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Special Forces currently engaged in a military onslaught against insurgents in Borno State, acting on a tip off, arrested a key terrorist suspect who specialises in recruiting personnel into terror cells.

Good intelligence work AIDED and MADE POSSIBLE by cooperating citizens who share information about suspicious persons, things, movements with the armed forces and law enforcement agents.
Kudos to the person who gave them the tip-off.
We should endeavour to do same to secure OURSELVES!!!

gwariman007: This was a clear case of miscarriage of justice...He did not kill his wife...the car he was driving had an accident and fell into the river...the wife drowned...His offence is that he did not die along with his wife...Anyway, the case will go on appeal...most definitely,that is if it has not gone already...God is not a man...HE sees ALL .BTw theophilus And his wife are both from Edo state..Why do most NLders comment on issues like Kids...

Thanks for telling us they are both from Edo state and not a case of an Igbo judge hastily condemning a yoruba man to death for killing his Igbo wife.
Coogar I hope you have taken note.

SEGAD: You served in Osun, I'm from that state. Aregbesola is a big disgrace to human race. ACN strategy is basically on noise and unecessary hype. I can see any difference between PDP & ACN

It is good to see that others can feel through the scam that is ACN strategy.
We owe it to our FOLKS, OLD & YOUNG to share this info with them so they can see Aregberascal for what he really is- A scam artist of the finest order.
What Sade Adu called Smooth Operator in her popular song.
QED.!!!

It seems Akpabio is also working on HUMAN development beyond the PHYSICAL infrastructures and was annointed into the Awoist club by Tribune newspaper and Prof. Wole Soyinka, the Kongi himself.

Akpan Inyang-Bassey hails from Ekom-Iman in Etinan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State; like most other boys of his age, he was ferried off to Lagos at a tender age. His reasons for relocating to Lagos include being a first class house-help, an outstanding gate-keeper or an achieved house boy. Make no mistake; Akpan’s story is a true reflection of the stories of thousands of Akwa Ibom State indigenes in the past, people who in their prime have become house boys and girls and had no hopes of education for better and improved lives.

For years, the state topped the chart in the production of house-helps, as youths of the state are taken to the big cities of Lagos, Port-Harcourt, Abuja and others in their thousands because their parents could either not send them to schools or they had simply given up hope about education in its entirety. At least, these were the developments from the long years of military rule till around 2007 when a new dawn emerged for the education sector in the state.

Piqued by his experiences while working in Lagos, whereby whenever he went to visit his friends, an Okon or Akpan would be at the gate as gateman while an Ekaette or Imaobong would be in the house to serve water and food; Barrister Godswill Akpabio never hid his intention for the youths of the state. He even made a vow that if he ever became the governor of the state, youths of the state would no longer be known as servants and house helps, but would rise to become managers, directors and CEOs of multinational companies.

In his campaign message, he had spoken of his vision for an Akwa Ibom with a functional and quality education that will serve as catalyst for development, poverty alleviation and a foundation for the transformation of the state to an industrial one, where its key establishments in the state would be manned by its citizens because of the education they must have received over the years. When in 2007 he eventually emerged as governor, there was no doubt that the educational sector in the state was about to witness a surgical operation, one that would forever change the stories of millions of Akwa Ibom youths for good.

By 2008, the journey to reform the education sector had started, beginning with the introduction of free and compulsory education from primary to senior secondary level. Akpabio’s free education programme is not just free for the sake of being free; it is highly monitored by an agency put in place to ensure total compliance. Apart from being tuition free, the students are provided with free text and exercise books as well as uniforms. Just as the late Premier of Western Region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, whose idea of development and emancipation was predicated on solid education, Akpabio sought a state with greater values for the youths and to achieve that end, he followed the master—Awolowo. He would later say at the Tribune Man of the Year Award in 2010 that he was following Chief Awolowo’s example in declaring free and compulsory education.

Apart from the compulsory free education programme introduced by the governor, he also instituted a scheme that could be described as first of its kind in the country with the payment of subventions to students in order to ensure that education is completely free. Each primary school pupil has a subvention of N100 per term while N300 per term goes to each secondary school student. In effect, the school enrolment in the 1,110 primary schools and 230 secondary schools in the state have tripled to a staggering 156, 761 and it is the highest in the south south geo-political zone as the state continued to enforce a zero tolerance for child illiteracy. The 2010 National Literacy Survey also showed that the state under the Akpabio-led administration has a literacy rate in any language of about 79 percent. The state’s free education policy, surprisingly, is for the benefit of every Nigerian child resident in Akwa Ibom State. Apart from the free education policy, the Child Rights Act is in full force in the state, a system that ensures that children must be in school and failure of any child to take hold of that opportunity would be blamed on the parents. Since the declaration of this laudable policy, hardly if at all, would you find a child of school going age on the streets during school hours, in fact, it is a taboo.

The governor has continued to give hope to thousands of parents and youths of the state annually with the payment of Senior Secondary School Certificates Examination fees, such that people whose education had been free until SS3 would not cite lack of funds for not taking the final examination. More so, several intervention efforts had been made and are still being made to improve the tertiary institutions, ranging from the construction of libraries and laboratories to payment of bursaries to law and medical students. The state has also established its own university to carter for the envisaged large turn out of school certificate holders who would want to further their education up to the tertiary level as a result of the free and compulsory education of the Akpabio-led administration.

***QMore than before, education has assumed an important dimension in the state, as the government paid greater attention to educational infrastructure. As part of his promises, model structures are springing up in schools across the 31 local governments in the state, as educational facilities are made more accessible to students of the state. The governor has built and renovated hundreds of classrooms, laboratories and libraries just to ensure that no Akwa Ibom child ever find education inaccessible and expensive as to return to servitude.***Q The infrastructural facilities revolution in the state was consummated by the efforts in the education sector, with the construction of a masterpiece digital library in Uyo, which was recently commissioned by no other person than the president of the country, dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. The e-library, said to be the first of its kind in West Africa, is a stronghold of knowledge where a tap on the computers allows access to more than 300,000 books on various subjects and fields.

As a result of the reform in the educational sector, not only has the governor been able to turn back the hands of time in the lives of many youths, he has apparently re-written the history of the state from a producer of house-helps to a producer of tomorrow leaders. At different fora, Governor Akpabio has always jokingly but very serious stated that “AkwaIbom State has permanently handed over that industry of servitude to other parts of the country. If you come to my state for a house help, I can assure you that you will not find any because they have returned home to be educated because of the free and compulsory education of my administration” .It is worthy of note that Governor Akpabio’s efforts on education have been noticed at various times both in Nigeria and abroad, with the commendation given him by Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, for his efforts in human development and education being of note. Professor Soyinka, who had lashed out at the rate of underdevelopment in the Niger Delta during the South-South Economic Summit, praised Governor Akpabio for what he has been doing in the education sector and promised to visit the state in order to see things for himself.

In five years, Governor Akpabio has gone about making his vision for a better Akwa Ibom State a reality and in doing so, has placed education in an important spot; demonstrating the true spirit of Awoism. While he is not one of the self-professed progressives, his actions and efforts which have returned the state to the acme of excellence in education sure indicate that the governor is one; and he is no newspaper progressive but one that seeks the progress of the state through the progress of the youths; for they say that knowledge is power

Daily Independent

I also understand he is sending AI students for training as pilots in South Africa.
This is WHOLESOME development I can endorse not the NOISY distribution of Opon Ofo by Aregberascal or the hiking of LASU fees from 25k to 250k while tolling any small bridge and road, even uncompleted.

Which one is an original follower of the late sage, Awo's WHOLESOME development strategy and philosophy

a)

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b)

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c)

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d)

[img]http://tasuedglitz.files./2013/03/rauf-aregbesola.jpg[/img]


TYC - Take Your Coice!!!

coogar: the wife is igbo - duh!
why do you think the judge sanctioned a death sentence? it's been played on his mind that an Yoruba bloke came to their land to murder their daughter. her name is theodora - no yoruba family names their girl as such.

and for the record, i am not a bigot, the judge is the bigot.

I take back my comments IF the woman is Igbo and it can be ascertained that the hanging judgement is based on that.
However, we need to verify that ABSOLUTELY as we cannot condem the judge for not having ABSOLUTE proof while we at the same time crucify him without having ABSOLUTE proof of the whole matter ourselves.
Fair enough, I hope!

EPOMA: Am not supporting any of them. It just wrong

Neithe am I inisnuating that you are my bro.

Both of them need to be jailed for massive corruption.
But that is not likely to happen as we dey sing dem praise for the shine shine oyoyo projects and keep CONSOLING ourselves they are better than their predecessors so we should give glory to God.
SMH!!!

coogar: this judge should be arrested - he's brought untold shame to my country. this is tribalism at best. an igbo judge sanctioning the death of a yoruba man without a substantial evidence. i hope this ruling is appealed! how can you condemn a man to death without evidence but hearsays and cheap gossips? what a shame!!!!

Thank God the man and his murdered wife are both yorubas.
I can only imagine what you and other ethonocentric bigots like you would have said if the wife were Igbo

EPOMA: Akpabio only concentrates on roads which are easy for him to inflate price and steal money. All the road are costed at 2.7billion naira per kilometre .

That means he is better than Fashola in stealing the state money.
Fashola is only EXPANDING 13kms of Ikorodu Road for 30b.
And that includes IGR money directly from the wallets, pockets, purses and handbags of residents of Lagos.
Allah, wayo pass wayo!!!

Koolking: My dear, domestic violence/wife battering is NOT a norm in Nigeria. Rather, it's an individual thing driven by certain emotional or psychological factors. Anybody can be led negatively by voices in his head.

Your assertion is debateable about how widespread domestic violence is in Nigeria.

However you are right on the money about emotional and psychological factors leading to such deviant behaviour in any society.
Thank you!
Peopel who feel such tendencies should seek psychiatric and psychological help sharp, sharp rather than ONLY praying to God who says he already made us ALL in His image i.e.with intelligence to sort ourselves out.
We need to change our attitude to mental health.

This is a better reasoning than saying na work of devil and talikng about end times.
SMH.

bcomputer101: Na devil cause am.

SIGNS OF END TIME.

Which yeye devil?
When will we black people learn to take RESPONSIBILITY for our acts of commission and/or ommission
If something good happens to us na by grace of God. If something bad happens it is the devil. We don't PAUSE to analyse why, what, how it happened so as to prevent it happening next time to us and others.
No.

Husband kills wife or vice versa has been happening for centuries yet the world did not end.
Abeg carry your religious-ness to mugus who keep letting the charlattans in cassock take them for a ride.

Anuoluwap: really? Really? really? FASHOLA did all diz u mentiond but my guy did it put an end 2 mass failure? A big fat *NO*

And this Opon Imo will make Osun students have mass success, right
Next year we will be here to assess its impact or not and may conclude that it is Opon Ofo = Empty Tablet.

macdot: That is what a true federal system should be like. But will those at the center support such? I doubt....

The centre will support such if the federating states are ready to STOP going every month with begging bowls to collect monthly allocation from the Niger Delta oil revenue.
That is how it was before Nzeogwu's hijacked coup of January 1966.
Once we are ready to revert to revenue CONTRIBUTION to the centre we will have fiscal federalism.
The big question is Are we ready for that

effisyman: Guys, the lady deserve some commendation and praise.

But not kissing a man is not the reason for her success, surely there are millions of people out there who achieve one feat or the other and still got involved with the opposite sex.

Where did she say "not kissing a man is the reason for her success"?

Good move on LGA autonomy.
Long overdue.

I hope they endorse independent candidates for elections as well.

emiye: Can you respond to my earlier post, i have copied it below in a quote, answer it and stop dodging ! since you dont want the ACN governors to be compared with the widely accepted failures who were PDP governors, but with governors of UPN(a party that became defunct 30 years ago).

I am not Mr. PDP so when you properly address your post I will consider responding. Ok

locdog: is true my brother, am a corper serving in osun .

It is obvious to most people involved with Osun state education that while this is fanciful it is not what the state needs at this point.
What is urgently needed is to address the basic issues of adequate classrooms and quality teachers, chairs, desks, blackboards, functional toilets, well equipped laboratories, well stocked libraries etc.

It is necessary for those of us who know, that a child that tries to run before it can walk will certainly stumble, fall and be afraid of even trying to walk later, to share with others how MSIPLACED this fanciful initiative is.
That is our OBLIGATION!!!

django1: For your information, we are richly blessed with natural resources in SW, from gold in ilesha to bitumen in ogun, oil in ondo and lagos, we don't need the ND to survive!

If indeed we are we should vote to amend the clause in the 1999 constitution to change allocation to revenue CONTRIBUTION as it was before Nzeogwu's hijacked coup of January 1966.

django1: You say they are wasting money building roads when there's no pipe borne water, I ask you when your pdp was there, did we see them lay the pipes, even the roads they did not build, what is now your point?

What is "your PDP" all about

Must you benchmark yourself with bad performers? I thought our elders say eshin iwaju ni t'eyin nwo sare - the race horse is inspired by the leader.
Abi dat wan nor apply again as we get fraudsters of the Association of Conmen in Nigeria, ACN in power

In case you are still wondering, my point is the ACN governors can do much better if they are not focused on their Sh'agbe loju yoyo (shine farmer eyes) projects but rather on the BASICs of free & compulsory education for children, primary health care, pipeborne water etc.
I hope it is not too much to expect us to agree on that.

Demdem: Yes she did and was well discussed here.. Demdem does not lie.

Do you mean to say unlike Eko Ile abi na Eko Atlantic sef on this forum

Haba, oga that wan na upper cut plus below the belt punch oh
Chei, odikwa three much sef.

1025: no normal nigerian is a pdp member. give me one pdp member and i will show u a nigerian professional criminal.
annenih - tukur - ohakim - ibori - obasanjo - odili - bode george - alams - andy/chris uba - pls give me more names and i will tell u how useless and fraudulent they are even their women - mrs etteh and that obasanjo daughter. if these names that i have mentioned here are deleted from our system today, nigeria will move ten steps forward the next minute.
the bext man in pdp cannot be compared to the worst in acn.

You forgot to include Amosun, current Ogun state governor and ex-Senator for four years on PDP platform. He only became ACN candidate after ensuring his fellow chartered accountant, Dipo Dinah had been murdered.

You may also remember a certain Dr. Chris Ngige who was Anambra governor under PDP and now Senator under ACN.
There are so many ex-PDP members who are now occupying political jobber posts with currently ruling ACN in Osun, Oyo, Ogun, Ekiti and Edo states.
The reality is there is no REAL opposition in Nigeria. They are all out to swindle the generally gullible public.

Gbawe: As usual, the talk of a faker and sentimental Olodo. Does Ondo contribute 12% of Nigeria's oil and gas output or not? Simple yes or No? If yes, is it then not a fallacy to run around shouting "federal allocation, which flows from the Niger Delta money." in relation to the allocation from the centre obtained by the SW? Simple yes or no again please.

When people then accuse you of not being from the SW you put up a show of mock anger whereas all your utterances leaves no one in doubt that you are someone who despises the region and even blatantly lies against her as much as possible.

That is why I set the trap for you I knew you would unintelligently walk into blindly to reveal, once again, your real and spiteful mindset about the SW. Only Ondo gets 13% derivation in the SW as an oil producer whereas virtually all SS States do. There are 36 States in Nigeria and the FCT. The SW has 6 States out of that i.e a percentage representation of under 17% in relation to the 37 areas benefiting from accrued oil income.

If the SW host under 17% of the total number of States enjoying allocation from crude and contributes 12%, through Ondo, to the total oil and gas output of Nigeria disbursed by the centre, what sort of South-Westerner are you to be invoking the false garbage of "Niger Delta oil" against us? Is the SW not contribution healthily to the central pool with only one of it's States gaining direct benefit in the form of 13% derivation? How many times should this be repeated to illiterates mischief-makers like you? Factually and bereft of silly sentiments, we pull our weight and such would be obvious to you if you were not a totally fake poster.

Intelligent, proud and patriotic South-Westerners know the inane "parasite" tag against the region (that your kind subtly promote with the talk of " they are looting Niger Delta oil" ) reveals only rank illiteracy and clannish but highly uninformed hatred of others. You need to stop the fake show. People can see through you.

You set trap for yourself. LOL!!!

Opo oro iro ni okun ibe - plenty talk na lie full am.
All your mago mago arithmetic adds to nothing. It does not take away the fact that Osun state depends on the monthly almajiri begging bowl for its finances. QED.

I am as yoruba as they come and have roots in four SW states, Osun, Oyo, Ogun, Lagos as well as Kwara. Moreover I don't need to be yoruba to comment AUTHORITATIVELY on issues pertaining to the SW based on my knowledge.
Deal with it.

The massive imapct of Awolowo in the 50s was based on cocoa mainly WITHOUT Niger Delta oil revenue unlike the Akotiletas (prodigal sons) masquerading as his progressive heirs who are wasting away our rich legacy.

Gbawe: Look, find something to do to make you happy and fulfilled. You are carrying around too much unobjective and senseless hatred for others. Today, they are stealing "your money" tomorrow they are "stealing Niger Delta money". Which is it you confused dingbat? You really should get a grip on who/what you are before coming here to confuse yourself further.

Our Osun state money from the monthly almajiri begging bowl fest i.e. federal allocation, which flows from the Niger Delta oil money.

[img]http://naijainsightlondon.files./2012/06/almajiri_22.jpg[/img]

Do you see how it's linked now

Gbawe: People just like to yap senselessly out of nothing but sheer hatred. There is no deficient aspect to this initiative at all and advantages are many. I would have thought it would be very obvious, especially to anyone who went through the Secondary school system in Nigeria, that this scheme would save money and pay for itself. It is like solar power. High initial outlay but zero/reduced electricity bill means the system soon pays for itself and then goes on to save you money.

I just cannot believe any one has anything negative to say about this. Simply amazed. This same damn Scheme will be copied and introduced in Ghana without a fuss !!! In fact, knowing some Ghanaians, they will fail to give Nigeria credit and claim they invented this!!!! Yet can we begrudge them , as a more united people, of that sort of conduct since we love being each other's biggest enemies and detractors?

kobenol: Very well on point. But I don't quite believe it would be greatly expensive as presumed though.
Ekiti provides its Senior Secondary pupils with 10" Samsung solar netbooks...NO COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHERS in a bulk of the schools...I quite know this as a Serving Corps Member in one of its LG.
What a wasteful unsustainable development?? And Yes! those kids annoyingly care so less about the netbooks, even damage it, it's so not of benefit to them. The state itself doesnt have a program in place for it. Though the kids pay school fees..NO FREE EDUCATION in Ekiti!
Having "digested" the info on http://www.opon-imo.com Osun is visionary indeed!

Seems you missed this post on the Ekiti state experience

kobenol: Very well on point. But I don't quite believe it would be greatly expensive as presumed though.
Ekiti provides its Senior Secondary pupils with 10" Samsung solar netbooks...NO COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHERS in a bulk of the schools...I quite know this as a Serving Corps Member in one of its LG.

What a wasteful unsustainable development?? And Yes! those kids annoyingly care so less about the netbooks, even damage it, it's so not of benefit to them. The state itself doesnt have a program in place for it. Though the kids pay school fees..NO FREE EDUCATION in Ekiti!
Having "digested" the info on http://www.opon-imo.com Osun is visionary indeed!

Again, I say you do not leave leprosy to cure rashes.
The ACN fake progressives need to ensure free & compulsory education for their kids in PUBLIC primary & secondary schools then we will know they are serious.
Not all these yoyo toys for stealing our money.

emiye: What are you rambling about ? From your statement you admit PDP is a nest of killers, and you are now trying so hard to paint the ACN party with your party's "red" colour. Who knows you might be one of PDP's hit men.

You can see below just one example of Gbawe's "red blood" posted just a few days ago:

Gbawe: https://www.nairaland.com/1308128/suffers-nigeria-divides/10#16022281

I really don't want to get into the pettiness of all this ridiculous conjectures you guys are throwing around but I must ask why people like you talk like this. I.e in a manner that show you have no qualms lying about reality we can all easily discern. Why do you blatantly ignore facts and issues on the ground to base all your utterances on fantasy and conjecture? I am not here to tell you what Igbos are or are not but I can say what the Yorubas are not. They are not mediocre as some of you postulate.

It is only that many Yorubas here don't know how to shut your ilk up with facts and this is why this redundant lie you tell yourselves has travelled amongst your fellow ignoramuses to now be unquestioningly accepted as the truth by people always keen to tout their own mythical superiority and the "worthlessness" of others as they were indoctrinated to do.

As just one example of the many I can give, Oando was voted best Company in Nigeria in 2012. This is a thriving Company teaching others, including Igbo-owned businesses, how to run Companies. Do you, your father or brother own or run the Company? Why should we have this Oando situation if Yorubas are "mediocre" at running businesses and Igbos are masters at it? Should this touted superiority not reveal itself consistently 100% of the time? The sad thing for clowns like you is that Oando is not even the exception !!!

People like you personally sicken me. You are welcomed to hate others as much as you like because of how you are indoctrinated but that indoctrination turns into mental illness of sort when you are willing to embrace a strategy of lies aimed at reducing a universally celebrated and respected people to zero simply to uphold your own inane and self-deceitful braggadocio led mainly by inferiority complex. It is only people like you that sickeningly come without the ability to even minimally give credit where due to others because you indoctrination in hatred is total and all-consuming to the extent of encompassing blatant and wicked lies.

Even on this wretched forum where folks like you have no shame and are never called out for inane and malevolent lies against others, what notable superiority of intelligence or thinking have members from your ethnic group displayed here to validate your silly, misguided and childish lies about superiority that facts and reality show is only in your head? Let go of the hatred of others and start respecting them. It may have been drummed into you to hate the Yorubas but you cross the line when you start representing them as "mediocre" and with other similar false unsavoury tags to suit your own psychotic and highly unreasonable world view. Nonsense !!!!! You and others are sick !!! Simply the sort to say Mohammed Alli could not box or Michael Jackson could not entertain because you have been indoctrinated blindly to reason like that !!!

http://premiumtimesng.com/business/3922-oando_is_nigeria_s_best_oil_and_gas_company.html

So obviously Gbawe must know something about the nest of killers activiyies of your darling ACN oga on top.

Maube he might oblige you with the details if you are nice to him.

Davidtolu: I can confirm that there is no PDP in Lagos STATE; So I dont take any of their noise serious. They re all failures and enemies of prosperity. They will not succeed in Lagos State.

Man mi you need to get real gan ni.
PDP is dead yet they won the last LGA elections in Ikoyi/Obalende, which is where "the Lion of Bourdillon" Tinubu lives.

https://www.nairaland.com/1065618/tribunal-declares-obanikoro-son-local/2

PDP also won in Badagry.


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

You are however free to believe what you want to believe.

Prof Corruption: Cheap and Simple questions. The boy is not necessarily brilliant but obviously intelligent.

Haters gonna hate always, won't they

And to imagine this poster is the same person posting the faked video disparaging OUR president in Addis Ababa during the AU 50th celebrations.
SMH!!!

emiye: Oh Oh !,now you are showing your PDP colour, i see you like the red color , anytime i see them in your write up, i remember blood, PDP and danger . The nobel laureate aptly described PDP as the "nest of killers" party(PDP). Are you not ashamed to be associated with this party ?

So Gbawe is also a PDP guy or he probably understand that ACN has its "nest of killrs" as well?
Which one is it?

Eko Atlantic: As productive and civilized Ogun state people are, PDP couldn't provide them with a common flyover in eight years not to mention roads and other necessary amenities. The quality and quantity of road construction going on in Ogun presently is amazing, a visit should help Thomases.

You can continue your focus on the PHYSICAL infrastructures without making sure the children are educated. It will only result in almajiri like situation in the south west.

emiye: Lagos of 2013 is way better than that of 1999 ! Start with oshodi, mushin and Ajegunle you listed to dispute my statement!

Cry, huff, puff ... if you want, the progress must continue, true lagosians know where we are coming from, we know where we want to be, if people like you intend to stop the wheel the progress, you will not suceed, any smart individual can see through you.

And it cannot be better than it is today given the resources available to Tinubu and Fashola in the last 14 years COMPARED to what was available to Jakande and Awolowo who did not even have Niger Delta oil revenue to start with in the 1950s

Those who want to be satisfied with mediocity (average performance) are free to do so.

eggheaders: so you are now Yoruba big liar. fyi the motor boys or agbero are being curtail by various governors in the south west. when last did you hear of nurtw crisis in oyo state. with the operation burst thing all of them has been force to lay low. same the lasg is engaging some of them in agriculture and in various skill acquisition centers across the state.

So because I am not a blindly loyal supporter of the reigning lords of the south west, ACN, I am not yoruba.
I pity you.
A o le sun ki gbogbo wa ko ori si ibi kan na - We cannot all sleep and put our heads in the same direction.

You are either oblivious of what is going on in places like Mushin, Oshodi, Ajegunle etc where some places are fast becoming no-go areas fro law enforcement authorities as gangs take over. That is to be expected when the kids are not gainfully engaged in free & compulsory education and they will grow up to harrass the elites who deprived them as the Boko haram guys are doing to the northern leaders.

Meanwhile as a sovereign country, the Nigerian child is supposedly protected by rights which ought to ensure his basic needs are met. But on the contrary, these laws hardly cater for every child's education, feeding, shelter, protection and so on.

What about the classrooms where learning takes place? Although some public schools have had touch ups,others remain in a sorry state.

When a visit was made to the likes of Shokunbi and Mushin Mission Primary Schools,Mushin, it is appalling to say the conditions in which they operate baffles one. With faded coloured buildings, wooden windows,and caved in roofs, sources hinted that the schools' management have written severally to the government to come to their aid all to no avail.

Aside the leaky roofs which allows water into the classroom now that it has started raining, it was also learnt that pupils of the schools fetch water inside buckets from home to school everyday. When asked what the water was meant for, sources revealed that pupils use it in their almost non existing toilet.

But in a move to speak with the headmistress(es) of the schools who share same compound concerning the deplorable situation of the schools, she refused further comments, but said they have been instructed to direct anyone who needed information to the secretary of the Local Government.
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I fend for my family - Biodun

Biodun, 11, also has his share of hardship to contend with. His wish is to become a medical doctor but for the untold hardship, he keeps wondering how his dream will come to reality. Obviously tired as a result of hawking sachets of water which had already lost its chilly nature, he sits on the floor under the scorching sun, probably whiling away time before going home.

Refusing to look into the camera, he narrates how he has to fend for his parents who are without jobs. "My name is Biodun. I'm nine years old. I school at Ajegunle and I'm in primary five. I don't go to school every day because I have to hawk pure water for my parents.

My mother is at home because she doesn't work, but I don't know what my father does for a living. I like it whenever I see medical doctors in their uniforms saving lives. But how do I become one of them when my parents can hardly provide three square meals?"


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That is a narrative that is the reality for the majority of kids in today's Lagos after 14 years of Tinubu and Fashola's "progressive" administration despite increased IGR and borrowing huge sums via bonds etc.

dayokanu: And How did that become a problem?

In 2007 when the SW had all PDP Christian Governor nko? When did Religion become an issue with governance?

Was Jakande not a Moslem,

Awolowo and Akala are Christians One is a role model for hundred years one is a shame

I said "quite interesting" and you interpret that to mean "a problem".
You cannot say what I did not say, or can you