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Tolexander: hold it!
South Africans are not defending their president because of the incidence but for their hatred for nigerians. You can read what their comments are down the post.
Was it not the same South Africans yabbing their president when he apologised for the deported nigerians on the yellow fever card?

where did I say they are defending their President?

[quote author=OK_2_NV]I'll just leave this here...[/quote]This should be under the Obalende bridge. Is this still like this?

If its Nigeria, they will heap curses on the government. SA with her incredibly bad crime records still go out there defending themselves on atrocities committed in their country.

OP. You want to incur the wrath of the ACN masquerades.

so?

Abuja dont even have open drainage systems, talk less of the type you have shown here. Which part of Abuja is that? The traffic lights are being repaired and you can see them working all through the length of Ahmadu Bello, Zone 4, Wuse 2, Garki etc as we speak.

The presidency has described opposition political leaders as lacking in positive political antecedents nor moral recommendation to find fault with the social and economic policies of the Jonathan administration.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe stated this in a press conference addressed in Lagos.

Responding to the speech made by Action Congress of Nigeria leader, Senator Bola Tinubu at the recent convention of the party, Dr. Okupe said opposition leaders are fond of using “every platform to denigrate this nation and its government, confuse innocent members of the public and deceptively present themselves as possessing what it takes to move Nigeria forward.”

While noting that the antecedents of the ACN leader as governor of Lagos state did not portray him as a friend of workers and masses, neither does it show him as having better managerial ability which he hopes to give the Nigerian people, Okupe said, “the Bola Tinubu who spoke about poor budget implementation at the federal level never attained sixty percent budget implementation while he presided over the affairs of Lagos between 1999 and 2003.Contrast this with the remarkable budget implementation record of the present administration in the last two years. The records are there for all to see.

Senator Tinubu who spoke about meager wages for public servants in Nigeria was known to have ignored calls of Lagos civil servants for a 7,500 naira monthly wage and when he eventually buckled to the pressure of Labour leaders, he wickedly sacked the major arrow head of the struggle in person of Comrade Ayodele Akele who was never re-instated.

The present National chairman of the ACN, Chief Bisi Akande as Governor of Osun state during the same period denied workers of a 5,500 naira minimum wage and eventually laid off over 9,000 workers during his for year reign. Comrade Adams Oshiomhole,who was then NLC President and now Governor of Edo state led workers on protest march in Osun state during the period but Chief Akande remained adamant. Where then is the credential of these people to talk about job creation, promotion of workers’ interest and democratic etiquette?”

The presidential spokesman picked holes in the merger of opposition political parties noting that none of the parties has what it takes to move Nigeria forward.

“These sets of politicians who want to desperately supplant the Jonathan’s administration are promoting an incongruous alliance of political weaklings and dysfunctional Lilliputians out primarily to foster their ego and psyche being repeatedly frustrated political power mongers; forgetting that one million giant ants can never muster the required strength to lift a concrete pole not to talk of a nationally entrenched pillar and structurally established institution like the PDP.

“It is worthy of note that the major plank of this motley assembly, the ACN, is notorious for outsourcing its presidential standard bearer from the ranks of the same PDP they gleefully vilify.

“In 2003, their choice was Vice President Atiku Abubakar who now knows them better. In 2011, it was a protégé of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu who fitted the slot, although he was later betrayed and sacrificed on the altar of self-interest.”

Okupe said none of the states being currently governed by the opposition ACN has given a good account of themselves as being insinuated by the opposition.

“As I speak with you, Ekiti and Osun states which are being governed by these opposition political parties are embroiled in one form of industrial crisis or the other as a result of the insensitive, cruel and anti-workers policies of their present governors.

“Local government workers and teachers went on strike in Ekiti and lost a number of their members to sack and other forms of victimization. In Osun, tertiary institutions are at present under lock and key. School fees have tripled in institutions of higher learning owned by Ekiti, Lagos, Osun and Oyo states. Yet, Senator Tinubu spoke of the present government as “heartless and mean that put the interest of small elite above the interest of the common working man and woman who are the backbone of this nation”.

While asserting that President Goodluck Jonathan will not be distracted from pursuing his transformation agenda, Okupe assured Nigerians that the various programmes on power, infrastructure, agriculture and job creation will be pursued even more vigorously in the coming months.

http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/10118-amnesty-for-boko-haram-what-fg-should-do-tinubu-tinubu-buhari-are-political-liabilities-presidency

anonimi: What is the source of your story?
No link?
Why issue a statement only to a minor newspaper like National Mirror?
What of the major newspapers?



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Mtcheeww. A statement was issued, but in your mind to a "Minor" newspaper and thus its of no effect because a "Major" newspaper was not involved. Honestly, the way some of you reason is really amazing.

wellmax: Confused government.

try to make sense. Have you seen those polymer notes before? Especially the 50 Naira.

They will soon say PDP hired them.

Whats the price they are willing to pay for this shopping?

susan4u: I was asking a simple question, and I expected reasonable people to respond. So pls jus shutup, if U̶̲̥̅̊'ve got notin reasonable to say

Of course it will be unreasonable to you. Holier than thou sinner.

Its not today people have been building very big churches and cathedrals. All these holier than thou people should look around and see those old churches and note that they werent built with coins at the time they were built. If you want to see big churches built long way back, check this link and let us hear word.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_church_buildings_in_the_world


Check out this church built since 1386. Na wash?

What's the big deal in her smoking. Bush people.

adami48: thats beautiful, bt d way n manner men of God dis days a concentrating on building the physical church n keeping it clean, if they should do dat to d real church dats d members i tink poverty would hav been on its minimal, just saying o.... Makes me feel as if they dnt even want Jesus to come back

Wait for the church to eradicate poverty for you. you will wait till Jesus comes.

eko ilee: Another visionless and cheap imitation of Eko Atlantic.


It must be obvious to the dullards in Abuja that we a short of role models and notable people in Nigeria to name our landmarks after hence going all the way to Dallas USA to import the name of another entity's mayor.



smh...

dunce. Try to use your brain before engaging your fingers.

You are looking for everything biblical. Is everything in your life biblical?

I have said it before, recruit Tunde Bakare. He is more than wiling to abandon the pulpit once again. By the way, why has he been silent lately?

Lies.

It is now a sin to talk about Tinubu. Cant these slowpokes make a point without insults?

Where is the ridicule?

Now make una start to dey compare am to Nigerian TV reporters.

FYI, your so called poor who attends the church contributed in building the church to the glory of God.

Whats your grouse? Who is the corrupt? God is indeed watching those who talk without facts.

It is not the church's fault that the society has both the poor and the rich.

Jesus never had a church built, so? we should be worshipping in the open like Jesus did.

All these kind of talk is nothing but beefing the church.

From the content of your write up, your topic should have been titled How both citizens fared.

Tunde Bakare is still willing despite he called APC people rogues.

mtcheewww.

Answer is NOTHING.

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Saturday, criticised the manifesto of the merging opposition All Progressive Congress (APC), describing it as “a very poor imitation, a bland parody” of the ruling party’s manifesto.

A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said that it was laughable that the opposition believed that victory which only hard work could bring would now be cheaply offered them “by chance and perhaps, media bombast.”

According to the statement, “the leaders and members of the APC are entertaining themselves. The opposition are in their dream world. They are in deep slumber but will soon wake up to the stark reality that it takes more than noise making to defeat the PDP, the only truly national political party in Nigeria, with impregnable structures in every polling booth, every ward, local government and every state of the federation. They will wake up on the eve of 2015 and see us once again in power.

“Then those who recited the parable of the bloody baboon and monkey and other fellows who pledged the impossible in desperation, may engage demagoguery to throw the state into, chaos. Nigerians are however wiser!”

The PDP maintained that it had not only laid the foundation of a solid institutional framework for war on corruption, but has over the years, demonstrated its zero tolerance for the plague.

“Our government established the EFCC and the ICPC, equipped them with canine and molars to crush the backbone of corruption. As relative as their successes are, no record will ever deny their impact in quest for a transparent polity. It suffices that the PDP has shown enough dispassion in fight against corruption and will continue to encourage all Nigerians, especially the opposition to do same,” it said.

http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/news/item/10034-pdp-blasts-apc-s-poor-imitation-manifesto

Tinubu’s Massive Looting Of Lagos Uncovered…The Chagoury, Remi Tinubu Connection

The massive looting of Lagos state by the Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has reached monumental proportion. Tinubu whose companies recently conered a multi billion road construction job in Ogun State, has in his pocket all the juicy contract in all the Action Congress’ states.
In retrospect, it might be difficult to come to terms with the fact that an individual could hold the entire south west to ransom. There is no doubt that Tinubu has succeeded in buying the Lagos State government, and he has done this using government funds.
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Whenever someone in Lagos begins to wonder where their 4th mainland bridge went, or what was the fate of the pipe-borne water project, or even where the schools and hospitals had vanished to, there is a silence that contains it all. The largest landlord in Lagos has done as he has pleased, and the rest of the state just has to deal with it. For instance: Number 4, Oyinkan Abayomi (formerly Queens) Drive, Ikoyi: A 5-bedroom detached house on one acre of land which was originally the Lagos State Governor’s guest house since 1979, but which now belongs to Tinubu. The certificate of occupancy of the property valued at N450 million was signed and released to him by Fashola in 2007 shortly after he assumed office.
Tinubu’s residence at 26 Bourdillon Road, Ikoyi was initially falsely presented as Oando Plc Guest House. Later, he purportedly bought it from Oando, and used public funds to rebuild and renovate it. The Lagos State Government bought the property and paid an undisclosed sum to him and thereafter gave the property back to him under the bogus Pension Bill he signed to law shortly before he left office in 2007. The property is worth over N600 million.
The annex of the Lagos State Guest House in Asokoro, Abuja was bought by the State Government in 2006 for N450 million, purportedly to protect the main house from security breach. Shortly after Tinubu left office, the property was transferred to him under the pension plan he signed into law before leaving office.
The 250-hectare land valued at about N35billion and strategically located at the Ajah junction on Lekki Road was initially meant for a General Hospital for the people of Eti-Osa Local Government but was stolen by Tinubu and handed over to Trojan Estate Ltd – a company owned by Deji and Wale Tinubu – to develop as Royal Garden Housing Estate at the expense of the taxpayers of Lagos.
The 1,000 hectares of land valued at about N75billion located at Lakowe near Abijo at Ibeju-Lekki Local Government and given to Lekki Concession Company (LCC) which is partly- owned by Tinubu and Fashola and being developed as golf course and housing estate by Assets and Resource Management Ltd (ARM) as ADIVA project.
The prime land of 157 hectares with 2.5km of Atlantic beachfront valued at about N10billion and stolen by Tinubu from the communities of Siriwon, Igbekodo, Apakin, etc in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government and given to Ibukun Fakeye – his crony to build a golf course and luxury villa with little or no compensation to the villagers. In addition, Tinubu paid $20million (N3billion) out of public treasury to Ibukun Fakeye to commence the project in late 2006. Fashola has since released additional funding for this project, which is not owned by the state government.
The 14-hectare Parkview Ikoyi Estate foreshore land reclaimed by Lagos State Government is now owned by Bola Tinubu.
While in office, he allocated to himself the former Strabag yard beside the Lagos State Secretariat at Alausa, Ikeja. The property is now being developed into a shopping mall as big as the Palms in Lekki. This is public property brazenly stolen and now owned by Tinubu, aided by Fashola.
The choice property at Lekki-Epe road on which he built and owns the multi-billion Naira Oriental Hotel and the extension of multi-storey car park beside it. Also, the multi-level recreation centre by Mobil in Oniru Estate on Lekki-Epe road jointly owned with ARM and Tunji Olowolafe. All these assets valued at over N25billion were obtained without paying a kobo to the Lagos State Government.
Tinubu and Fashola sold the following prime Lagos properties to their personal friend and front – Prince Dipo Eludoyin at very ridiculous prices:
• The 3.8-hectare of land of Lagos State Fisheries office in VI (beside the Institute of Oceanography) valued at N3billion.
• The fishery landing jetty at Badore (where the Ilubirin fishermen were to be relocated) valued at N500million
• The entire Ogudu foreshore scheme initially earmarked for a low-cost housing scheme valued at N5billion
• The Ilubinrin housing estate (which used to house Lagos state civil servants and judges up till 2007) valued at N2.5billion.
• The former Julius Berger yard at Oko Orisan, Epe valued at N450million.
Tinubu raised a loan of N4.7billion on Eko Akete project for which nothing was achieved before he turned around to sell the property to his Chagouri friends of Chagouri & Chagouri and Hitech Construction Ltd at a ridiculously low price at the expense of the taxpayers of Lagos.
Tinubu applied to personally purchase the Federal Secretariat building while in office. When he couldn’t get to buy it, he directed Fashola to stop the eventual owner of the complex to develop it. The complex is presently wasting away courtesy of the Lagos State Government.
It took several months of horse trading and underhand payments before Fashola could allow the new owners of 1004 flats to redevelop the complex. Several other buyers of Federal Government properties and developers of properties in Ikoyi, Victoria Island and Government Reservation Area Ikeja were forced to succumb to the outrageous demands of Tinubu, Fashola, Commissioner Abosede and other officials of the Lagos State Physical Planning Ministry and were made to pay ridiculous amounts to private accounts before their redevelopments were approved. Those who refused or were unable to pay could not develop their properties. This is a major economic strangulation of property developers and has contributed largely to the skyrocketing rent in Ikoyi, VI and Lekki axis.
Tinubu converted all the plots of land where Lagos Polytechnic was located at Ikosi near the old toll gate. He chased away the Polytechnic in 2006 and went ahead to locate the choice plots to himself, his cronies and political associates. The headquarters of Television Continental (TVC), which is owned by him, is located there. He deprived the youths of Lagos of decent education because of his greed.
Tinubu solely sold the prime land on Aboyade Cole, Victoria Island which was recovered from some allotees, to UACN Properties Plc. The amount of proceeds was shrouded in secrecy.
Eludoyin, fronting for Tinubu, built the estate directly opposite Goshen Beach Estate in Lekki area.
Tinubu’s wife, Remi Tinubu, built the massive New Era Foundation youth camp at the junction of Eleko, off the Lekki-Epe express road, with Lagos State funds and has now converted it to personal use.
Tinubu owns the Fara Park Estate and the Beach Wood Estate both in Lekki.
The Critical Care unit at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in Ikeja, built and equipped with state funds, is now owned personally by Tinubu. He has put one Dr. Sikiru Tinubu, (a supposed cousin of his) to run the outfit. It is run as a private unit and the proceeds are pocketed by the duo. The unit charges its users exorbitantly and most Lagosians can hardly afford to pay its high charges. Much of the revenue is derived from fees paid by the State Government for patients referred there by its General Hospitals.
Several prominent Nigerians in the judiciary, police, INEC, and other sensitive agencies have obtained prime land from former Governor Tinubu and incumbent Governor Fashola over the years without paying a kobo. Many of them had turned around to sell the land to third parties at substantial profit. Many top officials in the police, INEC and the judiciary who participated in the 2003 and 2007 elections and tribunals in states where Tinubu has interest were compromised with parcels of free prime Lagos land and cash. If the Lagos State Land’s Bureau could publish the names and identities of beneficiaries of land allotees from 2000 to date, the scandal that will result is better imagined. Gbenga Ashafa, now a Senator, and Mrs. Awofisayo were the conduits through which these acts were being perpetrated. Both were also personally involved in various dubious land transactions on their own.
Prime land and properties have been used to pay off public officials who are personally close to Tinubu and Fashola for “jobs well done” or for being privy to sensitive information, notably:
(a) Dele Alake, former Commissioner for Information and Strategy, was sold a whole house on Alexander Road, Ikoyi where he lived as official quarters at a give-away price.
(b) Rauf Aregbesola, Osun State Governor, who was a former Commissioner in Lagos as well as Muiz Banire, also a former commissioner, got detached houses at Ladoke Akintola Street, GRA Ikeja for their “good job” while serving under Tinubu.
(c) Yemi Cardoso and Wale Edun, both former commissioners, were sold houses on Iru Close, and another location in old Ikoyi at give-away prices by Tinubu.


http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/tinubus-massive-looting-of-lagos-uncovered/

bknight: You bet my guy needs his own private jet ASAP!..if he doesn't already hv. Oritsejafor must hv shown him d way since he now has d power to reconcile political differences btw Jonathan & Amechi

Very daft.

This is the kind of poo ACN bigots feast on. The main man has contributed.