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Policies like these highlights the phrase Eko o ni baje lai lai.

0hsisi:
He is donating Lagos state money to lagos state abeg
he's not doing anything spectacular,it's not coming from his pocket.
The expectations in Nigeria from public officials are so low that when a governor even does 1/10th of what he's expected to do,people are singing his praises.
What a sad situation.

This has nothing to do with other people's low expectations, it about our leaders and citizens doing good and what we expect them to do with our money or their money.

Curb your mindless bad bele.

Ilelobola:
Happy Birthday to the Governor

Good question. I wonder what he donated to charity or whoever was deserving of his donation before he became governor. Like some would say in Yoruba, "Owo Abu se Abu ni alejo" which I believe translates to "Abu is being entertained at his own expense".

This is how the man celebrate his birthdays and this is what he did last year.


Again, Fashola marks birthday, donates to children’s homes

http://happylagosian..com/2009/06/again-fashola-marks-birthday-donates-to.html

And this is what other Lagosians do on their birthdays,


Lagosians Doing Good And Giving Back.

http://happylagosian..com/2010/02/lagpsians-doinng-good-and-giving-back.html


D’banjD’banj Donates N1m, Doles out $60,000 in Scholarships on 29th Birthday

http://happylagosian..com/2009/07/dbanjdbanj-donates-n1m-doles-out-60000.html




You'll never understand, it's a Lagos thing.

arojamanja:
I know it doesnt matter because it is for a good cause, but is it Fashola or Lagos State that donated the Creche?

What difference does it make?

Interview: Religious Tolerance, Fasholas' Example


Many people are unaware that the wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Emmanuela Abimbola Fashola is a Catholic. With a Baptist father and a Catholic mother, she had a share of mixed Christianity even before she met Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) who is a Muslim.




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Onlytruth:
Planning and development consulting. Everything that must be developed on land is my field, you name it.

You are obviously lying because you sound so clueless and ignorant.


@ paddy lo. why are you wasting your time going back and forth with Onlyolodo and kobo aka dumb and dumber?

0hsisi:
who says Fashola is a Muslim?
The man attends revivals,crusades and answers Halleluia when people shout Praise the Lord.
He is no Muslim abeg
He is 75% Christian.
I hear his siblings are Christians
His wife is a Christian
It's only a matter of time.
I bet you he reads his Bible daily and kneels to pray at night

Dumb and ignorant talk.

For what it's worth::::::::::::::



Lagos — Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, is a great admirer of football and make no mistakes about it, he enjoys playing the game and at the same time employs it as fitness routine, according to one of his aides.

The Lagos helmsman usually puts status aside to train with other footballers every Sunday at different locations across the state. He also engages in competitive matches with the All Stars football team, an outfit that comprised ex-internationals.

His passion for body exercise led him to put up some recreational centres in strategic places in the state. Fashola would unarguably pass as one governor that has no protruding stomach, a development sources believe was sequel to constant body exercise.


http://allafrica.com/stories/201006210377.html

CarlosVent:
is he a catholic?

Are you a Nigerian?

The Governor is religion blind.

He's a practicing Muslim and his wife is a practicing Catholic.


Pics here,

http://happylagosian..com/2010/06/happy-birthday-mr-governorfashola.html

47 Birthday: Fashola Hands Over Crèche To Women Organisation
…Urges well wishers not to place congratulatory adverts for him

Jun 26, 2010 - Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Saturday handed over an ultra modern Crèche to the Catholic Women Organization of the Church of Annunciation in the Abraham Adesanya Estate, Ajah to mark his 47th birthday.

Meanwhile, the Governor has also urged all his well wishers not to place congratulatory adverts for him but to use such funds as donations to homes for the motherless and the needies spread across the State who would better appreciate it.

The Governor who personally donated the structure with his wife, Mrs Abimbola Fashola, while speaking at the handing over ceremony which took place at the Abraham Adesanya Housing Estate, Ajah said he hoped the crèche will have meaning for the children that it is expected to cater for.

He said he finds it difficult to understand why people celebrate their birthdays when no one can say or remember when he was born, adding that: "If the arrival of any child is considered momentous in the lives of certain people, the best way to continue that momentous occasion is to use what we have to also make it momentous in the lives of so many other people".

Governor Fashola appealed to the members of the Catholic Women Organisation to ensure that everybody within the estate have access to the Crèche and enjoy its usage subject to conditions that they set.

He also informed that the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (WAPA) will maintain a supervisory role over the crèche in dealing with issues of women and children.

The Governor added that this has become necessary because some people in the name of managing institutions like crèche and Orphanages have used them to perpetrate crime and engage in trafficking of children.

He said it is by setting non-discriminatory entry and exit conditions for the usage of the crèche that the society can be integrated by allowing the children of a Permanent Secretary and the child of a driver to grow up together.

In his words: "This is the way we can unify society. This is why it is important to continue to invest in public schools because they are the equalizers and stabilizers of the society".

"When the child of the high and the low and the medium grow together, the child of the rich sees poverty on one side while the child of the poor sees prosperity on the other side and is inspired to work hard", he added.

The Lagos State helmsman affirmed that this represents the only way to eliminate class and caste system in the society because when children grow up together they inevitably become lifelong friends irrespective of their backgrounds.

He commended the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Mrs Adejoke Orelope Adefulire who supervised the construction for doing a good job, adding that she is one member of the cabinet who would be given a task and deliver on it creditably.

The Governor who told the audience that the construction of the crèche came about after he got a letter asking for assistance from the Catholic Women Organisation to build a crèche, said he felt compelled to support the good initiative of the women and dedicate it to mark his birthday.

Speaking earlier, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Mrs Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire commended Governor Fashola for always using his birthdays to put smiles on the face of the underprivileged and the needy.

She recollected that two years ago, the Governor on the occasion of his birthday donated a Motherless babies hospital and that last year, he also handed over the Micheal Oyemade Ogunjobi children's home in Surulere.

In his welcome address, the Parish Priest of the Catholic Church of Annunciation in Abraham Adesanya Estate, Ajah, Reverend Father Cosmas Mordi expressed the appreciation of the church to the Governor for the gesture and wished him many more years in good health.

He promised that the church would make the best use of the facility in taking care of all the children without any form of discrimination.

The Governor later cut the tape and unveiled the plaque of the crèche to formally hand over the facility to the Catholic Women Organisation of the Catholic Church of Annunciation in Abraham Adesanya Estate Ajah to mark his 47th birthday.

The event was witnessed by a representative of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Reverend Monsignor Francis Ogunmodede, members of the Catholic Women Organisation of the Catholic Church of Annunciation, Ajah.

Great news.

Eko o ni baje lai lai.

davidif:
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Destroy peoples lives all in the name of "development".

Is life in a squalid slum and ghetto with criminal elements and activities on top of critical channel drains a better life?


And why should the government relocate them? The state gave them 2 years notice to relocate. The government didn't force them to set up illegal settlements and how much do you think is gonna be left in the state's pocket after resettling millions of people in tons of ghettos all over the state.

Is encouraging and supporting ghetto living and criminality and spending state's resources on mass relocation your idea of good governance?

Kobo i

hercules07:
Bros that was rather harsh o, though true in the case of those unskilled okadas, one day one day you and Kobo will get along.

How do you get along with a mindless troll? His concerns has never been about Lagosians and what's good for Lagos as a state.
Like I said before, I do understand the need to criticize governmental actions sometimes, but if in your warped mind, criticizing anything and everything 24/7 with zero understanding and concern for the people of Lagos state, it means you have other issues against the state and the people of Lagos state.


And like I said before, I'll always be around to address his nonsensical follies and silly utterances.

Kobojunkie:
I think you are missing the main issue here. Okada's are not just here for nothing, they serve a purpose. That you can walk kilometers in some areas does not mean you can in all areas. Try some of the back communities and you will likely revise your talk there.
Lagos is not PH . . . I can bet you there are parts of PH where people are currently hating the ban on Okada. Now, Okada fills a need. Do you BAN before you provide an alternative? Or do you FIRST provide a better alternative and then watch people leave Okada for it? Remember Okada was not always needed in most of Nigeria.
Are Keke Napep's able to get people from point A to point B in relative time as Okada can? By the way, you did not answer my Danfo question, or I think I did ask a question.

Going on and on spewing the the same nonsense about filling the need, you not only sound irresponsible as usual, you sound thoughtless and heartless. No responsible government looks the other way while the people they swore to serve and protects gets maimed and killed because of other people's needs.

What government sets up a special hospital unit just to treat victims and perpetrators of your so called need? Going to that extreme means something is wrong somewhere and something got to be done. It is an sustainable situation.

How do you justify putting your silly needs above other people's lives and safety?

Faulty or not, we still have public transportation and just like in a lot of societies, don't we used to walk from the bus stops to our final destinations?

And what other alternatives are you talking about? We don't have public transportation? Or you just need to have a few limbs broken and some deaths just because you need door to door drop off service?

Okada is not and shouldn't be the only means of livelihood and if for whatever reason you have none, there are vocational trades, apprenticeship, Abi what happened to that age long tradition of learning some lasting skills that could also be taught others.

Putting the lives of the citizenry in the hands of illiterates and unskilled riders is absolutely insane and irresponsible.

If you can not learn a trade or aquire some other kinds of skills, go back to your towns and villages and find something to do, the state can not sustain millions of people entering Lagos with no money, no place to stay and eventually defaulting to quick money ventures like Okada @ the expense of vulnerable Lagosians.

Why is the state wasting time debating this Okada issue sef? Just ban Okada already.


And to the folks shouting "provide alternative", that's a never ending demand because no matter what the state provides including BRT, Taxi system, rail system, water transportation, you' folks go still yell the same thing.

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June 12th is overrated.

All the hoopla and the Yorubas did not do anything.
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I wonder why they don't talk about or name any Igbo man or woman in the grand scheme of things inside and outside Nigeria.

You're marginal and inconsequential. Yoruba folks should really be the least of your worries.

ndu_chucks:
@Babapupa,

Your thesis, in response to my last post, was for the most part, hogwash and a bunch of bull. Your humane way of dealing with these people is to give them 2 years to move when it is obvious that these people have no means of relocating. Most of them hardly make enough money to survive.

I submit to you that it is the responsibility of the government to provide the environment that will enable these people to exist beyond subsistence. Many of these people are traders, I'm yet to hear of any micromarket financing program or business development program set up by the government to assist these traders in taking their business to the next level, before bulldozing their way of life.

These people should be treated as refugees of war, relocated, and resettled appropriately. One effect of the government's actions is to breed a new set of angry armed robbers who will terrorise Lagosians. When you elitists become victims of their reaction, you will learn to be more humane.

There is nothing wrong with what the government is trying to do, the execution of the plan is what I find insensitive and inhumane. The plan could have been executed in a more humane manner - no sensible person should argue with this fact.

lmao @ refugees of war.

You are definitely insane. Get it trough your head, the government can not take care of and provide free lodging for millions of folks living in shanties and slums, their job is to provide conducive atmosphere for business opportunities and jobs for the people, not to provide free accommodation, especially refugee camps, what sensible government does that gan sef?

The government of Lagos state is not a socialist government and they are not in business to cater to and provide livelihood for the thousands of people trooping in to Lagos everyday. People need to understand these sad realities, Lagos is not for everybody.

The state also can not hand out loans to every soul in Lagos living in illegal slums and ghettos and the state shouldn't be encouraging ghettos and illegal settlements, no government does because you end up creating more problems like this very market.

Like I said, the state did the most humane thing by giving them 2 years to move. 2 years is more than enough to save up and relocate to other places, the fact is these folks didn't want to move and instead, they were busy doing juju and sacrificing goats to make Fashola forget about the place.

Let's say you are a trader living where ever and for what ever reason or reasons your landlord shows up and dash you 2 years to move, are you gonna ask the state government to relocate you? Are you or not gonna take advantage of the 2 years to prepare yourself and find other suitable accommodation? I do believe you are a sane and reasonable person and you'll take advantage of the heads up and handle your business.

The fact is, these folks didn't want to move and the state had no choice but to do what responsible governments do, enforce the law, redevelop the area and protect flood channels.

And what's gonna stop other slums and illegal settlements from demanding from the state the same treatment of free tax payers money to relocate?

The only solution here is to start educating folks about the sad realities of moving to Lagos because Lagos is not for everybody and the state is not gonna set up a welcoming centers at the border handing out free goodies and promise of good life on the backs of Lagosians.


My friend, you're sounding very very irresponsible.

ifele:
@ babapupa : did Fashola give the people of Ajelogo market a better life? Fashola has even made their lives harder. What nonsense some folks are talking on this thread. You silly Nigerians love wicked leaders who oppress and never help the poor.

And how do you suggest the government make their life better? By encouraging them to settle on flood plains and drainage systems and keep endangering themselves and other law abiding Lagosians?

Look here, the Government can not take care of the thousands of people moving in from every corner of Nigeria daily, it's not by force to live in Lagos, people move in with no money, no family and place to stay, they end up setting up slums everywhere and as we all know,  slums are breeding grounds for illegal activities. Slums don't have social and infrastructural outreach by the government hence people living in dirt, unhygienic and substandard situations.

Lagos state government can not support every soul inside Lagos state, it is absolutely unsustainable, some folks just have to head back to their towns and villages were they don't have to exist in slums and crime infested jungles.

ndu_chucks:
Your response does not come accross as a briliant one in this case.  In case you missed my point, I wrote:
If all you got out of my post was that I was calling for the government to start giving out money for illegal slums and shanties, then your motives are questionable at best.

It really doesn't matter what I got out of your post. You used the word compensation? And are you trying to dictate what to quote and not quit out of your ridiculous statements?

Why not first answer my question gan sef?

Should the Government of the great state of Lagos be compensating people for setting up illegal domains, slums and shanties?

And in addition, how much should the state pay to compensate folks for illegal settlements and public safety hazards? And how much do you suggest the state pay to compensate lawbreakers for tons of other illegal settlements around the state?


Now, per the rest of your shortsighted argument, your eminent domain reasoning is absolutely null and void. We are talking about illegal settlements, not legally purchased/acquired properties. In your sensible and rational mind, do you think it's wise and prudent for any sane government to spend taxpayers money to reward illegalities and public safety hazards?  

And about humane, the state did the most humane thing by  giving them more than 2 years to move out of the area and find other living arrangements, the state didn't just show up with bulldozers and start wrecking away.  And instead of vacating or work on other living arrangements, they were busy doing killing goats and doing juju to make the government  forget about the place.

You really are a brilliant guy? I'm sure you have a PHD degree in public administration?

I told my brother to quit this place but for five years all my pleas fell on deaf ears. I have a befitting accommodation in Mowe where I gave him three rooms but he ignored my advice, prefering to occupy two shops here with his four wives and 15 children.”

Those were the words of 50 years old Mufutau Aare, a native of Modakeke in Osun State as he assisted his younger brother, Ajibola Aare, to salvage his property when a team of Lagos State Lagos State Task Force on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) stormed the popular Akanimodo and Ajelogo Market of Mile 12, in Agboyi_Ketu, Local Council Development Area (LCDA), located off Ikorodu Road to carry out a demolition exercise.

Ajibola, a plank seller, was among the numerous traders whose shanties and lock-up shops were demolished in the wee hours of last Sunday. Many of them trade and reside in the shops in the absence of befitting accommodations.

“I paid the sum of N3,600 in the shop I occupied and carried out my business activities for the past 10 years,” said a mother of four, Madam Adejoke Ayinde, a native of Badagry.

“I started living in this place four years ago when my husband abandoned me and the children. You must have a minimum of N80,000 to secure an apartment in Mile 12. As soon as your rent expires, you are required to pay annually or bi-annually. That was why I started sleeping in the shop,” she told Vanguard Metro.

Although many of them could not hold back their tears, but they commended the government for a job well done. “We cannot tell you lies, the government has for the past two years informed us about the demolition but our landlords told us they have settled some government officials. For instance, our landlords collected six months rentage from us which they(supposedly) took to Alausa last Friday,” claimed Mrs Ejire Abiodun and Kemi Oriowo.

But rather than join this chorus of commendation of government for its action, others berated it, saying they were not notified. “Only few people were notified; my landlord came here to collect N12,000 a week ago and he did not tell me anything. He only told us government wanted to construct a drainage and that only few shops would be demolished. Government owes us the duty to protect our lives; there should be radio and television jingles or newspaper announcement any time they want to carry out demolition,” chorused Oladeji Omoyale and Madam Sobowale [/b]Adeyemi.
[b]
While the exercise brought wailing and lamentation to some people, some residents in the area sighed with relief. Many of them told Vanguard Metro that the demolition would at least put to an end the frequent ritual sacrifices carried out in the market.

“Some of the traders have been performing a lot of sacrifice in this market. They said the purpose was so that Fashola would forget about the demolition. According to them, the Governor would be so engaged with other state matters that he will forget about this place. They have killed a lot of rams and goats but all proved abortive,” they said.

According to them, the market had more or less become a hide out for some hoodlums who used the place for their nefarious activities. “I have lived here for a period of 17 years. Initially the place was peaceful until recently when residents could not sleep with their eyes closed. The place became a breeding ground for hoodlums who defecate and liter the environment with refuse. Many of them are street urchins who loot and rob people any time they have the advantage to do so. Many of them who passed the night in our compound claimed they had paid a lot of money to their local government chairman not knowing the money did not get to Fashola,” said Mrs. Oluwakemi Peters.

When Vanguard Metro visited the scene on Monday, the task force team and other law enforcement agents were at alert to prevent hoodlums from taking advantage of the demolition to loot and steal. “The exercise was successful and we have a lot of cooperation from the traders,” said one of them who pleaded anonymity.

Unlike the previous demolition exercise in the state, some of the traders said they were allowed to pack their wares before the task officials began their operation. “They waited for us to pack our goods before they started their operation. Even if they give us three years notice, our people will not comply; they will say na lie, na lie until it is too late to save anything,” said the traders.

Chief Superintendent of Police, Bayo Suleman who led the team informed thus: “There has been no resistance so far and we are not expecting any because they were duly informed by their leaders who we had several meetings regarding the need for this exercise. We informed them that all the illegal structures in the area would be demolished,

“You can see that most of them had packed all their wares and those who are yet to do so are making arrangements to that effect before the bulldozer will get to them. It is easier for us to carry out the exercise without people complaining that their goods were destroyed during the exercise”.

ndu_chucks:
In as much as one could acknowledge the right Lagos Government to so-called eminenet domain, enabling them to seize individual property such as land, for the greater good of the state, it is noteworthy that in the developed world, when this government right is used, the affected people are adequately compensated.

Not compensating the affected people simply breeds resentment, criminals, and bad citizens. Fashola could implement these bulldozing activities in a more humane and fair manner.

so the government should start giving out money for ilegal slums and shanties? Very smart.

Dede1:
You are known on this forum as a wily slowpoke. I am of the view your blind obstinacy due to tribal pressure does not permeate to other human endeavors. The moronic gauge of the author of the alleged article published by Time Magazine is beyond the pale of comprehension.

It does not occur to you the author of the conjectural crap foolishly drew blank on the chronicle order of events in the amalgamated Protectorates. Anyway had your miserable life depended on sniffing out the literary blunders committed on the aforementioned Time Magazine’s article, your poor parents would have been grieving for loss of a child.

Must you bore me with this nonsense?

Sounds retarded right now, but it's just a matter of time. Okada days are numbered.

Yes it's a business, an unregulated, dangerous and anti public safety business.

The state can not sustain Okada business in it's present form unless the folks involved submit to serious government safety and aesthetics regulations.

Personally, they got to go, Lagosians survived way before Okada and  Lagos is too congested. Lawless Okada running around cars and pedestrians is a dangerous mix and no sensible and responsible government folds hands and look the other way.

It's a public safety issue.

Dede1:
The incessant acts of chest besting by Yoruba peeps about their imaginary academic superiority and inconsequential political encomiums lavished on anything Yoruba did not start at the advent of Internet.

I guess Azikiwe tried to contrarily elucidate the erroneous tales of greatness of Yoruba ethnic group that was being propagated by erratic politicians and frustrated juju musicians of that era.

Is there any better way to sarcastically debunk such conjectural and nonsensical claims of greatness than citing superior academic achievements of the kids from the eastern region of the Protectorates including the trashing of St. Gregory College, Lagos soccer team by the visiting team of Christ the King College, Onitsha?

The bolded part is another crap meant to deceive undiscerning onlooker. When the aforementioned article was written, there was no real estate called Nigeria. Pilot could not have committed such journalistic blunder to caption a headline with “Nigerian”.

What the author of above posted article purposefully omitted was West African Pilot ran full page obituary of Dr. Nathanial Akinremi Fadipe for four consecutive editions when he suddenly died in 1944.

As asserted by Time magazine, Zik was a tribalist and demagogue. The article was not written by a Yoruba man, not by a Nigerian, but by an independent writer and body thousands of miles away from the shores of Nigeria.

Like I said before, when they talk about African leaders, they mention and acknowledge Awolowo while Zik gets labeled a tribal leader and a corrupt demagogue.


And regardless of your meaningless regurgitation and spin, the pilot article solidly confirmed the Time magazines demagogue assertions and contentions, write on point.

Pleas go find some other BS to peddle,

bookface:
shouldn't there be a difference between[i] Fashola commissions new classrooms[/i] and Fashola built new classrooms?

What different does it make?

Is this gonna prevent the kids from siting in the classes and getting needed education?

This is about new classrooms for kids, not other peoples choice of words.

PokerFace:
Very Nice! In which part of Lagos is this?

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God Bless The Great State Of Lagos,

Eko o ni baje lai lai

EzeUche:
And you all don't? 

All I am hearing is Awolowo this and Awolowo that. But the only people who are saying this is you Yoruba. You will NEVER catch a northerner, or an Igbo saying such a thing.

He was simply was a tribal demagogue, nothing more and nothing less.

In case you missed it,

Nigeria's other regional Prime Minister, the demagogic, U.S.-educated Nnamdi ["Zik"] Azikiwe of the Ibo tribe to the east, lives under a cloud as a result of a financial scandal in his administration.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,894174,00.html

Kobojunkie:
I don't think I have to explain what I mean when I say there is no reason why development cannot happen in a humane. India was only recently condemned by the international community to trying to take sort of the same approach. So, if you can understand why that reaction, then I hope you understand why the same reaction from people in this case and how the reasons you gave earlier does not really address my question. Development, no matter where and no matter the resources available or not can be carried out in a humane manner.

But you'll never describe or explain the so called humane manner.

As usual, talking crap just for the heck of it.

dayokanu:

Would you have done differently?

I know 98% of human beings would defend anyone who protects their interest

Unfortunately in their communities, it's the other way around. They think like sheeps and do things backward,