₦airaland Forum

Walexz02: you wouldn't say that againg when you have done your assignment very well. Those who searched for the truth(Islam) have found it, and many are still converting to the religion of truth....
Salam!

If people can convert INTO islam why are they not allowed to convert OUT of islam

Did Muhammed marry a minor?
Will Islam changing society also allow men to marry nine year old girls and kill those who no longer want to practise their faith

[quote author=gbaky_floor]*You should be ashamed that the white man came into your land and made you slaves.[/quote]I have enjoyed your two posts on this page as the bitter truth about our hopeless yet REDEEMABLE situation, which is anchored principally on our inability to take responsibility for our acts and their outcomes.
Hence we continue to be deeply religious and generallly primitive.

However the above excerpt is not true. What happened (and is happening as with this story here) is worse than that. Our great grand parents hunted down their relations and fellow Africans to be sold first to Arabs and later to whites. In fact when the whites conscience was touched and they decided to stop some Africans actually wrote to continue selling their own people.
Indeed we have no sense of shame whatsoever.
None!!!

BTW, the first recorded slave transaction is the sale of a Jewish boy, Joseph/Yussuf to Egyptian Arabs in the Bible.

Abagworo: It all started with European religious imagery where black was associated with evil. We need to love ourselves and realize we are not loved and cannot force ourselves on others for acceptance. I've read on this Nairaland where Somalians and Ethiopians think they are better off being lighter than Bantus, I've read where some Igbos think themselves better off that their dark skin is not as dark as others, I've read that we consume majority of the world skin lightening creams. The list is endless.

How much have black people contributed to modern world?
Look around you, how many of the things you use and have around you are made from black people's innovation and improvement
How much assets/ wealth globally is owned/controlled by black people?
In an extended family, how much respect is given to someone who does not have money to contribute to family activities
Reflect carefully on these things!!!

BTW, I understand Indians also bleach to be lighter skiined.

I hope the party can get a more effective replacement.

[quote author=IGBO-SON]And in other breaking news it's reported that the Pope is Catholic! [/quote]Really this should not be any news, per se as you rightly pointed out.
Or has the Arewa People's Congress, APC changed its name

First it was strategically tactical Tinubu blocking his fellow yoruba woman from being the # 4 citizen in the country as Speaker when he backed Tambuwal. Now he is pressing ahead with imposing Ayatollah Buhari on Nigeria.
We dey watch.

[quote author=Jaidey-one]Ok waiting for someone to come and explain to us how this man is the best performing governor in Nigeria. AI recieves about 217B from the fg yearly while Lagos recieves 168. Fashola has 16million people to take care of while Akpabio has less than 4millions people in his state.

I honestly hope the chief is eating eba and afang soup in secrete Don't die in vain[/quote]Where did you come by 16m as the population of Lagos that also showed you Akwa Ibom has 4m

2013 Lagos budget is N497 billion, including IGR of N317 billion while Akwa Ibom budgeted N459 billion.
Please note.

Emilo: Ameachi happens to be a manipulator of sort. I have a daughter attending one of theses schools. Let me tell you all.....Yes, he did built magnificent edifice as school with facilities that have never been used. Instead of them to integrate pupils in the old school, they went ahead and build this schools in front of the old schools, pushed aside the old pupils who still learning in dilapidated structures.

He took in new students with the same old teachers who have nothing to offer. The quality of education is still the same, with beautiful buildings.I have tried to reason why would they construct new buildings, take in new pupils without providing books, uniform etc and allow the old pupils to go through hell. The answer is simply for cheap publicity. He knew he was not going to create enough classes for the pupils so he allowed old pupils to continue the same way they have been. If you doubt this look behind all this newly constructed schools you would still see the old school and pupils languishing in the deteriorated buildings.

As for health, he did very well, the health centers are beautiful, but lack simple amenities/ apparatus/ equipment as the case may be. But a friend of mine recently benefited to his free medical scheme. My friend wife had a C.S and some complications, if they were to pay it would have amounted to about 350k. This was however done free of charge.

Your comment is fair and balanced enough.
But shey you nor get camera ni for take photo of teh school wey your daughter dey showing teh old buildings aith kids inside
Abi you nor sabi upload photos?
Na which one be the problem so we go try helep you small.

emmalexabl: TUFIAKWA !!...isn't that an incesst

Maybe not, if you get the gist!

Does anyone if the Jagabandit finally sued Tribune newspaper for libel last year after they called him a bas*tard

Billyonaire: PDP cemented Democracy in Nigeria, and the Great PDP is currently being purged of bad eggs, most of which will end up in APC (PDP's dustbin), when this purging is completed, PDP will continue to be the only National Party without a anti-democratic vices like Godfather-figure 'anointing' people for offices. PDP indeed is the precursor of Democratic Nigeria, without which Nigeria's Democracy will be totally ram-shackled.

The bold part is particularly true.
Was the G-34 that vigorously opposed Abacha's rule towards the end not what became PDP?
Was it not led by Dr. Alex Ekwueme before it was hijacked by IBB and other khaki boys as a special purpose vehicle to ensure OBJoke became president after Abdusalami

@ OP,

I ndeed Bode George should not be opening his mouth anyhow in public as he further helps ACN in its demonisation of their party.
Nuff said!

softy: Pls, I really dont know 'why' it is very sacred or wrong to speak ill of the dead!......I really want to learn.....pls enlighten me and back up your claim with valid evidence(s).

Note: dont redirect me to anywhere oooo, if u dont have good and verifiable reasons to back ur claim, just reply me humbly...no abuse or wrong words is expected. Thanks.

I will also like to know seeing that when PUBLIC figures die it is an opportunity to REVIEW their contribution and impact, positive or negative on the society.
Otherwise how does the society make progress if it does not learn from the experience of others?

Come to think of it, is that not what we do about Jesus, Muhammed and other religious figures who died many centuries ago

Paentera: People like you are shown a glass half full and you say oh...it is half empty. There's no other way you will see it. You're simply not optimistic when it comes to anything Lagos State.

Just like most ACN lap dogs & supporters only see the glass as half empty for the laudable perfomance and POLICY initiatives of GEJ and some PDP governors who have to start their states from scratch unlike Lagos that has many decades of infrastructure to be REFURBISHED and EXPANDED in most cases.

Pastor Kun: But this is very very stale news na, the transformer plant was commissioned at least three years ago.

As the scam and fraud that has marked 14 years continuous, unbroken maladministration of Lagos by the Association of Conmen in Nigeria, ACN is being gradually revealed for the sham that it really is, expect to see more similar & regular recycling of old, stale "achievements" to try and befuddle the gullible public into more confusion.

born2fuckpussy: you can organise family meeting and volunteer chairs and desk for the children,even if it is just 10 chairs and 10 desk,is part of it, lagos state government will accept it and even fashola will even give una hanndshake and show una for LTV

Fashola

* collects billions monthly from Abuja federal allocation that flows from Niger Delta oil.
* raises tens of billions from our pockets, wallets, handbags and purses as IGR.
* borrows billions yet again to be repaid from our taxes and those of our unborn children

which he then spends on

* 29 billion cable bridge of less than 1.5kms, which he then tolls.
* 30 billion EXPANSION of Ikorodu road
* 2 billion Falomo link bridge of less than .5km
* 20% gas cylinder subsidy to Oando, the company of his oga on the top.
* and other cheap & cheerful yoyo projects at hyper inflated costs.

YET you want us to provide desks and chairs for PUBLIC primary schools that Fashola has FAILED WOEFULLY to cater for
That is not only being a mugu, it is being a super mugu!!!

maclatunji: Old and illegal ways.

Illegal according to who?
The colonial masters and their half-brained politician inheritors of today

And I thought the egungun (masqeurade) is part of our cultural heritage that can be leveraged upon to draw international tourists to something that is PARTICULAR about us and DIFFERENT from other people.
Do we not deserve to respect such heritage?
And find ways to reform and correct the abnormal issues?

Ngwakwe: I can vividly conclude that there are unfair and inequitable use of media propaganda to the benefit of South West Politicians when compared to their counterpart across other regions.

That is partly because of what is referred to as the Lagos axis press which dominates the media.
One can ascribe the greater presence of media houses in the south west to the great sage Awolowo's emphasis on education that was carried forward in the 80s by UPN governors.
But our New Age "progressives" in the Association of Conmen in Nigeria said no need for free education any longer as we are adequately encouraged to know the importance of education.

Eko Atlantic: Those days of free education are over in SW. Free education was implemented by Awolowo to encourage Yorubas to study then, while other regions were still in stone age. Yorubas don't need encouragement anyone because every family knows the importance of education. You wonder why SW higher institutions have the highest cut-off and requirement for admission, because competition to gain admission in SW is too high, everybody wants to be a graduate.

https://www.nairaland.com/1311395/opon-imo-launched-osun-today/6#16043617

No wonder they are close pals with their fulani overlords in the Arewa People's Congress, APC who have no problems producing almajiris aka street urchins.

VolvoS60: Has your principal bothered to carry out any monitoring of his LASTMA goons? Do you know what goes on in LASTMA's towing yards? Do you know anything about the injustice and the unbridled corruption that this agency has become so well known for? Why is it impossible for the agbero/area problem to be eradicated in Lagos and Western Nigeria? How can louts and thugs who contribute absolutely nothing to society continue to live off the sweat of transporters and market traders without retribution? These are the questions you should ask and demand answers to instead of devoting your time to online hagiography.

The issue of agberos and touts who form the core of ACN's electoral support in Lagos state is unlikely to diminish as "the era of free education is over" if we go by Eko Atlantic aka Eko Ile etc's post:

https://www.nairaland.com/1311395/opon-imo-launched-osun-today/6#16043617

Rather we should expect the south west under ACN to start competing with the north on who has the most almajiris and street urchins.

We have noted the PLAN and hope it is not expected to become reality in 2020 (i.e. five years after Fashola's second mandate as tenant of Alausa house has expired) as is the PROMISE for pipeborne water in the state.

Meanwhile any chance of doing RIGOROUS orientation and reform training for these former touts and agberos who form the bulk of LASTMA and other similar agencies to reduce if not eliminate their EXTORTIONist mode

KDULAR: I want liken this to a 10 years old boy imagining how sees himself by the time he's 50 years with hard work resilence prudence and the will to achieve. He goes on to paint a picture of this lofty and achievable dream to his neighbours whom they stay together in the same ghetto. The neighbor on hearing and seeing the picture scoffed, laughed at and despise him for his dreams; went ahead and called him a fool for having such dreams. Please who is the fool and the damned here. Lagosians and Fashola Keep dreaming working and believing and soon the dream will come to reality and these neighbours will surely shamelessly associate with the impending success. long live Lagos State and anyindividual who believe in the dream.

Nice analogy. Quite interesting.
The only difference is this is being sold as Lagos NOW, TODAY not in the future.
Some of us are saying, yes you are making some laudable effort but you still have a long way to go and PRETENDING that you are there already won't help you at all as you will not work any further toward your good goal.
If you do that with the 10 year old boy in your analogy and he keeps inisisting that he is made already, I am sure his neighbours will arrange a psychiatric visit for him.
Hope you understand

Suks: the problems in Lagos are not peculiar to lagos alone; all the security, bad roads, traffic exist here in the US.......u need to see the slums of brooklyn new york

they even have beggars dat compete with the alumanjiris in lagos

I guess we should start rejoicing, right?
So Oga Americana, what % of New York state are "the slums of brooklyn" and elsewhere compared to the situation in Lagos state

And how many "beggars that compare with almajiris" do they have in relation to the total population of the state COMPARED to the number of area boys, touts, agberos whether in uniform like LASTMA etc extorting money from people or without uniform

Nothing is worse than self-deception of grandeur because then you don't put ADEQUATE effort into sorting yourself out!!!

kulyie: even when rich individuals contribute money to develop the school,the school administrators will embezzle it.ill give an example.there is a university in the south west,(name of university witheld) that if you see the hostels,you will weep for the gross decay in the educational sector.i cant finish explaining everything but the summary is that that hostel is a big eye sore ntt fit for human beings to live there.can you believe that rich individuals,including state government contributed money to that university.the hall admnistrator administering that hall or in charge of that hall,who was meant to renovate the halls just created only bore hole there and abandoned the rest of the places that needs renovations.the next month he bought a new jeep.this same man i am referring to,all his kids are in carlifornian universities.

Those who contributed money have a share of the blame also. They could have donated into a fund based on a specific refurbishing or new project they have identified and award competitive contract. They can then schedule a date to launch the completed project with the names of ALL donors on some scroll in the building.
I have also heard people complain about hospital equipment they donated developing legs and disappearing. Simple. Repaint walls and fix broken cement floors for example.

I agree it is tough but part of it also is that workers are poorly paid compared to political jobbers who go to the smae market and still flaunt their wealth at every opportunity thus making corruption very attractive.

Overall, where there is a will to do things right, there is always a way- paraphrasing Bob Marley

Delafruita: the population of the entire akwa-ibom isnt up to the population of children of primary school age in lagos

Can we assume that primary school children are aged 5-11?
What % of Lagos population will be in that age range- up to 40%?
I hope you have credible record of PUBLIC primary school children in Lagos state so we can compare with "the entire population of Akwa Ibom"
Please note that as per the 2006 census Akwa Ibom has 3,902,051 i.e. 42.8% of Lagos state population at 9,113,605.
Check NPC web site

We should also not forget that while Lagos has schools and other infrastructures from decades of federal money as capital that only needs regular MAINTENANCE and REFURBISHING, Akwa Ibom is a new state.
We should not compare apples with oranges.

nairalforlaughs: ...and[b] RIVERS STATE[/b]

i.e two states with PDP governors as against one with ACN.
Can we add Cross River as it had Donald Duke for 8 years whom I heard did well also or should we skip

People who have (or can take) similar pictures of the sad state of infrastructure (public primary & secondary schools, feeder roads, primary health centres, refuse dumps etc) in EXCELLENT Fashola's Lagos should please post in new threads.

Hopefully Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN will remember these areas along with all those LGA and LCDA (s)elected PUBLIC servants who have been sleeping on duty while collecting billions of OUR money monthly.
If we are lucky he might start applying the same zeal he has shown (in 14 years with his oga-on-the-top) for Ikoyi, VI, Lekki and pockets of Surulere & Ikeja.

payless: Tell me your state so I can upload pictures as worse as that of Lagos State. Generally, public schools are in bad shape in every part of Nigeria.

And here I was listening and trying to believe all the stories and threads showing Fashola is EXCEPTIONAL and the Association of Conmen in Nigeria, ACN is PROGRESSIVE.
Is it that we have been sold DUMMIES all along, ACN's Lagos after 14 years continuous, unbroken "excellent" administration is just "as bad as other parts of Nigeria"
Good to note!!!

[quote author=baby_123]Public school in Lagos is free.[/quote]We must then assume that Tinubu's paper, The Nation and/or Senator Gbenga Ashafa are LYING going by this story:

Lawmaker’s scholarship lifts 75 pupils

The lawmaker representing Lagos East in the Senate, Gbenga Ashafa, has charged parents to support their children’s education to the tertiary level. Ashafa made the charge in Epe last weekend during the presentation of scholarships to 75 indigent pupils in Ikosi-Ejirin Local Council Development Area (LCDA).

The pupils, drawn from various public schools, were selected by the Gbenga Ashafa Educational Enhancement Programme.
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The beneficiaries, who were indigenes and non-indigenes of Lagos State, were selected across communities in the LCDA. One of them, Abraham Mercy, a Primary 5 pupil of Anglican Primary School, Ajebo, said she almost stopped schooling when her parents could not afford to pay. She appreciated the senator’s gesture, saying: “Thank you sir, Senator Ashafa, for this scholarship; I will go back to complete primary school.”


For more click here

Could it be that Alhaji Gbenga Bareehu Ashafa aka King of Boys told the small girl to LIE so as to make his scholarship scheme more news worthy since some people are insisting that education is free in Lagos public schools

This is why Lagos is witnessing an even bigger population explosion. Fashola needs to reverse that decision, and make it free for the indigent's.

I guess Akwa Ibom where Akpabio is making education free and COMPULSORY with textbooks, other materials and even money as stipends to discourage truancy, for all children whether they are INDIGENES of the state or not must be witnessing a massive influx of non-indigenes who are indigent and so cannot afford to pay school fees in their own state.
What do you think

Gbawe: Once again, it is good to note Fashola is thinking along the lines of us manufacturing these machines and I would bet the thinking of the Lagos governor, as the proactive and well-informed administrator he is, is influenced by revelations such as that stated below. It would make sense to plan for and take advantage of what is written below.

http://businessdaynigeria.com/construction-industry-positive-outlook-grows-13-2012

Will it be possible to ACKNOWLEDGE the growth of 13% in the construction industry as an integral part of Nigeria's economy is the result of good economic POLICIES of Jonathan's federal administration

Can we go further and say that this MORE credible news story negates the one being peddled on this thread:

https://www.nairaland.com/1324270/nigerias-economy-danger-okonjo-iweala

BTW, it is good to see some synchronisation of minds between Fashola's LASG tapping into the viable economic environment that is slowly growing out of Jonathan's policies.

princenonny: also opposition spokesperson also should not talk carelessly and learn to criticise constructively and not blindly. What is good for d goose is also good for the gander. If they criticise carelessly, then they shouldn't blame abati for doing the same.

ACN'S hyper sensibility to Abati's caustic ripostes reminds me of one of King Sunny Ade's lyrics:

Eshinshin ti nje elegbo lojo to ti pe - fly dey chop person wound for long time
Elegbo wa nje eshinshin o e wa n'kigbe - now the person come start chop fly una start make noise

ACN and its allies should get their acts together as EVERY and NY micro action, statement etc should be exploited, magnified, amplifie and widely circulated at every level of government including states and LGAs by PDP just as they have done so far.
To quote the late Eruobodo of Ibadan politics, Alhaji Busari Adelaun: "no one has the monopoly of chaos".
This vibrant face-off can only make our democracy get better!!!

Tinubu's Chagoury link slightly updated:

According to the Sources, Fasola needed to continue to service Tinubu in order to assist in the take off of the proposed Lagos Mega City Project, another epic scandal. He helped in brokering award of the project contract to Chagoury and Chagoury whose owner, Gilbert Chagoury had been black listed and expelled by the former President Obasanjo’s Government on account of several unscrupulous deals spanning a period of 25 years. Part of Chagoury’s failed projects in Nigeria was the N18.4 Billion National Identity Card Project that failed to materialize since 1979 until 2001. Chagoury would later act in contempt of Nigeria’s Senate and Nigerians by boasting to before a National Assembly Committee hearing that the ID card project is “a fat cow available to anybody to milk.”

Tinubu allegedly enjoys undisclosed protection as an unannounced member of the Board of Director of Chagoury and Chagoury. He was said to have been given the privileged appointment as a “matter of graft.” Sources said that it was Tinubu’s dexterity that brought Chaugaury back to Nigeria and that the company decided to appreciate him by naming him a Director.

Tinubu is also helping Chagoury Group to reconnect as a major contractor to the Federal Government of Nigeria

Read more Here

The demon that OBJoke expelled from our shores, the Jagabandit brought back to torment us.

naptu2: The Chagourys saw a business opportunity. What if we can reclaim land that has been lost over the past hundred years and use our real estate company to sell real estate? We will also build a seawall that will protect Lagos from future ocean surges and solve the problem once and for all. They got Dutch experts who have been involved in building similar seawalls (the seawall model has been undergoing testing at labs in Europe for years now), got experienced town planners from the UK and loans from banks and investment from property investors.

The government is only providing land, regulation and permits.
And thus, we have Eko Atlantic. The knowledge gained is also now being used to construct seawalls for the Lekki area and the Lekki port.

http://www.chagourygroup.com/real-estate/eko-atlantic/

How easily we forget, or do we
The same Chagoury family that was the main link for Abacha's corrupt regime that supposedly chased Tinubu into NADECO exile although the Jagaban was very busy doing something very lucrative then.

A key partner of Abacha has been the Chagoury family. Its patriarch, Rene Chagoury, immigrated to Nigeria from the north Lebanese village of Miziara and prospered as he and his family developed flour mills and a modest construction business.

Among Rene Chagoury's five sons, the oldest, Gilbert, had befriended Abacha as early as the 1970s, according to a Lebanese friend of the family. After Abacha took power in 1993, Gilbert Chagoury became a familiar figure at the presidential villa, and the family's businesses began mushrooming.

When Gilbert Chagoury "flies into Abuja for one of his numerous business visits . . . he is treated like a head of state," the News, a Nigerian weekly, reported in a cover story on the Chagourys last November. "He arrives . . . in private jets and is whisked off from the tarmac without all the customs, immigration and security hassles . . . to Aso Rock," the News said.

Soon after the article was published, its author, editor Babafemi Ojudu, was seized by Abacha security men and held without charge until being released last month. Ojudu, Nigerian business executives and Western diplomats said the Chagourys seized disparate new chunks of business after Abacha came to power, including contracts to buy Nigerian crude oil, build large government buildings -- and, in 1994, to supply all of Nigeria's fertilizer.

The family's flagship firm, Chagoury & Chagoury, has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of a push to develop Nigeria's half-constructed capital, Abuja. The firm has built such key installations as a secretariat to house numerous government ministries and the headquarters of the secret police force, the Special Security Service. But after the magazine cover story, formal plaques on those buildings that listed the company as builder were removed.

Nigerian journalists and business executives said the Chagourys have direct business partnerships with Abacha. In the immediate aftermath of Abacha's death today, the Chagoury family could not be reached for comment. But in one recent public acknowledgment, a prominent director of Chagoury & Chagoury announced that the company's office tower in a posh neighborhood of Lagos was built on land owned by Abacha. Neither Abacha nor the company ever denied it.

In recent years, Gilbert Chagoury tried to curry favor with the Clinton administration on Abacha's behalf. He contributed $460,000 to a Miami-based voter registration group to which he was steered by Democratic Party officials, and won meetings with National Security Council officials, including Susan E. Rice, now the assistant secretary of state for African affairs.

Washington Post

Does the old adage; "Show me your friends and I will tell who you are" still applies or we have to make a special exception due to the personalities involved here

booqee: she's just realizing dat??

Better late than never is still applicable or is it not
Hopefully she is joining other NIGERIAN celebs that have used their fame for the good cause of their compatriots such as those who rallied round Fashola when oga at the top was breathing down his neck with threats of impeachment by his lap dogs in the LASHA.

Way to go Omo Sexy.
Kudos to you gal!!!