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Politics / Re: Rufai Oseni's 8 Questions About The Coastal Road Project. by anonimi: 2:24pm
helinues:

All those places Nigerians have been travelling to and enjoy such kind of coastal road projects, how have they been doing it that we can't replicate same in Nigeria?

How many of those places have such kind of coastal road projects but fail to have water supply in every home, office, factory, mosque, church etc

If you have any affinity for suffering and misplaced priorities, please don’t assume that we are all clones of you.

The lack of state-owned pipe-borne water in the homes of Lagos residents has continued to be a source of concern, a non-profit group, Corporate Accountability and Public Advocacy Africa (CAPPA) has said.

At a press event to mark this year’s World Water Day, the group said its monitoring team’s visit to state-owned waterworks showed that most of them are not operational.

The group said the waterworks it visited include the ones at Maryland, Mushin, Ikorodu, Obalende, Agbowa, Onikan, Ikoyi, and Amuwo Odofin.

Only the one in Ikoyi is producing water, according to CAPPA.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/450615-world-water-day-lagos-water-crisis-worsening-group-says.html

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Politics / Re: Rufai Oseni's 8 Questions About The Coastal Road Project. by anonimi: 2:20pm
Saao:
These are serious questions. Umahi may end up in a serious mess after the tenure of Tinubu.

Like what is happening to Emefiele after Buhari’s tenure

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Foreign Affairs / Re: U.S Troops Told To Stay Alert After Russian Forces Moved In Niger Base (Photos) by anonimi: 9:20am
CuriousCart:
Where is that government today?
The government of today wants them gone.

The military usurpers you mean, like the 5 indisciplined Majors who derailed our democracy in January 1966, and opened the doors for coupists and dictators like Buhari to wreck our country over and over again

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Foreign Affairs / Re: U.S Troops Told To Stay Alert After Russian Forces Moved In Niger Base (Photos) by anonimi: 9:17am
Originalsly:
Russians are there to train the Nigerien soldiers ... what are the A.ericans doing there? It is home to their largest drone base in Africa ... th3 base for operations in the region and beyond. They are being kicked out. Recently Nigeria has announced the building of a multi billion dollar military complex ..... in reality... would this be the new drone base? The US needs to get out of Af4ica .... but they wouldn't.... they need the resources and must get it on their terms .... or by force.

Russia does not need Africa’s resources and they are not getting it on their own terms.

Will we ever be wise enough to work for our own salvation instead of being the ping pong ball of contesting international powers

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Foreign Affairs / Re: U.S Troops Told To Stay Alert After Russian Forces Moved In Niger Base (Photos) by anonimi: 9:14am
CuriousCart:
What are US forces doing in Niger?

What are Russian forces doing in Niger

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Politics / Re: Police Arrest Daniel Ojukwu (FIJ Reporter) by anonimi: 7:59am
joseph1832:
It's about that time. The amount of fake and unverified news that blog or whatever spreads, is something else.

Why detain him incommunicado for so long if they have any substantial evidence of wrongdoing?

Should the remedy for defamation not be civil damages instead of criminal prosecution

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Politics / Re: Northern Govs Went On US Trip For ‘Ideas’ To End Insecurity - Radda by anonimi: 7:53am

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Politics / Re: EFCC Submits Additional Proof Of Evidence Against Emefiele by anonimi: 7:03am
peekspot:

https://punchng.com/efcc-submits-additional-proof-of-evidence-against-emefiele/

What happened to the original gun possession case of many months ago

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Events / Re: Babatunde Fashola's Daughter, Yewande, Weds Posi Ogunlesi (Photos) by anonimi: 7:01am
Thegamingorca:

A proud father.

Despite the fact that this man got muddled up in tinubu's dirty gang politics. I'm still a huge fan of his astute meticulousness. He reminds me of my great grey paediatrics lecturer from back then.

How did the astute meticulousness yield improved government services, utilities and facilities in his 8 years of mega IGR, oil at $140 plus loans compared to Jakande’s 4 years before Buhari sacked him

eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.

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Events / Re: Babatunde Fashola's Daughter, Yewande, Weds Posi Ogunlesi (Photos) by anonimi: 6:56am
naptu2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhsBE1ETAdc?si=5me6nU8a8BHgFIIt

The Nation Nigeria @TheNationNews


Who is the groom’s father?
Which VIPs attended the wedding?

Missing information.

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Politics / Re: Politicians Have Enjoyed Enough, It’s Now People’s Turn – Otti by anonimi: 5:13pm On May 03
SoNature:
In several states across Nigeria, enjoyment is an understatement. Politicians rape the state resources with reckless abandon.

Is this because they know that we don’t care if their words are reflected in their actions?

Like Otti, how many workers has he employed to improve common services and utilities with all the loans he has taken in addition to federal allocation and IGR

adamusuleiman1:
This strategic initiative, revealed in a statement by the IsDB, is part of a broader $225 million funding approval designed to propel new development ventures.

Chaired by the esteemed H.E. Dr Muhammad Al Jasser, President and Group Chairman of IsDB, the bank’s 354th meeting of the Board of Executive Directors saw the green light given to two pivotal projects aimed at fortifying socio-economic growth and sustainability in critical sectors.

About the Loan
The $125 million allocation for Nigeria is poised to significantly reduce travel times and costs on major roadways, concurrently enhancing market accessibility and social services for the local populace.

Emphasising inclusivity, the project promises to bolster mobility for all residents, prioritising safe and accessible transport options, notably for vulnerable community segments.

The statemen read:

“Nigeria secured a US$125 million financing package to contribute to the Abia State Integrated Infrastructure Development Project. The project aims to reduce travel times and costs along key roads, while also improving access to markets and social services for local communities.
“Additionally, the project will enhance overall mobility by ensuring safe and accessible transportation for all residents, including vulnerable groups.”

https://nairametrics.com/2024/03/18/abia-state-to-get-125-million-from-islamic-development-bank-for-roads/?amp=1

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Boris Johnson Turned Away From Polling Station After Forgetting ID by anonimi: 11:41am On May 03
TableLeg:
A clumsy blonde bastar....d! grin

How then would you describe Tinubu and/or Buhari

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Boris Johnson Turned Away From Polling Station After Forgetting ID by anonimi: 11:39am On May 03
larryeffizy1:
Tha t can only happen in a sane country... I hope our leaders get it right too!

I hope and pray that WE the masses will do all the work necessary to make our leaders get it right sooner rather than later.

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Foreign Affairs / Re: Boris Johnson Turned Away From Polling Station After Forgetting ID by anonimi: 11:37am On May 03
olatade:


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/690959-boris-johnson-turned-away-from-polling-station-after-forgetting-id.html

Can’t he tell them- don’t you know who I am- like our olodo big boys like to talk around here?

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Business / Re: Naira Closes 1,402/$ At Official Market As Dollar Demand Persists by anonimi: 11:35am On May 03
tctrills:

By their fruits we shall know them. You voted for the real scammer my brother. What are the fruits of the Tinubu government? Hunger, poverty, sorrow and death.
Stop blaming the one you refused to vote for and concentrate on the failure you voted for.

Are you a witch to know who I voted for

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Business / Re: Naira Closes 1,402/$ At Official Market As Dollar Demand Persists by anonimi: 11:34am On May 03
Elxandre:

And aren't there supermarkets in production oriented economies like USA and China?
It's evident many Nigerians lack critical thinking.

Let me repost what you may have missed in the comment I quoted.


“All the goods that can be produced in Nigeria, Obi imports them in his supermarkets. That is consumption economics. That kind of person cannot tell you that he is moving you from consumption to production. He will then be committing self-economic suicide and Obi will not do that to himself”.

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Politics / Re: Joe Okei-Odumakin Celebrates Yinka Odumakin's 3rd Death Anniversary At OAU by anonimi: 9:49am On May 03
Malroux:
Keep resting well Yinka. You told the whole world who Bola Tinubu is. You exposed the mysterious man from Iragbiji. I doubt if he would have become the president if you are still alive.

Maybe his death two years to Emilokan was not purely natural, just like Bola Ige’s death two years to Obasanjo’s reelection.

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Business / Re: Naira Closes 1,402/$ At Official Market As Dollar Demand Persists by anonimi: 9:32am On May 03
rinzaugustine:
Yes o. Obi wanted to run Nigeria like a business that will be attractive for the whole world to buy into . It took him years to study the problems of why Nigeria refused to work and possible solutions and the reason millions of us were awed during his interviews on arise tv and every fora that was open to him including Chatham house but Tinubu never addressed Nigeria for one day on how to tackle the economic challenges facing the country except for the bulaba, garaga, emilokan gutter statements. He stole the election and today he is stuck and doesn’t know what to do anymore

Peter Obi is a fraudulent scammer who says what he fails to do.

Why should anyone who is not a scammer like him, take such a person seriously

bennybuhari:
“’I cannot take anything back about Obi. I said Obi said he wants to move Nigeria back from consumption to production and I said that is not true. He cannot do it because his own business survives on consumption. Is that a lie? He has been an importer and I said he deals with cash and carry economics; container economics, imports”.

“All the goods that can be produced in Nigeria, Obi imports them in his supermarkets. That is consumption economics. That kind of person cannot tell you that he is moving you from consumption to production. He will then be committing self-economic suicide and Obi will not do that to himself”.

“So, Obi is deceiving everybody and I can’t take that back because that is true.

https://independent.ng/peter-obi-deceiving-everybody-i-wont-retract-my-statement-about-him-dele-alake/
 

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Sports / Re: Messi Makes MLS History In Thrilling Inter Miami Win At Sold-out Gillette Stadia by anonimi: 9:28am On May 03
AngelicBeing:
Get good sponsors, pay the local league players good wages, encourage fans with freebies to watch different games, remove your potbellied criminal politicians masquerading as sport lovers from your various oluwole FA's , provide adequate security in all stadias / match venues etc shocked

Sporting Lagos is doing all the above things as a profit oriented football club.

How do we get the governors to privatise the other clubs and even the league itself

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Sports / Re: Messi Makes MLS History In Thrilling Inter Miami Win At Sold-out Gillette Stadia by anonimi: 8:57am On May 03
Almiron:
https://www.si.com/soccer/2024/04/28/lionel-messi-mls-history-inter-miami-win-gilette-stadium#:~:text=Tickets-

What do we need to do with our national league football teams to get sold out stadiums for every game

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Politics / Re: Construction Of Coastal Routes Can Strengthen Naira - David Umahi by anonimi: 6:41am On May 03
CodeTemplar:
Any strength it can bring the Naira, local production can bring us ten times of it.

Don’t mind the shameless propagandist of a liar.

What % of the construction materials and men are made locally? If they are mostly imported then how will they strengthen the Naira instead of weakening it

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Politics / Re: Construction Of Coastal Routes Can Strengthen Naira - David Umahi by anonimi: 6:37am On May 03
Ttalk:
Racoon the baboon is here with his IPOBIC opinion driven by bitterness and jealousy.

These are irrational minds that descend on anyone who has a different opinion about Nigeria. They can kill their parents the moment they agree with the present government.

You will cry for 30 years until you get old and depressed, no be curse, na reality of your agony I dey warn you about

Why did you choose 30 years like Bwala below

Bobloco:
Even If You Give Tinubu 30 Years, Nothing Will Work – Daniel Bwala

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Daniel Bwala, has suggested that the current administration of President Bola Tinubu may end up like his predecessor.

He noted that this was exactly how Nigerians were told to be patient for eight years while the Buhari administration was busy doing very little or nothing at all.

Bwala said that Tinubu has already spent 31.8 percent of his first term in office and has only succeeded in raising the sufferings of Nigerians during this period.

“When people talk about being patient and waiting, you have to look at the time frame the public officer is expected to execute the work,” Bwala, who was the spokesperson of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council for the 2023 elections, said on Channels TV on Monday.

“The President has just been voted into a term of four years. He is eight months into the term which constitutes 31.8 percent of the total time that he has.

“He has less than 70 percent time in government, when is that going to happen? When President Buhari took over in 2015 it was the same language and we patiently followed and he finished the first term and finished the second term.

When there is a fundamental problem with policy, time is irrelevant, 30 years it will not work. Most of the economists I’ve listened to have faulted the President’s budget with which he was supposed to deliver the agenda flat-out…

https://dailypost.ng/2023/12/26/even-if-you-give-tinubu-30-years-nothing-will-work-daniel-bwala/

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Politics / Re: Construction Of Coastal Routes Can Strengthen Naira - David Umahi by anonimi: 6:33am On May 03
Faiththatworks:
Let me agree that HE Engr Dave Umahi exaggerated the story but there is no denying the fact that Nigeria will greatly benefit from the Coastal Road project especially cities,villages, towns and states located along the Coastal Road.I will speak directly on the villages and towns in Lagos,Ogun and Ondo State that will benefit from the Coastal Road project

Let me start with Lagos State:
From the Dangote Refinery End of the Coastal Road located in Ibeju Lekki,villages like Ise,Oshorko,Lekki Town,Igbogun will come alive with the Coastal Road
This communities are located very close to Ocean and will further create more opportunities for Investors to locate resorts and hotels, tourist beaches when the project is completed

Ogun State
The project is expected to go through the Ogun Waterside LGA.This community shares boundaries with Ibeju Lekki LGA and the Atlantic Ocean.The whole LGA will see an increment in business opportunities. I call that LGA one of the most hidden secret of tourism in Nigeria
With beautiful beaches, lagoons and waterfront the Coastal Road will bring the much needed investment to that community

Ondo State
It is expected that a bridge will connect the Ogun State End with the Ondo State End,the bridge will make Landfall in a town called Araromi.It is a riverine community home to good aquatic life and also close to the oil producing communities in Ondo State

This project will create thousands of jobs,cut travel time and create massive development in Coastal communities that have been abandoned by their state government, if this is not enough to continue with the project, then I don't know what is

Why did the trillions spent on infrastructure by Buhari fail to strengthen the Naira?

Do you have any clue why

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Politics / Re: Lagos GDP Hits ₦‎41 Trillion, Ranks 7th In Africa by anonimi: 4:46pm On May 02
SoliBayNG:
Thanks to all the wuru-wuru and favoritism....aka refusal to decongest ports and airspace for cargo

Why are south east and south south senators and representatives as well as ministers failing in their duties to the people who sent them to Abuja?

What will your misdirected wailing achieve

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Politics / Re: Lagos GDP Hits ₦‎41 Trillion, Ranks 7th In Africa by anonimi: 4:44pm On May 02
socialmediaman:
Fashola, Ambode, and Sanwo Olu have been instrumental to this achievement

An achievement that has very little or no meaning to the millions of Lagosians who are squeezed daily for IGR and whose generations unborn will pay the loans borrowed in their joint names

eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.


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Politics / Re: Lagos GDP Hits ₦‎41 Trillion, Ranks 7th In Africa by anonimi: 4:42pm On May 02
atobs4real:
Lagos Nigeria. Lasgidi the first.

The first among the worst global cities

itubaba001:
Lagos, the commercial hub of Nigeria, has been ranking as one of the worst places to live in the world for the nine straight years, a BusinessDay analysis shows.

Data from the 2019 Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leader in global business intelligence, shows the city has been within the range of 137th-139th position out of a total of 140 cities in the world from year 2011-2019.
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The EIU examines the quality of health care, education, infrastructure, stability, and culture when assessing living conditions of each city. More than 30 factors are taken into account when calculating each rank, which are then complied into a weighted score between one and 100.

https://businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/lagos-ranks-amongst-worst-cities-to-live-in-for-nine-straight-years/

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Politics / Re: Lagos GDP Hits ₦‎41 Trillion, Ranks 7th In Africa by anonimi: 4:41pm On May 02
kettykin:
From 5th to 7th, wonders shall never cease

Na so o, ThiefNuibu abracadabra propaganda lies that are being unpacked and unravelled at the federal level.

Lagos economy is growing from 5th to 7th while the country's economy is going down from 1st to 4th.

Who is fooling who? Who is part of Lagbaja's 200 million mumus

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Politics / Re: Lagos GDP Hits ₦‎41 Trillion, Ranks 7th In Africa by anonimi: 4:38pm On May 02
Sonyboom:
Don't mind them sebi Abia can boast of constant light ?

Normally that should be the case with the presence of Geometric, which is one of the legacies of PDP privatisation of the power sector..

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Politics / Re: Lagos GDP Hits ₦‎41 Trillion, Ranks 7th In Africa by anonimi: 4:37pm On May 02
100millionGoal:
Yet they can't boast of something as little as constant light

ThiefNuibu squandered the opportunity with his Enron fellow crooks.
Ordinarily he should be roasting in jail like the guys he looted Lagos with in America.

Judge hands out prison time in Enron barge scam

Ex-Enron, Merrill execs sentenced. A repentant Boyle gets nearly four years for his involvement in barge scandal

May 13, 2005

Former Enron executive Dan Boyle was sentenced to nearly four years in prison Thursday, while Robert Furst and William Fuhs, both former Merrill Lynch bankers, received more than three years — all for their roles in the Enron Nigerian barge scam.

Boyle, sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison and fined $320,000, was the only one who appeared repentant about pushing through a sham sale of energy-generating barges to the bank so Enron could pump its earnings and bolster its stock price.

"I'm the only one responsible for my actions and omissions and for the pain I caused each and every person I affected," the Clear Lake resident told the judge. "I'm truly sorry."

https://www.chron.com/business/enron/article/Judge-hands-out-prison-time-in-Enron-barge-scam-1942569.php

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Politics / Re: See How Gov Soludo Is Transforming Onitsha (photos) by anonimi: 3:47pm On May 02
ElSudani:
Obidients didn't like him for not supporting their next to nothing candidate.

Soludo said the truth about the Pandora scammer.
Nothing but the truth.

jameshankss:
Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said he is sure the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, would lose the 2023 presidential election. Soludo said he would not submit to the bullying of Obi’s supporters, who recently descended on him for addressing issues in the state.

The governor made the comments in a lengthy write-up personally authored, with the title, “History Beckons, and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1).”

Soludo said Obi was inadvertently making the pathway to victory much easier for the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and at the same time, toying with the destiny of millions of Ndigbo.

But the chief spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, Yunusa Tanko, accused Soludo of being sponsored by some unknown persons to weaken the base of the party in the South-east.

The former CBN governor had been under intense attack for close to a week for dismissing Obi’s investment in the state as amounting to nothing, during a television interview.

Soludo said in the write-up, “My attention has been drawn to some of the tirades on social media following my frank response during an interview on Channels TV regarding the ‘investments’ Mr. Peter Obi claimed to have made with Anambra State revenues.

“Sadly, several of the comments left the issue of the interview to probe or suggest motives, inferred from my response on ‘investment’ that I am opposed to Peter Obi’s ambition and, therefore, committed a ‘crime’ for which the punishment is internecine abuse and harassment, even to my family.

“Everyone knows that I don’t follow the winds or one to succumb to bullies, or shy away from a good fight especially, when weighty matters of principles and future of the people are involved.”

Soludo said he had urged Obi to return to his former party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), to actualise his presidential bid. He added that he had always told the LP candidate to his face that he was not capable of winning the 2023 presidential election, especially, under LP, which had neither a councillor nor a local government chairman.

Soludo said Obi was not just his friend, but also his brother, but despite that, they have their political differences.

He stated, “For full disclosure, let me state that Peter Obi and I are not just friends, we call ourselves ‘brothers’. But we have political differences: he left APGA for PDP after his tenure as governor, while I have remained in APGA since 2013.

“During the last two governorship elections in Anambra in 2017 and 2021, he led the PDP campaigns but APGA won landslide in both elections. By the way, in 2016, he visited and proposed that I defect to PDP and contest the 2017 election against the incumbent Willie Obiano, but I declined.

“After my victory in November 2021, he called to congratulate me, as I did to him in 2010. That is the Anambra way: we fight fiercely during campaigns but share drinks at the next social events. After all, it was the Great Zik of Africa, who taught us that in politics, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies but only permanent interests.”

Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”

Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.

He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/11/15/soludo-i-wont-succumb-to-bullies-obi-knows-he-cant-win/

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Politics / Re: See How Gov Soludo Is Transforming Onitsha (photos) by anonimi: 3:43pm On May 02
Anambra1stSonTV:
Gov Soludo transformation of Onitsha

This is dualization of ongoing dualisation of Down flyover upper Iweka to Main market Onitsha and reconstruction of Ochanja Roundabout Onitsha

If he is not doing a similar transformation in the education sector, then what is the meaning of all these cheap & cheerful chinko projects? Is that all he has done with the billions received monthly from the masses and on their behalf

What % of the schools in Anambra are run by the state and local governments?

What % of children are in free government schools?

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Education / Re: English Gurus Pls What Is The Answer To This ?? by anonimi: 3:38pm On May 02
Asawoboy:
grin grin

Is that not also applicable in other languages, such as Yoruba:

Iya lu ọmọ rẹ̀ nitori wipe o mu ọti yo.

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