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voltron14:
When the projects fail you won't even know the commissioner to blame, all you would be screaming is Sanwo-Olu.

It is a good administrator that takes time to supervise projects under his keep.

If the projects fail, then he did not appoint a good commissioner...
But one does not even have to partisan to acknowledge that a Gov should not be doubling as a 'PWD' inspector. SMH
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beresponsible:
Patching the holes not road construction. Shoulda done roads first before buying 800 buses

You mean the Ambode administration's 800 buses...
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So long as the current traders are guaranteed shops in the new market....
Nothing wrong with demolishing and upgrading. To many slum markets in Nigeria!
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FarahAideed:
So Milf is a porn term now ?

But of course...
What do you think the "f" in Milf stands for?!
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Treasure17:
Love is blind. Congrats anyway

"Love" ke?

Anyway, whatever it is, GOOD LUCK to them!
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DEADBEATS!

Cut your perks to pay the bills...
Ordinary citizens got no benefit.
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AK481:
No, changing from kiss Daniel to kizz Daniel means he has a dumb lawyer.

When u re registering a brand name or a company name cac or inec or any regulatory bodies ensure that ur name done sound same with an existing name.

If gww bring a new artist and give him the name kiss Daniel won’t there be confusion?

Kiss Daniel will end up apologizing , I expect gww to forgive and forget, but he must pay every kobo �

Then the fault lies with the regulatory body...
And in law, the sins of the arbiter is not visited upon a litigant.
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Governments in Nigeria just love to sign MOUs...smh
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APC SHOULD QUIT PLAYING CHEAP PARTISAN POLITICS WITH SERIOUS NATIONAL SECURITY MATTERS....smh

Yes, admittedly there have been serious shortcomings and issues with this project (even from,the jump), but there is no need for elected representatives to reduce it to useless partisan politicking (or cheap anti-Chinese xenophobic broadsides) when earnest focus should instead be on ensuring the project is actually COMPLETED in the first instance and/or put back on track where it has fallen short or into disrepair.

The real facts are that this was NEVER a project solely for CCTVs in Abuja, but actually a NATIONWIDE internal security project (which was actually costed at $470 million), which had FIVE major components: (1) Global Operating Network Architecture (GOTA); (2) Video Surveillance Subsystem (VSS); (3) Video Conferencing System; (4) E-Policing Subsystem; and (5) Emergency Collation Response Subsystem.

The 5 components of the project are anchored on a total of 696 Base Transmission Stations spread across the 36 states and the FCT. The 1000 CCTVs for Abuja AND Lagos are a relatively small component of the project (reportedly LESS THAN 10%). The project was/is “owned” (controlled) by the Ministry of Police Affairs, and cuts across all 36 states and the FCT. It is supervised by NIGCOMSAT (the satellite company).

As of last year (precisely in July 2018), the testimony of the MD/CEO of NIGCOMSAT before the House of Reps was that the project was about 90 percent complete before the project suffered from the inability (or unwillingness) of the NIGERIAN government to complete its counterpart funding. Meanwhile, the CCTVs had been severely VANDALIZED - proving again that Nigerians are often the worst thing to happen to Nigeria!
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xperiencelove:
$460m is too much for CCTV in Abuja alone Haba!
I will install CCTV in strategic positions for the whole southwest states with that money and manage it for 20 years

It was not for CCTV in Abuja alone....
The CCTV for Abuja and Lagos part of the contract was less than 10% of the project.

The actual project was $470m (not $460m) spread across all 36 states and the FCT...
It had 5 components to provide video, audio, data and other services to the police and other security agencies.
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Mama Fela!!

Wasn’t she also the first woman to drive a car in Nigeria?
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isaacoreoluwa:
The article correctly stated the current situation of mass bus operation in Lagos. It is erroneous for the OP to keep posting articles on BRT operations without asking revelant. At the inauguration of BRT scheme in 2017, LAGBUS was the focal point before ECOBANK partnered with NURTW to run 1st BRT with supervision of LAMATA to run Ikorodu/Mile12/CMS route. The government of BRF streamlined the system to give regulatory, Franchises and operation roles to LAGBUS and facilities development to LAMATA due to crisis in terms breakdowns of buses and inability to pay staff issues -( court case instituted on this has not been resolved). The franchise scheme under LAGBUS gave birth to Fabrem-F001, Mutual transport-M001, and about 15 other private bus operators under LAGBUS which were fully allowed to use BRT lanes across their route!
Ambode tricked the Management of then LAGBUS to scrapped over 300 buses which in anyway were old because the average life of each bus was over 8years of 16hours daily operation. He promised to replace the buses with more efficient buses. Surprisingly, the game changed! He declared LAGBUS moribund in May 2018 when he had secretly incorporated a new company with the initial functions of LAGBUS to replace it.

Dear Autojos, the questions you should ask your master are:
1. Why Ambode was determined to end LAGBUS by all means and created LBSL?
2. Why he commissioned uncompleted, leaking and below specification bus terminals?
3. Were the buses purchased and currently in operationBrazil marcopolo?

See attached pictures of bus terminals commissioned.

I think you meant to write 2007...
But even though BRT was launched in 2007, operations actually started in 2008.

Subsequently, in 2012, the LAGBUS franchise arrangement became operational with 10 franchise companies, 17 routes, and about 240 buses. When the Ambode administration came into office it CONTROVERSIALLY entered into a BRT concessionary agreement (following a public bidding process) with Primero in 2016 while the LAGBUS franchise was still operational. Subsequently, also in 2016, the LAGBUS franchises were revoked.

However, it must be noted that many Lagosians were happy with the revocation of the LAGBUS franchise arrangement and the introduction of brand new buses (financed by Sterling Bank) by Primero. The LAGBUS buses had become dirty, often unserviced and in constant disrepair, reportedly resulting in interminable delays, and had started to revive memories of the old Molue culture (see example of below).

The revocation of their franchises meant that LAGBUS-NURTW-controlled buses were no longer allowed to utilize the BRT Corridor, and could only use main roads like other commercial vehicles (like Danfo). However, I do not believe that Ambode promised to replace the LAGBUS buses for the LAGBUS franchisees. Rather, he promised Lagosians worried at the revocation that the LAGBUS buses would be replaced with better BRT buses.

Finally, it is important to note that the Lagos Bus Service Limited (LBSL) which was incorporated by the Ambode administration, is neither a replacement for LAGBUS nor a BRT operator. It is primarily an asset acquisition and advisory services company (which would also be handling operations until private operating companies take over) to acquire the new high-capacity buses that would ultimately replace most Danfo buses.

https://i2.wp.com/autojosh.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Battered-BRT-Bus-2.jpg?w=600&ssl=1

*Picture credit: AutoJosh
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Esejojo:
1. Why would BSO donate buses that is subject to a probe?
That's not the point being made. Rather, the point is that it is highly unlikely that BSO would go out and buy 800 new buses that has not been appropriated in by the State Assembly (see the passed Appropriations Act 2019), when that's exactly the reason advanced for the Ambode probe.

2. Indeed, it is suspicious that that the number of buses in question is still 800. Could the governor be donating the same undisbursed Ambode buses to a private company, and with a false claim to have bought them.

3. The governor unambigously stated in the said twitter message that he bought and donated the buses for BRT. Does the governor not understand what BRT is, or who the operator is?
That's NOT actually what BSO said (see below), but I think the way he said leads to a confusing conflation of the new buses with BRT buses. Of course, as I already noted, Primero raised N16.50 billion this past June to purchase new BRT buses.

4. What is the current state of the Abulegba-Oshodi corridor to warrant the 800 buses?

5. Why would the Abulegba-Oshodi BRT corridor that have not commence operations be expanded?
My point is that BSO's reference to an "expansion" of the BRT refers to the yet-to-be-completed Oshodi-Abule Egba route. Outside of that, there are NO other BRT corridors that is presently being developed.

6. BSO message was not lost in translation. It is as clear as crystal.
Again, there's no tangible indication that BSO bought 800 new buses without State Assembly appropriation (where are the buses parked?), and certainly NO evidence that (even if he bought buses) he "donated" new buses to Primero (the BRT concessionaire).

www.nairaland.com/attachments/10442496_sanwoolubrt1_jpeg1d7e05d16fa07c8228c714aa6bf6e4f5
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payperpost:
trash!

Sorry but I decline to join you in the gutter of trading crass and childish insults...
It merely betrays the lack of a substantive argument or a crass, crude and poor upbringing.
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AK481:
The fact that kiss Daniel changed his name to kizz Daniel ,gives you an idea what is in the contract.

Perhaps so and perhaps not...

It merely indicates that "Kiss Daniel" is trade-marked by GWW...
But is not indicative of the many other points raised in the letter.

The fact the artiste changed his pseudonym indicates he's had legal counsel...
Accordingly, it would foolhardy to leap to any conclusion on the basis of a letter.
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ccollins:
u wallow in penury and poverty yet u talk like Nigeria is doing well, remember it is poverty capital of the world ,no ground breaking healthy record, venal government using sentimental demagoguery to deceive pliable folks like you and u keep fighting for the rapacious government like that of the Nigeria. I pity for the future unborn generations and the evil misery deluded people would put them into. Nigeria in growing impetuously in population and human resources yet no concomitant system in place for the excessive population in a small receding country like Nigeria with around 100,000 square kilometre land. Instead of talking of how to hold your rascal and irresponsible government to account, you are here talking like a sycophant

I still do not understand gibberish...

Given that my post was about the US and not Nigeria...
Cannot quite figure out the RELEVANCE of your blabber.

Here's wise counsel...
Read and comprehend BEFORE you start with the verbal diarrhea. SMH
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Kingspin:
Your country once supported and committed genocide and human abuses during the 60's.

Anyway, is good you trying so hard to justify a backward Nigerian. But they are no way near America supreme not even in the top 20 countries.

Even if you talk from now till next day Nigeria is a shithole period. A mess.

Tragically funny to see your resort to a childish Strawman's Argument....
But good that you FINALLY seem to get the point that NO nation is without blemish.

Quit canonizing countries because of an apparently inherent low self-esteem...
We can acknowledge the good and the bad in the US - both are NOT mutually-exclusive!
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NGpatriot:
Your post had no substance, it was another lazy gossip ànd rumor peddling and I don't waste my time on your kind of no knowledge posts.

Cannot really blame those who suffer the misfortune of a poor upbringing (and in your case, cannot overcome same)
But your crass and crude personal insults will never compensate for your lack of a substantively meritorious argument. SMH
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elgramz:
your stupidity is also well-noted

Your crude, coarse and poor upbringing is hereby acknowledged...
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elgramz:
gibberish

That’s ok, your comprehension deficit is well-noted...
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Balenciagabrain:
Any government that is still thinking buses to ease transportation in Lagos is not a serious government. Pls what happened to making railway system work in Lagos?

Lagos state NEEDs a good rail network and heavy taxes on cars for it to work.

Both are NOT mutually-exclusive...
But while waiting for the light rail to be completed, we still need to get around the city timely, comfortably and safely.

Meanwhile, also note that LASG ferry (Lagferry), UberBoats and other private operators will be providing ferry services.
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NGpatriot:
Your no knowledge post advised me not to waste my time on you.

Resort to personal insults merely betray a lack of substance or a crude upbringing. Either way, not really surprised... smh
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DOUBT THE VERACITY OF THIS THREAD...

First, I believe that BSO was merely referring to the 800 buses already purchased by the Ambode administration (the number 800 is too much of a coincidence). There is no way that Tinubu’s errand boys at the State Assembly would be “probing” the Ambode administration for buying those 800 buses supposedly without specific appropriation while BSO would be simultaneously embarking on substantively the same course of action.

Furthermore, it is unlikely that BSO would “donate” these new buses to Primero for BRT services, given that Primero just raised N16.50 billion in a bond offering a couple of months ago (in June 2019) to purchase a fleet of 1200 new buses to (1) replace some of its existing fleet and (2) to operate its concession on the new Oshodi-Abule Egba BRT route, on which it emerged as winner of the public bidding and procurement process

I believe that BSO’s reference to expanding the BRT essentially refers to the new Oshodi-Abule Egba route for which the BRT Corridor was heading towards completion until the State Assembly cut off funding for the Ambode administration’s projects by refusing to pass the 2019 Budget until Ambode left office. The Oshodi-Abule Egba BRT Corridor will now likely be ready in Q1 2020 and doesn’t require buses today.

Finally, suffice it to note that these new high-capacity and environmentally-friendlier buses were purchased as part of a program to eventually replace the rickety and dare-devilish Danfo buses from all major bus routes in Lagos (towards which the LASG/LAMATA has been working with NURTW to train/retrain drivers and conductors). Unfortunately, it seems BSO’s remarks there were somehow lost in translation.

ACCORDINGLY, I DOUBT THAT BSO BOUGHT 800 NEW BUSES, AND DOUBT THAT ANY LASG BUSES WERE DONATED FOR BRT SERVICES!
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NGpatriot:
So, a concession to manage and operate is now what bloggers call donation?

Blogger blogger, no credibility..

Abegi, which “concession” is that?
And when did it pass through public bidding or other aspects of the procurement law?

The likelihood is that this thread is based on a MISTAKEN premise...
It’s doubtful Sanwo-Olu bought new buses, and if he did it wouldn’t be for BRT.
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SnitramMedia:
Aaah... Na you come know that one o. Better countries get welfare package for old people na
...,...............
Mr. Eazi- Zagadat
Peruzzi- Prebembem
Davido- Shekpe
Timaya- Chulo
Zlatan- Kapaichumaremachupako

Popular slangs used by Nigerian musicians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zOvjCh4y-w

Most citizens also pay their taxes in better countries...
It’s revenue from those taxes that finance “welfare packages”!
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Excuzeme:
MOST Lagosians are dirty, they dump refuse into the drainage system and gutters!
How wont everywhere be flooded, if rain water cannot flow-away freely, into the Lagoon and Oceans?

But we have an agency that is supposed to be arresting all these dirty people that dump refuse into the drainage or dont we?
What have they been doing?
What are officials of Lagos State Public Health Service (WoleWole, as we call them) doing to arrest these offenders?
Go to most street in lagos now, you will see no less than half of the Road has been converted to shops,
People rent shops and then entend it by a factor of almost 200%, right into the middle of the road so much so that vehocles find it difficult to drive-by.
This not only endager the passers-by but also the children in the neighbourhood as they are all also forced to walk in the middle of the road!
What if vehicles driving by run into the Stalls erected in the middle of the road and kill someone, who do we blame?

These same Shops located right in themiddle of the road, just dump their Refuse into the gutters that is now concealed behind them, blocking the free flow of water.
What is the Lagos State Enviromental Sanitation Agency doing?
How come we pay the staff if these two organisations with tax payer's money yet we dont get any benefit from them because they dont do the work they are supposed to do? Why is everyone doing hush-hush and complaining about the flood?

It seems that Civil Servants are becoming a waste of tax-payer's money nowadays because they dont do their job anymore, either out of fear or out of having been compromised.
In the days of Fashola as Governor of Lagos State, you dare not put your wares on the road or throw refuse into the gutters/drainage, there would be some Green Uniform (Environmental) or Brown and Whte Uniform (Health Official) to arrest you and as such, people's behaviour became positively conditioned but Ex. Gov. Ambode rubbished all those gains with his elitist, foreign import, waste management strategy that was dead on arrival due to poor planning though not forgetting that he tried to stop the corruption instituted by Tinubu and enforced on Fashola.

Its time for the Enviromental Sanitation Corps and the Wole'Wole Health Officials to focus on those who dump refuse into the gutter/drainage system and those who extend their shops over the gutter and into the road, arrest them, impose fines or send them to jail, if they remain obstinate.
most of our flood problems will be solved, if we tackle this menace of refuse in street drainages and Shops over street gutters

Where is Gov. Sanwo-Olu in all these? Is he sleeping on duty or just waiting for instructions from the Oga in Bourdillon

Are you sure these are not old pictures? Because they said it was Ambode’s fault...
Surely, now that him and Visionscape has been thrown out, Lagos must be spot clean.
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Management should be THANKING the flood...
Because I suspect most Nigerians have NEVER heard of Core TV until now.
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elgramz:
Kizz Daniel is in trouble, Olisa Agbakoba's involvement means big trouble for Kizz Daniel

Means little or nothing in respect of the merits of the case...
Rather than being a case-specific retainer, OAL is a corporate firm and GWW is likely a corporate client.

Meanwhile, the letter is essentially a “form” letter often designed to put pressure on the artiste...
Leads one to suspect their uncertainty on the merits or that they would prefer a settlement over litigation.
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kestolove95:
Naija artist should learn to respect contracts...arh!!

Treasure17:
Nigerian artistes should also learn to honour contract. Read and understand the content of the contract before you append your signature. We have a fair idea how some record labels outsmart and shortchanged these artistes due to their ignorance.

AfroKnight:
These artistes sef. How much will a lawyer charge you to be present when signing record contracts? You need a professional to help you negotiate the contract to reflect reasonable terms.

And then, you should stick to your end of the bargain.

afroniger:
Kizz Daniel should just settle and make peace with his erstwhile label because they have him by the balls. But the guy isn't even smart at all. I wonder who his advisers are because they all deserve to be fired. How can you fail to trademark your stage name, not once but twice? Who does that? Smh.

sigidi5:
respect contract

no sentiments in business

I'll advice kizz Daniel to settle out of court

if not this can cause him his career because he gat no case here
and those people supporting him in this illegality will abandon him when he lands in jail

realestniggah:
Kiss Daniel went to sign contract without bringing a lawyer.

He was probably eager to sign that contract without knowing what he was doing. He probably never thought he would be a star.. But now shit_ has gone south.

AK481:
No fada Christmas in business.

This is the reason social science practical is difficult than science practical

Just curious...
But have any of you actually personally seen the contract in question?!

The number of people/comments already pronouncing judgment based on an essentially “form” letter is mind-boggling...
Experience teaches there are usually several sides to these matters, and without privy to the contract none of us know where merit lies.
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12inchDickson:
I am an engineer, mermaids exist.

Tragic comedy...
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SUPERSTITIOUS ZOO!

And these ones are the supposedly “educated” ones! SMH
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teejoyz:
U can't determine that because it is an unaudited report.mind you no real investor can rely on such report to make decision because it may have been window dressed

What difference does it make to the point being addressed as to whether IFRS9 has been taken into consideration?
Meanwhile, if investors don’t take unaudited accounts into consideration, the LSE would not MANDATE they be published (Rule 4.3).
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