olas24u: Maybe he was sincere ,but he was afraid ,we are going to die any ways and we need to die for something. The p alimentary system of government is better than this present presidential system and with the fall in oil prices we will experience a bad situation. Unitary federalism is also bad for us ,we need competition in all regions.
No problem for that as Buhari promised it already and with APC majority in the senate and HoR, it should be easy to fulfill, not so
My brother forget about tribes,we can build a country like dubia, turkey ,Egypt in Northern Nigeria ,while in eastern Nigeria we can build Hong kong,japan,taiwian and in western Nigeria we can build a financial center like London and have small Kuwait in Niger delta
How is the above possible without state and LGAs providing free and compulsory education for all our children? we are such hopeless dreamers who do not want to make the necessary sacrifice to realise our dreams.
How many of those countries do not ensure that all their children are in school so they have a skilled pool of EMPLOYABLE, value-creating youths Meanwhile, in Nigeria the supposedly excellent governor has NO regard whatsoever for education. For him, it is simply another avenue to STEAL from us.
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.
Compared to the UK where many Lagosians are hiding away as under-employed voluntary SLAVES to the white man.
iblaw: I went to visit my Teacher cousin in her school after school closed and I was shocked the facilities I saw. In a primary school, each class has a touch screen plasma TV. Indoor and Outdoor playground, free lunch etc. We and our children are the victims of corruption.
Uploaded on Oct 30, 2011 This is a mobile phone video of the announcement of PDP as winners of the Badagry Central Local Government Elections with over 7000 votes. LASIEC Chairman, Justice Adeyinka later announced a different result. The lady speaking in the video is the LASIEC Returning Officer for Badagry Central on Saturday 22nd October, 2011.
When you see a president give just one man Ministry of Power, Works and Housing. Do you need a priest to tell you thats the man the president is well pleased with
I just hope Buhari does the sanitizing of corruption by 2023 hand over to the competent Babatunde Raji Fashola
Montaque: The economy is looking like Pmb's albatross. The best APC fans can do is to shop for an experienced economist for baba. Buharinomics isn't working, it never worked.
Pheals: I remember when they kidnapped winners chaple pastor as oyedepo curse them ...and he refused to pay
Are the pastors not cursed for STEALING from their congregation under the guise of tithes, seeds, pledges etc without giving anything back to the congregation and society at large as the old missionaries did in the form of:
- primary, vocational & secondary schools. - health clinics and general hospitals
They can FOOL men but certainly they cannot fool God.
Matthew 7
A Tree Is Known by Its Fruit
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
I Never Knew You
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
frisky2good: All the money traced so far is not even up to 10 billion Naira so I wonder where the actual figure of 2.1 Billion USD came from. I just hope the investigators will not run out of steam or Buhari will begin to sing collabo with Dasuki just like he's doing with Saraki right now.
They are just bloody LIARS from the deepest pits of hell out to deceive and destroy the minds of our gullible mumu fellow citizens with their grandiose propaganda. Their DIVERSIONARY tactics from their empty promises they cannot deliver shall not work. They shall surely FAIL.
soulpeppersoup: Nothing hiding that will not come to light. Nigerians are so obsessed with money that when they hear about a high figure they start shouting. Its all about poverty. For the rich know that money can neither be created no destroyed, rather it move from place to place. There can not only me traced but will create vacuum to the quantity of its weight when moved from place place.
For instance the massive move of money in our stock exchange has crippled the sector. If this money where so moved our economy should have suffered as far back as the middle of the gej tenure.
Someone is so shocked by the economic recession worldwide that he may not fulfill his promise and hence want to trade blame.
Yet he was part of the Buharigate having collected:
- Two SUVs to replace just one that was attacked. - $300,000
Only zombie mumus will believe all this media trial and STORIES of $2 billion. Are there many like that on this forum
debulle: How do the initiators of this nice,fine and noble project hope to deal with road traffic so that it will be easy to access the estate from other parts. Of the city.
They will ALL use helicopter, even to fly ALL those who will work to keep the place well maintained and shiny since the light rail of Fashola is yet to be completed by Ambode.
Firefire: Fellow Nairalanders, in response to Fashola comments below on not receiving enough support from the federal government to complete the Lagos light rail project.
[size=15pt] "Fashola said all over the world, when cities and states build municipal rails like what Lagos is doing, their central governments support them morally and financially"[/size]
[size=15pt]Lagos: How We Spent N160bn World Bank Loan on Light Rail Project[/size]
The Lagos State Government yesterday justified the N160 billion it borrowed from the World Bank, noting that the fund was channelled to finance its light rail (blue line) project.
However, the state government expressed disappointment at the progress of the project, which it said, was not executed as smoothly as possible, but was optimistic of its completion.
The state Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, said this shortly after inspecting the light rail terminus at the Orile-Iganmu part of the state alongside some members of the state executive council.
Speaking with journalists, Fashola said the project would have been completed in another 12 months despite that the project execution was not as smooth and speedy as he wanted it.
The governor raised questions on the intention of the federal government for publishing the state debt profile in the recent time, wondering what could have informed the decision to make it public.
He said: “I think it was the Debt Management Office of the federal government that published the report that we have a debt of about N160billion. I do not know the intent of the publication.
“But if it was to inform the public, I think we have always kept the public informed anytime we borrow money. If there are other intentions behind that, only those who make the publication would know what the intentions are.
“But you see, when people talk about debt of a state like Lagos, they forget that after Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and one other country, we have the fifth largest economy in Africa.
“When you are talking of about a billion naira debt to a population of over 21 million people; because if you are measuring the debt, you also have to measure the responsibility. Those are the things people keep in isolation.”
He, therefore, explained that the state government already “has in place, strategies to repay the loan. The federal government was in the know of the state’s decision to take the bond and it approved it.”
[size=15pt]He added that the truth “is that what they do not also say is that no state in Nigeria can borrow money outside, from any multilateral agencies without the approval of the federal government.[/size]
“What they did not say is that they approved it. No state can raise money by bond the way we have done without the federal government’s approval. [size=18pt]Both SEC and NSE are all federal regulatory agencies through which we must pass. If they said okay, it means there must be something good about the debt. [/size]
“Our rating as a state is the same as that of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, BB minus-stable with a positive outlook. We are the only state in Nigeria that has that rating. The first bond that was taken during my first tenure has been paid; the first tranche has been paid.
“I think the second tranche will be settled around 2016 or 2017. We are already making provisions. The provisions that will be there will be in excess of what is needed,” the governor said
Fashola expressed satisfaction on the progress of the light rail project, though decried the petty delay that was encountered as a result funding, saying the project would have should have been completed in another 12 months.
* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.
* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.
* His government built the Lagos State Television
* His government built the Lagos Radio
* His government built Lagos State University
* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.
* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.
* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.
* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.
* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.
* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.
* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.
* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.
* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.
* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.
* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.
* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.
* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.
* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).
* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.
* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.
* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980
* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).
* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.
*His government established LASACO Insurance.
*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.
*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.
WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?
IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.
So you want him to rush to free food immediately? Let him recover all our stolen money your people stole.
How many DAYS before Jakande introduced free & COMPULSORY education till secondary level in Lagos state ZERO! Implementation was with immediate effect on October 1, 1979. Why would any citizen make excuses for a "strong incorruptible man of integrity" who has NOT delivered on any of his promises. NONE delivered. Are you by any chance a zombie also
* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.
* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.
* His government built the Lagos State Television
* His government built the Lagos Radio
* His government built Lagos State University
* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.
* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.
* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.
* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.
* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.
* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.
* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.
* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.
* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.
* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.
* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.
* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.
* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.
* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).
* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.
* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.
* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980
* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).
* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.
*His government established LASACO Insurance.
*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.
*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.
WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?
IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.
janellemonae: In case you dont know, 2/3rd of the buildings in cms belongs to the federal government. Some of them were sold to private firms. But all those dilapidated buildings were ministeries, CBN, Nitel .etc. and dt whole 'former business district' is crowded. The FG is d one dt abandoned these buildings and went to build shiny new ones in abuja. No more land in dt area and d FG will not destroy the buildings. Im sure nobody wants to buy them either.
People are now building skyscrapers in victoria island & ikoyi which are meant to be residential areas (see how tiny the roads are). I think this idea was a very brilliant idea. Its killing 2birds wt one stone. Creating another business district & rescuing victoria island from the atlantic.
As for blaming fashola, d FG even gave him problems before he could place dt large car park space in CMS. And lagos state governors have always bn at loggerheads wt the FG cos theyre different parties. Upon all dt, he was still able to renovate the governor generals building from the old colonial era, which now belongs to d state governemnt & is used as a tourist center. Im sure he would have also renovated d large train station or tafawa balewa square/race course if he could. D guy put a large water fountain & garden in the middle of balogun market for christs sake. Kudos to where kudos is due. Ur state governor didnt do 1/10th of anything useful.
hadura29: Aside his political struggles and all that, so many people didn't know that he had nursed that ambition a long time ago, fighting the water here and there.
If he's getting percentage from sale of land on Atlantic, people will say he is a thief, this and that but where were those people when he was battling to make sure the project comes to stay..
I admire his vision ooo.. I no go lie... Good morning.
No wonder BLACK people will remain forever SLAVES to their white counterparts even though EQUALLY intelligent. Can you imagine an American or Briton typing the utter rubbish you did above for their state governor? Well we can all EXPORT ourselves across the desert and Mediterranean Sea to become under-employed there.
iblaw: I went to visit my Teacher cousin in her school after school closed and I was shocked the facilities I saw. In a primary school, each class has a touch screen plasma TV. Indoor and Outdoor playground, free lunch etc. We and our children are the victims of corruption.
onomeasike: Another Legacy of Tinubu. I remember the stress Tinubu went through to take over the control of the bar-beach surges from a federal govt completely bereft of ideas
Is that why they have let the Federal Secretariat Ikoyi to rot away- bereft of ideas indeed!
Very nice. Tinubu/Fashola/Ambode must have planned to IMPORT the cleaners, househelps, carpenters, fridge repairers, mechanics, janitors etc from UK, USA, Canada etc since they did not provide education for ALL Lagos children. What manner of daft leaders looters we have
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.
chidextec: Why won't the dollar go up.... PDPAPC were busy sharing billions of dollars to every dick and Harry that promise to deliver vote for them during d last election. Now there's no money left in our foreign reserve. PDPAPShits and the SaTanoidsBuhariSTANis have left Nigeria in tatters. What a country.
Dollarization Of The APC Primaries: How Amaehi Vanquished Atiku #saibuhari
The blogosphere was inundated with reports of the excessive sharing of dollars at the All Progressives Congress which took place during the latter part of last week.
One APC supporter and Special Adviser to Osun Governor on Environment, BolaIlori had blown the scandal open after he saw the beginning stages of the dollarization in action.
He took to his Facebook page and scribbled, “Crazy things are happening here!!! Some of these cannot represent the change Nigeria is yearning for. Excessive dollarization by one of the aspirants to is to say the least obscene. I have been involved in political process for decades now, I have never witnessed this volume of raw dollarization of party primaries. I only read about this kind of things in PDP primaries. A question been asked by conscientious delegates is that whoever can be giving out between $2000 to $5000 to…delegates certainly does not represent the kind of change Nigerians want…those who contributed to the pauperization of Nigeria now revel in dollarization… majority of Ondo delegates are still standing with Buhari but have been reduced from 85% to 70% within 24 hours…the remaining has gone with dollars ooo.!!!!!”
One has to wonder how Buhari was able to win the primaries in this era of stomach infrastructure where dollars are like the Biblical manna that God sent down from heaven to nourish the Israelites as they made their way to the promised land.
Sources close to the APC with knowledge of the way the Primaries unfolded have revealed that it was Rivers State Governor, Amaechi who flew back to Rivers State and returned to Lagos on Thursday morning with enough dollars to make Benjamin Franklin blush.
It has been revealed that Atiku offered the delegates $5000 each, but Amaechi doubled it to $10000 a pop. Thus turning the tables in favour of General Buhari.
Since his adventure into the APC, Amaechi has gone out of his way to prove himself a party loyalist, always the first to shoki or azonto at the many events the APC holds, which he himself is usually the chief sponsor.
According to party insiders, Amaechi has overtaken Tinubu as the major financier of the party. One does not need to wonder why he is always at President Jonathan’s throat over misappropriated oil wells or other such business. Anything that diminishes from the State’s coffers will have a ripple effect on his funding budget for the APC.
But the dull, daft & dumb Confused One does not know that. He only knows how to fight the corruption of OTHERS. He knows NOTHING else hence he devotes 120% of his time to giving us STORIES about the corruption of others.
Politics › Re: $2.1 Billion Arms Money Is Biggest Propaganda Of 2015 by anonimi: 8:26pm On Jan 13, 2016
