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LordAdam: A car shouldn't be a luxury, an average earner should be able to purchase one (new or used). I'm looking up to the dealers to tag up with the banks to structure a financing option where even the civil servants can acquire a car without coughing out their savings. Say an installment-based package. I know some packages of this sort already exist, but most of them I've reviewed are way out of the reach of the average earners.

Things are beginning to shape well for the country, now let's hope the political-backed milieu of security challenges hit the back burner.
~LordAdam

While I agree that a car should not be a luxury, IMHO a car should not be the means for EVERYDAY transport.
Our state & LGAs should live up to their constitutional RESPONSIBILITY of providing COMFORTABLE, sustainable MASS transit system of buses, light rails, metros, underground, boats, ferries etc to move people DAILY to/fro work & their businesses while TAXING HEAVILY those who want to use their cars (driving alone) into MULTIPLE city centres.

This is the way of the future because we cannot continue to have traffic jams/go-slows with the attendant soci-economic & environmental costs it implies.

wallex1983: This couldn't have lasted for more than a minute or two. Just to take pictures for dp that's all. You know Ђδω it iڪ naa

Abi o!
Yet some of his CLUELESS fellow compatriot MUGUS dey hail a TOP civil servant who should rather get a well deserved query from his supervisors in the Nigeria Police Commission [NPC] as well as the SINate and House Police Affairs Committees.
Can anyone imagine the British or American Police Head doing something as RIDICULOUS as this

BTW, should this not be on the FP?

Largas: I'm not hating. But Lagos is over-populated. We need more commercial cities. Every plan mustn't be sited at Lagos.
Good initiative btw...

Did the news say any of the plants will be located in Lagos

I hope they are located in the South South e.g. Akwa Ibom, Cross Rivers, where there are also seaports for exporting the cars to other African countries.

Many thanks to the previously shoeless boy from Otuoke who is working TIRELESSLY to transform our country despite the TERRORIST challenges of those who promised to make OUR country ungovernable if a southerner is president with their "baboons & monkeys soaked in blood."

Surely we shall OVERCOME together.

oldie: @ Midas02

You based your conclusions on the fact that these Local Govts only collect money from the Fed Govt
Some of them generated as much from internally generated revenues

The level of corruption at the Local Govt is more profound!
The mentallity is ' collect and share'

Thanks for your observation, which sadly is still relevant today, almost six years after this thread was opened.
Yet most of us CLUELESSLY focus our attention SOLELY on the federal/executive aka president as "government"

Any PICTORIAL update on this project

kolawaxxy: Aww. Humility at its peak! MD Abubakar till 2019!

Why are we so GULLIBLE that we allow ourselves to be taken for CLUELESS MUGUS by these thieving LEADERS
Why?

This picture means the IG is a very INCOMPETENT manager of the policemen under his AUTHORITY who are supposed to do REGULAR traffic control work
Pure & simple
Are there no important DECISIONS that HE needs to take concerning the SECURITY of our country seeing as BH bombs are going off everywhere as well as kidnappings, armed robberies, rapes etc
Na to control traffic dey pose for photo na im be im PRIORITY.

- Meanwhile most police barracks across the country are DILAPIDATED despite billions budgeted yearly
- Police are badly equipped and ALLOWANCES owed them.

No wonder the USELESS man had millions of our stolen money to marry a young wife How much could possibly be the IG's monthly salary

200 million MUMU citizens na im we be, chai

corisande: maybe she has some skin issues /scars she's covering

but this doesn't deserve opening a thread
abi our opinion wan do wetin?

Everything, minor or major, deserves a thread so the OP can the opinion & perspective of INTERESTED others.

olaife80: You have spoken well bro, I just can't get why we are still in this septic nation. We yoruba youth have to see our future beyond political gain, the late sage Obafemi Awolowo has laid good foundation just now left for us to claim back the lost glory. It is now or never.

SupportOduduwaRepublic.

When shall we stop all this shakara oloje (bluffing)
What is stopping us from UNILATERALLY renouncing the monthly federal allocation (derived from Niger Delta oil revenue) since that is the umbilical cord that is still uniting this country? Shebi armies dey declare unilateral ceasefire for war?

BTW, what happened to all the noise about the South West Integeration Plan
Bunch of unrealistic dreamers

EkoIle1: I don't don't deal with trolls so I'm not reading other people's comment, this is between me and you.

May I remind you, in case you are not aware, that there is a private message (PM) facility if you want anything to be between you and a particular poster.
Hope you understand
Just to remind you again, this is not your DICTATORIAL (Baba S'ope) ACN/APC gathering where everyone waits for one Superman Thief'nubu to open his mouth and tell others what to do.
Shiioooooorrrrrrrrrrrrr!

ciccerouno: Most people claiming the pix aint real don't even know where edo state is talk more of asaba or onisha head bridge, u guyz should take a chill pill, I ply d bridge everyday - Asaba to Onitsha to and fro- and these are pix of work going. If u are on d bridge from ur car u will see JB staffs and equipment. Work is ongoing, if previous administrations started like this we should be talking of a 3rd or 4th Niger Bridge now. At least I still remember the commissioning obasanjo did 2006 whit out any work afterwards

Thanks for the OBJoke reminder.
The old man simply continued their military COUPIST tradition of simply sharing our national cake aka Niger Delta oil revenue without doing anything after reading budget and sometimes they do commissioning like that of 2006.

iykbethany: Thanks for sharing these pics. It shows work is ongoing.

We need the opposition to put pressure on the ruling party to perform. Without the opposition our leaders would go to sleep.

Hope the project is completed on schedule. Thank you GEJ

Where/Who is the opposition in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun etc
Abi na ONLY federal wey government dey ni?

No wonder these STATE governments cannot bother with providing tap water for the people or providing education for all our children with PROFESSIONAL teachers recruited regularly instead of using youth corpers every year to produce half-baked CLUELESS students

We cannot even talk about the LGAs

colossus2: Me sef dey wonder wetin massive inside

Make you nor wonder too much oh so tey dem go take you go yaba left to de-wonder you

point5: I saw somtin lik dis near dat main bridge oo it mayb true ,,but until d bridge is bn. Completed n bn put 2 use..icantblivit..mtchhwwwww

Is your name THOMAS

frank043: This is serious piling work going on! Julius Berger is definitely the right firm to carry out this kind project...Have always wonder the kinda bridge that will be constructed...Will it be able to compete with the cable-stayed in Lagos? Well,the bridge is for real...Civil Engineering is a professional that builds a country's infrastructure....I'm glad to be a Civil Engineer...and will for ever be indebted to University of Ibadan...The First and the best!!!

Thanks for the professional opinion o jare.
Nor be all these small boys wey youth corpers teach for secondary school come here dey form ITK not knowing they are simply exposing their CLUELESSNESS

seanet01: Is this your massive construction?

Kindly share with us YOUR massive construction, You can even create a fresh thread for it and simply provide the link here.
See, very easy

You think this is some 300m Mokola narrow Chinko bridge by Ajimobi abi wetin

danot1030: Op is confused he doesn't know d difference between a construction site and construction company station.

......and the construction company is set up for what purpose
Mr ITK who actually is simply displaying his CLUELESSNESS

poiZon: are u for real sis? adonbilivit.

Good question seeing that she registered only yesterday

banku: One situation I would not have placed myself is where I engage you in an argument, since I know you are a PRO but more important, I will reply you because you have been cordial here.

Accountability is not a bad word, it must be there upfront and justified, not only by freedom of information act from Ministry of Health. It is the basis of "democracy" or better still Oyo cabinet system, oldest in the world. (I imagine you are referring to the Oyo Alaafin democratic system where kings could be deposed/impeached by the Oyomesi/kingmakers roughly equivalent to modern day legislature- Thanks)

I love Fashola and his programs up to a point. I thought he was going to be himself after his four years because of circumstances beyond his control. However, he has thrown the towel - if you cannot beat them join them. I must say that in his defense, he tried to revolt. (Same sentiments here)

Look, until recently because of abuse, generosity was what we do in Lagos, hospitality is our pride. We grew up with - if a stranger entered Lagos in the morning, before night falls, he would be clothed, fed and given a place to sleep.

Asking those that have benefited is not the answer to my concern. A beggar has no choice until recently when they started rejecting money and even pelt coins on you some years ago. So why measure your success by proportional few that have benefited from programs that could have benefited many more? (This is the bane of Fashola's elitist administration that ends up SHORTCHANGING everyone including the elites themselves- how many are potentially drinking their own FAECES from boreholes dug in their own compound due to non-availability of tap water, to give just ONE example)

The Nigerian disease is not of Fashola's making. It is how we foolishly measure success. But Fashola was brought differently in Lagos and enjoyed the best training a father could give.

Ekoile1, the problem is not structures and equipments, others have given you example of the luxury buses turned into apere. Maintenance and continuation of policies by better and more informed generation is our problem. Lagosians pride themselves as the best. Fashola is no different from others.

Whatever, Fashola is doing now, he himself knows he could go further, much further and better. But outrageous foreign contracts, 2 or 3 billions on one kilometer of roads and bridges so that Tinubu can get his cut will not allow him.

Defend him as much as you want, I do not know how old you are and which Lagos you met, but as a Lagosian, you know better.

Unfortunately ohun ti EkoIle n je ko le je ki o gbon - wetin (CRUMBS -relative to his paymasters- of millions from our taxes) EkoIle dey chop nor go gree am get sense for this matter!
Sad!
Very sad!!!

ChinoElects: Bloody civilians are still here crying while we are sharing the national cake and bread!

I was the one that took the pix below 2months ago. Well because of this noise here, I will be going to Onitsha tomorrow and then proceed straight to the site to capture the present state of work at the site, Onitsha is less than 25mins drive from Awka here. If you do not visit the site there is no way you will stand in Onitsha and see the ongoing work. JB office/plant is located at the Onitsha Headbridge zone. The last I was there serious work was ongoing at the site. By dawn tomorrow we shall have updated pix. GOD WILLING.

We shall be waiting for the pics.
It will be useful to include elements that make them dated & located.

Having said that, we should all realise that MEANINGFUL bridge construction work of MANY kilometres takes YEARS to complete.

Moreover thanks to Mynd for asking relevant accountability questions. We should do so for all projects by all tiers of OUR government-

- LGAs
- State
- Federal

and the three arms at each tier-

- Judiciary
- Legislature
- Executive

banku: The fact is we are always impressed by grand buildings and foreign contracts where we can be easily stolen blind. All the money needed for medical treatment and prevention of diseases for majority of the people are spent by a few on tertiary treatment abroad or equipment that will never be maintained at home. Even ordinary cleaners to maintained the place will be inadequate. That is why all these grand buildings and equipment fall into disrepute.

As far back as the 80s, health clinics, health centers, primary care centers and comprehensive health centers linked to Teaching Hospitals were established. Community health officers, nurses and aides were trained in School of Health Technology in each state. The results? No follow up, no continued policies and no indigenous training of children of native doctors and recruitment into school of health technologies.

Most of these doctors do not even know, understand or trained for local parasites or other local diseases. Can you imagine a Chinese doctor that does not know acupuncture?

These equipments are not the first in Nigeria. Repeat first. All the Teaching hospitals equipped their top floors better than this piece of edifice, as "ten" stars hotels. Vagabonds refused to patronize them since they have to deposit loot abroad or die in the best hospitals for show in their obituaries.

Hold Fashola accountable for grand structures to impress and loot. That is what civilize people do. Accountability comes first.

As for those asking others to go back to their states, if you are real Lagosians, ask your parents what Lagosians enjoyed when we were Lagosians. Not these cement buildings that captivate your appetites.

Thanks for your comprehensive take on this PROPAGANDA piece.
May there be more of you so we can finally have the developed society we all desire [size=13pt]instead of running to places where we are hardly welcome BUT their people are NOT individually better than us.[/size]

Psychodavidovic: No light/water for my area for the past one week sha.

For water, please address your complaints to your state governor please.

pDude: Before you know it, dem go tiff all the chairs, computers, equipment and even floor marble tiles.

Nor be Naija again

If the workers are paid on the basis of a MISERABLE N18,000 while political office holders and their PROPAGANDA Special Assts and Aides collect mega millions for adding NO value to us, then it is understandable even though disagreeable.

Why do you think they don't steal these things WIDELY in the UK, USA, Australia etc where our people have been chased away to voluntary socio-economic EXILE by these politicians that we continue to FOOLISHLY praise, adore, idolize, worship etc

So if we want our facilities to be maintained and workers not to go on strike or steal the assets, we should know what to do, abi

ojeffo: IF ANY DOCTOR GOES ON STRIKE IN DS FACILITY,..HE SHOULD BE SHOT IN D EYE

Because the facility na im doctor go carry go market take buy wetin im with im family go chop, abi
I guess if our children are being taught in dilapidated public schools and by youth corpers instead of in solid buildings & by regularly recruited PROFESSIONALLY QUALIFIED teachers, one can expect the type of meaningless post above.
Chai we don suffer finish as certified MUMUs

NaLaugh: Looks decent. The question is what it would look like in 10 years.

10 years lohun lohun
How many years since BRT buses were launched and they are already dilapidated and being pushed
This was a thread on the DEPLORABLE state of the Epe General Hospital, which is located in the original constituency of INDICTED Speaker Kuforiji:

Kazrem: https://www.nairaland.com/1536965/deplorable-conditions-epe-general-hospital

I don't know a better place to put this but I have to ask myself, is this a hospital owned managed and financed by the state government?

Let me narrate my story to better explain the situation.
I brought my 75 years old mum for diabetes and hypertension treatment on Wednesday. Afte1 the normal formalties of regisration and payment of ward fee, she was admitted around 6:30pm (we actually arrived 2:30pm).

When she was placed on bed, the first thing I noticed was the mosquito net. I tell you, this net must have been there over 6 months unwashed! This didn't bother me much as I hoped there will be light and as a result fan will work which will prevent mosquito. But after about 20 minutes, I started feeling heat (me that is healthy oo).

I kept mute because I don't want to be observed. After about 10 additional minutes, (this was around 7pm) my mum said she was feeling heat as well. Won't there be light was the taught that came to my mind and soonest light came. Thank God. But guess what? This was PHCN light, it was Inverter so we can't use fan, only to see ourselves with the light.

By this time, mosquito has been doing their work seriously. "Is this how we will be till morning", I thought. After few minutes, i heard the sound of generator and additional light came up. I was happy and joyous. I went to fan regulator, but was shocked to see that the fan wasn't working! I tried it again and again, turned it 360 degree yet, it didn't work! Oh my God! What's this! I went to other regulators, I swear by God, in the whole ward, only 2 fans was working and infact it was just one, a visitor made extra effort to make the 2nd work.

Is Epe General Hospital not part of Lagos State owned hospital? The story didn't end there, not long after that the generator was switched off! The situation can't be explained. I felt pity not for myself but for my mum and other patients in Ward 2. How will a patient be in heat? How will they sleep with these mosquitoes? How will they use this net that is smelly? How this how more was running in my mind. Then I asked myself "is this a general hospital owned, managed and financed By Lagos State? May God help us.

Honestly speaking, in terms of treatment, they are very good. I can changes not only in my mum but also in other patients. But what about facilities?

Which is also as important as treatment. I can't use the toilet. Though its clean and okay but as for, i can't use it. This is what I have been seeing here at Epe General Hospital in the last 3 days.

I hope this will be on front page maybe it will be read by necessary dignitries.

When you have a CLUELESS person like Fashola as governor for seven years despite annual budget of almost N 500 billion, that is what you get.

* No tap water provision for all hospitals, houses, shops, offices, schools etc?
** Not enough schools and teachers for ALL children in the state?

So how will the CRC be maintained

Only GULLIBLE MUGUS won't see through the usual EMPTY, MEANINGLESS PROPAGANDA of these latter day progreThieves

Pato5: this atiku guy owns almost all the industries in Adamawa.
I like his entrepreneurial spirit.
its better than storing up looted money in swiss banks

I quite agree with you that is better than storing OUR looted money (that WE allowed him loot) in Swiss banks.

Won't it be interesting to see the tax returns of his companies as well as his own Personal income tax returns

Yusluv77: What impact has it take on the common people or how much is now a cup of RICE in your area

You should find out from farmers in the rice-producing areas if their INCOME and standard of living has IMPROVED as a result of these good agricultural policies and initiatives of the Jonathan/Sambo administration.

I hope you will share your findings with us on NL

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Sincere9gerian: ^ That is why many of us describe APC as EVIL. If they have their way, this thread would have been deleted. The question is, [size=14pt]why is APC anti-progress[/size], anti-good news and anti-positive development? APC is EVIL

Probably that is the hidden but REAL meaning of their party's acronym:

Anti Progress Congress, APC

abi nor be dem join with people wey dey discourage others from going to school

barcanista: You just spoke my mind. That requires time, tact and planning.

......plus the involvement of all of us who are intellectual/educated/enlightened in order to gradually CROWD OUT those we consider nuisance and who have scared (and continue to scare) us away from getting involved in matters that affect our well being as individuals and as a society.

barcanista: Who controls the party depends on who controls its structures. To upstage the system, you need to either find an alternative party OR you will be patient to plant like minds that will control the grassroot of the party.

I believe the highlighted part is what I have been saying for many months/years now - we need to POPULATE these parties and slowly make the thugs & touts that CURRENTLY dominate become the minority as it largely was in the 50s & 60s.
Not so
I even said to start early focusing on students in campuses.
There is no short cut, I agree with you.
In fact I can compare it to say one lighted candle in a big room/space of darkness, no impact.
Many lighted candles in the same dark room/space, big impact of revealing and redeeming light for subsequent redress of the imperfections in the previously dark room/space.
Hope you get my drift/analogy.

Again it is over to US to be the change we claim to want, abi ke
No one, no politician will do it for us.

barcanista: you don't understand

Please make me understand.
Please.

Lack of EXPOSURE as in having an INQUSITIVE mind always that asks questions of EVERYTHING is worse off.

There are so many "illiterate" people who are much wiser and CONTROL those who claim to be literate (can read & write/educated) because they are EXPOSED.