THEY SAY GOODLUCK JONATHAN IS CLUELESS BUT UNDER HIS ADMINISTRATION HE HAS SO MANY POSTIVE FIRSTS. HE CAME 1ST IN MANY AREAS: HERE ARE A FEW: 1. FIRST PRESIDENT TO NAVIGATE NIGERIA TO RANK AS THE LARGEST ECONOMY IN AFRICA 2. FIRST PRESIDENT TO MAKE THE RAILWAY FUNCTIONAL IN OVER 3 DECADES. OUR RAILWAYS ARE FUNCTIONAL AND CARRYING THOUSANDS OF PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT PER DAY. 3. FIRST PRESIDENT TO EMBARK ON A WHOLESALE REMODELLING OF ALL OUR AIRPORTS SINCE THEY WERE BUILT. 4. FIRST PRESIDENT TO REDUCE OUR IMPORTED FOOD COST ASTRONOMICALLY, FROM 1.1 TRILLION NAIRA IN 2009 TO 448 BILION NAIRA IN 2014 5. FIRST PRESIDENT TO REACH NIGERIA’S ALL TIME PEAK OF 4500 MEGAWATTS IN ELECTRICITY GENERATION. 6. FIRST PRESIDENT TO MAKE 90% OF FARMERS HAVE ACCESS TO FERTILIZERS IN ONE CLICK USING THEIR MOBILE PHONES, AND SAVING NIGERIA 5.4 MILLION DOLLARS THAT USUALLY GOES TO MIDDLEMEN. 7. FIRST PRESIDENT TO LAUNCH THE 1ST MADE IN NIGERIA VEHICLES BY A PRIVATE COMPANY (INNOSON VEHICLE MANUFACTURING) IN AUGUST 2014 DUE TO GOODLUCK’S AUTOMOTIVE POLICIES 8. FIRST PRESIDENT TO SUPPORT THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY (NOLLYWOOD) WITH A 300 MILLION INTERVENTION FUND, NOW MAKING NOLLYWOOD ACCOUNT FOR 1.2% OF GDP 9. FIRST PRESIDENT TO USE POLICIES LIKE THE NIGERIAN CONTENT ACT TO EMPOWER NIGERIAN BUSINESSES TO PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY IN THE OIL AND GAS. 10. FIRST PRESIDENT TO SET UP THE VERY 1ST ALMAJIRI SCHOOLS FOR EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED PERSONS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA AND TO BUILD OVER 100 OF THEM WITHIN 3 YEARS 11. FIRST PRESIDENT TO APPOINT OVER 35% (THE HIGHEST EVER) OF WOMEN INTO GOVERNMENT , INCLUDING THE 1ST LADY SUPREME COURT JUDGE, FIRST WOMEN CADETS IN OUR ARMY, FIRST FEMALE PILOTS, FIRST FEMALE PETROLEUM MINISTER ETC ETC 12. FIRST PRESIDENT TO CARRY OUT THE 1ST EVER ELECTORAL REFORMS IN NIGERIA THAT MADE NIGERIAN CITIZENS VOTES COUNT. FOR THE 1ST TIME NIGERIANS CAN ACTUALLY SAY ELECTIONS IS ABOUT ONE MAN ONE VOTE 13. FIRST PRESIDENT TO Navigate Nigeria Into Becoming One Of Worlds Fastest Growing Economies Among The MINT Countries (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey) After The BRIC Countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China). 14. FIRST PRESIDENT TO Launch The Nigcomsat-1r Satellite To Complement The Fibre Connectivity And Provide More Bandwidth For The Nation. 15. FIRST President to Unveil The Country’s First Indigenous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, GULMA, Designed And Constructed By The Nigerian Air Force. 16. The First President To Summon The Courage To Unbundle Electricity Distribution After 52 Years, Power Supply More Than Doubled After Almost 100 Years After Amalgamation (Met Power Supply At About 2,200 Mw, Now 4,237 Mw) States Begin Electricity Distribution 18. First President To Rejuvenate Our Comatose Railways Back To Life After 20 Years Of Lull In The Sector, Colonial Laws Under Review, States And Private Investors Welcome In The Railways Sector. 20. The First President Again To Tackle Fraud In The Oil Subsidy Regime, Identifying N370 Billion In Fraudulent Claims Now Targeted For Recovery. 21. First President To Ensure Constant And Regular Flow Of Petroleum Products In Nigeria (No More Queue At Filling Station) 22. First President To Tackle The Issue Of Ghost Workers In The Civil Service; 48,861 Names (Ghost Workers) Were Removed From The FGs Payroll After The IPPIS (Integrated Payroll And Personnel Information System) Was Deployed. 23. The First President To Increase NYSC Allowance In The Past 40 Years 24. First President To Deliver On Nine New Varsities, To Accommodate, The Growing Number Of Admission Candidates/Population 25. Nigeria Moved From Being A Net Importer To A Net Exporter Of Cement, With Its Production Capacity Growing From Just 2 Million Metric Tonnes In 2002 To About 28.5 Million Metric Tonnes Today. 26. The First President To Remove Fuel Price Subsidy Partly, And Still Provided Solution To Ease The Effect By Introducing SURE-P (The Subsidy Reinvestment And Empowerment Programme), Which Has Created 185,000 Jobs Across The Country. 27. First President to Transformed The Lives Of Farmers By Ending 40 Years Corruption In The Seed And Fertilizer Sector Within 90 Days Through The Growth Enhancement Scheme (GES) Of Which 14 Million Farmers Have So Far Benefitted From Subsidised Farm Inputs, With 10.3 Million Of These Beneficiaries (75 Per Cent) In Northern Nigeria.
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