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Almost all the Ala_hajias that are land ladies in Lagos ought to be in that list...they most likely killed their husbands to take over their properties

The pontIus himself

Anambralstson:
Major infrastructure facilities will include a field logistic base (FLB), pipelines, flare gas system, seven 500kVA low-voltage emergency diesel generators, tri-ethylene glycol storage, distribution and regeneration units, and six flow lines.

Power supply for the project will be provided by two 1.6MVA onsite diesel generators, while potable water is proposed to be sourced from the onsite stormwater storage facility.
https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/projects/assa-north-ohaji-south-project/

Why go for diesel generators as a means of power supply in a gas plant, whatever happen to gas engines or gas turbines with ready fuel source at their disposal.

ednut1:
Alex and his useless pageant this must be like the 40th one this year alone. Spits

Monitoring spirits always looking for ways to undo others

franchasng:
God bless you. I have been searching for the organization in charge of this breach of privacy. I think it is time to petition NITDA to force CAC to change that search data research about businesses and companies registered under CAC.


The only information they should reveal to the public search is the company RC number showing it is fully registered with CAC.

Then if for any reason someone need full details about the company maybe for security reasons, they must submit legal authorisation from responsible government body seeking for such authority to access such private data, and then only CAC security department should handle such after scrutinizing the requests and making sure it is safe.

What are you scared of...if your dealings are legit there's no reason to bother solong as your financial or bio data are not disclosed..

Registering a business outfit with the corporate affairs means you're coming to the public domain, stop hyping unnecessarily

Ijaycool:
Basic professional cautionary measures are carelessly disregarded in this Country.

This isn't the only Nigerian Government website with such vulnerability. Somewhere in the CAC website just by entering the name & CAC reg number of a business you can find everything about a business, including names and addresses of the directors, their contacts etc. This is appalling, on the backdrop of the fact that most firms include their CAC number in their insignia. Many other sites can easily be manipulated to get very personal information on people.

It's sad that we don't have a working SON (Standard Organization of Nigeria), or Consumers Protection Agencies

The breach doesn't fall within the purview of SON the statutory body charged with such responsibility is NITDA and they have responded accordingly however late, the question that should be asked is did the developer pass through the regulatory authority for due diligence before launching that portal or it is the normal cliche " business as usual"

Nonsense reportage more people join the race and yet not even one name was mentioned..

abluck:
VANITY

I'm trying make sense out of your post...what has vanity got to do with a policeman killing an unarmed civilian or you just picked up the word and feel this is the best place to use it

ZaOzaRoom:
She is not a slay queen.
Did you read the post?
She sells fruits.
Ladies like this are very vulnerable.
Probably she thought no man would love her again.

My bad....what do you make.out of people who take their lives in the name of love?

Thank God you didn't reach for a bottle of sniper.

On a more serious note, so Op you're asking for advice on how best to remain a second rate stand_in boyfriend huh...

kunleweb:
Excpet for that. But then people don't just die like that. With the body of the car left intact

Which car is the body intact??....that's the twisted wreck in the pix

RichBoy247:
Biafrans should worry about that not Nigerians. Biafrans should start using the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Niger Bridges constructed and commissioned by their beloved son Goatluck Jonathan

Ofcourse you don't know the importance of that bridge...since you have never traveled outside the confines your home town.

Nonsense and ingredients

kunleweb:
Na wa o. Aggressive village people. An entire family. Una try


Even if a fire extinguisher costs 20,000Naira please buy it and have like 2 in your car. The cost of loss far outweighs the cost saved from ignoring needful amenities that are many times overlooked and ignored. The same thing applies to all other things we ignore and overlook but are needful. The culture of saving money by not buying needful safety and security amenities like this always, I repeat always often can lead to scenarios where losses are experienced and when weighed far outweighs the cost of purchasing these items/having them in place

My friend looking at the wreckage, you don't need a sooth sayer to tell you the occupants of that vehicle had left this world before the fire broke out..even a fire truck wouldn't have saved them.

Jisos!...what a terrible news...with all those beautiful names (Fortune, Prosper and Angel) yet the devil still got them.

May the Goid Lord forgive your transgressions on earth and accept your souls to the comfort of His bosom.

You're not bad looking per se but I beg you remove those cat features from your face.

Asking this kind of question in a public place with those cat features gives the impression that your sexual orientation is nothing close to straight.

muykem:
She died for love. It's better to die for something than to live for nothing.

Examples of those living for nothing pleaseeeee..

Ok,


One less slay queen.

Beosten:
Daily Nigerian, that kwankwaso cum PDP trash paper. My amiable Gandolar showing them the heat.

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Sense fall on you there


This nonsensical statement you made of what relevance is it to the issue raised..

It's no rocket science ....any military, para military and particularly the police personnel dismissed from active service will end up continuing from where they left off, the only difference is that they will be doing so without the official cover.

What other work can a dismissed SARS personnel do If not armed robbery.

Ok

beresponsible:
Weeds me think say na smoke

Just negode these inbred and eternally damned headslammers....so America killed some good for nothing low life terrorists in far away Iraq and Syria and they feel Nigeria is the best place to carry out reprisals attacks.

Lagos bus terminals still uncompleted and unutilised 21 months after inauguration, Samson Folarin reports

Lagos State, the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria, was on lockdown and business activities were grounded on March 26, 2018 when the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), visited to inaugurate the Ikeja Bus Terminal.

One year and nine months after, the project has not been put into use.

The multibillion naira park, which was opened with pomp and circumstance, as the state claimed the facility would serve 4 million residents, is virtually deserted.


Our correspondent visited the terminal, which is believed to occupy a land mass of about 10,000 square metres, last Tuesday and he observed that there was no human presence there. Besides, the environment was untidy and the walkways had been invaded by weeds.

The flower bed overlooking the inauguration board unveiled by the President was crushed and left unattended to. Some of the signal boards, though still draped with nylon, had started gathering dust.

A guard kept watch on the other side of the terminal, where there is a cinema house, an eatery and what looked like a shopping mall under construction.

The guard told our correspondent that nobody could tell when the terminal would be put to use.

“I don’t understand what is going on there. May be they want to turn the place to a garage for BRT buses. Last night, I saw hundreds of BRT buses parked there. But by 5am, they were driven out. There is nothing going on there,” he said.

At the Oyingbo Bus terminal, which has been under construction since 2017, the story is the same. From the prototype of the design released to the public that year, it was clear that the terminal was intended to accommodate between 50 and 60 BRT buses at once.

During a visit to the site last Wednesday, our correspondent observed that work had not only stopped on the project, but also the environment oozed neglect.

Somebody had hung some clothes to dry on the blue wrought-iron fence around the terminal. Unused roofing sheets, a concrete mixer and a front loader littered the premises, while a few idle men were taking a nap.

In August 2018, former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, promised that the terminal would be completed “soon.” But some residents, who spoke with our correspondent, claimed that work stopped at the site shortly after Ambode left office.

“Work stopped here in August this year. I can’t say when it will be opened. I have no idea,” a man, who happened to be on the premises of the terminal during our correspondent’s visit, said.

“You know what happens when a new government takes over from an old government? The new person in charge will not want to spend money on the project of his predecessor. That is what is happening here,” another Lagos resident added.

The Akinwunmi Ambode administration in Lagos State had chased away many traders to create space for the terminal. Some of the displaced traders, who managed to find space around the terminal sell their wares, lamented that they were asked to leave because the administration said it wanted to ease transportation in the state. They accused the state of destroying their market over a project that it was not committed to.

In September 2019, the Commissioner for Transportation, Mr Frederick Oladeinde, said the state government had asked the project contractor to resume work on the terminal.

He insisted that the project would be completed in due course. But during our correspondent’s visit, there was no sign that work was about to commence at the site.

The Oshodi Transport Interchange was also among the projects inaugurated by the President when he visited the state again in April 2019. While Terminal 3 had been functional, Terminal 1 and 2 still remained closed, eight months after their inauguration

When our correspondent visited both terminals, only a few security guards were seen around and movement was restricted.

Unlike Ikeja and Oyingbo, the two terminals appeared to be under serious security surveillance. “I learnt that the place will soon be opened to the public,” one of the guards told our correspondent.

According to the Lagos State Government, statistics show that 12 million residents of the state use public transportation without standard facilities.

Also, Ambode had once said he would embark on the construction of 13 terminals designed to change that narrative by exposing residents to a “befitting and comfortable environment.”

In what he called the Bus Reform Initiative, he listed areas that would benefit from the terminals to include Ikeja, Oyingbo, Yaba, Ojota, Agege and the Tafawa Balewa Square.

He said some of the terminals would be fully air-conditioned, with facilities, such as relaxation spots, eateries, free Wi-Fi, restrooms, ATM galleries and food courts.

However, like most Lagos projects, there are no available records of the funds expended on the projects, making it difficult to gauge the amount expended on the terminals, whether completed or abandoned.

A civic technology organisation, with specialises in fiscal transparency, BudgIT Nigeria, had in May 2018 requested the financial details of the Ikeja terminal from the Commissioner of Works and Infrastructure, Mr Ade Akinsanya.

Despite writing several letters under the Freedom of Information Act for the project, which was believed to have been awarded in May 2015, the government refused to heed the request.

The Lead Partner of the organisation, Mr Seun Onigbinde, told our correspondent that more than one year and six months after, the government had still refused to budge. Onigbinde said he believed the government wasted a lot of taxpayers’ funds on unnecessary projects.

He said, “It is typical of Lagos State and this has been going on for a long time. The government does not publish the actual amount used in delivering public services and it is awful. It is also antithetical to the idea that citizens should pay taxes and their taxes will work for them. I believe that funds used for public services should be transparent and open to the public.

“And this is why we can’t even deeply interrogate these issues because you don’t have a clear idea of how much was spent on these projects. Many believe that Lagos should be far better than what it is now in terms of the inner roads, road network, health care, mobility and others.

“There is a lot of wastage. Whether you are looking at what was done at Oshodi or those bus terminals spread everywhere. Some are already broken down and are being reconstructed; so much wastage.”

He asked the state government to focus more on what would make most impact in the lives of the people.

The Executive Director of the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, Mr Adetokunbo Mumuni, said government’s penchant for abandoning capital projects had become a way of life in the country.

He said, “In a democracy, there has to be stringent accountability and that is to say, all projects that are awarded must be dutifully executed to finality. That projects are abandoned in Nigeria is not a new thing. We are getting used to it, but this must change so that we don’t continue to waste taxpayers’ money.”

Mumuni urged the government to speedily complete the terminals for the benefit of Lagosians.

The Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederick Oladehinde, however, said the projects were not abandoned.

He explained that there was a modification of the plan conceived by the former administration, adding that the terminals were being integrated by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

Oladehinde said, “The Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority is planning several routes from the Ikeja Bus Terminal and that is ongoing. It has been renovated and will be operational soon. What has happened is that because of a change in government, there is a slight modification of the bus reform. And they are all part of the plan.

“The two terminals at Oshodi will start functioning soon. A plan is being developed to ensure that they are all integrated.”

The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotosho, said that all the projects started by the previous administration would be completed in due course.

He said, “When Governor Sanwo-Olu came in, he said categorically that no project would be abandoned and he has kept to his words. Very soon, you will see many of these projects being commissioned. Just a few days ago, he was at Ojokoro Local Council Development Area where he commissioned 31 roads, which were also started by the immediate past administration.


“But you also have to consider the figures. I don’t think that the kind of money that was once available to go round all the projects is available now. So, it has to be one after the other. You cannot put too many pieces of iron in the fire at the same time. What the governor is doing is to attend to one after the other.”

The commissioner said he did not have the detail of the funds expended on the bus terminals, adding that he could not comment on it.


https://punchng.com/weeds-take-over-mega-bus-terminals-as-lagos-fails-transparency-test/

Em own better

Any reasons why they are hiding their faces...