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Kemi it is joor.

Singapore never has Ivy league Finance minister.

Malaysia Never does too. In fact Mahathir combine the position of Finance minister with that of prime minister for sometime and he is a medical doctor. Nor he is economic adviser to other countries.

Omonigeriarere:
For some times now as Nigeria’s economic problems deepen due to the fall in oil prices and the rapid devaluation of the Naira against the Dollar in the parallel (black) market, some naive folks and arm chair critics who can’t see beyond their nose mostly out of sentiment now analyze the Nigerian economy like experts in the mold of Adam Smith, Lord Alfred Marshal, or Robert Keynes.

They blame the Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun for the free fall of the Naira and the over-bloated 2016 budget. They see her as inexperienced, incompetent, and poorly qualified if at all fit for the job. They blame her for everything wrong with the economy. Their description of her is in fact a reflection of how daft and shallow their minds are because it clearly shows that they have no knowledge of how the economy works. As if not done, they still go around crediting the recent gains by the Naira against the US Dollar to the politician cum businessman, Chief Ifeanyi Ubah. That level of daftness is quite nauseating; especially coming from supposedly educated people.

It was revered Professor Akin Oyebode, a professor of law who first claimed Mrs. Kemi Adeosun is poorly qualified for the position of Nigeria’s Minister for Finance and his only reason was that she couldn’t gain ission to Harvard Business School(HBS). Excuse me!!! When did attending Harvard become criteria for choosing finance ministers? How many Harvard ex Nigerian Finance Ministers have rescued Nigeria from financial deep? Is it because the cerebral young woman doesn’t come out to bamboozle the public with economic jargons and esoteric figures?


[b]As per her qualification, she holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Economics from the University of East London and a Masters in Public Finance from the University of South London with hip of all the relevant ing professional bodies in UK and Nigeria aside working for Price Waterhouse Cooper (PWC) and top financial houses with experience spanning some 22 years. She was also Commissioner for Finance of Ogun State for 4 years (2011-2015) where she did wonders in raising the IGR several folds and keeping the books clean paving the way for her meritorious rise to her present position. Not even Chief Okotie Eboh or Pat Utomi or Charles Soludo were as experienced as Kemi now when they got appointed to pivotal positions as economic adviser, Minister of Finance, and CBN Governor respectively. Pat Utomi was appointed Economic Adviser to President Shagari at age 27. How much experience had he at the time? Same age was also Chief Okotie Eboh. Charles Soludo was made CBN governor and did very well even with zero work experience. Only academic consultations and teaching;for which top bankers and captains of industries cried wolf. Let’s give Kemi Adeosun a chance to prove herself and fortunately she’s been doing great and putting up a lot of sacrifice. Am I the only one noticing her weight loss and (apparent) slight aging since becoming minister?
[/b]you are cluelss

The position of Finance Minister or any office is not the preserve of anyone or group of people and everyone must not be judged according to other people’s standards. The fastest rising economies in the world weren’t built by Harvard or Ivy League grads neither did the World Bank and IMF hawks give them a chance when they were building from foundation. Auntie Kemi is young, beautiful, and brilliant with the grit and grace to lead Nigeria’s economy to Eldorado whether naysayers like or believe her or not.

Source - http://www.politicalreport247.com/2016/03/haters-leave-kemi-adeosun-alone-by.html

Hmmm

You forget to mention 16 + 6 = 24 ?

DanceVille:
Seriously, why should we leave her.
When she told us 16 + 16=24..
I dnt think she went to Havard university.Even if she went, she must have bribed her way out when graduating from that University..
#End Time Pastor..
Better face ur ministry..
In Baba Don Jazzy's Voice:
#LUKULUKU PASTOR.

Even if she 'went' SMH,I pray to have kemi's kind of qualifications and experience,she indeed an Amazon

She should resign!

Would the OP have said this if the Finance Minister's name was Ngozi?

Big bro have spoken

Ur analysis is so shallow and unfortunate that you tried to compare prof soludo and kemi.please get your facts right.the bitter truth is that kemi adeosun is least qualified for the job.the earlier this anormaly is correct the better for us all.
God bless Nigeria!

What have kemi done that wailers now write useless articles like this?

Integrityfarms:


Who assisted Nigeria to clear the debt of the Paris club? Who created the Excess Crude and the Sovereign Wealth Fund?

Is it not the then governors that went on a sharing spree of the ECA through the state's commissioners of finance by arm twisting NOI?

Kemi is Inexperienced

Of what use now is the ECA (the cookie jar) now that it has been depleted? Why should creating an ECA even an achievement? This is just common sense. Even oil companies too have it. Excess crude is nothing special; it's just for savings.

What did you mean by assisting Nigeria clear the debt of the Paris club? This happened during the OBJ istration. Between, the same NOI left a lot of debt for us nah. She even took some debt to pay salaries. Who does that?

Agreed, the governors advocated for the money in the ECA to be shared. You'd agree with me that the governors had a point. They knew FG (PDP) would have use money from the ECA to rig the election. Let me even agree with you that they erred. What did FG do with their own share of 52%? Could you please explain?

Lastly. what's your definition of "inexperience"? Look forward to reading your response.

PiperAlpha:
Your submission is very on point. I hereby confer the title "ineffectual Buffon" also on NOI. GEJ & NOI raped this country blind. NOI failed terribly in her duties, even the most basic one - save for rainy days. She was not only the finance minister, but also the coordinating minister of the economy. She kept on reeling false statistics to deceive GEJ and gullible Nigerians in believing that Nigeria is doing well economically.

She supervised the unprecedented depletion of our foreign reserve in a period of oil boom. She failed to diversify the economy when we had so much revenue accruing to the government.

The high oil price was just a perfect cover for her ineptness and failures.

Now, Kemi is here to clean her mess. Kemi is here to stay.

Wailers deal with it!

And under NOI,The Nigerian Economy became the Largest in Africa...Isnt it?

slimmy2005:
Another ignorant octopus. Stop this unnecessary competition. Okonjo has been tested and trusted, she is a world class product. Obasanjo begged her, not appointed to come and work for her country. She came in right from world bank mugu. Adeosun is a monday to friday PwC worker. No economic acheivement

Tested and trusted with her voodoo economics?

Yet it failed to affect the lives of the average market woman in the street.

Continue living in a grand illusion

Integrityfarms:
Kikikiikiii!! Adeosun is a local champion! A village inexperienced financial expert. She lacks the grisp of international economics.

Stop defending incompetence.

We don't need international economics. What we need is LOCAL economics to grow LOCAL agriculture, LOCAL minerals and LOCAL businesses. Unlike those that have all the international business knowledge and international connections with world bank and IMF and leave us in international debt making us pay virtual international interest on virtual international debt to international shirlocks in the name of debt relief. To hell with international economics

sukkot:
yeah biafrans leave kemi alone lol

Negodu ndakara ife ine ku

happney65:


And under NOI,The Nigerian Economy became the Largest in Africa...Isnt it?

You mean"largest in Africa"on paper?With nothing to show for it?

You guys need to stop kidding

Ishilove:

Negodu ndakara ife ine ku

longest time. trust all is coo. me i no sabi speak biafran language oooo. i am from the oily soup ofe mmanu tribe

Omonigeriarere:


And how has the over-hyped economist, who could not diversify economy during oil boom turned around Nigeria economy especially in the time of oil boom if I may ask?

I honestly have nothing against kemi Adeosun except that she is too quiet. The economy is obviously terrible now, yes it's not her fault bt shes now In the captains seat and must steer the ship. All responsibility going 4wd fall on her. All she shud hv done is speak up on d situation and the steps and measures been made to balance the arnomally. Keeping quiet in a dire situation as this makes it look like ure overwhelmed or incapable to profer solutions to our problems. Andy Ubah may not be responsible for d recovery of d naira bt he's being looked as a Hero somewhat becos he Ws bold enough to speak and Address a burning situation when everybody/people incharge(CBN gov/finance minister etc) seem to be voiceless or acting like they don't even care. Even in Government communication is key.

PiperAlpha:

Of what use now is the ECA (the cookie jar) now that it has been depleted? Why should creating an ECA even an achievement? This is just common sense. Even oil companies too have it. Excess crude is nothing special; it's just for savings.

What did you mean by assisting Nigeria clear the debt of the Paris club? This happened during the OBJ istration. Between, the same NOI left a lot of debt for us nah. She even took some debt to pay salaries. Who does that?

Agreed, the governors advocated for the money in the ECA to be shared. You'd agree with me that the governors had a point. They knew FG (PDP) would have use money from the ECA to rig the election. Let me even agree with you that they erred. What did FG do with their own share of 52%? Could you please explain?

Lastly. what's your definition of "inexperience"? Look forward to reading your response.

I still don't know why Nigeria paid that Paris debt in full. It shud av been gradual payment that would span a lot of years with interests rates recalculated or we say we don't have money. Oya kill us naaa. After all even 50 cents filed for liquidation and we all know he is not broke

sukkot:
longest time. trust all is coo. me i no sabi speak biafran language oooo. i am from the oily soup ofe mmanu tribe

I see you're still trolling hard as ever

themilanway:


Tested and trusted with her voodoo economics?

Yet it failed to affect the lives of the average market woman in the street.

Continue living in a grand illusion

Kemi is just a dummy and you ilks deserve the quacks you get. Let us see how your low class ministers would perform.

eduwando:
thanks for the publicity,long live the federal republic of BIAFRA

kwezenu yahhhhh

PiperAlpha:

Of what use now is the ECA (the cookie jar) now that it has been depleted? Why should creating an ECA even an achievement? This is just common sense. Even oil companies too have it. Excess crude is nothing special; it's just for savings.

What did you mean by assisting Nigeria clear the debt of the Paris club? This happened during the OBJ istration. Between, the same NOI left a lot of debt for us nah. She even took some debt to pay salaries. Who does that?

Agreed, the governors advocated for the money in the ECA to be shared. You'd agree with me that the governors had a point. They knew FG (PDP) would have use money from the ECA to rig the election. Let me even agree with you that they erred. What did FG do with their own share of 52%? Could you please explain?

Lastly. what's your definition of "inexperience"? Look forward to reading your response.

Keep exposing your crass ignorance. I can see you've been possessed with the spirit of poverty

themilanway:
I will always take madam Kemi any day any time over a hundred Ngozi okonjo Iweala aka madam voodoo economist.

Kemi might be untested and unproven,I'm more than willing to giver her a chance and weather the storm together with her,so long she is atleast honest and practical with the affairs of the nation.

Only dumbos makes silly and unsubstantiated noise about kemi and her work.

Nice read by the way.

Who is surprised?

The same way you would take a hole digger for an Engineer to build an Electricity Power Plant for you.

The same way you would hire a Somali or Arab medical Doctor in place of a Nigerian- trained Doctor.

Ethno/religious bigotry - is it not what has kept us in dire straits today.

Is this the first time oil production dropped tremendously in Nigeria's history?

Ishilove:

I see you're still trolling hard as ever

nah i aint. just engaging my fellow nigerians in ' virtual textual tussling '.

funola:

Even if she 'went' SMH,I pray to have kemi's kind of qualifications and experience,she indeed an Amazon

**** she went to a low standard school, even UI First Class is better than that wimp called Kemi. She is just a furniture.

sukkot:
nah i aint. just engaging my fellow nigerians in ' virtual textual tussling '.

Semantics

Another daft write-up.

If we pick the ministers in this istration 1 by 1 and analyze, you'll know they are almost all in slumber because of the kind of man they are working with.

Ask anyone of them a simple question and they'll via off into corruption talk. This writeup is a lie being told to one's self.

Ishilove:

Semantics

yup, that it is. Semantics lol. i see i cant get nothing past ya

Most nairalanders are touts! I don't see why any sane mind will start calling our leaders name. Youths of Nigeria can never be a leader of tomorrow with this kind of attitude.