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Did PEJ truly attend sec. school, let alone her so-called NCE n B.Ed. This woman is an embarrassment to university graduates.
SAI BUHARI.

Mumu! that is statement of results and not certificate.
SAI GMB.

GEJ shoe us ur phd certificate

JONATHAN should stepdown for lying to Nigerians.
SAI BUHARI

@OP, it should be 'how did GMB get to sit for Hausa' and not '' how did GMB got to sit for Hausa'' by the way, why does PDP like circumbulating an article written perhaps, by one so-called researcher which Hausa wasn't part of his scope. Why can't U go to WAEC to bust the originality of GMB's released statement of results.
#gejshowusurph.dcertificate.

GEJ show us ur Ph.D certificate.
SAI BUHARI.

GEJ show us Ur B.Sc, M.Sc
and Ph.D theses or did U
plagiarize thtoughout Ur
studied period. PEJ is an
embarrassment to
graduates, she speaks like
a primary pupil. TANOIDS
r truly unhappy today

GEJ show us ur Ph.D thesis.
SAI BUHARI

GEJ show us your Ph.D thesis, little wonder, his spoken english looks awkward and PEJ speaks like a primary pupil.
SAI BUHARI.

Few weeks ago Gen. Olaleye said all retired and serving officers have atleast a copy of their credentials with military and can only be released on request of the said officer, but on tuesday reversed his earlier statement, saying the army is not in possession of GMB's WASC. The question is, Gen. Olaleye another Gen. Chris Kolade who said that, the army had rescued the chibok girls but later retracted his statement. PDP has politicised all the security outfits, marilyn ogar accusess APC of trying to hack a database that is not connected n the IG is busy flaunting court orders.

GEJ show us Ur B.Sc, M.Sc and Ph.D theses or did U plagiarize thtoughout Ur studied period. PEJ is an embarrassment to graduates, she speaks like a primary pupil. TANOIDS r truly unhappy today.

GEJ where is Ur Thesis? a Ph.D holder with grammatical boo-boos, I wonder hw he got his Ph.D. GEJ is the worst president Nigeria has ever had and perhaps the utterest dunce
SAI GMB/PYO

GEJ where is Ur Thesis? a Ph.D holder with grammatical boo-boos, I wonder hw he got his Ph.D. GEJ is the worst president Nigeria has ever had and perhap the utterest dunce
SAI GMB/PYO

GEJ where is Ur Thesis?
SAI GMB/PYO

PDP is finished, this has given GMB another media hype. GMB has unparalled records in service, if U dare him, masses will go after U.
SAI BUHARI

NA has lost its credibility long ago.

GEJ is the worst thing to have ever happened to Nigeria, highly clueless and utterable dunce.

aljazeera might come ur way with twofold pay. israel keeps on committing war crimes wuth impunity, dont worry another HITLER is on the way coming!

sorry! I doubt if there is any university that will admit U into her civil eng'g degree programme with either estate manag or building as background, so why can't u try civil eng in other polytechnics?

temitemi1:
GEJ till 2019!!!

U can do better than this

I think
that it is a pity that
President Goodluck
Jonathan’s Government
declined to take up the
challenge of the former
Minister of Education,
Mrs.Obiageli Ezekwesile,
to a public debate on the
$67billion USD savings
that President Obasanjo
left behind in 2007. I do
not think that our
government ought to
have run away from the
debating ring. They ought
to have accepted the
challenge of a rigorous
public debate and allow
the Nigerian people to
listen to it and make up
their own minds about
who was right and who
was wrong. I thought that
the response of the
Special Assistant to the
President On Public
Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe,
to Obiageli Ezekwesili was
more logical and made
far more sense than that
of the Honorable Minister
of Information, Labaran
Maku’s, but I still believe
that Obiageli Ezekwesili
was right. I believe that
the Government’s position
on this issue and it’s
attempt to over-
aggressively defend what
I personally consider to
be the indefensible is not
only disengenious but it is
also essentially dishonest
and self-seeking.
The charge that our
foreign reserves were
heavily depleted between
2007 and 2013 cannot be
convincingly or logically
denied. In 2007,
President Olusegun
Obasanjo left 45 billion
USD in our foreign
reserves and 22 billion
USD in our Excess Crude
Account. If the two
figures are added up the
amount that you will
come up with is 67 billion
USD of savings for our
country. This is the figure
that Obiageli Ezekwesili
cited. It represents what
was in both our foreign
reserves and our Excess
Crude Account put
together.
Let us look at the history.
When President Olusegun
Obasanjo came to power
in 1999 Nigeria only had
1.5 billion USD in her
foreign reserves and
consequently no-one in
the world took us
seriously. We were poor,
weak and lonely and we
were viewed as a failed
state and a pariah nation.
No-one trusted us, no-
one wanted to do
business with us and no-
one seriously believed
that we as a people or as
a nation were capable of
enduring the rigours of
serious economic
recovery, prudence and
fiscal discipline. As far as
the developed world was
concerned Nigeria was
only good for it’s endless
supply of sweet bonny
light crude oil. Yet
Obasanjo proved the
world wrong and showed
them that Nigerians could
do far better than they
thought. After eight years
of good stewardship and
the display of fiscal
discipline and remarkable
prudence he built up
those foreign reserves
from a measly and pitiful
1.5 billion USD in 1999 to
no less than 45 billion by
2007. This was quite an
achievement yet sadly
what took place after
Obasanjo left power was
very disheartening. It was
not only a downer but it
was also sad and
unfortunate. I say this
because by the Federal
Governments own
admission, and four long
years after leaving 45
billion USD for the
Yar’adua administration to
build on in 2007, we still
only have that same
figure of 45 billion USD
left in our foreign
reserves today. Worse
still this was after it had
plummeted to a shameful
30 billion USD under late
President Umaru Yar
Adua. Had it not been for
the fact that whatever
was coming in after we
left in 2007 and over the
last 4 years was being
recklessly shared and
spent by the Yar’adua and
later Jonathan
administrations our
foreign reserves ought to
have doubled and
reached at least 100
billion US dollars by now.
That is just the foreign
reserves alone and I am
not even adding the
Excess Crude Account
figures yet. If I were to
do that I would be
talking about an expected
increase of up to 150
billion USD by today. That
is what we ought to have
in the savings kitty today
if the two governments
that succeeded Obasanjo
knew anything about
prudence, good
management and fiscal
discipline.
The difference is that
under Obasanjo it was
”save, save, save” whilst
under Yar’adua and later
Jonathan it has been
”spend, spend, spend’. Yet
if they insist on spending
the question is what do
they have to show for
such high expenditure and
what has this cost the
Nigerian people in real
terms. I believe that
these are legitimate
questions. Mrs. Ezekwezile
may have been inelegant
or a little too harsh in her
use of words when she
made those weighty
assertions in her speech
but her analysis and
conclusions surely cannot
be faulted. Yet the
Government has given no
reasonable explanation or
response to her or the
Nigerian people and they
do not even appear to
like the fact that
questions are being
asked.
As a a matter of fact they
appear to believe that it
is an achievement for us
to be exactly where we
were four years ago in
terms of our foreign
reserves by openly
boasting that we have 45
billion USD saved today.
The questions that we
should put to them are as
follows – did you not
save anything in the last 4
years in either foreign
reserves or the Excess
Crude Account? Where
did all the money that
accrued to you and that
you ought to have saved
go? How come 4 years
after being handed 45
billion in foreign reserves
and after billions have
come into your hands
through record price
crude oil sales you still
only have 45 billion
saved? Is this not strange
and absurd? Is this the
way a responsive and
responsible government
ought to behave? Do
they know the true
meaning of ”saving for a
rainy day”?
It is not surprising that
the Prime Minister of
Great Britain, The Right
Honorable David
Cameron, asked just a
few days ago where the
100 billion USD that
Nigeria received from oil
sales in the last few years
has gone. Would our
Government be good
enough to answer his
question and tell him
even if they feel that they
don’t owe the Nigerian
people themselves an
explanation? As far as I
am concerned it is not
something that our
government should be
proud of that 4 years
after Obasanjo handed 45
billion USD to them as
savings in foreign
reserves they have not
built on it in all that time
but rather they have
spent all the receivables
and inflows that came in
after that time and that
ought to have been
saved.
Yet the story does not
stop there. It gets worse.
Apart from the sorry tale
about our foreign
reserves, the story about
the usage and outright
draining of our Excess
Crude Account is even
more damning. It goes
like this. When President
Obasanjo left power in
2007 the Excess Crude
Account had just over 22
billion USD in it’s coffers.
This figure was built up by
Obasanjo from zero in
1999 because at that time
there was no Excess
Crude Account. In 8 years
he built it up from zero to
22 billion USD. Yet when
the Yara’dua
administration and later
the Jonathan
administration came in
ALL the money in that
account was shared with
the state governors and
spent.
The Federal Government
saved nothing for a rainy
day and instead chose to
just spend all the money.
It was was initially run
down to zero by
President Umaru Yar
Adua’s government but, in
fairness to President
Jonathan, he has now
been able to build it up to
approximately 10 billion
USD. This represents
approximately half the
figure that Obasanjo left
in that account in 2007
but at least it is a step in
the right direction. Yet if
both the Yar adua and
Jonathan government’s
had continued to save
and not just spend all the
money we would have
had at least 50 billion USD
in the Excess Crude
Account today and not
just a paltry 10.
Whichever way one looks
at it, when one sees all
these figures and
considers the strong
position that we were
coming from in 2007 it
represents a failure in
fiscal discipline by both
the Yar’adua and Jonathan
administrations. This is
because the Federal
Governmentt was meant
to build up on the legacy
that they inherited in
2007 and not spend and
squander all that money.
For the purpose of
emphasis permit me to
repeat the fact that had
they been doing the right
thing in the last 4 years
and not overspending we
ought to be hitting at
least 100 billion USD in
our foreign reserves by
now and at least 50 billion
in the Excess Crude
Account. Yet we have not
seen anything near that
and instead all we have
seen is a depletion and a
drain of both accounts
and the monies that
ought to have accrued to
them since 2007.
Finally when President
Obasanjo came to power
in 1999 our foreign debt
was 30 billion USD. Yet by
sheer dint of hard work
by the time he left office
8 years later he had paid
off the foreign debt
compltely and for the first
time in its history Africa
had a debt-free nation.
This was a monuemental
achievement by any
standard and one that
which every serious-
minded and patriotic
Nigerian ought to be
proud of no matter what
side of the political divide
they stand. Yet sadly 4
years later we are back in
chronic debt to the tune
of 9 billion USD and we
are still borrowing. In
view of the foregoing it is
perfectly legitimate for
anyone to ask how come
so much money was
spent, what it was spent
on and how the
government has managed
our resources over the
last 4 years. As a matter
of fact not asking any
questions would be most
unpatriotic and it would
lay some of us open to
the charge of cowardice
and collusion.
Since 2007 we have seen
nothing but depletion of
our resources and more
and more borrowing.
Unlike President
Obasanjo, both President
Yar Adua and President
Jonathan’s governments
did not build up our
reserves or save any
money. Instead they both
spent recklessly and
borrowed more and
more. As a matter of fact
if our government
continues to borrow at
the rate it has been
borrowing for the lastr
four years for another
two years Nigeria will be
back to having a foreign
debt of close to 30 billion
USD very soon. That was
where we were in 1999
and if that were to ever
happen it would be a
tragedy of monuemental
proportions.
I sincerely hope that
other than the usual
insults, intimidation,
sponsored stories,
persecution and baseless
allegations that are
channeled against and
heaped on some of us for
pointing out these
matters and raising these
questions, the Federal
Government will
endeavour to change it’s
ways and display a
greater degree of fiscal
discipline and
accountability to the
Nigerian people. To that
extent I am in total
agreement with my
former cabinet colleague
in the Obasanjo
administration, Mrs.
Obiageli Ezekwezile.
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President Goodluck
Jonathan recently
downplayed Nigeria’s
corruption problems,
saying that most of what
is referred to as
corruption is no more
than ‘common stealing’.
His claim is wrong.
A US-Africa summit last
week opened with
warnings about the toll
corruption takes on
development, sparking
discussion about the
extent of the problem in
Africa and how it is
defined. That’s an issue
which Nigeria’s president
has also been debating of
late.
On May 5, Goodluck
Jonathan responded to
allegations that he is not
doing enough to curb
corruption among his
ministers by claiming that
most of what is referred
to as corruption is not
really that at all.
“Over 70% of what are
called corruption (cases),
even by EFCC (Economic
and Financial Crimes
Commission) and other
anti-corruption agencies,
is not corruption, but
common stealing,” the
president told national
television, saying the
corruption claims
appeared “politically
motivated”.
Barely two weeks later,
Ekpo Nta, the chairman of
the Independent Corrupt
Practices Commission
(ICPC), one of Nigeria’s
anti-corruption agencies,
told an audience in Abuja
that “stealing is
erroneously reported as
corruption” even by
“educated” Nigerians.
So was the president right
to dismiss most
corruption claims as being
nothing of the sort? Africa
Check decided to look at
the definitions.
Is corruption simply
stealing?
Put simply, while stealing
can be defined as taking a
person or organisation’s
rightful property without
their permission,
corruption is not one but
a whole range of
misdeeds, the common
factor in which is the
abuse of a person’s office
for personal gain. As this
attempt to define
corruption makes clear, it
can range from the petty
corruption of junior
officials – bribe-taking by
police officers on the
street corner for example
– through high-level
embezzlement and theft
of public funds to the
payment or receipt of
bribes made to affect
office-holders’ decisions in
office.
The key difference with
“common stealing” is that
the people who break
into a house and steal,
have no authority over
the house or property.
And people who carry out
a corrupt act do have that
trust as a public office
holder of some sort and
abuse it for their own
gain.
And it is this abuse of
public trust that explains
why civil society groups
and others see corruption
as a more serious crime
than typical “common
stealing.”
How is corruption
defined in Nigerian
law?
So is the president right in
terms of law? The answer
is no. Under Nigeria’s
Corrupt Practices and
Other Related Offences
Act of 2000, the term
corruption does indeed
apply to crimes such as
the theft or
embezzlement of public
funds, but also to bribery,
fraud and “other related
offences”.
And in all these cases, it is
corruption only if the
person in question has
carried out the offence
through the office they
hold.
Section 382 of the
Nigerian Criminal Code,
by contrast, provides a
much simpler description
of theft, unrelated to the
role a person take in life.
A thief is simply “a person
who fraudulently takes …
or fraudulently converts
to his own use or to the
use of any other person
anything capable of being
stole”.
Is the pattern of
corruption changing?
So the president is clearly
wrong to claim that the
theft of public funds by
those in public office is
simple theft, and not
corruption.
But could he be right to
say that the pattern of
corruption is changing and
that today “over 70%” of
cases now relate to theft
of public funds, not
bribery and other such
offences.
Here, there does seem to
be some evidence of a
trend. Speaking at the
50th anniversary of his old
school, Ilesa Grammar
School, Osun State, the
2005-2010 chairman of
the ICPC, Emmanuel
Olayinka Ayoola, said that
the nature of corruption it
uncovered had changed
in recent years.
“The commonest form of
corruption in Nigeria used
to be bribery but in
recent years, this has
been overtaken in level
of prevalence by
embezzlement and theft
from public funds,” he
said, though without
providing figures.
Africa Check this week
asked the EFCC to say
what percentage of
corruption cases they
have investigated since
2010 would fall under the
broad category of theft
and embezzlement of
public funds, and what
would fall under bribery
and other offences.
If or when they reply we
will update this report.
Is the level of
corruption changing?
It is difficult to say. Many
public commentators say
that it is.
However Nigeria’s
ranking in anti-corruption
group Transparency
International’s Corruption
Perceptions Index – which
lists countries based on
how corrupt their public
sector is perceived to be
– is little changed from
when Jonathan took over
as president in 2010.
In 2013 Nigeria ranked
144 out of 177 countries
in the index. In 2011,
Nigeria ranked 143.
Conclusion – Corruption
is more than ‘common
stealing’
The way officials talk
about crime matters. And
President Jonathan’s claim
earlier this year that more
than 70 percent of
corruption cases today
relate to nothing more
than “common stealing”
appears to be an attempt
to downplay what remains
a massive problem in
Nigeria.
It is also wrong in law.
The theft of public funds
through the abuse of an
official’s office is different
from “common stealing”
because of the abuse of
trust it entails.
And it is because it
reduces the funds
available for public
spending, distorts the
decisions made by office
holders and undermines
public trust, that
corruption has such a
negative effect on
Nigeria’s development as
numerous studies have
shown.
In the end, whether the
pattern of corruption is
changing – from bribery
to theft of public funds –
matters less than that the
overall level of corruption
appears not to have
changed at all.
Edited by Eleanor
Whitehead and Peter
Cunliffe-Jones
Source: Africa Check, a
non-profit fact-
checking website
(www.africacheck.org).
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President Goodluck
Jonathan took his
campaign to Ibadan, the
Oyo State capital, on
Monday where he
described some former
National Democratic
Coalition leaders in the
South-West as hypocrites.
The President, who
arrived at the Mapo Hall
venue of the campaign at
12.50pm after paying
homage to the Olubadan
of Ibadanland, Oba
Samuel Odulana, had in
his entourage the
National Chairman of the
Peoples Democratic
Party, Adamu Mu’azu,
members of the National
Working Committee of
the party, the Ondo State
Governor, Olusegun
Mimiko, Mrs. Jumoke
Akinjide and other
National Assembly
members.
Also present were the
National Publicity
Secretary of the party,
Olisa Metu; the Director
General of the National
Campaign Organisation,
Dr. Ahmadu Alli; the
Director, Media and
Publicity of his campaign
organisation, Femi Fani-
Kayode; the party’s
governorship candidate in
Oyo State, Teslim Folarin
and other party stalwarts.
While calling on the
South-West leaders to
justify their leadership
style and love for the
people, Jonathan said that
instead of building prisons
for the youths, he would
build schools for them.
He said, “I did say that
the South-West reminds
one of the days of the
National Democratic
Coalition. But I am
convinced that some of
the NADECO actors are
hypocrites, because they
cannot justify what they
are doing today. The
South-West believes in
human rights and social
justice. No south-
westerner will pray that
someone who does not
go through proper trial
will be jailed for 300
years and above. If they
are not hypocrites, they
couldn’t be doing what
they are doing today, but
I don’t want to go into
that now. If they are not
hypocrites, they will not
be talking about not
empowering women.
“Without education, you
cannot change people. If
I did not go to school, I
will not be where I am
today. Every Nigerian
child must have the
Goodluck opportunity;
that is why we are
building out-of-school
children secondary
schools and Almajiris
schools in some parts of
Nigeria. I will not build
prison for you but I will
build schools for you.”
On the issue of corruption
in government, Jonathan
said that his
administration had tried
and jailed many Nigerians
but it would not solve the
problem. He explained
that the problem would
be solved through
modern technology
rather than harsh
approach.
He said, “On the issue of
corruption, let me
reassure Nigerians that
my commitment and
method of solving the
problem of corruption is
not the number of people
I tried and jailed. We
have tried more
Nigerians; more Nigerians
have been jailed within
this period after passing
through due process. But
I have told people that if
I try 10 million Nigerians
and jail five million for
corruption; that will not
solve the problem. We
must use modern
technology to prevent
people from stealing, and
that is what we are
working on. If you vote
me in again, the day I will
leave after four years, the
next president will not
have to tackle corruption
because we will use
technology to block areas
where people are
corruptly enriching
themselves. We are no
longer in the analogue
generation, I will solve
corruption problem in this
country.”
The President also used
the opportu

op stop this divide b rule ideology employed by ur paymaster.
SAI GMB.