FreeGlobe: Asking for PPP's to be deleted will amount to 80% of 'Fashola projects' here to be deleted please lets leave it here. we must applaud Nigeria's Private Sector which has been conditioned to domicile in Lagos by govt policies for their intervention in lagos. The only way we can stop this fraudulent action of Fashola is to demand the that Fashola should from henceforth commission only state owned projects!

Sadly true.

It shouldn't be too hard to point out the so called 80% PPP projects now. What's holding you? Abeg don't run away o

You just have to call their bluff and watch them take style disappear...

FreeGlobe:
Pictures of uncommon transformation? You need to visit Akwa Ibom to feel it or you must be lying to yourself, here is what David Mark the Senate president said after visiting Akwa Ibom referring to Fashola:

Some governors’ (Fashola) claims of achievements are propaganda – Mark

http://dailypost.com.ng/2013/07/28/some-governors-claims-of-achievements-are-propaganda-mark/

I'vee been to uyo and eket. U guys have villages and not towns and certainly not cities. Comparing lagos and akwa ibom is a fools errand and. That is why we should actually be ignoring you akpabio propagandists. Yaba is more developed than anywhere in aks.

Akpabio said he ws inspired during the time he lived in surulere. That's why he builds flyover bridge where there is need ffor none.

U guys only carry 1st in child abuse a la child witch saga, political kidnapping and violence, cooking the best soup bar none and beer parlour worship. syocphancy is also an area where u guys r world champs.

Akpabio don thief $ sote, his relation, prince akpabio was once caught laundeering billions. Prince goes to clubs and sexually harasses women.


Wait do u clowns think that if a presidential election held, akpabio would have a tenth as many votes as fashola??
Country bumpkins tryna be city slickers! Una go old o.

You don pick race ni, abi you need a moment to ransack thread for your imaginary 80% PPP..

plaindealer:


Please, point out the 80% PPP projects and I'll have them deleted. PERIOD.

So you are the same as the OP

You were conversing, quoting, replying and liking your posts all day.

what other handle of yours on this thread is busy commending you.

LMAO

Now I want everybody to read this article carefully and show where it states that (1) Lagos did not put any money into the venture (2) Lagos does not own Eko Engineering Services (3) Coscharis "chose Lagos". (Remember, he who makes a claim must provide proof).

[size=14pt]Lagos’ Bold Move to Tackle Youth Unemployment[/size]

22 Jul 2012

The Lagos State Government moves a step further in its determination to tackle the growing unemployment in the state, especially among the youths, by transforming the moribund Eko Engineering Ventures into an ultramodern automobile service and training centre through a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement. Olaolu Olusina reports




Last Tuesday was, no doubt, another happy day for the Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola; and he made no attempt to hide his feelings as one of the cardinal objectives of his administration was just being realised. Apparently in one of his best forms that morning, he was full of smiles as he made his way to the seat specially reserved for him, exchanging pleasantries with the state’s top officials already waiting to receive him and observing the formal protocol before taking his seat.

Another PPP Initiative
The occasion was the official inauguration of the CG-EKO LLP Automobile Centre, a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement between the Coscharis Group, a leading player in the country’s automobile industry, and the Lagos State Government to provide training in automobile engineering for local artisans and the teeming unemployed youths in the state.

The 25-year joint venture deal consummated under the Lagos State Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) Law of 1999, which saw the transformation of the moribund Eko Engineering Ventures into an ultramodern automobile sales and training centre following the official handing over of the moribund factory at the Old Secretariat area of Ikeja  to CG-EKO LLP in May 2010,  would ensure the training of 160 auto mechanics annually for the next four years at no cost to the government and provide 66 permanent jobs initially and 200 jobs eventually.

Aside repairing and refurbishing vehicles in the fleet of the State’s Rapid Response Squad (RRS) free of charge, the ultramodern centre will also provide auto-mechanical training to different categories of automobile students to provide a platform for them to acquire practical hands-on training and also groom future entrepreneurs who are expected to open their workshops across the state, training and employing more youths in the process thus helping to further grow the economy of the state..


The governor could, therefore, not hide his feelings as the joy of completing another successful project was written all over his face. Paying glowing tributes to those who mooted the idea and the determination with which they saw the project through conception to maturity, Fashola said the concept and its successful execution underlined the philosophy of his administration that PPPs are very strategic tools for achieving the objectives of the state.

Land of Opportunities
Referring to the business acumen and credibility of the President/CEO, Coscharis Group, Dr. Cosmas Maduka, Fashola said, “This project represents all that our state represents – a land of opportunities, no matter where you come from – if you are able to respect our laws, the sky will not even be your limit.” And praising his Special Adviser/Director General, Office of Public-Private Partnerships, Mr. Ayo Gbeleyi, for his resilience and determination in seeing the project through despite being dragged very hard in the process, the governor said, “I drag my team very hard and that is why I picked them as I know that they can stand the heat. And this is the result.” He also praised the Managing Director, Coscharis Group, Mr. Josiah Samuel, describing him as a man of ideas and vision. Fashola said his greatest satisfaction about the project is the capacity-building component and the number of unskilled youths that would be trained at the centre.

A Dream Come True
And like a dream come true, President/CEO, Coscharis Group, Maduka, said in his remarks at the occasion, that the initiative which started as a dream, “envisioned the  establishment of  a world class automobile technical training, sales and after-sales institution; a company that would guide future automobile trends in Nigeria.”  According to Maduka, “the anticipated trends are to develop local automobile specialists with international repute, establish local assembly plants –managed by locally trained hands and setting the motion for the first Nigerian locally made car.

”He said the dream was buttressed by the deliberate effort of the democratic government in 1999 to shift to a more public growth private driven sector, stressing that “this dream has been urgently accelerated by the desire of the incumbent governor of Lagos State to take the State to its economic Eldorado.”

According to the Coscharis chairman, “Governor Raji Fashola’s commitment to the actualisation of this project is second to none. His drive to incorporate private partisanship in public development is enormous and what we have here today is only one of such array of commitments.

Therefore, in alignment to its Corporate Social Responsibility drive and in identifying with the Lagos State’s Public Private Partnership initiative, Coscharis Motors officially took over the Eko Engineering project for Sales and After Sales Services of all auto brands as well as managing the vocational centre for technical skill acquisition specifically to provide after sales support for Rapid Response Squad (RRS) fleet of vehicles. “

“We decided to do this because we believe so much in this Government which has done so much for Lagos State and we want to assist in the good work by securing improvements in public services,” he continued.

Total Transformation
THISDAY gathered that the transformation of the old facility at the centre to its present state was total as the project has gulped about N1billion. Originally set up by the State Government to repair and service all its automobiles, the hitherto Eko Engineering Ventures Limited having suffered from inadequate funding and obsolete equipment had to diversify into the fabrication of utensils such as wheel barrows, rakes, shovels and waste bins, among others.

But with the current partnership and efforts made so far, the facility which previously had three dilapidated bay warehouses, in-built administrative offices, generator house and security house now parades an ultramodern automobile centre with integrated sales/after sales support/maintenance workshop and an auto-mechanical skill acquisition institution as well as a driving school. In addition to the renovation and upgrade, the new facility now has a showroom, a lecture theatre, library, staff clinic and a staff canteen. Similarly, in order to complement electricity supply, a new high capacity transformer has been installed while two heavy duty generators are also in place.

Overarching Goal is Job Creation
Maduka nonetheless stated the overarching motive of the partnership and the huge investment it has attracted is job creation. “This partnership is meant to put our state and nation on the path of job creation and skills acquisition. That is, to develop future technical entrepreneurs and employees. Right now, most of the auto mechanics in Nigeria are road -side trained. These are highly limited given their parochial knowledge especially with radical technological advancements in car manufacturing and engine designs,” he said.

Unrelenting Efforts
Observers of the development are however unanimous in their views that the latest development is another step forward in tackling the youth unemployment problem in the state as the state government appeared unrelenting in its efforts. It will be recalled that last April, the state government inaugurated fresh strategies to reduce unemployment rate among school leavers and graduates, who according to the state data, constitute 70 percent of its total population. Executive Secretary of the State Technical and Vocational Education Board (LASTVEB), Mr. Olawumi Jasper, who unveiled the School Leavers Modern Apprenticeship (SL-MATP) and Graduate Vocational Employability Skills (GV-ESTP) Training Programmes, in a statement made available to THISDAY, said   70 per cent of the state 18 million population is below 35 years and in danger of being misdirected as they are unskilled and misdirected.

Vocational programmes to be undertaken under the programme, according to the government, include welding, carpentry and joinery, automotive mechatronics, refrigeration and industrial air-conditioning, domestic and industrial plumbing, care giving & house-keeping, hair dressing and beauty therapy. Others are clothing & dress making, block-laying, concreting & tiling, software applications design and development, computer animation and modelling, electronics and appliances repairs, electrical maintenance repairs and services, and industrial instrumentation & automation.


Shedding more light on the programme, Jasper said SL-MATP “is designed to provide both work-based on the job training in industries and accredited workshops and college-based instructions in the state technical colleges so that the Lagos youths can have the full range of skills and knowledge for a highly skilled occupation.

“It is also designed to place a premium on business and enterprise skills spiced with competence-based vocational training and are proposed to offer a direct and specific re-training and re-orientation interventions required to assist our current generation of graduates after completing their formal education to compete globally in today’s world of work.”

A Global Phenomenon
Without any iota of doubt, youth unemployment is a global phenomenon as the population of homeless, unemployed, and underemployed youths eking out livelihoods in the shadows of “slum cities” around the world keeps growing. The situation in Nigeria is quite worrisome and Lagos, as one of the fastest growing cities in the world, with an estimated population of 18 million, has its own share of the challenge. It will be recalled that in May, the International Labour Organisation  (ILO) put the global youth unemployment, including Nigerians between aged 15 and 24 at over 75 million.

In its Global Employment Trends for Youth 2012 report, ILO said the global youth unemployment rate for 2012 remained stuck at crisis peak levels and was not expected to come down until at least 2016.  ILO Senior Communication and Public Information Officer, Regional Office for Africa Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Guebray Berhane, said in a statement that there had been four million more jobless youth since 2007. “Projections show 12.7 per cent of the global youth labour force will be unemployed this year, unchanged from the peak of the crisis in 2009, and slightly up from last year’s 12.6 per cent,” the report further noted.

No Respite for Nigeria
THISDAY gathered that there appears to be no respite for the country as a whole as the unemployment rate bites harder. Lamenting the dilemma in Nigeria despite the much-touted growth in the economy, the African Economic Outlook 2012 (AEO 2012) inaugurated at the annual meetings of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Arusha, Tanzania, in May, put the unemployment rate among Nigerian youths at 37.7 per cent, saying it was one of the highest in sub-Saharan Africa. The report also noted that despite the country’s robust economic growth, it has ‘failed’ to generate ‘decent’ employment for its people just as poverty has remained high and persistent.  Chief Economist and Vice-President of AfDB, Professor Mthuli Ncube, said “The continent is experiencing jobless growth. That is an unacceptable reality on a continent with such an impressive pool of youth, talent and creativity,” as the report  noted that “Creating productive employment for Africa’s rapidly growing young population is an immense challenge but also the key to future prosperity.”

Youth unemployment in Nigeria is, indeed, soaring as it is standing currently at over 50 percent even as the general unemployment rate keeps spiralling by 16 percent per year. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in a report released last November actually  put the unemployment rate in Nigeria  at 23.9 percent in 2011 though THISDAY gathered that from 2006  to 2011, the country’s unemployment rate averaged 14.6 per cent reaching an all-time high of 23.9 percent in December  2011 and a record low of 5.3 percent in December  2006.  A breakdown of the results indicated that the South-West has the lowest unemployment rate in the country, with Lagos boasting the lowest figure of 7.6 per cent.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/lagos-bold-move-to-tackle-youth-unemployment/120551/

why shouldn't keen watchers note that hardly do we see Fashola flag off any project anywhere in the media but every project he commissions is all over the media, what a fraud

Fashola and Lagos media has swindled gullible Nigerians mentality with Private sector projects and PPP's, the over 30 billion naira monthly IGR is still untouched. what fraud!!!!

t-something:


The difference is that you stated that LASG "chose" Cosharis whereas its was Cosharis who chose to do the project as its CSR. If you read the post , you will see it was Coscharis that injected 1 Billion into the moribund venture and would use it to train students for LASG at no cost to LASG for 4 years after which they will manage it for some years before returning it to LASG.

Bottom line, No LASG fund nor idea is involved in this!!!

it only takes a genius like fashola to spend nothing to gain plenty.you have admitted that the state government wont inject any of its funds but in a few years,it will take back the hitherto moribund venture as a world class institute.all at no cost at all to taxpayers.you have only confirmed what we've been saying,fashola thinks ahead

Rad1cal:

So you are the same as the OP

You were conversing, quoting, replying and liking your posts all day.

what other handle of yours on this thread is busy commending you.

LMAO

Ode, I was talking about the ones I posted.

Why are you no pointing out the 80% PPP projects?I see the other comedian ran off, feel free to help him

scribble:

I'vee been to uyo and eket. U guys have villages and not towns and certainly not cities. Comparing lagos and akwa ibom is a fools errand and. That is why we should actually be ignoring you akpabio propagandists. Yaba is more developed than anywhere in aks.

Akpabio said he ws inspired during the time he lived in surulere. That's why he builds flyover bridge where there is need ffor none.

U guys only carry 1st in child abuse a la child witch saga, political kidnapping and violence, cooking the best soup bar none and beer parlour worship. syocphancy is also an area where u guys r world champs.

Akpabio don thief $ sote, his relation, prince akpabio was once caught laundeering billions. Prince goes to clubs and sexually harasses women.


Wait do u clowns think that if a presidential election held, akpabio would have a tenth as many votes as fashola??
Country bumpkins tryna be city slickers! Una go old o.

Yes, Akpabio got his inspiration from one of AD/AC/ACN creation called Surulere.

oya clap for yourself

wonders shall never end

t-something:


I stated the link for you to read the whole story. Some things in the story worthy of note are ...

1. Coscharis is doing it as a Corporate Social Responsibility
2. Cosharis is injecting N1 Billion into the project
3. Cosharis is to train students for LASG at no cost to the govt
4. Fashola himself marveled at the vision of the project and thanked those who conceptualized it.

If you dispute any of these items, I would paste each paragraph where these were stated.

Now what I want you to prove to me is to show me where in any article or document where Fashola injected funds into this project!! I challenge you on this!! If you can't, we can move to any of his next project you want to bring up for challenge!!

you are simply applauding fashola with this post.he has accomplished something by injecting no funds at all.thats vision my friend

scribble:

I'vee been to uyo and eket. U guys have villages and not towns and certainly not cities. Comparing lagos and akwa ibom is a fools errand and. That is why we should actually be ignoring you akpabio propagandists. Yaba is more developed than anywhere in aks.

Akpabio said he ws inspired during the time he lived in surulere. That's why he builds flyover bridge where there is need ffor none.

U guys only carry 1st in child abuse a la child witch saga, political kidnapping and violence, cooking the best soup bar none and beer parlour worship. syocphancy is also an area where u guys r world champs.

Akpabio don thief $ sote, his relation, prince akpabio was once caught laundeering billions. Prince goes to clubs and sexually harasses women.


Wait do u clowns think that if a presidential election held, akpabio would have a tenth as many votes as fashola??
Country bumpkins tryna be city slickers! Una go old o.

Yes, Akpabio got his inspiration from one of AD/AC/ACN creation called Surulere.

oya clap for yourself

wonders shall never end

Delafruita: it only takes a genius like fashola to spend nothing to gain plenty.you have admitted that the state government wont inject any of its funds but in a few years,it will take back the hitherto moribund venture as a world class institute.all at no cost at all to taxpayers.you have only confirmed what we've been saying,fashola thinks ahead

I think his though process is a little off..

Notice that they conveniently omitted any praise of Ayo Gbeleyi and Fashola and made it seem like it's solely a Coscharis project.

FreeGlobe: [s]why shouldn't keen watchers note that hardly do we see Fashola flag off any project anywhere in the media but every project he commissions is all over the media, what a fraud

Fashola and Lagos media has swindled gullible Nigerians mentality with Private sector projects and PPP's, the over 30 billion naira monthly IGR is still untouched. what fraud!!!! [/s]

How hard is it to show us the 80% PPP? Are you calling yourself lair?

plaindealer: It shouldn't be too hard to point out the so called 80% PPP projects now. What's holding you? Abeg don't run away o

Name the projects whose pictures you posted here with their location and I will prove they are PPP projects for you to delete.

Let's start with the Coscharis Training centre.
LASG contribution was providing a moribund training centre that was established decades ago and Cosharis invested cash into it, So in other words Fashola didn't put in a dime of LASG funds into it, rather it was a wasted facility rotting somewhere that is his own counterpart fund in the arrangement. Note Cosharis is doing this as a Corporate Social Responsibility Project hence the terms would be more in favour of LASG than Cosharis.!!
Now can you prove me wrong or you delete it from his achievements??

Pls, After Going Thru The Thread From Page 1 To Ds Present Page, Now Am Damn Hungry!!

Pls Whr Can I Get Cassava Bread In Ketu?? And I Need Chilled Ibom Bottled Water To Move It Down Ma Belly!

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Akpos Got A Point Wt The Prison Yard.. Dazall!!
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Next Time Guys, Compare Surulere Wt Akwa Ibom And Lagos With The Whole Igbo States

Pls Ignore The Likes Of Insincere9igerian And Afam!!

Delafruita: it only takes a genius like fashola to spend nothing to gain plenty.you have admitted that the state government wont inject any of its funds but in a few years,it will take back the hitherto moribund venture as a world class institute.all at no cost at all to taxpayers.you have only confirmed what we've been saying,fashola thinks ahead

so where is Lagos money? over 30 billion monthly IGR x 6 years. why did Fashola sign an oath of secrecy with all govt officials

t-something:


Eko Ventures is owned by Lagos State decades ago and left to rot. Fashola didn't create the Eko Ventures neither did he use LASG funds to revamp it!! So it doesn't qualify as one of his projects he can boast of !!! Simple!!!

he cant boast about the fact that cosmos maduka bought into fashola's dream and vision and decided to invest 1billion naira into a project?what goes on in that brain of yours?do you think governance is all about spending billions?sensible administrators think of ways of chieving things without using their own money.in business its called OPM.you try to use other people's money to actualize your dreams.thats what made aristotle onassis the great man he became and businessmen today use that principle.mutual funds operate on that principle.that a shreewd businessman like cosmos maduka could feel comfortable enough to put 1billion naira into revamping eko ventures only shows the confidence the private sector has in the lagos state government.it only shows that fashola has provided the enabling environment for the private sector to flourish.the private sector is confident there will not be a policy sommersault as happens with the FG.they are confident the lagos state government will step in whenever things go wrong as happened with the buy-out of the LCC concession.thats what governnance is about

FreeGlobe: why shouldn't keen watchers note that hardly do we see Fashola flag off any project anywhere in the media but every project he commissions is all over the media, what a fraud

Fashola and Lagos media has swindled gullible Nigerians mentality with Private sector projects and PPP's, the over 30 billion naira monthly IGR is still untouched. what fraud!!!!

Stop bleating about, post the 80% ppp projects or just shut up

plaindealer:


How hard is it to show us the 80% PPP? Are you calling yourself lair?

80% private sector/PPP. The dust raised by the Cosharis project here commissioned by baba Fash and claimed as a state govt project is yet to settle, we didn't encounter these controversies earlier with akpabio

Delafruita: please read the article. I've posted the entire thing. It's quite revealing.

FreeGlobe:
so where is Lagos money? over 30 billion monthly IGR x 6 years. why did Fashola sign an oath of secrecy with all govt officials

the fact that lagos even has an IGR of 30billion only shows that the government is working.people are making money because the government has created an enabling environment and these people pay their taxes because they believe in the government.if you want to compare lagos with akwa-ibom,compare them based on their federal allocations.afterall nigeria doesnt practise fiscal federalism.every state is supposed to work with what the receive from the center.why dont you hypocrites analyse the two governors based on that.akwa-ibom receives 20billion monthly while lagos receivesn 7billion.in may this year,akwa-ibom receives 60billion as part of proceeds from excude crude while lagos recived 23billion and thats the way it happens whenever there is funds from excess crude account.why dont you compare them based on that

t-something:


Name the projects whose pictures you posted here with their location and I will prove they are PPP projects for you to delete.

That's kind of silly, my posts and pictures are still here for you to see so why compile a list especial just to support your silly and pointless claim. You made the claim so the burden is on you to right your lies..

Go to work go keep quiet...


Btw, so you made the claims before ascertaining what's PPP or not PPP?

Time to go back to my railway thread. My job's done here. I hope this thread gets to the front page.

naptu2: Delafruita: please read the article. I've posted the entire thing. It's quite revealing.

will do shortly and comment on it

plaindealer:


Ode, I was talking about the ones I posted.

Why are you no pointing out the 80% PPP projects?I see the other comedian ran off, feel free to help him

I will take comedy over deceit any day.

Am still waiting for the OP, won't be surprised if the OP login immediately after reading a reply to you.

Who you dey try job

FreeGlobe:
80% private sector/PPP. The dust raised by the Cosharis project here commissioned by baba Fash and claimed as a state govt project is yet to settle, we didn't encounter these controversies earlier with akpabio

Cosharis = 80%


Your knowledge of Arithmetic sucks like hell? What a born dullard..


Still, how hard is it to show us the 80%? Put your money where your mouth is? Are you a lair?

baynix: Pls, After Going Thru The Thread From Page 1 To Ds Present Page, Now Am Damn Hungry!!

Pls Whr Can I Get Cassava Bread In Ketu?? And I Need Chilled Ibom Bottled Water To Move It Down Ma Belly!

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Next Time Guys, Compare Surulere Wt Akwa Ibom And Lagos With The Whole Igbo States

Pls Ignore The Likes Of Insincere9igerian And Afam!!

Congratulations for showing a rich vein of expired foolishness

Total Transformation
THISDAY gathered that the transformation of
the old facility at the centre to its present state
was total as the project has gulped about
N1billion.

@ t something where in the article did it state that cosmos maduka funded the renovation? Why is it called ppp

http://www.aksgonline.com/devIntermin.aspx


Look at the man's main banner and advertisement on his website.

He even proudly displayed his world class water basket on top..


N555 billion budget for this absurdity...