and all GEJ will say is: a commity will be set up 2 look into how d grass in this stadium will be cut...................HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA LAUGHING IN CAPITAL LETEERS

blacksta: so where did the failed Olympians train ?

^^^The answer is in your question.

na soo the pitch fertile .... and what is the GOvt. doing about turning it into a cassava farm

Ji_sun_pack: Photoshop! una sabi say Sahara reporters na gossips.

Dis is not photoshop O...W Watched it on Channels TV..The Super eagles wanted 2 Train TheY Buh Seeing the trees on the pitch dey had 2 Train elsewhere...CanT believe its dat Beautiful Stadium dat was opened wayback in 2003 wen We Played Brazil...GoD HelP Us

Was there a riot Was there a riot

I beg to disagree with the part you mentioned God. Until when we start putting real people in position of authority and not voting a silver back gorilla because he is from Niger Delta, no God will ever come down from heaven to weed these grasses.

Show me any evidence where any God came down to help people weed grass or fix leaking roofs.

Gwekzy: Dis is not photoshop O...W Watched it on Channels TV..The Super eagles wanted 2 Train TheY Buh Seeing the trees on the pitch dey had 2 Train elsewhere...CanT believe its dat Beautiful Stadium dat was opened wayback in 2003 wen We Played Brazil...GoD HelP Us

A committee of thieves will set up an Enquiry into this issue...TYPICAL NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT , absolutely BOLLUCKS.

WE ALL NEED TO WAKE UP and CHANGE OUR WAYS OF LIFE, an average Nigerians is in depression caused by CHRONIC POVERTY because of our failed leaders but this same leaders came out of our community and not TOGO or SENEGAL.....so we've got to check ourselves before pointing an accusing fingers.

Average Nigerians is greedy Barstard that wants everything to himself and turn a blind eye to the rest of the community....e.g Pastors, Reverend, Imam and all the Traditional leaders.

All this people RUIN NIGERIA, take !!!! and nothing's is given back.

That stadium reminds me of the movie I Am Legend. In Nigeria,everyday is like doomsday...

[ dey laugh o

ajf: That stadium reminds me of the movie I Am Legend. In Nigeria,everyday is like doomsday...

yeah bro

igbsam: Abeg na who fit help me confirm if Gure leaf and Ewedu leaf dey grow for the stadium. I need them very urgent, my market don dey finish. I no go mind bitter leaf and afang too. Biko, please help me check if that one dey grow too for the stadium.

I go die ooooooooooo bro you really crack me up ooooo

Jonathan Jonathan should set up a committee 2 look into it.

This is waste of money. maybe they want 2 convert it to a rearing ground for grasscutter and other herbivores. imagine! mtewww

musiwa7: i think Fashola should take over the national stadium in lagos and repair it .. instead of waiting for the nigeria govt.. when you know the nigeria govt is a useless govt. you dont wait and allow things like this to fall apart.. And what fashola as to do,, Is that the lagos state govt pays some taxes to the federal govt. they just deduct the cost of repairing the federal govt properties from it.

This stadium is in Abuja .

and u expect to win Gold in Olympics! God no dey Sleep oooo

Showing me all these pictures are irrelevent to me and in the grand scheme of things.

What we need is the name of the person responsible for the maintenance. What financial support are the getting? And how are they utilising it?

If they are not getting sufficient financial support, who is responsible for that and why is it not being given?

We need to start making individual people accountable instead of complaining about the system or culture.

And people said we should consider putting in a Bid for the 2028 Olympics

The National stadium was built in 1972 compared to the old Berlin stadium built for the 1936 Olympic games

Just like our planes we cant manage anything

WHY NOT tranfers all the fulani herdmen killing people over farm land to the abuja National stadium

alajor: This is sad, so this is what our national stadiums have turned into. I weep for my country nigeria.but i ask,what r the banks in nigeria doing for nigerians apart from making money from our money? Here in southafrica there are 4 banks and these banks have a lot they do for sports. UBA does not own or sponsor anything at home,union bank,zenith what r they doing for nija sports. Almost all the big companies here are into on project or the other just so they can get involved in south african sports. Nigeria i sorry sorry ohhhh. No wonder the super eagles now play their home matches at calabar
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emmm, Banks are owned by shareholders and as PLCs are obligated to be profitable and provide positive returns to their shareholders. Banks are doing their jobs please. We should direct such questions at the Minister of Sports etc (who have access to taxpayer Billions for maintainance) and not at Bank MDs.... Haba!!!

Shame

And we still want to spend Naira40billion to print N5000 bills.

Nigeria has never had such a wasteful government. Never!

This depicts the state of the nation. Gross abandonment of values, of infrastructure, health , education and what have you....Leaders only care about their pockets these days.

I cant believe we have a ministry of sports and development in this country, I think a bunch of people need to loose their Jobs

National Stadium; the new grazing reserve for Fulani cattle or the hunters' delight forest reserve, where bush meat de just relax kamkpe.

This country is sick of corruption

Agege stadium is far better than this

What kind of country is this? what a waste.

Shooo na farm be dis

Nigeria is not a country, she is like a game of cards, everyone is trying to win, no national interests whatsoever, make what you can make and let others cry all they want. Nigerians should just pray for a peaceful break-up otherwise it's gonna be bloody, nothing is working. I gave up on Nigeria since Bola Ige was killed by the Obasanjo Administration and Funso Williams was also murdered in cold blood, Nigeria's problems can never be solved except we go separate ways, people of diff. mentality, orientation, languages, cultures & tradition are being forced to stay together as one country, it won't work, believe me. US said 2015, let's wait and watch the scripts.

The governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Barrister Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) at the weekend promised not to increase the tuition fees of the Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba and Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo if elected in the October 20 governorship polls in the State.
Besides, he assured the Staff of both institutions and all the teachers in the State that their allowances, which have not been paid by Governor Olusegun Mimiko will be fully paid by his administration.
Akeredolu in a statement by his Director of Media, Publicity and Strategy, Idowu Ajanaku stated this at Ayegunle Akoko where he was hosted by thousands members of the Omoluabi Forum. This is his response to a question by one of the Student leaders at the event.
The ACN touch bearer said “I know the importance of education. Although some States increased fees because they have no money but for us in Ondo State, God has blessed us with oil riches. Therefore I say today that my government will not increase tuition fees in the State. That is final. You can quote me on that”.
Besides, all the allowances of Staff in Adekunle Ajasin University that has not been paid in the last 32 months and that of the teachers will be paid in full. Also, the bursary of Ondo State Students in the higher institutions will be paid, just as ACN government will pay special attention to the less privilege students, so that they can be educated.
For Akeredolu, his administration will not expend money on Mega schools but will focus on massive renovation of all existing schools in the state. His administration will prioritize new school structures in the rural areas across the State and reorient teachers to help them better deliver on educating the gifted students in Ondo State.
The legal luminary also promised to focus attention of health, job creation with his promised 30,000 jobs in 100 days in office, infrastructural development among others.
Earlier the coordinator Omoluabi Forum Chief Gabriel Tolu Obaleye said they decided to support Akeredolu because of his vision for the State.
According to him, the people of Ondo State are tired of the government of Olusegun Mimiko who has been building cosmetic project like town halls, boreholes, markets and fountain where there is no portable waters in the State to drink, no roads, as the government has not commissioned a single road in the last three and half years. But we believe that with what has been happening in Lagos, Ekiti, Oyo, Osun, Edo among others, Ondo State will witness a massive development.
The Independent Campaign Group of the Forum was later inaugurated by Akeredolu with a donation of N1 million.
By S.A. Aniyi
The time honoured aphorism that: ‘health is wealth’ can hardly ware out of relevance as long as human beings continue to exist. This is as a result of the centrality of health in the organogram of human needs, which is a pointer to the fact it is only a healthy body that can aspire to the promise of human possibility. Without a sound health, every aspiration will only thaw into a liquid of a vast mirage. In fact, the ‘Caring HEART’ sloganeering, which should be the acronym for the sector by sector focus of the government rightly placed ‘H’ which stands for Health in the first position.
It is therefore a thing of great concern to any perceptible resident of Ondo state that such a critical department of government could be criminally neglected and wickedly left to bleed to death. No hyperbole intended! Whereas, most distant observers of the happenings in Ondo state could have been fed with the toxic of unending media theatrics, the reality of the state of the health services in the state is one that brutally contradicts the euphonious rhapsody of an Eldorado which the government of the Dr Olusegun Mimiko has been serving the hapless media consumers with, through devious media manipulations. Like everything else, the government in the state has elevated lurid deceit to the state of government policy.
At the inception of the administration, the government said it was going to focus on the enhancement of primary health care with special interest on maternal and child care services. The governmental policy could hardly be faulted with the unenviable record of the state as one of the most notorious in maternal and infant mortality, with statistics that bested the widely alarming national average limit. It was indeed a great relief that a supposed medical doctor being the head of government and with previous experience as two term commissioner of health in the state, would be in a better position to do the right thing. Unfortunately however, the Labour Party (LP) administration has replaced ‘eye projects’ with high service performance. Almost four years later, the ugly reality in the state hospitals at all levels, is that of descript and comprehensive decadence.
Many would find it hard to reconcile this revelation with the products of propaganda tonnage being churned out daily by the well fortified lie factory of the government. What is being shown is a ‘beautiful showroom’ created to give the impression of an unusual development. The truth about health matter in Ondo state is that, this government decided to clinically kill the existing health facilities across board in order to justify the humongous, but hardly sensible creation of centralized maternity hospital. A project which many concerned patriots have dubbed a conduit pipe used to siphon the tilt of the state. For instance, the two MHCs in Akure and Ondo have gulped close to a billion naira so far, to erect.
The argument of many observers is that, there existed and still extant in the state, four State Specialist Hospitals in Akure, Ondo, Ikare-Akoko and Okitipupa. These hospitals were established by the late Oloye Adebayo Adefarati when Dr Rahman Mimiko was in charge as commissioner of health. The specialist hospitals were designed to provide tertiary health services; with all major departments of human health present; including the Gynaecology Department (which houses the Obstetrics and Paediatrics Units, and) which provides same functions that the so called Mother and Child Hospital in Akure provides. Besides, the state has what is called five ‘tier B’ and 10 ‘tier C’ general hospitals, while there are 18 Comprehensive Health Centers, enhanced with Basic Health Centers across the villages. Building of physical infrastructure has never been a major problem, especially in the urban area, if ever existed; it would be in the often neglected, hinterlands. The problems had been and still remain: poor and outdated facilities, poorly trained personnel, lack of essential drugs, traditional beliefs and shortage of medical personnel.
These obvious challenges were left unattended to, while building of new huge Obstetrics Hospitals was considered more expedient. No doubt any uncritical stranger in Ondo state would be mesmerized by the sprawling edifice called Mother & Child Hospital (MHC), but beneath, is a cancerous rot and an exemplary case of resource mismanagement. Worse still, even though about 80% of the state’s capital votes on health are expended on the MHC buildings; the state has only delivered one that is located in Akure. The second one in Ondo town has not been completed three years later. Similarly, the Abiye Safe Motherhood programme lunched with fanfare in Igbara-Oke three years ago has remained product of elusive sophistry. In theory, the public is made to believe that the state has attached each pregnant woman with a doctor, given a preloaded mobile phone and can call for ambulance services at any time of the day, free of charge. It is nothing but an oversize whopper; people know this is one of the hallmarks of the chicanery which has patently defined this government. It is a mere fanciful phantom idea, projected in power- point presentation to hypnotize the easily impressed Western donor houses. Apart from the publicity intended and showy demonstration centre in Igbara-Oke, the Abiye fantasy has virtually become an idea in the grave yard.
It must be added that one of the promises of this administration is the provision of free health services. Any semblance of this only exists partially in the MHC and Igbara-Oke showrooms. Patients pay for everything but consultancy services in the other health facilities across the state. For instance, drugs are permanently out of stock in the State Specialist Hospital, Akure which ordinarily should be the most fortified, being the biggest and foremost medical institution of the state. If gold can rust, what is the hope for the iron! Unlike what is obtainable in other neighboring states which have free health coverage for age 0-12 and for the elderly from age 65-above, the free health provided in the MHC only covers age 0-5. Which means the service only takes care of obstetric services. This service does not also cover post natal services for the mother. Already, the MHC Akure has been overstretched and always overcrowded as people scramble to benefit from the partial free health provided in the hospital which is denied the other existing health facilities. Pregnant women have to keep vigil so as to wake as early as 4am to board motorcycle to MHC so as to get tally for antenatal booking as the registration only takes place once a week and closes 10am. The hospital has become a huge corruption racketeering center where people have to tip the staff of the hospital to get a tally. Many fail to get booked, end up frustrated and are forced to opt for traditional birth attendants, because of the lack of money, in spite of the known risk attached. With all the hypes about this hospital, it is shocking and inconceivable that it cannot handle not-too-serious medical cases such as post-partum hemorrhage, which is often referred to the senselessly abandoned State Specialist Hospital, Akure.
Many have equally asked the question as to why MCH is not under the control of the Ondo State Hospital Management Board which is statutorily empowered to superintend on the state owned health institutions. The MCH is directly in the Governor’s office and is being managed by a governor’s nephew who is the Chief Medical Director. He gives no stewardship to anyone and award of contracts are never discussed with any known management committee. Even though the bulk of the personnel are employees of the Hospital Management Board, the board is an onlooker in matters of emoluments, discipline, promotion and redeployment. To borrow the PDP’s mantra, ‘it is a family affairs’!
Whereas the MHC might not be entirely useless especially in Akure, and can even be seen as an extension of the State Hospital, what is disheartening is the deliberate policy of its systematic castration through willful abandonment. This seems to be consistent with the idiosyncrasy of this government which tends to project itself as the only government that has ever done something great in the state. Thus, existing legacies are left to decay while money is spent to reproduce the same value through fanciful nomenclature and colour coating. Let us x-ray the litany of challenges facing the once enviable State Specialist Hospital, Akure which remains the highest medical institution in the state.
Most of the buildings in the hospital are dilapidated and need total overhaul, expansion and refurbishing. Cases of leaking roofs, including consulting rooms; broken beds, and stinking lavatories as a result of inadequate water supply persist unattended to. It would be recalled that this government sunk six boreholes for which it receives tons of appreciation, but it is regrettable that the boreholes did not see another six months when they broke down irretrievably. Since then, the hospital has been made to depend on the old borehole and periodic water supply from other sources. The hospital’s children ward remained abandoned since 2008. The ward was blown off by the wind and almost collapsed then, which prompted the last administration to award the contract for renovation. It is shameful that this government has abandoned the project. The hospital conference hall is now converted to children ward. This has resulted in situations where children with cases that demand isolation treatment are being lumped together in a crowded ward which has led to high child mortality incidents in the hospital. The state hospital doesn’t have a morgue, it rather uses embalming room where corpses are embalmed and then left on the floor. An unflattering incident occurred recently when the remains of a man deposited with the mortuary had his feet mutilated and lacerated. The family of the deceased swooped on a hapless mortuary attendant who was promptly accused of mutilating a part of the deceased for diabolical purposes, the man was rough handled; it took the intervention of the hospital authorities for the man to be left off the accusation. Investigation later showed that rats often saunter into the embalming room regularly to dine on human fresh. The sad part of it is that, we have it on good authority that the Oloye Adefarati government procured one morgue which never lasted a year. The morgue was alleged to have been supplied by a proxy company of the then commissioner of health Dr Rahman Mimiko, who instead of supplying a new morgue, was alleged to have supplied a refurbished one. Now that he is the state’s chief executive officer, a provision of another one, even at the expense of the state would have been a pardonable atonement.
Free health is a mirage in the hospital as patients buy every bit of the drug themselves: from tissue papers, hand gloves, syringes and many other minor consumables, you pay through your nose. They are never provided. In fact, to have a caesarian delivery in the hospital, the patient will have to cough out between N30, 0000-N50, 000. What is called the theater room is a dignified slaughter’s slab, nothing modern, nothing inspiring! The outpatient department is the worst hit, as there is no waiting room; patients clubbed around in sun and rain and hardly get desired attention, as many returned home worsted. The hospital doesn’t have a radiologist; a contract radiologist only visits from Federal Medical Center, Owo once in a week. Even doctors in the hospital do not trust ultra sound scan done in the laboratory because of the antiquated machine still being used. The x-ray machine is outdated while the modern Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) cannot be procured by a government that spending so much on endorsement freebies. In fact the general hospital Iwaro Oka -Akoko does not have a functional x-ray machin., You find cases of broken ceilings, craters on the hospital interlink road and many other evidence of lip service to public health.
It is a shameful thing that Ondo state is the only state that doesn’t have teaching hospital in the south west. What this will mean in the long run is that the opportunity for promising Ondo state indigenes to get admission to study medicine is slim. The services of specialist consultant on critical medical services cannot also be received here, while residency experience cannot be obtained in the state’s hospitals. There is no hospital that can attend to serious orthopedic care in the state, this is a reason why Ondo state has the highest density of trado-orthopedic homes (Arogun) in the south west. The import of this is that Ondo state which should lead in the parade of large number of medical professionals as she used to, will now trail her sister states in critical specialized medical professionalism. These are some of the critical issues which this administration has irresponsibly avoided while concentrating on marginally valuable architecture wannabe.
The story of the health sector in Ondo since the beginning of this administration is a sad prologue ending in a tragic epilogue. It is a shambolic affair; a monumental neglect too wicked to be real. It is a product of poorly conceived and digested health policy that is healing the symptoms while hiding the sickness.

This is very sad. My heart sank when I saw this. Isn't this the 38 billion naira stadium? What is wrong with us? Do you know how many low skilled laborers will have jobs if our government was serious about maintaining our public properties? Our leaders have nothing in their heads, not even sawdust.

PROUD-IGBO:


^^^The answer is in your question.

Oga you get wit oooo