₦airaland Forum

Alexiiydon:
did she rule your state

You have no clue what corruption means yet are so arrogant in your ignorance.
SMH!!!

Chicagograduate:
Ribadu saved Tinubu from going to jail when he was EFCC chairman.
There were petition upon petition written against Tinubu.But Ribadu asked those writing the petition to come forward.

Meanwhile,he didn't say the same thing to other criminals like him.

I never thought about this.

No wonder he made Ribadu ACN presidential candidate in the 2011 election after Jonathan rehabilitated him following Yar’Adua’s ostracisation.

Gerrard59:
When the news broke, I followed immediately on Instagram and later on LinkedIn. I recall he stated that he received over a thousand friend requests on Facebook. I even viewed his Facebook page then, but did not send it as I don't send requests to people I have never seen physically or known one-on-one. There were many Nigerians who doubted his achievements and some, ignorantly, as usual, downplayed it. Quite a few raised the question of where is he a few years after his graduation. Which is a good question anyway. It is important we track the trajectories of stellar graduates, especially the first 5.0 CGPA grad. I am glad he succeeded and later got into Stanford via a prestigious scholarship. The second Nigerian (both American-raised and Nigerian-bred) to get it.

Quite sad that our brains are exported to the same racist colonialists who are blamed for our persistent underachievement and underdevelopment because they “stole, exploited” and continue stealing our resources.

Why do we blame them when we are the ones who are too selfish and myopic to understand that we are responsible for everything that our communities are?

How will we ever progress as blacks if we don’t stop blaming them and exporting our brains to them instead of using the brains to work on our communities, country and continent

These individual successes don’t make us immune to racism as we remain an integral part of our underperforming race.

July 19, 2013
Remarks by the President on Trayvon Martin

You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African American community at least, there’s a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it’s important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away.

There are very few African American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me. There are very few African American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me -- at least before I was a senator. There are very few African Americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/07/19/remarks-president-trayvon-martin

Beautifulday:
Give me one political ideology of your opinions?

If they don't have good characters, why do they resign if caught on the wrong line?

Private sector capitalism of PDP, Republicans (US), Tories (UK) contrasts the big government economic control of freebies by the progressive/socialist that APC is supposed to be but it is not, Democrats (US) and Labour Party (UK).

Beautifulday:
Nothing like political ideology or conviction. All these a political jargons to feel learned. What you need is a good character

Who is that person with good character?

Is that how oyinbos have zero political ideology and convictions for making their countries better off to attract our japarians

Sunkyapogee:
Snatch and run will kill the mega party

Just as it is killing many Nigerians with hunger, starvation, inflation, unemployment, insecurity etc

aieromon:
Prof always in the news with megaparty plans.

https://www.thecable.ng/apc-utomi-is-a-serial-promoter-of-mega-parties-he-shouldnt-be-taken-seriously/amp/

http://dailypost.ng/2018/01/18/2019-duke-ezekwesili-agbakoba-utomi-new-alliance-battle-apc-pdp/

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/01/atiku-obi-kwankwaso-have-agreed-to-form-mega-party-utomi/

Signs that he has zero political ideology and convictions, like most of our politicians

BeeBeeOoh:
https://thenationonlineng.net/nigeriall-soon-take-place-in-comity-of-nations-first-lady/

She may be saying this as the fake pastor that she is- prophecy abi prediction without a date for its manifestation

kennyz247:
This is truly a Zoo

Filled with animals like you and every other Nigerian animal you are related and connected with

APOPTOSIS:
What an amazing country

Filled with amazing people like you and every other Nigerian you are related and connected with

maupe:
The Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Social Media, Dada Olusegun, has said Nigerians must stop thinking there is a messiah for the country.

In a post via his verified social media handle on Wednesday, the presidential aide stated that no one man can change the country.
Olusegun also stated that the thought and idea that one man can change Nigeria is a facade that cannot work.

He wrote:

Dada Olusegun

ThiefNuibu has the magic wand to be the messiah that alone can change our country, just as he alone built Lagos and he alone made Buhari president to get his Emilokan turn 8 years later.

BeeBeeOoh:
Presidency: Tinubu Will Use ‘magic’ To Fix Nigeria – Sanwo-olu

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, on Friday urged lawmakers, both at the federal and state levels from the state, to work assiduously to actualise the presidential ambition of Chief Bola Tinubu.

Sanwo-Olu gave the advice in Ikeja, during the 17th Edition of the Executive/Legislative Parley, with the theme: ”Mobilizing Citizens as a Social Capital Towards 2023 General Elections, NAN reports.

He said that Tinubu had selflessly given himself to the people of Lagos during his tenure as the governor, and to Nigeria as a whole, and recorded many achievements.

”This, indeed, is the time to pay him back with our unwavering support. He is, no doubt, the right and best man for the job. He knows the issues plaguing our nation like the back of his hands and he has the magic wand to fix it.

”So, because of our Apex leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it is time for us to take Lagos to Nigeria agenda. It is time for us to work assiduously and ensure that all of these successes in Lagos can be reflected in Nigeria as a whole.

”That is why I am calling on all of us to ensure that we do everything we can do politically and otherwise, to ensure that we can help to activate and actualise the next president of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

”Let us rally behind our great party, the All Progressives Congress, let us rally behind the great man that indeed, we believe can help us take our country to the next level,” he said.

https://dailypost.ng/2022/02/18/2023-its-time-to-pay-tinubu-back-with-our-support-sanwo-olu/

YesDaddyTill203:
It's common sense to know that one man cannot change a whole country, he can only make a significant difference by starting and building a lasting legacy such as the Lagos Calabar road, student loans, Credit scheme, and many other innovative ideas.

A country with so many corrupt and unethical minds will take generations to really evolve. Unfortunately, the average Nigerian is a crook from the man on the street the civil servants to the political leaders. Almost all will steal given the opportunity.

ThiefNuibu’s drug dealer record is the example that leads your many corrupt and unethical mind’s failure to evolve.

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.’’

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/?.
 
U.S. court judgement indicts Tinubu for drug trafficking

https://www.google.com/amp/s/businessday.ng/amp/news/article/u-s-court-judgement-indicts-tinubu-for-drug-trafficking/

US Court Releases Documents Linking Tinubu to Largescale Drug Peddling


https://fij.ng/article/us-court-releases-documents-linking-tinubu-to-largescale-drug-peddling/

HIGHESTPOPORI:
Peter Obi changed Anambra

Gbajue Pandora Bitter Obi changed Anambra into a beer drinking den of IPOB/ESN terrorists.

yarimo:
Nigerians are happy to have TINUBU as president

When did one person like you become many people (all Nigerians

Morbeta11:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/05/tinubu-administration-blackmailed-into-making-cybersecurity-levy-policy/

A whole Jagaban can be blackmailed?
What manner of excuse is this for a whole Asiwaju with the magic wand for solving all our problems created by Buhari that he alone made president to get his own Emilokan continuity for APC change

Stop degrading our leader please!

BeeBeeOoh:
Presidency: Tinubu Will Use ‘magic’ To Fix Nigeria – Sanwo-olu

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, on Friday urged lawmakers, both at the federal and state levels from the state, to work assiduously to actualise the presidential ambition of Chief Bola Tinubu.

Sanwo-Olu gave the advice in Ikeja, during the 17th Edition of the Executive/Legislative Parley, with the theme: ”Mobilizing Citizens as a Social Capital Towards 2023 General Elections, NAN reports.

He said that Tinubu had selflessly given himself to the people of Lagos during his tenure as the governor, and to Nigeria as a whole, and recorded many achievements.

”This, indeed, is the time to pay him back with our unwavering support. He is, no doubt, the right and best man for the job. He knows the issues plaguing our nation like the back of his hands and he has the magic wand to fix it.

”So, because of our Apex leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it is time for us to take Lagos to Nigeria agenda. It is time for us to work assiduously and ensure that all of these successes in Lagos can be reflected in Nigeria as a whole.

”That is why I am calling on all of us to ensure that we do everything we can do politically and otherwise, to ensure that we can help to activate and actualise the next president of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

”Let us rally behind our great party, the All Progressives Congress, let us rally behind the great man that indeed, we believe can help us take our country to the next level,” he said.

https://dailypost.ng/2022/02/18/2023-its-time-to-pay-tinubu-back-with-our-support-sanwo-olu/

Angelfrost:
Honestly, we really need to question PDP governors about the way they ran Abia, Delta , and others into the ground since 1999.

Unlike how APC governors that ran Borno, Lagos, Nasarawa since 2011 were run into the air , right

Your lame attempt at hypocrisy is noted. Next please

itubaba001:
Lagos, the commercial hub of Nigeria, has been ranking as one of the worst places to live in the world for the nine straight years, a BusinessDay analysis shows.

Data from the 2019 Global Liveability Index published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leader in global business intelligence, shows the city has been within the range of 137th-139th position out of a total of 140 cities in the world from year 2011-2019.
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The EIU examines the quality of health care, education, infrastructure, stability, and culture when assessing living conditions of each city. More than 30 factors are taken into account when calculating each rank, which are then complied into a weighted score between one and 100.

https://businessday.ng/uncategorized/article/lagos-ranks-amongst-worst-cities-to-live-in-for-nine-straight-years/

Edusouls:
Abia the most backward state in south east with upside down mentality, I think imo state should reabsorb them back, the place looks like a mighty pig farm

Abia that has Geometric power for 24/7 electricity and industries to match and overtake Lagos shortly?

Are you serious

Quintessence44:
As usual, no sidewalks for pedestrians.

After all roads are only meant for cars.

If you have no car you can walk on the sand or inside the open gutter, or try your luck by walking on the asphalt along with trucks, cars and lorries.

PRIMITIVE PEOPLE WITH LOW IQ.

Is that why the governors fail to educate the children free in primary, secondary and vocational schools with enough professional teachers and extra curricula activities?

Keep us dumb and eager to be oppressed in perpetual Stockholm Syndrome affliction

Urheadmaster:
When Edo Govt is quick to deny, know that there's court matter against the Oba of Benin

I pity those whose heads you master since you cannot read to understand simple English.
Pity for them and you!!!

Racoon:
Oluwami Dosunmu-Ogunjobi, first black female Robotics PhD holder in Michigan University, US

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/05/nigerian-oluwami-dosunmu-ogunjobi-emerges-first-black-woman-to-bag-phd-in-robotics-at-michigan-university/

How does this reflect on the ICT capabilities of her country of birth and the 220 million people she left behind, including her close relatives

David Hundeyin
May 4, 2022


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.

I’d imagine we do not aspire to be Somalia.

oyeb15:
Government of demolition. They can't build ordinary toilet for people but be boasting on demolishing peoples houses.

A junkie governor and agbero commissioners. I don't think that Wahab father get house for village or them use money train him.

Awon omo ale jatijati

If they are omo ale for demolishing unapproved properties blocking storm water and river paths, then what will you call those who illegally built on the drains, to pose a risk to human life?

Something worse than omo ale jatijati

Rebelutionary:
Stopped? Haven't you seen buildings marked with stop work and the developers continue building with the mindset of "nothing go happen"?

Like that Ikoyi skyscraper that collapsed and killed the developer along with others

Quest7777:
...And Govt Town Planning officials were watching & never stopped them? Abi they collected egunje & turned blind eye.

They need to be more proactive.

Why did the developers pay egunje if they are not wicked souls seeking to destroy themselves and others with their unbridled greed?

Can you please throw some light on this

Philipmoon2:
You keep on supporting Tinubu, then blame obi for bad governornace.
Is Peter obi the president of this country...

How is pointing out lies equal to blaming Bitter Obi for bad governance?
Is that how low the Obidient supporters of the Pandora gbajue hypocrite have gone

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.

https://independent.ng/peter-obi-deceiving-everybody-i-wont-retract-my-statement-about-him-dele-alake/

derecho:
BATeria pipu and lies.

Lagos state quickly went there to renovate it and put a new roof.

Imagine the mumu Lanrelagboi said the government official was there to inaugurate the new buildings and no pix of them in front of these "new" buildings cutting tapes but were under a canopy?

Nigerians are way smarter than Tinubu and his foolish supporters

Why dig yourself further into the pit of lies with strenuous shalaye explanation?

There are so many things to be truthful about ThiefNuibu's maladministration of Lagos in the past quarter of a century but I guess that Bitter Obi and his Pandora supporters won't go there because that will expose the rotten underbelly of their Anambra local champion too. Like the change in the ratio of free public schools to private schools in Anambra from 2006 to 2014.

Ratio of public to private schools in Lagos State is one to 22 ― Commissioner
by Tunbosun Ogundare 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.

She said the huge ratio between the two is linked to many factors chief of which is the lack of land space, particularly within the metropolitan areas of the state to build as many new schools as the government would have loved to do.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/ratio-of-public-to-private-schools-in-lagos-state-is-one-to-22-%E2%80%95-commissioner/

Blue05:
Ode no be authorized, it was allowed by God.
Go read your Bible well before you start spewing shit about God here

You wey no be chronic ode, why you no show us the difference between authorised and allowed?
Can you be allowed to do something you were not authorised to do

garriAndsugar:
So after all the renovation they still brought this iron condemn back?😂

Is it a renovation of what PDP's Jonathan provided before he was chased out of office by the APC change propagandists before showing us shege

noskcid:
Wahala full ground like sand sand 😂

Who get head no get cap

All I see here is the devil 👿 pulling his tricks around in different places

What has the devil got to do with irresponsible behaviour?

In any case, the devil can't do anything except authorised by God in the Job story, no be so

BreconHills:
One of those living in self imposed prisons. You cannot think outside of simple comparisons. LJK achievements cannot be rubbished neither can BATs.

Neither has an unchartered record. Each of them suffered from the law of unintended consequences. This is common to anyone who takes decisions. Let me take just one.

BAT is often credited by those who hate him as the father of Agbero's- right? But people forget that it was Jakandes educational system revamp which saw schools like igbobi, finbarrs and cms - all the mission schools being turned into factories for people who would be better served by vocational institutions.

This was the beginning of the half educated discontent that have become a national issue today.

What am I saying? All giants have clay feet. Trying to paint the picture of a perfect leader that you can use to beat others with is an exercise in futility.

25 years of Tinubu as the Lagos landlord, yet he can't fix the problem but rather made it worse despite obtaining more IGR from the hardworking masses in the state

Lagos public school where students sit on cratered floor

In their dilapidated and dusty classrooms, hundreds of students sat on the bare floor and babbled animatedly.

ByMedee Olere April 29, 2022 Reading Time: 4 mins read

The noise from the last floor of the two-storey building at Ilogbo Elegba Senior Grammar School, Oto-Awori Local Council Development Area (LCDA), in Lagos State could be heard from a distance. The floor is occupied by senior secondary school 1 students.

In their dilapidated and dusty classrooms, hundreds of students sat on the bare floor and babbled animatedly. Apart from the question papers and answer sheets each was peering at occasionally, nothing in the atmosphere indicated that the students were writing their first term examination in the ongoing 2021/2022 academic session.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/526696-lagos-public-school-where-students-sit-on-cratered-floor.html?tztc=1

Lagos students lament dilapidated laboratory
22nd March 2024

Lanre Awolokun High School is located in a buzzing part of Gbagada, Lagos.

It is not out of place to believe that the luxury of the environment and its residents would have a positive impact on the development and aesthetics of the school.

Unfortunately, the beauty of the environment did not in any way rub off on the school.

Meanwhile, Lanre Awolokun High School, Gbagada, does not have any standard or well-equipped laboratory to prepare its senior secondary students for national examinations.

https://punchng.com/lagos-students-lament-dilapidated-laboratory/

schekubeh:
Femi makes great movies. His performance in jagunjagun is incredible. Much applause sir

I guess no need for DNA test to show he is a true son of his father, Oga Bello.

He has been doing great acting since he was a boy in the Owo Blow classic movie by OGD- Tade Ogidan.

femi4:
Indomie boy
Go n watch Owo Blow

You are a sabiman even though your name may not be Sabinus.

His performance in that movie was superb, especially given his young age back then.

DIVINEEVIDENCE:
Shebi na Nairaland dey run foreign exchange market?

Go school you no gree.

Maybe she is one of those APC agberos like MC Oluomo who say school na scam but Nicodemously put their children in American public schools for free.

They are not only dangerous, they are also wicked!

baliyubla:
The Naira is infected with BATeria

Can Obi Bitters come to the rescue, if the eBOLA man is humble enough to ask

Or we need an Atikulated action plan to revive the economy and the Naira?

Which way Nigeria

BreconHills:
Silence before the storm.

I expect a significant cabinet reshuffle. We used to complain that PMB ministers were uncommunicative now we have people who talk a lot without anything to show for it.

In spite of the difficulties and the tendency of Nigerians to create cults of personality, I believe we have made significant advances in the polity and that irreversible change has been made. People are discussing the economy and policy over personalities - even though there is one group with a one track mind

Frameworks are BATs forte. Those frameworks now need to show benefit to the common man.

Are you also not talking a lot about BATeria's forte that failed to translate into any benefit for 20 million Lagosians in a quarter of a century since 1999?

Can you please sort out yourself before trying to sort out others

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.