₦airaland Forum

goldfish80: Since she doesn't have kids,why shouldn't she have 6packs?

wesley80: It isnt just blindness but daftness, its like an imp trying to play in the NBA - how? Its simply a question of CAPACITY! Why would anyone whose thinking faculty is not seriously atrophied be expecting super modern trains all over the country within two years? It just beats me, the irony of it all is that he had the effrontery to call someone Jonathan! You have to hand it to this guy - a grenade i mean.

IGBOCHAMPION: I support Jonathan, but this is the result of Jonathan, Yar Adua, and OBJ.

We have been working toward the MDG since 2000.

The efforts of the Nigerian government towards the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals have again received resounding commendation from the global community.

The commendations were made separately by the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, President of Ghana, John Mahama, President of Liberia, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson and the Senegalese counterpart, Macky Sall while speaking at the side event held at the on-going 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York titled: Transformative agenda for sustainable development in Nigeria and Africa: Lessons, actions and emerging perspectives.

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan, who acknowledged the commendation, stated that the commitment of his government to the attainment of the MDGs is as result of the premium the government places on the lives of the vulnerable poor in the country, which he described as mission.

“The issues of MDGs touch me directly, having lost seven of my eight siblings before their first birthdays and we are taking the issues of the MDGs as a mission. We are committed to taking people out of poverty, ensure that mothers and babies stay alive in good health and households enjoy improves standard of living.” President Jonathan stated.

Ahead of the 2015, deadline, Nigeria, as revealed by recent NBS statistics as reeled out by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on MDGs, Dr Precious Gbeneol, has met goals three and six as well as the Hunger target of goal one.

The country’s Maternal Mortality Ratio, which was estimated that 1,000 mothers died per 100,000 live births in 1990, dropped to 545 in 2008 and to 350 in 2012.

Nigeria has also recorded 65 per cent reduction in maternal mortality between 2000 and 2013 and increased skilled birth attendants from 17 per cent in 2000 to 60 per cent 2013.

There has also been a reduction from the 2008 NDHS figure for the under-five mortality rate of 157 deaths per 1,000 live births, to 94 deaths. Nigeria’s latest statistics indicated that infant mortality has dropped from 100/1,000 live births as recently as 2003 to 61/1,000 live births.

The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon who spoke through the UN Assistant Secretary and Advisor on post 2015, Amina Mohammed stated that the MDGs Acceleration Framework (MAF) introduced by Nigeria and supported by the UN as well as other policies of Government attest to the commitment of Nigeria in addressing the plight of the very vulnerable poor in the country as defined in the MDGs framework.

He hailed the leadership and coordinating role of the government of Nigeria in attaining the MDGs not only in Nigeria, but also in Africa.

“The commitment of President Jonathan to MDGs in Nigeria and indeed across Africa will help us more in our quest to meet the peoples’ need at national, regional and global level. In turn, this will contribute to more effective multilateral system and one that is fit for purpose to deliver not only on the MDGs but the post 2015 development agenda” Ban stated.

The Coordinator of the UNDP Helen Clark, speaking through Regional Director of Africa Bureau, Abdoulaye Mar dieye stated that the concerted efforts of Nigeria have produced significant results especially on the MDGs target on the proportion of undernourished people, on gender parity in primary education, the reversing of HIV/AIDS, the lowering of under 5 mortality and maternal mortality rate.

Ban’s position was strengthened by the Special Adviser to the Secretary General and head of the Earth Institute of the Columbia University, Professor Jeffrey Sachs.

“Nigeria deserves our great gratitude for its leadership right from the start of the MDGs. Nigeria has been in the lead with new concepts and new initiatives that have really proven the way and has turned all the cynicism and pessimism that surrounded the debt relief in 2005 into a solid and effective investment in poverty reduction in the country. For that we have the government to commend. I am very proud of the huge successes so far recorded by Nigeria in the effort to attain the goals. I expect Nigeria to continue to lead in the post 2015 efforts,” Sachs said.

[color=#000000]According to the President of Senegal, Macky Sall, the efforts of Nigeria and the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan is notable and very key as the continent joins the global community in the new quest to frame a post 2015 successive framework.
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On her part, President Ellen Sirleaf stated that she was particularly impressed by Nigeria’s MDGs implementation mechanism, institution and structures put in place to deliver on the MDGs with independent monitoring and evaluation mechanism which she described as world class and laudable.

“We in Liberia do not have that. I am not sure how many of our countries in Africa have that. To see an office wholly devoted to MDGs is very impressive.”

She stated that she was therefore not surprised that Nigeria was making remarkable progress in her quest to attain the global agenda.

“I would urge all our countries in Africa to within the remaining two years of the MDGs emulate the efforts and focus on selected goals in a bid to achieve the goals especially those with greater prospects,” Sirleaf stated.

To the President of Ghana, John Mahama, the achievements so far attained by Nigeria and other countries in Africa have largely shown that when the world come together to set common targets, a lot can be done to improve the cause of humanity.

President Mahama singled out the Social Protection Scheme (Conditional Cash Transfer) of the government for commendation, describing it as an effective way to reaching the most vulnerable and under-privileged in the society.

“Going forward, I must commend the social protection scheme President Goodluck Jonathan is running because I believe that we must redistribute wealth and distribute the fruits of growth so that the whole of society can benefit and those who are at the bottom of the society can be afforded the opportunity to live a decent life,” Mahama stated.

Confusionist: ok, i dnt like Jonathan, but stop trying to discredit him on this!

It is true that the rail tracks were being drawn since abachas regime and laid during OBJ. But most oif these are to siphon the money!

Trains has been working since OBJ's era (In case they dnt knw). But the wahala be say e no reach fars and ends.

Now, jonathan laid more tracks and brought in the more trains which makes the trains go to the fars and the ends, thereby making the progress more visible.

But the wrong part is for them to bilv Jonathan 'revitalizes' it! because wen i was hearing the transformation agenda, i tot we will be having a bullet train dropped on our lines. i didn't knw we are just buying old repainted rusty trains and laying more tracks!

Ranging from Abacha to jonathan are all fools! Don't they visit other countries and see wot trains are?

Well, he tried. But we need trains and not these old things!

If he can do it, let him!

tomakint: Sometimes I wonder aloud to myself what kind of elements made up those APC e-thugs here, they can never see anything straight from the man of the moment, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, yet, they want to be partakers of his government while it lasts, no wonder they are all bunch of HYPOCRITES!

kingoflag: .

asha 80: that enugu disco sale is in court.i wonder what is to become of that.

PapaBrowne: Been ridiculously silly in an online forum doesn't equate in anyway to being smart. There is a positive increase in Rice production and a resultant decrease in rice imports. Whether you like it or not, if saving $3billion in rice imports is a resultant effect of your assumed $32,000/day feeding, then we should double his feeding allowance to enable us reap more bountiful agricultural benefits.

Good news is good, no matter your opinions!

awodman: Nigeria’s agric revolution notches higher as 30,000-ton rice mill berths in Kwara


Source:businessdayonline.com/2013/09/nigerias-agric-revolution-notches-higher-as-30000-ton-rice-mill-berths-in-kwara/

Realdeals: I can't agree less cos there have been a lot of activities in local rice industry. The impact of agric development is been felt across the country.
Join the agriculture community on www. and interact with farmers and other agriculture professionals in the agric value chain. You can also download useful books on agric production by becoming a menber.

Pataki: In line with my earlier consideration for a female moderator, I would nominate Obiagelli.

berem: Sir,am deeply happy that you appreciate my positive contributions to this great forum. Your comment really moved me and i forever remain grateful. With these words of wisdom and encouragement from you I CHANGE MY MIND!!

Obinoscopy, i am interested in the moderator post.

ba7man: Its Politics naa......Who did you think will bear the brunt in the first place?? Of course, its you and i that will pay for this tarrif increase.

Who gets richer?? The Govt of course.......

I would have said they would do meaningful things with the money but with corruption still heavily present in their midst, I doubt that.

They might just refurbish more Airport halls, some people are happy and some angry .......and life goes on.

take dat: Will GEJ get considerable votes from the SW? Yes.

Will PDP and her other affiliates capture the SW? Maybe when hell freezes over.

idumuose: Honestly I never used to like GEJ but the efforts he is making to
put things right,I now begin to believe that he is dedicated to
Revamping the economy which was destroyed by his predecessors.
I pray for Ɣ☺u everyday and the Lord will see Ɣ☺u through.Very
soon your detractors mostly in APC will bury their empty bald heads
in shame.

glory2glory: @ Insincere Nigeria.
I don't know about all the so-called projects you mentioned especially when there are no pics to back them up. But I know that the onitsha owerri road was completed before Gej's administration. So if you can lie about that, I take everything you have said with a pinch of salt.

Sincere 9gerian: So jobless vultures are still gathered here discussing Sincere9gerian? Incredible!

Isn't it ironic that the same characters that abuse, malign, insult and curse the PRESIDENT of the federal republic on this forum are on this thread sermonizing about "lack of manners", "respect", "polite" and "civil"? Smh for confused nematodes.

tolurainbow: I h.a.t.e dis country with passion......hell is far better Dan dis country...instead of we 2 move forward we r making things worst..God where are u pls end of time should cum fast....I am tired of dis forbiding country....oooooo

abu12: This is an insult from the commissioner of police, for calling the newly employed teachers miscreants.

bloggernaija: The train seen on the ground is a culmination of the work started since the days of Abacha .
I remember when Abacha when work started on the tracks.
There was an inter- lull during Abdusalam .
Obasanjo resurrected it by reengaging the Chinese ,paid for it and brought out a blue print which estimated that it will cost over 33 billion dollars to modernize the nigerian rail sector.
Jonathan is simply there to claim the work of past leaders.
And he has done nothing imaginative beyond the work that has already being done by his predecessors.