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[size=16pt]Lagos State security trust fund[/size][/size]

The Lagos State security trust fund was conceived by His Excellency the Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola and established by a Law of the Lagos State House of Assembly in September 2007. The idea of establishing the fund which would be modeled on a public/private arrangement became imperative when the Governor received and reviewed the report of the high powered Security Committee he established under the chairmanship of Alhaji Musiliu Smith, former Inspector General of Police, to look into ways and means of combating the growing menace of violent crimes in the state and the seeming inability of the police to confront this challenge in spite of their best endeavours.

A review of the report made it crystal clear that the problem was essentially related to logistics, mobility, communications, kitting and so on especially when considering the peculiar challenges the state poses. It was the finding of the Security committee that a minimum of N3.7B was required as the cost of providing standard security cover for Lagos State including the waterways.

Why a Trust Fund

The Fund was a practical response to the reality of the operational deficiency of the Police and other federal security agencies within the state due to long years of neglect by the Federal government, particularly in areas of funding and provision of modern equipment. The Fund is essentially a public-private partnership in response to the challenges of security.

Structure of the Fund

The fund is designed to operate as a public-private partnership. This approach was chosen to guarantee regular access to funding, faster decision making and accountability. The Fund comprises a Board of Trustees headed by a Chairman and an Executive Secretary who is responsible for the day to day administration of the Fund. The members of the Board and Executive Secretary are appointed by the Governor for a fixed term as provided in the Law.

Objectives of the fund

Foster effective, enduring public-private partnership for crime prevention, containment and eradication in Lagos State.
Pursue private, corporate, local, state and federal funding opportunities to accomplish the state’s security goals.
Review and recommend funding for qualifying security projects.
Acquisition and deployment of security equipment and such human, material and financial resources for effective functioning of all federal, state , local and other security agencies operating in the state.
Provision of funds for the training and retraining of security personnel in Lagos state.

http://www.lagosstatesecuritytrustfund.org/profi

[size=18pt]Lagos Govt Builds Eight Maternal and Childcare Centres in Five Years[/size]
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Thursday launched the Maternal and Child Care Mortality Reduction Programme in the state, saying it has built eight maternal and child care hospitals in the past five years to provide life saving services to mothers and children.

Fashola, who spoke at the Blueroof Hall, LTV 8 Complex Agidingbi, said five have gone into full operation, while out of the remaining three, two have been completed with training of staff that have been specially recruited to be familiar with the equipment and the facilities before being deployed currently going on.

The governor said government was not done yet as it had awarded another two MCCs in Badagry and Epe to ensure that the project to reduce distance to hospital for pregnant women, is statewide and all embracing.

Fashola who took a retrospective look at the programme,[b] said it is a project within a comprehensive programme that started in 2007, adding that when he was elected governor one of the challenges he resolved to confront was the unacceptable index of women of children or both who lost their lives in the process of giving life.
He said his interactions with professionals in the medical fields both within the state service and private sector showed the many causes of infant and maternal mortality which were many and varied.

Among them were the issues of diet, lifestyle, undiagnosed non-communicable diseases like hypertension and diabetes, complications during pregnancy, quackery, distance to properly equipped hospitals which sometimes led to fatalities during emergencies.

The governor who gave a status report on each of the factors said as at today, government has resolved a number of them and still has its hands on the plough to overcome those that are still receiving attention.

On diabetes and hypertension screening and treatment which was one of the first to be flagged off at Ifako-Ijaiye on assumption of office, between 2007 and July 2012, he said a total of 96,468 people have been screened and is still continuing.
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“What was most revealing was the lack of knowledge about our people and women of child bearing age about the lifestyle choices and what they ate and how this pre-disposed them to risk during pregnancy.”
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/lagos-govt-builds-eight-maternal-and-childcare-centres-in-five-years/128119/

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Lagos State Government Rehabilitates 5,090 Schools In Five Years[/size]

The Lagos State Government on Friday said it had renovated more than 5,090 primary and secondary schools in the last five years. Gov. Babatunde Fashola disclosed this at Ikotun at an event to mark his 1,900 days in office. The governor was represented by Mr Tunji Bello, Commissioner for the Environment. Fashola said thAT 3,052 blocks of classrooms were also constructed within the period. “‘We have also installed 170 science laboratories in 170 schools, while 120 laboratories have been provided in 120 schools; 119,837 pieces of furniture were also provided in primary and secondary schools. “The whole idea of all of these interventions is to enhance the standard of teaching and learning with a view to boosting students’ academic performance. “And the improved performance of our students in the last WAEC examination clearly shows that all our interventions in the education sector have not been in vain,”he said. He disclosed that 2,051 teachers were recruited to reduce teacher-pupil ratio and make teaching more effective. The governor urged residents to support the government in its effort to transform the sector by paying their taxes. Earlier, Bello said the state government decided to take the event commemorating its 1,900 days to the grassroots, to bring the government closer to the people. “Organising this occasion simultaneously at the three senatorial districts of the state and not at the traditional venue – the state secretariat — is to bring government closer to the people and understand them. “‘The government is committed to delivering more dividends of democracy. We want to listen to you and serve you better and that is why we are here,” the commissioner said. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Head of Service, Mr Adesegun Ogunlewe, commissioners, council chairmen and other officials attended the event.

http://blog.iwatchlive.org/2012/08/lagos-state-government-rehabilitates-5090-schools-in-five-years/

https://www.nairaland.com/1230093/students-writing-exams-floor-outside

Part of Akpabios free education in Akwa-ibom in 2013

Community Secondary School (CSS)
Oruk Anam LGA of Akwa Ibom State

[quote author=t-something]Trust me they dare not read it cos it exposes all the lies!! I am ready to face anyone reasonable enough to argue with me on Fashola's project.
One out of the many posted here has been proved to be purely private sector with no dime of LASG included. I am waiting to prove more , just waiting for anyone willing to take up the challenge and name the particular project he claims Fashola started and completed solely with LASG funds !![/quote]Go and read up on Public private partnership, you are exposing your ignorance, especially with your statement highlighted in red

Rad1cal: You were countering a post directed to the OP.

Sir Naptu, you are too smart for this petty excuse please

Why are you begging that PPP projects should not be showcased ?

It will be too much for you to handle ? abi

[quote author=t-something]Yea, Its clearly above your comprehension. The person who understands what I wrote has been unable to counter the claim.[/quote]see this doofus , take a break, you are emotionally deflated, and it is taking its toll on your reasoning and what you post

Rad1cal: As expected its another one of those numerous PPP projects dominated by Fashola red tape cutting

but the OP categorically informed us his Fashola submissions will strictly be devoid of all PPP partnership.

Why the usual deceit

PPP is the paradigm shift in governance, a governor should be judged by the strength of his partnership with private corporations.

The concept /idea of a project by the government and then being able to attract private investors is worthy of commendation.

i think the op should continue with pictures of projects , including the public private partnership projects. I have not seen the Made in Lagos Transformers yet, Eko library, Eko-Atlantic city, e.t.c.

[quote author=t-something]The difference is that you stated that LASG "chose" Cosharis whereas its was Cosharis who chose to do the project as its CSR. If read the post , you will see it was Coscharis that injected 1 Billion into the moribund venture and would use it to train students for LASG at no cost to LASG for 4 years after which they will manage it for some years before returning it to LASG.

Bottom line, No LASG is involved in this!!![/quote]You are not making sense, read your post again.

I think enugu town should not be used to equate enugu state.

I have heard reports from those who served in enugu state, outside enugu town, the capital.

A friend who was posted to enugu was given a hut made with mud to live in.
Enugu is a civil service state, and there is nothing much happening after govt jobs.

Obiagelli: are you kidding me? From the pics here you still debate who has utilised his resources better? Lagos and Akwa Ibom has about the same budget and akpabio can even match lagos in any sector from the pics above. Tell me what he does with the rest of his allocation.

Is not just about having the same budget, Akpabio has claimed to spend 80% of his budgets on capital projects, yet we are struggling to see what he has done. Akpabio's budget on capital projects is over 50% more than that of Lagos.

gregg2: Stop pretending to be from Abia state. Your spelling of "Ibo" instead of "Igbo" exposes you as a typical Yoruba man.

The water project you talked about was posted here by the OP to satisfy his mischievous intentions. For your information, unlike Lagos, water is not a problem in Akwa Ibom state. The taps run.

Carry your shameless self away from this thread.

One of the useless water project even failed and killed people, it was discussed in the link below

https://www.nairaland.com/1342038/akwa-ibom-mini-water-project-collapses-killing

naptu2: I haven't been able to go through all the posts, have you posted about the Great Wall of Lagos? I don't think that the government is gettinng the credit it deserves for that project.

Coastal erosion has been a problem since the 1970s and no government has been able to solve it. It actually falls under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government, but they've done nothing to solve the problem. For the first time a solution has been found and it is The Great Wall of Lagos.

I think the op is saving the best for the last

plaindealer: The 80% thing is BS, all that crap is nothing but a con game, you can not deliver anything after spending and throwing all your money away.

Today it's private jet, tomorrow it's luxury armor trucks, slush money in hotels, drawers, stolen, confiscated in the US, luxury jeeps to celebrities, sponsoring dozens of people to Dubai curtsey of the people of Akwa Ibom, keeping wife and kids comfortable in luxury all the way in Lagos, sponsoring political adventures all over the country....Dude is just too cold and heartless...

It is a shame , really.

Ever since the shout about his uncommon transformation, i have kept a tab on him, but the straw that broke the camels back was comparing him with fashola, i look at the money in his hands and the projects he was offering, i knew something was not adding up. Almost 7 years as Governor of Akwa-Ibom state, yet the revenue available to him fails to be directly proportional to his projects. It is a shame.

N.B Although, i rate him better than Uduaghan.

Yes, the revolution does not have to be bloody, those charlatans who have sworn to rule us for the next 60 years are in disarray, their camp is on fire, they have pressed the self destruct button, and the revolution will manifest fully soonest.

plaindealer: Funny enough, still a whole lot more to post....

That is the absolute truth, lots more to show. Where is Akpabio hiding his own project ?, he has got more money for capital expenditure than Lagos. He claims that his capital expenditure to recurrent expenditure is roughly 80: 20, where are the capital projects commensurate with the money in his hands?

@ Agbameta, i think some of this parks are missing in your parks pix Muri Okunola (Clover Leaf) Park, Victoria Island, Gani Fawehinmi (Freedom) Park, Ojota , MKO Abiola Garden, Ojota, Beko Ransome-Kuti Garden, Anthony Village, Professor Ayodele Awojobi Park, Onike, Yaba.

agbameta: Tribalism is a very powerful drug, with tribalism, you agree with the facts as stated deep inside, but it's hard to openly agree and show it so, it really doesn't matter how much valid and credible facts you confront them with, tribalism remains a block and default position.

I know them and I see them coming with what's driving their insane and absurd arguments..

But, there should be a limit to such shiity talks in the name of tribalism, they shout he is taxing and making over 240 billion annually, if he softpedals and starts making 100billion annually, will he print money in state house to cover the shortfall to execute projects ?.

Federal allocation, which i call pocket money from Federal government. Akwa ibom (350 billion) and Lagos state(120billion) Akwa ibom collects over 200 billion naira more than Lagos annually.

agbameta: How hard is this to understand really? We shouldn't even be explaining this is elementary school kids..

Basic common sense, logic and arithmetic is very strange and foreign to a lot of people for obvious reasons.

Bro, i have heard such afam4eva like comments severally, and it can be very annoying, because i dont know where to place such rubbish , and i ask could it be lack of information or lack of common sense?, I think it is the former.

Afam4eva: I've told you people to stop bringing in population as long as Lagos or any state does not feed it's population. If anything, it's to the advantage of the state with a higher populaton cos that will mean more money via taxation. We're looking at the number and quality of projects executed and only a blind man will not give it to Akpabio but if we were to rank them based on people oriented projects then it may not even go to either of them. An obscure governor may win it ahead of them.

It is you that needs to sharpen your understanding.



Lagos annual IGR ---- N240 billion (from tax partly due to population) Lagos Federal allocation---- N120 billion

Akwa ibom annual IGR------- N20 billion Akwa ibom Federal allocation---- over N350 billion.


The real deal is in the IGR, as it takes hard work to get that, Federal allocation is like receiving pocket money from your father.

For Obvious reasons, population pressure and many others, Lagos will definitely spend a greater fraction of its money on recurrent expenditure compared to Akwa ibom state, what this means is that Lagos will have less money to spend on capital expenditure projects compared Akwa ibom.

Akwa ibom has a lot of money to spend on capital projects than Lagos state ------FACT 1

The real issue is that since Akwa ibom has more money to spend on capital projects than Lagos States( at least over 50% more than that of Lagos state), where are the projects to justify such huge income.

PetroDollas: Ghana will not only be at the world cup in Brazil, but will also do very well as usual.

You obviously don't know much about football. ask yourself, how many times have burkina faso beaten Ghana? how many times have Mali beaten Ghana? burkina faso won on penalties against Ghana at the last AFCON, but we have been beating them ever since, just as we have been doing to our big-for-nothing neighbour to the east

Losing on penalties does not amount to whooping, in my opinion. as for mali, we went to Bamako and flogged them 2-0 in a crucial world cup qualifier for South Africa 2010. incidentally their coach was one stephen Okechukwu Keshi. Yes, we lost to Mali in the 3rd place match at afcon, but any person with a bit of a brain will know that when a top team losses a semi-final match, they ofte don't want to play in the third placed match, which they consider useless and meaningless. you forgot we beat the same Mali in the group matches,huh?

so in your mind, Ghana will not go to the world cup because of what? Ghana had 15 points from the just concluded qualifiers in a group that had former afcon champion zambia and scored 18 goals, the highest by any team in the just concluded qualifiers. Zambia had 3 free points and and yet we won our group comfortably. what does that tell you?

you had minnows like namibia, kenya and malawi in your group and still struggled? between Ghana and Nigeria, Ghana stands a better chance of qualifying than Nigeria, based on current form.

You can write 10,000 words epistle for all i care.

On tuesday, Your next round opponent will be burkina faso, and you know the deal, they have routed you in the nations cup this year, and they will still do it again, even in your backyard. BOOKMARK THIS PAGE.

Choose you this day to support Nigeria at the world cup, coz your Ghana will not be in Brazil 2014.

jmaine: You ended up saying nothing outta frustration . , now who is exhibiting torrents of emotional frustration ? . .

Ayam laving

you are simply trolling, when you have facts, and real deal projects commensurate with the income accrued to that akwa ibom state, let me know.

jmaine: You get faced with simple reality and you call it trolling. . It's not my fault that you have been unable to deliver potent facts.

Just going to the net to pull out pics without been conversant with the area is futile. All i meant was for you to personally feel it life than internet deliveries.

Not my fault dude but yours

What point are you making? That i dont ply the lekki -expressway road? the joke is on you.

The thread simply states show us Akpabio's project, then you start rambling with em em em "If you want to know the real deal, please travel down to AKS and see" and "The AKS government may not be a photo freak".

You have nothing to show ---- simple as ABC, just EMOTIONS and false beliefs on your head

jmaine: Lolz . .No be the tolling booth area you snap so . . abeg move further inside the axis help us snap the pisure .

Like one poster said, If you want to know the real deal, please travel down to AKS and see .

The highlighted in red is what you lots say, when you have EXHAUSTED all the " uncommon" transformation pictures you can display from Akwaibom.

You dont need to start trolling, i have shown you what you called shabby looking, you claim "move further the axis", objectivity is a missing word in your dictionary

ba7man: Those Lagos roads never have an inception. The first day of their opening and they handle more traffic than those AKS roads will handle in a month.

No mind am, he even had the guts to call the road "shabby looking"

jmaine: Wrong logic . . .The shabby look of the uncompleted Lekki Ajah 50 billion road is not because of any traffic.

It has been like that since inception. Population indices can never be used to justify a shabby job at inception.

unless you want to tell us the Lekki Hitech road had the same finese like the JB roads in AKS.

Shabby look ? It appears you dont know what shabby means

[quote author=Banku&Tilapia]Hahaaaaaaaaa r u a comedian? We r da second best in Africa. We don't need to win anything but we still rated highly than ur super noodles [/quote]You dont need to win anything ?!!!! Second best my foot, Burkinafaso and mali whooped your asss in last AFCON, mark my words, you wont be in 2014 world cup.

ba7man: Just the ingenious way Gov Fashola tackled the problem of waste evacuation is revolutionary in Nigeria.

He encouraged private investors to purchase garbage trucks and register waste disposal comapnies. They register with the Lagos State Government and you're given a number of streets you're to service. The residents pay you and you remit a certain amount back to LASG. Everybody's happy and more people get paid.

Some people are not objective, and have not learnt to put things in to perspective.

Do they know it is hard work for Lagos to generate the bulk of its income(over 80% of it), unlike Akwa-ibom that waits for FG 13% derivation.for over 90% of its income.

A semi- mansion built in the midst of huts will appear more special than a mansion built amidst mansions.

Akpabio's work should reflect more, since he has a much more rural like state to develop

Traffic and Waste management is enough headache for a state with 20 million inhabitants.