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When will the press and the security agencies learn that some informations are too sensitive to be published, such as the name of the person responsible for the arrest. Now his life might just be at risk.

This all good but, I don't think it reflects the reality in Nigeria.
Just my opinion.

Wow!
Its pretty logical, almost anybody could have fallen for that. He seems intelligent oo, he should have used that for something positive.

lymelyte: Well done fashola.You see dubai,that the way they started. For once,we all should embrace development,civilization and upliftment.

how did they start? By chasing the poor away or by enacting anti-masses policies?
Dubai's rise was the vision for a better tomorrow for all. I am scared to classify what Fashola is doing to Lagos.

AGBOR-MAN:
We should learn to follow or copy the present day best. ok.
When u sh-it; u pay for it
When u use the Government road; u pay for it. Etc
Without Taxes, no nation can function nor develop.

The world is a Market place. Globalization & cutting-edge technology. Change. Change. Change.
Tradition is now less important. This is the "new world order".
Nothing is free.

sounds like capitalism to me and not development. Innovation is one factor that clearly differentiates developed nations from developing/under-developed nations. The welfare of its people should be the topmost priority of any 'responsible government', and not how they appear to foreign eyes.
I guess fashola's government is responsible, responsible to the elites. Hence his policies seem to favour them.
I'd like to seem him switch Logos state's Tax policy from proportional to progressive, thus collecting more tax from the rich and less from the poor, particularly because, they seem to be the ones benefiting from the current Lagos and its helps in redistribution income.
Nigeria is an oil rich state, that doesnt need to strain its citizens for money (tax), much of the development in the middle east (UAE, Iran, Israel etc) weren't funded with tax but oil money.
Its high time we derive full utility from our resources and allow our citizen relax.

Waterway: Policies should be made that improves the lives of majority of the people and provide good & clear alternatives.
The rash of bad policies only continues to highlight how the "rich/bourgeois" are uncomfortable with the lives of the "poor".
These policy makers need to create jobs! making policies that stimulates local economy and create jobs. Jobs create the middle class and that moves a segment of society to the point where they can live with such policy change. A middle class that can afford cloth washing machine and dryer. Of course you need steady power supply which the govt has not been able to provide. Young graduates that can come together and get Small business loan from banks at rates subsidized by govt of the state. You see these policies are highlighting symptoms in a system ravaged by a disease ---corruption of infinite proportions--. The present day fed & state govt is giving the wrong prescription to segment of society that does not matter to them, because they have no VOICE. Yes, no voice and that applies to most of us on this forum and 90% of Nigerians!!!!. But you push this segment to the brink and since it has nothing to loose, it will unleash its suppressed might on the bourgeois in Lagos/Nigeria. Remember the French revolution ..... I see the Nigerian revolution coming.

Fine for tinted glass........
Fine for digging boreholes............
Fine for Line drying your clothes in your own house (not in a business district) ............
Soon there will be fine for not owing a car/or walking our roads .............

So do you see the wisdom in this policies by a govt that has not done its part and want citizens to bear full responsibility for their mess!!!

I in many ways subscribe to your argument. Lagosians (majority poor/middle class) have been sold the image of a fine and developed Lagos, and that's all they are going to get. A picture perfect state, with clear class divisions. Most of the controversial policies emanating from Lagos can be seen as targeting the poor. Previous government had been okay with 'baricading' the poor in the suburbs, now the policy is aimed at probably reclaiming some suburbs for the bourgeoisie (make lagos too expensive for the poor).
These people made Lagos what it is today, it was there before Fashola and it will remain after his exit.

AGBOR-MAN:
The main reason our Africa continent is still backward is "inability to change".
We blacks hate to change. We like to be doing the same thing but expects a different result. Insane.
The western world is "change, change, change". Africa is "no change, no change, no change",
Its our tradition not to change. Tradition my ass-hole.

Gov Fashiola should please as a matter of urgency introduce:
House Tax.
Car Tax
Election Tax
Water Tax
Security Tax
Waste collection tax
Petrol tax.
Car parking tax

Etc Etc Etc

Pls don't abuse me oh. I'm just using my citizen freedom of speech. Thks & have a nice day.

Once you loose or lack understanding of the premise for an idea, we become slaves to tradition. Why impose silly taxes in the first place? Tax is meant to get funds for the state. Is lagos lacking funds? Heck NO, the basic taxes are good enough. Just because US and other 'leading' nation are following an idea is no reason to follow suit.
The desperate pursuit of 'development//westernization' is costing us too much. We are giving away our God given rights and privileges. Fencing ourselves in live prisoners, being strangers to our neighbours, losing the very values the hold our society.
Instead of westernizing Nigeria, lets develop with our traditions in mind. If we keep following the steps of the current world powers we would eventually end up like them and not better.
God save us all.

funnyfun: For Lagos to become d mega city we all dream of, things like this shd be eradicated. Even if u've not bn 2 any of dis advanced countries, @ least u see them on d TV. Do u eva see things like dis in these countries? Ride on jare, Fashola.

if this is the kind of crap we model ourselves after, then I am sorry for Nigeria.
Must we westernize Lagos for it to be fully developed? Fashola isn't balanced in his policies, and he (consciously or otherwise) is creating future problems for Lagos and its inhabitants.
One day, we'll find ourselves walking somewhere on the streets of Lagos and we'll wonder when, how and why the true spirit of lagos was killed.

How many hours must they (ASUU) wait to be attended to? Its logical to work away and reschedule for another time.
Good news from ASUP, hope it translates to positive results.
Surely everything with a beginning has an end, we are watching ASUU + FGN......

olenyi: No. Only for strong decoders. Don't know about daarsat.

Regards.

thanks boss.

olenyi: Try pressing 6969 twice before pressing 8280.

Regards.

please sir,
is this also possible on daarsat decoders, if so how?

kingchis: plz i wantd 2 knw if bliss c0de c0uld work on daarsat decoder, nd sec0ndly i tried trackinq am0s 5 nd bard 5 earliar dz wik wit ma 60cm dish bt all 2 n0 avial. Plz is it posible 2 track dz 2birds frm p0rt harc0urt wit a 60cm dish.nd apart frm multitv wat oda fta can i receive wit dz dish frm ph

please, can Daarsat decoder use biss code? If so how?

kingchis: plz i wantd 2 knw if bliss c0de c0uld work on daarsat decoder, nd sec0ndly i tried trackinq am0s 5 nd bard 5 earliar dz wik wit ma 60cm dish bt all 2 n0 avial. Plz is it posible 2 track dz 2birds frm p0rt harc0urt wit a 60cm dish.nd apart frm multitv wat oda fta can i receive wit dz dish frm ph

i am also interested in Biss Codes on daarsat decoder....
Some with the info should kindly respond.

If I can't even trust myself with her, why would do that with another? LoL. Next topic please.........

Buhari may not be a Boko-Haram sponsor (no known fact to claim otherwise), but one clear fact is he isn't an anti-Boko Haram crusader.
I think this is because he is worried about how it might affect his image up North if he is seen as going against a Northern Group with Islamic Ideology. This i Believe is a misplacement of priority on his part, considering how far condemning Boko haram would have led to a reduction in the followership of Boko Haram up North.

Pataki: Stop regurgitating this absolute foolishness.

Boko Haram is PDP. Ask your president why he has not dealt with the list of Boko Haram members he has in his hands.

GEJ stop killing innocent Nigerians! Nigerians in the North are now becoming refugees in Cameroon, Chad and Niger Republic.

This is the plan of GEJ and his boko haram......weaken the population of the North against 2015 elections using boko haram as a menace and terror to innocent and populous Nigerians living in the North.

GEJ stop killing innocent Nigerians!!!

am I the only who thinks this stinks? This it obviously myopic and actually pathetic. GEJ destroying the North? To do this he would have simply folded his arms and watched in amazement as the north tears itself apart. Look for other justifications and quit following the band wagon of lazy thinkers.
No offense intended but it just had to be said.

So all these years pasted by without any credible security report on them. Was the SSS sleeping? Na wa o.
There is no sense in fighting more than one war at a time. Clear BK haram first before going after the rest.
Which way Nigeria?

Hmmmm. Seems like tomb raiders are already concluding plans to show their respect and relieve his casket of the burdensome gold.

quintet: Me and a friend witnessed something very strange in the night sky this was during my time in Nigeria in 2004 in Adamawa state to be exact. I woke up around 3:15 am to start the gen cos of the usual power cuts when I came out side I realized the whole town was in complete black out which is unusual cos theres always some district that has light, my house help guy told me not to worry as he would man the generator so me and my friend waited outside on the varander as it was too hot inside, as we waited I noticed my friend staring into the far distance over the top of the house he called my attention and said he could see something in the sky I stood up and saw nine floresent glowing balls of light in the far distance they flew in a delta or Vee formation at first I thought it was some kind of aircraft but as it few closer n closer it was evident this was no fxxxing air craft this thing or things where huge and the most scary thing is they didnt make a sound no a single sound they glided silently across the sky banked sightly to left and slowly headed towards the horizon we watched until they disappered over the horizon towards the Mandara mountain ranges.
Im now a firm believer in the presence of aliens Lol just as a Cat knows a Dog is not a Cat so I know that thing was not of Man's creation.

hmmm that must have been really scary and marvelous at the same time.
At time i don't know which is better, the hide and seek approach or the full disclosure of their presence. Either way its unphantomable.