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Bryan12: since you're good in googling.google"white elephant project"too.I don't know why you guys can't understand a simple idiom.

Me I don do my own come SHARE am for my fellow country people for NL.
Na who hold you sey make you nor find come share with others for here

omenka: Are you sure you understand the meaning of "white elephant"?? It has been constructed and completed. What is white elephant about it

I hope you will be humble enough to apologise for your error =>

white elephant

noun

1.
a possession unwanted by the owner but difficult to dispose of:
Our Victorian bric-a-brac and furniture were white elephants.

2.
a possession entailing great expense out of proportion to its usefulness or value to the owner:
When he bought the mansion he didn't know it was going to be such a white elephant.

From: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/white+elephant

A white elephant is a COMPLETED project as you can see in the quoted definition above.
Cheers.

barcanista: Anonimiiiiiiiiii Your own don pass Maku and Abati own

Repent!!!!!!!

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Repent from what exactly
If you have any FACTS to rebut what I posted please go ahead and state them, otherwise ....

This is yet one more sign that our economy continues to REVIVE based on sound industrial policies of the Jonathan/Sambo federal administration touching several sectors.

Unfortunately our do-NOTHING state governors and LGA chairmen are not complementing these efforts by regularly recruiting for the schools and hospitals under their charge nor providing TAP water for all their residents and maintaining the 83% of all Nigerian roads under their constitutional RESPONSIBILITY

Yet some MUMU ignoramus and misled youths will keep ALL their focus on the federal administration
We go suffer tire, shiiiioooooooooorrrrrrrrrr!!!

It would be nice to have a pictorial update on the Lagos-Ibadan express road rehabitation & expansion.

Meanwhile has Fashola done the Mile 12 to Ikorodu renovation & expansion for which he collected yet another loan
Increased IGR nor do na to dey carry gbese debt left & right

atlwireles: Stupidityy and laziness remains the main cause of poverty and unemployment in this country. That's why I no sympathy for the poor in this country. Most of them are simply too lazy and too stupidd, It has nothing to do with corruption. The day Nigerians leave that witch, they call corruption alone and accept their inane ignorance as the major reason for their problems, 99% of this country's ills will disappear

I hope our fellow citizens can reflect upon and appreciate what you said.
Thanks again for your insight.

barcanista: O this is intimidating!!!! This is hurricane APC. Jonathan should hire the Best Medical Team with expertise in Heart Attack...2015 will be shocking!!!

I see that you are so excited that you forgot what you posted on another thread less than six hours ago today =>

barcanista: Take note of the bold.
Consultation is Private- Which anyone can do.
Campaign is public- Which Inec regulates.

In other words, Inec has no business with who you meet privately, but it becomes Inec's business when you organise a large crowd in a PUBLIC place for same purpose.

Thanks

Source: https://www.nairaland.com/1915977/inec-want-register-more-political#26538823

So APC has been campaigning just as you allege that PDP has been doing.

APC = PDP = APC

Stop the HYPOCRISY, will you

This is a good development for our democracy as the minority party showed its strength on an embarrassing national issue.
Unfortunately such cannot happen in our STATE legislatures as there is almost no other party apart from the ruling party in the state executive arm
Let's hope these APC representaTHIEVES will also walk out on their bogus salary compared to the miserable N18,000 minimum wage. That would be the day!

Sagamite: What do you expect him to do?

Use a magic wand to remove all the mess that took decades to develop?

I thought N500 billion annual budget with 15 years plus of "progreTHIEF " administration would have wonders.
My bad

chulla12: This reminds of this video taken by a Norwegian in Lagos basically depicting a train ride from Iddo to Ebute Meta:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2S7aqZgn2E

Showing the eyesore that is Lagos. This was shot last year and the derisive youtube comments from foreigners show how low our standards are.

This is Lagos o. The most progressive state with the best governor in Nigeria, so to speak.

Meaning that the rest of Nigeria is one stinking, rotting corpse that shouldn't even merit discussion.

That is why I am so surprised when people rate Fashola so high, seemingly carried away by his sweet words but little action.

Why do we focus so much on the PHYSICAL development issues rather than those of HUMAN capital development such as =>

- primary, VOCATIONAL, secondary and TECHNICAL schools that have adequate, regularly recruited teachers and provided with lab equipment, library, toilets etc
- TAP water
- FEEDER roads in the inner city and connecting LGAs.
- Primary health clinics and general hospitals with adequate number of doctors, nurses, lab technicians etc who are regularly recruited.

Will focused engagement by these STATE governors on the above issues not reduce youth unemployment

Reski: Just incase

Young Nigerians like you are these rwo but you still dey for NFA- No Future Ambition except to book space on NL

That may soon become the plight of the NIGERIAN child if the Arewa People's Congress, APC takes over in Abuja next year.

Lilimax: Yeah, we must rescue Nigeria from corrupt leaders.
We are tired for recycling old and expired politicians .

Btw, Tinubu is really looking good.
He rested very well...

That is an old picture....don't be deceived.

Ttalk: Can you please post reports of water projects your state governor commissioned?

Perhaps I am a resident of Lagos and my money is part of the N20 billion monthly IGR Fashola brags about
Abi you sef na Prophet TB Joshua apprentice ni to state otherwise

barcanista: Since when did consultation (which is a private visit) equates political campaign-a public event that has to do with soliciting for support of a particular candidate?

Please see highlighted.
Tnx

omenka: Oh really?? I thought you guys said he went to bribe the judge that denied your drug dealer bail..

Goodmrning TANoidal Cankerworm

Did you actually say "drug dealer"
And I thought your JagaBandit is the one who was indicted by US authorities for laundering drug money and subsequently forfeited $460,000 or so to them rather than face serious jail time
Smart crook and Smooth Criminal all rolled into one transformed into Asiwaju of Area Boys

barcanista: You need to understand that politicians and parties especially the ruling PDP are manipulating the law and making mockery of its loopholes. While the electoral Act of 2010 grants INEC the powers to regulate Political Campaigns, it did not permit it to regulate rallies organised by individuals or non political group. For Instance, TAN is making us believe that they are non Political Group as the group(TAN) is not a PDP affiliate, but in reality it is the voice of Jacob with the hands of Esau. The Law need to be amended to take care of this loopholes.

What do you make of the "Consultation train" of APC so many months ago to Nigeria "major stakeholders" including OBJokes


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That wan nor be soft-sell campaign to gain power at the centre, abi?

Currently APC = PDP= APC
No difference between six and half a dozen.

egift: The best way to solve a problem is to remove and replace the faulty components.

Nigeria Lagos has the problem of bad leadership and corruption that has its roots in PDP APC - Just remove the PDP APC, and Nigeria Lagos will start the process of recuperation.

"No matter how long you queue behind a broken vehicle, you will not move forward" - Egift

Fixed!
I am sure you will agree that a state that cannot provide something as BASIC and essential as TAP water to its residents is an epitome of "bad leadership and corruption". Not so

This in spite of annual N20 billion budget

This is very sad from Fayose.
However he may have copied from the JagaBandit's playbook of sending thugs after late Gani Fawehinmi at the Igbosere Court over allegations of forgery

ISpiksDaTroof: Its absolutely impossible that A state as big as Cali will have only one power company.

Why don't you get some free education via Google search instead of embarrassing yourself that something is "absolutely impossible" before you have found out first

ISpiksDaTroof: And you think you thought up this "genius" idea yourself or that the Govt doesn't know this is what it needs to do?

Fact remains if corruption is not killed nothing improves... just like the shitty telecommunications industry in Nigeria.

You really need to have a reset of your brain, seriously.
Was the telecommunications industry better when your blood-thirsty hero was Supreme Military Commander of the country (1983-1985) under his supposedly CORRUPT-less regime
Is there no corruption in America yet their economy thrives so much that Nigerians are queuing up to go there even if na to dey helep dem sweep dem streets and clear dem gutters

Maybe we should ask the Alaafin of Oyo who was in London promoting British tourism and being proud of it

ISpiksDaTroof: How old are you? How many of your original brain cells still remain because you sound like a loonie.

Buhari made you do a job LGA's are already paid for? Ok, cool. Are your LGA's not getting paid today: WHY IS THE WHOLE OF NIGERIA LOOKING LIKE ONE GIANT PIG STY, you filthy animal?

Because Buhari's clueless legacy has entrenched itself in the lazy brains of the LGA officials and MUMU citizens like you.

Do the citizens of European & North American cities & towns clean their own gutters, roads, streets, parks etc or they have 'lucky' Nigerians working well paid LGA jobs do it for the community

ISpiksDaTroof: He was there for only 18 months but in that time--- EVEN WITH WORLDWIDE SANCTIONS--- his first act was to pay off $50million debt racked up by the Second Republic made up of Shagari, Ekwueme, Dikko and co. That ensured that for the first time in Nigeria's history---because they did not owe Western Nations---her citizens were no longer slaves... at least for 18months he was in charge of the country.

Your country was also cleaner and the people more disciplined and sane like developed countries. I know, I know... you cant fathom that its possible for people not to run wild like animals instead of waiting in line to get serviced, or to not sh*it and pee in public like wild hyenas. Well, between 1983-1985, your country was on the path to greatness.

If anyone was in doubt of your cluelessness from the earlier you just removed any remaining doubt.
If simply owing is enslavement, Dangote [for example] must be a multiple slave going by your senseless logic

Buhari made us do a job that LGAs are already paid by us to do- environmental cleaning of our COMMON/PUBLIC spaces- yet you commend him for that
Chai, why are we such MUMUS

kakakent: Nope the victory started after bh decided to up their game and stop bombing nd kidnapping but started declaring caliphates like ISIS so the NA uped their game and declared war on them jst like US did to isis . if the birds start flying without perching , the hunters ill start shooting without missing btw I think you should tell us what you think of elrufa's silence simple

Perhaps he prefers to also be silent about El-Rufai's silence.

ISpiksDaTroof: Vote in Buhari and I guarantee you won't be using these desperate measures by this time next year because you will be employed based on what you know, not who you know.

Governmental corruption basically is what has now reduced you to a beggar.

Wish you well in your search.

You guys are such clueless jokers.
What did your Buhari do as MILITARY Head of State to create employment?
Is it not the massive corruption of APC that sustains foolish thugs like this one who got himself killed
How many teachers, doctors, nurses, lab technicians, school monitors etc have been annually recruited by APC states & LGAs since 1999?

Orikinla: President Goodluck Jonathan became President, because the Niger Delta people insisted that it was their turn to rule Nigeria.
Which is a very primitive mentality, because it is not based on merit or rationality and that is why he has become overwhelmed by the challenges of the political leadership of the biggest black nation on earth.
You cannot give what you don't have.
It is not by force and when you do it by force, you will beget incompetence and violence.

Fashola did not become the governor of Lagos state, because it was the turn of his family or clan to govern Lagos, but by the fact that his predecessor Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu saw that he has the merits of statesmanship and as we can see now that it has proved to be a wise choice as he has won elections without violence even though he is a Muslim in a predominantly Christian state.

If President Goodluck Jonathan was a popular choice, there would be no widespread violence destroying lives and properties today.
Now the ruling party PDP is forcing him on others without any democratic process and when they provoke more violent acts in 2015, they will be blaming the opposition when they are the architects of their own woes.

We may need to ask Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu what good qualities he saw in GEJ that made him abandon his own party's candidate, Ribadu and ask south west + Edo to vote for him

A LASHA lawmaker even had to complain loud last year =>

Lawmaker scores Lagos Water Corporation low

A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.

Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.

The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.

'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.

"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.

"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.

He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.

''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.

''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.

''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.

The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.

More from: http://www.punchng.com/politics/lawmaker-scores-lagos-water-corporation-low/

The Lagos State Water Corporation, LSWC, has said its maximum capacity can produce less than half the amount of water residents of the state need daily.

The corporation on Sunday said it records a shortfall of about 300 million gallons of water per day in the state, leading to shortage in many areas.

Its Group Managing Director, Shayo Holloway, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
According to him, the reason for this deficit is the high population in the state with an average of five per cent estimated growth rate yearly.
”The total demand for water is 540 million gallons per day,” he said. ”The corporation has capacity of 210 million gallons per day leaving a deficit of 300 million gallons.”

Mr. Holloway said “the corporation is, however, working toward meeting the demands for water in the state.”
He said the state had started working on a road map to meet the water demands of Lagos residents.
To achieve this, work had commenced on the Adiyan Phase II Waterworks Project which would be completed in 2016.

“The Adiyan project will add 70 million gallons of water per day to the existing 210 million gallons,” Mr. Holloway said.
He said that the corporation also had a design for water works project in Badagry.

He said the Badagry water works project would be constructed by a private firm through Public-Private Partnership, PPP.
Mr. Holloway said that the corporation had started discussions with an investor to develop the project which would produce 200 million gallons of water per day.

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Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/168439-why-majority-of-lagos-residents-have-no-potable-water-official.html#sthash.nD9k1jAF.dpuf

lastpage: Jeez! Stop being a DUNCE!

There is a reason why we have SEPARATION OF POWERS IN THE CONSTITUTION!

.......To prevent overlap of responsibilities and possible friction that follows
(case of Lagos-Ibadan Express Road comes to mind when Lagos State wanted to repair it and Federal Govt said "NO, it is a Federal Road and you have no jurisdiction" ..and rightly so!)

MM Airport is a federal structure. Lagos State CANNOT and SHOULD NOT dabble into it.

Its not politics (you are actually the one playing politics here), its about constitutional responsibility and being alive to your duty!
Educate yourself a little, get some O-Level Government textbook and read instead of displaying ignorance so openly!
Your children might read this in the future!

Lastpage!

That SEPARATION of powers also applies to the provision of TAP water all over Lagos state,



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including where the airport is sited so the toilets can be flushed easily and the whole place cleaned and MAINTAINED much better. Don't you agree

Meanwhile some N20 billion is allocated annually to the Lagos State Water Corporation without any meaningful result to the extent that one state assembly lawmaker had to complain at the LASHA