₦airaland Forum

CosmicSensation: no it's not.

Any chance of telling us which state your village is?

Eberex: I was transferred to Akwa ibom last year march from Lagos and I can testify to this. I stayed in Ikot Ekpene, somewhere at Umuahia road. Since I wasn't comfortable with black-out I had to put it upon myself to visit PHCN almost everyday to complain, knowing fully well the people don't care if they have power or not, but if the story I read from the OP is correct then I'm surprised. Power was finally restored after my frequent visit and disturbance even though my neighbors didn't know I had a role in it.

Many thanks for not only your eye witness report but more importantly for your FRUITFUL activism, which led to the PHCN doing their job.
It is noteworthy that you did not wait for the state governor to show up & fix the problem
Most of us do not realise it simply takes asking the right questions repeatedly until we get the appropriate response we desire.
May there be more of your type in this land of POTENTIAL Giants - Amin! Amen!! Ase Edumare!!!

aresa: That's from 8 years in Office from the richest state in Nigeria and largest state budget in Nigeria...

Please help fill in the GAP in case I missed anything...

When you say richest state in Nigeria and largest state budget budget in Nigeria one wonders whom you think you are talking to with all your LIES.
The FACTS are that in 2014 Akwa Ibom state budget is N469.374 billion while Lagos is N489.69 billion

Moreover, you guys need to understand that Akwa Ibom and other South South states are starting from Ground Zero in terms of infrastructure due to decades of NEGLECT of the golden goose that laid our national cake eggs by the CLUELESS soldiers who ruled us through their ubiquitous COUPS unlike Lagos state that had everything (almost) needing to simply maintain them.

Bluetooth2: What are you revising ? Almost #15 billion monthly for a population of less than 4 million and some people haven't seen electricity for 10 years ? Damnit, Akwa Ibom is in Nigeria not Amazon forest !

You entirely miss my point.
What I highlighted in your initial post was "free money from Abuja".
That is so untrue. In fact they are GIVING Abuja free money, which is subsequently shared to their LAZY compatriots who contribute NOTHING to the national cake from the Niger Delta oil revenue oven.
Get it now

Next2Bezee: And we thought we were suffering here in Festac

Is Festac also in Akwa Ibom state
Shey una blackout na only 10 weeks ni abi na 10 months pere

CosmicSensation: My own village has never ever seen 'phcn/nepa' electricity. NEVER EVER.
That aside 10 years is still an awfully long time sha

Is your village also in Akwa Ibom state

Bluetooth2: If you are not from Uyo, nothing for you. This is the richest state in Nigeria by virtue of free money from Abuja yet their people are still suffering. These are the same people that always want Fashola to tar their compound for them.

Did you actually type the highlighted part of your quoted post above
Abeg, revise am by yourself before I revise it for you, which will not be done for free as you can imagine
Cheers.

kekakuz: small thing

go to the east and see worse

them steal so tey them they steal each other bulb.

Why do we single out an area that is NOT the subject of the thread in order to create TRIBAL tension here
Are there no communities in ALL regions of our country that do not even have electricity pole or connection talk less of 10 years without electricity
Let us commend this community for finding their voice and making it heard while we join them in asking the state government to do the right thing and ensure they also get electricity, which I hope the community members will PAY for as & when billed

Desdola: How much is the basic salary in Nigeria that we call a car of btw 1.2 and 1.9m naira low price?

You have raised a very valid point even though the car is being sold by a private company.
I think the same rational applies to a government selling room & parlour LOW income housing at N4.2m.

barcanista: @OP is the purpose of the thread for information or for tribal attack? I don't see the reason for the emboldening of the culprit names

Thanks. Very good call.
Our VIGILANCE is what will make OUR society better.

Does anyone have first hand experience of buying one of the Made-in-Nigeria cars and/or driving it to tell us how it COMPARES to a tokunbo aka aloku oyinbo that we know as second hand cars of similar cost

lokito: 1.9m naira and they say low price. They're joking. They shouda reduced price to like 50, 50k. That time pedestrians will disappear on Lagos streets

Na you gangan be the joker
When you consider the traffic GRIDLOCK if there are no pedestrians because everyone is driving their Made-in-Nigeria Hyundai car, you will then understand that the real joke is on you with your comment

arsetalks: You are going to use your posts on here to back up your America green card application aren't you? Ode.

Sorry but I have to ignore you. Hope you don't mind.......you see I find it difficult responding to an ar'se that talks

Onegai: Na wa. Ben Amosu is NOT the doctor who recommended Nano Silver, Ben Amosu has being doing research on a number of African diseases, he has submitted his work for review. That's why I would rather believe in him, he even submitted to WHO but was told they're not the testing body (that I am willing to believe is financial politics being played). He is NOT the quack advocating Nano Silver. The Nano Silver people are taking to social media rather than entering the FDA lab or even demanding a petition on www.change.org to push testing of Nano Silver up fast, like Tekmira (the other ebola drug which showed promise did). No-one is insulting Tekmira or Ben Amosu (legit people), everyone is suspicious of Nano Silver. Big difference

Nobody is stopping Nano silver from being tested, it has actually been tested before in a lab, but results were not promising. However, it was sold on the market as a dietary supplement (you can buy it off aliexpress sef, same with Bio Silver). Ask your relatives about drugs which have "these claims have not been researched by so-and-so" on it, they are not scientifically PROVEN to work, they MAY. So instead of asking concerned families of already infected individuals to put their loved ones lives in danger so you can prove a point, volunteer yourself for human testing, let's find out about ebola and Nano silver. Is that hard?

Spain got it for its priest because he gave informed consent. No-one is willing to send untested drugs to people who are screaming that the country manufacturing the drugs is the one who lab-engineered the disease and the outbreak. Which is what Liberia and Nigeria were saying (that's why Liberians are breaking into hospitals and releasing sick people, ask your 3 relatives on ground). I won't send any untested drug to even my village if they say that, lest it fails to treat them and they escalate it to "Africans are being used as labrats!" Which, be honest, you have heard Nigerians say.

And yes, they wanna make money off it. Wouldn't you want to get paid for your hardwork? If Africa wants to stop being bullied around, they have to start taking responsibility and stop whining "oh this country is sooo noooot faiiirrrr for not helping us". Are we simpletons, don't we go to school, don't our govts travel and experience better-developed countries?? Why can't we do the same or better, why are we always begging? Are you not ashamed? Shame has still not made you guys angry to demand better governance from yourself and your neighbours.
America owes you NOTHING.

Seems you did not notice the poster's moniker- arsetalks
#Nuff-Said.

Meanwhile, please permit me to advise you and others who post sensibly but sometimes long to highlight and colour some of the main points. Our people are too lazy to read anything beyond a few lines or one paragraph. Such highlights will increase the probability that we get the gist/info you want to share.

May Almighty God and the Good Lord richly reward your labour of love to our fellow compatriots- Amin! Amen!! Ase!!!

BOAR: You are probably right. However the intent of the OP is clearly to spite.

His intent according to YOU, right
Nevertheless irrespective of his intent, we can turn it to good purpose of making our states & LGAs deliver on motorable INNER/FEEDER roads and clean & clear gutters When our areas are all bright & sparkling all those oyinbo people wey we dey think sey dem get am for two heads will stop looking at us like the "missing link" in Charles Darwin's theory on evolution. I hope you can agree with that

Ahmeduana: WAT ARE U EXPECTIN FROM JAJANWEED ELITIST GOVERMENT?4 TINUNBU EYE E B LYK SAY MAKE DEM PUT OSHODI 4 AUCTION MAKE HIM BUY AM JOIN HIM DYNASTY!

The worst part of all this is that Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu is an Oshodi boy as his adopted mama was Iyaloja of Oshodi decades ago

lakhadimar: I followed this thread all through yesternight, i'd expected the moderators to close it, alas, i woke up this morning and i found it on the front page

The thread does NOT need to be closed as it complements what TVC is doing for better governance. It only needs to be cleaned & cleared of the supposed picture of members.
The same way Oshodi LGA needs to constantly & regularly clean & clear those stinking open gutters in the pictures. Not so

omenka: Over 1.6trillion naira was stolen, and. It was an election year!!!! Amadu Ali's son alone stole over 25billion without bringing in a single drop of petrol!!!

EFCC is talking about recovering 0.0001% of the money stolen!!!!

That is anti-corruption war Jonathan style!!!

Is Jonathan in charge of our INDEPENDENT courts
The executive arm of government through EFCC has played its role of investigating and bringing the cases to court. Or did you not read that in the OP, maybe you read and ignored that aspect as it does not fit your odious objective

Meanwhile Jonathan's way of fighting corruption is SYSTEMATIC blocking of loopholes & leakages resulting in GREATER infrastructure improvement for railways, roads, airports despite fighting the war on terror.

barcanista: Let me also state that there is this Program on TVC that talks about abandoned areas in Lagos State. It is done to bring the attention of the Government to these places. Worse Pictures than what the OP posted are usually shown. So OP you are only trying to be mischievous as the Lagos State Led APC welcomes criticisms and also exposure of areas where they need to sit-up.

You are the one being mischievously ingenious.
If Bola Tinubu's TVC is doing what the OP is doing then you should be happy he is CONTRIBUTING to that effort, not so

barcanista: All these are Inland Roads which falls under the Jurisdiction of Local Government. Maintenance of Gutters and Canals are also LG's Affair. Do you expect Fashola to Inherit LG Chairman work? Beside can you be truthful and say whether the LG Chair hasn't done anything worthwhile? I aint holding brief for no one here

STOP trying to attempt JUSTIFYING failure
Fashola's party controls ALL the local governments even Badagry where there is a Youtube video PDP being announced as the WINNER. That way he can MIS-handle their funds as he deems fit despite OUR constitution requiring state governors to also allocate their IGR to the local governments the same way the federal government allocates its collected revenue to all states & LGAs.

While the situation may not be much different in the other 35 states, Fashola's case is WORST because he TRIES to pretend that he is way better than the rest as to be seen in excellent garments of governance. Nothing could be further from the truth. Slowly but surely more people are coming to realise the FRAUD and well-packaged SCAM that has been our lot for over 15 years UNDER Fashola & Thief'nubu's DECEPTIVE yoke.

OP, thanks for the expose. More grease to your patriotic zeal elbow - Amin! Amen!! Ase!!!

boladez: On the issue of security , this is the work of the FGn and unfortunately Lagos state can only do so much. Can you believe that Ketu station has just 1 (yes ONE) patrol vehicle? and guess what , that is the vehicle given to them by LASG.

Water flows on the Ojota side of Ketu all the way to Magodo... t[b]he problem with the other side is the dense population and the extreme difficulties on running the water lines without major damage to property[/b]....again, these pipes are being hit by our people just for them to fetch water. My personal opinion is that portable water is one of our nice to haves in lagos. Almost every house has a borehole. Water is important but when we solve the issues of roads, power , security them we can tackle the wahala of pipebone water.

With the foregoing , fashola may be called upon to do more but cannot be said to be a failure.

Which ever way you look at it APC is well ahead of PDP in terms of real development I only pray things get better but its important for us all to register and vote for the right candidates in 2015.

You have really tried in your attempt at justifying Fashola's FAILURE.
However it remains an attempt and a very poor attempt for that matter.

On the issue of security, you are looking simply at the SYMPTOM, rather than looking at the CAUSE, which is rampant UNEMPLOYMENT and even for those employed their INSUFFICIENT wages based on the miserable N18,000 minimum salary. Fashola and his LGAs are mostly responsible for the cause of insecurity in the state. If & when he employs PROFESSIONAL teachers, doctors, nurses, school/clinic/hospital cleaners, administrators and pays them a COMPARABLE wage with all those political jobbers in the SAME employment of the LASG, including himself, Speaker Kuforiji, other legisLOOTERS etc, you will see insecurity reduce as it is in all those oyinbo places where Fashola's FAILURE along with Thief'nubu in the past 15 years have chased many able-bodied & intelligent Lagosians to hide

It is very sad that you will say that installing pipes for TAP water provision will damage properties and roads YET you go on to say that the same roads should be done first before your smooth talking governor deals with a very BASIC and FUNDAMENTAL utility as TAP water
Why are you so confused
Then when you excuse him because of population density, you forget that is the basis of collecting plenty Niger Delta oil revenue national cake every month from Abuja like some god-forsaken almajiri

While this is not about comparing APC with PDP, just to indulge you why not check out what is going on in Akwa Ibom and Enugu state.

nora544: Please keep silent what is with all the others who run to UK or Amerika, he knows Austria also as a student he study in Austria in Leoben.

Just this week one died in Uk from Nigeria look at the frontpage

You don't need to feel unduly defensive because I shared a very SAD truth about one of our looters whose FOOLISH action deprived his fellow citizens of BASIC facilities that are taken for granted by the citizens of the country where he paid heavy taxes on his stolen wealth.

Of course we have other STUP'ID and CLUELESS former & current public officials of Nigeria doing similar in other developed countries as you rightly mentioned. But I mentioned his case in Austria because you were showcasing the excellent facilities in your country somewhat paid for, in part, by the hopeless STUPI'DITY of 160 million Nigerian MUMUS

Vickyboss: I dont support this point of view,i think the doctors deserve everything they are asking for.

And i really do think another set of people deserve such packages,the nurses,midwives,etc ...

what of teachers, policemen, soldiers, civil servants etc etc.....in short ALL government workers need to have their salaries raised in line with what our legisLOOTERS receive monthly and NOT based on the MISERABLE N18,000 minimum wage that is not even paid to the FRAUDULENT "empoyered" youths like those in Aregberascal's O'YES and old women road cleaners in LASG

Anything short of that means we are ALL confirmed & certified MUMUS

PointB: Before we get swayed by the doctors tantrum, let's not lose sight of their 24 key demand.

Summary of the doctors demands:

1. Create more offices (and more money) for us
2. Don't send anyone to monitor the money
3. Skip level 12, we can't wait to collect more money
4. Refer to Nos 2
5. Pay us 22 years areas of some money, and then increase our wage
6. Expand the health bill so we can make more money
7. Appoint one of us surgeon general so that he can protect us and fight for our money
8. Adjust our level so that we can make more money
9. Increase our call duty allowance by 90%
10. Adjust upward our specialist allowance
11. Increase our hazard allowance from 5k/mnth to 100k/mnth
12. Release circular showing our allowances, all of us must be included
13. When we need to import In-Vitro Diagnostics, IVDs equipment, we don't want knowledgeable institution to check/license it.
14. Tell us our retirement age (obviously they don't want to retire, more money to be made in active duty)
15. We want more funding for our residency training
16. For peace to reign pay our colleagues in Owerri what you agreed
17. We must continue to enjoy the goodies in IPPIS platform
18. Attempt to prevent our collective bargaining (for more money) will be resisted
19. Lab scientist should stop intimidating us (we are the big boys, we make more money)
20. Stop short paying us for any reason (we want all our money in full)
21. Do for us what they do for doctors abroad
22. Set aside more money to furnish our offices (hospitals)
23. Medical director must be a medical doctor (It can not be a pharmacist, dentist, and never a lab scientist). We must chop alone
24. Stop violating our 2009 agreement. Pay us our money!!


There you have it. The two dozen demands of our doctor in plain language. The demands causing our brethren to die at home, and in hospital while doctors stay away. These are the demands making our people to resort to bathing and drinking salt water to death, as they run scare of Ebola Virus Disease, while our doctors prefer to stay at home and wait for their money.

Our doctors have sworn to protect their moneys, while our collective health is the ransom! If gold can rust, pray, what will happen to Iron?

This list is quite revealing and interesting.
I think they should take their protest to the National Assembly if they need more pay. That's where OUR SINators and representaTHIEVES collect nearly N30 million monthly for doing NOTHING of benefit to us the suffering tax payers and on whose behalf the government receives taxes and royalties from oil companies.

phantom: hmm....see facilities! fully equipped. countries that take their citizens health seriously.

look at that lovely bedside ultrasound machine! SMH.

any patient admitted here won't need to move out for anything.
almost everything is bedside.

No wonder our former Petroleum Minister retired and died there recently:

Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr Rilwanu Lukman died in the early hours of Monday July 21, at his residence in Vienna, Austria after a brief illness.

More from:http://www.channelstv.com/2014/07/21/rilwanu-lukman-former-petroleum-minister-dies-75/

Meanwhile his fellow Northerners/Nigerians are not educated, dying of common ailments in large numbers etc while he FOOLISHLY stashed his money in Austria paying hefty taxes thereon with little or no recognition from the Austrians.

Why are we so stu'pid

nora544: I am from Austria, the small country in the middle of europa.

I know that your politicans get much money ! A good doctor in my country gets more than a member from the parliament but he works about 60 hours per week

I understand that a senior medical doctor in a government hospital earned more than our first Prime Minister.
The military COUP of January 1966 opened the door for this lopsidedness that has led to the crazy amounts our CLUELESS loafing SINators, representaTHIEVES and state legisLOOTERS receive.

2cato: The funny thing is thatThe rightful authorities are doing nothing about it. The banks and CBN are turning blind eye towards such development and this keep me wandering whether most of their staff are involve. Boys are not smilling.

This is the most WORRYING aspect.
They probably do not realize how much such NEGLIGENT attitude of financial and law enforcement authorities will erode confidence in our economy and banks both from within and foreign interests.

gbeseun: The best for you is to go back home ,can u pinpoint a single achievement of gej and PDP

In case you have not noticed this thread is about Fashola & Thief'nubu's COLOSSAL FAILURE in Lagos.
Please feel free to open another thread on your other issues, we may join you there if necessary

ayindejimmy: The Melinium schools and bridges, massive rehabilitatn of roads, provisn of pre-primary edu. And provisn of textbooks in public schools, providing free legal services 4 the less privilege. I can go on and on. But wait a sec., can u tel me two achievemnt of PDP 4 d past 15yrs?

- What is the % of Out-of-School children in Lagos today?
- How has it changed from 1999?
- What % of even those children that are in school attend PUBLIC schools?
- What level of supervision/MONITORING is done on the private schools that have replaced LASG in its abandoned RESPONSIBILITY to educate our children?
- What is the % of households and buildings with TAP water in Lagos STATE?
- How has that improved/deteriorated since 1999.
- What is the condition of FEEDER/INNER roads all over the state?
- Is the Light Rail project completed three years after going to Canada to buy aloku, used & condemned trains?

Just a few posers to start with.

reborn1: Waiting for anomini to come and paint this thread with crayon

Dumb op.

Pity I did not see this thread/your post earlier.
I hope that you are happy now that I have honoured your invitation

Orikinla: The hand sanitizer should be supplied to all public transport buses, schools, offices and other places and not only for the privileged class.

Why
What else should be supplied (free, I guess) to everyone- 160 million of us
Which tier of government- LGA, state or federal- do you think is best placed to implement such massive distribution and the necessary public information/ sensitization campaign that MUST accompany it to be effective?

Finally how much are YOU ready to contribute as INCREASED personal tax to make this fine oyoyo suggestion come to pass?

Philipmems: OK see it this way I stayed in Stavanger Norway for 5 years for my education in those years I discovered something,
I. Shelter is almost basic, depending on your life style
II. Food to eat is cheap, depending on your life style
III. Clothing is almost free... You have centres/ shops were you can get very cheap good quality clothes because they have good standard
IV. Work is available depending on what you wish to earn
V. Industries dey plenty depending on your strength to work.
VI. When my wife was pregnant with our first child she couldn't work the Govt was paying her 15,000kr that's about 300,000 naira monthly not because she is a citizen even immigrants enjoy that facility.

Having said this....
We are blessed as a country with mineral resources and human capacity. The problem we have in this country is that the basic things for human existence is not within the reach of the general populace/ common man so instead of me and you thinking of how to develop our environment we are busy thinking of how to survive, and in the course of survival we do anything even when we know its wrong to protect our future. Why do you think Nigerian do very well when they go abroad? The basic things needed for survive is there so they don't need to worry themselves all they need is to develop your intellect to its maximum capacity.

Firstly, we need to understand that Europe some 800 years ago (circa 1200 AD) was just as bad as we are, if not worse with so much oppression by the Kings and their noble men over the near-slaves, called serfs who had no property (usually land) of their own.
What we need to do is UNDERSTAND very well how did they move from that horrible phase to where they are now and IDENTIFY relevant lessons for our society.

As you rightly said when we are among them, in their society we perform just as well individually, sometimes even better so what is missing

Philipmems: Honestly you have a point but its just that we should not be were we are today, we should be miles up the ladder but our so called leaders are enslaving the system for their self-centered interest so what can one do... OK just imagine a country that produces crude oil can't refine the product, they have to ship it out at a cost, refine it at a cost and ship it back in at a cost... Doesn't make sense, why not invest in building refineries, we have lots of internal flowing river in less dense areas why not invest in dams, or nuclear power plants.... But they wouldn't because our leaders have invested alot in enslaving us, they have vessels to transport crude they negotiate with the refining companies abroad, they import generators, have oil blocks, ...the list is endless I can assure you. Do u believe in a better nigeria sure I do... In this generation...hmmmm.. Honestly I don't.

Oga, it is not just about the leaders only. We their fellow citizens encourage them actively/passively to continuously ra'pe us and steal our commonwealth and heritage. Moreover the leaders were just ordinary citizens until they got into positions of power starting with the LGA Councillor.

I hope and am committed to making Nigeria better in my generation!
That is one of the reasons I spend so much time on these forums!!
I know it can be and expect that it will be!!!