What is the purpose of the increased tax revenue that is not showing in improved government services and utilities plus infrastructure maintenance?
Are hardworking taxpayers meant to suffer while T-Pain and other government officials enjoy more luxury
chisomkachy: Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s first supplementary budget includes a fleet of SUVs for himself and his wife, a presidential yacht and the renovation of his villa amid a cost-of-living crisis for some of the poorest people in the world.
The proposal — which seeks additional funding beyond the annual budget approved by Tinubu’s predecessor — comes as the government asks Nigerians to persevere through pain caused in part by a raft of economic reforms ushered in by the new president. Africa’s most populous country faces rampant unemployment, soaring food prices and a plummeting currency.
Federal lawmakers approved the president’s request for extra spending on Thursday, but eliminated the provision of 5 billion naira ($6.01 million) to buy a presidential yacht. Instead, they doubled the allocation to a student loan fund to 10 billion naira, according Abubakar Bichi, chairman of an appropriations committee in the House of Representatives.
The lawmakers approved 1.5 billion-naira proposed to purchase SUVs for the office of First Lady Oluremi Tinubu — an amount larger than that allocated to many individual federal colleges. The supplementary budget also proposes almost 6 billion naira to purchase SUVs for the presidency — more than the amount initially allocated to fund a student loan program for poor families.
smartemperor042: Many of them are moving to the ruling party, surely not for the interest of the masses, but to secure their re-election bid.
The Oga at the top will surely deliver them with the grab and run mentality come 2027.
At last, a time is coming......very soon, when even the rich will cry in this Country, as the poor masses in the land will be left with nothing else to eat but to hunt and eat the rich!!!
No Region will be free from this coming doom!!!
Please do you mind providing details of the WORKS you are doing for this time to come VERY soon?
Uranos: PDP is past it's prime in the Nigeria political landscape. They are done and dusted m it's just a matter of time some big wigs ok the party are just wait on the right time to switch party
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That is so true since APC has delivered the change it promised 10 years ago. How much of the promised change have you felt since 2015?
Do you know if poverty has become less, or become more
Emergingnation: Flashback: How Bola Tinubu spoke highly of Buhari in 2015, named PDP ‘Poverty Development Party
National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu had during the presidential campaign in 2015, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as the only solution for the security and economic challenges facing Nigeria.
During a mega presidential rally, the former governor of Lagos State recalled how some powerful nations in the world returned to army generals when they were challenged, saying “Major General Buhari would revive Nigeria’s economy”.
He named the current opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP as the “Poverty Development Party saying they had nothing to offer.
His words at the time were; “Every nation has a period of their own challenges, when America was challenged, they turned to one great man, their ex-military general, General Eisenhower. When the French were challenged, they turned to their general, Charles de Gaulle.
“When Britain was challenged, they turned to their general. Today, Nigeria is economically and physically challenged so we turn to General Muhammadu Buhari. He is the right man for the job. If you talk about military experience, he has it abundantly, he has courage, simplicity, he has it abundantly.
“If you talk about great determination, a combination of vision and ability to perform, honesty and integrity, he has it abundantly.
“I laugh when the incapable government, ‘Poverty Development Party’ PDP were talking. They have nothing again to say, they now want to question the qualifications of General Buhari and look for his certificate”.
Following the manifestos in 2015 which projected the APC presidential candidate as a ‘saviour’, Buhari defeated the then incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with Nigerians expecting a total change in security and economy.
HandyRex: Abacha dey learn work for where this woman dey. She even has the effrontery to talk about her image. What imagine if I ask? She claimed they are hellbent on tarnishing her image. No be only image, na portrait
Pls someone kindly help me with something pls. No matter how little or much. It's hard to survive these days. Pls 🙏. I don't want to start narrating ugly tales. Pls Help me
The Abacha who Buhari said was not a thief in 2008?
Has Buhari and Tinubu with their APC been less corrupt than Diezani, Jonathan and PDP if our debts have increased since 2015 despite growing revenue but still the economy is getting worse
Gerrard59: Those who enjoyed Jonathan's administration saw hell during Buhari's. Nigeria entered into a recession TWICE within four years. That was when the Canada frenzy kicked off. I know this because I lived through it. It then I realised things could have worsened if my parents had just one more child. You think it is today people began to japa? You mentioned the dollar rate, how much was it under Jonathan compared to when Buhari left office? Your 500K was very big money under Jonathan and people were flying to London every weekend. Add 100 - 200K and that was the entry level salary for Shell. The economy was growing at 6% per annum only for Buhari to enter and eventually leave office, yet the economy didn't hit 5% annual growth throughout his eight years.
No be today Nigerian economy begin get problem. The same occurred during IBB tenure.
I appreciate your persistence on limited number of children.
You may want to also acknowledge that poor, idle people have more children because they don’t have any other means of recreation.
It’s therefore necessary for those of us who understand that, to evangelise and proselytise others until we have a critical mass of enlightened people to oblige government officials (local, state and federal levels in the legislative and executive branches) to prioritise our money for free basic education and basic healthcare plus support for MSMEs and large corporations, which will keep everyone too busy to make babies.
anonimi: Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?
In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;
or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority? \ \ The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.
Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.
Eleyi ti yà wéré ó. Over pampered Nigerians who are dying in stampedes for food while senators like him are following T-Pain to increase their luxury at our expense?
Should Amadioha not strike him
[quote author=NLCreator post=126854133]Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, has defended the purchase of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) for members of the national assembly.
There have been reports that the leadership of the 10th national assembly has bought SUVs for all lawmakers.
Each SUV is said to be valued at N160 million.
The LP had asked members of the party in the national assembly to kick against “wastage”.
While responding to questions during a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the former governor of Anambra said the SUVs are not personal cars of the lawmakers, noting that they are for official use.
“Let me start with the issue of Labour Party members in the house. I have actually discussed this issue with them,” Obi said.
“Surprisingly, I can tell you I heard that these vehicles are official cars. They have to use it. It is meant for office.
“So it is not as if it is their vehicle. They said it is official cars and you are meant to use it while you are in the senate.”
Obi also hinted at contesting for the country’s number one position in 2027, adding that Nigeria deserves dedicated and visionary leaders who will lead the country towards a brighter future.
Journalist: how do you intend to engage members of your party who are members of the house, so that they can stand different.......?
PO: Let me start with the issue of labour party members in the house, have actually discussed this issue with them, surprisingly, I can tell you ,… pic.twitter.com/svybrcY4t3
— Senator Baruch Chinanu Boniface (@SenatorBaruch1) November 7, 2023
I want to sell a script to a Hollywood studio. The story is about a guy who owns a farm that constantly runs at a loss but never quite shuts down.
The farm is massive and underutilised, and the protagonist has all the opportunities in the world to improve its output and get a bumper harvest.
He has access to credit, machinery, free irrigation and gifts from neighbouring farmers, but all he ever does with these things is drink and smoke them away while his family suffers.
Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world
Apart from drinking, smoking and generally being utterly useless, his other pastime is to pump out children at an industrial rate. Needless to say, he takes no care of his children whatsoever, and many of them fail to survive childhood.
Those who do survive have to leave the farm and hire themselves out as hired labour to the neighbouring farmers, having picked up some survival skills from home.
With time, a number of them rise through the ranks and become senior managers, directors and even shareholders in these other farms while their father continues mismanaging his farm.
When good news about some of these successful children gets home, their father is filled with pride and joy, but when they end up on the wrong side of life, he acts as if he never knew them.
The successful ones make efforts to revamp their childhood home by sending back money and volunteering their skills and time, but all this guy ever wants to do is be a 62-year-old underachieving idiot carried through life by charity and luck.
Famzing” diaspora success is dishonest I’m sure before the end of the second paragraph, you figured out whose story I was telling. The 62-year story of post-independence Nigeria — which the Hollywood studio would surely reject for being too sad with no redemption — is that of our fictional antihero.
Nigeria has refused to grow up and achieve something, but it somehow feels as if it is living vicariously through the achievements of its estranged children around the world.
Remember how everyone from corporate brands to Abike Dabiri made a big song and dance about supporting Anthony Joshua the “Nigerian,” whose only chance to become someone in life came when his parents emigrated from Nigeria?
Remember how things turned when he somehow lost against that chubby Mexican dude whose name I can’t remember? Remember when the Super Falcons won the female AFCON title and received a congratulatory tweet from the president, only for them to have to stage a protest before being paid their camp allowances?
That’s what we do in Nigeria. We try to live vicariously through the achievements of people who have achieved great things under their own steam, simply because said people happen to be called ‘Ifeoma,’ ‘Efe’ and ‘Ayotunde.’
Even when Nigeria had absolutely nothing to do with said success, or in fact happened in spite of Nigeria, as with Divine Oduduru, we bask in the reflected glory of their personal achievements.
Sometimes when those people wear a Nigerian flag or post something about Wizkid or Jollof Rice on Instagram, we go crazy with the Nigerian flag emojis because oh my god, they identify with us!
This is not about being a Killjoy Somehow, the complete failure of Nigeria and our complicity in its failure is more bearable when we point at Nigerian immigrants doing great things in life and say “I knew Femi before he started calling himself Anthony.
His father and I were classmates in Aiyetoro.” It is unclear how exactly this helps our situation but hey, it’s also unclear how chugging the amount of alcohol we do helps either.
Escapism is a key part of our culture, and anyone who dissents must be a non-Jollof-eating, vegetarian heretic, and possibly also an atheist.
Now while all this is painfully cringey to my eyes, some will also point out that Nigeria is not the only country that has a weird obsession with its diaspora population.
Even ‘first-world’ countries like Ireland continue to have deep emotional and economic connections to their diaspora, and in any case Nigerians proudly supporting Anthony Joshua or the NBA’s Giannis Ante…African-sounding-name is basically harmless fun. They’re not hurting anyone. Why be such a killjoy, David?
The reason this matters can be found in a quote that has been dubiously attributed to Russian President Vladmir Putin, where he describes Africa as the place where its diaspora does not invest in, but returns to only to die and be buried with their ancestors.
While there is no concrete evidence that Mr. Putin ever actually made that comment, the truth in it is painfully poignant.
For diaspora success to be meaningful to Nigeria, it must correlate to on-ground results in Nigeria. The example of Somalia shows that having a well-educated, globally successful diaspora while being an absolute basket case are both possible at the same time.
Racoon: Why now? Don't be tempted to think they are not aware of the illegality. It is daring to challenge the ruling dynasty that set Obasa up for the kill.His shuddering corruption have been an open secret but nothing was ever done about it.
As someone said, "when you leave the fold, they open everything. All of them are “association of people without certificates” APC. An apple doesn’t always fall far from its tree.
Like the shuddering corruption of Fashola that remains hidden
aloyemeka2: We may impeach Fashola - Lagos Assembly Written by Lanre Adewole, Tunde Oyesina and Yejide Gbenga-Ogundare Tuesday, February 16, 2010
THE Lagos House of Assembly has said that the report of the six-man probe panel set up to investigate Governor Babatunde Fashola will determine whether or not an impeachment process will be commenced against him.
The disclosure was contained in its objection to a suit filed by one Richard Akinnola seeking to stop the lawmakers from investigating the governor over alleged corruption.
A Lagos high court handling the suit had issued an interim order restraining the lawmakers from going ahead with the probe, pending the outcome of the suit challenging the exercise.
In the lawmakers' objection to the suit, they asked the court to vacate the said order and dismiss the suit, claiming that the initiator lacked the locus standi to institute the action.
In the written submission by Festus Keyamo, on behalf of the lawmakers, the court was told that the setting up of the six-man panel was constitutional, adding that "The Respondent (lawmakers) had not started any impeachment process. In fact, it is the report of the six (6)-man panel that may determine whether any impeachment process should commence or not."
The lawmakers' objection will be heard tomorrow at the Ikorodu High Court.
In the preliminary objection brought under Order 22 RULES 2(1) AND (2) OF THE HIGH COURT OF LAGOS STATE (CIVIL PROCEDURE) RULES 2004, the lawmakers described the main suit as "incompetent, frivolous, vexatious, academic, speculative and, therefore, an abuse of legal process."
The lawmakers further contended in their submission that "now that the claimant is complaining that the respondent cannot set up a committee to probe itself, and that this breaches the rules of natural justice, how are his civil rights affected by such an alleged breach? Is he a member of the respondent? Is he one of those who laid the allegations? The single answer to both questions is NO.
"Hence, the setting up of the six (6)-man panel within the respondent's House by the members was perfectly constitutional. The respondent had not started any impeachment process. In fact, it is the report of the six (6)-man panel that may determine whether any impeachment process should commence or not.
"It is submitted that a careful reading of Section 4(6) & (7), 103 and the second schedule i.e. Exclusive Legislative list and the concurrent legislative list will show that there is nothing unconstitutional in the act of the respondent in setting up the six (6)-man panel to look into the allegations against the state governor.
"It is, therefore, our submission that the House of Assembly, Lagos State, was perfectly in order when it appointed a six (6)-man panel of its members to look into the allegations of financial impropriety against the governor of Lagos State.
"The cases of Garba v. University of Maiduguri (1986) 1 NSCC 245 and Akomolafe v. The Speaker of Ondo State House of Assembly (1984) 5 NCLR 355 were the only cases relied on by the claimant in his written address to support the contention that it is only the court or the police that can adjudicate on or investigate crimes. Unfortunately, both cases had nothing to do with the investigation of the governor of a state by the House of Assembly.
"It leaves a sour taste in the mouth that a public officer will seek judicial cover against a simple issue of probity and accountability, the twin bedrock upon which we want to build the new Nigeria. It will set a bad precedent for the judiciary to give this kind of unwelcome cover to those who are in charge of the public till and to whom we have reposed our trust. Any public officer, who claims he is doing well in office should lay bare his accounts to show the public at what cost he is doing well."
The claimant, in the originating summons, had asked the court to determine:
*Whether the defendant can validly or lawfully investigate or cause to be investigated allegations of financial impropriety levelled against the executive and legislative arms of Lagos State government by a group published in The Punch of January 28, 2010 under the caption The True Face of Lagos or by any other group outside the purview of section 128(2) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999.
*Whether it is not a fundamental and violent violation of the principles of natural justice for the defendant to investigate or cause to be investigated, allegations of financial impropriety levelled against the executive and legislative arms of Lagos State government by a group published in The Punch of January 28, 2010 under the caption "The True Face of Lagos" or by any other group.
He also asked for the following reliefs:
*A declaration that the decision of the defendant to set up a six-man committee or any committee at all to investigate allegations of financial impropriety levelled against the executive and legislative arms of Lagos State government by a group published in The Punch of January 28, 2010 under the caption "The True Face of Lagos" or by any other group is in fundamental breach of Section 128(2) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and is, therefore, unconstitutional, illegal, unlawful, ultra vires and of no effect whatsoever.
*A declaration that the decision of the defendant to set up a six-man committee or any committee at all to investigate allegations of financial impropriety levelled against the executive and legislative arms of Lagos State government by a group in The Punch of January 28, 2010 under the caption "The True Face of Lagos" or by any other group is in violent and fundamental violation of the principles of natural justice and is, therefore, unconstitutional, unlawful, illegal, unfair, malicious and of no effect whatsoever.
*A declaration that having regard to the surrounding circumstances, the investigation by the defendant of allegations of financial impropriety levelled against the executive and legislative arms of Lagos State government by a group published in The Punch of January 28, 2010 under the caption "The Face of Lagos" or by any other group is tainted with bias and programmed to a predetermined end.
*An order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendant, whether by itself, agents, members, officers, privies or by whomsoever howsoever form proceeding with or acting on the purported investigation of allegations of financial impropriety levelled against the executive and legislative arms of Lagos State government by group published in The Punch of January 28, 2010 under the caption "The Face of Lagos" or by any other group.
Bobloco: They have been aware that he is fraudulent.
Tinubu works with fraudulent individuals. If you are too clean, he can't work with you.
Birds of a feather flock together. If you know you know.
Racoon: Festus Keyamo Defends Tinubu From Drug Trafficking, Says Tinubu Mistakenly Shared Flats With Drug Lords
The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr Festus Keyamo, has distanced the All Progressive Congress presidential candidata, Bola Tinubu, from being a drug baron who was involved in the traffic of narcotics in the United States.
Keyamo, who also doubles as APC Presidential Campaign spokesperson, noted that the former governor of Lagos State only shared a block of flat with drug barons about 30 years ago in the US.
His reaction is coming following documents of a Chicago District Court indicting and convicting Tinubu of drug dealings and money laundering in 1993.
The document which emerged online two days ago, described APC standard-bearer as a drug baron, adding that Tinubu entered a plea bargain, leading to the forfeiture of his assets to US authorities in 1993
It was also pointed out that Tinubu forfeited the sum of $460, 000 dollars in his bank account at First Heritage Bank to the US government.
Speaking on Wednesday on Channels TV, Mr Keyamo dismissed such claims, insisting that Tinubu was linked to drug peddlers who were his neighbours.
He said: “What happened was that Tinubu went to open an account. The address which he used in opening the account was the address used by these people. I think some blocks of flats. Maybe, he was happy to be in that block of flats too.
“So, they now link it that the other people they were investigating for narcotics are in the same address used by Asiwaju to open that account.’’
Leobankx: This is why they don't want a working Nigeria or even Africa at large, imagine a continent so blessed with natural resources depending on Importation and not only that, begging for loans from countries not as naturally blessed.
Stop blaming others for our own failures.
Why did THEY not stop a working UAE and Qatar that got independence 11 years after us? Or Singapore that separated from Malaysia in 1965, and has no natural resources? Ditto for South Korea that was dirt poor in 1960 when we got independence?
What is stopping you from working as hard as these countries instead of wailing upandan about oyinbos being responsible for our failures
anonimi: Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?
In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;
or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority? \ \ The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.
Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.
What should God do to T-Pain who scammed us with promises of crashing the price of petrol two years ago and has failed to deliver, even though he announced that Warri and PH refineries are producing?
What should God do to APC propagandists for packaging T-Pain’s 2011 expired soldier into their change messiah four years later when they only had shege in stock for us
saintopus: The PH Refinery ships its first export of petroleum products to Dubai. The company is expected to load the cargo in the coming days onboard the Wonder Star MR1 ship, signalling the commencement of operations at the plant and the exportation of petroleum products.
The ship will load 15,000 metric tons of the product, which translates to about 13.6 million litres.
Although the volume coming from the NNPC into the global market is still small, the development has the potential to impact the Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (VLSFO) benchmarks in the future while changing the market realities for Atlantic Basin exporters into Nigeria and other regions.
The sulfur content of the export by NNPC stands at 0.26 per cent per wt and a 0.918 g/ml density at 15°C, according to Kpler, a data and analysis company.
The cargo was reportedly sold at an $8.50/t discount to the NWE 0.5 per cent benchmark on a Free on Board (FOB) basis.
Kpler reported that the development would help displace imports from traditional suppliers in Africa and Europe, as Nigeria’s falling clean product (CPP) imports are already decreasing, dragging imports into the wider West Africa region lower as well.
temitope27: Tinubu will take us to the promise land
I know it
The promised land of palliatives instead of jobs for everyone’s prosperity?
What do you know really
Glimpsetv: A large crowd of Lagosians was filmed in a long queue struggling to collect a loaf of bread. To maintain order, several military personnel were on the ground to control the crowd. This has triggered a lot of reactions online.
Watch the video, share your thoughts in the comments.
It’s coming down with the palliative rice shared to student union leaders looters. Shebi that’s the only solution T-Pain has to every problem created by APC’s change messiah Buhari who turned out to be the shege master.
Lanreogunnowo: People can come on board to express themselves politely, comment reasonably, argue decently and criticize objectively without all the insults, abuses and courses.
Is that how T-Pain did to Jonathan and PDP below when he packaged his 2011 expired soldier as APC change messiah, when he was actually shege master Is poverty worse now, or is it better after 10 years of palliative sharing upandan instead of jobs?
Emergingnation: Flashback: How Bola Tinubu spoke highly of Buhari in 2015, named PDP ‘Poverty Development Party
National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu had during the presidential campaign in 2015, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as the only solution for the security and economic challenges facing Nigeria.
During a mega presidential rally, the former governor of Lagos State recalled how some powerful nations in the world returned to army generals when they were challenged, saying “Major General Buhari would revive Nigeria’s economy”.
He named the current opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP as the “Poverty Development Party saying they had nothing to offer.
His words at the time were; “Every nation has a period of their own challenges, when America was challenged, they turned to one great man, their ex-military general, General Eisenhower. When the French were challenged, they turned to their general, Charles de Gaulle.
“When Britain was challenged, they turned to their general. Today, Nigeria is economically and physically challenged so we turn to General Muhammadu Buhari. He is the right man for the job. If you talk about military experience, he has it abundantly, he has courage, simplicity, he has it abundantly.
“If you talk about great determination, a combination of vision and ability to perform, honesty and integrity, he has it abundantly.
“I laugh when the incapable government, ‘Poverty Development Party’ PDP were talking. They have nothing again to say, they now want to question the qualifications of General Buhari and look for his certificate”.
Following the manifestos in 2015 which projected the APC presidential candidate as a ‘saviour’, Buhari defeated the then incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with Nigerians expecting a total change in security and economy.
haybhi1: You will walk through the longitude and latitude of earth but you will find a lizard that smokes cigarette and a lion that eats only leaves first before you ever find an obidient that's blessed with an iota of intelligence.
If you and your fellow dogmatic BATists have any iota of intelligence, or even ordinary sense you would reflect on the emptiness of your DIRTY December. Do you know what T-Pain, Fashola, Ambode and Sanwo-Olu have done to the 60 times increase in the LASG budget since 1999? Any clue
anonimi: Ratio of public to private schools in Lagos State is one to 22 ― Commissioner September 4, 2022
The Lagos State government has said the ratio of public to private schools at both primary and secondary school levels in the state is one to 22.
The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, gave the revelation in her remark at the 2022 edition of the Total School Support Seminar Exhibition (TOSSE) held at Oregun in Ikeja between Thursday and Friday.
A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.
Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.
The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.
'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.
"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.
"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.
He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.
''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.
''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.
''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.
The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.
No, they just woke up and chose Lagos because they like the sound of the name Lagos.
Ewure.
The sufferhead ewure should be obvious to those who are not tribal Stockholm syndrome patients. Do you know what T-Pain, Fashola, Ambode and Sanwo-Olu have done to the 60 times increase in the LASG budget since 1999? Any clue
anonimi: Ratio of public to private schools in Lagos State is one to 22 ― Commissioner September 4, 2022
The Lagos State government has said the ratio of public to private schools at both primary and secondary school levels in the state is one to 22.
The state’s Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, gave the revelation in her remark at the 2022 edition of the Total School Support Seminar Exhibition (TOSSE) held at Oregun in Ikeja between Thursday and Friday.
A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.
Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.
The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.
'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.
"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.
"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.
He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.
''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.
''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.
''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.
The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.
richmond500: FH kidnapped people in Enugu? Give the dog a bad name before killing it.
No part of the writeup mentioned Fulani herdsmen but OP had to fix it in the topic for reasons I don't know
Are you thinking like T-Pain was thinking when he was scheming to be ebilokan president to continue APC shege that was disguised as change 10 years ago
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.
Mervingreat: Ok. No comment till we hear the other side of the story. So keep your aner and frustration. Mind you stop talking about "accountant"
Gej our own brother was PhD holder chibok occurred, terrorist bomb Abuja, corruption at the peak etc,
Buhari is Rtd Generral, Fulani Herdsmen bitch took over Nigeria, Boko Haram shot down combat helicopter, bandit came, ISWAP came, IDP everywhere so pls stop talking as if our challenges just started May 2023 ok it's solution to 38 years of mess we are trying to get in a complex society like Nigeria so pls calm down ok.
Jonathan did better by far than the olodos T-Pain packaged as messiahs of change instead of being identified as masters of shege that they truly are.
Is poverty worse or better now? On what socioeconomic indicator has APC done better than the 16 years of PDP
Emergingnation: Flashback: How Bola Tinubu spoke highly of Buhari in 2015, named PDP ‘Poverty Development Party
National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu had during the presidential campaign in 2015, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as the only solution for the security and economic challenges facing Nigeria.
During a mega presidential rally, the former governor of Lagos State recalled how some powerful nations in the world returned to army generals when they were challenged, saying “Major General Buhari would revive Nigeria’s economy”.
He named the current opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP as the “Poverty Development Party saying they had nothing to offer.
His words at the time were; “Every nation has a period of their own challenges, when America was challenged, they turned to one great man, their ex-military general, General Eisenhower. When the French were challenged, they turned to their general, Charles de Gaulle.
“When Britain was challenged, they turned to their general. Today, Nigeria is economically and physically challenged so we turn to General Muhammadu Buhari. He is the right man for the job. If you talk about military experience, he has it abundantly, he has courage, simplicity, he has it abundantly.
“If you talk about great determination, a combination of vision and ability to perform, honesty and integrity, he has it abundantly.
“I laugh when the incapable government, ‘Poverty Development Party’ PDP were talking. They have nothing again to say, they now want to question the qualifications of General Buhari and look for his certificate”.
Following the manifestos in 2015 which projected the APC presidential candidate as a ‘saviour’, Buhari defeated the then incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with Nigerians expecting a total change in security and economy.
How did a so-called first-class accountant and Lagos blueprint builder reduce governance to this pitiable level of rice palliatives?
Under his watch, Nigeria became the world's largest IDP camp.
As long as the student leaders looters don't stampede themselves to death in fighting for their congo of rice, nothing spoil. T-Pain is truly building on the extreme poverty achievements of his predecessor.
Glimpsetv: A large crowd of Lagosians was filmed in a long queue struggling to collect a loaf of bread. To maintain order, several military personnel were on the ground to control the crowd. This has triggered a lot of reactions online.
Watch the video, share your thoughts in the comments.
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has said politicians’ sins are forgiven when they join the ruling party.
Oshiomhole made this statement on Thursday, while welcoming new members to the party, at the APC presidential campaign in Benin.
As he reeled out names of those who have defected from the PDP to the APC, he said: “I am told that there are a lot of very very senior people from PDP who have decided to join forces with President Buhari to take the broom to sweep away PDP and to continue to ensure that APC continues to preside all over Nigeria.
“It includes my own brother, my friend who comes from my own clime, Henry Duke Genebe. He is the former organising secretary of PDP and we also have former vice chairman PDP and leader of Edo North of PDP. We also have my brother Chief Esheshi Godwin. He is also former council chairman and my very dear friend. We have quite a number of other leaders who have come.
“We have quite a number of other leaders who have come… in fact, once you have joined APC, all your sins are forgiven.”
TooMuchStuff: When Agbadorians finally discovered it is Over..
The suffering and smiling ebiNpawa wailers have upgraded to bread palliative now o, even though they risk being killed in stampedes.
What a miserable existence instead of the jobs promised by the Lagos master planner.
Glimpsetv: A large crowd of Lagosians was filmed in a long queue struggling to collect a loaf of bread. To maintain order, several military personnel were on the ground to control the crowd. This has triggered a lot of reactions online.
Watch the video, share your thoughts in the comments.
In a heartwarming display of love and appreciation, a devoted wife surprised her husband with a brand-new Rolls-Royce on his 60th birthday.
The wife, a successful businesswoman and the husband the owner of Wetland Bank, Wetland Hotels, and various properties, spared no expense in making her husband's milestone birthday unforgettable.
The surprise gift was presented to the husband, Barr. Richard kpedi at his 60th birthday celebration attended by family, friends, and business associates.
How likely is it that all/some of their children are abroad where people celebrate their birthdays by donating to charity and philosophical think tanks to push their own governance agenda
anonimi: Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?
In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;
or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority? \ \ The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.
Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.
sslcrypt: Book of job that happened hundreds of years before Jesus. Did he take permission to tempt Jesus? Did he take permission to take the lives of all the apostles in the Bible? Please don't try to trivialize the evils of this world.
You think the corrupt leaders we constantly have is by chance? You think the poverty we have despite having thousands of resources is by chance? You think for someone to come to the conclusion to kill not just killing but in this brutal way is by chance?
Keep deceiving yourself and pray such does come close to you. I worked in operations that have neutralize and caught high caliber of people worst than this guy.
When you interrogated and encountered people like this guy you would conclude there's a force working. So ahead and bury your head in the sand if it makes you feel better
You conclude that they don't want to be responsible for their sins, crimes errors etc.
sammiewrite: Most of these young ladies ended up with these monsters because their parents couldn't provide them with the basics. They started relationships as early as 13, not because they wanted to, but because they needed it to survive. Similarly, while there are young men who ventured into ritual due to greed, many of them did having being tired of generational poverty.
My point is, parents can help a lot in containing this menace by being intentional about child bearing. That way, they will be able to support their kids with quality education, a good accomodation, nutritious meals, allowances/stipends etc. enough to keep them away from vices.
Can parents also help by being intentional to their tribal leaders looters, for them to use their taxes, and whatever allocation received and IGR raised on their behalf to provide water, low cost housing, free basic education, free basic healthcare, mass transit etc. Won't that create government jobs for a better environment of private investors that create even more jobs, while minimising the stress on the masses small income?
Is there any of all the governors since 1999 that has done a tiny fraction of what jakande did below with far less money in just four years
eluquenson: REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE
* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.
* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.
* His government built the Lagos State Television
* His government built the Lagos Radio
* His government built Lagos State University
* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.
* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.
* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.
* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.
* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.
* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.
* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.
* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.
* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.
* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.
* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.
* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.
* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.
* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).
* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.
* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.
* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980
* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).
* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.
*His government established LASACO Insurance.
*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.
*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.
WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?
IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.
sslcrypt: It's a scam that directly pays attributes to Satan. Just the way they gloat over the death of infants in abortion so also they gloat over an unsaved live and lives in general.
If Satan had his way he would have reduced man to zero just the way he did in the dark ages and in the era of great battles amongst humanity.
Are you talking about the Satan in the Book of Job? The one who needs God's authorisation to do anything?
Instead of blaming Satan, why don't you own up to the responsibility of your actions and inactions
The harder it takes for people to survive the easier it will take for them to entertain evil vices.
Crime and poverty goes hand in hand.
A poor/struggling man is naturally prone to crime.
When we clamour for better governance it’s because of things like this not hate or tribal war.
Well said. All those who fell for the scamdemic socialists and pseudo progressive All Promises Cancelled, APC should tell us if poverty has developed more in the last nine years or less.
How did we change the Prosperity Development Party, PDP for the A-looter Poverty Congress, APC? How
Emergingnation: Flashback: How Bola Tinubu spoke highly of Buhari in 2015, named PDP ‘Poverty Development Party
National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu had during the presidential campaign in 2015, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as the only solution for the security and economic challenges facing Nigeria.
During a mega presidential rally, the former governor of Lagos State recalled how some powerful nations in the world returned to army generals when they were challenged, saying “Major General Buhari would revive Nigeria’s economy”.
He named the current opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP as the “Poverty Development Party saying they had nothing to offer.
His words at the time were; “Every nation has a period of their own challenges, when America was challenged, they turned to one great man, their ex-military general, General Eisenhower. When the French were challenged, they turned to their general, Charles de Gaulle.
“When Britain was challenged, they turned to their general. Today, Nigeria is economically and physically challenged so we turn to General Muhammadu Buhari. He is the right man for the job. If you talk about military experience, he has it abundantly, he has courage, simplicity, he has it abundantly.
“If you talk about great determination, a combination of vision and ability to perform, honesty and integrity, he has it abundantly.
“I laugh when the incapable government, ‘Poverty Development Party’ PDP were talking. They have nothing again to say, they now want to question the qualifications of General Buhari and look for his certificate”.
Following the manifestos in 2015 which projected the APC presidential candidate as a ‘saviour’, Buhari defeated the then incumbent president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with Nigerians expecting a total change in security and economy.
proeast: Delusional thread. Comments are so disconnected from the reality in Nigeria that you begin to wonder if these ones are living in an alternate universe.
In saner climes, if you're earning above minimum wage, you're considered relatively comfortable. Here in Nigeria, how much is the old minimum wage? How much is the new one Tinubu has refused to pay? Are they anywhere close to the amount the op quoted? .
You don’t mean that, do you
How can a progressive politician of integrity and an ọmọlúwàbí fail to pay the minimum wage several months after he assented the Bill?
ogolemati: am not Tinubu that made things hard for you na. You see buhari Tinubu and Atiku are all age mates.they don't have anything to offer this country.they are using presidency as a retirement program bye.beside I don't read stupid write ups
Please how do you know that it’s stupid without reading it?
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