₦airaland Forum

omar22:
"Massa Fernando is faster than you" do you copy!!!, Am shocked that they didnt ask Massa to slam the car into the wall,

koruji:
Call you a liar? I don't have to call you liar - it is what you do for a living.

koruji:
Beaf lies with impunity where Aregbesola is concerned. He has settled the minimum wage issue in Osun State - the workers called off the strike already.

[size=14pt]Osun workers reject removal of allowances, salary payment with bank draft[/size]
From MUTIU GANIYU,OSOGBO
Monday, October 03, 2011

Frantic efforts are being made by the Osun State Government to end the simmering crisis over the removal of allowances from Osun State workers’ salary and payment of the August salary with bank draft.

The over 14,000 workers, who ended a five -week strike over minimum wage on August 5 were shocked when Governor Rauf Aregbesola insisted on paying their August salary with bank draft and allegedly removed the allowances on the salary.

Daily Sun gathered that when the news of the government’s decision filtered into the workers, most of them thought it was a rumour and decided to wait for the government’s circular. The chairmen of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC),Alhaji Saka Adesiyan and his Trade Union Congress counterpart, Mr. Dele Adetunji, however confirmed the government’s intention.

Adesiyan said: “We thought it was a rumour as we hoped that the government should have learnt its lesson on not to deny workers what is due to them. However,we soon got authentic information that the government wasmaintaining that all allowances had been consolidated and August salary would be paid with bank draft.”
The chairmen and other labour leaders swung into action and told government to brace up for another round of crisis if it went ahead with the plans.

The unions started mobilizing workers through meetings and issuance of bulletins,assuring workers that the union would not allow government to trample on their rights.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/oct/03/national-03-10-2011-008.html

koruji:
I know you called Aregbesola mad once before, but like I said back then you are really the mad one.

For the upteenth time, Osun State is not borrowing N50 billion - but why am I even bordering to tell you that.

You have turned into a virus - you keep replicating whatever lie sounds closest to the truth.

This is what I expect to read from you in a couple of days or even today:
1. Aregbesola lives in Lagos, spends 3 days in Osun State.
2. Aregbesola would not pay minimum wage in Osun State.
3. Aregbesola is borrowing N50 billion from the World bank.

In fact, I expect you to copy the three items above and claim that I agree with you.

koruji:
Because that is the only reason you leave the blinding corruption eating up your state to concentrate on another. And you can't even be honest with yourself.

Go and help Delta people with your Governor. Stop carrying on GEJ's personal war - although I am afraid it is too late. You have accepted a job/pay for a task to pull down Aregbesola & other ACN people. Whoever, is paying you is going to get caught in his own schemes.

Gbawe:
Why don't you give it a rest and call it a day? Must you always continue to be the high chief of mischief? I really don't know how you can keep talking here when your Governor is virtually the worst in Nigeria. By the way, what's up with the signature? I always knew you were a Yoruba wannabe. This is why you are more interested in talking about the region than your own .

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=20002

PointB:
And people wonder why he is called AregbeRascal and AregbeSewer!

Those AregbeSewer sycophants will soon have  face full of sewer, just a matter of time! [size=14pt]Getting N 50 Billion Naira loan from a desperate lender (World Bank) to fund activities of thousands of grass cutters and bush burners (OYES) is now an epitome of achievement.[/size]  Wonder-ful!

In the name of sounding politically correct, and as a marked deviation from my skeptical view of 'Symbol' of rascals progressive, let me join other sycophants in praising AregeSewersola for not in-debting the poor Osun state further with phantom foresighted wasteful loan!

All hail Aregbe (Sola, Sewer, Rascal) 

[size=14pt]QUESTION: You are running a government in Osun and at the same time having an eye on Lagos State. Your opponents are asking why can’t you devote your attention to Osun?[/size]

GOVERNOR AREGBESOLA: I can never leave Lagos and Lagos can never leave me. I am in Osun now, who are the people you see here? Lagos people! Let us not deceive ourselves and do not allow misdirected and irrational people to deceive all of us, because nature is not artificial, it is natural; it cannot be manipulated. Therefore; how can a man operate in a state for close to 30 years and just because he has been here since November 26, 2010 he will have nothing to do with that area. Is it naturally possible? Is it possible for a man to live in a place for 30 years, and then relocate to a place for just about 10 months and severe all relationships with where he had stayed for 30 years? It does not follow logic. Those who are peddling this think if they continue it, it would attract some sympathy for them, here again they have failed. Our people are reasonable; they understand the fact of life. If my 30 years seem far-fetched, let us look at what is obvious, I came into public limelight in Lagos with my appointment as Commissioner for Works in 1999, one thing that cannot be mistaken is that you cannot attain that height in any political setting without sufficient network at the grassroots; which means I must have had grassroots network before I emerged as a commissioner. Let us just put that at 5 years of work, and 12 years of service; that is 17 years of serious political work, where will the people in my network go?

[size=14pt]QUESTION: But where does that leave the people of Osun State that you govern? Are they not being short-changed?[/size]

GOVERNOR AREGBESOLA: Are they complaining? Does it in any way affect our operation in the state? It would be an issue if the presence of visiting Lagos people here affects my effectiveness as a governor, honestly it might be an issue. But the truth is that the state had not had it this good in recent past. I work 18 hours in a day. The last government closed from office 12noon every day. So, how can you compare us? I have organised myself so well that as I am large in Lagos, I am larger in Osun. Something has proved it beyond reasonable doubt, I have Alimosho in Lagos, we won, the opposition had no answer to us; and when we went for the rally, our strength again was shown by the turnout, and when I spoke there, the whole world knew that there was somebody here. To further demonstrate that Alimosho was not a fluke, we won all the seats contested in Osun State. We give the glory to God. President Jonathan won everywhere, but when he got here, he met a brick wall. We gave Nuhu Ribadu the state.
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QUESTION: Is it your long association with Lagos that has made you introduce a seemingly strange model of government to the state, a model where the Chief of Staff has more powers than the SSG, a model whereby you as the governor also holds on to the Works portfolio?[/size]

GOVERNOR AREGBESOLA: Let me tell you, we make some mistakes because of our attachment to convention and I want to beg you, you will help us and your generation by always attempting to go into the etymology of everything, don’t just take it as they present themselves. Go to the root, we introduced the office of chief of staff in the entire country and we understood what that office is. Go to Wikipediea, chief of staff is almost the governor, he controls the office of the governor; you cannot have chief of staff and have any other operation outside what we have given out there, but because those who copy this thing didn’t know anything, they didn’t seek knowledge, they just operated blindly. We are operating government as it should be, it has nothing to do with individual, it is simply a question of how government must be. Don’t believe me, search for knowledge. There is nothing Lagos about it, it is about if you are executive, what is the format, the chief of staff takes responsibility for the governor, in fact for the governorate including the deputy governor. We understood what we wanted for our administration and we structured it the way we want and it’s giving us the result that we want and you will see the impact. Our governance will totally be unconventional. Let me tell you one that has not even happened in Lagos, we created a Bureau of Communication and Strategy; no government has ever had anything like that. The best that was had was a Chief Press Secretary.

cre88tivit:
acn is a better and stronger party without tinubu.
many people did not vote acn during the presidential election mostly because tinubu's shenanigans contradicted everything ribadu and adeola stood for. so, many saw the combination of these 3 individuals as a fooLlish joke. for the first time, i'm starting to believe that tinubu's trouble lives within acn party. the number of acn loyal members that hope to see tinubu's down fall soon triple pdp members.
and for the record, fashola won the election only because of his name and great work. i.e, this victory had nothing to do with tinubu.
the money spent on tinubu's wife senatorial election tripled the money spent on fashola's reelection. this was so simply because tinubu lost his popularity among educated lagosians and had to buy votes fight extral hard. in fact, at one point during the election period, all the election posters of bola tinubu were intentionally placed next to fashola's reelection posters. this system was designed for fashola's blessing to rub onto tinubu's wife. now, who is the man in lagos?
it is a matter of time, tinubu's time is not too far. let us wait and see.

delpee:
The truth is that the trains are now working but they they dont look new or modern to me.  I have seen the overloaded snail-pace moving train around Ikeja and Yaba a few times when i had to go that way early in the morning. Someone who works at NRC also confirmed that the train goes to Ibadan (don't know how many hours sha).

I saw it being used as intercity transport in Kaduna some 2 years ago and was told there's Offa-Ilorin shuttle, Kano Intra city service etc. The Abuja line is being constructed if the place that I was shown not too far from Eagle square is anything to go by.

I am being encouraged to take a ride using the first class cabin which is said to be comfortable. Problem is that I cant risk spending too many hours going to Ibadan even though the express road is a constant nightmare too.

Meanwhile GEJ should bring more coaches (hopefully more modern this time) so people will stop hanging on the doors or sitting on the roof (as i saw in Ikeja) thereby risking their lives.

goggs:
the trains in Kaduna work and is a sure way to beat the traffic jam on the bridge across river kaduna. Its dead cheap and heavily patronised too.

I think the rail  system is more suited for goods for now not people

Gbawe:
Uduaghan is a glorified conman in my opinion. Easily one of the worst Governors in Nigeria. May god have mercy on the souls of those from Delta State and the SS who never do their civic duty in speaking against Uduaghan's gross misrule and looting , yet the same set of individuals have a waking obsession with the SW and its leaders. Talk about misplaced priority.

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/corruption-group-lambasts-uduaghan-over-lack-transparency-accountability

hundreds of aggrieved members of the Action Congress of Nigeria, [size=14pt]ACN[/size], yesterday,  stormed the party secretariat in Ogba, Lagos State House of Assembly, Alausa, and took to the major streets in Isolo Local Government Area to protest alleged imposition of candidates.

. . .

Market women and men, including traditional cult, popularly known as “Osugbo” trooped to the streets[size=14pt] to invoke evil spirits at a junction called “Orita Esu” (devil’s junction) in Isolo[/size] with various placards to show their grievances against the imposition of one Shamsudeen Olaleye, against the popular choice of Mojeed Adam as the party’s candidate for the coming council poll.

The protesters, who walked from Isolo Bus- Stop to the palace of Osolo of Isolo, Oba Kabiru Agbabiaka, said the party did not hold primaries but arbitrarily chose Olaleye, the incumbent chairman, as the candidate for the forthcoming election.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/09/council-poll-protest-rocks-lagos-over-%e2%80%98imposition-of-candidates%e2%80%99/

blink182:
I am proudly urhobo unlike you who is probably the offspring of a bigamy practising itsekiri woman to us. I am very sure not all your siblings are nigerians. I know you have germans and lebanese for siblings. Its written all over you. All these children from itsekiri women giving us headache up and down and givin us a bad name.

wesley80:
Now that's the tone of a man tired of the endless shenanigans of the ACN and her band of noisy sycophants, I bet he's silently crying out for some fresh Air!