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idsamoo: PDP guys! Looking for ways to gain the heart of nlanders!!dats for Benin,nd as for the stable power supply yu talking about,,dats fat lie,i will agree its only stable at GRA,airport road Benin,bt for other areas in benin its been total unstable power supply .Am saying dis because i served in Benin,Nifor to be precise,so,i kno what am talking abt mr oga!

Hey, my frnd don't do that; don't be sillly. 1st off, fvck PDP. I hv NEVER supportd PDP anytime on NL, as a mata of fact i hv bashd dem a no of times; howeva, I hv also made it very clear that oda political parties (ACN, CPC, ANPP, APGA etc) are not beta in d least than PDP- they are ALL approximately the same. I howeva SUPPORT GEJ wisely..... On light supply in Benin, dude you dont know what you are talking about. See, since around Xmas period 2011 power has so increasd and become stable at an average of 18 hrs per day except those few times when there were National Systems problem. This is FACT; evident in Benin City....

It is a SHAME sha dat we are still talking of Street (abi na, Road) Lights on 3rd Mainland bridge in 2013. FERMA suppose cover themselves in shame UNTIL them don am finish...

Movingcoil: plz is seun back from mali for the peace keeping mission?

NO, he is not back. His platoon is actuali heading towards northern Mali as we speak now to engage those ruggd Rebels. Plz pray for him..

vislabraye: Imagine!! The amount of money looted is almost or more than the networth of Bill Gates.
I don't care whether its politics or no GEJ should explain where the funds went to.
I don't seem to understand. Was it not Ngozi Okonjo Iweala that helped in accumulating the reserves? Now she has helped in squandering it

I thougt she was the "Joseph" of Nigeria and GEJ the pharoah. Remember how Joseph helped Egypt's economy ?

Okonjo-Iweala is NOT 'squandering' anything, be sure of what you are saying b4 opening yr mouth in public. Since she returnd to govt as Finance Min mid-2011, d Reserves hv be INCREASING again just like it did when she was 1st there during OBJ's time...

Yes OBJ left more than $60billion in our Foreign Reserves b4 he left (though he had negotiatd d removal of $10billion for the NIPP projects just b4 leaving). A huge chunck of d money (more than $20billions was removd during d 3 yrs of Yar'adua who didnt do much during his time as I hv always said here); to be fair to Yar'adua, it was during his time dat d 2008-2009 World economic crisis happend such that parts of d fund was usd to augment d Money shard by d Federation and also to defend d Naira by Sanusi's CBN, although he also allowd State Governors to pressurise him to 'share' out sm of d moneys for their own 'urgent state projects'. This trend continued unfortunately briefly unda GEJ until middle of 2011 when d decline in d Reserve's value was reversd and it began to increase again. The Reserves and the Excess Crude fund for instance both increasd from about $32billion and $4.5billion at d beginning of 2012 to about $44.6billion and $9.6billion respectively within dat one yr period and is still increasing ($1billion was also set aside for d critical SWF fund within d same period). Questns needs to be askd about what ALL d monies drawn from d Account during d 3 yrs of Yar'adua and the 1st yr of GEJ were usd for both in d Federal but also in d State and LGA levels, still this is d FULLER stori...

[quote author=GARRI (x7)]1. Conniving with Thief Uduaghan to impoverish the Good people of Delta State..

2. Increased electricity tariff with no commensurate increase in power supply..

3. 2012 New Year Ambush Gift of fuel price increase..

Etc...[/quote]So Garriman, I tk it dat u are from Delta state.... So na only negative tins yr garrri-infestd brain rememba, abi? . I can easily tink of d new Ajaokuta-Ore-Aladja-Warri Standard rail line whose rail track laying (that passd Agbor- beautifu ones) has bn completd last yr and navigational systems are expectd to be completd soon to enable final commissioning by March... Oya try again, list good or bad if u like @Garriman..

Paul John: ~Resurrection of the Nigeria Railway (oshogbo terminal)
~Dualization of Oshogbo,Ikirun - Kwara boundary(hoping the state gov would be paid back I.e. It's a federal road)
~ still thinking.... (Nothing more)
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~Power supply has forever being constantly stable(23.5hr/day) in the state capital, that's not his making.

~increment of gas price from #97 to #120
~Apointing a dude(Oyinlola) who's battling with the present administration over #18billion loan he took while in office(as the governor) to build a laughable six world class stadia(with only 2 still close to completion), as the national secretary of the self claimed Africa's largest party.
~He promised an airport while campaigning, with no traces of any construction starting soon(bare land)
~As for work place(Lagos), fashola's doing is the only noticeable thing.

#GEJfor2015#

Good and Bad things, abi? Issokay. People can list both if they choose..... @emboldened, why u go talk say na only Oga Fash dey do work na? Its bn long I bn to Lag but I can tink of repairs of 3rd Mainland bridge, the reconstructn/remodeling of d GAT Airport terminal, the resuscitatn of d intra-Lagos railways that move tens of thousands per day in about 18 trips per day etc etc. Abeg o....

Na wa o... Na fly ova bridge una dey celebrate like this, dey shout 'Yoruba ni ba je o' for so?? Fly ova bridge? But when dem do d new remodeled expanded GAT terminal for Lagos many of una say e no reach cos na GEJ do am, say dem suppose to mk am look like JFK Airport terminal BUT una dey celebrate Fly ova bridge now. Ndi HYPO..... Anyways, kudos to Ogun state govt

Innovative and a Great move..

Jerie: Insincere, yeah yeah yeah! Cry me a river.

NRC makes 500K per trip and my President eats 1,000K (1M) food per day.

Hey TOOOL, go back to that thread u said he 'had faild in Agric'. A post is waiting for you, k?

Clerverly: That is why you argue like a kid. I am sure your father is a benefactor of retardeen's largesse.

LOL..... Sm of u ijiots neva fail to 'perform'. My age is d only tin u saw in dat post, right? You shld feel very lucky dat i can't bring myself to insult yr father, else...

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In the last two years or so, these are some of the changes that have happened in Benin City/Edo State under GEJ:

- Significant improvements in public power supply in Benin City for almost a year of an average of 18 hrs a day (except for few times when there are national systems problems), much more than I have ever enjoyed in Nigeria except perhaps when I was a kid (and I am in my 20's).

- The fixing of the ever notorious Benin-Ore Road, which has been almost complete finally after more than a decade of terrible experiences on that road such that it became routine to sleep on the road while travelling cos of the terrible traffic on bad spots Or having to pass through 'unknown' routes in different states before getting to Lagos. Presently one can get to Lagos in 3-4 hrs.

- The Remodelling/Reconstruction of the Benin Airport, an Airport that was an eye sore, a DISGRACE cos it had not undergone any major renovation since it was built over 25 years ago even though successive Govts had been appropriating money for it. Today, the airport has been completely re-made and expanded in 1 year.

- The coming back into operation of the moribund Oredo Oil/Gas field[/b] after many years, and [b]the building of a new Gas plant which would not only supply Gas to the newly built Ihovbor Power plant, plus other plants and LPG.

- The completion of a new 450MW Ihovbor/Benin Power plant that is in the pre-commissioning state presenting. The 1st in the state.

- The Resuscitation of the critical Benin Depot after 5 years of inactivity. A very important development Edo State such that Gov Oshiomohle was ecstatic and was very liberal in his praise for the development.

- The recovery of the washout in along the Auchi-Okene Road in Edo state.

- The supply of Fertilizers and seeds to more farmers than at any time in a very long time through the GES programme of the FG in collaboration with the State Govt.

- And in one of the most obvious, better Election Systems that have enabled us to elect pour leaders ourselves. Comparing the 2007 Elections when Anenih and his Gang prevented us the opportunity to elect our choice in a display of Brazen Rigging supported by The FG, and 2012 when the choice of the people was reflected in the best State elections probably in the history of the state. The difference is that 2007 was pre-GEj and 2012 was GEJ's. Etc, etc , etc.


These are some of the few I can recall at this time; there are obviously others including ongoing ones. There are however still some promises that have not been met.

I personally have never been able to point to these many No of projects done (or been done) in Benin/Edo State by any previous Federal Govt within this short 2 yr period. And the GREAT thing is that there is still about 2.5 yrs left....

Jerie: ^^ Well, we now pay more for electricity, we pay more for fuel and eith due respect, he has been an abject failure with regards to agriculture.How many NEW roads has he maintained? What of the Pension scam as well as the SURE-P wayo? How many SURE-P beneficiaries have been paid? On security, more people die from terrorism here than in Somalia.

Yea!! Can see how he is a 'failure' in Agriculture. This Businessday article proves this 'failure' convincingly:

With the coming on of Akinwumi Adesina as minister of Agriculture, the nation began to rethink agriculture. The Minister came out clearly with his mandate: it was no longer going to be business as usual in agriculture; that agriculture would henceforth be run as a business.

There was therefore going to be emphasis on value chain. In other words, the ministry decided that agriculture would be run through its entire value chain – farming through processing, that is adding value and sales locally and internationally.

One year on, the logical question is, how has the agriculture ministry fared with its project that is meant to rethink agriculture in the country? The Ministry launched what it calls a ‘government-enabled, private-sector-led transformation’, which involves putting in place new waves of incentives to attract foreign and local investors to the sector.

New fiscal incentives, including zero tariff and duty on agricultural machinery and equipments were announced by the President, to drive the agricultural transformation. It is on record that the Ministry launched a major effort to work strategically with the state governments to help drive investments in their agricultural sectors.

It also decentralised its operations and put in place 36 offices, with directors of agriculture, across the country, and six regional offices, one per geopolitical zone, to help drive investments and agricultural programmes in partnership with states. The efforts are paying off, as the Ministry is working more closely with the state governments than at any period since its existence.

Indigenous companies on the move

Indigenous companies are taking advantage of the agricultural transformation agenda. Dansa Foods is establishing a tomato processing plant in Kano, Famag-Jal has a huge investment in Halal certified meat processing plants in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT); Teragro of the Transcorp Group has invested in the processing of fruits in Benue State.

Teragro Limited, the agribusiness subsidiary of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc will save the nation about $8million foreign exchange annually on reduction of orange juice concentrates, mango puree and mango concentrates importation.

The plant which is first-of-its-kind in the country has installed capacity to produce up to 26,500 metric tonnes of juice concentrates per annum. Jide Adedeji, CEO Teragro, disclosed this in a press conference during the commissioning of the factory in Makurdi by President Goodluck Jonathan.

Adedeji said Nigeria spent $55 million on importation of juice concentrate in 2007, and that with what the country is producing, foreign exchange spent on importation could be conserved by ten percent in a year.

Flour Mills of Nigeria, Multitrex Integrated Foods Plc and Olam Nigeria, have all begun deploying capital to develop new agricultural operations. The Leventis Group has started new investments to revive all its previously abandoned farms and processing facilities, all due to the new reforms in the agricultural sector.

On the Nigeria Stock Exchange, agricultural companies (PRESCO, Okomu Oil) are performing well. In one year, the face of agriculture has changed, from a development programme to a business.

According to Kayode Oyeleye, special assistant to the minister on media and strategy, multilateral and bilateral agencies are providing donor-related investment support and have shown enthusiasm for the major reforms on-going in Nigeria’s agriculture by committing more $1 billion towards Nigeria’s Agricultural Transformation Agenda.

“The World Bank Group is providing $500 million. African Development Bank (AfDB) has committed $250 million. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has selected Nigeria as a priority country for its investment in agriculture. The International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) has put up $80 million.

“The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has committed $60 million. The UK Government, through DFID has committed £37 million. The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Ford Foundation and UNDP are providing significant technical support facilities,” Oyeleye said.

Fertiliser supply chain

Before Akinwunmi, it was corruption galore regarding fertiliser procurement and distribution. But now all fertilisers are sold directly to farmers by fertiliser companies. Also, the old system where government bought and sold seeds, which were also fraught with corruption, with grains sold to farmers as seed has been totally dismantled.

To ensure that poor farmers got fertilisers and seeds without political interference, a new scheme called Growth Enhancement Support (GES) was launched to provide targeted support for seeds and fertilisers to five million farmers per year or 20 million farmers within four years. Hitherto, the farmers and their locations were not documented.

To make targeting easy, the Ministry launched the first-ever Know-Your-Customer initiative and developed a database of 4.5 million farmers in 2012, to aid in better targeting of subsidised fertilisers and seeds to farmers. The database will continue to be updated yearly.

The Ministry launched a Growth Enhancement Scheme, where farmers receive 50 percent subsidy on fertilisers, for a maximum of two bags, through the use of their mobile phones or Electronic-wallet system (E-wallet).
The policy has spurred private sector activity to build supply chains that reach farmers – what they have never done before. It has empowered farmers.

State of commodity value-chain

Progress has also been made respect of cassava, rice, cocoa, maize, cotton, oil palm, sorghum, dairy, horticulture, beef/meat and poultry. Nigeria is the largest producer of cassava in the world with 34 million metric tonnes produced per annum. But the country contributes zero percent in terms of value added in global trade.

Yet our farmers grow cassava in abundance and the price of cassava has collapsed around them. But it is now the era of development of value chains for cassava that will raise income for farmers. This includes the use of cassava for high quality cassava flour (HQCF) to do partial substitution for wheat flour, cassava chips, starch, sweeteners and ethanol.

The Ministry spearheaded the production of high quality cassava flour for use in composite flours to substitute for some of the imported wheat flour being used in the baking industry. Corporate bakers have already started commercialising the inclusion of 20 percent high quality cassava flour in bread.

Rice

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, a total of 690,000 metric tonnes of rice was produced in 2012 from the interventions under the rice programme. This is said to be 140 percent higher than the target set for 2012.

New fiscal measures were announced by Mr. President raising tariff for brown rice, and levy on imported finished rice, to encourage local rice production. In response, 13 new private sector mills were established in the last 12 months, buying and processing local paddy. The total capacity of the new mills is 240,000 metric tonnes. High quality local rice rolled out on commercial scale by Ebony Rice, Ashi Rice, Mikap rice and Umza Rice.

To ensure the county has in place industrial capacity for international quality grade milled rice that can compete with imports, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Finance concluded arrangements to facilitate the acquisition of 100 large scale integrated rice mills, with a total capacity of 2.1 million metric tonnes, to be located across the country, owned and operated by the private sector. This is being acquired under a low interest rate facility of $ 1 billion from the China EXIM Bank.

Cocoa hybrids

Cocoa is enjoying the release by the ministry, eight new high-yielding, fast-maturing cocoa hybrids to revolutionise the cocoa sector. These hybrids give five times the current yields and mature in two years instead of four to five years. A total of 3.6 million hybrid pods (or 114 million cocoa seeds) are being distributed to farmers, free of charge, across cocoa growing states to establish new plantations and phased rehabilitation of old plots.

Cotton, oil palm

When the new administration started there were no improved cotton seeds available in the country. The Ministry entered into MoU with the West African Cotton Ltd. (WACOT) to develop 15,000 hectares of improved cotton seed multiplication holdings in 2012 extendable to 25,000 hectares in 2015. The Ministry initiated the deployment of Bt cotton technology into the country as a viable option to enhancing cotton yield in the country.

Oil palm is undergoing transformation with the distribution of improved tenera oil palm nuts from the Nigerian Institute for Oil Palm Research, by government to farmers. Seventeen oil palm estates in 11 states have signed agreement with the Ministry to raise a total of 1.3 million improved tenera nuts into mature seedlings to plant 8,750ha in their estates in 2013.

Each of the estates will receive 75,000 to 82,500 nuts and will each plant 500-550ha in 2013. The states involved are in Kogi, Edo, Ondo, Delta, Cross River, Ogun, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Abia, Osun, and Enugu.

Dairy and beef

In Oyo state, a cumulative sum of 352 tons of milk was delivered from one milk collection centre (MCC) while six out of 40 formed in Kaduna supplied 195.83 tons of milk. Five milk collections centres were established in Oyo State. Draft comprehensive breeding plan was completed to guide the breeding programs.

Three existing breeding centres at Funafuna, Niger State, Paikon Kore, FCT and Jibiro, Adamawa State have been rehabilitated as centres for community artificial insemination (AI) service. The ministry has also completed the procurement processes of importing Fluid and other AI kits for the cross breeding programme.

A comprehensive Breeding Plan for the Dairy and Beef Cattle has been developed. Under the programme, potential investors for the commercialisation of the Shika Brown breed bird have been identified. Over 200 cassava farmers and processors have been trained nationwide in the production of Feed Grade Cassava Grits (FGCG) for poultry feeds in April 2012. This is the first time that cassava grits will be used in poultry feed at commercial scale.

LPOs for the supply of 1120 metric tonnes of FGCG worth N34.0million were issued out to cassava farmers/processors in May 2012 by Amo Byng Feed mill. An extensive consultation was carried out with Governments, Poultry Association of Nigeria (PAN) and other stakeholders in Enugu, Lagos, Ogun and Oyo states in June 2012.

A total of 96 Live Bird Market (LBM) Operators under the programme, have been trained while 3 LBM at Uyo, Kano and Dutse were commissioned in the second week of July 2012.
Under the animal health value chain programme, 5.30 million doses of CBPP have been allocated to five states for vaccination, while 3.6million doses of PPR were allocated to nine states for vaccination.

Sorghum and others

Two new sorghum hybrids, which give five times the yield currently obtained by farmers, were released within the year. These hybrids are a major technological breakthrough. The Ministry embarked on rapid and intensive hybrid sorghum seed production in which 70ha of certified seed plots have been planted by seed companies in five states.

A total of 60,000 metric tonnes of additional sorghum was produced in 2012 for fortified foods, which was 111percent above the target set for production of sorghum for fortified foods. Fortified Foods are being developed under the transformation agenda, including sorghum flour blended with soybean e.g. ‘Soy-Akamu’, for School Feeding Programme, lactating mothers.

Malt Beverages, drinks and foods (e.g. ‘DawaMalt’ also for School Feeding Programme) are also being developed as well as High Quality Sorghum Flour (HQSF) in convenient packaging as TUWOMeal for compositing with wheat (up to 20 percent) to bake bread, up to 40 percent to produce noodles, macaroni, couscous, pancake, breakfast buns, biscuits.

The Ministry moved strategically to expand the production and processing of tomatoes and citrus. It also commenced a major effort to launch Nigeria as a major exporter of horticultural produce. It supported the establishment of the Fresh Produce Exporters Association of Nigeria, to ensure that Nigeria begins to play in the international market for horticultural produce.

Five tomato seed varieties (Roma VF, Havesta, Ronita, Rio Grandi, and UC82B) have also been identified for utilisation in dry and wet seasons. FGN will distribute 1,457kg of seeds during this dry season on GES to farmers in the North East, West and Central states to cultivate 3,000 hectares.

The Federal Government will distribute 1.44 tons hybrid tomato seeds, 4,133 litres herbicide, 5,777 litres of insecticide, and 20,545 sachets of fungicides through agro-dealers to farmers in 2012 and 122,400 seedlings in 2013.

To address this, the Ministry worked with the Nigerian private sector to put up processing plants for tomato. Dangote Foods Company is currently constructing a 1,250 metric tonnes per day tomato processing plant, to be expanded to 3,600 metric tonnes per day by 2015. This will significantly reduce the waste and turn Nigeria into an exporter of tomatoes.

For Emmanuel Ijewere, protem chairman Community of Agricultural Stakeholders of Nigeria (CASON), this is the first time that government and the private sector have sat together to identify the solution to agriculture problems.

He explained: “First Agriculture is not just farming. The entire value chain i.e. seed to table must be part of solution. This is the responsibility of the private sector. The private sector in the past has been myopic and compartmentalised. Each association has behaved as if it is an island. The concept of value chain was alien. Unfortunately, we the private sector are just beginning to put our acts together.”

He said the private sector has shied away from investing in storage business because government policies were inconsistent. The business requires a large capital outlay and cost of funding was exorbitant and there was no value chain to assure its profitability.

“Today however, the thinking has changed and a number of private investors are making serious enquiries. We at CASON have received enquiries about local partners for building storage facilities,” he said.

For Anga Sotonye, managing director Universal Quest Nigeria Limited, a commodity business venture, government has laid the foundation for the take-off of value chain in agriculture. It has also created the required awareness. He confirmed the various efforts made by government to move Nigeria’s agriculture forward

https://www.nairaland.com/1171691/impressive-ongoing-agricultural-revolution-spearheaded

GAR3TH: NRC makes N500,000 ($3100) per trip between Kaduna-Minna?. What about operation cost, servicing, paying personnel, diesel and other costs. Its pretty clear that they are operating at a loss. How do they expect to improve without revenue? I guess thats what you get when you receive free allocations from the federal government...you forget how to run a institution and become dependent on allocations.

How did you know from this article that they are 'operating at a loss'?? I mean how is it clear??

But some of you, eh.......

Tolexander: That is the amount he wants us to believe they are realising per trip which is not realy bad base on the just resuscitation of the rail transport sector. But these trains plying the railways are archaic and not really mechanically guaranteed to withstand lengthy stress. Cos it wont make sense to be realising #5 on a Taxi that you always use #20 to maintain.
Besides the man only told us the amount they realise per trip but fail to tell us the amount they deliver to the NRC at the end of the day. Praying it wont be like the typical molue drivers and okada men in lagos that don't deliver the correct amount.

I wud like to know how you know dis plz. The intra-Lagos Train service is still running smoothly, isn't it? When it restated in 2011 afta many yrs of been comatose, it was running 8 trips per day; it later increasd to 12 trips per day and now 18 trips per day, carrying tens of thousands of humans and goods everyday. It is still running smoothly to the best of my knowledge and is still punctual, smtimes more than d increasing passengers. They still use these 'archaic' trains all these while, and they hv not packd up...... I undastad though the need to buy newer trains and to take proper maintenance of those in service, I get that point. NRC shld be so advicd...

xbalm: It reli is pathetic! I jst can't help but wonder if dis my "president" undrstnds what it means 2b granted audience on air on an international platform. What eva happnd 2 self comportment, charisma, confidence n assertiveness, as a national n international figure (president)? Well, I'm a nigerian by all standards n I reli dnt see to any degree how feasible d achievements "oga" boosted of are! It just is unbelievable dat it went dis awful. Abi oga dey fear d woman ni Lord hve mercy!

SHUT ya Mouth and state d lie(s) he said in interview Or get out of d thread. This is what dis thread is all about, right?? I cud care less what you think about his body language...

All these ACN and CPC people make small shame just make una contest just one of d figures d @OP and odas presentd, in stead of engaging in meaningless frivolous talks. Just a little shame...

Sincere 9gerian: Those 3,000 to 5,000 persons being moved per trip on that route via the resuscitated railway, will speak with their vote come 2015, if GEJ decides to re-contest.

Those are the people that matter. They are REAL people on ground, whose DIRECT needs are being met by a govt that care.

Anonymous internet rats and cockroaches can continue with their BAD-BELLEISM, hate, insults and destructive criticisms.

Bwahahahahehehe......*LaughWanTireMyBelle*

Will smone come and tell me d lie(s) he said in dis interview?? Abi, wud dat be dat hard??

olas2u: I dont know how you are able to measure economic growth with all you have listed.clearly shows nothing is happening.Social engineering is the most critical in the present day Nigeria.tell us about unemployment figures, industries,production,export.

Actuali according to 2 bodies NBS and World Bank, Poverty and Unemployment rates hv DECREASED slightly bw 2010 and 2012; whilst MAN says Capacity Utilization of Industries increasd in 2011, just as 400 new industries came on stream. Will find d figures on Export soon...

lagerwhenindoubt: All these hard-earned achievements has been upturned by the recent spate of Insecurity incidents, Internal Political Strife, Religious Conflicts and Terrorism, Rising Unemployment, Kidnappings etc.. Fitch is looking to revise their ratings, abi you have not heard

LOL...heard what? Fitch and S&P hv both raisd d nations ratings twice in d 2yrs unda GEJ at d very time they were downgrading top economics like US, EU, Japan. The even said that they may consider raising d rating again if d SWF starts operatns, if d PIB is passd and when d Power privatisatn programme concludes. Before GEJ, Fitch had decreasd d nation's rating....

RICHIE BOI: What Mr Presido didn't know was that people where already tweeting to amanpour that all he was saying are lies.

Can anyone point out a single lie he said; just one will do??

tomakint: Is this woman drunk or something? What is wrong with Nigerians for goodness sake, 38 years of nothingness from our Abokis in power left many things in state of disrepair, now Jonathan inherited a functionless Nigeia from Obj and Yar'Adua, he is trying his best to fix things (at least we've seen improvements in power, roads, educational institutions funding, youth empowerment, more women in politics, active-poverty elimination programmes, etc) I wonder how some folks reason as if that place is a very cool place, I challenge anyone here 'cursing at Jonathan' to mention one past leaders (dead or alive) who has done better than Jonathan within his short time (2 yrs) and let's compare and contrast haba as if to fix Nigeria will take just two years, allow this man to serve out his term before you judge! Many of us are sick in this country!

If you expect any of these Clowns to tk this your DARE, then you are unfortunately wasting yr time...

payless: This is what is called intellectual dishonesty at the highest level. I have been reading your posts on this forum for a while and I can see you like propaganda on this forum. Tell me where you reside that power supply used to be 20hrs/day. There is no place in Nigeria where anyone enjoys 20 hour/day power supply .You are painting a rosy picture about power supply being improved in some parts of the country. You will stop at nothing trying to show this inept government is actually improving lives of average Nigerian. Stop it!

Only the truth can set us free. We should not continue to deceive ourselves about what this government is capable of doing. There is absolutely no improvement in any sector of Nigeria's economy. What are we going to tell our children and granchildren forty years from now about what we did and didn't do to make Nigeria a livable atmosphere?

I talk like commenting on these 'how is power supply in yr area' threads cos they are relative BUT @emboldend, I stay in Benin (Ugbowo area to be precise) and we even at times hv more than 20 hrs power supply, although always more than 18 hrs... Where do you stay that you hv nt witnessd ANY changes in yr power supply

ballabriggs: Why do they not steal oil in the North Sea like they do in Nigeria? Simple, the state is weak, it cannot police its assets, it cannot police its borders and so the easy way out is to deny responsibility by pointing at the "international community". What a deluded Mofo.

It is not for nothing that i always say dat u are d 'LOUDEST mouth-ed, TINIEST brain-ed Resident ijioot' we hv on NL- you always never fail. Well done.... If you knew anything you hv known dat 1st off crude oil theft hv significantly reducd in Nigeria in d last couple of months cos of d Presidential directive to d Navy, JTF and odas; still, there are still certain factors (both internal and external) that is hindering d complete executn of d directive- BRING ALL CRUDE THEFT TO A HALT. President Jonathan had an opportunity in an International press to emphasize d external factors and he took it i.e the developd countries shld do more to discourage Refineries in dier countries from buying stolen crude and keep a market for it. Again, if you know anything you wud hv bn aware that this and a ban on small weapons are the two tins that Nigeria hv bn pushing in d UN since OBJ's time ;Nigeria's leadaship already lead last yr to an unprecentd deal on Small weapons whilst she is still pushing on d Crude oil tin (Nigeria essentiali wants d UN to treat stolen crude same way it treatd d so-calld 'Blood diamonds' so as to deny markets to these stolen goods). I recall that this move was very intense during d height of d Niger Delta crisis during OBJ and Yar'adua times, and GEJ hv just continued; that he use d international opportunity to quickly talk about it shows that he is d one who knows what he is talking about, and you..well an ignorant daft..... Oya, go and sleep

hollandis: i listened to your comments and made biased judgement against the president without even watching the interview.


I decided to watch it again and realised jonathan was on point

Here is the full video

http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/23/nigeria-battles-to-stop-spread-of-al-qaeda-chaos-in-africa/

Never in my life will i listen to your comments and make judgement .It is bias that kills Nigerians

LEARN that nx time you hear... Kudos for yor honesty though

truth4meal: I never expected u to say the truth so it shldnt amaze you if I just watch u and ur oga ve a free day disgracing urselves. Soon the transcript will reveal how much of a clueless spree u and jonah is on.

Look at something close to the transcript. Point out what I said that was wrong, and ask yourself again if there is any iota of truth in your own interpretation (that is if you are capable):

her testimony to Congress on Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cited jihadist group Boko Haram as part of the broader Islamic militant threat in Africa.

Clinton said that the West-African group, whose name means "Western education is sinful" is a major threat to Nigeria – Africa’s largest oil exporter.

In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan agreed that Boko Haram could pose an existential threat to his country.

“If Boko Haram is not contained, it would be a threat not only to Nigeria, but to West Africa, Central Africa and of course to North Africa,” he said. “Elements of Boko Haram link up with some of al Qaeda in northern Mali and other North African countries.”

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For that reason, he said his government is “totally committed” to working with friendly nations to help contain problems in Mali. Like many other world leaders, Jonathan said the problem there has been exacerbated by the free flow of weapons out of Libya since the fall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

President Jonathan admitted that initially Boko Haram caught Nigeria off guard; now, he said, the country has been making progress to contain “the Boko Haram saga.”

He said his government is working day and night to make sure that the deadly attacks on an Algerian oil field do not happen in Nigeria.

The Economist reports that the death toll from Boko Haram attacks in 2012 was 1,099 – double was it was the previous year.

“If you look at the last six months, incidents of killing started dropping,” President Jonathan contended, insisting that the government is gaining control.

He denied suggestions from the U.S. State Department that the Nigerian government has conducted a large quantity of arrests and killings that have been indiscriminate, possibly driving more people into the hands of Boko Haram.

“The United States of America is completely wrong,” he told Amanpour. “No security agency arrests anybody just for the love of arrest. We have intelligence that enables us to arrest the people who have been arrested.”

President Jonathan also insists that poverty and unemployment are not fueling the violent rise of Boko Haram – citing religion as the primary motivation of this jihadist group.

As part of a counter terrorism effort, President Jonathan’s national security adviser has sought to engage in dialogue with Boko Haram.

Jonathan told Amanpour that the discourse has helped the situation, and that he will continue to pursue this strategy.

The Power of the Presidency

Christiane Amanpour was the first journalist to interview Goodluck Jonathan when he assumed the presidency in April 2010. One focus of that conversation was about the endemic electric outages that average Nigerians face.

Three years later, despite continued problems and a report by Nigeria's Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission that says 60% of Nigerians are without access to power, Jonathan said that the country has made significant strides.

“That is one area where Nigerians are quite pleased with the government – that our commitment to improve power is working,” he said. “I promise you before the end of this year, power outages will be reasonably stable in Nigeria.”

Endemic Corruption

“You cannot change the mindset of people by waving your hand. You must take means to make sure that you don’t create an environment where everyone will be corrupt and we are doing it very well,” Jonathan said.

He cited the previous elections as signs of success against corruption. International observers, The African Union, and the Independent National Electoral Commission all praised the polling.

But there is still widespread corruption in the oil industry.

Last April, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said that 400,000 barrels of oil a day were looted from the country in just one month.
The International Energy Agency said that $7 billion dollars a year is lost annually to oil theft.

“Frankly speaking, speaking I want the international community to support Nigeria because this stolen crude is being bought by refineries abroad and they know the crude oil was stolen,” Jonathan told Amanpour. “The world must condemn what is wrong

Wadeoye: Stop that 4500MW propaganda. Until we begin to see constant power supply, dont come here with those useless figures. Who cares if you generate 1000MW? Just give me power - we now pay more than 3 times what we used to pay for power still we dont still have it.

See this CLOWN!! Who is talking about constant power supply at this time? Constant Power in 2 years with 4500MW? Even GEJ admitted that the power situation is not yet stable (and said that it wold begin to approach that by this year's end) but said that it is IMPROVING. Any person that disagrees in Nigeria with that cant be helped . So wouldn't waste my time any further on you....

Wadeoye: Stop that trash man. Where is the power? We started the day with generator to get ready for the morning and I am back at home now, the apartment is till on generator. What improvement are you talking about? That power comes on and off when everybody has gone to bed?

Yo dey craze ni? You no det fear?

I say Power increase yo dey tell me tales about your house. So? Like yo count. Anyways, even if it improves in your area I can SWEAR that yo would NEVER say it.

GEJ met Power spply at less than 2400MW, it is a little above 4500MW today and increasing. That is improvement enough for me apart from the fact that I feel it at home .....

truth4meal: I never expected u to say the truth so it shldnt amaze you if I just watch u and ur oga ve a free day disgracing urselves. Soon the transcript will reveal how much of a clueless spree u and jonah is on.

Come on SHUT that your mouth there. Respond to the comment the way I responded to yours, K? Point out the lie, the way I did yours...

truth4meal: I knw GEJ will waste no time disappointing Nigerians on CNN dis night but I was not expecting it this bad.Can someone tell dis fishbrain that Nigeria is a sovereign state and all this his call at the end of every his answer on the international community shows he lacks d wisdom to tackle his domestic challenges. He called BH local terrorist buh still calls on international intervention. On oil theft dat happens in his delta he said its refined abroad - if the oil did not leave his shore will it get to d refinery abroad? Now he blames that on the international community. Poverty and corruption he nid the help of internation communities then when the internation community thru the US state dept said his handling of BH is inflaming the crisis he said they dnt ve the right info and that an interest is feeding them wrong - he never admitted anyfin its ball passing all his life. Nigeria is on auto-democracy we don't ve a president

You are a TOOOL. Maybe you watched another interview

He never asked for 'help' or anything from the International Community in respect of Poverty or Corruption. He only said that every country had not fight terrorism if the fight was to be successful, and 1st made the point that that was one of the reasons Nigeria was getting involved in Mali, before he solicited for more cooperation from others in helping to fight Boko Haram- in other words, COLLABORATION. If you knew anything about terrorism you would know that no single country can ever solve it alone cos its cross-border; even the USA solicits cooperation from other countries in her own Fight against terrorism.

His response on Crude Oil theft was to demand that Western countries play their own part in containing their Refineries from buying stolen crude. It was a BOLD and succinct stance.

Now go and sleep, k?