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What is most atrocious about this fee increase is the fact that Babatunde Raji Fashola went to secondary school, Birch Freemans, and did not pay tuition for four years while Jakande was Lagos governor. He also received free books.
This is less than three decades ago and Jakande had less IGR and federal allocation even after adjusting for inflation and population growth compared to BRF.
Rather than make progress from Jakande's time by giving either free tertiary education with the increased revenue or at least generalised bursary for tax-paying residents and needs-based scholarship, Tinubu's ACN is increasing fees by 700%
As someone rightly posted here the cosmetic work he did in his first term is slowly unravelling and the media hype can no longer sustain the mediocre (average) performance that was packaged as excellence.
The pseudo-progressives are slowly but surely being revealed for what they really are- a bunch of Tax & Steal conmen. as they rob millions of Peters (citizens) to pay their very few Pauls (friends, relations and cronies)

Kobo has ,ade a good call on this one.
She is simply asking that the governor come clean on the deal with NRC. Now, is that too much to ask for the peoples' money?
Clearly Aregbesola is using the citizens' money to pay for their "free" ride to Lagos.  
And when you look at how much he "claims" to have paid (including the cost of undelivered 40 coaches and wagons from China) it will be multiple times the amount of train tickets to Lagos.
Slowly, slowly people are waking up to the Tax & Steal fraud that is the ACN- Association of Conmen in Nigeria despite their media circus of spin stories.

Have we also considered the relative percentage of 1st class from each university category?
The 62 out of over 8,000 Uniben graduates is 0.775% i.e. less than 1% of graduating students made 1st class. That does not look impressive to me.
What is teh percentage for private and state universities?

Tonia Lee:
If it was 'fatal' she'd be dead. It might have been severe or serious

Some people and their i too know attitude sha.I am sure everyone understood the explanation.No need for the definations.

Simple correction was offered without any abuse or insult to someone else and one would expect a smart person to acknowledge and say thanks. But not nuts in Nigeria.
And by the way it is defin[b]i[/b]tions not defin[b]a[/b]tions.
Yet we wonder why we are ruled by retards and rogues from all parties- PDP, ACN, CPC, APGA etc

Can anyone who is more tech-savvy help me post the you tube video as an embedded page?
Thanks in advance

Pukkah:
This is a good question which is yet to be addressed or proved. This is why I wrote 'the owner of First Nation' in my post before this on this thread. The ownership of First Nation airline at best remains a conjecture.

Fashola's Senior Special Adviser for Nairaland Social Network has so far confirmed that the godfather of his boss owns the airline from $30m bank loan.
Una think sey Eko Ile no sabi the thing wey im dey yarn concerning dem Area Father anymore

Maxidoe:
@Gbawe i always respect your opinion concerning corrupt government especially the ineffective and corrupt Jonathan,but am short of words when you argue ferociously in support of the rogue Tinubu,we all know he is great and unrepentant thief who has also infected Fashola.When we choose to condemn corruption please lets do it without prejudice,for me the only difference between Jona and Tinubu is that Tinubu is a noise maker but they are both unrepentant thieves who do not care about the entity called Nigeria and Nigerians,they both don't deserve and kind of support from Nigerians except of course from their family members and beneficiaries.

And to all justifying his stealing saying he is investing,please listen to yourselves.You all condemn IBB,yet you guys agree he is the major owner of glo,that is also employing thousands of Nigerians,should be we then ignore his stealing escapades? lets not be double standard, stealing is stealing,no matter what you do with the money,Anini stole and even helped the poor,that never justified his stealing.

I am sure Gbawe et al will rise to the ocassion offered to defend these allegations.

blackowl:
You guys just come online and spout nonsense, without even trying to find out the truth. Firstnation Airways is fully owned by Kayode Odukoya!!! The guy has been struggling for the past couple of years to start the operations, right now, I am dead sure that he is still struggling to by fuel to maintain the operations and you just sit there and assume that the Airline belongs to Tinubu?!!!

Please get your facts right, Tinubu does not have a dime in Firstnation!!! This is an insult to some of us that had to work for close to 2 years with 25% salary in an average of three months, to get that operation started.

Save your breath with your lies.
Eko Ile who is in Tinubu and Fashola's inner circles already confirmed that his boss's godfather bought the airline for $30m financed with a bank loan.

Eko Ile:
Dont blame the man because they dont know how to secure bank loans to start business in  your village.

Ignorant people.

Watch here:

You Tube

Real result as released by the returning officer empowered by LAW to release results contrary to what was released by the Chairman of LASIEC two days later, Is This not what ACN fought in other states, now they are giving it to us in Badagry. We must rise up and fight this Injustice, ACN gave us a Non performing chairman, is it not right we vote him out legitimately? If our Votes cannot count then what will-VIOLENCE?

hillsate:
If you really look at labels on suit, they are fixed loosely because it is meant to be removed. The essence of the labels on suit is for quick identification of the designer by the purchaser. Who has time to be opening inside s suit to know the designer.

Indeed the answer is NO, capital NO.
I have read something like the bold part above.
Moreover when in doubt check out how the designers, celebs and leaders of the countries that originated the fashion item wear it.
Anyway be sure not to wear your suit with label on when visiting the White House, Buckingham Palace, Westminster, Paris fashion shows etc.

The Rep. Gbajabiamila has done very well in not only rejecting the national honour but also for the very valid reasons he gave for doing so.
However, he can do better.
He should also reject that portion of his outrageous salary and allowances that are beyond what is approved by the Revenue Mobilization Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC).
Then we will know he is very serious about reforming Nigeria and not only playing to the gallery as most smart politicians do.

eGuerrilla:
Who said it is?
What I was trying to illustrate is that, even allowing for the conflicting figures provided by UNDP and WHO, Life Expectancy was higher than 47.56 in 2010. Simple.

It would have been useful if you could provide figures from the same source over the two years to make your comment convincing.

Gbenge 77:
And he travelled to Australia with over 400 delegates.

Where did you get your 400 figure from. I have read about 120, which is intself outrageous but why stretch it to "over 400"?

eGuerrilla:
Wait a minute, life expectancy has gone up from 47.56 years to 51.9 years since May 2010?
Presido really needs to start providing clear references on his facebook page, as the world health organisation clearly has life expectancy for Nigeria as 53/54 for 2009 http://www.who.int/countries/nga/en/

So how is 2009 the same as 2010?

doctokwus:
If we are not ranked above only war torn countries,den war torn countries must b ranked above us,dat makes it worse

If you cannot answer the simple question that I asked you should please kindly move on. Nor be by force, you hear!
Let us learn to be objective and concise in our criticism. Thanks.

cjfavour:
Nigeria is ranked above only war torn countries. Even mst of them are ranked above us.

Will you be kind enough to show us how many of the countries listed below are war torn. Thanks for obliging.

157. Nepal
158. Haiti
159. Mauritania
160. Lesotho
161. Uganda
162. Togo
163. Comoros
164. Zambia
165. Djibouti
166. Rwanda
167. Benin
168. Gambia
169. Sudan
170. Côte d'Ivoire
171. Malawi
172. Afghanistan
173. Zimbabwe
174. Ethiopia
175. Mali
176. Guinea-Bissau
177. Eritrea
178. Guinea
179. Central African Republic
180. Sierra Leone
181. Burkina Faso
182. Liberia
183. Chad
184. Mozambique
185. Burundi
186. Niger
187. Congo (Democratic Republic of the)

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=793016.msg9467389#msg9467389 date=1320252349]There is nothing wrong with working with the west.

You'll eventually have to do it if you want to get wealthy anyways.

Cutting off your nose to spite your face doesn't make any sense. . . political leaders have to do whatever it takes to make their country (or state, in this case) better.[/quote]Working with the west like China, Japan, South Korea and other Asian nations have done over the years and made enough progress to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the west is no problem.
However, relying on support from the west and their endorsement of our programmes is making ourselves subordinate to them and is very unhealthy to sustainable development. In short Africans are not "working" with the west we are dependent on them in various ways and manners despite being granted independence over five decades/ half a century ago.
That is why UK's David Cameron can have the effontery of saying they will stop assisting countries who do not recognise ga.y and les.bian rights.

OmoLisabi:
You need to ask the workers why they are not on strike if truly they have not been paid for the past 2 months hum

I am sure you read somewhere that their labour leaders said they can wait.
Of course that suggests in Nigeria that they have gotten their own settlement to the detriment of the workers.

@ Gbawe et al,

You still have not answered why Aregbesola did not pay civil servants for two months as alleged by PDP Osun state while he spends money on rented crowd to Abuja for Tinubu's court appearance the same way PDP did for Bode George and everyone criticised them. How are these civil servants expected to survive if they hacve not been paid for two months? And yet they are expected to continue working! Is this not an open invitation for corruption for these civil servants by the self-acclaimed progressive governor?
Btw, what were Aregbesola's achievements as Lagos state commissioner for works under Tinubu's tenure?

My reference to rather begging white people (netherlands) for support has nothing racist about it.
It is a question of leaving your rights (fair allocation from FG) to seek external support from foreigners. That is very wrong IMHO.

Gbawe:
Even the table you supplied shows that at least 30 States recieved higher gross statutory allocation than Osun State !!! that puts Osun around 31st !!!! No disrespect, but I must ask if you are able to read and comprehend at all because I don't know where you got the "11th highest State" jargon from. Simply incredible. Do you think others cannot read also or did you expect that nobody would actually inspect your link to debunk your nonsensical lie?

@ Gbawe,

I would like to apologise for the misleading psoition (11th) I gave to Osun state. You are correct.
I was in a hurry this morning and took the # of LGs 30 to be the serial # of Osun state on the table thus using Oyo state figures.
Error sincerely regretted.
Nevertheless all other responses I posted are intact and you are yet to credibly defend any of them

Gbawe:
what unites all ACN Governors is their strong commitment to raising IGR while all others indolently brandish begging bowls .

So they would rather beg white people:

eg the Netherland, have already committed technical and financial support

than ensure they get their fair share of the federal allocation  

Your fake progressives would also rather tax their citizens:

massively increase IGR

so they can have more to steal, abi  

Gbawe:
Are you following discussions at all ? Osun recieves the 33rd lowest monthly allocation in Nigeria

This is definitely a lie. Osun State is the 11th highest state on the federal allocation table here

So I am almost more than certain that your comment:

of which at least 65-70% is used to pay salary and emollument !!!!

is also another fabrication of your mind. Otherwise post Osun state's 2011 budget and expenditure on this thread.

Osun PDP has raised a valid point:

Workers have not been paid for two months by a pseudo-progressive government of Association of Conmen in Nigeria (ACN) despite the huge monthly federal allocation, IGR, bank loans etc.
Yet Aregbesola can send ACN thugs to Abuja on solidarity with Chief Conman- Tinubu in state government vehicles paid for with tax payers money and federal allocation received on behalf of all the residents of the state (irrespective of the political affiliation). Aregbesola also abandoned his duty post in Osun state to be in the court in Abuja. Is this how to deliver dividends of democracy to the voters in Osun state
Let ACN people sit up and work properly instead of becomin a Tax & Steal party.
PDP should continue to scrutinise EVERY action and omission by ACN to provide valuable opposition to this band of conmen masquerading as progressives. That is what democracy is all about and ACN does that whereever they are not in power so why not PDP?

kalokalo:
What most folks don't even realize was that Awo's "free" education was never free. Every parent in the then SW region of the Sixties was levied an education tax per head. It was about 7 pounds (b4 Nigeria switched to Naira) then. This forced every parent to ensure their kids attended school as the levy was imposed whether your kids go to school or not. The mostly agrarian SW citizens complained bitterly about this tax and how it forced them to forego their young children's help on their farms. The "free" education was ONLY for basic (primary) education and it was universal in compliance.

Where are you getting this rubbish spin from
Jakande and other UPN governors gave free education up to secondary school level, including textbooks, of which Babatunde Raji Fashola must have beneffited as a student in Birch Freeman from 1978-1983 assuming he did not repeat any class.
Moreover since Tinubu's days IGR for Lagos has increased from taxes many 100s times over compared to what Jakande received.

donspony:
A 25 grand tuition fee = £100.

Even if 250k is a bit too much for students, we need to know quality education comes at a price.

How would you compare your £100 a year degree to say a £3500 UK degree?

Why are making false, misleading comparisons?
What is the minimum wage in the UK ?
How much does the MPs and Prime Minister earn in the UK compared to their minimum wage earner?
Can you compare that difference to that between Nigerian legislators and President/Governors versus N18,000 minimum wage?
How many of the students receive scholarship in UK universities?
Are there viable options to a university degree in the UK compared to Nigeria?

good idea on the face of it as I am not an IT payment expert.
i hope they will pay the end users/beneficiaries promptly without delay. I remember one airline that ran aground years ago because they were not paying for the wet lease of airplanes to the owners even though they were selling tickets and passengers were stranded at xmas/ new year on the US route. Meanwhile the MD was never dragged to court for damages, inconveniences etc.
I have heard similar stories about phone card companies.
Lawless country!!!

And her husbdnad with herself are not leaders or what
Dumb, dumber, dumbest!!!

I think there must be a misunderstanding somewhere. Fashola cannot do something like this- 900% school fees increment in a state university?
This cannot come from a progressive governor of a leading state in the Yoruba southwest- the "Centre of Excellence"
Not from someone who enjoyed free education from Jakande for four out of the five years he was in Birch Freeman High School and may have received Lagos state bursary to assist him through his years in University of Benin.
And to think I read that the parents of these students contribute N20b monthly as taxes, levies, penalties etc to Fashola's treasury as part of his N450b annual budget 
It is either Fashola wants to breed more Area boys against 2015 or raise cash for his godfather's case with CCB. In any case this uncalled for.

PDP finally waking up to fill the vacuum of a serious opposition to ACN
Let's hope so at least that will make ACN to step up their game and be more accountable to the populace rather than to some Area father.

LAGOS State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) are trading words over Governor Babatunde Fashola’s attendance at the on-going trial of his predecessor and former governor of the state, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in Abuja.

While the PDP faulted Fashola’s appearance, the ACN cautioned PDP against distracting the governor.

In a statement issued yesterday by state PDP Publicity Secretary, Taofik Gani, the party berated Fashola for “leaving the state at this critical period”, saying that the governor’s action has confirmed the suspicion that “his allegiance is to his predecessor and not the state. Otherwise why should a serious governor leave his state at this trying period of Lagos State University Student (LASU) students’ unrest and post-local council election protest, among others, for such a matter?”

Gani said the office of the governor of the state was getting completely desecrated because of the influence of one man and the indulgence by the governor.

The statement further stated that by Fashola’s attendance, the state may be implicated to appear as “accessory after the fact” of the offence.

According to Gani, “If there is to be any diligent prosecution of a former governor, the present governor must be unbiased and willing to support the overriding interest of the state. But alas, this governor has demonstrated that he may not release any evidence that could help bring to book his predecessor. Lagosians now know that there is too much secrecy in the Governor’s Office. No wonder Lagos State has deliberately refused to domesticate the Freedom of Information Act (FoI) ACT”.

But the ACN condemned Lagos PDP for allegedly casting aspersions on Fashola for appearing as one of the more than 25 senior advocates who appeared to defend Tinubu at the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja yesterday.

In a statement by the state publicity secretary of the party, Joe Igbokwe, ACN said the PDP left aside the worst electoral defeat it suffered in the latest local council elections to see if it can make something out of nothing, pursuing rats.

Igbokwe said: “Governor Fashola is a lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) for that matter and he understands the implications of his actions and deeds as he does his duty as the Executive Governor of Lagos State. He knows the facts about this case and he understands what is at stake.

“Has Lagos PDP seen the charges against Tinubu? Where is the proof of their phantom charges against Tinubu? Why is Tinubu being tried in Abuja? There are things Governor Fashola knows which little minds in Lagos PDP do not know. Governor Fashola appeared at CCT as a lawyer and not as the governor of Lagos State. That is why he sat where the SANs sat”.

Guardian

Is there an improvement or not
The improvement has been accomplished under whose watch
Now is there room for more improvement? definitely yes and this can be done by acknowledging the positive journey so far while not neglecting to provide constructive criticisms for further improvement for the benefit of most Nigerians.
Overall, Jonatahn's "weak" style of allowing institutions function without undue executive interference is what will deepen our democracy away from the days of military dictatorship and their ex-soldier successors.
Did Obama not say that Africa does not need great men; it needs great institutions!
We are watching.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=790452.msg9428206#msg9428206 date=1319710320]Please do not attempt to make the ridiculous claim that Tinubu is not charged with a crime. Breaking any law is a crime, whichever way you look at it, so where CCT is trying Tinubu for breaking the law, they are essentially conducting a criminal trial. Surely you are not claiming that this is a civil trial, are you? Tinubu may not have been charged with participating in the type of crimes handled by EFCC, but he is definitely on trial and charged with criminal offenses, thus this trial is a criminal trial.

This trial will be moved to lagos state where Tinubu would easily fight and bribe his way out of jail. You know it, I know it, GEJ knows it, and even blind men know it.[/quote]Thanks for your POV on my criminal/not criminal explanation and the not-so-abrassive way you put it across.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=790452.msg9427466#msg9427466 date=1319702411]Prof. Itse Sagay SAN

“Under Criminal Law, a person is to be tried at the place where the offence was committed. That was why James Ibori’s case was transferred from Kaduna to Delta State. Although I have not read the details, but if that is the reason his counsel has given, then he is right.”

We all know what happened to Ibori's case after the trial was moved to Delta state. If I were on Tinubu's team, I would have advised him to let the trial continue since, as claimed, all charges against Tinubu, are baseless and without merit. The trial location should not matter if indeed this is an open and shut case. e be like say dis Tinubu go go prison sooner or later.[/quote]Point of correction- the CCT is not for criminal trials unlike EFCC. Hence EFCC cases are tried where teh offence was committed. Moreover in this instance he is simply accused of operating foreign accounts contrary to the Code of Conduct for governors as opposed to stealing Lagos government money. I hope you can see the difference.
I hope the judges sitting at the CCT will be courageous enough to do the right thing and not allow Tinubu to dribble like small pikins.