GEJ may still lose the elections

By

Sampson Iroabuchi Onwuka

January, 20th 2015.

GEJ is not leading by clear margins at the polls and it is possible that he might still loose the 2015 election. He has spent the past few days speaking of his accomplishment in Nigeria isn key specific areas of country, but there are gaps in his personal numbers and assessment of his past four years in office. Most economic countries are looking a potential explosive elections, but this is probably not the case given the double efforts and margins of safety taken by the police. The Police is still too thin and media houses have convinced the International Committee of the total coverage of the February 4th 2015 elections. Nigerians abroad are only beginning to respond to the business in Abuja, gradually weighing their options. As opposed to Alex Ekwueme whose position on GEJ has sent flames of concerns, there are no real pointers on how well Nigeria and what are the achievements of GEJ as a four term president.

Several things are on display here in this election, one of which is the issue of Boko Haram and the increasing presence of Islamic militancy. But on how GEJ positions himself in the remaining weeks is an interesting item for the rest of the Nigeria. In a late January 20th, 2015, the President was putting his piece to his trumpet, that for   

“For many years, the WEF Africa Conference has been held in South Africa – although Nigeria had requested for many years to serve as the hosts. We are therefore pleased that the 24th World Economic Forum on Africa was held in Abuja from May 7 – 9 2014. The conference was financed from three sources – the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Nigerian private sector and the World Economic Forum. Because the event attracts Heads of Governments and Statesmen, CEOs of global firms, leading financiers and policy and development technocrats, from over 80 countries, it offered an unprecedented opportunity for economic diplomacy for Nigeria.”

This obviously does not explain a lot of key problems in the country especially the proposed VAT taxes which are likely to double due to lack of economic during oil boom days. What are his plans for the currency and its violence and instability in Bornu weigh more on people mind than the economic future of the country?

In Nigeria and in West Africa these days, we hear of the 'Millennium Development Goals', 'Privatization Schemes', 'Balance of Payment', 'Austerity Measures' (removal of oil subsidy), 'Foreign Direct Investment', IDAs, FDI; Foreign Direct Investment', 'Debt Crisis', but all of these are IMF measures which Nigeria that is U.S centered has no real party.  But these Schemes exist and part of Nigerian politics and part of the Nigerian running of their plans for BETTER LIFE. These programs have transition in Nigeria, but what are the key alternatives?

This better life the case of Argentina and Mexico, like Brazil of the 70's and Korea of 70's, will not be achieved under these programs that are run by IMF. Part of these measures is that it leads to sometime when benefitting, and we are tempted to ask how can a transition from one program to another take place, for it seems that the process of Free Trade agreement exercising itself in Europe and now the North America, usually leads to the lands of regional exchange and single currency. In proper light, the measure at work is similar to EU, compared from every angle, it is similar to the future ideas of regional government and higher penetration of existing Companies. 
          
Speaking of the politics, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, who is battling the insurgence, the Boko Haram may have 'started' by the support of AUST; African University of Science and Technology and the promise to help Nigerian the Film Industry with a 3 Billion Naira, is supposed to be a welcome news. But there are few rebuttal on how the project is going and what he intends to do about. Putting Buhari in very negative is not entirely pushing the issue or misrepresenting, but there are serious issues of security concern in Nigeria which the President has failed to address, which perhaps it’s due to the choice of his ministers and administrative of process than his visions for the country.

What exactly are his visions? And how does it differ from Buhari’s?

This new visions of the country I think is where we are having problems; the role of Nigerian as a permanent UN Peace Keeping force, and the economic importance of being a regional power house in West Africa and Africa.

He has also began work on Electric Power Authority; NEPA and has signed new contracts concerning the Rail Roads, all to be settled in dollars. Under his leadership Nigeria received all sorts of incentives and in the riverside areas of South-South, there is an international help, some from World Bank in tackling the problems associated with growth over these areas.

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January 21st 2015

GEJ may still lose the 2015 election, but it is not obvious in his recent writing or do we pretend that it may seem we rather have him in office than try a new hand who may or may not be General Buhari. But Buhari is not a new hand, which both rest the fears and also the problem since records are controlling political influences. Under the difficult vise of GEJ recent speeches and his trumpeting, where he pointed out that,

“Under our watch, Nigeria’s economy became the largest in Africa. Our economy is also one of the fastest growing in Africa and among the emerging markets. This finding is based on external reports by institutions such as the Africa Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).” Goodluck Ebele Jonathan trumpeting his records on Achievement on January 21st 2015. For a country with 30% of the population under employed or unemployed, I think it is rather difficult execution of argument, given above all that the country during the military rule did not suffer the wealth of unemployment in terms numbers from the last decade. Times have changed, and Nigeria also. Abuja in the 70’s and 80’s was a state with fewer than 100 thousand people but since the turn of 1990’s, the population in Abuja has blossomed into a 1.2 million Capital City let alone other in the neighboring surrounding.

In the past, at least at the beginning of the 1960, Nigeria has a total of 63 million people which was considered enormous in terms of the shrinking numbers among the Africans in West Africa. But today, Nigeria has a total of 170 million which means more overhead taxes, resources ahead of the age of military where the taxes and IRS now unconstitutionally based in one State; Lagos, didn't exist. IRS was no effective in the 80’s Nigeria.

President Jonathan was gifted many economic opportunity and he has not woefully failed in capitalizing on it. But it seems that the way he is pushing his political agenda and reelection could have ended Boko Haram in a matter of months. He could have also ended some on the problems of employment in the Country. He is leading a political revolution which is not the same as economic revolution, but how clear these revolution are, is up to the National Observer.

In the past, a barrel of crude oil cost less than $20 @ barrel, but in this age and up to the last few months, a barrel of crude oil peaked @$90 a barrel and Grade A Crude oil, for instance Bonny light went as much $120.00 @barrel. All these happened under GEJ who has not moved the country forward from the problems of economic stagnation which was experienced in many parts of the Country and not in Lagos, Abuja and Kano, but cannot be accused of failing to meet individual efforts in changing the face of the Country since he is one person not the whole country.

One man or one woman can decide the fate of a nation, perhaps where Nigeria is meeting that the need leaders in all classes of respect.

How well this happens is between what Nigerians living in Nigeria think of GEJ and if they believe he is worth another four years in office.

That GEJ is underestimated in reasonably clear, that he is not willing to lose power back to the military and the North is also obvious. The military and the North is not same thing. But how clear his intentions are is still a question of the ages, but by February 4th, in the year of our lord 2015, Nigerians will decide on it.

In other words, the country should be shelved the angry exercises of power, made more sinister by attacks on Buhari's WAEC records, a local and street gaming that GEJ is sure Buhari is not suited for ; their weak points.

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Buhari responding to the attacks on his WAEC results which members of the military once mentioned is not in their records, in his defense and clearing of the issue, that “...although the ruling party may want to wish this away, the issue in this campaign cannot be my certificate which I obtained 53 years ago. The issues are the scandalous level of unemployment of millions of our young people, the state of insecurity, the pervasive official corruption which has impoverished our people and the lack of concern of the government for anything other than the retention of power at all costs.”

This is not a General that wants to make history or seeking to make a name for himself, this is a former Army General seeking to finish what he thinks it’s necessary for his country and GEJ probably know it and take him seriously. Either we can presume that GEJ was promoting the problems of insecurity to tie it to Buhari or he has the wisdom to suggest that people are still not comfortable with Northern Rule, that administrative ability is still a political revolution with a twist that is not the same as Obasanjo's.

It is very difficult to overcome some of the biases associated with General Buhari especially the role of the North in military formative of Nigeria and Nigerians, especially with hints of military return to power. But faced with the higher challenges of leadership or opposition to leadership, we have serious issues at the heart of his campaign party and office. It is meeting to suggest that General may be the right leader to lead Nigeria, but perhaps, just perhaps, his time has not come.

In the redeeming years of GEJ administrative office, we can suggest that Buhari should see GEJ as a clearing factor for a presidency that must direct the future of the country, perhaps, just perhaps from 2019 and the 2020, unless Nigerians say differently. Some may argue that the night is falling fast on Buhari and GEJ may insure that he does not return, of course this was the same trap the military fell into in the 70’s and through the 80’s. In the end, if there is an end, how well this happens comes down to the people who will vote.

January 22, 2015

Goodluck E. Jonathan may still lose the 2015 election, which he did not mention or describe in a short precise on Health and Medical advancement, for his January 22, 2015. GEJ specified that,

“This administration’s strides in medical science are hardly celebrated. Recently a team of Nigerian scientists led by Dauda Oladepo of the International Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) and sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Health, discovered CD4 Lymphocyte baseline for testing people living with HIV/AIDS. The effort is all the more remarkable because it was funded by the Federal Ministry of Health and its findings are particularly useful to the Nigerian environment. The discovery is very vital to monitoring and managing the disease progression in infected people.”

For the records, the man in question, Dauda Oladepo, who is claimed to have discovered ‘CD4 Lymphocyte baseline for testing people living with HIV/AIDS’ may be shooting the air, for all we know, the lymphocytes are a special tumor cells whose map has been the course of significant study in US and France. It is possible that Dauda Oladepo achieved modification but it is hardly the case that he discovered this baseline. Yet due respect should be given to NIPRD; Nigerian Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development and the Federal Ministry of Health for providing adequate resources to cover HIV project in Nigeria especially on how it .

GEJ administration has often faced the problem of accountability. Federal Ministry of Health has done more for interest of many so-called scientist entered this Nigerian waters and made away with a lot of money and resources for HIV researches. The problem GEJ has encountered in the long chain of administration of process is the serious problems of accountability.

Hospital and Medical management, warehouses for metal equipment and hospitals for physically disabled or mentally re-covering are very short in Nigeria and in many parts of West Africa. The question which we must answer is what is the opportunity cost of Ebola Virus in Nigeria and West Africa where a percentage of the $334 million dollars wasted by the UN on Ebola could have enabled a better preventive program than treating Ebola or other pandemic? Whereas Nigeria can make the argument that the health resources available in Nigeria is the problem of its social circumstances and education level, we can suggest that awareness on HIV for instance has helped to slow down the profligate Virus.

It does not suggest that the Federal Ministry of Health has not done anything in combating issue of pipe borne water and water diseases. Providing alternative to tap water is really a private industries incentive and not a product of the Government.  

National attention of asylum for people considered for longer term recovery programs are hard to find, it will also suggest that the many deaths that occur every day in the inner Cities of Lagos for instance are not unconnected to Medical resources. Lack of good and running hospitals covering half the needs of the general population in Nigeria may have resulted from expensive purchase of medical drugs and treatment, use and abuse of needles.

The issue of quality of monitoring investment in medical based companies and health care resources, the motivation for local and foreign investment grade particularly in foreign investment groups with launched IPOs are the problems Nigeria may be facing in the futures, especially, since the country is already overweight on 70% foreign direct Investment. Health administration at least on nursing level, improving the Seaports will require more than a fair share of foreign investors or individual attempts at re-vamping the Nigeria 34 airports, some of it is out of use.

But for medical insurance (medical insurance) to work in Nigeria (GEJ did not mention), Jobs has to work which is the only to sustain the new cash injection into the SS; Social Security. Ambulance and medical scanning equipment are a different matter. Medical Insurance need to take a higher percentage of GEJ health plan. At least the introduction of the 'Grid System' ended the syndrome anonymous deaths and the expansion of the Nigerian Pension Funds may life burden of healthcare.

The long and lingering cases of HIV and the demands for lab based for clinics throughout the bandwidth of Nigeria, beginning from local government through to the Federal level will be hard to meet under any special and current circumstances.

Forbes listed five Great Investment that anyone can make in Africa but the list did not include Medical equipment and accessories which are supposedly hard to find in many parts of the world, but for the fact that the psychology of health is associated with wealth in Nigeria and in Third World and not necessarily associated with rights and responsibility of the Government, the job has shifted elsewhere so also the medical practice.

The campaign teams of Buhari and GEJ must meet this idea differently.

Enough credit has to this administration on how their Medical team responded to the problems of Ebola Virus and how it kept it our harms. But this is not enough, especially under the suspicion that Ebola made it to West Africa in the first place, above, there are material issues of the individual excellence in the affairs of the Federal Ministry of Health. If we compare the conditions of health service in Nigeria in 2015 to Health Services in 1985, the country lost 30 years. 

Medical Investment has long life if there are no political instability in Nigeria or the Regional West Africa. It is expensive when there are no insurance coverage.

This receipt does not mean that Nigerians or Africans who are pretty much struggling from day one in the States or Canada and who even constitute worker parasites; deferred employment certiorari and qualification (odd jobs), should be given free hands on managing these resources redeemed rom Crude oil basket, or engage in charity without losing their formal reasons in being in the States, or have these investments so removed from US or similar country of interest and domain that Nigerians or African will enrich their existence away from public accounting to shareholders, or business conducted without explication to Nigeria or anywhere else without due recourse to profit meeting for market standards.

In essence, US can't be forced to train and feed these Nigerians who irrespective of their standing agreement before coming to these states, bound by tax paying, or inheritance clause affecting new migrants, are dead set to participate in their new country and new economy. That Nigeria or any African country can in respective levels of transactions with United States or any country of interest, be expected to support the future growth of these Americas and the countries, then the go-between persons of interest who reside there, here, born here or anywhere, have short and long term business interest in these United States, should participate in the estimate of these countries.

The Sovereign Wealth of these Nigerians in the United States is separate accounting and should not be compromised or misunderstood. Nigerians overseas suffer the most due to lack of organizational structure, rely on public employment or private interest in medicine, for instance, sojourners from Africa and Nigeria, easily turn their attention to CPA and Medical Careers, public and home health jobs, all of which are fine American job opportunities to take advantage of but rely mainly on Government benefits and insurance. These Nigerians like Caribbean American before them, are happy to be paid peanut wages which by American Standards is poverty level which ensures without public acknowledgment is a cyclical trap that makes it difficult for Nigerians or Africans to barely make it into working class Americans.

The game play is to expand the future of the United States through consolidation which may not necessarily extent to these Nigerians except through the especial assistance of the rest of the population. Whereas these men and women from Nigeria or Africa, with serious education background do not mean to take on these jobs or need not, above all do not furnish any intention of lasting too long on them. In the past, the career move was to progress from CPA or GNA to Nurse and from Nurse to registered and Licensed Practical Nurse, or so others will choose, take interest in Medicine and medical studies. It is not their making especially when the chief resources are coming from their own State and old Country.  What the country should be aiming to accomplishing. 

January 23rd, 2014.

“The IT transformation has also led to online shopping in Nigeria, previously unheard of in #Nigeriab4GEJ. Value of online shopping grew 25% to N62.4 billion in 2011 from N49.9 billion in 2010. #GEJAchievements” But this is mainly in Lagos and Abuja and has not helped to cultivate the habit of buying or place the burden of expansion on local production and under GEJ, the gap between several classes of Nigerians has widened. If we compare that theme of agriculture which is not easy to demonstrate from resources other than crude oil, we can see that the shift which has occurred, occurred with poor transition from old economy to new economy. Besides, the framework of many Nigerian business outfits, particularly those based in Lagos and Abuja are steep – almost dangerously to the level of concern. The question that should be asked if and whether or not the ICT from oversea and the launching of Nigerian Satellite has helped Nigerian better accounting scheme which in very recent times has seen the displacement of 20 billion dollars from Sovereign Bank.  

He mentioned from January 23rd, 2015, writing that “We have construction of 500km of fibre-optic cable to rural areas, with 3,000km more targeted for deployment. #GEJAchievements Compare #Nigeriab4GEJ”, we can add that at the time when Britain was still in charge of Nigeria, they covered in less than 10 years – at least up to the  that there are several lines and cables between Africa and Europe, and some under water cables like Global Crossing initiated through the ACE; (African Coast to Europe), the French Telecom Marine, and ‘with ships’ from Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) and popular source point to a Tat Bit of 5.12 design capacity from Submarine Communication Cable completed in December 15^th 2012.

“A total of 266 Public Access Venues were established in 2013: 156 Rural IT Centres, 110 Community Communication Centres. #GEJAchievements Compare #Nigeriab4GEJ”, and he continued that “We facilitated the deployment of mobile communications base stations in rural areas of Nigeria. #GEJAchievements Compare #Nigeriab4GEJ” If this community centers could have security information in the 800 or local government, perhaps it could make additional sense and meaning given the shortage of information regarding Nigerian information agencies and Boko Haram.

Once I argued elsewhere that in Nigeria, there are key players in the One Main line Cable and with West Africa Cable, most of which like MTN are also owned by South Africans or drawn from that Cable, in such a way that these product types that are not unlike Franco-phone countries but very much like other Nigerian new network that draw from Asian SEA-WE-ME, both groups deal with ‘cost-pressure’ (of the regulated monopolies), with de-regulation (networking), whereas cost-effective production would create monolithic environment of similar product, like similar and the same product doing fine, there are products reaching Nigeria via One Main Line or through West African Cable, or similar outfits that run the amuck from English Channel to South Africa and through to West Africa as products manufactured and delivered by TYCO sometimes require special attention.

GEJ mentioned in his defense of his administration that, “One of our achievements in the ICT sector is the provision of wholesale internet bandwidth to Internet Service Providers, Cybercafes, and ICT centres like Community Communication Centres (CCC) in rural communities – connectivity to 12 out of 18 pilot sites completed. #GEJAchievements Compare #Nigeriab4GEJ” But this is not much a product of local accomplishment as they are lines of foreign investment.

“We provided computing facilities to 74 tertiary institutions and 218 public schools across the country. #GEJAchievements Compare #Nigeriab4GEJ”, that, “Our administration established innovation centres to support entrepreneurs in the ICT sector and a Venture Capital fund of $15 million for ICT businesses. #GEJAchievements Compare #Nigeriab4GEJ”, it can be argued that since the auction of NITEL and increased measure of cell phones, Nigeria should like South Africa should be able to launch new share point and carriers, new security network system, new software and hardware lines, etc.

Special interest groups in South Africa or expertise in Nigeria and Ghana, or Nigerians in South Africa are mainly depended on what resources are available through London which Nigeria has no real representative. We can also argue that the in flock of foreign direct deposit in Nigeria has given false emphasis on the true nature of its production capacity that although Cell phone industries could account for some of the GDP based resources, it does not help the National purchasing power which communication and cell phones industries is not parity and a separate quoted lines for these industries are also common sense in every measure of sense. Like Ernest Simeon Odior argued, that greatest problems that Nigerian individual consumers face is the purchase power and forex exchange. A bumming ICT should make this less challenging. 

January 22, 2015

Goodluck E. Jonathan may still lose the 2015 election, which he did not mention or describe in a short precise on Health and Medical advancement, for his January 22, 2015. GEJ specified that,

“This administration’s strides in medical science are hardly celebrated. Recently a team of Nigerian scientists led by Dauda Oladepo of the International Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) and sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Health, discovered CD4 Lymphocyte baseline for testing people living with HIV/AIDS. The effort is all the more remarkable because it was funded by the Federal Ministry of Health and its findings are particularly useful to the Nigerian environment. The discovery is very vital to monitoring and managing the disease progression in infected people.”

For the records, the man in question, Dauda Oladepo, who is claimed to have discovered ‘CD4 Lymphocyte baseline for testing people living with HIV/AIDS’ may be shooting the air, for all we know, the lymphocytes are a special tumor cells whose map has been the course of significant study in US and France. It is possible that Dauda Oladepo achieved modification but it is hardly the case that he discovered this baseline. Yet due respect should be given to NIPRD; Nigerian Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development and the Federal Ministry of Health for providing adequate resources to cover HIV project in Nigeria especially on how it .

GEJ administration has often faced the problem of accountability. Federal Ministry of Health has done more for interest of many so-called scientist entered this Nigerian waters and made away with a lot of money and resources for HIV researches. The problem GEJ has encountered in the long chain of administration of process is the serious problems of accountability.

Hospital and Medical management, warehouses for metal equipment and hospitals for physically disabled or mentally re-covering are very short in Nigeria and in many parts of West Africa. The question which we must answer is what is the opportunity cost of Ebola Virus in Nigeria and West Africa where a percentage of the $334 million dollars wasted by the UN on Ebola could have enabled a better preventive program than treating Ebola or other pandemic? Whereas Nigeria can make the argument that the health resources available in Nigeria is the problem of its social circumstances and education level, we can suggest that awareness on HIV for instance has helped to slow down the profligate Virus.

It does not suggest that the Federal Ministry of Health has not done anything in combating issue of pipe borne water and water diseases. Providing alternative to tap water is really a private industries incentive and not a product of the Government.  

National attention of asylum for people considered for longer term recovery programs are hard to find, it will also suggest that the many deaths that occur every day in the inner Cities of Lagos for instance are not unconnected to Medical resources. Lack of good and running hospitals covering half the needs of the general population in Nigeria may have resulted from expensive purchase of medical drugs and treatment, use and abuse of needles.

The issue of quality of monitoring investment in medical based companies and health care resources, the motivation for local and foreign investment grade particularly in foreign investment groups with launched IPOs are the problems Nigeria may be facing in the futures, especially, since the country is already overweight on 70% foreign direct Investment. Health administration at least on nursing level, improving the Seaports will require more than a fair share of foreign investors or individual attempts at re-vamping the Nigeria 34 airports, some of it is out of use.

But for medical insurance (medical insurance) to work in Nigeria (GEJ did not mention), Jobs has to work which is the only to sustain the new cash injection into the SS; Social Security. Ambulance and medical scanning equipment are a different matter. Medical Insurance need to take a higher percentage of GEJ health plan. At least the introduction of the 'Grid System' ended the syndrome anonymous deaths and the expansion of the Nigerian Pension Funds may life burden of healthcare.

The long and lingering cases of HIV and the demands for lab based for clinics throughout the bandwidth of Nigeria, beginning from local government through to the Federal level will be hard to meet under any special and current circumstances.

Forbes listed five Great Investment that anyone can make in Africa but the list did not include Medical equipment and accessories which are supposedly hard to find in many parts of the world, but for the fact that the psychology of health is associated with wealth in Nigeria and in Third World and not necessarily associated with rights and responsibility of the Government, the job has shifted elsewhere so also the medical practice.

The campaign teams of Buhari and GEJ must meet this idea differently.

Enough credit has to this administration on how their Medical team responded to the problems of Ebola Virus and how it kept it our harms. But this is not enough, especially under the suspicion that Ebola made it to West Africa in the first place, above, there are material issues of the individual excellence in the affairs of the Federal Ministry of Health. If we compare the conditions of health service in Nigeria in 2015 to Health Services in 1985, the country lost 30 years. 

Medical Investment has long life if there are no political instability in Nigeria or the Regional West Africa. It is expensive when there are no insurance coverage.

This receipt does not mean that Nigerians or Africans who are pretty much struggling from day one in the States or Canada and who even constitute worker parasites; deferred employment certiorari and qualification (odd jobs), should be given free hands on managing these resources redeemed rom Crude oil basket, or engage in charity without losing their formal reasons in being in the States, or have these investments so removed from US or similar country of interest and domain that Nigerians or African will enrich their existence away from public accounting to shareholders, or business conducted without explication to Nigeria or anywhere else without due recourse to profit meeting for market standards.

In essence, US can't be forced to train and feed these Nigerians who irrespective of their standing agreement before coming to these states, bound by tax paying, or inheritance clause affecting new migrants, are dead set to participate in their new country and new economy. That Nigeria or any African country can in respective levels of transactions with United States or any country of interest, be expected to support the future growth of these Americas and the countries, then the go-between persons of interest who reside there, here, born here or anywhere, have short and long term business interest in these United States, should participate in the estimate of these countries.

The Sovereign Wealth of these Nigerians in the United States is separate accounting and should not be compromised or misunderstood. Nigerians overseas suffer the most due to lack of organizational structure, rely on public employment or private interest in medicine, for instance, sojourners from Africa and Nigeria, easily turn their attention to CPA and Medical Careers, public and home health jobs, all of which are fine American job opportunities to take advantage of but rely mainly on Government benefits and insurance. These Nigerians like Caribbean American before them, are happy to be paid peanut wages which by American Standards is poverty level which ensures without public acknowledgment is a cyclical trap that makes it difficult for Nigerians or Africans to barely make it into working class Americans.

The game play is to expand the future of the United States through consolidation which may not necessarily extent to these Nigerians except through the especial assistance of the rest of the population. Whereas these men and women from Nigeria or Africa, with serious education background do not mean to take on these jobs or need not, above all do not furnish any intention of lasting too long on them. In the past, the career move was to progress from CPA or GNA to Nurse and from Nurse to registered and Licensed Practical Nurse, or so others will choose, take interest in Medicine and medical studies. It is not their making especially when the chief resources are coming from their own State and old Country.  What the country should be aiming to accomplishing. 

January 23rd, 2014.

“The IT transformation has also led to online shopping in Nigeria, previously unheard of in #Nigeriab4GEJ. Value of online shopping grew 25% to N62.4 billion in 2011 from N49.9 billion in 2010. #GEJAchievements” But this is mainly in Lagos and Abuja and has not helped to cultivate the habit of buying or place the burden of expansion on local production and under GEJ, the gap between several classes of Nigerians has widened. If we compare that theme of agriculture which is not easy to demonstrate from resources other than crude oil, we can see that the shift which has occurred, occurred with poor transition from old economy to new economy. Besides, the framework of many Nigerian business outfits, particularly those based in Lagos and Abuja are steep – almost dangerously to the level of concern. The question that should be asked if and whether or not the ICT from oversea and the launching of Nigerian Satellite has helped Nigerian better accounting scheme which in very recent times has seen the displacement of 20 billion dollars from Sovereign Bank.  

He mentioned from January 23rd, 2015, writing that “We have construction of 500km of fibre-optic cable to rural areas, with 3,000km more targeted for deployment. #GEJAchievements Compare #Nigeriab4GEJ”, we can add that at the time when Britain was still in charge of Nigeria, they covered in less than 10 years – at least up to the  that there are several lines and cables between Africa and Europe, and some under water cables like Global Crossing initiated through the ACE; (African Coast to Europe), the French Telecom Marine, and ‘with ships’ from Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) and popular source point to a Tat Bit of 5.12 design capacity from Submarine Communication Cable completed in December 15^th 2012.

“A total of 266 Public Access Venues were established in 2013: 156 Rural IT Centres, 110 Community Communication Centres. #GEJAchievements Compare #Nigeriab4GEJ”, and he continued that “We facilitated the deployment of mobile communications base stations in rural areas of Nigeria. #GEJAchievements Compare #Nigeriab4GEJ” If this community centers could have security information in the 800 or local government, perhaps it could make additional sense and meaning given the shortage of information regarding Nigerian information agencies and Boko Haram.

Once I argued elsewhere that in Nigeria, there are key players in the One Main line Cable and with West Africa Cable, most of which like MTN are also owned by South Africans or drawn from that Cable, in such a way that these product types that are not unlike Franco-phone countries but very much like other Nigerian new network that draw from Asian SEA-WE-ME, both groups deal with ‘cost-pressure’ (of the regulated monopolies), with de-regulation (networking), whereas cost-effective production would create monolithic environment of similar product, like similar and the same product doing fine, there are products reaching Nigeria via One Main Line or through West African Cable, or similar outfits that run the amuck from English Channel to South Africa and through to West Africa as products manufactured and delivered by TYCO sometimes require special attention.

GEJ mentioned in his defense of his administration that, “One of our achievements in the ICT sector is the provision of wholesale internet bandwidth to Internet Service Providers, Cybercafes, and ICT centres like Community Communication Centres (CCC) in rural communities – connectivity to 12 out of 18 pilot sites completed. #GEJAchievements Compare #Nigeriab4GEJ” But this is not much a product of local accomplishment as they are lines of foreign investment.

“We provided computing facilities to 74 tertiary institutions and 218 public schools across the country. #GEJAchievements Compare #Nigeriab4GEJ”, that, “Our administration established innovation centres to support entrepreneurs in the ICT sector and a Venture Capital fund of $15 million for ICT businesses. #GEJAchievements Compare #Nigeriab4GEJ”, it can be argued that since the auction of NITEL and increased measure of cell phones, Nigeria should like South Africa should be able to launch new share point and carriers, new security network system, new software and hardware lines, etc.

Special interest groups in South Africa or expertise in Nigeria and Ghana, or Nigerians in South Africa are mainly depended on what resources are available through London which Nigeria has no real representative. We can also argue that the in flock of foreign direct deposit in Nigeria has given false emphasis on the true nature of its production capacity that although Cell phone industries could account for some of the GDP based resources, it does not help the National purchasing power which communication and cell phones industries is not parity and a separate quoted lines for these industries are also common sense in every measure of sense. Like Ernest Simeon Odior argued, that greatest problems that Nigerian individual consumers face is the purchase power and forex exchange. A bumming ICT should make this less challenging.