![-]( "1daful") 1daful at 1-01-2013 09:59 PM (11 years ago)  (f) I pray ooo.
1daful Is a Blessed Child.. | Posted: at 1-01-2013 09:59 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac | |
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![-]( "zoe61") zoe61 at 1-01-2013 10:38 PM (11 years ago) (f) easy said than done | Posted: at 1-01-2013 10:38 PM (11 years ago) | Hero | |
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More lies
If you face me, I go face you and if you do me, I go do you back! Nobody go vex! | Posted: at 1-01-2013 11:07 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac | |
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![-]( "igure") igure at 2-01-2013 12:09 AM (11 years ago) (m) Badluck | Posted: at 2-01-2013 12:09 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming | |
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![-]( "Nicksam") Nicksam at 2-01-2013 10:03 AM (11 years ago) (m) JEJEJEJEJEJEJEJEJE NOT SURPRISE IT HAS BEEN THE TOPIC YEAR TO YEAR | Posted: at 2-01-2013 10:03 AM (11 years ago) | Hero | |
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![-]( "TIGHTPUSSY") TIGHTPUSSY at 2-01-2013 10:16 AM (11 years ago) (f)  | Posted: at 2-01-2013 10:16 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming | |
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it seems to me what is read to us Nigerians, year after year, is an edited script read every Xmas, New Yr, Workers' Day and Independence day. what seems to be edited is just the celebration. here its for the new year, we wait for workers day et al. RUBBISH | Posted: at 2-01-2013 10:17 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac | |
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![-]( "amhotjosh") amhotjosh at 2-01-2013 10:46 AM (11 years ago) (m) We hope they keep their promised, because they used to making empty promises that they knew deep within them they wouln't deliver. They don't care about the mases alla they care about is how they would fill their swiss bank account and nothing else. | Posted: at 2-01-2013 10:46 AM (11 years ago) | Newbie | |
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![-]( "amhotjosh") amhotjosh at 2-01-2013 10:52 AM (11 years ago) (m) DO THEY EVEN CARE ABOUT THE MASES, ALL THEY EVER CARE IS HOW THEY WOULD FILL THEIR SWISS BANK ACCOUNT AND NOTHING ELSE. ALL THESE EMPTY PROMISES ARE NOTHING BUT FORMALITIES WHICH THEY ARE CONVINCED DEEP WITHIN THEM THAT THEY ARE NOT GOING TO HONOURED SO IS HIGH TIME FOR NIGERIANS TO LEARN NOT TO TRUST A WORD THESE POLITICIANS SAID. | Posted: at 2-01-2013 10:52 AM (11 years ago) | Newbie | |
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![-]( "webrose") webrose at 2-01-2013 11:30 AM (11 years ago) (m) Is he doing another campaign? | Posted: at 2-01-2013 11:30 AM (11 years ago) | Upcoming | |
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![-]( "moriztuos") moriztuos at 2-01-2013 12:03 PM (11 years ago) (m) I hia u | Posted: at 2-01-2013 12:03 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac | |
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![-]( "aso4life1") aso4life1 at 2-01-2013 12:09 PM (11 years ago) (m) na today?
if u attack my papa house, I'll retaliate but if you are peace loving,I will embrace you | Posted: at 2-01-2013 12:09 PM (11 years ago) | Hero | |
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![-]( "idealism") idealism at 2-01-2013 02:08 PM (11 years ago) (m) Reply |
![-]( "uniquep") uniquep at 2-01-2013 02:28 PM (11 years ago) (f) n wat did u do in d past years u ve bcum a president?nothing,tins became worst in ur own term n now u r looking 4 how 2 chop all our money abi?we r not going 2 support dat. | Posted: at 2-01-2013 02:28 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming | |
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![-]( "oludimuni") oludimuni at 2-01-2013 02:39 PM (11 years ago) (m) I have been seeing this format for a long time...It is only edited to fit into current and ravaging issues. Simple. | Posted: at 2-01-2013 02:39 PM (11 years ago) | Upcoming | |
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![-]( "dharma12") dharma12 at 2-01-2013 03:09 PM (11 years ago) (m) who cares about goodluck jonathan's speech..what is he going to say?,let see..electricity situation ..worst than ever . corruption ..at an all time high..our infrastructures..worst than ever(not a single new federal road has been constructed since he came into power, our airports are pathetic ,our hospitals and school are some of the worst in the world....crime rates have increase by a 100 percent since he came to office..kidnapping is out of control.. HOW DID INTELLIGENT NIGERIANS VOTE TO PUT THIS INCOMPETENT IDIOT NAME GOODLUCK(BADLUCK) JONATHAN IN OFFICE..SOMEBODY TELL ME
noorseman,i am sure you are boko that was the reason you are talking like them and a fool,for decades your so called boko brothers has been their without been disrupt,what did they archive?only to say that Nigeria will never know peace, corruption and insecurity so called ibb and or bokohari and others created it,soon they will be border for the norther states because you people are not Nigerians,you better shut that your smelling mouth if you don't have anything to say. GOODLUCK MY PRESIDENT | Posted: at 2-01-2013 03:09 PM (11 years ago) | Newbie | |
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![-]( "419BigBoy") 419BigBoy at 2-01-2013 03:25 PM (11 years ago) (m) 9ja doing big things
Africa is hooked on growth
Sebastian Mallaby By Sebastian Mallaby
The success is not continent-wide but the best-managed countries are pulling it off
A few years into sub-Saharan Africa’s renaissance, there were the natural doubts. Economists had competed for so long to explain the region’s growth tragedy that good news was a shock. But now, more than a decade into the revival, the good news has grown better. The lesson is that sound policies can make a difference even in the least promising of settings. Defeatists everywhere, cheer up.
Even before the recent flurry of encouragement, Africa’s turnround was breathtaking. Between 1980 and 2000, the continent had experienced negative economic development: output per person had fallen by a 10th in purchasing power terms. Then, just as the Aids pandemic was thought to represent the final straw for Africa, its fortunes changed dramatically. According to the World Bank’s development indicators, gross domestic product per person has risen every year since 2000, delivering a cumulative gain of more than a third.
At first, people doubted that the growth would be sustainable. But, after a dozen years of progress, uninterrupted even by enormous shocks to the world economy, that worry has faded. Likewise, people wondered whether the revival was merely the result of oil discoveries. But the International Monetary Fund reports that real non-oil growth in sub-Saharan Africa has averaged 5.4 per cent annually over the past five years*. Or perhaps the progress has been a statistical illusion? Well, it turns out that the standard numbers probably understate Africa’s advance.
Two years ago, Ghana corrected an error in its gross domestic product statistics – and the estimated size of its economy shot up by more than 60 per cent. Its mistake had been to count activity only in well-established sectors, omitting new ones such as mobile telephony. It seems likely that this error exists elsewhere. A forthcoming revision in Nigeria could be as dramatic as Ghana’s, boosting the GDP estimate for the whole of sub-Saharan Africa by as much as 15 per cent.
Alwyn Young of the London School of Economics has pointed to another reason to suspect that standard GDP data underestimate Africa’s progress. Household surveys, which record rates of ownership of consumer durables as well as housing quality, health and education, suggest that consumption in sub-Saharan Africa has been growing by about 3.5 per cent per year over the past two decades – more than three times faster than suggested by the national accounts. Even Professor Young’s critics concede that, in Kenya, for example, real GDP per person rose by just a 10th between 1993 and 2009, while the percentage of people with electricity more than doubled, the percentage with flush toilets more than tripled, and the percentage with a telephone shot up from just about nothing to 60 per cent.
Child mortality statistics tell the most positive story of all. In 1997, in a notably despondent analysis of Africa, William Easterly and Ross Levine reported that the typical African mother had only a 30 per cent chance of seeing all her children survive until age five. But Africa has recently witnessed falls in child mortality faster than any recorded anywhere. In the five years to 2010, Senegal cut its under-five mortality rate from 12.1 per cent to 7.2 per cent. Rwanda and Kenya did almost as well. It took India fully a quarter of a century to achieve a comparable decline.
What accounts for all this progress? Strong commodity prices and the rise of China as a consumer and investor have helped. So have the improving ratio of working age adults to dependants and technological breakthroughs such as mobile phones. But better policy has also made a difference. You can see this in studies of particular advances: the policy of distributing insecticide-treated bed nets to ward off malarial mosquitoes explains a large part of the gains in child survival. You can also see this in the productivity performance of the best-managed nations.
The continent’s advance has not been uniform. A group of dysfunctional laggards, which generate more than their fair share of news headlines, remain as poor as they have ever been. But the flip side is that the success stories have done much better than suggested by Africa-wide averages. Some of the star performers – Angola, Nigeria and Chad – owe their progress to oil. Others are rebounding from civil war. But Mozambique is an example of a country that has been at peace since the early 1990s, does not produce oil, and yet has boosted GDP per person in the labour force by 4.8 per cent annually between 1995 and 2010. Peaceful Ghana has managed a respectable 2.6 per cent per year.
The surest basis for sustained productivity improvement is to move workers from subsistence farming to jobs that involve skills and tools. Between 1995 and 2010, agriculture’s share of Mozambican GDP fell from 42 per cent to 26 per cent as manufacturing, construction and services grew to fill the gap. Between 2000 and 2010, Uganda cut farming’s share from 25 per cent to 16 per cent, while Ethiopia reduced it from 49 per cent to 41 per cent. Again, this shift of economic structure is not a continent-wide story. But the best managed African countries are pulling it off.
Less than 20 years ago, the conventional wisdom was that landlocked, ethnically divided countries battling the burdens of tropical disease might never advance. Today, there is no guarantee of future progress. But the fatalistic talk of an African growth tragedy has been proved wrong.
The writer is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and an FT contributing editor | Posted: at 2-01-2013 03:25 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac | |
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![-]( "deysfred") deysfred at 2-01-2013 03:29 PM (11 years ago) (m) is that going to revamp Agricultural sector and lower gas price......what about stopping corruption and creating more Jobs ......Lie...Lie...Lie everyday!!!!! | Posted: at 2-01-2013 03:29 PM (11 years ago) | Newbie | |
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I HEAR U.EASIER SAID DAN DONE
WASTED GENERATION | Posted: at 2-01-2013 04:19 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac | |
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![-]( "lee22") lee22 at 2-01-2013 04:24 PM (11 years ago) (f) gush.! Happi new yr joor! U betta tnk God nd stop readn scripts.
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