₦airaland Forum

thelastPope: Lies and more lies! Most people in Lagos put their children in private schools. There is no huge pressure in resources. Just an excuse for failure. There is no public school within 4 miles from my house....Liars like Liar Mohammed!

You live in Oronto's bedroom, how can there be a school close to your house?

Lagos has built far number of classroom blocks in the last few years. It is just there and we don't even look at it anymore. From Ikeja High School, Ransome Kuti, to Ewutuntu, to Gbaja girls, how many do you even want to list.

If anyone knows the uncompleted buildings we call "Mudashiru" in most Lagos schools in those days. If you go round Lagos today you will not see any of those buildings, they have all been completed. Those buildings were left abandoned since Gbolahan Mudasiru's time in the mid 1980s. Fashola came in with the State Schools rehabilitation project and they are all completed today.

But like I always argue, Lagos is highly constrained by the surge in it's population. Places like Ikorodu and Ibeju were local fishing towns before have been taking over by the rising urban population. Most of the schools in those rural areas were planned for the farming population but today people are migrating in large numbers to those places and there is a huge pressure on resources and services in those areas.

Birch Freeman below. I knew what this school looked like in the past.

ujoinme: Every state in nigeria that builds anything should be thankful to the Oil producing states/communities for the funding which their resources has provided for.

Make I even ask these people something first. The joint oil development zones being developed by Nigeria and Sao Tome, which Oil community owns the oil there?

The ones around the gulf of guinea, which oil community are those blocs in?

[quote author=Gen. Specific]You see your life? You think everyone here has pitched tent like you? Instead of trying to discern what I am advocating against which is this cheap propaganda that keeps flooding this section you assume I am being political.
Well for your info I am as apolitical when it comes to politicians in Nigeria since unlike you and most lazy thinking Nigerians I don't suffer from Messiah Syndrome.

There is a saying that a people deserve the society they are living in.


Keep wallowing in your 3rd world spit.

Niggaz[/quote]Pity your own self. I understand the tactics, act like you are neutral.

I repeat again, what Jona and Alams could not do with over N3 trillion, Sule Lamido has done with less than N1 trillion. If you want to die, die.

[quote author=Gen. Specific]I see the campaign for 2015 has begun.

I thought as much. CHEAP PROPAGANDA![/quote]Alams and Jona got over N3 trillion yet they cannot point to what they did with the money. It is the fact, die if you want to die.

What Alams and Jona could not do in Bayelsa with over N3 trillion, Sule Lamido has done with less than N1 trillion.

Yet Dokubo and the one eyed Tony Uranta will not let us breathe.

Pardon her, she is the wife of a drunken sailor fisherman.

Very crude and unrefined. Comparing Odili with Amaechi shows how desperate these people are. Disgusting people!

What is so difficult for these Nigerian rogues masquerading as leaders to understand? Leaders drive change, take ultimate responsibility for change, set the tone for change at the top and then cascade and embed the behaviour down. With the criminal pardon of Alams, what core values does this drunken sailor fisherman expect citizens to have.

When citizens see leaders, they should see vision, they should see change. Unfortunately when Nigerians see their leaders, they see rogues, they see criminals and cannot be expected to act differently.

[quote author=One_Naira]dude once more come to reality. China developed it's city during the high population growth and still doing it even now they created a policy to control their population growth. The way for tokyo, japan. Get that through your thick head. constantly when showed how under performed lagos is, you people scream "population", yet we know cities with the same high population out doing lagos. even if we follow the new excuse (i.e: you went from population to population growth), New York has a high population growth. immigrants not from their own nation but foreign nations as well, let's not forget illegal immigrants yet the city is growing and developing at a faster rate than lagos.

For a city that collects millions of taxes from their residents and collect one of the highest allocation from the FG plus holds most of foreign companies and oil companies, it shouldn't be that underdeveloped. that's a damn fact.

lastly ssh. stop trying to teach me about my own. do you see me teaching you about your people? You all constantly believe every man and woman see Lagos as a place to go. come down to reality. most Asaba would rather tough it out in delta than go to lagos. you hear? btw:ogwashi uku and ukwuani are not asaba. una need to start traveling[/quote]Tokyo has a population of about 13 million people with a higher resource per capita, Lagos has a population of 20 million and growing with a lesser resource per capita, now how is it so difficult for you to understand this.

What taxes do they pay? People who work in largely informal sectors, where are you going to get them to pay taxes. Granted they pay a few rates to the local government and thugs on the roads, but this is largely insignificant to the gross revenue of Lagos. The bulk of the revenue comes from largely formal and organised sectors.

Bring data and stop arguing like someone on weed. Which city has the same resource per capita as Lagos and is outperforming Lagos. You need to cite good examples and not just make assertions without any evidence to back it up.

Lagos generates about N17 billion annually, it gets about N 3 billion monthly from the FG. That is about N240 billion annually. Yet Lagos has a budget of about N400 billion. Where is the money going to come from with the surge in population.

[quote author=One_Naira]China has the highest population in the world. whether there population growth is low, it still does not remove the amount residing there already. there population now is higher than that of lagos, usa too yet it city, hong kong, is more developed than lagos. it's high population didn't hold them back. simple A, B, C; you wan skip all the way to J. mscheww



wtf is this one talking about? similar to onitsha, most asab indigenous create their own occupation. If one can't find a job, he/she would start his/her own business be it trading, marketing, etc. the population that migrate out is little compare to the ones hustling in asab, ogwashi, warri or onitsha. you wan teach me about my own people. see your head[/quote]China has a very low population growth rate and this is largely due to its population control policy. Japan also has a low population growth rate. Population growth rate is different from the population, so get that into your tiny brain.

Controlling your population growth rate is an important strategy for development. Control your population and let it grow at the same rate as available resource. What Lagos is seeing today is not a population it can manage effectively. It is receiving an influx of largely unskilled people who are a burden on resources and social amenities. People who should be in Kwale and Ogwashi Ukwu doing better things are in Lagos selling gala in the traffic. Go to the markets, some of them have no store. They do what we call 'oso ahia'. Hustling because Uduaghan has chopped all the money for development and the burden is passed on to Lagos.

[quote author=One_Naira]shut up with population excuse. japan and china has one of the highest population yet tokyo and hong kong would make any African city weep in comparison. shut up with the population bs.

as for asaba migrating to eko. keep telling yourself that. Asaba people go where? abeg move left jor, I'm trying to see front[/quote]And what, the Chinese are not doing anything to control it? China has a low population growth rate lower than the US with its one child policy and an ever increasing resource base. Lagos is growing very fast in terms of population but the resources needed to manage this surge, is not growing at par.

The average graduate of DELSU has no hope of getting a job in Asaba, if you dispute it, bring your data and show me what percentage of graduates from DELSU over the years got a job in Asaba.

[quote author=One_Naira]Yet we wonder why other Africans insult Nigeria constantly. it's obvious as hell you've never step foot in Narobi or any other African city. Narobi has it slums too no denying it but one thing for sure, it's slums is not as much as lagos and it's beautiful areas is a MILLION times better than Lagos. read my post, wey better.

lmfao @ the best of lagos is not found anywhere else in Africa. probably West Africa and that's a big probably. when concerning West Africa, I've only been to ghana and ivory coast so other WA countries, I'm not so sure. in regards to the rest of the continent, what an insult you just gave them. you see the cities i listed (casablanca, narobi and johanesburg), visit those cites and slap yourself for the insult you just gave them. though i have not been to luganda yet, my bestfriend just got back and based on his stories, you equally insulted that city as well. slap yourself

once more, don't it hurt that despite all the glossy pics and the lies, the world still see the truth about lagos hence it's going up in the one of the worst cities in the world list. like i said, fix the city and stop passing out false advertisement. noone would complain if it matches reality #just saying[/quote]Close your mouth biko, do those places have half of the population of Lagos? Lagos not only has a high population for a city, it has a very high population density because all those your otokoto brothers have left their ritual business in Owerri and Asaba to come and 'hustle' in Eko. The city is exploding and if there was a way, I am sure one of the things the governor would have done is to find a way of controlling this ever increasing population as it is a time bomb waiting to explode.

Like Fashola said at the end of the video, "it is still work in progress". Are we there yet? NO! Are we working and do we know where we want to be? Yes!

I saw Lagos under Gbolahan Mudashiru, Mike Akhigbe, Ndubuisi Kanu, Raji Rasaki, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Buba Marwa and Bola Tinubu.

Fact is, there has been a large improvement over the years and the residents of Lagos will tell you this. They do not like the man Raji Fashola for nothing. They may not agree with everything he does, but they see a man with a vision and they see a thinker. How else do you explain their revenue generation strategy, increasing revenue from about 600 million to 17 billion in a developing country. They are building a revenue base for the state, that is strategy and leadership. For an illiterate like Maku bridging that tax gap "is nothing". To Maku, it has to be how many Cow's has Raji Fasola bought in the last few years.

Fact is, Lagos is constrained by its limited resources and its ever increasing population. Why? There is next to nothing going on in other parts of Nigeria. Most graduates want to "work" their NYSC to Lagos because there is no hope of a job outside Lagos.

When they get into Lagos, real wages are low, they cannot afford the rent in the mainlands, they have to live in the outskirts and commute daily to the mainland from Ikorodu, Abule Egba, Sango, Mowe and many more places. These places are seeing a surge in population, growing at a faster rate than the resources available to manage this surge. But they are working, providing palliatives to relief the pain. The ferries, the BRT, the Ikorodu road expansion, these are projects geared towards alleviating the pain in those places.

I thought Oliseh had left the national team. I thought Uche Okechukwu had left. I thought Osaze and Aiyegbeni have also left. So who is causing all the trouble today in the national team?

Bunch of jokers, the game has changed, the players have also changed but the NFF has refused to change. It is still being run with the same mediocrity and incompetence that characterises a lot of institutions in our national life.

Everyday, the NFF is broke. Why? They do not have the brain to develop a proper marketing and financial strategy. Who will happily give his money to such jokers? If they were better organised, they will make more money. Fact is, the Super Eagles and the Nigerian national team is brand with over 100 million followers. There is a market, there is money to be made given this number of followers.

For years I have been searching for the Nigerian national team shirt to buy. I have checked at adidas, I have checked at Sports Direct, but I cannot get to buy. South Africa, Ghana, even Ivory Coast have their shirts in Sports Direct, why not Nigeria with the number of followers? There are millions of Nigerians looking for these shirts to buy, yet they cannot lay their hands on them because of the NFF or NFA's incompetence.

Look at Arsenal a football club. Look at the new marketing deals they have been pulling in the last few months. That is how you change. They could have sat back, done nothing and said, "O Man City has next to surplus cash, we cannot compete, we will just have to sit with what we have and do nothing". But guess what, Ivan Gazidis has been working round the clock. New deals, new sponsors, Emirates, Puma, tours in the far east which Arsenal has always avoided over the years and even scammed Nigerian brands like Malta Guiness and AIRTEL with the botched tour of Nigeria last year. They brought Per Mertasacker and Sagna to come and dance for you all. They are growing their financial base to enable them compete and they are getting there gradually.

It is about change, it is about developing new ways of doing things, it is about continually improving and not sitting your lazy butts there waiting for manna to fall from heaven. Football is a big brand. If you think, there is money to be made.

OVOKO! OVOKO!! OVOKO!!!

This one na mental case O! This one go dey sleep for night dey shout "GBAWE GBAWE, I WILL DEAL WITH THAT GBAWE MAN!" for in dream. HEY!!!

I cannot believe this, so someone arose by 4.37 am to put down such rubbish against his virtual "enemies".

This man needs help, quick help for that matter. Na psychiatric case be this. Any Doctor in the house?

OVOKO!!!

You know in a lot of things in this life, experience is key. Older Women have a lot of experience if you know what I mean

This is what happens when you fail to do the right thing. If only Ribadu had locked up that Jona's Hippopotamus looking wife when he caught her with $100,000 at MMA, by now Abati would have still been at Guardian looking for who to blackmail for 'egunje' in the name of editorial.

I blame Nuhu. You caught her, red handed, but you failed to act. Now the bush meat is back for the hunter. It is sad, it is very sad indeed.

Good analysis of a failed leader. Most of the projects he put in that useless report are things we saw under Abacha yet they want us to bring Eyo masquerade to sing his praise. He has nothing to show for the trillions of Naira in revenue over four budgets. Yet he also says we should go and bring a marking scheme to mark an 'itiboribo' and his Ministers.

The fact that a failure like Labaran Maku is still a Minister under this hopeless regime is enough to tell you where the government is heading to. Maku is a failed union leader, a failed Cattle Rearer and a failed Minister who spends time and money misinforming the nation and drinking 'fura-de-nunu' round the country in the name of 'good governance tour'. Animals!!!

barcanista: Koro isn't a do-or-die politician. He respects the rule of law and has never been charged with Fraud, Election Malpractice or Contempt. This cannot be said of Tinubu and his puppet BRF. As for the third term for President, yes Koro supported it. His reasons was clearly spelt out and democracy allows us freedom of opinion. The most important thing is that Majority Opinion is held. At the defeat of 3rd Term, Senator Koro did not ferment trouble neither did he approach the courts. So what wrong has he done?

Oh I see. He supported it even when majority of his constituents were against it. He failed to listen to his constituents at a critical time yet he wants us to now trust him with our mandate. Such a man can never be trusted as he failed us at that very critical time. If he can tag along with a demonic agenda to elongate the demonic Olusegun Obasanjo then he will do worse things if entrusted with Lagos.

A lot of the 'Ghana cocoa' chocolates you see in the stores actually contain cocoa from Nigeria. Same with Moroccan leather with animal hide from Sokoto red goats.

I look at how beautiful these things look and I ask why did we let it go. Granted we may have found new ways of storing our crops. However, this site is one we could have turn into a tourist location and we should never have let the pyramids go. The intangible benefits, the ornamental feature of these pyramids is so so unquantifiable.

Sokoto has a rich history and culture. The caliphate, the Durbar, the Sultan's palace and a whole lot of tour sites that we could have developed over the years. Integrate these sites, build nice resorts, strike deals with tour providers, the Thomas Cook, the Thomson's, the Cosmos, to give you customers to visit these sites. Locals benefit, Government benefits, the tourists benefits, airlines and travel agents; and everyone is happy.

These unique things is what will catch the fancy of tourists and it is no too late to start developing them again instead of spending time bombing ourselves.

I know he is a student of Olusegun Obasanjo's school of 'do-or-die' politics. Koro was a champion for Olusegun Obasanjo's demonic third term bid.

Afam4evaIsASlut: And he acted real ignorant and arrogant; basically thumbing his nose at Kenyan Authorities. Even if youre innocent, those were very serious charges and theres a certain way to respond especially since youre in a foreign country and everyone is watching.

I guess he had it coming.

Watching a lot of videos about him on youtube, the guy seems to have had a dirty history. From his wife who went to jail in India for drugs to the divorce and property dispute. I don't know why anyone should feel sorry for such a person, he certainly had it coming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Ggg0UsRXw

Watch this video and hear the guy boast that he cannot be be deported.

LMAO

What's new about this?

We have the Nigerian Police killing our own daily and so why should anyone express shock over this.

Abagworo: Not observing the "sit at home" plan does not equate to being civilized. From the reports I've got, the compliance was not absolute but satisfactory. I'm totally against MASSOB's plan to disintegrate Nigeria but the "sit at home" was a good way of mourning the thousands we've lost to unwarranted hatred across the country.

Like I said before, MASSOB do not care about anybody murdered in any place in Nigeria. If they did they will have done more to prevent people from being kidnapped and murdered in the South East. In fact most of the kidnappers are actually members of the criminal group MASSOB.

MASSOB is just like the EDL that used the death of Sergeant Lee Rigby to further their hate and neo-fascist agenda. Fact is if these things did not happen, these bunch of hate mongers will look for other events to attach their hate ideologies. We know such groups and the way they operate. They will attach it to religion, they will attach it to ethnicity, the will attach it to race, they will attach it to sports, they will even attach it to the autonomous communities created by OUK and Udenwa. You cannot help hate mongers and xenophobes, it is like a disease.

It is over 12 years since this their nonsense 'sit at home' began, what progress has MASSOB made in its so-called "actualization of Biafra"? Nothing! While the gullible continue to spend their money on Uwazuruike and the other demons.

Azi gbakwa ihe ojo.

All these umuazi who don't know what it really means to balkanise a country like Nigeria will jump on Uwazuruike's back to scream MASSOB, I laugh in Isiekenesi and Abagana combine.

All I see is a bunch of jobless people who have no idea of what the real thing is. They have no strategy, the 'sit at home' was only to massage their ego, it is a clear waste of their time. When the time comes we will know what the deal is. Till then I can only look and keep laughing at a bunch of ignorant people.

Bayelsa is also a very poor state. It is a state with one of the worst human development index in Nigeria. In fact at a time Bayelsa was said to have one of the worst rates of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria despite the fact that Alams and GEJ got over N2 trillion in revenue over 8 years, they could not buy condoms to prevent the spread of the killer disease. Jona spent the money for condoms on Beyonce and Nduka Obaigbena who could not take his eyes off her cleavage through out her stay in Nigeria.

So what is the big deal, we have seen it before. The same way OBJ supported a failure like Jona is the same for Lamido as they are both students of OBJ's school of 'do or die' politics.

I am not deceived by this rubbish from Omokri, poverty also stinks in Bayelsa. They are all the same!

Nuke: Did you not read that the pilot was asked to submit a manifest of his passengers which he could not because he claimed not to know their names? Opposition or not, the pilot was wrong and he thought he could get away with anything because he has been flying for years and works for a Nigerian Gov. When one helicopter crashed, we were all out on the pdp guys for using state helicopters for private outings. This Gov is doing same. LEts face it, they are all of the same. Do not be deceived. So if one is punished now, let's be happy.

Nonsense and rubbish. So if I fly a helicopter to Epe to pick a passenger going to VI, I will then fly back to MMA to file your so called manifest before heading to the helipad at VI?

Trash and a waste of man hours just to fulfill some disgusting political ambition.

chino24: And where had you got that? have you checked the landmass of SE? The fact is that Igbos are like the Jews, they travel to every part of the world without limits. So you cannot uses the basis that Igbos are found everywhere to now assert that it is because they have small land space. Igbos are naturally moved by economic winds; wherever the wind of economy blows you will see an Igboman.

Land mass in SE? MUHEHEHEHEHE, make I no laugh scatter teeth. The one wey una get sef erosion done dey collect am while Peter Adaobi sits with his okpa daily doing nothing.

DerideGull: Nigeria is very dusty and rudderless yet you have commented about groovy scenes in Owerre. When the man-made shackles are lifted off these peoples’ back, the explosion of socio-economic growth in Republic of Igbo land or New Biafra will trail from hinterland to the coastal plains of the country. Who needs dumbass Dubai when there are Owerre, Igwe Ocha and Asaba?

Asaba? MUHEHEHEHE ka chineke nna mela gi ebere. Wait make Asaba people catch you dey claim their territory, you go know say khaki no be leather.

Owerri is the only good place in the whole of SE and that is because it is a small town and thugs like Uwazuruike will not be tolerated in Owerri. Most of the people in Owerri are government workers who are very enlightened to know this is all deceit to further Uwazuruike's demonic agenda.

chino24: What is even bothering me most is the internal strife that the young country of Biafra will witness if granted independence.
Concerning our investments outside the shores of Biafra, I think its a matter of bilateral relation with those countries that will solve such problems.

Because there may still be things of great interests of say Arewa republic or Oduduwa republic in the country of Biafra. So they will thread carefully as no country is an island, because even US and UK treats Nigeria with respect how much more.

Arewa will rather collaborate with O'dua while you lose all your assets and rights in their own places. What do they have in Igbo land? Igbo land is not even enough to hold Igbo people not to talk of holding outsiders.