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@OP
Have you been following events to date? When they brazenly embezzled and looted $18 billion sunk into defence and security between 2010 and now you can still take this latest demand for $1 billion as anything other than a shameless attempt to garner funds for the upcoming 2015 "do or die" election? |
| Properties › Re: Fashola Commissions Oba Lateef Adeyemi Housing Estate. PIC by Gbawe: 6:14pm On Jul 22, 2014 |
UrbanMystique: I thought they said fashola only works for Islanders ? Only deceitful m0r0ns say that and we all all know precisely what motivates them to say such nonsense. I am from Surulere and have never tired of explaining to folks that those who claim Fashola is elitist and working only for Island-dwellers are wicked and evil elements who do not truly love Lagos and the transformation she is seeing under Fashola. |
| Properties › Re: Fashola Commissions Oba Lateef Adeyemi Housing Estate. PIC by Gbawe: 2:35pm On Jul 22, 2014 |
@Ekoile. Bruv, keep up the good work. The entire world , full of intelligent and progressive minds, has identified what Fashola and even Tinubu have done to turn Lagos round and position it as the leader of the modern era of African Nation-States defying the maladministration of clueless and weak central Government to become independently powerful centres of socio-economic strength and progress. We know those, because of their hateful disposition, who will continue to have contrary opinion to that held by a world happy to highlight and celebrate progress and development wherever such is seen and regardless of who/what is responsible for delivering laudable socio-economic growth. Some illiterates and empty braggarts will come here shouting they "developed" Lagos, when such is mysteriously not possible for the States in their own region of origin, whereas the article below makes it crystal clear that it is effective leadership, which knows no ethnicity, allowing Lagos, Accra et al become the powerfully attractive Nation-State entities they are today. Eko o ni Baje. In fact, the article below makes it amply clear that "olanrewaju ni oruko keji Eko". http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/how-africas-new-urban-centers-are-shifting-its-old-colonial-boundaries/277425/How Africa's New Urban Centers Are Shifting Its Old Colonial Boundaries
The continent's booming new economic zones are outstripping the ability of weak central governments to retain their hold on them.
HOWARD W. FRENCHJUL 1 2013, 10:01 AM ET
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Heavy traffic on a bridge in the Ikoyi neighbourhood in Lagos on March 27, 2012. (Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters)
Twice as populous today as the next biggest African country, Nigeria, which was cobbled together as a colony 100 years ago, has always stood out on its continent as the most ambitious and in many ways fanciful creation of British imperialism.
First, it was given its name in 1897 by Flora Shaw, a journalist for the London Times, and then run by her eventual husband, Lord Lugard, a former army officer and civil servant who recognized from the outset, even as he unified what had been a hodgepodge collection of protectorates, that its disparate regions had almost nothing common.
Almost from the moment of its independence in 1960, Britain's fractious, artificial concoction has been falling apart, haunted by the twin specters of state failure and breakup.
In the country's first decade, it was riven by the Biafran War, a vicious, ethnically driven bid for secession by its southeasterners that killed 2 million people and still ranks as one of the continent's deadliest civil conflicts.
An oil boom in the 1970s briefly seemed to promise widespread prosperity. Instead, it brought a long period of runaway corruption, military coups, and abysmal misrule that have left 60 percent of the population living under the poverty line.
Civilian government and democracy were restored to Nigeria in 1999, but this has not meant the arrival of competent national leadership, nor to a halt in the procession of crises.
This decade has been marked by the alarming spread of terrorist attacks by Islamic extremists in the overwhelmingly Muslim northern half of the country, and by the rampant piracy of oil, Nigeria's main source of revenue, in the southeast.
But from the perspective of a fast-arriving future, even threats like these to the authority of Nigeria's federal government may soon pale alongside a far more fundamental challenge to national cohesion: Nigeria's phenomenal population growth.
Presently, almost all of sub-Saharan Africa is growing at sustained rates unmatched in modern history. In this regard, Mali, Nigeria's resource-poor and largely desertified West African neighbor, is fairly typical. The United Nations projects that the country, one of the world's ten poorest nations, will see its population rise to nearly 50 million by mid-century from its present base of about 16 million.
Nigeria, a rambunctiously energetic country with roughly twice the area of California, may be on a slightly slower growth path, but its already huge size makes its trajectory far more dramatic. The country's headcount is expected to double from a shade under 200 million today to 400 million by 2050, and by century's end will reach an almost unimaginable 750 million -- more than half the size of China -- according to the UN's cautious median projections.
Given the disastrous nature of so much news from Africa, one could easily expect this to be a story about hellish population bombs. It is not. Rather, it is a look at how booming demographics are fueling economic growth in many parts of Africa, while at the same time radically stressing the continent's political geography.
More specifically, it is a glimpse at how urban centers led by Lagos, Africa's biggest city, are positioning themselves to accomplish what any number of rebel groups and secessionists movements have failed to achieve since the continent's independence era commenced in the late 1950s: redraw a remarkably static political map of Africa, imposed by European imperialists over a century ago.
Here and there already, the continent's biggest cities are spawning enormous urban corridors that are spilling over borders and creating vigorous new economic zones that are outstripping the ability of weak and plodding central governments to manage or even retain their hold on them.
Lagos, which sits in the southwestern corner of Nigeria, sprawled over a collection of islands and swampy coastlands, occupies the leading edge of this phenomenon. Today, its extraordinary growth is driving sweeping changes in a five-country region that stretches 500 miles westward along a band of palm-shaded seaboard all the way to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, a mushrooming city of perhaps six million people that has long been this region's other major economic and cultural pole.
In between them, in one of the busiest staging areas of the historic Atlantic slave trade, West Africa is laying the foundations of one of the world's biggest megalopolises, and in Lagos itself, the start of a potentially powerful new city-state.
With an estimated 18 million people (no one knows for sure) Lagos has grown in size nearly 40-fold since independence, and its expansion is still accelerating. Nigerian demographers estimate that as many as 5,000 newcomers migrate here every day, putting Lagos on track to easily double in size again before mid-century, when it will be a top contender for the title of the world's largest city.
[b]For decades, Lagos suffered one of the worst images of any city in the world, known widely as a place of thieving politicians, streets that crackled with danger, rotting infrastructure and "go-slows," the monstrous, daily traffic jams in which people melt in their seats in the stifling, humid heat while praying they won't be held up at gunpoint by robbers. The city's most famous native son, the late musician, Fela, even coined a shorthand term for the Lagos's litany of hardships: "impossibility-ism."
But with the outside world having almost written it off, Lagos has recently enjoyed a prolonged run of strong economic growth, swelling its GDP to twice the size of Kenya's, the richest and most important nation in East Africa. And while booming like this, Lagos has also begun to quietly develop a reputation for some of the most effective local governments in all of West Africa.
Under the leadership of a succession of ambitious, modernizing governors from the opposition Action Party, Lagos has embarked on an unprecedented construction spree, building freeways, sub-Saharan Africa's first metro system outside of South Africa, and public housing units on a large scale. At the same time, this famously rough place has even added subtler quality of life improvements like the proliferation of public green spaces.[/b]
In a torrential afternoon rain one day, I drove to the seafront of Victoria Island, Lagos's main business and financial quarter, to visit one of the city's most ambitious new developments, a vast real estate project known as Eko Atlantic City. It is an entirely new district will house 250,000 people in high-rise apartment buildings, banks in corporate office towers, other businesses and hotels, and an 18-mile tramway.
With physical space for expansion fast running out, to build it, the city is filling in with rocks and sand 9 million square meters of ocean, an area one and a half times larger than Victoria Island itself.
For now, all that one can see is a vast, flat expanse of sand that stretches to the horizon, its southern border defined by a nearly 4.5-mile long seawall of boulders and concrete tetrapods piled high to hold back the ocean.
Ten enormous dump trucks filled with large rocks rumbled by while I climbed atop the seawall. On average, I was told, 300 of them unburden themselves of their 25-30 ton loads every day.
"Land used to exist here," a guide in hardhat told me, as we stood on the newly packed sand. "It took about 100 years for the ocean to reach that point," she said, gesturing toward Victoria Island's Bar Beach in the distance.
If Lagos alone were growing like this, the disruption it would pose to the region's staid political order would be marginal. But along with the world's fastest population growth, over the next several decades Africa will also experience the highest urbanization rates anywhere on the planet. In this decade alone, cities in West Africa will swell by an additional 58 million people, according to the United Nations.
Between 2020 to 2030, an additional 69 million people will fill out the region's bulging cities, and urbanization rates will continue accelerating like this at least until mid-century.
As a result, demographers foresee the emergence of hundreds of new, full-fledged cities born from what are now modest, faceless towns, as well as many others simply created from scratch that will begin popping to life like stars born from gathering dust in the cosmos.
Most existing cities, meanwhile, will undergo enormous expansion, swelling beyond recognition from what they have looked like only recently. Here and there, new urban corridors will spring up, along the lines of the 50-million strong 400-mile stretch of eastern seaboard between Boston and Washington, D.C., only far more populous.
And this is where Africa's new political geography comes in. A simple tally of the projections for the three principal cities in this corridor, Lagos, Abidjan, and Accra, adds up to a mid-century population of 54 million.
[b]To this, however, one must add places like Ibadan, Nigeria (presently 2 million people), only 80 miles from Lagos, Takoradi, Ghana (500,000 people), and the capitals of what are today sovereign countries, Lomé, Togo (1.5 million) and Cotonou, Benin (1.2 million). Throw in the countless other towns and cities along the way that will be swelling or springing to life, and the foreseeable result is a dense and nearly unbroken urban zone from end to end.
While I was in Abidjan on a recent visit, ground was broken on a multilane highway project that will run eastward along the coast, to Ghana, replacing the familiar old, potholed carriage road that for decades has rambled through brine-swept palm oil plantations.
A few weeks later in Nigeria, I visited an immense new Chinese industrial zone being built on the far eastern outskirts of Lagos, the Lekki Free Zone, a 60-40 joint venture between a Chinese consortium and the Lagos State government that is being promoted as West Africa's answer to Dubai.
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Even if that seems like a stretch, global energy firms and Chinese manufacturers of everything from furniture and palm oil products, to solar panels and automobiles, have already become early, enthusiastic investors. A Singaporean company, meanwhile, is at work building a deep-water port, which is due to begin operations in 2015, and to the immediate northwest of the zone, a new international airport is also under construction.
Investment in the zone represents a bet that if the government can provide land and labor at internationally competitive rates, along with reliable power supply and streamlined immigration and customs formalities, foreign investors will flock to the area. Their aim would not only be to manufacture things for export to faraway markets, but to take advantage of the emerging West African megalopolis's attractive demographics, including high population density and a fast-rising middle class.
Arguably the most important of that city's recent mega-projects is the Badagry Expressway, a newly opened, ten-lane road and rail corridor that will soon push onward to the nearby border with Benin.
Far more than a simple road, the highway is the physical embodiment of the politically transformative integration to come -- think the I-95 of West Africa. At some point before long, it will merge with the highway being built eastward from Ivory Coast, perhaps somewhere in Ghana. But even before that can happen, tiny Benin and Togo, countries whose sliver-thin shapes mark them as conspicuous examples of fanciful European mapmaking, will face a powerful new existential challenge.
The most sacrosanct rule of continental politics in the post-independence era has always been the taboo on tampering with Africa's borders, which almost every state has recognized as arbitrary and irrational, and yet equally essential. The Europeans may have consulted no Africans in drawing them up, but to renounce them now would be to open a gigantic Pandora's box, and a recipe for endless, costly conflict.
But now the massive growth of cities in the region points to ways that borders and the nation states they contain can be overtaken or even rendered irrelevant without war or confrontation.
Like that of Lagos, well-managed, democratic Ghana's resource-driven economy is booming, meaning that for Togo and Benin, the two little backwaters sandwiched in between them, hopes of prosperity will increasingly mean hitching their fortunes to those of their far larger neighbors. This will steadily force French speakers in these countries to opt for English, at a minimum, as the language of business and opportunity. And the switch of colonial languages is likely to be merely the first step toward unprecedented integration.
In fact, many see Lagos's creeping interpenetration of Benin as being already well under way, pointing to a 2003 incident as an important milestone. It involved an armed robber from neighboring Benin who attacked a car owned by a close friend of the sitting Nigerian president's daughter. The bandit fled back to Benin to escape arrest, but Nigeria punitively closed its border, which essentially meant cutting off trade with Lagos, Benin's lifeline. Within 72 hours the suspect was arrested and delivered to Nigerian authorities.
"We already have houses on the border where the sitting room is in Nigeria and the bedroom is in Benin," said F.A.D. Oyekunmi, a demographer at University of Lagos. "I think Benin will remain the Benin Republic, but the string of communities that will spring up along the Badagary Expressway, all the way to the border and beyond, will become the nucleus of one new, giant and integrated urban area -- one economy."
The biggest challenge posed by the growth of Lagos and the consolidation of an enormous, sub-regional economic zone around it, however, is not to the city's minuscule neighbors. Rather, it is to Nigeria's continued existence as a unitary nation.
If present trends continue, in another decade or two, Lagos's economy will surpass the size of the rest of Nigeria.
What has held the country together in the past, however tenuously, is the redistribution of money earned from the country's oil exports. But this is changing fast, as Lagos booms and its dependence on this ever more thinly sliced revenue -- what Nigerian politicians call the "national cake" -- dwindles.
"If [Lagos's] GDP continues to rise the way it is, the federal contribution to [the city] could shrink to 5 percent," Folarin Gbadebo-Smith, the director of a leading independent Nigerian think tank, the Center for Policy Alternatives told me in an interview in his stylish offices. "What you would end up with is a virtual country. All of the parameters, absent an army, police and currency of your own, are there. We are good to go."
Not everyone agrees that Lagos can achieve this kind of autonomy through economic change alone. But as strong as it is, growth may only be the second most important challenge the city poses to the nation.
After decades of drift, Nigeria's own people increasingly see Africa's largest country as broken and fundamentally unworkable, perhaps beyond repair. Nigeria is the world's 11th largest oil producer, and yet it imports all of its gasoline -- it does not have a single working refinery. Just as gallingly for Africa's energy powerhouse, most of its citizens live without electricity from the grid |
| Properties › Re: Fashola Commissions Oba Lateef Adeyemi Housing Estate. PIC by Gbawe: 2:03pm On Jul 22, 2014 |
Aigbofa: Wow! I'm impressed by what I'm seeing here. May God bless Fashola, and may God bless Lagos State. Bros forget. Real Lagosians who love Lagos unreservedly know the impressive difference Fashola has made everywhere and in virtually every sector. |
| Politics › Re: Why Jonathan Is Impeaching Every Body – Nda-isaiah by Gbawe(op): 1:50pm On Jul 22, 2014 |
donphilopus: Like the way Gov. Idris Wada of Kogi has been satisfying the people of Kogi State, right?! It's only a fool who would say that the current impeachment saga is not politically motivated! Please ignore the cretin. We all know threads like these are not for Jonathanians because they are only capable of contributing insult and loutish behaviour. We all know the current impeachment brouhaha is politically motivated. The substantive point is that no one will argue against the meritorious impeachment of administrators guilty of gross misconduct in office. If that is the case with Nigeria, and a level playing field exists, then Jonathan would have been impeached many moons ago. Indeed, as per damage done to Nigeria leading to loss of lives and great suffering for the masses, then GEJ is number one of those deserving impeachment ASAP. If misrulers, from any Party at all, are consistently impeached as at when their gross misconduct is exposed then no Nigerian will have a problem with what is going on now same as no one has a problem with criminals being put behind bars in sane society because that is what happens all the time and regardless of who a criminal is affiliated with. When it is now selective impeachment galore (affecting mainly leaders opposed to the unpopular ambition of a failure Nigeria would do well to see the back of) then we all know this will end in tears for those always too historically clannish and ethnocentric to see what this development portends for Nigeria. Ironically, this is all so predictable as Nda-Isaiah concludes when he states "the president should not think that he will do all these and continue till 2019". When , inevitably, others begin to fight back with whatever means they deem necessary to survive dictatorship and oppression, it is the traditional moaners who always senselessly queue behind flawed men and futile/doomed missions, in a cult-like manner, who will begin to cry and play victim. They will never remember when they failed to be reasonable and rejected all appeal to support what is fair. They will forget how they clannishly backed dictatorial and oppressive actions and even egged such on. Some people simply have no ability to learn from history. They still have not learnt to stop viewing a man and mere mortal as an omnipotent and messiah-like being who is "destined to win and overcome". |
| Properties › Re: Fashola Commissions Oba Lateef Adeyemi Housing Estate. PIC by Gbawe: 1:22pm On Jul 22, 2014 |
ntyce: I must say that I am really impressed.
Amosun is building something similar in Abeokuta, 250 units.
But Fashola should be Governor-General of Nigeria.
Other Governors need to learn from him. Amosun is another seriously impressive administrator. The best administrators today are those who deliver for the people despite the challenges of governance in Nigeria. The worst leaders are those who have nothing at all to show for the time and resources they have gained to make a difference. |
| Politics › Re: Why Jonathan Is Impeaching Every Body – Nda-isaiah by Gbawe(op): 12:15pm On Jul 22, 2014 |
twaintoy: GEJ till 2029 abi? Una go suffer no be small.
Nigeria, a country where anything and everything happens. Indeed. |
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NewNigeriaMind: Fashola is a blessing to Lagos.
God bless Tinubu for supporting this man. Indeed. This is why I laugh when myopic and feudalistic fans of GEJ attack Fashola without seeing what matters. The man is an astounding administrator who will, beyond 2015 and assuming he is no longer involved in Nigerian politics, be desperately sought the world over by Nations and organisations wishing to profit from his unique and rare gift as a very effective and talented administrator ala Bill Clinton et al. Yet ask yourself who, on the other hand, will have any use for the hordes of outgoing PDP Governors (like Uduaghan and Elechi) who are mediocrity and indolence personified? Fashola's brilliance is globally acclaimed and it has transcended the bigotry, prejudice and hatred that has destroyed the lives and minds of some Nigerians. Oga Fashola na leadership don and a global icon of administrative talent. Haters can do nothing about his good name and profile which is already set in gold beyond even Nigeria and Africa. |
| Properties › Re: Fashola Commissions Oba Lateef Adeyemi Housing Estate. PIC by Gbawe: 11:58am On Jul 22, 2014 |
NewNigeriaMind: THIS NICCUR IS PAINED Why do you think I ignore the pathetic attention-seeker even as he is trying his best to get a response? His deep pain and frustration is palpable. In short he is, like most Jonathanians, a bitter and dishonest loser unable to celebrate good and exemplary governance if such is not attached to GEJ. Abeg, who has time for such losers when 'time is money' and 'life is too short'? |
| Properties › Re: Fashola Commissions Oba Lateef Adeyemi Housing Estate. PIC by Gbawe: 11:38am On Jul 22, 2014 |
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| Politics › Why Jonathan Is Impeaching Every Body – Nda-isaiah by Gbawe(op): 11:16am On Jul 22, 2014 |
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/why-jonathan-is-impeaching-every-body-nda-isaiah/Why Jonathan is impeaching every body – Nda-Isaiah
on July 22, 2014 / in Politics 9:55 am / Comments
•My path to the presidency is clear
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SAM Nda- Isaiah, who until recently resigned his position as the Publisher of Leadership Newspapers, in this interview, wants all democratic arsenals to be deployed towards ensuring that President Goodluck Jonathan does not continue till 2019.
Nda-Isaiah’s grouse is hinged on his believe that the perceived incompetence of the administration, is responsible for the current disorderly state of the nation. He also says his decision to run for the presidency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, was informed by the desire to arrest Nigeria’s descent to doom. Excerpts:
BY CHARLES KUMOLU
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SAM Nda- Isaiah
YOUR decision to run for the presidency has attracted mixed reactions. In the mind of some people, you are probably acting out a script while others don’t consider you a serious aspirant. Are you really serious about running?
I don’t think any body will say so. Maybe some people said so at the beginning but by now,I think it has become very clear to those people. Whose script are my acting? I am glad that you read my articles and I am sure that you and many of those who know me, understand my passion for this country and my desire to see it work.
I don’t need to act a script. Before deciding to run, l had a good job which I was enjoying. I have always said that it is a better paying job than the presidency.
Running for the presidency is not something I jumped into without giving it a serious thought. It is not a job to be enjoyed. It does not make sense to say that I am acting a script. I think some people always judge by their standards. If I did not see a path to victory, I would not waste my time by getting involved in the process. I had a job that I was enjoying and l believe it pays better than the presidency. The presidency appears lucrative for those who want to steal public funds.
Two prominent leaders in your party, Bola Tinubu and Gen Mohammadu Buhari, rtd, are being touted as possible presidential candidates. Don’t you think that their rumored ambition might affect your chances?
Buhari has not said that he will contest even though that it is most likely that he will. For Asiwaju, there was a rumour that he will contest but that has died down. Every body has a strategy. I have the one that will give me victory. I think that every body that intends to contest in the APC should have his own strategy.
I don’t think that anybody will be a threat to anyone. I think that anybody that will win would be someone with superior advantages because there is going to be primaries. It is not as if somebody is going to be imposed on the party. And if there is going to be consensus, it is going to be a real consensus. Such consensus will have the blessing of everyone.
Would you support Buhari if he the consensus favours him?
By the constitution of the party, even if there will be a consensus, there will still be primaries. Consensus does not overrule primaries. I am in this race to win. So far I am the only person who has declared publicly and I don’t think I will be the only person ultimately. And I am doing all I need to ensure that we win.
Would you decamp if you lose out in the party selection?
A real consensus is a situation where everyone has agreed on one person. And it is still open to be contested by a few aspirants who may not agree with consensus. Those candidates will still go ahead and contest in the primaries. I was in CPC before it joined other parties to form the APC. I have never jumped the ship. I cannot leave my party for another one because of desperation for power.
Everybody in the APC has agreed on the need to step careful when choosing our presidential candidate because Nigerians are watching us. APC is not the defunct CPC, ACN or ANPP where one powerful person can impose candidates on the party. Nobody is big enough to impose candidates on the APC.
So nobody has been imposed on the party. People are free to strategise on who to be their running mate. It is all part of the strategies that I told you about. I will not be telling you my own strategy.
What is your plan to revive Nigeria?
We intend to start afresh as a nation because every thing is wrong. This is not how to run a nation. Our message is on two legs. Unity of the nation has to come first.
Nigerians have to come together and act as one strong indivisible nation if we intend to make progress. If we intend to move from where we are now to a better future, we must do that as one strong indivisible nation. Countries that are better than us did that to get to where they are now.
Indivisible nation
It is sad that we see ourselves as northerners, southerners, Christians, Muslims, Pentecostals or Catholics.
We are too divided in this country. We can’t continue like that as a nation. The division is happening because the leaders want it to happen. To unite this country is easy. You don’t need a budget to unite this country. All you need is to be sincere and ensure justice and fairness for all. If as president, you treat the nation the way you treat your family, we will be united. But that is not how Nigeria is being run.
You don’t become desperate for power at the expense of the future of the nation. Ultimately, it will backfire. Our second message is on security. I would not have added this to what we intend to do if not that the security situation has become so bad. The primary function of any president is to secure the lives of his people.
Whether you are a democrat or a monarch the first job of any leader is to secure his people. The leader that we have now has failed. It is not difficult to achieve.
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SAM Nda- Isaiah
[b]Don’t forget that our police men and security forces used to be adjudged as one of the best in the world in those days when we used to go for peacekeeping. But corruption has changed it all. When you send two hundred guns without bullets to four hundred soldiers, what do you expect? The state governments now get fifty percent of their monthly allocations instead of hundred because the money that would be made has all been stolen today. So there is no money to do any thing.
There was a time that Fashola used to give a billion Naira yearly to the police, but that is no longer done. Other state governments also contributed to their state police commands even though there is no state police but many of them cant be able to do that any more because they get only fifty percent of their allocation. That is also an impeachable offense.
Some governors have gone to court several times but nothing came out of it. As long as you tackle corruption as the president, you will have money to carry out developmental functions. As we speak now there is no money to do anything.
In the past we used to send our troops for peace keeping in African countries, now Ghana has said that they would be gracious to send us troops to fight Boko Haram. That is an insult. We are the giant of Africa and should be strong enough to protect ourselves and other African nations. Nigeria is not a small country, so we should not belittle the country because of our incompetence and corruption.[/b]
Your party has been having serious reverses in Ekiti, Adamawa and now Nasarawa. Is there any problem with the party?
Somebody decided to take the law into his hands by bribing the House of Assembly members with $300,000 each. The alleged offense of Nyako was committed five years ago when he was still in PDP. The president should be asked why he thinks it is possible to run a state like this.
Knowing the history
I keep saying that the president has to be careful. This is Nigeria, and if you know the history very well you will know that you don’t just take the people for a ride. If you think that you can do something and say that you are not the one, you will not go free in Nigeria. Many APC governors have been penciled down for impeachment.
One thing that is clear to me is that no matter what Jonathan does, it is not possible to continue in the state that we are now. We can’t continue in this state of disorder, insecurity, corruption and theft beyond 2015.
Nigerians are going to rescue themselves, the president should not think that he will do all these and continue till 2019. Nigerians will rescue their country. It is not the APC that should be asked about the impeachment.
If you don’t emerge as the candidate, what happens?
We intend to win. Wait and see our strategies. We are not planning for failure, because we are sure of victory. The APC is not going to anoint any candidate. We will conduct our primaries.
The APC is not like the PDP where Jonathan will decide not to conduct primaries. The APC is the most democratic party in Nigeria today. We know what is happening in the PDP.
All the governors that decamped from the PDP did that because they knew there was no equity and justice in the PDP. They are here because they know there will be fairness even though the President wants to impeach every body. Maybe the controversial twenty billion dollars was enmarked for the purpose of sponsoring impeachments. They are using corruption to fight alleged corruption. |
| Properties › Re: Fashola Commissions Oba Lateef Adeyemi Housing Estate. PIC by Gbawe: 10:37am On Jul 22, 2014 |
blacksta: Uppercut Indeed. Sarcasm and wit at its most effective. Who epitomises the regressive and 'throwback' style of leadership, which has historically failed Africa over many decades, more than GEJ? I.e who epitomises the style of leadership that involves political leaders controlling vast amounts of funds yet giving people absolutely nothing at all in return as dividends of democracy? Abeg who is guilty of that in Nigeria today more than GEJ? How many of us know that budgeted allocation for security has increased so vastly under GEJ that we are now alongside the nations of the world (the USA, Russia, China, UK, France et al) that spend the highest universal amount of money on defence and security in proportion to their GDP? Yet Nigeria has nothing to show for the vast sum spent and in fact the world, because of the rot the Chibok kidnapping has exposed, can only comment in revulsion at how pathetically under-equipped and maltreated the Nigerian army is for the challenge it faces !!! Instead we hear, under the corruption-friendly President, that politicians and Nigerian army generals have looted every kobo meant to develop and support our Army !!!! What could be more wicked and evil than that i.e taking advantage of terrorism and the loss of Nigerian lives to loot and profit? It is the same in every sector whether it is infrastructure, power supply, job provision or healthcare. All the GEJ Government has done is to conduct 'abracadabra' via literally ingesting billions of dollars while there is nothing at all on ground, anywhere, to show where the vast sums of money has gone!!! It is an indication of the mental illness afflicting some Nigerians that we see the fans of this seriously discredited and failed Presidency, which has delivered failure for all the money it has controlled, trying to ridicule the efforts of Fashola who, as the most burdened Governor in Nigeria, continue to do the impossible to world praise and acclaim. Many Nigerians are very sick mentally. Ethnocentric, sectional and religious bias has made them that way. They are now too far gone in bigotry and clannishness to differentiate between good or bad and between right and wrong. |
| Properties › Re: Fashola Commissions Oba Lateef Adeyemi Housing Estate. PIC by Gbawe: 10:01am On Jul 22, 2014 |
@Ekoile. Fashola is simply miles ahead of anything else Nigeria has to offer in regards to administrative leadeship. Mortgage schemes that makes home ownership available to employed and self-employed members of society is vital to meeting housing challenges in any Nation today. I personally know many modestly-employed Nigerians in the UK who have become landlords, with healthy property portfolio worth over £1 million, because of how they took advantage of the stupendous amount of mortgage schemes available to those with regular/salaried income in the UK. Kudos Governor Fashola. http://www.thescoopng.com/tackling-lagos-states-housing-challenges-fashola-launches-mortgage-scheme/Tackling Lagos state’s housing challenges: Fashola launches mortgage scheme
Posted By TheScoop on February 4, 2014
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Fashola
by Segun Odeleye
The governor of Lagos, Babatunde Fashola, on Monday flagged off a scheme, which if it becomes sustained and successful, could largely tackle the housing crisis and problem of home ownership in Lagos state.
It was the launch of the Lagos State Home Ownership Mortgage Scheme to provide shelter for residents of the state irrespective of origin.
At the ceremony, Fashola said the reason he adopted the mortgage approach in tackling the issue of home ownership was because “a large number of middle class and working class people cannot afford to acquire homes on the basis of their legitimate income derived from hardwork that rewards the dignity of labour.”
He explained that he views a home as “something you pay for gradually and it is a place of safety, well built, safe and sound, to protect you and your family from the hazards of nature such as rain and heat; a place that will not flood or suddenly collapse.”
Fashola announced that under the scheme, there are already “1,104 completed homes while another 3,156 units are at various stages of construction and we intend to start more.”
He said the state government is starting 132 units at Iponri, 720 unit in Ibeshe area of Ikorodu, 420 units in Ajara, area of Badagry, 648 units in Obele, 36 units in Akerele Phase 2, 48 units in Oyingbo, 1,254 in Ilubirin and 1,080 unit in Ijora Badia.
Fashola said the project was fully funded by tax payers money paid as Internally Generated Revenue, saying the state government started saving N200 million monthly from IGR. |
| Properties › Re: Fashola Commissions Oba Lateef Adeyemi Housing Estate. PIC by Gbawe: 8:53am On Jul 22, 2014 |
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| Properties › Re: Fashola Commissions Oba Lateef Adeyemi Housing Estate. PIC by Gbawe: 8:35am On Jul 22, 2014*. Modified: 10:18am On Jul 22, 2014 |
Sincere9gerian: Good development. However, we need details as to the capacity and cost of these housing estates. If individuals can erect 4 or 5 storey buildings in Onitsha, it should be expected that a state govt that earns over N30 billion monthly income should be able to do that on a MASSIVE scale at subsidized cost. You should be ashamed of yourself. Where are the efforts of other administrators that is even close to what is shown here? For Bayelsa's allocation, including derivation from oil, and small population, should we not see far greater relative effort than what is shown here? What housing unit did GEJ commission while Governor of Bayelsa and how many has he commissioned as President in control of the wealth of Nigeria? What is Seriake Dickson, current Governor of Bayelsa, providing today? What is Uduaghan doing? You cannot ever worry about Ebonyi and Abia near you or even your own Enugu State, where you live, yet you have time for mischief over the governance of Lagos. You are really pathetic. If a decent human being, you will lead your pathetic nairaland minions by example through putting politics and clannishness aside to praise Fashola unreservedly for being exemplary in many regards. Instead you are here making insinuation that appear ridiculous when one notes the reality of Nigeria which is that many Governors who are collecting large allocation from the centre, and with far smaller population in comparison to Lagos, provide absolutely nada for Nigerians !!! Tantamount to attacking a man who provides a car to get his family around while you say nothing about the fellow who won't even provide a bicycle and makes his family walk everywhere !!!! If you want to talk of the income to productivity ratio, who is the biggest example of failure other Mr.President, i.e the 'messiah' you support blindly, who has been indicted of the misuse of funds by world leaders today because of the massive disconnection between what the FG is collecting as revenue and the big fat zero on ground that is only confirmation GEJ is one of the biggest, most brazen and most callous looter in current world history !!!! look at the vast amount granted to defence and security yet the world is shocked at how ill-equipped the Nigerian army is while you have the nerve to show face here. In other words, you are comfortable supporting evil and misrule when affiliated with it while happy to make yourself a nuisance to decent leaders making a real difference. You are beyond redemption buddy. You are a sad little man and failure. A pathetic loser with no conscience or innate decency. |
| Properties › Re: Fashola Commissions Oba Lateef Adeyemi Housing Estate. PIC by Gbawe: 8:15am On Jul 22, 2014*. Modified: 8:37am On Jul 22, 2014 |
Choi. Ekoile, I have missed your pictorial reportage that boils the blood of the haters and wannabes from outside the SW who can never focus on or talk about anything other than what is happening in the SW. God-forsaken evil creatures of hate. Continue to bring pictures of progress here and please ignore unexposed, backward and hateful creatures who are cursed to be that way.
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Lovely picture depicting the serious efforts of LASG to alleviate the housing woes of Lagos. Lest Nigerians know it, especially the homeless and confused nomads who have no love for themselves or their own and prefer obsessing about others 24/7, this is what happens worldwide, especially in major Cities, when serious Government make a commitment to tackling housing shortage. I.e you see new and adequate development everywhere.
This is in contrast to the 419 the FG, ironically the same failure supported by the anti-progress demons commenting here, is engaged in daily that involves only copious talk with nothing at all seen on the ground. In London today, focus is on the radical creation of land, even from green belts, to facilitate the provisions of housing units. Progress and development is the name of the game. All life's winners, whatever their affiliations and orientations, will celebrate the progress shown here. Frustrated losers, with no joy and nothing good happening in their lives, will come here to make a fool of themselves. Those sort are best ignored. |
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| Politics › Re: Blacks Are Idiots! Do You Agree? by Gbawe: 1:30pm On Jul 20, 2014 |
OP, you should investigate what you read before beginning a thread based on deception. Netanyahu did not say any of those things. He would have to be incredibly retarded to say such publicly even if they are his private thoughts. I don't think any leader, today, will survive the barrage of criticism that would follow such a peurile and racist diatribe. Pointless Nairalanders working themselves up and insulting each other over the hoax of mischief-makers and liars with their own agenda of deceit and misinformation. http://allafrica.com/stories/201407151844.htmlSouth Africa: Benjamin Netanyahu and the Speech That Didn't Exist
BY RAEESA PATHER, 15 JULY 2014
In Gaza, violence is escalating. But you've probably heard about that. Israel has partnered up with Egypt to announce a ceasefire, but they forgot to tell Hamas about it.
In the past few days, Palestinian and Israeli supporters have been buzzing across social media. Statistics, news articles and images of bloodied children have been widely shared. But how much of it is truthful?
Recently, a racist speech accredited to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had South Africans spluttering with rage.
"The State of Israel that we know of today has not been created by wishful thinking... We do not pretend like other whites that we like the blacks. The fact that, blacks and Arabs look like human beings and act like human beings do not necessarily make them sensible human beings."
- excerpt from a speech attributed to Netanyahu.
But what if that speech never existed?
The speech was sent around Facebook, WhatsApp and via email. The intention was to inform as many people as possible that this is the real Netanyahu - a racist leader who believes that as far human beings go, well, Arabs and blacks aren't really all that. The message went viral in Muslim networks, and is said to have been shared by Affan Sosibo of the African National Congress Youth League.
It's easy to understand why these words would have South Africans dizzy with fury. After all, we are still recovering from our own history. The speech paints Israelis as the superior race, while Arabs and blacks are slighted as the lowest of humans. Through its religious preaching that "a Jew is [an] honest, God fearing person, who has demonstrated practically the right way of being" it tugs at colonial justification as to why colonisation is necessary. It's what God wanted, right?
But it was a hoax, and right now the online world is saying that this speech actually belongs to former South African apartheid president PW Botha.
"The Republic of South Africa that we know of today has not been created by wishful thinking... We do not pretend like other Whites that we like Blacks. The fact that, Blacks look like human beings and act like human beings do not necessarily make them sensible human beings".
- excerpt from the speech which is now attributed to PW Botha.
Netanyahu's and Botha's speeches are almost identical. The difference, of course, is that Netanyahu's speech refers to Arabs. In a remarkable play, it would seem the speech of a former apartheid leader has been manipulated into the words of a current apartheid leader. Almost disturbingly poetic.
Yet, if you dig into Botha's speech and try to search for any conclusive evidence that he ever made it, you will find nothing. The speech is a hoax. It never existed. In fact, you could find the real version of the speech here.
The address is alleged to be a reprint that was published in the Sunday Times, but the Sunday Times has called the speech "utterly fictitious".
There have been several instances where images have been re-appropriated from other contexts and used as fodder to mobilise Palestinian support. For example, a photograph of a child kneeling execution-style with guns circling his head, has been widely shared on Twitter. #PrayforGaza is the caption, but the correct caption is actually #PrayforSyria: this photo is not from Palestine, it was taken in Syria. It is unjustifiable to take the violence and persecution from one nation and use it to gather support for another.
But the digital world is full of mischief. Yes, search engines like Google and websites like Snopes make it easier to uncover hoaxes. But online users are humans, and humans can get it wrong. A simple share can be read by hundreds, creating a viral wave of misinformed people. As such, the resistance itself becomes manipulated and misinformed. So why are these hoaxes so easily believed? Are we too lazy to inform ourselves, simply clutching onto whatever information we see?
The Palestinian people have been living under oppression for more than 60 years. It is the longest-lasting colonial tyranny in the modern era. Yes, there is a need to encourage further resistance, to inform more people about the mounting atrocities. But by spreading falsehoods, we are doing the Palestinian people an injustice. We are fooling and manipulating people into believing the struggle is justified, and how does that make us better than the oppressors we denounce?
We owe the Palestinian people more than that. We owe them a true fight. |
| Politics › Re: Reject Jonathan's $1b Loan Femi Falana Tells National Assembly by Gbawe: 8:57am On Jul 19, 2014*. Modified: 9:15am On Jul 19, 2014 |
jking001: NIGERIANS DON'T THINK BEFORE COMMENTING
He urged the National Assembly to be sure there was a need for it before approving it.
WHATS THIS WHY,WHY DID HE HAVE TO MAKE THIS SENTENCE OR STATEMENT ?of what use ?if you want to criticise do it with fact and the technicalities involved and be blunt about it,it would show you know what you are saying not all this kind of confusing half baked comments,this is how some people create unnecessary tension in the country ,delusion i must say,Nigeria has one of the lowest budget for defence in the whole world go and check and get your facts right.
Una dey here dey comment soldiers wen dey bush dey fight war them say them need money una dey ask wetin dem wan use am do, why una no join army? go check conscription in egypt and so other countries like israel Brazil and even algeria sef, its a must from 18 to 30 una mates dey army una dey here dey argue money to defend una country i pity una lazy nigerias they want the good things of life and never want to pay for it or realize it comes with a price Falana is delusional In my time on NL I have come to realise it is those who indict others of "not thinking" who are usually guilty of that the most. They are also likely to be the most intellectually ignorant posters prone to bullsh*tting others they assume are too ignorant to discredit their fallacy. You are the one who is "deluded" because Nigeria does not have "one of the lowest budget for defence". Far from it. We spend, for our socio-economic challenges, a distinctly large proportion of our GDP on defence which puts us alongside the biggest spenders in the world like the USA, Russia China, UK and France in terms of spending on security and defence as a percentage of GDP. Next time check your clannishness, and, most importantly, your fact before diving in to support an ultra-failed President or regime with lies when the same leader and his government have been indulged tolerantly and graciously considering their joint impotence and inability to ever deliver even minimally satisfactory results with all they have been provided with in the past. Many of us can at least say we predicted the conclusion in bold in the article below here on Nairaland i.e corruption , especially under a President who is one of the most corruption-friendly Nigeria has ever known, will render even the largest allocations to defence in Nigeria's history totally impotent and thus nothing will improve. We are vindicated today with security actually worsening as an indictment the GEJ government is a failure that will continue to ask for more time and money deceitfully while its real focus is self-aggrandizement/preservation and not the optimal security of Nigeria or indeed what is best for ordinary Nigerians. Meanwhile, like a broken record, the Jonathanians continue to pontificate and offer silly excuses for an ultra-corrupt president who will always squander any money allocated for defence and security because he is in bed with corruption and has stubbornly defended corruption as 'inconsequential' while refusing to acknowledge its deleterious effects on every sector of governnace (defence now hugging the limelight for obvious reasons) whereas the entire world is united in saying otherwise. http://wwweconomicissues..co.uk/2012/05/azazi-boko-haram-and-n1-trillion.htmlFriday, May 4, 2012
AZAZI, BOKO HARAM, AND N1 TRILLION DEFENCE BUDGET
To start with, Nigeria is not the only country in the world (of it size) that is facing serious internal security challenges; others such as Indonesia, Russia, Pakistan, India and even china has faced one insurgency challenge or the other. While all these countries faced the situation as it is and proffer formidable approaches to deal with them, Nigeria is lost in defining what the problem is. Because of that billion of Dollars are been squandered without attending to the root cause of the problem. While, for example, in Pakistan the authorities have evolved religious, ideological, and to some extent socioeconomic ways of dealing with their situation, here in Nigeria the authorities are thinking only along the line of using military forces to crush the insurgency. The use of brutal force has never solve any security problem any where in the world, if at all it only succeeded in keeping the problem low but not eliminating it as the US found in Iraq and Afghanistan. Top military spenders in order of size of their budgets in billion dollars term are United State ($ 711 Billion), China ($143 Billion), Russia ($71.9 Billion), United Kingdom ($62.7 Billion), and France ($62.5 Billion), it can be observed that US share is more than that of all the other four combine. In term of share of their respective GDPs, the US allocated 4.7%, China 2%, Russia 3.9%, UK 2.6% and France 2.3%, this compare to Nigeria with about 2.5% of it GDP this year allocated to defence spending call for concerned, looking at the unique position of Nigeria among these high spenders. Many are of the view that this outrageous budget will not achieved much taking into consideration the level of corruption among top government officials, the history of Nigeria’s government poor budget implementation, and the apparent lost of priorities in the government scheme of things. |
| Politics › Re: Reject Jonathan's $1b Loan Femi Falana Tells National Assembly by Gbawe: 8:53pm On Jul 18, 2014*. Modified: 9:35pm On Jul 18, 2014 |
Ali Baba (GEJ) and his forty thieves have stolen the over N3 trillion budgeted for security between 2010 and 2013 and they are now telling us a mere $1 billion will deliver results when around $18 billion sunk into defence failed to achieve zilch towards making Nigeria safer? If anything, Nigeria might as well be funding the killers of her people (Boko Haram) with how terrorism is worsening illogically when it should be abating with how virtually a fortune has been devoted to fighting insecurity.
Not many nations of the world reward failure as Nigeria does and it is even shocking GEJ has the effrontery to ask for more funds when, in an unbelievable display of epic failure, trillions have disappeared with the Country even far more unsafe than it was previously !!! How did Nigeria end up with this brazenly desperate President? Like someone opined in the article, this ludicrous demand is nothing but a shameless demand for the 'war chest' needed for the 2015 election which is only months away and ostensibly a 'do or die' affair for our President. |
| Politics › Re: Governor Lamido Berates Jonathan Administration by Gbawe: 7:30pm On Jul 18, 2014*. Modified: 7:47pm On Jul 18, 2014 |
ujoinme: This is old news, Lamido made these statement when he was hobnobbing with the nPDP defected governors. He dare not say any such thing against GEJ after apologizing to Mr president for his waywardness, ill - information and misguidance by Amaechi and his APC turncoats. Mr President has forgiven Lamido for hobnobbing with turncoats.
Lamido cannot make any such statement today, because if he does, his two sons will be thrown into jail by EFCC for money laundering and he lamido will be impeached by his members of JSHA for nepotism and money laundering. Hes knows GEJ has got him where it hurts he has no option than to do what commander in Chief requires. Continue deceiving yourself. You guys are long on clannishness and blind followership of other human beings but bereft of historical knowledge and intelligence that should lead you to understand what happens to dictators in the end. This is Lamido's latest round of criticism against GEJ and you blindly clannish Jonathanians can continue running around thinking GEJ is omnipotent and that he has cowered everyone of the 170 million people in Nigeria because he is President. When they take him down, to prove Nigeria is greater than one man, you unintelligently myopic people will be shocked, weeping and playing the victim card, as you usually do, while forgetting that you rejected morality and what is right to blindly support a self-serving, flawed and desperate abuser of power. You will forget how you endorsed and bragged about the bullying antics of GEJ and even shouted uncouthly that Lamido's sons will be thrown in jail because their dad correctly criticised the hideous failings and misrule of GEJ. You must all think GEJ now has total carte blanche to do as he pleases against anyone and anything via abusing the office of the Nigerian Presidency.You guys are simply too backwards and unintelligently short-sighted to understand the meaning of the saying that "power is transient". Ask Samuel Doe et al. You will see, in time, that many are simply 'chopping' the dollar of a desperate President. It is always people like you who get excited about the events of this minute as if there will be no tomorrow and as if actions, especially terrible and unfair ones, do not gain reactions in the end. http://www.thescoopng.com/gej-administration-totally-disconnected-people-gov-lamido-criticising/ “The GEJ administration is totally disconnected from the people” – Gov. Lamido is criticising again
Posted By TheScoop on March 31, 2014
Pin It Sule-Lamido
by Dare Lawal
When the new PDP faction emerged in late 2013, one of the most vocal governors on that platform was Sule Lamido of Jigawa who used every opportunity available to him to criticise the federal government. However, he and Gov. Aliyu of Niger, chose not to join the other governors in the group when they defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress.
It was widely speculated that the reason he chose to remain in the PDP was because of the arrest of his sons who were allegedly involved in corrupt practices. Ever since he made his decision to remain in the PDP, nothing has been heard of the corruption case against his sons, and for a long time Lamido has been quiet, choosing not to stir more controversy.
However last weekend he once again lashed out at the Jonathan administration for what he called its failure to address Nigeria’s ills. He stated that the FG was “totally disconnected with the people.”
READ: Gov. Kwankwaso Tells The BBC Why He Sent Kano Delegates To National Confab Even Though He Opposes It
Speaking in Dutse, the Jigawa capital, when a delegation of the Bank of Agriculture led by its MD, Dr. Falalu Santuraki, visited him, Gov. Lamido condemned the National Conference, the government approach to the Boko Haram killings and abandonment of projects in his state, among others.
According to Lamido, the Auyo irrigation scheme was abandoned for over 30 years by the Federal Government and even though President Jonathan promised to release N10 billion for the project and the Vice President Namadi Sambo reiterated that promise when he visited three years ago, nothing has still been done.
He also said the dualisation of Kano-Maiduguri federal road, which was started more than eight years ago, remained uncompleted. He described this as a manifestation of lack of seriousness from the leaders.
Lamido accused the President of gathering elders and respectable nationals to be embarrassing themselves in the name of national conference.
He said: “Some comments and statements from some delegates to the conference is disappointing and a threat to the unity of the nation. It is unfortunate that our last line of hope, which comprises the emirs, clerics and elder statesmen, has been assembled somewhere and are busy insulting one another in the name of national conference. Believe me, if the situation continues, our nation’s unity is in danger.”
The governor added: “If the PDP or APC members of the House of Assembly abuse one another, it is understandable because it is democracy for one party to challenge another.”
Lamido noted also that the administration is full of deceit and lackadaisical attitude to people’s needs and interests. “It is quite unfortunate that today in Nigeria, hundreds of innocent people are killed, like chicken on a daily basis for no just reason and nobody cared to talk about it.”
His words: “It is only in Nigeria that $20billion would be declared missing from the public treasury, but no one cared to talk about it because leaders can dare any huge consequences in bargaining and securing their political interests.
“The leadership in this country is totally disconnected from the people. All its policies are formulated in parallel with the needs, plight and interest of the common man and the country”.
“The masses are today living in agony due to high level of injustice, denial, imposition, abuse of office ensured by the tyranny of bad leadership.” |
| Health › Re: Lagos State Opens New Cardiac & Renal Centre (CRC) Gbagada Lagos. PICS. by Gbawe: 6:39pm On Jul 18, 2014 |
EkoIle1: Anyways, let's ignore the hate and angry losers, this thread is more than them...
I'll take this opportunity to catch up and post many developments I didn't get to share.. Indeed. Why pay attention to people, usually non-stakeholders from outside Lagos and the SW, who have nothing positive to say or contribute in regards to the affair of Lagos and the SW in general ? Abeg, Lagosians and fans of progress should ignore these mindlessly bitter vagabonds, nomads and hobos. |
| Health › Re: Lagos State Opens New Cardiac & Renal Centre (CRC) Gbagada Lagos. PICS. by Gbawe: 6:26pm On Jul 18, 2014 |
EkoIle1: Thanks Oga Gbawa, long time.
Progress and development is ours and so it shall remain.. Amin OOOO. To be honest, Fashola makes me proud to be a Lagosian and a Nigerian. Sadly Oga Fash will have to hand over next year. As long as his good work is continued by another carefully selected and equally competent hand then Olanrewaju ni oruko keji Eko. |
| Health › Re: Lagos State Opens New Cardiac & Renal Centre (CRC) Gbagada Lagos. PICS. by Gbawe: 5:54pm On Jul 18, 2014 |
Oga Ekoile how far? Long time. Nice thread as usual. Fashola and Lagos State deliver another essential healthcare facility to enhance the lives of Lagosians . Kudos. |
