This is the very problem of the present day Nigerian youth. They believe that the government is denying them something that is stopping them from becoming self dependent.
First off, government does not provide you with drive to be self sufficient, neither does 6 figure salary does that. Looking yourself in the mirror and taking tough decisions does this.
Again, good grades does not mean anything in the world of wealth creation. For the best, it enables one to raise initial capital to start up something.
Finally, there is something inherently wrong with the mindset that makes one to place higher value on a bank manager than that guy to goes out each money to Ladipo market on ragged jeans and t-shirt. Most of those boys in Idumota and Ladipo became millonairs before they turned 20 under their boss by saving from their feeding allowance and other many legit means. They strive for 50 million and above after being set free and they are independent, self sufficient and bouyant. But the society laugh at them as 'hustlers'
I had a hard time convincing my friend to take up his dad's lucrative auto spare parts biz in Abakaliki. This guy studied mechanical engineering but feel that bank job is the place. Today, he is doing as well as his only class mate that works in Total.
There are many start up software coys in the country today. I know one formed by UNN electrical engineering graduates of the same class and they do do projects for the major telcos. The took the tough option, denied themselves of some initial pleasure and today, they are doing better than most oil coy workers.
All these people are all in Nigeria, the same environment and the same opportunities. I can't seem to see what the government did differently for them.

@GeneralJ, Eko Atlantic, Red-Light, perker-lord

We are all saying the same thing. I am celebrating an astute administrator with you who procured 30 buses for Lagosians from a 'minute' income of 30 billion naira per month. The same buses they will pay for each time they take a trip. By the way, who has ever seen the account books of BRT buses? Shhhh.... don't even talk about it!
He is also organising end of year party which is nothing compared to the carnival that goes on in Calabar yearly but hardly seen as an achievement of the incumbent. Those are exactly why he is an excellent achiever, a perfect governor and a 'world class' leader who will make Obama feel inferior. Kudos to Fash!! Kudos to the internet propaganda arm. We all love Lagos. We love Fash too...lol

ok guys, lets celebrate the purchase of 30 buses at an unknown cost from a 30 billion naira monthly income. This indeed is the achievement of the millenium!

Soludo is still the solution. He is the man with the big picture perspective. Anambra is too important to be left out of the mainstream Nigerian politics, as long as the present structure stands. We need a Michael Okpara personality in Awka, we also need someone with strong potential and the solid network of support of Igbo leaders there. Unless Ndigbo want to play the opposition game in the present day Nigeria, PDP with the right candidate should be the party and Soludo should be the man. Unless we want to go back in the cold we just emerged from and resume the marginalization complaint.
One of Ojukwu's last wishes was political reintegration of the SE into the mainstream Nigeria politics.
Playing the opposition in present day Nigeria is just foolish. Look at the North. Learn from them.

Frank-C:
My own is very simple. How much does Fashola spend daily on feeding and how much exactly is his monthly security vote. Nobody has really helped me out with the answers.
I want to examine the facts to determine how different Fashola is. But it appears that Fashola's online media arm is hiding some thing from us. Please, is it true that LASG got the court to declare the FOI bill a Federal bill and so cannot apply to LASG. What efforts are presently ongoing by Fashola's government to domesticate that bill to enable people like me know exactly how much Fashola spend on feeding everyday, or is Fashola not the greatest democrat of our time again?

Anybody have answers to these?

My own is very simple. How much does Fashola spend daily on feeding and how much exactly is his monthly security vote. Nobody has really helped me out with the answers.
I want to examine the facts to determine how different Fashola is. But it appears that Fashola's online media arm is hiding some thing from us. Please, is it true that LASG got the court to declare the FOI bill a Federal bill and so cannot apply to LASG. What efforts are presently ongoing by Fashola's government to domesticate that bill to enable people like me know exactly how much Fashola spend on feeding everyday, or is Fashola not the greatest democrat of our time again?

@emiye
Now you are talking! Ajeromi Maternal and Child care center. Now, let people that know this hospital well enough give us the history. What it was before Fashola's intervention and what it is now. Was it newly constructed and renovated? At what cost? What are the cost components?

One listed, fact checkers can carry on with it while we await the remaining 7. We have to veryfy every claim of a Nigerian politician, including Fashola!

emiye:

I know you will not give up, you know in your heart you don't want to be convinced !

Even if i shove the development works and strides of fashola in to your face, you will never see it. You are damned.

The only people i am disappointed about are the innocently gullible people.

You are still not listing the locations of the 8 maternal and child care health centers. If you list them and they are verified true, i will stay convinced, but not until then. No need getting sentimental about this. I have as much right as you do to demand what my tax money is being used for.

emiye: https://www.nairaland.com/1080624/mimiko-wins-ondo-gubernatorial-poll/9

@ lost Pope, You claim that Fashola has not built any hospital ?

I showed you links in the thread above and you became lost on that thread

Thank you for that effort, but please i think you are dropping figures like Fashola. Fashola came and launched Maternal and Chile Mortality Programme and declared there that he has built 8 Health Centers according to this link:
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/lagos-govt-builds-eight-maternal-and-childcare-centres-in-five-years/128119/

Please, this is not adequate. I can't just take it because Fashola said it, after all he did not say this when he was commissioning one of such centers neither did he list the location of the Centers. You may notice that the only ones listed are the ones yet to be built. Can you help us get the full list of these 8 Health Centers so that people that stay close to the areas can verify and confirm. At least, one NLer could have somebody that have used one of them. I am not saying that Fashola lied, but smart folks like you have taught us that Nigerian politicians tell lies and Fashola happen to be a Nigerian and a politician, so the rule applies to him. So we need to verify his claims of performance and hold him accountable.
My interest is to know exactly where my tax money goes.

Also, if you have a link of how much Fashola spend daily of food and his monthly security vote, you can also provide. I need to be convinced with facts that Fashola is a different and better politician. Thank you.

Omo_Tier1:
Do not be fooled, read this ; http://www.cityflavourmagazine.com/?p=11958. If really you are going to take that ignoramus serious then you must be living in a village without access to either tv, radio or Internet or have not been to Lagos more recently.

No doubt there are places in Lagos needing development and regeneration but Fashola has tried and He has shown Lagos can work again.

From your links, please, see the roads listed and i quote your article "he Governor who spoke at Lekki added that it is consistent with the fact that having addressed the major carriage ways like Eti-Osa-Lekki-Epe-Expressway, Funsho Williams Avenue, Murtala Mohammed Way and Lagos Badagry Expressway, the next focus would be the neighbourhood roads." Do you really think this is ok?

On Elegushi Housing Estate listed in the article, was this done by Fashola's administration or some private investors? Please, lets look critically at this claim. If Fashola can claim this as his achievement, then Kogi State governor must claim Dangote cement factory too.

Other parts of the article were just figure dropping...13 roads, 15 roads, etc. Please list the roads lets evaluate it.

babapupa:




This is not an allegation, this is your own stupidity and ignorance.

https://www.nairaland.com/695873/fashola-eko-o-ni-baje/1


Go through that thread and cure your ignorance. You people are clowns and this is why we don't take you seriously...

Please, don't refer me to NL as a credible news source. Kindly list the roads that have been completed that meet the conditions listed. List of new hospitals, pipe borne water, water ways, etc that were not existing and Fashola brought to life will do. Calling people clowns and ignorant for demanding accountability from government is just childish and petty.

Please, don't tell me about Lekki - Epe express way or Badagry road or even Eko Hotel round about xmass decorations by some banks. List roads, bridges and capital projects finished by Fashola's administration. Lets keep it civil, please.

oyb:

end of

gej is not fit to wipe fashola's sheet from a toilet seat

the man cannot finish anything - classic example - work on apapa oshodi expressway has stalled after four months. the gej transformation , only visible in the spin and spell of the army of laptop monkeys who

a mediocre underachiever celebrated by fellow underachievers


the last speaker for the aso rock drinkard

GEJ doesn't need to do that, after all he is 'clueless', remember and 'clueless folk' don't wipe anything for smart folks. Now, defend Fashola's records.

Omo_Tier1:
What you have failed to realise is that no amount of falsehood can change Nigerians perception about the man called Fashola. Those who live in Lagos know they are witnessing a gradual and positive change with a man who made promise of redefining governance and has succeeded I doing so.

Every sane Nigerian known GEJ is accursed and is innately corrupt and has nothing to offer Nigeria. Nigeria needs a positive thinker and an achiever not a smooth talker and Mr. Promise! If you callous smear campaign against Fashola is because of 2015, then you are loosing the battle already! Should Fashola decide to run for the Presidency, I will mobilise for funding from the UK here. We are tired of GEJ and His government of lootocracy.

I have told you this before, if Fashola wasn't achieving anything, other governors would not be seeking His brain. How many times have you heard anyone talking about going to see T. Orji you Godfather in looting?

You are not really addressing the points raised. Fashola's record is being x-rayed here, not that of another leader. Since you appointed yourself his spokesman, do well to defend his record without sounding petty.

List the roads being constructed by Fashola administration, not some PPP project or those being executed by world bank or ECOWAS or such other bodies. Many people here know how much is being deducted from their monthly income in the name of tax and they deserve to know what exactly it is being used for.

Is the allegation that no new hospitals or new roads or pipe borne water extension has been executed by Lagos State government over the last 5 years true? Is it true that most projects being executed in lagos state are by private investors and multi-lateral partnerships?
Lagos earns about N30b monthly in combined IGR and Federal allocation. Lagos also ranks highest in the list of state debtors in the country. What exactly are these monies being used for? In fact, Lagos is a microcosm of Nigeria and i want to know how much Fashola spend daily on food and what his monthly security vote is? Yes, i deserve to know because this is democracy and this information should be freely accessible to all that want it but it is not to me.

Any attempt to call me and others names instead of being a democrat that most of you Fashola propaganda machine have always preached will go further to expose the hollowness of your criticism. Answer the questions and leave GEJ out of it, after all you have 'convinced' us all that he is bad, so there is not need comparing the 'excellent, smart, articulate and clue-ful' fashola and the man most of you have summarized his profile as a 'retardeen'

I strongly believe in re-incarnation. I cannot really prove it to the satisfaction of any body, but my finite mind can only explain certain infinite occurrences and events by this theory. Reincarnation is real!

autumn.flower:
What you suggesting, because I am a good citizen, I'll march to the governors office and ask him how he's using the money allocated to the state?
So because the state whatever is responsible to keep them in check, the FG and GEJ should just bone them.
Let me ask you a simple question, do you have a business you run? Just because you have employees that are assigned a task, does it mean you don't check on them to see if they actually did it right?
No wonder nigeria is the way it is, do your own I do mine, as long as you don't poke your nose into my business everything is good.. How do you expect to move foward with this kind of mentality!?

My friend, your argument is heavily dozed with ignorance of the workings of democracy. YOU and YOUR State Assembly have the responsibility to hold your governor accountable, not the FG. They are the Federating units, remember, and not FG's offspring. They control their budget, expenditures, judiciary and legislature. It is your job to ask your State governor questions, not FG's.

greateros:

Y are u attacking the posta? what has he done wrong? did u not read his post? or did u not see the word "rumor" in his post or are u not aware of this rumor going round for almost 2 weeks now? OR ARE JUST TOO DAFT TO COMPREHEND HIS POST!

Does that mean an attack to you? If it does, then he attacked the guy first, dead or alive. Gov Chime was Enugu Gov and he fulfilled all his constitutional responsibilities to the people of Enugu State before going wherever he went to. Right now, the focus should be on the Acting Gov, not the man. As it stands now, Gov Chime owes you nor Enugu people any responsibility, until he comes back and resumes his office. If he comes back in a coffin, Enugu people are the people that owe him responsibility as their former governor. We misuse our freedom by focusing on unnecessary things. And for my statement that elicited your response, ANY OF US could as well be dead by the time others are reading this post, so what is strange about that?

You, the poster could also be dead by now.

The next thing is a policy of deliberate breeding between these first class folks. Just in case it has anything to do with hereditary. The idea will be to produce folks who are smarter than Uduaghan, who have gained from the State and who will understand sacrifice. Before they part with the money, they should be locked up in an isolated area and taught a thing or two about civics, leadership, responsibility and sacrifice. They should also be forced to read good books- Biographies of great men and women. Maybe, just maybe, after then a few of them will develop a sense of service, they already have the grey matter.

Nobody put him up to it. The calculation is that if he somehow manage to pull it off and convince some that the British slave masters are better than the present day Nigerian leadership, it will help advance the idea of Nigerian government being the worst on earth and Nigeria being the worst place to live in(though he most likely have not read wide enough or visited more than 10 countries) and somehow, it will make him and a few other feel better, after all they have shared in the freedom of insulting their country, her leaders and every single symbol that represent us as a country.

take dat: Its commendable though Government will need to be more consistent and transparent. This doesn't diminish the public perception that public office holders and civil servants are corrupt not until we start running an open government. The fight against graft should be seen and not on some committees recommendations or white papers!

Talking about open government, let me repeat a question i have never received answers to. How much does Fashola spend on food per year? How much does Obama, Camero, Hollande and Ghanaian governments spend on food per annum. We know that states collect a percentage of the savings of of the SURE fund. How is YOUR state governor using his share of it. Answers to this will tell you how much progress we have made in running an open government.

0lumide:

I think you have little idea of what revolution really is.. Revolution is just a shift either peacefully or violently! How people choose the terms of their revolution is different and independent of the idea of revolution!

And yes! Nigeria need a revolution! The 1966 coup isn't a revolution. It is what it is. A coup. A successful revolution can only be carried by the people themselves not some or a group of people claiming to represent the people. Hence why America has always used the idea of the "suffering" of people in target nations to provoke revolution which ends up being controlled by their puppets...

When the people themselves, revolt, that is the end of any oppression they currently face. A new way of oppressing has to be planned by those who intend whether consciously or sub-consciously to oppress the people.

No, he really understands the big picture. Do you know that the same Gadaffi came to power by revolution? If the revolution that brought Gadaffi is seen as 'wanted' by the Lybians, how then do you say that the revolution that removed him wasn't 'wanted'?

Revolution was the natural reaction of mankind to constancy, not necessarily because the leaders are not doing well. Tell me what Mubarak did wrong? What of Ghadaffi? Human nature forbids being under some one's political authority for unnecessarily long time. That was the feeling from Tunisia to Libya to Algeria and presently in Syria, not that those leaders are not doing well.

Democracy ensures that elections gets people involved in deciding whether they want change or not. It addresses the root of revolution, so calling for another revolution shows weak understanding of democracy or desperation for power or lack of confidence that the people will choose them freely. Period!!!

Great thinkers and political philosophers really believed in revolution. Check out the writings of John Locke, the philosophy of US founding fathers, Zhou dynasty of China and the ancient Greeks. What people who don't really understand democracy don't understand is that in democracy, revolution is built into the system after years on reforms and civilization of the raw concept. That revolution is election and that is why electoral fraud is the single most putrid abuse of democracy because it stifles the ability of the majority to determine how they are governed. The ancient revolution model burns down cities in an attempt to bring down governments that acts against their 'common interest' mainly because the governments then did not have life spans, the leader leads till death and most likely hands over to his child (heir) like what happened in North Korea recently. Any body who give this idea of revolution a 10 minutes thought will understand that it is really childish and borne more out of exuberance to call for a revolution against a government with 4 to 10 years life span which is so minute in the life of a country.

Revolution is actually having terminal elections for leaders like Fashola and Ikedi Ohakim for the people to decide whether the leader is still serving their 'common interest' It means the moral and political need for all to go out and vote in line with policies and programs of a leader. It also means wisdom to safeguard the present civilization, no matter how little while expressing out desire for change of government- via polling booths. This is actually one of the reason I believe that GEJ is far more intelligent that the collection of the folks that call him clueless because he is strongly committed to defending our rights to revolts, but this time via the polling booths and our voting cards.

No matter how attractive the word 'revolution' as is being presently called for may sound to young(not age wise but depth) minds, it is the single strongest forces of retrogression. Under the spell of 'revolution', we may not just have a country anymore. Under 'revolution fever' we can give extremists and unstable and brainwashed minds free reign over our affairs because thinkers and intelligent people can never support revolution where there is free and fair election.

The 'revolution' I support today is the one that will allow me to cast my vote for or against my leaders and seeing my vote being counted in the evening of the election day. Even if my choice of candidate did not prevail, I have had my say and the majority have decided what 'we' should do, after all, I can not be wiser than tens of millions of people. That revolution empowered Imo people to vote out Ikedi Ohakim and Ondo people to vote in Mimiko without destroying their market places, loss of life and burning down their cities. In 2015, I will participate in another revolution, to determine who will replace my State Governor and who will be my President for the next four years.

Have anyone noticed how Pastors preach tithes and tithing which promises to give the givers blessings here on earth but neglect to preach Matthew 25:31-36 which preaches reaching out to those in need but also guarantee one to share in God's glory here after. Is it that Pastors and their 'followers' prefer their own heaven here on earth? Even St Paul advised that people should focus on things above not on things here on earth.

I wonder how i can get myself to give 10% of my income every month to my clergy who are neither hungry nor thirsty but neglect that widow who sobs every morning when she see other people children going to school but has no means to fund their own children education.

This is the real corruption of the church that Fr Kukah spoke against. These Pastors has succeeded in not only corrupting the true message but also corrupting thousands of their own followers. The Jesus I read about will prefer to go to Kirikiri to bring refreshing good news of salvation to hardened criminals even at a personal risk and he does not need private jet for that visit.

geez*:


How stupid

What is silly about wanting to know what is going on in Lagos? Why are you taking it personal. Others are posting pictures, please enrich the topic.

How exactly is the cooling system faulty if it has not been handed over to FAAN by the contractor?

I want to see the picture of what has happened in Lagos over the last 12 years ONLY. Please, nobody should show me 3rd Mainland Bridge or National Theatre.

We can hear you guys!! When it is done by Fashola or any other SW governor, it is a great project being executed by a visionary who has promised to deliver it on schedule. When it is done by any other governor elsewhere or FG, it is a white elephant project and will never be delivered, even when the project life cycle has not expired. The conspiracy seem to be that ' we are the only guys that can do it right...' Some of us are watching with rapt attention.

This address is something that is very important and should be hewn into the body polity as a law but i think we need the address for the President to brief Nigerians, not just the National Assembly. While the President can address Nigerians on the State of the Nation, we also need the Senate President and the Speaker to address Nigerians too. I also want an opportunity to hear from the Head of the Judiciary. Nigerians are their employers here. I need to hear from Tambuwal why Farouk was cleared, i need to hear from Mark what their major achievements over the last one year was, their challenges and successes. I also need to hear from Madam Aloma why we are still footdragging on special court for corruption cases. The National Assembly should not ride on the mood of the Nation to exact accountability from the executive while denying Nigerians same from their chambers and from the Judiciary.

Super1759: gallop poll placed us at 2nd naaaa

Gallop didn't place you as second. Nigerians place their country as the second most corrupt country.

People need to travel around to appreciate how beautiful and diverse this country is. For me, my top three: Enugu, Calabar and Abuja in that order.

Venchy:

Are you a spokes man for Government of Crooks cos your grammar is just meaningless.

Your problem is that you don't understand what is called VIEWS or OPINION.....check it out, understand it so you can respect other people's views without attacking them.

You are very very OPINIONATED.

My amazement at your ignorance is only exceeded by my surprise at your unwillingness to open up your mind and think like human. That guy has just taught you how to think and talk responsibly. You can't come to the internet and insult our country, our President, our Judiciary, our armed forces and every little symbol that represent us as a country and expect to go unchallenged, moreso when his challenge is just presenting you as a very immature type that take pleasure at insulting things far bigger than you.
You want your opinion that Nigeria should be rated as the country with the worst roads on earth respected when you don't even know that the gallop report did not come from empirical research but from folks who think like you and you seem not to have visited more than 20 countries in the world. Stop projecting your inferiority complex and self defeatism. It is shameful.

take dat: Way to go on the PRSTF Report but my concern is on the calibre of those constituted to draft the white paper, one would have expected seasoned technocrats to do the job.
Lastly, the content of the White Paper recommendation should be made known to Nigerians

Government draft white papers, not technocrats as you put it. This is actually a selection of some people within the FEC to come up with a White Paper on the 3 report. It would have been called a committee if the government (FEC) goes outside the FEC to get people to do the job. There are actually 3 white papers expected, not just the one from Ribadu's team.