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Great

Right move in the right direction.
I have always said that government does not have business in management of companies but provide level ground, policies and control/regulations in place for optimal benefit from the private sector.

Hopefully MMIA will cease to become an eyesore it is.

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I pity you seriously because everything about this your topic is wrong.

Firstly there nothing there is no Airport like Ondo International Airport... Infact the The airport in Ondo state is located in Akure and it is not an international airport. It is even not a full airport but an Airstrip.

The picture you attach does not even show anything. All I see are some white guys on a tarred road.

Do you even know what makes a good airport?

Show me the runway, show me the control room, show me fire and safety system, show services.

I don't know your expectations , but you definitely not expecting an Heathrow or Charles de Gaulle or OR Tambo or JFK in Akure wit only less than 10 flights weekly.

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Good morning good people of this forum.
I have a foundation of 2nos 3 bedroom flat.
I like to modify this foundation to 4nos of 4 1-bedroom apartment

This building is going to be 2 floors.

I need someone who can help modify this.
I have the floor plan and picture of the foundation.

You can drop a contact here or PM me.

Thanks

Good write uP

Oga...wake up from your slumber.
This new era. No more free dollars.

Yeye dey smell.

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How did your administration spend our money?

Like a blind, drunken mad man.

Nonsense!!!!!

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Tomoarika:
I think it's high time we looked at our population growth projections side by side with our resources. Can we really afford to take care of 250 million people and above? Where would we house them? Lagos is already saturated. Do we wait till all the major cities are saturated too?

I agree with you partly because with better housing and town planning we can accommodate the whole of present lagos in an area less than 1/4 of it present area.

We need to build new town , build high and build much...

Ahmeduana:
THANKS TO OUR AREWA BROTHERS.

Must you play tribal card here? What about Yoruba man with 4 wives and 19 children? What of SE man with 6 children or an Ijaw man with 8 children?

Personally my thought is that this can be a blessing if well managed. Nigeria can become a China in the real sense of it. Destination for investment and trade.

This will require massive investment in infrastructure: Power, transportation, health care, sound government policies.

Human resource development will also be a key factor.

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According to UN, Nigerian population increased from less than 50 Million in 1950 to 182 Million in 2015 placing Nigeria presently as the world's 7th most populous nation.

Nigeria is forecasted to be world's 3rd most populous nation in 2050 with a population of 399 Million only behind China and India. In 2100, Nigeria population will be 752 Million.

Your thoughts please good or bad.

This is the only way. United we stand divided we fall.

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For this theory to be practical, I will suggest the following...simple law of demand and supply

Increase the supply of housing by building new towns in each local governments of about 10000 apartments each and be collecting your rent monthly.

If this is not done, please leave homeowners to do their thing.

Road u no build, Light u no give, water -no way, security - self assigned, education -pay for yourself.

Oga Fashola, please do the needful before advising homeowners.

Flood the streets of Nigeria with affordable housing and then we will see why landlords will not comply.

Tenant: I want to rent 2 bedroom apartment
Landlord: Rent is 400k per annum, 2yrs, Agreement and commission
Tenant: Cant you take monthly pay?
Landlord: No
Tenant: Ok I will go and rent at "Fashola Estate" or @ "Buhari estate"
Landlord: Please come back, you can pay daily sef!!!


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Na wa for you ooo op. Even moderator that put this on FP supposed to be summoned by EFCC.

This is not a Tattoo. It is a type of body decoration. This Mehndi, it is a sort of drawing on the body. Although it is classified as temporary Tattoo.

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House, Please what is the rough estimate for fencing 2 plots of land (120 X 120). I will include gate
Kindly highlight required resources please.
Land is level and solid. Not in Lagos!!!

Thanks

JingoOAU:
While you are entitled to your idiotic comments, be well guided that the bulk of the money used to built OAU was from Cocoa. In your warped idiotic sentiment, you think like a rusted he-goat without any direction and focus

I graduated from OAU and I can say it boldly that OAU products either before or now, can still compete with any university in Nigeria.

The problem OAU have been facing is poor management which started from Omole in the 90s even up to this present Tale Omole. They are all rogues, politicians, and thieves. I went to OAU last month and I couldn't but wonder if I truly passed through OAU because the school is experiencing the worst scenario of poor infrastructural decay, yet, the VC, I heard, is buying over 30million naira Jeep for his wife(though, the current VC was my lecturer then in the dept of International relations),yet, he called himself a Pastor

Most of the first generation universities in Nigeria are living on past glory and I think it's time the alumni of these great institutions step in to cushion the effect of poor funding and management

Let us calm down and stop name calling please.
But your statement about issue of OAU is right.

basilo101:
Ife became great in the 70s when Awolowo stole money to upgrade it. it was a glorified secondary school in the 60s when UI, ABU and UNN held sway. In the long run, it will go down cos stolen money cant give sustainable development, if it cant generate money to sustain itself, it will go down. the era of free education funded with stolen money is over, let the students pay to sustain what is on ground.

Even if he stole money, but at least he stole it for a good cause.
What do our leaders steal for now? for their pockets, for their family, for their GF.
This pure example of leadership, vision and human development. How many of our leaders has these qualities now?

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OrlandoOwoh:
Abati must be high on dry paw paw leaf. If his intention is to write on the general state in the falling standard of education in Nigeria, why pick OAU, Ile-Ife or write extensively on it? Bringing Buhari's policy of 1984 on education is self-indicting: What did the government he served in do?

My question to him too. It is easy to criticise whereas when he was in power he did not use his office to better the education sector.
Nigerians!!!! When they fall from power ..they will now be forming "concern citizens"

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At least we all now know why they sacked and victimised Sanusi.

All in the name of perpetrating their evil deeds

Thunder fire their yanshes.

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EFCC, DSS coming for you all

Next is Obanikoro, Fayose, FFK, Ayo Oritsejafor, Doyin Okupe....

I have been reading some depressing stories about the state of the Obafemi Awolowo University, formerly University of Ife, which provide an equally depressing metaphor for the state of higher education in Nigeria. Great Ife as that university is known to its staff, students and alumni, is probably Nigeria’s first model university in every respect. Its major competitors were the University of Ibadan, the University of Lagos, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. But Ife was far ahead in terms of the beauty of its environment and the facilities made available to staff and students. Built with Cocoa money (not petro-dollar!) by the Western Region Government, that university was a perfect illustration of the idea of the university and it managed to produce generations of scholars and students, known for nothing but distinction.

I studied at the University of Calabar (Malabites!), and at the time, I took time out to visit all the universities I mentioned earlier. In those days, the top universities in Nigeria were tourism destinations. Ibadan and ABU had the best bookshops anyone could think of, and the bookshop in UNILAG was also professionally run. UNN students insisted that they attended the University of Nigeria! But Ife had the most beautiful campus. It was the only university that had a special publication titled “Ife University in Pictures.” I remember receiving copies of that publication as a gift at different times from my friends: Kola Ogunleye, Akeem Adewuyi, and Kayode Ajala who served in the university as a youth corps member.

Whenever UNIFE students spoke about their university, you would think it was a little piece of heaven that had been converted to a university. They spoke about beauty, excellence, intellect and great scholarship. Every lecturer on the campus was painted like an Oracle at Delphi. So much mythology mixed with tales of absolute excitement attracted other students to the university. Curiousity once took the better part of me also, and I went on a visit to see the marvellous depiction of a campus in physical reality. I was not disappointed. Great Ife was great. I did not go to the classrooms, but my friends took me round. The University had just opened a Bukateria at the time, where everything was available. Driving into the campus itself was a delight; well-manicured flowers at both ends, long, comforting, welcoming drive.

We moved from one hall of residence to the other, where the students felt as if they were God’s special creations, lucky to be receiving education in one of the brightest spots on planet earth. I didn’t like the arrogance of the typical Ife student or graduate, even the girls had a special bounce to their gait, even if less pretty than our girls in Calabar, and I always quipped that flowers and beauty do not make a university, rather it is the intellectual content, but even in this regard, Ife was well-regarded. It boasted of some of the brightest guys in academia: that was in those days when Nigerian universities were centres of excellence, knowledge, discipline and distinction. Let’s add culture, for truly culture matters, and in educational matters, culture is perhaps everything, and there were scholars in Ife who had grown to become cultural icons in their respective fields.

The visits to Ife as expected always ended up at the newly launched Bukateria. Good food. Great ambience. And from the Bukateria Complex, there was a place we always visited for palm wine. I think they called it Old Bukka, close to the theatre. The halls of residence – Awolowo, Fajuyi, Moremi, Angola, Mozambique were exciting too; the students behaved as if each hall was a country unto itself, with each student having a permanent badge of identity. The students had quadrangles in every Faculty, and a Sports Complex, where my friend Akeem ended up with a black belt in Karate in addition to a degree in Architecture. Indeed, the University of Ife that I describe could compete at the time with any top university in the world. I have been to quite a few as a regular or executive student, there is no doubt that the university environment, where the gown is a special symbol, is meant to be a combination of everything that is excellent, to impart knowledge in a friendly environment where the student is groomed to become great citizens in society and for knowledge to be produced for the advancement of mankind. That is the ideal!

This is why it is particularly tragic that the same Great Ife is now a shadow of its former self. These days, more than 30 years after that glorious era that I describe, students of Obafemi Awolowo University, are now reported to be protesting over dilapidated halls of residence and terrible facilities. That bad? There was even a picture in the newspapers of OAU students fetching water from a stream! And I read one columnist calling on the university’s alumni to hurry up and rescue their alma mater. Please, is it that bad? But the story of this tragedy is the larger story of the Nigerian education system. My generation (waoh, man don dey old oh) went to school in this same country, and from kindergarten to doctorate, we can only recall in comparison with emergent realities, good memories. Once upon a time, our secondary schools were like higher institutions, but today our universities, with a few exceptions, are no better than secondary schools, and the secondary schools are no better than poultries. In those days, there were school principals who were more famous than state governors, commissioners, and traditional rulers, because they were known for their ability to manage schools and produce excellent students. There were government schools, there were mission schools, there were private schools, but there were standards, competition and quality.

This is why it is particularly tragic that the same Great Ife is now a shadow of its former self. These days, more than 30 years after that glorious era that I describe, students of Obafemi Awolowo University, are now reported to be protesting over dilapidated halls of residence and terrible facilities. That bad? There was even a picture in the newspapers of OAU students fetching water from a stream!

A whole generation of students has now passed through the Nigerian education system without any memory of those good old days. What they know is the story of distracted teachers who sell handouts or beg for money from parents. What they know is the tragedy of a school system where teachers are perpetually protesting about lack of pay, lack of facilities and the inadequacy of everything. What they know are lecherous male teachers asking for sex in exchange for marks. What they know are ugly campuses, with no toilet facilities, no water, no light. When they hear about the gown, what they imagine is a gown in tatters, now terribly disconnected from the town. In our time, companies and government departments came to campuses or the NYSC camp to recruit staff, the school-to-work transition was so smooth and certain that even nurses and midwives upon graduation were sure of a decent future.

As an undergraduate, our room was cleaned, our beds were laid, and the cafeteria fed us well at cheap rates; we had water, we had uninterrupted electricity supply, our teachers were smart and committed, life was good. There were students in Nigerian universities from all parts of the world; the ones from Southern Africa were even sponsored by the Nigerian government and they were happy to be here, so happy some of them focused on our girls and caused problems each time they got drunk. But today, who will send a student to Nigeria?

Everything changed the moment government went mad, and till date that madness has not been cured. That madness started in 1984 with the removal of education subsidy. My point is: the present administration must see the need to properly define the role of government in the education sector, and further work out the details about sustainable development. The rot of past decades is so deep, the crisis so bad, as has been described, and the marks are still evident, only sustained intervention can make the difference. And if I may say so, this is one sector where government subsidy will be a good idea.

It is of course clear that President Buhari in his second coming wants to be remembered as the man who fixed Nigeria. He tried it in his first coming but he didn’t have a definite mandate. Now, he has the people’s mandate, plus extra-ordinary goodwill, and he is still determined to achieve his original objective. He wants to catch thieves. Fine. The only irony is that even General Sani Abacha did exactly the same thing, but other governments came and rewrote the narrative. Thief-catching is certainly okay! Perfect. It will excite the mob, extract vengeance, and may be promote justice, but President Buhari must begin to look to the future and build his own concrete legacy. His record in Nigeria in the long run, will be his legacy, but it must be that kind of legacy that cannot be re-written by revisionists.

President Buhari must begin to look to the future and build his own concrete legacy. His record in Nigeria in the long run, will be his legacy, but it must be that kind of legacy that cannot be re-written by revisionists. So, what then, is his legacy project? I believe he can capture the society at the younger level: by investing in the historians of tomorrow and making their today better; by re-creating the future of Nigeria, by atoning for the past, by using public funds to secure the future of Nigerian children.

So, what then, is his legacy project? I believe he can capture the society at the younger level: by investing in the historians of tomorrow and making their today better; by re-creating the future of Nigeria, by atoning for the past, by using public funds to secure the future of Nigerian children. Those young boys and girls in Nigerian public schools who are being poorly served, sitting in badly shaped classrooms, being taught by unpaid teachers; those undergraduates in higher institutions who graduate and have to be re-schooled by their employers before they can be found manageable; those graduates who learn research and science by simulation and who cannot compete in the international arena of skills; those unhappy teachers in our schools who are busy looking for other jobs on the side; all the children in special schools who have been forgotten by government, all the Nigerian children who are out of school, all those boys and kids who graduate from university but know nothing – they all need President Buhari. And time is not on his side. And he cannot do it alone. Many state Governors have shown that they take their cue from him: most of them refused to appoint Commissioners, until he appointed Ministers. They should be part of this legacy project.

The President should launch an aggressive restoration programme in the education sector that takes off from where the Jonathan administration signed off. The rot is so age-long, so deep, that no Nigerian President in many years to come can ever have enough time to fix all the problems with Nigeria. But every President that comes along can either leave a scratch, a mark, or a legacy. It is up to President Buhari to make his choice. Salaam.

Source http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2015/12/great-ife-and-the-failure-of-the-gown/

Now we know why they sack Sanusi.
When did OBJ become oracle to dictate name of CBN governor?

There is god oooo!!!

Nonsense!!!!

Now let us all blame the Fulanis (or Northerners) for the ills that befell, befalling and will befall Nigeria.
You, your father and your bitches are a big part of this problem which clearly shows it is a problem caused by all.
You and the Sarakis, have been raping and milking Nigeria since independence, living large on our national cake.
Where was this your write up in 2006-2008 when you were sipping the national juice? where was your Northern people wahala last year when you were drumming support for your paymaster who loosed woefully partly due to people like you and stupid write ups like this.

Now after becoming a looser, a bad looser, you are drumming hatred, division, tribalism thinking everyone is dumb.

You guys should wake up...it is over!!!

BTW look through the window EFCC/DSS is at the gate!!!!

Loosers

This clown is just all about business and money for him.
Riding high on our tragedy. Shameless leader
I pity the people of Bayelsa. This man does not have any iota of their interest.

Talk for National Assembly ..u no gree...come dey make noise for twitter

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Passionately waiting for his reply/Defence.

Of course comparing Buhari to Dead leaders on front pages...running his mouth all over the place instead of facing the his contract with Ekiti people ....not knowing that everything is engineered from Abuja using the money earmarked for fighting Boko Haram.

I hope he will use newspaper centrespread to answer this one.

Nonsense!!! I just hope this is not true.....because baba no dey smile ooo


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See demo!!!
As if when trouble comes they will be as swift, brisk and professional like this.

BTW Is that not the copter that Tinubu "cruised" to somewhere last week?

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This afternoon after picking up my son from school, I decided to get to Arik office at Ikeja to see how they can transfer my unused ticket (My flight was canceled last week due to weather issue hence I traveled by road to lagos).
On getting to Arik office, I was told they have closed early today because the office generator is faulty and advised to go to the local airport.

My son, who was listening to all these, immediately protested saying " I am not going to that boring airport where nothing works" . "The toilet stinks, it is hot, there are no chairs to sit and every one want money from you (me)" I was so surprised to hear this from my son.

I know my son was thinking I am going to the International terminal hence I told him that is not where I am going but to the local terminal. After some explanation about the differences between the two, I added that a new airport (international terminal) is under construction which hopefully will be as good as those that are "not boring". These statement calmed him down and that we are not staying more than 15 minutes.

I travel a lot and my son has traveled through more than dozen international airports in the last 3 years.

My son later added ... " I know this airport is not the worst but they should try and be the first (best). Don't tell the owners that I said this but tell them to finish the construction quickly and maybe put some toys for kids like me to play with"

On our way back he made his comment about the local terminal as " it is clean and not hot" "that was superfast" it took me less than 10 min for Arik to reroute me ticket.

All these got mee thinking

Kids see the rot in our society
Kids know the good thing and can differentiate between the good , the bad and the ugly
Kids know what they want
Our actions and inactions has great effects in the life of our children
The society has a great influence on children

If a 7 year old could spot societal issues why can't our leaders also see these issues and tackle them. Do we have to wait till foetuses start seeing the odds in our society before we all take drastic step to develop our nation?

Finally, to FAAN (or owner of MMIA) please include a toy/children lounge in the new airport terminal. You have a client here.

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Ghandi12:
This does not look like propaganda...

Even if it is a propaganda..it is a positive propaganda.
Show the world that they are winning, the the govt cares and understand the suffering of the people. This will also help them understand the issue on ground firsthand so that they can do more and put all these riff raff to extinction
#thankasoldier

Unlike the previous administration that sat in Abuja looting all the money allocated for fight against BH and still went ahead and call the soldiers cowards, court martial them and sentence them to death.

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Even if it is a propaganda..it is a positive propaganda.
Show the world that they are winning, the the govt cares and understand the suffering of the people. This will also help them understand the issue on ground firsthand so that they can do more and put all these riff raff to extinction 
#thankasoldier

Unlike the previous administration that sat in Abuja looting all the money allocated for fight against BH and still went ahead and call the soldiers cowards, court martial them and sentence them to death.

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Fear dey catch Baba!!!

Your second memoir in Prison will not sell.
Nigeria will explode...but on the heads of your fellow looter!!!

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As what? I did same from Warri to Lagos on Thursday after Arik cancelled flights cos of the same weather shit!!!
It is not always all about your money. Money cannot buy everything

A typical example to show that God is greater than us all.
At least he will be a lil bit more in touch with what we are facing er'day.

Track 2 in his next album: Road trip through death traps!!!

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This is a laudable one if it sees the light of day.

3000MW will definitely boost power production but will not solely solve the problem.
There is need to address issues of transmission and remove monopoly by DISCOS by opening up the market.
There is also need to overhaul NERC and replace Sam Amadi immediately.

The East-west coastal rail with seriously reduce pressure from our roads, make them last longer, reduce traffic jam and mostly safer. Even if it can only remove all Dangote truck from Nigerian roads.

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