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Eko Ile:
I bet if iask you to provide proof to show that both men own the comps you mentioned, you go just come up another ignorant market women rubbish.

I bet if I asked you to Bleep off, you wouldn't. Get back to your anus-osculating duties at Marina, or is it Bourdillon sef these days. Eko ni ile tani? O je wa ile fada e lo si Iragbiji. Iwo to ti sonu tipe wo?

Meanwhile, there is abundant evidence of the financial involvement of Tinubu in the aforementioned companies, and no matter how much you and your ilk defend him, someday, you will all pay, cos we will hunt you down the way the Nazis are still being hunted down, wherever they are in the world, thinking people have forgotten.

You think you can do all the rubbish Tinubu did to the likes of Ganiyu Dawodu and get away with it? Don't worry. Keep amassing wealth and see whether on the final day, money will save you. You can see what has happened to Mubarak. Your turn is coming.

I don't like both Tinubu and Fashola, because I know they're both fleecing Lagosians through their companies, Alpha Beta, LCC, Hitech and Infinity which all belong to Tinubu, and Plycon, which belongs to Fashola, but I doubt the veracity of this story.

Fashola would have to be either really stupid or so far gone he doesn't know what he's doing anymore, to bill the state N200m for a car that costs no more than N60m at MAXIMUM SPECIFICATION, delivered to your door, and that is the Landcruiser B7 option. Prado platform would be considerably cheaper, because of the propensity for rolling under that sort of anti-ballistic weight.

If this story is true, both Fashola and Tinubu will be in jail for a long time after Fashola leaves office.

Since you know, mr blueteeth, you can tell us now, instead of blustering emptily with no facts and aksing useless kweshions!!

PointB:
^^^
Are you not a Nigerian, you should be able to answer that question. Left to me I will say - cost! Real estate development is and expensive venture!

The bolded is made even worse by Fashola's government, charging sky-high charges for C of O and Physical Planning Approval, which involves like about 10 different fees, which can sometimes even match the cost of the land plus C of O!

They are making home-building expensive and refusing to invest in cheap housing for the people, yet they have the temerity to enact a brainless law like this, just to score cheap popularity costs. I hope they are ready for the social upheaval and escalation in the crime rate that will surely follow enforcement of this law, as surely as night follows day.

It is obvious they don't think things through properly, and they only make laws for the purpose of winning votes, in this case, in the next LCDA elections. The ignorant masses will hail them, and say Fashola and ACN are working for the masses, but will be sufficiently bamboozled by the media hype that this will attract not to remember to ask where they will get homes from if the rich landlords start refusing to rent out their empty houses, preferring instead to dash them temporarily to their children and their family as second, third or even fourth homes, while millions are rendered homeless because of government insensitivity to their plight.

O ma se o!!

Mek una no make me vex o!!!  

You mean you people will let the kenkey boys off with this little slap on the wrist  

Nairalanders, una disappoint me wella! Ghana sopos wake up tomorrow find themselves with a Nigerian Executive Governor instead of President Atta Mills.

Who go follow me go  Ghanaweb mek we go skatta dem small?  

I promise una correct Yoruba v Igbo and PDP v ACN v CPC Yabis special when we return!!

Watch as landlords refuse to rent out their houses, and the attendant homelessness that will surely follow this stupid law.

You don't make this kind of law unless you have adequate public housing stock that can make people turn their noses up at private landlords. It is in the best interests of Lagosians for this law to fail in its implementation, because if it succeeds, there is going to be MASS HOMELESSNESS in Lagos.

A lot of people are going to start sleeping in their shops.

Fashola and Tinubu failed to invest in public housing, and they're now trying to regulate rents, in a capitalist economy, without any sort of concrete intervention in terms of investment in housing.

Combine this with Sanusi's withdrawal of three banking licences today, and it's been a really bad day for the economy of Lagos State.

The war against southern financial interests is being revved up.

Sanusi gave them until September 30. He's revoking their licences now because?

This proves that this guy is working to an agenda that the world and Nigerian pacifists cannot see yet. How is it that the word of the Central Bank Governor can no longer be relied upon to be the truth??

What is the haste? A lot can happen in the remaining 2 months to the end of September. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi SIMPLY DOES NOT WANT THOSE BANKS TO SURVIVE IN THE HANDS OF THE ACTUAL OWNERS.

JONATHAN! JONATHAN!! GOODLUCK JONATHAN!!!

WAKE UP FROM YOUR SLUMBER. These people are slowly but surely eating away at your presidential powers. From the Police, through the judiciary to CBN, Customs and Immigration. Every institution controlled by the Fulani will work hard to undermine Jonathan's government, together, unless he wakes up and connects the dots.

Southern Nigeria, WAKE UP!!

I fully expect some "PATRIOTIC NIGERIANS" to come and start talking balderash about "unity", how Sanusi is de-tribalised, and de-Islamised and all that crap. Na una sabi. Me, I'm getting ready for a divided Nigeria.

Who are the persons moving this topic away from the front page? Moderators? You must allow free speech. If the Ibos are free to wish themselves on us as rulers, we are also free to wish their pauperisation by boycotting their businesses.

Why are you trying to appease them? Is this an Ibo site?

Guess who owns Plycon

Yes, you guessed right. The saintly one himself: BABATUNDE RAJI FASHOLA

I agree that Asiwaju Vagabond started it, by giving Akabueze a cabinet position to help ensure that our money continues to flow to him.

However, based on my own personal experiences of ALWAYS never getting genuine goods from Ibo traders in Lagos state, I am making a conscious decision, now pushed by the stated ambition of theirs to rule us, to STOP buying from them.

Some things I need, I just call abroad now, and my relatives either in China, UK or US help me buy and send it over. I'm prepared to wait. I mean, imagine, even common light bulb, they can't buy original. Always fake.

I recently had some low energy light bulbs sent to me from the UK, cheaper than the fake Ibo products. It's 3 months now, and they're still working. The Ibo ones don't last more than 3 weeks.

You can keep buying from them if you want. ME, NO MORE IBO GOODS FOR ME SHA O!

The only reason the Igbos are feeling like they can start beating their chests is because of their unhindered commercial success in Lagos, despite their proclivity for ALWAYS selling substandard goods at the inflated price for genuine ones.

I HAVE OFFICIALLY STARTED A BOYCOTT OF IBO SHOPS AS FROM TODAY, and I urge all right thinking Lagos indigenes and Yorubas to stop buying Ibo. We kuku know the way to China and everywhere else where everything is manufactured, and we have enough of our own people in those businesses as importers and traders.

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE DOMINATED BY IBOS, STOP BUYING IBO. STOP PATRONIZING THEM, AND THEY WILL SOON REALISE THE FOLLY OF THEIR AMBITION.

This is a campaign to impoverish Igbos in Lagos and the South West because if this stated intent to rule over us. E don start be that o!

df2006:
the rest of the article can be found in the thread with links below.

the areas in bold are of particular interest to me, of how mallam sanusi clearly thinks, looking for  ways to protest the achievements of the southern part of this country. his writing clearly shows how mediocrity as been his  sustenance up til now as central bank governor,

all the reader need do is to replace his words southern and northern universities with southern and northern banks, to get his drift and agenda for his skewed empowerment of the north at the expense of the rest of the country, mind you in a sense i am not against non interest banking, but that of sanusi, i am totally against.

this is what mr jarus posted and he clearly agreed and stated that mr sanusi wrote rubbish. and readers can find this thread below

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=355080.msg4972931#msg4972931

now for him to be condescending  and be mouthing off a long list of, mediocres, as achievers, just like his master, and claiming ignorance, is what i cannot stand.

This is the kind of mind that passes for "technocratic" among the Fulani elite. What is most tragic however, is the legions of blind and ignorant Yoruba (muslim or not) who slavishly hail this ethnic Fulani Emir-aspirant at every turn, just because he is "eloquent".

The level of debate amongst Southerners in general used to be much higher than it is now, and I have to thank you, df2006, for taking us back to what we used to know: robust intellectual debates backed with facts and evidence, such as the one you've supplied us now.

At least, the Southern Sanusi apologists can now see where their man's mind has always been and where it remains. They can now see what drives his every move, from chasing phantom "bad loans" to hounding Southern bank directors disproportionately for real and mostly imagined crimes, in conjunction with the usual willing middle-belt ally in the most profoundly corrupt EFCC Chairman, Mrs Farida Waziri.

Yoruba, ronu o!!!

This Ana-yo guy is talking out of his Ana-l cavity.

You people want to start abusing our hospitality in Lagos abi? No be una fault. Sebi your brother, Jona dull has imposed a non-indigenous minister on us in Lagos, and our idiotic elders and Kabiyesis have said nothing.

The era of doing nothing in Lagos has come to an end with this pronouncement. This is why Ojukwu killed Banjo in the first place, because he didn't move in and take Lagos, like he was ordered to, with the intention of appointing an Igbo man as ruler.

Ibo people should start getting ready for war, because we indigenes get the message, loud and clear. Fashola with his Ibo commissioner should also start watching his back. Anything can happen.

A word to the wise.

blink182:
This guy just bought the biggest gas reserve in nigeria and here he is to buy this, its obvious our political class are out to ruin nigeria. FRESH AIR

This is pure envy and hatorade. If you have your money, make your own bid higher than his, and see whether they will sell to you or not.

If you can't bid, just shut the hell up and let a patriotic Nigerian save a national treasure. Bigot!!

Yes, they should return home quickly, so that their children can die in the pit latrines he's providing in public schools, like poor little Lawal Buhari of Ketu.

Dem never start. He must go to jail, along with Tinubu and the rest, even Fashola, after his term is over.

As per the financial inducement matter, they must refer that one to the security agencies, INTERPOL and the FATF to investigate. These are the guys with the resources to find the money, wherever it is.

Once they start digging, they will unearth the biggest can of worms ever produced, going right up to the highest office in the EFCC, including a particular female EFCC director, for whom Tinubu is currently building a house in Ajah!!!!

Either way, after the Tinubu debacle, and the Fashola deceit, NO MORE NON-INDIGENES FOR GOVERNOR IN LAGOS STATE.

No more Tinubu appendages as public officers in Lagos State.

No more Baba Sope!! NO MORE OJUYOBO SOPE!!

Anybody linked even remotely to the evil Tinubu will never win another election in Lagos again. Mark my words.

Mamora ke An Ijebu non-Lagosian

Make una park well joor. Ee tii ri gomina!!

Aganga was born in Iyin Ekiti, yet he's the minister occupying the Lagos slot in the federal cabinet. There is no other nominee from Lagos State. This is a clear breach of Section 147(3) of the Constitution, which says that there must be one minister from each state who must be an indigene of the state he's representing.

Aganga grew up in Ekiti, was educated there and in Ibadan and only spent holidays in Lagos.

He is not from Lagos, either by birth, ethnicity or residency.

Why is he occupying the Lagos slot. Why is this President so careless about things like this? This is the only excuse the abokis need to remove him from office under Section 143(11) of the constitution. He had better sit up and address the situation immediately. Lagosians may be quiet, but it's the silence of the graveyard o.

On top of it, Tinubu is the one that made his clearance at the senate possible, by instructing the Lagos senators, his houseboys and his wife, not to question Aganga at his screening. He has even instructed his party not to interfere in the Aganga matter. I think this means he wants to use this later to bargain with the President, when the abokis come calling for their pound of flesh.

The president can avoid this coming wahala now, plus ugly compromises with Tinubu that will endanger the presidency by sacking Aganga now. After all, he's not that competent, only pretends to be. He's busy swanning around with Tinubu and the Oba of Lagos now. Hmmmmm,

MAYOWAAK:
Perhaps the man acted out the PDP slogan to the letter! Do or die politics. Please I would like more PDP and other useless politicians in the country to follow example of this man. If you don't get the post, kill yourself. One down more to go. Good radiance to bad rubbish!

Is this any way to speak of the dead Do you know how many Bible curses and Qur'anic curses you've just activated on your head with what you typed?

That you can hide behind anonymity does not mean that God does not see you and know you typed this for public consumption.

May God forgive your soul.

Tinubu baba! Area fada! Baba gbogbo adugbo! Ko s'ori won'nbe baba! Awon bawo Boko lo ma haramu won pa baba!!! Carry go! Ekun oko Obasanjo, oko Jonathan, Oko remi, Oko Nike!! Ogbori elemosho!!!

Eko ti wi, Eko ti fo! Tinubu de, Eko de!!

Don't mind them joor baba. They are not wise and cannot understand your sacred words of supreme wisdom!! Let Jonathan listen to the oracle of Bourdillon, lest boko come and haram him.

oludashmi:
That is if they even release the fund. They just say it and it dies there.

What did Fashola do with the N1 billion ecological fund released for him last year because of the Ikorodu flood? Do you see anything going on there except sand-filling with mud

He will release it again, and they will chop it again, and keep deceiving us with Fashola's smiling face. In fact, the bobo is beginning to remind me of Babangida, the smiling devil.

This is a childish publicity stunt by Asiwaju Criminal Network (ACN). They knew GEJ was due in Lagos today as far back as last week, to come and receive the British PM on a scheduled visit. They're just using this nonsense to project themselves as a party with power.

Tinubu: Let's complain about Jona's heartlessness for not visiting Lagos in the Monday papers. He shows up in the evening, we look like we're in charge, he looks more clueless than ever, and the impeachment looks more possible to our friends in Sokoto.

Lai Mohammed: Oga, that's a very good idea o!! Why didn't I think of that before. Ok, I will order those our boys at Punch to stop our press and add that quickly. E se gan oga. Ekun oko Obasanjo. JAGABAN BABA O!!! Double Twale sah!!!

By the way, when Fashola collected N1 billion ecological fund last year after the Ikorodu flood, what did he do with it?

erniewhez:
Pure water nuisance should be address. The state should prefer a solution to that as well as the ongoing nuisance of these so called "developers" dumping there material on drainage paths.

Gbadamosi already suggested a solution:

djustice:
The inner city roads will involve a lot of growing pains. All the roads need to be made viable, both for vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The place to attack this is the design stage. The open drain system has not worked for us. It makes it possible for people to routinely stuff their garbage into the drains, and this must stop. I believe the time is ripe for a totally covered drainage system, punctuated by manhole covers availing access for maintenance, at say, every 5 metres. The size of the drains as well should be standardised to a minimum width of 1m, in-to-in and a minimum depth of 600mm, at any point. The covered surfaced should have a minimum thickness of 150mm, re-inforced with a minimum of 12mm rebar. The covered surface of the drain, a total of 1300mm, assuming a minimum wall thickness, depending on soil composition, of 150mm, re-inforced with 12mm rebar, should be supplemented with an additional minimum of 700mm walkway, giving us a total minimum of 2m pedestrian walkway on any trunk C road. Trunk C roads should by design, be not less than 8m in width of actual driving surface.

Babatunde Olalere Gbadamosi
Lagos

The guy even went into technical details. I'm so angry with ACN right now, with this last flood and the rubbish our governor has been saying, blaming us for the problem, that if PDP present this Gbadamosi person in 2015, I will disobey my father and vote PDP for the first time in my life.

I'm convinced this guy is the real deal now. I used to go and abuse him on his facebook page, but his comebacks were always on point, and I was praying PDP didn't use him, so that Fash could return. Well, Fash hasn't done me too much good since he returned, and there is something about the way this guy just keeps saying the same sensible common sense things that makes me believe he is honest and will not take any nonsense from any godfather.

I've been following this guy since August last year, and it seems the PDP have found a gem. He just impresses me more and more with his innovative, but common sense suggestions. Does anyone actually know him in person?


http://www.facebook.com/notes/babatunde-o-gbadamosi/the-state-of-aquatic-horror/235039069859930

The headline is deliberate, an attempt to stimulate debate on the causes of, and hopefully find possible solutions to the perennial flooding that now seems to be the signature of Lagos between the months of May and October, at least for the last few years. It is not a finger-pointing exercise, so, please read with an open mind. It is an attempt to if not stop, at least minimize the incidence of flooding and the attendant and regrettable loss of lives and property.

The most obvious culprit is climate change, but I must say here that I remember such floods and relentless deluges as a youngin growing up in Lagos. As a matter of fact, I think around 1976, there was a serious storm that uprooted some ancient trees and removed not a small number of roofs in Ikoyi. It must be said though, that for as much expert opinion as there is in support of the climate change theory, there is an increasingly strident opposing view, also supported by empirical evidence that the whole climate change song is an elaborate fabrication. Either way, our reality in Lagos is one of water, water everywhere.

The Governor and his officials as well as prominent members of his party at the national level have also pointed fingers at the residents of Lagos State themselves, for blocking drains with refuse, and/or construction materials. I find myself having to agree with them. It is quite dis-heartening to see the amount of rubbish on the streets of Lagos State, despinte the huge amounts of money, both IGR and World Bank grants and loans, expended on waste disposal in Lagos State, especially in the last 4 years. Even more disconcerting is the way that refuse has taken over our drains, even to the canals. I saw one canal in the Lekki axis, recently re-embanked, chock-full of rubbish near the point where it drains into the lagoon. Of course, this meant that the water would not get to its ultimate destination.

The third and most obvious reason adduced for this recent and perhaps ongoing incidence of flooding is the sheer volume of rain that fell between the early hours of Sunday,10th July and the early hours of Tuesday, 12th July 2011. To say that it was unexpected would be stating the obvious. Even though flood warnings had been issued by the meteorological agencies, I don't think anyone quite grasped that the rain would be quite so torrential and prolonged.

Another reason, or myriad of reasons, not considered, is the grossly inadequate or even non-existent state of our drainage in Lagos. Again, I must stress that this is not an attempt to apportion blame, but to identify the problems, and proffer workable, practical solutions for them.

In my opinion, the solution lies squarely in a drastic re-design of the highways and drains in Lagos, using the last deluge as a benchmark for what we need to deal with. There are a number of things that need to be done in the areas of physical development, capacity building, municipal services, environmental maintenance as well as planning and regulation of the built environment.

First of all, government needs to become realistic about the sort of financial padding it can allow for political patronage when drawing up budgets for its physical development projects. This is not targetted at any political party, but you will agree with me that some of the costs being claimed for projects in Lagos State lately belong firmly in the realm of fantasy. With granite being sold at an maximum of N6,200 per ton, transport inclusive, ashphalt at a maximum of N29,000 per ton, and cement at N1750 per 50kg bag, it's really hard to understand costs of N2,000,000,000,000 (two billion naira) per kilometre of road that is not more than a total of 12 metres in width, even inclusive of proper storm drainage, street lights and flyovers, which, at any rate, are absent on the Lekki-Epe expressway.

If we are able to be more rational with our pricing, we can make the money go much, much further. I have costed the Lekki-Epe expressway, with a 4-lane expansion, turning it into an 8-lane expressway, 7 fly-overs, street lights in the median and on the sides, no fences (some of the cost savings come from here), no toll plazas (more cost savings), and it came to roughly N600 billion per km. That's N1.4b less per km than the cost being claimed by LCC for their 1 lane expansion with zero flyovers, pitiful drainage system and generator powered streetlights in the median only.

So, we now know that the Lekki-Epe Expressway could have been expanded right up to Eleko Junction (49.4km) to a more respectable 8 lane highway with the bottlenecks (roundabouts and toll plazas) removed, as well as superb drainage, taking into account the developments that would most likely follow immediately. Fortunately, there are at least 4 points to drain the expressway from. A drainage system with sluices and levees was part of the design I saw.

The inner city roads will involve a lot of growing pains. All the roads need to be made viable, both for vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The place to attack this is the design stage. The open drain system has not worked for us. It makes it possible for people to routinely stuff their garbage into the drains, and this must stop. I believe the time is ripe for a totally covered drainage system, punctuated by manhole covers availing access for maintenance, at say, every 5 metres. The size of the drains as well should be standardised to a minimum width of 1m, in-to-in and a minimum depth of 600mm, at any point. The covered surfaced should have a minimum thickness of 150mm, re-inforced with a minimum of 12mm rebar. The covered surface of the drain, a total of 1300mm, assuming a minimum wall thickness, depending on soil composition, of 150mm, re-inforced with 12mm rebar, should be supplemented with an additional minimum of 700mm walkway, giving us a total minimum of 2m pedestrian walkway on any trunk C road. Trunk C roads should by design, be not less than 8m in width of actual driving surface.

Trunk B roads should never be less than a minimum of 12m road surface, complemented by a minimum pavement size of 3m on either side with drains of minimum depth 1m and minimum with 1m. These specifications are achievable, even if it requires boundary adjustments for existing structures, as long as costs are not allowed to escalate on account of patronage pressure. All the canals should be properly dredged and embankments of greater height and sturdiness than at present built on their banks. They should also be immediately cleared of all debris in their courses, as these not only exacerbate the fury of nature, but wil pollute the lagoon and make it unviable for fish. This does it for physical development of infrastructure.

As far as capacity building, some potentially politically problematic actions need to be taken at once. Either the Lagos State Government gets the National Assembly to amend the constitution to reflect the additional 37 inchoate "LGAs", or just abrogate them altogether. The experiment of running unconstitutional political bodies alongside constitutionally recognised ones has failed in Lagos State. If the National Assembly passes the Constitutional amendment to the effect that LGA allocations be paid to them directly, rather than into a joint account in the state, we are in trouble in Lagos State. To prevent this trouble, the Governor would do well to do either of my suggestions above, in the interest of the people. If not one, then the other, regardless of how painful it may seem. LGA financial autonomy is coming, whether we like it or not. It is part of the evolution of our democracy.

Either of the above actions will release much needed finance to the LGA level, bearing in mind that the LGA Chairmen and Councillors have no constitutional immunity. All the revenue raising powers of the LGAs guaranteed under Schedule 4 of the constitution that were abridged by the state government on account of those purported letters of appointment from desperate LGA chairmen in 2002 should be returned to them. It will impact on the revenue available to the state, but it will also enable the LGs to plug a lot of the developmemtal gaps in their various domains. For those blaming the LGAs for lack of development in their domains, there is very little ANYONE can do without funds. LASAA, Land Use Charge and several other state statutory bodies that contradict the Constitution should be abrogated immediately, in the interest of LGA viability and the overall interest of the citizens of Lagos State.

In addition to the above financial capacity buildiing for the LGs, their Town Planning powers should be restored immediately. I doubt that the old Eti-Osa LGA Town Planning Committee would have approved the Civic Centre with the appalling parking arrangements it has. It is an oft repeated truism that the Local Governments are the closest tier of government to the people. In Lagos State, it would appear that there is a deliberate plan to demonise, and then abrogate the LGA tier of government altogether. In a federal arrangement, this is regrettable. Physical Planning appraisals by officers who work and probably live locally to the the LGA will see more sensible Physical Planning decisions made, and better monitoring and enforcement, to prevent the incidences, for instance, of structures springing up along drainage channels.

These measures require a healthy dose of courage and political single-mindedness, as well as co-operation from all the players in the political arena. It is a fact that the state is run by the ACN today. I hope their politicians, elected or not, can see the sense in these suggestions and take remedial action immediately. A stitch in time, they say, saves nine.

Babatunde Olalere Gbadamosi
Lagos

Really odd, considering that the threat lies in the Northeast right now. The only explanation is that this is a desperate attempt to acquire some of our airborne military assets in this time of turmoil, in case the Boko Haram debacle leads to Nigeria's eventual break up.

Ihejirika needs to be on the ball to move as many army assets down south as he can, citing insecurity and apparent collaboration from Muslim officers with BH. He also needs to keep a close watch on his Northern Muslim Brigade Commanders. Look what happened to Ironsi. If he allows history to repeat itself, he must be a darn fool.

What kind of country is this Why is Salami still sitting in a courtroom as judge in this Nigeria Is he not the same judge accused of collecting N3 billion from Bola Tinubu and co to deliver judgements in favour of Fayemi and Aregbesola in Ekiti and Osun states respectively

Considering that there is an ongoing inquiry into illicit telephone calls between him and ACN chieftains around the time of those judgements, he should recuse himself from sitting in cases involving PDP. In a normal clime, that's what would have been done.

Now, he's sitting in judgement over them. It can only go one way, and that's against PDP, no matter what the evidence in their favour is.

henry101:
By John Moyibi Amoda

Vanguard of Thursday, July 14, 2011 carried a story on its front page headlined, “France to partner Nigeria on security”. The specifics of this offer by France’s ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Jean Michel Dumond, include “a readiness to help Nigeria deal with the many insecurity situations threatening the stability of the country.

Mr. Dumond, meeting with the Senate President David Mark Wednesday, July 13, 2011, “noted that France was concerned about the insecurity in Nigeria, and assured that his country will partner Nigeria in the area of peacekeeping, security and stability of the West African sub-region. He said “The French Government is worried about the recent unrest in Nigeria and would therefore contribute her quota towards arresting the menace”.

France as reported above offered to partner Nigeria in two distinct geographical areas namely in:
1.The West African sub-region;
2. Nigeria.

The first specified collaboration in peacekeeping, security and stability of the West African sub-region- a task that assumes a stable and secure Nigeria; the second specified collaboration with the Nigerian government in dealing with insecurity in Nigeria. The first collaboration is in an inter-state partnership; while the second is intra-state. The parameters of the first are different from those of the second.

In the first, both France and Nigeria are third parties to the conflicts that the partnership will address. In the second, pertaining to Nigeria’s internal security, France is the third party. It is evident that third parties assume their own security and stability in their mediation of conflicts between contending parties, and understand that their mediations are to facilitate peace made by parties in conflict.

They can therefore present themselves as “honest brokers” of the peace that only parties in conflict can make. This is not the same as France’s offer to partner with government resolving Nigeria’s internal security matters. France’s role in Nigeria is structurally partisan- and it implies France’s offer to partner the Nigerian government in establishing a second secure and stable society providing an order that can be defended sustainably in the medium and long-term. In this partnership, France undertakes to assist the government in Nigeria in its endeavour to create an order that can be secured by Nigeria upon the termination of the partnership.

The challenge in this offer is that France cannot rely on its experience of creating governable orders in its sphere of state making. It has no relevance on-the-shelf expertise of creating political orders in Nigeria. Nigeria’s internal security challenges involve Nigerian parties in conflict. France offer to partner with Nigeria boils down to an offer to intervene in Nigeria’s national security conflicts as a partisan of the Nigerian government.

For that partnership to work, the Nigerian Government must know exactly who its “enemies” are, what their aims are in opting for conflict as their means and process for resolving their disputes with the Nigerian government; that partnership implies that the Nigerian government is unified and presents a common front against a common enemy. Thus the Nigerian-Franco Partnership for securing the society and stabilizing its order necessarily involves also stabilizing and securing the Nigerian government in its course of national security conflicts with its adversaries.

This is not the case with the Franco-Nigerian Partnership in peacekeeping in the West African sub-region. In this partnership, the assumption is that both partners have stable and secured hold on power in their respective domains of government.

There is therefore a need for the sequencing of the tasks involved in France’s offer of partnership. The survival interests of the Nigerian government must come first; Nigeria’s security interests have to be in the context of the inter-state security partnership in the West African sub-region.

Nigeria as described by France must choose its survival in order to be in a position to choose helping its neigbours. Both governments, the French and the Nigerian, should remember the routine instructions of air-lines to their passengers; first put on your oxygen mask and only after so doing assist your child to put on his or her own mask. What we have said about France applies equally to all third party partnerships offers, such as it is the case with Israel’s, Britain’s and United State’s.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/07/news-analysis-france%e2%80%99s-offer-of-security-partnership-with-nigeria/

It's a Greek gift. It's no secret that France has always been jealous and wary of Nigeria's influence over her African vassal states.

If I were GEJ, I would pay lip service to this proposal, give them one fringe battalion to work with, and focus on getting serious military industrialisation assistance from the Chinese. They've already started with the satellite. We could work with them to re-tool DIC and move it down south, near the Ajaokuta Steel complex. I would restart the Mittal Concession of Ajaokuta, and get them to work with the Chinese on various issues relating to military production, while building local content growth into both deals.

France ko, farancey ni!!

tobiit:
But please, what can we do to help this situation.

Seriously speaking now, email this thread to Fashola on brfgov@gmail.com.

If you're lucky, he might respond, if he's not already inundated with similar emails from all parts of Alimosho, Agege (Aboru), Apapa, Ajegunle, Ojo, Surulere (his area), Lekki, Victoria Island, Ikoyi (his oga's area), Ikorodu, Epe, Ibeju-Lekki, Eti-Osa, Badagry, and other areas that have suffered from his neglect and glitzy publicity machine over the last 4 years.

Don't let Eko-Ile catch you o. He's Fashola's agent on Nairaland, and his job is to deny that there's anything bad in Lagos, and to praise Fashola at every opportunity.

He is also mandated, when confronted with situations like your own, to either;

1. Deny that that area is in Lagos State

2. If that fails, declare that Fashola is not superman and cannot be everywhere at once, even though he's now started his 5th year on that seat

3. Abuse you for not knowing that there is an LCDA chairman in that area, who should be fixing the roads for you, even though the bobo is just a figurehead with a nice jeep. No money to work with.

4. Give you a link to the ministry of works or public works agency website, where you can lay your compaint neatly, and where it can be filed away in a nice neat box, never to be seen again.

5. Call you a clueless critic, who is just out to malign the good name of the ever-performing Fashola.

I wish you good luck. But, seriously, why did you people in that area, after all the suffering of the last 4 years, vote for the bagga again? You got what you asked for, in my opinion.

It is a serious security issue that people with names like that still have permission to handle explosives, considering the extraordinary situation in which we find ourselves in this country.

Is it not possible that the Boko Haram are getting the raw materials from people like these who have license to deal in these things, and are their natural sympathisers?

It may mean innocent people's business will suffer, but I think we're better safe than sorry, and eliminate that possible threat, so we can move on to the next possible source of explosive material. Those who are dealing in fertiliser should also be under close watch, or their stockpile recovered and moved down south. Another extreme measure, but we are living in extreme times.

Finally, if the President wants to really put a stop to this nonsense, he should hand over ALL internal security to Southerners and Northern and Middle-Belt Christians only, at all levels. Ditto for immigration. All external land borders should be sealed immediately, and nomadic cattle rearers should also be put under serious security watch immediately.

Ileke-IdI:
Seriously, how slow can you people be? Like I'm just really ashamed of the uneducated fools in this section.
Do you know the power and limits of a Governor?

Does Fashola own Irepodun Primary School? Is the Govt funding for the school? Is Irepodun Primary School a public or private school?

If your neighbor's house falls down, should he blame the community of that neighborhood for not working?

I used to have a lot of respect for you, that is, until you wrote the above nonsense. Irepodun Primary School, like thousands of other VERY BADLY EQUIPPED schools all over the state, belong to the same Lagos State Government that Fashola has headed for the last 4 years.

Is government funding the school? That's a question that Fashola will have to answer someday. Perhaps after he's left office, because somebody will one day answer for the needless death of Lawal Buhari.

I thought the matter was dead after this response by kinikini,

Kinikini:
Ileke Idi,

Did you read the report? Even the reporter indirectly confirmed it is a government school. Private schools don't bear such names anyway.

Supposing the school is a private one , whose responsibility is it to license schools in Lagos State? Do they just license schools any how without adequate infrastructure and also fail to monitore? Are these not the Lagos state government responsibilities?

Had this boy been your nephew, I hope you will still defend your glorified over-hyped mediocre Uncle Fashola.

Hope you are not offended sha.

Bye

Ileke-IdI:
So the Govt that licenses the school should also maintain the upkeep of school?

How do you know the Govt has not funded for the maintenance of the school and that the funds went to the pockets of those in charge of the school?

If that is the case, why has there not being at least a manslaughter prosecution launched by the state Attorney General

Fashola may well end up in jail after his tenure is over, just because of this one incident that arose in the one sector he boasted continually about before and during his campaign for re-election. "We have invested more, polished up the schools, they have new desks, computers, security guards, three square meals, teachers from space" and all sorts of other outlandish claims when the evidence on the ground in the VAST MAJORITY of the public schools in Lagos State tells a different story. Cosmetics does not deliver a good environment for education. The children and the staff need to be treated like human beings, not animals.

And by the way, Ileke Idon, you are very very stooofid, and a bad example of a Yoruba girl. Soooo much ignorance on display.