₦airaland Forum

ouzo1:
Una wan package this one too abi.Nigerians will never learn.

SegFault:
It will end in tears.

isthatso:
Democracy does not work in Black Africa because our level of education and ENLIGTENMENT is not high enough to overcome our cultural and tribal prejudices and burdens.

Show me a truly functioning black democratic country...in Africa.

Blackking98:
Our armed forces here in Nigeria, are you seeing what your mates are doing?
Chase away these politicians whether PDP or APC, ban all of them from ever taking part in politics and allow new blood come in.

LatestTori:
Tuesday’s military coup in Mali that supplanted the government of President Boubacar Keita was led by two colonels: Sadio Camara and Malick Diaw.

According to a Malian journalist, Seydou Oumar Traoré, Camara was the ex-director of the military Prytaneum of Kati who has just returned from training in Russia.

https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2020/08/19/faces-of-malis-coup-leaders/

wisest10:
You think Nigeria is America....
Even if you are Fashola, you cannot resign forget all this too much talk...
You think politics is just your bedroom where you walk in and walk out any how....
Its survival of the fittest and Fashola is still a boy in the game at federal level.....

Farki:
Yes finally I can be visiting my Ogun State babes without problem. Hope the Lagos railway system is next? It is seriously needed now that keke and bikes have gone.

ojuoluwani:
LAGOS State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, yesterday, gave a breakdown of how his administration expended the N160 billion World Bank loan it acquired, saying the state maintained a healthy debt profile.

Fashoa, who spoke during his commemoration of 2,700 days in office and achievements in the last 100 days, in Alausa, Ikeja, said long overdue refund would go a long way in reducing the debt profile of the State, which he said the Federal Government recently published to mislead the public.

He said, “Recently, our political adversaries issued statements that we have borrowed N160 billion. What they have not told you is what we are doing with the money.”

Enumerating his government’s activities within the period under consideration he said; “In the last 100 days, we have commenced work on providing street lighting on the Muritala Muhammed Way in Yaba.

This is 10 kilometres of public lighting which will be completed by the end of this month. On Eko Bridge, Carter Bridge, Ikorodu Road, Lekki-Epe Expressway and every street and highway where there is street lighting in Lagos, it is the Lagos State Government that supplied the poles, the bulbs, the diesel and the maintenance.

“The only major highway we are not managing for street lights is the 3rd Mainland Bridge.

Fire engines, to secure lives, rail transport from Okokomaiko to Marina, with four stations of eight kilometres completed, and work heading to Marina, with piles appearing near the Eko Bridge every day are the places your Government is spending money. The expansion of the Lagos Badagry Expressway to a 10-lane highway is another place where your Government is spending money.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/lagos-spent-n160-bn-world-bank-loan-fashola/

lekki1444:
COME AND BE CALMING DOWN BROTHER ANONYMOUS OR WHATEVER YA NAME IS

id2019:
Enemy of progress, oshiomhole call am MOU governor and now u re seeing the results of the MOU he was busy signing, instead of appreciating the governor for creating an enabling environment for investors u re busy castigating the governor, no go let hatred kill u

dre11:
FLASHBACK: Oshiomhole once wanted building named after Obaseki for ‘selfless service’

Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), once said Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo, worked for the state using his brain and creativity.

Oshiomhole, who praised the governor during the governorship campaign of 2016, said a building at the government house should be named after Obaseki for his selfless service.

Oshiomhole said while he was governor of Edo, Obaseki helped him build the economy team of the state with his network.

“I know my limit. He knows his limit. Godwin Obaseki has worked for seven and half years for the people of Edo state, using his brain, creativity, quietly, not making noise,” Oshiomhole said.

“He sits in the office of the economic team which he built using his network of friends inside the heart of government house without demanding one naira.

“A man like that who will not ask me to give him contracts, but will promise me, comrade, you just do the thinking, we will create the means to actualise your thoughts. And to his credit today, check the books of Edo state, we did not build new structures in government house with government money. That economic team office was built through Godwin’s network. Today, it remains a permanent asset of the state government.

“I want us to be calling that building Godwin Obaseki building. I don’t see your opponent Ize-Iyamu being able to say that. In 2007, check the records, Ize-Iyamu was hiding from EFCC. He didn’t not vote. How can somebody who didn’t vote claim that he made me.

“If you have to look at Godwin and his credentials and you look at a man whose only work, by his CV, was a student and rusticated for two years, he read law but he is not a barrister. That is his foundation. I never gave him government job. Lucky Igbinedion’s mother was reported to have slapped Ize-Iyamu for misleading her son. He tried it with me, but we kept him away. Nothing near government circle. No access to public funds.

“Look at the road to his house, in our books, was dual carriage way. They took the money, constructed the road to his house and stopped. Although we have liquidated the godfathers politically, the entire political family will be liquidated.”


https://www.thecable.ng/flashback-oshiomhole-once-wanted-building-named-after-obaseki-for-selfless-service

wisest10:
Fashola worked in lagos due to his independence, in Nigeria if you cant beat them you join them and when you join them you cant do anything

muchroom:
Infrastructures not doing bad with this government

titiloyeblog:
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi on Friday apologized to Nigerians over the suspension of the Iju-Abeokuta free train ride during the 2019 general elections.

Amaechi tendered the apology during the monthly rail inspection of the Lagos-Ibadan modernisation project in Ibadan.

He said that the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) suspended the three months free train ride due to security and safety of passengers.

“It was suspended by the Chinese and the excuse they gave me was that they cannot allow it run because of safety, since they have not completed the second line but they are almost through with it.

“It is almost completed from Iju to Abeokuta. I want to apologise to Nigerians that they suspended it when they left the country, which I didn’t envisage, they will go back soon,” Amechi said.

Reference:
After leading to the deaths of over 700,000 with millions infected and the wholescale destruction of the global economy with millions sunk to poverty, you expect they'd be reflective, respectful and sober for a couple of years at least.

But they only give the middle finger to the rest of the world and totally disappoint those who praise their developmental strides which apparently does not include empathy and humanity.

It is like the country Congo just emerging from another ebola epidemic and the first thing they show the world is a national wildlife barbeque fest.

And here I was blaming Noah for emerging from the Ark and his first order of business was to brew tombo, get drunk and cause the wholescale curse on the black race.... or so they say.

These Chinese folks are just senseless.

Penaldo:
I'll say Obaseki is working

muykem:
The refinery is owned by private individuals with state government stake of mere N700m. Can Lagos state governor be parading Dangote refinery as his achievement because of mere N2b stake. Mr. MOU is deceiving himself.

Javierleon:
He did his work
Can we continue
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GreatrAnalyst:
As I kept reading those statements, what kept coming to my mind was, could ever Mr. President for the now speak as this composed and intelligent?

rawfact:
See Saraki in APC's Owambe Agbada

These politicians that moves from one party to another, one wonders how they cope with the previous Party's Materials and Clothing at their residence.

lessonotes:
hahahahhaha, PDP is asking for help.

PDP is so so afraid; so this short clip is what made them release a press statement.

What if there were talking about herdsmen and boko haram

Nanavati:
what if God should arrest them tonight

Saao:
God is exposing them gradually.

Vixlot:
Honesty and Contentment: My Experience In Zimbabwe.

https://www.toldnetwork.com/2020/08/13/my-experience-in-zimbabwe/

OAUTemitayo:
You are know to be mischievous and untruthful.
A PDP apologist who can never be honest.
The newspaper apologized, but being an embittered human being, you are here with another round of fallacies

Kidnapping in Nigeria exaggerated — Osinbajo
June 25, 2019

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has downplayed the cases of kidnapping in Nigeria, saying they were sometimes exaggerated for political effect.

Mr Osinbajo was addressing Nigerians based in New York on Monday when he was confronted with questions about kidnapping, which is a major part of Nigeria’s worsening insecurity.

“With respect to general kidnapping which we have seen in parts of the country, again, this is not entirely new. In fact, some of the kidnapping stories you read or listen to are simply not true anywhere, some are fuelled by politics,” Mr Osinbajo was reported as saying by the state-run News Agency of Nigeria.

“There are cases of kidnapping, no question at all about that, but some of the more dramatic stories that you hear are simply not true.

“Every report of kidnapping we receive, we try to verify, and at the end of the day you find out that people just tell all sorts of stories,” the vice-president said.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/336877-kidnapping-in-nigeria-exaggerated-osinbajo.html

zikter:
Almost all the papers coming out with apologies to VP on one issue or another. This is pathetic journalism. To think that many unfortunate people were protesting and shouting press freedom when the VP was protesting his innocence is appalling

PUNCH replies SimmonsCooper, says no malice towards Osinbajo

Punch Nigeria Limited has refuted the claim by a firm, SimmonsCooper, that a story, ‘Osinbajo’s firm linked to company fingered in alleged N100bn Alpha Beta scam’, in the Saturday PUNCH of July 13, was born out of malice towards Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN).

Rather, the organisation said the investigative report was done in line with its commitment to fight all forms of societal ills, including corruption, through the dissemination of news to educate Nigerians.

The newspaper company stressed that the report was not published out of malice towards Osinbajo or anyone else, but in furtherance of its mission as a public trust beholden only to Nigeria and Nigerians.

Punch stated this in a letter by its Company Secretary/Legal Adviser, Omolara Ogunleye, in response to a pre-action letter written to it by SimmonsCooper Partners, a law firm in which Osinbajo was a Senior Partner until 2015 when he was elected as Nigeria’s Vice-President.

She said, “It is a fact that by a Return filed with the CAC sometime in November 2011, your firm was registered with the CAC as the Company Secretaries to a company named Ocean Trust Limited, which in turn is alleged to be of interest in the matters complained of against Alpha Beta.

“If, as you now say, your registration with the CAC as Company Secretaries to Ocean Trust Limited was without your knowledge or consent, then, rather than making us the object of your umbrage for simply revealing what is in the CAC records to the public, it will sound more reasonable for your firm to take it up with:

“(i) The CAC that accepted the filing of the Return and kept it in its public record as a fact concerning the entity named Ocean Trust Limited;

“(ii) Messrs Iyiola Gboyega and Akinniyi Kunle who signed as directors of Ocean Trust Limited on the Return to the CAC of your appointment as Secretaries to the Company;

“(iii) Mr Jack Oguche (phone number 0803335150) at whose presentation the return of your appointment was accepted and processed and filed in the CAC records; and

“(iv) Where the said Mr Jack Oguche proves to be a lawyer, then complain against him to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee for filing what you claim is a false return affecting your firm to the CAC.”

The newspaper house said since July 13, 2019 when it published the investigative report, which SimmonsCooper complained about, the organisation and its employees had continued to be subjected to “all manner of threats of dire consequences, including threats of a shut-down.”

Punch said while it had no reason to link SimmonsCooper with the threats, it would want it passed on that “it behoves the current occupiers of the highest public offices in the land to remember that the democracy which we, and they especially, have enjoyed since 1999 and which served as the vehicle of their ascendancy to power, was not served to Nigerians on a silver platter. Rather, it resulted from a hard-won battle against the resolute enemies of open society.”

It added, “Our publishing stable, like many other patriots, bears the bruises of this battle to promote an open and lawful society. Our business was targeted and undermined; our publications suffered incessant shut-downs; and our journalists and other staff members were subjected to intimidation, harassment and arrests by those who tried to mortgage the long-term interest of Nigeria and Nigerians for short-term gains. We, nevertheless, soldiered on stoically till Nigerians won freedom from military jackboots and democracy dawned.”

Punch said rather being narrowed down to malice towards Osinbajo or SimmonsCooper or an attempt to malign them, the investigative report should be seen as its support for the fight against corruption, which President Muhammadu Buhari had himself pronounced would kill Nigeria if not killed.

“It is, therefore, the duty of all individuals and corporate patriots, including your good self and your organisation, to support that fight.

“We support that fight by disseminating news to, and educating the public on the ills and perils of all forms of lawlessness, especially corruption. We will do all in our powers to ensure that our voice and the voices of Nigerians are not silenced again,” Punch said.

https://punchng.com/punch-replies-simmonscooper-says-no-malice-towards-osinbajo/

IamWonderful:
His Excellency Professor Yemi Osinbanjo is a refined gentleman and great man of God

Maxymilliano:
And what happened to the abductors after the victims were rescued ?

slivertongue:
sad. Nigeria is indeed lost. gun men now holding Nigeria and her citizens to ransom

HeavenlyHolines:
What is the value and worth of the certificate of four years or what is the difference between both? Because many graduates r confirm crammers and after University, many of them can't recall what they have learnt The entire education needs an overhauling from masters to PhD. We need project based learning. We know how people usually get their certificate n professorship. So oga,do the needful.

Monotechnics, polytechnics,Universities, College of Education etc should define their real objectives so that students will know where they ought to go. Everyone wants to attend the university just because of the name n title n not because of knowledge. God will help us

SocialJustice:
Nigerians must abuse every opportunity.

batstan:
Beautiful!!

Simple as that.
If only he was as straight and objective as well.

No further questions.

ntyce:
No difference between this and Okoracha's giant statues...

Martini101:
Gburugburu, always Putting the Cart before the horse.
Aided by his many Technical Assistants