₦airaland Forum

playtheblues:
APC is dead.

Gidoka:
If with corruption, a dollar was 180naira, and
now without corruption, a dollar is 400naira, Ladies
and gentlemen, you all will agree with me that we
need corruption in this country.

mordsith:
Goodluck Jonathan was the best executive President
Nigeria ever had. This is the reason Islamic hausa-
fulani-Yoruba APC is fighting the truth which is a
standard they don't want to be judged with.

*CNN Money projected that the fastest growing economy
in the world in 2015 will be China (7.3% growth);
followed by Qatar (7.1%) and then followed by Nigeria
(7%). this attests to the astute management of the
economy by the Jonathan administration under the
ministerial assistance of the world renown economist
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Igbo).

* Nigeria's Gross domestic Product ranked the nation's
economy 1st in Africa and 26th globally; from 3rd and
46th respectively. The economy became more widely
diversified than before.

* Foreign Direct Investment were boosted from US$24.9
million as at 2007 to over US$ 35 billion by 2014 and
virtually all quoted companies doubled in size, assets
and profit.

* Jonathan's administration rendered over 25,000
kilometers of federal road motorable from barely 5,000
Kilometers as at 2011.

* Began work on second Niger bridge and Loko-Oweto
bridge over river Benue.

* Nigerian railways was resuscitated from a 30-years old
coma with over 3, 500 kilometers of lines operational.

* 22 airports remodeled to meet International standards
and five International ones namely Lagos, Abuja,
Portharcourt, Kano and Enugu.

* Agricultural transformation agenda made it possible to
now export Cassava and increasingly attain 60% self-
sufficiency in Rice production.

* The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United
Nations voted Nigeria the largest producer of Cassava in
the world.

* the Jonathan administration built six strategically-l
ocated perishable cargo airports in Ilorin, Jalingo, Jos,
Lagos, Makurdi and Yola in close proximity to Nigeria's
food baskets.

* Under Jonathan's administration Agriculture accounted
for 22% of Nigeria's GDP, more than Oil and Gas which
only account for 15.9 percent. Nigeria recorded more
than 50% reduction in food imports. Prior to his
Presidency, we had a food import bill of 1.4 trillion naira
but his policies reduced it to less than N700 billion.

* rehabilitation of 19 dams and construction of 14
irrigation projects - millions of Nigerian farmers are
engaging in all season farming across the country
except Boko Haram disturbed areas

* Jonathan’s administration resuscitated the Warri and
Portharcourt Refineries that were deliberated left to rust
and pine by preceding administrations.

* Power generation went up from some 2,000 megawatts
in 2011 to some 5,000 megawatts in 2014. More
independent power plants commission. nevertheless
there was sabotage by blowing up underwater gas
pipelines in then APC controlled states - Lagos and
Rivers states.

* Jonathan administration established 14 new
universities and 150 almajiri schools in 13 northern
states.
Under Jonathan administration there had been a 10
million increase in school enrollment in Nigeria.
* People-oriented projects under the Subsidy Re-
Investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE - P)
which helped create 1.6 million Jobs in 2013.
*CNN Money projected that the fastest growing economy
in the world in 2015 will be China (7.3% growth);
followed by Qatar (7.1%) and then followed by Nigeria
(7%). this attests to the astute management of the
economy by the Jonathan administration under the
ministerial assistance of the world renown economist
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
(Igbo).
* Nigeria became the 23rd largest economy in the world
overtaken European countries like Belgium and Austria.
* In 2010 when Jonathan was acting president, life
expectancy in Nigeria was 47 years but by 2015 it was 54
years, an improvement of seven years.
* Maternal Mortality ratio in Nigeria was reduced by 26%
* Under Jonathan, Nigeria had become Guinea-worm-fre
e; a disease previously affecting 800,000 Nigerians
yearly. Polio was extinguished from Nigeria as no new
cases were detected in the last nine months of his
administration. Bill Gates, the richest man in the world
and humanitarian philantropist hailed Nigeria's fight
against polio as one of the great world achievements of
2014.
* Between 2012 and 2015 the United nations Conference
on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) ranked Nigeria as
the number one country for foreign investment with the
fourth highest rate of returns on investments in the
world. This was inspite of security challenges from
Islamic Jihadists from the north.
* In 2010, when Jonathan came to power, Aliko Dangote
(Hausa) was the 463rd richest man in the world with a
total fortune of $2.1 billion. Jonathan's policies and
support made him the 23rd richest man in the world with
a total of $25 billion.
* Transparency International in 2010 ranked Nigeria
134th out of 178 countries in corruption. Under Obasanjo
Nigeria was 1st, 3rd and remain one of the most corrupt
in the world.
* By instituting the e-payment system, Jonathan's
administration sanitized the civil service by removing
50,000 ghost workers in one fell swoop. The
administration also got rid of ghost voters from the
electoral register; over 1 million ghost voters were
removed from Zamfara INEC register alone.
* Under Jonathan's administration Free and Fair
elections were conducted in Edo, Anambra, Ondo, Ekiti
and Osun.
* Under Jonathan's administration Nigeria won the
African Cup of Nations and Under 17 World.
* Jonathan’s government for the first time in Nigeria
conducted an election in which the opposition won and
handed over power without incident.
#Those who fought Jonathan will soon be on their knees
to beg him and ask forgiveness. It is very unfortunate
that under 8 months, Buhari APC government has ran
Nigeria's economy aground. Buhari APC government has
really messed Nigeria up Nigeria and the Lying
information minister Mr Lai Muhammed is not even
helping matters at all. He is busy lying to Nigerians
everyday about state of the economy. May God salvage
Nigeria from Buhari APC clueless government#

mhiz44:
Hello bethren my name is tolani,i have a little kid which is 3 years old .my husband left me since i got pregnant.denieying his not responsible.since then have been struggling,i have no job,i learn fashion design but no one to help,pls can motherless babies home take care of the child for me ,so i can look for job and go and check her every month,pls i need your advice.

dukie25:
For those not sure what the charges are for, it's a charge for voting a dullard.

snailspeed:
Which of these puts him on the same level with Abacha?

1. Rail reforms. Even Amaechi is going about showcasing GEJ projects. The same projects many of you said didn't exist and was only on paper. Abuja-Kaduna rail is there to testify against all oif you and call you what you are...liars!

2. Auto industry policy and reforms. The policy that made major car manufacturers to move into Nigeria. Unfortunately, we have lost the gains due to your Baba's idiocy!

3. Educational reforms. This saw the establishment of 12 new universities across the country. No other president in Nigeria history has come close.

4. Agricultural reforms. The reforms that saw Nigeria become food sufficient and Adeshina is there to testify against you lot. We were even building cargo ports across the country. But all that is at a stand still now

5. Electoral reforms. With total reforms in this sector, even the opposition could win freely unlike the OBJ days of do or die politics. But bubu has taken us back to 1984. Back to the dark days of crude politics.

6. FOI bill. This was a bill that successive Presidents refuse to sign. He signed and implemented it and now you can talk freely and ask questions. You should be saying thank you GEJ. Your native god Buhari is even trying to take that away with his diabolical social media bill

I could go on to mention YouWIN, port reforms, power reforms among others. But it doesn't matter because you only hate him because of partisan, regional or tribal reasons. Or maybe you were still wearing pampers when Abacha was President in which case, I can forgive your ignorance. Meanwhile, if you want to compare someone with Abacha, Buhari is a good fit. He was PTF chairman during Abachas rule. Do you know the ptf was one of the main conduits Abacha used to loot? Why do you think Buhari still insists Abacha was not corrupt even after all the Abacha money that has been returned?

Go and play beast of no nation by Fela joor! Your President's full story is there!

oyinkinola:
..don't bother about that, the problems that caused by the effect of looters cost UN more than what it 'ill cost them to give logiciel and and supports to the government! and we've make this known to them!....NLFRC

oyinkinola:
...but the UN had evidence and had been contacted for a drastic action, is no longer a joke......NLFRC

osagix:
RIBADU / NGOZI OKONJI IWEALA

Omenkata:
Happy Sunday to the wailers
Buhari is a stupid hopeless vagabond

just charged #389 to $1 on my uba africard

imagine $2 for #800


Thunder will strike Buhari Insha'Allah amin with his useless bastard incompetent minister of finance

PassingShot:
Above all, he supervised mindless and senseless looting of our treasury

youmour:
how come when they were looting naija the country was doing okay and the naira was strong but now that we are fighting corruption things are getting out of hand.

Kath5kouture:
Saw this on Facebook and decided to share: Peter Agba Kalu says,

I have stopped talking because only a compound fool will not notice that Buhari is a disaster waiting to happen
You staked your integrity and promised to match the dollar to a naira, but close to 9 months into your leadership, the naira hits all time low and you are still blaming a man that handed over to you without going to court to distract you as you would have done.

Buhari and the VP are not economist and every day they talk about reviving the economy. This is almost 9 months with no economic development policies or plans, no economic adviser, no economic team. That was why the budget was messed up because the kindergarten Financial Minister and her team thought budgets are about adding figures. So you add and pass it round, whoever it comes to his or her table adds their own.

All round the world, once president's are pronounced 'elected' the first appointment they make is economic adviser and set up an economic team.

Some even set up economic team while campaigns are on and use it to solicit for votes.

Isn't it a pity that our society is so much filled with fake and pretentious intellectuals that follow politicians sheepishly and without pronouncing one basic strategic economic development statistics, we chorus their 'Change' mantra and tag along like sheep being Shepherded by dummies.

Bill Clinton as a Democratic candidate set up his economic team and at the time of drastic drop in employment in US, he ran with a tag, 'Job's Stupid?'

When he was elected president his first appointment was economic adviser, same with Obama.

Down here, once Obasanjo was pronounced elected, his first appointment was economic adviser and setting up an economic team, same with Yaradua and Jonathan.

Attaching funds to projects without a crack economic development policies backed by growth statistics designed by a crack economic team, supervised by a meticulous economist, is just what it is: blindly throwing money to projects hoping it will work.

The reason why people are elected into offices and the sitting ones rejected is because the people expect new ideas, hope for the best and the elected to show the way forward. Not to come and be giving excuses.

That the budget was prepared within 1 month because President Buhari who lacks sound and basic knowledge of budget planning requested for that. And that no one among his kitchen cabinet had the courage to explain the impossibility of his demand is a clear sign of danger.

A nation is at the hold of dictatorship if the leader is feared so much by those around him that they cannot advice him rightly, even in the clear face of danger.


The budget mess just revealed something far more dangerous than the criminal record in world budget padding it exposed. It showed that Buhari surrounded himself with rubber stamp officials. Cabinet members that chorus every thing the president said will lack the capacity and courage to come up with innovative ideas.

Most sincere people that supported Buhari out of their sincere desire to see a better Nigeria are gradually getting tired of these excuses and blame game. They may not have the courage to step out and pronounce it because of being mocked by their social media friends that turned to enemies. But, deep down, they are hurting, burning and regretting.

Buhari clearly has shown that he lacks the sound and basic knowledge of what it takes to revive the nation today. He should admit this basic fact that has shown face clearly and appoint an economic adviser and set up an economic team to help him handle economic matters.

His greatest liability is his lack of trust on other Nigerians because he sees this as contracting the engine room of the government out and he's afraid what might happen behind him that might tarnish his name. But, this is the devil he must kiss if he's to salvage anything from the our economy that is rolling down the hill.

I love social media, when I see all these clear signs and see people who claim to be intellectuals coming to give positive thoughts about this regime I just shake my head. You cannot build something on nothing. The members of the present Federal Executive Council as it is constituted does not have what it takes to revive our economy now and this is beyond politics.

The economy is blind to political lining and it does not respect religion or ethnicity. For the interest of the nation, Buhari should look beyond his immediate political family and search for competent minds who are not ready to play politics, people who will look him direct in the face and tell him the truth, people who are ready to walk if he rejects their advise. Such honourable and highly recommended economic minds is what he needs urgently to secure his legacy that is fast eroding.

People like Lia mohammad who lie about everything are doing him more harm than people like me who are criticizing him everyday.

- Peter Agba Kalu