Hiploko:
clap for him everyone. Mr specific facts. So your fact tells you that the income from 5years of Jonathan's rule is bigger that Obasanjo's 8 years rule and all the leaders before Jonathan. Receive sense... Be forming mr google facts..

PAINGAIN:
why r u lying liars so pathetic? U always blame GEJ for anything bad in this administration but u r very quick to hail bihari if its something good. The future of Nigeria looks really dark if the youths are like this. Smh. Meanwhile AWW rocks.

Opinedecandid:
True.
But this is what I think could help.
Permit me to repeat my post on the 'Benue Staff Protest' thread, this morning. This, though over flocked over the years does not just seem to have earned the treatment it deserves:
"...Moreover, all parties must be prepared to make sacrifices, both the political office holders and the civil servants. If they can't get all their salaries, they have to make do with part of it.

However, It is foolish for States Chief Executives to rely on what ever allocation they are given by the Federal Government of Nigeria.
Same way, it is also foolishness for the Federal government to continue rely on the revenue from oil.

Over the years, it wasn't enough, is it now that we are 'rescued' by the dwindling oil prices that it will be enough?
Rescued in the sense that the global decline in the value of oil has presented us with a golden opportunity to start looking inwards with a view to developing several other sectors of the economy which have laid fallow, untapped and abandoned over the years.

State governors must rise up 'dakkada' and see to it that in a few years time, they won't depend on Federal Allocation.

Again, this is the reason while some of us think, all natural resources in different states should be controlled by the states that have them, then some percentage of what they generate from there would be paid to the Federal Government.

If Nigeria and indeed, Africa must be self-sufficient, then we must practice true federalism.
With this, one bleached-skin man in the name of Donald Trump or whatever, will not vomit poo about us in a century from now.

#operationlookinwards

Charliewyt:

Really, so GEJ was the president as at 1981/82?.

disloman:
All I'm seeing here are goats commenting without using their brains.This news was about 4-5months ago.Those trashonline 1st published this news and the worst newspaper(vanguard) now did.Wailers are so daft that whenever they are fed with trash,they will still take it in.What a set of trashy.

Phame:
she's comparing our economy with what it was in the 80s and she said this 5 months ago. And gej was the president then. Are you saying BUHARI should take the blame for our economic woes?

Charliewyt:

And the girls suddenly stoped missing when PMB assumed office, why did the BBOG campaign suddenly went dead?, OBY EZEKWESILI is a desperate woman that will do anything to remain relivant.

247Dior:
I really find it difficult to understand most of u here and the type of brain u people possess... this has shown that this woman is a true Nigerian who Wants de best for Nigeria.. our economy is in a very bad state and she voiced her concern and people are here commenting rubbish, this is what she did in de last administration...... Does it mean that no one should talk when things are not going well? or did the woman lie against Buhari government?

trillville:


Apart from the early 70's when Gowon built most of our infrastructure, the price of oil had never been as high as it was during the Jonathan era when adjusted for inflation. Even babangida's golf war oil windfall prices weren't this high.

Jonathan was the worst president Nigeria has ever had. Madam iweala knew that the price of oil was going to fall as far back as 2012, yet rather than saving money and allowing our currency to appreciate during the good times, Jonathan's administration spent on bogus programs that yielded next to nothing for Nigeria. Pdp's insistence on government having no business with business blinded jonathan from investing directly in power and technology infrastructure.

Obasanjo had a fraction of Jonathan's income, yet Obasanjo grew our external reserves and our excess crude account. Our currency appreciated from 145 Naira to the dollar to 118 Naira to a dollar between 2004 and 2007.

Why do you think all the major politicians decided to support Buhari in the last election? They could see clearly the long term damage Jonathan's actions had already brought upon Nigeria.


Ps. I have given specific facts with numbers. You can use google to research and verify what I have said if you have the free time.

porka:


[size=13pt]Have things improve since then?[/size]

Hiploko:
[s]clap for him everyone. Mr specific facts. So your fact tells you that the income from 5years of Jonathan's rule is bigger that Obasanjo's 8 years rule and all the leaders before Jonathan. Receive sense... Be forming mr google facts..[/s]

ERAKAMUS:
[s]You only got three 3 likes with this Junk mehn! Emancipate yasef[/s]

favourlove1:
[s]shut the Bleep up! U should cover ur head in shame to have fallen victim with your two eyes open to all d lies apc peddled against gej just to usurp power. Now they have it n knws not what to do with it. Gej workd with d best hands eg NGO else she would have been jobless by now. Oyibo sees in her what all of you couldn't see in her. N you all knw oyibo wouldn't reabsorb her if she wasn't competent. Mind you, going back to history Gej hasn't isn't n wount b the reason ur economy nose dived. Go n read[/s]. My problem with youths these days is that they would rather spend the whole day on twitter facebook etc than read a good history book. [s]I am sure ur type dosnt knw how to recite d nations pledge. SMH[/s]

Standing5:
this has nothing to do with BBOG. Jonas' level of clue was an all round thing and so affected security,economy, health, education and more. How are we even surviving if during Jona's time oil sold $100/barrel and we had well over 60% reccurent bills. How are we even able to pay those bills at $45/barrel? Think and realise Buhari is already working. Stop being bitter.

trillville:


http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/Historical_Oil_Prices_Chart.asp
http://www.statista.com/statistics/262858/change-in-opec-crude-oil-prices-since-1960/

Please analyse the two charts by yourself and check out the websites where the charts were gotten from.

soldierdollar:


If you can't say one single thing Buhari has achieved or one positive move he has made since he assumed office , shut up forever

It irritates me when people always use gej ( a past government) as a benchmark in assessing the current administration. Have we set our standards too low that we now use the failure of the last administration to contrast the present one ?

Tufiakwa for this country

biafranqueen:
During that same time Governors like Amaechi benefited from the windfall but you still want him to be a Minister right? Where is the money he and Fashola your new Ministers received show us the projects. So GEJ did or did not spread that money to the states?

kaboninc:


You talk about the revenues but forgot about the expenditures.

Your revenues increased but how about your expenditures? Did they increase also? If they did, what was the rate of increase on a yearly basis? What was the revenue/expenditure ratio? What was the ratio of recurrent to capital expenditures? What was the performance level of the budget? These are the things you look out for.

This is why I stay away from commenting on Nairaland.

kaboninc:


How did you know that the last administration was a failure? What was your scheme?