A friend e-mailed this material on GOOGLE to me, in which case a few more persons must have received or would receive the same mail, in no distant time. The section on aviation appears correct and because I see the said trains and constant rail work in progress at the Yaba-Ikeja-Agege axis I tend to agree that some progress has been recorded there. On the authors opinions on the slave trade, which is neither a plus nor a minus to GEJs works I find that the author has either a limited or jaundiced knowledge of who and what provided slaves in Nigeria for the European Slave merchants. I have posted the mail sent me 1) to enable me verify the contents because I am certain comments from informed persons would facilitate a reasonable cross-channel in less than 48 hours 2) to help chart a new course as opposed to what I read from newspapers, hear over the airwaves, see on TV and read with disgust on Facebook namely GMB has no CERFITICATE, GEJ has no clue. I am grateful to the fellow that mailed me the notes on GEJ and very much wish someone could do something similar for GMB and in-house me or post it openly on Facebook. Only a few days ago a beautiful person sis Marathon declared being tired of the barrage of offensive thrash churned out as campaign material by educated people on Facebook on both sides by GEJ & GMB sympathizers. This to me is a new direction and you are invited to comment and do one for God. Now read on ____________________________________________________________________ RE: GEJ Job Performance Date: Jan-06-2015oo The following is a Vanguard published commentary, some of which I have read from more authoritative sources and, others I am yet to verify. The true picture of GEJ performance in office only now seem to be trickling into public awareness. If most of the items outlined below are true, GEJ will end up as one of the greatest president Nigeria has ever had after his prospective term of office ends in 20198. Read more and give your feedback. Ben Chux · Top Commenter Here are some of the achievements of GEJ. Those who are smart enough can verify these. If OBJ had given attention to all these projects, GEJ would be doing something else. Could anyone tell us what OBJ achieved in 8 years. GEJs achievements: 1. 125 Almajiri Schools in 13 Northern States(No northern govt. ever deemed it fit to educate the so called rejects of their society till GEJ came on the scene, even Buhari) 2. 27 Special girls school 3. 12 New Federal Universities 4. 34 new NCE awarding institutions 5. 101 Presidential Special Scholarship for Innovation and development 6. 10 Million increase in Basic education enrollment (UBEC) 7. 75% Increase in OLevel credit pass in Math and English 8. 100 Innovation Enterprise Institutions licensed 9. 7000 lecturers sponsored for post graduate studies home and abroad 10. 51 Polytechnic laboratories rehabilitated 11. Doubled increase on Education allocation 12. 104 candidates scaled the final hurdle (First Class Graduates) for Presidential scholarship award and were asked to apply to study in any of the top 25 universities in the world approved for the scheme for their Phd. LIST OF GEJ Universities: 1] Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State. —North Central. 2] Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State. ——-North Central. 3] Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State.– North East. 4] Federal University, Wakari, Taraba State. —-North East. 5] Federal University, Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State.-North West. 6] Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State.——-North West. 7] Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State. —South South. 8] Federal University, Ndufe-Alike, Ebonyi State.-South East. 9] Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State.——-South West. 10) Federal University of Oil and Gas, Bonny, Rivers State - South South ROADS: The following roads are either reconstructed of nearing completion: 1. Apapa - Oshodi Expressway 2. Benin-Ore-Sgagamu Highway 3.Enugu-Portharcourt Dual carriage way 4. East-West Road The following roads are undergoing dualisation: 1. Kano - Maiduguri Road 2. Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja-Benin Road The following is fully done: Oweto Bridge across River Benue The Following Roads are fully done: 1. Onitsha-Owerri Road 2. Vom-Manchok Road 3. Onitsha Head Bridge-Flyover (Ojukwu Gateway) to Upper Iweka road which Gov Obi repaired and got federal refund The following roads are under construction or reconstruction: 1. Onitsha - Enugu Road 2. Lokoja - Benin Road 3. Lagos-Ibadan Expressway 4. Mokwa-Bida Road 5. Akure-Ilesha Road 6. East-West Road 7. Sokoto-Tambuwal-Jega Road 8. Enugu- Abakaliki- Cross River Road 9. Ogoja - Ikom Road 10. Vandekiya-Obudu Road He might not have started some of them but he is ensuring that work is going on (eg East-West Road) BRIDGE The second Niger bridge which previous governments played endless politics with was concessioned to Juluis Berger and early works have commenced. ELECTIONS No governorship election conducted under Jonathan administration has been cancelled or deemed fraudulent by any court of law. Elections may not be yet perfect but at least results mostly reflect the wishes of the people. No political prisoner anywhere in Nigeria under GEJ admninistration. AVIATION: 1. National Aviation Master plan and Road map was developed and is being implemented 2. Air Safety - INSTALLATION of cutting age navigational aids and Instruments Landing Systems, including runway lights and Total Radar Coverage (TRACON) 3. Airport Infrastructure - For the first time in three decades, ALL 22 federally owned airports are being remodeled and renovated 4. Cargo Airport - 16 airports close to nations food baskets designed to transport perishables. 5. New Terminal for 5 International Airports at Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano and Enugu. 6. Certification - US Category 1 Certification attained. INDUSTIRES: 1. Under GEJ, Nigeria has two automobile industries manufacturing vehicles, Innoson in Nnewi, Hyundai, Kia and Nissan in Lagos. Toyota to start assembling cars in early 2015. 2. Nigeria exports cement and rice.Prices of food have remained relatively stable for 2 years now. HOUSING: 1. Mortgage - The Nigerian Mortgage Refinancing Corporation was set up to enable 200,000 affordable mortgages within 5 years at affordable interest rate. Over 324 such housing units were recently commissioned in Enugu this July. 2. Over 61,000 housing units have been built in six geographical zones. LIFE Life expetancy under GEJ improved from 47 years in 2010 to 52 years in 2014 (UN) CORRUPTION According to the report released on December 3, 2014, Nigeria scored 27 out of out of a maximum 100 marks to clinch 136th position out of the 175 countries surveyed. This means that Nigeria has ‘improved’ by eight points against its 2013 rating as 144th out of 175 countries. A statement issued from the Berlin office of Transparency International shows that more than two-thirds or over 75 percent of the 175 countries surveyed this year scored below 50, on a scale from 0. Countries within the 0-50 range are perceived to be strikingly corrupt. RAIL TRANSPORT: Over 15 years, Rail transport had been comatose and deserted. It took GEJ less than 2 years to put it back on track and commissioned 6 New Air-condition Trains in Lagos last. 1. Lagos-Kano Rail (functional) 2. Kano-Maiduguri,under construction 3. Lagos-Portharcourt (under construction) 4. Kaduna-Abuja - Almost completed, to begin operation in first quarter of 2015 5. Lagos-Oshogbo line fully operational. 6. Port Harcourt-Aba-Umuahia-Enugu fully operational from December 2015. Intra PH rail system fully operational. 7.Rigachikun-Kaduna-Taunin Kura rail line fully operational. Under construction: 1. Abuja axis - to begin operation in Dec. 2014 3. Port-Aba-Uyo-Calabar under construction. Kano/ Dai/Jimbia an approximate distance of 354KM, Ilela/Sokoto/Jega / Kontagora, 408km, Aba/ Ikot Ekpene/ Itu/ Uyo / Odukpani/Calabar, covering a total distance of 340km, Kano/ Nguru/ Geshua/ Damaturu/ Maiduguri/ Gamburu Ngala, covering 707 Km, Calabar/ Ikom/ Obudu/ Ogoja/ Katsina Ala/ Wukari/ Jalingo/Yola/ Maiduguri, 1669km. The last of the corridor is the rail line from Port Harcourt/ Aba/ Umuahia/ Enugu/ Lafia/ Jos/ Bauchi/ Biu/ Maidiguri, 550km POWER: Privatised PHCN and Power Generating Plants undergoing constructions in different states. 37 large dams completed nationwide, 10 dams rehabilitaed and 49 dams being built nationwide. Economy: Nigerian economy was rebased and became biggest economy in Africa, overtaking South Africa. Previous leaders didnt see the need to do this. Single digit inflation and sustained growth in economy. Nigerias economy is the 26th largest in the world. In 2013, IMF classified Nigeria as a Middle Income Nation from the Low Income Nation it had been all the while. IMF also said that hunger has reduced in Nigeria under Jonathan from 16% to 14.1%. KPMG also listed Nigerias interstate High Speed Rail project as one of the world’s top 100 infrastructure projects. The rail system which is currently under construction would connect all states of Nigeria to one another. Economic growth has been at a constant minimum of 6%per annum in the lsat 3 years Agriculture has grown considerably, Nigeria imports less food and produces more than enough for export. The airports now wear new looks unlike before when they looked like Oshodi bus stop of the OBJ era. Elections are now free and fair and no snatching of ballot boxes. Some horribly sentimental people would not do the needful which is to try to verify these things, they would still continue on their hateful trajectory. Whether or not GEJ is eloquently engaging; whether or not he uses forceful method of implementing his agenda; and whether or not he has engaged very eloquent spokespersons to deliver his message to Nigerians; his accomplishments in office as president is outstanding relative to any of our previous leaders; also outstanding against the combined accomplishments of all of our military heads of state after Gowon; only closely rivaled by Shagari. Yet no other president has had to deal with the verbal and written abuses and insults he has endured; no other president has confronted ethnic and regional violence with care, surgical sensitivities, calmness and velvet-gloved iron grip as he has done except Yakubu Gowon who did it with false premise. It is so bewildering why Nigerian are inflicting self-damage to their own national image with so many frivolous, non-factual, over-inflated accusations and allegations of corruption which do not hold-up with very close scrutiny and investigations. Most of the people making these accusations and allegations can not provide consistent or near-accurate figures in the improprieties they indicate; some are so incompetent and do not have any idea that the entire annual national budget is less than amounts sometimes purported to be stolen or embezzled. Some of the people making these allegations can not make the distinct differences between the national budget and the gross domestic product (GDP), and that the national budget is only a small fraction of the national GDP. It is unfortunate that when Nigeria is slowly moving away from an economy that is overly dependent on oil revenues paid to the government to an economy driven by private sector enterprises, some are still eyeing government largess as their only focal interest of income. Too many Nigerians do not understand and/or can not reconcile the truth that government at all levels can not create direct employment for up 15% of its 160 million population; too many do not understand that government is limited to creating an enabling environment for economic growth leading to improved employment; and that government should be held accountable for insufficient and lack of public services at designated levels of constitutional responsibilities. This pervasive mindset in many of our fellow Nigerians is among the root cause of our ethnically driven politics, overheated political environment, religious hostility, insecurity and ethno-regional violence. Jonathan remains the better choice for the presidency of Nigeria based on best management practices of governance and, based on a holistic metric of performance supported by more progressive vision. His accomplishments brings into play one major component of our national problem which is the much needed, serious attempts to align the very high demands for public services and infrastructure against massive population growth occurring in the last three decades. Unfortunately, his efforts are limited by his constitution mandate to his federal level of authority; while a significant number of state governments have let their constituencies languish in abject poverty and despair; and so what do we do, blame GEJ for all that has gone wrong with Nigeria. The share of blame goes back to Yoruba tribal wars of late 1600 through 1700 that added fuel to the slave trade, British colonial government administrations, Yoruba internal political conflicts of the first republic, military intervention to political civil government followed with several subsequent coups, Hausa/Fulani quest in political-power hegemony, Nigerian civil war; and continues with over reliance on single-sector commodity revenue of oil and gas as the main engine of the national economy, as well as, over concentration of economic power at the federal level. It will take up to 50 more years to resolve these problems; and we not only because most British colonies have similar problems breaking out of the old model of overly subsidized government run national economies to a mixed economy consisting more of free-enterprise economy-engine driven by the private sector combined with good economic-engine-oil furnish through government provision and management of public services, public education, environmental stewardship, monetary policy, judiciary and security entities. I seriously hope that our intellectual class recognize and discuss the adverse impact of the influences of the Yoruba internal tribal struggles--between the Awolowo-group vision of national progress attained through overly subsidized government direct intervention for the benefit of the masses against the Akintola-group aggressive brand of political agitation approach in king-making--to avoid having these group philosophical hegemonic struggles supplant and dominate the true nature of the need to truthfully discuss ideas and modern approaches to move forward with national progress; because these internal tribal struggles are relics of twentieth century we should be quickly discarding as unfortunate events of our not-so-favorable past. Sincerely, Alfred Yalaju, RA Your Brother _____________________________________________________________________ RE: GEJ Job Performance Date: Jan-06-2015oo The following is a Vanguard published commentary, some of which I have read from more authoritative sources and, others I am yet to verify. The true picture of GEJ performance in office only now seem to be trickling into public awareness. If most of the items outlined below are true, GEJ will end up as one of the greatest president Nigeria has ever had after his prospective term of office ends in 20198. Read more and give your feedback. Ben Chux · Top Commenter Here are some of the achievements of GEJ. Those who are smart enough can verify these. If OBJ had given attention to all these projects, GEJ would be doing something else. Could anyone tell us what OBJ achieved in 8 years. GEJs achievements: 1. 125 Almajiri Schools in 13 Northern States(No northern govt. ever deemed it fit to educate the so called rejects of their society till GEJ came on the scene, even Buhari) 2. 27 Special girls school 3. 12 New Federal Universities 4. 34 new NCE awarding institutions 5. 101 Presidential Special Scholarship for Innovation and development 6. 10 Million increase in Basic education enrollment (UBEC) 7. 75% Increase in OLevel credit pass in Math and English 8. 100 Innovation Enterprise Institutions licensed 9. 7000 lecturers sponsored for post graduate studies home and abroad 10. 51 Polytechnic laboratories rehabilitated 11. Doubled increase on Education allocation 12. 104 candidates scaled the final hurdle (First Class Graduates) for Presidential scholarship award and were asked to apply to study in any of the top 25 universities in the world approved for the scheme for their Phd. LIST OF GEJ Universities: 1] Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State. —North Central. 2] Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State. ——-North Central. 3] Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State.– North East. 4] Federal University, Wakari, Taraba State. —-North East. 5] Federal University, Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State.-North West. 6] Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State.——-North West. 7] Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State. —South South. 8] Federal University, Ndufe-Alike, Ebonyi State.-South East. 9] Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State.——-South West. 10) Federal University of Oil and Gas, Bonny, Rivers State - South South ROADS: The following roads are either reconstructed of nearing completion: 1. Apapa - Oshodi Expressway 2. Benin-Ore-Sgagamu Highway 3.Enugu-Portharcourt Dual carriage way 4. East-West Road The following roads are undergoing dualisation: 1. Kano - Maiduguri Road 2. Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja-Benin Road The following is fully done: Oweto Bridge across River Benue The Following Roads are fully done: 1. Onitsha-Owerri Road 2. Vom-Manchok Road 3. Onitsha Head Bridge-Flyover (Ojukwu Gateway) to Upper Iweka road which Gov Obi repaired and got federal refund The following roads are under construction or reconstruction: 1. Onitsha - Enugu Road 2. Lokoja - Benin Road 3. Lagos-Ibadan Expressway 4. Mokwa-Bida Road 5. Akure-Ilesha Road 6. East-West Road 7. Sokoto-Tambuwal-Jega Road 8. Enugu- Abakaliki- Cross River Road 9. Ogoja - Ikom Road 10. Vandekiya-Obudu Road He might not have started some of them but he is ensuring that work is going on (eg East-West Road) BRIDGE The second Niger bridge which previous governments played endless politics with was concessioned to Juluis Berger and early works have commenced. ELECTIONS No governorship election conducted under Jonathan administration has been cancelled or deemed fraudulent by any court of law. Elections may not be yet perfect but at least results mostly reflect the wishes of the people. No political prisoner anywhere in Nigeria under GEJ admninistration. AVIATION: 1. National Aviation Master plan and Road map was developed and is being implemented 2. Air Safety - INSTALLATION of cutting age navigational aids and Instruments Landing Systems, including runway lights and Total Radar Coverage (TRACON) 3. Airport Infrastructure - For the first time in three decades, ALL 22 federally owned airports are being remodeled and renovated 4. Cargo Airport - 16 airports close to nations food baskets designed to transport perishables. 5. New Terminal for 5 International Airports at Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano and Enugu. 6. Certification - US Category 1 Certification attained. INDUSTIRES: 1. Under GEJ, Nigeria has two automobile industries manufacturing vehicles, Innoson in Nnewi, Hyundai, Kia and Nissan in Lagos. Toyota to start assembling cars in early 2015. 2. Nigeria exports cement and rice.Prices of food have remained relatively stable for 2 years now. HOUSING: 1. Mortgage - The Nigerian Mortgage Refinancing Corporation was set up to enable 200,000 affordable mortgages within 5 years at affordable interest rate. Over 324 such housing units were recently commissioned in Enugu this July. 2. Over 61,000 housing units have been built in six geographical zones. LIFE Life expetancy under GEJ improved from 47 years in 2010 to 52 years in 2014 (UN) CORRUPTION According to the report released on December 3, 2014, Nigeria scored 27 out of out of a maximum 100 marks to clinch 136th position out of the 175 countries surveyed. This means that Nigeria has ‘improved’ by eight points against its 2013 rating as 144th out of 175 countries. A statement issued from the Berlin office of Transparency International shows that more than two-thirds or over 75 percent of the 175 countries surveyed this year scored below 50, on a scale from 0. Countries within the 0-50 range are perceived to be strikingly corrupt. RAIL TRANSPORT: Over 15 years, Rail transport had been comatose and deserted. It took GEJ less than 2 years to put it back on track and commissioned 6 New Air-condition Trains in Lagos last. 1. Lagos-Kano Rail (functional) 2. Kano-Maiduguri,under construction 3. Lagos-Portharcourt (under construction) 4. Kaduna-Abuja - Almost completed, to begin operation in first quarter of 2015 5. Lagos-Oshogbo line fully operational. 6. Port Harcourt-Aba-Umuahia-Enugu fully operational from December 2015. Intra PH rail system fully operational. 7.Rigachikun-Kaduna-Taunin Kura rail line fully operational. Under construction: 1. Abuja axis - to begin operation in Dec. 2014 3. Port-Aba-Uyo-Calabar under construction. Kano/ Dai/Jimbia an approximate distance of 354KM, Ilela/Sokoto/Jega / Kontagora, 408km, Aba/ Ikot Ekpene/ Itu/ Uyo / Odukpani/Calabar, covering a total distance of 340km, Kano/ Nguru/ Geshua/ Damaturu/ Maiduguri/ Gamburu Ngala, covering 707 Km, Calabar/ Ikom/ Obudu/ Ogoja/ Katsina Ala/ Wukari/ Jalingo/Yola/ Maiduguri, 1669km. The last of the corridor is the rail line from Port Harcourt/ Aba/ Umuahia/ Enugu/ Lafia/ Jos/ Bauchi/ Biu/ Maidiguri, 550km POWER: Privatised PHCN and Power Generating Plants undergoing constructions in different states. 37 large dams completed nationwide, 10 dams rehabilitaed and 49 dams being built nationwide. Economy: Nigerian economy was rebased and became biggest economy in Africa, overtaking South Africa. Previous leaders didnt see the need to do this. Single digit inflation and sustained growth in economy. Nigerias economy is the 26th largest in the world. In 2013, IMF classified Nigeria as a Middle Income Nation from the Low Income Nation it had been all the while. IMF also said that hunger has reduced in Nigeria under Jonathan from 16% to 14.1%. KPMG also listed Nigerias interstate High Speed Rail project as one of the world’s top 100 infrastructure projects. The rail system which is currently under construction would connect all states of Nigeria to one another. Economic growth has been at a constant minimum of 6%per annum in the lsat 3 years Agriculture has grown considerably, Nigeria imports less food and produces more than enough for export. The airports now wear new looks unlike before when they looked like Oshodi bus stop of the OBJ era. Elections are now free and fair and no snatching of ballot boxes. Some horribly sentimental people would not do the needful which is to try to verify these things, they would still continue on their hateful trajectory. Whether or not GEJ is eloquently engaging; whether or not he uses forceful method of implementing his agenda; and whether or not he has engaged very eloquent spokespersons to deliver his message to Nigerians; his accomplishments in office as president is outstanding relative to any of our previous leaders; also outstanding against the combined accomplishments of all of our military heads of state after Gowon; only closely rivaled by Shagari. Yet no other president has had to deal with the verbal and written abuses and insults he has endured; no other president has confronted ethnic and regional violence with care, surgical sensitivities, calmness and velvet-gloved iron grip as he has done except Yakubu Gowon who did it with false premise. It is so bewildering why Nigerian are inflicting self-damage to their own national image with so many frivolous, non-factual, over-inflated accusations and allegations of corruption which do not hold-up with very close scrutiny and investigations. Most of the people making these accusations and allegations can not provide consistent or near-accurate figures in the improprieties they indicate; some are so incompetent and do not have any idea that the entire annual national budget is less than amounts sometimes purported to be stolen or embezzled. Some of the people making these allegations can not make the distinct differences between the national budget and the gross domestic product (GDP), and that the national budget is only a small fraction of the national GDP. It is unfortunate that when Nigeria is slowly moving away from an economy that is overly dependent on oil revenues paid to the government to an economy driven by private sector enterprises, some are still eyeing government largess as their only focal interest of income. Too many Nigerians do not understand and/or can not reconcile the truth that government at all levels can not create direct employment for up 15% of its 160 million population; too many do not understand that government is limited to creating an enabling environment for economic growth leading to improved employment; and that government should be held accountable for insufficient and lack of public services at designated levels of constitutional responsibilities. This pervasive mindset in many of our fellow Nigerians is among the root cause of our ethnically driven politics, overheated political environment, religious hostility, insecurity and ethno-regional violence. Jonathan remains the better choice for the presidency of Nigeria based on best management practices of governance and, based on a holistic metric of performance supported by more progressive vision. His accomplishments brings into play one major component of our national problem which is the much needed, serious attempts to align the very high demands for public services and infrastructure against massive population growth occurring in the last three decades. Unfortunately, his efforts are limited by his constitution mandate to his federal level of authority; while a significant number of state governments have let their constituencies languish in abject poverty and despair; and so what do we do, blame GEJ for all that has gone wrong with Nigeria. The share of blame goes back to Yoruba tribal wars of late 1600 through 1700 that added fuel to the slave trade, British colonial government administrations, Yoruba internal political conflicts of the first republic, military intervention to political civil government followed with several subsequent coups, Hausa/Fulani quest in political-power hegemony, Nigerian civil war; and continues with over reliance on single-sector commodity revenue of oil and gas as the main engine of the national economy, as well as, over concentration of economic power at the federal level. It will take up to 50 more years to resolve these problems; and we not only because most British colonies have similar problems breaking out of the old model of overly subsidized government run national economies to a mixed economy consisting more of free-enterprise economy-engine driven by the private sector combined with good economic-engine-oil furnish through government provision and management of public services, public education, environmental stewardship, monetary policy, judiciary and security entities. I seriously hope that our intellectual class recognize and discuss the adverse impact of the influences of the Yoruba internal tribal struggles--between the Awolowo-group vision of national progress attained through overly subsidized government direct intervention for the benefit of the masses against the Akintola-group aggressive brand of political agitation approach in king-making--to avoid having these group philosophical hegemonic struggles supplant and dominate the true nature of the need to truthfully discuss ideas and modern approaches to move forward with national progress; because these internal tribal struggles are relics of twentieth century we should be quickly discarding as unfortunate events of our not-so-favorable past. Sincerely, Alfred Yalaju, RA Your Broth RE: GEJ Job Performance Date: Jan-06-2015oo The following is a Vanguard published commentary, some of which I have read from more authoritative sources and, others I am yet to verify. The true picture of GEJ performance in office only now seem to be trickling into public awareness. If most of the items outlined below are true, GEJ will end up as one of the greatest president Nigeria has ever had after his prospective term of office ends in 20198. Read more and give your feedback. Ben Chux · Top Commenter Here are some of the achievements of GEJ. Those who are smart enough can verify these. If OBJ had given attention to all these projects, GEJ would be doing something else. Could anyone tell us what OBJ achieved in 8 years. GEJs achievements: 1. 125 Almajiri Schools in 13 Northern States(No northern govt. ever deemed it fit to educate the so called rejects of their society till GEJ came on the scene, even Buhari) 2. 27 Special girls school 3. 12 New Federal Universities 4. 34 new NCE awarding institutions 5. 101 Presidential Special Scholarship for Innovation and development 6. 10 Million increase in Basic education enrollment (UBEC) 7. 75% Increase in OLevel credit pass in Math and English 8. 100 Innovation Enterprise Institutions licensed 9. 7000 lecturers sponsored for post graduate studies home and abroad 10. 51 Polytechnic laboratories rehabilitated 11. Doubled increase on Education allocation 12. 104 candidates scaled the final hurdle (First Class Graduates) for Presidential scholarship award and were asked to apply to study in any of the top 25 universities in the world approved for the scheme for their Phd. LIST OF GEJ Universities: 1] Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State. —North Central. 2] Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State. ——-North Central. 3] Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State.– North East. 4] Federal University, Wakari, Taraba State. —-North East. 5] Federal University, Dutsin-Ma, Katsina State.-North West. 6] Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State.——-North West. 7] Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State. —South South. 8] Federal University, Ndufe-Alike, Ebonyi State.-South East. 9] Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State.——-South West. 10) Federal University of Oil and Gas, Bonny, Rivers State - South South ROADS: The following roads are either reconstructed of nearing completion: 1. Apapa - Oshodi Expressway 2. Benin-Ore-Sgagamu Highway 3.Enugu-Portharcourt Dual carriage way 4. East-West Road The following roads are undergoing dualisation: 1. Kano - Maiduguri Road 2. Abuja-Abaji-Lokoja-Benin Road The following is fully done: Oweto Bridge across River Benue The Following Roads are fully done: 1. Onitsha-Owerri Road 2. Vom-Manchok Road 3. Onitsha Head Bridge-Flyover (Ojukwu Gateway) to Upper Iweka road which Gov Obi repaired and got federal refund The following roads are under construction or reconstruction: 1. Onitsha - Enugu Road 2. Lokoja - Benin Road 3. Lagos-Ibadan Expressway 4. Mokwa-Bida Road 5. Akure-Ilesha Road 6. East-West Road 7. Sokoto-Tambuwal-Jega Road 8. Enugu- Abakaliki- Cross River Road 9. Ogoja - Ikom Road 10. Vandekiya-Obudu Road He might not have started some of them but he is ensuring that work is going on (eg East-West Road) BRIDGE The second Niger bridge which previous governments played endless politics with was concessioned to Juluis Berger and early works have commenced. ELECTIONS No governorship election conducted under Jonathan administration has been cancelled or deemed fraudulent by any court of law. Elections may not be yet perfect but at least results mostly reflect the wishes of the people. No political prisoner anywhere in Nigeria under GEJ admninistration. AVIATION: 1. National Aviation Master plan and Road map was developed and is being implemented 2. Air Safety - INSTALLATION of cutting age navigational aids and Instruments Landing Systems, including runway lights and Total Radar Coverage (TRACON) 3. Airport Infrastructure - For the first time in three decades, ALL 22 federally owned airports are being remodeled and renovated 4. Cargo Airport - 16 airports close to nations food baskets designed to transport perishables. 5. New Terminal for 5 International Airports at Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano and Enugu. 6. Certification - US Category 1 Certification attained. INDUSTIRES: 1. Under GEJ, Nigeria has two automobile industries manufacturing vehicles, Innoson in Nnewi, Hyundai, Kia and Nissan in Lagos. Toyota to start assembling cars in early 2015. 2. Nigeria exports cement and rice.Prices of food have remained relatively stable for 2 years now. HOUSING: 1. Mortgage - The Nigerian Mortgage Refinancing Corporation was set up to enable 200,000 affordable mortgages within 5 years at affordable interest rate. Over 324 such housing units were recently commissioned in Enugu this July. 2. Over 61,000 housing units have been built in six geographical zones. LIFE Life expetancy under GEJ improved from 47 years in 2010 to 52 years in 2014 (UN) CORRUPTION According to the report released on December 3, 2014, Nigeria scored 27 out of out of a maximum 100 marks to clinch 136th position out of the 175 countries surveyed. This means that Nigeria has ‘improved’ by eight points against its 2013 rating as 144th out of 175 countries. A statement issued from the Berlin office of Transparency International shows that more than two-thirds or over 75 percent of the 175 countries surveyed this year scored below 50, on a scale from 0. Countries within the 0-50 range are perceived to be strikingly corrupt. RAIL TRANSPORT: Over 15 years, Rail transport had been comatose and deserted. It took GEJ less than 2 years to put it back on track and commissioned 6 New Air-condition Trains in Lagos last. 1. Lagos-Kano Rail (functional) 2. Kano-Maiduguri,under construction 3. Lagos-Portharcourt (under construction) 4. Kaduna-Abuja - Almost completed, to begin operation in first quarter of 2015 5. Lagos-Oshogbo line fully operational. 6. Port Harcourt-Aba-Umuahia-Enugu fully operational from December 2015. Intra PH rail system fully operational. 7.Rigachikun-Kaduna-Taunin Kura rail line fully operational. Under construction: 1. Abuja axis - to begin operation in Dec. 2014 3. Port-Aba-Uyo-Calabar under construction. Kano/ Dai/Jimbia an approximate distance of 354KM, Ilela/Sokoto/Jega / Kontagora, 408km, Aba/ Ikot Ekpene/ Itu/ Uyo / Odukpani/Calabar, covering a total distance of 340km, Kano/ Nguru/ Geshua/ Damaturu/ Maiduguri/ Gamburu Ngala, covering 707 Km, Calabar/ Ikom/ Obudu/ Ogoja/ Katsina Ala/ Wukari/ Jalingo/Yola/ Maiduguri, 1669km. The last of the corridor is the rail line from Port Harcourt/ Aba/ Umuahia/ Enugu/ Lafia/ Jos/ Bauchi/ Biu/ Maidiguri, 550km POWER: Privatised PHCN and Power Generating Plants undergoing constructions in different states. 37 large dams completed nationwide, 10 dams rehabilitaed and 49 dams being built nationwide. Economy: Nigerian economy was rebased and became biggest economy in Africa, overtaking South Africa. Previous leaders didnt see the need to do this. Single digit inflation and sustained growth in economy. Nigerias economy is the 26th largest in the world. In 2013, IMF classified Nigeria as a Middle Income Nation from the Low Income Nation it had been all the while. IMF also said that hunger has reduced in Nigeria under Jonathan from 16% to 14.1%. KPMG also listed Nigerias interstate High Speed Rail project as one of the world’s top 100 infrastructure projects. The rail system which is currently under construction would connect all states of Nigeria to one another. Economic growth has been at a constant minimum of 6%per annum in the lsat 3 years Agriculture has grown considerably, Nigeria imports less food and produces more than enough for export. The airports now wear new looks unlike before when they looked like Oshodi bus stop of the OBJ era. Elections are now free and fair and no snatching of ballot boxes. Some horribly sentimental people would not do the needful which is to try to verify these things, they would still continue on their hateful trajectory. Whether or not GEJ is eloquently engaging; whether or not he uses forceful method of implementing his agenda; and whether or not he has engaged very eloquent spokespersons to deliver his message to Nigerians; his accomplishments in office as president is outstanding relative to any of our previous leaders; also outstanding against the combined accomplishments of all of our military heads of state after Gowon; only closely rivaled by Shagari. Yet no other president has had to deal with the verbal and written abuses and insults he has endured; no other president has confronted ethnic and regional violence with care, surgical sensitivities, calmness and velvet-gloved iron grip as he has done except Yakubu Gowon who did it with false premise. It is so bewildering why Nigerian are inflicting self-damage to their own national image with so many frivolous, non-factual, over-inflated accusations and allegations of corruption which do not hold-up with very close scrutiny and investigations. Most of the people making these accusations and allegations can not provide consistent or near-accurate figures in the improprieties they indicate; some are so incompetent and do not have any idea that the entire annual national budget is less than amounts sometimes purported to be stolen or embezzled. Some of the people making these allegations can not make the distinct differences between the national budget and the gross domestic product (GDP), and that the national budget is only a small fraction of the national GDP. It is unfortunate that when Nigeria is slowly moving away from an economy that is overly dependent on oil revenues paid to the government to an economy driven by private sector enterprises, some are still eyeing government largess as their only focal interest of income. Too many Nigerians do not understand and/or can not reconcile the truth that government at all levels can not create direct employment for up 15% of its 160 million population; too many do not understand that government is limited to creating an enabling environment for economic growth leading to improved employment; and that government should be held accountable for insufficient and lack of public services at designated levels of constitutional responsibilities. This pervasive mindset in many of our fellow Nigerians is among the root cause of our ethnically driven politics, overheated political environment, religious hostility, insecurity and ethno-regional violence. Jonathan remains the better choice for the presidency of Nigeria based on best management practices of governance and, based on a holistic metric of performance supported by more progressive vision. His accomplishments brings into play one major component of our national problem which is the much needed, serious attempts to align the very high demands for public services and infrastructure against massive population growth occurring in the last three decades. Unfortunately, his efforts are limited by his constitution mandate to his federal level of authority; while a significant number of state governments have let their constituencies languish in abject poverty and despair; and so what do we do, blame GEJ for all that has gone wrong with Nigeria. The share of blame goes back to Yoruba tribal wars of late 1600 through 1700 that added fuel to the slave trade, British colonial government administrations, Yoruba internal political conflicts of the first republic, military intervention to political civil government followed with several subsequent coups, Hausa/Fulani quest in political-power hegemony, Nigerian civil war; and continues with over reliance on single-sector commodity revenue of oil and gas as the main engine of the national economy, as well as, over concentration of economic power at the federal level. It will take up to 50 more years to resolve these problems; and we not only because most British colonies have similar problems breaking out of the old model of overly subsidized government run national economies to a mixed economy consisting more of free-enterprise economy-engine driven by the private sector combined with good economic-engine-oil furnish through government provision and management of public services, public education, environmental stewardship, monetary policy, judiciary and security entities. I seriously hope that our intellectual class recognize and discuss the adverse impact of the influences of the Yoruba internal tribal struggles--between the Awolowo-group vision of national progress attained through overly subsidized government direct intervention for the benefit of the masses against the Akintola-group aggressive brand of political agitation approach in king-making--to avoid having these group philosophical hegemonic struggles supplant and dominate the true nature of the need to truthfully discuss ideas and modern approaches to move forward with national progress; because these internal tribal struggles are relics of twentieth century we should be quickly discarding as unfortunate events of our not-so-favorable past. Sincerely, Alfred Yalaju, RA Your Brother
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:57:37 +0000
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