₦airaland Forum

It is not by force to go back home.

I think we dont need to advertise home it will advertise itself when the time comes people will be trooping back home.

@ 9ja4eva

For who sai

The light problem is now worse

I heard some say 2 trouble one God No light No water. (this world bank Guys are making these people suffer)

They will soon take the light off from here. (meaning I will soon go from here because here will be very hot)

Them never sabi shout Up Nepa yet or Up ECG

THERE CASE WILL BE WORSE IF THEY DON'T DO SOMETHING NOW ABOUT IT.

THE TECHNOCRAT ARE HAVING A FIELD DAY.

@english1

selective reading

ok does that mean we men should always shave our head.

Or the women should shave off the hair when not praying because it is When Praying that your head is to be vovered

Read it well

@ricadlide

If I am wrong Please say so here don't hypothesize and Judge me on that, why not the other way around? If I am wrong I will write a Rejoinder and apologize.

You see you don't Need a Gun to do INTELLIGENCE WORK Just have your Sniffers and your Good Forensic guys coupled with your criminal Psychologist doing their Profiling you are home free.

You don't need a heavily armed angry looking soldier or police man in the street.

WE should have a FEDERAL INTELLIGENCE BODY THAT IS ON THE GROUND THEY SHOULD MOUNT CAMERA EVERYWHERE FOR SURVEILLANCE,

Still @NossyCheeks

The other parties are you telling that they are all angels do they have any inquiry set up to check themselves out. everybody seems to agree with themselves they are regrouping to form parties, What is their political Ideology. You will see that the politicking the opposition have is not based on any principle at least that is how it appears to me.

What is the Principle that the Opposition is displaying in calling all the parties to join them. I don't have no problem with political alliance but it must be done on principle.

@Nossycheek

That is what i am saying. There is very Much different in him and other leader we have had.


There is so much hardship that I weep for low income earners. A salary of 259k monthly can hardly sustain one. Why Baba Iyabo has touched the liver wire of Naija several times by incrreasing the pump price of gasoline and buy we must buy, what the thousand and one gen sets doting the neighbourhood.

I have worked in Nigeria before and I used to receive 600Naira a month 25k is about $200 my brother is receiving a better salary now it is getting better.

In Ghana here they have increased price of Petrol from 6000 cedis to 36,000 the people did not die. They have had increase in the price of cocoa and Gold (it used to be $200 it went up to $400) Go and ask how much they sell fuel in south Africa.


Security is 0 and the roads are so sad, in short the Igbos have to go on bended knees before he gradeed the Lagos-Benin road for them to craw pass.

Security will improve gradually as Jobs come in and the security apparatus have itself on ground.
you must know where we are coming from. We are coming from Military and the disruption of civil authority once people can have confidence that if they do their job and are paid they will complete their job and look for more.

This Tribalisation of amenities has to stop now. All the tribe move on that Road!

EFCC is a political tool and the old man is playing God "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy" hence he labelled Atiku as corrupt while declaring Andy Uba, a saint even when his money laundering activities are public knowledge. He openly supported the looting of Oyo and Anambra treasuries. At least he is solidly behind Adedibu and Akala even after looting the state treasury.

Tell me am lying of all the people that convictions has been obtained how many are opposition? If you have a party and they are stealing and they are found do you leave them. He may have his reason for leaving out Uba and adedibu but I know in intelligence you have to You SNIFFERS LOOKING LIKE ONE OF THEM.


And PDP? They are nest of killers according to Soyinka. Who killed Bola Ige, Harry Marshall, Funsho Williams, Daramola ,
His integrity is 0. Now that the 3rd term bid has failed, he wants to operate using Iyabo as a senate president.

You make me Laugh anyway it is your opinion. I am somersaulting with laughter here

It is your democratic right Nobody can take it away from you

My Problem with the President and his Enemies!
by Frisky Larr

I may be old fashioned and out of touch with mainstream political reality. I am however, proud to be a journalist of the old school. Old school journalism that was taught in institutions of learning as late as the early to mid-eighties laid emphasis on objectivity and balance in reporting and commentaries. Modern journalism however, assumes to have outgrown this old trend, which is currently coined “obsolete”. Modern journalism contends that there is no such thing as objectivity because it is relative and individually construed. Modern journalism contends that objectivity may be attempted but never attained. The conclusive impact of this confusional psychological maneuver is the dwindling trend of journalists even attempting objectivity these days. The genesis of the Iraq war and the high dose of nationalist and pro-western coverage, which urged George Bush on to the ultimate marginalization of the USA in international politics, is arguably, one strong evidence of the manifestation of modern journalism.

When it comes to Nigeria however, old school or modern journalism doesn’t seem to play any single role. Envelopes of different colors in conjunction with the consuming power of any diabolic cheerleader to sway the media men and women in all convenient directions are enough to do the trick. In the midst of all that though, I submit in all humbleness that even though both parties in the current political divide in Nigeria have axes to grind, the anti-establishmentarian forces have taken their game far too far!

General Obasanjo has my highest respect and honor as a man of visionary political calculations. Contrary to all that have been said and are being said, Obasanjo did not start off in 1999 without a clue on how to rule Nigeria or where Nigeria needs changes. In his eight years of leadership, he has taken bold steps in restructuring the political equation from the grass root to the highest echelon. He has audaciously taken on forces that have always had the might and wherewithal to make or mar. Forces that have made and marred Nigeria’s future throughout years and decades since independence. Forces that sought to teach him a lesson by almost plunging the nation into a civil war in the wake of the Sharia waterloo. In fact, Obasanjo bit the fingers that fed him in violation of generally accepted ethos across the board in the Nigerian cultural divide. All in the interest of salvaging a fair and balanced distribution of power for Nigeria. Obasanjo has headed a government that has offered proof that Nigeria does have qualified and competent technocrats after all the years of helpless brain drain and intellectual bankruptcy. Technocrats have made their fingerprints a landmark in the shaping of economic and financial reforms that will definitely elevate Nigeria’s future to affluence if consistently followed upon. Various institutions that saw the light of day in the fight against economic and financial crimes are parts of the legacies for which Obasanjo will be remembered much to the anger of his hate-filled adversaries.

In this appraisal, I will cautiously deviate from addressing the failures of Obasanjo’s eight-year administration in healing the infrastructural malaise that has inherently plagued the country’s social identity for ages. These have been and are being exhaustively addressed almost on daily basis. The focus of my problem with Obasanjo will however, center on partly more serious and sometimes, more pertinent issues of his eight-year governance.

I strongly implore the President to educate me in all fairness, detail and candor on what really happened to Bola Ige. The life of this flamboyant politician with the stubborn attitude of wanting to walk through an impermeable wall to achieve what he believes is right, may have been lost. But his soul remains imprisoned as long as the truth is not known about the circumstances surrounding the criminal termination of his life. His soul remains with every well-meaning Nigerian who knows that Bola Ige was a “Zero Tolerance” advocate of Ribadu’s caliber with a slightly more confrontational treat than Nuhu Ribadu. To set his soul free from the hands of fellow Nigerians seeking to know why Bola Ige had to die, I strongly implore the President to open up Bola Ige’s Dossier for public dissection. It is extremely incomprehensible to figure out the failure of law enforcement in solving the riddle of Bola’s killing several years thereafter.

I desperately implore the President to educate me wholeheartedly on the rationale behind his affiliation with and tolerance of a thug like Adedibu in Oyo State. I beg the President in desperation to help me out with explanations on the real story and truth surrounding the person of Andy Uba. The story of money laundering linked with facilities for the President’s farm is hanging in the balance.

While no one expects the President to be perfect like his enemies seem to be doing, answers to these three simple questions will go a long way in smoothening out several wrinkles in the President’s biography that simply do not fit.

Given the reality that post-Obasanjo Nigeria will never be the same again, the zero tolerance attitudes that have now taken hold of Nigeria have long overdriven a wave of social frenzy across the nation that has been hijacked, misused and ultimately overblown by enemies of the President. All of a sudden, the President now personalizes evil, madness, corruption, civil disobedience and social and political destruction all in one, in the eyes of his detractors.

It is on this note that I say good morning to former Governor Balarabe Musa of Aminu Kano’s PRP. Balarabe Musa as a personification of effective and efficient hate propagandists of the Atiku Abubakar’s camp now seems to be waking up from a long, dreary sleep of political fantasies. Suddenly he is waking up to the reality that Atiku may not end up becoming President of Nigeria.

How on earth did anyone imagine anywhere in Nigeria that Atiku could afford such a high profile humiliation and ridiculing of the Presidency and end up triumphant? The focus on Atiku and his camp in this case is informed by the symbolic posture he has come to assume these days, for enemies of the President.

As a harakiri political fighter, the signs were on the wall for Atiku to read that taking on the President in an extremely albeit childish open battle from within and outside the government is the start of a long-drawn political suicide. I have long wondered in several essays and analysis, where the Vice President’s psyche derived. I cited the example of Vice President Al Gore and the sacrifice he had to make in the face of a Presidency that was hijacked by George Bush, which arguably, failed to meet the explicit provisions of the constitution in various ramifications. To avoid ridiculing the nation, party friends and well-wishers advised Al Gore to back down. He made this sacrifice, withdrew his legal cases even though he could have gone on and on, and is standing high today in the triumphant pose of a successful and high profile environmentalist. Former German Chancellor Schröder of Germany could have remained Chancellor today if he had stubbornly insisted on political doggedness in personal interest.

Unfortunately, the likes of Balarabe Musa urged Atiku on. They could be literally heard chanting “Go Atiku, Go!!” while the man steadily headed for his own political destruction. In hindsight, I will refuse to lay the blame squarely on Atiku. Events that have unfolded over the past weeks and months have unleashed a lot of realities. Atiku may have been quietly smiling and laughing at people like me, who cautioned him to consider personal sacrifices in the interest of Nigeria and the growth of constitutional democracy. He had Judges to rely on. He had the President of the Association of Nigerian lawyers to rely on and above all, he had a sufficient number of senators and representatives that will not send him to his premature death. He had all he needed to carry on with the fight even though the invaluable support of a united North eluded him.

As the most prominent figure to stand up against the President, Atiku Abubakar ended up building a coalition of extremely incompatible bedfellows. All united in the quest to destroy Obasanjo. Court judgments after court judgment went on fueling Atiku’s strength and the power of his opposition machine. No one took cognizance of the ultimate weapons available to the President in the event that such official and partly unjustified humiliations are allowed to succeed. The most prominent and controversial product of Absurdistan in this respect once contended that the Vice President owed the President no allegiance because he swore only by the constitution. This absurd judgment vomited hatred of the President and forgot to understand that the hated Olusegun Obasanjo will not forever occupy the Nigerian Presidency.

Balarabe Musa who gained public sympathy in the wake of his illegal impeachment as Governor in the second Republic was highly revered as a pillar of the “Progressives” – a movement that stood for social justice and political advancement in the second Republic. Now, he has ended up squandering all those useful assets by leaning to far out of the window in support of one section of the political equation at the expense of personal credibility.

There will definitely come a time when the Nigerian Bar Association will openly beg for questions to be answered. Questions on what deal existed or still exists (if at all) between the current leadership of this highly honored body of learned intellectuals and a party to the ensuing political dispute culminating in the reality that the Nigerian Bar Association is now overtly and ostentatiously in betrayal of the high ideals of judicial objectivity. The neurosis for political relevance informing the drive for profiling a political identity on the part of individuals leading the Nigerian Bar Association has long been speculated as an explanation for the NBA’s presently undeniable partisanship. The Agbakobas, the Balarabes and the “incorruptible” judges of the Nigerian establishment all await the day of reckoning.

A day of reckoning that should teach every party to the democratic agreement that law and order is not defined by hatred, not the least, in a country like Nigeria, where government should occasionally be allowed the benefit of treading the critical boundary for the purpose of instilling sanity. A day of reckoning that will teach politicians that arming jobless youngsters and dedicated followers of “Ghana must go” in political insurgency will spell their own destruction. A day of reckoning that should teach everyone to judge Obasanjo by his success and his failures and not by any undue amplification of his failures alone.

Obasanjo’s enemies have long relied on a pathetic press that remains overtly silent in the face of hate-filled destruction. They watched high-level Nigerian political tourists traveling to America and Great Britain to ridicule the government of their country. They applaud a sitting Vice President recklessly remaining Vice President and decamping to another party. All is well as long as it seeks to destroy Obasanjo.

In a press landscape featuring learned colleagues that are unable to differentiate normal Public Opinion Polling from Exit Polls, there are only a handful of luminaries to show. When even an exemplary and learned colleague like Reuben Abati (who stands out for Obasanjo-bashing rather than balanced appraisal) makes the unforgivable error of characterizing a journalistic attempt at objectivity (as done by CNN in interviewing the Nigerian Minister of Information to balance up a reporter’s footage on the Niger Delta) as benevolent, then the state of journalism in Nigeria is questionable indeed. Neither old school journalism nor modern journalism seems to have caught up with the present breed of Nigerian journalists. Pity indeed!


Simple put I smell better days are ahead we need to continue we will get there.

@ all

You are all very mature political scientist We are now talking about the Issues. leaving personality of Achebe and Obj out of it. This is what we have in Just 8years!? Marvelous !

I tell you there is Hope for Naija.

@ADCONLINE

I like you to maintain the posture because this needed in any political setup. We need not agree on everything if not we are robots. I respect your views but I want you to be objective. I know Naija very well. I know how some can use money to frustrate your Authority.

Lets us be objective even if you don't like Obj. I don't hate any Nigerian, that right must be taken away by a high force. In politics you can pitch any where you like.

I know very well that Obj leadership has not given us all what we need Even he himself said it, It takes maturity to say I have not achieved what i said i wanted to achieve even in the mist of POLITICKING Bad press.

THERE IS NO NIGERIAN RULER AND LEADER THAT HAS EVER MADE THIS STATEMENT.

I say he may have failed personally but I say he is a success compared to others and the level of decay we were coming from.

THe DRUG ISSUE YOU MENTIONED I READ THAT MRS DORA WAS ATTACKED AND SHOTS WERE FIRED AT HER. YOU CANT JUST IMAGINE PEOPLE ARE READY TO CONTINUE WITH THE STATUS QUO.

IMAGINE IN NIGERIA 104 TRUCKS LOADED WITH FAKE DRUGS WAS DESTROYED EVEN PEOPLE THAT SELL THE REAL DRUGS COULD NOT SPEAK OUT BECAUSE THEY WERE AFRAID!!!!!!!!!

LETS US BE OBJECTIVE WE HAVE A PROBLEM BUT WE CAN SOLVE IT.

@Ka and Debosky

I am very Humbled by your submissions. I am schooled by you. I think this is also better. With what i have read there will be a lot of Jobs in Nigeria just in the power energy alone. We must provide mortgaging facilities for the about one million people that this industry will provide jobs.

I thank God that our technocrats are working.

But Note that The other Guys will not be sitting down for you to succeed, local agents will be used to sabotage. You will have bad publicity by your friends and foes.

@Debosky

Thanks for the Education hope these companies start work soon.

In democracy things are slower and I hope you can tell people in Nigeria that the Development will come surely but slowly. We are still a new Democracy and I can now appreciate why when Nigerians first come into Ghana are very Over active.

The Adrenalin in them is high because of The Expectation and The Hustle and Bustle.

@Debosky

ok lets leave the NUCLEAR Energy we all agree that we need NUCLEAR ENERGY but the issue is time.

The 50% issue will help Naija because we will sell cheaper fuel. Most countries in west Africa will come and buy from us The demand from African countries surrounding will increased more and more and this will give us more Jobs

Refineries That will be built
Moving the Gasoline in tankers
The By Products
This is Opportunity for Exporting Finished Product and Cash earned from Taxes




The needs of Refined Gasoline In west Africa is in the tens of Billions of Dollars

We have to position our self strategically.

If we have Crude oil Refinery Like 20 and we are selling to all Africa we will collapse the structures and they will not to able to compete with us

We would be refining Crude oil for these countries because the cost to refine oil would be very Cheap in Nigeria.

Allow more refineries to come in to naija and sell the Crude to them very Cheap. THE TARGET IS TO MEET THE DEMAND OF THE WEST AFRICAN MARKET.

IN GHANA A GALLON OF PETROL IS about 480 naira infact it was told me that it is Cheaper here. THE ADVANTAGE WE HAVE WE MUST USE IT.


An example Global com is in Ghana they are here because of Competition. You have to set up Naija based companies that can move out Like Texaco did in the USA.

More Refineries needs to be Built and you must Supply the Crude oil to them at a lower cost so that you can compete. Already you will be making money in selling the License to operate A refinery. and you will task them to produce 1000Mgw with the agreement that you will give them Crude oil at low Price.

We have to break the Jinx the companies must come but they must be regulated also.

@Jockey

Yes you are very right SABOTAGE it looks like this is happening in Ghana now and I pity Ghanaians because of the Multiple effect it will have.

LISTER
PERKINS
YAMAHA
ETC

want to sell their products and they have people in government position that they want to make millionaires. Sabotage will continue You must be able to have local intelligence to win a war.

These guys cover there tracks very well.

It looks like the only Solution is Privatisation. this is like setting the enemies to fight each other in an energy Battle. We are supposed to be making money off this Guys since we have the market

Maybe I never went to school but There is a danger we Dig the ground 30feet to 40 feet Everywhere.

Common knowledge will tell anyone that immediately you drain water from the depths in the ground you are not making it safer.

Some diggers dig till reach water. I say it could be dangerous because we are exposing the Igneous layer.

MY POINT INDISCRIMINATE BORING OF HOLES THAT DEEP COULD BE VERY DANGEROUS.

@ Don Cartel & BlackMamba

This is cheap Politicking anyway it is the way of politics. People have stolen money and use propaganda machinery to put attention on lies.

I have lived in an older democracy even one that is African and I know what is called Politricking. The fact is that you always be found out sooner or later you cant pay all the people all the time.

You just wait and see all their secrets will be exposed if only we don't have a COUP.

WE AS YOUNGER GENERATION NIGERIANS SHOULD NOT CARRY THE LOAD OF OUR FOREFATHERS A FRIEND OF MINE USED TO THINK LOWLY OF PEOPLE OF THE YORUBA EXTRACTION. I THINK HE IS HAS A DIFFERENT VIEW

I SAY YORUBA IS JUST A LANGUAGE SPOKEN IT CAN DIE OFF AS DID LATIN. BUT THE STATE CAN REMAIN AS DID ITALY. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH TRIBALISM GOD HAS GIVEN US NAIJA LET US PATIENTLY LIVE IN IT WELL LOOK ARROUND YOU AND DONT BE DECEIVED THE RICH GUYS KIDS GET ALONG WELL THEY DONT CARE ABOUT TRIBE THEY EVEN MARRY EACH OTHER


TRIBALISM IS SLAVE TRADE MENTALITY IT STEMS FROM STATEMENTS LIKE THIS "IGBO ARE THIS, " "YORUBAS ARE THAT, " AND HAUSAS ARE THOSE, " WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER TRIBES AND DIALECTS?

SELL YOUR BROTHER TO SCORE POINTS( SELFISH POLITICAL TRIBAL SUPERIORITY). MEANWHILE THE SLAVE MASTER IS READY TO BUY YOU SO THAT HE CAN USE YOU TO SELECT YOUR BROTHERS, IT GETS WORSE WHEN HE ASKS YOU TO SELL YOUR OWN KINSMEN IT IS EASIER FOR YOU TO DO THAT BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN TRAINED ALREADY SELLING THOSE YOU CLAIM INFERIOR!



THE HUTUS AND TUTSI SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGES CHECK VERY WELL ITS JUST HATRED THAT FUELED THE GENOCIDE YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF. HOW DO PEOPLE THAT HAVE MIXED PARENTS CLASS THEMSELVES? I THINK YOU WILL BUILT ANOTHER COUNTRY FOR THEM RIGHT?

STOP THIS CUNNING HATE STOP IT HERE RIGHT NOW

The Bayo Ojo's Saharanews farce


These are the quotes from the tribunal's report. The AG was NEVER indicted for professional misconduct as Sahara News is propagating. This is just the News type of sensationalism.

"Finally, may I close by saying once more that Mr Christopher Ojo was never involved in the running of Solicitors Direct. I alone was responsible for the running of the firm. The firm had a multi-national status as recognised by The Law Society but Mr Ojo was based in Nigeria. He earned no income and paid no tax or NI contributions within jurisdiction. Please let me know if the files in your possession or letter from any client reveal that Mr Ojo at any time acted for anyone or was a signatory to any account. He simply did not act for anyone”. Agwu

"Having considered the explanations given, the Tribunal consented to the withdrawal of all of the allegations against Mr Ojo. It accepted that he should deal with the single allegation set out above and noted that he admitted such allegation." UK Tribunal

"It was accepted that on the face of the limited papers available relating to the practice, which ceased on intervention, was no evidence of any active part played in Solicitors Direct by Mr Ojo." UK law tribunal

"It was noted that Mr Ojo had written to Mr Agwu on 31st May 2005 resigning from his position in Solicitors Direct with immediate effect. He had also written a letter to The Law Society indicating that he did not seek to renew his practising certificate. That letter was not received by The Law Society until 3rd October 2005 and it was accepted that Mr Ojo had sent the letter to Mr Agwu for onwards transmission and Mr Agwu had not dealt with the matter promptly." UK Law tribunal

The Tribunal’s Decision and its Reasons
52. The Tribunal accepted Mr Ojo’s explanations. He himself accepted that he was naïve to allow his name to be associated with the firm of Solicitors Direct when he was not an active partner and was not exercising any control. The Tribunal accepted that Mr Ojo was duped by Mr Agwu at a time when he had made informal enquiry and had no reason to suppose that Mr Agwu was anything other than a man of integrity.
53. Mr Ojo is a solicitor qualified in England and Wales and the responsibilities which he must bear, having achieved such qualification, could not be abdicated. The Tribunal gave Mr Ojo credit for taking the trouble to attend before the Tribunal, to give his detailed explanations and the Tribunal took into account the not inconsiderable degree of personal embarrassment that these proceedings had brought to Mr Ojo. The Tribunal considered that it was right in all of the circumstances that Mr Ojo should pay a financial penalty of £2,000.00.

@Babasin

You must set up Water resources immediately! Boreholes are very Dangerous! if continued

@Mckaren

Thanks for your Help. i know we have Uranium 235 and that is why No one wants us to Succeed. We are truly blessed from the North to south It is Just Corruption.

If we have 40% official that are not corrupt we will be better off.

Our Governors are everywhere moving money out they have houses in Ghana even how much in Uk US e.t.c you must know that this is happening in Russia.

No leader will want to Release money when he knows that there is a lot of Corrupt people he has to deal with. I just pray that God send more selfless people to man country.

my Visit to Singapore made me see that if you have a good leadership that is firm the people will follow. Obj is Trying But he must Privatise and with EITI He should make sure that they have a good Transparent body.

We must Succeed I tell you.

There is a Need for us to be Honest even if we have to be Hungry We must be Honest People and One with High Integrity.

I know there are people of High Integrity In Nigeria and they are not heard. WE are Seeing Honest people from all the tribes of the state this is Making feel more Nigerian I tell you.

some people are not ready to give you a breathing space if you are a Nigerian. I have been embarrassed because of my Nationality in my Journeys by people. Some want to come home and be happy and die in Nigeria.

We need Continuation in leadership so that you will wear out the terrible effect of years of corruption.

We will Succeed.

Good Bless Naija.

No free water in Lagos - It’s pay-as-you-fetch

Lagos people queing for water.

Unlike the norm in other states where those who dig deep wells offer the water free to neighbours, Yejide Gbenga-Ogundare writes that to fetch water from such wells in Lagos, one must part with some naira notes.

Bolutife was on an extended visit to Lagos for the first time. She had never visited Lagos for more than two days at a stretch. But the 20-year-old was sent to the Centre of Excellence this time to assist her recently married sister who just delivered a baby.

She looked forward to having new and wonderful experiences because of the wonderful though unconfirmed account of events and tales brought home by some of her town’s people resident in Lagos when they come home for Christmas and Sallah celebrations.

She indeed experienced many things that were novel to her. The one she however finds difficult to understand is people’s attitude towards water. Bolu had gone to the nearby tap to fetch water since the tap in her sister’s flat was not running, a peculiar situation to most apartments within Lagos. When she got to the nearby tap with her containers, she had her first lesson about Lagos.

She got the first shock when the tap owner asked her for money when it was her turn to fetch. The conversation that ensued was a mini drama as people at the tap had a few laughs at her expense. After so much arguments due to her belief that the woman wanted to cheat her because she was a stranger, it dawned on her that water was not a free commodity in Lagos like it was back at home in Oyo.

She told Lagos Life that the event was a revelation. “Back home, we were made to believe that if you sell water, you can never make heaven. As a result, anyone who does not have tap or well fetches freely from those that have. I was therefore surprised that such pious-looking people, one had a mosque in her house, could sell water.

"It was embarrassing to be rudely told I was in Lagos so I should shine my eyes or go back to my village if I required free water. It was then I learnt that two buckets cost five naira while the slightly bigger paint bucket is sold at three for ten naira.”

Bolu swallowed her pride and went home for money after her entertaining welcome to Lagos by her sister’s neighbours. Alas! That was not her only lesson for the day; she came back to the tap only to have another training session from the neighbours.

Narrating her experience, she told Lagos Life that, “I actually came back with the required money and fetched my water thinking I had been indoctrinated into life in the big city, only to learn otherwise when I asked for assistance in lifting the filled bucket of water to my head. Nobody answered me and I knew I had committed another blunder; it was a young man that later helped me after telling me nobody helps you with your burden in Lagos.

“He explained that the taps were constructed tall so that anyone who wants to fetch water no matter how tall the container is can stand under it conveniently.” This was a new morsel for the young lady to digest. “It is absurd, how can I wait under the tap for that long with such a burden, I can’t still comprehend why people find it difficult to help you put your container on your head. I can’t live in this city; there is no communal spirit at all,” she concluded.

This peculiarity which made Bolu swear off Lagos is however not a big deal to some others who actually enjoy standing under the tap if not paying for the service. Mabel Azuh, a resident of Ponnle in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos told Lagos Life that it is not so terrible an experience. “I enjoy not depending on anybody with my large containers; it costs me nothing to stand under the tap till my container gets full. Initially, it was a bit difficult because I get tired quite easily and most times I get wet because I found it difficult gauging when to move away from the tap so I usually overfill my bucket.

"I am now used to it though I must confess that buying water for everyday use is quite an expensive venture that puts a drain on my pocket many times,” she said. A water vendor at Alabata Street in Egbeda Area of Lagos spoke to Lagos Life on a condition of anonymity. He said, “What is wrong in selling water? I have been doing it for long, that is how I built my two houses. Does anybody help me with PHCN bills or buy diesel for me?

“It is business, that is the only thing I can do and I enjoy it so much now that power supply is irregular in Lagos. I have less competition and I make more money because water costs more when pumped with a generating set.” He concluded that, “anyone that wants free water should dig a well and buy a pumping machine. After all, I’m not selling government water.”

Lagos Life investigations revealed that most residents in many areas of Lagos depend on the vendors for water. Anyone that needs a regular job in Lagos need not suffer again, all they need to do is dig a well, invest in a pumping machine and taps and it is time for business. For people like Bolu who had tall expectations about the Centre of Excellence, it is welcome to the reality of Lagos, where nothing comes free.



I think this is very Dangerous because Molten Lava and hot air in the ground are looking for Escape roots one of the wells may Just be one.

The Government Must STOP THIS?

@Debosky
http://www.businessdayonline.com/?c=52&a=12532

So you see I was not Just brandishing Numbers. SA should be our competitor we are years behind them and they will not sit for us to catch up with them.

I personally think we should aim Higher.

@4play

I agree with on Private sector participation. In fact I think we need for government to play a regulatory role.

You can fuse The Petrol and Energy Generation together.

where you Auction License for the Downstream sector. Sell authority To 10 companies to operate Refineries in ten areas of the countries.
This Companies will be asked to produce Energy Say 1500MGW each You will sell The Crude oil to them at 50% World Crude oil Price.

you are killing bird with 2 stones

But you have to be very Vigilante because this guys can have what you call a gentle man Agreement and team against you. so you have to sanction them.

The fact of the matter is that There are Millionaire Saboteurs in Energy Business. They spend money to frustrate your effort

Perkins or Lister etc is not sitting down to wait for you to get your House in order they are making money from your problem. They have agents that will sabotage your Effort In Energy. So you use the Problem to solve the Problem. The Rich guys know that there is money in Energy production Give them Licenses to Supply energy.

Set up 4 Energy Companies that will Produce Energy.

set up 3 more energy companies that will see to the effective distributions.

In 2 years there will immense supply of Energy and it will be cheaper.


That is the reason why I say with oil Business (refinery) Let it go the way of GSM Licenses. We already know How much we Use of Petrol it is in the trillion.

Just Auction Licenses for the 10 or More refineries to be Built and run privately sell the crude oil at[b] 50% world price to the refineries.
[/b]

This guys are making money off you in Crude oil they don't care if you bleed to death It is not there business if you sleep in darkness.

You just License people to run refineries in the states simple and sell the crude to them at a very low rate. we will be supply Petrol to the Whole World because of the competition it will be cheaper to by in Naija.

I like to hear demerits of this proposal.

This is Recipe for Disaster

The Current Move at the Federal Government is Just ok. It will take time to trickle down.

We need to hold our State Governors Accountable. Once you are born in the state you can take the State Government to court for anything you are aggrieved about.

@babsin

OSUN

There babies here in in Ghana that are deformed No Nuclear fallout.

@planner

Read My post very, I never used Stupid at Chinua Achebe. Those who know me very on this forum I never use Undecorative words on people here.

I guess you don't know me very well so I will just leave at that.

I will listen to a market woman in Oshodi than a prince in the "great" of the world about Naija. I know what is Local Intelligence.

If you don't know every one works on Local Info.

I am not saying Obasanjo is 100% ok But my brother He has done a lot.

When he leaves that is when we will know. Look I am in Ghana Correctly so but even the Ghanaians feel it( banks from Naija are here making a Good Name and money for Naija ).

Before the Nigerian banks came to Ghana I was Afraid that they will come and Disgrace us. One Radio Guy really did a good Job on the Negative Publicity.

But I can tell you know that the banks are here there is a lot of Competition in the bank industry.

There is a lot of corruption and the fear is that Once you release money people will begin to steal money and they will pay Egunje. So we really need people that will not steal.

The Governors are stealing because The state Legislator are asleep.

ObJ had said we are still underdeveloped.

You can Situate it In the Northern Part of Naija.

and my brother with the Chernobyl thing It is overblown by the USA. You have a massive Expanse of land in the North wasting for nothing. You just need be High of Safety Regulation like with your Crude oil. Even then The Crude oil disasters have killed people in the world.

People have Xray and work in Radiography for the benefit of Human life should we stop them? may be you should travel around Naija and see for yourself.

If They want you can bring it to my state.

The Foreign Aid Issue Is one that is Military Weapon.

If any Government Accepts Goes for foreign Aid He has accepted a Trojan Horse or a cluster Bomb.

Let me tell you how the Aid is used as a weapon.

Take for Instance you have Problem on Malaria or Guinea worm.

1) The Research is done (mostly By UN) and thrown out there through their Media war Machinery (some of the people working in this media houses think they are even Just and patriotic) I call them PAWN BLIND INTEL MEN.

2) Once the word is out their African Leaders will be Under pressure to Spend money and go begging.

3) To put Pressure on The African Leaders They will send Men on the Ground to Form N.G.O. in the countries this Problems are.

4) This N.G.Os on the Ground will gather more Info(life Pictures) and send back to countries outside.

5) The local component of the N.G.Os will be supplied money and "equipments" He will be a voice on ground of the "Success" of The N.G.Os

6) The Success will be presented as Guinea Pig proof that their project is the way to go. this is another pressure On the leaders of the State in question.

7) By the time the Opposition gets hold of this Information The Leader is already to weak to bargain for anything.

The easiest way to solve this problem is by destroying Malaria Parasites, killing Mosquitoes and their Habitat.


Primary School Children can handle this Problem if a Leader TRUST HIS OWN PEOPLE (THIS IS WHAT I CALL ORGANIC SOLUTION)


LET ME TELL YOU THE REAL CATCH FOR THEM COMING

THEY WILL TELL YOU THEY WANT TO SPEND $200million to solve the problem

The truth is that the will spend 20million The Physical cash you will is may Just be 10 million.

The rest are spent on

1) CONSULTANCY (80% of the loan or Aid Grant "Money" stays in the parent country)
2) FOREIGN AID MATERIALS
3) ACCOMMODATION FOR THE FOREIGN AID PEOPLE
4) TRANSPORTATION ( They Just Love Jeeps)

All this money will be paid back by the Government.

I will give you one life example in my Next Post . I was just Laughing at the Proposal When I got the whole grip of the Project.

@Debosky

if you wait for 30 years you will not be able to compete to get power cheap. My argument is that even if it is one power plant let us have it so that by the time others are talking about getting this we have th edge.

If we wait for 30years this guys will make minced meat out of you.

we must have it now so that we have the edge over others. Just as we are experienced in oil business over the years we should be experienced and even advanced in nuclear power generation.

@post

Try to have a good immigration body and your intell most be very good. I know that Agents of weapon making companies are on ground. you Just go to let your intel boys go for info and i have a good government that encourages verbal dissenting views.

@4play

From The Site you gave me

"The latest version of our lifetime plans - which detail the commercial operations, decommissioning and clean-up programmes of our 20 sites - show a total cost of £64.8 billion, a net increase of £2.1 billion."

Nobody is the Epitome of technology. Today The Europeans and other Nationals are Leading tomorrow will change for Sure just as it did change when Africans built Pyramids.

Oh well I agree that we have to thread carefully but we need to have Nuclear power So that we don't start Getting lost when it is fully developed.

We are Lucky that we have a leader that wants to have options so that we never lack.

We don't need One million match. And for tolerance? if that be the case The middle east should not be developed the way it is now.

Those guys have leadership that is all. They can Change leaders at will.

BMW IS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Go and Check China They are Providing Cheaper Electricity and They have the Market. I am told we have Uranium.

A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is one or more nuclear reactors.

Nuclear power plants are base load stations, which work best when the power output is constant (although boiling water reactors can come down to half power at night). Their units range in power from about 40 MWe to over 1200 MWe. New units under construction in 2005 are typically in the range 600-1200 MWe. The largest nuclear reactors currently in operation are the Tokyo Electric Power Company's 1356 MWe advanced boiling water reactors at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, Japan, built by Toshiba, Hitachi and General Electric.

As of 2007 the IAEA reported there are 435 nuclear power reactors in operation in the world
[1], operating in 31 different countries
[2]. Together they produce about 17% of the world's electric power.

(According to the above references, the U.S., France, and Japan together account for 49% of all nuclear power plants and 57% of all nuclear generated electricity.)


Yes I agree that we need to make use of Our gas Reserve but we Must Development this very Cheap source of Energy even those Other 9 countries that have gas reserve have alternate power Generation.

I say Nuclear Power Now!