₦airaland Forum

Clerverly: Hey young man, we are not interested in this your story. Nigeria is on the verge of destruction driven by the inordinate ambition of your master and you are here diverting people's attention from profferring solution the mess you and your co horts created. Anu mpam!

chykeo: Aspiration to the highest office in the land is a constitutional right... Governor Amechi should therefore not be punished for his ambition. Wonder what would have happened in Rivers state today if Amechi has his own police {state police} as is obtained everywhere in the free world. Maybe we would be seeing a civil war down there now, or maybe President Jonathan wouldnt have ventured there in the first place!!!!

caseless: this 'river crisis' is meandering up north and this geologically or topographically wrong. something needs to be done about about it.

may GOD help amaechi and the river people cos this is degenerating into something else.

Symphony007: the governor was in the house of present an appopraition bill but after, the fight and he was assaulted, he left and his deputy tele ikuru was sent to present the bill when the house had cooled down and was sitting.

Kamanda: If they can grant us free entry,I am sure millions of unemployed,hopeless Nigerian youths will be grateful to occupy those prisons

bloggernaija: That is why I like amaechi despite the fact he is PDP.
The guy has imagination and a few of his men are actually very intelligent.you know that fashola thing about him.
The common in River state people should be happy that he is fighting the powers that be.
What that means is that he won't be sharing your resources with Abuja and in Order to watch his back, he has no choice but to double up and perform.
If you doubt , check out delta state which is a subsidiary of obasanjo's farm and Edwin Clarke enterprises

fiscalcliff: Boys must wack now
Amnesty money don finish since
On a serious note, didn't Gov Amaechi raise a alarm last week on the upsurge of insecurity in Rivers State last week and demand for the CP`s removal?

Symphony007: Rivers people, the man you gave the most votes than than other state in the country has murdered the peace and security in your state by sending a politician as commissioner of police. This is the first step. Welcome back to the odili era.

The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said the spate of unemployment in the country is giving her sleepless nights.

Okonjo-Iweala said this while inspecting an ultramodern Information and Communications Technology factory of Omatek Nigeria Plc in Lagos on Friday.

She said, "According to the National Bureau of Statistics, each year, about 1.8m young Nigerians enter into our labour market and we need to ensure that our economy provides jobs for them.

"In fact, some people ask, 'What keeps you awake at night, with regard to this economy?' I say it is the issue of job creation. And I know this is what keeps Mr. President (Goodluck Jonathan) awake at night as well.

"That is why we have responded to the challenge of creating jobs by trying to transform several sectors of the economy; from agriculture, where we're expecting to create 3.5m jobs and where the progress of reaching our goal of feeding this country is already well advanced."

The minister said Nigeria lacked institutions on which to build its developmental programmes.

"When you look at Nigeria, for over 50 to 60 years, we've been working without the key institutions that some other people have. We keep making stopgap solutions. For 50 years, we didn't have a Bureau for Public Procurement; for 50 years, we didn't have a Debt Management Office.

"So many of the institutions that we have now are new and if you stand back, you'll see there are still many gaps. It is now our job to try to fill those gaps."

Okonjo-Iweala said the Federal Government was putting in place more initiatives to encourage small and medium scale enterprises.

She noted that the Central Bank of Nigeria had put in place a N200bn guaranty fund for SME's to access bank loans.

Okonjo-Iweala said, "Let me mention that the Minister of Information and Communications technology has started a Venture Capital Fund with about $15m, which is being financed by the government and other donors.

"The idea behind it is to help support innovative enterprises in the field of ICT. This is designed to lift up some of the young people in Computer Village doing all sorts of innovations."

She asked investors to encourage public investment in their businesses and to list their companies on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

The minister said the capital market had been revamped to allow the listing of SMEs through the Alternative Securities Market.

According to her, the platform has made it easier for SMEs to list their companies and to raise additional resources from the capital market.

She added that there were advisers to help small scale investors meet their listing requirements and to help them on how to get listed.

The minister, who described the stock market as a challenging one due to "infrastructural bottlenecks," said in spite of the challenges, companies had kept growing and maintained high quality standards.

She noted that ICT remained one of the main platforms for the creation of jobs, adding that e-commerce was striving in Nigeria, while more companies were carrying out transactions online.

mrlovefield: Anambra state produce more than 80% of heroes in Nigeria

Mogten: The leadership of the Boko Haram sect has declared a ceasefire across all states of Nigeria, according to a statement by the organization.

Akpa ife: JTF I wat 2 thank u 4 a job well done,keep making tins difficult 4 them soon them will annoce leaving Nig

take dat: The house of assembly suspended the Chairman and his councillors, yet you want the Governor to reinstate them. Isn't there something called "Separation of Powers"? How is his association with opposition governors of detriment to his "house and brother"? So you believe in those(Wike and co) feasting on GEJ's paranoia, rumor mongering and manufacturing enemies for him, when he(Amaechi) hasn't publicly declared his intention of decamping to APC or the alleged vice presidential ambition? I guess you are an advocate of "winner-take-all, take no prisoner style of politics".

So because we've always had ASUU and ASUP strikes, it must continue as part of the transformation agenda?

take dat: Why is Wike so desperate to push Amaechi out of the PDP? When did it become a crime to associate with opposition governors, after all, they are also stakeholders in the Nigerian project. What are his(Wike) achievements as the Minister of State for Education? ASUP and ASUU strikes, Mass failure in JAMB and WAEC, poor educational system?

kufre2010: Abeg make una show pics now b4 i go nepa office go rake for not giving light now oo.