₦airaland Forum

Billyonaire: This woman is becoming the Female Hell-Rufai. She has now turned her insults on Nigerians.

I guess when you have been a former minister, World Bank executive with so much free publicity and you are currently unemployed SEEKING renewed relevance for another government job you start making UNNECESSARY NOISE embellished with lies.

Did anyone at the ocassion ask our former minister of EDUCATION what she did in terms of national policy, intervention and action to redress this situation she is shedding crocodile tears about now


And to imagine this woman has a Ph.D!
Make she park well jor!!!

How old is Tukur?
He can be excused as he may be having moments of SENILITY.

He should realise that a problem identified is half solved. Shying away from the reality of the mass failure of PDP governors by claiming they are the best will not help his party in any way. Rather he should acknowledge to their party men their shortcomings and find ways for them to deliver better dividends of democracy to their ELECTORATE.

Meanwhile that should not stop him and other party officials from pointing out the deficiencies (and there are many) of governors from the other parties (NOT opposition).
Wish him & his party best of luck.

RedReact: Chairman, if other governors in the past had done what he is doing now, we won't be talking about urban-renewal again. Change is gradual and we have not gotten anywhere, but we aren't where we were even past governors left office. London wasn't built within 4 years at all, and he can't do everything within 8 years, in case he gets re-elected, but his successor won't want to fall below standard of how governance is meant to be.

Sorry to burst your bubble.
Awolowo did much more by far 60 years ago and he was Premier of the whole Western region for ONLY six years (1954-1960) with Ibadan as capital. The PHYSICAL development landmarks;

* Cocoa House
* Liberty Stadium
* NTA Ibadan
* Obisesan Hall
* good network of city, inter-city & rural roads
* pipe borne water
* etc, etc

as well as HUMAN development initiatives of;

* complusory free primary education
* scholarship for secondary & tertiary education, including overseas
* vocational/technical training/modern schools

continue to serve as constant reminder of the GOLD standard that he established in such a SHORT period with a minute fraction of revenue from cash crops, mainly cocoa WITHOUT the Niger Delta oil revenue of today.

https://tribune.com.ng/news2013/images/19-12-2012_n2.jpg

gbrookes02: Socialism and communism can't work they are of the Devil, the worst performing countries are socialist and communist countries. The more free market, low tax, less regulated, capitalist economy a country is the better it performs. The bible promotes biblical capitalism, and only that works because it is of God.

Get the books:

1. "Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt-Manipulation: A Biblical Response to Ronald J. Sider", by David Chilton

http://www.amazon.com/Productive-Christians-Age-Guilt-Manipulation-Biblical/dp/0930464389/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369071435&sr=8-1&keywords=productive+christians+in+an+age+of+guilt+manipulators

2. "Bible Law vs. the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective", by Ted R. Weiland

http://missiontoisrael.org/booklist.php

http://www.amazon.com/Bible-Law-United-States-Constitution/dp/0983852618/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1369072283&sr=1-1&keywords=Bible+Law+vs.+the+United+States+Constitution%3A+The+Christian+Perspective

STOP the lies.
The Bible does not promote any capitalism for CHRISTians. Quite the contrary.
Jesus Christ had a common purse with his 12 Apostles from where their daily needs were met. The first CHRISTians continued that practice as documented here:

44 And all that believed were together, and had all things common;
45 And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

[url=http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q=Acts+2%3A+44-45&ver=kjv]Acts 2: 44-45[/url]

I will advise you to read the Bible yourself and ask the Holy Spirit to give you understanding directly rather than base your life on the interpretation of others who may have an agenda
To make it worse you even have to buy their books, which are simply their own understanding of the scriptures.
SMH!

COMPAQ: Waste of money. Agbowo shopping is close by and derelict. The truth is that ibadan does not have the middle class to sustain it in the long term.

That does not matter.
As long as our new governor gets loan and builds something with his own Ajumose slogan on it. We are cool in our follow, follow waka.

django1: Before you talk make a little research!

Google Oyo state college of agriculture, oyo state technical university (an Mou was signed with texas technical university some weeks ago in ibadan)

Since when did technical university equate to a vocational school
How many technicians do you think should work on average with one engineer? That is the number of technicians that should be getting out of vocational schools for every engineering graduate for meaningful productivity. You need to find out what Germany, France etc are doing about quality vocational education & apprenticeship. Small time we will complain that a white technician is our expatriate boss in Nigeria.

Stop saying things you have no knowlegde of as if you know everything! Most local govts council have their bore hole drilling engines that are used in planting bore holes in different areas of the inner city, pls always find out things first before opening you mouth!

So inner city is now is now rural area as I wrote about in the post you are responding to
And boreholes for hand-pumping water is what goes with the KFC, new roads, buses etc like they have in the 1st world that Ajimobi saw when he visited London to watch the Olympics
BTW, how many medals did Oyo state athletes return with from the Olympics?

I was actually not opening my mouth, simply typing on my keyboard to be precise.
Bloody watseful akotiletas - prodigal sons.

kolnel: Only problem is ajimobi has refused to put money in peoples pocket hence the bad mouth.

This could mean adequate compensation is not being paid for demolished houses and shops.

debosky: This creation of bus services named after the governor is a particularly annoying waste of funds.

No coherent planning or vision, but mostly an attempt to give the current leader visibility.

That is what can be called Touch & Go politics.
Quick Impact & Quick Fading projects. One thing that is always missing is the cost of these shiny projects. Let's not forget the debt profile for which the wives of the Oyo legislators were taken to the UK for training to make easy passage of bond raising bills. These debts will be paid by future generations of unborn Oyo state residents taxes.
No wonder Ajimobi's administration said they will not adopt the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act.

https://www.nairaland.com/1258909/ajimobi-disowns-freedom-information-foi

Why not embark on enduring schemes instead?

Such as education, education and even more education with particular emphasis on vocational schools and apprenticeship towards forming cooperatives for value creation, self-employment and employment generation. Developed countries have so much of this for technicians who are reliable to translate the engineers' visions into real products and structures.

What of pipeborne water? Urban feeder & rural roads to evacuate food products to agro-allied industries?

osaass: Your family seem really nice and supportive.
Don't see yourself as a failure. See the low score as an opportunity to score very well in next JAMB.
Aim high. Why study economics when you can go for a professional course like accounting. Your job prospects are better as well.
My first jamb was at 16, score 214, not good enough for pharmacy. Redoubled efforts and went for medicine, scored 251 and second highest in the department.
Every disappointment is a blessing
Good luck

Nice motivational post except for the bold part.
Economics gives a wider perspective, which is good for starters and you can do accounting professional exams later working with an audit firm, bank etc.

Meanwhile I hope the OP and others like her have learnt their lesson:

Do not seek to upgrade your result by BRIBING any official or middle man/agent.

daylae: It is not too much or out of place to credit the current administration in oyo state. For a state that was grossly neglected, and perpetually denied basic social infrastructures for years,one should give kudos to this present government for its fearlessness in causing change that is so much needed

What basic social infrastructure are you talking about precisely

VolvoS60: ^^^^I am curious sir. Why the exemption for education? On what grounds does education qualify for subsidies?

Because education builds the pepole and society to ensure it creates value and thus earn respect amongst its peers in the comity of nations.
That is what leading nations have always done, first with the Europeans starting around the 15th century.
The Chinese and Asians, including India started theirs shortly after WWII and we see the results manifesting 50 years later. The Arabs are slowly following suit.

Chief Obafemi Awolowo realised the great potential of this for unlocking the creative genius of a whole society hence his pivotal programme was free & compulsory education at primary school, when six decades ago he was Premier of Western region. It did not matter that his father, a farmer, died when he was 7 years old and had to struggle to pay for his own education.
The UPN governors moved the free education forward to include secondary schools in 1979-1983.
Now that is being PROGRESSive.

The yorubas have a saying:

Ada to mu daradara, ko le shan oko fun ara re. Eniyan lo le mu shanko - no matter how sharp a cutlass is, it cannot cut the grass all by itself. You need someone to use it to cut the grass.

All the PHYSICAL yoyo structures being put up by governments today to scam people will lay to waste soon enough without the necessary HUMAN capital development to sustain them.
If you take a trip to the northern part of our country you will see a few structures mostly empty and lying waste while the people are doing almajiri and waiting to be fed by their "generous" leaders.

That is not the way of sustainable development.

[quote author=Xavier's]I'm more concerned about who d photographer is?[/quote]The photographer is Soji Bankole the almost-husband from Tinsel town.

Economists say Venezuela's shortages stem from price controls meant to make basic goods available to the poorest parts of society and the government's controls on foreign currency.
State-controlled prices - prices that are set below market-clearing price - always result in shortages.

'The shortage problem will only get worse, as it did over the years in the Soviet Union,' said Steve Hanke, professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University.

Useful lessons for Nigeria

* Fuel subsidy at the federal level.
* Rent control by Lagos state for "non-posh" areas.


Reminds me of how one clueless sojaman dictator, Ayatollah Brouhari, had forex controls and imported "essential commodities, Essenco" with controlled prices through the Nigerian National Supply Company, NNSC. Measures that accelerated the killing off of Nigeria's manufacturing increasing unemployment and brain drain to the west.
Only education is worthy of being subsidised at all.

Otherwise government has no business doing business as the result is always massive failure and shortages in the long run.

Human beings are naturally SELFISH and will always look out for their own self interst subject to common rules and societal laws permitting.

Meanwhile Cuba is indeed moving west by embracing individual freedom, their new president (brother to the sick former president, Fidel Castro) only allowed use of mobile phones in April 2008 some five years ago today.

ebyjoyken: who is this one?

You nor see im user name abi na which kain question you dey ask sef

kingphemy: Are oral historical accounts allowed here?

Want to post about the 'Osoomalo', Ijeshas and the probable reason why the Ijesha land is more than their neighbours.

The accuracy of such accounts may be questionable but it will be as I heard it.

Why not start a fresh thread on that?

solomon111: Shops that would be priced beyond the reach of the poor.
Mscheww.
Tell us something else.

It seems you did not get the memo that these neo-progressives have no plan for the poor.
They are only focused on their fellow elites forgetting that no matter how fresh a vegetable looks no quality person will want anything to do with it once they know it was grown on a refuse dump.

Meanwhile today's so called elites are mostly, if not all, from poor parents who escaped poverty because of the mass education, scholarship, bursary and genuine, sustainable poverty alleviation initiatives of the Action Group led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo who was Western region premier for only six years (1954-1960) as well as the UPN governors who had only four years (19879-1983) to turn around the mess of khakhi MILADS.

BTW, are all the shopping complexes built by previous administrations fully occupied to warrant building another or this is simply to waste the borrowed money and fedral allocation by Ajimobi

djon78: Welcome mr president, the International airport is a good news and please, I am calling on the aviation minister and those in charge of the project to ensure it is world class, infact they should copy Dubai aiport or Changi terminal Singapore which won the best airport in the world for 2013.

And after they copy and have it built by Chinese contractors up to the lowest paid technician what happens

We (not they) should copy the technical and scientific engineering education to enable us build & mainitan such infrastructures.
Singapore & Dubai have been educating their folks for so many decades to enable them build and maintain the fine fine structures you see in their places.
Anything LESS will return us to square ZERO!

olaezebala: To all those shouting about Aregbesola's great achievement in Osun State, may God work on them the same way Aregbesola is working in Osun. Peace

Aregberascal is turning Osun state from

[size=13pt]State of the Living Spring
to
State of the LIEING Spring[/size]


with all these lies and fabricated data purportedly from NBS via his mouthpiece, Osun Defender even when the NBS categorically denied having such data for the specified period.

So Mr. Gbawe, where did your Osun Defender get the data from

Meanwhile, state tertiary institution teachers have been on strike for three months. No solution!
N18,000 minimum wage not fully paid leading to labour agitation. No solution.

But debt profile now at over N200 billion in three years of government with only yoyo, cheap & cheerful one-off projects that are super expensive to show for it.

Indeed this is a band of rogues and scammers in Association of Conmen in Nigeria, ACN.

No photo of the facebook fraudster
They should include his picture so others can take note when he gets bail or gets out of jail.

Gbawe: It really is horrific watching what is going on under [size=13pt]GEJ I know he tacitly endorses.[/size] This is totally disgraceful to Nigeria. We are now a Country where the most crass and foul-mouthed of thugs get their offensive and incendiary rants aired continuously when they only deserve stiff sanctions.

What GEJ is too myopic to see is that he may eventually become a victim of all this rancour and 'free-for-all' he is encouraging by omission and commission. The President is very easy to read. He is a very crude chap who thinks things get done when chaos and disunity reign. Divide them and conquer them. Well, let us hope he is not an ultimate victim of all the sabre-rattling and divisions he is causing everywhere.

So how did you know? The man informed you or you have a link to some source you can post for others to verify?
Why do you like passing on your conjectures and imagination as KNOWLEDGE

Not once, not twice but several times on this forum!

Eko Ile: Already as it is right now, the presidency don't care about the constitution, the lawmakers are not only corrupt, but they also don't respect or abide by our laws, the judiciary is not only corrupt, they also don't respect and apply the laws of the land.

All the arms of government are just worthless, corrupt and lawless...

I guess it is CONFESSION time.

* With over 30% of the NASS being from the "progressive opposition" we have taken note of their involvement in the corruption going on.
** With the reversed election results and favourable judgements to ACN and othe opposition parties, we can understand from you that they were obtained through corruption.
*** No wonder Justice Salami was on the phone with your party men and subsequently sacked.

Thank you for the CONFIRMATION.

Eko Ile: The judiciary is not constitutionally sanctioned to make or change laws, that's the responsibility of the legislature, the judiciary only interpret laws laws passed and amended by the legislatures aka lawmakers..

Read up on the 3 arms of government. The executive, the legislative and the judiciary for relevant understanding before your next post..

How many laws have been made in the past 14 years by AD/AC/ACN, ANPP, APGA, CPC etc "progressive opposition" lawmakers apart from Dabiris FOI Act

Again, do they still teach social studies and civic education in our schools?

"In ou schools" indeed.
Tell us now abi you nor be Fashola and ACN eSpokesman again

maasoap: Really? You didnt sympathize with us because we are being looted dry but you are sympathizing with us because Dino is leading the campaign against corruption when nobody is looking in that direction.

He is simply a part & parcel of the looting himself.
Do you know if Dino has refunded the excess salary & allowances he received for making no laws and proposing no meaningful bills all the years he was in the NASS

It is time we stop these leaders who will tell us Do as I Say but not as I Do.
That is HYPOCRISY and it will not move us forward as we will only replace one set of thieves with another as we have been doing for the past 53 years.

Tolexander: he never fought the removal mr man!
He was one of the few people that took side. People even thought they were dating!

Thank you o jare for trying to rescue some of these MUGUs who get carried away easily by born-to-gain so called Anti Corruption crusaders who are themselves corruption personified with their rent-a-crowd publicity and propaganda stunts.

This is a man who was and still is swimming in & sleeping with corruption starting with the illegitimate salaries he RECEIVED in the NASS that he is yet to refund and the loot shared with disgraced Speaker, Foluke Etteh whom he was ready to VIOLENTLY defend as shown in the picture below.

[img]http://www.nigeriafilms.com/image.aspx?img=Y29udGVudC9jb250ZW50L3VudGl0bGVkLmJtcHw2MDA=[/img]

Honourable(?) Dino obviously is a lawless man that is why he has not thought it fit to approach the courts in Nigeria or the US with whatever evidence he has of corruption against the three people. He prefers the populist option of seeking visa ban from the US. Did he not sue Asari Dokubo recently for his press conference YET he cannot sue for corruption allegations for which he obviously has evidence.
And those who should know better are already getting high and praising him to heavens.
SMH

He obviously knows nothing about MORAL corruption otherwise he should be taking care of his baba mama Bisi Ibidapo-Obe and their baby that he has abandoned.

The Minority Leader, House to Representatives, representing Surulere Constituency I, Femi Gbajabiamila, berated the police authorities for diverting certain amount of money budgeted for police welfare to other areas.

The Honourable(?) should berate himself for RECEIVING millions monthly in Abuja beyond what is recommended by RMAFC, which

* denies public agencies of more funds for doing real work for the citizens.
* encourages others to seek government money without working as he and his fellow legisLOOTERs are doing.

[quote author=who cares?]The road is even tarred, it only need repairs. If we have this in my area, we would thank God.[/quote]And where is your area?
Una nor get LG councillor for there or you did not go out to vote for the LG elections to enable you know him/her and increase the sense of RESPONSIBILITY towards those by whose grace he receives mega thousands, if not millions monthly

feminine A: I live around this area. Anytime it rains that side of the road is condemmed. Its really that bad but I still feel phase 2 has well to do men let them come together and fix it. You must not always wait for the government

Na this kain attitude dey make government do gbajue (chancing) of their ELECTORATE.

Why should they "come together and fix it" AFTER paying taxes directly and indirectly to the state government and LGA?
Please tell us why

Ordinary to keep the gutters on the sides clear and cut the grass REGUALRLY by engaging some youth on MINIMUM wage from the area is too much for the "progressives" to think about. Yet we cry youth unemployment.

It is these BASIC things that make a society better from the ground up. Not the over-priced shiny onfrastructure toys being concentrated in high brow areas.
No wonder Lagos metropolis is one of the worst cities to live in the world.
SMH.

[quote author=slim fit ]Speak to your local chairman[/quote]Normally you inform your LG councillor first before you ESCALATE the problem to the chairman and state house of assembly legislator representing your constituency.

It is sad that after 14 years of "progressive opposition" in power at Alausa house the provision of BASIC services is still a challenge.
Yet the same failed state administrators know how to play propaganda by calling out the FG for not maintaining/ repairing the roads under its jurisdiction.

Bunch of shameless HYPOCRITES in the Association of Conmen in Nigeria, ACN

nkem Kalu: YET THEY ARE STILL INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY
BETTER THAN THE COMBINED EFFORTS OF PDP FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF OBASANJO, YAR'ADUAL AND ODEH JONANTHAN

Please tell me why should we, as Yorubas, limit our comparison to that of the federal government heads in recent times

When we have the glowing example and performance of Obafemi Awolowo who was premier of the Western region for only 6 years (1954-1960) and those of UPN governors who were in power for only 4 years (1979-1983)!

I am almost certain you do not benchmark yourself and your loved ones with the worst performers, rather to the best, isn't it
And we yorubas say that eshin iwaju ohun ni t'eyin nwo sare - race horses are inspired by the leading horse.

That is the essence of the omoluabi principle.

TRILLIONIAR: ABEG MR FASHOLA INCASE YOU SEE MY POST OLA AKINPELU STREET AND CHURCH CLOSE BEHIND PAKO BUS STOP IN ALIMOSHO ARE VERY BAD ABEG O I FOR UPLOAD PICTURE BUT I NO SABI HOW TO DO AM

Check this thread for tips:

https://www.nairaland.com/180245/nairalanders-how-insert-images-nairaland

After 14 years of "progressive opposition" in power

1,2,3,4 years of Tinubu
5,6,7,8 years of Tinubu
9,10,11,12 years of Fashola
13, 14 years of Fashola

Lagos residents cannot have safe pedestrian bridges. Something very BASIC.

Yet we have

* 30b for EXPANSION of Ikorodu-Ketu 13.5km road;
* 1.4km suspended bridge for 29b;
* LASU fees raised by 1,000% without commensurate increase in QUALITY

while raking in 20b monthly from the pockets, wallets, purses and handbags of the people in the form of IGR.

Propaganda can only take you so far, I guess!

It is becoming clearer with each passing day and act of the Tinubu-led ACN that he wants to repeat the same mistake of Samuel Ladoke Akintola that contributed to the 1966 coup.

[img]http://nationalmirroronline.net/thumbnail.php?file=/Akintola_521607196.jpg&size=article_large[/img]

However we are wiser, almost five decades after.

Those who want to commit family/group/ethnic/tribal suicide by dragging others with them thinking their followers are zombies will find themselves alone at the end of their journey- InshaAllah!