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Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by dridowu: 4:08pm On Jan 01, 2014
Jagaban Baba Agba
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by Dhelake: 4:09pm On Jan 01, 2014
If it was PUNCH or TRIBUNE or THE NATION..... peeps here would say Yoruba paper .... maybe Nduka is now a Yoruba man

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Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by Dhelake: 4:10pm On Jan 01, 2014
Follow me in Saying Hello to the Man of The Year
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by Nobody: 4:52pm On Jan 01, 2014
Dhelake: If it was PUNCH or TRIBUNE or THE NATION..... peeps here would say Yoruba paper .... maybe Nduka is now a Yoruba man

You dey mind the mumus?
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by Olaolufred(m): 5:13pm On Jan 01, 2014
Dhelake: If it was PUNCH or TRIBUNE or THE NATION..... peeps here would say Yoruba paper .... maybe Nduka is now a Yoruba man

YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW THAT NDUKA IS A YORUBA NAME?

IT IS AN ANCIENT FAMILY NAME IN IFE.

FIND OUT.
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by kokoA(m): 5:21pm On Jan 01, 2014
I am not a fan of this man but I agree with this choice by thisday newspaper. When you think opposition in Nigeria, you think Tinibu, a one man army that gives our system of government something close to a democracy. If not for this man, Nigeria would have been a one party state. He could have chosen the easy way out by aligning with Obasanjo and joining PDP but he stood his ground creating a formidable opposition to the ruling party in the process. Love him or hate him, we must applaud him as one of the few successful Nigerian.

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Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by maximunimpact(m): 5:59pm On Jan 01, 2014
kokoA: I am not a fan of this man but I agree with this choice by thisday newspaper. When you think opposition in Nigeria, you think Tinibu, a one man army that gives our system of government something close to a democracy. If not for this man, Nigeria would have been a one party state. He could. Have chosen the easy way out by aligning with Obasanjo and joining PDP but he stood his ground creating a formidable opposition to the ruling party in the process. Love him or hate him, we must applaud him as one of the few successful Nigerian.

U got d point right there, u don't really need 2 like him b4 comin 2 dis conclusion, d man Tinubu deserves dis because he is ''the opposition'' and without opposition, there is no democracy!
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by maximunimpact(m): 6:01pm On Jan 01, 2014
kokoA: I am not a fan of this man but I agree with this choice by thisday newspaper. When you think opposition in Nigeria, you think Tinibu, a one man army that gives our system of government something close to a democracy. If not for this man, Nigeria would have been a one party state. He could. Have chosen the easy way out by aligning with Obasanjo and joining PDP but he stood his ground creating a formidable opposition to the ruling party in the process. Love him or hate him, we must applaud him as one of the few successful Nigerian.
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by bombay: 6:11pm On Jan 01, 2014
whenever the chieftains of northern oligarchy want anything done in the colonial contraption called Nigeria that will overwhelmingly fall within their socio-politico-economic interest, they have willing southern dancing partners to take the floor.

Whether it is the so-called One-Nigeria, quota system, Kaduna refinery or moving capital city to the northern region of Nigeria, there are insurmountable numbers of southern Nigerians ready to do the biddings for chieftains of northern oligarchy.

The blame of regressive Nigeria, manifested by actions of northern oligarchy, should partly hinge on the shoulders of moronic southern Nigerians.

Tinubu is corrupt
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by bombay: 6:12pm On Jan 01, 2014
How did tinubu acquire is wealth
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by dayokanu(m): 6:20pm On Jan 01, 2014
bombay: How did tinubu acquire is wealth

The same way Retardeen Jonathan acquired his.

Tinubu was sponsor of Nadeco even before democracy

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Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by alaoeri: 6:21pm On Jan 01, 2014
Jagaban keep soaring higher, some tribe really wanna have someone like you but out of jealousy & hate they can't open up.

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Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by bombay: 6:23pm On Jan 01, 2014
Tinubu is the height of corruption
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by dayokanu(m): 6:24pm On Jan 01, 2014
bombay: Tinubu is the height of corruption

And why has Retardeen Jonathan not prosecuted him
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by bombay: 6:28pm On Jan 01, 2014
Tinubu’s Massive Looting Of Lagos Uncovered Corruption A higher Level shocked

The massive looting of Lagos state by the Leader of the Arewa peoples congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has reached monumental proportion. Tinubu whose companies recently conered a multi billion road construction job in Ogun State, has in his pocket all the juicy contract in all the Action Congress’ states.

In retrospect, it might be difficult to come to terms with the fact that an individual could hold the entire south west to ransom. There is no doubt that Tinubu has succeeded in buying the Lagos State government, and he has done this using government funds.
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Whenever someone in Lagos begins to wonder where their 4th mainland bridge went, or what was the fate of the pipe-borne water project, or even where the schools and hospitals had vanished to, there is a silence that contains it all. The largest landlord in Lagos has done as he has pleased, and the rest of the state just has to deal with it. For instance: Number 4, Oyinkan Abayomi (formerly Queens) Drive, Ikoyi: A 5-bedroom detached house on one acre of land which was originally the Lagos State Governor’s guest house since 1979, but which now belongs to Tinubu. The certificate of occupancy of the property valued at N450 million was signed and released to him by Fashola in 2007 shortly after he assumed office.

Tinubu’s residence at 26 Bourdillon Road, Ikoyi was initially falsely presented as Oando Plc Guest House. Later, he purportedly bought it from Oando, and used public funds to rebuild and renovate it. The Lagos State Government bought the property and paid an undisclosed sum to him and thereafter gave the property back to him under the bogus Pension Bill he signed to law shortly before he left office in 2007. The property is worth over N600 million.

The annex of the Lagos State Guest House in Asokoro, Abuja was bought by the State Government in 2006 for N450 million, purportedly to protect the main house from security breach. Shortly after Tinubu left office, the property was transferred to him under the pension plan he signed into law before leaving office.

The 250-hectare land valued at about N35billion and strategically located at the Ajah junction on Lekki Road was initially meant for a General Hospital for the people of Eti-Osa Local Government but was stolen by Tinubu and handed over to Trojan Estate Ltd – a company owned by Deji and Wale Tinubu – to develop as Royal Garden Housing Estate at the expense of the taxpayers of Lagos.

The 1,000 hectares of land valued at about N75billion located at Lakowe near Abijo at Ibeju-Lekki Local Government and given to Lekki Concession Company (LCC) which is partly- owned by Tinubu and Fashola and being developed as golf course and housing estate by Assets and Resource Management Ltd (ARM) as ADIVA project.

The prime land of 157 hectares with 2.5km of Atlantic beachfront valued at about N10billion and stolen by Tinubu from the communities of Siriwon, Igbekodo, Apakin, etc in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government and given to Ibukun Fakeye – his crony to build a golf course and luxury villa with little or no compensation to the villagers. In addition, Tinubu paid $20million (N3billion) out of public treasury to Ibukun Fakeye to commence the project in late 2006. Fashola has since released additional funding for this project, which is not owned by the state government.

The 14-hectare Parkview Ikoyi Estate foreshore land reclaimed by Lagos State Government is now owned by Bola Tinubu.

While in office, he allocated to himself the former Strabag yard beside the Lagos State Secretariat at Alausa, Ikeja. The property is now being developed into a shopping mall as big as the Palms in Lekki. This is public property brazenly stolen and now owned by Tinubu, aided by Fashola.

The choice property at Lekki-Epe road on which he built and owns the multi-billion Naira Oriental Hotel and the extension of multi-storey car park beside it. Also, the multi-level recreation centre by Mobil in Oniru Estate on Lekki-Epe road jointly owned with ARM and Tunji Olowolafe. All these assets valued at over N25billion were obtained without paying a kobo to the Lagos State Government.

Tinubu and Fashola sold the following prime Lagos properties to their personal friend and front – Prince Dipo Eludoyin at very ridiculous prices:

• The 3.8-hectare of land of Lagos State Fisheries office in VI (beside the Institute of Oceanography) valued at N3billion.

• The fishery landing jetty at Badore (where the Ilubirin fishermen were to be relocated) valued at N500million

• The entire Ogudu foreshore scheme initially earmarked for a low-cost housing scheme valued at N5billion

• The Ilubinrin housing estate (which used to house Lagos state civil servants and judges up till 2007) valued at N2.5billion.

• The former Julius Berger yard at Oko Orisan, Epe valued at N450million.
Tinubu raised a loan of N4.7billion on Eko Akete project for which nothing was achieved before he turned around to sell the property to his Chagouri friends of Chagouri & Chagouri and Hitech Construction Ltd at a ridiculously low price at the expense of the taxpayers of Lagos.

Tinubu applied to personally purchase the Federal Secretariat building while in office. When he couldn’t get to buy it, he directed Fashola to stop the eventual owner of the complex to develop it. The complex is presently wasting away courtesy of the Lagos State Government.

It took several months of horse trading and underhand payments before Fashola could allow the new owners of 1004 flats to redevelop the complex. Several other buyers of Federal Government properties and developers of properties in Ikoyi, Victoria Island and Government Reservation Area Ikeja were forced to succumb to the outrageous demands of Tinubu, Fashola, Commissioner Abosede and other officials of the Lagos State Physical Planning Ministry and were made to pay ridiculous amounts to private accounts before their redevelopments were approved. Those who refused or were unable to pay could not develop their properties. This is a major economic strangulation of property developers and has contributed largely to the skyrocketing rent in Ikoyi, VI and Lekki axis.

Tinubu converted all the plots of land where Lagos Polytechnic was located at Ikosi near the old toll gate. He chased away the Polytechnic in 2006 and went ahead to locate the choice plots to himself, his cronies and political associates. The headquarters of Television Continental (TVC), which is owned by him, is located there. He deprived the youths of Lagos of decent education because of his greed.

Tinubu solely sold the prime land on Aboyade Cole, Victoria Island which was recovered from some allotees, to UACN Properties Plc. The amount of proceeds was shrouded in secrecy.

Eludoyin, fronting for Tinubu, built the estate directly opposite Goshen Beach Estate in Lekki area.

Tinubu’s wife, Remi Tinubu, built the massive New Era Foundation youth camp at the junction of Eleko, off the Lekki-Epe express road, with Lagos State funds and has now converted it to personal use.

Tinubu owns the Fara Park Estate and the Beach Wood Estate both in Lekki.

The Critical Care unit at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in Ikeja, built and equipped with state funds, is now owned personally by Tinubu. He has put one Dr. Sikiru Tinubu, (a supposed cousin of his) to run the outfit. It is run as a private unit and the proceeds are pocketed by the duo. The unit charges its users exorbitantly and most Lagosians can hardly afford to pay its high charges. Much of the revenue is derived from fees paid by the State Government for patients referred there by its General Hospitals.

Several prominent Nigerians in the judiciary, police, INEC, and other sensitive agencies have obtained prime land from former Governor Tinubu and incumbent Governor Fashola over the years without paying a kobo. Many of them had turned around to sell the land to third parties at substantial profit. Many top officials in the police, INEC and the judiciary who participated in the 2003 and 2007 elections and tribunals in states where Tinubu has interest were compromised with parcels of free prime Lagos land and cash. If the Lagos State Land’s Bureau could publish the names and identities of beneficiaries of land allotees from 2000 to date, the scandal that will result is better imagined. Gbenga Ashafa, now a Senator, and Mrs. Awofisayo were the conduits through which these acts were being perpetrated. Both were also personally involved in various dubious land transactions on their own.

Prime land and properties have been used to pay off public officials who are personally close to Tinubu and Fashola for “jobs well done” or for being privy to sensitive information, notably:

(a) Dele Alake, former Commissioner for Information and Strategy, was sold a whole house on Alexander Road, Ikoyi where he lived as official quarters at a give-away price.

(b) Rauf Aregbesola, Osun State Governor, who was a former Commissioner in Lagos as well as Muiz Banire, also a former commissioner, got detached houses at Ladoke Akintola Street, GRA Ikeja for their “good job” while serving under Tinubu.

(c) Yemi Cardoso and Wale Edun, both former commissioners, were sold houses on Iru Close, and another location in old Ikoyi at give-away prices by Tinubu.
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by bombay: 6:32pm On Jan 01, 2014
2003 campaign when Governor Tinubu was openly spraying money on the streets of Lagos, with thousands of people injured, many casualties were also recorded during the process of struggling to fetch the money but to my surprise no single dailies, radio or television stations in this country reported this terrible act of indispline and extravagance.
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by bombay: 6:34pm On Jan 01, 2014
ITs a pity that with all this revelation about former governor of Lagos state Bola Tinubu he still have the moral guts to be coming out in public that he want to be seeing as one of the future Leader in Nigeria who is he fooling maybe olodo people he can tell that one thiefs who are not ashamed of themselves may God help us out of this our political thiefs we have all over Nigeria
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by kokoA(m): 6:37pm On Jan 01, 2014
bombay: ITs a pity that with all this revelation about former governor of Lagos state Bola Tinubu he still have the moral guts to be coming out in public that he want to be seeing as one of the future Leader in Nigeria who is he fooling maybe olodo people he can tell that one thiefs who are not ashamed of themselves may God help us out of this our political thiefs we have all over Nigeria
provided he has not been convicted by a competent court of law, you have no right to label him a thief. He is as good as Madam PEJ that was arrested with loads of foreign currencies some few months before 2007 election.

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Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by eaglechild: 6:41pm On Jan 01, 2014
Tinubu belongs in jail.

But I guess Lagos state govt enjoys sheepish servitude so they keep worshipping him.
I pity them.
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by bombay: 6:41pm On Jan 01, 2014
TINUBU’S CRIMINAL ACTS

Bola Tinubu admitted that he lied under oath after he had claimed falsely that he attended a St. Pauls School, Aroloya (a school which did not exist) and Government College Ibadan, which he certainly did not attend. He also claimed, among other false claims, that he attended the University of Chicago, with no available evidence to show that he did.

This man has told all possible lies and forged everything forgeable, from schools attended (or not attended) to age declarations and educational qualifications. There are discrepancies even in the names on his NYSC discharge certificate and others stated or declared elsewhere.
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by akins56(m): 6:44pm On Jan 01, 2014
love him or hate him, tinubu is the undisputable champion of democracy in this 4th republic dispensation, without his foresight PDP would have been sleeping and snoring with their two eye"s closed, he could have choosed the easiest way out by aligning with obj to help achieve his selfish interest, but, nah!,,he fought on,even when victory is not forth coming, some says he is corrutible, yes, agreed, but how do u expect him to fight a whole pdp fg,backed by billions of oil wealth, without any financial chest power ?, offcos its impossible, but unlike obj HE CORRECTED HIS ILLS BY GIVING LAGOS, FASHOLA!, HE COULD AV LEFT AN INEPT-LIKE GEJ, that i respect him for, name any of his imposed candidate that is not perfoming!,,infact tinubu's exploits is legendary!

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Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by bombay: 6:44pm On Jan 01, 2014
[b]LAGOS STATE PENSIONS LAW

Shortly before he left office in 2011, Bola Tinubu signed a mindless Pensions Law which gives a former governor a pension salary that is same as that of the sitting governor. In addition, he gets 300 percent of this amount as (furniture allowance, two houses (one in Abuja and the other in Lagos) at locations of the former governor’s choice, three replaceable brand new cars, and an almost endless list of aides and allowances.

Tinubu is not alone in this morbid display of greed and selfishness,as some of his governor colleagues, including governors of Kwara, Gombe, Rivers and Kebbi States have signed similar laws.

Remarkably, in the case of Lagos State the Pensions Law starts operating from Bola Tinubu while all other former governors are excluded from the package.

Actually the issue is not whether other former governors benefit from the package or not. Rather, the issue is that the package, as aptly described by foremost former governor Alhaji Lateef Jakande, is excessive and obscene.

Why should an ex-governor receive any pension at all anyway?

Was he jobless before he became governor?

How many years did he put into public service?

How much did he contribute to the pension’s fund?

Arewa peoples congress[/b] shocked
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by bombay: 6:54pm On Jan 01, 2014
I. NAME OF BANK: FIRST HERITAGE BANK, COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, ILLINOIS
ACCOUNT NAME: BOLA TINUBU
ACCOUNT NO: 263226700

II. NAME OF BANK: CITIBANK N.A., NEW YORK
ACCOUNT NAME: BOLA TINUBU & COMPASS FINANCE AND INVESTMENT COMPANY LTD
ACCOUNT NOS: 39483134, 39483396, 4650279566, 00400220, 39936404, 39936383

III. NAME OF BANK: HSBC 177 Great Portland Street London WIW 6QJ ACCOUNT NAME: TINUBU ZAINAB ABISOLA (MISS)
ACCOUNT NOS: 1720447101

IV. NAME OF BANK: HSBC 177 Great Portland Street London WIW 6QJ
ACCOUNT NAME: (MRS) TINUBU OLUREMI SHADE

V. NAME OF BANK: HSBC 177 Great Portland Street London WIW 6QJ.
ACCOUNT NAME: OLUREMI SHADE TINUBU
ACCOUNT NOS: 41421522
SORT CODES: 40-03-15.
(1) Operating and maintaining foreign accounts in his named and or his Company, compass Finance and Investment Ltd. with following particulars:
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by musiwa112: 6:59pm On Jan 01, 2014
people dont take thisday newspaper serious in nigeria...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFjWFOcn1y8
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by bombay: 7:05pm On Jan 01, 2014
Prove Your Academic Qualifications, Source Of Wealth Tinubu

what business was Tinubu into before he was imposed as governor of Lagos State and what is his line of business now? “Can anyone say with a measure of certainty Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s source of wealth?”


Tinubu lacks the moral rights to talk about corruption.


Funding of Tinubu’s weeklong birthday, vis the allegation of contribution of N10 million per Local council in the five ACN controlled States in the Southwest and N100 million by each of the States.

Yeye dey smell
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by maximunimpact(m): 7:07pm On Jan 01, 2014
It is amazing hw some peeps becom judge and jury, Tinubu is currupt with all these facts and figures yet federal govt have nva prosecuted him or even a simple probe. It is now a cliche' to say a man is deemed innocent until pronounced guilty by a competent court of law. But even if he is currupt as claimed above, can one person tell me one politician who is not currupt? This piece is not abt wether Tinubu is currupt or not, it is about his achievements so far in the current democratic dispensation.

The man is a crowd mover, a mobiliser with forsight, even if APC fail 2 win by 2015, but atleast PDP for d 1st tym is loosing sleep over a presidential election, and all d credit goes to the opposition(Asiwaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu)

I do not only take him as Thisday man of the year, he is ''the man of the year''

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Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by bombay: 7:11pm On Jan 01, 2014
[b]Bola Ahmed Tinubu Assets

THE TINUBU LIST – UNEDITED
1. 4, Oyinkan Abayomi (formerly Queens) Drive, Ikoyi: A 5-bedroom detached house on one acre of land which was originally the Lagos State Governor’s guest house since 1979, but which now belongs to Tinubu. The certificate of occupancy of the property valued at N450 million was signed and released to him by Fashola in 2007 shortly after he assumed office.

2. Tinubu’s residence at 26 Bourdillon Road, Ikoyi was initially falsely presented as Oando Plc Guest House. Later, he purportedly bought it from Oando, and used public funds to rebuild and renovate it. The Lagos State Government bought the property and paid an undisclosed sum to him and thereafter gave the property back to him under the bogus Pension Bill he signed to law shortly before he left office in 2007. The property is worth over N600 million.

3. The annex of the Lagos State Guest House in Asokoro, Abuja was bought by the State Government in 2006 for N450 million, purportedly to protect the main house from security breach. Shortly after Tinubu left office, the property was transferred to him under the pension plan he signed into law before leaving office.

4. The 250-hectare land valued at about N35billion and strategically located at the Ajah junction on Lekki Road was initially meant for a General Hospital for the people of Eti-Osa Local Government but was stolen by Tinubu and handed over to Trojan Estate Ltd – a company owned by Deji and Wale Tinubu – to develop as Royal Garden Housing Estate at the expense of the taxpayers of Lagos.

5. The 1,000 hectares of land valued at about N75billion located at Lakowe near Abijo at Ibeju-Lekki Local Government and given to Lekki Concession Company (LCC) which is partly- owned by Tinubu and Fashola and being developed as golf course and housing estate by Assets and Resource Management Ltd (ARM) as ADIVA project.

6. The prime land of 157 hectares with 2.5km of Atlantic beachfront valued at about N10billion and stolen by Tinubu from the communities of Siriwon, Igbekodo, Apakin, etc in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government and given to Ibukun Fakeye – his crony to build a golf course and luxury villa with little or no compensation to the villagers. In addition, Tinubu paid $20million (N3billion) out of public treasury to Ibukun Fakeye to commence the project in late 2006. Fashola has since released additional funding for this project, which is not owned by the state government.

7. The 14-hectare Parkview Ikoyi Estate foreshore land reclaimed by Lagos State Government is now owned by Bola Tinubu.

8. While in office, he allocated to himself the former Strabag yard beside the Lagos State Secretariat at Alausa, Ikeja. The property is now being developed into a shopping mall as big as the Palms in Lekki. This is public property brazenly stolen and now owned by Tinubu, aided by Fashola.

9. The choice property at Lekki-Epe road on which he built and owns the multi-billion naira Oriental Hotel and the extension of multi-storey car park beside it. Also, the multi-level recreation centre by Mobil in Oniru Estate on Lekki-Epe road jointly owned with ARM and Tunji Olowolafe. All these assets valued at over N25billion were obtained without paying a kobo to the Lagos State Government.

10. Tinubu and Fashola sold the following prime Lagos properties to their personal friend and front – Prince Dipo Eludoyin at very ridiculous prices:

• The 3.8-hectare of land of Lagos State Fisheries office in VI (beside the Institute of Oceanography) valued at N3billion.

• The fishery landing jetty at Badore (where the Ilubirin fishermen were to be relocated) valued at N500million

• The entire Ogudu foreshore scheme initially earmarked for a low-cost housing scheme valued at N5billion

• The Ilubinrin housing estate (which used to house Lagos state civil servants and judges up till 2007) valued at N2.5billion.

• The former Julius Berger yard at Oko Orisan, Epe valued at N450million.

11. Tinubu raised a loan of N4.7billion on Eko Akete project for which nothing was achieved before he turned around to sell the property to his Chagouri friends of Chagouri & Chagouri and Hitech Construction Ltd at a ridiculously low price at the expense of the taxpayers of Lagos.

12. Tinubu applied to personally purchase the Federal Secretariat building while in office. When he couldn’t get to buy it, he directed Fashola to stop the eventual owner of the complex to develop it. The complex is presently wasting away courtesy of the Lagos State Government.

13. It took several months of horse trading and underhand payments before Fashola could allow the new owners of 1004 flats to redevelop the complex.

14. Several other buyers of Federal Government properties and developers of properties in Ikoyi, Victoria Island and Government Reservation Area Ikeja were forced to succumb to the outrageous demands of Tinubu, Fashola, Commissioner Abosede and other officials of the Lagos State Physical Planning Ministry and were made to pay ridiculous amounts to private accounts before their redevelopments were approved. Those who refused or were unable to pay could not develop their properties. This is a major economic strangulation of property developers and has contributed largely to the skyrocketing rent in Ikoyi, VI and Lekki axis.

15. Tinubu converted all the plots of land where Lagos Polytechnic was located at Ikosi near the old toll gate. He chased away the Polytechnic in 2006 and went ahead to locate the choice plots to himself, his cronies and political associates. The headquarters of Television Continental (TVC), which is owned by him, is located there. He deprived the youths of Lagos of decent education because of his greed.

16. Tinubu singlehandedly sold the prime land on Aboyade Cole, Victoria Island which was recovered from some allotees, to UACN Properties Plc. The amount of proceeds was shrouded in secrecy.

17. Eludoyin, fronting for Tinubu, built the estate directly opposite Goshen Beach Estate in Lekki area.

18. Tinubu’s wife, Remi Tinubu, built the massive New Era Foundation youth camp at the junction of Eleko, off the Lekki-Epe express road, with Lagos State funds and has now converted it to personal use.

19. Tinubu owns the Fara Park Estate and the Beach Wood Estate both in Lekki.

20. The Critical Care unit at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in Ikeja, built and equipped with state funds, is now owned personally by Tinubu. He has put one Dr. Sikiru Tinubu, (a supposed cousin of his) to run the outfit. It is run as a private unit and the proceeds are pocketed by the duo. The unit charges its users exorbitantly and most Lagosians can hardly afford to pay its high charges. Much of the revenue is derived from fees paid by the State Government for patients referred there by its General Hospitals.

21. Several prominent Nigerians in the judiciary, police, INEC, and other sensitive agencies have obtained prime land from former Governor Tinubu and incumbent Governor Fashola over the years without paying a kobo. Many of them had turned around to sell the land to third parties at substantial profit. Many top officials in the police, INEC and the judiciary who participated in the 2003 and 2007 elections and tribunals in states where Tinubu has interest were compromised with parcels of free prime Lagos land and cash. If the Lagos State Land’s Bureau could publish the names and identities of beneficiaries of land allotees from 2000 to date, the scandal that will result is better imagined. Gbenga Ashafa, now a Senator, and Mrs. Awofisayo were the conduits through which these acts were being perpetrated. Both were also personally involved in various dubious land transactions on their own.

22. Prime land and properties have been used to pay off public officials who are personally close to Tinubu and Fashola for “jobs well done” or for being privy to sensitive information, notably:

(a) Dele Alake, former Commissioner for Information and Strategy, was sold a whole house on Alexander Road, Ikoyi where he lived as official quarters at a give-away price.
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Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by bombay: 7:16pm On Jan 01, 2014
Former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has bought Bellview Airlines which he renamed First Nation Airline.
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by agbameta: 7:18pm On Jan 01, 2014
gramci:


Tinubu your mentor? No wonder your DNA is corrupt


And who is your mentor? Oponuchukwu Jonathan abi patience Jesus of okirika.

Ode oshi buruku
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by bombay: 7:19pm On Jan 01, 2014
Bola Tinubu’s Looting Of Lagos exposed

A contractor needed to collect his payment for a contract he executed for the Lagos State Government. Having met a brick wall everywhere he went in the pursuit of his payment, his boon came up with a quick-fix. “Let’s go and see the ‘Lion of Bourdillon,’” he suggested to his contractor-friend.
The contractor and his friend eventually managed to arrange a meeting with the ‘Lion’ at his Bourdillon Road, Ikoyi residence in the wee hours of the day. And as the ‘Lion’ listened to the contractor as he narrated his story, it was apparent that he was tired as all he could do in response was to yawn as he dragged himself from his chair.
“Lagos is tired,” the ‘Lion’ muttered, walking towards his bedroom, adding, “Eko wants to rest,” without minding his guests.
The bewildered contractor and his friend were confused as to what to do next as the ‘Lion’ banged the door behind them and went off to sleep. Some aides of the ‘Lion’ however advised the early-morning visitors to come back later that day and preferably at midnight.
When the duo returned at midnight, they had to wait till the wee hours again before being allowed to see the ‘Lion.’ This time, the ‘Lion’ had their time as he simply dialed a number, using his mobile phone and the contractor’s problem was instantly solved.
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by agbameta: 7:20pm On Jan 01, 2014
eaglechild: Tinubu belongs in jail.


For what offense? Or just because you put medicine for mouth?
Re: Bola Tinubu is THISDAY’s Man Of The Year! by agbameta: 7:22pm On Jan 01, 2014
@ Topic. This is a well thought out and articulated read.


Congrats to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

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