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OrlandoOwoh:
It's either the pipe supplying your family friends has been ruptured or they don't pay their water bill. In all the places I've lived in Lagos State, I get water from the LASG. Though sometimes it doesn't flow, but water is given to Lagosians for which they pay for. This has been the practice right from the 1800's when daRocha was supplying water.

The highlighted is the only PARTIALLY true part of your post. All the rest na LIES as usual from the stable of Arewa People's Congress, APC

Partially true because it should have read "MOST times it doesn't flow" and that is even in the 10-20% of Lagos state that is connencted to LSWC pipes
Meanwhile in the same Lagos state =>

Filth Rules In Toilets Of Some Lagos Schools

In an expansive hall inside the premises of Wesley Primary School, Agege, a cluster of pupils from various public schools were in ecstasy last Wednesday. It was an educational programme, featuring a mini competition and reading exercise. The event was at its peak.

Slipping out of the hall, our correspondent looked around for available restrooms. There were none in sight. A teacher walking by gruffly waved the journalist to an open door just behind the hall.

“That’s the children’s toilet; you can make use of it,’’ she said.

The ‘children’s toilet’ is an improvised latrine accessed from an ante room. There are four toilets in all with none having a water closet. One door was broken down; one was shut, while two were flung open. In one of the opened toilets, caked faeces decorated a pole while pieces of paper already used to clean up by pupils littered the floor. The putrid odour oozing from the toilets provoked instant nausea.

A young pupil stepped in at this point, darted a look at the reporter and made for one of the toilets. She bent down to urinate and left when the business was done. Our correspondent allowed her to leave before taking pictures.

Bids to speak with the head teacher were not successful as he was not available. The premises, however, also house the Vetland Primary School and the Local Government Education Authority.

Our correspondent also sought to speak with the Education Secretary, Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Authority, Mr. Taiwo Balogun, but he was also not available. Sources however said the toilets were not sufficient for the school.

“Over 300 pupils make use of that toilet. That is what primary education in this state has turned into. Unlike the secondary schools, which use funds from the EKO Project, we have nothing. Most of the things we do here are self-help projects. The doors to the toilets are repaired from time to time but the odour is a shame, I must tell you,’’ said the source.

Elsewhere at Ipaja, pupils of Abesan Primary School, Estate Primary School and Housing Primary School urinate in the open. The schools, sharing premises, have no toilet facility to cater for members of staff and the pupils.

The head teacher of one of the schools refused to grant audience to our correspondent. But a source said a Parents’ Forum is already constructing a toilet for the schools.

“The situation in this school is pathetic. As you can see, both the staff and pupils have no decent toilet facility. That one under construction is from the Parents’ Forum. The local government, in my view, is trying its best. But it seems we have been forgotten by the state government,” said the source.

The indecent state of toilets at the Wesley Primary School and the Abesan Estate schools mirrors the reality in many of the 1,007 primary schools, 345 Junior Secondary Schools and 311 Senior Secondary Schools in the state. In spite of the efforts by the state government in turning around the education sector and providing a conducive environment for learning, such poor toilet spectacles abound in many public schools in the ‘Centre of Excellence’.

A professor of Public Administration, Mr. Ladipo Adamolekun, said the state of the toilets could impact negatively on the pupils. According to him, many toilet facilities across even the secondary and tertiary sectors in Nigeria are nothing to write home about.

“The report is even worse if you look at the secondary and tertiary institutions. That is one of the telltales of the decay in the education sector. Environment definitely affects learning, especially for female students. I am aware that the Millennium Development Goals prorgrammes have provision for sanitation. The girl-child is more affected when sanitation is poor. It leads to health hazards,’’ he said.

According to experts, such a dirty environment is a harbinger of diseases, such as diarrhea, dysentery and typhoid.

Attempts to talk with the Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye, were not successful. However, the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry, Mr. Jide Lawal, put the blame on the doorsteps of the affected schools.

“It is an isolated case. If you have four or five schools like that out of 1,007 primary schools in Lagos, then definitely they are isolated cases. These schools have been told to take ownership. If my toilet at home is bad, will I call Fashola because of that? It shows the type of person that I am. But you can text me the names of the school, it is noted, he said.

From: http://www.onenigeria.com/filth-rules-in-toilets-of-some-lagos-schools/

simplemach:
But come to think of it o, nobody talks about job creation anymore. Yes we know its good, sometimes best to be self employed. But then this eneterprenureship stuff is almost taking the day when we know that there are supposed to be creation of jobs and then we are also encouraged to be enterprenures just incase we dont lay our hands on such jobs.

Talk to the 36 state governors and 774 LGA chairmen who should REGULARLY recruit, train & motivate (with good & duly paid wages) PROFESSIONAL staff for

- primary, VOCATIONAL, secondary & TECHNICAL schools
- Primary Health clinics and General hospitals
- MAINTENANCE of feeder roads and public spaces
- provision of TAP water

pendy79:
Amaechi false story on paying indians was not only left on politics but sent to frontpage

Sure they will go and remove it from all newspapers too

I thought it was Amaechi boasting about paying the Indians, did I miss something

pendy79:
FAAN spokesperson, Mr. Yakubu Datti, has, however, dismissed the result of the survey, saying that it could not be accurate. In a telephone [size=14pt]interview with The Guardian,[/size] Datti said other organisations had positively rated Nigeria airports. “I am just arriving from an event where improvement of Nigerian airports has been applauded,” he said.

He promised to provide data that would counter the result of the survey, but he did not do so until press time.

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/business/37424-p-h-abuja-lagos-among-10-worst-airports-in-africa-survey

What is it with Arewa People's Congress, APC operatives and CONFUSION plus LIES

Since when did Guardian become Daily Trust?

frustratedman:
I'm suffering from frustration, depression, societal rejection, joblessness and hopelessness

.....but have access to internet.
You nor sabi way to a farm to put your hands and brain to work at the very least

leki10:
i wonder ooo....politics is business in dis country and not a service to our fatherland

I think that is MAINLY because most of us, the citizens are comfortable being Passive Complainants rather than ACTIVE Complainants and greater PARTICIPANTS in the political process.

Any reasonable person who "INVESTS" in a candidate's electoral success will expect some "returns" therefrom. And the HIGHER the investment, the greater the expectation of the INDIVIDUAL "investor".
That is how it is in the US, UK etc. The only notable difference is that you have a VAST MULTITUDE of investors into their process hence the politician is more engaged to MANY of his constituents than in our country where we are all waiting for some "foolish" know-all, do-all messiah who will bail out of our self-inflicted woes.

More of us need to key into this understanding for greater democratic benefits to our society as our INSTITUTIONS develop furthe.
No shortcuts!!!

frustratedman:
I am seriouly considering suicide once again. I think I will have to take this bold step once and for all instead of facing all these problems and challenges. God has been wicked and so harsh to me. I have waited for over 2 months for his intervention but things keeps getting worse. I will kill myself and end this life of misery. I already made arrangements this morning and it won't take long before my story hit the news. I have lost hope and all I had. I give up on life, and God. I will die with my frustrations

HOW do you know that death itself will not ADD to your frustrations
Do you know for sure what happens AFTER death?

leki10:
Well not a bad idea. But how about the large lumps of salaries and allowances dat our SO CALLED leaders are taking home evry mont. We can result to drinking only water for all i care but we are unnecessarily spending money in d poltical sector. THAT IS WHAT NEEDS TO BE CHECKED.

Very good & valid point, which includes the LGA Councillor who only needs to have ATTENDED Secondary school and be 25 years old to collect a guaranteed N300,000 for doing NOTHING.

How many university graduates can secure that kind of salary in Nigeria today

For how long shall we remain MUGUS?

interesting thread to bookmark.

aresa:
OP. Clean your dirty ears. The man said to manage the schools, not train.


All these dubious and 419 threads sef...

And the schools are not for the training of the students

Chai, I thought your problem was only with arithmetic from the other thread about the Jonathan/Sambo railway TRANSFORMATION, I did not know it extends to understanding the Queen's language as well.

Maybe na all those youth corpers used every year to teach in our secondary schools by all these useless governors who will not recruit PROFESSIONAL teachers and REDUCE youth unemployment by so doing

tomakint:
......and the coffin-headed native he-goat of a Governor has the effrontery to talk anyhow to Jonathan when the charlatan is a massive failure of 2 on a scale of 10 I wondered why the he-goat is dancing up and down sef......

I can think of at least one reason why he is dancing:

- Excite the MUMUs who are his EMPLOYERS i.e. the residents of Rivers state on whose behalf he receives monthly allocation from Abuja and from whom he collects IGR taking from their pockets, wallets, bags and handbags.
That way they won't think about how he is rap'ing them mercilessly as he skillfully diverts their attention to the president this, president that.
Smart crook like all the 36 governors and 774 LGA chairmen.

If to say na me get mumus for employers like Amaechi get am so, why I nor go take dem dance azonto plus alingo even plus including Doro-Maga

aresa:
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I'm not interested in your bait and switch rubbish..

You claimed it's taking forever for the Lagos state govt. to finish the metro rail so the question you are dodging remains the same...

Tell us how long it takes to build a 27.5 km metro rail with ten lane freeway, BRT lane, multiple metro stations, multiple overhead bridges, a metro bridge across the Lagos Lagoon, power plants to run the metro system including the fact they they have to import nearly everything needed for the project?

Let's check if your arithmetics is up to scratch now:

1983 to 2014 will make how many years

aresa:
That worthless ancient locomotive looks very very transformed and revived....

Perhaps your Arewa People's Congress, APC governor in Osun state knows something you do not know about TRANSFORMED railways and trains.
You may want to ask him:

Omoluabi Free Train Rides offered by Governor Rauf Aregbesola for this Year’s Eid-el-Kabir Celebration at Osogbo Terminus, State of Osun returns passengers via Free Train Rides to Lagos from Osogbo, on Tuesday 07-10-2014

https://osun.gov.ng/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Eid-el-Kabir-Return-Journey-Free-train-ride-1b.jpg


From: http://osun.gov.ng/2014/10/08/free-train-ride-osun-returns-passengers-lagos/

Abi na Fashola im Toronto metro rail na im Aregberascal take dey do "free" train ride with Osun state money

Congrats to Eyimba!

Great to see increasing interest in our own national league away from the NEO-COLONIALISM of European leagues only.

ayindejimmy:
Which foreign reserve? Better wake up and smell the coffee. Our reserve is blinking Red

Kindly provide your SOURCE for the highlighted statement.
Thanks.

aresa:
Please forgive me for that..

That should not be a problem ordinarily- forgiving your arithmetic error, that is.

However you seem to still have your head in the clouds with plenty of CONFUSION:

Now please educate us by telling us How long do you think it cost to build a 27.5 km metro rail with ten lane freeway, BRT lane, multiple metro stations, multiple overhead bridges, a metro bridge across the Lagos Lagoon, power plants to run the metro system including the fact they they have to import nearly everything needed for the project?

How long should be about time no
Na how you come dey talk about cost? Pehaps a Freudian slip or guilty conscience of the billions declared as spent for the PHANTOM, unending project

Please try and sort your head out first before we can talk about forgiveness.

BackDatAssUp:
Leave that hinterland osogbo enclave

Talking about Osogbo reminds of the "Engineer" who is governor there and the SCAM of railway station he re-painted for N1 billion in a state whose monthly allocation from Abuja is about N3 billion only

The governor of the State of Osun Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has been described as prudent , talented, having vision and a God given gift to the state.

The special adviser to the governor on works and transport Engineer Oladepo Amudah stated this in his office while fielding questions from journalists on the rehabilitation and face lifting of the Railway Station, Osogbo.

According to him, government is using its meager resources to develop the station in order to enhance the social and economic status of the state and meeting the standard of Nigeria Railway Corporation.

Engineer Amudah said government has spent four hundred and twelve million naira on phase one, while the next stage will involve the recreation centre, cljavascript:void(0);earing and separation from terminus to Olaiya which will cost six hundred million naira.

He maintained that at the end of the projects the state government will be spending over one billion naira to renovate the railway station.

From: Osun State Broadcasting Corporation


From: http://osbcng.org/2013/05/29/aregbesola-eulogised-over-the-renovation-of-the-osogbo-railway-terminus/

And all this is based on Jonathan/Sambo's laudable efforts at REVIVING our railways
Abi wetin the man for renovate station if railways nor dey work

The patently CRAZY man was only lucky that the equally useless PDP in Osun state could not get a better candidate for the last elections to kick him out of Bola Ige house.

Arewa People's Congress, APC a gathering of blood sucking SCAVENGERS

aresa:
Los angeles with larger budget and sophisticated facilities and building capacity built 26km LA-Pasadena metro rail (Metro rail only) in 3 years

Did you not post Fashola's PROPAGANDA thread of his Toronto trains in May 2011 i.e. three years plus six months ago

Maybe you need to address your apparent deficiency in arithmetic skills before embarrassing yourself further.
#Friendly_Advice

OrlandoOwoh:
Is that Yoruba you just wrote?

Nor be Yoruba na Egun* Awori

Ibadannimowa:
I think it is too little an achievement to be hyped as much as it is.

What would you call what happened on this thread:

https://www.nairaland.com/668039/pictures-fashola-inspects-trains-facilities

more than three & a half years ago- May 2011

13 pages of PROPAGANDA with plenty oyoyo photos and almost 25,000 views!

Has anyone seen Fashola's trains MOVING people in Lagos
Are we WISER now or do we remain their MUGUS for life

2015 - Kick the Arewa People's Congress, APC out of Lagos

Ibadannimowa:
Below are pictures taken yesterday around Agodi GRA in Ibadan. I was excited after hearing the train horn to see the transformation I have always heard about. I was surprised by what I saw. Is this the kind of trains TAN have called a part of transformation or are there others in better state that I don't know about?

like my page on Facebook. Ibadan people and Places(just for fun)

Firstly thanks for sharing the pictures as FURTHER evidence of the good fruits of the conscientious work of the dynamic duo of Jonathan/Sambo at the federal level.
It is obvious that your excitement was due to not having seen a MOVING train for a veeeeeeeeeery loooooooooong time in Ibadan until yesterday.
However, I think it is necessary to remind ourselves the definition of the word TRANSFORM so we do not miss the train

trans·form verb \tran(t)s-ˈfȯrm\

: to change (something) completely and usually in a good way

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transform

The questions from people who are LOGICAL, RATIONAL and are NOT foolish or doing Moo-Moo like cows behind a cattle rearer would be:

- Were these locomotives, coaches, trains DEAD stock rotting away in the Nigeria Railway Corporation yards all across our dear country
- Have they being changed completely from their DEAD state to something GOOD and useful in a MOVING way to benefit all our fellow citizens?

Let us be very careful with our words so we do not fall PREY to the marauding wolves in sheep's clothing who have come to not only STEAL from us but also to KILL.
This federal administration has made and CONTINUES to make good progress in this vital sector of our socio-economic life and needs to be encouraged to do even MORE as there is ample room for IMPROVEMENT.

Unfortunately one cannot say the same for Lagos & Rivers states after so much media hype, praise & worship of their DELINQUENT governors over light rail and mono rail despite having annual budgets that are more than what the federal government used to budget for multiple years in the 90s

Obiagelli:
Our opponents have huge financial resources, I have only you and God, and I trust that our struggle will triumph. Our opponents have foreign bank accounts and possessions to run to when they destroy this country, me and you have only this Nigeria to live and die in. So let's join our
hands to make it better.
Thank you and God bless

Yet the DECEPTIVE FRAUDSTER of an old soldier knows how to rush abroad for medical treatment like all our other leaders

Buhari returns from overseas medical trip

Former head of state, Maj.-Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (retd.), has returned from an overseas medical trip.
This was confirmed to journalists by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, to journalists in Kaduna after a visit to the politician and former presidential candidate.
Tambuwal, who spoke at Buhari’s residence in Kaduna on Sunday, said he was at the place to welcome the former head of state.
He did not disclose the ailment Buhari went to treat or the country he visited.

From: http://www.punchng.com/news/buhari-returns-from-overseas-medical-trip/

Arewa People's Congress, APC deceiving gullible fellow citizens since 1999

mrvitalis:
name me five sector jonathan has improved in the last 6 years and i will vote him

1) Railways
2) Education i.e. federal universities, Almajiri schools, extra money through UBEC for states to make schools free to ALL our children for nine years.
3) Road rehabilitation and expansion.
4) International flights to Kano & Enugu airport after renovating them and other airports.
5) Automobile plants revived and new ones established due to well thought out policy.
6) Agricultural production increased and agro-allied industry growing.
7) Fertiliser subsidy removed for more efficient & wider distribution by private sector and greater savings for government.
8.) Greater transparency with INEC organized elections and respect of electoral court decisions.

To give just a few examples.......

mrvitalis:
am shocked that u will say this.....so if nigeria was ur company u will hand it over to jonathan over buhari?

Yes.
Go through my posts from 2011 to date and you will see why.
I prefer SYSTEMS and working, separate, INDEPENDENT yet complementary institutions to a PRETENDING, over-packaged messiah.
That summarily describes the choice between the two.

jumu:
igbo always vote four money

And yorubas always vote for amala aka stomach infrastructure, not so
Bloody TRIBALIST

mrvitalis:
am sorry bro but if u actually believe jonathan is good to lead us then am disappointed

I have NOT said Jonathan is good or not good.
What I know is that the Jonathan/Sambo team is better than Buhari or Atiku and whichever current governor may emerge as their running mate.

mrvitalis:
what happened at nass is one clear example
..the what happened at the NGF elections
...what tried to happen in rivers ....what happenedin ekiti.
...what
never has corruption been this bad and u know it
never had we had a first lady summoning security chiefs ..
...bro nevet have we lost any territory by force to any body
...never had the naira been this bad

I think you have been listening too much and believing the PROPAGANDA of the NO-good opposition.

So the president is responsible for what happens among those lawmakers in the INDEPENDENT legislative arm of government and among governors, some of whom do not even belong in the same party with him

Under General Bully-Aminu of Ota Amaechi, Tambuwal would have been history longest time ago.

TBC.....