₦airaland Forum

Good posts from Maj. Headache so far on this thread.
Nothing to add to his comments from me.


Ok, except that Ribadu was ready to step down for General Buhari (rtd.) in 2011.
That says a lot about him!!!

Greaaat: Why be say na wen Jona dey quarter to go na hin him don do something small small abi na my eye
Hello Jona daft you're not going anywhere your village otueke you better go and finish the sch So u cn resume as a lecturer

It is very sad when you read something like the above from someone who is supposed to have gone through school and obtained some education with the capacity to think and reflect before saying anything.
Really sad!!!

How long do you think it takes to plan, rehabilitate railway lines and coaches before you actually see the trains moving
How much dedication, by the CURRENT leader, to the ultimate goal do you think is needed to get to the final manifestation that we are seeing today in the rail sector
Governance is more than the quick-fix yoyo projects of buying 150 taxi cabs, for example, by Amosun that the APC eWarriors were jumping up & down excitedly about.


https://www.nairaland.com/1407942/amosun-launches-150-taxi-cab


No!
It is about well thought out POLICIES whose effects may take a while to be felt by the citizens.
I hope that is something you are capable of understanding!

agbameta: This is OBJ and Yaraduas vision and contract so the main credit really should go to OBJ because he awarded the contract and it was his vision to reactivate the railway system in Nigeria while Yaradua stopped and reevaluate the project before letting construction go on which it did and the result is what we have here today.

So why are these jokers jumping up and down and shouting GEJ when in fact he has nothing to do with the project from start to finish?

Talk about incompetent people doing attache over other people's sweat...

GEJ could have simply cancelled the contract and shift his focus on sometyhing else such as simply sharing the money, which was what our former MILITARYT DICTATORS did. Shared the national cake aka Niger Delta oil revenue and let the inherited infrastructure and social services go to rot.

- Did Yaradua not suspend the NIPP contracts initiated by OBJoke before GEJ revived them

- Like Ayatollah Buhari CANCELLED the Lagos metro line project that was already started by the REAL progressive ACTION governor, Alhaji Lateef Jakande. That was 30 years ago when Buhari overthrew the democratically elecetd government of Shehu Shagari, his fulani brother. Some said it was to prevent Dr. Alex Ekwueme from becoming president in 1987.
That is a project that the combined duo of Tinubu & Fasholahave struggled to revive for the last 14 years.

karl max: where are the apc hypocrites that said it was a lie when someone posted about this news yesterday...GEJ would continue to disgrace u people on nairaland... am waiting for u people to come and claim it's obj's project

Not only are they claiming it is OBJoke's project, be ready to read and hear that it is Tinubu's doing as per the post below:

Akinmail: this is one of the benefits of having a strong opposition
it forces the government of the day to perform. Tinubu should be happy he has helped in his own way to help nigrians by creating aformidable opposition. Nice.

https://www.nairaland.com/1403657/fg-pays-off-20304-phcn#17551672

Meanwhile make we slenjo to this Wonder Wonder tune by omo Abami Eda


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awodman: Nigerian Railway trains leaving with container from Apapa port today

Can't see any picture.....I suppose you posted a picture in the above post?
It might actually be better to open a new thread with professional PR-quality pictures

- of the freight trains loading,
- taking off and
- getting to their destination.

Promhize: Two wrongs cannot make a right. If federal govt should grant them this 100billion, this same ASUU will strike next year with another demand. Wish GEJ could do like obasanjo - NO WORK, NO PAY. That's why I like Fashola, when some doctors went on strike in Lagos, what did he do, he sacked them.

1. Have you thought about REDUCING the salary & allowances of political office holders from LGAs to state and federal levels both legislative & executive based on COMPARATIVE value added and expected productivity to the society, which will reduce pressure by other workers of the SAME government asking for more salaries & allowances
I understand that Nigerian professors earned more than the 1st Prime Minister, Tafawa Balewa. Go and find out!

2. No work, No pay such that we will lose our workers who were trained in our primary, TECHNICAL, secondary schools, universities etc with our money to foreign countries where they will be under-employed COMPARED to their white colleagues, effectively on socio-economic EXILE even though they will swagger sey dem dey for diaspora?
Meanwhile the same Fashola knew how to send his father abroad for medical treatment while the doctors to whom he is primarily responsible were on strike and many Lagosians were DYING.
His father died recently too, in case you missed that!
It is just the same way the clueless leaders we hail as champions will send their kids to schools abroad while doing No work, No pay for lecturers in Nigeria and making other students suffer.
Is that the right action for a SENSIBLE leader

3. Fashola had to hire the doctors back after his godfather, Tinubu intervened publicly taking the shine and initiative away from his boy. Go and find out!

Is there any real chance that we can think beyond the SIMPLEX level

seyipumpin: Amosun a formal Senator is gathering momentum of APC platform; could someone nip the bud of those in the National Assembly that:

1. There pay needs to be reviewed downwards.
2. Checkmate Political office holders in such a way that it will be their personal business 1st; Office-holding 2nd (By choice)

Maybe you can advise Amosun to show a good example by refunding the excess allowances he collected as PDP's senator for Ogun Central district (2003 - 2007) since he is "gathering momentum".
What do you think

Promhize: You are the Ewu here. I'm a student of OAU, and I totally support the Federal govt on this one, those lecturers are greedy bastards that don't deserve any allowance.

Keep running ur mouth while GEJ is working

How about the LG coucillors who receive between 200k to 1 million monthly as well as other political office holders including the senators who collect N= 29 million every month, would you also call them GREEDY BASTARDS

mapet: Citizens can even get together under some organized pressure or intellectual groups and coordinate their questions. Pressure groups and organized group can organize debate themselves and invite contestant. The Anglican Church Lagos West Diocese has consistently organized Governorship debate at Archbishop Vinining Cathedral, inviting all members of the public to attend and all are given freedom to ask question. This has been in operation from the second term of Tinubu to date./

Why do you think there is no such debates for the LGA elections?
Is the church not located in the Ikeja LGA?
Are we saying we have no interest in what the LGA does with its monthly allocation from Abuja vis-a-vis its constitutional role & functions to the residents of the area

wayodude: I havent read the fine details but were these points clarified?

Does anyone know what this project cost the Ogun State tax payer?

How would these taxis be run, Franchished or directly run by govt?

What are the Maintainance arrangements in place as a project of this size may benefit from a single point of contact framework agreement?

Are these taxis meant to be profit making or subsidised?

Etc Etc

Maybe we should start by asking if Amosun's government and legislature have adopted the FOI Act
Apparently Ajimobi's Oyo state has refused to do so.

We are not bound by FOI Act, Oyo Government

The FOI Act was signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011.
The Oyo State Government said on Monday that it was not bound by the Freedom of Information Act, FOI Act and is not bound to domesticate it.

Ojo Adebayo, the State’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, said in Ibadan that the state’s decision on the Act was guided by the position of the law and not by the selfish interest of the government.

“It is not about the government, but of the law and the law says that both the federal and state government can concurrently legislate on it. Being an item on the concurrent list, both of us are free to either legislate on it or not.

While the federal government had legislated and now we have the Act, Oyo State has not done that. President Goodluck Jonathan signed the FOI Act into law in May 2011.

“The law is, therefore, made for the federal government and its agencies all over the country and it is not applicable to us in Oyo State.

“We are not bound by the Act, because we are operating federalism and the state is a co-partner in the federation,” he said.
The Attorney-General added that the state government may, however, voluntarily elect to domesticate the Act.
“Although we are not an appendage of the federal government, we may legislate on it if we feel otherwise,” he said.
The Act contains “the right of any person to access or request information whether or not contained in any written form which is in the custody or possession of any public official, agency or institutions, however, described.”

(NAN)

http://premiumtimesng.com/regional/127787-we-are-not-bound-by-foi-act-oyo-government.html

P.S.: It seems we do have some measure OF true federalism after all despite the noise from ACN and its new group, APC.


Even Fashola's Lagos that has adopted it reportedly threatened its workers from sharing information.

We are having progressively OBSCURE and SECRECY south west governments!
Which is understandable even though DISAGREEABLE, since they are all running up massive debts for future, unborn generations with Fashola leading the pack at over N=600 billion

agitator: Alamieyesegha/Goodluck also did same in Bayelsa, Timipre Sylva did same (Bayelsa Stimulus Scheme-BSS), Dickson of Bayelsa also.

Again right here on NL less than a year ago:

Nigeria’s Bayelsa state government has injected 300 ‘ restoration city cabs’ to replace motor cycles as a means of transportation in the capital of Yenagoa.

Gov. Seriake Dickson who unveiled the taxis, 100 of which are tricycles, at the official commissioning said, “What you are seeing here today, as good as it is, is just the beginning. We want a transportation system that is second to none. Our aspiration is to turn the state into another London that will be haven to tourists and investors from all over the world.’’

The governor said that when he announced the ban on commercial motorcycle transport, popularly known as ‘Okada’, many of his critics said that the previous administration did same and did not solve the transport problem in the state.

https://www.nairaland.com/1035478/300-taxis-replace-okadas-bayelsa

Why have my people CHOSEN to be intellectually lazy opening ourselves up to SWINDLERS, FRAUDSTERS and CONMEN to bamboozle us with propaganda and hypocrisy as they pass themselves off as "progressives"

agitator: This is nothing new in south south, Uguaghan of Delta State bought taxis and buses plying within cities and intercities,

My yoruba people obviously need to travel outside our former federal capital Lagos or at least read about other states in the FRN.

Omo ti k'oba de oko baba elo mi, a ni oko baba ohun ni otobi ju - pikin wey never see another farm go dey swagger sey na im papa farm big pass.

Delta State: Uduaghan commended for efforts to improve transportation system

Hon. Igbakpa said that in pursuance of the State Government’s policy for the provision of cheap and affordable transportation for Deltans, government in 2008 launched the State Urban Taxi scheme with 170 Taxis and 100 Toyota hiace buses.

The Transport Commissioner disclosed that between 2009 and 2013, the State Government purchased an additional 605 units of 18 seater Toyota Hiace buses for the State Urban transportation programme, adding that 40 units of the buses were allocated to the school shuttle Bus Scheme to ease the transportation problems currently experienced by primary and secondary school children.

Hon. Igbakpa said the remaining 665 units were distributed to Delta Line Transport Services, Agofure Motors Limited, National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), labour and other beneficiaries.

http://www.codewit.com/nigeria-news/10329-delta-state-uduaghan-commended-for-efforts-to-improve-transportation-system

Is Uduaghan also with the "progressive" Arewa Peoples Congress, APC or with the over-demonised PDP
For how long shall we be mumu-lised by our IGNORANCE?
"My people perish for lack of knowledge" comes to mind here!

[quote author=Chris†Kid]Nawa o. Ordinary taxi cabs that even our clueless Peter Obi introduced long time ago that's what gbawe and co are jumping up and down like women on heat period. Apc and their cheap propaganda.

[/quote]On this same NL forum Anambra state's Peter Obi of APGA:

In less than three years in office, the governor said he has been able to save N350 million through this process, proceeds of which, he said, are pumped into the acquisition of 50 taxi cabs and 50 buses donated to the people of the state to alleviate transportation problem.

https://www.nairaland.com/238375/how-spend-bribe-money-gov

Just less than four years on this same NL forum.


https://www.nairaland.com/341182/akala-receives-title-buying-cabs


https://www.nairaland.com/336290/why-alao-akala-justify-employing


http://www.galaxytvonline.com/news/main-news/akala-empowers-youths-with-new-taxis


So Amosun and Akala are in the same class of clueless administrators except that the former has some slick propaganda vendors armed with cameras etc.

[quote author=X-factoria]How about 1,000 okadas x 2 = 2,000 x several times everyday? Is that also mass transit

Can you see how warped your logic is? Half-educated mofo![/quote]Very good response.
As someone pointed out Akala of PDP Oyo state launched the same taxis years ago.
Meanwhile primary, vocational and secondary education that is the foundation of any sustainable development is not given deserved attention and focus compared to these s'agbe loju yoyo (shine, shine fancy) unsustainable projects.

We be real mumus walahi!

On Federalism, the manifesto added: “APC will initiate action to amend our constitution with a view to devolving powers, duties and responsibilities to states and local governments in order to entrench Federalism and the Federal Spirit.”

These guys are worse than the evil genius, maradona IBB.
What have they done about Federalism and Federal Spirit" in the past 14 years and at least two amendments to our constitution with about 35% SINators and representatTHIEVES in Abuja that their combined parties control
What have we seen from their LAWMAKERS who also receive N= 29 million every month for doing practically NOTHING?

On power, APC has pledged to generate and distribute up to 40,000 Megawatts of electricity in four to eight years.

The manifesto said: “Power is the centre-point of the development process. All other indices of development anchor on power and energy. The failure to make power supply efficient has impacted negatively on the economy. It has made the cost of production and business high and has invariably raised the cost of agricultural produce and other finished goods and services thereby thwarting the growth of our economy.

“The crisis in the power sector is one of the major causes of the present collapse of the industrial sector and the inability of small-scale industries to thrive. To kick-start industrial growth in the country, stable and affordable power supply is an absolute necessity.

“The APC Government shall vigorously pursue the expansion of electricity generation and distribution of up to 40,000 megawatts in four to eight years. The party will also work assiduously at making power available from renewable energy sources, such as coal, solar, hydro, wind and biomass for domestic and industrial use, wherever these prove viable.

These old cargos must actually take their fellow compatriots for certified fools.
Since when did coal become a RENEWABLE energy source
Clear evidence of the lies and deceit that has been the hallmark of the APC merger parties and the PDP rejects that have found good company in their midst in the quest to have power at the centre so they can share the national cake aka Niger Delta oil among themselves directly.

40,000 megawatts of LIES we can expect for sure!!!



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Good news.
We dey wait for the pictures tomorrow and all through the weekend showing the train from departure at Apapa to its destination.

PapaBrowne: Looks like that is becoming the standard. The FG is learning from the ACN states.

Not quite.
It will be more correct to say the Jonathan administration is less frivolous than their ACN counterparts who do their roads at over 2 billion per kilometre.

https://www.nairaland.com/1040919/n30bn-mile-12-ikorodu-road

[quote author=P.Stacks]In Nigeria, we all do it, your only crime is being sloppy to the extent of being caught..

Crime is not a sin in Nigeria if you can get away with it..[/quote]Hope you don't mind telling us in which country crime is a sin "if you can get away with it."

Thanks.

toprealman: Why is he grinning with that ticket on display like a confirmed mumu? Okon will always be okon!

So na by name dem dey be mumu now?
I would think Mufu is closer to mumu (FOR EXAMPLE only).
Interesting!!!

mascot87: And they want LG Autonomy so that they would be able to embezzle more millions of dollars.God is watching

Maybe we should also cancel state autonomy as they also "embezzle plenty millions of dollars"?
Maybe we should even cancel the federal government i.e. presidency, NASS & the judiciary as they also embezzle millions of dollars?
Then we can have complete & total anarchy, right
Life will be so easy.

Thereafter maybe God will get tired of watching and descend into mumuland to rescue the people from their voluntary mumu-ism!
Somebody shout Hallelujah!
Somebody shout AllahuAkbar!

Very good inclusion!
More than long overdue!!!

dolapobello1: Na only where them dey share money we dey see Oshiomhole. Before he used to say he was fighting for the masses o.

Why should any able-bodied person expect another to fight for him?
Na so we nor get shame?
Could it be due to the

* self-imposed IMPOTENCE,
* chosen path of IGNORANCE,
* ethno-religious bigotry & defence and
* sheer stupidity coupled with
* short-sighted greed

of the people who call themselves the masses.

spectator2001: I understand perfectly d perspective u r viewing the comment from. Justifying Ibori's so called fight for true fiscal federalism ought not to be mentioned in d earlier post of mine but I did dat just to bring to the fore the horrendous crime the State engage the anti-corruption bodies to fight their perceived enemies. Just like I would never be able to justify Chidi Lloyd's mace wielding lawmaker who broke someone's head- a fellow lawmaker in the Rivers House of Assemble brouhaha. Can u imagine EFCC bn brought in to go and prosecute Lloyd for a physical assault offence and a-yet-to-be-identified financial crime? This was done because d so called Chidi Lloyd is an Amaechi loyalist. EFCC in dis case are bn used by the Presidency to deal with their perceived enemies hence my mention of James Ibori's case. Thanks for your constructive response, this is what a forum should be like!

The reality is NONE of those "perceived enemies" of any ACTUAL government in power, charged by EFCC can be said to NOT be corrupt.
We cannot say that because the other thieves and corrupt persons of the other groups have not been charged no one should charge the thief or corrupt persons from my group. It is sure that everyone will get his own time before the courts IF we start dealing with those who are charged one by one without unnecssary emotions.
As christians (maybe muslims also) say- There will soon be a Pharaoh who will not recognise Joseph (Yussuf); talking about the changed fortunes of Jews in Egypt.

That is one of the beauty of term-limited executive in our democracy.

spectator2001: Oil blocs shouldn't be left in d hands of few individuals to the detriment of the larger populace. These guys are free people today coz they haven't fallen out-of-favour with the President unlike James Ibori who truly fought for the Nigerian state for his insistence on True Fiscal Federalism. But y'all be quick to vilify such individuals.

Your comment would have been so good if you focused solely on TY Danjuma without trying to justify freeing Ibori on some story of his fighting for True Fiscal Federalism.

telexfree1: Money tinz. Very classy. Nduka (Thisday boss) likes to hobnob with the rich. The guy has successfully carved a niche .

I guess it does not matter in Nigeria that he has a reputation for not paying salary to the journalists and other staff working for his newspaper.
Or does it

https://www.nairaland.com/1287594/delay-journalists-salary-issues-around


https://www.nairaland.com/1320525/former-editor-sues-thisday-newspaper


https://www.nairaland.com/1247989/nduka-obaigbena-blames-boko-haram-unpaid


I need to ask the masked one what people who are happy to have priviledges while abandoning their rights are called:


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AjanleKoko: Do you know, I was having a chat with someone today, and we concluded that benign dictatorship is the only way to take Nigeria forward. Democracy or civil rule is gradually becoming pointless.

* I guess you and the guy you quoted acknowledge your IMPOTENCE and that of 160 million others to get what they want for themselves without some messiah either in khaki & boots or sarong & sandals.
* How would you get a "benign dictator" to save our country?
* Prayer? Fasting? Simply wishing?
* How do you ensure he does not transform from benign to MALIGNAT dictator?
* How many dictators have been celebrated when they arrive in power through a coup only to become clueless & useless later, even in Nigeria?

Be careful what you wish for!

“In a democracy, we should not just concentrate on what we spend but we should also look at what we get in the process. We should do a cost benefit analysis of running the National Assembly as a vital institution of democracy,” he said.

This guy thinks he is talking to players of Dundee United aka confirmed mumgus abi na wetin?
What did Nigerians get in the process?
How many bills were raised and passed into laws by the supposed LAWMAKERS and how did they address issues of concern to the people?
Or how eles do we measure how this "vital institution of democracy" has performed with the millions they RECEIVE from us while other workers in the same government are paid 18k minimum wage.
Even sef useless governments such as the state of Osun will be paying 8k net under cover of some senseless empowerment of OYES and still expect to be praised.
Only in mumuland!!!

take dat: Even though I admire your desire of unraveling the ineptitude of our political leadership, but areas such as those in the pictures are almost everywhere in the country. It does not mean those places are worse than what obtains in many parts of the country.

So what exactly is your point?
That we should not expose the problems in one area because many areas have the same problem?
How do you then go about fixing the problems one after the other

rigormortis: that theodore orji is a dog was never in doubt, but is is theodore orji that threw those oranges inside that gutter in the pix above?

Definitely not Orji that threw the oranges in the gutter but the LGA that has the constitutional RESPONSIBILITY of keeping gutters clean should do its job for which they collect millions of federal allocation from Niger Delta oil revenue monthly.
Don't you think so

And the states CURRENTLY control the LGAs 100% so the buck sstops at Orji's table for the orange that was STILL in the gutter.

Thanks to the OP for keeping her promise to post these pictures of ABSENT governance/leadership in Abia state.

Those who think she has an ulterior motive and/or agenda should ensure her motive is not fulfilled next time she visits by asking Orji to do his job for which he is very handsomely paid by Abians.
Abi nor be so

Ko si ija ni church, s'adura ki n se amin ni - fight nor dey for church na make you sey prayer make I follwo with amen.

Christmasdon: ...if they want our league to grow. They should simply print our nigerian clubs on paper Coupon and start playing pool with it. I bet you within a year it will grow like heaven. Epl became what it is today because we play the pool with it.

The league needs to be taken off the hands of government enitrely. A situation where majortity of the clubs are owned by governments (mostly state) does not augur well for the development of its full potential. The usual mentality of everybody's business is nobody's business sets in.
I believe the English Premier League clubs as well as others in Europe and America are run as private, profit-oriented businesses.
Even in South Africa:

The company acts as a governing body and competition organiser. The PSL are affiliated to the South African Football Association but SAFA do not govern the PSL competitions.


Licenses to participate in the league can be bought and sold on the free market.


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

Sports is a business like any other and governments have no business doing business.
The work of government is to

* provide a conducive environment for business
* regulate the businesses in the interest of the people
* collect taxes from the business for social services and infrastructure to improve the business operating environment even further.