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I thought they said that there is no money for our country.
Ordinary Abuja to Minna, Aisha Halliburton is using presidential jet.
Is this not corruption?
The distance between Aso Rock to the Abuja airport is more than half the distance between Aso Rock and Minna.
Who brought this CURSE upon us
Where are the zombies?


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GMB‬ Speech While Addressing Nigeria Community In The United Kingdom.


I Will Maintain a modest lifestyle as President -Muhammadu Buhari.

“One of the major killers of our economy apart from corruption is waste. Our scarce resources are being plundered away very carelessly and unnecessarily wasted. Let me give an instance, presently, there are more than 6 aircraft in the presidential fleet. What do you call that? Billions of naira is budgeted every year for the maintenance of these aircraft not to talk of operational cost and other expenses.

You may want to ask what a Nigerian President is doing with so many aircraft when a Prime Minister of Britain fly around using the same public aircraft like an ordinary Briton.

Go and check and compare with that of any developed country in the world, the office of the Nigerian President is a very expensive one inspite our high level of poverty, lack and joblessness. Despite all these, you still find a Nigerian Minister spending about N10billion to charter an aircraft for just one year. Now, for me, when we come into office, all these waste will be blocked and properly channelled into our economy. We intend for instance, to bring back our National carrier, the Nigerian airways. [size=14pt]We shall do this by bringing all the aircraft in the presidential fleet into the Nigerian airways[/size] and within a year increase the fleet into about 20.


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Hunger is real in the land.
Is that why one of DullardPoo's supporters is called HungerBad



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juman:
nigeria was destroyed by pdp 16 years misrule and senseless leadership.

.....and continues to be destroyed by the All ProgreTHIEF Criminals, APC welcoming the worst elements of PDP's 16 year rule into their fold as born-to-gain redeemed politicians, not so
Next time, please remember to THINK before you type.
#Friendly_Advice


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juman:
In the first instance the government fixing the price was not proper.

That was what the 36 governors and Jonathan agreed to do in 2012- completely DEREGULATE the fuel sector.
The BBOG - Bring Back Our Government (to the north) with their Asiwaju Asiwere collaborators trashed the plan only for them to remove subsidy now but still retain pricing control. They cannot even COPY Jonathan's idea properly. What a bunch of dumb dullards.
Soon and very soon, the zombies will resort to BIO-fuel to run their cars.


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We need our hero of democracy to LECTURE these miscreants and dictators what democracy means and how it works.
Oga Jonathan, abeg helep your people oh before we end up in a FASCIST regime.



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We never chi chumtin.
Zombies see weting una cause.
All the promises!
All the propaganda!!
All the LIES!!!
Have come to NOUGHT!!!
We have been SCAMMED.

radhiyah:
Again and bargain at Anthony Maryland I get my stuff from there is always nice and cheap too.
The proceed goes to the widows I think

Thanks for this reference.
I just looked at their website and they seem pretty serious and know what they are doing.

RED ACACIA'S WIDOW PROGRAM

Red Acacia's Widow Program is made possible by material donations of unused but useful home artifacts from well-meaning individuals or organizations. We donate 80% of all profits from the sales of these items to the Widow Program.

We work on a personal level with chosen widow(s), and assist them with a high priority need ranging from business assistance, house rent, School Fees for their children, health fees, or other stated need.

The frequency of our work with widows is determined by how much we have generated in the Widow Program. To participate in this program, you don't need to donate cash. You only need to donate home items that you no longer use to our "Again" section. All Again donations/resells must be in good resalable condition. The Store accepts anything from one-of-a-kind treasures to ordinary household items, including small appliances, furniture, bric-a-brac, and good-condition books/magazines. Donated items are accepted Monday through Saturday, 10.00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Alternatively, if you're based in Lagos, we can collect the items from your location.

Store hours are Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. Red Acacia’s Again & Bargain Store is located at 2A Oseni Street in Anthony, Lagos. For more information, contact June on +234 8034021794, or Steph on +234 7030951706.

For Lagos residents, donating couldn’t be easier – call Red Acacia’s Again & Bargain Store on 08034021794, and we will arrange to come and collect items from your location. Why Widows? Widowhood is a deeply stressful occurrence, particularly in Nigeria where some cultural widowhood practices are generally traumatic. In addition, most widows suddenly find themselves in need of economic, service, social, and/or emotional support.

The Red Acacia Widow Program assists from an economic perspective. "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." ..James 1:27

From: http://www.againandbargainstore.com/blogs/blog-posts/17038219-red-acacias-widow-program

Cc: Onegai.

Reference:
Nothing wrong in right pricing. If it is not sustainable then so be it. Scacity and uncertainty is far worse. We shoukd not do anything inimical to investment in that sector meaning that we should prove as a nation to be ready to pay for things. Years of free or next to nothin fuel has spoilt us.

Was there scarcity and uncertainty from 2010-2015?
Why didn't we prove "to be ready to pay for things" in 2012 when the 36 state governors and Jonathan wnated to completely DEREGULATE the petroleum downstream sector



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Petroleum products are very expensive in nature and that is why it is a global phenomenon and from the devastation of the Niger - Delta we can see the price being paid to get it. Fuel is precious. Unfortunately we have been living a lie for decades no thanks to the owners of Nigeria and their military and civilian collaborators. Now we have to reset our mentality to the present realities.

Oil prices have reduced globally and many countries have reflected this in the REDUCED fuel prices to consumers so stop spreading lies and falsehoods to your fellow citizens.

U.S. Gas Prices Drop to 12-Year Labor Day Lows
SEP 4, 2016

Good news for American motorists preparing to travel this Labor Day. A report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration said that gasoline prices are at 12-year Labor Day lows.

The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline was $2.24 a gallon on August 29, the lowest price on the Monday before Labor Day since 2004, and 27¢/gal lower than the same time last year, the EIA said.

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BTW, was the minister of DARKNESS, Barawo Rogue Fashole not leading the chorus for lower fuel prices when oil prices dropped globally
Why is he no longer asking for lower oil prices?
Too many HYPOCRITES in this DullardPoo federal administration, walahi.


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veekid:
Abeg where saraki case touch now?

E don clear dem for eye sey road nor dey for that matter na im dem come put am for back burner.
Time to look for another diversion to give their hungry but dumb zombie followers.



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madridguy:
What We need now is committee on present economy crisis and not electoral process.

Sai Baba act fast, time is going.

Hunger is REAL.

Hunger is not real for zombies oh.
They are feeding fat on their Sai Baba chants and the remnants of their 2015 stomach infrastructure rice.
Body language odour tinz mehn.

Don't worry, DullardPoo is reviewing the electoral laws to make it IMPOSSIBLE to remove him through the ballot box in 2019.
He can see clearly that no one will vote for him.
Not even the almajiris he commanded to soak dogs and baboons in blood in 2011.
Finito!!!



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cnonyechi:
dont mind those nigerians abroad dat manage to get money by washing dead bodies or thru crime.

Is this why you also want to go abroad- "to get money by washing dead bodies or thru crime"
Have you heard the word HYPOCRITE before?
Do you know the meaning of the word?

cnonyechi:
lumidiii thnks so much we actually need encouraging and enlightened people like u.i sw ur mail hav gone thru and filled the forms still waitin 2 see if i cn raise d draft in usd.b4 friday i will definitely send d forms thru dhl to sydney ns.am very grateful pls if u av any more info 4 me i will appreciate it.thanks.

cnonyechi:
well i have actually worked 4 2 yrs as a french teacher one year as a computer/systems secretary and right now i work in a bank as an IT specialist dat actually falls under d section for computerand information specialist.i av a degree in french language a diploma certificate in info and communication technology and am currently studying for my master degree.

kahal29:
Abeg help me ask them oh? NOI was a disaster during her second missionary journey.

Do you have a different meaning of the word disaster ni abi you sef run comot for school to go join army with your principal's recommendation letter?
Abi these samples resemble disaster for ya eye



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Pidggin:
Was busy all day, but here is what you have been asking for:

IMF Executive Board Concludes 2014 Article IV Consultation with Nigeria
Press Release No. 15/91
March 4, 2015

On February 27, 2015, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation1 with Nigeria.
Nigeria has a large and diverse economy that has achieved a decade of strong growth, averaging 6.8 percent a year, and now accounts for 35 percent of Sub-Saharan Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP). Inflation has remained in single digits for two years, and the banking sector, which has a strong capital base, is expanding credit. The trade surplus has been declining since the second quarter of 2013 on lower oil exports and continued strong growth of imports, and gross international reserves have been falling. Meanwhile, the general government fiscal deficit and public debt have been kept low. However, Nigeria still lags its peers in critical infrastructure and has high rates of poverty and income inequality. While the economy is diverse, with services accounting for over 50 percent of GDP in 2013, and oil only 13 percent, the oil sector remains a critical source for revenue and foreign exchange. With limited fiscal and external buffers ($2 billion in the excess crude account and $34.25 billion in gross international reserves, respectively at the end of 2014), the sharp decline of oil prices in the second half of 2014 underscores the challenging but compelling need to address remaining development challenges.
The authorities have responded to a sharp decline in oil prices. On February 18, 2015, the Central Bank of Nigeria closed the Dutch Auction System (rDAS) window, unifying the rDAS rate with interbank foreign exchange market rate. On February 25, 2015, the Senate approved the third revision to the 2015 budget, tightening the fiscal envelope by lowering the budget benchmark oil price to $52/barrel.

Visit:http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2015/pr1591.htm to read more.

You and your kind will not succeed in tarnishing GEJ's image.

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cnonyechi:
Senator Melaye has spoken very well. It's let to our president to sit up. He becomes more clueless as d day goes by.

Na spoken very well we go chop?
Na who spoken very well don epp?
Abi spoken very well don epp you before ni?
Let him also DO very well by reducing his corrupt N7 billion salary.
That is only when reasonable Nigerians can take him serious with his empty words.



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divinehand2003:
DEEPLY worried by the poor state of the economy which has brought unprecedented hardship and hunger on the masses, a federal lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye, APC, Kogi West, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take urgent and drastic measures, including the immediate sack of three prominent members of his Economic Team as the solution-precedent to reboot the ailing economy.

This man thinks we are all stupid 200 million mumu Nigerians abi?
Was he not flashing all over the US to blow the N7 billion we give him as salary?

Nigerian Senators, Reps earn N6.78 billion annually
September 4, 2016

At a time Nigerians are groaning under the yoke of recession, Members of the National Assembly (NASS) comprising the Senators and Members of House of Representatives have received a total of N6.78 billion as their official salaries and allowances in one year, investigation by Economic Confidential has revealed.

More from: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/209789-nigerian-senators-reps-earn-n6-78-billion-annually.html

Money that is many times more than Obama as US president earns
Unprecedented hardship & hunger ko, urgent & drastic measures ni.
If Baby Papa Dino is concerned about hardship & hunger of the masses, he should PERSONALLY lead a campaign by example to bring down his salary in line with our minimum wage of N18,000.
Now that will be an urgent & drastic measure, not so?
Too much effizy TALK that leads us nowhere.
BTW, does any of the zombies know why DullardPoo's body language odour has not FIXED this corrupt salary of the SINators and representaTHIEVES




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c4tnoelz:
Father, have mercy on us and heal our nation Nigeria

What can you do?
What are you doing?
What are you planning to do?
To heal our nation beyond ONLY asking a remote father to heal our nation
Abi you fit show where/how that father helped China, India, Malaysia, Singapore to become so developed that some of our fellow citizens will risk their lives to stay there and/or ship drugs there?



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ALAYORMII:
Population of church goers and chronic sinners

The more people go to churches, mosques and shrines to worship god, the WORSE the society gets.
The pastors, imams and priests COVER up for the leaders looters while preaching hope AFTER life to the sheeple.
When shall we ENLIGHTEN ourselves beyond organised religion as our oyinbo "superiors" have done?




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4nobody4every1:
Buhari, please arrest anonimi, he has destroyed APC with pictures of your campaign or alternatively, give him one oil bloc so that he can keep quiet

E be like sey you never hear sey oil blocs don finish.
The last one was given by Aisha Halliburton to a certain Alhaji Wale Jubril Tinubu of Oando.



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4nobody4every1:
You no dey taya, Buhari, it is high time you arrest anonimi, he is doing more harm on APC, he has succeeded in tarnishing and rubbishing all your Change mantra on Nairaland, send the Director of SSS, EFCC AND ICPC to arrest anonimi, or else your party APC will crumble

Their party don crumble already. Na only for LAWMA to pack the remnant rubbish waste na im remain.
The hatred for Jonathan wey unite them in their Operation BBOG- Bring Back Our Government (to the north) no dey there anymore, so...............!!!



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4nobody4every1:
Your good works cannot earn you salvation, for by faith are you saved through faith in Christ and not of works let any man should boast

It may not ALONE earn you salvation but it will KEEP you in salvation.
Otherwise why do you think Christ narrated the parable of the Good Samaritan? If there was rapture immediately after the Good Samaritan took care of the injured traveler, who among the three- Levite, Scribe and Good samaritan- do you think would have been raptured



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ZuzuMan:
......... your name no dey dem list Checked and Confirmed !

Just like the name of DullardPoo.



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STORIES of returned money everywhere.
Yet DullardPoo is borrowing for his budget and the economy is in recession?
What is wrong?
Up till date no one has been convicted of any corruption charges in the law court despite the STORIES of recoveries, seizures, confessions etc in the newspapers.
Corruption fighting gimmick by the grand master of corruption is leading nowhere.



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TonyeBarcanista:
If you look at Nigeria in the 60s-70s, we were far ahead of Kenya and most African countries. We had the potential to GROW to the status of second world country (if not first) and we had additional advantage of oil wealth. But all through the years, we sink deeper than we were. We have even left third world status technically.

Our infrastructures went on decay, have Petroleum but we can't refine. Our tourism sector DIED. We can't even provide good road and electricity. Instead of consolidating our system of leadership we have sank deeper.

In 2016 when the world is advancing we are struggling for devolution of power and federalism (Pls don't tell me the north).

Nigeria is in a deep mess, we are rubbing shoulder with South Sudan at present, we have potentials but can only get out of our mess if we admit that we are messed up and seek to fix it. Other Africans are beginning to see us as chest beating King Kong. We can't continue this path.

Beautifully said.
Thanks.

Wingback:
Holy smokes, I will never buy their products....WTF is this?

It appears the concept of mass production and assembling is foreign to them. Really shabby.

As shabby as your village/town, primary/secondary school, polytechnic/university.
Abi all those one na foreign to you also?
Instead of appreciating little beginnings and patronising with constructive criticism, you dey here dey open mouth upandan like duck wey too swallow water.
BTW, ultra-luxury cars are NOT mass produced even in your bloody foreign lands.



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agabaI23:
Chukwuma went through this before in 1984.
He knows how to survive

Did you say 1984?
That was the DullardPoo's first coming as a MAXIMUM ruler military dictator.
Only baby zombies do not remember the havoc he caused back then.



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Babatundecash:
Bros,Forget the analysis....did you know mimiko with federal might and Pdp campaign chairman sw zone during the general election could not help Jonathan and Pdp with a win in his home town which is Ondo....Mimiko and Eyitayo lose convincely the Ondo central to sen.Tayo Alasoadura.....As at presently APC control Ondo central in both house of senate and rep......this Job is not for Aketi alone but including strong political gladiators like Chief oke from Ilaje,Boroffice,Abraham,Alasoadura(the man who dismantle both mimiko and Jegede at ondo central)Albena and alot to mention.....mehn!!! The non-popular Eyitayo is a goner......

Was Barawo Rogue Fashole popular in Lagos state in 2007 when he was imposed on the Association of Conmen in Nigerian, ACN?
The popular Engr. Funsho Williams had to be brutally murdered to ensure the secrets of Jagbajantis' looting of the treasury for eight years (1999-2007) were covered and he continued milking the taxes of Lagosians.
Hopefully justice will still be done for the REAL nest of killers that assassinated this illustrious son of Lagos.
It is only a matter of time.



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lagdmark:
Bomb hit jagaban camp.

Another bomb for the "bastard" who abused & insulted Awo's wife and family.
It is about time to make the JagbaJantis history in our political sojourn.


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Babasessy:
Awo Family Without An Awo By Sam Omatseye (The Offensive Article)



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The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.

It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.

So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history.  Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.

He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.

In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.

In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.

Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.

Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.

The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off.  But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.

I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.

Groucho Max, one of the funniest satirists in American history, said of a man that he got his looks from his father. Then he quipped, “He was a plastic surgeon.” That means the son is not his real son, or he did not inherit his natural looks. Ideologically, when we talk of Awo’s family, the chief inheritor is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the leader of all the others. He was the one who stuck his neck out. He could have lost his life or ended his career in politics. The so-called real Awolowos who bear his surname cannot come up for mention. They are Awolowos but not Awoists. They stabbed their father in the back. They have committed ideological parricide.

The only person that made a real try was Awolowo-Dosunmu in the early 1990s and she lost roundly. She was accused of trying to ride her father’s coattail. Political families are good for democracies. They can exemplify the high ideals of diligence, dignity, ideas, character. We have seen these in such families as the Kennedys, the Adamses, the Roosevelts, the Ghandis. They just don’t claim family. They appeal to the high ideals that endeared the families to their societies.

It’s also an irony that these families are falling into twilight. Some of them have vanished. Enoch Powell, a British MP, once gave us the famous line: “All political lives, unless they are cut off midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure because that is the nature of politics and human affairs.”

Columnist Ambassador Dapo Fafowora adverted to this idea in a recent outing, and I debated it with him afterwards. I don’t believe that a political life should be judged by how it ends but what it means. The quote is often missed by many who mistake “careers” for “lives.” A political life should be judged by its legacies. If we judged Awo by how he ended, we would look at him only as the loser to Shagari. That is why I see an intrinsic mischief in Enoch’s quote. But I would agree that political families end also in failure if you judge how they peter out and not the legacy.

Awo’s legacy is alive and well. Members of other families in flesh and blood can carry on. Immediate families tend to suffer from what an author, Noemie Emery, describes as dynastic curse. The children tend to be intimidated by the standards set by the fathers. So they just don’t want to try. They feel they cannot match them or come even close.  The problem probably comes from the fathers themselves. The Adams, who produced important presidents, later gave birth to moral vagrants and drunks. The Bush daughters showed themselves as party girls when their father was contesting the political battle of his life.

But Joe Kennedy groomed his sons assiduously, and they excelled in politics. They also had a fair share of tragedies. Ted Kennedy regained his sobriety and voice in America after a season of debauchery. In Nigeria, we are seeing the Sarakis fade. A Saraki – Bukola - is wiping out the Sarakis from politics. It is a classic case of oedipal tragedy, something I predicted earlier this year on this page.

It is not late though for the flesh-and-blood Awolowos to join their father’s fold. But they must be genuine. Awo was the most important Yoruba personage in history after Oduduwa. They had stellar men like Oranmiyan, Balogun Latosa, Lisabi, Sodeke, et al. None of them had the unifying vision and organisational acumen that Awolowo gave the race. The wife, children and grandchildren should not watch others glow in his jewel without them.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/columnist/monday/sam-omatseye/index.1.html

Benjom:
We'll get there.

How can we get anywhere without education for all our children, with special emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in vocational/technical schools?
DullardPoo and his Association of ProgreTHIEF Criminals, APC have zero or even negative record on this pivotal, essential sector.



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More pathetic pictures from this thread:

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If I am not mistaken the Eko Project is the $90 million loan from the World Bank that Fashola did not want to disclose how it was spent because "FoI does not apply to Lagos state"

7lives:
Long overdue, those DAF and MASK haulage owners should look for another business to do, they are the ones making food to be too expensive in the country.

They can buy and charge others for freight wagons to attach to the trains for transporting things from the north to the south and vice versa so they continue making their money.
Nothing spoil.



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Mynd44:
Problems are solved via sensible policies and not emotional outbursts

You have highlighted the stark difference between a federal administration headed by a cerebral person driven by sensible policies and that of an illiterate driven by emotional outbursts followed by knee-jerk reactions.



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shellman:
At least, the present Government is fighting corruption &bringing sanity to the system- the same system basterdised by GEJ &glorifying corruption as part of Nigerian culture!

What corruption fight?
By which federal government?
Definitely not the one headed by the DullardPoo!
Abi na like this dem dey fight corruption




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shellman:
GEJ was a disaster for Nigeria

How was he such?
I hope you are capable of providing evidence-based elements for your assertion.
Otherwise..............!!!