nonsense, all of a sudden we are concerned that our president is not 'in nigeria ''leading the country'?', someone wants to boot yaradua and start eating their own cake. 

Infact we have so many problems in this country, we should have mass protests on a daily basis.

Mass protest against lack of proper electricity  since 19 koro (i dont even know if there was ever a time nigeria had light 24/7)
Mass protest for the impassable dungeons we call roads
Mass protest for lack of access to drinking water
Mass protest for Fuel scarcity
Mass protest for Bribery and Corruption

When Yar'adua was well, its not like anything was being done!  So why should we bother that he is not here? Infact we dont need those fat cats called senator,  they can all go on holiday and stay in their mansions abroad, its not like they are doing much!  At least now we truly know that the country is a headless chicken (goodbye the Giant of Africa)

Greed + desire to succeed - electricity= Nigeria's key problem

Its not just the govt but the average nigerian is greedy!

as of 24th august only one shop was open - woodin,
the other shops are not yet open. dunno what they are waiting for!

WORD!

Please stop shouting leadership! leadership! An ordinary citizen today will become a leader tomorrow if he doesn't change his attitude now, is it when he becomes a leader he will change?

The problem is with our attitudes! chxt has said it!

please don't spew jagajantis at this topic, some people have done nuff of that already in the naira-re denominated thread!

speaking out when i see wrong.

@talk2ahmed, that's really tight! more grease to your elbow

princejay:


It is unfair for you to recommend we support Prof Soludo's move, or oppose it, if you cannot convince us that you have engaged in rigorous thought to arrive at your recommendation.

exactly my point! i have been requesting for an economist who understand this to provide an analysis (educated one) on this issue, i dont think sometimes this forum is the right environment to have such insightful discussion. people just spew out jagajantis from their heads.

i think it is good that there has been a public outcry, if we keep silent things will just carry on as usual!

People, it is true that the police has been arresting women for ''dressing indecently', as usual the policemen on the ground misinterpret/abuse orders given to them. They should all go back to school!

Basically they are trying to address the root/fuel of crime in the state,, apparently prostitutes protect the armed robbers. The ignoramus policemen instead of doing their jobs as advised by their ogas, have basically interpreted the order as a means to arrest and get more bribe money.

Here is a press statement issued by the police, in response to the whole issue.

@dblock,
do u mean nothing good can come from the Nigerian govt? we shouldn't have such pessimistic, if we want to move forward,

im still calling out for an economist to break it down, before i can join the cynical bandwagon

is there any economist in the house who can break it down for some of us

can anyone possibly give a non-biased analysis of this, how will this benefit the economy , and what are the possible detriments?

i don't want to get too excited, or cynical,


how was the Nigerian economy before the devaluation of the naira in the 80s? (Structural adjustmnt programme) does this mean we are going back to those times?

an economist pleaseeeeee

nice pics dblock, good to see the sounds and sights of other west African countries,
quite similar to Nigeria only difference is that it is not as dirty, i am starting to think that nigeria could be the most dirty country in the world!

@seun
yes agreed, quality comes first, however there is a tendency to prefer foreign goods (even when sometimes these foreign goods are of low quality). its that mentality that anything non Nigerian = good, anything Nigerian must be trash

oh lawd, this thread is just like our country, confused , disorganized and has managed to successfully deviate from the topic

the bane of Nigeria- politicians and policemen (PP)

i shall try some ofada rice then (im also guilty of not buying Nigerian goods)

@tunedewoods, true what you say, if you sell a quality product, people will buy it irrespective of where it is made, but i still think that our preference to foreign goods undermines our locally produced goods.

its not just a northern thing, there are gay people in the south too. its just the south does not have sharia law yet, so no one is policing it, go ask all the KC guys

babyosisi:

they are busy arresting women in trousers and mini skirts
research and good education is at the bottom of the agenda

exactment, we have many other serious issues in this country, but some people choose to turn a blind eye and focus on unnecessary issues. Our educational system is in shamblessss, imagine the best uni in Nigeria is number 4904! thank God that we Nigerians are naturally talented if not our average IQ would have been less than a drunken fish if left to the educational institution!! i am just soo upset with this country! too many problems! we are messing up big time!

very good move! i hope the volunteers do not abuse the knowledge/information they obtain! this is jolly good!

@uche 1

it says 'volunteer' , check the meaning of the word!

kitaun:

@50kobo

be sincere to your conscience

which of the problems u enumerated and more has Fashola not started working on in one way or the other?

my point is that there is a lot of problems in lagos/Nigeria, there is a lot of work to be done, many things to be resolved, the issue about the way a woman dresses is just so irrelevant! except we have decided to become a taliban state and implement sharia laws!

oh lorseeee
no one looks indecent in that picture! they should go and arrest the people in the village abi, dey walk around with just wrapper on their waist nonsense upon ingredients!

there are numerous problems in Nigeria and it is sad that ''indecent'' dressing is a priority!
what of the armed robbers?
what of the floods?
what of the bad roads, pot holes?
what of the pollution (you cant see the sky in lagos)
what of the street kids
what of the terrible traffic congestions
what of the lack of water /electricity!
what of awon area boys causing trouble
what of the fat cats (corrupt leaders) chopping all our money?

before we start talking about the way people dress! Sometimes its like our heads are turned upside! we don crase finish

nice pics dblock
this thread and ur pics is what keeps me coming back to nairaland

keep em coming

take some pictures of Chapeltown, Harehills and Beeston!

wow now i can sue phcn Nepa for mental distress whats happening oh? seems like we going down the path of justice hurray!!!

Culled from the Guardian

CONTRARY to widespread feelings of helplessness experience by victims of negligence on the part of the Power Holding Company (PHCN) - formerly National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), a woman who survived electrocution from a NEPA cable, has secured N18 million [/b]in damage from a Federal High Court, Lagos after successfully suing the power company.

With the judgment, Mrs. Abosede Elugbaju, became the first person to win a personal injury claim suit against the state agency. [b]Her claim is also the highest to be awarded by any Nigerian court for personal injury damages.

The case however lasted five painstaking years before the trial judge, Justice Oyindamola Olomojobi, in a trial that involved moving the court to the locus in quo (the scene of accident).

For Mrs. Elugbaju, the plaintiff, September 25, 2002 started like any other day. She had everything going for her. At 35, she had a good marriage that had produced three children, the first of who had just secured admission to the Federal Polytechnic in a neighbouring state. The second child was then in a high school while the third was in a private nursery/primary school.

The Elugbajus were certainly not wealthy; the husband, Olugbenga, was a teacher in a primary school in Lagos while Abosede was a seamstress.

The couple however coped well until September 25, 2005 when a cable on an 11 KVA NEPA pole got severed in front of Mrs. Elugbaju's shop at Church Street, Alapere, Ketu, Lagos.

The situation was described by her husband thus: "On that fateful day, my wife was reclining on the metal door of her shop at about 3.00 p.m. when a NEPA 11 KVA cable snapped from a decayed wooden cross bar. The cable then travelled in a zigzag way across the street to my wife's shop and landed on the metal door.

"Instantly, she was electrocuted. Fortunately, the transformer serving the area exploded almost simultaneously as my wife was being electrocuted and this caused a drop in voltage. Within that couple of seconds, my wife had become a strange and pitiable sight. She was badly burnt and in a state of coma."

Thus began the journey through hell for Mrs. Elugbaju. She was initially taken to a private hospital before she was admitted at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, where her injured leg was immediately amputated.

For several months, the Elugbajus sought the assistance of NEPA and the Federal Government. They wrote letters to the then President Olusegun Obasanjo, Mrs. Stella Obasanjo, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his wife, Titi Abubakar, as well as the Minister of Mines and Power. All was to no avail.

The only assistance the distressed couple received was from the Lagos State Ministry of Health that bought an artificial limb for Mrs. Elugbaju at the cost of N420,000. It was at this juncture that they contacted human rights lawyer and activist, Jiti Ogunye, in their bid to get compensation from NEPA.

Several letters by Ogunye to NEPA yielded no result until the agency was served a court summons. NEPA then reacted by offering to the victim the sum of N500,000 as full and final settlement of claims. This was on November 14, 2005.

By April 2006, NEPA increased its offer to N900,000 and later the same year, the offer was increased to two million naira.

But the victim roundly rejected all the offers, claiming that none of them represented the cost of medical expenses not to talk of the care of the victim.

The case in court thus proceeded to a trial.

Justice Olomojobi examined the NEPA Act 256 Laws of the Federation, 1990, especially Sections 7 and 8 of the Act, and stated: "From the aforestated provisions, it is glaringly clear that the defendant has the obligation of managing, maintaining, and working of electricity undertaking. It is also endowed with the responsibility of maintenance, repair, or removal of any electric lines, fittings, apparatus or appliance for lighting."

The judge further referred to the evidence of a defence witness, Mr. Olayinka Ogunbiya who was then the principal manager of Ikeja distribution zone of NEPA.

Justice Olomojobi then said: "I hold that the defendant owed the plaintiff the duty of care to ensure that its apparatus are properly maintained and repaired immediately it observed any fault, to avert any injury to the citizens contrary and in particular the plaintiff in the instant suit."

On the second issue, the trial judge stated: "I wish to state here that the non-replacement of the stay wire which was said to have been cut before the incident of September 2002 is an act of gross negligence on the part of the defendant. Even five years after the incident, when the court visited the locus in quo, the stay wire was yet to be replaced."

Justice Olomojobi thus awarded a total N17,970,000 damages in favour of the plaintiff against the defendants.

After the judgment, Mr. Ogunye said: "This judgment is a celebration of the judiciary as it will encourage judges to perform similarly in deserving cases. It will also motivate Nigerians whose rights may be breached by obviously powerful and seemingly unaccountable public bodies in Nigeria, to enforce their rights, through the judicial forum when other options are not yielding the desired result."

tats just crap, not because it is a private school it can discriminate against people! So if they say they wont accept a certain ethnic group of people, then that fine right? i am sadly disappointed I thought oyedpo was enlightened!

@funloving, in Uk u notice that prices of things are 5.99,  so when u buy somthing u are always going to have change, in d smallest denomination. i think d re-introduction of coins in the country is a good idea, however  like most ideas/projects in nigeria it hasnt been fully implemented.  what we need is a pricing strategy, that is the cost of goods must/should be divided into smaller decimals,  prices of things in nigeria should be N200.50 kobo, bring the kobo back, it will reduce inflation, and make change avail .

@funloving, in Uk u notice that prices of things are 5.99, so when u buy somthing u are always going to have change, in d smallest denomination. i think d re-introduction of coins in the country is a good idea, however like most ideas/projects in nigeria it hasnt been fully implemented. what we need is a pricing strategy, that is the cost of goods must/should be divided into smaller decimals, prices of things in nigeria should be N200.50 kobo, bring the kobo back, it will reduce inflation, and make change avail .

totally agree with denex

image is not just an illusion, it is a reflection of reality!

our image is our reality, thats why i always thot the heart of africa project was just pointless! get rid of corrupt leaders, weed out the scammers, den our image will change!!!

@denex, yes oh i thank God im still alive oh! i dunno wat i was thinking sef , cos dem people are really ruthless!

With the ongoing selection of ministers,I think Yardy and the senate should use people like Dora Akunyili as a yard stick. If we had more people like her i believe the country will greatly improve. I just wonder what is their selection criteria? hopefully it should look something like this.

Does the person have a sincere passion for the ministry? Are they knowledgeable?

Are they creative and visionary?

Are they able to influence good people to work with them?

Will they detest from any bribes, irrespective of amount?

Will they continue to do the job, despite threats against their lives?

The police force is a unique institution, it is not just a job! It is for people who have a burning desire to serve and protect the country. Policemen ought to be the most patriotic citizens! We need educated people and people with a passion for the country to serve as policemen! The police force consists of armed robbers who get free guns!