Cutezt: A lady simply identified as Sarah Nanshin has come online to share a video of the water supplied to her community by the Plateau State Water Board.
Do you think that the flexing people of Lekki and other fake posh areas of Lagos have better tap water? We are really in deep shit as we salute our personal persons in looting both in the public and private sector. We never ready.
I hope you now know the moronic pseudo-intellectual who opened a baseless & senseless thread built on outdated, unreferenced stats and cheered by his fellow ignorant goons
What percentage did the north contribute to oil revenue
onatisi: you want to cause wahala this morning ? lets just enjoy the moment oo, because that matter is another topic . a nation that tolerates many excuses is a nation of many failures. Nigerians and many Africans like finding excuses for their failures and shortcomings , buhari kept blaming pdp for his first 4 years of failures , it wasnt until this year that ppl started telling them to shut up ,but alas the damage has been done already
Especially when we feel related somehow, even remotely, to the public servant who is underperforming.
Garba Shehu our defacto president keep dishing order instead of Buhari doing so himself. Buhari may not even be aware that Gen.Attahiru is dead.
How can a president declare work free day for soldiers fighting insurgency. I hope his ADC will observe the work free day by not coming to work
You can be rest assured that whatever Garbage Shehu and the others say are fully endorsed by Buhari. Fully endorsed, otherwise they will be fired. It is just part of Buhari's style to not be responsible for failures while taking all the glory of success in whatever he does thereby retaining his deceptive aura of integrity. You can read Ray Ekpu's piece on Buhari's reckless looting of PTF.
nuelzy: Asides sars.. I feel Nigerians are stupid... How many of us protested againt the fuel/electricity hike Bad governance Corruption/embezzlement ... That aside.. The end sars protest yielded no result... Why?? Because the same elements remain police officers and will still carry out their nefarious activities as police men... You all want to know the real demons??... Its the IGP and so many other senior officers... They give those boys demands of alarming monetary returns weekly.. They practically send them to armed robbery in the name of policing.. So until the top is tackled... Nothing changes... Best bet is to reform the organization Give dem a better pay package ... And make strict laws that will make both the unscrupulous junior/senior officers dance to the tune of lawfullness
Effective filters during recruitment plus repetitive training on standards can help, but the cronyism that plagues recruitment in a situation of over 50% unemployment/underemployment makes that a tough task. Better pay package is meaningless except the pay of political office holders is reduced to be in line with the pay of policemen and other workers. How much do you think that the top policeman earns compared to the total package of their Prime Minister in the UK where our president runs to for medical tourism in a secure environment?
1. Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1989) 2. Détente: Cooperation between Superpowers - During the Cold War President Nixon and Brezhnez conducted SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) conferences and signed a treaty limiting the number of missiles each country can have.
3. USSR and Afghanistan Cooperation/Détente Ends • 1979-1988 • USSR backed the Afghan government; the US backed the Mujahedeen rebels • US boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow • 14,000 Soviet dead; 1+million Afghans –Over 5 million Afghans fled (more than 1/3 of the population) –10-15 million land mines still in Afghanistan –Soviets withdrawal defeated 4. - Soviet economic collapse - Nationalism in Warsaw Pact countries - Tearing down of Berlin Wall - Breakup of the Soviet Union Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
5. Nationalism in Warsaw Pact Countries 1. Gorbachev’s pullout from Afghanistan and his policy of Non-Intervention gave rise and momentum to Warsaw Pact nationalism movements. 2. Soviet/Warsaw Pact countries resented Soviet control and wanted to direct their own governments. 6. Tearing Down the Berlin Wall 1. East Germany elected a more moderate Communist government, but many not satisfied; allowed people to leave East Germany 2. November 9, 1989 – the Brandenburg Gate opened and people began tearing down the wall 3. Tearing down Berlin Wall symbolized and helped lead to fall of Communism in Eastern Europe; East Germany & Czechoslovakia 4. Gorbachev and President Reagan given credit for being most responsible for the end of the Cold War
7. Ronald Reagan: U.S. President 1980-88 “Tear down this wall” 8. Brandenburg Gate Fall of the wall news broadcast 9. Soviet Economic Collapse 1. Over-spending on arms race weakened government & economy 2.Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev tried to reform the USSR economy in two plans a. perestroika – restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system - Weakened Russian economy in short-term b.glasnost – “Openness” freed public access to information after decades of heavy government censorship 3. Gorbachev encouraged reform in other 15 Soviet Socialist Republics: new countries 4. Hard-line communists attempted a coup against Gorbachev – failed 5. U.S.S.R. crumbles; Gorbachev = the last leader of the USSR 6.Boris Yeltsin, with support of many who wanted continued reforms, becomes President of Russia Mikhail Gorbachev U.S.S.R. Boris Yeltsin Russia
10. Break Up of Soviet Union 1. Soviet Republics, one-by-one, broke away from Moscow and declared independence. 2. 1989-90: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) was dead.
Adonis86: This is the consequences of building without a good master plan, unprofessional building engineer, using substandard materials and trying to economise materials.
Government still not doing the best. All they know is to collect money and pay no attention to the nature of work going on, as well as the omonile
All they know is collect money and load it into bullion vans for the Bourdillon GagaBandit.
FreeGlobe: In Lagos, Alpha Beta, as consultants, gets 10 percent of whatever Lagos State generates monthly. If this statement confuses you, you are not alone. There are just a few things you need to keep in mind though: Lagos State generates roughly 31 billion Naira a month. Ten percent of that is going to a consultancy firm owned by the former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu. 75% of the revenue generated by Lagos State comes from taxes.
If you need to read the paragraph again, you are not alone. However, the truth of the matter is that Alpha Beta Company has been the tax consultant to the Lagos State government since 1999, when the former governor Tinubu began his tenure.
That year, Alpha Beta Company had definitely succeeded by delivering a dramatic rise in monthly state revenue from about 600 million Naira to 7.7 billion Naira. A laudable achievement indeed, but it would have been less so if the citizens of Lagos State knew what they had traded it in for. Alpha Beta Company had charged the state of Lagos a whopping one billion Naira a month for their services.
Now, just to reiterate, Tinubu owns Alpha Beta Company. Tinubu was also at the time, the Governor of Lagos State. Alpha Beta Company became the tax consultant for Lagos State in 1999, and they charged roughly 13% of the entire state revenue.
Today, Alpha Beta Company is still the tax consultant for the state. They now charge roughly 10% of the entire state revenue and Tinubu still owns it. The only thing that has changed is that Tinubu is no longer the Governor of Lagos State, or so it says on paper. With utmost respect to the office of State Governor, Tinubu is still very much in control of the state’s affairs, or at the very least, its revenue.
Despite all feelings of being scandalized here, one must look at the big picture. Governor Fashola is still working for Bola Tinubu. If he was not, things might have changed. New relationships would have been forged with the State Government and interest groups. However, the standings beg the question: what has really changed since then?
Undisclosed sources claim that Tinubu’s role in installing Fashola as Governor of the State is the biggest hindrance for the present regime. An agreement between Fashola and Tinubu over the duration of the tenure of governorship, as well as the selection of certain cabinet members paints a vivid picture on the sort of bind Fashola is in. At the moment however, one wonders whether or not he finds it at convenient as he used to, or if he ever did.
What is clear, however, is that there appears to be a lot of money changing hands, and the masses are still bewildered over the fate of roughly 31 billion Naira in revenue per month. There are a number of allegations regarding Fashola’s spending penchants. Here are just a few of them that beg to be disproved:
1. That in 2009, Fashola gave N250 million to the Rotimi Akeredolu-led executive of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) for the NBA conference held in Lagos, at a time when Lagos teachers and doctors were on strike for improved welfare package.
2. The Babatunde Raji Fashola Government within six months, January to June 2009, spent N420 million on the hiring of private security – to guard who? – despite his heavy investment in the Police Force through the State Security Trust Fund.
3. Babatunde Raji Fashola spent N1.5 billion to demolish the Bank of Industry (BOI) building, paying a company introduced by one Tunji Olowolafe in cash transfer, only for him and his cronies to claim the land adjacent to it.
4. The Babatunde Raji Fashola Government awarded a part of Western Avenue (Funsho Williams Road), about two kilometres road for N7.7 billion, just between Abalti Barracks and Costain. And without the construction of any bridge, the project was carried out by Julius Berger. This project must certainly be investigated.
5. Between January and June 2009, the Babatunde Raji Fashola Government claimed to have fuelled 225 vehicles in his office alone with N135 million. These figures amount to about N800,000 per day at a time that petrol was sold for N65 per litre. The Government always got fuel cheaper, but Babatunde Raji Fashola claimed to have bought it at N85 per litre.
6. Between January and June 2009, Babatunde Raji Fashola’s Chief of Staff and Personal Assistants expended N290 million in sending text messages and phone calls on their lines.
7. It is also very sad to know that the Babatunde Raji Fashola Government awarded the construction of a road and drains inside Gbagada General Hospital for over N1.8 billion to the same Tunji Olowolafe’s company (DEUX Projects Limited).
8. The sum of N1.5 billion of un-appropriated funds, without approval, was claimed to have been spent on the demolition of Oshodi.
9. The Helicopter Deal was a big fraud. The helicopter was not built for any kind of emergency evacuation, rescue or to even combat urban fire. Over N5 billion has been spent on the two helicopters. And the seal of Lagos State is not on it, and it is not even in Lagos but in the Niger Delta making money for some private people in Government. The whole helicopter deal stinks to high heavens; it constitutes the biggest governmental fraud of all times and confirms the rot in the State. See THISDAY December 19, 2009.
10. The Senior Special Assistant, SSA (Media) to Babatunde Raji Fashola spent N183 million in six months on press coverage and editors outside the approved budget but funded directly from the Governor’s Office.
11. In a State where children are sitting on the floor in classrooms, where unemployment is rampant and poverty pervasive, Babatunde Raji Fashola paid the wife of a controversial pastor over N600 million in two years for Christmas decorations for about six streets in Lagos.
12. In six months, between January and June 2009, Babatunde Raji Fashola spent monies on several faceless organisations, subventions, grants and donations such that they quickly pocketed N2 billion.
three: The erstwhile Managing Director of AlphaBeta, the Lagos State consultant on IGR took to twitter to share his petition to the EFCC via the law firm Adetunji Shoyoye and Associates.
He Accuses the firm among other things of corruption and money Laundering.
sixtuschimere: Former First Lady Maryam Abacha on Thursday Dec 22 attended the foundation laying ceremony of new structures at Maryam Abacha American University,Niger by the First Lady of Niger Dr Lalla Malika Issofou.
GOATandYAMtheory: Very unnecessary if you ask me Going violent will only do more harm than good. By the time they make a scapegoat out of one of them, you will begin to pity them.
SUFFERInSMILIIN: To hold elections structure in Nigeria has to be reformed because it is very chaotic,Ondo has a population of 3.5 million people and 1.9 million registered voters but only less than 600 thousand people vote. If you take the amount of people which voted to the population it is about 18%. If you take the amount of registered voters to the amount of people which voted in the state it is less than 30%. Most elections in the country is a total disgrace. Look at Somalia when did the election's over 70% of the people go and vote, South Sudan is the same thing, Ghana South Africa Kenya more than 80% of the population go and vote. If the election commission is choosing governors and president with less than 30% of the registered voters voting and less than 20% of the population voting it is very sad.
Since less than 20% of the country is going to vote in any election I think the election commission must be also gotten rid of
Good analysis but wrong conclusion. How do we organise elections if the commission is gotten rid of
[quote author=wwwihy post=94847328]Democracy in Danger people Atikulooters[/quote]Let me educate you for free, which Barawo Bubu and his Association of Past/Present Criminals, APC cannot provide. Thank me later.
RuudVanNisteroy: Buhari’s govt, major beneficiary of protests, tightening the noose on freedom.
you will always remember me for the freedom you enjoyed under me. -----Goodluck Jonathan.
Barawo Bubu knows exactly what he is doing. I only pity the Association of Past/Present Criminals, APC zombies following him still. They need deliverance.
Stop showing off your ignorance with swagger. Did you not see Burna Boy’s contribution to the struggle, even here on nairaland 2Baba aka 2Yeye is the Arikuyeri chicken.
realtalk19: It will get to a point the money wunt be able to sustain your sanity and peace of mind and then depression begins to set in. I will eventually take a long walk and never look back.
Alexgman1: You happen to have a well paid job where you earn close to #200,000 monthly but your boss is always angry, abusive, disrespectful, proud, impatient & provoking personality. Will you endure and continue working for him and flexing ur fat salary every month or you will quit if you cant take it any longer?
Quit to go where and do what? Become a politician and loot the treasury, while the suffer-head people applaud you for wrecking their lives?
SilverNorGold: Too small.. Hate speech is way more dangerous than it seems.. It has led to genocide, war, crisis, distrust, and even anarchy..
Nigeria really needs to fight this menace especially on social media, like Facebook, Twitter, Nairaland, etc.. before it consumes us... That amount is too small to achieve this.. We should be talking billions, not millions..
Nigeria go better...
My brother, there is free speech. But no more hate speech. Hate speech is very dangerous, don't downplay it. The result could be catastrophic..
Barawo Bubu should be prosecuted for that already, don’t you think
Buhari faults crackdown on Boko Haram JUNE 3, 2013
Presidential candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 Presidential election, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has frowned on the emergency rule in parts of the North. He alleged that innocent civilians were being killed in the states.
Buhari speaking during a Liberty FM Hausa Service Programme, Guest of the Week, on Sunday in Kaduna said that Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished unlike the “special treatment” given to the Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government.
obyrich: More that 50% will be swallowed by thieving politicians. Fantastically corrupt people.
Nearly 97% sef will be swallowed by Abacha’s collaborator, Barawo Bubu and LIE Mohammed. Maybe 5% will be shared with the dead meat bbq suya seller of nairaland and other Association of Past/Present Criminals, APC zombies working in BMC. If they are lucky. The job of covering up failed promises with lies and propaganda is not easy.
Buhari faults crackdown on Boko Haram JUNE 3, 2013
Presidential candidate for the Congress for Progressive Change in the 2011 Presidential election, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has frowned on the emergency rule in parts of the North. He alleged that innocent civilians were being killed in the states.
Buhari speaking during a Liberty FM Hausa Service Programme, Guest of the Week, on Sunday in Kaduna said that Boko Haram members were being killed and their houses demolished unlike the “special treatment” given to the Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government.