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That awkward moment when your own witness testifies against you in court.

Al Makura is in trouble

It appears SURE P is intervening in every sector in Nigeria. I thought it was only about railways & roads initially.

Countryman93:
I look forward to see how people will dispute this piece considering the fact that I can see the dates displayed on some of the pictures,so they are all projects on ground and not white elephant projects like some people will want to claim.carry on louis88,shed light into the dark.

wait till the APC goons come and tell you that the dates don't matter.
They always have a way of discrediting visible achievements of President Jonathan on this platform.

Yes, GEj has fulfilled the Lagos-Kano railway. People are now passing through that route daily by rail. On a scale of 1-10, I rate him 7

Agriculture holds the key to national development and I support what GEJ is doing in that area.
Many administrations before Jonathan paid lip service to Agriculture and just saw it as a conduit pipe for siphoning huge funds and grants.
Today, there is a marked departure from the past. Most interestingly is the way the minister stopped fertiliser racketeering through the E wallet system. if fertiliser can be accessible in open market, there is nothing else that will hinder Agricutural growth.

Whoever talks about impeachment a year before Elections? It seems APC has come to accept the obvious reality that they will lose the elections in 2015 therefore a resort to impeachment moves against Jonathan.

The last time I checked, APC is still the minority party in NASS so what gives Femi Gbajabiamila the audacity to speak so bodly of impeachment?

Sincere 9gerian: Recently, there was road contract bazzar for the north with the award of the following road projects by the FG:

It beats me hollow how they manage to hoodwink so many gullible Nigerians into the thinking that Jonathan is clueless in the face of all these tremendous achievements. Are they blind?

Somebody who resides in Kano knows how old the Kano Airport was looking before Jonathan came in, they know it's now wearing a completely new look but they will still come here to talk rubbish about Jonathan. It's incredible.

[quote author=Ken_Jak]If it's true,then,it's Very bad. A president that can ignore his hometown will certainly do nothing for his country then. Yar'adua's few time is far far better than Jonathan's years.[/quote]It is not true. President Jonathan has done far more than what any other president did for Bayelsa and Nigeria in general.
In less than 3 years as president, GEJ has built a new university for his people. Intervened in Kolo-Nembe road and working seriously on the East-West road that traverses bAyelsa.

As we speak, FHA has started the construction of 2,000 housing units in Bayelsa. There is a new Law school campus in Yenagoa.
The Gbarain NIPP power plant is 90% completed and due for commissioning soon. A lot of federal projects are ongoing in Bayelsa.

It is rather too unfortunate that such a matured and old man like Obasanjo will come out to accuse Jonathan of training snipers without having any serious evidence to back his claim up.
I read Obasanjo's letter and came to the irresistible conclusion that the former President was very desperate to whip up public sentiments against Jonathan. According to him, he heard that Jonathan was training snipers and placing 1000 people on watch list.
Even if Obasanjo doesn't want to disclose his source, he should have at least provided the location of the training and other little details that will make any serious minded Nigerian to take him serious.

But he just made an empty allegation without no iota of evidence based on hearsay.

I read through the letter written by Obasanjo and I could just sense malice.
He accused Jonathan of corruption and I ask, what other evidence of corruption is more compelling than the fact that OBJ appropriated to himself the job of Petroluem Minister without any summons or investigation by National Assembly. The Petroluem Ministry was ran like a secret cult under OBJ. No probes or investigations nothing. He amassed as much wealth as he wanted.

Obasanjo stole 16B for NIPP power plants and abandoned them halfway. It has taken Jonathan far less money to complete them and put them up for privatisation. Do we need to talk about the millions of dollars that went into Turn Around Maintenance of Refineries? Do we need to recall all the Haliburton deals? Do we need to recall how Ajaokuta steel company was sold to his son's associates? Do we need to tell the corruption story of Transcorp?

Obj has no locus to speak on good governance. But this is Nigeria.

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Mr op,
I understand your concern for prudence in governance but the people of South East region want their roads to be fixed at whatever cost.
The issue is that past Presidents have abandoned the road to rot away. Minister Onolemene captured it succinctly that no major repairs has been done in that road since 20 years ago. The situation is very bad so people will be very happy to see the reconstruction of that road.
Kudos Jonathan

This is madness. APC keeps showing cause why they cannot be enthrusted with the people's mandate at the federal level.
It's almost unthinkable that the party uses tax payers money to sponsor this madness in the name of a protest.
Are there no longer lawyers in that party? Or have they lost their sense of law to partisan politics?
Is there nobody in APC that still has the sane mind to remind Tinubu and co that INEC has no powers to cancel an election where a returning Officer has declared some results from over 20LGAs?

Is it rocket science to understand that it is only a competent court of law sitting as an election tribunal that can exercise such powers of cancellation in an Election? What is really happening here? What kind of democratic madness is this?

Demdem: Foolish Govt.

Its obvious they arent interested in fulfilling any agreement. Either the one signed in 2009 or the MOU signed in 2012 or even the promises of

Jonathan after several hours of meeting with them of recent. If Jonathan is serious, why cant he sign and make his commitments on paper for all

to see and monitor. All hail ASUU, they have mastered the way of holding the govt by its balls. It will be extremely foolish for them to go back to

classes knowing fully well that Jonathan wont do as promised. Their strike and death of Iyayi would have been in vain. I expect the strike to

continue. ASUU never shut down any school, Those that shut down the schools are opening it back, so no qualms.

Here comes the resident retard on Nairaland with his i.mbecilic comments as usual.
President Jonathan is the first president to enter into direct negotiations with ASUU. He didn't do it out of weakness but a genuine desire to end the strike and get Nigerian students back to school.

It took the President 13 hours to reach a feasible agreement with ASUU (while you were asleep) and they had an understanding which includes a variation of the unimplementable 2009 agreement that ASUU reached under Yaradua.

President Jonathan told ASUU (and the facts are verifiable) that he is the president who has invested more in Education than any other.
He told them that he increased Education funding in the Budget from below 300B to 450 B. he also specialized tertiary funding through TETFUNDS.

He has undertaken the establishment of 12 new Federal universities to ensure that no state in the federation is deprived.
Since the strike started, FG has committee 100B for infrastructure and 30 B for earned allowances (no other administration has done this much)
In the same meeting, President said that despite the increased budgetary funding to Education by 450B, he will also mobilise 200 B in fulfillment of the agreement for the next 4 years.

So what is ASUU's problem? Since you were born, have you heard of any President that offered this much to ASUU just to call off a strike?
It's so unfortunate that politics has beclouded our sense of reasoning in this country.
President GEJ has tried, let FG go ahead to reopen the schools and it will be a popular move as you can see from comments on this thread

asha 80: there are already enough roads giving out for construction in those zones.it is doing them that is the issue.

They are trying. We have never had it this good in the south East before

Sincere 9gerian: Southeast and southsouth not part of the N42 billion road contract bazzar. Na wa!

In fairness to Jonathan's administration, he has been able to touch some vital road networks in South East but that doesn't mean that all the Federal roads in the zone are in good shape.
When he came on board, he intervened on the abandoned Owerri-Onitsha expressway and completed it.
He also mobilised FERMA to rehabilitate Enugu-PH expressway pending when there is available resources to reconstruct the road entirely.(as the road is expected to gulp over 300B)
Jonathan also worked on the Aba-Owerri road which is in good shape. There is the Enugu-Abakiliki route but they need to do something urgently on the Enugu-Onitsha route.

egift: The problem is that Jonathan got drunk, it landed him in the hospital and yet he is lying about it. They even tried being smart about it by Abati releasing a statement early.

Up SaharaReporters. I think they have a mole seating on Jonathan's laps.

You are such a low life that is stuck on garbage journalism. I thought the picture was proof in support of his alleged drinking in London. Nothing in that background suggests that useless allegation by Saharareporters.
First, that background doesnt bear any semblance with a UK apartment.
Secondly, that picture is obviously outdated and may even precede his tenure as president.
Thirdly, President Jonathan has never claimed that he doesnt take alcohol. He takes alcohol like every other normal adult. So I'dont understand the fuss about this picture.
Finally, nothing in that picture evidences a drunkard or a man who is suffering from hangover.

Anybody who revels in this shit by a garbage online news site deserves a visit to YABA left.

Bukkyade: You said the truth. But a lot of sentiments take the place of objective reasoning here. Someone will just come and poopoo all you have just said on the grounds that Patience travelled abroad for medical attention.
I hve always said it that patience Jonathan's trip abroad was a matter of choice and confidentiallity and not about the inefficiency of our system.
The first lady was suffering from ruptured appendicectomy and it is a surgery operation that many of our doctors handle here on a daily basis. The fact that she went abroad to treat it doesn't mean that we don't have competent doctors and equipment to treat it here in Nigeria.

In UCH, Major surgeries including cardiovascular are done with new equipments and all. Even in LUTH. Treatement is at affordable prices because FG subsidise it. Most of the patients who patronize private clinics get referred to use the facilities available in most of these teaching hospitals.

uzomagic: The last time I checked, Sule Lamido was claiming to be a progressive governor and APC has been wooing him to cross over to their party. Is this the kind of corrupt leadership that he seeks to replicate in APC? I said it that APC may turn out to be a disaster for Nigeria. I rather stick with PDP.

You don't get it. He has to steal enough money including SURE P so that he can sponsor all those their frivolous trips to Minna, port harcourt and Otta in pursuit of a failed 2015 presidential agenda.

Left for me, I will advice that Jonathan should completely close excess crude account and transfer all funds therein to the Soveriegn wealth fund. I now see reason why Governors protested the establishment of SWF ab initio. Thanks to Ngozi Okonjo Iweala who stood her ground to ensure that SWF was passed by NASS. Let them go a notch higher to transfer all the funds in ECA to SWF.

These governors want to milk our oil revenue dry without any commensurate development to show for it. Imagine that Governors have shared upto $5B from excess crude account this year alone. Rivers state alone received 56.2b between January to September 2013. What have they done with the money. Internal roads in Port harcourt are still a hideous eyesore. Let them close ECA and damn the governors.

I love Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and his media team. They have a way of allowing you advertise your ignorance first before they move in to expose your folly. This is not the first time that Amaechi is throwing reckless accusations at the Minister of Finance.
I remember he said the last time that our economy is dwindling under Iweala but when I read the rejoinder by the Ministry, I saw clearly that Amaechi was just fooling himself.
This time he has resurfaced with another allegation that is unfounded. It's unfortunate.

[quote author=Nuzo']Most APC members are very intelligent political pundits. But their undoing is once they discover a political strategy, they become too noisy about it to the extent of wiping up sentiments from "independents".

Lai and co very well know that mr Maku is going to be a threat to APC's Al-makura's gubernatorial ambition in 2015. They need Maku be made powerless, irrelevant and uninfluential before then.

Its a very deadly and winning combination to be an influential minister in Nigeria and an indigene of a very powerful Eggon ethnic group in Nasarawa state.[/quote]You analysed the politics accurately. At the root of the Ombatse group lies a struggle for the people of Eggon to emerge Governor in 2015.
Gov Al Makura of APC is not comfortable with that development and wants to drag Lanaran Maku, who is the most influential politiciam in that area, to mud. He has engaged Lai Mohammed to execute the hatchet job hence this press release.

Faggae is an APC man. After the meeting with GEJ in Aso rock, he went to consult his sponsors at Bourdillion street. But they will not succeed. The public is becoming very much aware of the efforts that jonathan has put into resolving this crisis and getting our students back to school

I'm happy that serious work is going on that Abuja-Lokoja road because Yuletide is approaching.
i'm also happy that the Benin-Lokoja route is in progress.
The works Minister is doing a good job on our Nigeian roads.

It will be the height of insensitivity on the part of the striking lecturers to reject the new offer of 200B. Jonathan has really worked hard to end this ASUU strike, it's time for reason to prevail.

While I have a problem with the "inflated cost" of the 225M cars but the fact still remains that they were bought by NCAA for the Ministry of Aviation. It was not bought in the name of Stella Oduah. It's a bit excusable that way because it will remain a property of the Ministry of Aviation.

Lai Mohammed should look inwards and address several allegations of monumental corruption rocking the states under their leadership. The opon IMO project was a massive scam with Ogbeni Rauf's son as consultant. AJIMOBI uses billions to do a single kilometer. Fashola is ripping lagosians off in the name of concessioning. I wonder what he does with our IGR/Statutory allocation if we have to pay for tolls for using internal roads(not trunk A highways) in Lagos. What of Amosun who ORGANISED a fanfare to commission a single bridge built with billions?

OGA op, there is a newly remodelled Enugu Airport that was recently upgraded to host international flight operations. Right next to it is the main international airport undergoing construction. The foundation was just laid some months back. It's being handled by the Chinese.
That is the main Airport designated as international not the existing one you used.

Dollarman101: GEJ is working. Those who abuse don't know any better.
He is going to end up as the best president ever with the what he is doing in the electricity sector. He is very intelligent. FDI's are now flowing into the power sector. Mikano is coming to Set up manufacturing plant to build spare parts and transformers for new distribution companies in Nigeria. Siemens has started building in calabar. GE is partnering with Transcorp for the recently commissioned GEREGU.

Things can only get better under GEJ

It's true. And as they come, there are more employment opportunities for our young graduates. I heard one of the new DISCOS is set to recruit.

Goddex: The man said 16,000MW, the low-brain journalist reported 160,000MW

We seem to have a lot of them(low brain journalists) around these days. It's becoming increasingly irritating and a disservice to the proffession. Whatever has happened to investigative journalism.

TrueNaijaguy: APC peeps are simply funny. Dem dey vex say Jonathan was smart enough to call for national dialogue.
They know its a political asset ahead of 2015 elections. But it's late. Whether they like it or not, the dialogue will hold.

My take too. It's all about politics. GEJ beat them to it. They are not happy because the dialogue has the prospects to increase the approval ratings of Mr president. Unfortunately, they dnt hve any option. They hve to join or remain onlookers in this national dialogue.

I salute president Jonathan for his reforms in every sector.the SURE P programme is working contrary to the insinuations of a disgruntled few.
Pictures don't lie. We can see remarkable progress of work on Abuja-Lokoja road.

For the sake of PIB, I will want GEJ to continue beyond 2015 so that he can finish up on the law. I believe so much in the power of PIB to reform our oil and gas sector and divest Govt control on that sector.