nobaga:

Please understand.

Eko Ile is doing his job the best way he can. He gets paid to do it and may not even be a Lagosian. Just wait until opportunity comes up in his State.

Eko Ile, well done. O kare, omo e a so oko fun e. With all the debt you left your children if you are a Lagosian,

I see your reply. I’m not one to criticize especially if the person is doing a great job and Fashola is doing a great job! Mega cities by their very nature have inherent problems that other places don’t have. There is no other place in Nigeria that can be compared to Lagos due to the stress on infrastructure. Period.

Fashola seems to be on the right track to solve real critical challenges affecting the people of the state like; unemployment, education, healthcare, traffic congestion, pollution, housing to rid areas like Makoko, security, power, etc.

I think we should shower him with accolades to make him strive even harder!

Goalkeeper Fregene Expresses Gratitude To Gov Fashola

LAGOS - Nigeria’s former international goalkeeper, Peter Fregene, has expressed gratitude to Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos, for facilitating his surgery at a private hospital in Lagos, “when all hope was lost.’’


Fregene, who had been bedridden for more than eight years, dispelled rumours that he had a stroke when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos. He said Fashola’s gesture to bring him to Reddington Hospital, Lagos, also revealed the nature of his ailment, which he traced to an injury he sustained in an international match between Nigeria and Guinea in Conakry in the 1970s.


“I must express my profound appreciation to Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos for making it possible to be still alive today. Without his humanitarian gesture, maybe I would not have been alive.“I had been bedridden since 2001 although the problem with my back started in the 70s during a match between Nigeria and Guinea in Conakry.


“My last employer, NEPA, even arranged for my treatment in Ibadan. I was on admission at the Ibadan hospital for three months, but the hospital failed to diagnose the problem.


“My wife had to call Odegbami to inform Nigerians that I was dying after exhausting our resources.
“It was Odegbami who brought my case to Gov. Fashola’s attention. The governor sent a medical team from Lagos to Sapele to examine my condition.


“I was flown to Lagos from the Warri airport by air bus,” Fregene said. The 61-year-old goalkeeper explained that it was at the Reddington Hospital that his ailment was correctly diagnosed through Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) screening.




“All the members of Peter Fregene’s family would ever remain grateful to Gov. Fashola for this life-time assistance, because his intervention came when we had lost all hope. “I must also thank Odegbami and Tetteh for always coming to our aid whenever we called on them. It was Odegbami who brought our case to the governor’s attention.

http://www.nigerianobservernews.com/01032009/01032009/sundayobserver/sports/sportsnews7.htm

edicolove:

HAHAHAHAHAHA! This is why I think this whole discussion is politics. I know the guy who did the GIS system. He is into GIS and has done jobs for oil companies. He sold his technology to Lagos state, they bought it with over 200 million and the guy has smiled to the bank. Now you call it an innovative system by Lagos state. The system is not even in serious use with all the money that was paid. it might come in handy in the future, no doubt, but for now, it is not very useful.

edicolove:

HAHAHAHAHAHA! This is why I think this whole discussion is politics. I know the guy who did the GIS system. He is into GIS and has done jobs for oil companies. He sold his technology to Lagos state, they bought it with over 200 million and the guy has smiled to the bank. Now you call it an innovative system by Lagos state. The system is not even in serious use with all the money that was paid. it might come in handy in the future, no doubt, but for now, it is not very useful.

olyivy:

Fashola is trying no doubt BUT most of the projects pictures posted here by Eko (axehole) Ile are not massive projects.

The only one that I have to classify as massive should be the 12.MW plant, others are just buildings and it doesnt cost governments much to erect them.

Another one woulda been the ikoyi bridge but that one is still far from completion even though the fasho-ile guy tried to fool us with models there.

All in all, compared with other governors, he is doing well but putting the massive source of revenue at Lagos state disposal in perspective  dwarfs all we have seen here.

Thats my point. Oya, bring it on Yoruba almajiris!  

edicolove:

I respect you posts because it is devoid of name calling and insults. when people cant argue rightly, they resort to insults. So lets look ate the indices you have put out,

unemployment = 45% in my book
education = 30%
healthcare 55%
traffic congestion = 90%
pollution = 60% - the beautification project has helped this a lot
housing = 25% he hasnt done much here
security = 40% This is getting really bad as there has been a sharp rise in raiding of estates by robbers
Power = cant rate him here. still in the pipeline
Roads = 50% - Would have giving him a really good score here if I were judging by VI roads. But the mainland is still very bad
Infrastructure = 60% but i think he has done more repairs here than building of innovative and creative stuff
Good leadership = 90%. this is where I score him the most. He has been able to carry everyone along and is a good builder of bridges just like GEJ.

olyivy:

Fashola is trying no doubt BUT most of the projects pictures posted here by Eko (axehole) Ile are not massive projects.

The only one that I have to classify as massive should be the 12.MW plant, others are just buildings and it doesnt cost governments much to erect them.

Another one woulda been the ikoyi bridge but that one is still far from completion even though the fasho-ile guy tried to fool us with models there.

All in all, compared with other governors, he is doing well but putting the massive source of revenue at Lagos state disposal in perspective  dwarfs all we have seen here.

Thats my point. Oya, bring it on Yoruba almajiris!  

Wallie:

The Government of Cross River seems to be pulling their weight but it in no way detracts from what Fashola is doing. I think it is a good thing that we are seeing a new breed of governors that are more interested in serving their people rather than lining their pockets.

With respect to people saying that Lagos has it easy because of revenue generation. Well, the corollary is also true that all “that” money makes stealing on a grand scale very tempting!

Eko Ile:



How do you justify such ignorant understanding when the same states with just 5 million people have more money than Lagos and they spend more money than Lagos with massive 18 million people and larger responsibility?  Does it make sense, instead of enabling such senseless nonsense, you should be calling them out to justify the spending since they are richer and post higher budgets than Lagos.

Shouldn't these states be doing 2-3 times what Lagos state is doing?

What are they doing with all that money?

When are you going to start asking that question