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Mbaka's statements are embarrassing to say the least.

Hmmm... this is strange!

new2012:
Which leakage got blocked? Subsidy? That's so massive that they've threaten to go on strike.

Ghost workers? All proposed scholarships in CECC were shared by Ministers.

CBN and NNPC job recruitment are now classified.

Which leakage please?
Job loss initial cause was d president.. The economy appreciated when he took over, lots of high expectations but he crushed all when it took 6months to get minister to pilot the country.

Oil price contributed greatly, I agree.. But remember the price was under 25 when Obj took over.

Let's not defend our politicians who earn in tens of millions.. They are the cause of the country's downfall.. PDP,APC, there is no difference when they have same cause.

Ghost workers still exist, but progress has been made in reducing their numbers.

Subsidy is still being paid, but the fact that only the nnpc now imports fuel (no longer every Tom, Dick amd Harry), that means the leakages in subsidy payment must be less (not eliminated though).

Employment scams, if you actually think employment scams where employment is driven by who-you-know in govt started in 2015, then you're as naive as they come. The fact is that with the level of whistleblowing and info circulated via the social media these days, the level of employment scams has now reduced massively compared to the past.

Comparing the oil price in 1999 to the oil price sudden drop in 2014/2015 is very illogical. A boy who earned N3000 in 1999 may not survive on N50,000 in 2015, especially when you consider that he now has a higher taste, now has a wife and children, has a car to fuel and has his a bigger apartment where he pays higher rent. Moreover, in 1999, oil price didnt drop suddenly. A man struggles to feed his family with N100k salary, and then you suddenly reduce that salary to 30k; the excruciating effect of this sudden income drop on his family cannot be overemphasised; and its illogical to make a comparison with 16-20 years ago when he earned only 25k but was comfortable. Back then, his demands were much much lower. For example, Nigeria's forex demand since 1999 to date has increased by over 1000%.

No doubt though, the incompetence, diabolic greed and sheer wickedness of our political leaders is the reason Nigeria is still a third world shithole.

Buterflyle0:
The United Young Christians Forum [UYCF] under the leadership of Pastor Andrew John Enenche has taken a position ahead of the 2019 general.



The group after a crucial meeting on Saturday endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo for second term.



The Christian group described the duo of Buhari and Osinbajo as friends of the church who deserved every support to push the nation forward.

A statement signed by Enenche at the end of the meeting hinted that the reason for adopting Buhari was further informed by the premise that many other candidates that are wooing Nigerians have not by their acts shown sufficient of God.


They, therefore, warned Nigerians against accepting those that would take them back to square one.

The statement below:

“Permit us to start with a disclaimer. President Muhammadu Buhari had categorically stated that clergymen should eschew politics or lose credibility and this is a reality that we are well aware of particularly as it relate to those that turned their pulpit into soap boxes to support candidates that are known to be corrupt. So irrespective of President Buhari’s assertion Proverbs 12:17 “When you tell the truth, justice is done, but lies lead to injustice” is our guide in this matter. We want justice to be done so we will say it as it is.



“We have watched development in our body polity for the past four years and we can categorically declare that the administration has favoured Christendom and advanced the propagation of the gospel, which, gentlemen, is our ultimate goal.

In the period preceding the inauguration of President Buhari, Christianity was being contaminated with the evil of corruption. Christians in Nigeria were beginning to evolve into what the Gospels did not intend.

“The truth is that we entered into competition with the world and even challenged those in the world to a context in material acquisition; it was not unusual in those days for the testimony of brethren to be measured by the volume of wealth or material things they were able to acquire in record time without giving thoughts to how much sin has been committed to attain such worldly goods.

“Corruption even influenced the faith to the point where sermons were tailored to suit the expediency of supporting corrupt people in clear violation of our mandates. We became unwilling witnesses to men delivering their own verdicts as prophecies.

“May we also point out that one thing that is becoming extinct under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari is laziness. We are instructed in 2 Thessalonians 3:10 “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.”

“/”People had become addicted to slush money, which perhaps explains the cry of hardship and anguish as the anti-corruption war takes hold. We are pleased that more Nigerians today have found the joy of working for their earnings, which enables them to sleep in peace.


“Beyond these, we have seen that the government of President Buhari did not neglect the needy. As opposed to the past when the poor were food for the rich, this government has through various social welfare intervention programmes comply with God’s injunction not to neglect the needy and less privileged. Children who would otherwise have gone hungry are fed under the school feeding programme. Women, some of them widows, have benefitted under the Trade Moni. The conditional cash transfer scheme is helping beneficiaries reduce the impact of poverty on their life.

“We have also seen the projects ongoing across the country, which gives hope that Nigeria will be built into a great nation, like the rebuilding of Jerusalem as recorded in the Book of Nehemiah. As stated in Nehemiah 2:17 we are inclined to tell Nigerians “You see the bad situation we are in, that Jerusalem (Nigeria) is desolate and its gates burned by fire (previous bad leaders). Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a reproach.”

“We have confidence that it is President Buhari that can carry out this rebuilding. We therefore endorse President Buhari/Vice President Yemi Osinbajo whose performance has confirmed as friends of the Church and Youths of Nigeria for a second term in office.”

https://www.tribuneonlineng.com/176440/?fbclid=IwAR3cprWSkbenWQPpE3TBMJNebK8LqOzPfoIkNDNjQLWLI0_ZBLkPwBdzl9g

Very dubious report; even had to use Dr Enenche's picture.

$160 million?... If this is true, then it's the best news ever for Nigeria's import dependent economy; it will only be a matter of yime before the dollar rate inevitably drops. But then, something doesnt just seem to add up here. How much does Nigeria spend importing petroleum products alone? Except I really dont understand what this figure means, but Nigeria at the moment even pays more than $160 million per month for just fuel subsidy alone.

Atiku may be arrested if he steps foot on US soil without diplomatic immunity. It would be stupid of him to even attempt that now cos that would just mean handing over the 2019 election to APC without a sweat. Atiku can't be that silly.

Confused fellow!... A church has over 5000 pastors, you claim to leave the church because you dont like the political leaning of 1 of the pastors. Attention seekers!

Aieboocaar:
Having stayed in onitsha for quite a while i laugh anytime the APC Online propaganda agent come here to scream "BUHARI HAS COMPLETED ONITSHA/ENUGU EXPRESSWAY WITH FROM SUKUK ABI SKUKI BOND"

I Can authoritatively tell you that the Onitsha to Amawbia end of that road is a total mess!![/b]

I don't think I've ever seen any single person since 2015 to date who claimed that that road has been COMPLETED. Can you please point out any examples of these people so we can flog them together?

The last I checked, it was prior to 2015 elections that some clowns were circulating lies about how that road and several others had been completed by GEJ.

Nigerians and fake news!

Deji, human rights activist!

But I thought the case of the Catholic priests were already confirmed not to be related to the fulani massacres?... What did Amaechi say which is new or wrong?

$9 billion compensation to 1 single unknown company?... And here we have several comments on this thread instantly taking sides against their country?... Perhaps Buhari should have just paid the almost N3 trillion, maybe that would have gotten some people in this thread happy.

Judiciary = APC (according to comments on this thread). I've learnt something new today.

Regarding the report, the simple summary is that Nigeria isn't ripe for a democracy. We really should stop deceiving ourselves.

To think that one of these London 'innit innit yeah!' niggis would just freely plant his seed in this one, and then it would be the Boyegas chasing after the dude with a madly discounted offer.

Is this real? Or is this just another one?

Thd calmness of the people in the room when the rain of gunfire started is unbelievable. Rivers is such a useless state full of criminals and thugs (apologies to the sane Rivers people). How can one state just continue to carry political violence on their head like it's their birthright??... Other states leave the violence till elections, Rivers does theirs all through the 4 years.

bayelsaowei:
just imagine if the NLNG was operated and run by the FG..

I really wouldn't want to imagine that...

megamank:
Just imagine what you just said.... What impact has these company have on the common man? At times I am surprised....so u fully support the sales of NNPC?

The person you quoted is very right, most of those companies on that list now function efficiently. Whilst they were still in the hands of the government, they were huge liabilities, of which every now and then, the government had to pump billions into them either to keep them afloat, or to pay off staff entitlements when the enterprises eventually and inevitably give up the ghost.

Did you just ask what impact a number of functional companies have on the common man?.... Are you for real?... The companies are now functioning, making profits, employing thousands of Nigerians, paying taxes to the government and generally contributing to the overall productivity index of Nigeria; as opposed to being dead beat liabilities to government. How else do you want the companies to positively impact on the common man?

Can you point out a single enterprise managed or operated by the NIgerian government which works?... The Nigerian government should never be allowed to operate anything.

I actually support the proposal to sell/privatise NNPC. If anything in Nigeria must work, the leprous hands of the government should NEVER be allowed to operate it.

In Nigerian political and leadership parlance, the word "empower" means one thing - financial reward for political loyalty. Standard form of empowerment involves appointing to a cash cow agency or awarding huge contracts (regardless of the person's capacity). It's in this context you freely hear statements like "juicy appointments".

Nigeria can never change until leadership stops being 'lucrative.'

bigfish3k:
[s]fashola the minister of works and an opposition memeber said so, not me. u can google it
http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/jonathan-constructed-more-roads-than-any-other-nigerian-president-fashola/[/s]

How can you present a link of some strange blog as evidence for an incredulous report?... Show me a video of Fashola making the statement, or better still, just show me a link to any sensible website which reported the nonsense.

Heck! So even if it is CNN that reports it or even if Fashola himself comes out to say that live on video, does that even make it realistic or believable to you? ... That a Nigerian FG fixed 20,000km of roads in 4 years? Does that make it a sensible/rational claim to you?.. or did you just have to swallow it cos it was GEJ?

Can you point out where these 20,000km repaired roads are?... Because I'm sure you will still insist.

At the last check:
East-West road which is the most important in the SS, saw insignificant progress since 2006 till date;
Onitsha - Enugu = mess
Enugu - PH roads = mess.
PH - Owerri = eyesore and death trap (except for the Elele - 'Welcome to Imo' stretch which was built by Amaechi with that same ECA fund which he collected.
Owerri - Aba road = still a single lane death trap.
Aba - Ikot Ekpene = trash,
Owerri - Umuahia = trash,
Owerri Okigwe road = merry go round.
Oba - Nnewi - Okigwe road = forest / gully
Uyo - Calabar trip = nightmare
Lagos - Ibadan = insignificant progress to date
Benin - Sagamu = a section of less than 50km was fixed with excess fanfair, tape cutting, canopies, champagne etc. Remaining 200km of the road still a merry go round ride.
Benin - Auchi - Okene dualisation = less than 1km cleared and laterite poured on it for over 4 years. Etc etc etc.

All the major roads in the southern part of Nigeria, still have major issues, so my brother, where in earth are those 20,000km of good roads located since you insist on gullibky believing trash? Anyway, maybe GEJ built all these roads only in Abuja and the north up to Chad and Niger; I havent been to the northsince 2009 so I cant say.

bigfish3k:
hope u know that GEJ built the most roads in the country... fashola. where would he have gotten money from if he doesnt spend his


JONATHAN CONSTRUCTED MORE ROADS THAN ANY OTHER NIGERIAN PRESIDENT – FASHOLA
written by Our Reporter December 9, 2015
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Babatunde Raji Fashola , Nigeria’s Minister for Power, Works and Housing on Tuesday while unveiling his plans praised the achievements of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

Fashola during his first news conference tagged “Setting the Agenda for Delivering Change” said that Goodluck Jonathan has constructed more roads than any president ever in Nigeria.

He also acknowledged that the Transformation in the power sector is above 50 % and that he would try to build on it.

Minister of State for Works, Adebayo Adeyeye, also said that Jonathan’s administration has recorded more success in the provision of motorable roads than any other administration in the history of Nigeria.

Adeyeye, who spoke as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Monday, insisted that the Jonathan administration has made considerable progress in the road sector, more than any of the governments that have administered the country.
According to him, the administration in 2011 had about 4,500 kilometres of fairly motorable roads, just as he explained that today the administration has about 25,000 kilometres of very good roads.

How in God's earth do we still have people who believe and share this nonsensical election campaign bare faced lie and lame propaganda?... Oga it is 2018 and you still believe this rubbish?... that between 2011 and 2015, Nigeria fixed or rehabilitated over 20,000km of roads?... and you also believe that Fashola is the one who said or endorsed this?

How many kilometres of roads does Nigeria have in total?... 25000km of roads will stretch from Lagos to London and back 5 times. And you believe a Nigerian government fixed that amount in 4 years?... That amount was fixed and not a single major road in the entire SE or important roads like the East-West road were included?.... Were all those roads built in the moon or in the coven?.... Jonathanians, I hail!!! One really meets wonderful characters on this forum.

bigfish3k:
we have agreed to share and spend. why should the FG not spend hers if others are spending according to their rights.
FG spent hers according to law its rights

btw, its the spending by both parties (FG and states) that cuased the problem

37 people do a business and receive returns. The boss owns 52% of the total profits while the remaining 36 partners collectively own the remaining 48%.

The boss decides to hold back and save everyone's share, i.e. 100% of the proceeds. The full 36 partners (except for 1 or 2) begin to rant and rant and ask the boss to release their respective shares of the profits. The boss remains adamant, refusing to release the money.

And then one day, the 36 partners realise that the boss is actually spending from the money he claims he wants to save for everyone. The agitation therefore reaches a peak; and since the boss realises he had lost the moral right to still withhold the funds (especially after being caught spending from it), the boss agrees to give the remaining 36 partners theirs.

Out of the 36 partners, over 28 of them, including the boss (who retained 52% of the total fund) squander their shares in wild living and phantom projects. And then there was a drought and over 28 partners couodnt even pay their staff.

@bigfish3k
Common sense tells me that if that boss really had any will to save, giving the partners their money can never be an excuse or justification to also squander his share, especially seeing that he's incharge of the overall economy and controls a massive share. I wonder how people defend these sort of things.

bigfish3k:
supreme court gave order that the money should be shared. shikeena
and GEJ obeyed

I'm not doubting you, I only said I don't remember reading anywhere where the supreme court gave a ruling on the ECA matter. So please if you can point me in the right direction, just post any link to the effect that the supreme court gave a ruling.

By the way, the above is even inconsequential; the state and local governments only had 48% of the funds and it was their money and their right to decide what to do with their share. Even the so called trio of APC governors which some people are fond of shifting all blame to collectively received less than 5% of the total ECA fund. So the big question still begging for answers is, why did the FG not save given that it legally still owned 52% of the funds?... Did the phantom supreme court order also force GEJ's FG to swallow its 52%?.. did the supreme court order also force the FG to deplete foreign reserves from over $42billion to $28.6 billion even at a time of excess oil revenue?

Rebelutionary:
More annoying is the fact that iweala was picking and choosing names as if like you said, the other govs were robots and didn't have a say!

You didn't save a whooping 52% n u r crying that I should have saved 26%- does that appeal to simple common sense?

I tire with the way this folks reason!

NOI actually said the truth in one of her earlier international interviews that she cried bitterly about the need to save; but the 'government' at the time had no political will to save anything. After receiving severe backlash from PDP members over what they must have termed 'friendly fire', upon returning to Nigeria, she quickly swallowed her words and claimed she was referring to 'state governments' or state governors. That was the day I learnt that state governors were the ones in-charge of Nigeria's economy.

Rebelutionary:
Dodge as they may, this question will always be asked to show that they were all complicit and the federal govt was prodigal and irresponsible!

The matter is amusing and annoying at times. How could a people just keep reproducing such a lame excuse over and over again?... And funny enough, these are the same folks that claim APC are the masters of blame game. I imagine what will happen IF PDP wins the next elections, the blame game would be next to none.

bigfish3k:
they took the FG to court and won

even if its only one APC governor that supported the sharing and won his case in a court of law against the other 35, it should be obeyed in a democracy

hope u are a proponent of rule of law

I'm not sure I understand what link your comment has with the my previous comment. Who's talking avout court order here?... Besides, governors also took the FG to court under OBJ and Yaradua but they kept battling the case till the end. GEJ's government only gave-in after it was caught dipping its hands into the cookie jar and depleting the funds without the knowledge of the governors..I dont remember the court giving any definitive ruling on that matter or asking the FG to release the funds.

Just to clarify, there were 36 governors at the time, and about 24 were from PDP. But any time the pdp wants to absolve itself from the blame of not saving for the rainy day when there was plenty, the overused excuse is always, "Amaechi, Fashola and Oshiomole were against saving"; this time they were graceful enough to have added Akpabio's name in the mix (obviously because Akpabio is now APc). So my question is, what sort of lame and politically childish excuse is that? Out of 36 governors, they just single out 3 APC governors?... Were the remaining governors robots or zombies that didnt have an opinion?...

By the way, the money belonged to the states, so if states refused to save their own money, is that the reason the FG would also not save especially considering that the FG had the lion share (52%) and was in charge of the overall economy?

McEphiks:
I quickly confirmed online before I commented. Even the bible says after hearing "they continued examining the scirptures daily as to whether the things are true".

Yeah... it's always good to confirm, but hope you also tried to confirm what I said too about contrails being the more prevalent reason behind those white trails and not fuel dumping which happens very rarely (mainly during emergencies)?

McEphiks:
OP is right. I just confirmed on Wikipedia.


Thumbs up OP, thanks for the enlightenment.

OP's post isn't wrong (cos fuel dump also creates white trails), but it's very misleading. That is because 90% of the times you see those white trails, it's actually contrails and not fuel dumping; fuel dumping happens only very rarely.

Hotfreeze:
White clouds behind airplanes aren't fuel, don't let the OP mislead you.

Those white streaks planes leave behind are actually artificial clouds. They're called contrails, which is a shortened version of the phrase “condensation trail." Airplane engines produce exhaust, just like car engines do. As hot exhaust gases escape from a plane, the water vapor in the fumes hits the air.

Lokoyen:
U people av serious problems! Why not come up with your counter claims instead of trying to rubbish another man's post.

@Lokoyen, Can you swear you didn't read a counter claim in that post above? Wonderful!

Someone graciously pointed out that the report on this thread is very misleading and the best you can do is attack the person?.... Do you really love misinformation that much?.. Ahh!