₦airaland Forum

gogo2479:
Useless government. So they know or didn’t know the economic condition Nigerians are facing when they announce their increase in electricity tariff but now have the audacity to ask multi choice not to do the same.

wisdomremz:
This is what happens when a brand doesn’t have a major competitor..

stormborn28:
for your information you can't be a professor and not be a PhD holder... It is not independent of the other...

Igbochief001:
osibanjo has no PhD

Charmingrascal:
Wike bribed Judges in Rivers so that they will always pervert justice in his favor
He bribed State Law makers so that there won't be any constraint when he want to have his way in the house, even though his intentions of giving all these bribes are glaring no one wants to talk about it.
A Governor who owes pensioneers in his State is wasting State resources on souvenirs for selfish reasons.
Hypocrisy has really blurred our sense of reasoning in this Country, even youths that are suppose to clamour for a better Nigeria are the Masters of partisanship.
Of what significant is it for a Governor to gift cars to lawmakers who earn more than Civil servants while he has refused to pay aged retirees who served the State diligently even though they were paid peanuts.

Nigerian politicians are so heartless

kolade560:
And oshi omo ole will keep sharing ur allocation 50//50 to service Lara

Zeezy81:
No they won't
They come with facts

When you are done reading, kindly enumerate 10 things Oshiomole, Lucky, and by extension Ize Iyamu did for the same State while they held sway.

After that, do well to point out Obaseki's sins.

I honestly want to know what he did wrong. I am mon-partisan, whatever will grow Edo is all I'm up for.

Thanks.

The following are a list of some achievements of the Governor Godwin Obaseki-Led Government
grouped under the six thematic pillars of the state:

1) Economic Revolution
2) Infrastructural Development
3) Institutional Reforms
4) Social Welfare Enhancement
5) Environmental Sustainability
6) Culture and Tourism

1. ECONOMIC REVOLUTION

• Edo Job Initiative; over 150,000 beneficiaries
• Establishment of Edo Innovation Hub, popularly referred to as “The South-South Silicon
Valley”; over 22,000 beneficiaries
• Creation of Edo Production Center to drive industrial development and create jobs
• Launch of Edo State Oil Palm Program (ESOPP); N69 billion committed by the CBN
• 10,000 hectares across 3 senatorial districts adopted for rice production
• Remodeling and re-equipping of the Government Science and Technical College (GSTC)

2. INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

• Emotan Garden Housing; 100 out of 1,440 units completed
• Establishment of Jara Mall
• New automated model for revenue collection; implementation of the Edo Revenue
Administrative System (ERAS)
• Ugboha/Uromi and Auchi water projects
• Construction of the Edo State Secretariat complex, Block C and Block D has been
completed.
• Construction/Renovation of roads across the 3 senatorial districts of the state including;
368 road contracts awarded; 274 road projects completed including:
Construction of Lucky Way
- Irhirhi-Aruogba-Obazagbon-Ogheghe Road
- Rehabilitation of Secretariat Road, Igarra
- Textile Mill Road (ongoing)
- Ugbor-Amagba (ongoing)
- Ekaewan Road (ongoing)
- Road construction project at Obakhavbaye (ongoing).
- Rehabilitation of Uzebba-Ukpoje-Akagbor Road
- Construction of Orhodua Bridge
• Reduced cost of Certificates of Occupancy to N50,000
• Renovation of High Court Complex
• Tayo Akpata University, Abudu Campus (ongoing)
• Ossiomo Power Plant; 55 megawatt capacity (ongoing)
• Azura-Edo 461 MW open cycle gas turbine power station
• Inauguration of Benin River Port, Gelegele project
• Creation of Edo Modular Refinery (ongoing)
• Construction of Ikpoba River dam
• Establishment of Benin Enterprise Park (ongoing)
• Renovation of Oba Akenzua Cultural Center
• Construction of Judges Quarters (ongoing)
• Construction of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Iguoriakhi (ongoing)
• Laying of fiber optic for faster internet speeds with collaboration with MainOne; 450km
street by street fibre deployed in Benin City.
• Construction of modern car park.(ongoing)


3. INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS

• Wabizigan launched: launch of new security architecture and implementation of Security
Management Information System.
• Implementation of State Integrated Financial Management Information System (SIFMIS)
• Development and passage of a consolidated Public Financial Management (PFM) and
Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) for better financial management.
• Inauguration of Industrial Court in Edo State.
• Implementation of Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy for better control of
Government’s resources.
• New and better EDSTMA: The Edo State Traffic Control and Management Agency
(EDSTMA) has been revamped and repositioned for better service delivery to citizens.
• Contributory Pension Scheme for local government workers established.
• Eradication Community Development Associations (CDA’s) from our communities and
stopped Agberos from collecting revenues for Edo State Government.
• Creation of online website "EdoMonitorMe" Portal for transparency and monitoring of
projects.

4. SOCIAL WELFARE ENHANCEMENT

• Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation (EDOBEST) programme: implementation of
modern teaching techniques and technology.
• Over 11,000 teachers trained across the state
• Edo State Sports Commission Bill passed into law and Edo State Sports Commission
established
• Over a million textbooks distributed across the state
• Establishment of Edo State Task Force on Human Trafficking to curb irregular migration
and human trafficking
• Launch of Edo State Health Insurance Scheme to quality and affordable health care
services for citizens.
• Twenty primary healthcare centers revamped.
• New Central Hospital opened
• Renovation and facilities upgrade of Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium
• Violence against Persons Bill has been signed into law to addres

5. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

•Commencement of reclamation of erosion damaged embankment along Upper Mission
Road by Temboga.
• Remediation measures in Auchi through the Nigeria Erosion Watershed Management
Project (NEWMAP).
• Operation Clean up Edo Project has put in place to prevent indiscriminate dumping of
waste

6. CULTURE AND TOURISM

• Successful hosting of the 2019 National Festival for Arts and Culture.
• Reintroduction of Culture Clubs in public schools

GOVERNOR GODWIN OBASEKI’S ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST
COVID – 19
SCREENING AND TESTING

• Primary Health-care centres spread across the 18 LGAs, with 62 designated screening
centres
• Private Health-care centres across Benin City with 40 designated as screening centres
across Benin City.
• Mobile Screening centres across 6 LGAs, with 78 Screening point spread across respective
wards: 12 wards respectively in Oredo and Etsako-West LGA, 10 wards respectively in
Egor, Ikpoba-Okha, Esan West and Ovia North-East LGA.
• 64,200 persons have been screened via mobile screening centres, with 2,361 suspected
cases with samples collected. 51% Male screened and 49% Female.
• 212,000 persons screened via the fixed screening centres (Private and Primary Health-care
Total of 276,200 persons screened so far.

FACILITIES
• Setting up and equipping of 3 isolation facilities in Stella-Obasanjo Hospital, University of
Benin Teaching Hospital, and Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital.
• Purchase and installat of 2 new PCR machines at Stella-Obasanjo Hospital and University
of Benin Teaching Hospital.
• Purchase 18,000 Rapid Testing Kit (RTK).
• Acquisition of 4 Autoclave machines
• Establishment a Covid-19 support call centre to manage questions and quarries from
citizens.
• Upgrade of Emergency Operation Center (EOC) at the Hospital Management Board
complex with support from the USAid department carried out an
TRAINING
• Training of 4,218 health personnel to effectively fight the COVID-19.
• Special training to be organized for Helpline call attendants. Public health experts to be
included as trainers.
MOTIVATION
• H.E Godwin Obaseki approved a hazard allowance ranging from N90,000 to N300,000 for frontline health worker.

Mraphel:
Osanobua will not let us experience PDP calamity yet again in Edo.

They'll all start looting and using Edo money to sponsor Atiku like Abia governor did.

Ize-Iyamu will take Edo back to Igbinedion’s era – Oshiomhole
September 18, 2016

The Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole, has criticised a former Governor of the state, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, for saying Oshomhole’s successor will emerge from the Peoples Democratic Party.

Igbinedion, who was governed the state between 1999 and 2007, had recently said that the next governor would not only emerge from his political family but that the party would win by a wide margin.

But Oshiomhole told journalists at the 84th birthday celebration of a former Governor of the Midwestern region, Dr. Samuel Ogbemudia on Saturday that the state would not return to the ‎”dark era” of the opposition party.

The governor said that the task for residents of state on September 28, the day of the governorship poll, was to choose whether they wanted the house of Igbinedion, as allegedly represented by Pastor Ize-Iyamu, or they wanted to sustain the breakaway.

‎He explained, “The people have a clear choice to make. You want Igbinedion era back because Ize-Iyamu has been straight forward on it that they want to change this change to the Igbinedion era. Lucky has confirmed that one of their own would be used to reverse the clock back.”

He added, “Edo cannot return to the house of the Igbinedions… They want to use tax payers’ money to celebrate a man who has never served Edo State. ‎”

He called on people to vote for the All Progressives Congress candidate, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, in order to move the state forward.

“Edo people have seen the light. They cannot go back to the dark era which the Igbinedion house represents. They will consolidate the present gain and raise it to a higher level by voting for Godwin Obaski, who is not and will never be part of the Igbinedions,” he said.

https://punchng.com/ize-iyamu-will-take-edo-back-igbinedions-era-oshiomhole/

seguno2:
Please can you also confirm that the Hon. Promise has been returning the excess millions he is paid above the earnings of an equally productive permanent secretary or professor?
Can you please confirm.
Or he is just doing drama and hypocrisy

simpleseyi:
Yorubas. Still leading.

comos:
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, on Friday justified the arrest of only suspects of Yoruba extraction over the recent clash in Ile-Ife, Osun State, which resulted in the death of about 46 persons. He said crime neither has tribe nor identity.

Idris spoke with State House correspondents shortly after briefing President Muhammadu Buhari of security situations in parts of the country inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The police had been in the eye of the storm for arresting and parading 20 Yoruba persons, including a monarch, over the clash while not a single Hausa/Fulani person was detained.

The pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere; and the Oodua Peoples Congress are among groups and individuals that have been criticising the police over the development.

Idris however said the police would not hesitate to apply the law once criminal cases are established against individuals, irrespective of their tribe.

He said, “You know we are police officers. Crime has no tribe. If you are a criminal, you are a criminal.

“Crime has no face. We don’t look at crime in the identity of where you are coming from.

“As far as you are a criminal and the police find you wanting, we apply the law.”

He said investigation had revealed that the crisis started with a disagreement between two people selling food along the road.

https://punchng.com/ife-clash-igp-justifies-arrest-of-only-yoruba-suspects/

classicfrank4u:
He said worst

mfm04622:
Who told you they fight was to share land? To show how stupid you are, all the land in a state belong to the State Government. If it is about land, El-rufai would have just allocated the land to whoever he want! And nobody can do anything about it!

SmartProf:
Any peace process that allows the babaric killers go without being punished makes no sense. You can't destroy what you can't create, and end up signing a peace deal. Why didn't the killers prioritise peace & conflict resolution strategies before destroying livelihoods? Rubbish.

shariff84:
We’ve paid some Fulani to stop killings in Southern Kaduna – El-Rufai
DECEMBER 3, 2016

Kaduna State Governor Mallam Nasir el-Rufai has said his government has traced some violent, aggrieved Fulani to their countries and paid them to stop the killings of Southern Kaduna natives and the destruction of their communities saying that the renewed violence is carried out by bandits.

El-Rufai made this known while fielding questions from some select Journalists in his office in Kaduna.

He said: “For southern Kaduna, we didn’t understand what was going on and we decided to set up a committee under Gen. Martin Luther Agwai (rtd) to find out what was going on there. What was established was that the root of the problem has a history starting from the 2011 post election violence.

“Fulani herdsmen from across Africa bring their cattle down towards Middle Belt and Southern Nigeria. The moment the rains starts around March, April, they start moving them up to go back to their various communities and countries.


“Unfortunately, it was when they were moving up with their cattle across Southern Kaduna that the elections of 2011 took place and the crisis trapped some of them.

“Some of them were from Niger, Cameroon, Chad, Mali and Senegal. Fulanis are in 14 African countries and they traverse this country with the cattle.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/weve-paid-fulani-stop-killings-southern-kaduna-el-rufai/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Charmingrascal:
Apparently his Staff and workers are going through hell, if he can bully people who are not looking up to him for anything, I wonder the kind of trauma his Staff would be going through after they might have endured barrage of unwarranted insults and bullying from the hypocritical drug addict.

My brother from the other side see the life of your mentor?

God himself exposed his hypocrisy to the whole World.

He shouldn't say 'pim' again he should respect himself because the next time he bullies any Government Official or perceived enemies he will be disgraced.

After all most of those opposition guys that are always heating up the polity are hypocrites.

FFK
Deji
Reno
Charlie boy
You name them.
When you look deeper and look beyond partisanship and bigotry you will see the hypocrisy in them all.

Racoon:
Another bombshell corruption.

StubbornGENIUS:
Am pretty sure that if an audit is carried out and the books are opened, NNPC case will be like an IT student in a multinational company.
Meanwhile, if C is Found in NDDC, NNPC, CBN, PHCN, NCDC, EFCC, ICPC nd APC, what is the value of C in Nigeria?

Commonsense99:

When I saw the title I knew it would be a Biafran.
Its always easy to call him a Nigg@ arean because he didn't commit any crime.

Mchenryfreeman:
God will continue to bless the greatest tribe in Africa igbo. I can proudly say this igbo amaka!!

Righteousness89:
Congratulations Sir!

Africa Amaka!!

Nigeria Amaka!!

Igbo Amaka!!!

To GOD Almighty be the Glory

chatinent:
Did anyone notice that even in 1997, Jagaban was still very ugly?

Charly68:
That was then ,this is now ,if you like go and bring his comment in 1980 ,it shall hold no water

Kestolove:
ur mama teach me work..

EMMY76:
Nigerian politicians can go to any length to dig out out the skeletons of their political opponents. But this is actually the current position of most people in the south every reasonable person in the whole south and the middle belt is just tired of the way fulani muslim north have been running nigeria.

Collapse of Soviet Union

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.

https://www.slideshare.net/bbednars/collapse-of-soviet-union-61548605

Psoul:
The excerpts says he ran away from Nigeria and was ranting from London.
Why didn't he stay back in Nigeria and face that government.
Was he not a coward to fled Nigeria and was making noise from diaspora?

seunmsg:
Post the full interview and stop trying to bamboozle us with sensational headline.
You cannot bring a headline from an interview granted during the military era without posting the full details. We need to understand the context in which he made the statement.

Shizzyguy:
One of the things that we really need to respect in Nigeria is that people have a right to change their minds. Our opinions and convictions on certain matters or issues can change based on new evidence or information, paradigm shift or even a change in situation.

It is even possible that the statement was taken out of context based on what we know about journalism in Nigeria. I wish I could read the full article

mu2sa2:
OP, please quote the full excerpts of the interview for the reader to know the context in which Tinubu made the alleged statement.
One may also ask: Was he misquoted? Did he refute the report after publication?
May God continue to bless our dear native land of Nigeria and decimate her detractors.

Obalatule:
He didn't believe in one Nigeria until he started benefiting from one Nigeria

Joshmodest:
@op do you ??
Accept or not Nigeria is a country that was never meant to be one , two. three or even 30 ...
fragment us into 40 units , people would still call for division ....
We were all just forced to stay together against our wish !!
I don't like the bourdillion chimpanzee but he's right on this !!

BREYZ:
Look at how everyone is against femi in this thread, nobody wants to reason. Can this same journalist redirect such question to Tinubu? As well as Aisha Buhari?

Being a minister some 13 years ago now means he is poor or does that mean he doesn't have some investments that are yielding good profits today? Some persons will just allow hate for femi becloud their sense or reasoning. Typing in big grammar won't help you op, you people should at least be reasonable for once. That question was an insult, did femi do an international tour? No. It was all within Nigeria & some states I know he may have travelled by road in his own car, it's just a pity that people here are just full of hate.

Such a messed up country, look at them attacking the man yet never saw anything degrading in the question asked by that journalist. Why can't they send him to go and ask your so called saints in power such questions but they won't and you all will fully support, Ass lickers. This is why Nigeria is never moving forward

Like leader, like followers.

Ex-Minister Fani-Kayode dumps PDP, joins APC
May 27, 2013

A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has just announced his defection from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party to the yet-to-be-registered All Progressives Congress.

In a post on his Facebook post, Mr. Fani-Kayode said he took the decision after he met with Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi earlier today.

“I had a meeting with Gov. Kayode Fayemi afterwards and I have just publicly and formally declared for the APC,” the former minister said. “For me this is a great and historic day. Goodbye forever PDP.”

He said he met Mr. Fayemi after he chaired the public presentation of a book written by an old friend, Bunmi Aborishade, who now teaches journalism at the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/136372-ex-minister-fani-kayode-dumps-pdp-joins-apc.html