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ilugunboy: We know nothing will make Igbos vote APC (that is already established even before this event)....so carry your patronizing go elsewhere.

The political strategy know fully well that Igbo votes are dispensable.

Was Senator Chris Ngige not elected on the platform of ACN?
Is Chris Ngige no longer with ACN?
Abi the man na SPARE TYRE in Ojuyobo's strategy as it was the case with Ribadun and Adeola, his presidential and VP candidates in 2011 before he sold out to GEJ

Or maybe ACN not an integral part of APC?

Can one expect ACN/APC supporters to be truthful for once

Godson201333: Two persons, Adetokunbo Adejayan and Juliet Adebisi, have been arrested by the police Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, Lagos, for pretending to be married in order to secure a United States visa.

Does anyone knwo what EFCC is supposed to do that the SFU cannot do

Orisirisi duplicated government agencies, departments and service!
No wonder recurrent budget takes so much yearly.

jadakiss213: 100k Gbenu soun Ode oshi..what's 100k to a sitting governor even without stealing..Poverty must have really eaten deep into your Oily brain..Oponu

I actually thought you were going to post details of Fashola's asset declaration and annual tax returns with a link to the source of the info when I saw you quote my post.

What a dissapointment!!!

OlowoTee: 22hours out of 24 and you just aren't HAPPY? :/ what a great improvement and good news for businesses.

We need such projects in Lagos State where power Generating sets still reign uninterrupted from morning till night.

You mean upon all the IPPs wey Fashola dey launch left, right & centre with ogbonge shine, shine photos wey Eko Ile dey post yanfu, yanfu for this NL
Na wa oh!!!
Anyway I bin talk am sey all those super size generators wey Oga Fash dey call IPP dem get limit!

asha 80: this sounds like a campaign strategy.

Indeed coming from an ACN senator Chris Ngige
Na so your HYPOCRISY dey block ya eye so tey you nor gree see better thing?
Something dey tempt me to label ya own as HYPO-CRAZY as the thing don pass ordinary hypocrisy!
Abeg park well make we see road (abi na light sef) joooooor!!!

Brimmie: SUMMARY:
We did not Deport the 67 people back to Anambra, we simple re-united the under aged 18 years back to their families, it's against the law to deport Nigerians within Nigeria. And it's not against international law to re-unite under 18's with family but within the confines of the law with the courts backing to hold them get in touch with the social welfare of their states, and family before re-uniting them. It's the only humane way to protect them",
-Dr. Badiru, Special Adviser Lagos Ministry Of Youths & Sports.

Is he a lawyer like his Oga at the top
Original wayo semantics!!!

mrlaw93: the senate is the problem.. they block every move.. they re d real cause of problem in this country

I believe that ACN/APC have about 30-40% of the SINators in their fold.
They should be able to convince enough other SINators to pass their true fiscal federalism if they are SERIOUS about it beyond the usual political rhetorics to swindle the people.

This is ordinarily a kind gesture but rather MISPLACED.

Would it not have been better to ENSURE he sees a PSYCHIATRIST for an evaluation of his mental health
We need to take governance seriously and not allow ourselves to be unduly swayed by these POPULIST gestures!

BTW, from where did Fashola pay this 100k from?
How much is his salary & allowances as well as that of governors in Nigeria generally?
More than the N=29 million per month for SINators?
Has Fashola publicly declared his assets and ANNUAL tax returns for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012

MAYOWAAK: Hear what Lai. Mohammed of ACN said about scrapping of SIECs by house of Rep

"Why will they scrap SIECs? What is the guarantee that if local government elections are conducted by INEC it will not be worse than the ones that have been organised by the state governments?...It is very dangerous to allow INEC which is controlled by the Federal Government to conduct local government elections..."

Is it not interesting that the local government elections conducted by ACN states are almost 100% won by their party men compared to INEC elections for

- governors,
- federal senators & representatives
- state assembly legislators

Even when there was video recording of the election results against ACN candidate as was the case in the last Badagry LG elections:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2W9iuKYbFc][/url]

I think he should appeal to SINator Yerima, the serial child molester sponsoring child marriage law to bail him out of his misery.
He might just be lucky to get transferred to serve his prison term in Nigerias and pronto we know he will be freed.
Maybe he relied on his religious book and role model for the horrible behaviour.
SMH!!!

Does ACN/APC's clamour for true fiscal federalism extend to the LGAs autonomy?
If yes, how have the ACN lawmakers ensured their quest for fiscal federalism is reflected and incorporated in the ongoing constitution amendment

SLIDE waxie: What a nice development..

Keep going to school and graduating in order to be salaried! Ok?

And one time u will enter crime and claim it's because u can't get a job! If u can't get a job, u can a life!

Will u turn 57yrs before u undstnd dt going to means using ur intelligence, acquiring skills and getting smart!

For all the wasted years u used in serching for jobs, u wld av perfected ur/some skills and established a turning point!

Most graduates are worst than illiterates!

Excellent highlighted portion.

Are there also positions for technicians to support the engineers

ighoosagie: i tink u re d child here, frm all indications ,dis stuffs listed above re what invogue. with my statistics of all d world richest they re all involved in all dis form of investment, in as much as dey also av their day 2 day businesses.

i wud rather risk for sometin dan to wait 4 notin

And with "YOUR statistics of all d world richest" YOU cannot come up with a list of investment TRUTHS to complement the list of fallacies he has listed?
Are you for real
SMH!!!

philips70: That poster who made the age grade stuff should just please add 0-5 category so that my 6yr lil boy school friends here can put their likes too.
Seun, time to create baby Nairaland. Home alone kids have invaded your site o.

Indeed Seun may really need to create a baby nairaland for those who need to be SPOON FED still!!!

bloggernaija: The SW key interest are

1Decentralisation of the federal government
2Reduction in the size of the federal government
3Autonomous regional governments

How have the ACN/APC representaTHIEVES and SINators worked on achieving this in the ongoing constitution amendment?
Or they have been too concerned with collecting Yerima's egunje to only amend child-marriage

Anyway, Ayatollah Buhari has promised he will GRANT the south west's wish for fiscal federalism IF he becomes president in 2015.
I guess once a DICTATOR and MAXIMUM RULER your mind continues to work that way.
The retired General is obviously CLUELESS about how democracy works and the procedure for amending the constitution. Or maybe not

brunnet: * a situation where a 'never-do-well" pdp decampee is been celebrated by the oppostion.
** labour party ogun state is now planning to receive gbenga daniel.
*** Lai muhammed also said they are planning to receive about 10 pdp governors sometimes ago.
in fact we nigerians are the problem of nigeria and not PDP. full stop!!

The Association of Conmen in Nigeria, ACN na born-to-gain organisation, you must have realised.

vivacious vivi: This may slowly put some Logistics companies (dealing in long-distance freight) out of business.
Good move all the same.

The logistics companies do not have to go out of business.
There is an English word called ADAPTATION.
They can adapt their business model to the new realities of haulage by rail and buy/rent freight coaches that will be pulled by the trains from point A to point B instaed of using the road and trailers.
Quite simple, really.

Standing5: Why not use those old coaches for cargo movement instead of taking us back some 20-30 yrs? can;t our Fed Govt manage to buy brand new coaches?

GEJ along with the management of the NRC are taking PRUDENT FINANCIAL baby steps in REVIVING the moribund rail sector after decades of neglect by rehabilitating old, abandoned locomotives and coaches.

That is very good management of funds to produce reliable results unlike Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN who is spending Lagosians' money to buy old Toronto trains that are to be decommissioned for safety reasons.

Lagos Light-Rail: Fashola Orders 260 35-Year-Old Trains From Toronto


Governor Babatunde Fashola is negotiating to buy 260 used train coaches, which are being phased out by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) due to safety concerns.

Toronto is a major city in Canada, and the TTC operates the train transit system there.

The used train coaches being ordered, the H-5 and H-6 models, were manufactured between 1976 and 1989, and are meant for the Lagos light-rail project.

Work is already on-going on the new above-ground Lagos light-rail system along the Orile-Badagry axis. The rail system is designed to carry 1.5 million people a day, and meant to reduce traffic congestion.

Fashola visited Toronto earlier this year to inspect the TTC trains. A Canadian publication, NOW Magazine, in a recent edition, quoted a TTC spokesperson, Brad Ross, as saying: I can confirm that the TTC is in discussion with a third party that wants to purchase trains for Lagos, adding that over a period of time, they will be taken out of service and then transported over to Nigeria.

According to the publication, TTC's old H-5 and H-6 models will soon be decommissioned as the Commission rolls out its new fleet of Rockets trains.

For more click Here

More comments from even our dear NL forum

https://www.nairaland.com/831962/gov-fashola-made-laughing-stock

https://www.nairaland.com/831960/gov-fashola-made-laughing-stock


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Lest we forget, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, the real ACTION governor started the metro system construction in 1983 before General Buhari overthrew our democratic goverment by COUP D'ETAT and locked up even progressive governors like Jakande, Ambrose Alli etc in prison while keeping his fulani brother, president Shehu Shagari in comfortable house arrest in Ikoyi.

Meanwhile some people nor go let us hear word dey talk sey Fashola is the best thing after sliced bread and should be promoted to president.
SMH!!!

1forall: I'll take your highlighted advise and rebut your analysis based on its substance and content :

1.It's actually the FG's responsibility to take care of education nationwide. In addition, the states involved themselves have a budget (likely mis-applied) for education.

The above is very, very wrong.

The 1999 constitution provides for the LGAs as mainly responsible for primary and vocational education in conjuction with the state government.
The state government is responsible for secondary education along with technical colleges.
The federal and state governments are allowed for universities.

Focus on drainage clearing, LASG urges residents

The Lagos State Government has urged residents to concentrate on cleaning drainages during the environmental sanitation exercise on Saturday.

Commissioner for the Environment, Tunji Bello, gave the advice in view of the heavy rains in the state.

Bello said in a statement on Wednesday that the ministry was intensifying dredging, cleaning and maintenance of drainage channels across the state as part of its strategies to reduce the incidence of flooding.

He said, “Lagosians are advised to actively participate in the sanitation exercise as the state government has dedicated subsequent months to the cleaning of drains, canals and other environmental nuisances, in view of anticipated heavy rains in the state.

“Lagosians are particularly encouraged to concentrate their efforts on the cleaning of drains and canals in their immediate environment as we gradually approach the peak of the rainy season.

“Presently, the Ministry of the Environment is intensifying its dredging, cleaning and maintenance of drainage channels across the state as part of its strategies to reduce the incidence of flooding.”

The commissioner warned Lagosians to desist from dumping refuse in drainage channels.

Bello said Lagosians should avoid patronising cart pushers as this was “inimical to the waste management policy of the state government, as whatever refuse they collect are always dumped inside canals which eventually causes flooding.”

The commissioner also appealed to Lagosians to cooperate with the government in its effort to rid the state of all forms of environmental abuses.

Punch

It seems Fashola, a lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) is unaware of the functions of the LGAs as spelt out in the Fourth Schedule of the 1999 constitution:

(f) construction and maintenance of roads, streets, street lightings, drains and other public highways, parks, gardens, open spaces, or such public facilities as may be prescribed from time to time by the House of Assembly of a State;

Source

How can a SAN continue to demonstrate cluelessness in SIMPLE, BASIC matters of governance
We pay taxes, levies, fines etc so the LGAs take care of PUBLIC spaces including gutters, but what do we have? They expect us to still do their job for which we already paid!

This is yet another senseless legacy of the former DICTATOR, General Buhari.

kingoflag: Yes, in Isreal, U.S and U.K theres no light and the money meant for roads is siphoned and theres no repercussion and no one is made to pay. The President was also a Professor a few years ago , but today is a Billionaire in Dollars...

My man, GTFOH!

Unfortunately you do not have the powers to send someone out of here.
I can only imagine how much abuse of power, including corruption, wou will be engaged in if you have some power, assuming you are not doing that already!!!
BTW, don't you think the lack of capacity to entertain/listen to (even if you will not agree with) opposing views is the cornerstone of MORAL corruption such as is displayed repeatedly by General Muhamadu Buhari (retd.)

How much tribalism do they have in the countries you listed above? That might give you an insight to the working, NARROW definition of corruption in Nigeria and most black African countries i.e.

Corruption is when someone else, not from my tribe and/or social group, has stolen government money and I am not likely to benefit from the "largesse".

Just as as example for you to ponder upon, do you think Prof. Wole Soyinka would have received so much unwarranted attack on his person for making legitimate comments about the excesses of the constitutionally unrecognised First Lady

prettyify: as far as corruption lives, there isn't hope for this country, sorry to say that. but lets be honest from the first day we got our independence, that when corruption started. sometimes i wonder, which is better before 1960 or after 1960?

And what is corruption?
Do you mind defining it?
Are you aware that the US, UK, Israel etc are also corrupt?
Do you know the difference between the corruption in Nigeria and that of these developed countries?
How many people do you know personally who are living and have assets beyond their legitimate earnings?
What have you done about those people

nenergy: I'm law abiding and i have my voter's card ready for 2015. What more can i do aside these?

That would appear to be a very legitimate question.

As an example, for your academic exams, do you just attend classes, not take notes hence no revision and SIMPLY pray for success just like you have only your voting card and are waiting for 2015 to cast your ballot while praying for God to bless Nigeria?
Do you know and have the contact details of YOUR

- LG councillor
- LG chairman
- state assembly lawmaker
- federal representative
- federal senator


Have you ever written a petition to any of these people and got others in your constituency to sign up on such petition while following up for adequate response to issues affecting your area

Do you work and actually EARN your monthly salary?
If yes, do you think all the five PUBLIC SERVANTS listed above should also work to earn rather than RECEIVE the humongous amounts monthly for practically doing NOTHING

God bless Nigeria is a very empty phrase without ACCOMPANYING works!!!

nenergy: Hmmm, NIGERIA MUST SUCCEED O! I used to believe that my personal success wasn't dependent on the success of Nigeria. But the tanker explosion at Ajah (Lagos) this morning, woke me up from my delusion. The scene was like something from the movie 2012. People running helter-skelter, traders abandoning their wares and a massive bellow of fire raising to the sky. For 15 minutes my life was disrupted. I forgot about work, my book project and even the plans i have for my July salary. When calm return and my life began to piece itself together, i thought to myself; "If i'm to have peace, Nigeria must have peace. If i'm to succeed, Nigeria must succeed." I pray, may the peace of God reign in Nigeria. May those who have sworn to trouble Nigeria be troubled till they abandon their devilish campaign. May God guide our leaders right and help them lead us to the promise land. Amen! Long live the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Your OP was good until the highlighted part that shows clearly that you do not read your Bible to understand that prayers ALONE can do NOTHING.
I advise you and others who continue to say ONLY prayers and expect change to FORGET it. Nothing is going to change except you make your own genuine effort for the change.
BTW, did you get your job by SIMPLY praying

Again, we need to understand that just as it is on the individual level so it is at the group/societal level:- prayers ALONE will do NOTHING !!!

[quote author=Rhino.5dm]Your coloured fonts failed you? If it were to be Fashola or other South western governor doing this, we would have been bored with thiefnibu this and Fashola that, right? You would've wrote two pages filled with nonsense on how ACN is worst than Osama bin Laden. Now that your shepopotamus's stooge is being exposed as the corrupt thief he is, you came out with a useless line of thoughts.

Your signature can only deceive low IQ goats as yourself. PDP paid mongrel![/quote]Show me any post where you criticised anything ACN to start with.

While this is good it would have been better if the pastor mobilised against the National Assembly's illegitimate salary and allowances of up to N=29 million per month for SINators.

Our legisLOOTERs receive more in a month than UK law makers earn in a year YET we are going for prayers and fasting just to go to UK and be under-employed while consoling ourselves that we are in diaspora.
Self deception of the highest order!!!

[quote author=shine-eye]This is an official statement from Prophet T.B. Joshua. My attention has been drawn to an online article headlined ‘Pastor T.B. Joshua Revealed As Man Behind Al-Mustapha’s Release’ written by Sahara Reporters.

This article is from the enemy. They should not drag me into the issue of politics. If I was ever to go to Aso Rock, I would go publicly. I have already told you

how I met Al-Mustapha. Don’t put words in my mouth. I explained that I got to know him many years ago when a petition was addressed to General Bamaiyi who was the then Chairman of the NDLEA. I spent nine days with them for investigation and they found the whole thing to be a fabrication.

From there, I was taken to see the president where I met Mustapha. I was able to reveal to them who I am by telling them what was to come as a prophet. I told him that he would spend several years in prison and would be finally released which no one else had ever told him. That is why you saw him coming here as his first port of call. Where there is no vision, people perish.

It is therefore very malicious for Sahara Reporters to attach any political meanings to Al-Mustapha’s visit. At no time did I tell President Jonathan that his political fortune rested with setting Al-Mustapha free, neither did I ever suggest that Chief James Ibori, former Delta State Governor be brought back to Nigeria to assist the president in the 2015 presidential election.

Count me out of the politics of hatred.[/quote]Source

Does the monthly wage bill include that for Perm. Sec-in-absentia, PEJ

If so, how much so we can start the reality check therefrom?

[quote author=slim fit ]You just mentioned fraud stars.[/quote]Yeah, I can agree with you that almost all our current politicians are fraudsters.
However that is because we, the ordinary citizens, do not get involved with our money and time as volunteers.

Do you know any one who is involved with a political party as an activist/ active volunteer but not a politician i.e. holding some office no matter how small

[quote author=slim fit ]I'm not a keen acn supporter but I rather have them in government than the clueless pdp government.

May I remind you that if it was a pdp government that has been ruling lagos would have been a complete waste site.[/quote]Don't be too sure of that.
Donald Duke of Cross Rivers was PDP.
Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Chime (Enugu), Amaechi (Rivers) are also PDP to name just a few.
Ogun state's Amosun was a PDP senator for 4 years (2003-2007).
Funsho Williams whom Tinubu displaced in 1999 could have won fair & sqaure in 2007 if he was not murdered by those who didn't want him to reveal their massive fraud in Lagos for 8 years (1999-2007). He would have most likely done much better with less cost than Fashola.

More on Fayemi's maladministration.

smartchoice:

He has refused to pay the State Scholarship and Bursary awards since his inception 3 years ago. Yet he's doubled tuition fees increased taxes! Though he promised to reduce EKSU tuition fees on his swearing in but alas the opposite is the case.
the teacher's salary increment he's also withdrawn which Segun Oni had been paying in full just like the Scholarship on merit!
He's collapsed the two state universities into one citing lack of funds. Yet he's building a private university in Ghana! While the citizens lack employment at home!
he's borrowed a record amount of 27billion naira with nothing commensurate to show for it. People say roads yes he resurfaced roads already created by Oni and Fayose!

Where is the borrowed 27 billion?
the teaching hospital is a death center! A trip to the maternity section will convince you.

https://www.nairaland.com/1353347/acn-lawmakers-punish-bamidele-nursing/3#16736970

cyril10: People are now rubbishing Odumakin for voicing out what is happening in the south west, the pro south west ACN would not want to hear this because it is affecting their masters hence they will want to blindly defend them. If it is Jonathan now they would have swallowed Yinka's statement line hook and sinker insulting Jonathan of wanting to plunge the nation into penury. Tribalism thriving in this forum so much.

Indeed the RA'PE of yorubaland by the gang of the Association of Conmen in Nigeria, ACN is unprecedented.

geeky_babe:
Seriously, I keep wondering where people get this 'fayemi is working' crap. Its so obvious dat most people who claim to be ekiti people especially here on NL don't live in Ado, or visit frequently. Pple just get stuff from all dis online blogs and make up story, and fayemi is just so good with his PR and journalists. Always put himself in d news tru cheap publicity.I was born, bred, and I live in Ado Ekiti. Besides the construction of roads, there is nothing else he is doing in ekiti. Fayemi is a wasteful governor.
[b]I. Spending d millions to build a new govt house on top of d mountain, whereas fayose just built d present govt house not up to 5years.
2. Wastes so much money on parties, burials, and unnecesry gatherings
3. He has no originality. He copies everything from aregbe and his other APC governors
4. He's bn so inhuman to teachers, local govt workers and health workers. The teaching hospital was better b4 he came.
5. The university (EKSU) has bn goin tru a lot of stress lately because of how he cut their allocation. Imagine merging 3 universities and then claiming that there is not enof money to manage d 1 he merged them to. Whereas dis universities were all doing fine b4 he came and merged them. He is now asking students to pay money anytime they like forgetting that it takes a lot of money to run a university.
6. Removed so many allowances from the EKSU lecturers salary, all in d name of their is no money. and yet, u keep wondering where all d money is going. Where as he is harnessing money for his election campaigns.[/b]

Come to Ekiti and ask the average taxi driver, or the market woman. Nobody is ready to vote for him again. Besides, if I know my ekiti people well, we CANNOT allow anyone rule a second time. Even FAYOSE with all d love he had can't win a second time.
Fayemi feels threatened. Dats why ACN/APC is doing all dis. MOB, deserves a right to primaries. APC can't win in Ekiti in 2014.

https://www.nairaland.com/1353347/acn-lawmakers-punish-bamidele-nursing/3#16736896