"For You To Fix The World, You Must Fix Nigeria" - President Jonathan tells Obama

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan made history yesterday as he became the first Nigerian Leader to ring 
the closing bell at the Newyork Stock Exchange (NYSE). Recall that in 2009, Late President Yar Adua was 
the first Nigerian Leader to Ring the Opening bell on the floor of the Nigeria Stock Exchange.

He Took to his Facebook Page and posted this after ringing the closing bell…..

“Goodluck Jonathan

Today, I had the honour of ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange after I had heralded to 
global captains of industry Nigeria’s efforts in recent times that has made our nation a prime destination for
 foreign investment and one that ensures some of the highest Return on Investments (RoI) in the world. This
 is just the beginning of greater things to come for our country and our continent. The foundation of planning
 which we laid at the inception of our administration is being strengthened for greater service delivery for 
our people.

My attention has just been drawn to some modest but positive steps in the education sector. In 2010, the 

pass rates for our National Examinations Council (NECO) Senior School Certificate Examinations was 15.84%. To address the abysmal failure and general decay in education we convened an emergency education summit in 2010 to

 deliberate on why we had fallen so far back and how best can we move up?

We took the report from that conference and began implementing some of the recommendations. The 
education sector had the highest sectoral allocation in the budget the following year and has remained 
among the topmost in allocation since then. On Friday the 20th of September 2013, the results of our efforts
 began to manifest. This year, 69.57% of Nigerian students passed the 2013 Senior School Certificate 
Examinations. We cannot relent. While we continue to negotiate with ASUU so that never again will strikes 
be an impediment to the realization of our children's educational aspiration, it is important that we keep our
 eyes on the ball: a holistic turn around in our education.

As we make progress in every sector of our economy: Transportation, Aviation, Agriculture, Power, Finance
, Energy Security and all others it is not celebration time until all our citizens can feel the progress in our 
communities and our constituencies. We must pay greater attention to education. As I said on this page on 
April 10, 2012 when I commissioned the first of 400 Almajirinci Model Schools in Gagi, Sokoto state “a 
nation does not become wealthy by what it has under the ground rather the wealth of nations are today 
measured by what is between the ears of her citizens”. To the world I say, we have the most industrious 
humans on earth and we are ready for business. To fellow Nigerians, our collective work for change is not 
done. Let’s us not be discouraged by the attempt to drag us into partisan politics when the urgent issue of 
the moment is governance. GEJ”

President Jonathan is in Newyork for the United Nations summit.

President Jonathan also met with President Obama. The meeting was held in the LyndonnB Johnson suite in
 Waldorf-Asstoria. “For you to fix the world, you must fix Africa. For you to fix Africa, you must fix Nigeria
”. That’s the message our dear President Jonathan greeted President Obama with as they start their bilateral
 meeting. Obama condemned the attack on Kenyan mall. President Jonathan will be addressing the U.N
 today. After ringing the closing bell for the Newyork stock Exchange, He was on Richard Quest’s show on
 “Quest means business” on CNN. Here are some of the answers he gave to the questions he was asked….

On what the Nigerian Government is doing to curtail attacks from Boko Haram

“Terror attack anywhere in the globe is terror attack on all of us” he said. He said the Nigerian security 
officers  were not trained to fight terrorism, when the attack started it was very difficult but now they are
 meeting up with the challenges and they have brought boko haram attacks to a minimal level and they will
 still do more.

On Pres. Obama’s exclusion on Nigeria on his second visit to Africa

He said Nigerians are not angry and there are no hard feelings. And he (Obama) personally invited him when
 he was the Acting President 2010. Nigerian relationship with U.S is very smooth and they will continue to
 maintain that robust relationship and support each other.

On crude oil theft

“we suffer from criminal vandalism” he said. He said the Government is using physical, electronic devices
 to curtail crude oil theft.