₦airaland Forum

toofine765: Marital differences are best reconciled at mid night.

anicho: He'll get them done when he's retired as the president....lol

maigida231: MAJOR ECONOMIC
ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE
JONATHAN
ADMINISTRATION
The Economy
Improvement in Economic
Indices - In October 2011
International Ratings
agency, Fitch Ratings revised
the country’s Outlook
upwards from Negative to
Stable.
Standard and Poor’s
another internationally
respected and independent
ratings agency, revised
Nigeria's ratings from stable
to Positive.
Signing into law the
Nigerian Oil and Gas
Industry Content
Development Bill 2010
(Local Content Bill) which
has increased Local Content
in the Oil and Gas sector.
Ø As a direct result of that
law Royal Dutch Shell
awarded a N7.8 billion ($
49.9 million) contract to a
Nigerian firm, S.C.C Limited,
for the manufacture of high
pressure line pipes that
would otherwise have been
awarded to a foreign firm.
Ø As a result of this law,
Exxon Mobil awarded an
off shore platform contract
to a local firm,
NigerDockNig. PLC that
would otherwise have been
awarded to a foreign firm.
Initiating the Sovereign
Wealth Fund (SWF). A seed
capital of $1 billion was
provided to kick start the
fund as well as establish
three sub funds- the Nigeria
Infrastructure Fund; the
Future Generations Fund
and the Stabilization Fund
which will be the pillars of
the SWF.
Launched the Youth
Enterprise with innovation
in Nigeria (YOUWIN)
initiative on the 11th
October 2011 which is the
administration's job creation
centre piece.
Ø On Thursday April 12,
2012, 1,200 Nigerian youths
emerged winners of the
competition following a
transparent process. Each
winner receives a business
start up grant of between 1
to 10 million Naira.
Foreign exchange reserves
rose to $37.02bn by May
14, 2012, the highest level
in 21 months.
On March 29th, 2011, The
UK Government in London
described Nigeria as the
fourth fastest growing
economy in the world.
On February 13 2012,
President Goodluck
Jonathan launched the
Public Works Women and
Youth Empowerment
Programme, an intervention
programme designed to
employ 370,000 youths in
the year 2012 with 30% of
those jobs being reserved
for women.
The Federal Government
under President Jonathan
has secured investment
commitments worth 4.89
Trillion Naira.
Launched the
NigComSat-1Rsatellite
which will help expand
Internet Bandwidth,
monitor the weather and
provide early warning to
prevent natural disasters like
floods, crop monitoring
and urban planning. It has
the attendant benefit of
reducing the over $1 billion
spent in purchasing Internet
Bandwidth from abroad.
Nigeria’s banking industry
rescued and stabilized by
the establishment of the
Asset Management
Company of Nigeria
(AMCON) in the year 2010.
MasterCard made Nigeria its
regional headquarters for its
West/East and Indian Ocean
islands zone raising the
profile of Nigeria’s e-
commerce industry.
Nigeria’s GDP grew by a
record 8.29% during the
last quarter of 2010 and by
over 7% in 2011. In the first
quarter of 2012 Nigeria had
verifiably become the fourth
fastest growing economy in
the world as recently
attested to by several
multilateral bodies and
trading partners.
Revival of the Textile
industry via the 150 billion
Naira Textile Industry
Bailout. As a result the
United Nigerian Textile
Limited was reactivated
amongst others and 2000
employees re-engaged.
Non oil exports from 2010
(standing at $2.3 Billion)
and subsequent years are
ten times what they were in
2000 (which were $200
Million) as a direct result of
this administration’s
intervention in the Textile
Industry and Real Sector.

ODUA_NEGRO: go get some basic knowledge on it first then come back with your pen and paper for a detailed dissection.

ODUA_NEGRO: the only right they have in Yorubaland is that of a tributary. You know what a political tributary is?

Sunny_bobo: Those are Yoruba Area boys and have got nothing to do with the market executives though the market union have their own internal levies paid by members.

If the LG chairman actually said that, he's either lying, been embezzling the funds or there is a serious cabal within the LG authority looting those proceeds and here we are on nairaland focusing on GEJ and Diezani.

micklplus: @Op, you lost your calling! Your calling is inside the bush where are only required to wine and dine with animals.

Na thunder go slap that your mouth. Your mumuism is so on point.

Gbawe: Bode George, the failure serially pocketed and bettered by Tinubu and the ACN, is simply a myopic dinosaur. He claims Tinubu and Buhari have nothing in common without seeing the obvious. Progress for nations does not come from accentuating differences. Progress is best secured recognising differences and overcoming them because there is no other choice.

What the likes of Bode George remain fundamentally blind to, because they are jeun-jeun throwbacks, is that you work within legality in life. While we continue to be united as citizens of Nigeria we must work together and accommodate each other because non of us will succeed forming make-belief independent republics in our minds. We will only make progress if we engage each other and overcome differences. This is why Tinubu has always bettered George. The ability they have to 'read the game' is not at all comparable. We can always expect this sort of arrogant garbage from George while Tinubu fully understand that it is pointless treating anyone or any region like lepers so long as Nigeria still unites us.

George, the Dinosaur, is finished in the new Nigeria rising. There will be no place for his kind.