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londoner: Be patient, oliver twist said that it is a fact that 50% or more of those kids are Igbo or non-Yoruba. Just wait, he/she will provide us with the facts to back up that statement.

Either oliver twist or the poster who liked his/her comment.

Hahaha! Ndewo, and apologies for not reading you well.

Eko Ile: Ode, the fact that you are incompetent today doesn't mean you can not be an achiever tomorrow..

Unlike Oponuchkwu Jonathan Abdul El Reterdeen who is a perpetual dullard and incompetent joker, Rochas found his mojo and is now productive as we've seen with what's on the ground.


So, you can shove that silly past posts up your asss...

Okorocha will give you a big slap if he reads what you just wrote that he became competent after joing ACN two months ago. You are not helping yourself and your party. I will direct his SSA whom I know very well, to read this thread. You see why every other Nigerian believes you ngbatis are hypocrites. Today Rochas is good, tomorrow he is bad.

Ola Johnson: Yorubaland has really helped young Igbo ladies to be married with fellow Igbo guys. If they remain in Igboland most of their guys won't be able to raise money to marry them. There would have been an increas in the case of menop.ause.
Dispute me, with facts, if I'm lying.

Yeah! The 30 Million Igbos who live in Igboland are married to ufos. What a hole you have for brain.

OBAGADAFFI: Another usual pile of lies.

Prove me wrong. Igbos are landlords to Yorubas in Yorubaland. Why is every Yoruba man suddenly a Lagosian, even those from Ogbogbogbommoossshoo and Olumo rock??

Eko Ile: I celebrate individuals and not political parties..

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You are a stupid liar. Until recently Rochas was incompetent in your dictionary (I can help you with your own past threads); he suddenly became incompetent after joining ACN. You village urchin.

eggheaders: outside onitsha gra and some part of abs junction the rest of onitsha is crap shyte fegge inclusive. the ibadan you called village gat loads of high brow areas. I won't blame you, you have never been there all your life. highbrows in ib that makes your abs junction and gra onitsha look like slums. agodi gra, oluyole estate, felele, akobo, ologuneru, bodija and numerous other places. get your black a55 off that slum in opoko and get on an ifeshinachi to see ib and stop feeding on generation misinformation pass to you by your progenitors. the same onitsha that you can't step outside past 8 pm is what is good life to you. with the chances of getting robbed at uppy iweka and all manner of gun wielding scumbags dotting every public place and very high cost of living and transportation abeg I prefer igboora to that shytehole. if you mouthing about enugu self I fit reason with you small but onitsha is a shytehole mehn.

Aside Lagos where Igbos own 45% and dominate the lansdscape, the entire SW is decrepit. The rest good places in SW are dominated by Indians and a few lucky Yorubas.

[quote author=londoner][/quote]You dey mind them?

Average Igbos in Lagos are by far more well to do than average Yorubas in Lagos. An average Alaba businessman will send his ward to a private school. Yorubas just never admit their failings but always look for excuses. Those other decrepit schools in Osun, Ekiti, Ondo, Oyo and Ogun are also populated by half by non-Yoruba?

bloggernaija: Ask your uncle or friend living overseas about the sheer no of south westerner studying in America,UK,Canada,Australia ,Ukraine ,Sweden etc . The fact is that the game is different now. People have voted with their feet or simply go private. No more jamb brouhaha .
Those remaining at home are the unfortunate ones.many do not even bother about jamb anymore.

Lame excuse. There are more Igbos studying abroad than Yorubas. I challenge you, for every one Yoruba student abroad you identify with a website link, I will match it and do more.

omongbatic: PDP has not ruled and destroyed SW for 14 years. This is a blatantly false claim.
Between 1999 and 2003, SW was ruled by AD/AC (now ACN), ranging from Osun (Adebisi Akande) to Lam Adesina (Oyo), Tinubu (Lagos), Adebayo Adefarati (Ondo), Olusegun Osoba (Ogun), and Niyi Adebayo (Ekiti).

What did these people achieve in govt for 4 years? Why are NL ACN liars trying to bamboozle the unwary by claiming PDP destroyed SW?

To think I did not notice this their warped line of argument before now. Thanks for this exposition

Eko Ile: Another good one by OBJ.


God Bless Baby Iyabode Oluwa...



While Jonathan is still peddling stolen OBJ's cassava bread visions.


oponuchukwu the dullard....

I did not know Obasanjo is now ACN. You comedians are too funny.

payless: Of course he meant to use "known fact".

Speak for yourself. I know Eko Ile aka Babapupa more than you can ever imagine. His blunders over the years are legendary.

Eko Ile: it's a know fact that you clowns walk on your brains..

See grammar now. ACN is just breeding educated illiterates.

dolphinife: Bors no vex oooo....u just said a lie now. The investments of Dangote in Lagos alone tripples all the investments of IGBOS in Lagos. If you dnt knw, Dangote has interest in most of the companies you thought the IGBO has. He only put a stooge to manage it for himM case study, Zenith and UBA banks

Glo is also owned by IBB. Dangote is fronting for past military thieves such as Obasanjo, IBB, etc.

dolphinife: If I say thunder should fire your damn mouth, people would say am very abusive. How dare you mention my dare (dear)school in your bigoted and tribalistic discussions with Dayokanu??
For your information, IGBO lecturers, staffs(staff), workers and students in OAU make up to 20percent of the population. Even the student unions year in, year out use to have atleast 3 to 5 IGBOS. The religious fellowshiops on campus has (have)preponderant IGBO populations (population) and everybody co-habit (co-habits) peacefully.

Never ever in your life you dare mention my Great citadel of learning in your negative discussions. Abeg, to your tents oh ye Isarel (Israel)

Those words in color show how educated you are. These half-bad SW graduates sef

Duh!!!!!!!!!! OAU is a federal university run with federal money not coming from SW, so you expect diversity.

Eko Ile: Ode, Shouldn't you be asking yourself why the man dumped all the useless jokers in your region to team up with other achievers?


The man don't want to be associated with losers back home, he's better of with other achievers like the same ACN you are losing sleep over...

I see you are not tired or me disgracing you and your useless SW ACN governors? In case you are too daft to understand, Okorocha is an ambitious politician who could not quite find his way in PDP where he has always been - and APGA has always been too small for him. He intends to use ACN to relaunch his presidential aspiration. I bet you that once he does not find a place in ACN, he is leaving. We shall revisit this my assertion in 2014 when the campaigns heat up. For now, go and keep sucking the balls of your ACN paymasters.

Sunny_bobo: The higher the risk, the higher the returns, innit?

Hopefully, the country does not dismember before the returns begin to come in. Where Nigeria is concerned, I am one Igbo man that stays far, far away from investing outside Igboland

Rochas has always been big in education. He has his own private schools under the Rochas Foundation in Imo, Oyo, Kano, and I think, Rivers and Jos, where people gain fairly qualitative education for free. So his investing massively in education is not a surprise to the informed (like me). However, he achieved (or is achieving) all these not because he is of ACN. He only just left APGA and joined ACN few months ago, but started these infrastructural developments as an AGPA governor 2.5 years back. In essence, unlike our Yoruba friends across the Niger, we of SE believe that individuals perform, not party.

giftnwala: you don't even have a valid point, show me ur primary schools in enugu or any igbo state and i will show a beta structure in rivers state, show me ur secondary in enugu or any igbo state and i will show u a secondary school structure 100 times beta. The Governor can only provide the structures but he wont force students to read der books. As for the UST problem, it is the elements of Goodluck Jonathan in UST ASUU that is frustrating the academic calendar in the school. Ameachi jst employed 13,000 teachers for schools in rivers state which some igbo people benefited from. You people should learn how to be appreciative for once

Only a person deficient of economic analytical skills will compare the developmental strides of two entities without comparing the volume of revenue used to achieve such development. Given what money is available to Rivers State, it has underperformed abysmally.

mayorall: Haaaaa op why u dey deceive Nigerians. Abeg stop all ds lies. Am a student of Osun state university, am staying in Town. All this pics from the op are fakes, you people can also see from the uniform, Osun schools are now under construction with appropriate fixed capacity per schools so all the schools are currently using same uniform cos of the merging, op pics were during Oyinlola's regime. My brother, if you see the completed ones, I swear u ft komot ur pkin frm private school. Osun schools are now modernised, no renovation at all na reconstruction I swear. This lies dey pain me enta my bone. Anyway, Osun Adara o.

You are a shameless, albeit small-time, liar.

rozayx5: South West Governors, you must be Sleeping
@Eko Ole and CO, bury your head in Shame cause the South West in nothing to write homw About if not for the PRivate Investments in Lagos which are owned by 90% foreigners, right in the middle of VI, and other towns there are millions of potholes and bad roads, which you cannot find in Uyo.
Zenith Bank had to repair Ajose Adeogun Street so that they could use it liek Human beings.
80% of the Air in Lagos Is Dirty and stinking, Garbage disposal at a slow rate, no drainage. I buy water heavily when am in Lagos and here a duncce named Eko Ole posting some pictures of a water works to deceive himself

This is quite true. Many small and medium scale developmental projects, individually directed, yet very consequential when taken together, are undertaken by the many corporate entities that abound in Lagos. That Fasola of a man really has little to brag about in terms of achievement.

Sunny_bobo: A Yoruba friend's new born baby.

Who did this to this child in 2013? Suny Bobo, Igboville things, right? I dey there too

See as una spoil this beautiful thread wey I create for better discussion with this unhelpful my ''Mercedez is bigger than yours'' mentality. But seriously, only a naive person will gloat over token performed by all of the Nigerian state governors, and even more naive are those who attribute gubernatorial achievements to party affiliation.

Dayokanu has always been a comedian that should be taken seriously only when you need a good laff.

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Lagos: Water, water everywhere; non to drink
On March 25, 2013 · In Homes & Property
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BY OLASUNKANMI AKONI AND MONSUR OLOWOOPEJO, with Agency Reports

…Only 10 percent of residents access portable water…
“Cold pure water! Fine pure water!” shouts a girl hawking drinking water on the streets of Lagos, a bustling metropolis almost completely surrounded by water.

This shout echoes out in all towns and many villages across Africa’s most populous country and the continent’s largest oil producer.

These small cellophane water bags – unlike tap water – are readily available, and come chilled.

Water experts say that they are anything but pure, but that means nothing to the millions of Nigerians who have no access to good, clean water.

Lagos is the unofficial headquarters of the “pure” water industry and has many fans.

“It is neatly presented and easily available. In Lagos it is much more dangerous to take tap water than pure water,” an enthusiastic customer explains.
One of the waters in Lagos

One of the waters in Lagos

Detractors complain, however, that pure water producers – who are meant to drill boreholes and purify the water privately – pilfer the water from state water pipes.

Until some years ago, these pipes reached woefully few areas of the city.

But the chief executive officer of the Lagos Water Corporation, Olumuyiwa Coker, says things are slowly improving since he’s come to the helm of the state authority.

“Right now we have 50% coverage. We expect that in the next 10 years that should increase to between 70%-80%. What we inherited four of five years ago was really a sector that was virtually comatose,” he says.

Epileptic electricity
Lagos’s first potable water supply plant was established at Iju, more than 80 years ago. Today the city’s population – an estimated 20million – has far outstripped the production capacity of the Iju Waterworks.

So with only half the population having potable water – and that’s when the pumps are working – have state authorities simply being ignoring the problem?

Not more than 10 per cent of Lagos’s resident have no access to potable water

It appears not: a much bigger second plant to boost supply has been built at Adiyan, reputed to be the biggest in Africa. “This plant was commissioned in 1991 to produce 70million gallons per day,” Production Manager Mustapha Olajide Agiri says.

“Technically there is no problem. Our major constraint is with the power supply, as on average we only get about 16 hours a day.”
Lagos residents at a public water supply point

Lagos residents at a public water supply point

Indeed, at both Iju and Adiyan waterworks, it is the epileptic electricity supply from the national energy company that is hampering production and bumping up costs. They have to resort to diesel generators which, officials say, makes the production very expensive.

Money matters
As far as the public is concerned, however, the main water problem, apart from insufficiency, is its quality. But the production engineer at Iju Waterworks is adamant that his plant meets international standards.

“It has good stability and a pH of 7.0, which is one of the best in the world. The quality of the water we pump is comparable even with Europe,” Ehunmi said.

He explains that the colouring found in tap water in many areas is a result of contamination in the pipes laid by consumers to take the water into their premises.

The UN’s target to halve the number of people without safe drinking water by 2015 is something the Lagos Water Corporation is committed to, Mr Coker says.

“Essentially what it entails is increasing our infrastructure to probably twice the size it is now by 2015. But to do this, the corporation needs resources, which is unlikely to be forthcoming from the state government and other sources of revenue such as the participation with the private sector are being considered. We need between $1.8bn to $2bn in the next 10 years to actualise these goals”, he says

As in so many other sectors, it is the availability of funds that will eventually decide whether or not the people of Lagos beat poverty and get good, safe drinking water in 10 years’ time.

Government both at the Federal and State levels and the Private sector have been at the fore front of providing portable water for the populace. Nigeria Water and Sanitation Association, NIWASA, is the umbrella body for water Engineers and Sanitation expert in Nigeria.

At a stakeholders forum to sensitize residents of Lagos West Senatorial District, last week, the Technical committee for the development of the water supply and sanitation sector policy for Lagos state, disclosed that only 2.1 million out of about 20 million residents of the state have access to portable water daily. This represents some 10 per cent of the residents.

It is worthy of note that the state government, through the Lagos Water Corporation, LWC, has three major water works: Iju, Adiyan and Isasi works and 48 mini schemes scattered across the state. It has also completed the construction of the Ota-Ikosi Water Works that will be commissioned later in the year. When fully in operation, it is expected to increase the total installed water production capacity for the state to 900 million litres per day. These are expected to provide water sufficiently for 8 million residents of the state.

Over 70 per cent of houses in Lagos lack public water supply. The major source of water is through boreholes and wells while other residents patronises water hawkers, known as “Merua” who sell at exorbitant prices.

Those who can not afford them trek long distances to fetch water from public taps or get cheaper water vendors. One of the unwholesome practices is that in some cases desperate residents go for any burst water pipe, no matter the location to get water for their domestic needs. Some of the pipes are located in the gutters, refuse sites among others.

olivertwist: I said 50% of those poor kids in the pictures? Now tell me how the parents of those kids will own more than 50% of Lagos and pay more than 50% of the taxes, thereby contributing more than 50% of the economy of Lagos like you said. Are you serious or you are joking?

You must be kidding yourself.

Have you seen the threads on Ogun, Oyo and Osun? I could add Ekiti and Ondo to complete the show.

So Eko Ile has, for the past several days, been posting carefully selected pictures of Lagos while posting bad ones of others states, especially of those states perceived as ACN political enemies. Today I decided to demonstrate to him how vain and empty, or at best mediocre, his paymasters' achievements have been in their various states. I posted counter photos to show that the problem is everywhere, more so in the ACN controlled states. Which brings me to the question: Are we now all agreed that all regions of Nigeria are rotten?

West, East, North and South, all are severely dilapidated. Eko Ile, no more posting of selected ''good'' photos to deceive the unwary. For every 2 good photos of Lagos you post on any topic, I will post 10 bad ones on the same topic. So no more over-hyping of any Governor. All are deficient and incompetent, considering the revenue they generate internally, the federal allocation they get, and the infrastructure already on ground before they took over. For example, Lagos was Nigeria's capital for many years, yet=====.

dayokanu: Politically - Olusegun Obasanjo

Academics - Wole Soyinka

Entertainment - Fela Anikulapo

Business - Otunba Mike Adenuga

Who can beat these icons

So Obasanjo (PDP) is now the perfect Yoruba politician, and no longer Tinubu (ACN).

Hahaha!! These ode burukus no go kill person. Talk about speakig from both sides of one's mouth

olivertwist: @OP,

You'll be shocked that more than 50% of those kids in the pictures above are Igbos and other non-Yorubas( this is a fact). This is what we are talking about regarding population explosion in Lagos. As I'm typing, thousands of family are entering Lagos from the villages especially outside SW thereby over-stretching the educational infrastructures in Lagos state.

And what can Fashola do than to accept and cater for them by continue to build new modern schools and facilities as shown by Eko-Ile in order to accommodate them all as they are leaders of tomorrow. Afterall, they are Nigerians.

Another factor is that of scarcity of land in Lagos unlike other states. Hence the reason why most old schools are been demolished for new ones.

Eko o ni baje

So in essence non-Yoruba own more than 50% of Lagos and pay more than 50% of the taxes, thereby contributing more than 50% of the economy of Lagos. I dey laff oh! You guys want to eat your cake and still have it.

Sunny_bobo: Does that change the fact that Michael Adeboloja is from the South West?

There are two of them terrorists and it was not a coincidence that both are Yorubas

ballabriggs: Oh because he shows you photos of some dilapidated schools in the South East you bring up photos of a few schools in Enugu to counter him.

I dey laugh. Why una like to dey deceive una self like this?

Fact is most of the public schools in the South East are in a sorry state. Some of them are old schools that use to be very good in the past but they have been neglected for a long time.

I once took a trip to Government College Umuahia and I wanted to cry. A school that had produced a lot of top elites had been left to rot.

So please, the best you will have done is to acknowledge that there are problems and that leaders are working hard to address the issues (even if it is a lie) rather than put up photos of a few schools that serve less than 20% of the school age children in Enugu.

All the public schools in Nigeria are dilapidated. Go beyond the state capitals to rural areas, even of Rivers and Bayelsa with all the oil money.