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@larez

I understand you guy.As far as the current policy on electricity generation remains nothing positive can happen to the sector no matter the determination of an energy group or person.

What Is Wrong With Nigerian Youths In The Uk?

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-316954.0.html

On a second thought these guys can make a career out of rapping.

They are British not nigerians.

nuzo:
Make sure you attend the lightupnigeria protest before thta party.

I agree with u, if u dont want to be part with them ,pls patronise BRT, RED CAB and Yellow cab , they are all affordable,
fi igbe le fun agbepo, ( leave agbero for garage, ) cos most of the danfo driver and conductor are once agbero,,,.but one day they will be faceout of lagos , by the time lagos state government fully provide cooporate mode of transportation, wach out for rail transportation, EKO O NI BA JE OOOO

[/quote][quote author=aasog link=topic=321179.msg4510417#msg4510417 date=1252498966]@MuNeme "He doesn't need to tame them because they will be veritable asset during the next elections"

Absolute trash, and baseless view! I dont know what part of the brink or armpit of the country you are from, but you need to see a great deal of systems and approach Fashola has put in place to tackle most of the problem of the state.
Most of the remaining so-called Agberos deeply know that time is running out. Its a matter of time before Fashola pays them attention and modernizes their mode of operation to something more meaningful and human. And useful to Lagosians.
Back in the days, the NURTW has a powerful sway over commuting Lagosians, but with the BRT buses now inflow, they are becoming more weaker.
Lastma, Lawma, and Kai workers are majorly agberos and street thugs, recruited and their life has long been transformed.
They are proud of their work, more organized, and very useful to the process of Lagos Building.
Fashola has a solution to this things. But Nigerians are so cursed with been "impatient", we never understand the phenomenon called "Process", and thats our mentality. We just think of NOW! Quick cash. Quick fix. Quick soultion. The same flawed thinking that has failed us since our so-called "Super Dependence", since the 1960. Everything want something right NOW, and fail to see a bigger picture or the consequences.
If they agberos are just dashed and canceled without proper solution for what they would do, believe me, one of them would be in your street right now, with a dagger or gun, ready to commit a day light robbery on you.
Abeg, leave this man alone. Lets just pray he spends 8 years in good health and right mind frame.
Hes the long answer to the prayers of Lagosians and the west at large.

I Like you guys contribution.Not someone saying they are there for as assets for election.Backward thinking.

banom:
You people should leave my state alone, we will sort out things by our selves,
Soludo is a very good candidate,
But believe me, soludo, Uba or Ngige will not even smell that seat,
You people will be too shocked on what will happen.

Do you think Obi will be retained?

When Andy Uba is still there

noetic2:
will u be the one to fight the pdp in 2011 when elections start? No civilian governor can have the clout to tame agberos. . , .they are a political asset.

Very backward thinking.

kech:
asha80 go to http://www.tvduck.com/

Thanks

Crude Oil:
Edemede igbo na ra'm ahu

Nwayo nwayo ka a na eji ara ofe di oku

larez:
For a moment, I was about to say that yes, it is true that most of these people are not actually Nigerians. But guess what? We actually need them in Lagos and should find space to settle them in. These unfortunate folks are truly the hardest workers in Lagos, labour wise. I will advise the Governor to begin to recruit them for job skills and pay them a stipend, so they can be prepared for all the infrastructural construction that Lagos will soon undertake. Hopefully, they will also use the opportunity to build wealth for themselves and better their condition.

No matter how we feel about seeing people in rags and not fitting into our norms, we should still consider that these are indeed flesh and blood like us as well. I am indigenously Lagosian, and I can truly say that in my early years growing up in Lagos, we were never taught to hate outsiders. We are a welcoming people and may have been corrupted recently by some Bush Yoruba people from neighbouring states.

Na trouble you dey look for here

Grafik u no go kill me oooooo

naijaking1:
Yes, he is.

Then make im go siddon for gutter!

Na today

Was this Alani Akinrinade around during the Aburi Conference?

smogville:
i see why he is running from nigeria to Ghana, because he thinks it is a nation without solution, Hmmmmmmmm

@posakosa, we are not obsessed with him, lets face the reality and stop being sentimental, it has not helped us and it will not.

Please can you space out the write up according to paragraghs.

Ibime:
Look at this idiot. Instead of apologising to the fans, he is more concerned with apologising to Yar'Adua. When Siaone, Keshi and Oliseh applied for the job, he went and made a rope for his neck by giving the job to an idiot like Amodu who would allow him to continue chopping money at the expense of the team.

He should now take that rope and tie it to the nearest tree. Preferrably a strong tree like Iroko tree or Mango tree, not Calabash tree or PawPaw tree.

Nna ibime take am easy now  The way you just dey rake anyhow since eagles mess up    na wa ooo      .

@grafikdon

Chai i don laugh tire

Please people where can i watch season 7 of 24 online startingt from episode 1?

MrCrackles:
I aint taking nothing personal. . .
It is just annoying nowadays, even on BBC news yesterday, there was stories about Nigerian fraudsters for fuc.k sake

Karmakazie on the kentro level

playah P:
hold on,
don't take it personal,

give me a good idea and see what will happen

Provide them good roads,electricity,jobs,housing,workable nigeria,kill corrupt politicians that are still alive from 1970 till date will be a start.

MrCrackles:
^ My friend go and sit down somewhere. . .
Na so so mouth all of una get
Tell your fellow Nigerians to stop defrauding and scamming innocent people all over the world!

It will be easier for a camel to pass the eye of a needle than this to happen.

The problem is when trying to enforce your rights to the police they may not be in the right frame of mind or they maybe on a 'different level'

Is ile ife in osun or oyo?

So na football bring you to your senses

“What Did You Miss About America While In Nigeria?”
Farooq A. Kperogi
Written by Farooq A. Kperogi
Sunday, 06 September 2009 19:08
This was the question that the wife of my American friend asked me when she and her husband came to pick me up from the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on August 12. What did I miss about America while in Nigeria? Hmm.

Now, how do you answer that kind of question? Where do you begin? Should you tell the truth and expose your country—and probably yourself—to well-deserved derision? Or should you simply be mealy-mouthed, skirt around the truth, and say some nice but insincere and extravagant platitudes like “Oh, I missed my amiable friends and colleagues and, of course, my teaching and research activities”?


I don’t expect anyone who has never been deterritorialized from Nigeria for a sustained period to appreciate this false, self-imposed and, frankly, pointless dilemma that I grappled with. You see, one of the tragedies of exilic (or diasporan) condition is the irritating narcissism it breeds in people who experience it. I once characterized this phenomenon as the narcissism of transnational citizenship.

This is how it works: In the privacy of our Nigerian company (both at home and abroad, offline and online) we say the unkindest things (most of it, sadly, warranted) about our country but pretend that all is well when we are in the company of non-Nigerians. We shield our country from critical searchlight before non-Nigerians not necessarily because we are patriotic; we do so often for self-indulgent, self-serving and egotistic reasons: if Nigeria is portrayed in a bad light in our countries of (temporary) residence, we fear that the bad light might also reflect badly on us and thereby injure our overblown but fragile egos.


On this day, however, I decided to liberate myself from this self-imposed mental prison. I told the truth about what I missed about America. And that truth wasn’t friendly. The first thing I told my friends was that I missed the order and relative predictability of life in America.

I told them I missed the steady, uninterrupted electricity in their country. During the three months that I stayed in Nigeria, I lived without electricity from the national grid for the most part. If we had electricity for six straight hours we would always chant, “NEPA don try today o!” (I can’t help calling it NEPA even though it has changed its name to PHCN).


But it was not just the exasperating inconstancy of electricity that gnawed at me; it was also its unpredictability. And this had an unbearably disruptive effect on life. I often rushed to iron my clothes each time it pleased PHCN to bring electricity because I couldn’t tell when they would take it. I always had to leave everything else I was doing. We have a generator at home, like most people in Nigeria, but there is only so much it can do. Plus, given my environmental consciousness, I was often sensitive to the environmental pollution and danger to human health that generator fumes pose, and this sensitivity often dissuaded me from using our generator as often as other people did.

But the real tragedy, for me, is that smaller and poorer countries like Benin Republic enjoy steadier electricity than Nigeria. When I visited Benin Republic about a week before I returned to Atlanta, I noticed that there were no power cuts there. I asked one of my uncles when was the last time he experienced power cuts. It took him about a minute to remember. “Over a year ago, I think,” he said. “They seized the light for two hours to do some repairs.” And this was preceded, he said, by an announcement in the radio and in the local television.


There can’t be any doubt that Nigeria has the worst electricity problem in the whole wide world. Now, how do you “rebrand” that fact, Mrs. Akunyili?


So I told my American friends that I missed the regularity of power supply in their country. “Is it really that bad in Nigeria?” my friend’s wife asked. It is actually worse than that, I said. She was puzzled. Even Aso Rock, the Nigerian equivalent of the White House, suffered an embarrassing power cut during a Federal Executive Council meeting while I was in Nigeria. And this was in spite of the billions of naira that the president has budgeted this year to buy generators not only for Aso Rock but for Nigerian embassies in such countries as America, the UK, Germany, etc where electricity is as constant as the Northern Star! How more hopeless can our situation get?


Of course, nobody who hears this fails to question the mental and cognitive state of Nigerian leaders. A genuinely concerned and angry African American friend once asked me, in a fit of frustration, if congenital idiocy is the precondition for ascension to leadership in Nigeria. Perhaps it is. Or how else do you explain the quality of leadership we have had and continue to have in Nigeria at all levels? How do you explain the fact that Nigeria is one of the world’s top 10 largest oil producers yet imports refined fuel from the West and suffers periodic bouts of crippling fuel scarcity?


I also told my friends that I missed the high-speed Internet that many Americans take for granted. Although I had Internet access at home during my stay in Nigeria, which is at least better than nothing at all, it was painfully slow, gallingly unreliable, and scandalously incapable of supporting even basic video and graphics, all thanks to the low and overcrowded bandwidth in the country. I had hoped that by now broadband Internet would be widely available to ordinary folks like me. But we are still stuck with 1990s Internet technology which, sadly, is a lot costlier than high-speed Internet in the US.


Similarly, I missed visiting some of my favorite sites on the Internet because the sites won’t allow me to access them from Nigeria. A case in point: Pandora.com. Pandora is a free personalized Internet radio service created by the Music Genome Project, which allows users to choose what kind of music they want to listen to and helps them find new music based on their old and current favorites. Each time I tried to visit the site in Nigeria I often got a message that said they had not yet extended their service to Nigerian users. It was the same story with Google voice. I didn’t know it was possible to discriminate against Internet users based on their geographical location.

I also missed the psychological comfort in the knowledge that the institutions of government work for citizens and residents. In America, when you are sick, in trouble, or just scared for your safety for any number of reasons, you can simply dial 911 on your cell phone and police vans will arrive at your location in a matter of minutes. We have no such comfort in Nigeria. And, for much of the time I was in Nigeria, I lived with disabling anxieties about kidnapping or robbery—which is actually a holdover from a previous experience two years ago.


Interestingly, many Americans, especially conservative Americans, chafe at what they call “too much government” in their lives. It would seem that most human beings don’t appreciate what they have until they lose it. I often advise my conservative American friends to live in Nigeria (or, for an extreme experience, Somalia, which has had no government since the early 1990s) for just a few months to experience what it means to have no government. They can then return and compare it with the “too much government” they resent in their country. Nigerians would gladly trade places with them.


“So you basically missed the basic conveniences of life that we take for granted here?” my friend’s wife asked. Sadly, yes. “Well, but I also missed my friends, including your husband,” I joked.

The conversation was strangely cathartic for me. My friend, who is white, always told me he would relocate to Nigeria if American conservatives take over America. I don’t know what he thought of that idea after this conversation.

Of course, in spite of everything, I can’t quantify the joy I felt being with my family and friends and seeing the familiar sights and sounds of the country of my birth. For all its failings, Nigeria is still where my heart is. America can’t take that away even it were paradise itself, which it is not.

I am unsparingly tough on my country because I am impatient with its unnaturally prolonged gestation in developmental infancy as a result of the incompetence, sordid avarice, and base venality of the leaders it has had the misfortune to be saddled with.

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/farooq-a-kperogi/what-did-you-miss-about-america-while-in-nigeria.html

GEW:
david why is it shocking in a country where a law graduate dont know the difference between lease hold and free hold properties.

Abeg make una free the guy.Na today?You guys should leave the man in charge of customs in the Giant of Africa.

hmmm na so ajebo rise to stardom.kudos to him.

bawomolo:
the arab commentator on sopcast is about to have an orgasm. olori buruku  

No be you talk am