OneCandleAway: Maybe median rich people are clean. But extremely rich people or wealthy people are not clean. The likes of dangote, otedola these guys aren't clean.
Just like the rich monopolies in America, South Korea and elsewhere. They are needed for the collective prosperity of everyone, since they manage resources better than government owned businesses.
The business practices and questionable tactics that Rockefeller used to create Standard Oil would make the Enron crowd blush. But the finished product was not nearly as damaging to the economy or the environment as the industry was before Rockefeller monopolized it.
In the early days of the oil industry, many competing oil companies were eager to find a source and drilled indiscriminately, pumping waste products into rivers or straight out on the ground rather than troubling with proper disposal. They cut costs by using shoddy pipelines that were prone to leakage.
By the time Standard Oil had cornered 90% of oil production and distribution in the U.S., it had learned how to make money off of even its industrial waste, with Vaseline being one of the new products that were developed.
The benefits of having a monopoly like Standard Oil in the country were only evident after it had built a nationwide infrastructure for oil distribution in order to avoid dependence on trains and their notoriously fluctuating costs.
The size of Standard Oil allowed it to undertake projects that smaller competitors could never have embarked upon. In that sense, it was as beneficial as state-regulated utilities for developing the U.S. into an industrial nation. Despite the eventual breakup of Standard Oil in 1911, the government realized that a monopoly could build up a reliable infrastructure and deliver low-cost service to a broader base of consumers than competing firms. That lesson influenced its decision to allow the AT&T monopoly to continue until 1982.
Onyedikachi231: Peter Obi is crying so much for the lessons we are teaching him and obidients. With my APC card, I bought 92 naira per litre at iyana paja.
Pandora Bitter Obi should be crying for another reason. He should be crying because his political naivety helped Tinubu achieve his ebilokan dream of continuing APC shege that was mistaken for change in 2015.
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.
Seefinish: in Nigeria we don't celebrate honest people rather we crucify them and then celebrate heartless and wicked people. The life of the man reminds of a Nigerian movie I watched titled " died wretched"
In life, he was not celebrated neither in death.
How was he supposed to be celebrated in life that he was not celebrated? Specifics please.
Nonexisting1: Wetin he design, green white green? Like Mungo Park discovered river Niger weh don dey exist before they born his ancestors. Rip to papa though.
Imagine if he was an American, the president, ex-presidents and state governors would attend his funeral with lot's of eulogies, but it's a different story in Nigeria, we don't honor our heroes
they could not give him State burial or fly the flags at half-staff for the man that designed it, not in Abuja, not in Abia, not in Ogun or Kano
If he was American, he would not be buried with so much money relative to the country’s wealth, or in our case, relative to our country’s extreme poverty.
Was he not awarded £100 when his design was chosen in 1958?
Americans would rather prioritise their money on education for all their children, as well as research to continue dominating us blacks who prefer to keep our dead bodies in oyinbo designed and manufactured mortuaries for 12 months before spending unavailable money to bury them.
Passionate888: Na so fashola use constant power supply deceive many people
So true. I remember the grammarian calling Jonathan and his ministers amateur and incompetent, only to be a complete disaster in his federal job.
1United1: State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said the only way the country can have stable electricity is to vote out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from power in next year’s general election.
Fashola, who gave the counsel while marking his 2,600 days in office at an elaborate ceremony held at the Blue Roof of the Lagos Television premises, said electricity crisis in the country is caused by lack of ideas and insincerity of purpose on the part of Federal Government.
He said,” Yes I agree with you that it is possible to generate electricity and to make sure that everybody in this country has electricity, we have to do the right thing. But you know what, the only way that you and I will have electricity in this country will be to vote out the PDP.
” In 16 years hundreds of billions of naira have been spent and we cannot switch on electricity and in seven years we have created four plants. It shows that something is missing. So unless you vote for All Progressive Congress it is going to be difficult to have electricity.
“They started from vision 2020-20 and I told you then that they were having a nightmare, that there was no vision. “They moved to seven point agenda and now they are transforming.”
madone: you probably were still in primary school when the northern elites were doing everything to make GEJ step down for a northerner since yar dua didnt complete his term. The north did then they found alliance with Tinubu's party and buhari's party to form the coalition. Of APC. To kill GEJ out.
How is that different from what you read in my comment about Tinubu saying that he alone made Buhari president in 2015
NLCreator: Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has defended the purchase of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for members of the national assembly.
There have been reports that the leadership of the 10th national assembly has bought SUVs for all lawmakers.
Each SUV is said to be valued at N160 million.
The LP had asked members of the party in the national assembly to kick against “wastage”.
While responding to questions during a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the former governor of Anambra said the SUVs are not personal cars of the lawmakers, noting that they are for official use.
“Let me start with the issue of Labour Party members in the house. I have actually discussed this issue with them,” Obi said.
“Surprisingly, I can tell you I heard that these vehicles are official cars. They have to use it. It is meant for office.
“So it is not as if it is their vehicle. They said it is official cars and you are meant to use it while you are in the senate.”
Obi also hinted at contesting for the country’s number one position in 2027, adding that Nigeria deserves dedicated and visionary leaders who will lead the country towards a brighter future.
newsbook: Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has re-echoed his allegation that his predecessor, Mr Peter Obi demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him for sponsoring his election in 2013.
Obiano and his predecessor, Obi have had a frosty relationship shortly after his swearing in.
Obi has however denied that he demanded for the sum of N7.5billion from Obiano, saying that his problem with him was his (Obiano’s) underperformance.
Obi said if he needed the said sum, he would have simply taken it from the N75billion he left for the Obiano administration at the end of his tenure.
But Governor Obiano while speaking on Wednesday evening at Ezechima Primary School, Onitsha where he inaugurated his reelection campaigns in Onitsha North Council Area, said the clarification became necessary because of the recent accusations against him by the former Governor.
He stated that his predecessor had demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him as funds spent in prosecuting the election on his behalf, but that he refused to pay the money because it was not true.
Obiano said he refused to pay because he strongly believed that public funds should be used for public good, and not to settle godfathers.
These, he said, was the reason they fell apart.
The governor said that another reason he refused to pay the money was because he was aware that enough money was raised for his campaign by his friends and associates, all of which were never accounted for by the former governor.
On the actual sum the former Governor claimed he left behind, Governor Obiano made it clear that he inherited liability of about N127 billion debt from him in contracts awarded and other responsibilities, which he has been religiously undertaking in the spirit of continuity.
He said Obi flagged off several roads even on the day he was leaving office and saddled him with the burden of paying for it, but he assured the people that he has his eyes on the ball and will not allow anything to distract him from fulfilling his promises.
The Chairman of the Governor’s Re-election Campaign Committee, Chief Victor Umeh said APGA as the political spirit of Ndigbo, has in the past three and half years, availed Anambra good governance at its best, reminding the people that the upcoming guber election was not about Willie Obiano but about ensuring that the state remained free from political godfatherism.
A former Central Bank Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo in his speech said that at this time, the State needs a tested hand like Governor Obiano who has the experience and expertise to effectively steer her affairs.
Chinonye2022: Best bet for PDP is to present Gej and beg obi to bow down it will be a Walk over for PDP my opinion
Is Pandora Bitter Obi back with the capitalists in PDP, where he ran to after his Fidelity Bank boy rendered him homeless in 2014? I thought he was still with the communist labourers in his vain attempt to grab power and loot our commonwealth as he did in Anambra for eight years. What a pretentious rogue he is. A green snake under the green grass.
newsbook: Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has re-echoed his allegation that his predecessor, Mr Peter Obi demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him for sponsoring his election in 2013.
Obiano and his predecessor, Obi have had a frosty relationship shortly after his swearing in.
Obi has however denied that he demanded for the sum of N7.5billion from Obiano, saying that his problem with him was his (Obiano’s) underperformance.
Obi said if he needed the said sum, he would have simply taken it from the N75billion he left for the Obiano administration at the end of his tenure.
But Governor Obiano while speaking on Wednesday evening at Ezechima Primary School, Onitsha where he inaugurated his reelection campaigns in Onitsha North Council Area, said the clarification became necessary because of the recent accusations against him by the former Governor.
He stated that his predecessor had demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him as funds spent in prosecuting the election on his behalf, but that he refused to pay the money because it was not true.
Obiano said he refused to pay because he strongly believed that public funds should be used for public good, and not to settle godfathers.
These, he said, was the reason they fell apart.
The governor said that another reason he refused to pay the money was because he was aware that enough money was raised for his campaign by his friends and associates, all of which were never accounted for by the former governor.
On the actual sum the former Governor claimed he left behind, Governor Obiano made it clear that he inherited liability of about N127 billion debt from him in contracts awarded and other responsibilities, which he has been religiously undertaking in the spirit of continuity.
He said Obi flagged off several roads even on the day he was leaving office and saddled him with the burden of paying for it, but he assured the people that he has his eyes on the ball and will not allow anything to distract him from fulfilling his promises.
The Chairman of the Governor’s Re-election Campaign Committee, Chief Victor Umeh said APGA as the political spirit of Ndigbo, has in the past three and half years, availed Anambra good governance at its best, reminding the people that the upcoming guber election was not about Willie Obiano but about ensuring that the state remained free from political godfatherism.
A former Central Bank Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo in his speech said that at this time, the State needs a tested hand like Governor Obiano who has the experience and expertise to effectively steer her affairs.
Arabk25: I rather remain in my house than to vote in an election that's not free, fair and transparent Please November is by the corner subscribe your dstv and watch how elections are been done in the US not this rubbish the likes of MC oluomo and his co-host are doing in Nigeria sponsored by your grandfather all in the name of election
As I said, you are so brilliant that you are bright.
I guess you also know that American election became this way because brightly brilliant guys like you have been staying home instead of participating in the various aspects of the political system leading up to the elections. Was it Nigerians who went there to do the work of making their elections so?
Why did your grandfathers allow MC Oluomo make their own elections not free, fair and transparent? Do you know why? Or you will watch DSTv to find out in November
Arabk25: Wouldn't it be better to play football on election day then to vote and inec will choose who they like We've seen these countless number of times A country where it's electoral body determines who wins elections and not the other way round. Aren't you ashamed of such system? Is it a curse that Nigerians won't enjoy good governance like other countries?
You are so brilliant that you are bright. Staying away from election and the political process also, is the best way to make our country enjoy good governance like other countries.
madone: let APC complete their 16years of rule so tgey wont say its becos they did not complete 16years. when the north was crying they wanted Buhari, Buhari the most righteous man in the north they have now calm down cos they know Buhari failed them. The best they could say during the protest was for Russia to come rule them. No visible or trustworthy candidate in the north same will be the case of APC. A time will come in this country that if you are called to be president you go think am well before you say yes. Nigeria is bigger than Tinubu or any modafoka
Stop your distortions. It was Tinubu who cried that he wanted Buhari so he can get his ebilokan chance last year for continuing APC failures. Know this and know peace.
Emergingnation: Flashback: How Bola Tinubu spoke highly of Buhari in 2015, named PDP ‘Poverty Development Party
National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu had during the presidential campaign in 2015, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as the only solution for the security and economic challenges facing Nigeria.
During a mega presidential rally, the former governor of Lagos State recalled how some powerful nations in the world returned to army generals when they were challenged, saying “Major General Buhari would revive Nigeria’s economy”.
He named the current opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP as the “Poverty Development Party saying they had nothing to offer.
His words at the time were; “Every nation has a period of their own challenges, when America was challenged, they turned to one great man, their ex-military general, General Eisenhower. When the French were challenged, they turned to their general, Charles de Gaulle.
“When Britain was challenged, they turned to their general. Today, Nigeria is economically and physically challenged so we turn to General Muhammadu Buhari. He is the right man for the job. If you talk about military experience, he has it abundantly, he has courage, simplicity, he has it abundantly.
“If you talk about great determination, a combination of vision and ability to perform, honesty and integrity, he has it abundantly.
“I laugh when the incapable government, ‘Poverty Development Party’ PDP were talking. They have nothing again to say, they now want to question the qualifications of General Buhari and look for his certificate”.
Following the manifestos in 2015 which projected the APC presidential candidate as a ‘saviour’, Buhari defeated the then incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with Nigerians expecting a total change in security and economy.
psucc: Of course, GEJ will be the last person to accept contesting again for Nigeria's presidency. I love the way he just left the stage. He gave us a choice. But we choose the change we're "enjoying" today.
In 2023, we had yet again another grace to move out of the woods but because of deep seated hatred and an age long prejudice handed over to us, we rejected that golden chance. The major issue with the Peter Obi presidency is because most of those milking this country will definitely lose grip, they resort to tribalism and bigotry smeared with the Biafran agenda.
By 2027 when the doors will be presented again, I wish we continue in the change agenda.
Balderdash propaganda noise of hypocrites. If Bitter Obi is not milking our country as well as other politicians why did he hide money in Pandora Papers instead of providing common water to all cities and towns of Anambra during his eight years?
Report: How Peter Obi as Anambra governor failed to declare assets kept in tax havens
Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra state, kept secret assets in tax havens, a series of leaked documents has shown.
The leaked files which were retrieved from 14 offshore services firms around the world were revealed in a Pandora Papers project led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), and which Premium Times is a part of.
In his response, the former governor told Premium Times: “I don’t declare what is owned with others. If my family owns something I won’t declare it. I didn’t declare anything I jointly owed with anyone.”
In 2010, more than four years after Obi became governor, he reportedly set up his first discreet company in the British Virgin Island, and named the company Gabriella Investments Limited, after his daughter.
To set up what has now become a convoluted business structure, Obi, Premium Times reported first approached Acces International, a secrecy enabler in Monaco, France, to help him incorporate an offshore entity in one of the world’s most notorious tax havens noted for providing conduits for wealthy and privileged corrupt political elites to hide stolen cash.
According to the newspaper, Obi also paid Acces International to provide nominee directors for the company — these directors are residents of tax havens paid to sit on boards of companies to hide the identities of real owners of offshore firms.
Acces International officials, who reportedly took briefs from Obi and or his representatives, headed to the British Virgin Island where they contracted a local registered agent – Aleman Cordero Galindo & Lee Trust (BVI) Limited (Alcogal) — to set up Gabriella Investments Limited for the former governor.
NLCreator: Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has defended the purchase of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for members of the national assembly.
There have been reports that the leadership of the 10th national assembly has bought SUVs for all lawmakers.
Each SUV is said to be valued at N160 million.
The LP had asked members of the party in the national assembly to kick against “wastage”.
While responding to questions during a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the former governor of Anambra said the SUVs are not personal cars of the lawmakers, noting that they are for official use.
“Let me start with the issue of Labour Party members in the house. I have actually discussed this issue with them,” Obi said.
“Surprisingly, I can tell you I heard that these vehicles are official cars. They have to use it. It is meant for office.
“So it is not as if it is their vehicle. They said it is official cars and you are meant to use it while you are in the senate.”
Obi also hinted at contesting for the country’s number one position in 2027, adding that Nigeria deserves dedicated and visionary leaders who will lead the country towards a brighter future.
Goodluck jonathan will win any election in nigeria presently. Peter obi should step down for him
But i doubt if he will make any meaningful change. He was and is part of the problem..
So, no solution in sight. We will all keep crying here in hell
Lindlady: If Jonathan contest against Tinubu in 2027 he will win massively.
Only naive Pandora Bitter Obi supporters would expect Jonathan to win any election in our country. Governance is different from politicking even though closely related and even intertwined.
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.
Hemanwel: OP, how on earth will you talk about the origin of Dangote refinery without you talking about the amount that was used to purchase the land? Oh so, you don't want the omoniles in Ibeju-Lekki to know the real amount that was paid for their lands?
Well, I will help you do that:
Let me use this opportunity to loud it that, Dangote paid the sum of $20m for the lands he built his refinery and fertilizer plants.
Fortunately, I was part of the fertilizer project from 2017 to early 2020.
Peace out!
You are a genius for reminding us of this aspect of the origin of the refinery, even though you minimised the amount paid to LASG.
No Single Incentive From FG’ The billionaire business tycoon said his refinery did not enjoy any incentive from the Federal Government.
“In the refinery, we did not, and I repeat, we did not collect one single incentive from the Federal Government of Nigeria or even Lagos State. Yes, the Lagos State gave us a good deal but we paid $100m for the land. It wasn’t a free land; we paid for it,” he said.
Ttalk: The progress of Lagos State has been a long journey, if your state governor has been redundant and you are now attracted to the development of Lagos State to claim it belongs to all then you are on a long thing.
What you'll fail to know is that we will colonised you, compel to to speak our language, change your culture, and reduce it to inferiority, you will abandon Isiala for gbegiri and ewedu, and you will get possessed that you won't be able to travel home for the festival.
But note that your dead won't be bury in our cementry, we would ensure your place is turned to burial ground for those who spend their lives in Lagos
Before you know what hits you, you are already an adopted son of Lagos.
The choice is yours, that is what we wanted, and will judiciously execute it as a Lagoisian from generation to generation. We don't shout we use our brain
Is this what Lagosians, led by the genocidal Oba are doing in Britain also, seeing that the state is unable to provide government employment for free education schools and 24/7 tap water with adequate pressure
tiwaz: Oba of Lagos Rilwan Akiolu, was spotted on the streets of London holding what seemed like agege bread. LOL Abi him no wan chop onyibo food?
Diligence: Those were Guv Lateef Jakande's blueprint including[b] seaport, airport, Metropolitan rails, but certified failure - Buhari - toppled the Govt of Alh Shehu Sagari which truncated the blueprint of Guv Lateef Jakande in Lagos. [/b] GLJ built so many low cost housing units, built roads, bridges with meagre revenue... He was not corrupt...built only one house at Ilupeju & was using his only one Crown car for years ..
Thank you for complementing this story with the Jakande input. Stay blessed.
Jakande @ 90: 9 Achievements of Alhaji Lateef Jakande as Lagos Governor
1. The first governor to present a billion Naira state budget in Nigeria.
2. He phased out the shift system in Lagos schools in three months. He built functional classrooms to absorb those who only attend schools for three hours a day.
3. He opened up what is now known as the Lekki Corridor.
4. He built the biggest Housing estate by a state government at Abesan, along with five other estates.
5. He built LASU, LACOED, LASPOTECH and Technical schools to absorb the products of the free education policy.
6 He built General Hospitals and Health centers in all the five divisions of Lagos. He also upgraded General Hospital Ikeja to the Medical arm of LASU.
7. He created the Agric hub at Oko Oba. He also created similar hubs in Ikorodu, Epe and Badagry.
8. His government’s strict adherence to the party manifesto of Free Education, Free Health care, Rural integration and Housing for all, along with other UPN governors, created the largest pool of human resources in Nigeria.
9. He moved the Lagos State Government Secretariat from PWD to Alausa, which he built from scratch. He also lived in his personal house and drove his personal car throughout his tenure.
However, workers at the refineries were afraid that they would be sacked if Bluestar Consortium took over the refinery. They threatened to go on strike and there was a lot of media propaganda that President Obasanjo gave the refineries to his friends. The Yar'Adua Administration was reversing a lot of the measures that were taken by the Obasanjo Administration (NIPP, railways, etc) and so they reversed the sale of the refineries and returned Bluestar's money.
It is ironical how Nigerians believe that Yar'Adua was a good president simply for reducing petrol price at the beginning of his Iwuruwuru INEC made mandate. Whay are we so cheap to influence
So much reversal and corruption in his 3 years of high oil prices and revenue with nothing to show for it until Jonathan took over.
Great100000: “It is expected that with the injection of 30,000MT (1000 trucks of 30MT each of this important staple into Nigeria’s food balance sheet, it will not only crash the price of rice but also other closer food substitutes and alternatives,” he said.
What will happen after the 30,000MT of rice is exhausted? Back to default ebiNpawa wailing mode
How can a Chicago accountant and former Mobil staff be so incompetent and clueless in managing our economy? All the propaganda lies about developing Lagos to the 4th economy has been exposed now.
senatordave1: Since Obaseki failed,let us vote out his party and the candidate he is projecting. By 2027, if tinubu fails,we vote out APC.simple..
Obaseki failed in roads,sports,economy,employment,education,security
Thankfully, Buhari succeeded in his eight years and that is why the man who alone made him APC messiah of change four years after calling him expired, for the old soldier to wail like a baby on tv, got his ebilokan turn under Yorubalokan cover to build on Buhari's success. Brilliant, innit
LieDetector: President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians to ensure continuity of his regime by voting for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 presidential election.
“The forthcoming general elections will provide us with the opportunity to convince the electorate of the need for continuity to enable our party to consolidate on our achievements in the last 7 years,” Mr Buhari said.
The president, according to a statement by his spokesperson Femi Adesina on Friday, disclosed this while receiving a delegation from Nasarawa State. “The Government and people of Nasarawa State, as usual, have a great role to play in returning our party to governance in the 2023 elections, in order to create a path for greater socio-economic growth and development.
“This is not only important for Nigeria alone but also for the West African Sub-Region,” the president was further quoted as saying.
Those who are ideologically opposed to privatisation and deregulation of the economy. Those who want big government sharing money instead of getting people to WORK, create/add value to earn a living in dignity while making the society function better.
Afrojuju2017: Olumide communist, the man is a corporate lawyer, all the thieving, scheming and corporate manipulations large corps have been doing in Africa has been done with the aid of lawyers like himself.
He is the epitome of dangerous capitalism
So what is he doing with communist labourers in LP? Those who are opposed to privatisation and deregulation of the economy. Is he just using them to grab power like Peter Obi tried and failed? Why should he be trusted with power when he is a deceitful 419er
Princedapace: Are u ready? I willl sponsor both of us to enter street, even in the Yoruba streets to interview common people on the street about Tinubu. If they catch that man without his security details, he wont escape alive for most streets now. How can I be queuing to buy expensive fuel.
Can anything be more pathetic? You remove subsidy, hike price and still make fuel scarce.
Is Tinubu no longer the Chicago graduate with Mobil experience The magician who alone made Lagos the 4th economy?
omooba969: What do you know about ideology, or do you just enjoy throwing around words that you know nothing about?
If you're sincerely ready for this discourse, we should talk about 'ideology'.
If you know everything about ideology, why have you not shared the works you are doing to make your political ideology dominant for our governance systems
Politics / Re: How Much Is Fuel In Your Area? by anonimi: 8:03am On Sep 07
