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Acidosis:
and what would you say about those spending 50-100k on VIP tables at Alibaba or AY's show?
Alibaba needs the 50k more than those dying kids ba?

Human beings ehnn.. As far as those paying those tithes do not come begging you for food or water, you need not worry
You cannot control how others choose to spend their money.

gogo2479:
See what Buhari did to granny that suppose to be in the village enjoying her retirement age , now bad Buhari economy has forced her to oversea to work and provide for her jobless grand children back home.

9ja083:
It's not her fault. It's a normal thing we see here in Nigeria and it never killed any of the children.
Nigerian babies are strong!

GistMore:
GistMore.com

A Nigerian former nanny — convicted in February, 2019, of killing an 8-month-old baby girl, Enitan Salubi, in 2016 — was sentenced Friday in Prince George’s County.

Authorities say Oluremi Adeleye, 73, was captured on home video unscrewing the lid of Enitan’s bottle and pouring around eight ounces of milk down her throat in less than 30 seconds, “essentially drowning her” in October 2016.

baby124:
If it was Nigeria they will be saying leave it for God. Nonsense. Every adult must answer and pay for their deeds. Nigerians must embrace accountability maybe Nigeria will change then.

feelamong:
Guys...Please lets not derail this Treasury Bills Thread!

Many newbies look up to us for direction and information on how to go about their first Treasury Bills Investments....

Please anyone with an idea of the secondary market rates in Stanbic or GTB?

OgogoroFreak:
Honestly, I like the passion with which you defend these pastors.

People like you would always exist in the world and you are the reason I'm now thinking about cashing out with this church thing... I need to own a church!

Acidosis:
Aside the fact that your concluding statement reeks of needless tribalism, you made great points. Your tenant belongs to the category of people who simply WON'T pay (not necessarily because they can't afford to).

Most tenants believe landlords have less needs and priorities, reason many of them won't pay. The fact that rent is due for payment is not enough reason for them to pay. They expect you to give them a "strong reason" e.g. you need money for an urgent surgery, and stuff like that.

The poor share this mentality also. When they borrow from the rich, they hardly want to pay back. The fact that they owe you money is not enough reason to pay.

Same ideology runs in the veins of those who blame church goers for giving offerings in church. Why should you give offering to a rich pastor, (when obviously he can afford to keep the church running from the money he pulls out from his buttocks on a daily basis)?" After all, the church was built from the money he stole from World Bank.

Well, the ultimate lesson here is well noted.

CMrecords:
Of course you sound like you read yours the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is my God, I don’t talk about the God of a minister of God I am not close too, the problem with Religion and Africa is fake prophet and they’re not only in Africa, Fake prophet are everywhere, The Main problem is that Ppl just don’t know the only address to God is the Bible. I had read my Bible every time I am opportune to and about reading upside down I ask for counseling of the Active force of God; Holy Spirit even before reading so if I could get a meaning up and down maybe the Holy Spirit was just elucidating a parable to me not all men of God are false prophet, will only talk on behalf of a close one to me. So many ppl today prefer the sensual to spiritual.
May not be a satisfying answer
Read a lil more of the Bible yourself.

Acts 17:

22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you

frankyychiji:
See chest-beating. Your buhari is a lifeless Sudanese while Oshiomole is just a rabble rouser who the northern wing of APC are going to kick out soon for the simple reason that he's working for tinubu.

Aderewah:
Cool

HungerBAD:
At a time when knowledge acquisition in other climes is getting increasingly sophisticated, the same cannot be said to be the case in most parts of the country.

While the much-touted leaders of tomorrow in some states attend classes in ad-hoc environments including under trees, unsafe environment and sundry locations, Lagos State, many say should never be found in the company of such needy states.

But that is not the case. As a matter of fact, students in some schools in the state are taught while sitting on bare floors, while classrooms in some schools across the state are without roof, sundry fittings and devoid of requisite learning aides

Oshodi Nursery and Primary School, Oshodi, which has been in deplorable condition for a very long time is a classic example of this sad story.Located only a few kilometres away from Bolade Bus Stop, along Oshodi/Agege Motor Road, the school, which has up to four buildings within the premises, sees pupils scampering for safety anytime it rains, even as the learning process also has to be halted at such times.
This explains why parents and concerned residents of the area are urging the state government to come to their aid, by rehabilitating the school, and providing an enabling environment for the pupils to learn, in consonant with their rights to attend school in conducive environments.

The pathetic condition of the school first attracted the attention of The Guardian Newspaper, which carried a report to that effect in The Guardian on Sunday edition of February 7th, 2016. Ever since that publication, nothing has been done to improve the fortunes of the school.

This gross neglect suffered by the school, has provided a leeway for miscreants in the area to sneak in for regular Indian Hemp smoking sessions. They sometimes defecate in the open classrooms, thereby compounding an already bad situation.

When The Guardian visited the school last week, over 20 classrooms are without roof, just as empty plastic bottles and empty sachets of water jostled for space.

Some of the residents who spoke to The Guardian said they have on several occasions written letters informing the state government about deplorable state of the school, and the need to rehabilitate it, but without any positive response.

They said because of the ugly condition of the school, most of them had to relocate their children to other schools, adding that only indigent students still attend the school.

One of the residents Mr. Edwin Mathew, said parents of the pupils have raised the issue of renovation on several occasions with the school management during Parents Teacher Association (PTA) meeting, but nobody is saying anything about it.

Mathew said: “This school has been in this form for a very long time and nobody is saying anything about it. We have written letters to government but there have been no responses. We feel government has forgotten this school, and some parents have taken their children to private schools. Only a few parents still bring their children to this school because the school has been abandoned.

“I want to use this opportunity to beg the state government to come to our aid because our children are our investment so, we would not like to play with their future.”

A parent, Mrs. Kafayat Dada, said she personally wrote several letters, but when nobody responded, she visited the Ministry of Education in Alausa to inform them of condition of the school, but nothing has been done till date.

Dada said: “I have been to places to find out why the school has been abandoned, along with other parents because we suspected that government must have awarded contract for the rehabilitation of the school buildings. We found out that the contract has not been awarded, but I want to use this opportunity to ask Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, to come and rehabilitate the school for our children. We are not happy with the terrible condition of the school because it is an eyesore. Our children have right to school in a conducive environment like other children in the state.”

Secretary, Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board Oshodi/Isolo Local Council, Lekan Alausa Adekoya, explained that it was rainstorm that removed the roofs of the buildings in September 2014, and ever since the school management has written several letters to the state government, through the State Primary Education Board (SPEB), to rehabilitate the school, but nothing has been done.

He called on the state government to take the school building as a priority project, and rehabilitate it. He said: “As you can see, it is an eyesore and we do not like the situation. I feel one day it would be the turn of the school to be renovated because I believe government has not forgotten the school.

“One non-governmental organisation promised that it would rehabilitate the school for us in 2016, but because of the economic recession, the group apologised it would no longer happen. It is a project that would take millions of naira, so, there is nothing we can do on our own other than to write letters to government, which we did on several occasions. I know very soon by God’s grace something would be done because it is a public school and the children have right to stay and learn in a conducive environment.
“We try our best to see that the situation of the school does not affect the learning process. We thank God that we are in dry season because whenever it rains, the learning process is affected because of the open roof.

“Government should intervene in this matter. I know that government has other projects to handle, but it should make this school a priority project.”

Responding to the use of the school by miscreants and hoodlums for binging, he said, “We have arrested some of them before with the help of the police. We discovered that it was some children of some landlords in the area, including some tenants and traders in Oshodi market that litter the school environment.”


www.nairaland.com/attachments/4860558_owoseni_jpeg06e2ea1f21ecfae7256699d95aacebb5


http://guardian.ng/sunday-magazine/cityfile/school-without-roof-in-oshodi-begs-for-attention/

Nyamiri:
Guy, just shut up and carry your nonsense out of my mentions. PDP was in Power for 16 years, mention a single thing PDP did for Lagos apart from painting green white green on 3rd Mainland bridge.

Look at the Ikoyi Bridge Lagos built in 11 months, did Pdp deem it fit to build one for the SE in 16 years?

Apc may be shitty but Pdp is worse than sh!t

anonimi:
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TTC in talks to sell old trains to Lagos. Are they safe enough?
AUGUST 10, 2011

As Toronto trainspotters gleefully take maiden rides on the TTC's Rocket, commuters in Lagos, Nigeria may be about to get some new trains of their own. Our old ones.

A TTC spokesperson has confirmed that the commission is negotiating with a private group to sell up to 260 used train cars to the West African megacity's new transit project.

"I can confirm that the TTC is in discussion with a third party that wants to purchase trains for Lagos," said commission spokesperson Brad Ross. "Over a period of time, they will be taken out of service and then transported over to Nigeria."

The cars being considered for sale are the TTC's old H-5 and H-6 models, which will be decommissioned as the TTC rolls out its new fleet of Rockets. Ross predicts the earliest they could be shipped to Nigeria is sometime in 2012.

Traffic snarls are already a major economic problem in the Nigerian capital, a booming city that will reach an estimated population of 25 million by 2015. A new above-ground rail system designed to carry 1.5 million people a day has already broken ground, and Lagos Governor Babtunde Fashola has said it "will be the most multi-dimensional and most impactful" of the government's efforts to reduce traffic congestion.

Fashola visited Toronto earlier this year to inspect the TTC trains.

The Lagos deal would be the first of its kind for the TTC. Decommissioned cars are usually sold for scrap metal and can fetch up to $1,500 dollar each. While Ross declined to discuss specific figures, he says the sticker price for Lagos is "significantly more" than scrap prices, putting the potential profits to the TTC in the millions of dollars.

It is not unusual for technology from western nations to end up in poorer countries. Marketplaces in Africa and Asia are flooded with North American clothes, computers, and even cars, but the purchase of larger technology like trains is rarer.

The cars will have to be significantly refurbished to fit existing infrastructure in Lagos, and some Nigerian media reports have lamented that the government appears to have settled on "tokundo," or used, trains instead of brand new vehicles.

Although half the cars are more than 30 years old, Ross is adamant they are perfectly safe and are only being decommissioned for capacity reasons. But he also admitted the TTC is not required to make sure the cars meet any safety standards before selling them.

"Once sold, it's up to the new operator to ensure they are in good working order," he said. "They do need to be maintained much more frequently than the new trains, simply because of their age. At some point they will run out their useful life."

Murtaza Haider, director of the Institute of Housing and Mobility at Ryerson University, said the age of the cars is definitely a cause for concern.

"We should be ensuring that there is some service life left in these vehicles and we're not going to be playing havoc with the lives of those who would ride these vehicles," Haider said. "There's metal fatigue, and that metal fatigue could result in dangerous conditions. I would be paying a close watch on this for the next ten years to see how many accidents do happen in Lagos."

He also warned that while rail systems are glamorous as far as transit infrastructure goes, they are not always as effective at reducing congestion as other options. Nevertheless, new rail systems are frequently preferred because governments can take advantage of kickbacks from large contracts.

According to media reports, the cost estimates for the Lagos rail project have varied wildly from $1.2 billion to $30 billion. In 2010, a Nigerian government watchdog accused Fashola's government of widespread corruption.

"More often than not, politicians favour rail transit because it is more expensive," Haider said. "It's almost useless in some cases, and less productive in most cases, than a bus system. But you can't buy busses for $30 billion. You can inflate prices and make a lot of money buying a rail system."

From: https://nowtoronto.com/news/next-stop-nigeria/

Nyamiri:
They can also move into Ikeja Bus Terminal

Since Ambode commissioned it, even a snail hasn't taken off from there.

BudgIT charges Lagos State Government to Comply with FOI Act, demands the cost of the Ikeja Bus Terminal.

udgIT Nigeria, a civic tech organisation, working on fiscal transparency demands the Lagos State Government respond to its numerous letters supported by the Freedom of Information Act. Following the judgement on the Ondo State Appeal Court by Hon. Justice Ridwan Maiwada Abdullahi, JCA which compels state governments to respect the Freedom of Information Act 2011, BudgIT sent a Freedom of Information requests for details of the Ikeja Bus Terminal and Details of the Contracts Awarded by the Lagos State Government between May 2015 to May 2018 to the Honourable Commissioner of Works and Infrastructure for Lagos state, Mr Ade Akinsanya on May 3rd, 2018 asking for the details of the cost for the public projects execution of the Ikeja Bus Terminal.

The Court of Appeal, Akure Division on March 27, 2018, ruled that the requests for public information under the Freedom of Information Act, are made in public interest and should be honoured by all states in Nigeria. The bus terminal which was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari on March 29, 2018, was stated to be a world-class infrastructure that will cater to 4 million Lagosians per day. BudgIT understands the project is now completed and demands that the cost of the project should be made public.

However, Commissioner of Works and Infrastructure, Mr Akinsanya is yet to respond to the request and has thereby flouted the provision of the FOI Act Section (4) which mandates a public institution to respond to a request within seven days. Also, In the advent that the public institution feels the information should be denied, Section 4(b) provides that the public institution gives a written notice, stating reasons for the denial, and the section of the FOI Act under which the denial is made. The Lagos State Ministry of Works and infrastructure has refused to provide neither the information to the request nor a response for refusal there utterly disregarding the FOI Act.

Following the lack of response from Ministry of Works and infrastructure, BudgIT sent a reminder on the subject to the Ministry and distributed copies to the offices of the Executive Governor, Deputy Governor, Attorney General, Commissioner for information and Strategy and the Office of Civic Engagement. The letter dated May 31st, 2018 reiterated the requests made by the organisation on the cost of executing the Ikeja Bus Terminal.

https://medium.com/@BudgITng/budgit-charges-lagos-state-government-to-comply-with-foi-act-demands-the-cost-of-the-ikeja-bus-d39f5d109f3d

LazyGold:
I know the kidnappers must be Igbos

Watch out for any Igbo looking at your Kids in South West

TempleHouse:
Lagos is infected with the People who are as good as Animal.
They could not go back to their erosion-ravaged community, yet they can't live in peace in Lagos.
They are cursed in their land, but it's time for Youruba Nation to draw a line now and take a decisive action to drive them home.

Police arrest two suspected kidnappers of Lagos Fire Service staff

Following a sustained and well-coordinated operations by the Lagos Command’s Tactical teams led by the Officer in Charge of Anti Kidnapping Unit, SP Bulus R Musa, two members of the kidnapping gang that abducted the Director of Lagos State Fire Service, Rasaki Musibau and six others on Saturday at about 8pm, have been arrested.
The Police, in a statement released by the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Bala Elkana, said the suspects namely: Blessing Bayo ‘m’ 29 years and Smart Alfred ‘m’ 32 years all of Arogbo, Ondo State were arrested on Wednesday at about 05:30am at Ibafun along Ikorodu-Ijebu Ode Express Way, a boundary community with Ogun State and they all confessed to the commission of the crime.

https://dailypost.ng/2019/04/10/police-arrest-two-suspected-kidnappers-lagos-fire-service-staff/

CMrecords:
The God of Dr D.K. Olukoya does not sleep nor slumber.

Bitterleafsoup:
These guys are probably not even Nigerian. The fake passports are too much...

We’ve paid some Fulani to stop killings in Southern Kaduna – El-Rufai

Kaduna State Governor Mallam Nasir el-Rufai has said his government has traced some violent, aggrieved Fulani to their countries and paid them to stop the killings of Southern Kaduna natives and the destruction of their communities saying that the renewed violence is carried out by bandits. El-Rufai made this known while fielding questions from some select Journalists in his office in Kaduna.

He said: “For southern Kaduna, we didn’t understand what was going on and we decided to set up a committee under Gen. Martin Luther Agwai (rtd) to find out what was going on there. What was established was that the root of the problem has a history starting from the 2011 post election violence.
“Fulani herdsmen from across Africa bring their cattle down towards Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria. The moment the rains starts around March, April, they start moving them up to go back to their various communities and countries.

“Unfortunately, it was when they were moving up with their cattle across Southern Kaduna that the elections of 2011 took place and the crisis trapped some of them. “Some of them were from Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Mali and Senegal. Fulanis are in 14 African countries and they traverse this country with the cattle.
“So many of these people were killed, cattle lost and they organised themselves and came back to revenge. “So a lot of what was happening in Southern Kaduna was actually from outside Nigeria. We got a hint that the late Governor Patrick Yakowa got this information and he sent someone to go round some of these Fulani communities, but of course after he died, the whole thing stopped. That is what we inherited. But the Agwai committee established that.
“We took certain steps. We got a group of people that were going round trying to trace some of these people in Cameroon, Niger republic and so on to tell them that there is a new governor who is Fulani like them and has no problem paying compensations for lives lost and he is begging them to stop killing.
“In most of the communities, once that appeal was made to them, they said they have forgiven. There are one or two that asked for monetary compensation. They said they have forgiven the death of human beings, but want compensation for cattle. We said no problem, and we paid some. As recently as two weeks ago, the team went to Niger republic to attend one Fulani gathering that they hold every year with a message from me.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/weve-paid-fulani-stop-killings-southern-kaduna-el-rufai/

onatisi:
something which our previous and present government can do easily, but instead they will rather spend billions on wasteful projects , buying recharge cards for voters and frivilous trips abroad rather than invest solidly in the naija economy.

Sanchez01:
Nah... On point and coherent. Never took you for one who would go hard on a people over 'small issues.

J4JUVENTUS:
Job well done!

priceaction:
while okorocha family is looting them dry

beeblack:
Some of these thieves are heartless, instead of stealing from politicians that embezzle Nigeria's money, they are robbing poor people.

Imagine someone just decide to steal poor man's bike that uses to feed his family.

NewBea:
Iv always wondered what this guy do for a living.

Sanchez01:
This is on point but this your comment shocked me!

iswallker:
Pls free the guy,..

Asians and Arabs struggle with English language..

jaxxy:
Can u expell ur own citizens? Wtf are u talking about? Can America expell Americans?

jaxxy:
Can u expell ur own citizens? Wtf are u talking about? Can America expell Americans?

The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of whom lived on the Pacific coast. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens. These actions were ordered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

Of 127,000 Japanese Americans living in the continental United States at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, 112,000 resided on the West Coast. About 80,000 were Nisei (literal translation: "second generation"; American-born Japanese with U.S. citizenship) and Sansei ("third generation"; the children of Nisei). The rest were Issei ("first generation" immigrants born in Japan who were ineligible for U.S. citizenship under U.S. law.

Japanese Americans were incarcerated based on local population concentrations and regional politics. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans in the mainland U.S., who mostly lived on the West Coast, were forced into interior camps. However, in Hawaii, where 150,000-plus Japanese Americans composed over one-third of the population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were also interned. The internment is considered to have resulted more from racism than from any security risk posed by Japanese Americans. Those who were as little as 1/16 Japanese, orphaned infants, and anyone with—in the words of the architect behind the internment program, Colonel Karl Bendetsen—"one drop of Japanese blood" were placed in the internment camps.

Roosevelt authorized the deportation and incarceration with Executive Order 9066, issued on February 19, 1942, which allowed regional military commanders to designate "military areas" from which "any or all persons may be excluded." This authority was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the West Coast, including all of California and parts of Oregon, Washington, and Arizona, except for those in government camps. Approximately 5,000 Japanese Americans relocated outside the exclusion zone before March 1942, while some 5,500 community leaders had been arrested immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack and thus were already in custody. The majority of nearly 130,000 Japanese Americans living in the U.S. mainland were forcibly relocated from their West Coast homes during the spring of 1942.

The United States Census Bureau assisted the internment efforts by spying and providing confidential neighborhood information on Japanese Americans. The Bureau denied its role for decades, but it became public in 2007. In 1944, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the removal by ruling against Fred Korematsu's appeal for violating an exclusion order. The Court limited its decision to the validity of the exclusion orders, avoiding the issue of the incarceration of U.S. citizens without due process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans

Britain strips citizenship from teenager who joined Islamic State in Syria

British law does allow the interior minister to deprive a person of British citizenship when conducive to the public good, though such decisions should not render the person stateless if they were born as British citizens.

Police in Bangladesh said they were checking whether Begum was a Bangladeshi citizen, and Britain’s opposition Labour Party said the government’s decision was wrong.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-britain-teenager/britain-strips-citizenship-from-teenager-who-joined-islamic-state-in-syria-idUSKCN1Q82RM

jaxxy:
Can u expell ur own citizens? Wtf are u talking about? Can America expell Americans?

jaxxy:
Do u support xenophobia?

jaxxy:
Every little thing that happens in Lagos the next thing u hear is if Ure not ok with it u can leave. Whether or not Yorubas own Lagos as u may want to call it doesn’t mean such statements shud be used because the country belongs to everyone bt the petty tribal mentality has overtaken our senses so bad that is all we can talk about when anybody/tribe speaks out against any issue or injustice.

Bt when SA wants to send all Nigerians back to Nigeria we all shout xenophobia. Isn’t smtn wrong with our thinking? I don’t hear Americans telling legal immigrants if u don’t like our laws u can leave? It’s a stupid statement.