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salam001: To aspiring actors,mind the role you act,this man was always acting a Cripple

That's highly INSENSITIVE...

Yomieluv: What is the purpose of Guild of Actors,can't they raise fund for him,when the infection was still manageable?our artiste hate themselves a lot,same way Dagrin was left to die,when he had the car accident.

I don't think it was due to lack of funds. The article said...

The actor is said to have sustained an injury sometime last year and due to lack of proper care, it became infected and degenerated to a sore. His condition was made worse by the fact that he was suffering from diabetes.

MAYBE the initial injury was overlooked..

This is very sad. Sir, this isn't the end of the world.
The Joy of the lord is your stronghold....

At last we know she's innocent...
Can we now shake hands, hug and move on.....



But then, I think someone has to be taught a lesson....

Brand_new: I could be right and you never can tell.
There could still be a bad egg among them and there is corruption everywhere even at the London MET and i want to believe there's no smoke without fire so how come today she's caught with loads of cash and tomorrow she's screaming how much she has conquered .

Read between the lines people.

If I were you, I'd go back and edit the original post to something more sensible..

Then I'd get ready to enroll in the nearest govt. Secondary school to get some basic education..

Brand_new: I'm suspecting the story got covered up. Maybe the Governor and his crew found a way to sweep the whole episode under the carpet. Even the London Metropolitan police will cave in under some political pressure.

I hate to say this, but Sir, ur post makes a whole lot of NONSENSE...

Yes ooo. We'll miss them a lot.....

A part of me believes this ban will ßξ a blessing in disguise for some of those Okada-men. They will now have no choice but to think of more ingenious ways of sustaining themselves, skill acquisition, agriculture etc...

But the hardship for commuters aint funny at all!!!

Like I said, we can make photocopies of my passport for verification.

Abeg when them go release the photocopy??

She said: “I have never had any encounter with the London Metropolitan Police and I will never do.

Shame on PM News.....

I think the way our Policemen parade suspects is crude and inappropriate.

Our journalists also are kinda lazy, no follow-up story on what happens after the suspects are paraded. The truth is that many paraded suspects are innocent people, who were at the wrong place at the wrong time

take dat: In short PDP won all the Local Government seats in Lagos abi? How are we to know this accusation of yours is true or you were the returning officer for all the councils. The only council where PDP had outright victory during the polls was Obalende- Ikoyi.
You make it seem as if Lagosians are so much in love with PDP

I weak for the guy oooo....

floriana: Orubebe is one of the untouchables in GEJ cabinet. But going to court? I have my doubts

IMPOSSI-CANT. If he goes to court, he'll be shamed because most of their illegal activities will ßξ exposed.

I think its an empty threat, dragging an activist to court is as Good as broadcasting your allegations to a wider audience. He will ignore it and as usual, we'll forget very soon....

@NDU_Chucks:

Some of the companies privatised are currently in COMA. Businessmen only invest where they perceive that there will be maximum Return On Investment (ROI) irrespective of whether it is necessary for survival.

In Nigeria currently, agriculture isn't seen by many investors as having a very high ROI. I think the state governments are doing the right thing if they invest in that sector considering its importance to the well-being of the populace. When private interests in that area is sufficient to take care of the needs of the populace, govt will definitely stop being involved fully in the sector.

What we should be asking for is transparency in the dealings of the establishment, as well as implementation of best practices in their policy formulation ‎​Άnd implementation...

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Posted by daniel in Home » Nigerian News on October 31, 2012 - Leave Your Comment

Elder Godsday Orubebe, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs has threatened to drag former House of Representatives member, Dino Melaye, to court over allegations that the ministry awarded fictitious contracts to the sum of N29 billion.


Melaye, who is the Executive Secretary of Anti-Corruption Network, had at a press briefing in Abuja, Monday, alleged that over N29 billion had been cornered through fictitious contracts by the ministry.

He said: “I have also consulted my lawyers and I hope that Dino Melaye will also be ready to meet me in court because I am heading to the court.”

While describing Melaye as an undertaker and a handy tool for sordid jobs, the minister said: “There was a process through which contracts were awarded.




“Evaluations of contracts are not done by the Ministry of Niger Delta. If proposals are generated by the Ministry of Niger Delta, it will go to the Due Process office.

“That is what is contained in the Due Process Act, which he was part of. He has come to tell Nigerians that he never read that law. He was just in the House of Representatives.”

“All the processes were done by the Due Process office. Of course, by that Act, any project that is above N1 billion will have to go to the Federal Executive Council, FEC.

“It was sad that Dino just went to the National Assembly; he was just there making ordinary noise and he didn’t know anything. I think what he is going through is what I will like to term adulthood madness and recklessness.”

www.informationnigeria.org/2012/10/orubebe-threatens-to-drag-dino-melaye-to-court-over-n29-billion-allegation.html

He added that “other States such as Bauchi, Osun, Ekiti, Oyo and Katsina are favourably considering the State’s requests for farm lands.

Fash dey vex for the food matter ooo..

rileest: No, I didn't check the source but that does not in any way diminish my point about the Title being misleading... I was only making a point

No wonder.....

Lagos acquires 50 hectares of land in Abuja, and Ogun to cultivate food

The Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has revealed that the state government has acquired about 50 hectares of land in Abuja and neighbouring Ogun State for cultivation of food to support its agriculture and job-creation scheme.

Fashola made this known on Wednesday while he was speaking about the state government’s agricultural scheme as he was presenting the states 2013 budget estimated at N497.277billion to the State House of assembly.

Admitting the challenge of limited land in the coastal city, the governor stated that “due to the limited amount of land the State has to cultivate, the administration is pursuing a radical alternative of acquiring land for farming outside Lagos.”

According to the Governor, “the administration has already secured 50 hectares in Abuja, and Ogun State which is four times bigger than Lagos in land size for cultivation.” He added that “other States such as Bauchi, Osun, Ekiti, Oyo and Katsina are favourably considering the State’s requests for farm lands.”

The administration is also cultivating 75 hectares of land for rice under its Rice for Jobs programme while the irrigation project to improve, yield and produce rice per hectare is progressing positively in Badagry.

Reeling out his administration’s further achievement in the agricultural sector, the governor stated that the 500 hectares of land was recently allocated for rice farming to feed the Imota Rice mill just as his administration has successfully completed the Imota Rice Mill in Ikorodu, the Erikorodo Feed Mill, the Erikorodo Chicken Processing Plant, also in Ikorodu and revitalized Ikorodu Fish Farm Estate.

The governor added that in Epe, the Agric Youth Empowerment Scheme is progressing with the training of a new batch of 200 graduates for whom the Executive Council recently approved the release of N500M that will be given to them shortly along with one hectare of land per farmer to enable them start formal production.

The Governor who also spoke about a very massive storm that hit Lagos on 17th August 2012 which adversely affected Kuramo beach, Goshen Beach Estate, Oniru Estate and Alpha Beach explained that the government has designed a coastal protection plan with its consultants from the Netherlands, that will stretch for about 7 kilometres to protect Kuramo, Victoria Island Extension, Oniru Estate, Goshen Beach Estate and Alpha Beach.

“It will cost about N40billion to implement it over at least two budgetary cycles. Without help, we are constrained to finance and implement the plan in phases to arrest the immediate threats and then deliver the protection” he said.

While noting that the Federal Government gave the State a B Risk categorization with a support of only N400million, Governor Fashola said the State viewing its risk problem differently has had to act expeditiously.

Breakdown of N497.277billion budget for 2013         

The 2013 budget comprised of capital expenditure of N268.364billion and recurrent figure of N139.173billion, exceeding the 2012 Budget by 1.08%.

The budget’s capital expenditure to recurrent ratio for the year 2013 is 54:46 as against 53:47 in 2012.

The sectorial allocation of the Budget in size and percentage are as follows: General Public Service- N114.076billion which amounts to 22.94%, Public Order & Safety- N18.799billion which is 3.78%, Economic Affairs-N156.273billion which is-31.43%,Environmental Protection-N44.131billion which is 8.87%, Housing & CommunityAmenities-N46.149billion which is -9.28%, Health- N42.498billion which is 8.55%, Recreation, Culture & Religion-N5.749billion which amounts to 1.16%, Education-64.343billion which is 12.94%, Social Protection-N3.259billion which amounts to 0.66%, Contingency-N2.000billion which is 0.44% all totalling N497.277billion.

The governor explained that in keeping faith with the promise that he made during the 2012 Budget presentation to gradually reduce the deficit and borrowing as the tenure approaches its terminal date, it has moved from a borrowing of N89 Billion in 2011 to N66 Billion in 2012 and now proposed a further reduction to N40Billion.

“The size of the deficit is reducing while our Consolidated Debt Service Account has grown to N60 Billion and will reach N95 Billion by the end of our tenure and that will be after we would have repaid the N50 Billion first tranche of the Bond Series”, he stated.

He also said the proposed deficit financing requirement for the 2013 Budget is N40.537billion which is 0.3% of the State’s GDP compared to 1.19% which was earmarked in 2012.

2012 budget implementation performance of 72%

The Governor also highlighted some of the challenges faced by the 2012 budget which included the depreciating value of the Naira against the Dollar which exchanged for N118 in 2007 and rose to N160 in 2012.

He drew attention to the high cost of funds represented by growing interest and borrowing rates, from about 10% in 2007 to 17% in 2011, which was an increase of 70%.

“At the end of the 3rd Quarter Budget presentation, we achieved an aggregate budget implementation performance of 72% for the period January to September 2012. The breakdown has been presented in our quarterly briefings as 65% in Q1, 84% in Q2 and 65% in Q3”.

He said although the State had recorded increases in its IGR, they did not increase by these percentage quantum, adding that in addition to these there were issues of increases to the pump prices of petrol which disrupted plans and the consequential need to re-price all contracts and projects that had been planned for implementation in order to ensure that the plans remained realistic and responsive to the dynamics that suddenly changed.

The Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Honourable Adeyemi Ikuforiji while speaking gave a commitment that the House of Assembly would give the necessary expeditious legislative consideration of the proposed Budget.....

www.channelstv.com/home/2012/10/31/lagos-acquires-50-hectares-of-land-in-abuja-and-ogun-to-cultivate-food/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

rileest: I can't but wonder why some people chose to take medicine for another man's headache and you have just proven to be one of those semi-Illiterates because the point you raised here did not in any way dispute my earlier claim but only raised another point entirely. My post was in response to the OP's title of the post which was obviously misleading and that's what I tried to point you. If you want to reply to my post, you should at least allow your post to be in direct contradiction to mine

Sir, did you check the "source", that's how Channels TV put it...

dennis79687968: How dt one take affect the price of garri

Dede1: The time around is 2012 not 1951, olodo.

Help me explain to him that the era of "amala-politics" is over.. .

Billyonaire: Sir, LASIEC and INEC are humans too, just as you and me. GodFathers always make people offers they can not refuse, remember the movie ?

I remember.

I struck out that sentence partly because in my opinion Fash performed in his 1st tenure and was massively voted for. In his case, rigging wouldn't ßξ necessary, the role of the Godfather would ßξ to ensure that the votes count..

Ikwere fist son: yorubas nd dia noise agan

Here they come again....

Billyonaire: Educated man, every little success leads to a final success. Councillorship position not withstanding, its an indicator that ACN rigged its way. 2 overturns from ACN to PDP shows that the process was fraudulent, not free, not fair.[s]One can not be wrong to say that its possible that the Governor was rigged in.[/s]

Appropriately edited...
Sir, The Gubernatorial election was organised by INEC not LASIEC...

shymexx: ^^^Eat a dyck and swallow the cu.m, cu.m bucket...

I don't have time for your trolling, cu.nt...

Keep responding to the fool and you'd have a "Sovereign National CU.NT-FENCE" in place of the proposed SNC.....

take dat: Guess the hope left is either allow Kudos to Lagos State Government for giving a relatively state controlled judiciary autonomy to adjudicate on cases without interference. Most state Governments would have exerted pressure on their judiciary to give judgement that favours their party.

Very true...

all4naija: The images quality is very poor. Please, try to upload something better because I can see them clearly.

Go buy "quality" fone....

Demdem: Democracy at work.

Exactly.

take dat: Government needs to take conduct of local Government elections from state controlled electoral bodies. All local Government elections in Nigeria are always rigged in favour of the ruling Party in those states.

By the way this is a councillorship seat.

The same way INEC can be influenced by the PDP led FG..

seanet01: No PDP chairman will eventually man any local government in Lagos. Mark my word

Why?? If the PDP guy actually won, then he will definitely ßξ sworn in. There's nothing anyone can do about it....

Mr. Globe:
ACN rigirigi

ACN has a lot of sitting up to do. It seems that those at the grass-root level aren't performing. Fashola's goodwill is the only thing that seems to be holding them in place...

ACN loses another council to PDP in Lagos

The Local Government Election Petition Tribunal in Lagos State has declared Abdulrauf Adelekan of People’s Democratic Party (PDP), as the winner of the council election to Ward E, Mende Local Government Area of the state.

This is coming after the election tribunal earlier in the month declared the candidate of the PDP in last year’s local council polls, Ibrahim Babajide Obanikoro, as the duly elected Chairman of the Ikoyi/Obalende Local Council Development Area (LCDA).

Delivering the ruling on Wednesday, the five-man panel led by Justice Dolapo Akinsanya granted the application of the PDP’s candidate based on the argument that the evidence submitted by the Action Congress of Nigeria candidate (ACN), Ogungade Omotayo Aibinu was contradictory.

The panel also claimed that lawyers to the ACN failed to dislodge any of the evidences submitted by the PDP’s legal team.

The applicant had alleged that the ACN connived with Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) to present a figure that did not match the figure submitted by the polling agents and the Police on the day of the election.

Reacting to the judgement, LASIEC counsel, Osasu Isibor said “the judgement was against the weight of evidence”.

He also alleged that the court used facts and evidence that were not pleaded by the applicant, which he described as a ‘non-issue’.

The lawyer however declared that LASIEC will immediately file a notice of appeal of the judgment, noting that the PDP candidate will have to wait till the appeal is concluded, before he can assume the councillor’s office

www.channelstv.com/home/2012/10/31/acn-loses-another-council-to-pdp-in-lagos/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

Let's get a more reliable source, thanks all the same...

Clemzy16: Gov. Ajimobi is trying to reap where he did not sow. We are know that the media play an important role in our everyday life. Afterall, the story was an "Alledge." not necessarily saying she was actually arrested. Besides, there is no smoke without a fire. Also, The Nigerian media has always been known for publishing what i will refer to as rather un-true stories. You know the I-did-this, I-did-that attitute. Everybody want to be the first to publish a story. It's more like a competition. An example is "SaharaReports." whom bombarded us with fake news about the health of the first lady. They published differents sicknesses whom they claimed was the problem affecting the first lady. They also came on air to disclose that the first story was false and the new one was true, and the new one was false that the next one is true. That is what they did until the first lady finally arrived the country safely. Above-all, did the president santion or sue them?! Probably it was just a false alarm that P.M news got that made them to publish the story. What i had expected the governor to do was to come out to clear the air that his wife was never arrested, Report to P.M news and asked them to publish another story insisted that she was not arrested. With that i don't think there would be any need for sueing or what-have-you.

Suing PM news is the "gentlemanly" way of addressing a false publication. It's a civilised and legal approach.

It's far better than the brutal clampdown on media houses we saw in the past...

Billyonaire: Mr Ajimobi needs to step down pending the results of Independent Investigations. If Mr Ajimobi makes any visit to the UK, he needs to be arrested and investigated.

SOH KAH TOA: How this is making the front page, I don't understand. In a sane cline, Ajimobi should be thinking of stepping aside for thorough investigation.. Sue my ass, is that a ploy to cow PM news? Let the dance of shame begin.

If it is true that his wife was arrested for money laundering in the UK, then I'd expect him to resign honourably.... However, let's confirm first that she was arrested for the offence, then I'll lend my big voice to call for his resignation....