anonimi: Fashola to Nigerians: 'If You Want to Have Stable Electricity Supply, Vote PDP Out in 2015'
Jul 11, 2014.
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, while marking his 2,600 days in office at an elaborate ceremony held at the Blue Roof of the Lagos Television premises, has said voting out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from power in next year’s general election is the only way the country can have stable electricity.
According to The Nation, Fashola said electricity crisis in the country is caused by lack of ideas and insincerity of purpose on the part of Federal Government.
"Yes I agree with you that it is possible to generate electricity and to make sure that everybody in this country has electricity, we have to do the right thing. But you know what, the only way that you and I will have electricity in this country will be to vote out the PDP.
pendy79: Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Sunday evening boasted that he could provide uninterrupted power supply to Lagos residents between six and eight months.
Fashola spoke at the commissioning of 8.5 megawatts Lekki Independent Power Project (IPP), the fifth of such power projects in the last five years in the state.
The governor said the addition of the Lekki IPP was a testament to the fact that stable power does not require rocket science to achieve in the country.
While challenging power distribution companies in the state, Fashola said, “Let the Eko DISCOs sign a contract with me, giving part of their concessioning to the state government, in about six to eight months, there will be power in all homes in Lagos State,” Fashola said.
He added, “So, let no one say that he has no money to deliver power for the entire country. This is the limit to which the law allows us to do, but we have done this to make a statement that power can be generated. So, when they come with lies that power is impossible, you can tell them that we have power here; we make it possible”.
The project, courtesy of the state government, in partnership with Heritage Bank, is to serve Lagos State Water Corporations in Lekki Phase 1, Oniru, Victoria Island and Ikoyi, as well as over 25km of public lightening in the Lekki axis.
wellmax: The gap here is not about what the continent has to offer.
#Africa has more variety, history, landscape, and human culture than most travellers will ever fully explore.
The gap and absence of some countries from this list is about investment, infrastructure, visa policy, and the story being told to the world about what is actually here.
The #tourists are going where it is easy to go and where someone spent real money making sure they knew about it.
SadiqBabaSani: Not impressive, she should be careful so that enemies of her late Husband KINSMEN will not use her to rubbish them.
I think the Igbo people are too emotional though.
Me n my Isoko ethnic group, our own we are always at war with ourselves
Who is a greater enemy of her kinsmen than northerner Jagaban of Borgu who claims to be a city boy
Highways: Where Are The Cows? Is Evans A Herdsman?'
When Funke Olakurin, daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti was murdered instead of Bola Tinubu to make sure that the perpetrators were brought to book, he ended up making fun of the death of the young lady by turning everything into tribalism by showing his hates for Igbos.
Tinubu has never spoken against the deadly activities of Fulani herdsmen across the country
The same stand Adeyinka Grandson gave on the death of Fasoranti's daughter is where Tinubu, the leader of the Yoruba Conservatives stands. Please see Tinubu's video below. pic.twitter.com/COhiSvabqW
— Adeyinka Grandson (@deyinkagrandson) July 14, 2019
Mrs Olakunrin died of gunshot wounds in July 2019 after her vehicle was attacked by armed men, suspected to be marauding Fulani bandits whose violent activities had reached a frightening level across the southwest states.
Those arrested suspects include Lawal Mazaje, 40, from Felele area of Kogi State; Adamu Adamu, 50, from Jada area of Adamawa State; Mohammed Usman, 26, from Illela area of Sokoto State and Auwal Abubakar, 25, from Shinkafi area of Zamfara State....
However, the leader of the team, identified only as Tambaya, and three others are yet to be found.
Tambaya has been declared wanted by the police and he is said to be capable of communicating in Hausa, Fulfude and Pidgin English.
Afriifa: They are all thieves. Is just a concern among them when one is a bigger thief
Tinubu is the biggest thief among them, seeing that he has 53% federation account to himself and has failed woefully in governance just like his Lagos master plan is a big failure.
Thedon22: Everybody is attracted to Tinubu. All the govs are except the yes daddy supporters. Even all the developed countries are rushing him - China, UK, Trump, etc. The haters can go hug transformers.
Such an amazing idea of hugging transformers, especially when Adelabu Pẹnkẹlẹmẹs has confirmed that 150 million Nigerians have adequate electricity as Fashola, Buhari, Tinubu and All Promises Cancelled, APC promised 11 years ago.
HacheNoire: INEC should cancel the 2027 presidential election.
Use the budgeted funds to buy cat fish pepper soup and orange juice for every Nigerian.
It’s practically of no use going into that election and will just be a complete waste of funds!
Instead of cat fish pepper soup, why are you not suggesting that the money is used to pay the subsidy we are being forced to pay APC for the massive corruption in the oil sector since 2015
anonimi: Petrol should never cost more than N70 per litre, says APC
January 19, 2015
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mere tokenism the reduction of petrol price from N97 to N87 per litre, saying the petroleum product ordinarily should sell for N70.
On Sunday, the federal government announced the reduction of petrol price, citing the fall of global crude oil price.
But the APC through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, on Monday accused the government of making a show out of deceit, saying “a 10.3 per cent slash in the price of petrol was a mere tokenism at a time the price of crude oil has crashed by about 60 per cent”.
It argued that the pump price of a litre of petrol should not be more than 70 Naira, alleging that at N87 per litre, the government was forcing Nigerians to subsidise the massive corruption in the oil sector by N17 for every litre of fuel.
clark0: This is quite commendable.. keep up the good work
What precisely about the meeting and the shared report is quite commendable?
Is it the fact that Tinubu is so clueless about insecurity that he has to seek help from our former colonial masters?
The cluelessness he displayed in Chatham House before he grabbed power after fighting for it, only to run cluelessly with it like a headless pig 🐖?
Any idea why he delegated insecurity questions to El Rufai three years ago, when Ribadu was available as part of his campaign team? Ribadu that was ACN’s 2011 candidate.
Segzy19: Na death go end everything. Which of it did he take along?
Yet, others won't learn....
Why should they learn when their fellow citizens allow them to loot and rationalise their Stockholm Syndrome affliction with tribalistic zoning and rotation of sharing the national cake
I don't even think politicians can change Nigeria again.
People needs to think outside the box, because their Destiny is not in politics and governance.
How do you mean that everyone’s destiny is not in politics and governance when every single aspect of society is based on policies enacted and enforced by politicians
Comfyonos2019: WE should speak like educated people. Did tinubu increase price of fuel . Was it tinubu that increases the international price of crude oil. Let's me objective in our discourse rather than look for any avenue to bash tinubu.
At what point since May 20, 2023 did Tinubu crash petrol price as he promised below
Deltafirstson: Although the pump price of fuel was N197 when President Bola Tinubu took over on May 29, 2023, the product now sells for N617 per litre – less than two months after.
In his inaugural address, Tinubu announced that subsidy was gone, fulfilling a promise that all leading presidential candidates made during the campaign.
Nigerians have been lamenting the hardship occasioned by fuel price hike. Amid the lamentation, a video where Tinubu campaigned to slash the price of fuel went into circulation.
Checks by Daily Trust affirmed the authenticity of the video uploaded on the YouTube page of Channels Television.
At his campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on January 25, 2023, Tinubu spoke on a number of issues, but those of fuel scarcity and naira redesign made the headlines.
However, Tinubu who spoke in Yoruba language, also assured the crowd that though people were saying petrol price would hit N200, it would be reviewed downward under him.
“The great Nigerian youths, the great Nigerian students, the confident Nigerian youths. This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. They are plotting, but they will fail. They said fuel price will increase and reach N200 per litre. Go and relax, we will bring it down,” he had said in the 7th minute of the video.
math2001: it is local government responsibilities to carry waste bin
How many people are employed by the 20 constitutional Lagos LGAs to carry waste bins, and paid N70,000 minimum wage, especially since 2024 when they have been receiving 20% of the federation account directly
A 45-year-old resident and father of three, Mr.Fatai Lamide told PUNCH HealthWise that no building in the community has toilet facilities.
The Oyo State-born mechanic said, “We don’t have toilet in this area, including our compound. This canal that you see serves as toilet to all of us living in this area. We defecate inside nylon and throw it inside the canal.
“For people that don’t want to use nylon, they have a special bucket that they use after which they pour it inside the canal too.
lawani: Igbos have returned home to build their land as Enugu, Owerri, Onitsha and Aba are now more populated than any city in Yoruba land apart from Lagos, Ibadan, Ilorin and Akure. According to the number of hotels and bank branches as available online.
All those Eastern cities are about the same size now by number of hotels and bank branches but they are individually like half of Ibadan.
Were posh Lagosians drinking water in shitty boreholes 63 years ago like they are today, despite city boy’s master plan increasing budget 100 times over the last three decades
What greater enemy of progress is there than the man who increases tax burden, removes subsidy and still borrows money but owes workers, owes contractors and rolls over capital budgets from year to year
I am wondering also whether this is the same Awo family that Tinubu's newspaper abused thoroughly in the article below.
Babasessy: The Awolowo rebirth in the Southwest has inspired gongs, songs and rhetoric of sorts. But they have missed one point.
It occurred to me in Abeokuta last week amidst the big crowds and euphoria of the swearing-in of Senator Ibikunle Amosun as governor. In all the states from Lagos to Edo, where Awo has witnessed ideological resurgence, hardly a single family member has played a role.
So we have an Awo family without an Awo. That is an irony. But history overwhelms us with this sort of twist. Obafemi Awolowo toiled for his reputation. His roots were lowly, he toiled to school both home and abroad, launched into careers in law, business, journalism and eventually politics. He carved a niche for himself, and became the first methodical and charismatic leftist in our history. Other leftists abounded but they did not inspire comparable drama and following.
He faced tribulations, went to jail, failed in elections, won a few, but he imprinted his ideas and legacy in the country, and no single mortal has beaten him in the history of this country. His greatest achievement was in the area of ideas, and that was how he fashioned a family. Most families are born of biology but his issued from ideology. That family suffered with him.
In a spoof of Jesus Christ, these were the men who followed him in his teachings, and endured with him in his temptations. So he formed a kingdom for them in the Southwest, in the old Western Region, presiding over his projects, his legacies and people.
In all of these, the family he had was not his flesh and blood. In another spoof of Christ, who were his family anyway? Those who were with him must be counted as his family. So, I combed in the ambience of Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), and I found none. I went to Ogun, I frisked the crowd under Amosun’s bower, hardly any. Around Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Osun, I could not lay a finger. With Governor Kayode Fayemi in Ekiti, where are the forbears of Awo? Yet, I can hear the chants of Awo. Hardly in any of the inaugural speeches or any of their other public intervention would you miss the philtre and filter of Awo from these gentlemen. To parody Novelist Joseph Conrad, they are the sparks from Awo’s sacred fire, the messengers of the might within the man.
Already all of them are pursuing the legacy ideas of Awo: free education, free health services, infrastructural development, urban renewal and economic engineering.
Lagos has posted itself as the John the Baptist. The others are putting up valiant efforts, and the world of course is watching to see how well they will perform. It will call for great work, resourcefulness and cooperation. They are the real Awoists, and Awo was a man of rigour and vigour.
The Awo son that many expected to take after the father was Olusegun, who unfortunately died in a car crash. We shall never know if he could have pulled it off. But the others have not shown much of the paterfamilias’ brio and depth. In the past decade, under this republic, they have blended with the wrong crowd. Even H.I.D, hobnobbed with Alao-Akala, who brought illiteracy to governance; with Oyinlola who turned the grace of office into a hell-hole of despots; with Daniel who could not arrest his quick fall into megalomania.
I wrote once that this woman whom Awo once described as the jewel of inestimable value has lost value to his cause. If he came back to life, he would have committed the extraordinary act of divorce after death. Even his newspaper, The Tribune, has so stumbled and fallen that it swims in Awo’s vomit.
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