President Goodluck Jonathan has promised two million jobs yearly if re-elected into office.

Mr. Jonathan spoke Monday in Ibadan, Oyo State, were he met supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of the February 14 election.

The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, quoted the president as saying he will generate jobs for the teeming unemployed population in Nigeria.
He did not say how that will happen, after largely failing to provide as many jobs in the last six years as president.

Besides corruption and insecurity, the Jonathan administration is persistently criticised over the huge unemployed population in the country.
The government has always pointed to its Small and Medium Scale support programme, Youwin, which gives grants to only 1,200 people yearly.
The government says the programme has engaged hundreds of thousands, a figure that has been questioned.

The government has also failed to defend its claim that it created 1.6 million jobs in 2013.
At the Ibadan campaign, Mr. Jonathan also lauded South-West leaders for promoting equity, human rights, saying he will continue to respect and work with people from the zone.

The president also said the votes of Nigerian women will either liberate or sanction them to the kitchen, urging women to vote for PDP.

Islie:
Can the President deliver on his promise.....

Icecream4U:
His people in otueke will need the jobs. Let him go and create the 2million jobs there with the money he has looted. Shikina!

dre11:



if you ask me this then I will say.......
the president did lie on this

He promise to contest just once and.......
He promise to remove corruption but his government is riddle with that.
He promise jobs for youth andthe youth are scam by the NIS scam and the SURE-P/FERMA scam
He promise open government but u and I knows what is going on
He promise security and we all know what is going up in the north where thousands are killed





All this are lies and lies

Unibenstudent:
Talking like a baboon that just left cage!

alaoeri:
Its too late JONA Otuoke is calling, all we want is CHANGE in which GMB will usher in.
Sai BUHARI.

This followed the tragedy that struck when 19
NIS applicants died in a stampede at the
National Stadium, Abuja and other venues
nationwide.
Paul Nasiru, who lost his wife, Mariam, in the
stampede, said that all the promises made by the
government to employ three members of their
family were yet to be fulfilled.
“I am a business man and my wife was also a
business woman before she went for the exercise
that claimed her life.
“She was responsible for our three children but
since she died, it has not been easy.
“Although the NIS called me a week after her
death to get information about her next of kin, I
have not heard anything else since then.
“I am appealing to the Federal Government to
come to our aid and to keep its promise to us so
as to help in alleviating our suffering.
“As it is now, the family has buried my wife
without help from the government.’’
Helen Ademu, an applicant who sustained injury
during the recruitment, said she had to walk
with crutches for three weeks.
Ms. Ademu said she was still waiting to get the
employment promised by the government almost
a month after the incident.
“All I am asking is for the government to keep to
its promise; I have really suffered.
“I was relieved when we were promised
employment and now it’s almost a month and I
have not seen or heard anything; I am beginning
to get worried.’’
Another applicant, Kashim Yakubu, said he was
also injured and taken to the National Hospital
for treatment by NEMA officials but was later
transferred to Asokoro General Hospital.
Mr. Yakubu said his name was formerly on the
list because he saw it but along the line, it was
probably “replaced with another name’’.
He alleged that there were many irregularities
on the side of the hospital staff.
He said most of the names of the victims were
not found on the original list even after they
were treated in the hospitals without paying.
The same applied to Oluko Caleb who claimed he
was also injured and treated at the National
Hospital.
He, however, said that though his name was on
the list, he was yet to get any form for
employment.
Many of the applicants who aired their
grievances asked for the refund of their
registration money.
John Eze, also an applicant, urged the NIS to
refund his money, saying: “You may think that
N1,000 is small when you sum up all the money
collected, it is a lot.
“For an applicant, it is a big deal to lose N1,000.
The NIS should be kind enough to put
themselves in our shoes and feel our pain.’’
Ahmed Isah, anchor of the Berekete Family
Programme and co-organiser of the event, said
the public hearing was aimed at helping the NIS
victims.
“Nigerians are tired of waiting on empty
promises; this time, we will strive to ensure that
this promise is kept,’’ Mr. Isah said.
He advised Nigerian youth to be productive and
creative in ways that would earn them money
and make them self-reliant instead of waiting on
the government to provide everything.
The co-convener of the campaign, Ezenwa
Nwagwu, said the hearing was to provide a
platform for people to air their views, to help the
current effort.
Mr. Nwagwu said it was also to bring to the
limelight the trauma people went through.
“It’s not just that people died but that there is
also denial of citizens’ right to good living in life
so this is a way of giving the people the
opportunity for a healing remedy.
“There are many issues to be settled, especially
the issue of money of the applicants which needs
to be refunded; another issue is the
compensation of victims.
“The promise of jobs is yet to be fulfilled. It is
not enough to make promises when we are going
through challenges; we have to make good on
the promises.
“The government should keep this promise,’’ he
said.

Islie:
Can the President deliver on his promise.....


Cc
Lalasticlala
Obinoscopy

jaybee3:
GEJ na comedian

He just dey pluck out numbers from his fedora hat

How many has he created in the last 6 years?

Did he even create up to 2M jobs, now he wants to create 8M jobs in 4 years

berem:

theV0ice:
what he hasnt done in 5 years, he promises to do in 1 and sensible people are expected to believe this??

jona.....continuu

Mr. Jonathan spoke Monday in Ibadan, Oyo State, were he met supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ahead of the February 14 election.
The News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, quoted the president as saying he will generate jobs for the teeming unemployed population in Nigeria.
He did not say how that will happen, after largely failing to provide as many jobs in the last six years as president.