Tuesday, 21 May 2013
President Jonathan’s Media Chat And The Plume Of Hopelessness By Leonard Karshima Shilgba
President Jonathan at the media chat today
By Leonard Karshima Shilgba
One of the responsibilities of a president is to inspire their citizens, to give them a reason to look forward to a better life. I watched the presidential media chat on Sunday, November 18, 2012, expecting to get answers from my president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan on certain national problems. I came away without answers. I was saddened the more that my president provided nothing refreshing on the menu. It was a disappointing episode of self-confession of incompetence and helplessness. In fact, it would be true to characterize Jonathan’s answers to pointed questions, particularly from the Editors of the Guardian and Sunday Mirror newspapers, as evasive and rambling, a presidential lamentation.
The president’s answers are a good example of what a president should not say. A president must at least give the citizens a reason to have confidence in his abilities through presentation of clear bullet point solutions that he has for specific problems. He is not only to acknowledge that there are problems, but he should provide his solutions to those problems. He should have confidence in those solutions, and be courageous to make them open to public scrutiny. He is NEVER (I emphasize this word) expected to tell his people why it is difficult to implement a law or an act of the national assembly; rather he should tell steps he has taken or is taking to implement those. If a president laments and stops at that, what should the people do?
EDUCATION:
The Editor of the Guardian newspapers, Mr Martins Oloja, asked what the president was doing to correct the disappointing rating of Nigerian universities. President Jonathan responded by painting a more disappointing scenario, and concluded that state governors should also be shown the report of a committee he had set up to compile a report on the state of both federal and state universities. That’s it! Did the president offer any solutions? He offered none! Any defence for Nigeria’s rating? President Jonathan said that he noticed that there were quite a number of countries in the world whose universities were not well ranked either!
Nigeria deserves better. In 2010, in my article titled, Goodluck Jonathan: Luck is not Enough, I wrote: “If I stood before the unapproachable throne of the Almighty and He asked me to choose one item from the list—Luck, Strength, Courage, Understanding, and Grace, I would definitely not choose Luck. Let me tell you why. There is an illusion that comes with luck right unto the doorsteps of a man’s soul. Luck creates an illusion of achievement where there is no labour. Luck disarms a man of the necessary barometer of self-assessment; it darkens the thin veil that shields human faults. You have not arrived on the wings of luck; rather the journey has just started when luck pushes you unto the dais which is only fit for those who have tasted both the bitter pill of defeat and the sweet wine of success. Luck carries with it the burden of responsibility, to prove yourself to those who hold the consensus that you are undeserving.
Luck does not qualify a man for leadership; it questions his ability to lead. Luck does not necessarily come with excellence; it makes you the cynosure of prying eyes, coloured with the question, ‘Can you excel; can you distinguish yourself now?’ The burden of leadership cannot be borne by those who never prepared for the opportunity. Truly, if you did not prepare for an opportunity before it came, you might waste it. Luck could be a wonderful thing, but that is if you prepared for it. The winds must have blown in your direction the suspicion that the opportunity was coming. That nudge that whispers the question: ‘What if...?’ must be unmistaken.” I am more convinced of the rectitude of those words now!
On Monetization Law:
The president was asked by the Guardian editor why his government was not implementing the monetization policy without formally taking steps to put it aside. Mr Oloja cited two examples how the official houses of the senate president and speaker of the house of representatives were bought by those public officers and yet Jonathan’s government permitted new budget votes to build new official quarters for the current holders of these offices, which votes the current officers claim are not sufficient. Jonathan replied by saying that the policy “is good in theory” but difficult to implement. He gives an example of a government project supervisor who needs an official vehicle to supervise public projects. To him, that justifies the abuse of public office that the monetization policy sought to correct, which resulted in improvement in capital expenditures above recurrent expenditures. This beats me! Do you remember when during the Yar’Adua-Jonathan government, they started chipping away at the cornerstone of the monetization policy, first with buying a “pool of vehicles”, which was contrary to the Certain Political, Public And Judicial Office Holders (Salaries And Allowances, etc.), Act 2002? Because Nigerians kept quiet President Jonathan has come out boldly to declare that an act of the national assembly cannot be implemented. The growing cost of running government, with expanded number of ministries post 2007, increased number of cabinet-level ministers, surging numbers of assistants, special assistants, advisers, senior advisors, etc., and the concomitant over-bloated overhead costs all combine to shoot up recurrent expenditures of the Nigerian government under President Jonathan. And he spoke in a cavalier manner about this.
When you heard of N 480 billion statutory transfers in the 2013 budget proposal of the Jonathan government, know that this is because of the negligence of the act I have referred to above and the breach of the monetization policy, which makes beneficiaries of such transfers (the national assembly, judiciary, and commissions recognized by the constitution) to take scandalous sums of money, yet producing nothing or little in return. Who can check this abuse when the legislature and judiciary in Nigeria collaborate with the executive to waste our commonwealth? If Nigerians will not collaborate, in spite of their mutual suspicions, and work together to enlighten the uninformed about the extravagance and lack of good conscience of the ruling party, and stir them against supporting the party, only a violent overthrow shall redeem this nation if it will not violently come crashing down.
When reminded by the editor of the Sunday Mirror, Gbemi Olujobi how Nigerians were fascinated by the personal story of his humble background, and voted for him, only to be disappointed by the extravagant lifestyle of his government, epitomized by lavish expenditures on feeding by the presidency, Mr Jonathan responded by naively saying that, “I eat only twice a day.” How did Nigerians get for themselves such a president who fails to understand simple question? He surprised probably not a few when he claimed ignorance of how much the presidency spends on food and drinks! That nails it. Our president is not leading; he has surrendered governance to those Nigerians did not vote to be their president. President Jonathan, shamelessly went on to say that, “Nigeria is an important country,” implying the expenditures on food and drinks that some folks are complaining about are none issues.
Halliburton scam:
When asked why his government was prevaricating about trying culprits entangled in the Halliburton bribery scandal, Jonathan used an old and stale line, “It is better to let criminals go free than to punish one innocent fellow.” This is an incongruous dictum adoption. The fact is that Nigeria does not have a government that is ready to punish rogues; and when punishment against evil is delayed, men do not learn to do right. President Jonathan would need decades to sort out the “innocent” from criminals before taking the Halliburton scandal criminals to court. In my article, “A Lessons on power for Dr Goodluck Jonathan” (2010), I wrote about the president: “One obvious mistake Dr Jonathan has consistently made since the resolution by the National Assembly on February 9th, 2010, making him the Acting President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federation is to still think like a Vice-President. Until a man changes both the content and construction of his mind upon the thrust into the limelight of power his efficacy in the new role will be mediocre. Until Dr Jonathan re-creates himself, he shall remain insipid, boring, and of no positive effect whatsoever to the exigencies of the time. My reading is that Dr Jonathan is scared of many Ministers of the Federation and certain individuals whom he considers ‘very powerful.’ You cannot be an effective leader when you are afraid of the people over whom you should preside.”
Security
President Jonathan was asked why he did not care to visit the troubled region of Nigeria (North Eastern states such as Borno and Yobe, which have been hard hit by Boko Haram). He rather spent time talking about some incidental reference to the Odi raid of 2000. He provided no answer for his failure to visit Nigerians in Borno and Yobe states who don’t feel they have a president who cares; neither did he provide hope about resolving the security challenges of Nigeria.
On electricity power supply in Nigeria, I guess you have read how the Jonathan government has promised to grant tax holiday to manufacturers that can generate their electricity! Do you know the implication? The leadership failure of Jonathan’s government will lead to loss of tax revenue because of this holiday. You may have noticed that in some parts of Nigeria (I say this advisedly because I don’t know where you are reading this article from) electricity supply has deteriorated in the past few weeks since the exit of Professor Barth Nnaji. The president promised during the media chat that he would fix the electricity problem and the Benin-Ore road (on which one of his ministers shed tears about two years ago). This statement was made in response to a comment by a Nigerian viewer who had tweeted that if President Jonathan could fix the road and electricity problem of Nigeria, he would become a great Nigerian president. I would wish for Jonathan to become a great Nigerian president. But he cannot become one without showing a good knowledge and understanding of what our problems are, without having the will to tackle them without fear, and without a sense of urgency that Nigerians expect of him. His answers were uninspiring. He did not speak to the fears and discouragement of Nigerians. He failed to show he was on the side of the people. Jonathan has lost (if at all he had it in the first place) any moral authority to engage the national assembly on their excesses, for they bear the same kind of spots. The Nigerian judiciary is openly corrupt (Jonathan was reminded during the chat about the latest rating of Nigeria as the second most corrupt country); anarchy has set in the land. The presidential media chat was a reminder to Nigerians that they should be ready to suffer all kinds of indignities and torments for the next two and half years. The three arms of government have collaborated to oppress Nigerians. Now they govern by “committees”. The president spoke quite a bit about committees he has set up, and how ignorant Nigerians are for not noticing when he is implementing the recommendations of those committees. Well, I know that committees have never been helpful, at least in my adult days in Nigeria. When a matter has been handed over to a “committee”, it is only a euphemistic expression of taking it off the public menu of engagement.
Every nation that practices governance through elected representatives must define so clearly what democracy should mean to its people. Such definition comes in form of rituals that distinguish it from other nations. The ability to invent forms of governance that are specific, meaningful, acceptable to the majority of the people, realistic, and time-bound sets a nation apart as intelligent in its conduct. A nation consists of people who have agreed to live and interact together on the basis of laws, not necessarily given by a divine being, but given by the people to themselves in the form of a constitution. And if the people have given to themselves a constitution, it is then a given that such a constitution should not be injurious to their interest, not be restrictive on their aspiration, and not vitiate provisions that are generous to them through some other clauses in the same constitution. Is this the best we can afford for ourselves? Is this the best president we can have for ourselves? Is this the best legislature or judiciary Nigerians are deserving of? The president said that, “PDP is the party to beat.” If this is true then I don’t know Nigerians; they must be truly a queer group.
Leonard Karshima Shilgba is an Associate Professor of Mathematics with the American University of Nigeria (www.aun.edu.ng ) and chairman of the Middle Belt Alliance (www.middlebeltalliance.org )
TEL: +234 (0) 8055024356 EMAIL: shilgba@middlebeltalliance.org
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Awwalu Mohammed, Pray, why is
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 22:59.
Awwalu Mohammed,
Pray, why is the food budget for agencies under the presidency so huge; are their staffs paid in food?
President by luck
Submitted by Tamuno Ebire (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 21:36.
We all know that Jonathan has no capacity to lead even an LGA innovatively and successfully.his only credentials were tribal and religious sentiments that guided his ( s/election) . He had the treasury and the police and media and the pentacostal churches were ready for the largesse ( one more jet donated to the 2 weeks ago to the conman pastor mentioned in the above article). We expect nothin from him as you can see from the media chat. The president that comes after him will have a herculian task of rebuilding trust and rebuilding the country- that is assuming we learnt our lesson and elected a capable person and presidential material.
B] Basic qualities of leadership - Forward-looking (3)
Submitted by Elmango Meat (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 21:33.
"Funds to tackle the Zamfara lead poisoning crisis – with a specific focus on the remediation of Bagega village – were promised by the Nigerian President in May 2012, but have still not been released by the Secretary of the Government of the Federation."
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/time-running-out-zamfara-state-lead-...
WHY Mr. Goodluck?
B] Basic qualities of leadership - Forward-looking (2)
Submitted by Elmango Meat (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 21:32.
UNICEF Nigeria Monthly Report, July 2012 is dire:
a)"A total of 19,897 new cases of children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) have been treated in June in the 378 Community Management of Acute Malnutrition sites."
http://reliefweb.int/report/nigeria/unicef-nigeria-monthly-situation-rep...
Contrast that with GEJ's feeding budget and comment “I eat only twice a day.”
b) Zamfara Lead Poisoning progress report; warns that time is running out - Calls on President to intervene to save Bagega village
Médecins sans Frontières (MSF).. warns that time is running out to solve the Zamfara crisis in Nigeria. In a progress report, the medical humanitarian organisation which has been treating lead poisoned children since the start of the crisis, finds that very little action has been taken on any of the agreed action points from the Conference.
B] Basic qualities of leadership - Forward-looking (1)
Submitted by Elmango Meat (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 21:28.
I previously said "..qualities of leadership are:- Honesty, Forward-Looking,..Intelligence."
I touched on honesty previously.
Forward- looking-
In 2008, UNICEF State of the World's Children Report said:
"NIGERIA is among 12 countries in the world reporting the highest under-five mortality rate among children,...
Dr. Robert Limlim, painted a gloomy picture of children health profile in Nigeria "in more concrete terms, more than one million children under five years of age die annually in this country."
"Nearly a third of the children under five are underweight. Half of the population does not have access to improved drinking water sources. The incidence of polio has reached such proportion today that urgent and drastic measures have to be taken if Nigeria must interrupt transmission by next year."
On Survival of Children: "It must be our top priority for the coming years."
What have GEJ & Minister of Health done since then?
Fisherman
Submitted by gerd meuer (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 21:20.
I like did
Julius BEGGAR !
'cos, as Okey Ndibe said:
"Germany will soon be Nigeria's
37th staten ..."
you get me !!!
and therefore Mrs. Umblella will soon be flown to Wiesbaden again,
where their HQ is.
did you get me ???
and: Basta!
Prof-of-penkele-bastas
Unrealistic Expectations
Submitted by ThSilentObserver (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 21:14.
Very insightful article. It is shame that some Nigerians expected and are still expecting "earth shaking" performance - surprisingly from a PhD holder and a first for Nigeria's Presidency! If not anything, the performance of this administration has been far from impressive from the minimally educated past Presidents. While one can reasonably not expect so much from a locally trained PhD holder, the credibility of the degree is in itself very doubtful, as the President fails to exhibit any semblance of belonging to an academic community or doctoral thesis. If in doubt, who were his lecturers and his thesis - does anyone know?
SHOELESS AND CLUELESS PEOPLE
Submitted by Truth Hurts (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 20:47.
Shoeless and clueless President.
continue to chase shadows on d web until buhari loses again
Submitted by DERI (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 20:01.
What is wrong with Gej saying he eats only twice a day and that 9ja is a great nation.FOOD? After stealing over 55 trillion from the SS? Hope Shilgab is not saying we should offer garri to visitors to aso rock. D money is from our oily resources in d SS! Why cant an agent of buhari who has sold his birth right to the fulanis tormenting and murdering his ppl in Jos, understand that simple answer-even a fool would comprehend his response to the question. It simply means he is not the one consuming the food-budget on food is meant for visiting heads of state and VIPs-including individuals who visit Aso rock daily from 9ja-I really do not understand why such a question should even arise-cause the budget also covers the entire staffers working in aso rock-as well as soldiers, security agents who protect the president 24hrs a day-Again the food contractors are not Ijaws-they are fulanis, ibos and yorubas-animals
9ja is not a nation-Awo-and d tripod stole 55 trillion from d SS
Submitted by Deri (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 19:59.
What is wrong with Gej saying he eats only twice a day and that 9ja is a great nation.FOOD? After stealing over 55 trillion from the SS? Hope Shilgab is not saying we should offer garri to visitors to aso rock. D money is from our oily resources in d SS! Why cant an agent of buhari who has sold his birth right to the fulanis tormenting and murdering his ppl in Jos, understand that simple answer-even a fool would comprehend his response to the question. It simply means he is not the one consuming the food-budget on food is meant for visiting heads of state and VIPs-including individuals who visit Aso rock daily from 9ja-I really do not understand why such a question should even arise-cause the budget also covers the entire staffers working in aso rock-as well as soldiers, security agents who protect the president 24hrs a day-Again the food contractors are not Ijaws-they are fulanis, ibos and yorubas-animals
I Am Shocked That You Guys Watched/Listened ...
Submitted by Uche J (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 19:56.
I am shocked that you guys watched and listened to this one dimensional, absolutely uninspiring, waffler called president jonathan.
Where you expecting a politically/socially/oratorially born again GEJ?
Anyway, I am lucky (not goodluck), I had premier league football to fill the gap.
SHILGBA USE YR EDUCATION TO LIBERATE JOS FROM FULANIS
Submitted by DERI (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 19:36.
Why should any sane 9ja be shocked at the watery article Shildgba wrote to satisfy his employer-Alhaji Atiku here!? Does Shilgba a university don, not know it was Buhari who killed University education when he re-introduced tuition fees via the promting of the IMF and WB? The monitization policy intiated by OBJ and Atiku via the brain of soludo and Nogozi was what led to the sale of houses built for civil servants in Abuja-including the sale of our embassies in New York-properties in London-legislators quaters in Apo village! The purchase of Atikus guest house by El Rufai. 90% of these properties were bought by the theiving wazobians in 9ja-Balewa said in 1948 that(Since 1914 the Brits has been trying to make 9ja into one nation! but d 9ja ppl themselves are historically different in their background, religious belief and customs and do not show themselves any signs of willings to unite)
what has changed since Nzeogwu 66? Time to split
Submitted by DERI (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 19:35.
Why should any sane 9ja be shocked at the watery article Shildgba wrote to satisfy his employer-Alhaji Atiku here!? Does Shilgba a university don, not know it was Buhari who killed University education when he re-introduced tuition fees via the promting of the IMF and WB? The monitization policy intiated by OBJ and Atiku via the brain of soludo and Nogozi was what led to the sale of houses built for civil servants in Abuja-including the sale of our embassies in New York-properties in London-legislators quaters in Apo village! The purchase of Atikus guest house by El Rufai. 90% of these properties were bought by the theiving wazobians in 9ja-Balewa said in 1948 that(Since 1914 the Brits has been trying to make 9ja into one nation! but d 9ja ppl themselves are historically different in their background, religious belief and customs and do not show themselves any signs of willings to unite)
The President
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 18:24.
Mr lecturer, Is your boss better than the president you are abusing? I can understand your natural hatred for the president. Your boss was terribly defeated by Mr president right? I can still remember that egocentric and stupid speech made by your boss during the PDP primary. I thought he does not have egg brain like you to give him a better speech to deliver? Nay, I can see the type of speech that your type presented to Atiku. Your plan has failed. Watch and see what the president will do. He will get Nigeria fixed up and your like will bow down your head in shame.
The best solution is to bar Jonathan from so-called second term!
Submitted by Danboyi Gomsuk (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 18:00.
No doubt, Jonathan is an abysmal failure! Even his people, friends and admirers know this. Nigerians made the mistake of voting him in 2011. I consider that a human error. However, it would be the an unpardonable and heinous act for Nigerians to allow Jonathan to come back again in 2015! Even if his party props him up, ALL Nigerians MUST resist it or collectively support somebody from another party and make sure their votes are not stolen. Jonathan coming back again would be an incalculable disaster for the nation. He is just a misfit in everything. I blame Obasanjo who mischievously appointed him to team up with the ailing Yar'Adua in 2007. OBJ must have identified Jonathan from interactions at the Governors Meeting and must have seen that then Gov. Jonathan was just a misfit.
shame
Submitted by donmams (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 15:45.
those who voted for this clown should hold their heads in shame
Comic relief
Submitted by Olugu Olugu Orji (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 15:35.
These days, I only listen to the President when I want to unwind and have a good laugh. The last so-called media chat was no different. The only person I truly felt sorry for was Guardian's Martin Oloja
Response
Submitted by Fatrick (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 15:26.
Sunda Njokede, i'm 100% sure that you are a BLACK SHEEP in your family. did you know the people that were involved in the Halliburton scandal you are mentioning here? Was president Goodluck Jonathan in anyway involved in the matter?
Again, when does the Julius Berger (not BEGGAR as you wrote)become a condition for nay leader to travel to the US?
You don't mention the name of the President in any infamous issue. It may interest you to note that appropriate authorities are handling the issue at a level that is too advanced for a myopic mind, like yours to comprehend.
Incisive article. The problem
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 15:24.
Incisive article. The problem with Nigeria is that every Nigerian knows what are problems are except our politicians in and around the corridor of power. Clueless and visionless political jobbers calling themselves leaders.
Karshima's Hopeless piece
Submitted by Awwalu Mohammed (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 14:24.
Your take on food allowance is rather childish. You faulted the president's response when he said i eat twice a day. Truth is myopic writers like you have misled the public on the issue of food allowance. Are you aware there are parastatals under the presidency? But what a gullible mind believes is, the amount budgeted is for Jonathan, Sambo and their families. Even an idiot knows thats impossible. You said bcos of his response to Halliburton he wasnt ready to fight corruption. How? Are we forgetting due process, are we forgettin what is happening to subsidy thives and that Jonathan has asked another committee to look at Ribadu report and brief him in 2 weeks. You faulted him bcos he has not visyed Borno and Yobe over Boko Haram. laughable. How does that tackle the problem. you refused to look at the success of JTF. You also faulted the proposed tax holiday for manufacturers who generate own power. Is this a wrong policy>?
Goodluck recent media chat
Submitted by Agboola Olatunji (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 14:09.
The chat is a huge disappointment just like the President is. The man does not seem to be in control of himself and the Nigerian nation. Honestly, I am of the opinion that Nigeria is ripe for revolution. I wish also want to advise that Jonathan is not the problem but just a part of it. The real problem is PDP with its umbrella of evil over Nigeria. To appreciate this please check the names of the big thieves in the oil,power,and other industries in Nigeria you will discover that they are members, or friends, children and wives, of PDP.
Reply
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 14:06.
The Law did not mandate the President to declear his asset twice. he had decleared his asset once and needed not to do that again. When you say for not declearing his a BOKO HARAM is senceless. You must first understand what BOKO HARAM is. you dont just give some one names because you dont like that person.
Goodluck recent media chat
Submitted by Agboola Olatunji (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 14:03.
The chat is a huge disappointment just like the President is. The man does not seem to be in control of himself and the Nigerian nation. Honestly, I am of the opinion that Nigeria is ripe for revolution. I wish also want to advise that Jonathan is not the problem but just a part of it. The real problem is PDP with its umbrella of evil over Nigeria. To appreciate this please check the names of the big thieves in the oil,power,and other industries in Nigeria you will discover that they are members, or friends, children and wives, of PDP.
Crime Dollar
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 13:59.
Sunday, it is shame how we raect to national issues. Check your use of words, very pedeatrian. For all we care you have no idea what governance is all about. You have no idea what this administration inherited and how far it has gone. No one is saying this Government has done brilliantly well but if we look at where we are coming from and the number of months he has been there we would be more objective. Just like the rot Obama inherited, unless he is magician he cannot accomplish much in 4 years. You talked about asset declaration is that what will put food on my table? we should talk about more productive issues like agriculture, employment, corruption. And i think this administration has done a lot in these areas. The graduate scheme is one of them. check how the administration wants to use the Kalu, Ribadu reports to fix the oil sector. subsidy thives, for the first time have been exposed.
President Goodluck Jonathan
Submitted by En (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 13:50.
President Goodluck Jonathan is a curse on the nation of Nigeria. God have mercy! The guy, a PHd holder, is an indication that Nigeria is at its lowest ebb. His comments were not flowing and he was so unconvincing that my 8 year old son would have done better than him. Nigeria can do better! After listening to this guy's ramblings, we can only pray that Nigeria is rescued from this mediocre of a person as our President.
JJC
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 12:42.
GEJ is a coconut head,all the schools ha claimed to have attended,he passed through them,but they never pass through him.His ?Phd should be investigated.Sorry for you Nigerians for having a clueless clown as a ruler.
Jonathan is the worst
Submitted by Sanusi Saheed Olakunle (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 12:12.
Jonathan is the worst President Nigeria have ever voted for in recent time.He has never done any thing right since he was in aso rock.Let Nigeria begin to warm up for 2015and we should learn to be patience and sacrifice till then.
On President Jonathan
Submitted by Kibaki (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 11:58.
Mr Shilgba, please take comfort by accepting that this is all a learning process for all of us. We're learning the vital lesson of, how not to vote. Nigerians are just now realizing that they would be held accountable for, and be bound by the decision they make. Until we realize this important natural law, we would continue to engage in error and foolishness. Even now, some people still can't see that Jonathan wasn't a wise choice. A lot of them would rather be dead than to have voted Buhari.
EDUCATION: FED GOVT, GIVE IMO STATE A NEW FEDERAL UNIVERSITY.
Submitted by Aike Okorie (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 11:51.
Nearly half the number of qualified candidates for university education from Imo state cannot get places these days. They now sit at home. A new federal university is needed for these people in Imo state. Over-congestion is the word in the capital city where FUTO is. Please let the federal government of Nigeria provide education facilities for its citizens in Imo state without further delay. Imo state government alone cannot bear the brunt of providing these facilities.
The way out is to kick him out!
Submitted by Ernesto "Che" Guevara (not verified) on November 19, 2012 - 11:09.
The way out is to kick him out before or by 2015! He won't get better.Things will only get worse with him incharge.
