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Abagworo:
A great man. I respect Mr Okorocha and appreciate what he has achieved with little resources and heavy burden..

momentoftruth:
chai, see how arresa lost him job

vikacydevato:
If this is what they need most in Lagos for now, no problem.

MathsChic:
Some days ago, I was at a secondary school in Surulere (across the bridge from the Island) in Lagos for a friend's event where he is educating secondary students about the perils of peer pressure. I honestly wasn't expecting what I saw as the state of this secondary school.
It left me wondering if this was a school or a dump yard. Why in heaven's name are Nigerian leaders looking the other way while the young ones study in this sorry environment?

The attached pictures are what I saw. This is no secondary school. It's a hopeless shanty. I hope this gets to front page and attracts the necessary attention.



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EkoIle1:
http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/06/30/fashola-commissions-carter-bridge-lighting-project/


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Reyginus:
Who has been jailed?

bronze82:
Jonathan is aware of the damages and hardship his government and party inflicted on us.This is the reason he stated that " No government can fix Nigeria in four years".

NIGERIA: Why Obasanjo's war on corruption is faltering

lagos, 30 July 2004 (IRIN) - When President Olusegun Obasanjo took office in 1999, ending more than 15 years of corrupt and often brutal military rule, he declared it was the end of "business as usual" with graft.

Corruption, he said, was a cancer that had debilitated the Nigerian state and frustrated development efforts, despite the country's huge oil riches. It was,therefore, an enemy to be fought until it retreated.

The first bill which Obasanjo sent to the national legislature after he took office proposed the creation of new anti-graft body, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC).

Corruption watchdog undermined by low funding

When the bill became law a year later, after overcoming resistance by legislators who sought to weaken its provisions, Justice Mustapha Akanbi - a retired president of the Federal Appeal Court - was named to head the new commission.

But four years later, it has yet to secure any significant conviction.

On the contrary, all the signs are that corruption is spreading and that Obasanjo is losing the war he declared on bribes and kickbacks.

Nigeria's rating by the Berlin-based corruption watchdog, Transparency International, has not improved at all. It remains at the bottom of the table, with only Bangladesh rated as a worse place in which to do business.


More from: http://www.irinnews.org/report/50876/nigeria-why-obasanjo-s-war-on-corruption-is-faltering

egift:
The Wailing Miscreants think that their selective blind support the Yam Eaters,

viviangist2:
During President Buhari's 3-day Visit to Kenya , Nigeria and Kenya Government have both agreed on visa exemption for diplomatic passport holders in a bid to bolster bilateral ties as well as spruce up business opportunities between the two countries.

As a result there will be free entry for businessmen from both states as opposed to paying a visa fee on arrival.

Source http://www.viviangist.com/visa-to-kenya-now-free-for-nigerian-businessmen

Rolings:
Kadiri Ikhana (born 31 December 1951 in Ilorin) is a Nigerian football coach
Ikhana grew up in Ilorin, where he began playing football as a child. He initially played as a goalkeeper but soon became a utility player, before eventually commanding the position of right-back.[1] He joined the army and played football in the Inter-Unit football competition organised in the Artillery Camp Headquarters at Kaduna.

Playing with the Nigerian Army, Ikhana was discovered by club Bendel Insurance and signed for them in 1977. Ikhana was a member of the Green Eagle squad that won the 1980 African Cup of Nations and represented Nigeria at the 1980 Summer Olympic Games.
After retiring from playing, he became the first coach of Maiduguri's El-Kanemi Warriors in 1986. He is also a former coach of BCC Lions, Kwara United F.C., Sunshine Stars F.C., Sharks F.C. and Enyimba F.C., leading the latter to a CAF Champions League title.[3] He resigned from his position at Kano Pillars on 27 May 2008, citing corruption in the game.[4] He had led Kano Pillars to their first ever league title a day earlier.[5] It concluded his third stint with the squad, as he was their coach for their first premier league season in 1991 and saved them from relegation in 1998. On 1 August 2008, he was rehired to be the coach of Sharks F.C.[6]

The 2008 season was a tough one. On 24 September, Ikhana was accosted by three youths at his hotel in Akure after the Sharks played at Sunshine Stars. They were later captured.[7] On 12 October, he went to the hospital however when he was attacked by hooligans after Sharks upset league leading Kaduna United F.C. 1–0 in Kaduna.[8] After almost leaving Sharks after the 2009 Federation Cup final (a 1–0 loss to Enyimba), he returned for the 2009–10 season but went MIA after the first eight games.[9] He was linked to a move to Wikki Tourists F.C.[10] He eventually moved to Niger and was hired as technical consultant to the Niger Football Federation.[11]

In July 2010, he was hired by Kwara United[12] He was hired as the technical advisor for the Nigeria women's team in March 2012.[13] He resigned in November after the team placed fourth at the 2012 African Women's Championship, their worst ever showing.

In August 2013, he was hired by Nasarawa United for the final 11 games of the 2013 season.[14] He stepped down after the season and said he has no plans to coach from the bench again.[15] However, in May 2014 he accepted the vacant job of Giwa F.C., the 9th different top-flight club he has coached.[16] After family concerns about the security in Jos, he resigned after less than two months to coach Enyimba.

Culled from Wikipedia

peacengine:
Abacha never stole - Buhari

An attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the North - Buhari

This is your wise man of integrity

aristosoft:
The same AyeDee that attempted to bring down Linda, hired to campaign for GEJ, Koro and Agbaje whom all lost has now become a Prophets who easily tells who wrote anonymous articles.
You are all as clueless as the past and present administration.
APC should have retained his opposition status while we make a more sensible party replace PDP. As ineffectual as GEJ might have been, he did one right thing never done in history by African leaders.
Anybody can wail but you can't take that away.

HammerEvery:
Labour ministry budget under Buhari- N7 billion

Information and Propaganda ministry Budget under Buhari- N30 Billion

Buhari is more interested in creating propaganda than jobs.

ennysuccess:
I hope he continues with this step

sameer1212:
My president is always so presidential.

TimeManager:
Baba Always heaping more misery on the buffoons with his presidential swags.
No lie only truth!

joborskill:
Very presidential.

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.


More from: http://www.osundefender.org/?p=217159

Scholes007:
@bold well it is funny but i couldn't stop laughing.

Xposer:
Here are photos of some Nigerians who were deported from the United Kingdom. A plane carrying about 500 Nigerians deported from the UK landed in Lagos earlier today. According to reports , the deportees are not happy to be back and those who don't have relatives in the Lagos are stranded in the airport....


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http://www.nationalhelm.com/2015/11/see-photos-of-nigerians-who-were.html

muzzol:
I welcome the entry of more private clubs to the NPFL. Ifeanyi Ubah (hope the owner will not make same mistakes he made last season with the technical team), MFM (organically growing and current world church cup winners), Ikorodu United (owned by Multichoice /Gotv), Giwa FC (steadily coming to their own) etc.

Hope to see more talents developed and hope the national selectors will watch the league more.

Rolings:
3SC has appointed Kadiri Ikhana,will be unveiled today. I see 3SC fortunes improving this season and may play continental next season.
UP SHOOTING
" SOOTIN NIO GBAFE "

Emeskhalifa:
The cars are being purchased four months after the senators were given N8m car loans each in August this year.
During the 7th Senate, the senators used Prado jeeps but this time around, they have opted for more expensive cars.
Senate spokesperson, Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi said the cars are for committee use. However, it was exclusive gathered that the senators will get a car each.
Our correspondent reports that the headship of the  65 standing committees are appointed  in such a way that each senator will chair a committee or serve as vice chairman.
It was gathered that during the 7th Senate, the cars acquired for the committees were sold to the senators at N1m.
“To the best of my knowledge the cars we used at the 7th Senate were monetised to us, I think, at N1m each and the money was deducted from our severance package,” a senator who benefitted said.
He also confirmed receipt of the vehicle loan in August, saying, “we were given three allowances in August and they are car loan, housing and furniture allowances, all amounting to N18m”.
At the House of Representatives, a source told Daily Trust that in line with the tradition of the House, vehicles would be bought for members to use for committee assignments.
Even during the immediate past 7th House, the 360 lawmakers got a Camry XL car each, which our source said was bought at the sum of about N12 million, including insurance.
Our source said:  “yes, we learnt they want to do the same thing that was done during the last Assembly, where each member got a car, but they said it was for committee activities.”
The source said the Camry XL cars purchased for members during the last Assembly were monetized at the end of their tenure in June and the money was deducted from their severance packages, while few members opted not to buy the cars.
“Initially, they valued the cars at N1.750 million, but members protested, because most of the cars were not in good shape. In the end, they settled at N900, 000, so those of us who wanted to go with our own applied, and they deducted it from our severance, while a few members returned their own,” the source said.
But House spokesman Rep Abdulrazak Namdas (APC, Adamawa) said although leadership of the lower chamber plans to purchase cars to aid members during committees’ oversights, they were yet to reach a decision on the number and the brand of cars to buy.
“There’s no doubt that we’ll buy cars, but they will be for committee use. We haven’t decided on any brand or units to buy yet until we see our 2016 budget. We don’t want to do anything that cannot be realised at the end of the day,” he said.
Namdas said already, management of the National Assembly had advertised that it would purchase television sets, computers and photocopiers for lawmakers’ use.
“We want to have a transparent process based on the Procurement Act,” he said, adding that all the principal officers were completely excluded from the deal in order for the management staff to do their work”.
Asked if there is any plan to purchase new vehicles for Speaker Yakubu Dogara and his deputy Yussuf Suleimon Lasun, the House spokesman said he was not aware of any such thing.
It’s a fraud - CISLAC
Speaking to Daily Trust on the purchase of vehicles for individual lawmakers for committee work, Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) Auwal Musa Rafsanjani said as far as he was concerned, the vehicles were being bought for fun and not for any committee work.
He said for them, it is part of the process of “sharing national cake” that Nigerian politicians are known for, saying “it is all largess,” describing it as a fraud.
“Agreed there should be a car for every committee, but to buy a vehicle for every member out of the 360 legislators in the name of committee work is wrong.  It’s all as a result of lack of transparency and accountability in the management of public funds,” he said.
Rafsanjani said so long as committees would be encouraged to do their work diligently and be provided with relevant facilities to aid oversight, individual lawmakers should only be given car loans, which they would repay before the end of their tenure.
“In other parliaments that I personally visited around the world, there’s nothing like vehicles for individual legislators to go for committee work. They only provide them with facilities where necessary, why should our own be different?” he said.
On auctioning the vehicles to the lawmakers at the end of their 4-year tenure, Rafsanjani insisted “it is a fraud” since they were given car loans from the beginning of their tenure.
The CISLAC director also said that even the oversight being carried out by lawmakers was just to “intimidate and harass government agencies” into succumbing to the demands of the legislators.
“Oversight is supposed to be for corrective measures, but that is not what they do. They only use it to intimidate and harass agencies, although I’m sure there won’t be any loose fund for agencies to be giving them under this administration.
“Most of the legislators don’t even understand what oversight is because they’re new. The committees themselves are not independent, so how do you expect them to perform their functions effective. So, for me, there should be a complete overhaul of the legislative work in Nigeria so that the legislators will understand what they are elected to do,” he said.

source:http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/after-collecting-car-loans-senators-reps-to-get-496-cars/126682.html

Super1Star:
Family of looters.

See them, the eaters of our barn of yams.

Bevista:
The budget is fraught with disturbing allocations, but it doesn't preclude the fact most of the funds have been allocated to Capital Projects.

EdCure:
This is very typical of a PDP-minded politician. They try as much as they can to rubbish the image of their critic, discredit him and deflect focus from the real issues at stake.

Jonathan and his gang of thieves used this silly tactic and are still using it.
They have taught their herd of hypnotic wailers how to tow this line of ignominy.

...F A C T.. C H E C K ...

'Obasanjo and Atiku in 8 years built one UNIVERSITY each for themselves....Bells and ABTI.
They built NONE for Nigerians.

Jonathan and Sambo in 4 years built 14 (FOURTEEN) new universities for all Nigerians.
NONE for themselves.

NOTE: OBJ and ATIKU are now consultants/sponsors/piloters/members of APC....



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arresa:
always remember, stealing is never corruption..

mayowa122:
People are dying in poverty everyday
So many people have not even eaten anything today and yet you are trying to justify yourself that some1 who stole part of the nation money is oppressed.
And you sef you will calll yourself the leader of tomorrow
You are another olisa metuh of tomorrow.

free2blast:
I wonder why the wailing ekpas are always happy to be identified with corruption and crime, is it that their express road heads lack even a single iota of reasoning?

mayowa122:
So someone stealing the nation money while people are dying in poverty is termed oppress now?

1MCN:
Mar 13, 2015

I personally took these pictures today in Port Harcourt.

It rained lightly just a couple minutes today in some parts of Port Harcourt. Not long and the residents of Eliozu, Oroigwe, Port Harcourt had their smuldering pains get more difficult as usual.

This car is been towed by a towing van on the collapsed bridge in Eliozu. This narrow bridge is the only entrance and exit from this community that has over 10,000 houses in it. This bridge has been collapsed over 4 years ago.




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ojun50:
Make i see weather he go make noise again