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On the job performance is key to any employer! Abroad or local, what matter is the ability of the candidate to solve issues with little or no supervision and get the result. I bet it with you, a 3rd class person ggn rasp faster than a 2:1 from a foreign uni in my place of work. I can't objectively recommend him for promotion even with his foreign 2:1. He is too dull!

GEJ has started the way OBJ started! Stories upon stories after the whole billions

The Federal Government has approved N19 billion as compensation to be paid for property, crops and land along transmission lines across the country.

The Federal Government had, in the 2007 and 2009 financial year, approved N19 billion for a similar compensation programme, bringing the total to N38 billion.
Briefing journalists at the State House, Abuja, shortly after the meeting of the Board of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company, which lasted for most ten hours, the governor of Benue state, Gabriel Suswam, alongside the Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi; minister of power, Barth Nnaji and James Olotu, managing director of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) said the additional N19 billion budget approval is to enable the government conclude the necessary payments of compensation on property and lands along the transmission line.



Mr Suswam, who stated that the additional N19billion was requested by the board because the N19 billion earlier approved for the purpose had been exhausted, said the fund this will enable the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN)to install new power infrastructure in the country.

"As governors we share the concerns because if we have power supply, it will create more employment in my state and we will begin to have cottage industries in villages," he said. "We are very concerned; that is why we constantly fly in here to attend meetings. When President Yar'Adua became President and decided that this Board should be reenergized and life should be introduced into it, gaps were experienced or observed in the award of contracts within the NIPP project and this board has consistently made sure we close the gaps.

"This why the Federal government and the states contributed money to the tune of over N5billion in other to address this issue of power and I can assure you that we are doing everything humanly possible to do that. For us to spend close to 10 hours here today is an indication of our clear commitment to make sure that we deliver power."

Minister of power, Barth Nnaji said the quantum of transmission lines that NDPHC is constructing across Nigeria is bundled into 27 companies and spans a distance of over 2000km.
"This meeting underscored the need to ensure that we clear the remaining lines, that are necessary to ensure that the contractors move to site and continue the construction work that has been delayed, because of unavailability of access to the site," he said.

"The board has approved a budget of N19billion and, like I said, this is the budget, it doesn't necessarily mean that it will be consumed and specific items will be brought to the board for consideration as the need arises. The bottom line is we need to have the access, we need to get communities to appreciate the need to give out portions of their lands for the purpose of projecting the project".

Mr. Nnaji said government has directed distribution companies in the country to fast-track the process of installation across the country.

"We are asking all the distribution companies in the country to install prepaid metres, but there are cases where it will be difficult to install prepaid metres like the case of face me I face you buildings," he said.

The minister said though government may not be able to give a definite time-line for the delivery of stable power to the nation, there is a target of about 5000mega watts by the end of the year and government has work to ensure that it minimizes system failure across the country.

Guys, I don't want to believe that this long legged animal is a cat! it looks like a dog or sth but definitely not a cat

Eko Onibaje ooo-Obajeti!

http://brfashola.org/2011/08/02/from-the-press-patients-express-gratitude-as-fashola-inspects-new-cardiac-trauma-centres/







Patients at the Maternal and Childcare Centre in Gbagada, on Friday praised Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), for his commitment to the delivery of quality healthcare to the people of Lagos.



Governor Fashola interacted with the patients when he visited the Maternal and Childcare Centre after undertaking a tour of the first of its type Cardiac and Renal Centre as well as the Trauma and Burns Centre both of which civil work had been completed at Gbagada General Hospital in the Kosofe Local Government Area, to assess the progress of work on the installation of medical equipment at both Centres.



Speaking to newsmen during the visit to the Maternal and Childcare Centre which is also within the complex, a woman patient and nursing mother who gave her name as Mrs. Bassey, describe the Governor as God-sent adding that both the medical facilities and the personnel combined to make life easy and comfortable for them.



Another patient and nursing mother who gave her name as Mrs. Rhoda said, “God is using Governor Fashola and the nurses and doctors to save lives of Nigerians in Lagos. I am truly grateful to Governor Fashola. He has really tried and he is still trying to make life comfortable for us. We thank him”.



Conducting Governor Fashola round the Cardiac and Renal Centre earlier, the Project Director of Deux Projects, the contractor handling the facility, Dr Walter Olatunde, told the Governor, who was accompanied by the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, that the civil work on the Cardiac and Renal Centre has been completed adding that what is being done now is installation of highly sophisticated medical equipment.



While taking the Governor through the various sections of the complex, Dr. Olatunde explained that the Cardiac and Renal Centre is an 80-bed facility with 24 dialysis stations, a 15-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with special laminar flow for extra sterility.



According to the Project Director, the Centre will undertake Open Heart Surgery; Heart Transplant, Kidney Transplant and Invasive Cardiac Procedures adding that it also has 64 Slice CT scan which is first of its kind in the country and Cath Lab.



It would be recalled that Governor Fashola, in early July this year, while hosting an Indian Medical Mission from Ruby Hall, India, at the Lagos House, Ikeja, reiterated the commitment of his administration to reducing, to its barest minimum, the number of medical cases taken abroad from the State for treatment saying the capital flight resulting from such foreign treatments was not good for the State.



The Governor told the six-man Mission led by Dr. Sameer Ghotavadekar, who were in the State to assist the local medical team to perform cardiac surgery in the State’s University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH),”Our objective is to reduce the amount of money we spend exporting patients to India for treatment. It is not good for our business. I want to keep that business in Lagos, I want to keep it for our doctors, I want to keep it for our nurses”.



Saying that his administration was also interested in developing a competitive exchange with India, Governor Fashola noted that one of the responsibilities of government is the obligation to prolong life, to make it worth living adding that this can only be done if the people are kept healthy as a healthy workforce, a healthy population, is a useful asset to any nation

PICTURES HERE

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2011/07/31/gov-fashola-inspects-cardiac-renal-centre-and-trauma-burns-centre-at-gbagada-general-hospital-lagos/

She is not his wife!

gbogboti:
Ikorodu has for decades been neglected. Mr. Fashola, Ikorodu residents go through hell every day en route to their work places. You can imagine what we go through every morning to Victoria Island/Lagos Island.

The whole of Ikorodu is in trouble as I write this piece. How can only one road/bridge lead to a place where over 5 human beings million resides. In the event of wahala nko?

From Mile 12 to Agric, from Agric to Ogijo no decent roads at all! God! I wonder what the foolish oba of Ikorodu/ the former NTA noise Abike Dabiri are doing?

When Abike was with NTA, she was very good at covering eye-saws. This is her third time in the house of parliament. Yet, zero. You should be ashamed of yourself. Anyway, I don't blame you 1-bit. Na the morons wey vote for you I blame.

Koni da fun iyala iya e.

Bros, na fight? Don't worry six lanes will soon put an end to your suffering

agabaI23:
A trace for who owns the refinery will take you back to Nigeria!

As if you read my mind!

scopusng:
So fashola is still looking at Ikorodu? I dey laugh.

Expect the expansion of Ikorodu road soon. You can laugh further!

http://brfashola.org/2011/08/10/from-the-press-plans-for-inner-city-roads-on-course-fashola/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BabatundeRajiFashola+%28LAGOS+UPDATE%29

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Tuesday stated that plans for the inner city roads in the state is on course, stating that the big challenge is however funding to continue to keep the contractors at work and expand the scope of work that they are doing.

Governor Fashola spoke with State House Correspondents at Lagos House, Ikeja who wanted to know why he has decided to conduct on the spot assessment of inner city roads after he embarked on an inspection of Akerele Street in Surulere. The Governor added that it is the State Government that is working on the roads and there is a need to keep track and focus on the election promises which featured prominently inner city roads.

“I am just doing spot inspections to see that progress is on course and that we can finish them depending on the capacity and speed of the contractor and also depending on the big challenge which is funding. We need more money to continue to keep the contractor at work and expand the scope of work that we are doing”, the Governor stressed.

The Governor informed that currently, work has been completed on Adeniran Ogunsanya while it is on-going on many of the other projects like the Akerele road expansion, Bode Thomas, Ogunlana Drive just as plans are being concluded to start work in Aguda, Adetola, Brown, Sanusi and many of the roads inside Aguda.

“We are already looking at some inner roads in Agege. Work has started in Agege, work is going on in Orile. We are also looking at inner roads in Ikorodu while Lagos Area Metropolitan Transport Agency (LAMATA) is also working on Amodu Ojikutu Street, Ibiyinka Olorunnimbe Close and Abagbon Close in Victoria Island and Iju road in Ifako Ijaiye”, the Governor stated.

The Governor explained that the inner city roads will be the focus of his administration as it tries to complete those other roads that it has started work on during the last term of the administration, adding that he has decided to conduct on the spot inspections to see that progress of work is on course and when work can be completed on them depending on the speed and capacity of the contractors.

He further explained that he was going out to assess progress on the inner roads that the State is working on recalling that during the last electioneering campaigns, some of the issues that came to the fore was that while Government has focused on some roads, it has not focused on inner roads.

“My visit last week to Badejo Kalesanwo Street was to keep track and keep focus on those election promises and electoral issues which was inner roads and to which I am committed and which I also dealt with in my inaugural address”, the Governor stated.

“At this moment, we are doing about 13 roads in Mushin and Idi Araba and that road, we inspected last week (Badejo Kalesanwo) is one of the roads in Mushin. Its construction is being disturbed by the inappropriate location of the Ladipo Mushin Police Station which had consequential drainage impact as well. We have to relocate the Police Station now and find alternative land for it because it is sitting on part of the 19 metres width of the road. We have told the contractor to start work from the other end so that by the time it gets to that end should have moved that Police Station”, the Governor explained.

The Governor said he was at Akerele Road to inspect the culvert across the Akerele Canal because there was some flooding problem there during the July 10 heavy rainfall, which was caused by the inadequacy of the culvert to discharge the velocity of water, stating that, oday, we now have culverts of about 1.5 by 1.7 metres width and in a set of three which would now allow bigger flow of water in Akerele”, he added.

Giving an update on what his administration has so far done to give vent to the various directives it gave on people who built on drainage lines, the Governor said some work has started, stressing that it entails planning before embarking on such removal projects.

“Some work has already started but you know that even in demolition exercise, it is a project for the demolition team which must therefore plan on how to embark on it. Are we going to evacuate the rubbles after demolition or leave the rubble at the same spot and allow it go back into the drainage and so on. Those questions must be answered and planned”

“You must understand also that in the process you have to hire people and equipments. You also have to plan to control law and order during the process, so we are working off the scene now. It also entails project planning because it does not happen by accident but have to be planned, ordered, sequenced and financed”.

Governor Fashola explained that with the kind of efforts that the number of buildings affected will require, Government cannot afford to start and stop but would want to sequence it and plan them.

He said Government will continue to depend on the media to help it intensify advocacy that canal setback is no place at all for anyone to build a house, stressing that they are practices that are not tolerable.

“The canals take away water storm water, so if any heavy rain comes and enter any house, we will take the blame. Nobody should build near any of our canals. They are reservoir of water for flooding. They are God’s natural protection for holding water during massive flood and is not a place for anybody to build a house. Anybody who proposes to sell land for you there does not like you”, the Governor stated.

He also appealed to all people including land speculators to desist from putting people’s life in danger by selling or offering to sell any land that is close to canal or close to river setbacks because they are not meant for habitation.

Among the inner city roads already completed by the State Government in the Orile area are Akinwande Street, Strabag Road, Abu, Kekere- Ekun, Ali Olanipekun, Ogungbesan, Austin Nwaolu, Alice Tinubu Streets, Savage Lane and Opeloyeru Street while ongoing ones include Oduche, Bale/Coker, Orowunmi, Alagba, Imalefealafia, Memudu, Alhaji Bello Tapa and Alhaji Jimoh.

In Surulere area, the completed roads includes Funsho Willams Avenue, Eric Moore Street, Adeniran Ogunsanya and Mogaji Street while on-going include Akerele Street, Adelabu/Ogunlana Drive, Aibu, Idita, Itolo and Oyediran.

In Apapa, the roads completed by the State Government includes Aerodrome Road, Warehouse Road, Calcutta Crescent, Abraham Adesanya Street, Itapeju Avenue and Kofo Abayomi Avenue.

Hey guys! I don't think this can be true, if it is, then we are doomed in this country

If they are serious, let them go to motor parks in Lagos!

Let us be positive please!

LINK; http://brfashola.org/2011/08/08/from-the-press-traffic-congestion-fashola-launches-new-vehicle-checking-device/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BabatundeRajiFashola+%28LAGOS+UPDATE%29&utm_content=FaceBook

Governor Babatunde Fashola on Wednesday launched an electronic device to check whether vehicles have valid documents without engaging in manual stop and check of vehicles’ papers.



The device, Auto Inspector, is the first of its kind in Nigeria and will help to reduce traffic gridlock on Lagos’ highways occasioned by police stop and check of vehicles’ documents. With the device, stolen vehicles can also be easily identified as the device could tell the name of the owners of such vehicles as well as the history of such vehicles.



Launching the device at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, South West Nigeria, Fashola said Lagos had joined the league of selected cities in the developing world where traffic management and compliance with vehicle documentation regulations had been revolutionised with the introduction of high-tech device .“Traffic congestion experience on Lagos roads is some of the time compounded when traffic control and law enforcement officers stop motorists to check their vehicle particulars and determine their documentation status which hitherto was done manually. “This is avoidable stress and the same purpose of checking particulars and documentation of vehicles can be achieved through automation utilising technology without disturbing the flow of traffic,” he said.



According to him, the auto inspector service would enable traffic control and law

enforcement officers to simply punch the registration number of a vehicle into a hand-held electronic device and instantly determine thevehicle and vehicle owner’s documentation status. “The hand-held auto inspector device will be issued to and used by officers and men of the Nigeria police, LASTMA, VIOs and ultimately, the FRSC. Vehicles that will be screened by auto inspector are those registered in Lagos State which have their updated documentation data including vehicle license, driver’s license, hackney permit and road worthiness/MOT captured on the AUTOREG platform which is operated by the Motor Vehicle Administration’s technical partner, Courteville Investment Plc,” he said. Fashola added that the device would enhance compliance since motorists in contravention were easily identified as the device verifies the validity or otherwise of the vehicle documents instantly.



He stated that the device would lead to relative reduction in man-hours wasted

in traffic during checks by law officers as well as help to eliminate corrupt practices by law enforcement agents as the status of any vehicle screened was simultaneously captured both by the hand-held device and operators manning the servers at the Automated Registration, AUTOREG control rooms. “It is also a huge boost to our crime prevention and control efforts due to instant data-capturing capabilities. It will also boost e-governance,” he said while advising motorists to update their vehicle documentations

werepeLeri:
blame it on Jonathan

Shut up! You promoter of evil deeds. How does this affect Jonathan?

alj_harem:
I knew tribalism would be here it is a shame that A NIGERIAN dies and ideeiot are coming here pointing fingers

Chika RIP. na naja condition way make people they do things like this

Na wa oo

Nigeria condition indeed. So every Nigerian should turn a drug pushers because of Nigeria condition. there are million legal businesses you could do, all he wanted was quick money and he has sure got that!

no be him fault!

Just check out the link below and see the damage the Boko Haram has done to th NPF

http://www.pointblanknews.com/Photonews/PhotoNewsos5205.html

The Alowa of Ilowa in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State, Oba Adebukola Alli, who is standing trial before a chief magistrate court for allegedly raping a 23-year-old member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) collapsed on Friday as the court ordered his remand in prison.

At the resumed hearing of the case on Friday , counsel for the monarch, Messers Victor Opara , B.P. Ogundele and Miss Ogonnaya Elekwachi, filed an application urging the court to vacate its order of 24 June that placed the monarch under house arrest.


The counsel noted that the directive of the court that a government doctor should attend to the monarch in his palace was not carried out.


He said Oba Adebukola's private doctors could not see him due to the situation of the arrest and therefore appealed to the court to grant their application and vacate the house arrest order, so that the monarch could be taken to the hospital for proper medical attention.


The prosecution counsel, Mr. Olufemi Adedokun, urged the judge to use his discretion to determine whether the application should be granted or not.


Delivering the court's ruling, the Chief Magistrate, Adewunmi Makanjuola, said the traditional ruler seemed healthy and his illness was only a pretext to evade justice.


He said the claim of the defence counsel that the monarch's life was in danger was suspicious and the court could not be gullible.


"In order not to take any more chances inasmuch as the accused has been shown to be worthy of remand in the prison custody, I am of the opinion that his remand will be an answer to this problem. The accused is hereby ordered to be remanded in the prison custody," he said


The court also ordered the prison officials to give Oba Adebukola medical attention. and directed the head of the medical team of the prison to furnish the court with detailed medical report of the accused before the next hearing on Friday, 8 July.


Just as the court rose, the monarch collapsed and his counsel abandoned a move to appeal the ruling in order to attend to the traditional ruler, who was laid on a bench and was being fanned by his subjects.

tom28:
I wonder why the dirty places in Nigeria are located only in the South west .Whats it with Yorubas and dirt.Their girls are dirty and so are their men.I have come across some yoruba girls wearing G-strings they havent washed for over a month.Even Abokis(HAUSAS) for all their stup1d1ty and religious fanatism still have the decency to be neat so why not Yorubas?

You brain transplant!

2mch:
ACN is the biggest disgrace in the whole of SW. All they have going for themselves is the Fashola name brand. Buch of thieves and criminals supporting thieves and criminals to fill their own pockets. Then they come and shout progressive. Accord party will take over where they left off. It is time to leave Tinubu behind. He has refused to join the progressive train, and rather trying to feed his pocket. let us be real here and stop screaming nonsense. This is rubbish playing before our eyes. Yoruba are too smart for Tinubu. If you dont want to bring progress we will leave you behind. He also did not Ashiwaju anything, that was all done by Fashola. Fashola better wake up and take over the party, because i will rather canvass for votes for PDP for 2015 than ACN.

You are still leaving with 10th century idea, God will deliver you!

who do you know among his people that are suffering

alj_harem:
wonders shall never end

so tinubu is this rich while his people suffer

Truely moving on to ipv6 but will not interrupt the internet

190:
^who

You!

Yeah, 190 has been dumped! I know the story and it was a friend