₦airaland Forum

superior1:
Those who can’t afford a mask nko? As the Govt provided mask before this stupid crackdown?

You are a baboon. You assume everyone has even 10kobo on them?. Arindi supporting power drunk tyrants

If you cannot afford a mask, you can use a cloth covering, such as a scarf (even in the US)...
While folks are free to risk their own health, they shouldn’t be allowed to put other people’s health or lives at risk.
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PARADIZEPRIEST:
is not by force yo wear face mask.only robinhood wears mask.VERY SOON IT BOOMRANGS AGAINST THE SOCALLED RICH THAT SHARED NAIJA MONEY.

It is “by force” because it is in the recently issued executive regulations.
While fools are free to risk their own health, they shouldn’t be allowed to put other people’s health or lives at risk. SMDH!
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duro4chang:
The taskforce should go and sit down. Here in Lagos how many people are using facemask?

So that makes it right?! SMDH
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Depressed101:
From prison to paradise...

May your enemies push you to the brink of success!

Why do some Nigerians deludedly think everywhere outside Nigeria is “paradise”? SMH

Hopefully, he’s not relocating to Poland, because the Polish themselves have all run away from Poland.
If he however ends up in Poland, he’d better be ready to cope with bitter cold weather, racism, poor food and a poor economy.

At least, he will remain alive (hopefully).
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What’s new?
Is there any aspect of Nigerian life not characterized by HYPOCRISY!
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thebosstrevor1:
Nigerian men plans are always ruined by sex and alcohol.

Good that all his plan didn't fall through.

A Typical Nigerian man will spend all his lifetime bedding different girls to prove that he is a man instead of finding the cure of Covid 19 so that he can patent it and be wealthy.

If i am lieing, try visit many of our various institutions, male lecturers are more interested in bedding female students instead of bringing out research to help improve their various fields of study and make a name.

Professor maurice iwu will always be my hero, no matter the ridicule and abuse, he still goes on to improve his field of study and make a name for himself.

I was going to thumbs up your comment, until you mentioned Prof Iwu ruwuru...
His most potent ‘research study’ was in many new ways to rig a national election! SMDH
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Mainland people na wa...smh! Eko oni baje!
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Tough one...
Between IPOB and the Nigerian Army, don’t really know who to believe.
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CakesToolsOvens:
I hope police intervenes so they don't kill themselves to death.
Please check us out for your locally made ovens and popcorn machines. We deliver nationwide.

Why not?

Good riddance to bad rubbish...
Abegi let them kill themselves (but just themselves), while we munch popcorn from your popcorn machine!
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budaatum:
There is no law against their incessant gen use. As for blocking your gate, I'd become their "friend" and turn up at their party one day. It will help you reason with them if you stop looking down your nose at your neighbours.

HORRIBLE advice - a single lady turning up at a yahoo boys’ party. SMH
Meanwhile. It’s okay to “look down your nose” at criminals - whether they’re your neighbors or live at Aso Rock!
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pocohantas:
One would think I am a jobless dumb orphan who can’t fight for what she contributed to. Too much Nigerian film is affecting you. You must be an EBSU student like the OP.

Do you also know that how you respect your brother’s wife would determine how you all live happily? Learn that first. You all keep yapping about respect when the OP has the effrontery to exchange words with his brother’s wife in her matrimonial home. Maybe that was how your uncles talked to your mother’s while you were kids, hence the normalization.

Bless you sis!
Too many Nigerians have been raised under a sexist (and even misogynist) culture. SMH
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Mokason288:
You are very funny

Where are you from?

If your brothers wife could shoot you, I’m sorry to say this ....

Your brother is an A$$

There should be boundaries every where, I feel it’s wrong to go into her kitchen

But she doesn’t have any right to throw his things outside... that decision is for the brother

I HOPE I MADE SENSE

Sorry, dude, but there are NO “boundaries” there for wifey.
It is HER (and her husband’s) matrimonial home, and everyone else is a stranger under the law.
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YES, SHE HAS THE RIGHT!

It’s has house as well. You are the stranger, not her!
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tommy589:
The areas with face-lift till date is like 3kilometers and it's where the toll gates are situated. Meanwhile, one of the terms of the tolling is the reconstruction of the road by 40+ kilometres.

I am not oppose to toll gates if the terms are met

But wasn’t the construction and operation of some toll gates scrapped?
I think that there were protests that changed both the ownership of the operator and the scope of the project.
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BusinessCity:
Smiles. I know your kind. You never for once could talk point on point on anything. Continue deceiving yourselves

You should state the major road maintenance your godfather, his LCC carried out on the Lekki Ajah Road in 10 years. State it na. Shey you said that's where the monies are pumped into

Smh

Nothing worse than thinking one knows more (or who) than they actually do.
Sadly, virtually everything you spewed forth on this thread betrays that trait.

Have a pleasant day, and quit digging while in a hole!
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BusinessCity:
Jokers everywhere.

Back to work here. Good luck with the nonsense

Still here?!

Next, you’ll be demanding that Ebeano Supermarket publish its accounts because they collect money from public. SMH
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seunmsg:
Like I have said severally, LCC is also a victim in all of these. They were doing their business until the Endsars protesters forcefully hijacked their premises for the purpose of the protest.

Despite the fact that LCC committed no crime, their business premises were burnt down by the protesters. LCC also deserve justice.

With some of the comments here, you could be mistaken into thinking that the protests were #EndLekkiTollGate rather than #EndSARS.
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BusinessCity:
Sir as long as they collect money from people the people are stake holders. Hence it is to be disclosed publicly.

But they don’t collect money from people.
Rather people pay for their services. If you don’t use it, nobody will collect a kobo from you.
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BusinessCity:
Like I stated the moment people engage in emotional slingshots my interaction with them ends

Before you continue with your slides, go back to the details what the contract was to be about, the area to be covered and as for your maintenance you mentioned, provide maintenance works besides cleaning, sweeping, cutting of grasses done on that road since ten years.

Still here regurgitating your Word-of-the-Day responses?
Thought you would have taken the counsel to go enjoy a pleasant day!
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BusinessCity:
Smiles

If you can do more than pulling emotional shots please feel free to indulge me. Until then, when you intellectualize debate points for point.

Have a pleasant day

Always admire those who lacking any substantive reposte, first resort to personal invective, before having to the courage to chuck in the towel.

Well played sir, and you too enjoy a pleasant day.
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BusinessCity:
The toll has its own financial records away from state records. Asides the inner cabal,do you know the actual financial records presented to the international lenders. Go online the New York bridge standing today since over 100 years had it's financial records before,during and construction of that bridge. Giving maximum clarity and transparency

Like I tentatively stated it is pertinent that stake holders in every endeavor get access to records. If Lagosians are heavily taxed and they are request to see records then it means you don't know what you stand for if you stand for anything.

Allow me give you a clue. Before the whole toll gate issue,Berger to Ajah for example was 250/300 Naira maximum. Today it's comfortably at 1000 Naira. CMS to Ajah that could be 200 Naira,would hardly be gotten at reasonable fees,and you think this doesn't affect trade,commerce, sustainability of personal family eeconomies

Please o

By the way have you reconciled the crazy debt profile of Lagos,non payments and slack payments of pensions and gratuities and reconcile projects done and placed against it's monthly financial inflow

Please go and do deep research,what's on ground isn't proportionate to it's earnings. Do your research. I've done mine

I heavily criticised Delta State for it's total lack of sense,I see no reason not doing this with Lagos

I've heavily criticised Rovers when records showed it had received 4 Trillion in it's 12 years democrwtic governance. I criticised all the governor's that the financial flows didn't represent what it ought to in the life of the people

Time and again I've criticised Akwa ibom and Cross river but they are now on the right path and doing the right thing though I still criticised both states to do more about human empowerment in their state

I've criticised Abia under Orji Kalu,T.A Orji,Ikpeazu Please why can't I critique Lagos where I see needful?

We must speak to deepen our democratic roots,improve human lives and society. That's just what it is,nothing else

Dude, I have no qualms with states publishing their finances.
I am an advocate of both an Open Society and Freedom of Information, and have been critical of Lagos’ opaque finances here on NL.

Accordingly, before we go down the path of two different monologues, instead of a dialogue (as you seem to have trouble comprehending my rather limited points), my limited points are that: (1) I believe that the accounts of LCC are most probably audited (by a Big 4 firm) as a Financial Covenant of any foreign loan; (2) as a non-listed company, it is accepted convention that their financial statements are not published (of course they can voluntarily choose to do so, but they are many legitimate business reasons why almost all non-listed companies do not publish their accounts); and (3) the State House of Assembly can always request their accounts as part of its oversight and once it is part of the Hansard (record of legislative proceedings), it becomes part of public records subject to a Freedom of Information Act request (but of course Lagos State has yet to domesticate the FOIA). Reality is that Nigeria’s biggest issues are institutional, rather than conspiratorial.
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BusinessCity:
Ekuke

Before you curse him how many of your prayers have answered.

He made sound economic points that begs for sound intellectual response. If the balance left to be paid is truly 50 billion, if Lagos absorbs it, and spreads the payment across for example 120 months, 250 Million Naira could be used to service the repayments which is a tiny sum out of the IGR the state generates. Like you slaves aren't aware the multiple taxation Nigerians pay is extremely high. From direct tax deductions from bank accounts they are about to initiate, to car park indiscriminate taxes, to service rendering, to hike in commodities like petrol to electricity and high cost of locally produced demands, you don't see clearly Nigerians are been overburdened with too much loads your emperors put on people's backs.

Use your brain I take my shoe beg yoy

You dwibs should start using your brains for once

Exactly bro! In the US, UK, Canada, etc., citizens/residents do not pay for parking, petrol, electricity, etc...oh wait!

Sadly, many Nigerians have cultivated this delusional Culture of Entitlement, founded upon the greatest delusion of all that Nigeria is a rich country. The reality is that, even if Nigeria did not have corrupt politicians and public officeholders (and frankly even private citizens) who defrauded, stole, embezzled and/or misappropriated anything and everything they could get away with, and Nigeria instead shared every single penny that it earned from its crude oil exports (largely produced by foreigners btw) among its reported 200+ citizens (no one knows for sure), each Nigerian would end up with about 20 cents per day (ie, 90% less than the $2-a-day poverty line). That’s how POOR Nigeria really is.

Meanwhile, even among those able to do so, most Nigerians (outside of the civil service and others subjected to withholding taxation), including the overwhelming majority of those in the informal economy that make up a substantial segment of the Nigerian economy, are tax dodgers who fail to timely and fully pay their due taxes, if they bother to pay anything at all. Yet these same tax evaders and free mealers demand not only good public services (such as good public schools, hospitals and public transportation) but expect to receive same cheap or free! Apparently, the Nigerian concept of the Public Contract between the government and the govern is a delusional one of all rights but no responsibilities.
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BusinessCity:
Like you don't know Nigerians conjure records

You've not heard companies with two books,one to state low inflow so they don't get heavily taxes, the other with the actual information. Perhaps you should do some digging surrounding what private school owners are doing despite getting paid heavily by parents,and paying workers low go ahead to declare false financial records to not attract interest. It's rampant across the country do your findings


For well over 15 years so many petition has been submitted to open the financial records to no adherence, if the position you stated was true,just like the Ministry of finances publishes the financial records on monthly disbursements to all state they would publish it. But you and I know the obvious. It's Nigerians,rather Lagosians that needs public disclosure on the toll not international agencies

If you believe they are going to fake the numbers anyway, why are you asking for them?

Meanwhile, regular state finances are different from loans acquired from foreign commercial lenders.
Standard foreign loan agreements almost always provide in the Financial Covenants for audited accounts (by a Big 4 firm).
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tommy589:
As a lay man I just have the feelings,without verifiable evidence that they make tonnes of money ripping the road users off. But i am thanking God we have people like you that will tear their lies into shreds with calculations or documentary facts if need be

Exactly how are they “ripping road users off”? Is the road not being maintained?
The good thing about tolls is that they are essentially USAGE charges - if you do not use the road, you pay NOTHING.

There’s an alternative route through Oniru if you don’t want to pay the toll - but you get what you pay (or did not pay) for.
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Nigerianization:
Its good to hear from all sides. However, sometimes, fake news helps to force the truth out of their mouths. But how can the Lagos state government acquire the company 100% and still give out 25% stake to private owners...........Which kind bazaar be that?

They did NOT give it to private ownership...
The PPP Office is a GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT responsible for public-private projects.
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gwinaB:
They should state how much was invested and how much has been made so far. They should do so with evidences. Telling the public about their indebtedness is not a useful information.

It is more “useful” than not telling...
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BusinessCity:
He said. Rather the emperor said. Publish the books openly or let an external world acclaimed body have access to the records which everyone has been asking about for donkey years. Upon through accounting audit, you can then go on to state the duration for payment to get completed and not increasing the toll rates and extending the tenure the toll stays in place that was been pushed to the front burner before all of these starting popping up...
If you can't do this, 50 Billion is what Lagos can repay if it dedicates 1 Billion per month within a 3 years tenure

But of course not, you know the toll generates billions monthly and it's milling out cash for its emperors amidst dodgy reasons you would not disclose.

INEC stated that APC spent over 100 billion on 2011 elections alone.. Osun states political funding where Aregbe mismanaged state resources... Aha... This and more the reasons book won't be open and external professional audit performed s it ought to

You think it's still the 1940s that once you speak subjects take your thrash hook, line and sinker. Declare the tenure the toll gate would remain in place and place a placard publicly when it will cease to exist

Awon Ole

Pretty sure that part of the Financial Covenants with the foreign bank lenders would include audited financial statements by one of the Big Four global accounting firms. That’s a basically standard provision. Furthermore, as a non-listed company (ie, not listed on the stock exchange), it is the accepted convention that it’s accounts are not published. However, I am pretty certain that the House of Assembly can request its accounts.
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AnanseK:
An overrated woman character-wise. Find out more about her corruption from the finance ministry parastatals.

Trumpists are always UNINTENTIONAL comedians....
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lekkyy:
This is not necessary madam, tell us ur plan to move wto forward.

She can do BOTH - they are not mutually exclusive...
Unlike that Dotard who could hardly chew gum and walk at the same time.
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moscobabs:
Stop making enemies, move on madam

Making “enemies” of Trumpists is very good thing.
Moreover, one cannot build global consensus without repudiation Trump’s nationalist demagoguery.
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toprealman:
Exactly... Trump is past, we move ma'am.

Trump is a stain on human decency.
It will take a while to unravel the mess he made. SMH
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Nuttella:
Can we conclude that Trump is a racist?

America’s first openly racist president...

There were undoubtedly other racist US presidents...
But none flaunted white supremacy as loquaciously as Trumpf! SMH
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