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smh @ baba's taste

You can do better than that bro

Everybody but actual Yoruba people seems interested in calling tinubu awo's successor.


Didn't know that igbo, hausa etc get to choose Awo's successor

fstranger3:
^^^

One rule in life, NEVER EMPLOY YOUR ENEMY

Its like sitting on a time bomb. Thats why we will never allow Ibos smell the air of Asorock, let alone occupy the #1 sit.

I disagree. It is just. . . what did these guys have to offer, really?  Isn't like poaching cutting edge nuclear physicists from Germany or something. Just some dudes who made bombs. Which isn't actually something novel or new.

For me, yeah (at least, assuming she wants to get married.)

I'm sort of old fashioned.

btw sagamite, i wish you'd posted a black girl with body type B. That way there would be less racial solidarity backlash votes against that body type.

Kelly Rowland I've always thought is a pretty good example: http://www.fwallpapers.net/pics/Celebrities/kelly-rowland/kelly-rowland_4.jpg

Mrs.Chima:
My friend is B and she got the most bleeped upest body in the world and she just had two babies.

What is wrong with her body now?

SA Goddess:
I have seen B type's backside sag like mad when they age because there is not enough "meat" to hold it up. . . . .

Lol, really? Skinny booty = sag more? Didn't know that tbh. But you can sort of fix that just by hitting the squat rack. . . hard. That is the thing about body type B. Very easy to improve it by making her hit the gym with you.

A may be overly done (looks fake) but I find it crazy that some people think that having a curvy booty, small waist and a pair of big mammalias is slutty, SMH while laughing at the same time!

You won't hear that from me. If more girls looked as "slutty" as her, the world would by far be a better place 

fstranger3:
WHere is the stat?


I now think Becomrichn = Seun = Jonathan = Nuhu Ribadu


Musiwa, prove me wrong with maps!

Such a tough choice. My girlfriend's body looks like B. . . but I'm definitely very attracted to A-type bodies.

The concern I have is that A-type bodies don't age well with time and pregnancy. On the other hand, B-type bodies do. A woman with body B will still be looking sexy at 40.

For short term, casual fling stuff probably A. Longterm stuff, B.

African american women (who are not hoodrats) are great. I'd have no problems marrying em.

No big deal, just pop in the washing machine

The video:
http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/5682356-146/video_60-minute_interview_with_the_governor.csp

Only posted a snippet above.

Full article here: http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5681377-146/story.csp#

“We have delivered more than we promised”
By Kadaria Ahmed, Segun Balogun and Funmilayo Ajala
March 6, 2011 08:06PM
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It took all of three years to arrange, but the 60-minute interview with the governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola, was worth the wait.

Conducted last Thursday, after the entertaining debate by major Lagos State governorship candidates organized by Channels Television and ThisDay, it was already well into the day before he sat down across the team from NEXT. Relaxed and clearly on top of the operations of the government he heads, Mr. Fashola is an interviewer's delight.

He is affable and unruffled throughout the session, although he deftly evaded questions regarding his relationship with his former boss, Bola Tinubu. He clearly has a passion for the job- and for creating a better Lagos for its ever-increasing citizens.

It also helps that he has an almost encyclopeadic knowledge of the state and its challenges.

Q: How has it been combining your official role with that of your private life?

Well, it's a tough call managing time that is not enough. You have so many things to do and even at home, I am working. And in the office too, many people come but that is the essential reason why government exists - to solve all the problems that need to be solved. The time to spend with family is not in plentiful supply at all. I try to balance both sometimes in the most unconventional way. Like yesterday, my youngest son asked me what time the debate will start. I told him 7pm. He asked what time it will end. By then I knew what he was thinking and I asked him if he wanted to go. So, we went together. These are some of the ways I tried to balance it by taking them along on site inspection. It is also part of educating them on what government is all about so that they can understand your absence away from home.

Q: Have the sacrifices been worth it?

I think the opportunity to serve, especially in the public sector, is the biggest honour that anybody can have from his country or his people. It is the biggest honour. I have not gone on vacation since four years now and the only form of rest that I can probably talk about is when I travel outside the country. I try to get there a day earlier so I can at least get some rest. Even when I travel, I travel with cases of files, memos, reply emails etc, it is more than a full time job given the level of catch up that we have to make in terms of deficit in governance that has piled up since more than 30 years ago. I do hope that one day, the Chief Officer of Lagos State will actually have more time by the time we have bridged the gap.

Q: What is your assessment of the debate?

Honestly, I haven't had time to access beyond the point I made in my closing remark that it would seem that none of the candidates have spoken to the issues that concern Lagosians. What they were concerned about was to criticise what we have done. At that kind of forum where the debate was intended to inform and enlighten the public, they didn't bring the discussions that I was expecting. I wanted to learn from them if there are better ways of doing what we are doing. For me, this is not a time to criticise.

Q: But it is the time to also hold you accountable

Yes. But complaining that we didn't do it well is not the answer. The citizens want to know how you will do it better. There was a question, for example, that ‘what will you do to improve education system' and the answer that came was ‘I know what to do.'

Q: How far do you think you have gone in achieving the goals you set for yourself when you were coming into office?

I think that we have delivered more than we promised. If you read my inaugural address and the terms of the document I issued then as my contract with Lagos, I think we have delivered more than we promised. But to me, that delivery was situated within the context of a time frame and an economic environment. So if we have had more money, there are things we would have loved to do and progressed more quickly. It has been said that the reason why you are very celebrated as an achiever in Nigeria is because the standard of governance is so low and whatever little effort someone makes becomes something big and that compared to other places, things happening in Lagos are not out of ordinary.

For me this is not a competition with other governors. It is a commitment to improve the place I call home. It is also, for me, a challenge to restore hope. We must not forget that it used to be said about Lagos that it was an unsafe, irredeemable place occupied by tax evaders, lawless and dirty people, but now, we have gone from that to become one of the cleanest states. We won the award for being the cleanest capital in this country. We have restored order to places like Oshodi and Obalende. People are voluntarily paying their taxes. So, we have steadfastly begun to explode the negative myths about Lagos to reveal its positive possibilities. From the very first day that we started this job, we have told ourselves that we are not going to benchmark ourselves against other states. We are benchmarking ourselves against African and European Countries that are the same size with us. If you look at our state's global rating, a BB- rating, you will find us lying, almost shoulder to shoulder, with a few European countries. By our budget performance, we have become the only state that funds its own budget up to 70 percent by its own resources.

Q: Numbers sound great but the reality to the ordinary man on the street is that roads are flooded when it rains; there is high cost of housing and traffic jam. It seems to me that it is almost impossible to say that Lagos is at par with some European countries.

I have not said Lagos is at par with European countries, I have only said we are benchmarking ourselves against them. About flood, the reality is that Lagos is a coastal state surrounded by water and it lies just barely two meters above sea level and some places even lie lower. Major cities in Holland get flooded. So, nothing unusual is happening here. The question is whether the flood recedes. I wish we can begin to move away from generalisation to being specific. When you say most roads in Lagos are flooded, it is not quite correct. We must understand that drains do not keep water; they are only just the channels of controlling the flow of water. The water is expected to flow out into the sea and lagoon. So, when the tide of the sea and lagoon is high due to high rainfall, water in the drain cannot flow into them. And there is nothing you can do about that other than to wait for the sea tide to recede and flood can recede also.

Q: One of the issues is that we wait until the rains come before we start clearing the blocked drains.

If you go out now across Lagos, you will see men of the Drain Ducks, the Emergency Flood Abatement Gang, the ministry of works, the ministry of the environment, and local governments, clearing the drains. We have evolved a method here and we cannot pretend about the environment in which we live. This problem is not unique to us; we must accept that for a fact. There is no society without problems and government is assessed on its capacity to solve societal problems. And indisputably, our capacity to deal with Lagos problems is improving by the day. Let give a few examples, there is a place in Idi Araba, opposite LUTH. That place has flooded since I was a kid but for the first time last year, there was no flood there. We have solved the problem. It takes a lot of money to dredge and lay concrete. This is one of the problems we should have solved in the 70s when we were dumping cement into the sea.

These are issues with political stability, without which there cannot be economic development. What we have had are periods of political conflicts that have taken the focus of those in governance away from developmental projects to entrenching political stability. Somehow now, we have had democracy and this has provided an opportunity to do some developmental work in the last three years. Now, election has come and everybody is challenged to win the election. So, one is hoping that after the election, we can put in another three years of hard work and it begins to add up to a better life. To say that the Human Development Index here has not improved at all is to say that clearly nothing has been done.

About the traffic, for me, traffic is a sign of prosperity. You will not find vehicles in the desert.

honeric01:
Simply going to win this coming election in a run off if he can't pull it off at once now.

If it goes to runoff, he is doomed. Opposition will pool resources together to unseat him.


He needs to win in the first round.

How about concrete goals. 10K MW by May 2012, 20K by May 2013, etc.

I don't understand how people don't read and see if someone posted the same article before posting. smh

lol

How on earth are the NW, NE already not getting their fair share? They get sh1tloads of cash, disproportionate to their population. WTF else do you want, jackass?

If true, GEJ is finished. Unless he can somehow capture the SW votes.

Isn't it a little too late? 40 years ago, this would have been wise. But now. . . what do they have to offer?

Damn. This image seems approproriate: http://www.tbohiphop.net/UserFiles/Image/music_videos/snapshot20070102213612.jpg

A great victory for foreign oil companies. Senate, I hail thee.

Dude is talented

Eko Ile:
With Fashola as the president of Nigeria, I'm 1000% convinced tha Naija go begin enjoy uninterrupted power supply before the end of this decade.

+1.

You snipped out one of the best parts dude:

Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State yesterday threw party sentiments aside, describing Lagos State under Governor Raji Fashola as a no-go area for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or any other party apart from the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)

^-- I'm good man. Munching on some beef jerky and drinking apple juice right now. That is all I need

He said the PDP waited patiently for ACN to deny Fashola a second-term ticket in order to grab him as a weapon to capture Lagos.

Lol!


This is a great endorsement. If only Nigeria had a Fashola as governor of every state, Nigeria would be a great country. And a Fashola as president too.

Up Fashola, up Lagos State, up Nigeria!