₦airaland Forum

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Guk: PLEASE DO NOT BE LAZY NOT TO READ THIS. ITS THE MINIMUM WE SHOULD EXPECT FROM OUR LEADERS. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO POST ANY OF SORT BY ANY OTHER GOVT OFFICIAL FROM THE PRESIDENT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO LOCAL GOVT CHAIRMAN

This is the 20th in the series of my 100-day account rendering Town-Hall meetings to you, the good people of Lagos. This occasion is significant because it coincides with 2,000 days of your partnership and support for our government; formed by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN); and freely elected by you. It remains a humbling privilege to be the lead public servant and we remain truly grateful and unassuming of your trust and confidence.

At the report presented on the 1,800-day, I had briefed you about the challenges we were facing in securing funding for the Mile 12-Ikorodu Road expansion and the court action that was delaying the construction of 660 housing units in Agbowa. We have since concluded the financing and commenced construction with about 584 people now employed in construction; and have awarded the construction contract for Mile 12-Ikorodu Road expansion.

At the 1,900-day event, I did not personally address you. It was decided that the heads of those involved departments should brief you about the work being done in your various constituencies.
I am aware of the entire proceedings in the East, West and Central Senatorial Districts and have held extensive meetings to put in place plans to address your concerns within the limits of our resources. Thank you for your active participation and support. We are all certainly better for it.

This is why we have commenced a statewide tour to assess the progress of on-going projects and have mobilised our budget to ensure the completion of those projects.
Today, we return to our usual format of reporting every 100 days with updates from my last report.

BUDGET
We have presented our 3rd Quarter Budget performance report of 65% for the 3rdQuarter. Combining the 1st through to the 3rd Quarter, we have delivered an aggregate performance of 72% so far.
We have also presented the budget estimates for 2013 to the state House of Assembly, and we are dedicated to finishing the 4th Quarter stronger than we did in the 3rd Quarter.

Some of the projects and programmes being delivered in your various local government and senatorial districts include: the award of 185 inner city road contracts; the award of 1,404 housing units, the award of the Adiyan Phase II 70 million gallons-per-day Water Project and the construction of a 60km pipeline network to be dedicated to such areas as Iju, Agege, Ifako-Ijaiye, Alimosho, Ojo and Ikeja.

We are also concluding plans to upgrade Ishasi Waterworks from 4mgd to 12mgd to service the Ijanikin-Badagry axis. On November 6, 2012, we visited Oyingbo Market and the two markets being built in Tejuosho; the 36-unit housing project in Shitta; the 60-unit housing project in Mushin, the expansion and concrete lining of the System-6c canal that passes through Itire; the reconstruction of the damaged Ilasamaja pedestrian overhead bridge and the reconstruction and expansion of Kodesoh Road in Ikeja.

On November 13, 2012, we inspected our 540-unit Lagos HOMS project at Sangotedo; the on-going construction of road projects in Kasali Oluwo Street, Odo-Egiri Road, Igbonla Road, Salabiu Olanrewaju Street and Oba Animashaun Road; the combined High Court and Magistrate Court in Epe; the Epe Waterfront reclamation and shoreline protection project; and Oba’s Palace at Ilara-Epe. At Badore, we assessed the progress of the Badore Ferry Terminal and Jetty, the Langbasa Road, Ado-Kekere Street and Kajola Street in the Aja Area.

EDUCATION
At the commencement of the reform process in 2007, the average number of students obtaining five credits including Mathematics and English was 7%. This year, we have reached 38.28%. For the first time, our state is now in the top 10 of the 36 States at the forefront of public education revival, and the only South-Western state in the top 10 this year.

In the last 100 days, our technical colleges graduated a total of 6,000 students; many of whom have been employed by private sector operators who are partnering us to design their curriculum to meet industry standards. The electrical graduates amongst them work with the Lagos State Electricity Board to light up Lagos. The renovations of the classroom block in Agidingbi Technical College were done by the students and not an external contractor. Our new Electronic Engineering Academy in Agidingbi was built in partnership with Samsung Electronics that guarantees employment for every child trained at the Centre.

HOUSING
We are currently constructing housing units in 10 sites in Igando, Omole Phase I & Phase II, Sangotedo, Mushin, Ilupeju, Agbowa, Ogba Phase I & Phase II, Surelere and Igbogbo. Employed are 882 main contactors, 836 sub-contractors, 1,835 artisans, 1,940 labourers, 905 suppliers and 49 food vendors; totalling 6,450 people employed in less than one year.

HEALTHCARE
We are rapidly coming to the completion of the Gbagada Heart & Kidney Centre, the Isolo General Hospital Mortuary and the Ayinke House. Our health missions continue to take basic healthcare for diagnosis and cure to our people in their communities, screening and treating them in their thousands for diabetes, hypertension and cancer. Our preventive health initiative at the grassroots level is taking shape in partnership with our local government chairmen. We have successfully trained and graduated the first batch of 300 graduate volunteers to serve.

AGRICULTURE
We are improving on rice cultivation, milling and bagging; poultry production and processing; fish and seafood production, education and provision of extension services to farmers. We held the first Lagos Seafood Festival to showcase our aquaculture potentials and to expose and export our very proud seafood menu beyond Lagos. Our quest to create farms outside our state is yielding results as we have acquired 500 hectares of land in Ogun State, to grow rice to feed our mill in Imota.

SPORTS AND TOURISM
In October, we hosted the 12th edition of the Governor’s Tennis Cup, which is the only International Tennis Federation sanctioned tournament in West Africa. The event attracted entries from 361 players from 30 countries. Taking a cue from this, a private sector company has launched an initiative called “Breaking the Mould”, which brought the world famous Williams Sisters - Venus and Serena - to Lagos. In the next few days, we will be hosting the 18th edition of the National Sports Festival and we expect up to 20,000 visitors who will bring in revenue.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
On May 29th 2012, we commissioned the Lagos Traffic Radio broadcast on 96.1 FM; to help commuters get advance information and plan their journey. Also, the new Traffic Law was signed into effect on August 2nd 2012. With on-going advocacy and the installation of over 17,000 road signs, we are experiencing more voluntary compliance and seeing improved driving culture. Between July—before the law came into effect—and September 2012, of the 13,322 people attending our Drivers’ Institute, about 10.1% had bad vision and have since been referred for corrective action to improve vision and return them back to the road.

Between August 2nd when the law came into effect and the end of September 2012, we noticed a 68.4% increase in attendance in the Drivers’ Institute. During the same period, 58,174 vehicles came in to obtain their Road Worthiness Certificates, a 20.9% increase from the period before the law. We also noticed a 48.4% increase in the issuance of drivers’ licence which should suggest safer drivers and accident reduction. More importantly, fines have reduced between July and September by 24.2%; contrary to the opposition’s claims, no amount of money can be a substitute for the lives of citizens we are entrusted to serve and protect.

Also, the number of vehicles arrested for various violations has dropped by 16.9%, arrests for driving against traffic decreased by 35.9% and BRT lane violations has decreased by 74.2%. The 25 general hospitals report that Okada-related accidents dropped by 18.73% in September while deaths recorded during the same period dropped by 42.86%. The Office of the Commissioner of Police reported a drop in Okada-related crimes by 30% in September and by 60% as at the end of October, when compared to the month of July, before the law came into effect.

Our recent monitoring and evaluation assessment report on the impact of the law reveals that:
a. 65% of people sampled after the law want to reduce alcohol intake as opposed to 30% before;
b. 93% now want to reduce drug intake as against 71% before the law;
c. 77% are now convinced that alcohol is a danger to them and their passengers if they drink and drive, as against 10% before the law; and
d. Only 4% now say they can still purchase alcohol within the motor park after the law, as against 58% before the law.

You have given a good analysis of everything. Who are the real beneficiary of this policies? The Elites.....so what are we talking?

While we are not yet where we want to be, but I am positive that a lot of gains lie ahead. I do not believe that it is the desire of Lagosians to live in a state where people will act with impunity without regard to the safety of others. Despite our detractors and local challenges, we have started a BRT model of urban mass transit; which can only grow. I am happy also that the vision of my predecessors for an urban rail transport is now alive again with the construction of the Blue Line from Eric Moore; which has now reached Mile 2. Our BRT expansions to Badagry and Ikorodu Town are progressing.

I remain convinced that the legacy of public transportation Lagosians deserve is one that puts us on the global map and not one that condemns us to a dependency on foreign imports. This should be our path to sustainable prosperity and safety. I wish you all a merry Christmas and happy new year in 2013, and once again appeal to you to drive safely and think of your safety and that of others. Thank you for your attention.

greall1: I'm also pray my children study in abroad than nigeria
1.foreign certificate respect than nigeria certificate
2.Amount of student paying now in nigeria almost equilevent paying in abroad.

Holatunde007: God am scared o
bt wt God all things r possible

miteolu: 1. Tope Alabi has no hands in lawsuit. This case is between Alhaji Tajudeen Bioku and Pastor (Mrs.) Abiodun Ibitola of Remdel Optimum Communication. Tope Alabi is to sing while Remdel is a marketer.
2. Alhaji Bioku, who is a US-based media mogul, has instituted a 152.5million Naira civil suit against Mrs. Ibitola and her company, Remdel. What is Tope Alabi in this?
3. Tope Alabi is not the only gospel artist with Remdel why using her name in the tread.
Some NLs always go by Topic without reading the content.

chio chio: Until you meet a girl of her words and principled, you will understand that once some ladies say's is over it's over, even if you like let them lock both of you a room for 1 week, i bait you will not get even a kiss from her again...every body his or her own lifestyle

Tattooboy: U CAN SAY THAT AGAIN. I STIL GET DOWN WIT MY TWO EXES. NORMAL THING

Freiburger: What will you do if you find out that you are not the biological father of a child you have been raising for lets assume 20 years?

not2long: http://saharareporters.com/news-page/boko-haram-disorganised-me-–-jonathan

pingu2k5: So Jona Dey Ynansh Her?

A few days before names of then Acting President Goodluck Jonathan’s ministerial nominees were announced, there was a serious quarrel between the first couple. A source who witnessed the quarrel said, “The fight was so bad that madam nearly tore Oga’s shirt.” The bone of contention was the pending announcement of Deziani Allison Madueke as one of the ministerial nominees.

Two years earlier Patience Goodluck Jonathan
had openly confronted Deziani Allison Madueke’s mother, Beatrice Agama, at an event in Port Harcourt. Patience told Deziani’s mother, “Mama, please tell your daughter to leave my husband alone. She is married and I’m married. What kind of thing is this?” An eyewitness told this reporter: “The woman was so embarrassed all she could mutter was, “What is she talking about?”

The writer of this crazy story had written it in bad faith, and contains nothing but bullshit and cooked up stories dat does not hold water.May God forgive you
Days before Deziani was announced as the new Petroleum Minister, our group exclusively
reported that she demanded to be given the
petroleum ministry, a demand, we are told, she made in 2007 but could not get. Although there was overwhelming support for Odein
Ajumogobia, SAN, who was Minister of State for Petroleum under Rilwani Lukman and was
expected to get the substantive job, in the oil
and gas industry, Deziani insisted that she be
given the job. Ajumogobia was given the Foreign Affairs Ministry while Deziani Allison Madueke got her wish—the Petroleum Ministry.

In fairness, Deziani Madueke before being
appointed minister in 2007 had worked with
Shell Petroleum Development Company. She got to the position of Executive Director of the
multinational conglomerate. While there is some controversy as to her experience in the oil industry and level of competence, the fact is
that she left Shell as an Executive Director, a
position few Nigerian women, if any had occupied.

On the day the First Lady of Nigeria, Patience
Goodluck Jonathan traveled to Dubai, sources
said, she wrote a note to her husband, President Goodluck Jonathan. The note, which was hand- delivered by one of her two children supposedly encouraged the President to invite Deziani Allison Madueke “to move into the Presidential Villa.” We could not independently confirm this but a source who was with her on the trip to Dubai told this reporter that the First Lady refused to take calls from the President for the first couple days she was in Dubai.

The day before her departure to Dubai, a
Saturday, then Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Shehu Ladan spent two hours at the Aso Rock Villa. Most of the two hours the GMD was at the Villa was spent in consultation with the First Lady. Ladan traveled to London on official assignment the day the First Lady took off to Dubai. The next day Ladan was fired from his job and no reasons were given. From what our group has been able to piece together with information available, Shehu Ladan is said to have executed five oil deals on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria. The Minister of Petroleum signed off on these deals. One of the beneficiaries of this deal is Patience Goodluck Jonathan. According to some
sources, the First Lady made $2,000,000 profit
from her deal. This was later reported to the
President by Deziani Madueke who claimed that Ladan “misled” her.

The Monday Ladan Shehu was sacked while on
official assignment in London, Presidency
sources said the Petroleum Minister had visited the Villa to see the President. She was said to have presented two documents to the
President; one, for approval to sack the NNPC
GMD and the second one was for the appointment of his successor. The President,
according our sources, read the documents and quickly signed them. “The President did not even consult anybody or directed that a query be issued to Ladan. She just handed him
documents, the man read them and just signed. I can tell you that is the fastest decision this man has made since I’ve known him,” said one Presidency official.

The President and Deziani Madueke have a
relationship dating back to his time as Deputy
Governor of Bayelsa State. Some even claim
that the relationship predates his years as
Deputy Governor. A source claims the President and the Petroleum Minister are cousins. This claim was quickly dismissed by several sources who have known them for years.

A very credible source informed this reporter
recently that Pres. Goodluck Jonathan came
close to divorcing his wife, Patience, last year.
According to this source, what saved the
marriage was the intervention of Hassan Tukur, current Principal Secretary to the President. Tukur was then the Head of the Nigerian Energy Commission. He is a “long time pal of the President.”

Deziani Allison Madueke’s place as one of the
two most powerful women in Nigeria today is
not in doubt. Nowhere is her power more visible and pronounced than at the Presidential Villa. According to several presidency and security sources, any time Deziani visits the office of the president nobody else is allowed to see the President. One source told our group “Soon after Oga
became Acting President, Deziani came to visit
him. Shortly after she walked into the Acting
President’s office, the then Principal Secretary
to the Acting President walked in to take some
documents to him. Jonathan just raised his hand to stop the man in his tracks. After that
everybody got the message. You do not enter
the President’s office when Deziani is visiting.”
These visits we are told sometimes lasts up to
three hours.

After the sack of Shehu Ladan as the GMD of
NNPC, there were rumors that the former GMD had engaged in a shouting match with the Petroleum Minister. However, almost
everybody we spoke to for this story who had
known Ladan Shehu insisted that the man was
not capable of such behavior. Some top NNPC
staffers who spoke with this reporter insisted
that Deziani was threatened by Ladan’s alleged
closeness to Patience Jonathan. “You see,
Deziani would’ve been ticked off by Ladan going to the Villa to spend two hours with Patience. The Minister in a meeting with us informed us that she demands 100% loyalty and would not tolerate any disloyalty. How do you think she would’ve seen Ladan’s visit to the First Lady even though there was nothing personal in that visit?” said an NNPC staffer.

We could not confirm if indeed there was a meeting between Deziani and top NNPC staffers. The President’s relationship with Deziani Madueke, official and harmless though it may be, has not been well received by Nigerians. Several people we spoke to for this article advised the President to “tone it down.” One very angry Bayelsa political chieftain said to our group: “The President’s relationship with Deziani may be harmless…I tend to believe all these rumors are lies but even at that the man should tone it down. He is the man.” Another person told us: “How can on his first official visit to the United States, instead of going with his wife to see Pres. Obama who was with his own wife, he took as part of his entourage Deziani? Don’t get
me wrong, I’m not saying there’s anything
between them but if it were you would you do
it? Tongues are wagging about you and one
woman and on your first official visit you take
her instead of your wife, on your first state visit
to your wife’s state you take this same woman
and send off your wife to Delta State. Haba, let
common sense prevail here.”

waja: . Your wish would have been granted if and only if He was an Igbo man. If U did not toe my line, tell me what Evans Enwerem and Chuba Okadigbo deed b4 they were impeached.

rollyfemmy: what year is ur laurel pls...and hw much ru asking for?

adora4u1: Of course! 150k is a lot of money! It sure can buy a KEKE NAPEP!