₦airaland Forum

9jacrip: Actually, Ekiti was never part of Benin; maybe you meant Ondo. Which like Lagos, was also never part of Benin but had its kingship system influenced.

I understand you say you say you're an original Eko indegene but please keep it on record that Lagos was not under Benin, different parts of Lagos had their own different kings who called the shots within their territories - Oniru, Elegushi, Ojora etc.

It was just the Oba of Lagos system that had Benin influence but never had any powers over the territorial kings I mentioned above. By implication, Eko was never part of Benin .

thanks

awo666: d way obj killed bola Ige abii

And OBJ is now an APC member

Lucasbalo: I got u. I was born in Balogun hence my user name. I left for US very early in life for education and I have spent majority of my life in US but I am a constant visitor to Nigeria. Infact, I will be in Lagos in few weeks on vacation with one of my girls. My obsession with Niger is just for the country to move forward. I love Nigeria and Lagos state. I just don't like the way the country is being run by the thieflicians and the oligarchs like their personal business. I have no animose against anyone, just want to be proud of Nigeria successes not failures.

Wow very close to home you know. Don't stress, you will be proud of our state one day.

We Lagosians need to come together as one family especially those of us born and have heritage in Lagos Island

brownlords: oshio will be in PDP soon, you heard it from me first.

Of course who wants his life be run like a family business.

marioking: I hope Lagos can borrow leave from Ekiti and vote the tyranny out
Since the death of Baba Abraham Adesanya,there is no Asiwaju in Yoruba Nation!!!

My brother we are praying lagosians open their eyes

We have learnt our lesson

Jmain: Alj Harem is on rampage

Lol I just hate it when people lie to us here because they have been paid.

How can this country be better when we so called commoners are being treated like phooo.ols

Jmain: Only APC maggots believed such. Bunch of shameless hypocrites and liars

We know their antics. Nigerians should come together and fight against these enemies of Nigeria. They get paid to lie to us

Delafruita: better stick to what you know.of all the names you reeled out,i picked just one because i am 100% certain of it.ARM owns lakowe lakes and resort and they are currently constructing something similar in port harcourt which is the garden city golf estate which is within igwurutta-alli,aluu and omagwa communities in ikwerre.and for the person saying tinubu owns ARM,i just wonder your kind of reasoning.so in essence,tinubu owns four point hotels,ARM pensions etc.are you people alright at all?

Will you shut it. He owns Lakowe lakes and even the locals confirmed it.

So stfu if you are paid you traitors


TINUBU AND FASHOLA IN LAGOS LAND SCAM WORTH BILLIONS We, the Lagos Progressives Movement once again wish to update fellow Nigerians online on the various land scams perpetuated by Former Governor Bola Tinubu and now aided and covered up by Governor Babatunde Fashola. The facts stated below are true and verifiable. We have gone further to quote real names of collaborators and addresses of properties for readers to verify themselves. We had posted a similar piece but this is an updated and slightly abridged version with new facts added. We are reposting this due to popular demand by many well meaning Lagosians. Please read and digest: Tinubu is the number one landlord in Lagos and has turned Lagos land worth trillions of naira into his personal possession to be used freely or given away unaccounted for. Even after he left office, Tinubu still continues to steal Lagos land under the watch of Fashola. He gives out Lagos land to curry political favours and still occasional sign certificate of occupancy even as ex governor and backdating them to period he was in office. These brazen acts of corruption are with the active collaboration of select few public officers who are obscenely wealthy at the expense of Lagos tax payers. Most notable are Gbenga Ashafa-formerly executive secretary and now Permanent Secretary, Land’s Bureau since 2001; Mrs Awofisayo-formerly Permanent Secretary and now Special Adviser, New Town Development Authority (NTDA), and a relation of Bola Tinubu from Iragbiji, Osun state who has been in charge of NTDA since 1999; Hakeem Muri-Okunola-PA to former Gov Tinubu and now Executive Secretary, Land’s Bureau; Mrs Nike Animashaun-Director, Land Services and known to be close to Bola Tinubu and Tunji Olowolafe. These people are arguably the wealthiest unelected public servants ever in the history of Lagos state. They are major wheelers and dealers of prime land. We mentioned in our earlier publication that the Land’s Bureau at Alausa stinks of corruption. We catalogue below a few brazen acts of stealing and corruption committed by Tinubu and aided by Fashola on the good tax payers of LagosTinubu’s greed and primitive acquisition tendency knows no bound. In fact, it is believed that Lagos land personally converted by him is worth over N500 billion and growing because he hasn’t stopped. A few of them are listed below:1. 4 Oyinkan Abayomi (formerly Queens) Drive, Ikoyi. A 5 bedroom detached house on 1 acre of Land which was a Lagos State Governor’s guest house since 1979 now belongs to Bola Tinubu. The C of O was signed and released to him by Fashola in 2007 shortly after he assumed office. The property is valued at N450million2. 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 fund to rebuild and renovate it. Recently, the Lagos state government bought the property and paid 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 N600million 3. The annex of the Lagos State Guest House in Asokoro, Abuja was bought by the State Government in 2006 for N450million purportedly to protect the main house from security breach. Shortly after he left office, the property was transferred to him under the pension plan he signed into law before he left office.4. The 250 hectare land valued at about N35billion strategically located at the Ajah junction on Lekki Road which was initially meant for a General Hospital for the people of Eti-Osa local government 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 tax payers of Lagos5. The 1,000 hectares of land valued at about N75billion located at Lakowe near Abijo at Ibeju-Lekki LG and given to LCC which is part owned by Tinubu and Fashola and being developed as golf course and housing estate by Assets and Resource Management Ltd(ARM) as ADIVA project6. 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 LG 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. 7. The 14 Hectares Parkview Ikoyi Estate foreshore land reclaimed by Lagos State Government is now owned by Bola Tinubu. 8. 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 Fashola9. Also 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.10. Tinubu and Fashola sold the following prime Lagos properties to their personal friend and front-Prince Dipo Eludoyin at very ridiculous prices: • The 3.8hectares 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 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 N450million11. 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 C & C and Hitech Construction Ltd at ridiculously low price at the expense of the tax payers of Lagos.12. 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. 13. It took several months of horse trading and underhand payments before Gov Fashola could allow the new owners of 1004 flats to redevelop the complex.14. Several other buyers of Federal Government properties and developers of properties in Ikoyi, VI and GRA 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 are unable to pay could not develop their properties. This is a major economic strangulation of property developers and has contributed largely to the sky rocketing rent in Ikoyi, VI and Lekki axis.15. 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 headquarter 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.16. Tinubu single handedly sold the prime land on Aboyade Cole, VI which was recovered from some allotees, to UACN Properties Plc. The amount of proceeds was shrouded in secrecy.17. Eludoyin, fronting for Tinubu built the estate directly opposite Goshen Beach Estate in Lekki area18. 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 use19. Tinubu also owns the Fara park estate and the Beach wood estate both in Lekki20. The Critical care unit at the 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 govt for patients referred there by its General Hospitals.21. Several prominent Nigerians in the judiciary, police, INEC, and other sensitive agencies have obtained prime land from former Gov Tinubu and Gov 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 year 2000 to date, the scandal that will result is better imagined. Gbenga Ashafa and Mrs Awofisayo are the conduit through which these acts are being perpetuated. Both are also personally involved in various dubious land transactions on their own22. Prime land and properties have been used to pay off public officials who are personally close to Tinubu and Fashola for ‘job well done’ or for being privy to sensitive informationa) 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 giveaway price. (b) Rauf Aregbesola, AC Osun State governorship candidate and former commissioner and Muiz Banire, still a serving commissioner got detached houses at Ladoke Akintola st, GRA Ikeja for the “good job” while serving under Tinubu. (c) Yemi Cardoso and Wale Edun both former commissioners were sold houses on Iru close, and other location in old Ikoyi at giveaway prices by Tinubu. The list is endless. 23. Gov Fashola in the wake of the petition against him presented by “The True Face of Lagos” to the House of Assembly has succeeded in buying his way out of trouble temporarily by bribing each of the 40 members with cash and prime state land at Abijo GRA off Lekki-Epe road. In addition, he bought a N40million bullet proof jeep for the speaker in a desperate bid to ward off investigation by the assemblyThese corrupt acts have deprived the tax payers of Lagos billions in revenue which could have been used for public projects. Indeed, the prime land stolen from the Lekki axis is enough to build the Lekki-Epe road without burdening residents and other tax payers with a 30 year concessioned toll road, We know that people will say why don’t you take this matter to EFCC? Well the EFCC appears compromised on matters concerning Tinubu. If not, how come he has not been charged to court despite several petitions against him and in spite of Nuhu Ribadu’s boastful claims that he had enough evidence to nail him. Late Chief Gani Fawehinmi once fought hard to get the Supreme Court to rule that that the Police could investigate Tinubu for certificate forgery and perjury and prosecute him after he leaves office. He left office 3 years ago and lost his immunity but where is the Nigeria Police? But we know that eventually, his cup will run over and he will be brought to justice. And why is there a conspiracy of silence by those known to be dogged fighters of corruption? Why are they watching as both men seems to be getting away with corruption? We hope Lagosians will wake up and fight for their rights. The elites should speak out now and force the EFCC to take action. We once again call on the elders of Lagos, the elites at the Lagos Island Club, Ikoyi Club, Lawn Tennis Club, Yoruba Tennis Club, Ikeja Country Club, Eko Club, Metropolitan Club, The Boat Club, Apapa Club, etc. We also call on the religious leaders of both faith, prominent traditional rulers, the media, opinion molders and members of civil society to speak out Let us join hands in the collective effort to call on the anti-corruption agencies, and in particular the EFCC, to act now and move into the Land’s Bureau and the State’s Treasury Office at Alausa to conduct a thorough investigation on Land matters from year 2000 to date. We assure the public that if this is done transparently, it might be possible to recover trillions of naira stolen from the tax payers of Lagos.

folawiyoma: Gbawe is a ancient personal concubine of course so is amosun ancient personal concubine.
Am sure a concubine will listen to whatever is lord tell him/her and act on it like they (APC) ancient personal concubine.
Are doing.
Am not surprise.

Hahaha he is paid na

Op

Ekiti and Lagos are exactly the same thing in opposite side of the same coin

Both were part of benin
Both have governors imposed on them

Both are tired of APC lead tinubu

Love your write up

This is the exact lies APC dish out every day.

We all knew it was a lie

About to embezzle money for election and after election

Delafruita: lakowe resort is owned by ARM.

Abeg don't even bring that here. ARM ko owo ni

ARM has no hand in lakuwe resort and lakes

Lucasbalo: You are right though you will have a lot of people here calling you names. The President is guilty of the same thing and so are tge other thieflicians. I have no party affiliations, they are all worthless to me. ? Arise people and wipe out all this destroyers of the motherland before the country goes belly up.

Yes you are right. To be honest, I don't really care about Nigeria as a whole but care very much about my state which is Lagos

Hmmm NA real wa o

Ibnsultan: hahah. Its Good 2 have info but Your taking ur bEEf to much with him. If indeed he acquired those assets tru fraud Efcc should be his friends by now

Yes that explains why EFCC is not chasing IBB, OBJ, IKIMI, DANEIL, AKALA, ORJI ETC

What are you talking about.

Ibnsultan: WaW stalker

Yes I am a stalker, after all it is my money too. Did I not pay my toll ? Did I not pay my tax ?

phoooo.ol

tit: you do not like me because i know your modus.
you kill and run to lagos.
if police block the lagos road, they will catch you when you come to kill fayose.

Gbammmm

Ibnsultan: You indeed suffering from TinubuPhobia
There more to it that we Don't know on NL

Yes there is more.

How can a man with no business empire own all this

PC is for Tinubu. Nigerians are not ready to sell they birthright to one man's political empire. Check out Lagos already: Wife -Senator, Son in law - House of rep, Son in law- House of assembly, Daughter - Iyaloja, Tinubu - AlphaBeta (a company that collects 1Billion Naira MONTHLY from Lagos State), Oriental Hotel, First Airline, Shares from Lekki Tolls LCC, Oando, Royal Garden Estate 150 Hectares in Ajah, Hitech, Lakowe Resort, ABC Consortium, the Nation Newspaper, TVC, Radio Continental, 1 hectare Land in No4 Oyinkan Abayomi formal Queens drive valued at 450 Million, 26 Burdillion Road Ikoyi valued at 600 Million Naira, Lagos state Guesthouse at Asokoro valued at 450 Million, ADIVA project, 157 Hectare with 2.5 Kilometers valued at 10 Billion in IGBEKODO, Apakim Ibeju Lekki; Park view Estate Ikoyi 14 Hectares, Strabag Yard beside Lagos State Secretariat Alausa Ikeji, Multi level Recreational centre beside Mobil in Oniru Estate valused at 25 Billion, New era foundation Youth camp at Eleko, Fara Park Estate, Beech Wood Estate etc.


Haba, NA ONLY HIM and his family?!
This why our collective heritage cannot be given or left with Tinubu, not in Lagos, South West or Nigeria

APC is a party full of thugs. Even their leader is named Jagaban

This is for those that said Tinubu did not have a hand in it.

I tell you, a lot of Nairalanders are being lied to daily by Paid APC members online

agos - Mr Adeyemi Ikuforiji, the Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), on Friday thanked God and appreciated the efforts of the leaders of All Progressives Congress (APC) for their support throughout his trial.
Ikuforiji addressed journalists in his office after he was discharged by a Federal High Court in Lagos.
Ikuforiji had been charged in December 2011 alongside his aide, Oyebode Atoyebi, with money laundering.
They had both pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and Justice Ibrahim Buba, ruling in the case on Friday, discharged the duo.
An elated Ikuforiji said: “Today is almost three years after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission decided to act on a spurious petition by some faceless individuals.
“The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos dismissed the comical 54-count charge of money laundering against me and my personal aide, Mr Oyebode Atoyebi.
“In this season of vindication, I cannot but thank God the Almighty for his unwavering mercy throughout the trial.
“I am grateful to the leaders of the party, especially the former Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) for free legal consultation sessions with him.’’
Ikuforiji also expressed gratitude to Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun, party members, religious bodies, political associates, friends and his colleagues at the Lagos Assembly for the vote of confidence passed on him during the trial.
He said that his travail in the last three years taught him some lessons, noting that victory was sweet and he had learnt to wait patiently for it.
“The victory is not mine alone; it is our collective victory for democracy, judiciary, for the assembly, the state and also for the journalists who stood on the side of the truth,” the speaker said.
He promised never to betray the confidence reposed on him by his historic victory, which would compel him to rededicate himself to lifting the state to higher heights.
The speaker said it would also propel him further in his political struggle to protect the enviable legacy of good governance, sterling leadership and unmatched excellence for which Lagos has come to be known. (NAN)
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/discharge-ikuforiji-thanks-god-party-leaders/#sthash.RUHq6LP6.dpuf

CFCfan: I heard Jimi Agbaje is the Labour Party's strongman, so she may find it tough there.

Accord Party sounds plausible. If she defects to the Party, and become their flag-bearer, the guber battle will uniquely be a 4-way race amongst the APC, PDP, AP and Labour parties!

My brother PDP is winning Lagos. Anybody PDP presents is a winner

CFCfan: Her toughest challenge will be the primaries. If she wants to contest, she better lobby Fashola and Tinubu in order to sail thru the primaries.

My brother, as far as Lagos is concerned APC is finished

She better goes to accord or labour

arabbunkum: They cannot fool all Nigerians all the time. Surely, they just gave the judge his own share and case closed. Yeye people!

You know APC antics

slimfit1: Diaspora my as do you know how many people that are Nigerians that are being killed everyday complete waste of space that woman is. She only represented herself in that house, I can't see any reasonable bill from her. let her go sit down apc is finished in lagos anyway.

That's it.

OLADD: [color=#006600][/color]

[size=18pt]Those expecting this presently constituted APC to bring any positive change to Nigeria are living in fools paradise.[/size] If there are people who need attitudinal and moral changes in their lives, they are the APC members themselves. [size=18pt]What manner of change can liars, political alarmists, photochromic ballot paper inventors, Boko haram sympathisers, propagandists[/size]...bring to a nation like Nigeria? [size=18pt]While we know the devil around, we will not be fooled by satanic personalities who are wolves parading themselves as sheep. We are just too wise to fall for the antics of political imperialists.[/size]

God bless you !!!!

folawiyoma: You talk like a
















Leader.











We shall overcome.

He is a natural leader and I hope he gets there.

[size=58pt]Propaganda !!![/size]

imoleay0: [size=18pt]CHANGE! FEDERAL
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Awon ologogoro gbogbo.

Hahahahaha

Descartes: I like Janjäweeds for having made PDP to know that they can get away with all attrocities and impunity they have been perpetrating since 1999. Meanwhile its remains an Opposition party. Thank God that we are about to witness a true democracy in the MOST populous Black Nation in the World.

Hahahahahaha

imoleay0: [size=58pt]Tinubu buying judges since 1999AD[/size]

APC ! Change