₦airaland Forum

Eko Ile: The governor commissioned the new Ajara 24 hr health care center just last month so you are wrong about recent protects in the area.

@ Topic. Old or new, it makes no difference because it doesn't change the fact that 11 projects was commissioned in the area and what's old news to you is new news to other people.

Old or new, no knowledge is lost...

Katsumoto: Excuse my ignorance but is the appointment of an Oba ratified by the governor?

Do traditional rulers receive monthly compensation from the state government?

Who was governor when Oba Akiolu became governor?

Desola: Yes o, I wanna see pishos too.

SEGAD: I personally keep my voter's card to vote against ACN in the next election in Lagos state. I've said this several time, there is no different between ACN & PDP, even some PDP governors perform far better than ACN governor, my example is Surllivan of Enugu. I challenge Fashola & Tinubu supporters on this forum to take pictures of their respective street in Lagos, then you will understand that your pay masters are big fraud.

pheesayor: Okoko to badagry is still under federal government, please spare us your ignorance

THE Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN) is working out modalities to roll out a diaspora product to assist Nigerians living abroad own homes in Nigeria.

Managing Director of the bank, Gimba Ya’u Kumo, who disclosed this at the fourth Nigeria Development Finance Forum in Washington DC, United States (US), said the product had become necessary, given the large number of Nigerians in the diaspora who wished to own homes in Nigeria and also as a means of reducing the housing deficit in the country.

“We realized that about 17 million Nigerians are living outside the country and most of them have plans to have houses and they have not been able to do so.

“We understand that over the years, people, who have been remitting money for the building or buying of a house have not been getting good results. Stories have followed this money.

“What we are trying to do is that by the time we develop the diaspora mortgage model, it will be a model whereby Nigerians living abroad who want to buy houses can resort to FMBN and, at the end of the day, if they do not take the mortgage, they can get refund of their money with interest,” he said.

Kumo added that the reason the bank had chosen the US was because out of the 17 million Nigerians all over the world, US had about 58 per cent, adding that “we are going to do our case study here and in the United Kingdom (UK). If it works well, we will try to replicate it in Asia and other parts of the world.”

He said the move would also lead to the inflow of finance from the diaspora to Nigeria, which would further assist to reduce the housing needs in the country.

The FMBN boss also said that the Utility Refinancing Company that would assist in financing the sector would kick off soon with the corporation of the World Bank, International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Federal Ministry of Finance

gregtochi: Lagos cannot be leading in external debts! Never!! That is next to impossible! Whoever computed these figures must be PDP apologists. No, Fashola cannot accumulate such huge debts, besides, its only 1% of annual revenue, so what's the noise for

bini girl: Truly, the situation of the Ejigbo road has gone out of hand. I had to trek from cele express to NNPC nb/stop last week Thursday just because the traffic on the road that day was terrible and buses that were not stuck in traffic, refused to ply the road. I think divine intervention is needed for the status of that road to change

gbanikiti: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/ejigbo-ikotun-residents-decry-poor-state-of-road-petition-fashola-2/

PDP gives condition for Amaechi, Wamakko pardon

The Peoples Democratic has said it would recall the Chairman, Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi, and his Sokoto State counterpart, Aminu Wamakko, from their suspension if they apologise to the party.

The ruling party said the governors were suspended in the interest of the party. It said it would only recall the two governors if they showed remorse for their actions and recognised the supremacy of the party.

While the party suspended Wamakko on Wednesday for alleged “disrespect and act of insubordination” to its National Chairman, Bamanga Tukur, and his office, Amaechi was suspended on May 27, for refusing to reinstate a local government chairman in the state.

Speaking to our correspondent on the telephone on Friday, the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Olisa Metuh, said it was saddening that Amaechi and Wamako took actions that warranted their punishment.

He noted that the suspension of the governors from the party was to enforce party discipline, adding that, “there is no correlation between their suspension; it’s purely coincidental.”

Metuh said, “Anytime there’s remorse from our leaders and governors, we will rejoin with them.

“We’ll welcome them with both hands; we’d rejoice with them and their reunion. That’s what we want; we just want an acceptance of the supremacy of the party’s organs.

“As a party, we seek to add more; we don’t seek to reduce. Everything that happened was quite unfortunate. It was bound to happen in the interest of the party. Not that we rejoice in it; we are sad about the development. We are not happy about it.”

The PDP spokesman said the party gave Wamakko an opportunity to defend himself but he allegedly ignored the party.

Metuh said, “We invited him and he didn’t come. We invited him the second time and he didn’t come. We wrote him and he directed the state secretary to reply. What other fair hearing did he want?

“We gave him the opportunity to defend himself. Is it fair to abandon his party? Is it fair to be indisciplined? Is it fair that he abdicated his responsibility to his party?”