9jatriot:


you wish the farmers were on nairaland to prove that GEJ has done well in agriculture? don they have children who can attest to it on their parents behalf? Abi the farmers na ghost without offsprings?

I am not totally convinced about the fertilizer claims since all that this government does is tell lies, however, even if it were true, fertilizers is a very, very small subset of a farming process. What about silos for storage? what about the markets? how about transporting the produce from inter lands to cities where they are needed? What about quality seedlings? How many times have you seen documentaries on TV telling farmers on the best ways of farming? How many times have you heard announcement telling people the weather projections for the year and advising farmers on when they should start planting because of rain expectations Incase you do not know, without fertilizer you can have a good yield if your soil is naturally good, but without a good seedling your product will still be wack., My guy fertilizer distribution is not a magic wand.

Osakah24:
I wonder if its the same Obj I know. How much did he spend on insurgency? and how many people destroyed nigeria just to discredit him? smh.

jmaine:


No one is saying there weren't entrepreneurs before, the good news is that the numbers are increasing and people are now willing, charged up and ready to take their destiny in their hands.

Even folks who are gainfully employed are seeking for means to set up their businesses and become their own boss. That right there is the real deal. The taxi schemes you mentioned are going to extinction because of cost related issues which is a direct function of the exploitive approach of her promoters. They failed to understand that the average Nigerian hasn't evolved completely to chose quality of quantity.

juman:
Both are useless governments.
In this kind of third world country, provision of electricity 24/7 is important, both government failed woefully on that. Availability of 24/7 electricity would create millions of jobs.
Also development of agriculture is very important to complement money from oil, but both governments failed to improve agric significantly. nigeria can get more money from agriculture than from oil.

Also corruption were rampant, the country resources were milked away.
pdp is this country's nightmare.

Teetomania:
Jona ko Jargons ni. OBJ's era was far far better u can just imagine the numbers of employment created through telecommunication alone (Network providers and phones) but GEJ has nothing to his name in job creation, wat wud have added to him was the cassava bread which was not well presented to the populace just imagine the boom Nigeria wud have being enjoying making his own bread fro cassava.

Obiagelli:

You are not making any point, are you asking how many telecoms jobs are sustainable, yet you claim there was no expansion.

I mentioned the insurance and mining sector, yet you see no expansion

How about the growing textile industry that was killed by gej when he lifted import ban.

Other than rice and cassava (both obj initiatives) what else is happening in the agric industry? Go to the agriculture section of this forum and sample opinion

Sure p/ferma employment, if that is not qiuck fix, i don't know what else is.

Obj wasn't the best for our economy but gej is a total disaster. You can't claim to know better than the hundreds of posts on this thread.

Do you know the status of our stock exchange today? Do you know how many families have been in total disarray since December?

Abeg lest stick to the truth as it is.

labiola:
With all sincerity, obasanjo's regime is rated high than GEJ in term of employment. Let start with the telecomunication industry alone, that industry is the highest employer of Labour both direct and indirect jobs. Let look at Pension industry, am telling you PFA and custodian are also employer of labour. Look at the reform in FIRS, a lot of people were employed without knowing anyone it was purely on merit.

Sammiejokes:
Fellow nairaland I have been thinking lately over all this employment FG is saying they are creating, but when I look back @ OBJ regime, I must say graduates around me even though I was just in secondary school were getting jobs, Telecoms,Banking,oil and Gas industry, public sector(FCSC, IFRS) really developed which. Created Jobs for guyz then, most of them are big boyz now that am now a graduate. It is now a tragedy that even private sector now experience all sort of bribe to get a job because of few good jobs around. Please which sector has developed and creating jobs for common Nigerians now under GEJ?

huptin:
I am a beneficiary of the banking sector reforms of OBJ.... entry level then was 190k with good allowances and profit sharing largesse. now nko? for where? Lets not even go there. terrible is the word. You get horrible targets to meet, salary has not been increased, no more profit sharing, no more bonuses etc. And some one is here shouting transformation.... transformation ko, deformation ni.

You seems not sure of what you are saying, or i should say you don't know what you are saying, how many of your brother were employed and how many were employed from your street during OBJ's regim. He was the who kill our economy and thereby cause a lot of unemployment in the society, they did not have any arrangement with private industry on employment issue rather they focused on their personal revenue, do you know how much he collected from MTN and every 1% card recharged goes into his personal account......I can vividly remember one of OBj's statement " That he has not found anyone killed hunger and that many can afford to buy gulder for N200"

GOODLUCK CAME UP WITH:
1: HE INCREASED WORKERS SALARIES....WHEN I WAS SERVING I WAS PAID N9,500 WHICH IS NOW N19,500.

2: WE NOW HAVE SCHOLARSHIP BY THE FEDERAL GOVT TO ALL FIRST CLASS GRADUATE

3: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TO REVIVE ALL OUR DEAD INDUSTRIES THAT WERE KILLED DUE TO PAST LEADER PERSONAL EGO

4: SURE-P TO ENCOURAGE YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS

5: GRADUATE INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME ,TO MAKE ALL OUR GRADUATE MORE EMPLOYABLE

6: WOO INVESTORS, SO AS TO HAVE MORE INDUSTRIES BECAUSE WITHOUT INDUSTRIES THERE WILL ALWAYS BE UNEMPLOYED GRADUATE

you woo industries but your people are complaining of employment, who did the industry employ, ghosts?

7: MANY WERE EMPLOYED IN THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND OTHER MINISTRIES

jonuel1:


You talk about telecoms, isn't that the result of privatization? What was d fate of NITEL? Pple like u went ranting when GEJ privatized PHCN and u xpect to get jobs? Sentiments has so beclouded ur sense of rationality

jpphilips:



It was death that delayed our having electricity, what OBJ had on ground if Yaradua had continued, will bring the result we seek, the investments in power take time, all those plants Jonathan is playing around in today were mostly OBJ's brain child.
yaradua actually stopped funding the NIPP because Elumelu distracted him, he was not alive to see the report of his committee that allowed Jonathan to continue funding it, citeris paribus, OBJ-yaradua, Nigeria would have had steady supply, who knows if Jonathan wouldnt have destroyed it by now.

9jatriot:


Even Obj did better with agriculture. Not TV film trick development in agric but real development. Then you heard of cassava initiative, local rice production, agro allied, fish farms etc.

barcanista:
You typed many words without making a point. First, the Telecoms of Obasanjo was fraudulent especially the privatisation of NEPA. Abacha and not Obj had conceived the idea. Ideally, when their's such opening jobs springs out but is only sustainable when there is relevant policies and infrastructure. Obasanjo stayed for 8years, rather than improve infrastructure it went worse and rather than expand the banking, insurance and financial sectors, it became worse and fraudulent. This is why most of those things couldn't stand the test of them during the economic melt-down. The Agric policy of Obj was filled with so much fraud. The reason why we don't know exact figures is because there wasn't FOI to invoke. Sanusi saved our Financial Sector, we had to build from scratch. People started losing these same jobs. There was no power or relevant infrastructure which made running costs of organisation skyrocketed. Look at NITEL and NEPA reform of Obj. NITEL is practically DEAD, it was fraught with fraud courtesy Obj. The petroleum industry didn't fare better. What about the manufacturing sector? It was in comatose. Under Obj Nigeria imported tooth-pick in Aso Rock from italia(I don't know if we still import). This was so bad!
When it comes to the process, though Jona is rather slow by my judgement he is far better than Obj. His Manufacturing drive will be the Greatest of His Achievement after the FOI Law(by my judgement). This sector is capable of employing hundreds of thousands of Nigerians and Support Organisations. You made mention of textile industry, how many Nigerians were patronising Made in Nigeria textiles even when that policy was invoke? How many jobs did it create? How sustainable were they? I am an apostle of local content but I won't want to distort facts. Like I said, GEJ reforms has lots of potentials.

Obiagelli:


Brother how do we measure the increase in entrepreneurs? Please don't tell me CAC.

Obiagelli:


Funny reason you gave for a so called booming economy and people can't afford taxi fees.

Obiagelli:

Why did you think redcab and co made so much profit that others had to copy their model?

Obiagelli:

The economy isn't what it used to be brother.

jmaine:


We can remotely measure the increase by observing the new SME springing up in our immediate environment. The current admin has a priority for strengthening the SME sector in Nigeria with over 17 million businesses employing about 32 million people according to the recent stats by the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS)

Though the CAC isn't a fool proof method of analyzing new businesses, it is a pointer at the willingness of Nigeria to engage in little start up business.

huptin:
I am a beneficiary of the banking sector reforms of OBJ.... entry level then was 190k with good allowances and profit sharing largesse. now nko? for where? Lets not even go there. terrible is the word. You get horrible targets to meet, salary has not been increased, no more profit sharing, no more bonuses etc. And some one is here shouting transformation.... transformation ko, deformation ni.

BoiledPlantain:
Bros you're the hater not me.
I'm a critic and I'm needed for this country to grow.

thunder74:

Be real bros, when Soludo was the CBN governor, he opened up banks and banks are opening branches in all places but the moment Soludo came he changed the policy, closed branches, collected banks from Southern CEOs (Akingbola, Ibru etc) merged banks and sold the banks to the same people in APC today e.g Bukola Saraki. Many of us complained and some of you who could not see beyond the temporary benefits them applauded Sanusi.

Obiagelli:


Brother this is credible enough. There's nothing to prove your claim of increased sme.

The report, titled, “Nigeria’s GDP: Bigger but slower – Manufacturing is the engine of growth,” further strengthens recent figures by the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, which showed that there was an increase in manufacturing capacity utilisation from 46.3 per cent recorded in the first half of 2013 to 52.7 per cent in the 2nd half of 2013.

Specifically, the Rencap report stated that the manufacturing sector recorded 22 per cent growth in 2013, as against the 14 per cent it recorded in 2012, noting that the growth was largely driven by the textile, cement and food sub-sectors, among others.

The growth recorded by the manufacturing sector within the period under review, it said, accounted for one third of the total growth in the economy.

“Manufacturing is growing strongly, despite power deficit. The manufacturing sector is a much bigger, faster-growing sector under the new series (nine per cent of GDP as against the four per cent previously). In 2013, it recorded substantial growth of 22 per cent (as against 14 per cent in 2012), comprising one-third of total growth. Food, beverage and tobacco producers account for half of the manufacturing sector. The sub-sector’s growth accelerated to 12 per cent in 2013, against 7 per cent in 2012.

jmaine:


Yes there is, certain Sectors of economy reveals such . . . . .




http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/07/manufacturing-sector-now-nigerias-major-economic-growth-driver-rencap/

Obiagelli:

I can give you tens of articles to show that the economy is in shambles. Let's stick with the results people can feel.

ideologies:
reading through some post here, i pity some Nigerians who just stay in their bedroom, listen to propaganda spreaded by opposition. Without being objective, waiting for government to employ them.

1. There is no bank in Nigeria that have not recruited in the last 12months graduate trainees not to mention other positions.
2. Telecom is expanding, more recruits eg MTN/ETISALAT,
More SME's in the industry
3. The number of farmers in Nigeria is on the increase.
4. More enterpenurs - in the last 4years, have seen new brands of soap, fruit juice, creams, etc. Are people not working there??
5. E-commerce is on the increase, just go to business section and advert on Nairaland here and take your statistics. How many people knew konga, jumia, kaymu, dealday etc as at 2007
6. Companies in oil sector as recruiting weekly.
7. The number of tertiary institutions have increased since 2011, are they not recruiting new lecturers
8. More logistics and haulage firms

Have not even mentioned govt agencies, NNPC, CUSTOMS, NAVY, ARMY, FAAN, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, IMMIGRATION, Road safety, civil defense, etc.
THERE IS A BAKERY JUST AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE ESTATE, WHERE I LIVE, HE OWNER IS A BENEFICIARY OF YOUWIN.
The bakery is a product of YOUWIN, THAT BAKERY HAS 30staff.
Don't forget there are other beneficiary across the country,

SURE-P is also giving recent graduates, a-year experience in various fields to aid them get employment, some have been retained by the firms they worked

Some Nigerian are very funny, keep waiting …, instead of improving your skills, adding more value so that they can fit in the any job available, they keep spending hours on social media and waiting for government to spoon feed them.

People are changing jobs like tomorrow no de, as I speak, I had an interview today that O rescheduled for Thursday.
Check this jobs threads on all jobs advertised and find out the statistics.

I pity some people

Kingspin:
We have the sure-p, youwin programs. The new agriculture sector is absorbing our unemploy youth today. This is a special measures taken by this govt and it yielding results.. The fact that it has not gotten to you doesn't shows that nothing is being done. The major work of any govt. is not to create direct job but to provide the enable enivronment that can drive and attract empowerment to it people especially the youth(unemployed). Programs like, education and training(skills) grante(loan),infrastructures etc. It about good policy moreover, govt cannot give everybody job. This is a new era of governance about millions of our youths have be empowered in the last 4years more is coming. Go do ur research incase ur doubting ?

jmaine:


Showing me tens of articles doesn't invalidate a thorough research carried out by a very reputable body like RENCAP . . . . . .

No matter what, you people feelings will be geared towards negativity for obvious reasons, so why should we take your subjective views devoid of hard facts . . . . .

nonny001:


Dis Anti-Jona people self. Una own strong o! See what you're saying. That shows that you've not been following what has been happening in the country. You said that "all that this government does is tell lies". So who are now the ones telling the truth? Hm! Let me think... Ok! Now i know: it's those people feeding you with half truth, abi?

Well it's not your fault. Where all you see in the dailies is boko-haram and sanusi NNPC scandal, how will you know the details of what GEJs govt. is doing in agriculture. And before you change the topic to $20 billion Scam. Let me just tell you. NNPC scam is a big lie o. NNPC independent audit has proven it o. I know the media will not let you know about that. So let me do you the favour, please see this article... http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/forensic-audit-report-no-money-missing-nnpc/

And back to our discussion...

You said he has not built silos. Well brother, in case you don't know, President Jonathan has been building silos. He launched the biggest silo in Africa just last year. Please read it up here... http://leadership.ng/business/382912/food-security-receives-boost-fg-launches-silo-complex (and it's in your best interest to read it).

You talk about transport, what are the trains for?

Thank God you agreed that he succeeded in agriculture. And in case you don't know, it's not only fertilizer. It's also seedlings. You want the Govt. to come to tv and start teaching farmers before you believe? Interesting! May b u should go become an Agricultural Extension Worker so that you can break records. Agric ext. Service on tv? Really laughable.

And one more thing, GEJ has been mechanizing the Nigerian agric industry. I know they won't bring it to the headline. So let me also do you the favour, go read it up here... http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/167288-jonathan-sets-aside-n50-bn-for-farm-mechanization.html

1 Luv bro. 1 Naija

jpphilips:


You don't blame most of these TV activists who seem not to know that fertilizer distribution started from Abacha's PTF days. Has Jonathan been able to revive NAFCON? the only fertilizer company Nigeria has? or he imports fertilizer to give farmers and a Chemical engineer who is supposed to work in our NAFCON, will be reduced to a fertilizer beneficiary? how do they even think?

They claimed he did wonders in Agricultural sector yet we don't have a single Agricultural cargo airport in Nigeria which ordinary Ghana has.
They claim he is the Jesus of Agriculture yet bird flu spread through 9 states in just one week, where was his emergency response team in the same sector he is claiming his flag ship? or the Nigerian people thought it is just so normal?
How many graduates of vertineray medicine were employed recently in the so called Jonathan's Aro reform.

Where are the govt grazing fields which is the number one cause of ethnic clashes between the fulani and the farmers? what is this reform that nobody seems to know about? cassava bread?

Truth is; most Nigerians have lost it.

Obiagelli:

Not my feelings o, this thread is from the job section devoid of politics.

nonny001:


Peer group discussion! Well, that's a valid source (who i go ask na).

And ThankGod you agreed that 2014 has been a bad year for companies because of the falling Naira value. I hope you know why the value of Naira is falling. Because if you do, you will not make it an issue.

But the way it seems, it appears you don't know. So let me lecture you (Sowi if that sound hash, but we're all learning).

The value of Naira is falling because of the fall in oil price (imagine! from $110 to $48 ber barrel). And the value of a countries currency depends on the value of her foreign exchange earning. 95% of Nigeria's foreign exchange come from oil export. Now do the maths. Imagine you own an indomie business. you sell one pack for N110. All of a sudden, you start selling it for N48 (because of competition). How will you income look like?

So in that situation, what should GEJ do? Should he go and put a gun in the head of Nigeria's oil customers and ask them to still buy at $110 ber barrel? Men! That 1 is common sense na.

And Bro! I've been laughing at this part of your post "some of those registrations are hurriedly done to siphon money by politicians". Really! May be you should lecture us on how that work... And please be specific. No vague stuffs.

And for the Dangote gist: Yes, "he has been making money even when GEJ was probable sourcing for materials for his MSC or PHD"; but he has never invested this heavily in Nigeria's economy: Giant Farms, New Refineries, Minning Company, More cement factories, The biggest sugar refinery in Africa and the list goes on.

If GEJs economic policies can push that kind of man to make such commitment, then there must be something about GEJ managed economy. Mind you, all these giant factories will not be manned by rabbits and cows o. It will be manned by human beings. Nigerians. Graduates!

OFFICIALS of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) have begun a probe into alleged shady multi-billion naira contract deals at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) headquarters in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

The anti-corruption agents are trying to figure out why and how over 400

contracts were awarded within three days and some of the jobs were given to 26 companies with no fixed addresses. Further checks, however, revealed that investigators might have unearthed a can of worms going by available pieces of documented evidence, including letters of award of multi-billion naira contracts personally signed by the NDDC helmsman to allegedly unregistered companies, and results of company validity searches at the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) by Eric Apia & Co., an Abuja-based firm of legal practitioners, property consultants and Notary Public.

jmaine:


Does it in anyway change the fact that the thread is on the homepage which makes it readily available for the politics section hawks to feast on it.

Is Obiagelli and Jmaine not posting here at the moment ?

Coldfeet:
During objs time was there crisis in the north? Companies had branches over there and people worked there! Now with the crisis over there ask yourself how many companies are still operating there? The few that open would you work there? Mass migration to the crisis free region has put a strain on the employment ratio. Don't forget the economic melt down sweeping around the world now.

Gej has a lot on his hands now than Baba had during his time.

Finally quit waiting for the gov't to give you job create one for yourselves! >

MrNiceGuy5:

How do you create a job for yourself when there is no basic amenities? Even if you want to start with zero naira? No sector that is giving out loan without interest for the masses, No Light, No Water, nothing to start with and you want us to create job from nothing? Or is it by washing people's car, clothes, or collecting ticket in the park that you called job self creation?