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Seun:
Wat's the yyes center?

. yescenter@skyebankng.com
Email them. Surprisingly they reply fast

jogs1999:
U cant block it unless u go to any Skye bank branch to complain and it would be blocked immediately.

thanks. But I blocked iit by sendn a msg to the yes ccentre and it wz blocked

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Danhumprey:
Is that a compliment or a stylist insult?

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A compliment u illetrate

Op,ur hhigh on ffeeb 14 debit alertsNigerian international airport. World class look sth that's ws votted one of d worst airports in africa.

Bog12:
Is President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Really Bad? Am not a Politician but I was just evaluating GEJ so far in the office, yes he is corrupt! whenever the body is rotten the head is bad so he is corrupt so do all other past Leaders but.....

1] Goodluck Jonathan signed FOI bill that Obasanjo refused to sign and you join then in saying that Goodluck is bad.

2] Goodluck approved N18,000 Minimum wage from N7,500 Which Obasanjo refused to sign and you say that Goodluck is bad and NYSC
allowance from N7,500 to nearly approved N39,500, yet they say he is bad.

3] Goodluck dualized federal roads (about 25,000km) which Obasanjo and past Govts abandoned and you say Goodluck is bad.

4] The rail system is working now, with little budget But Obasanjo Sunk billions of dollars without result, other pasts leader ignored and you
say that Goodluck is bad.

5] Goodluck has been conducting free and fair elections whereas the ones conducted under Obasanjo are Shameful and national disgrace yet
you say Goodluck is bad.

6] Goodluck established 12 new universities, 9 in the North to improve learning and knowledge and increase the Jambites admission rate, yet
you say that Goodluck is bad.

7] Goodluck established the Almajiri system for Northern abandoned street children and those deprived of education by their own people and
you say Goodluck is bad.

8] Goodluck has been building dams and improving the country's power from 2500mW to 6,000MW - And successfully privatized the sector
which many analyst believed is the best way to go and you joined them say that Goodluck is bad.

9] Agriculture have been revamped and for the first time in Nigerian history, Food prices came down during Christmas, instead of skyrocketing
and you say that he is a bad President.

10] 2013 and 2014 was the Christmas in Nigeria, where Nigerian did not sleep in filling stations for 3 to 4 days to get Petrol or 100s of people
being roasted alive in attempts to get fuel in petrol stations, wickedly, you joined them to say that our God given President is not
performing.

11] Airports are wearing world class looks and every zone have International airport and you say Goodluck is bad.

12] This administration has employed more people in their 5years in office than any other in the history of Nigeria [Via Agric, Energy sector,16 New Car Companies, 12 New Universities, 3,826 primary Health care Centers, Teaching Hospitals] SURE-P, YOUWIN and you say Goodluck is bad. Now do you think that General Muhammadu Buhari will perform magic, which he could not do when he was in his 40s, if you vote him?

What else do they want from President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan?

SMALLPENIS:
My President is black, my lambo is red


GEJ till 2019

now, the question is, how old will I be in 2050

. Wait let me ask d gods

It's a skye bank card. Rily need help plss

I just lost my debit cart and got like 12k debitt alert. Please how do I deactivate it

LewisO:
What is the meaning of Chelsea? Never heard of that in the history of "Club World Cup"...

but. They are known as d people that disgraced barca nd made mercy look hopeless in 'uefa champions leaguee'

As if ur ibo leaders won't steal all ur money and oil nd let you pple sufffer.

Macelliot:
Larger percentage of yorubas and Hausas are against Break-up, but the Igbos fully supports breakup. We the Igbos and S-south are tired of Nothern born to rule mentality and as for the yorubas, there are deceivers. The North is really afraid... Northern Nigeria will be like Niger republic.... If Nigeria breakup, Biafra will out-grow Oduduwa & Arewa republic put together....
In Biafra we Stand. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Flag_of_Biafra.svg/600px-Flag_of_Biafra.svg.png

The tension in pple will still rise again

Timijo:
I support wholeheartedly the proposed
shift in election dates. For crying out
loud the polity had been heated up
beyond boiling point. The tension in the
air was so ominously thick that it could
be cut with a knife. Nigeria was obviously
on a precipice, like a disaster of
gargantuan proportion waiting to
explode on our faces. Adrenaline was
pumping crazily into our political
bloodstream, major actors dagger-
crossed, waiting for the whistle before
going for the jugulars of one another.
Weeks to the election the ground had
been soaked with so much blood! What a
country! What a people!! What an
election!!!
I pray that the extension will allow
frayed nerves to calm down. Hoping

bayulll01:
All I know is if they won't allow us FEBUHARI,we will MARCH4BUHARI

. U av sense jarey

Which progress is d army making in dd north east. Pple that arre complaining of substandard weapons while Boko Haram kips seizing towns and villages nd rephrase ur hash tag to #confused man till 2019. It's nt possible

KwoiZabo:
APC have been riding on slogans like FeBuhari and Ihavedecided which is useless Also APC knows the significant progress being made by the Army in the North-East also the potential disqualification of Buhari over his cert. scandal, or maybe Buhari might faint again and of course their campaign fund is dry that is why they want elections to hold in February 14. Apart from the fact that a shift is going to interrupt many people's plans about travel and election monitors etc a shift is Ok since it's still within the time frame allowed in the constitution.
GEJtill2019.

fredoooooo:
Make Spanish f.a let athletico dey play real every weekend

thunder fire u

Wot is ds

LewisO:
Atl-Madrid will never stop beating Real-Madrid.

***Up Barca***

barcarr korr barbeach ni. Ordinary Chelsea disgraced u. Nd ur still talkn

Wot is ds aw will dey disgrace us lyk ds

NIJJAking:
our humble and amiable president kneeling down and being prayed for at lords chosen church by pastor lazarus muoka. No forces of darkness can stop our presidents reelection.

Ur calling a thief humble?

Whynotthetruth:
Submissions of a lazy dreamer...he has gotten to the presidency of a great country like Nigeria. Remind me, any achievement of yours? Can even your kindred consider you fit for its headship?

. Enof story foor the gods. @ least m nt a bloody thief like him and I'm nt confused. He wants to postpone d elections. Why?
And I asked a simple question? What has he achieved in his ruling years

Made in China military equipments

Firefire:
And what did you do - SMH

. He took the picture and uploaded it

Yh. My glo is terrible. M @ d akutee-lambe area of ogun state. Can't get 3g. Ma internet is terrible. Buh I can make calls

johncreek:
I have being experiencing bad network services from GLO since yesterday.
I can't make calls, I can't connect to their customer care, I can't connect to their Blackberry Agents and I can't even send messages.
And I believe am not the only one experiencing it.
Anyone with the same issues so we can know if its Take over that wants to happen.
I believe you all know what I mean.

Hee dinnt achieve anything. I can achieve ^56 of wat he he did in 6 years in 1 yr

Whynotthetruth:
Really but not as much as you...maybe till you clear you backlog and achieve 1/1000000000 of what he has achieved... we will review your status as not being confused again... for now enjoy your confused state of mind...

Equiiltorea guinea is winning 2-1 oon Africa magicc

Sorry to ask. But what is afcon

alberto2k:
Hehehehe

I've been laughing real hard since I saw this pic.. lol

What will you call this kind of head gear?



Source: https://m.facebook.com/CentralBankofJokes/photos/a.632107486851830.1073741825.159773660751884/885571264838783/?type=1&source=46&refid=17

dish. Mtn network iis so horrible. She nids it to call

NgeneUkwenu:
What is wrong with this PDP Advert?

. Mad nd confusedman. They Dnt born hhim well to ttry ds in d middle east

I'd rather go for a 'wicked' man than a confused man

marshalcarter:
I wanto marry dis gal





You so beautiful

You are as confused as d gal and d president

Upon all ur story. He is still confuused

Whynotthetruth:
BY OUR REPORTER ON FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Let’s be fair, Jonathan has done well on the economy
BY SAM OHUABUNWA

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 ‘hara-kiri’ and they will
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 maybe 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 civilised 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 demonising 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’ 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 six and seven per cent 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 was 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 per cent, where oil’s contribution to GDP has declined to 14 per cent from over 33 per cent in the hey days! And that even agriculture had declined from its dominant 42 percent to 22 percent because of growth in manufacturing, which has climbed from less than fur per
cent to about seven per cent and such services as telecommunications and entertainment taking up measurable positions on the GDP grid at 8.69 per cent and 1.42 per cent respectively. It is not yet déjavu as we still depended on crude oil and gas for about 70 per cent of national income until the recent crash of oil prices,
which has now moved our non-oil revenue to about 47 per cent of the 2015 budget proposals, bringing oil revenue to a healthier 53 per cent. 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 realise 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 to a revamped agricultural environment. I am 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 overall 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 2011, unemployment rate in the general population was nearly 24 per cent with youth unemployment reaching nearly 50 per cent. But as today overall unemployment has
declined to less than 20 per cent (Actually about 15 per cent in the first half of 2014 according to National Bureau of Statistics) and youth unemployment has gone down
to less than 38 per cent. Though these changes may not look as dramatic as we would wish, 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) Programme, over 180, 000 youth and women have been employed, over 10, 000 health workers (midwives, nurses and community health workers) have been employed, over 5, 000 youths have been trained through the Technical Vocational Educational Training in different skills and vocations and deployed to several industries, while 15, 000 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/ programmes

Jonathan’s government has introduced several policies and programmes that are supportive of businesses, especially local production. The pro-agric policies and
programmes are well-advertised, making it possible for a new generation of agric entrepreneurs (nagropreneurs ) to obtain loans at nine per cent 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.

The Privatisation and the deregulation policy, which Jonathan has been ‘forcefully’ implementing, has virtually transferred electric power management 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 government finally sells the transmission infrastructure. I believe the
deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector will be completed soon and the multiplier effect on the economy will be unleashed. I could go on and on.

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 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.

For me, the fight against corruption will get strong fillip when we remove the power of discretion and patronage from these sectors through privatisation and deregulation . Since we deregulated telecommunications, corruption in that sector has died and been buried. That is more effective than sending 10 Managing Directors of
NITEL to Kirikiri. Not that I am opposed to punishing the guilty, I am saying that 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 Port Harcourt 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 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 Ohuabunwa is former chairman of Nigeria Economic Summit Group.....

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=103150

Change the topic it's wrong
It should say confused. President not failed

tbaba1234:
The least awful
A former dictator is a better choice than a failed president

SOMETIMES there are no good options. Nigeria goes to the polls on February 14th to elect the next president, who will face problems so large—from rampant corruption to a jihadist insurgency—that they could break the country apart, with dire consequences for Nigerians and the world.

And yet, as Africa’s biggest economy stages its most important election since the restoration of civilian rule in 1999, and perhaps since the civil war four decades ago, Nigerians must pick between the incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan, who has proved an utter failure, and the opposition leader, Muhammadu Buhari, a former military dictator with blood on his hands (see article). The candidates stand as symbols of a broken political system that makes all Nigeria’s problems even more intractable.

Start with Mr Jonathan, whose People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has run the country since 1999 and who stumbled into the presidency on the death of his predecessor in 2010. The PDP’s reign has been a sorry one. Mr Jonathan has shown little willingness to tackle endemic corruption. When the governor of the central bank reported that $20 billion had been stolen, his reward was to be sacked.

Worse, on Mr Jonathan’s watch much of the north of the country has been in flames. About 18,000 people have died in political violence in recent years, thousands of them in January in several brutal attacks by Boko Haram, a jihadist group that claims to have established its “caliphate” in territory as large as Belgium. Another 1.5m people have fled their homes. The insurgency is far from Mr Jonathan’s southern political heartland and afflicts people more likely to vote for the opposition. He has shown little enthusiasm for tackling it, and even less competence. Quick to offer condolences to France after the attack on Charlie Hedbo, Mr Jonathan waited almost two weeks before speaking up about a Boko Haram attack that killed hundreds, perhaps thousands, of his compatriots.

The single bright spot of his rule has been Nigeria’s economy, one of the world’s fastest-growing. Yet that is largely despite the government rather than because of it, and falling oil prices will temper the boom. The prosperity has not been broadly shared: under Mr Jonathan poverty has increased. Nigerians typically die eight years younger than their poorer neighbours in nearby Ghana.

Goodbye Jonathan
Voters have ample cause to send Mr Jonathan packing. In a country where power has often changed through the barrel of a gun, the opposition All Progressives Congress has a real chance of winning through the ballot box. Yet its candidate, Mr Buhari, is an ex-general who, three decades ago, came to power in a coup. His rule was nasty, brutish and mercifully short. Declaring a “war against indiscipline”, he ordered whip-wielding soldiers to ensure that Nigerians formed orderly queues. His economics, known as Buharism, was destructive. Instead of letting the currency depreciate in the face of a trade deficit, he tried to fix prices and ban “unnecessary” imports. He expelled 700,000 migrants in the delusion that this would create jobs for Nigerians. He banned political meetings and free speech. He detained thousands, used secret tribunals and executed people for crimes that were not capital offences.

Should a former dictator with such a record be offered another chance? Surprisingly, many Nigerians think he should. One reason is that, in a country where ministers routinely wear wristwatches worth many times their annual salary, Mr Buhari is a sandal-wearing ascetic with a record of fighting corruption. Few nowadays question his commitment to democracy or expect him to turn autocratic: he has repeatedly stood for election and accepted the outcome when he lost. He would probably do a better job of running the country, and in particular of tackling Boko Haram. As a northerner and Muslim, he will have greater legitimacy among villagers whose help he will need to isolate the insurgents. As a military man, he is more likely to win the respect of a demoralised army.

We are relieved not to have a vote in this election. But were we offered one we would—with a heavy heart—choose Mr Buhari. Mr Jonathan risks presiding over Nigeria’s bloody fragmentation. If Mr Buhari can save Nigeria, history might even be kind to him.

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21642168-former-dictator-better-choice-failed-president-least-awful

You got it. They are all thieves. But. Even tho. Buhari is sttill better @ least we will be less corruupt

blackfase:
Bru that has been the violent & vicious cycle since time immemorial with Nigerian politics. They deliberately starve people of essentials of life only to run back to them with goodies and make them behave like zombies during election period. And its not just Jona alone guilty of this. Thats why I curse Nigerian politicians at the slightest opportunity i get. Evil, blood-sucking vampires, all them lot!

Why did the 'modiots' take ds to fp as if it's worthy news. Nl fp is losing its relevance. Because sm1 dint av sex for 8 yrs we should Gv testimony Abi. Tcheew