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GloriousGbola:
na wetin i dey talk. so if i am an aspiring kidnapper, i already know a place that my crew can storm get easy pickings of wealthy victims.



security in Nigeria is ultimately an illusion.

the best one can hope for is that wigwe will be paying protection money to the warlords who will keep their end of the bargain

ibime can negotiate the the spend

Baba, even Borno wey be headquarters of Boko Haram; UNIMAID students dey go about their studies without BH kidnapping them.

Rivers is not even volatile to that level na. He would've settled the chiefs and lords when he's buying the land for the university and they will assure him of their support. They will surely protect the business of their son of the soil na

GloriousGbola:
with all the talk about instability and crime in rivers state, the man is taking a big gamble. converging the children of port harcourts upper class into a location is almost like setting up a goat to be fed to a lion for lunch.

Probably he's targeting children of Expatriates resident in PH , Delta and other oil rich area of the South South. How many upper class people for PH go dey pay that kind fees yearly for naija school ?

izzou:
[color=royalblue]It depends oh.

Let's hope it happens sha. He must have done his maths.

I just feel that a more major city would be ideal for it, but then, with how Nigeria is, I cannot blame anybody for going into the bush to build anything[/color]

One man I admire for pulling that kind feat off is Afe Babalola; the baba was intentional about the university project and his past experience on the governing council of UNILAG played a huge role in the success of ABUAD.

I don't know if Wigwe has it in him sha cos he's venturing into an already saturated market so he dey like Handicap 1 before game start

izzou:
[color=royalblue]For a project like this, Isiokpo is not the best location for it.

It makes sense to invest home. But there are projects that can be better located outside home.



The project looks wide. Imagine luring Dangote and his like to mentor students. Maybe na exaggeration, but e go chop money

But then, It is okay. [/color]

I just read the full news now from the link posted. He will be charging $12,500 for tuition fee and another annual fee of N3.5m. All because he intends to employ at least 30% of his teaching staff from UK & US

The man just dey whine himself jare .... If my parent get that kind money I go swear for them if they carry me go one yeye Wigwe university instead of sending me to UK or US

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Why not Abuja, at least?

Well, i don't blame him. One cannot determine how bad this tribalism would rise to.

Make person no go invest $500 million for somewhere else, and then you start hearing "Go back to your state" tomorrow. [/color]

I think he's from Rivers state, so it makes sense to invest in his home state.

I saw a large billboard of the school when I was in Port Harcourt; It didn't even strike me the school has any connection with him until the driver mentioned it to me when I asked him who owns the school.

I doubt the 500 million dollars tag in the story sha ... How much gan is Babcock and Convenant universities

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Excerpts from the same thread[/color]

If I'm to apportion blame to all parties involved, I believe LASG/LAWMA takes the larger portion of the blame for stationing those cleaners there on the highway.

I will blame LASTMA and the driver equally for causing the death of the cleaners while engaging in their rat/cat race of who will outsmart each other in recklessness.

larride:
If the driver that was overspeeding didnt hit them, won't they be alive right now also?

The issue I'm having with their premise is that they are trying to absolve the driver of any blame.

U are the one assuming they are absolving the driver of blame. I just saw the news on FP now and from the report it appears even the cleaners are blaming the state government for endangering their lives.

The fact that Lagos roads have so many reckless driver is enough for LASG to discontinue the idea of cleaners sweeping highways. No matter how u look at it, cleaners sweeping highway is a disaster waiting to happen.

larride:
Go back to my second post to BlueRayDick.

At first I blamed the driver alone, when I got new information about lastma, I came and added that context to it.

The fact of the matter is that the driver hit and killed those women because he was trying to flee (overspeeding) away from lastma that was chasing him.

Lastma fault here is clear because they don't really need to chase the guy to fine him for breaking a traffic offense.

The driver is also reckless for overspending without caution that lead to the death of 2 women.

I think u are missing something here. It's established the driver while trying to escape LASTMA arrest killed the two cleaners, but what izzou and glorious are saying is this; If those women were not sweeping the expressway they definitely will still be alive now. Sweeping an expressway is an extremely dangerous work which Lagos state should not be encouraging.

If LASG want people to still be cleaning the expressway, then they must go all out to put in place serious safety measures to protect the cleaners going forward.

larride:
Ok. Let's blame the victims.

Since these guys have been sweeping Express and expressway, how many accident or causalities have we had?

Several bro. The fact that they don't make the news doesn't mean it's not happening.

Personally I know a woman who was killed by a motorist like that while she was sweeping the road just like this. I went to see my people and I just asked after the woman; I was told she was hit by a motorist like 3days ago where she was sweeping and she dies almost immediately. That was the first time I understood the kind of risk those people are exposed to.

larride:
Just read the accident happens while Lastma was chasing a Sienna guy. It was the Sienna guy that killed the 2 Lawma cleaners.

Something needs to be done with the way these Latsma guys behave when it comes to private cars as compared to how they just overlook danfo drivers that commit the same offense.

There are a lot of things wrong in this country. I think the state government is not serious about ensuring LASTMA officials stick to their job of managing free flow of traffic. Normally why should LASTMA be chasing a vehicle when there are already cameras taking pictures of traffic offenders almost everywhere in Lagos?

Shebi they are just expected to send direct message to the driver's phone informing him of the fine and make it impossible for him to renew his papers except he pays the official fine.

Just like izzou pointed out, sweeping on an express road seems weird and just a disaster waiting to happen. I understand there was need for LASG to create jobs for those cleaners, but the risk they are exposed to on the job is just too much. I don't even know what the government can do to protect those cleaners other than to take them off the highways

larride:
Na Southern Ijaw LG and 2 other LG remain.

Slyie of APC wan cook from Southern Ijaw.

Wetin Sylva forget for Bayelsa state house wey he wan go collect ?

He's one of the governors responsible for the comatose state Bayelsa has found itself

larride:
One reckless driver killed 2 LASG road cleaners for Gbagada expressway.

Damn!

I don't know if it's just me, but most times I see those road cleaners at work I always feel their job is too risky considering the number of reckless drivers we have on the roads in Lagos. So many impatient drivers who just want to use the smallest space to overtake other road users; just one reckless swerve and they will knock down a cleaner who already placed a cone by the side of the road for protection.

I doubt Lagos state has any reasonable compensation for cleaners who die in active service like that.

larride:
INEC will resume collation by 12pm.

Na wa for INEC o. Bayelsa wey get just 8 LGA's dem still dey collate result till monday ....smh

DeadPresidents:
This points to an intelligence failure on the part of either the British Home Office or Nigerian Law Enforcement. We need a Sex Offenders list in Nigeria and we need to ensure rapïsts like this guy don’t get the opportunity to export their idiocy abroad

We already get enough problems as Nigerians menh

Lagos State government has actually taken the lead on publishing names of convicted sex offenders in recent years.

Once a sex offender is convicted in Lagos , his name and picture gets published in national dailies. Hopefully other states will follow suit and things get harmonized at the federal level.

DeadPresidents:
We need this rapïst shanked in the pen dawg.

See the kain bad reputation this bastård wan use smear Nigerians living in the UK. Now japa restrictions will probably be tightened even further.

https://x.com/steve_laws_/status/1722992379416756398?s=46&t=lTi5csjRQKIeUOemGSWFtQ

This is unforgivable.

A guy like this deserves life imprisonment honestly; he doesn't deserve to be released back into the society.

I won't be surprised if he was a cultist and serial rapist back in Nigeria.

Devil supposed punish EPL ref and their VAR specially

Emaprince:


I was also wondering if those rules applies to Africa?

There are even Africans who act as middle men /mule abroad , buy those exclusive/luxury items on behalf of their chairmo in naija and send it down here either by the books or by crook .

GloriousGbola:
https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/dealers

Nigeria no dey show for here

The answer to your question is that those ferriaris sold in vi are grey market or worse with zero support and dodgy parts.

Baba the world is not all black and white ; u should know this .

There’s a black market for almost everything luxury and exclusive . All Ferrari will show u on their website is their official position as a legal entity ; people driving Ferrari on park view , eko Atlantic , lekki , etc probably won’t appear on Ferarri owners on the official website .

GloriousGbola:
That's why I said look up Ferraris policies for owners of their vehicles.

Ownership of Ferraris is an elite club with waiting list and lots of rules. Because they don't want their brand diluted.

One of the rules is you can't sell your Ferrari
Another - you can't have a Ferrari and a lambo. Dino claimed to have both.

Dino can pull these mind tricks because na naija matter. How many people can tell you the exact features of a Ferrari?

Go outside of Lagos or Abuja with those upgraded lexus and people will think it's the real deal.

So u think and believe Africans who have the means don’t own lambo and Ferrari ?

If people don’t sell their Ferraris how do the tokunbos find their way to Nigerian market ?

Baba I dey see these cars for showrooms for V.I o

GloriousGbola:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino_Melaye

4 years - 2015 to 2019






because nigeria is a third world country, people regularly represent fake or imitation items as the real deal. i am sure you also know of all those 'upgraded' lexus suvs where they slap a modified body of a 2019 Lexus on the frame of a 2014 lexus

also, you should take any boastful pronunciations on social media with a handful of salt .

read up on mtv cribs - it turns out 90% of the time - the house the star was posing in was not his own. the car being posed in is leased by the company. all this is an image the record company wants to sell.

this is an article from 2016 on another of dinos so called vintage cars

https://www.nairaland.com/3393092/dino-melayes-car-discovered-fake#49985004

Dino could have bought those vehicles ; they may not be knock-off but 1st grade tokunbo .

Dino while in the house of reps and senate date on some house committees . There’s money in some of those committees o; MD of companies literally settle these guys to not have to appear in front of those committees to save their organizations reputational damage( I know this for a fact ).

Those guys dey see real money , na Dino just decide to be so much invested in showing off . Where I stay , a senator who has a house in one of the estates closeby took it upon himself to fix the whole internal roads in the area . It was nothing to him .

Ibime:
Not a game for escorters

Pardin ?

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afrodoc2:
That is why he is Saliba bus stop.

That stat is nice but one of the craziest I know of is Carlos Gamarra. Paraguayan main CB who went to 2 world cups, played 8 games, and did not concede a single foul.

The Gamarra guy must have played most of career in South America cos he should’ve been hot prospect for European team na with those excellent stats

Lush100:
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Kos the boss does well timed tackle too.
The had his shortcomings through and height was one even though he never made it obvious

Koscienly had his shortcomings as a defender , but he was a good defender nonetheless.

iamoyindamola:
His trademark well timed tackle is becoming boring to me
I am sure ref will be tired too he can make a tackle and the ref will say oh it's saliba I am sure the tackle is clean and fair

Aswear !

The way he times his tackles , I’ve not seen anyone do that in recent times . He wins the ball fair and square ; uses his agility and pace to his advantage everytime he’s in a duel for the ball.

Can we just give this boy a life contract with arsenal please ? 🥹

Karate kid 🤺

GloriousGbola:
The bolded is the reality. If you followed the 2016 us elections you will read about how Stacey Abrams who hadlost the governorship election previously built up a voting block that turned the red state blue

The typical Nigerian approach to elections is basically like crashing for the exam the night before, rather than preparing for it the entire term.

You can build up a voter base but it will take time, effort and dedication.

Also the other problem with the hinterlands - they really and truly have little or no stake in anything.

A large number of Nigerian states are a capital city one or two major cities and everything else a hamlet. The ancient city of so and so. Traditionally neglected. Most of the development is always in the capital cities so what difference does it make to the hinterlands electorate? They also know the score. Any development is going to be in a visible location where it can be showcased to boost the governors profile. Not in a backwater.

It’s that long road of building voters block most politicians don’t want to build in this country

Itsrm:
With what I know about Rivers State, I can assure you this will not work except you're coming with that 3k to explain the dangers of not collecting 3k on election day.

People in rural areas here no send story. The only language they understand is money,

The goal is actually to reduce the number of people that will go with the crowd and Collect that 3k .

swiz123:
If democracy must work in this doomed impoverished country, Bsc or a diploma should be the minimum requirement to cast a vote. I don't believe my vote should weigh the same with an ignorant man ekeing it out daily in his farm at ezzamgbo, Ebonyi state or a village in Taraba state.

In my village, people there including my grandmom voted for candidates supported by then LGA chairman who was a known thief because he brings trailer load of rice every December. This is a man who terrorised the village by selling their lands and robbing those whose diaspora sons brought home hard currencies. He made money, built up connection and became a grassroot political godfather and people supported him because of bags of rice. Full bag of rice between 1999 to 2011, half bag between 2011 to 2019 and now quarter bag.

Very soon, he will use derica of rice to maintain his "political structure".

Raumdeuter was right when he said someone in the hinterland where there’s serious poverty will not really care about the lofty ideas, policies and plans of a candidate in Nigeria . Such person is most contented with the little politicians are willing to give during election and move on.

I think if democracy will work here then a major opposition party should not go to rest after an election onmy to become active 1 and half year to another election .

The opposition party needs to go into remotest LGA’s sensitize the people in their local languages , explain the dangers of voting the incumbent party for paltry 3k on election date , carry them along with the plans of ur party if voted in, relate with them on proposed complex policies in the most simplified way , etc .

Amigoss:
Is that not the structure that PDAPC boasts of/about,Perhaps he is talking about that "structure"....

We saw how that was rendered useless in Lagos when the person who doesn't give shishi won overwhelmingly before disenfranchisement,bullying, and voters suppression came into play in the gubernatorial election....

He is a very foolish person,he's not credible enough for bayelsans to "waste" their votes on,so they had to gamble it on PDAPC who will offer them coins too ....He was the commissioner for youth development under the vote buying party,what did he do for the youths?

He graduated from my school and faculty, UniBen engine boys sabi him story when dem dey narrate how with other OG dem take shake that school in his days....

The bold does not discountenance the the point the man was making in his complaint against the conduct of the electorate in Bayelsa election and Nigeria as a whole .

The man said the electorate is not not ready to be liberated and I agree with him. There are enough credible people that have stood up for election in this country at one point or the other , yet the people keep voting those offering them cash and foodstuff instead .

This man is on ground in Bayelsa and most likely saw his people choose money above any other alternative . I’m in Lagos and I know neither APC , LP or PDP really did money play during that Obi’s election .If APC played full money politics , there’s no way Obi would have had good numbers in LGA’s like Alimosho , Ikorodu , Agege , etc where the large number of voters there would take the money and damn whatever talks of credibility Obi was offering .

There are more than one factors responsible for Obi’s good numbers in Lagos during the last election. U are being unfair to the man saying it’s his lack of credibility that make the electorate reject him and vote for someone offering them money instead . If the electorate are not ready, even if Jesus contests in this country he fit no see vote like that .

iamoyindamola:
Blueraydick you see wetin I tell you about Celtic no follow
Short one no mean you should still be playing normal
Arsenal stopped playing after the red, you have to respect the team you are playing against
Spuds coach was arrogant that day

Arsenal the last year runner up is playing a newly promoted team. It’s not a case of two evenly matched teams playing each other .

It’s different from Chelsea vs Tottenham and Celtic vs Athletico na