By how many hectolitres has water supply increased in the five years, and how many sanitation workers employed in the same period, for Lagos to stop being a global glorified ghetto for cholera infections
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.
The lack of state-owned pipe-borne water in the homes of Lagos residents has continued to be a source of concern, a non-profit group, Corporate Accountability and Public Advocacy Africa (CAPPA) has said.
At a press event to mark this year’s World Water Day, the group said its monitoring team’s visit to state-owned waterworks showed that most of them are not operational.
The group said the waterworks it visited include the ones at Maryland, Mushin, Ikorodu, Obalende, Agbowa, Onikan, Ikoyi, and Amuwo Odofin.
Only the one in Ikoyi is producing water, according to CAPPA.
Lagos ranks among 10 least liveable cities in the world
June 27, 2024
The assessment scores the cities on 30 indicators divided into five categories: stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure, to show how comfortable these cities are.
CyrusVI: The structure wouldnt last till 2224 anyways....Not trying to justify this but its actually wrong to view and see everything only via the tribal/Racial lens
There are structures being built within the same period that are still standing tall right now in Nigeria
No be everytime be White vs Black...Thats Myopic
If you are not labouring in vain to justify what is unjustifiable, you should have given the list of the structures in our country built in the same period that are still standing tall.
Until you do that, why should you not be seen as a bloody liar
olisaEze: All this long turenchi is not really our concern, when will the price of fuel drop as APC promised with this ‘subsidy is gone' refinery?? The money supposedly being saved from subsidy removal is only showing on the politicians while the people are looking poorer. In less than a decade under this party, Nigeria has moved from being an emerging economy with the 2nd fastest growth rate in the world, to a beggar economy. We’re really not interested in all these stories, just tell us when the price of fuel is coming down to N87 again. Abi like Irev like Dangote refinery, where what we heard is not what they said??
This is the cho cho cho diversionary market women’s gossip that ThiefNuibu has been using to cover up his corruption and incompetence since 1999.
Why should we be paying so much for fuel after deregulation and subsidy removal because NNPCL cabals are not letting go of their bloodsucking devilish corruption that JagaBandit supervises as the petroleum minister?
The pathetic part is how we allowed ourselves to be swindled by Ọgbẹni Ojuyọbọ and his Lagos lootocracy enablers like Fashola.
olillywales: Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola has questioned the Federal Government’s reluctance to cut pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) from N97 per litre following the fall in the global oil price.
The Governor said “We should be enjoying cheap fuel if the price of oil has dropped globally. And even as we import the product, a major component has reduced in price. While this has reduced, the pump price of fuel in the country still remains the same. Then something is wrong. If the price increases in the country when the price of oil goes up globally, then it should also reduce when the price of oil drops.
“I understand that I am not an economist; they (Federal Government) are the economist. But I have some logic and common sense to ask critical questions. For instance, if one buys flour at N10 per kilogram, and the bread was sold at N1 per loaf, if the price of flour drops, the price of the bread should also change.”
He also noted that the Nigerian economy is not doing well and many people have to survive through whatever means.
id911: I'm still wondering why this idiot is still the NNPC MD. Is Tinubu afraid to remove him and put someone else in the South there even if it's Yoruba?
All these Fulanis still heading DSS, NNPC, and NIA should be removed ASAP. Why is the SW Media quiet about these extremely incompetent Fulani guys from Buhari's tenure still manning sensitive positions till today?
Please do you know if Dangote is a southerner? Or the owner of BUA
Soyinka and other Yorubalokan tribesmen loyalists are still waiting for the appropriate time to make noise like they did when Jonathan was president and things were far better than what ThiefNuibu brought on us nine years ago.
Goodday90: Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has said he intends to keep quiet for now about the performance of the Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Soyinka said this while responding to questions in an interview session by a team from The NEWS magazine in commemoration of his 90th birthday.
The team had asked Soyinka when he would fulfil the promise he made about speaking on the performance of President Tinubu after after the administration marked one year in office.
The literary giant made the promise during his visit to Tinubu in Lagos late last year.
However, the Nobel laureate told the team from TheNews magazine that he knew that there are many people waiting for him to speak about the Tinubu’s administration just for the sake of jumping at his throat, but he will disappoint them by keeping quiet for now.
Soyinka said, “First of all, understand that I don’t live on an alarm clock. And I hope nobody is so naive as to think that on the dot of one year I am going to speak. That’s number one.
“Number two, you asked that question nicely: Do I have anything to say and so on, which is the way it should be. I know that there are some people out there, who are waiting for Wole Soyinka to speak. Whatever he says, they are going to jump at him.
“If you read my Baiting Igbophobia, I narrate a conversation, which was transmitted to me, in which these people sent one of their marching orders to somebody that he should go and deal with me. The man said you know I don’t understand what Soyinka says.
“They told him, Who says you should understand? Any time he opens his mouth, jump in his throat. That’s the way they put it. I’m quoting them. And my response to that, of course, is that I have swallowed more toxic nonsense in my life, anybody who jumps in my throat I would swallow and excrete it in the rear end, and go back to my business normally!
So, they are there, salivating, waiting for Wole Soyinka to speak. After cutting my American Green Card, I did not announce it for several months, the same way I intend to keep quiet for now and not make any public statement. As far as I am concerned, they can go and commit suicide, wherever they are, or come and jump in my throat as they have been directed. I know those who are waiting. I want to disappoint them.”
Shimbo96: senseless right up, you can remove those nonsense names you put and see if it won't make sense. You are sad and he doesn't care bro... Go work hard and make your family better then Tinubu will mean nothing to you.
If you are not a senselessly miseducated mofo then you will know the difference between WRITE and right.
Whenever you regain your senses, you can address the issues of the comment you quoted and show that ThiefNuibu made you and your family work hard to make all of you better like Jakande did without choking Lagosians with huge IGR extortion.
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.
Racoon: Delta, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Lagos always leading the pack but Bayelsa, Lagos and Delta are the most annoying of the pack as their governors can't account or justify these huge allocations. All the governors are the next band of super corrupt looters after the FG using the instrumentality of the NGF starting from the 1999 set.
See them fighting against implementation and payment of the new minimum wage yet asking suffering citizens to continue to endure their stupendously opulence lifestyles is really nauseating.
Governors like ThiefNuibu steal more than the president/federal government because we don’t focus on their responsibilities to employ workers and pay them well to do everything states and local governments are supposed to do.
It’s ironic that JagaBandit is working hard to make us look away from his federal level looting when he got so much political capital from demonising Obasanjo while he was Lagos governor in 1999 to 2007.
Why should we allow Ọgbẹni Ojuyọbọ to get away with this
Neddstark: Kamala Harris is a professional feminist. She has zero concept of family but only chose to get married when she was being pushed to mainstream politics. She got married in her 50s to an already married man in his 50s whose children are already old enough to father children. This kind of woman is worst than Clinton. She's not what the USA needs in the midst of potential world war. America needs a fighter, a strong figure and an influential personality. This is not the time to patronize feminism and LGBT.
You are a professional liar and propagandist.
How is 49 years old, the age she married, equal to her 50s? The husband was also 49 years old when he married her, so from what part of your anus did you get in his 50s from
Mitsurugi: He went to exercise his constitutional right to be voted for. There was an APC candidate George Adegeye who was denied a ticket and decamped to the communists labour camp in Amuwo and he won. Why is Obi the only LP member you know?
Is Adegeye disturbing our peace with Peter Obi’s notice me tantrums
Racoon: Meanwhile, one druggie and certificate forging disaster of a man is saying "nah statistics we go chop chop?", and blabbing "take away their recruitment sources and reduce their purchasing power" have ended up bastardizing the economy of a nation. Now here is the abysmal state of things
ThiefNuibu is President because of Bitter Obi’s cluelessness and naivety. The type that made Obiano kick him out of their regional Igbo party, APGA!
Do you know if Peter Obi has enough integrity to apologise for his actions in helping Tinubu achieve his Ebilokan dream
jameshankss: Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said he is sure the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, would lose the 2023 presidential election. Soludo said he would not submit to the bullying of Obi’s supporters, who recently descended on him for addressing issues in the state.
The governor made the comments in a lengthy write-up personally authored, with the title, “History Beckons, and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1).”
Soludo said Obi was inadvertently making the pathway to victory much easier for the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and at the same time, toying with the destiny of millions of Ndigbo.
But the chief spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, Yunusa Tanko, accused Soludo of being sponsored by some unknown persons to weaken the base of the party in the South-east.
The former CBN governor had been under intense attack for close to a week for dismissing Obi’s investment in the state as amounting to nothing, during a television interview.
Soludo said in the write-up, “My attention has been drawn to some of the tirades on social media following my frank response during an interview on Channels TV regarding the ‘investments’ Mr. Peter Obi claimed to have made with Anambra State revenues.
“Sadly, several of the comments left the issue of the interview to probe or suggest motives, inferred from my response on ‘investment’ that I am opposed to Peter Obi’s ambition and, therefore, committed a ‘crime’ for which the punishment is internecine abuse and harassment, even to my family.
“Everyone knows that I don’t follow the winds or one to succumb to bullies, or shy away from a good fight especially, when weighty matters of principles and future of the people are involved.”
Soludo said he had urged Obi to return to his former party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), to actualise his presidential bid. He added that he had always told the LP candidate to his face that he was not capable of winning the 2023 presidential election, especially, under LP, which had neither a councillor nor a local government chairman.
Soludo said Obi was not just his friend, but also his brother, but despite that, they have their political differences.
He stated, “For full disclosure, let me state that Peter Obi and I are not just friends, we call ourselves ‘brothers’. But we have political differences: he left APGA for PDP after his tenure as governor, while I have remained in APGA since 2013.
“During the last two governorship elections in Anambra in 2017 and 2021, he led the PDP campaigns but APGA won landslide in both elections. By the way, in 2016, he visited and proposed that I defect to PDP and contest the 2017 election against the incumbent Willie Obiano, but I declined.
“After my victory in November 2021, he called to congratulate me, as I did to him in 2010. That is the Anambra way: we fight fiercely during campaigns but share drinks at the next social events. After all, it was the Great Zik of Africa, who taught us that in politics, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies but only permanent interests.”
Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”
Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.
He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.
Racoon: Well spoken sir. This is how a man who truly understands the intricacies of micro and macroeconomics speaks.
If the naive crooner understands anything about the economy and how PDP’s free enterprise capitalism works then why did he decamp to the communist labourers camp in LP? Looking for what
Why won’t the economy decline when Bitter Obi is a propagandist liar who says one thing while doing the opposite
bennybuhari: “’I cannot take anything back about Obi. I said Obi said he wants to move Nigeria back from consumption to production and I said that is not true. He cannot do it because his own business survives on consumption. Is that a lie? He has been an importer and I said he deals with cash and carry economics; container economics, imports”.
“All the goods that can be produced in Nigeria, Obi imports them in his supermarkets. That is consumption economics. That kind of person cannot tell you that he is moving you from consumption to production. He will then be committing self-economic suicide and Obi will not do that to himself”.
“So, Obi is deceiving everybody and I can’t take that back because that is true.
Racoon: The Bodija Estate is really a serene housing system that is really a desirable given the population expansion and pressure in today's Nigeria. The first time I set my eyes on it in 1986, I knew it must be[b] the colonial masters brain work because of it location, road networks, design, location and accessibility[/b] from the Oyo State government house and secretariat
Bodija estate was built by Awolowo, then Premier of Western Region.
A look at Nigeria’s first housing estate: Bodija housing estate
The Bodija Housing Estate in Ibadan was Nigeria's first housing estate. It came into being when the regional government decided to increase the number of modern houses available in the city. The estate was constructed in 1959.
nedekid: And so? That one no be crime again for naija..
Especially in Oshiomole's Assembly of Past Criminals, APC. Are we in trouble? Or we are in double trouble
sharpden: The All Progressive Congress (APC) has said once those who looted the nation’s treasury join its fold, all their sins will be forgiven.
The national chairman of the ruling party, Adams Oshiomhole, stated this on Thursday at the presidential campaign rally held in Benin, the Edo State capital.
Mr Oshiomhole made the comments while receiving decampees from the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP).
“I’m told that there are a lot of senior people from PDP who have decided to join forces with President Buhari to take the broom to sweep away PDP to continue to ensure that APC continues to preside over Nigeria,” he was quoted by TheCable to have said.
“It includes my own brother and friend Henry Duke, he is the former organising secretary of PDP. We also have former vice chairman PDP and leader of PDP Edo North, in fact, once you join APC, all your sins are forgiven,” the top APC official said.
Oshiomhole urged Nigerians to return President Muhammadu Buhari for a second term in office.
Chinkoalhaji34: Na wa o! How many lives he wan live? APC don dey gather stories like it's a Nollywood script. If na true, e go need better PR to manage this one. Make we see how dem go spin this yarn!
Shebi they were able to spin ThiefNuibu's fake records to smuggle him into Aso Rock
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.’’
expert234: Because Peter Obi didn't help his family, is that why you decide to forsake your family in their wretchedness and poverty but choose to peddle lies against Peter Obi?
If your family is not made up of extreme poverty paupers of wretchedness, you will point out the lies against your olofo tingod.
Your tingod is so naive that he was chased out of your local Igbo party APGA by his Fidelity Bank errand boy that he imposed on clueless Anambrarians after stealing their money to hide in Pandora.
How can a small boy like Obiano render Bitter Obi a politically homeless IDP who was saved by Jonathan and PDP only to jump ship after Atiku brought him prominence in 2015?
If Bitter Obi has any iota of sense, should he not be asking for us to forgive him for making Tinubu's Ebilokan turn come to pass?
jameshankss: Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has said he is sure the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, would lose the 2023 presidential election. Soludo said he would not submit to the bullying of Obi’s supporters, who recently descended on him for addressing issues in the state.
The governor made the comments in a lengthy write-up personally authored, with the title, “History Beckons, and I Will Not Be Silent (Part 1).”
Soludo said Obi was inadvertently making the pathway to victory much easier for the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and at the same time, toying with the destiny of millions of Ndigbo.
But the chief spokesperson for the Labour Party Presidential Campaign, Yunusa Tanko, accused Soludo of being sponsored by some unknown persons to weaken the base of the party in the South-east.
The former CBN governor had been under intense attack for close to a week for dismissing Obi’s investment in the state as amounting to nothing, during a television interview.
Soludo said in the write-up, “My attention has been drawn to some of the tirades on social media following my frank response during an interview on Channels TV regarding the ‘investments’ Mr. Peter Obi claimed to have made with Anambra State revenues.
“Sadly, several of the comments left the issue of the interview to probe or suggest motives, inferred from my response on ‘investment’ that I am opposed to Peter Obi’s ambition and, therefore, committed a ‘crime’ for which the punishment is internecine abuse and harassment, even to my family.
“Everyone knows that I don’t follow the winds or one to succumb to bullies, or shy away from a good fight especially, when weighty matters of principles and future of the people are involved.”
Soludo said he had urged Obi to return to his former party, the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), to actualise his presidential bid. He added that he had always told the LP candidate to his face that he was not capable of winning the 2023 presidential election, especially, under LP, which had neither a councillor nor a local government chairman.
Soludo said Obi was not just his friend, but also his brother, but despite that, they have their political differences.
He stated, “For full disclosure, let me state that Peter Obi and I are not just friends, we call ourselves ‘brothers’. But we have political differences: he left APGA for PDP after his tenure as governor, while I have remained in APGA since 2013.
“During the last two governorship elections in Anambra in 2017 and 2021, he led the PDP campaigns but APGA won landslide in both elections. By the way, in 2016, he visited and proposed that I defect to PDP and contest the 2017 election against the incumbent Willie Obiano, but I declined.
“After my victory in November 2021, he called to congratulate me, as I did to him in 2010. That is the Anambra way: we fight fiercely during campaigns but share drinks at the next social events. After all, it was the Great Zik of Africa, who taught us that in politics, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies but only permanent interests.”
Arguing that Obi’s presidential bid would only work in favour of Tinubu, Soludo said, “Indeed, if I were Asiwaju Tinubu, I would even give Peter Obi money as someone heading one of the departments of his campaign, because Obi is making Tinubu’s pathway to victory much easier by indirectly pulling down PDP.”
Obi, according to Soludo, would only deplete the votes of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pave the path for an APC victory.
He stated, “The current fleeting frenzy, if not checked, will cost Ndigbo dearly for years. The South-east has the lowest number of votes of any region, but it is also the only region where the presidential race might be a four-way race (it is a two-way race in the other five regions) thereby, ensuring that our votes won’t count in the making of the next president of Nigeria.
Malroux: Northerners will abuse Tinubu but Yorubas will start pointing fingers at the Igbos. Cowardice.
Is Obiano also a Yoruba
newsbook: Anambra State governor, Chief Willie Obiano has re-echoed his allegation that his predecessor, Mr Peter Obi demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him for sponsoring his election in 2013.
Obiano and his predecessor, Obi have had a frosty relationship shortly after his swearing in.
Obi has however denied that he demanded for the sum of N7.5billion from Obiano, saying that his problem with him was his (Obiano’s) underperformance.
Obi said if he needed the said sum, he would have simply taken it from the N75billion he left for the Obiano administration at the end of his tenure.
But Governor Obiano while speaking on Wednesday evening at Ezechima Primary School, Onitsha where he inaugurated his reelection campaigns in Onitsha North Council Area, said the clarification became necessary because of the recent accusations against him by the former Governor.
He stated that his predecessor had demanded the sum of N7.5billion from him as funds spent in prosecuting the election on his behalf, but that he refused to pay the money because it was not true.
Obiano said he refused to pay because he strongly believed that public funds should be used for public good, and not to settle godfathers.
These, he said, was the reason they fell apart.
The governor said that another reason he refused to pay the money was because he was aware that enough money was raised for his campaign by his friends and associates, all of which were never accounted for by the former governor.
On the actual sum the former Governor claimed he left behind, Governor Obiano made it clear that he inherited liability of about N127 billion debt from him in contracts awarded and other responsibilities, which he has been religiously undertaking in the spirit of continuity.
He said Obi flagged off several roads even on the day he was leaving office and saddled him with the burden of paying for it, but he assured the people that he has his eyes on the ball and will not allow anything to distract him from fulfilling his promises.
The Chairman of the Governor’s Re-election Campaign Committee, Chief Victor Umeh said APGA as the political spirit of Ndigbo, has in the past three and half years, availed Anambra good governance at its best, reminding the people that the upcoming guber election was not about Willie Obiano but about ensuring that the state remained free from political godfatherism.
A former Central Bank Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo in his speech said that at this time, the State needs a tested hand like Governor Obiano who has the experience and expertise to effectively steer her affairs.
expert234: Between abusing Peter Obi and helping your family to get out of wretchedness and poverty, which one do you think you should focus on? Be sincere to ur conscience while answering this question; that is, it religion stupidity has not blinded or killed your conscience
If gbajue Bitter Obi had helped all his family in Anambra that he was responsible for as governor for eight years, why then are they doing child trafficking all over the world instead of developing their state that has been occupied by IPOB terrorists
AcuraZDX: Let the shildren that love voting failures back to back come and start wailing.
How is gbajue Bitter Obi of Pandora properties not also a failure like the others that were voted for
SATANICALLY: In a 2018 interview, Peter Obi said he invested $20 million in International Breweries on behalf of Anambra state as a governor.
Obi’s claim was in response to questions on economic development, Anambra politics and his presidential ambition.
“… Anambra state is the single-highest shareholder in that facility. I invested in it, over $20 million,” Obi had said.
“It is worth almost $100 [million] today. That’s what government should do.”
TheCable had previously fact-checked some of the claims.
Chukwuma Soludo, governor of Anambra, also debunked a recent statement ascribed to him regarding the investment.
International Breweries (IB) Plc is a subsidiary of the world’s largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) — a multinational drink and brewing giant based in Leuven, Belgium.
In its 2021 audited financial statement, the company said it holds 43 percent economic interest in International Breweries Plc, a publicly listed company in Nigeria.
According to a report by The Nation, AB InBev merged its Nigerian operations under a single corporate entity in 2017. It had three indirect Nigerian subsidiaries — International Breweries Plc, Intafact Beverages Limited and Pabod Breweries Limited. SABMiller Nigeria Holdings BV — another subsidiary of AB InBev — was also a major stakeholder in Intafact and Pabod.
ANAMBRA’S INVESTMENT
In a statement made available to TheCable on Tuesday, Ifeatu Onejeme, Anambra’s commissioner of finance, confirmed that Peter Obi’s administration invested the sum of N1,955,535,247.00 (an equivalent of approximately $12,616,356.43 at the then average CBN exchange rate of N155.00/$1) in Intafact Beverages Limited, a green-field brewery set up in Onitsha by SABMiller Breweries of South Africa in 2012.
Onejeme added that the state government still holds 407,321,264 ordinary shares of International Breweries Plc in exchange for the Intafact Beverages Limited investment.
“Based on the NGX closing price of N5.50 as of 20/6/22, these shares were valued at N2,240,266,952 on that date,” the statement reads in part.
“Based on the Central Bank of Nigeria I&E exchange rate of N415.75/US$1.00 on same June 20, 2022, this investment was valued at an equivalent of approximately US$5,388,495.37 (and at N604/$1.00 parallel market rate, only US$3,709,051.24).”
"Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who hurt you." - Luke 6v28.
"If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them." - Luke 6v32.
"But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked." - Luke 6v35.
Why would you want to emulate a liar, propagandist and hypocrite when you are not one
bennybuhari: “’I cannot take anything back about Obi. I said Obi said he wants to move Nigeria back from consumption to production and I said that is not true. He cannot do it because his own business survives on consumption. Is that a lie? He has been an importer and I said he deals with cash and carry economics; container economics, imports”.
“All the goods that can be produced in Nigeria, Obi imports them in his supermarkets. That is consumption economics. That kind of person cannot tell you that he is moving you from consumption to production. He will then be committing self-economic suicide and Obi will not do that to himself”.
“So, Obi is deceiving everybody and I can’t take that back because that is true.
greypencils: The most successful Nigerians are outside the country. This is an exercise in futility. But if one is still interested in carrying out such surveys, then go ahead and beam the searchlight globally. You would find out w[b]hat you need is not competition among tribes, it is not chest beating about which tribe is better.[/b]
It is humility in being provided the opportunity to serve and NOT vain chest beating. Do that research and you would find out these very same trailblazers are the most humble people. As an immigrant, you are not appointed into position in a white man's country only to lord it over them and call them dunces. You serve with humility and with humility comes more reward, not vain pride. Same thing with Nigeria. What used to be healthy competition in now unhealthy rivalry and unbridled hatred. The way forward is still equality and for all tribes to sheath their swords, verbal swords too. As long as verbal exchanges continue about superiority, the hatred among tribes would never end.
Is it not senseless for impotent men to be bragging about the size of their useless tools
Upon all this long tales why is south east such a hell hole that its people are developing other places instead of developing their own region? Are they all brilliantly clueless people who fail to understand that charity begins from home
EyeCumInPiss: Same with our balablu bulaba microphone licker.
If PDP is not such a useless party, then why did they not call for ThiefNuibu’s resignation in May when he fell like Humpty Dumpty fell off the iroko tree
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