₦airaland Forum

The handlers chop the money that is why people no attend. simple as abc

tell GEJ to release supporters allocation early next time.

R

To say i am surprised is an understatement.  

When a person is desperate to maintain the evil status quo they automatically resort to aLL kinds of dirty tricks.  We have just witnessed fall of Honsi Mubrark but unfortunately leaders dont learn from such fall.  True leaders implement reforms that better the masses lives rather than run a propaganda and repressive government

I laugh in Yoruba

The issue here is the incompetency of INec who cant seem to publish an accurate list of candidates. How many times have we seen other party candidates being left out and later included.

Please desist from blowing issues out of proportion

Nsiman:
When i registered on nl, i hped to meet matured minds in the politics section but here i meet con heads that dn't even knw the name of their respective councilors in their wards. U dn't just jump into doing things just because u are a leader, rather u analyse and knw each pple's problems

stf  

Gej loves throwing jingles  - ask him for detailed plans. he go tell u he no get

and where is the 500b coming from ?

real questions that require answers

what happened to  the $200 Mill for the nollywood

Egyptians have woken up from the slumber  - one day Nigeria too will  join. i  pray it is sooner

fstranger3:
Na wa ooooo

lol

Everything just upside down - the question should be is their anything one can do in Nigeria that is really straight forward without any mago mago

By Olarewaju Ademola Thomas
The first step to constructing a road in Lagos is to first look for a road construction company. It could be any company, it matters little whether it has reputable pedigree in road construction or not, the only criteria is if the company is willing to come into Lagos and allow the ruling cabal to appoint members into its board and part with a substantial part of its shares.

In some cases, the chairmanship of the company might be ceded to a crony or ally of the cabal: what matters most is that the sharing formula is explicit and the contractor must feel a perpetual sense of gratitude knowing that without the cabal, it wouldn’t have a chance for profit at all.

The next step is to determine which road is worth constructing. The word ‘constructing’ is a little misleading because roads are not constructed in Lagos, only rehabilitated, upgraded, refurbished or something similar. The road to be chosen must have some features: it must be conspicuous enough to attract the attention of some media or sensitive enough to point the media to. It does not matter if the road is passable at the time, so long as it is a viable one. If the road is motorable, it can be upgraded by adding an extra lane, road median, bus termini (terminuses), drainage or something.

After identifying the road, the next step is to erect a billboard announcing the rehabilitation of the road. While this might seem simple, it is actually a tricky business. The pictures to be displayed depend on the area. If the House of Assembly representative is an opponent of the incumbent with whom negotiations are ongoing, his picture would appear alongside the governor’s to show the residents that all is seemingly well. If the area is an area where a strong party member is resident, his picture will be included. If it is areas where a particular commissioner is resident, then his picture will appear. Same applies to LG chairmen and even transport union chairmen who are the enforcement arm of the cabal.

The billboard must have some other features in addition to the pictures: the name of the construction company, the nature and extent of the work, the commencement date and the proposed end date. Once it is exactly a month to the end date though, the column is mysteriously blotted out with white paint or heavy tape stuck over it. At the top of the billboard is perhaps the most important inscription like that above the cross at Calvary: PROMISE FULFILLED, not BEING FULFILLED, not TO BE FULFILLED but PROMISE FULFILLED. One hears some have lost their jobs solely for that semantic error.
After several weeks of erecting the billboard, heavy duty equipment are brought in and parked in front of the gates of major opposition leaders as if to say: ‘una say we no dey work abi? Oya see wetin we dey do!’. The heavy duty trucks may be there for as long as the project supervisor can find excuses. The weather, area boys, environment conditions, inadequate financial mobilisation, lack of cooperation from the residents etc are all valid excuses that escape the lips of the white supervisors. When finally excuses have gone on too long and the end date has been obliterated, the earthmoving trucks are brought in to do one thing: destroy the roads! This is perhaps the most important part because you see, in the view of this administration, the can never be advancement without retrogression; destruction must precede construction in its warped logic and so as in the Egbeda road case, the earthmovers actually break the about 6-8 inches of tar on the road ab initio and render it impassable for all. The inconvenience is just to let you know that serious work is going on and the longer the inconvenience, the more the apologies and the conviction that the government is performing.

How can you say they are not performing, when heavy duty trucks come in to cart away the broken tar to sand-fill some godfather plots in Lekki? You should see how commuters argue as they are stuck in early morning traffic on a road that has being four years under construction. ‘They are working so hard to get it just right!’ and one would be foolish to engage in a debate with such folks who cannot see beyond their noses. The best thing to do in my experience is to smile like a sage, maintain eye contact with the gullible irritant for a fleeting second, look away and shake your head ever so slightly. One of two things will happen depending on the intellect of the speaker: either he pauses to ponder what he just said or he continues to argue with himself to you through others about the righteousness of the ruling group.

At the stage where commuters have lost hope on the improvement of the road, sand-filling starts and where there once was good and durable tar, you now have white sand underlay and red soil middle-lay. The top layer is always done in the midnight so that you cannot see how thin the coal tar and stones to be used are. Of course the truckload would have been deposited in the evening. By the time you wake up in the morning and start to regret ever mocking the constructors, the other side of the road is destroyed, leaving only the rehabilitated side for all vehicles to pass, thereby inflicting the same hardship on you for another four years, dependent on if, of course, you vote for them a second time!

All in all though, if you stay in such areas as described, count yourself lucky that you are not to be tolled as in Lekki or as in the case of Alimosho that the elected state administrator does not go to London School of Economics to complain that what it will take to construct your road will construct several roads elsewhere and that your road needs adequate planning; the question we ask though is if it takes four years to plan a road, how long will the contruction take?

And in the Lekki case, if government can no longer afford to finance road construction with the NGN18billion average IGR it makes monthly, why not abdicate and hand over to private capitalist mercenaries, rather than partner with them to impose a thirty year toll at three points on a road constructed by Jakande in the 80s which was merely expanded and fenced in at the ridiculous price of about a billion per kilometre and for which the contractors got hundreds of hectares of land to construct a golf course and housing estate with a proviso in the contract that forbids the government from building any other means of transportation into the peninsula except by air and that empowers the state to seize any property that the contractors feel might be useful for them? Of course though, the government had lied about the project financing when it claimed it was a private initiative: Standard Bank reveals that the state had invested $42million into the project from the start.

http://www.saharareporters.com/article/how-roads-are-constructed-lagos

more fluff

na wa ooooooo

org y centre 

@ikeyman

wassup where u dey hide all this while


i need good mechanic wey  fit do conversion from RHD to LHD

CHEERS

Ileke-IdI:
Obviously, duh! What did you think I was praying for?

If you find becommrich, tell his to turn his attention this way. Valentine is coming!!

Some people and their ways of stating the obvious

abeg i am lost - please educate me on what the obvious is ?

cause i need to know

another nonsense thread


na wa oooo


some people like attention

useless man upon all the agi di


how the mighty fall


Nigeria next .


Power people - see u all at the senate house in Abuja - I am going to set myself on fire outside the building.

a gbo yi da bi agbo awon omo odua


won ko ko iko ku ko

It disclosed that direct burning of wood and waste materials would have been the dominant energy source for Nigeria in 2010,

yepa part 2

didnot know we were this backward.

yepa - my head don scatter


by that time population go don reach 160 Million.

as team Jonathan Odechukuw on NL will say look on the bright side " At least electricity generation has increased"

Katsumoto:


Where did you guys learn to write Yoruba like this? I had to read your posts several times before I got the gist of the messages.

fake yoruba - lol  - na american diluted yoruba.

a won ti won fail yoruba ni ile iwe.

Gbawe:
No surprise really because all the progressive Nigerians are behind Ribadu. Despite the "can't win a ward" noise Ribadu is definately doing the right thing by contesting. Afterall both Buhari and GEJ say they will only stay in office for 4 years. Will Ribadu , even if he does not win, not be in a stronger position come 2015? This election will do wonders for Ribadu's profile and visibility. Afterall , there was a time when Buhari and GEJ also could not "win a ward" till they gained visibility through the use of a gun and through sheer 'luck' respectively. Ribadu is doing things the admirable way . Whatever he gets from now on he will deserve it because he has worked for it. Nothing landed in his lap by accident or luck and he has not used a gun to forcefully gain power.

Correct Insight - It is time for Nigeria to do away with recycled or imposed leaders who have nothing to offer the masses apart from continous hardship.

Selective corruption fight mago mago

who are these people  fooling ?

fact remains - Jonathan Odechukuw is still inept and corrupt

The man will only be respected when hand his wife to the local abuja police station -  for money laundering charges.

4 more pages of fluff

New dictionary word - Mubarak (n.): a psychotic ex-girlfriend who fails to understand it's over

ode remo:
this guy thinks he own the state. the problem with staying in power for too long is he think he is unshakable.

True  - What else can the man do  - after spending more 3/4 of his life in government. -   Mubrark is what we call a real dictator  - definitely not the ones that flee their respective countries when it is burning.  

Anyway he don talk am  - Say na Egypt he go die.  I expect him to be assassinated anytime soon.  so his prophesy on dying in Egypt can come true.

ol boy - the guy no gree oooooooooooooo - I have never seen a guy who is so self centered. During the speech he kept referring to himself - on how he did this and that.

I hear say " Cairo will burn tomorrow "

Like Atiku don tell us " Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable

What can i say - Is this Guy deluded or what ?

Beaf Says:

Anybody you vote for will have to work with the exact same people GEJ is working with (maybe even a worse crowd), so out goes your principle. But, I must say I understand exactly where you are coming from, but the World (especially Nigeria) isn't black and white.

I'll say to look at those areas GEJ has silently changed despite the crew around him, and there have been some Earth moving changes. Who ever believed that one day the almajiri would be getting set for Western education? Who ever believed that a President would have the temerity to stare the likes of Shell in the eye and dare them to a game of blink? All oil contracts have been suspended until the PIB is passed. Nobody else sought to bring such defining changes to Nigeria's economic landscape; please take time to read up on the PIB and what it means for the country. GEJ will be remembered as one of Nigeria's greats, cos he is the first to put us firmly on the right path to self belief and development. Don't waste your vote, also spread the word.

isale_gan2:
How so?

A bit frustrated with Wenger - the guy refuse to spend - i never see anyone wey tight like wenger.

KnowAll:
I heard d Gov of Bayelsa is a personal friend Roman Abromovich, he is a staunch Chelsea supporter, he has an executive box seat in Stanford Bridge, & he badly miss home matches no wonder Bayelsa has gone to d dogs. This State should be d number spot in Naija.

I am not suprised - $200 Million a month.

Rent seeking baste rds - who, their family, generations to come are forever cursed.

Beaf:
foreman, posts 23.

Hehe! Another member of the rented crowd (thats why you can't address the topic, which is simple enough for even a toddler to
tackle).

Lol

Rented crowd - many names of those who see thing differently and logically unlike Mr Beaf and his cohorts

u need to stop labelling people who are anti GEJ.



@topic

GEJ has willingly chosen to dine with devils of pdp hence he will forever be looking behind his back.

whether from the Atiku camp or elsewhere

Anyway

Honsi mubrarak will step down tonight

isale_gan2:
That's how you get roped in. Prepare to contribute to the next 23 pages. You're welcome.

Lol

isale_gan2:
So I was right!  Well, well.  A bosom buddy of Debosky's.

You know what?  Debosky came in here too all blustering ego "am gonna shut this thing down. . . there's  nothing useful about this. . . all you Naijas abroad just ganging up in here. . . blah blah. . "  
Where is the useless Gunner now?  

I be Gunner as well although a bit disenfranchised