₦airaland Forum

NeckingNgulping:
Magnus will eventually become the next Governor of Rivers State. The odds are in his favour. The Ogonis have been politically marginalized for way too long, at least they're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

While Obi is in Aso rock, we are going to have Magnus in the brick house.

You mean that Wike the wicked will let that happen? Are you saying that noisemaking Wike the wailer is now inconsequential to Rivers people?

ebenmosi360:
Atiku go sell una country ooo. Torh

In the same way that he deregulated telecoms so you can be on nairaland to say the above?

Do you know how many billionaire youths that ICT deregulation has created while the man Tinubu made president called youths lazy? Do you know how many

Nastrademus:
They better not invite tinubu o, I can't imagine what he'll say there, tinubu is only good at speaking with apc members because they're the only ones who understands his idioms

Divisive idioms like the church rat eating poisoned Holy Communion?
Who says that if he is not a religious bigot with his muMURIC Muslim/Muslim ticket for his Boko Haram governor running mate?

Did I hear you say- God forbid BaThing

limeta:
So na true say Nigeria na fulani garden

Really?
So how many Fulanis have you seen in our national teams?

causewahala:
@ anonimi, if perverse exploitation is your modus operandi in terms of business, then you've got a lot to learn.

Perverse is subjective.
Exploitation is how businesses make a profit- buy cheap, sell expensive for a margin.
Employees are not different- sell their own time and skills for a higher total package than the cost of acquiring the skills.
Thanks for your understanding.

pinkPUSSY:
Good!!
Fulani will never replace a fulani because southerners are not slaves..

And a Muslim can never replace a Muslim because Chstians are not slaves ...

Abeg na where una dey get this kind sharp wisdom? Make una tell me o. I need some of it

floss:
Was it not the same Atiku that brought in Buhari in 2015?
Atiku doesn't mean well for Nigeria and Nigerians.

Peter Obi obviously knows something that you don’t know.
You should ask him to tell you what it is, so you can stop being ignorant. Thank me later.

obedience4:
Na who never travel call Lagos modern city

Stop that o before ThiefNuibu’s Stockholm syndrome afflicted blind BAT followers come for you o

MathsChic:
Some days ago, I was at a secondary school in Surulere (across the bridge from the Island) in Lagos for a friend's event where he is educating secondary students about the perils of peer pressure. I honestly wasn't expecting what I saw as the state of this secondary school.
It left me wondering if this was a school or a dump yard. Why in heaven's name are Nigerian leaders looking the other way while the young ones study in this sorry environment?

The attached pictures are what I saw. This is no secondary school. It's a hopeless shanty. I hope this gets to front page and attracts the necessary attention.

SB2020:
Interesting facts about Addis Ababa and Lagos light rail projects.

Addis Ababa / Lagos
Cost == $475Million / $1.2Billion
Length == 34km / 27km
Time to Complete == 4years / 7years (projected)
Year Awarded == 2011 / 2008 (Construction began 2010)
Contractor == China Railway Eng. Corp (CREC) /Chinese Civil Eng. Constr. Coy (CCECC)
Population == 5Million / 20Million


Ethiopia has managed to deliver Sub-Saharan Africa’s first modern light rail project which opened in the capital Addis Ababa on Sunday, and in the process, beat Lagos whose own rail project remains four years behind schedule.

Ethiopia’s rail project was delivered on time, despite its being longer than the Lagos – Badagry rail line currently under construction.

Addis Ababa’s two line 34-kilometre system was built by the China Railway Engineering Corporation (CREC) and cost $475m, 85 percent of which has been covered by China’s Exim bank. The Lagos Light Rail Project or Blue on Badagry Expressway, was to have 13 stations from Okokomaiko to Marina via Iddo for a total of 27 kilometres.

The contract was awarded to the Chinese Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) at the cost of $1.2 billion in 2008, and was to be delivered in 2011. Survey work took one year between August 2009 and August 2010 while construction began July 2010.

The work is being implemented using the public and private partnership (PPP) model, whereby the state builds the infrastructure and the private sector provides the rolling stock and management. However, the project has not worked out according to the plan.
The 2011 deadline was missed, even though the State government got a loan to fund the project.

Source
http://businessdayonline.com/2015/09/addis-ababa-beats-lagos-to-light-rail-as-construction-delays-mount/

Realdeals:
1. The first governor to present a billion Naira state budget in Nigeria.

2. He phased out the shift system in Lagos schools in three months. He built functional classrooms to absorb those who only attend schools for three hours a day.

3. He opened up what is now known as the Lekki Corridor.

4. He built the biggest Housing estate by a state government at Abesan, along with five other estates.

5. He built LASU, LACOED, LASPOTECH and Technical schools to absorb the products of the free education policy.

6 He built General Hospitals and Health centers in all the five divisions of Lagos. He also upgraded General Hospital Ikeja to the Medical arm of LASU.

7. He created the Agric hub at Oko Oba. He also created similar hubs in Ikorodu, Epe and Badagry.

8. His government’s strict adherence to the party manifesto of Free Education, Free Health care, Rural integration and Housing for all, along with other UPN governors, created the largest pool of human resources in Nigeria.

9. He moved the Lagos State Government Secretariat from PWD to Alausa, which he built from scratch. He also lived in his personal house and drove his personal car throughout his tenure.

Gani Kayode Balogun Jr

https://www.newsheadlines.com.ng/showtime-people/2019/07/24/jakande-90-9-achievements-of-alhaji-lateef-jakande-as-lagos-governor/

Zonefree:
Another massive cash out for Tinubu.

Allowed to continue by 20 million “smart” Lagosians as they have allowed since 1999 that ThiefNuibu has been raising IGR from their pockets without commensurate increase in government employment for all the services, utilities, facilities and infrastructure maintenance the state and LGAs are responsible for?

Maybe if Funsho Williams was not murdered in 2006, the suffering of Lagosians would not have been so much. Unfortunately, since Obasanjo did not arrest and prosecute the killers of his AGF Bola Ige for six years, other politicians were encouraged to murder people too. What a wretched legacy Obasanjo has. Wretched legacy.

chino11:
You were the governor of Oyo State at the time Chief Ajibola Ige was murdered. What was your experience then?
It was a bitter experience. That very day was a Sunday. It was the day we had our Christmas carol at the Government House. It was a norman Sunday; everything was going on fine. The carol came and went from 4:15 to 6:00pm that day. And then everybody dispersed. As if I got a signal of what was coming, my speech that day was centred on security in Oyo State. I called on the Commissioner of Police and the Inspector General of Police to strengthen security in Oyo State because an old school mate, Engineer Adegeebo, had been assassinated near his house in Bodija a week earlier.

Every cleric went home and I retired to Government House. I played for some time. Then I went to my room to treat some files. I was doing that when suddenly the phone rang. It was land line we were using then. The operator said that somebody wanted to speak with me. Then I picked the call and it was a brother to my deputy. He said he was asked to tell me that Chief Bola Ige had been shot by some unknown assassins. I was confused immediately. I didn’t know what to do. But later I regained my strength and quickly went down without telling my wife what was happening. It was 9:55 pm. I sent for my PS because all the ADC and other security staff had gone to their places of abode. I told him to drive me in one of the private cars. Inside the car, I told him that Uncle Bola Ige had been shot by some gunmen, that I was going to check him at Catholic Hospital, Oluyoro. The man who informed said Ige was taken to Oluyoro.

The place I have been treading for over 60 years, I remember that I lost my way. I was just going round and round until I gained my consciousness again. Immediately the gateman saw me, he quickly opened the gate. There, we saw Uncle Dele Ige, who was already rolling on the ground. I went straight to the room where Bola Ige was lying. I saw marks of bullets on his body. He slept with his face up. He was somehow breathing but the breathing was abnormal. I saw where the bullet penetrated on the left side. I saw it myself. Uncle Bola Ige was wearing shirt and trousers. And I saw Muyiwa standing by the side of the bed. He was wailing. He appealed to me, saying: ”Uncle, please tell the doctor to wake up my Daddy. Tell him. The doctor can do it.” Then, I approached the doctor and asked him the situation. The doctor called me to one side and told me that he was dead. He said: “Sir, Your Excellency, Uncle is gone. There is nothing we can do. They shot him straight in the heart. He asked me not to tell Muyiwa.

I almost betrayed my emotion when I got back into the room where Uncle was lying with Muyiwa beside his bed. I just quickly gathered myself and told Muyiwa that I was going to see the head of the hospital. That was how I bolted away. I came back to the Government House to inform Mr. President, who was Obasanjo at that time.

By the time I was going upstairs to my room, to try and tell Operator to phone Mr. President for me, the phone was already ringing. When I got into my room, it was still ringing. I quickly picked it up and it was Obasanjo.
He the Operator said the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria wants to talk to you. Then I asked him to put him on.
The question Obasanjo just asked was: “Is he certified dead?” I said: “Yes sir.” Then he dropped the phone. That was all. That was my experience. I can never forget that experience.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/30983-obasanjo%2C-pdp-knew-about-ige%26%23039%3Bs-death%E2%80%94lam-adesina.html

CheapHomes1:
Good suggestion but it is buhari, Mr. Integrity and the one that Tinubu said is Nigerias only solution that has brought us to this juncture

You are a wise man sir.
More blessings as you work to share your wisdom with many more others.

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.

https://dailypost.ng/2021/09/01/flashback-how-bola-tinubu-spoke-highly-of-buhari-in-2015-named-pdp-poverty-development-party/

LieDetector:
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians to ensure continuity of his regime by voting for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 presidential election.

“The forthcoming general elections will provide us with the opportunity to convince the electorate of the need for continuity to enable our party to consolidate on our achievements in the last 7 years,” Mr Buhari said.

The president, according to a statement by his spokesperson Femi Adesina on Friday, disclosed this while receiving a delegation from Nasarawa State.
“The Government and people of Nasarawa State, as usual, have a great role to play in returning our party to governance in the 2023 elections, in order to create a path for greater socio-economic growth and development.

“This is not only important for Nigeria alone but also for the West African Sub-Region,” the president was further quoted as saying.

https://gazettengr.com/nigerians-should-vote-tinubu-for-continuity-of-my-regime-buhari/?utm_source=ReviveOldPost&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ReviveOldPost

treesun:
He needs to be fed agabado, beans and garri!

After being recruited into Thiefnuibu's 50 million army or before?
Bro, this kind vawulence no good o, walahi

lalasticlala:
Insecurity: Recruit 50 million youths into army, Tinubu urges FG

All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, on Monday, urged the Federal Government to recruit at least 50 million youths into the Nigerian Army to boost Nigeria’s fight against terrorism, banditry and all forms of internal and external security threats confronting the nation.

Tinubu spoke at the 12th colloquium to celebrate his 69th birthday in Kano State.

He said, “We are under-policed and we are competing with armed robbers and bandits to recruit from the youths who are unemployed —33 per cent unemployed?”

“Recruit 50 million youths into the army,” he stated, adding that “what they will eat —cassava, corn, yam, will grow here.”

The APC chieftain, while reacting to recent statistics by the National Bureau of Statistics that over 23 million Nigerians are jobless, also urged the government to create jobs for youths in the agricultural value chains.

He said, “Don’t talk about illiteracy, anybody who can hold a gun, who can handle a gun, who can cock and shoot is technically competent to repair a tractor in the farm.”

https://punchng.com/insecurity-recruit-50-million-youths-into-army-tinubu-urges-fg/

Babysho:
Revolution is not a financial fight, it happens when it happens. When a certain level of the populace reaches a certain level of education, awareness which in turn makes you angry/frustrated, a revolution will begin. Teaching people to unlearn and then relearn what is right helps to quickens the process of revolution but experiencing hardship also does the job.

An example is the fight for our independence in Africa that came as a result of the Europeans becoming lazy and educating African workers to take higher positions in industry so the Europeans don't even have to work at all...it's literally in the book.
Edited another recent example is the endsars movement.

Who told you the corrupted political class are from the masses? Who from the starving proletariat can pay 100m presidential ticket?
And if you're talking about the bourgeoisie, they're all capitalists who are scholars of oppressive capitalism. They work hand in hand with the political class. Also in the book.

Did you notice that I said other resources, in addition to money?

What works are you doing to educate people to reach that angry/frustrated level that makes widespread & sustained revolution inevitable naturally?

onatisi:
"They discovered explosives and pistols from the apartment because they have been on the trail for those guys for a while. So, the DSS hold back a lot from the public even when having solid intelligence because when you send up (authorities), it will not be acted upon because they need express order from the presidency".

This has been the issue for 8 solid years and the reason why insecurity of lives and property has risen to war situation level. We have a totally irresponsible and irresponsive political leadership who always rush to issue out consolation messages to other countries but totally ignore serious internal security concerns . It will be a total blessing for Nigerians the day buhari and apc just pack their rubbish out of aso rock and power in 2023

We can't bet on that oh, since Buhari is keen to let Thiefnuibu continue as Emilokan of renewed hope after their hope of change failed to materialise.
Are 200 million Nigerians wise enough to block Buhari, Thiefnuibu & APC's plans for perpetual suffering? As in shey our mumu don do ni

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.

Last year, Nigeria overtook India as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, thereby becoming the world capital of poverty, according to the Brookings Institute. This year, the number has risen to 91.6 million from 87 million in June 2018. Every minute, six Nigerians enter the group of extremely poor people, according to the World Poverty Clock.

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

LieDetector:
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerians to ensure continuity of his regime by voting for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 presidential election.

“The forthcoming general elections will provide us with the opportunity to convince the electorate of the need for continuity to enable our party to consolidate on our achievements in the last 7 years,” Mr Buhari said.

The president, according to a statement by his spokesperson Femi Adesina on Friday, disclosed this while receiving a delegation from Nasarawa State.
“The Government and people of Nasarawa State, as usual, have a great role to play in returning our party to governance in the 2023 elections, in order to create a path for greater socio-economic growth and development.

“This is not only important for Nigeria alone but also for the West African Sub-Region,” the president was further quoted as saying.

https://gazettengr.com/nigerians-should-vote-tinubu-for-continuity-of-my-regime-buhari/?utm_source=ReviveOldPost&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ReviveOldPost

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.

https://dailypost.ng/2021/09/01/flashback-how-bola-tinubu-spoke-highly-of-buhari-in-2015-named-pdp-poverty-development-party/

bigcasava1:
if our vote really counts, buhari should not have been our president. U and I knew that he didn't win the election, So we are not useless!

If we are not useless, why don't we work to make our votes count?

Please read that carefully before you reply.

TheSameGuy:
What's shameless in that convoy?

Is it too much for president or not enough?

Because most European countries have similar if not more.

I want you to make me understand

For your information, USA Presidential motorcade is around 40-50 cars.

Please in what way is Ghana or even Nigeria comparable to the USA and European countries to warrant having the same convoy for our president and other local champions

Babysho:
It shows that you didn't read that book thoroughly and you also didn't read my post.
I mentioned the solution in that post.

The solution is that we can't choose from the corrupted political class to rule us, we the masses have to revolt so we can take power from them

We have to organise and revolt.

How much of your own money and other resources have you invested into this revolt?
Are the corrupted political class not from among the masses that you want to revolt? Political class from your ward level, to LGA upwards

paramakina202:
Tinubu as former governor is going around with bigger convoy than this I wonder what his convoy will look like if he is elected as president.

Are you saying that our mumu never do for us to want Thiefnuibu continuity of Buhari's failures?
Who wants that

lalasticlala:
Insecurity: Recruit 50 million youths into army, Tinubu urges FG

All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, on Monday, urged the Federal Government to recruit at least 50 million youths into the Nigerian Army to boost Nigeria’s fight against terrorism, banditry and all forms of internal and external security threats confronting the nation.

Tinubu spoke at the 12th colloquium to celebrate his 69th birthday in Kano State.

He said, “We are under-policed and we are competing with armed robbers and bandits to recruit from the youths who are unemployed —33 per cent unemployed?”

“Recruit 50 million youths into the army,” he stated, adding that “what they will eat —cassava, corn, yam, will grow here.”

The APC chieftain, while reacting to recent statistics by the National Bureau of Statistics that over 23 million Nigerians are jobless, also urged the government to create jobs for youths in the agricultural value chains.

He said, “Don’t talk about illiteracy, anybody who can hold a gun, who can handle a gun, who can cock and shoot is technically competent to repair a tractor in the farm.”

https://punchng.com/insecurity-recruit-50-million-youths-into-army-tinubu-urges-fg/

socialmediaman:
The 2018 Rating by Transparency International placed Nigeria at 148th position out of 180 countries. Nigeria was improving over the years under the previous government, until Buhari got elected as president, things became worse.

There is a difference between fact and fiction. We need to face facts, Buhari is worse than GEJ when it comes to fighting corruption, at least that’s what the facts prove.

Most of us believed there was corruption under Goodluck Jonathan’s Government. I agree with those who did, there was corruption, but not as bad as it is today under Mohammadu Buhari.

In 2012, Nigeria was placed at 139th position, In 2014, Nigeria gained 3 steps and was placed at 136th position. Under Buhari, Nigeria has lost many positions down to 148th.

There’s no further proof needed that corruption has worsened under Buhari’s government compared to previous years.

http://saharareporters.com/2018/02/21/transparency-international-ranks-nigeria-148th-worlds-least-corrupt-country

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.

Last year, Nigeria overtook India as the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, thereby becoming the world capital of poverty, according to the Brookings Institute. This year, the number has risen to 91.6 million from 87 million in June 2018. Every minute, six Nigerians enter the group of extremely poor people, according to the World Poverty Clock.

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

bigcasava1:
As usual, our Africa leaders are always useless!

Who allows the leaders to be there if not the people
Does that make the people more useless or less useless than the leaders?

Babysho:
Unlike these countries you mentioned, Europeans didn't spend years and billions of dollars into reshaping their thoughts. Africa's wealth was like something Europeans had never seen before that they literally sat down and shared Africa. They practiced their new methods of colonisation like the French using brainwashing techniques that made Africans see themselves as French. Absolutely washing away thousands of years of African history. My key point here is education.

The current ruling class in Nigeria come from families with long history of slave trading and royalty. The Europeans took these slave traders under their wings and taught them formally, how to treat their fellow Nigerians inhumanely and gave them administrative positions.
People like Tinubu, rumour has it that his mother Abibatu Tinubu was a former slave trader and she even took over colonizers' duties like collection of tax from the market women until she died in 2014 or so.
Surely, a young Bola Ahmed will informally learn the business of his mother that is if she didn't even formally teach him how to exploit Nigerians. Train up a child in the way he should grow and it'll not depart from him....

You see now why you can't exclude Europeans from the conversation of Africa's regression. The politicians/administrators today are not working in your favour, they have a long history of exploitation education that remains in their families till date. The solution is that we can't choose from the corrupted political class to rule us, we the masses have to revolt so we can take power from them.

If not that the Europeans are benefiting from their offsprings of exploitation, when the military coups started, why would they ever support it? Listen to Fela's 'Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense'.
Never underestimate the effects of education. The planes and high rise buildings you see today is years of education. If education can build like that, you think it can't destroy like that?

Can you relate with the quote below, 62 years after independence

Responsibility finds ways.
Irresponsibility finds excuses.

Babysho:
If you've read that book you attached, you should know Europeans are the root cause.

The root cause just as they are the root cause of UAE/Dubai's underdevelopment? And that of India, Singapore and Malaysia?
62 years after independence?

What do you think of a 62 years old man who blames his current, enduring failures solely on the circumstances of his birth? A wise man? Or a foolish man whose existence on earth is a complete waste of space?

lexy2014:
How are African countries richer than European nations?

How does anything possessed by Europeans belong to Africans?

Excellent questions sir.
I hope that he will answer without delay.

Quintopia:
SHUT UP. THE EXISTENCE OF UNTARRED ROADS IN A COUNTRY DOES NOT MEAN THEY HAVE A ''BAD ROAD NETWORK''.

OTHERWISE IT MEANS 99.8% OF COUNTRIES ON EARTH HAVE A ''BAD ROAD NETWORK''

MUMU PEOPLE WITH NO COMMON SENSE.]

Are you not the one who needs to STFU with your screaming use of CAPITAL all through to justify our failures?
What portion of Britain's roads are untarred compared with Ghana and Nigeria?
Did you ask and answer that question yourself before you started screaming anyhow about 99.8%?

twilliamx:
And one idiot there is shouting in excitement.. When she should have stoned the mismanager of their fortunes.. AFRICA

How else will we know that most of us are inherent patients of Stockholm syndrome disease

Lanretoye:
That long motorcade on a poor road...we Africans no dey shame,we can copy the motorcade part but we can't copy the good road network aspect.

Meanwhile we keep blaming Europeans for our underdevelopment?
Why are we so mentally lazy? Why

causewahala:
Asian countries bode evil for African countries!!!

South Koreans, Chinese, these guys treat Nigerians like slaves.

Why should anyone bode well for another beyond exploiting them for the maximum benefit?
Is that how you deal with your business to make profit

Parachoko:
Daewoo is going to fix the Kaduna Refinery as soon as possible

What is as soon as possible in terms of a specific date?
Was that what Buhari promised in 2015 when Thiefnuibu made him president

officialbeffinb:
4 Years later, Niger Republic got the 4 Refineries with a pretending company profiles.
4 Years later, Niger Republic got Rail project from Nigeria to Niger Republic free of charge.
4 Years later, Niger Republic got Gas Pipe line Contract from Nigeria to Niger Republic free of charge.
4 Years later, Niger Republic got Billions of U.S Dollar Electricity transmission and power plant generation contract from Nigeria to Niger Republic free of charge.
4 Years later, Niger Republic got her roads constructed from Nigeria to Niger Republic free of charge.

Dear Mr President,
where are the 4 Refineries you promised Nigerians in 2014/15 during your campaign?
You promised to end fuel importation into Nigeria but went and signed MoU with Niger Republic to be importing fuel into Nigeria from Niger Republic.

What is going on?

robinso01:
Person wey no fit see draw nor to talk of winning.
Everyone knows Lagos belongs to sanwo olu right now.

Most may not vote for Tinubu, but you see that sanwo olu ehn, majority will vote for him.

Sanwo Olu because he has done what exactly?
Completed the never ending light rail? Or expanded water provision to all buildings in Lagos? Or increased the number of teachers and children enrolled in government schools by what percentage?
Or simply robbing Peter to pay Paul with the a-looter continua reckless looting of 20 million Lagosians'IGR, loans, revenue allocation and even PPP funds?
Are you one of those blind BAT followers of APC afflicted by Stockholm syndrome? If you are not, should you not join other reasonable Lagosians to sing Otogé for JagaBandit & co increasing revenue without commensurate governance deliverables to match? Should you not join us

oshozondii:
The Lagos State Government has borrowed over N126 billion domestically in the last quarter of 2021, the Debt Management Office (DMO) has said.

According to a report released by the DMO, Lagos, whose domestic debt stood at N532.12 billion as of September 30, 2021, is now owing N658.95 billion as at the end of December, 2021.

This represents an increase of N126.83 billion in the last three months of the year 2021, according to the DMO.

DAILY POST observed that Lagos is the State with the highest domestic debt figure as of the time under review.

Ogun State comes second with a total of N232.62 billion debt as of December.

Ogun’s debt profile rose from N192.41 billion to N232.62 within three months, making a debt increase of N40 billion.

https://dailypost.ng/2022/03/21/domestic-debt-lagos-borrows-over-n126bn-in-three-months-dmo-releases-other-states-figures/

MathsChic:
Some days ago, I was at a secondary school in Surulere (across the bridge from the Island) in Lagos for a friend's event where he is educating secondary students about the perils of peer pressure. I honestly wasn't expecting what I saw as the state of this secondary school.
It left me wondering if this was a school or a dump yard. Why in heaven's name are Nigerian leaders looking the other way while the young ones study in this sorry environment?

The attached pictures are what I saw. This is no secondary school. It's a hopeless shanty. I hope this gets to front page and attracts the necessary attention.

SB2020:
Interesting facts about Addis Ababa and Lagos light rail projects.

Addis Ababa / Lagos
Cost == $475Million / $1.2Billion
Length == 34km / 27km
Time to Complete == 4years / 7years (projected)
Year Awarded == 2011 / 2008 (Construction began 2010)
Contractor == China Railway Eng. Corp (CREC) /Chinese Civil Eng. Constr. Coy (CCECC)
Population == 5Million / 20Million


Ethiopia has managed to deliver Sub-Saharan Africa’s first modern light rail project which opened in the capital Addis Ababa on Sunday, and in the process, beat Lagos whose own rail project remains four years behind schedule.

Ethiopia’s rail project was delivered on time, despite its being longer than the Lagos – Badagry rail line currently under construction.

Addis Ababa’s two line 34-kilometre system was built by the China Railway Engineering Corporation (CREC) and cost $475m, 85 percent of which has been covered by China’s Exim bank. The Lagos Light Rail Project or Blue on Badagry Expressway, was to have 13 stations from Okokomaiko to Marina via Iddo for a total of 27 kilometres.

The contract was awarded to the Chinese Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) at the cost of $1.2 billion in 2008, and was to be delivered in 2011. Survey work took one year between August 2009 and August 2010 while construction began July 2010.

The work is being implemented using the public and private partnership (PPP) model, whereby the state builds the infrastructure and the private sector provides the rolling stock and management. However, the project has not worked out according to the plan.
The 2011 deadline was missed, even though the State government got a loan to fund the project.

Source
http://businessdayonline.com/2015/09/addis-ababa-beats-lagos-to-light-rail-as-construction-delays-mount/

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.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/450615-world-water-day-lagos-water-crisis-worsening-group-says.html

Manson1:
Insecurity everywhere... May God help us...

Amen.
May God help us to shine our eyes and avoid being scammed again by sweet-talking but empty character propagandists like Thiefnuibu who made Buhari president in 2015.
Who will do the enlightenment work required for this

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.

https://dailypost.ng/2021/09/01/flashback-how-bola-tinubu-spoke-highly-of-buhari-in-2015-named-pdp-poverty-development-party/

socialmediaman:
The 2018 Rating by Transparency International placed Nigeria at 148th position out of 180 countries. Nigeria was improving over the years under the previous government, until Buhari got elected as president, things became worse.

There is a difference between fact and fiction. We need to face facts, Buhari is worse than GEJ when it comes to fighting corruption, at least that’s what the facts prove.

Most of us believed there was corruption under Goodluck Jonathan’s Government. I agree with those who did, there was corruption, but not as bad as it is today under Mohammadu Buhari.

In 2012, Nigeria was placed at 139th position, In 2014, Nigeria gained 3 steps and was placed at 136th position. Under Buhari, Nigeria has lost many positions down to 148th.

There’s no further proof needed that corruption has worsened under Buhari’s government compared to previous years.

http://saharareporters.com/2018/02/21/transparency-international-ranks-nigeria-148th-worlds-least-corrupt-country

Eriokanmi:
Let them keep deceiving us that Lagos doesn't need amotekun and Lagos is safe, playing politics with human lives. God will judge those supporting these liars.

What we face in Lagos daily is bizarre. Armed robbers operating in traffic and nobody challenges them. God saved my life one evening at pen cinema area of agege when coming from omole side around 9:30pm. He wanted pulling his gun from his pocket and I zoomed off at the slightest opportunity. There was a police station close by, but they did nothing. I learnt they've been operating there for long. My brother was coming from apapa one morning and these guys pointed a gun at him. Motorists were just trying to find an escape route on sighing them. My brother refused to open the door of his vehicle as instructed. Suddenly traffic became clear and he zoomed off. Don't go to lekki axis at night if you like yourself. Don't pass 3rd mainland bridge around 11pm and if you must risk it, speed like commando and don't stop, even if you hear any sound in your tyre. If you must enter a BRT, don't enter a nearly empty one, especially at night. Some of their drivers are complicit. I remember the poor pretty girl murdered inside the BRT bus by the driver and her body was dumped by the roadside. Thanks to the whatsapp conversation between her and a family member, when she began to see strange moves inside the BRT bus. The driver wouldn't have been nabbed. Many had gone in same manner unnoticed.

Lagos needs help and help is comimg.

Lagos Amotekun will be populated with the agberos that MC Oluomo controls for Thiefnuibu.
Do you suppose that Lagosians are as smart as Edo & Osun people who rejected Emilokan EscoBat JagaBandit?

Francis5:
Nigeria’s Next Leader’s Ties to a Heroin Ring

Former Lagos provincial governor Bola Tinubu, affectionately nicknamed the Jagaban, is today seen as a shrewd if not “deeply Machiavellian” Svengali in Nigeria’s politics as well as the architect of a hugely successful anti-corruption platform. But 20 years ago he had to forfeit nearly half a million dollars to the U.S. Treasury Department after being named as an accomplice in a white heroin-trafficking and money-laundering ring that stretched from West Africa to the U.S. Midwest.

Although his case has been bandied about the Nigerian press for years, Tinubu’s involvement in a federal drug and racketeering investigation waged jointly by the DEA, FBI, and IRS has gone unreported elsewhere, even after his ascendance to Karl Rove-like status last month. A recent gauzy Financial Times profile of him, for instance, neglected to mention that two decades ago Tinubu was identified as a bagman for two Nigerian heroin movers who operated out of Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. They were Adegboyega Mueez Akande and Abiodun Agbele, Akande’s nephew, who was exposed to law enforcement after selling white heroin first to Lee Andrew Edwards, another dealer later jailed for trying to murder a federal agent, and then to an undercover cop.

In a 1993 court docket from the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, which The Daily Beast obtained from Sahara Reporters, a Nigeria-focused news outlet, IRS Special Agent Kevin Moss said that Akande had run the white heroin ring in the late 1980s until 1990, when he handed off the U.S arm of the business to his nephew, who had arrived in 1988. Akande then returned to Nigeria but continued to oversee the operation from abroad with the help of others at home and in the United States, including his relatives. One of the individuals identified in his cartel by Moss was Tinubu, then a Chicago State University-educated accountant working as a treasurer for Mobil Oil Nigeria Ltd, a subsidiary of energy giant Mobil Oil, which was still a few years shy of its famous merger with Exxon in 1999.

In the biography section of his official website, Tinubu is described as having emigrated to the United States in 1975 “in search of the proverbial Golden Fleece with a heart brimming with unrelenting determination to achieve his visions.” This is certainly one way to describe his tenure stateside.

In 1989, Moss said in an affidavit, Tinubu established an individual money market account, into which he deposited $1,000 in traveler’s checks, and a negotiable order of withdrawal account (NOW) at First Heritage Bank in Country Club Hills, Illinois. The address Tinubu gave the bank was the same as the listed headquarters of Globe-Link International, the front company owned by Akande and his relatives.

“There’s a trend of various Nigerian politicians at the highest levels involved in dodgy business deals around the world, in property and cash.”

Bank employees told Moss that Akande had personally introduced them to Tinubu in December 1989 when who also opened a joint checking account with his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, who already kept a joint account with Akande’s wife at First Heritage. Five days after the NOW account was opened, $80,000 was wired into it from a bank in Houston maintained by one of Akande’s relatives. Tinubu would later use the NOW account to buy a $10,000 Certificate of Deposit for an $8,000 car loan, listing Akande as his cousin on the application.

At the time, Tinubu’s take home as a Mobil Oil Nigeria executive was a mere $2,400 a month and he claimed not to have any other revenue streams. Yet he still managed to deposit $661,000 into his individual money market account in 1990 and then another $1,216,500 a year later. He also opened more accounts with Citibank in its worldwide personal banking unit, transferring over half a million dollars from his First Heritage money market account into one of them in early 1991.

Mobil Oil Nigeria told Moss that Tinubu’s role at the company never involved transferring large sums of money between banks and that it didn’t keep deposits in any institutions in the south suburbs of Chicago, where First Heritage was based. Moreover, although Tinubu moved back to Nigeria in 1983, he neglected to file U.S. income tax returns after 1984 despite having sizable, interest-generating deposits in American banks. All of this was enough to persuade a magistrate judge of the Northern District to issue seizure warrants for Tinubu’s First Heritage and Citibank accounts. Collectively, more than $1.4 million belonging to the Nigerian was confiscated.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/27/nigeria-s-next-leader-s-ties-to-a-heroin-ring.html