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Mokola flyover: Ajimobi’s spin doctors exposed

THE much trampled people of Oyo State woke up on a certain morning to the saddening report that some disgruntled members of the opposition in the state had connived the night before to destroy the precious and (in) famous Mokola flyover.

Naturally, for a city that has been a political capital of the most sophisticated south west of Nigeria for close to a century now, but which was only provided such an architectural feat a few months ago, there was a sense of outrage.

Unfortunately as usual, the government of Alhaji Abiola Ajimobi, once again, seized the opportunity of an unfortunate incident to score cheap political point as well as cover up a shame that will accompany top hierarchy of the regime long after they would have been ignobly kicked out of office.

On that innocent morning, Special Assistant to Governor Ajimobii on Media, Festus Adedayo, through a press statement entitled: “Ibadan Flyover barrier demolished” accused the opposition of having made real, an earlier threat to pull down the barrier. He added that government was in receipt of security report that some political thugs were being commissioned by the opposition to demolish the flyover.

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Coming on the heels of frantic demands by some patriotic citizens of the state for the administration to come clean on the apparently over bloated amount being bandied as cost of the flyover, it was easy to decipher where the insinuations were directed at.

Of course, for an administration desperately seeking sympathy as a diversionary strategy for its frivolity, lack of accountability and flagrant disregard for due process and value for money, it was an opportunity to heap the blame for a badly executed job on some phantom opposition members. Since it would be a shame to admit that something slightly bigger than a tricycle (a Tata minibus) was responsible for the shattering of a project that cost a whooping N3 billion, the Alaparutu Peoples’ Convergence (APC) must see the absent finger of its opponents in the destruction, otherwise, tax payers would be outraged.

Well, Adedayo, quoting a certain Kayode Adepoju, Special Adviser on Infrastructure had told the world that the administration was in procession of some security reports, which blamed the opposition for damaging the barrier on the flyover before the minibus hit it.

[b]The question to ask these spin doctors is: who prepared the security reports? Spokesperson of the state command of the Nigeria Police, DSP Bisi Ilobanafor, shortly after, issued a comprehensive report on the damage. According to her, “the barrier over the Mokola, Ibadan Flyover Bridge has been pulled down by a Mini-Tata vehicle which hit the barrier today (Tuesday).

A tricycle branded with NESCAFE advert forced its way while entering the bridge from Adamasingba area but on its way out heading towards Sango area, the height of the barrier was too low, so the driver immediately turned and headed back forcing its way out when the barricade fell on the highway.”

Ilobanafor continued that the Mini-Tata vehicle driver, Olakunle Akanji, had been arrested and detained at Mokola Police Station while further investigation was ongoing. And to prevent other vehicles from being trapped as a result of the damage, the mini-Tata vehicle had been used to barricade the other end of the bridge so that, oncoming vehicle will not collide with the barricade and that the construction firm had also been contacted to ensure that the barricade was immediately replaced.[/b]

Diametrically opposed information

Since the police have a diametrically opposing information on the incident to that of the state government, it will be of great interest to discerning members of the public if operatives of the government would disclose the source of their “security reports”. These spin doctors that pretended to be the people’s saviour when they were canvassing for votes in 2007 but have now been exposed for what they are, had insinuated that the barrier was damaged the previous night only for the mini-Tata truck to complete the knocking down in broad day light.

As the man at the saddle, Governor Abiola Ajimobi has the responsibility to steer the ship of the state together with his team. However, the electorate should remain the masters and deserve to be treated with dignity and decorum. It is most unfair for operatives of the government to act as if the citizenry is daft and unable to differentiate between wrong and right. Before Ajimobi emerged as governor of the state, he never spared his predecessor.

At the national level, the APC has been quite strident in its criticism of President Goodluck Jonathan. So, it should normally be expected that such a party will be tolerant of critical appraisal of its activities. Incidentally, this is not the case as the administration is completely paranoid of criticism and intolerant of opposition.

Responding to issues raised by the anchor of Splash FM personality interview programme, former Governor Rasidi Ladoja, had deployed his acumen as an engineer to point at perceived irregularities in the contracting details of the purported N3 billion flyover. A responsible, responsive and transparent administration should have become sobered by the fact that it was caught in the act and not embark on a propaganda trip to try to evade the real issues.

[b]A simple question begging answer that will forever put agitations over the N3 billion flyover contract sum is: why did the 470 metres Mokola Flyover cost N3 billion while 1,056 metre Flyover in Abeokuta in addition to another 2.4 kilometre road cost only N1.5 billion? Why did it become so burdensome for a democratic government to explain the rationale behind the award of any contract?

The State commissioner for Information, Pastor Taiwo Otegbeye, was also a guest of Splash FM where he said compensation was paid to those whose houses were demolished to pave way for the flyover.

Well, the construction was only a recent development and it is also known that no single house was demolished save for the wall fence of the WEMA Bank. In Abeokuta, houses, shops/stalls were pulled down and the cost of compensation was still embedded in the stated contract sum with victims duly relocated. How much did the Oyo State Government pay to WEMA Bank for the fence that will justify this astronomical difference in the two scenarios?[/b]

The confusion of Oyo citizens being made hapless by their decision to vote APC was further compounded few weeks after the interview when , Commissioner for Lands, Housing and Survey, Bimbo Kolade declared that compensation was yet to be paid to any displaced person as those affected refused to present their claims. So, how do one now reconcile all the conflicting statements emanating from operatives of the same government?

As law abiding, legitimate and bona fide citizens of Oyo State, we challenge Oyo state government to come out with comprehensive list of those compensated because their properties were destroyed in the process of constructing the Mokola Flyover.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/mokola-flyover-ajimobis-spin-doctors-exposed/

No wonder Ajimobi's administration did not adopt the FOI at the state level.
These na original Jeun s'oke, Jeun s'apo (Increase taxes-IGR for your own pocket) "progressives".
SMH!!!

Posers for Lagos over N25.3b road concession buyout plan .

Residents fear fraud, exploitation through scheme

KEY actors in the Lagos State government are upbeat that the concession buyout plan for the Eti-Osa-Lekki-Epe expressway is in the interest of Lagos residents. But some members of the public are sceptical of government’s motive in the multi-billion naira purchase.

The state government plans to re-acquire the concession right of Eti-Osa-Lekki-Epe expressway and purchase its managing company – Lekki Concession Company (LCC).

The 49.36km road is to be bought at an estimated sum of N25.3 billion . The road has never been immune from controversies since it opened in 2008, and Lagos residents are at this time asking: “in whose interest is the new buyout plan, the masses or the authorities?”

The concession buyout plan came to the fore last week Tuesday, when Governor Babatunde Fashola’s letter on the “2013 Supplementary Budget proposal” was read at the Lagos State House of Assembly.

In the proposal, Fashola stated that it had become necessary to further amend this year’s budget due to unforeseen developments in terms of the state’s internally-generated revenue performance and emerging financial commitments.

Central to the “emerging financial commitments”, according to the governor, is the need to fund the acquisition of existing concession rights and toll revenue benefits held by the LCC, the concessionaire for the Eti-Osa-Lekki-Epe expressway.

“This will effectively accelerate the transfer of ownership of the road to the state, leaving the state with wider policy options with regard to that important road infrastructure,” Fashola’s letter read in part.

To meet this demand, the governor proposed a re-ordering of some expenditure provisions and also direct supplementation of the 2013 budget, given an upward review from N499, 605 billion earlier signed into law on January 2, 2013 to N507, 105 billion (a N7.5billion increase).

At the event of Tuesday, there was an apparent sense of urgency in the proposal and the planned concession buyout. Not only were the Lagos lawmakers forced out of their three-week-old recess, to expedite action on the proposal, the state government had also prepared the trio of commissioner of budget and economic planning and his counterparts in finance and works and infrastructure to attend the emergency plenary and answer lawmakers’ questions, paving the way for a speedy passage of the bid.

The Commissioner for Finance, Ayodeji Gbeleyi, upon questioning, said to acquire the LCC holding, the state would be paying N15 billion for the buyout; N6.8 billion to service existing debt obligations and N3.5 billion for third-party liability, totaling N25.3 billion.

However, the question on the mind of the public is who stands to benefit from this buyout ?

A businessman in Lekki, Olusegun Ashimiyu, told The Guardian in an interview that the purchase seemed good on the surface, but that it was not likely that the masses would get any benefit from it.

He said: “The only benefit anyone plying that route can hope to get is the outright removal of tolling on that route. But if I know this government very well, then the era of tolling will assume a new dimension and possibly grow worse than what we are seeing currently,” Ashimiyu said.

Another Lagos resident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, expressed misgivings on the project. “We foresaw something of this nature right from the beginning of this protest. That is why we demonstrated against toll collection and we were locked up then.

“There are some people that are benefiting from this project, and this is another attempt to scoop from the state treasury. Don’t forget, this is the fund that could have gone into infrastructural development in other parts of the state,” the respondent said.

Continuing, he said: “The entire project needs thorough probe. Yes, the state government is doing very well but there are just some things that are not right about its programme. We need to know who signed what and at what rate it has been given. How much has the government paid into it and how much left and where is it going? The state belongs to all of us, and not to a small clique trying to buy over everything, without consideration for the public,” he said.

More from:
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/national-news/131845-posers-for-lagos-over-n253b-road-concession-buyout-plan

Fascist Fashola doing what he has done best these past six years- revenue generation from the pockets, handbags, wallets and bags of RESIDENTS of Lagos state- for his own personal account.
Meanwhile BASIC services of:

- free and COMPULSORY education for ALL children in Lagos
- feeder roads
- potable water
- free quality PRIMARY health care

are neglected by the "excellent progressive" governor leading to increased menace of area boys in his state!!!

The crisis rocking the newly registered All Progressives Congress in Ogun State on Tuesday worsened, as a faction dissociated itself from the planned protest over the recommended guidelines for the State Harmonisation Committee for the party.

The faction, which claimed to be the “authentic caucus” of the disbanded Congress for Progressive Change in the state chapter of the APC, said that its members would not be part of the state delegation that would participate in the planned protest against the guidelines in Abuja.

But the Ogun APC said that the CPC caucus had only cried wolf where none existed.

During the recent formal inauguration of the party in the state, APC leader and former governor Olusegun Osoba and all the Federal lawmakers representing the state in the National Assembly shunned the event.

Also, some members of the state House of Assembly on the platform of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria along with some of their colleagues in other political parties defected to the Labour Party.

The APC National Interim Executive had recently approved the establishment of the SHC for the party, stressing that the committees would regulate activities of the party at the state level and the Federal Capital Territory.

Our correspondent gathered that the recommended guidelines would greatly reduce the powers of the governors regarding the control of the party at the state level.

The Chairman of the CPC caucus in Ogun APC, Mr. Oluwole Smith, at a news conference however described the planned protest over the guideline as “callous, unwarranted and undemocratic.”

Smith flanked by the Secretary, Mr. Godwin Odeyemi and other members of the caucus urged the masterminds of the planned protest against the APC recommended guidelines to retrace their steps and refrain from carrying out the action.

He said, “This press conference will like to address the issue of those who have been saddled with going to Abuja to stage a protest against the recommended guidelines on the harmonisation of the state APC Committee.

“As the authentic CPC caucus in APC Ogun State, we want to say without mincing words that this group in APC has no hand in the “rally” to be organised and attended by some people from Ogun State in Abuja against the recommended guidelines by the National Interim Executive toward the harmonisation of the legacy parties into the APC committee at the state level.

“With this our stand and statement, we hereby wash our hands off the unholy, uncalled for rally which we regard as unprogressive in nature and retrogressive in its entirety.

“For too long we have been kicked around by politicians who think that the only way they can continue to oil their wheels of self-aggrandisement is to keep us back when progress is being made.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/harmonisation-ogun-apc-crisis-worsens/

Season of political crisis- 2015 on their minds.

I wish his family strenght to continue the journey of this life after his departure and reflect on his life at this moment.
Hopefully there will be an exhibition(s) of his photographs and sales of the iconic ones to keep memories of our nation's history alive. Some of the pictures are definitely works of art.

[quote author=Hope.At.Hand]The Deputy Gov. Of Taraba state is a good man to have kept faith with the Gov. Until now..its clear for every1 to see that Danbaba Suntai isnt sound Mentally and Physically for the rigours of governance especially in these testing times when the Pdp is factionalized.In order not to worsen his condition but ensure a steady recovery, Danbaba Suntai shud take a break from Politics and the Assembly thereby shud swear in his Deputy as Governor.[/quote]Exactly!!!
We need to decide if we should be a country of Law & Order or whether we want to remain a country of emotions & anarchy. This is not about religion. Is Jonathan not a Christian who FINALLY replaced Yar'Adua, a muslim as Acting president when Turai's cabal refused to cede power peacefully
That was not too long ago- about three years to be precise.


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[quote author=Adm. Yamamoto]I don't know what you are trying to prove running around like a headless chicken. After wasting time writing crap taken from empty air, the point is => IBOS are visitors in Lagos! => Temporary residency will never amount to permanent residency or citizenship if Nigeria collapses. => While Nigeria remains, we will assert our authority and ownership on the land of our fathers. => Your last point is applicable in iboland, NOT in Yorubaland. We were prosperous long before ibos were discovered in the forests in the early 1900s. Till today, Germany, Japan, etc are attached to their lands, you can visit or "settle" there while you are there but you will NEVER become a German citizen. You should be worried about your land for in Yorubaland SW, your opinion and presence on how we build the lands of our fathers is completely irrelevant and not required![/quote]If you don't know what I am trying to prove on THIS thread I advise you to go through my posts hereon slowly.
Meanwhile just to refute your assertion about German citizenship read this:

Citizenship Further information: Nationality law

Under previous German law, children born to foreigners in Germany were not entitled to German citizenship by birth. This was modified in 1991. In 2000, legislation was passed which conferred German citizenship on the German-born children of foreigners (born after 1990), and the naturalisation process was made easier, although dual citizenship is only permitted to citizens of the EU and Switzerland and any other national possessing it (including citizens of Turkey) by virtue of birth must choose between the ages of 18 and 23 which citizenship she or he wishes to retain, and renounce their other passport. If one parent is German, a dual citizen is not required to give up the German citizenship if they keep the other citizenship. These strict limits on dual citizenship are criticised by liberal parties in Germany and institutions which promote German-Turkish relations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_in_Germany

That my people may no longer PERISH for lack of KNOWLEDGE!!!

nenergy: Please what is the literal meaning of Agbero?

Garage/Motor park touts.

odua man: All southwestern states have area boys so talk another thing,abi acn too don dey power for 14 years there also bloody freaking liar.

Na real wah for you oh!
Who chase you comot for ya bed this morning
Because e be like sey you nor wan see clear well well.
Read the OP again. It clearly says LAGOS.
What else do you need
Instead of doing aje egbodo nwa eni kunra by roping all south west to your Lagos palava just ask Fashola to address the problem of Area boys arising out of his neglect of education for children all these years. He has less than two years remaining for him to make amends!!!
Why is that so difficult for you to do

odua man: Shut up the phuck up fool how did fashola and tinubu come into the subject of discussion,
It's like dreaming about them day and night is already making you go physco.

I will have to do a RTS- Return to Sender of your above post.
You obviously did not read the OP in your rush to insult me. You are forgiven and as I am very generously charitable at this moment I have reproduced the OP for your reading pleasure and comprehension.

jayon: https://www.nairaland.com/1423057/area-boys-listed-among-notorious#17853389

Territory: Lagos, Nigeria
Criminal activities: Drug trafficking, extortion, murder, inciting riots
Number of members: 35,000

Over the past three decades, Nigeria’s Area Boys have gone from young kids committing crimes of opportunity to a massive if still largely unorganized street gang responsible for acts of extortion and murder. Local authorities, who have made a number of failed humanitarian attempts to eliminate the gang, tie the rising level of violence to a depressed economy, high unemployment and the increasing prevalence of drug addiction among the gang’s members.

http://www.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment/top-10-notorious-gangs_10.html

I hope you know who has been in charge for Lagos STATE the past 14 years.
If you don't, kindly signify by raising up your right hand and I will oblige you with the answer sharp, sharp

albiol: Bold move by the house of assembly they should follow this up by impeaching the governor how long with they wait for him to get well

Yes- impeach him for legal procedure and compliance BUT place him on good pension PLUS coverage of all his medical expenses until recovery or ......

ebamma: just when i was trying to respect the acting governor as a very loyal man, he showed his true colours, suntai was voted to that position by the taraba electorates, if he is to be removed, a referendum should be organised to determine what the people really want

Which PLANET are you on please

Good move to strenghten governance institutions & structures in our growing democracy.
Just as it was when Yaradull was a living vegetable and dead for all practical purpose while Turai was giving Jonathan newspapers to read while she signed away oil block licences.
SMH!!!

Predictable!!!
The result of 14 years of neglecting the education of children in Lagos under Tinubu & Fashola.
In the SEEMING rush to become "1st world" the ACN administrations have left out the BASIC ingredient- HUMAN resources!

Omo ti a ko ba ko ni o ma gbe ile ti a ko ta- The unbuilt (untrained) child will seel the houses that we are building

It is noteworthy that in Britain where a number of ACN supporters here on NL are resident, education is free and COMPULSORY for children aged 5-16.
Even here in the Western region, education was free and COMPULSORY for primary school kids under Awo's Premiership (1954-1960) while the UPN governors for four years (1979-1983) expanded the free schools PLUS TEXTBOOKS to secondary school level in Lagos, Ogun, Osun, (old) Bendel & Ondo states.

[quote author=lola.luv]Where are the jobs?[/quote]Right there in your parlour abi na cyber cafe wey you dey siddon put.
Make you nor get up sharp sharp go find out wetin dey happen for related companies begin send your applications oh

Rossikk: I've been following the revival of the textile industry with keen interest over the last year. I'm impressed by the amount of work and resources ploughed into this sector by the Jonathan govt after decades of neglect by preceding military regimes.

Chai! But military rule dealt with us sha!! Those guys just dropped everything and faced oil.

Indeed the military COUPISTS who were MAXIMUM rulers and dictators only had their fellow soldiers as their consituents to be taken care of. Dem nor send bloody civilians oh. Nor matter sey na the bloody civilians dem tax money (collected on their BEHALF indirectly from oil companies etc) they were enjoying.
They simply shared and transferred abroad most of the money, usually dashing their girlfriends along the way.
That WAS our story!!!

taharqa: So? How does this mean that Aregbe is involved in dis resuscitation of d comatose Textile Industry across Nija. Craze don start to dey catch you too?? ..... If anything, this Osun Factory may be part of d efforts of d FG Entire Value Chain move to resuscitate d Textile sector...and admitted, what d Osun State Govt and its Private parter, is doing here (setting up a GARMENT Comp) is a very, very Great move. We should start focusing in Garment Production, rather than just spinning and produces 'ordinary' Textile materials, cos that is where d Jobs reali are. Arewa Textile and others seem to be thinking in same direction too....

Not so fast, oga.
Aregberascal's garment factory is at best a big SEWING (tailoring) factory and at worst a big scam of N=1.2 billion from our good people of Osun state.
Please read the posts on this thread to draw your own conclusions:

https://www.nairaland.com/1413497/aregbesola-opens-n1.2b-garment-factory

The scamming is not surprise though as that is the stock-in-trade of those gathered together in the Association of Conmen in Nigeria, ACN

Katsumoto: First, temporary and brief relief is always workable because one person is stronger and giving succor to the weak/vulnerable.

That is why I talked about CHANGING power dynamics between the (two?) groups earlier as well as treachery & betrayal from within.

Second, how can a refugee claim human rights treaties if a landowner refuses entry to the refugee?

That refusal is not always so straightforward. There is a convention that most countries signed up to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_relating_to_the_Status_of_Refugees

Third, you confuse settling done by refugees and that done by conquerors. If I conquer you through war, then my children will remain indigenes/landowners until you drive them out.

and/or kill them all, which was quasi-possible maybe till 100-200 years ago but not any longer as it is now considered genocide.
The conqueror group's population may also grow so much as to overwhelm that of the "remaining indigenes/landowners" such that while it is clear from history their status, the de facto relationship/status will be otherwise. I am thinking of American Indians and white Americans here. I understand the Indians came X,000/ X million years ago through the North Pole corridor when the continents were still linked by some tiny land stretch....
Something slightly similar seems to have happened in Ilorin between yorubas & fulanis and some of the northern cities between hausas & fulanis.

[quote author=olu_kenzo ]As much as I enjoy those books and journals that recount our history, I also have to pen lines of code daily. The latter, sadly takes the cake for now. I can almost see a diploma in history sometime in the future.[/quote]That would be a nice thing to do.
I imagine there will be opportunies (if only form a passion fulfilment point of view) as our country grows again and there is increasing interest in our history, how we WERE to inspire us into the FUTURE of what we can still achieve.
Best.

Katsumoto: But European have been keeping records for centuries and that didn't stop English kings laying claim to the French throne and the subsequent 100 years war that followed the original claim of Edward the third. The fact is that folks will always attempt to claim ownership, no matter how small or ridiculous their claims may be and will wage war to win.

There will always be wars for diverse reasons with immediate agonies but future benefits.
However the records (even though distorted by the conquering army) will help in reconstituting what happened when those who were not around seek to know.

Katsumoto: Also Modakeke at Ife after Ooni Akinmoyero gave refuge to the Oyo after the fall of Oyo. Or Alimi at Ilorin.

The bitter truth is that children of settlers/refugees hardly recognize the original benevolence afforded to their fathers. Sometimes, relief should be temporary and very brief.

That temporary & brief part may not have been workable then due to rapidly changing power dynamics, treachery & betrayal.
It is also difficult now due to modern human rights treaties.
There are so many people in European and American (north, central & southern) countries whose "ANCESTORS" arrived there one or two centuries ago and are practically INDIGENES of those places.
Those countries have prospered nevertheless while those of us who are so attached to our land and fearful of "settlers" are still lagging far behind!

[quote author=olu_kenzo ]The truth as I reliably know it.

Its funny how this kind of controversy has always plagued the sons of oduduwa. Something very similar happened with the obanta at Ijebu-od e.[/quote]The real problem is the absence of WRITTEN records of what happened then and lack of interest in

- anthropological
- archeological
- linguistic

and other scientific research to REASONABLY clear up some of the mix-up in our history.
I suspect however that there might be writings in Arabic, given the exchanges with Fulani traders via Oyo and islamisation of yorubaland before the Europeans arrived.
Such absence and lack of interest is a reflection of our focus on the here & now of what to eat & drink as well as show off to our neighbour without much thought!

[quote author=olu_kenzo ]Ben Akabueze is a commissioner in Lagos state, no? if Lagos is liberal enough to appoint a SEner as commissioner, why not a Bini man? Albeit, appointments in the first place should be based on merits and not ethnicity in places as polarised as Lagos.

But to now because of the above say Lagos is a no man's land when all evidence shows otherwise is an affront. And its left to the indigenes, example my mum, fashola, the obanikoros etc, to stand up to such people.

Again bro, this is not a thread such arguments, please open another thread if you really want the issue trashed out.[/quote]As this history thread on Lagos as well as any history of any town will show you, today's INDIGENES are yesterday's (many decades/centuries ago maybe) IMMIGRANTS/SETTLERS.
And those who are "indigenes" may change in another 300-500 years based on demographic trends.
We need to enhance our capacity to see beyond here & now!

^^^^^^^^
Source.
Better create a new thread for the story.

[quote author=olu_kenzo ]You guys are just disgusting. I'm so mad at you guys for bringing your virulent and mendacious hate to this thread and destroying it.

BTW, Any normal thinking human who went through a proper Nigerian primary school knows the deep relation between the BENIN and LAGOS kings on one side and the indigenes on the other. Keep showing us how lowly you are.

PS: if you really want to get schooled on Benin and lagos, open a new thread and stop messing this one up.[/quote]You obviously don't get my point about the ridculousness of BRF responding on the no man's land issue and claiming "his ancestors" are from Lagos.

How many Bini people can have political positions in Lagos state TODAY
Meanwhile Osun state's Aregbesola was former commissioner with Tinubu.
Late Hamzat who is from Ogun state was also Ikeja LGA chairman under Tinubu.
Ekiti state's Bamidele was also commissioner under Tinubu
To give just a few examples of yorubas whose "ANCESTORS" obviously are not from Lagos state but got political appointments there.
Can that happen to someone from Bini

Meanwhile our attachment to land has not helped us, black people, to advance ourselves vis-a-vis others.

If you get the admission and CAN pay for the programme directly and/or with scholarship please go for it.
However, please note that you may not return to work & live in Nigeria and this may affect your marriage plans with THE PARTICULAR lady you have now.....

Meanwhile Labran Maku & co should get correct professional pictures of these better better things as dem dey happen for share online here so that other doubting THOMASES like this (un)fortunate Camry driver go sabi oga Jona they work correct correct.

[quote author=P.Stacks]Wetin car dey find for rail track? Wetin?[/quote]Na so me sef come dey wonder, wonder, wonder oh like Femi Kuti.

Maybe the paddy man bin too listen to the yarns from Amaechi dem people sey na lie oga Jona nor fit deliver any train service in PH (seeing as im sef never finish the one wey im dey build all these years).
Na so im come do am so tey when the train blow horn im nor hear, all the noise from the engine wheels sef the man dey play deaf guy until he come hear gbosa for im car.

Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is slowly but steadily TRANSFORMING our dear country despite the multiple challenges thrown at him from far and near.
I hope he will continue to prevail.

fr3do: Young Nigerians wasting time and energy on tribalism.
If we focus like this on cancer we can find its cure.
We can even develop some sets of equations that relate magnetism to gravitation(like maxwell's equation for electricity to magnetism).

Approximately what I have been trying to point out to the ethnic land warriors.
The saddest part of it is some of these eWarriors are citizens of oyinbo countries dey claim RIGHTS, which they cannot entertain for those who are their FELLOW COMPATRIOTS in this geographical space called Nigeria!!!

dinggle: When will the youths learn, how can anyone support a party deliberately punishing the nation?
I wish they had died in a demonstration for fuel price reduction and constant electricity.

Can we add the ILLEGITIMATE and EMBARRASSING salaries and allowances received by our SINators and representaTHIEVES who include those from the "progressive opposition" Arewa Peoples Congress, APC
You can imagine what such freed money can do to sort out the oter BASIC issues affecting us ALL.

sarutobie: And they said men are wiser...pathetic excuse of a man like the Op keeps displaying crass stoopidity leaving wisdom to the women folks.

The OP just dey earn im fat pay from the mumus who donate over 60% of Lagos budget as in IGR without getting much in BASIC services but still pile more debts.

To most posters who do you think should participate in politics and be delegates for party conventions- GHOSTS?
When the jagaBANDIT paid $5,000 for his "gold invitation from Obama" to Charlotte, USA na to go there go do SOLOman


https://saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/page_images/news/2012/Tinubu_653983072.jpg?1347058564

odua son: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iga_Idunganran?seg=1

I repeat unless you have another source supporting your claims,it still remains bogus and unverified.

Interesting quote from the wikipedia source for those laying claim that Lagos belongs to "their ANCESTORS"

The ancient tombs

All the Obas of Lagos before Oba Akintoye are buried in Benin City.

Those who want to continue dwelling on whether na dem Adam ancestor be owner of Lagos wey come turn dem garden of Eden are free to do so.

alj harem: Very silly analogy. So there were no people during Adam's era ? I suggest you go read your Bible well

I posted based on what I read in the bible.
Maybe you can post what the Quran says about it so I can review and revise my post as necessary.
Thanks.