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Some people lack basic comprehensive skills. Buhari and wife stated that they will operate within the ambits of the constitution which does not recognise 'office' of the first lady.

There is difference btw office of the first lady and the first lady itself.

Definitely Aisha will be the first lady, but no Federal Govt Funds will be allocated to a 'phantom first lady's office' not recognised by the constitution.

Which means even if she is rightly referred to as first lady, we won't be hearing such crap as 'office of the first lady', which is an unsurpation of the duties of the ministry of women affair most times.

And this will also spare us the impunity and embarrassment operated by the previous administration where the first lady will be making press statements with the podium emblazoned with the presidency sign.

babestella:
I think it's late, but if he said it maybe he feels it's not late yet.

BTW, I thought Tinubu and uncle Fashola told Nigerians that the federal government have no interest in building infrastructure in Lagos. Hypocrites.

Help urself, read the story comprehensively pls. It is not a sole Federal govt project. It is more of a private business.

In fact, the proponents have already picked holes in the presidential directive. Me as an investor, u cannot mandate me to site my business where my feasibility study did not recommend.

The project is already ongoing, they will just ignore Jona for the next 2 weeks and through the influence of the VP elect, GMB will withdraw the clueless directive from the gazette and feed it into a shredder.

Feed on this additional information. Stop beefing Lagos. Task your leaders to be creative and to have foresight.

manie:
The project is done by LADOL, the shareholders are institutional investors, foreign investors and Lagos state government. FG came into project in the last minute through NPA, when they saw how viable the project will be due to the scrambling by foreign investors for ownership in LADOL.

LADOL means Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics

http://www.ladolfreezone.com/

emmasege:
remember that he's a spare tyre. His eyes & those of thief nubus will soon be clear. A bunch of betrayals!

Why do u guys reason like this? For supporting GEJ against GMB, will I be correct to regard you as a betrayal? Everybody is free to support whomever he/her pleases.

africanusvu:
They don com,Eunuchs,they knws hw to do it,they av seen it done,but they can't do it,go ask JAMB,peple like u shld be sent t CONGO Brazaville

Are u sure you are not malfunctioning? I'm an ardent supporter of GMB but that doesn't mean I should not tackle his actions.

Finally... Nice team. But what role will Chairman Oyegun serve on the committee? His presence on the committee doesn't make sense to me. Why is GMB leaving the VP elect lounging instead of deploying him to Chair this committee?

This thread is just filled with bitter and pessimistic individuals. Chai, dem curse una ni??

Beautiful write up. Lagos actually belongs to a set of people. But they dont have to rub it on other people's faces. Other people coming to Lagos also should try and blend without issues.

Please let's move on and make the Nigeria a country of our dreams.

leofab:
counter him intelligently if you are educated and not calling names..

You that you are educated, pls try and make use of your reasoning faculty and that your education. Where did I call him names in my response??

agabusta:
Sit your ass down and let the administration come on board before you start your opposition work. You still have 4 years ahead to tackle the administration, you better don't dissipate your energy too early.

You just seem to me like those people that will be running full speed at the start of a 10,000metres marathon only to drop off mid-way.

The administration is yet to come on board, you are already being pessimistic.

will be back...

LAGOS IS NOT A ‘NO MAN’S LAND’ BUT…

AZUKA ONWUKA

http://www.punchng.com/opinion/lagos-is-not-a-no-mans-land-but/

One statement that riles the Yoruba is that Lagos is a no man’s land, which comes mainly from the Igbo residents in the city. The impression that statement gives them is that Lagos is a land that nobody owns. They see it as an attempt to take away what belongs to them. According to Oxford Dictionaries, “no man’s land” means “disputed ground between the front lines or trenches of two opposing armies” or “a piece of unowned land or wasteland.”

But Lagos State is someone’s land. Without going into the history of Lagos, one knows that there are traditional institutions and rites in Lagos that only the “sons of the soil” can participate in. For example, Lagos communities have traditional rulers called baale or oba: only sons of the soil of the respective communities can aspire to such positions.

However, that is not the end of the story. Lagos is a unique state, especially given its status as a former federal capital of Nigeria cum seat of government for 77 years: January 1914 to November 1991. That status has given it a different feel from all other cities in Nigeria. It is not because it is by the sea: Calabar and Port Harcourt are also by the sea, but they are not like Lagos. Contrary to the fallacy spread by some people, Calabar was never the capital of Nigeria. Calabar once served as the seat of government of the Niger Coast Protectorate, Southern Protectorate and Oil River Protectorate. Similarly, neither Lokoja nor Zungeru was ever the capital of Nigeria. They were respectively the capital of the British protectorate of Northern Nigeria.

The boom that Abuja has experienced since 1991 when Gen. Ibrahim Babangida moved the seat of government from Lagos is a pointer to the effect the Federal Capital Territory status can have on a city. But even Abuja cannot compare with Lagos because it was purpose-built to be an FCT, and therefore has no space for industrial estates and markets in all nooks and crannies of the city like Lagos.

However, even those who call Lagos no man’s land don’t mean that Lagos does not indigenously belong to anybody. When you ask them what “no man’s land” means, you realise that what they mean is that Lagos is home to every Nigerian. It is a mini Nigeria. It is a place where all Nigerians feel they have a stake in because the funds of Nigeria helped in developing it, and its status as an FCT attracted more attention from Nigerians and foreigners than other states. Consequently, it is the most developed part of the nation.

Even though Enugu, Ibadan and Kaduna were the respective capitals of Eastern Region, Western Region, and Northern Region from the pre-Independence days until 1967, they cannot compare to Lagos in any sphere.

No doubt, as a city that is situated by the sea shore, Lagos has been developing from time immemorial. However, when it was made the capital of Nigeria, its development accelerated. The boost was such that even after the seat of government was relocated to Abuja, Lagos did not feel the impact much because the biggest companies and markets in Nigeria as well as infrastructure like bridges and roads had already been established, which had in turn made the state the most densely populated in the nation. These are not things you can relocate with the seat of government.

And more importantly, Lagos has not been known to be a place where religious or ethnic crises occur. There can be crisis from street urchins, or motor park touts, or street gangs, but people are not usually attacked based on their ethnicity or religion, except for the ill-informed actions of the O’odua People’s Congress against the Hausa community in 1999/2000.

Lagos State is in the South-West, and the South-West is the land of the Yoruba. Therefore, Lagos is Yoruba land. But it goes beyond that. Lagos derives its progress from its metropolitan and cosmopolitan nature. There are Nigerians who will tell you that beside their home state, they can only live in Abuja or Lagos, because of the FCT status, past and present. They don’t want to be in a place where they would feel like second-class citizens or people who are ever conscious of going against any local tradition.

However, there are two sets of people that don’t mean well for Lagos. One group is the Yoruba who feel that the non-Yoruba in Lagos, especially the Igbo, must owe the air they breathe to the Yoruba: they must not raise their head; they must not laugh loud; they must not criticise any government policy in Lagos; they must not vote for any candidate of their choice; they must not contest elections in Lagos. If they default on any of these, they are threatened with expulsion or violence.

The other group is the Igbo who tell the Yoruba that the Igbo developed Lagos, and that without the Igbo, Lagos would be a ghost town, and Lagosians would die of hunger. That is a silly statement to make. Although only a lover of falsehood would say that the Igbo have not contributed handsomely to the development of Lagos, yet Lagos has been developing at its own pace from time immemorial. If the Igbo did not settle in Lagos or invest in it, it would have continued to develop at its own pace. Lagos does not owe its success to the Igbo or any one ethnic group.

The excuse these two dangerous groups always give is that the other group started the ethnic baiting. But that is a lie. An ethnic supremacist is an ethnic supremacist. The same goes for an ethnic intolerant person or a bigot. Such people don’t need any provocation to unleash the venom in them. They only pray for an opportunity to present itself. Phrases like “you people” dot their speeches. Whenever a person speaks, they usually don’t attack the person’s speech: they swiftly malign the person’s ethnic group. It does not matter to them that the person does not speak on behalf of any ethnic group. Sometimes, they will be quick to tell you that they don’t hate the ethnic group they are bashing but “are simply speaking the truth.” They may even remind you that they have friends from that ethnic group or have family members who are married to people from that ethnic group.

These dangerous elements must not be allowed to destroy the peace and harmony in Lagos. There is a difference between “citizen” and “indigene”. Every Nigerian is a citizen in every part of Nigeria. But not every Nigerian is an indigene of wherever he or she resides. Every Nigerian can vote and be voted anywhere in Nigeria. That is what distinguishes a Nigerian from a Ghanaian who lives in Nigeria.

Nigerians feel happy any time they hear that a person with Nigerian ancestry has won a political position in Europe or North America, but some ethnic haters feel angry whenever they hear that a Nigerian has won an election in his or her state of residence. Their narrow argument is: “Can you allow that to happen in your state?” But comparing a state like Lagos – a former FCT — with another Nigerian state is baseless. Lagos can only somewhat be compared with Abuja, the FCT. If you want to compare states, compare Oyo with Enugu, Ogun with Anambra, Ekiti with Ebonyi, etc.

Secondly, when a people have a large population in a community, it becomes easier for them to win local elections there. That is why the Yoruba win local elections in the London Borough of Southwark, United Kingdom, where Peckam is located. If a large number of the Yoruba or Hausa or Ijaw settle in Nnewi or Aba, they can win elections there. It is only natural.

And when a “non-indigene” wins an election, such should not be seen as a threat or an affront. It is actually a blessing. Such cities where settlers participate in governance are always ahead in all developmental indices. They attract people. They attract investors. They continue to grow faster. That is why Lagos is miles ahead of other states. That is why Lagos is self-sustaining even though it has no oil. Human resource is the greatest resource on earth. Human beings gather where the conditions are good, where they are not continuously threatened or intimidated, where they are free to operate within the laws of the state and the nation.

Those who love Lagos and want its progress must not allow those who are short-sighted to disrupt the peace and progress of Lagos.

Eko o ni baje o!

Copyright PUNCH.

its getting more interesting. GEJ can only win or warmed his way into people's heart if GMB fails woefully.

Sit your ass down and let the administration come on board before you start your opposition work. You still have 4 years ahead to tackle the administration, you better don't dissipate your energy too early.

You just seem to me like those people that will be running full speed at the start of a 10,000metres marathon only to drop off mid-way.

The administration is yet to come on board, you are already being pessimistic.

will be back...

oneeast:
Was there dearth of young and qualitative, lettered, energetic and vibrant human capital in Nigeria that this man was elected to lead the most populous, lettered, dynamic and diverse black nation as Nigeria?

Who sold this grand scam of the century to the Nigerian people?

cry me a river

he will govern u for the next 4 years, get used to it! And if he performs reasonable well and expresses his interest to go 4 more years, we'll vote him again to your uttermost chargrin and amazement.

Are you sure you are ok?

This is a very tight race. I guess the election will be declared inconclusive any moment from now and a new date set to conduct that of Donga Local government that was cancelled.

peckhamboi:
1) USSA LGA: APC:12,772 PDP:13,229

2) BALI LGA: APC:71,416 PDP:6,165

3) ARDO KOLA LGA: APC:13,042 PDP:14,041

4) ZING LGA: APC:5,224 PDP:28,005

5) LAU LGA: APC:13,094 PDP:20,595

6) JALINGO LGA: APC:37,914 PDP:19,047

7) GASOL LGA: APC:42,888 PDP:12,527

8 GASHAKA LGA: APC:7,310 PDP:7,235

9) YORRO LGA: APC:6936 PDP:18,696

10)WUKARI LGA: APC:16,358 PDP:64,608.

11)DONGA LGA: APC:10,087 PDP:37,069

12) IBI LGA: APC:14,859 PDP:5,564

13)KURMI LGA: APC:3,768 PDP:17,369


Total So Far

APC:255,668
PDP:264,150


3 More Local Governments to go.

DONGA LGA: APC:10,087 PDP:37,069 has been cancelled.

This is the new standing:

APC: 306,616
PDP: 306,154

from this, APC is leading by 462 votes.

Largernonso:
hi pals.
i just got an sms from eliezer workplace management limited inviting me to an interview.
who else have gotten ds sms. or knows about them
..either by encounter,xperience, or otherwise.
r they genuine??
pls . need response and advice.

How far? were u given the job? just saw the msg

gentlekaycy:
@Bewla, let us not always be quick to comment on sth we dont know about cos it could mislead. I was there yest and they are real.

Dont mind such people. There are some indices that shows if an invite is fraudulent. At first glance, I knew the invite was real. Hope it was not stressful locating the place? I wish you all the best.

chukzzy1:
idiagbon was a muslim,osibanjo is not..

Now it is no longer Northern born-to-rule abi? It is now muslim-born-to-rule. You guys should quit this ethno-religious bigotry.

chukzzy1:
hahah you are asking whether buhari was manipulated in his first stint.He was just a stooge,Idiagbon was running the country!!!...Idiagbon went to mecca for pilgrimage and then bang!;Babangida and his cohorts carried this niccur like an old woman out of dodan barracks

This still shows that the man is wrong in his submissions! Idiagbon was not a northerner nor does he belong to any Northern born-to-rule clique. He is a Yoruba man from Kwara state. Infact what you said further shows how wrong Aribisala is because history shows that Buhari will commit the greater responsibility to his deputy in contrast to Aribisala's claims. So by stating that Osibanjo will be made redundant does not have any basis and cannot be intelligently deduced. The Northern elite till date does not like Buhari simply because he cannot be manipulated. It is the common people on the street that loves him.

We need APC in Lagos now more than before! Fashola has consolidated the foundation earlier laid by Tinubu for a greater Lagos. Any Lagosian that has the interest of Lagos at heart should vote APC without qualms in the gubernatorial election. It will go a long away in helping Lagos.

Imagine Fashola as a Federal Minister and Ambode as the governor of Lagos. The kind of wonderful synergy this represents will be to the advantage of Lagosians.

Lagos has some very important developmental projects in the offing. APC at the centre will help drive these developmental projects to completion. And it will help everybody in Lagos!!

One of such important projects is the Lekki deep sea port. The FGN has been stalling this project, but with APC at the centre and Fashola in that govt, we can be rest assured that the Lekki deep sea port and Lekki airport including the much touted 4th Mainland bridge will come to manifestation.

Fashola has been the governor of Lagos for 8 years and he knows where the shoe pinches. Buhari as a person knows the important and critical role played by the Lagos cliches for his emergence as president. Infact his Vice President sef is a Lagosian. This will obviously give Lagos an advantage in getting their requests granted by the FGN. And having a Lagos APC govt will ensure this happens seamlessly.

We need APC in Lagos more than before!!!

Source pls?

GMB!

Segeggs:
No one gives a fvcvk about your questions, old man.

interesting

you know i didnt even see your comment before writing mine

Old man go and sit down jor

ha ha ha, The crumble of the PDP has just begun.

APC all the way!

GMB/PYO!

ha ha ha, The crumble of the PDP has just begun.

APC all the way!

GMB/PYO!

The APC wining streaks just started. The final one that will nail the coffin of the PDP will be declared on Mon next week.

Eagerly waiting....



GMB/PYO!

otokx:
Channels has broken off from the live broadcast on their satellite network so can't continue with my updates.

Nice one, tnx for your briefings.

Chai, see finishing. Ekiti APC take am easy na.