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Abok1: I can't help but be amused at some comments by the pro GEJ guys in this thread. It is not out of place for Fashola to take pictures with the Microsoft executives because he is a Diplomat and protocols demands that he shows courtesy by taking pictures. Microsoft is a major player in the technological sphere, and as part of their corporate social responsibilities, they need to give back to the less privileged, which in this case Africa easily comes to mind. By taking pictures is a form of documentary evidence for the archives of the corporation. I'm quite taken aback by the pessimistic tendencies of some pro GEJ pundits who would rather celebrate the bletcherous policies of the aeoliststs in power than commend the efforts of a governor that has the goodwill of the people behind him.

Based on their lust for pandering to their gluttonous appetite, they would rather make gambrinous statements and castigate a governor who has chosen to be proactive in the face of dissenting voices, at a time when looting the national treasury seems to be a thing of pride among the other governors.

Boss13: The governor cannot do business with microsoft except personal business. Microsoft already have a presence in Nigeria.

Ikengawo: I'm suspicious of anyone that is paid to do a job and takes pictures of themselves doing it everyday. Does Fashola think he's a volunteer or Samaritan? Are Nigerians so disillusioned that we have began celebrating governors for taking pictures of themselves governing? How many classroom teachers take pictures of themselves grading tests and how silly would this be?

Ikengawo: www.nairaland.com/attachments/1219801_Ansuth5_jpgb08fcfd5462e9204ecf4a4b23864d24e

jazzydee: [s]@ agbameta If your hero gov. was not stealing N140million per MW of electricity and did not pocket 42% of all contract sums then maybe there would have been enough money to build a skill acquisition centre in the State for a fool like to go learn a meaningful skill that will put food on your table besides picture and lagos news postings on nairaland forum.

Tell your Oga and his godfather to stop robbing LASG blind[/s]

googlepikin: and what can Microsoft do for lagos state. na today we dey see signing of paper? [size=50pt]RUBBISH[/size]

googlepikin: Even fashola and FFK are so jealous of igbos, cos dey drive around Ikoyi V.I Lekki and they know igbos have dominated almost 70% of the whole area there.

jazzydee: [s]
sycophant. Fools like you are the reason nigeria is riddled in corruption. Fools like you are singing praises for your corrupt leaders rather than hold them responsible for their duties. you make every right thinking citizen of Nigeria sick.

Your Hero steals N140 million per MW of electricity generated i doubt if youve ever seen a million Naira in your pathetic life but yet you sing his praise.
News Flash the reason you are impoverished is because your Heros have stolen all the state funds that if utilized appropriately could have made your standard of living better.[/s]

theshadyexpress: Jonathan on point.....keep making life hard for the haterz and kill em off in 2015.
fresh air mode activated

theshadyexpress: and your entire reasoning faculty is misleading....you scoundrel

theshadyexpress: Jonathan on point.....keep making life hard for the haterz and kill em off in 2015.
fresh air mode activated

jazzydee: Why are the apc sycophants defending the indefensible? Who in his right mind will support the looting of 3.2 billion naira in the name of supplying a 10MW of electricity generator to a state, bearing in mind that that same generator will still incur other cost such as gas bills, maintenance cost and administrative cost for effective running,hence adding to the already over inflated cost per unit MW.

If this does not strike anyone as placing the state in economic slavery by its corrupt state administrators then nothing will if 42% of the total 3.2billion contract sum went into the pocket of the corrupt officials then,

i will not be supprised if tomorrow we discover that the cost of Gas supplied to the 10MW plant in lagos is 42% more expensive than the one supplied to similar plants across the country.

I will equally not be suprised if we find out that the adminstrative cost of the 10MW plant is also 42% higher than what is obtainable anywhere else.

The 42% markup will be the amount that goes in the pocket of the corrupt state officials.

This is simply outrageous and every right thinking Nigerian should be appaled by this corruption by our public officials that might end up strangulating all of us.

hercules07: The title is actually misleading, 3.2b divided by 10.34 gives 308m per megawatt

Segeggs: Cant still believe they took that whooping for an apology.

phantom: the sensible question to ask BEFORE you compare is what type of power plant did lagos build?gas fired? Diesel fired? Did they have to buy land for the project? What type is the federal gov building? These things impact on cost.@op ...we can all key in to a particular party's ideology without necessarily losing our common sense.

awodman: You so much pride in this your intelligence..please who told you..you are intelligent?

A reasonable and well-educated person, perhaps making informed decisions daily in life, will know only a detailed cost breakdown can prove anything either way since the engineering + or - cost limit actually validates what Oando spent

Standing5: I don't know if the FG e-dawgs around are ready to admit there is something called 'economy of scale'? Well, in the article presented by Mr. OP, he kept realing out the generating capacity of the FG built plants in multiples of 125 MW. I beleive these capacity are the size of each generating units and it will foolish to start comparing a 12MW to a 125MW unit in terms of cost. There are certain things that must be common to both plant irrespective of size. Also to note is the 'power factor' (effeciency co-efficient in layman's language) of the plants in question, the kind of fuel consumed, cost of maintenance, and many other technical factors that may affect cost.

theoctopus: [s]If you had any sense, you will not compare the FG job of providing power across thousands of kilometers to LASG powering street lights from Alausa to VI. Such and idiotic comparison. Please stick to your giant generator sets and leave the business of serious power generation to serious people. I am enjoying tremendous power supply so your rant is meaningless.[/s]

theoctopus: @op, the FG did not spend 260 million per mega watt. They spent far less than that. Please do your calculation again. The FG's $8 billion is for both generation, thousands of kilometers of transmission lines, distribution and installation of a lot of sub stations and even transformers all over the country. Please dont even compare it to the fraud going on in Lagos.

jazzydee: So the question is how much did fashola/tinubu pocket per MW of power generated?

jazzydee: because it does not agree with your APC propaganda hence it should be trashed? did fashola not spend 3.2Bnaira on 10MW of electricity and is that not equivalent to 400million per MW?

those are facts and nothing malicious about it. we are just compating comparing it to what the FG did.

A primary six pupil of Role Model School, Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos, has emerged one of the youngest pupils to obtain the Microsoft Certified Professional certificate, SAMUEL AWOYINFA reports

A nine-year-old pupil of Role Model School, Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos, Jomiloju Tunde-Oladipo, has emerged the youngest Nigerian Microsoft certified professional.

He came tops among 21 pupils who sat for the professional examination in Lagos.

He is now a Microsoft office specialist in office word 2010.

Jomiloju scored 769 out of 1,000 in the examination held in August.

In his examination score report, the slim-built boy performed well in Sharing and Maintaining Documents, Formatting Content, Applying Page Layout, and Reusable Content, among other subjects.

By the feat, Jomiloju has joined the league of young Microsoft certified professionals, including Nigeria’s 10-year-old Anjolaoluwa Seyi-Ojo; an eight-year-old Indian, Lavishnashree, and two Pakistanis, named Arfa and Thobani.

Microsoft Certified Professional is a certification programme provided by Microsoft Corporation. The certification is tailored towards building skills on Microsoft business solutions, focusing on client-end operating systems such as windows XP, Vista, Windows7 among others.

Jomiloju, whose certificate was signed by the Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft Corporation, Steven Ballmer, says he did not achieve this feat easily, but through persistence and hard work.

He says, “It was not all that easy, because I had attempted the examination last year, I did not make it then. But I remained focused and I put in a lot of hard work.

“At home and in the school, I am always on the computer. After school hours, if am not doing anything, I will go to my Information Communication Technology teacher, to learn more.”

Jomiloju sat for the examination when he was in primary Five.

Relating his experience, Jomiloju says, “In all, I answered 20 questions, after answering a question, the computer takes you to another one. And at times, there will be an instruction to skip the next question. But the programme still directs one to come back to those questions one had earlier skipped.”

But was he really scared having failed once to meet the cut off mark? He stresses that he was really afraid due to his earlier experience but he was optimistic of having success, because according to him, he has prepared well.

He also gives kudos to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tunde-Ladipo, for their support and imbuing in him the ‘can do’ spirit in achieving the success.

He says, “My mum and dad were very supportive. They always tell me never to give up and eventually it paid off. Moreover, they had bought the latest Dell laptop. Again, I am always fascinated about computer. The way it works and the process, and the way it organises data.”

Jomiloju who is a left-handed writer, according to his parents, has been a gifted child. He has always been in love with gadgets. His mum, Toyin, says, “Jomiloju since he was baby had loved playing with gadgets, he was never interested in toys. He would pick up remote controls for both TV and air-conditioner, and he would correctly use them for their specific functions.”

His father adds, “It is not that we are unnecessarily indulging him but he is such a brilliant child. He’s multi-talented. He plays the saxophone, he’s good on keyboard, he acts very well and he’s a good swimmer.

“Each term, he participates in school drama and quiz. He also gets prizes in other subjects, apart from ICT.”

Does Jomiloju want to pursue a career in software/hardware project like Bill Gates and Steve Job? Spotting an innocent smile, the youngster nods his head in affirmative.

His school administrator, Mrs. Adesimbo Banjo, who speaks glowingly about Jomiloju, says the feat recorded by her pupil is a tonic for other pupils.

His ICT teacher, Mr. Mathew Alo, also commends Jomiloju for the feat.

He adds, “Jomiloju was taught all the necessary things he needed to know and he came out as the most outstanding among 20 others from different schools in Lagos.

His class teacher, Mrs. Elizabeth Ogunrinola, says Jomiloju takes his studies seriously. She states, “He is not only good in ICT, but in other subjects. He is hard working and well behaved.”

For Jomiloju, he’s not resting on his oars yet, as he says he is still going to seek more Microsoft certifications.

“I still want to sit for more examinations. I will still do excel and power points,” he says.

Originalsly: Nonsense. Name me another country where a contractor would be allowed to shut down an expressway to do anything....even to resurface the expressway. Now this one is shutting it down to install beams?

Major road closures for LBJ Freeway construction run through next week


Weather permitting, construction workers will be laying 2,000-ton bridge beams, said LBJ Express Project spokeswoman Heather DeLapp.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/20130227-major-road-closures-for-lbj-freeway-construction-run-through-next-week.ece

abes: Lets assume you are 40 years old now, do you now eat 40 X the quantity of food u ate when you were 1 year old?
I don't expect you to know the correlation now.

jazzydee: ^^^here you wanted proof. the FG spent $8bn for 4774MW of electricty at its 10power plant.

$8 Billion = N1.28t @ N160 to $1

Fg spent 260million per mega watt fashola spent 400 million per MW

corruption corruption corruption corruption proven QED

jazzydee: Aso Rock disclosed at the weekend that its power intervention contracts to the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPP) contractors were worth $8 billion.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company of Nigeria (NDPHC), James Olotu, who disclosed this during the commissioning of a transmission facility in Ayobo area of Lagos, said the contracts are to guarantee 4,774 megawatts of electricity.

The contracts, according to him, cover 10 power stations, gas pipelines, hundreds of thousands of transmission lines and other supporting equipment and services.

The Federal Government had voted this amount for the NIPP which began in 2006 and was earlier scheduled to be completed in 2009.

In the framework of the projects, several power stations will be built.

They include the Ihovbor Power Station, Benin in Edo State, with capacity of 4 x 125mw, Calabar Power Station in Cross River State, with capacity of 5 x 125mw, Egbema Power Station in Imo State, with capacity of 3 x 125mw, Gbarain Power Station in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, with capacity of 2 x 125mw, and Sapele Power Station in Delta State, with the capacity of 4 x 125mw.
http://dailyindependentnig.com/2012/09/nipp-fg-awards-n8b-contracts-for-4774mw/

jazzydee: Okay heres fact for you the contract sum for the 10MW of electricity @ 400million per MW is over inflated.

jazzydee: Will 10MW of electricity guarantee power to all the places you have listed above? i would like to here you defend 400 million naira per I MW of power! This is corruption at its best. and stop defending mediocrity.

jazzydee: Celebration of mediocrity SMH[b][/b]

victorv12: How can a reasonable government spent 3.2 billion Naira on a 10.34 megawatts of dual fired power plant! We're too damn corrupt and greedy in this country. I think we need to start stoning these our leaders anywhere we see them.

These our leaders treat us like fools that don't know anything to the extent they believe we can swallow anything. If Lagos state can generate up to 30 Billion Naira in a month, what is stopping the state from having its own hydro electric power plant?!

Lagos environs is surrounded with water, I wonder why the state can't come up with an idea of generating energy by using water. And why's the project for the state secretariat complex alone?


Our leaders are too wicked and greedy...everybody will be blaming Jonathan for not having energy in their states, I think we should look inward and remove the noose around Jonathan's neck and tie it around all these state governors.

Oando will live on Lagos state by selling natural gas or other liquid fuels to power the plant, and in the long run, the state will endup paying more to a cartel of crooks.

Our leaders are too wicked! We need to start stoning these b*stards anywhere we see them. None of them deserve any form of honor, they're all thieves!

caesaraba: Oga, they have announced that they are closing the road in order to carry out some construction work, you are here crying blue murder. Go pass the road na.

Our First Lady has closed down areas (not just roads) to hold jamborees and visits that seem rather irrelevant and I bet you didn`t complain.

As long as closing down this road brings about development, BRF can shut it down for the whole darn weekend! .....and you can choke on that. #Nonsense!

gregg2: Leave him alone! Common pedestrian bridge and LASG is doing gra gra as if they are doing a bridge across river Niger.

gregg2: No shaking.
GEJ all the way till 2019. Haters and evil plotters will soon meet a brick wall.