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manny4life: What in the world are you blabbing at?

Dude, stick your bs to @bluivy and the rest, ain't no one got time for you..

Ah... i knew like your local praise singer counterpart truth is like a salt poured on your blood! It makes you thick

BluIvy: What stupppid company would hire an olodo like you. You still reminice about the good old days? So are many countries. I am not SAn but I stay in SA. You on the other hand are still dreaming and hoping for things to go bad in twenty years. Do not forget Nigerian life span is short some of the commentators here would long gone when that happens. Please give them hope talk about tommorow, next eeek, month, year, 5 years do not give us your twenty years wish. I would fire you if you worked in my company. You are glorified dummbness!

South Africa does not compete with Nigeria no one will even date care even if you would surpose the GDP what counts is what it means for your overpopulated slum of a country. Remenber SA has only 50 million vs Nigerian 170million population count. The rest is for you to calculate Mr Oga on top!

By the way any olodo is a super being in a faceless internet. Uk, SA everyone can say they are anyway even heaven. Stupendous show off, very much nigerian.

The fact that you cannot type coherent sentences says much about you! We Nigerians, both home and abroad know our challenges and are confronting them.

FYI, we do not believe the stu.pid stats you people throw around because we Nigerians know what the real deal is.

Shame on you for denying who you are! Typical black SA who has an inferiority complex till date.

I really do not know why you SA are so scared of the wealth of Nigerians? Even here in the UK, you people come over lash unto the every goodies yet are one of the known foreigners that have contributed less to the UK economy.

Like I told you, Nigeria has surpassed South Africa in GDP, so go cry me a river! You economy will continue to shrink because it is based on false premise of voodoo economics!

Since 2010, has your GDP grown above 3%? Have you asked yourself why this is the case? Year on year your GDP are in the lower bottom

Abeg.. go and cool yourself with this http://mg.co.za/article/2013-11-26-south-africas-economic-growth-slows-to-four-year-low-of-07

manny4life: It's God that will have mercy on you people.

When he was fixing the roads to improve transportation across the nation, isn't that part of infrastructural development spurring growth.

When he ensured that Bulk Trader came online, PHCN dissolved and TCN under Manitoba begins, is that to make sure that power improves, won't that be called infrastructural development helping the economy

When he made policies favoring the agricultural sector, todar Nigeria has 15 large rice mill producing millions of tons of rice, reducing export and strengthening our economy, also with the fertilizer and small grant initiative, saving that outflow of FOREX, hasn't that helped our economy.

And the list is ENDLESS

Don't let hate blind your eyes o...

Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Ranking 52 47 38 37 34 31 31 30

This table of the trend in global ranking of Nigeria should tell you how your puppet Jonathan has dragged the nation backwards! Since 2010, we only made 1% point gain Compare that to the era 2005 to 2008, nearly 20% point gained!

erictoonice: GDP is crap wetin concern me Na standard of life, jst Cos India, China, and some other overpopulated country has high GDP than countries like Germany, France, Norway, and many other advanced countries doesn't mean they are doing better, let me ask all of u ranting, if them give u china and India visa for free una go go we want to see real development, how graduates can get jobs after school, how one van love comfortably and not looking at ur neighbour as a super rich man cos he manage to own substandard house and a second hand car. infrastructure,.electricity, industries, good education and good life is wat we need not some figures that won't translate to anything. how can a country in the 21st century not have power and want to compare them selves with people

India has one of the highest levels of poverty in the world, yet is the ninth largest economy in the World. No doubt, if Brazil could fix their electricity problem within 10years with a purposeful leadership, Nigeria can do the same and will do the same.

Nigerians are innovative and entrepreneurial people and their resilience is propping the economy up. Does it surprise you that foreign companies are now partnering with local companies to create mega enterprise with billions being invested in manufacturing or assembly plants?

This is because the average Nigerian who have been able to make more money available in His pocket through various legitimate self survival means is now being seen by these investors as having extra to spend on consumables hence one of the reason the are now coming back to invest.

BluIvy: Mr do not spew your dreams trash based rubbish. The fact remains they are welfare states and Nigeria is not. They feed their poor whether in your dreams they will bomb out. Please Nigeria has been coming for the better half of the 21st century, they are still not there. You all continue to pour out like sickness induced vomit to get to other countries to make better life. So lets talk when they are bombed out for now, SA cannot be be more impoverished than Nigeria.

You must learn to answer to the question and not go on a tangent. You will be a certified failure in life if you continue
with answering what you jave not be asked! Olodo
By the way resiliance my azz, no investor choose a country to invest in based on resiliance but on how the government takes care of its citizen. No one wants starving workers who going turn and steal from his company to survive.

If you are truly a South African, then I can't weep for you because your economy is going no where! Even Zimbabwe is will be a more reqarding destination for investment than SA.

Don't cry me river because Nigeria's economy has surpassed that of South Africa. You talk about Nigerians leaving in droves, maybe I need to remind you that whilst there are element of truth in that, even in the 1960s when our economy was at par with that of most countries in the world, Nigerians still toured the world.

The st.upid welfare system in SA is a ruse and a smoke screen. I have several of your colleagues here working under me and I know too well your SA like the back of my palms.

You should be more worried that the top performing companies in SA are now pumping their investment offshore because returns from the ventures is SA is akin to a man pouring water through a sieve.

So let Nigeria and Nigerians be. We are not competing with South Africa, We know who our mates are and with purposeful leadership, South Africa will be competing with Northern Nigeria alone in less than 20 years from now.

donphilopus: How many votes does Seun have?? Is it morethan a vote?? If NO, there's no problem! We all know the reason why Aisha2 resigned as a mod! If you do not know, pls try and contact the "Knowers (Noahs)".

Of course we know Nah!.... we were all witnesses to what happened on here in the last election and it would not be surprising if it happens again in 2014. However, this time around, the tide is too blusterous and their antics will be blown away along with them.

Seun na pesin wey ma pikin go take serious Him na ghana must go media man nah, so why him no go do Abati

BluIvy: Yes, mr ignoroumus, for a country to starve there should be no direct financial benefits recorded. Now tell me how nigerians base their superior poverty status without credible fincial gain?

Yes a government that affords to give an allowance to its citizens to soften poverty means they can afford. Is it not what many nigerians run to the UK even in SA to take advantage of and even scam the systen claiming the same handouts?
Stlaela!

Absolute trash! If you do not know, those countries claiming welfare state are a ticking time bomb waiting to explode and SA is one of them. Only countries with production capacity driven GDP are the real economies and that is why Nigeria's revised GDP figures will be a welcome boost to most investors because it confirms what many analyst have always believed that Nigeria has since grown from a lower to middle income country. This growth is down to the resilience of the Nigerian people.

BetaThings: Why we are having this argument on politics is difficult to understand
The rebasing has nothing to do with Jonathan's performance
Nigeria growth rate has reduced to slightly less than 7%
That is what Jonathan should be credited with and you can multiply it by 3 on a compounded basis (2010 - 2013, 3 years)

But Nigeria depends largely on foreign aid. Our fight against HIV has been funded largely by foreign donor agencies
A lot of these will stop with a larger GDP. Nobody should forget that

This is one several articles by Soludo

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/learning-the-wrong-lessons-of-development-3-/152720/

Let those local and bastardized praise singer continue to mention GEJ's name as if He had anything to do with it. In fact, He has mis-managed the economy, else by now we would have been posting a GDP of about $650bn according to 2005 estimates, assuming an annual growth rate of 12%.

ewu.... the persin wey record this thing ehn... him funny pass the fvideoh

So since passenger no gree travel, dem don turn the airport to MALTINA DANCE HALL

By the way..... how come Monki_nAH2 take make front page

taharqa: Nigeria is now d LARGEST ECONOMY in Africa under President Goodluck Jonathan. The Economy increased from around $59bn in 1999 to more than $400bn in 2013 (ie it Expanded about 8 times in a mere 14yr period) unda his Party's leadership; And the growth and diversification of d Economy is still on apace.

Now DIE!!...

Is it any surprise that even in the times of yuletide your insanity knows no bound? You are too intellectually deficient not to have realized that the GDP of Nigeria grew at accelerated rate from 1999 to 2007 and I am sure your Jonathan was still learning how to steal from local government council allocation then.

That you even thought Nigeria's economy in 1999 was a mere $59bn shows how innately daft you are.

Nigeria today is still reaping the painful economic reforms Obasanjo initiated that brought about liberalization of the economy. The GSM alone brought about creation of millions of jobs and so many Nigerians just by selling re-charge cards made fortunes and improved their lives.

So don't be so daft to attribute the success of the dogged spirit of Nigerians to your puppet corrupt master in aso rock.

jamace: I seem not to understand the highlighted. Can some one help out, please?.

He is simply telling you the truth that leaders in these regions careless about the people and they will fight and destroy the land for their selfish aim.

Look at traditional seats in these regions, with the exception of Edo, the rest always end up in bloody war. That should give you a taste of what it may be like when these regions break away from the center. They will destroy themselves quicker than salt dissolving in water!

Sesan2: Maybe the committee members were concerned that any failure, on her part, to answer questions satisfactorily will later be blamed (by her) on ill-health. Although the man was talking about her possibly collapsing, they could have given her the benefits of the doubt and go on with the interview; since she said she was ready (and well enough) to answer the questions (especially if the session was being televised and the world would have seen and heard how she responded). If at any point during the session they felt she was not up to it (health-wise) they could advise her to go and take a rest and reply in writing to the rest of the questions or come back at a later date.

In any case, there was no need for the man to shout at her and treat her like a school girl, which I feel he did - he did not even allow her to speak. If the man felt he wanted to stick to his guns he could do it calmly and firmly. You can be courteous and firm at the same time.

I know many Nigerians can be passionate when they speak/argue about what they believe in (there is no crime in that) but you have to draw the line between being passionate and being rude.

That man was rude in this case. The woman deserves an apology.

@bold, your feelings does not represent the truth. Secretary of States in the US and UK ministers are grilled in both Senate or House Reps and UK parliament respectively with angry tones, yet the Ministers still face the committees and do provide the nation an explanation for their actions.

Nngozi is an egocentric human being who has always treated the Nigeria legislators with disdain and this goes back to Her years as a Minister during Obasanjo's tenure.

tokunboh: How do you define education? It's not by getting degrees and attending short courses in Harvard.

How is Hon Jibrin different from an unruly Motor park tout? Tell me, tell me

Having read your post on this thread, I am amazed at your continual pontification and glorification of falsehood. Why is it acceptable to you that a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will lie in the first instance to the people? If she was sick and was unable to answer the questions to be put across to Her, why did She not take Her leave after the committee chairman gave His waiver?

Madam Minister must realize that she is too small to take the Nigeria institution for a ride and this is not the first time she would be doing this. She should be reminded that nobody is fazed by her touted degrees and world bank blah blah and Nigerians want to see the practical effects of Her so called knowledge.

She has mismanaged the economy, blatant misappropriation of funds without recourse to due approval authorities -e.g. SWVs to some MDAs and Special projects off which the laws had not expressly approve off such.

Let Her come and explain to the Nigerian nation why the so call GDP of 6% growth is not really reflecting in the pockets of Nigerians

Abagworo: I'll like to know the Caucasian:Black ratio before I comprehend whose efforts made Maputo look good.

Why does it not delight you that HUMANITY has turned what was meant to be evil into good? Why are you seeking the divide and wanting to know what is the black to purple ratio?

Seriously, I find comments like this humanly offending and it brings into question the kind of people we want to be as a nation.

Imagine with this mind set, how can we truly be a top destination in the world

@Maputo, nice to see beauty in nature blended with human architectural rendition with green scenery.

theoctopus: Are you suggesting in anyway that APC is likely to do it? Is there any evidence that remotely suggests APC will ever build a second Niger Bridge? Are the present characters in APC not the same people that refused to do any thing for the SS and SE for decades. Isnt the person that has giving SE an international airport, the most likely to build a second Niger bridge? Your statement is funny indeed

If are not a biased political observer, you would have noticed that in all the state APC has governors, it is the clout and personality of the governors that is more at stake which drives their development agenda than the party itself.

From Lagos to Edo, from Ogun to Osun, you will find they as a part have fielded individual of known repute, who are determined to leave a good governance mark in their respective states and that is why you see those states are the most vibrant and fastest growing states in Nigeria.

Same will happen to any candidate APC will field for the Presidency, as they would ensure the individual has clout, can deliver and would have at stake their personality and name, hence they are forced to deliver especially on issue like the 2NB.

To think that GEJ has spent nearly 4years as President and yet there is not a single pier rising from waters across the river niger on onitsha side tells you He is not a fellow to be taken seriously.

FYI, APC will not campaign with 2NB, they will do the needful when the get into Aso Rock in 2015. If South East were really smart, they would have realized that partnering with opposition party is the surest way for them to get the national infrastructure project in their zone completed ASAP.

APC knows if they win Aso rock with votes from South East, they would do everything possible to ensure they development the place like what they are doing in South West and Edo, because that is the only way they would remain in power.

The governors of South East, especially Peter Obi is a disgrace to have allow the 2NB project to linger on for ages! If several states in South West, Rivers and Kano are able to build bridges costing millions and billions of naira and have delivered them in less than 5 years, one wonder why 4 governors could not set aside N3bn yearly to have that bridge constructed.

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hercules07: Forget qualifications, the guy is a committee chairman, that is a very powerful position, though the guy maybe a third of her age, he is occupying a position of authority with the responsibility that comes with it, in sane climes, when reps talk, ministers jump.

My brother, it is obvious most of those posting trash in here have not lived in a democracy where the legislative arms truly functions and do their job.

In a civilized clime, Nngozi would have apologized to the legislators for her blatant lies and falsehood on the spot. She had the guts to even be asking for respect when she is one Minister that is known is history to have shown utter disregard for the legislators both in Her first and second coming.

In fact, she should even be thankful that She was not facing a senate committee in the US or a parliamentary committee here in the UK. She would have spent all of this week and Christmas answering radio and tv houses phone calls to explain to the nation why She can not be trusted with the Economy and Her seemingly evasive tactics of not wanting to answer pressing national issues bothering on Her mismanagement of the Nigerian economy.

ochukoccna: This Gulma is a phucking toy
How can a drone make so much noise?
How can a drone be started by manually rolling the propeller?
How is it the drone has to be held by human hands to steady it whilst taxiing and before take off?
A president that has his priorities right will tell his Air-force chief to sack the 'Engineers' that did this gimmick but no not Ebele Jonathan
SR was right to say he launched a drone which did not fly and the Nigerian Air Force should have kept their peace rather than release video of this toy which Boko Haram will shoot down with bows and arrows talk less of militants using RPGs
This is a bad joke mehn

This 'drone' was taken to the cleaners https://www.nairaland.com/1562012/video-gulma-tactical-uav-nigerias but the OP has started a new topic on it again
Shame!

One of the biggest problem Nigeria faces today is that majority of the citizen do not know how far the world has left Nigeria behind! So when next to nothing is achieved, we over celebrate and shout at the top of our voices!

Yes, we have coupled a drone and flew it to some height, that should not call for the kind of celebration we are seeing and hearing about, instead we should go back develop things more like the Iranians and then WoW the world with the improvement.

There are many Nigerians in diaspora that have expertise in the design and construction and after sales remote maintenance of UAVs, MISAs, Missiles, Aircraft, but with a political leadership that lacks vision, and ideas, many have preferred to stay away, Hence the nation end up with a noisy toy they call drone

mikeansy: There are consequences for these choices

let the constitution be upheld

Declare their seats vacant immediately

It is so shocking that most of you who make so much noise on NL about Nigeria are poorly educated about her laws and constitution. Go and acquire more know legion what the constitution says about defection by lawmakers.

If you do not know, these lawmakers have consulted the lawyers before taking any step and like Tam David West said, they are one step ahead of GEJ and His crew...

PDP is now a. Minority party in Nigeria politics.... live with the reality and stop chasing shadows.

Isn't this akin to telling Nigeria Police Force to go arrest an armed robber when they are accomplice to armed robbery in Nigeria...so TUKUR..YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.

Decryptor: I couldn't help but notice that for about 2 days now, most of the sites i visit which have google ads on them portrays negative reports on the past Nigerian leader Obasanjo. Banners ads which have headins such as "See how Obasanjo slept with his son's wife", "Obasanjo looted treasury to start his farms"

Just visit most popular sites like most major newspaper online websites and see for yourself. Note, you must be using a local Internet Network Service Provider for these ads to reflect or a Nigerian IP.

Something tells me that some people somewhere must have paid Google to rotate these ads at high impressions and views rate.

Lesson: Don't fight someone in power even if you were there before!

You better tell GEJ 2014 is fast approaching, it will teach many a lesson that betrayal is worse than armed robbery and it's not to be toiled with in politics.

tomakint: When the time is ripe, I will WAKE you up from your SLUMBER

What is this one saying

[quote author=Itoroetti ]U weh sabi,why not ignore and walk away?peacock paint[/quote]You should be ashamed of yourself that what seemingly should be left to the dogs, is what has turned out to be of important discuss to you. Shows where and how far life has left you behind.

jamace: Can you see my fellow Nigerian citizen?. Instead of condemning an abomination committed by a Nigerian leader and elder statesman, he is busy teaching English Language. With this kind of poster, will this country ever move forward?

What is this one saying? If you were brought up with manners and appropriate social norms, you would have been taught that discussing about other people's private lives is a job for low lifers and social ingrates.

Will I be surprise that if you or the Op life is examined true the prism of faithfulness in your own relationship and commitment to the opposite partner you will not appear as a jolt on the other side?

Onlytruth: He did it because the woman is a Christian woman with western education. I bet you that if she were a Hajia from the North, he won't dare such nonsense.
Nigeria is a place were an illiterate wants to teach a professor; and the illiterate is usually a Muslim.

It is even more worrying that you that supposedly ought to be the educated one comes across as innately st.upid in your reasoning! Can't you people see things without connotation of religiousisity and ethnicity? Are you lots eternally bewitched not to reason differently? Can't you just see it as both adults having a bad day in the office? Sometimes it baffles me that supposedly grown up men in Nigeria are by far worse than the generation after them in reasoning.

phantom: thank you.even though its not the governments place to give grants,the various monies jonathan gave to Nollywood was a welcome idea.

See this shameless liar! What grant are you talking about? Nollywood is a symbol of the doggedness and resolve of the typical Nigerian with innovative spirit and is not tied to any confused and corrupt government.

Credit to those Heroes who saw a need and reached out to meet it and a lame duck president who had so much good will yet could not transform it to development for the people.

Any sane individual would tell you that Nigeria has long over taken South Africa as the number one economy in Africa.

DID OBJ REALLY HAD AN AFFAIR WITH HIS SON'S WIFE ....nah who sabi you english?..nah by force to speak queens' english

idumuose: Come to think of it bro,but why are we cutting one another with e-cutlass
and stabbing ourselves with e-dagger over politicians who don't even know
we are in existence.
Iyabo in her letter said these politians are there to line their pockets.
We are the ones hurting ourselves.
Now look @ this scenario,before and during election,they send thugs to
go to the polling booths to cause mayhem.These thugs are human for
God sake.My question is why don't they send their own children to go
and disrupt polling centres where they know they will lose?
It's a pity bro.

Is it people like you that propagate falsehood on social media that can be trusted with the future of Nigeria? Brood of Vipers

shizzle11: plenty of jobless irritants on this Nland. Look at the way they flock this thread with their usual senseless tirade.

A bridge collapsed and they are all rejoicing, spewing their usual garbage. Always ready and lurking, waiting for an Igbo related thread to be opened so they can feast and have a jamboree on it with their usual hate- filled verbosity.

Like seriously, you clowns must be having some sense of fulfilment with your obsession. Pathetic dolts.

@post, that bridge needs attention asap.

When ti happens else where outside of the east who cries the most NL? Not that I support any of those who have made joke of this misfortune the community is now faced with, but just letting you know... check ya eye first, small san san dey inside

safarigirl: A bridge collapsed, instead of the brain-dead buffons on NL to ask relevant questions like who was in charge of maintaining that bridge, is it a state or FG owned bridge? How can such accidents be prevented? They're here talking irrelevant cr@p, anyone could've died if that bridge had collapsed during the day, an Ibo man, a Yoruba or a Tiv, but would you lot have cared? No, it's to come here and brag about useless things like whose bridge lasted longer. It's foolhardy to think this happens only in the East, the fact that you read this one doesn't mean it doesn't happen everywhere. Stop embarrassing yourselves on an international forum, you guys have a reputation of being shallow-minded already

I am sorry dear dada... international forum with sign language... oyinbo is a difficult to speak