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instead of people to reason with the minister,ask questions and seeks workable solution. all they think is to use every avenue to campaign change as if the change agents will work miracles. We youths n children of now without substance.

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There can never be a perfect Leader. Most leaders
do well in certain respects and fail in other
respects. Also we may never all agree even on one
area the leader has done well or has not done well.
It all depends on the criteria for assessment. As
example, For some people, a political leader has not
done well except he has given them an
appointment, a contract or put money in their
individual pockets. He can kill himself, but as far as
they have received no personal benefit he is no
good. For some others, a political leader can only do
well if he is from their ethnic enclave or he is from
their Political Party. Therefore, he can commit
‘harakiri’, they will ignore and still commend him
because of their narrow and myopic prism of
assessment. Of course such assessment can be
very biased and injurious. Nevertheless it is their
own criterion for assessment. And yet for the
enlightened others, they use specific and objective
criteria to assess leadership performance. There
may be some colorations and nuances, but that’s
because they are human. And that’s why I am not
really surprised by the recent comments on the
economy raised by Prof Chukwuma Soludo and a
couple of other distinguished Nigerians. On this
score, I endorse Oby Ezekwesili’s call for a debate.
That to me is the civilized way to conduct a
discourse or argument with the objective of
presenting the facts, the figures and insights,
demolishing falsehood or establishing the truth. I do
not subscribe to name calling or demonizing of
Professionals or fellow Nigerians just because our
views do not agree. Not all Nigerians are gullible.
Many have brains that work, processing all the
information they receive, agreeing, disagreeing and
throwing the rest into the garbage.
In my many years of Economic advocacy as a
leader in the Manufacturer’s Association of Nigeria
( MAN), the Nigeria Employers’s Consultative
Association(NECA) and the Nigerian Economic
Summit Group( NESG), I have been schooled by the
Professors, the practitioners and economic agents
on what shows good Economic Management and
Bad Economic Management from the Private Sector
Perspective. It is from this standpoint that I want to
justify my conviction that when it comes to the
Economy Jonathan has done well, better than many.
. ECONOMIC GROWTH
In the years that Jonathan has been President , our
economy has grown between 6-7%per annum. This
is one of the highest growth rates in the World,
bettered by China and a few other Countries. This is
the compounded growth rate that has driven us to
become the Largest Economy in Africa and the 26th
in the World. If this is not a consequence of good
economic management, please tell me what is.
Even if it happened by ‘luck’, we must still give the
credit to Jonathan’s Government. Because if the
reverse were the case and the economy was in
decline or in stagnation as we had many years ago,
we will still have blamed it on his poor economic
management. If a man can take the flack for failure,
why must we deny him the right to take the credit
for success.
. ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION
For ‘n’ years, where ‘n’ is not less than 30 years,
we had complained that we had a mono economy
where oil was everything. But we were “shocked” to
see that we now have a fairly diversified economy,
led by services at 52%, where oil’s
Contribution to GDP has declined to 14% from over
33% in the hey days! and that even Agriculture had
declined from its dominant 42% to 22% because of
growth in Manufacturing which has climbed from
less than 4% to about 7% and such services as
Telecommunications and Entertainment taking up
measurable positions on the GDP grid at 8.69% and
1.42% respectively. It is not yet déjavu as we still
depended on Crude oil and Gas for about 70% of
National Income until the recent crash of oil prices
which has now moved our non oil revenue to about
47% of the 2015 Budget proposals, bringing oil
revenue to a healthier 53%. If all this are not as a
result of Sound economic policies, some of which
were started by the Previous Governments, then tell
me what is.
MACRO-ECONOMIC STABILITY
For the last four years, Jonathan’s government has
sustained Economic policies that had created a
stable macroeconomic environment. For the first
time in ‘n’ years, our inflation rate dropped to Single
digit. This was a feat previous Governments dreamt
about but could never attain .Until very recently, the
exchange rate remained very stable, operating
within a narrow band. This made naira almost
convertible and allowed Industrialists and importers
plan inventory commitments with greater ease and
less apprehension. Even the Interest rates had been
trending down and for once in a long time, Farmers
and some industrialists were able to obtain credit at
single digit interest rate or very low double digits.
This has happened, because Jonathan gave free
hand to the Professionals in the Central Bank of
Nigeria( CBN) and those in the Ministries of Finance,
Trade and Industry, National Planning, etc to run
with minimum interference. Additionally, he involved
the Private Sector in the Economic Management
Team where they used real market experience to
balance academic economic theories. If this is not
good economic management, please tell me what
is. Some Presidents in some Countries have been
voted out of office because they could not manage
inflation!
AVAILABILITY OF FOOD AND OTHER NECESSITIES
OF LIFE
It is easy to take things for granted when they are
going well, but when they go wrong, we come to
realize that certain things are more important than
others. People can find time to make an issue of the
reduction in our foreign reserves, because we have
plenty of food in the market. To be sincere, Nigeria
has had an abundance of food. Thanks be to God
and thanks be to a revamped Agricultural
environment. Iam personally surprised that after the
recent devaluation of the currency, and some
adjustment in the Monetary Policy Rate( MPR), the
prices of food items in the market remain fairly
stable, keeping overal inflation much lower than I
had predicted which indicates a higher proportion of
locally produced food items. Does anybody
remember 1984-1986, when we had to queue for
food items and other necessities,including soaps
and detergents in Leventis Stores and other shops.
The days of essential commodities( Essenco) and
import licensing when many companies including
mine downsized or closed down because they could
not bribe to get enough import licence .
I am sure Nigerians have taken for granted the
availability of Petrol and diesel. In the last couple of
years, except for occasional hiccups caused by
striking workers( NUPENG & PENGASAN), we have
had almost hassle -free availability of Petrol and
Diesel in virtually every nook and cranny of the
Nation selling at controlled and deregulated prices,
depending on your distance from Abuja or Lagos.
What is more, the price of diesel began to come
down, helping to reduce cost of production for
industrialists. I have lived in this Country for long,
and from the Military to now, we have never had a
better supply situation. Many times in the past, we
have spent valuable time running around looking for
fuel and sometimes ending up with adulterated or
foul fuel. I stand to be corrected.
If all these have not happened because of good
economic management, then tell me what is.
REDUCING UNEMPLOYMENT
The growing unemployment in Nigeria hit the peak
in 2010 following the Global economic crisis which
caused a shrinking of the global economy. In
2011unemployment rate in the general population
was nearly 24% with Youth Unemployment reaching
nearly 50%. But as today overal unemployment has
declined to less than 20%( Actually about 15% in the
first half of 2014 according to National Bureau of
Statistics) and Youth unemployment has gone down
to less than 38%. Though these changes may not
look as dramatic we would wish, but they have
occurred by two pronged approach pursued by
Jonathan- Supporting a revival of the Agricultural,
industrial, Entertainment, and several other sectors
of the economy to provide opportunities for
absorbing the youth from the private sector angle
and the various efforts being made to create jobs in
the Public sector especially through the Various
safety net projects of the Subsidy Reinvestment and
Empowerment Program( SURE-P). From the
Community, Social Women and Youth Employment
( CSWYE) Program, over 180,000 Youth & Women
have been employed, over 10,000 Healthworkers
( midwives, Nurses and Community Healthworkers)
have been employed, over 5000 Youths have been
trained through the Technical Vocational Educational
Training in different Skills and vocations and
deployed to several industries while 15000 Have
been employed by FERMA in road repairs and
Vegetation control, nearly 50,000 hitherto
Unemployed graduates have been given jobs
through the Graduate Internship Scheme( GIS)
across the Nation. The YOUWIN Programme has
enabled several Young Nigerians( especially
Women) to receive grant from the Federal Ministry
of Finance to set up new businesses through which
they have employed other youths. The determined
implementation of the local content law in the oil
and gas and else where in the economy has
created more jobs and more wealth for Nigerians. If
these efforts to create jobs directly and indirectly
that have led to measurable improvement in the
unemployment rate over the last four years do not
amount to good economic management, then tell me
what is.
PRO- BUSINESS POLICIES/ PROGRAMS
Jonathan’s Government has introduced several
policies and programs that are supportive of
Businesses, especially local Production. The Pro-
Agric policies and programs are well advertised,
making it possible for a new generation of Agric
Entrepreneurs( Nagropreneurs ) to obtain loans at
9%, in addition to unprecedented support to
agriculture with a focus on developing the
Agriculture value chain. I already referred to the
higher level of local food production which has
helped to moderate inflation. There is a new
Industrial Revolution policy which is focusing on
supporting local industrial output. We have seen
unprecedented expansion in the Cement Industry
which is taking the Country to the level of self-
sufficiency in Cement production with possibility of
Exporting the excess in the near future. Have we
soon forgotten the Cement armada spectacle where
our ports were clogged with cement import from all
over the World. Like it or not, the local Auto Industry
is coming back to life with the new National Auto
Policy which seeks to discourage unbridled
importation of all kinds of automobiles from all over
the World. Many of the World auto companies have
started to invest in local production plants. This
industrial revival and upgrade is happening in many
Industries including mine-the Pharmaceutical where
the federal Government has supported a number of
local manufacturers to obtain the WHO GMP
certification in the last one year, which hitherto had
been practically impossible. Now these companies
can compete with International and Multinational
companies for global supplies. The Privitization and
the Deregulation Policy which Jonathan has been
‘forcefully’ implementing has virtually transferred
power for Electric power to the Private Sector.
Though the level of expected improvement has not
been attained, we have brought the 15-year story of
unbundling NEPA to a closure with reasonable
expectation that new investment will flow to truly
sort out our Electric Power needs, especially if
Goverment finally sells the Transmission
infrastructure . I believe the deregulation of the
down stream Petroleum sector will be completed
soon and the multiplier effect on the economy will
be unleashed. For me the fight against corruption
will get strong fillip when we remove the power of
discretion and patronage from these sectors
through Privitisation and deregulation . Since we
deregulated Telecommunications, corruption in that
sector has died and been buried. That is more
effective than sending ten Managing Directors of
NITEL to Kirikiri. Not that I am opposed to punishing
the guilty. Corruption in Power is in ‘coma’ now and
that in Oil and Gas will soon be gasping for breath
when we fully deregulate the sector. When we bury
the ‘big’corruption in these sectors by these
policies that take the power of discretion from Public
Servants, we can easily deal with ‘smaller’
corruption in government bureaucracy and the
private sector . The level of Policy inconsistency
and flip-flops we used to see in the economy in the
past has significantly declined, creating more
confidence and attracting more investments into the
Country with Nigeria receiving the highest Foreign
Direct Investment ( FDI) in Africa in the last two
years or so despite slowing down in oil and Gas and
the Security scare not withstanding .
I could go on and on. I have said nothing about the
massive investment in rehabilitating major
Highways and Rail lines in our Country. Last
December, I travelled to Kwale from Lagos in five
and half hours and travelled by rail from
Portharcourt to IMO River. The last time I did that
was in 1992. The trains are running again and the
long delayed major road projects like the East -West
Road, the Abuja- Lokoja, Benin-Shagamu, Onitsha-
Enugu-PH, Kano-Maiduguri and the Lagos-Ibadan
Expressway are all nearing completion with
significant portions now open to traffic. Have I said
anything about the miracle of remodeling 18
Nigerian Airports in one season, with most of them
fully completed. The impact of good Roads and
other modes of transportation to any economy are
too obvious for any further elaboration. Some
people who are reading this and who may have
joined the bandwagon of those who say nothing is
happening in the economy or that Jonathan is
clueless, may be angry at me and may think that I
am campaigning. But these are facts which are
verifiable. Yes, these may not be the best possible
but we must acknowledge what is the correct
situation. Jonathan may have questions to answer
concerning Security or on other issues but on the
Economy, my verdict is that he has done well,
though could do better. My bible says”Woe unto
them that call evil good and good evil, …that put
bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter “. May God
have Mercy.
Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa OFR
Mazi Sam Ohuabunwa was the President/Chief
Executive Officer Neimeth Pharmaceuticals, past
Chairman, Nigeria Summit Economic Group.

southniyikaye:
what that means is,I support both,let the best man win...he not being biased unlike some pastors that have been bought over..long life baba!!

who are the pastors that are bought over? respect the Church not just baba because he is your pastor and watch what you say about pastors. even if the world says it,u as a body of christiandom should b careful

PUSH1:
Gej a failure by all standard. How can you attract foreign investment when you cannot provide constant power supply. A country where security is a major concern. Who are they fooling. not me!

insecurity in just a section of d country,investors can operate in other parts

ChinemeOkpan:
While FFK was busy opening his buccal cavity and spewing irrelevancies and balderdash- the General provided evidence of his WASC to Nigerians

While PDP are busy talking about GMB's personal life, the General is telling Nigerians how he intends to change their lives and situation.

PDP can go ahead and campaign on behalf of APC- we thank them

It is nearly D-Day when Nigerians will send GEJ back to his village

we asked for certificate my dear

DDeliverer:
Young lady, there is nothing wrong in watching football....but there is everything wrong in being an Arsenal fan..

Why Arsenal? Why??

people like u need to be examined. So na man u make she support. Isn't that her choice

The General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Friday has said he does not trust politicians.

Adeboye spoke in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, during a two-day interdenominational prayer.

According to the cleric, politicians in most cases hardly fulfil their promises.

Adeboye illustrated his claim with the story of three travellers – an Indian, a Jew and a politician.

He said while the three men were travelling, they had a problem and went to a farmer for help, but the farmer said he could only accommodate two people.

Adeboye said the Indian volunteered to sleep in the barn, but returned few minute later that there was a cow there.

The Indian, according to the illustration, said he couldn’t sleep in the barn because cows were gods worshipped in his country.

The Jew also came back complaining that pig was inside the barn and that the place was dirty.

The politician also volunteered to sleep there, but instead of the politician to come back to complain, Adeboye said it was the pig and cow that came knocking that the politician should be sent away because he promised to make the environment, including the barn conducive with air-conditioner.

The cleric said, “I don’t trust politicians. Politicians are liars. They don’t fulfil most of their promises. A politician can tell you that they will give all of you (students) chicken each, which we all know it is impossible.”

The RCCG General Overseer, however, asked Nigerians to stop worrying themselves over who would emerge winner in the next general elections.

According to him, God is a master planner who has already planned the leadership development of Nigeria.

Adeboye said, “God has already planned who will be the President of Nigeria. God has already planned that before we were born. God is not like human beings who doubt what is to be done. He has plan for everything.”

Vice-Chancellor of OAU, Prof. Bamitale Omole, hailed the cleric for his yearly presence in the university, saying the initiative was having positive impacts on the school.

He said, “We appreciate the love of Pastor Adeboye. With God and his presence last year, we had no calamities and also emerged as the best university in Nigeria. I urge students to be prayerful and cautious of what they do as God will continue to protect us.”

rickkid:
No he means like rehabilitating the aging rail network and modernising it to standard gauge as GEJ's government has done and is doing.

He means privatising the power sector so that power generation and transmission is linked directly to economic and population growth and is no longer limited by government bureaucracy as GEJ's government has done.

He means finally paying some attention to the Al-majirin problem in the North of the country by opening schools to cater for them and giving them the chance to have a better life like GEJ's government has done.

He means funnelling scarce cash from a useless and expensive fuel subsidy to instead fund infrastructural projects (SURE-P) like the Abuja light rail project and the PH-Enugu rail rehabilitation project as GEJ's government has done.

He means constructing and modernising more roads, airports and sea ports than all Nigerian heads of state going back to Shehu Shagari as GEJ's government has done and is doing.

He means funding and equipping the Nigerian armed forces on a scale which hasn't been seen since 1979 under Shehu Shagari as GEJ's government has done.

He means constructing a second River Niger bridge with a rail link and a Loko - Oweto bridge to link North, South and East for greater economic integration and participation as GEJ's government is doing.

He means creating a robust and fit-for-purpose foreign policy which takes Nigeria's interests into account first unlike what was previously obtainable as GEJ's government has done.

So kindly take a trip to Third Mainland Bridge which previous administrations left to fall down by itself and observe the SURE-P funded repair and maintenance work done on it which is something GEJ's government has done.

And then jump off it and drown.

We don't need you.

I would av applauded ur post but your funny last statement was not needed. gejtill2019

toecyne:
yh sure, the mothers of the over 200 chibok girls wuld everly praise yu

GMB 2015

mumu....ña him kidnap them abi? all this GMB hungry beings don't know anything 9ther than chibok

lefulefu:
guy why u no enter water na?
abi u no sabi swim or u dey fear make mammy water no draw u inside?

make I no enter ooo,to avoid stories untouched

lefulefu:

iffa catch u....y u look my pix na

must you look?

iamchiddy:
Why can't these people see that this their politics of blackmail is not working? The more they try to cast aspersions and smear the image of this man with their lies the more they endear him to our hearts.

Sai Buhari 2015.

you must be a retard. How dare you call all these lies after they were confirmed by elders n state men. You just av to confirm them not call them lies because you don't want to believe

[quote author=carrybreeze post=28433799][/quote]mr man,cast not obanikoro. Most nigerian politicians are thugs.

soroptimist:
Sometimes i laugh at the juvenile thought-process of this 'tata' President that we have talking as if everyone/party must assist the PDP achieve its zoning policy even if its realisation will eventually hurt the existence of other party

What kind of a baby politician is GEJ who should be ashamed that his PDP Rep members betrayed him and his party by listening and following an opposition backed member than someone the party supports. Does that not signpost a lack of leadership quality in the so-called leader of the party that GEJ is?

Before anyone scoff at ACN's role in the emergence of Tambuwal,the fact remains that politics is about interest and the interest of ACN then was to make sure PDP does not have a foothold in the SW using every permissible political tactics

GEJ should quit sounding like a rain-beaten child and tell himself the home truth of the fact that he lacks the charisma to make people do his bidding. The reason people still defer to GEJ today is because he has the power to dispense political patronage n contracts

ACN's support of Tambuwal was done with a self preservation mindset at heart. It would be foolhardy to allow PDP produce a speaker that will be antagonistic and stiffling of its members potentials even if the person is a yoruba woman

Dimeji Bankole and Olubunmi Etteh's inglorious roles as Speakers of SW descent is still fresh in our memories

nonsense

thanks

don't dull. na from my papa house I dey go my ppa,my ppa con near my house. deployed to kano but ran back home,thank God am tru. No rushing,squeezing, smooching for line to sign clearance again. But the painful thing is that No MORE ALAWII. CHAI

u telling me Walcott and this guy na mate. Costa is at least 30

stephengee:
hello even if its of 30000000 types. my point is we are Christians. Christian are followers of Christ. Jesus Christ. Do u read of jesus in the old testament. old testament is just a view of how things are before christ. If u are matured enough you should get my point.

moreover, I sense you are a Muslim, its good. its just the sallah thing am not with

khadysaggs:
To be honest you guys are not cristns your Just doing your own thing,check the history of prophet abraham that was asked by God to give his only child as scrfce then wen he ws about doing that God send an angel with a ram,so do u mean u don't belv in that history,you guys need help

these are old testament teaching for the new testament all these things are condemned since Jesus Christ came to die for the sins of mankind.

EzePromoe: [color=crimson]My brother's is on Nov. 6[/color]

nov 6 here too

the guy just be like me

Sijo01: How can I watched/download these movies online please. 'Dirty sexy money and the Secret life of the American teenager'.

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teeo: Disadvantages of being handsome: I saw this list somewhere online so i decide to add a few words to it.
1. Assumed to be a player- Women assume you're a player for no reason. They'll take you less seriously and question your motives the whole time. Its like infidelity is written all over you. Ladies make sentences like “who are you sleeping with now?” Like WTF.

2. Attracting useless women- Sure you attract more girls, but with the quantity comes a drop in quality. You'll constantly run into useless superficial women with no substance while the ones with substance are not phased or impressed by your looks. And trust me we don’t always like the pretty ones.

3. Amebor- Everyone's in your business and wants to know who you're sleeping with. Iya Basira on the street even warns her daughters never to cross your gate. On campus your name is on the lips of everyone, to make matters worse just be a little popular and you’re on every campus magazine. The amount of attention this person attracted troubled and confused her quite a bit. Everyone would know what you have done, not because of what you did but what you look like.

4. Older Women- Older women are pushy and aggressive and don't know when to turn it off. The worst part is the boldest ones are the ugliest more condemned cargo. You have a flock of obasanjo looking women constantly making you uncomfortable. The worst is they're openly biased towards you and will talk about you to everyone creating a lot of awkward tension and unwanted attention. Some would be like “Let me take care of you like a son”, biko does that involve servicing some parts..

5. Gays- Gay men stare at men the way men stare at women. It's annoying and infuriating and makes me want to fight but I'm not on so i refrain. Either way the worst part about it is gay men staring or trying to talk to you. So when a guy you think is straight glances at your arm or chest. Abomination. Once i got asked out by a gay dude, i had to stylishly turn him down, we’re great friends though.

6. Jealous Girlfriend- Your girlfriend or wife is always jealous, if she catches you smiling at a lady it’s almost equal to you sleeping with someone else. She feels so insecure, checks your phone, knows your plans and wants to follow you out on guys night. No matter how much you try to assure her, she still finds a reason not to trust you.
Guys who calm to be handsome on NL come and add yours ...

Source: http://www.nigeriafilms.com/news/19324/32/disadvantages-of-being-handsome.html

most of these happens to me

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please stop proclaiming you are it shows u aiint. and I like u that way