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WorldStage Newsonline-- Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has debunked a newspaper report which claimed that he had drawn up a shortlist of five candidates who could possibly succeed.

The Governor who spoke in an interview with newsmen after attending the First Lagos International Table Tennis Classics at the Molade Okoya Thomas Indoor Sports Hall of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, said that he had neither compiled a “short” nor “long list”.

He said: “The first thing to say is that I did not compile any list whether a shortlist or a long list and I think the Saturday Sun newspaper has acted perhaps irresponsibly and I think they had an opportunity if indeed it is true they ever got such a story to have clarified with us. But to have gone on in detail to say that I have compiled a list, I would like them to present that list to members of the public.”

He said that he was considering legal redress on the blatant falsehood published by the newspaper on a list of potential Governorship Candidates said to have been compiled by him.

“As I said I deny such a list vehemently and I am already talking to my lawyers and it is very sad that they do not show respect to the Nigerian populace. People work very hard to earn money and the least that they deserve is that if they buy newspapers, what they expect to read in the newspapers should be true not stories fabricated and planted and put on the front page as if it was factual”, he explained.

The Governor reiterated that such act of publishing deliberate falsehood, if not for anything, “is the height of corruption and could be likened to obtaining people’s money by false pretence which is undeserving of any newspaper

Rossikk: [s]I wasn't addressing you, you tout.



Why don't you just shut up and let educated people speak? Whites were part of our history and you show yourself up as an illiterate if you find it an annoyance to discuss issues involving them.



Save your ignorant bitterness for your life's frustrations. I'm no part of it.


Ignorant dunces like you hate education and enlightenment, such as I'm giving you.



Pray..What ''infrastructures'' did the colonialists leave? What rail? Their single gauge, antiquated (even for that period) rail line was a straight up north to south line which was meant for one thing alone: To evacuate your resources from the country. There were no rail lines that interconnected the cities and major centers to help boost trade within the country. This was why as soon as the colonialists left, the line became unviable. Foodstuffs and produce from the north was delivered across the country to feed people, as opposed to straight to southern ports for export while the masses starved.

It is only NOW that Jonathan is developing East-West Rail, high speed rail etc, while states are developing intracity rail services and light rail, which should all contribute meaningfully to our economy. Your British single gauge north south line was the only 'infrastructure' the British built, which is why that's all you colonial butt kissers ever mention. But it wasn't built for us. It was built for them. As for roads, Nigeria did not have her first expressway until several years after the colonialists were kicked out for non-performance by our heroes past. Electricity was confined to Ikoyi and GRA of a few cities. There were no power plants. The British imported massive generators to power parts of town like Ikoyi. So WHAT ''INFRASTRUCTURES'' did your colonial master leave here? Please don't insult our intelligence by claiming the British ''BUILT INFRASTRUCTURES''. MAYBE IN YOUR DREAMS THEY DID, BUT IN 1960 Nigeria was a big bush with barefoot kids running around and 90% illiteracy, so spare us your lies!!!

99% of infrastructure we have today, from roads to airports, to hospitals, to universities were built by the NIGERIAN govt. You have a problem with that, go jump in the Atlantic Ocean! In colonial times, a mere footpath led to my village. Today you can drive there on a proper tarred road. Same applies to thousands of Nigerian villages, so thank God for independence[/s]

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theoctopus: Why do you people do so much propaganda online. If you guys spend half the energy you spend on online propaganda, doing real work on the ground, APC would have covered more ground by now

Rossikk: Africans survived and thrived for 50,000 years before the white man came, without killing themselves off. No reason to suppose that would have changed.




Was that what your colonialist handbook and tarzan movies taught you? You do realise that Europe was engulfed in various massacres and genocides of populations across the world right about that same time and before, do you?




But far more Africans have died in their 'enlightenment campaign' than the one or two virgins sacrificed for rain per year in some town. Do you know that the Belgians slaughtered nearly ten million people in the Congo as part of their 'enlightenment efforts', and seized resources worth trillions of dollars in today's money? Many of those victims would have preferred the annual sacrifice of a virgin for rain, to ten million sacrifices to your white gods' economic benefit surely?



Nigeria is currently developing a systematic traditional medicine profile which will be integrated with the current health system. African medicine, though long neglected, is among the world's most ancient, potent and dynamic forms of medicine. All it needs is Africans like yourself, instead of remaining perpetual slaves and admirers of whites, to recognise, upgrade, package, and imbue with research funds, just like the Chinese have done with theirs.



Yawn.... The whites had no hand in the invention of architecture, geometry, mathematics, trade and politics. The discovery of mining. Without all those inventions by non-whites, there would be no automobile and no computer, and your failure to give credit to ALL the races of God who contributed to this modern world is a serious intellectual and moral failing on your part.


Interestingly enough, the British colonisers, thieving as they were, still had the decency to recognise Africa's role in creating modern civilization:

This, from the woman who gave Nigeria its very name:

Excerpts:

Flora Shaw's (alias Lady Flora Lugard) book A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Sudan With an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria, (1900) is an extraordinary look at the history of Africa, which she gathered from countless sources, and one would imagine a great deal of it came from the British Library and from the archives of The Times of London, for whom she had for many years been the Foreign Political Correspondent. She had always been known to be an intensive researcher into her subject matter, and one wonders at the months and probably years she put into this undertaking, which became the reference work for so many future books on Africa. This book was first published 100 years ago showing with detail and descriptive power, the greatness that Africa once was. Lady Lugard argues that:

"When the history of Negroland comes to be written in detail, it may be found that the kingdoms lying towards the eastern end of Sudan (classical home of Ancient Ethiopians) were the home of races who inspired, rather than of races who received, the tradition of civilization associated for us with the name of ancient Egypt. For they cover on either side of the Upper Nile between the latitudes of ten degrees and seventeen degrees, territories in which are found monuments more ancient than the oldest Egyptian monuments. If this should prove to be the case and civilized world be forced to recognize in a black people the fount of its original enlightenment, it may happen that we shall have to revise entirely our view of the black races, and regard those who now exist as the decadent representatives of an almost forgotten era, rather than as the embryonic possibility of an era yet to come."

"The fame of the ancient Ethiopians (ancient Kushites) was widespread in ancient history. Herodotus described them as the.. most beautiful and long-lived of the human races, and before Herodotus, Homer, in even more flattering language, described them as the most just of men, the favorites of the gods. The annals of all the great early nations of Asia Minor are full of them. The Mosaic records allude to them frequently; but while they are described as the most powerful, the most just, and the most beautiful of the human race, they are constantly spoken of as Black, and there seems to be no other conclusion to be drawn than at that remote period of history, the leading race of the Western World was a Black race."

Lady Lugard/Flora Shaw Lugard, Asa G. Hilliard, III, A Tropical Dependency: An Outline of the Ancient History of the Western Sudan With an Account of the Modern Settlement of Northern Nigeria (1900)

http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html


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If the colonialists themselves have researched and published this, what does one say to an African who says Africa contributed nothing to the world? Such a person obviously needs education...

albiol: GEJ is a political nuisance

ShymmexLion: But they had the opportunity to elect good leaders when democracy returned, why did they choose the worst set of uneducated riff-raff to lord over them? They chose people who shouldn't even be allowed to lead cows to govern them. They need to take responsibilities for that.

ShymmexLion: Hopefully.

Anyway, I only agreed with Rossikk about the colonialists and the people who asserted that they should have stayed longer.

However, something needs to be done about the mentality of the people in Ibadan. They're the leaders of the Yoruba race/land by default and they need to start acting like leaders and setting the pace for other to follow, and not Lagos. Ibadan was the capital of the western region and the mirror that would always be used to judge the achievements of Yoruba people. They need to take the lead and let Lagos and others follow.

Finally, I hope we get there soon and restore the old glory. Fashola has set the bar high and I hope others would take it higher, especially Ibadan people. I like Osun and Ogun state govs, they're achievers.

Rossikk: [s]
Dude I'm really not on your level. Kindly save your breath for your fellow narrow-minded tribalists and touts. I'm dealing with this issue from a broad-based historical Pan-Nigerian, Pan Africanist perspective, which to a one-dimensional tribalist like you, must seem really befuddling.[/s]

Rossikk: [s]
We are not talking of ''150 years ago'' Mr Man. 1960 was approximately 50 years ago, not 150 years.

50 years ago, roads, expressways, hospitals, and literacy WERE THE NORM GLOBALLY. The colonialists simply DENIED African colonies those things, which was why we had to play catch-up at independence in the 1960s. By right, everywhere in Africa should look like South Africa, considering the colonialists were in power for nearly a century across the continent, exploiting her resources. But they only re-invested export earnings in colonies with a significant WHITE minority. This is why you go to places like Namibia, SA, even Kenya, and you'll see signs of infrastructural investment dating back a century or more. But not in places like Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea, Cameroun etc. Those nations were all black, so the colonialists did nothing. Now, wishing they had stayed an extra decade, shows a lack of understanding of the logic and deep racism of colonial reasoning.




Oh please... The Indians and Chinese left their nations in droves in the 1940s and 50s to settle in Europe and America. In fact the first 'Chinatown' in the USA was established in the 1920s!!! So people across the world were educated and were moving around. You think all this migration stuff only started yesterday because that was where the colonial govt left you - in the bush, ill-exposed to global developments - until you were saved by Nigerian independence.[/s]

ShymmexLion: I never discredited the achievements of Awolowo and many firsts he achieved within the short-period he was the premier of the Western region. In fact, I lauded him, and Awolowo is definitely the greatest Nigerian worthy of emulation, IMHO.

My point is that, we can't keep reveling in nostalgia in 2013 when we should be celebrating how we've been able take the foundation the great Awo laid, to greater heights.

Also, Ibadan people need to start taking responsibilities for everything they did to single-handedly undermine Awolowo's legacy. And we as Yoruba
people need to start holding them responsible for failing to do that.

Rossikk: [s]
Stop thinking like a SLAVE. You claim that ''If the Brits had stayed in Nigeria till the 90s like they did in SA, Ibadan would have been like Durban''. But Durban was ALREADY ''like Durban'' by the 1960s and 1950s. So why wasn't Ibadan like Durban then too? Was it not under the same British?

The British, by 1960, had already been ruling Nigeria for 63 years uninterrupted, and yet Ibadan still looked like a big village after their rule. So why would an extra decade or two of British rule have changed anything?

You need to understand that the reason Nigeria was still underdeveloped after 63 years of British rule was that the British decided that since there was no substantial white resident population in Nigeria, it was not worth developing. So instead of re-investing the proceeds of the resources which the nation exported in the country, as was done in South Africa, the colonial govt in Nigeria simply looted the proceeds and siphoned to Britain.




Sure. They siphoned all the nation's money and built up their little elite colonial community away from the masses they stole from, and you praise them for that? Stop thinking like a slave![/s]

ShymmexLion: I've to agree with Rossikk on this one. There's absolutely nothing special in those pics for the nostalgic feelings most of the people on this thread are feeling.

Also, to those attributing the structures in those pictures to the colonialists, do I need to remind you that the brits had absolutely nothing to do with the development of Ibadan? Ibadan went to sleep because of the type of people they vote for over there - too many riff-raff and regressive folks. Awolowo laid a foundation, rather than consolidate on that, they all sold their conscience to uneducated plonkers for a plate of Amala.

After reading about Ibadan, the people, and the politics - I can't help but shake my head at how they single-handedly destroyed Awolowo's legacy!

Btw, I'm Yoruba and my mum is from Ibadan. But Ijebu and Lagos are my heritage!

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bloggernaija: Soludo has always been atiku's boy boy

Zik like many African rulers had a major character and integrity problem. At the root was his self-concept or self definition(the way one sees oneself). He saw himself in his own words as a "Beautiful Bride" for the highest bidder as well as indispensable. The former executive president of Nigeria Alhaji Shehu Shagari, a mild mannered man captured it well when he told Zik during the 1979 election campaign: "when you switch husbands one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight times, you are no longer a beautiful bride but a harlot." Zik was a weather vane-go where the favorable wind blows. A "Beautiful Bride" mindset is exactly the opposite of the leadership mindset. In 1954, the Sutton-Foster Inquiry found Zik's conduct below what was expected of an honest and honorable person. He also has Black neocolonial/elitist mentality like many African rulers and political class

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Ogbonaikenna: Mr President, Shelve your 2015 ambition and declare niger delta republic. Be well assured that we will declare biafra too and fight as warriors against any invading force