocelot2006:
My friend will you stop with the lies?!! 4000MW before GEJ?!! When OBJ could only fix 2 out of 4 turbines in Egbin with some power stations shut down?

Pre-GEJ power generated did NOT exceed 1500MW. But under the current " clueless" we've seen far more power stations constructed & commissioned; the gas supply issue greatly resolved through the GAS REVOLUTION, our transmission network rehabilitated and modernized with TCN outsourced to a competent Canadian Utility operator (Manitoba Power), our power sector (generation and distribution) liberalized with private sector participation, authorization given to state IPP to generate and distribute locally.

It was THIS administration that power generated exceeded the 1500MW and even peaked above 4500MW with talks of it even reaching 10,000MW before it was revised. it only dipped to 3800+MW a few weeks ago cos of a sabotaged gas line.

So PLEASE enough of your lies!