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ajasa4link: The same tinubu they claimed had Parkinson's disease and various educated illiterate on this site used almost 9pages to wish for his death from the said disease?..... Am not pro-ACN neither am I pro-PDP, In fact am not a fan of some ACN-led Lagos state government policies, but I will never wish a fellow human being death....it's against my culture as a Yoruba and it doesn't speak well of such person's upbringing as well...

Katsumoto: Someone who supposedly has a brain wrote this?

whirlwind7: @ Gbawe: You are right. I love these designs. They are so cool. But how secure are they? When you see the way robbers smash through brick walls and metal doors to gain access to homes, you will hesitate to build like this. Nevertheless, i got plans to model something of this sort in my project. I love large windows!

homesteady: Why will I wish him death? Would his death bring food to my table?

Tinubu and Buhari jointly attended the inauguration of the Democratic Progessive Movement. The event held at the Methodist Central Building in Manchester City.

whirlwind7: @ Gbawe: You are right. I love these designs. They are so cool. But how secure are they? When you see the way robbers smash through brick walls and metal doors to gain access to homes, you will hesitate to build like this. Nevertheless, i got plans to model something of this sort in my project. I love large windows!

Cherish20: Bros na case?

owolabifunke14: Come back home

The former warlords warned Atiku to tender a public apology to Jonathan within seven days,

homesteady: Tinibu and buhari are pursing attention up and down, meanwhile attention is pursing GEJ

BTW, I wonder how much he paid the mayor to attend the program!
Lagos people money don suffer

simpleseyi: Yes, you are very right, there is no party in Africa that can match the corruption and corrupt looters in PDP including but not limited to Bode George, James Ibori (Guiness Book of record holder of most family members in jail simultaneously for treasury looting), DSP Alams, Timi Tipreye, IBB, OBJ, Alao Akala, Gbenga Daniel, late Agagu. Godswill Akpabio, Atiku Abubakar, Bamanga Tukur, Mohammed Abacha, Sanni Yerima and Jesus on earth and her husband Dr & Dame Goodluck and Sheppopotamus Jonathan. Anyway, APC too has a couple of looters who are trying to match PDP looters e.g. Tinubu, Fashola, Kuforiji (Lagos Speaker), George Akume e.t.c

INEC’s audit report on parties indicts PDP, 54 others


• Clears ACN for up-to-date records

AN audit report on political parties in the country released Monday by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for 2011 has indicted the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for failing to keep up-to-date financial records.

In the report, which covers the 56 registered political parties, about 54 of them were indicted for flouting the provisions of the Electoral Act, which stipulate modalities for the running of parties, including details of their earnings and expenditures.

Only the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the Citizens Popular Party (CPP) were certified as having complied with the provisions of section 93(2) of the Electoral Act, 2010.


In the report, INEC said of the PDP: “The party does not have a prepared audited financial statement for 2011. Conventional books of accounts were not properly kept as required by section 93(2) of the Electoral Act, 2010. The party did not maintain Fixed Assets Register both in the headquarters and zonal offices…”

But the report said of the ACN: “The party has an internal Audited Report for the year under review. Conventional books of Accounts were maintained. Budget and Budgetary Control were in place and the party has a well defined Fixed Assets…”

Reacting to the report, the South West Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Ayo Afolabi, said: “We are not surprised at the report, we in ACN have always kept to INEC’s rules and regulations. Everybody knows that it is only the PDP that flouts INEC’s regulations. The PDP normally does this with impunity because it has Aso Rock backing it. The verdict has been given by INEC that ACN is the party that truly believes in the rule of law.”

Efforts to get PDP’s reaction failed as the telephone of the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, was said to have been switched off.

Somalia Al-Shabab claims Nairobi Westgate Kenya attack


A senior figure in the Somali militant group al-Shabab has told the BBC it carried out a deadly attack on a shopping centre in neighbouring Kenya.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said 39 people had been killed, including members of his family, and 150 injured.

The operation to secure the mall and catch the gunmen was ongoing, he said in a national TV address.

Al-Shabab, which has links to al-Qaeda, said the attack was in response to Kenya's presence in Somalia.


President Uhuru Kenyatta: "We shall hunt down the perpetrators"
There are about 4,000 Kenyan troops in southern Somalia, where they have been fighting the militants since 2011.

On its Twitter feed, al-Shabab said it was behind what it called the "Westgate spectacle".

In his TV address, Mr Kenyatta said security forces were "in the process of neutralising the attackers and securing the mall".


Al-Shabab's claim that it carried out Saturday's deadly attack will have come as no surprise to those in the region. Ever since Kenyan forces went into Somalia in 2011 to push the militant al-Qaeda-linked group back from their common border, al-Shabab has threatened to step up its attacks inside Kenya.

Since then, it has carried out sporadic gun, bomb and grenade attacks on churches, security forces and other targets, but nothing on this scale.

The Westgate attack bears similarities to the Mumbai siege of 2008 where heavily armed jihadist gunmen attacked "soft" (undefended) city targets, killing as many civilians as possible, taking hostages where they could, and taking maximum advantage of the surrounding publicity.

That prompted a complete rethink in counter-terrorism in Britain, with the realisation that the UK was unprepared at the time for such a determined attack.

He went on: "We shall hunt down the perpetrators wherever they run to. We shall get to them and we shall punish them for this heinous crime."

He said he had "personally lost family members in the Westgate attack".

Trapped
The attackers entered the Westgate centre at about 12:00 local time (09:00 GMT), throwing grenades and firing automatic weapons.

Dozens of shoppers fled; many were trapped inside. Officers have been going from shop to shop to secure the area.

Some seven hours after the assault began, al-Shabab said on Twitter that its fighters were still battling Kenyan security forces inside the Westgate centre.

A security source told the AFP news agency police and soldiers had finally "pinned down" the gunmen in one corner of the shopping centre after several hours of fighting.

One gunman was arrested and died of his wounds, Kenyan officials told the BBC. Four other gunmen were arrested.

Al-Shabab has claimed on its Twitter account that the Kenyan government wants to negotiate an end to the Westgate attack, but officials have told the BBC they intend to hunt the gunmen down.


The BBC's Anne Soy is ordered to lie down, as military vehicles move in
Some witnesses said the gunmen had told Muslims to leave and said non-Muslims would be targeted.

"They came and said: 'If you are Muslim, stand up. We've come to rescue you," said Elijah Lamau.

He said the Muslims left with their hands up, and then the gunmen shot two people.

The correspondent in Nairobi for the Economist, Daniel Howden told the BBC he spoke to one man with a Christian first name but a Muslim-sounding surname who managed to escape the attackers by putting his thumb over his first name on his ID.


However, the man told Mr Howden that an Indian man standing next to him who was asked for the name of the Prophet Muhammad's mother was shot dead when he was unable to answer.

The BBC's Mark Doyle, who is embedded with the African Union (AU) mission in Somalia, says the AU troops attack al-Shabab where they can.

Al-Shabab says the AU forces are invaders stopping their legitimate vision of creating an Islamic state and respond by mounting hit-and-run attacks, our correspondent says.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said there would "undoubtedly" be British nationals caught up in Saturday's events.

He confirmed that the UK government's emergency committee Cobra met on Saturday afternoon.

The US State Department says it has reports that American citizens were injured in what it called "a senseless act of violence".

This is one of the worst incidents in Kenya since the attack on the US embassy in August 1998.

redsun: You just talk senselesslll at lenght,but in a nutshell you are just primitive and immoral buffon that thinks in reverse. Your type can only thrive in Nigeria where people respect those that speaks English like fani kayode even when it obvious they are morons.

redsun: They are die hard tribal followers like real zombies. Some of them even thought awo was physically living on the moon. Average Yorubas can easily fall prey to hitler like character as a leader. They easily follow sheepishly like sheep.

gokelicious: Where are those fools that keep saying they are looking (to prosecute him) for tinubu. The man left america and now in london, yet nothing has happened. You might not like him but don't insult him. Some1 should tell alams to try going to those countries too

gokelicious: dude, jonathan's wife (the first lady of nigeria) went to germany for medical treatment, and all we did was to wish her quick recovery. Nobody plays politics with there health.

Knowledge9000: Do you know what HUMOR OR SARCASM is? Obviously he was joking by the comment he should go and watch the match.

Smooyis: I also want to know why the case of oil subsidy fraud between Otedola and Farouk was swept under the carpet? Was it the masses that caused it and to whose interest was it buried?

Horus: He's afraid of corrupt Nigerians?. This must be the reason why he removed every mirrors of the walls in the Aso Rock Presidential Villa

Dpeacemaker101: OP, you have not been anyway jaare. Am not seeing that MMA is cool the way it is, but you really have to know how to present your case they are worst airports in Africa, that are not even worth calling airports for example the Ghana airport international airport in Accra. Even a Ghanaian will tell you they are ashamed of it, please Nigerian will get to its developed stage soon. It's a gradual process.

funnyx: So this remodeling is also responsible for staff's rude behaviour and the charging of passengers for trolleys or the selling of toilet tissue to customers who wan wipe their yansh?

Ayekotoo: Getting through immigration is a nightmare, morose officials plod through hundreds of arriving passengers preparing you for the harsh realities outside. Luggages trickle in forever, the hall is hell hot and you pay for carts with cold cash. Good luck if you don’t have Naira on hand.
The car park is a picture perfect poster for third world chaos, it usually takes a gifted mind to navigate. Outside the airport, you must be vigilant with street level bonafides. No one helps for free nor are they friendly for free; they always want some money.

These are what first time and repeat travellers in and out of Nigeria experiences. Imagine the pain if you travel several times a year through the world’s best airports with an 8year old who questions you relentlessly about why Nigeria is the way it is.
It feels like Chinese water torture to me telling my daughter “that is just the way it is here”. When you finally survive the customs check and come out in the open, artisans are still working on the “renovations” at the very same spot they were working on when I left in June. I shook my head at what is being done.

I have written it before and here it is again. “This national monument of shame, the Muritala. Mohammed International Airport is simply getting a stupendously insulting whitewash of counterfeit laminates, particle boards and dry walls; many are jubilant and in a rush to congratulate the minister for doing a spectacular job. This is at a time when nations with less resources are building terminals that are jaw dropping architectural masterpieces. We are a pathetic bunch who applauds every town hall, primary school building and culvert built by our leaders. We design posters and pay for advertorials to hail them as the Moses of our time when they commission village boreholes.
”It beats me hollow that Nigeria’s leaders travel abroad and pass through world class facilities without a thought on how to replicate the good things they enjoy abroad at home. I am exasperated really but I’m old enough to know that only limited sense can be made of what is often nonsensical. I’m back here until my sanity is threatened. Sigh!

Dude, the issue is about exploitation and how our nation is now appalling irresponsible in comparison to others. Don't defend something clearly wrong because you feel you are defending the image of your nation. This same logic of "if you cannot afford it you do not use a phone" is what has landed us with GSM tariffs much higher than what is charged in nations with much higher average personal/household income than Nigeria.

Nothing, as a principled person, leaves a worst taste in the mouth than coming from an African airport to MMIA in Lagos to note the "every man for himself" greed that has now made Nigeria an unpleasant and unwelcoming place for well-travelled folks who are truly neutral and non-partisan. You will be 'extorted' till you leave MMIA and confronted by rude and badly trained officials who have probably never had deliberate and well-structured organisational behaviour orientation to make them aware of their obligations to the public.

Charging non-refundable fees for trolleys is exploitative and done virtually only in Nigeria. I am telling you this as a person who has visited over 30 nations of the world. No Nigerian should defend why it is our nation that always display excessive greed, a disregard for limits of decency and a distinct disinterest in doing what can make life better for all end users. The OP is very right to ask "why is every service in Nigeria all about money".

All right thinking Nigerians who have travelled to much richer nations than Nigeria will ask the same question too because our ruthless 'cash and carry' and "every man for himself" attitude is one that will end up leaving us with citizens desperate to earn more, by whatever means, to afford the needless exploitation one meets at every corner of Nigerian life. We all lose going down that road where we boil everything down to "affordability" and not humanity.

Peinstein: Most of the new roads being constructed in Lagos at the moment do have closed drainages. The ones you do see with open drainages were constructed at a time when there wasn't much attention to beautification.

The particular one you posted is also a form of closed drainage just that the slabs weren't fixed to the sides of the drainages. One of the reasons they are partly damaged might be due to the activities of telecoms companies laying cables and also our lack of maintenance of infrastructures.

Open drainages are actually an eyesore and I think the goverment and invividuals should take a collective responsibility to closing up existing open drains. Nothing bad if landlords decide to cover the drains in front of his houses, the only problem however might be uniformity and aesthetics.

Apart from aesthetics, open drainages makes it easy for people to dump objects in it and when blocked is not good for public health

bibiking7: [b]Those drainages were actually covered with concrete slabs which have either been removed (yes, removed) or damaged over time. [/b]Maintenance is a serious problem in Nigeria, hence they have been left uncovered for so long. Theft and vandalism is also a big issue. People actually steal the manhole covers on some roads in lagos (whyyy? I don't know). Its sickening and appalling.

CFCfan: Exactly. The FG can set a quota on the number of imported vehicles into the country, and patronize the locally-made vehicles. In addition, the likes of INNOSON should embark on a massive publicity campaign to advertise their products.

berem: We all know that the MBGN winner was a fraud! Miss Bayelsa didn't deserve the crown. The retardeeen and Dickson rigged it. Typical of PDP.



Vanessa Williams was also racially abused when she became Miss America. Even the KKK threatened her life! It's a normal thing in America which is wrong anyway.