₦airaland Forum

eyeview:
There is something I don't understand about the yoruba tribe. Its only in yoruba land that a man like tinubu will be robbing them all blind and they still sheepishly prostrate to him and follow him and his candidate blindly. Am saying this cos if it were in the east,a new set of 'big men' would have arisen and said enough is enough. Igbos believe no man was born to perpetually lord over them. Its shameful that tinubu has embezzled the resources of Lagos to himself and yet its the igbos that want a stop and change to this godfatherism,left for the average yoruba,they and their children will still continue to 'durbarle' to the man and his family forever

In your dreams,go back to your eastern wilderness

onatisi:
[s][/s] baba nla dindinrin ni e .so everyone that supports pdp and gej ic an igbo person ,abi? so fayose and agbaje too are ibos too ?oponu . sometimes the way u apc ppl reason is irritating and annoying

chai,he pain you well abi,let me give you another one.I wish we have another civil war in this country so the hausa fulani's can annihilate you treacherous igbo's once and for all,you people are irritating

Billyonaire:
There is no justification for a coup d'etat. People died. Many people were killed. Is that justifiable ? Any and every criminal has a reason for going into crime. But are the excuses justifiable ? Buhari is the worst thing to happen to Nigeria. If Buhari allowed the politicians to make their mistakes then and learn from it, we would have been an America in Africa. But Buhari overthrew that government and landed us in series of military coups ...from IBB, to Abacha to Addul Salam. We have been raped enough, Buhari SHOULD GO AND DIE. He wants to start another mayhem.

someone who calls himself a billionaire won't wish another man dead,you must be as poor as a church mouse,you probably haven't eaten today.it is your father,mother and all your loved ones that will die in the name of sango,the god of thunder you useless ethnic bigot

onatisi:
thanks for giving us the true picture of happenings there. Apc don't the game and pdp is teaching them the game . Buhari and tinubu should register for political extra mural lessons from annenih and gej . Just relax and see how pdp will demolish and destroy apc come march 28 .

you igbo's are just bunch of embittered ethnic zealots who have always been the problem of this country,you seat in the comfort of your home in the east and predict what will happen in lagos of all places.I know you wish you could cast your vote in lagos for agbaje but its a pity you can't.baifran loser!

Nigerians!can u now see the nexus?dopkesi+AIT+jonathan+buhari's documentary+tinubu's documentary=PDP

josnig1980:
SAI BUHARI!

Jonathan is a big fool and I will tell you why,did he bribe anybody before he was massively voted for in 2011?the answer is no,and now that he has frittered his chances he is going around sharing raw dollars to people.yoruba's are not fools and are determined for change.sai buhari

Sup guys,I am having problems with the educational section.It keeps telling me 'error' when I try to fill my university and professional qualifications after entering my primary and secondary details.is there any special way of entering one's university and professional information?

You are short listed for interview on 2nd march 2015 by 9am at 5 yinusa adeniji street off mushin avenue by unity road ikeja,lagos.(New ace ltd).are they real?

ChikezieU:
I dont know what OLORIBURUKU mean but something tells me that its the right name for u. Lier

oloriburuku means igbo and vice versa

aminashy:
APC WITCHCRAFT BROOM CARRYING PARTY


The Schizophrenic sick Pa Buhari is a terrorist, deranged old brainless super clueless bastard
Apc is boko haram
Thiefnu.bu is a pedophile and a cocain sniffer

Buhari can only be president in sambisa and shekau would hand over to him.

Osinbajo is fake and a loafer

Amechi and Fashola are errand boys

I have been following your comments for quite sometime and can say confidently that you are very deformed,retarded,tribal,dumb like GEJ and must be from a particular side of the country.your analysis of issues has never been objective,factual and unbiased rather you put ethnic sentiments,religious intolerance and sectional hatred as your analytical tool.I just hope dumbo jumbo pay you well enough for your poorly executed hatchet job

talktimi:


By Femi Aribisala
I HAVE news for APC stalwarts. You don’t win an election in Nigeria by being the champion of social media. You don’t win by renting crowds to fill up your rallies. You don’t win by putting up your billboards everywhere while tearing down those of your opponents. You don’t win by master-minding in the media a false sense of the inevitability of your victory. When you do all this successfully, you simply end up deceiving yourself.

You win elections by mounting an effective ground-game at the grassroots level; designed to bring out the people on Election Day to vote for you. Instead, APC strategy was to stampede the electorate into victory. The design was to proclaim victory even before the election, laying grounds for protests and acrimony in event of defeat.

Attempted coup d’état

The APC blueprint is see-through. Present a new refurbished, suit-wearing and church-visiting Buhari to the electorate chanting a mantra of “change.” Give him a Teflon-coated Redeemed pastor as vice-presidential running-mate. Shield him from public scrutiny and debates to hide his weaknesses and absent-mindedness. Gloss over his objectionable past and pedigree. Mount an aggressive image-laundering social media campaign.

So doing, before the PDP and the public would be up to your game, the election would be over. Nigerians would wake up on February 15th to discover to our cost that we had been hoodwinked into handing over power to Buhari and the Tinubu cabal.

The APC mechanism for perfecting this plan entailed bullying the PDP into defeat. In the North, PDP supporters were threatened and harassed. Some quickly packed their bag and baggage and left town. Even Goodluck Jonathan’s convoy was stoned by APC “democrats.” In Gombe, a suicide bomber paid a courtesy call on the president’s campaign rally.

But the killer-punch was to be the disenfranchisement of literally millions of PDP voters. With the complicity of Jega’s INEC, APC strongholds were supplied with PVCs: while PDP strongholds were denied them. Ghost-voters came out of the woodwork by their hundreds of thousands in unlikely places like the war-torn North-east to collect their PVCs. However, in peaceful higher-population places like Lagos and Kano, non-indigenes were denied their PVCs, suspected of being likely PDP supporters.

It is telling that, in all the ensuing brouhaha over 23 million people not yet receiving their PVCs seven days to D-Day, APC remained resolute that the election should go ahead nevertheless. This indicates that it knew the missing PVCs belonged disproportionately to PDP supporters.

The denouement

However, the entire strategy of the APC met its Waterloo with the postponement of the election. With the postponement, the Buhari election-train came to a screeching halt. Some have argued that the postponement was a military coup by Jonathan and the PDP. However, a more truthful assessment is that the postponement scuttled the APC plan to win the election by subterfuge.

APC blundered because it refused to entertain the possibility that the election could actually be postponed. As a result, it did not plan for that eventuality. In this gaffe, it was carried away by its own hyperbole. APC big-guns shouted themselves hoarse warning all and sundry that the election must not be postponed, or else. Worse still, they believed their own rhetoric.

APC is used to making threatening noises. It is all stuff and bluster. If it loses, the dogs and the baboons would be soaked in blood. If it loses it would form a parallel government. If the election is postponed, Nigerians would not stand for it. Therefore, it expended all its political and financial capital on a 14th February election. When it finally dawned on it that the election might be postponed, Buhari made an unusual visit to the Council of State to mount a pathetic eleventh-hour resistance.

But alas, the APC was completely outplayed. INEC succumbed to the inevitable and the election was postponed, and for six weeks no less. As a result, the APC stampede came to an end. The orchestrated Buhari momentum came to a screeching halt. Since then, APC pundits have been in shock; scratching their heads because, in all their impetuosity, they had no Plan B.

The APC was banking on the element of surprise. That is now gone with the postponement. It was hoping to win the election by disenfranchising PDP voters. That is no longer possible. It is now confronted with fighting an election it always knew it cannot win because it does not have the appropriate structure on the ground at the grassroots level.

PDP fight back

Sixteen years in power had made the PDP over-confident. It seemed to have been caught unawares by the scripted APC nomination of Buhari and the gimmickry of choosing a Redeemed pastor as his running-mate. As a result, an election that should have been a cake-walk for it suddenly turned into a tight race. Part of this was self-inflicted. PDP had a bad set of primaries; creating considerable dissension within its ranks. Moreover, the PDP was bested in the public relations department; allowing the APC to define the narrative of the election on social media.

Had the election gone on as scheduled on 14th February, it would have been close but Jonathan would still have won. But with six weeks delay, the election will not even be close. Even though it was ebbing discernibly, APC had momentum for the 14th February election. By 28th March, that momentum would have dissipated and disappeared. Even now, the momentum is no longer there. Buhari is in London on a dubious visit. APC has run out of breath.

Make no mistake about it; the six week postponement of the election has effectively crippled the APC. It is no wonder then that the party has been grumbling non-stop. In the meantime, PDP has been able to get a full measure of the APC. Putting all its eggs in the 14th February date, which it insisted cannot and must not be changed; the APC played all its cards. It put all its eggs in one basket. However, PDP held some in reserve, banking on the postponement of the election.

APC’s confusion

What happens now? APC is confused. It is stretched for funds. It has lost its mojo, scrambling in panic mode to raise additional 50 billion naira from donors. Speaking to APC stakeholders at the party secretariat in Lagos, Bola Tinubu said: “We have to re-strategise; all of you should go back to your various constituencies starting from tomorrow.” This is a belated acknowledgment that the party now likely to win the election is the one best able to mount an aggressive and effective nationwide grassroots campaign.

In that department, the APC is clearly second-best. The party best positioned to mount an effective ground-game and mobilize votes at the grassroots level is the PDP. It has been around for 16 years. PDP local government councilors account for nearly 70 per cent of all councilors in Nigeria, comprising 6,521 members, making it a truly grassroots-based political party. The APC, on the other hand, does not have the nationwide political structure to win the coming election. To date, it is a newspaper and television political party. It has yet to build a formidable grassroots support. It is a JJC party, a little over a year old.

With all the noise about Buhari, it should not be forgotten that the man chronically lacks skills at building political party structures. In the APC presidential primaries, Northern delegates did not even vote for him; preferring instead Kwankwaso and Atiku. He was elected primarily on the strength of ACN votes. PDP strength on the ground everywhere in Nigeria explains why Jonathan was able to win 37% of the vote even in Buhari’s home-state of Katsina in the 2011 election.

While APC was busy stoking up the press to create its air of inevitable victory, PDP was busy mobilizing its local government councilors. Its Presidential Campaign Organisation brought all its elected and appointed councilors from all over Nigeria to Abuja to mobilize them to secure victory for the party at the grassroots level. In what was captioned “Operation Deliver Your Ward,” Professor Jerry Gana re-fashioned them as political foot-soldiers and grassroots mobilisers for the PDP, split into six groups according to their geopolitical zones.

Resurgent PDP

Since the postponement, Jonathan is no longer the issue. It is once again Buhari; the coup-plotting former dictator and alleged ethnic and religious jingoist. Thanks to the postponement, Nigerians can no longer be panicked into voting for Buhari. We now have enough time to appreciate that he is old, and completely bereft of ideas as to what to do when in power. It is not enough to shout “change, change.” The question is: change to what? To this question, Buhari provides a deafening silence.

In the meantime, the true message of Jonathan’s considerable achievements in office is now resonating. With the commissioning of new power-plants, we are now generating 5,500 megawatts of electricity: a new Nigerian record. We now know from PricewaterhouseCoopers that the allegation that $20 billion is missing from NNPC accounts is one big fat APC lie. The army is now fully-equipped for battle. For the first time in a long time, the Nigerian air force has come into the fray. The Boko Haram is being bombed to smithereens up North. There is even talk of capturing Abubakar Shekau alive.

Within the next six weeks, all that is left is for the PDP to put its house in order and APC will be toast. Since Buhari has whipped up himself and his supporters into an unrealistic psychological frenzy in this election cycle, it is certain he will end up at the tribunal, when it finally dawns on him that, in spite of all the bluster, he has lost again. The fate awaiting Buhari brings to mind that of Mitt Romney who was so deceived into believing he would be elected America’s next president in 2012, he had only a victory speech on election night when he was roundly defeated.

When the history of the 2015 presidential election is finally written, it will be recalled that the postponement of the election for six weeks was the final nail in the coffin of the APC.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/the-end-of-apcs-fabricated-momentum/

may the momentum of progress in your life slow down and never pick up again you miserable fool

makazona:
finally,am done with the registeration...Haaaaaaaaa.
Thank God o.

3:30am

what time is best to log on to the website?tnx

Splashme:
Describes APC as a fragile anti-Jonathan setup


BROOKINGS, the world’s most influential think-tank based in the United States, have projected President Goodluck Jonathan’s victory over the opposition candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, in the February presidential election, which it suggests would be keenly contested.

The analysis, context and rationale of the think-tank’s projections were contained in the Brookings publication entitled: Foresight Africa – Top Priorities for the continent (January 2015).

“Though the election is expected to be very competitive, the odds still favour President Jonathan.”

According to Brookings, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is a fragile anti-Jonathan establishment with a sole purpose to return power to the north.

“The party is, however, a fragile one that seems united only in its quest to wrest the presidency from Jonathan or to have power “returned” to the north.”

“The APC gets much of its strength from tapping into anti-Jonathan sentiments in the Muslim north and grievances among the Yoruba who feel that the Jonathan administration has ignored them in key political appointments.”

The report also indicated that “the APC’s strategy is hinged on a combination of popular votes from the North-West, North-East and “the battleground South-West” but also hinted at the possibility of Bola Ahmed Tinubu not delivering the region contrary to speculations.

“What remains to be seen, however, is whether Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State who played a pivotal role in the formation of the APC and is considered to be the party’s strongest mobiliser in the South-West, will be very enthusiastic in delivering the battleground South-West to the APC during the elections.”

“Tinubu indicated his interest in being the party’s vice presidential candidate but being a Muslim like Buhari, the party’s strategists felt that a Muslim-Muslim ticket might offend Christians and cement the PDP’s labelling of the APC as an Islamic party.”

[/size]On President Jonathan’s performance: “despite Boko Haram, the country is thriving: The economy continues to grow and with the re-basing of its GDP, became the largest economy in Africa and the 26th largest in the world. Jonathan’s supporters also point to his success in containing the Ebola virus, which earned him commendations from countries and institutions around the world.”

The Brookings report also identified factors such as incumbency and numerical control of states where PDP has 21 states and APC only 14 as giving PDP an edge.

“The greatest strength of the ruling PDP is its “power of incumbency,” and all the institutional support that goes with it. Not only does it have federal resources to use as patronage, it also controls key institutions.”

The report advised that all efforts should be deployed to ensure a free, fair and transparent elections and to avoid a meltdown as post-election violence seems very likely.

“Post-election violence is therefore likely in the north if the APC loses while renewed militancy in the restive Niger Delta is likely if Jonathan does,” the report noted.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/news-headlines/item/27083-apc-is-a-fragile-anti-jonathan-setup-brookings

The slowpoke idiot idiot who wrote this nonsense article is a lecturer at the nasarawa state university,so much for tertiary education in nigeria

I applied successfully but didn't receive an email,should I re-apply

OWS HR invite me for an interview tomorrow 21st jan at babatunde street,off ogunlana drive,surulere,lagos...are they real?

Carmal90:
though am a member of tan,but i still feel jonathan will have his work cut out,but u saying osoba will rather go to jail than support gej not pdp per say ohh,stop joking sir,av u 4gotten osoba was part of national conference that is meant only for pdp machinery,excluding those pastors,kings and the imam....lets wait and see failbuhari is around the corner...

your comments really shows you know nothing about south west politics,the only state GEJ might win is ekiti and with a slim margin.just make sure u have been collected your final payment from TAN before february 15 because I know politicians very well,they will never pay you after elections....uninformed saTANist

MichaelSokoto:
I swear, sokoto electorates are shouting "sai Buhari" in place of "sai Jonathan" in d rally live on NTA!

D thing funny DIE! I swear!

Every body tune in to NTA live oooooo!

Heeeey! Berem, Omenka, Seun, Obinoscopy, Barcanista, GenBuhari, progressives in da house nibolowa?
Aaaahhh! Firefire, Phockphockman, tit, atlwireles, una nor geh light 2 watch d a$s whooping of oga Jona by Sokotarians in Gej's sokoto rally?

Aaaaaaaahhhhhh! Jona ti kpeme, walahi

watched the rally,it was scanty,I don't think GEJ will secure the required 25 percent in sokoto state

Carmal90:
am Kamaldeen by name,member of tan from Kwara state.

no wonder,let's wait and see

Carmal90:
As for ondo state,do u realize that GEJ had to cancel his campaign in the state in the last minute due to the massive defection that hit the party few days ago,about 40 heavy weight politicians loyal to the late agagu defected to the APC and mimiko's seeming loss of popularity in the state.In @politifact ondo is a walkover for pdp, take it or leave it,mimiko is in control

don't need to argue,feb 14 is around the corner and I am very sure you must reside in the south east

Carmal90:
I have this feelings that gej will win in southwest, take oyo for instance, pdp intentionally field a paperweight candidate to help them liase with ladoja and the state with bè delivered to gej Pls dont tell me you did nt know that virtually all oyo is for accord, they knew if they had given d ticket to akala it will bè a tough assignment so they sideline him, in ogun state,pdp will liase with osoba and the state will bè delivered to gej, in osun state let me tell you apc is loosing its hold there,check the last gov election if not the allegation of murderer against pdp candidate the result wont bè like that so am expecting apc to win but not a resounding win,in ekiti that is a done deal for pdp,in ondo mimiko still control the state,pdp winning but marginal, to lagos,pdp is winning CONVINCINGLY in lagos, i can bet it,this will bè state pdp will win resoundingly in southwest...... Pls room election are not won on social media...Pls pdp all the way.

your analysis shows how uninformed you are when it comes to south west politics,who told you jonathan will win oyo state,who told you teslim folarin will step down for ladoja and who told you PDP is in control of oyo town.if you are a close watcher of oyo politics you would know that the alaafin of oyo is a close ally of governor ajimobi,alaafins son is a current LG chairman in oyo and has just won the APC ticket for the house of reps.As for Ibadan zone,ajimobi will still win the largest votes though ladoja and teslim will also have their share,in ogun state,amosun is firmly in control,his achievements speaks for him and ogun voters are very sophisticated and will never vote GEJ,OBJ will also be a factor(you already know where he belongs).In osun state,who told you governor aregbesola's popularity has declined,in fact,PDP's popularity has declined in osun since their loss at the last governorship election coupled with fact that osun was the only south west state the voted defunct ACN's ribadu in the last presidential election.As for ondo state,do u realize that GEJ had to cancel his campaign in the state in the last minute due to the massive defection that hit the party few days ago,about 40 heavy weight politicians loyal to the late agagu defected to the APC and mimiko's seeming loss of popularity in the state.In ekiti,we all know fayose is a noise maker,the police,sss and the army won't be available come feb 14.furthermore, how many PVC's has even been collected in the state coupled with fact that the APC still controls the house of assembly,has 3 senators and all the house of reps members in the state as we speak.so my dear,u just don't sit at the comfort of home in enugu or ebonyi and pontificate on south west politics.

tomakint:
I took my time to sample many opinions both online and offline and I came to a reasonable conclusion that elections are not won on the pages of online newspages. In 2011, Goodluck Jonathan won in almost all the Southwest States and now in 2015 a little has changed unfortunately, the propaganda being perpetrated by the opposition is giving false hope to their supporters in SW, I maintained that Jonathan will still claim majority votes in Southwest (especially in Ondo, Oyo, Ekiti and Lagos).

sorry biafran fanatic but the yoruba's are not foolish like u igbo's......sai buhari

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Esomchiagalaman:
Reports just coming out of Maiduguri, Borno state inform that President Goodluck Jonathan has just landed in Maiduguri Airport in a surprise visit to the hotbed of Boko Haram’s insurgency.

According to Daily Trust report, the Chief of Defense staff, Air Vice Marshall Alex Badeh and National Security adviser, Sambo Dasuki also arrived the airport in a separate aircraft.
Read more : http://www.nationalswitchng.com/breaking-news-president-jonathan-visits-maiduguri/

we are not fools,sai buhari

maestroferddi:
ONDO STATE
Despite the purported rift in Ondo PDP, I think Mimiko is still in charge here. Mimiko has demonstrated considerable staying power on the political turf and I don't see that changing in the next thirty days.
The most reverred political figure in this state is Chief Olu Falae, the leader of Social Democratic Party. It is expected that the SDP would endorse Jonathan for the election.
For the paucity of many key political players in this state, I think the PDP will comfortably carry the day cue Governor Segun Mimiko.

Prediction: PDP 65% APC 35%

OSUN STATE
This state gave the PDP the least vote in the region in 2011 and I don't see that changing. Governor Rauf Aregbesola is popular here and would greatly sway things in favour of the APC.
However, the PDP are no paper-weight here. Iyiola Omisore hails from the important Ife axis and depicted his potency by garnering about 45% of total votes cast in the last guber election. Something has also to be said about Femi Fani-Kayode who is among the emerging young Turks in the SW political calculations.

Prediction: APC 66% PDP 34%


OYO STATE
This state has to be too close to call. The main gladiators here are evenly matched. There is hardly much that could distinguish among the incumbent governor Abiola Ajimobi and ex-governors Christopher Alao-Akala and Rasheed Ladoja. The re-election of the sitting governor is by no means guaranteed.

I believe the sitting governor would be engrossed in trying to save his skin and may have been building bridges to accomplish the objective.
The emergence of Sen Teslim Folarin appears to be a gameplan by the PDP to strike a trade-off to win this state in the presidential election.

Prediction: PDP 53% APC 43%

your analysis shows you know nothing about south west politics

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bodejohn:
This is just an academic exercise.

Going by the results of the last elections and current happenings in the country, I will attempt to analyze the upcoming presidential elections. This is not mere speculation as about 80% of my conclusion will based on empirical data which is the last presidential election.

I expect PDP to win comfortably (greater than 50%) in 17 states of Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Benue, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo (Yes EDO), Enugu, Imo, Kogi, Ondo, Plateau, Rivers and Taraba. I gave Edo and Rivers to PDP despite having governors of the opposition because PDP had 85 and 98% of total votes cast there in the last election. I very much doubt that the clout of the governors can upturn this even as I believe that the APC might garner a better figure than the 2011 polls.

I expect APC to win comfortably (greater than 50%) in 16 states of Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Kastina, Kebbi, Lagos, Niger, Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara. I am going to give Lagos, Ogun and Oyo states to APC because they happen to be the base of the old ACN party that has metamorphosed into the APC. There is however doubts in some quarters whether there will be elections in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states where insurgency is raging like wild fire.

The swing states is where the battle will be decided, these are
Ekiti – Very close results in the last election coupled with the new governor’s activities.
FCT – Close results and divided opinions
Kwara – Close results and decamping of the current governor to APC.
Nassarawa – Close past results and decamping of the sitting governor to APC.

I did not base my conclusion on any basis for the leading political parties, as it stands both parties have almost the same chance of winning the presidential polls…
Let the swing states decide…

poor analysis

perculiarperson:
I sincerely apologise to the unemployed graduates in our dear nation. I can understand the anguish you go through cause placing myself in your shoes, it could also have been me; with great ambitions and aspirations, with a family and dependents to feed, with bills to pay and need for self actualization.

I am very sorry and sincerely apologise.

In the current situation of things worldwide, there is a slow down in the employment rate. Businesses have streamlined their operations and cut down on budgets seriously owing to the global economic situation. Others have actually closed shop cause of varying reasons and demands. Nigerian companies and industries can not be left out. This has even affected the income of nations such as Greece and Spain that there are fears that they might not be able to meet up with their national obligations.

The situation is not peculiar to Nigeria alone in the continent. Even in other African nations there is this spate of unemployed persons and other wanton circumstances.

As I had previously said, it is very painful and I sincerely apologise.

In the midst of all the unemployment, some have indeed gotten employment. Though the rate is not that high. It is an eventuality that not all graduates will always get employed even in a buoyant economy. Most will fit the requirements of their desired employers while others will fall by the way side though the proportion might be negligible.

Others still will take to self employment in order to be able to meet up with existing life demands which do not go away.

I have met a graduate who fries and makes akara at Obalende area of Lagos. He speaks impeccable English and I pondered to myself how such a man could do this. In a conversation with a friend of mine, I saw the pride and confidence with which he executed his job. He wore dignity as an invisible cloak and there and then I realized it is not what you do that defines you, it is what you think about what you do. A lot of people stop there on a daily basis to buy from him.

I was extremely encouraged by his posture and mental state and thought to venture out to do my own small business and stop having cold feet and grave fears of the unknown. My vision is to bake bread. Every time I think of it I am afraid of what could possibly go wrong. I never see the positives and how maybe my bread could be the most preferred and out-sell all other famous loaves.

I had always known that getting into a business that people cannot do without like food, drinks (water), essentials for living and staying alive will always do well but I still had the fears. I thought to do a bit of findings on my deep desire despite the existing fears and I found that it was achievable and it depended on the level at which I wanted to play (get involved) in the market.

At the lower levels I didn't need much; all that was required was the flour, butter, eggs, baking soda and sugar which quantities could be determined by me. I could start with baking for my neighbours and friends and beg them to tell others about me for their orders if they liked my product. If I am serious about growing the business, I would place myself on a salary and put back the profits in the business in order to be able to launch out better. My salary might not be much at first as the business would be considered a micro one but I would have enough in the profit from the small sales to put back in the business; to buy more flour, and other ingredients and expand my customers.

I have began to see how I can chase my dream and feed some people someday with my own special baked bread.

there is another case in point of a guys who washes car around my area. He is a landlord; living in his own house. Although the house is in the suburbs, the fact is that he has been able to build his own house from washing cars.

I am not saying you have to get involved in these sorts of ventures. I am merely trying to encourage you.

Furthermore, as the economic situation improves in various climes, it would also pick up in our nation as well and the forces responsible for demand for labour will begin to rise again. As we are well aware that it is the private sector that controls and dictates our economic state, thus when the going gets good, there will be more businesses asking for staff and existing businesses who had streamlined their operations because of the current economic crunch will begin to expand their interest and would require more personnel.

I know I might not have been able to help you in finding a job or employing you but I hope I have been able to drop a nugget or two on how we can fight against the odds that so look us in the face and dare to take away our dignity. I hope I have been able to help you search within you to think of what you could possibly achieve inspite of the current global economic situation which ripples we also feel in our dear beloved nation.

Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to your comment.

May God bless you and May God bless Nigeria.

noted but six years should have been enough

My question to GEJ is,what has he done for the families of the victims of the failed immigration recruitment because I was there that day and it was a complete fiasco

This thread is meant for GEJ supporters on nairaland to convince and give reasons for the teaming unemployed nigerian graduates to vote GEJ if there is any........

komek:
This was how Fashola used Okada riders in 2011 to campaign and at the end of the day, they made them jobless by placing a ban on their operation.

Now Ambode has started by campaigning in a BRT bus, as soon as he gets the vote, he will increase the price of BRT transport.

These guys are jokers. Lagosians vote wisely.

please don't misinform the public,fashola only placed a restriction on their operation and not a total ban.get ur facts right

Gejfreesupport:
He can't win Rivers? Lol.. You must be from Cameroon

I hope you don't have a heartache when the results from rivers are released,maybe you don't know,ameachi is on ground and well rooted in rivers state and I hope you have a PVC

barcanista:
http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/top-stories/item/26263-n-west-states-bauchi-akwa-ibom-abia-lead-in-pvc-collection-fct-lagos-imo-anambra-ogun-oyo-take-rear/26263-n-west-states-bauchi-akwa-ibom-abia-lead-in-pvc-collection-fct-lagos-imo-anambra-ogun-oyo-take-rear

With the current situation and public opinion,GEJ will need a miracle to win re-election come february 14,its obvious GEJ cannot win rivers,lagos,kano,katsina,kaduna states which are the states with highest number of registered voters in the country.moreover,anybody that says GEJ will win 90 percent of votes in bayelsa state with a voting strenght of 500,000 must be dreaming,I am waiting to see how GEJ will win this election