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Mr Aboki: LIES!!!!!!!

dave2: But how are we sure the information is correct?
I don't believe this joor

Check the link. It is the Independent UK. A reputable news source. They have no reason to lie and they normally establish a sensible level of truthful accuracy about a story before they go to print. You guys may not accept it, but life does not revolve around Nigeria. The article is not even about Nigeria. It is about a UK businessman who happens to mention, pertinent to his business and success which is the focus of the Independent regortage, that he has a lucrative order from the Nigerian Government.

This is a positive story for the Independent as it showcases a UK Businessmen trading beyond the Border of the nation. No one, not the Independent or the featured businessman, has any reason to lie against Nigeria. They are just reporting good news from their end while we, the dysfunctional Country making others rich with our inhuman excesses, will be here shouting "LIES !!!" and saying " I don't believe this joor". If you guys check the link you will see, despite the title of this thread, that the feature article is not about Nigeria at all. Nigeria is incidental to the central topic. The original title of the article is reproduced below with the featured picture of the customized iPhones the British businessman produces.

Yours for up to £50,000: The REAL gold iPhone 5S outshining Apple's new release
Bristol-born businessman
expects gold rush of orders from minted iPhone 5S buyers

https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article8807519.ece/ALTERNATES/w460/solid-gold-iphone.jpg

Ali says he is fulfilling an order from the Nigerian government for 53 gold iPhones to mark the country’s 53rd year of independence from Britain next month.

“We will engrave them with the coat of arms, a shield and two horses,” he said.

No comment.

okpara ugo: good buildings...

money for pocket better pass resume.

They have both. I.e resume and financial success. These are outstanding professionals on top of their game and reaping the financial and professional rewards of their talent.

i still prefer a dangote than any of these men

First of all, it is no competition. These guys can should be appreciated purely in their own rights. Secondly, these are guys who have become moguls and shining examples in their field of endeavour. Dangote is not better than them because he is a richer and with diverse business interests. He is a top businessman same as these guys are top architects and property developers.

Paul John: Never knew we have guys like these ones in Nigeria

Bros, far too many uber-talents to list in architecture and property development. These are dedicated professionals who do not need to advertise themselves so you may not hear of them unless perhaps connected with property development.

http://www.sasconsultants.com/our_team.php

Managing Director Ola Seriki.


Ola started his architectural career immediately after graduation in May 1981 with Hamill & McKinney, Architects and Engineers in Dallas, Texas, a firm with national reputation and expertise in Restaurant and Hotel design. As a designer, Ola was responsible for design and developing several new restaurant and hotel prototypes including "Grandy's restuarant" and "Residence Inn", a chain of hotel suites. In 1983, he joined Hodges & Associates, Architects and Planners, Dallas, Texas, a firm with specialisation in Shopping Centers and Mall designs. As a Project Architect, He was responsible for developing several design schemes, construction document and construction supervision of several shopping centers and restaurants throughout Texas, He also gained valuable experience in Project Management and cost control. In 1984, he joined Fusch-Serold & Partners, Dallas, Texas, and he worked here for 3 and a half years as a Project Architect, responsible for successful completion of several homes, apartment complexes and townhouses both in the Southwest United States and across the country. In February 1988, GGK Associates, Architects & Planners, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania recruited him out of Dallas as a Senior Project Manager and a Team leader. In August 1990, he was hired as Associate Partner By Rose Erickson, Architects & Planners, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, responsible for the hiring, training and managing of a 30-man, fully computerised, design firm. As Associate Partner, his responsibility was mainly New Business Development and Quality Control. Ola left Rosen + Erickson in October, 1992 to become a Design Consultant for Charming Shoppes Inc. Bensalem, Pennsylvania, a $2 billion, multinational apparel company and the parent company of Fashion Bug, with 1,400 stores throughout the United States. Ola holds a Bachelors degree in Architechure from the University of Texas at Arlington, Texas. He is an associate member of the American Institute of Architects. He relocated back to Nigeria in 1994 as the Founding Managing Partner of SAS Associates now SAS Consultants. As the Managing Director of SAS CONSULTANTS, Ola ensures the smooth running of all the departments of the company. He oversees the architectural and interior design and construction studio.

http://www.fmaarchitects.com/olufemi_majekodunmi.html

Olufemi Majekodunmi (Chairman)
Femi Majekodunmi brings a world-wide prespective to all his projects, gained from working with firms in London, U.K, and Washington D.C, as well as with his firm, FMA, on projects throughout Africa.

He founded FMA in Nigeria in 1973, and since that time has grown to a large, interdisciplinary practice, with offices in three African nations, Nigeria, Bostwana and South Africa. Througout his career, Femi has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to working with various architectural organisations to advance the practice of architecture in countries across Africa. He was the first secretary of the Nigerian Insitute of Architects and also a Past President of the International Union of Architects (UIA).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FBJNu6HSWE8

agbameta: Another guy with solid resume .....

So also Oluwatobi Osinowo CEO of Lakepoint Limited. Bros, dem too plenty.

Lake point Towers Banana Island

https://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/af298/ONLY1GAR3TH/lakepointtowers_aerialelevation.jpg



http://lakepointlimited.com/promoters.asp?pid=6

Mr. Oluwatobi Osinowo


https://www.lakepointlimited.com/images/tobinewpic2.jpg
Tobi Osinowo

Mr. Oluwatobi Osinowo is a developer and entrepreneur. He is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Lake Point Limited. Mr. Osinowo is a graduate of Economics from the University of Jos, Nigeria.

He also holds a Masters degree in Business Administration with emphasis in banking and finance from the ESUT Business School.

In 2002, He became an alumnus of Lagos Business School (Pan African University) having completed its Chief Executive Program, Tobi is also a member of the Oxford University Business Alumni (Oxford UK). Over the years, he has attended several professional and executive education programmes in institutions such as Harvard Graduate School of Design/Harvard Business School, Boston, USA, University of Navarra (IESE) Barcelona, Spain, Euromoney Training, Financial Times Property Conferences (UK), Henry Stewart Property Development Master Class (UK) and several leadership, project management and general management courses in Lagos Business School.

He has over 20 years post qualification experience. Prior to starting Lake Point Limited, he worked with African Petroleum Plc (former British Petroleum), First Capital Group - a financial consulting firm and Universal Building Society - a primary mortgage institution.

In 1995, Tobi founded Axial Ventures Limited – A financial advisory brokerage services firm. Axial Ventures under his leadership provided advisory services to a number of businesses ranging from multinationals to financial institutions across different industries in Nigeria.

agbameta: Though this is great and very very commendable, but we lost a lot of ground since the first skyscraper in Ibadan decades ago.

We did it before and doing it again is no big deal. The folks at IAA Associates Ltd led by Adeleke Akintilo are very bright and talented and I see them going places and redefining the Lagos Landscape and sky scape..

Eko o ni baje o

SW o ni baje o..

Indeed. There are many like IAA Associates as well. You'll be surprised to learn the inspirational things these guys are doing even beyond Nigeria, in places like Ghana, in property development.

http://iaaassociates.com/contact/

NAMES OF PRINCIPALS FOR CONTACT:


1 Dr. Leke Akintilo PhD (UK), DIC, C.Eng, MASCE, FICE, FNSE, COREN - 08022237368
2. Engr. V.O. Adebanjo B.Sc, MNSE, COREN – 08023135823
3. Engr. E.O. Adesina B.Sc, MNSE, COREN - 08035228120
4. Abolade Subair B.Sc, M.Sc, - 08033082950

obitwo: Just imagine what kind of Police Lagos would have if we had state police

Eko o ni baje

Ile Oduduwa o ni baje

Indeed. Fashola has decried this situation many times. I.e the way the FG abandon the NPF and leave the Government agency at the mercy of States yet will not let States assume full control to create their own modern and effective police forces.

The FG's handling of the NPF is 'criminal' to say the least with conscientious Governors forced to take up the duty of the FG and equip the NPF while callous Governors simply abandon the people to their fate. They can justify their stance via saying it is the duty of the FG and they would be right. Yet we all know no price, for a decent administrator, can be placed on the safety of the citizenry. I don't know why Nigeria cannot protest against a situation where N18 billion is callously budgeted to maintain the air fleet of the President while only N11 billion is voted to equip men and women of the NPF. Absolutely crazy Country.

http://spotonreporters.com/fashola-a-legacy-sustained/

Furthermore, the state of security in Lagos is not happenstance or mere co-incidence but the consequence of a deliberate strategy encompassed in the activities of the Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF), which was set up by Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola under a law enacted by the State House of Assembly in 2007.

The LSSTF is a public-private initiative created to address the issue of inadequate funding of the police and other law enforcement/ security agencies by the federal government which is constitutionally charged with that responsibility. It is one of the acute incongruities of Nigeria’s current constitutional order that the federal government insists on not permitting the establishment of state police while abandoning not just the police, but most other federal agencies domiciled in the states (SSS, Customs, Prisons, Immigration, and even some federal secretariats) to the state governments for funding and operational maintenance. In effect, the state government neither eat their cake, nor have it.

ha ha ha. The GEJ sycophants do not have the mouth to talk or the nerve to show face here because even they know the shocking neglect of the Police force by their messiah who maintains his 10-strong Presidential air fleet with N18 billion while a paltry N11 billion is voted to equip nearly 0.5 million men and women of our NPF.

Throughout Nigeria, the tale is the same and one of an underpaid, under-equipped, ill-trained and poorly motivated police Force too morinund to fight crime. Thank god for conscientious Governors like Fashola, Amosun et al who assume the duties of the FG towards the NPF rather than watch their states ruined by the callousness, ineptitude and corruption of the centre. No wonder Akpabio's wife is living in Lagos with her family and totally disinterested in living it large as first lady of Akwa Ibom.

[quote author=Akanbi_edu]The writer showed great understanding of the situation.

Like I argued with friends when I was trying to convince them not to support Jonathan. A major point I gave them, which many did not appreciate at the time, was the fact that Jonathan never built a political structure in his political career, in addition to the fact that he is a DULL individual, and would pose a serious threat to Nigeria's national security.

People like that can not comprehend what it takes to build a nation. To make matters worse, he turned his government to Ijaw/Igbo government, only appeasing the northerners once in a while. He is been president for three years but has managed to have loyalists only in his corner of Nigeria. Even Ameachi, a governor, has better network of friends across geopolitical zones. What manner of a president?

Even if he is preparing for anything to win 2015, Nigerians should remain resolute in their determination to get him out of the office. With him, there is no peace, it can't get worse without him.[/quote]Indeed. The nation is as divided and as stagnant as it can ever be with corruption thriving like there is no tomorrow. Things will probably only get worse under this man.

Akamu and Stew: Nice read.

GEJ lacks Political Sophistication and its sad that his lack of political intelligence will lead to disastrous consequences in 2015.

A President on the road to perdition.

[quote author=Akanbi_edu]Make E scatter everything abeg.[/quote]Man mi, no one is "scattering" anything. As the article concludes, issues will end with GEJ eating humble pie. Nigeria is bigger than him and a few militants/charlatans/jobbers/hirelings/sabre rattlers/mercenaries and ethnic jingoists he is enriching 'under the table'. The article even covers your observation specifically and that is why it is such a comprehensive submission. They will all 'disfarahon' when the real action begins. Afterall, where were they when Turai was bullying GEJ and, by extension, those currently making all the treats on his behalf?

His strategies were planned by people who have no single power base of any sort but hinged their pleas on the deterrent effect of the risk of Niger Delta insurgency replacing Boko Haram.

Now the President is standing out Unclad in the political wilderness protected by a roadside barking dog called Asari Dokubo and a voluble feasting associate adopted as a makeshift godfather who has no political base whatsoever – Edwin Clark.

Olaolufred: NIGERIA CAN ONLY BEAT SOUTH AFRICA IN FOOTBALL AND BRAGGING EMPTILY.
OUSIDE THAT, NOTHING MORE.

Fixed bruv.

alaoeri: These are hard facts GEJ apologists suppose to pounder upon rather they 'll bombard this thread & insult Larry's personality, anyway the clock is ticking for the trainee president.

Bruv you predicted as expected. What can one expect from those whose modus operandi is limited to attacking the messenger but what is written below? Sad. Very sad.

taharqa: Here we go again: sm meaningless nonsense written by sm unknown Clown for his Political masters, and the Usual Suspects bring it on NL for the often Congregational meetings where they Mastur.bate away....... Haven't we seen this script a million times already??

@Topic.

Poor and very dishonest effort by Metuh to woo the renegade Governors. Shame they are more honest than Metuh. Aliyu, for example, has already made it known in the past that "Fashola is the best amongst us". He has also confessed that Fashola is a "nightmare" for the PDP and that the Party covets Fashola greatly and were patiently waiting to woo him to their side in the desperation to "capture" Lagos.

All this sour grapes from Metuh is just disgraceful and further proof the PDP is full of men with no honour or integrity. Sadly for Metuh, the past utterance of one of the PDP Governors he now tries to woo with forked-tongue flattery has rendered his nauseating current effort an exercise in shameless sycophancy, deceit and undignified grovelling borne of desperation. Abeg, desperados in the PDP should face their own Party men they have offended with treacherous actions instead of bringing Fashola into their 'ashewo runs'. Aliyu and co must be laughing at Metuh right now.

https://www.nairaland.com/619710/fashola-performed-well-gov-aliyu

Fashola Has Performed Well– Gov Aliyu

Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State yesterday threw party sentiments aside, describing Lagos State under Governor Raji Fashola as a no-go area for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or any other party apart from the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)

Aliyu poured encomiums on Fashola, saying he had distinguished himself with his performance.
The governor, who spoke while declaring open the 47th Annual International Conference of the Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society in Minna, said the giant strides of Fashola in Lagos had made the Action Congress of Nigeria popular in the state.

He described Fashola as a dedicated and committed public servant,
Aliyu, who is seeking re-election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party said the performance of his counterpart in Lagos had “become a nightmare for the PDP in Lagos State.”

He openly confessed that the PDP waited patiently for ACN to deny Fashola a second-term ticket to grab him as a basis of capturing Lagos. Specifically, he said while everybody had thought that Lagos would not work, Fashola had proved critics wrong by transforming the city.

“I am speaking from the bottom of my heart. Fashola has performed, forget about partisan politics. Here is one person that has performed. People had given up on Lagos that it would not work, but he has made it work,” he said. The governor decried bad leadership as the bane of development in the country, observing that despite the efforts of leaders in the Arab world, the masses had risen up against them demanding a better bargain. While asking leaders to learn from the wind of change, blowing in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, he said: “Let us give the people better bargains before we begin to run helter-skelter.”

Superb article. A very long yet 'must read' article that presents a powerfully comprehensive summary of how and why things are what they are today. An article that does justice to its title of presenting "hard facts" over the sentiments that has being the choice 'tool' of operation for all those connected to this gale of rancid fumes ludicrously and impertinently dubbed "fresh air".

http://247ureports.com/the-jonathan-disaster-hard-facts-vs-sentiments-by-frisky-larr/

The Jonathan Disaster: Hard Facts vs. Sentiments – By Frisky Larr
By 247ureports


In several articles, in which I addressed the weaknesses of the Jonathan Presidency within the past few months, I have always highlighted two crucial messages. First, I emphasized the risk of the roof collapsing on the president’s head; the roof of an edifice that he was grossly mismanaging in a manner that was too glaring for all to see. Then I interpreted the body language and unspoken words of the President to be signaling the desire to “scatter everything” if he does not get his way to a second term in the Presidency.

Today, this is happening in a manner that even a sleeper would capture in his deepest state of dreaming adventures. The attendant elements in the media reflecting the unfolding scenario now shows a camp of intellectual – often professional analysts and a flock of non-professional mass commentators singing discordant tunes from the depth of passionate instincts. It is a divide reflecting facts and the call of sentiments.

The first group is today laying emphasis on a gentleman’s agreement that preceded the support of potential and inherent adversaries for the bona fide electoral installation of Goodluck Jonathan as President of Nigeria. It rekindles memory of the run-up to 2011 when a teeming majority of Nigerians stood up and detested the born-to-rule attitude of a conspicuous section of Nigeria that formed a cabal to trample as well as spit on constitutional requirements in wanton disdain. It rekindles memories of the instrumental role played by Olusegun Obasanjo in the intended or unintended consequence of a Southern Vice President having to take the reins of power from a handpicked ailing President, who died prematurely. There was a wide coalition that rose and fought for justice against the oppressive designs of a self-styled mafia while the nation hung on a silk thread dangling on the precipice.

[b]Stakeholders mustered forces, threw in their weights and brokered compromises. Recriminations were buried including one that accused President Jonathan of denying knowledge of a zoning arrangement. Another agreement was therefore brokered. Stakeholders announced publicly and in gratifying tones the wisdom of Goodluck Jonathan’s commitment to a single term as President. Then Acting President Goodluck Jonathan did not deny these claims on his behalf. One person that staked a lot in the project of installing Jonathan was Olusegun Obasanjo who inadvertently became the target of northern stakeholders. Stakeholders that sought to eliminate him as a protecting shield in front of Goodluck Jonathan. The astute old man had formed a complex political network through several years of frontline politics to underscore his commitment to the Nigerian project. With him spreading this network to shield off Goodluck Jonathan from the reach of northern power brokers, President Jonathan’s vulnerability was strongly limited.[/b]

I elaborated this quite vividly in an article titled “Why is Babangida so angry?” [b]But shockingly things began to fall apart. The new President began to be led and guided by characters who saw themselves overnight as powerful players in the Nigerian political equation. They impressed upon the new President not to overestimate the importance of Olusegun Obasanjo. The President then launched a delicate balancing act of first covertly and progressively annoying Obasanjo with the appointment of protégés of northern stakeholders to sensitive positions – precisely the stakeholders that saw in him the holder of an office that did not belong to him.

Then BANG came the bombshell. Obasanjo began to criticize his political foster son publicly and the President would come out and report that he only saw dead bodies when he visited Odi after Obasanjo’s use of the military to quell a deadly unrest. What followed was even more distressing. The President made Obasanjo a fair game for his aides and Doyin Okupe and Reuben Abati openly began abusing the former President in public submissions. Jonathan relished the delusive comfort of having successfully appeased important powers in the north. After all, Atiku had been silenced with lucrative contracts as unproven rumors contend and Babangida satisfied with key appointments of his favored lieutenants.

Buhari had no significant role in the northern equation aside emotional followership. Major emirs here and there had been reached out to. In all of these, performance in governance was simply confined to propaganda paperwork and cosmetic projects like the reactivation of the rail industry to the steam age of the wild west. Boko Haram insurgency escalated but the President was sure that his appeased northern friends would take care of that sooner than later and proceeded to dare his folks who had just elected him a few months ago in a war of attrition by removing fuel subsidy in the adamant stance of a Harakiri fighter.

Meanwhile his inner circle feasting on the privileged position fell back on a looting relaxation that is continuing till date while the President felt comfortable enough to crush anyone who would dare challenge his dreams. After all, the northern flank had been taken care of and Obasanjo successfully marginalized. His strategies were planned by people who have no single power base of any sort but hinged their pleas on the deterrent effect of the risk of Niger Delta insurgency replacing Boko Haram. Today, the roof is collapsing on the President’s head and the intellectual analysts who emphasize the President’s gentleman’s agreement lay the blame squarely on the President’s feet. They emphasize the wanton disregard for decorum, unintelligent strategies and downright naiveté displayed by President Jonathan.[/b]

On the opposite side, the flock of hobby commentators and non-professional analysts cannot understand why staunch activists of 2010 who took to the streets to impress a Jonathan-must-rule agenda on the oppressive northern cabal are keeping quiet now and even blaming the President openly for the predicament befalling him. After all, they claim, a single term promise (if at all made) cannot supercede constitutional permission of a second term. They emphasize the northern hunger for power at the center of the lock jam and point to many northern leaders gleefully rubbing their hands in satisfaction at the pendulum swinging their way. They also highlight the backbone of the Nigerian economy and the regional disaffection that a premature northern presidency would unleash. They stress the fact that the north has ruled Nigeria long enough to allow the goose that lays the golden egg keep center stage for four more years. In a nutshell, it is the same bunch of emotional arguments that intellectuals and non-intellectuals alike subscribed to in 2010 to confront the northern cabal. This time though, it is failing to resonate across-the-board and is largely confined to non-intellectuals for obvious reasons. The protagonists are predominantly Niger Deltans – geographical siblings of the President who are proud to have one of their own at the coveted seat in a historical event.


No doubt, they too are now wondering why the rest of the south hardly seems to share in this emotional but logical consideration. After all, there has been a collective marginalization of the south by the north since independence. Yet there is a silent minority even amongst the President’s regional siblings who consider the President a disappointment to the interest of the region itself. It is not lost on keen observers how much looting a Niger Delta development project has resulted in. The sanctification and ‘untouchable’ status of militants-turn-millionaires has been observed with dismay. The uncontrolled operation of illegal refineries and stealing of crude oil by privileged powers with the President turning a blind eye is a major talk-of-the-town!


The sudden replacement of Farida Waziri at the EFCC at the time she was beginning to bite corrupt people in all boldness remains unexplained till the present moment. Her replacement Ibrahim Lamorde has mutated into a toothless bulldog serving out his term pursuing low profile cases. The President’s proclamation on CNN (Christiane Amanpour) of improved power supply turned out a laughing stock as Nigerians ask where the improvement was. Claims of megawatts are confined to paper propaganda with no light to show.

The only major and tangible achievement so far – aside a few completed road construction projects and minor unnoticeable corrections on the fringes – is the reactivation of the railway system linking Lagos with Kano. No one minds that the journey takes a few days in the burning heat of the barren land through which the steamer meanders. Northern power brokers who the President thought he had appeased to feel strong enough to ax down Olusegun Obasanjo, retained Boko Haram as a bargaining chip. Now the President is standing out naked in the political wilderness protected by a roadside barking dog called Asari Dokubo and a voluble feasting associate adopted as a makeshift godfather who has no political base whatsoever – Edwin Clark.

[b]With such a poor and dismal achievement record and enormous resources at his disposal given the price of crude oil accompanied by uncontrolled looting, discerning minds just want someone to move Nigeria forward irrespective of geographical origin. For now many just don’t care if a northerner comes on board again as long as he (no “she” can be expected from the north) can deliver on moving the country forward. Everyone honestly believes that the north has had more than a fair share of its role at the center and should ordinarily have left governance to another region. Jonathan could have pushed this agenda as well if he had – for instance – groomed a credible Easterner as a successor had he allowed decorum to take center stage and kept his promise of just one term. But poor achievements compounded by a very bad personal image nourished by poor television outings with gaffe after gaffe has endowed President Jonathan with the image of the world’s most unintelligent President that major world leaders avoid. A sharp contrast to the days of Olusegun Obasanjo.

Now people simply want a qualified brain northerner or southerner! Loud as the drums may sound, the signs do not point to an imminent collapse of project Nigeria in any civil war of sort. After all is said and done, Jonathan will be left with no choice but to simply eat the humble pie![/b]

pro01: This is why I am totally in support of extra-judicial killing of these beasts, whether by the police or by concerned members of the public. Nigeria's criminal justice system is a hot mess, and in order to ensure some level of sanity in our society, it is often expedient to do things the old-fashioned way. How many innocent lives would have been saved if this animal had been wasted by the police the first time he was arrested?

I have never been and can never be a fan of extra-judicial killing but agree that this guy's case leaves a very bad taste in the mouth and makes a powerful argument on behalf of those who feel taking the law into their own hands is a legitimate solution in a nation where the judiciary has abandoned its duty and constituted itself into a compromised and grave nuisance failing and endangering the people.

When the judiciary, because of corruption, callously puts the lives and property of Nigerians in jeopardy it will not be long before frustrated Nigerians conclude they have no choice but to embrace self-help. What, for god sake, is to be done about a murderer who continues to be released by the judiciary to commit more murders? What a Country.

Our judicial arm is a big disgrace. How can they continue to undermine justice by releasing this man to go and commit more murder and mayhem against Nigerians? Bail terrorists, bail kidnappers, bail armed robbers and bail serial killers!!! In civilised climes this guy, with his love of serial killing, will never see daylight !!! What a Nation.

http://odili.net/news/source/2013/sep/9/841.html

Lagos: Police arrest 32-year-old man for 10 murders

by Eniola Akinkuotu


The Lagos State Police Command has apprehended a 32-year-old man, Adigun Muda, in connection with some murders in the Mushin and Fadeyi areas of the state.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspect was arrested at South Africa Visa Application centre on Billingsway, Ikeja.

According to police authorities, the suspect, who is also an alleged leader of cult, has been linked to the killings of over 10 youths between 2010 and 2013.

The police added that the suspect had, in the past, been declared wanted by the police, charged for murder and was remanded at Ikoyi Prison for over a year.

According to police sources, after being charged with murder at a magistrate's court, the suspect, with the help of some influential members of his community, was able to obtain a motion for bail application and was released under controversial circumstances.

It was learnt that after his release, the suspect allegedly went after those who had collaborated with the police to arrest him.

The suspect was said to have killed more youths in the area and was declared wanted again by the police. All attempts to arrest him had proved abortive.

However, it was learnt that a team of policemen attached to Area D Command, Mushin, remained on Muda's trail.

It was learnt that the resilience paid off last Thursday when the policemen, led by the Area Commander, ACP Omololu Bishi, arrested him at the visa application centre with travel documents.

A police source said, "Around 2pm on that day, a team of policemen on patrol duty, rushed to the scene and arrested the suspect.

"We found forged documents on him including a fake identity card portraying the suspect as a supervisor with the Lagos State Waste Management Agency.

"Upon interrogation, he confessed that he was a member of Confraternity, and had killed many people. He mentioned other members of his gang and we will continue to make more arrests. We have transferred him to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba."

Policemen attached to the Homicide Department at the SCID told PUNCH Metro that investigations were on to unravel the mystery behind Muda's previous release.

A police detective said, "We did our job and charged this guy (Muda) to court. We have arrested and charged him three times but he continues to find his way out of prison. This frustrates our job and we want the government to look into this."

Muda's arrest ignited celebrations in Mushin as youths narrated some of their experiences in the hands of the suspect.

A victim, Toheeb Sodiq, who spoke to our correspondent from the hospital bed, said he was shot three times by the suspect.

He said, "On August 4, 2013, I was at the entrance of Lawani Street when four armed men led by Muda, started shooting at me and left me for dead. They shot me three times. Muda and his gang members have been terrorising us for a long time. This is indeed an achievement for the police."

Police sources told our correspondent that Muda was the one who led thugs to wreak havoc at a naming ceremony on Alhaji Lasisi Street.

PUNCH Metro had reported on May 20, 2013, that at the naming ceremony on Alhaji Ota Street, the suspect and his gang members shot one Yinka and later killed three others in an attack that lasted for three days.

Meanwhile, it was learnt that policemen had beefed up security in Mushin as Muda's gang members were said to have threatened to carry out reprisals for his arrest.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, confirmed Muda's arrest to our correspondent on the telephone.

"The suspect has been transferred to the SCID. Investigations will reveal all his crimes," she said.

abes: Even Akpabio cannot withstand his own mega transformations, he had to deport himself to Lagos.

Abi OOO. Imagine his wife , a whole first lady, not wanting to preside over the Dubai-like utopia her husband has delivered. Defying sense and the braggart noise we hear daily on this forum, Madam Akpabio prefers living as an ordinary citizen and raising her kids in the State of the "flower planter" rather than enjoying a "lord of the manor" existence in Akwa Ibom..

The delusions of the likes of Metuh, and a readiness to slander others based on such, is a PDP affliction. We Lagosians know what Fashola has done to the extent the first lady of a State we are told is "heaven" prefers living in Lagos and is only forced to return to Akwa Ibom when there is "compulsory ocacasion" she has to attend. Let some keep fooling themselves and their people. The Chicken will come home to roost for all of us.

https://www.nairaland.com/1431819/why-did-akpabio-family-relocate

Her Excellency, whenever in Lagos, worships regularly at the Catholic Church located at Falomo; but she also spends some periods in London. She flies into Akwa Ibom when there is any compulsory occasion for her to attend. Governor Akpabio himself lives more in Abuja NICON Hotel & Towers than the ‘prestigious’ Uyo Governor’s Lodge he reconstructed with N6.5billion.

[quote author=$ugardaddy]Unfortunately, only a few Niger Deltans are ready to listen to the voice of reasoning as it stands today.[/quote]Tragic. They are buying into the deception of leaders who pretend to fight for the region but buy mansions in Abuja and Lagos. Should it not be Niger Deltans themselves asking why a militant leader wants a $13 million jet when he claimed he was fighting against how Niger Deltans were not benefiting from the oil under their feet?

Instead, typified by utterances on this forum, it is Niger Deltans backing the madness by uttering the usual inanity of "na our oil money and they should even have spent more on bigger jets". The joke is on the Niger Deltans who are being impoverished by the madness we are seeing today. As long as a difficult past blinds many Niger Deltans to the fact that it is now their own sons robbing them and initiating slavery part 2, the region will remain troubled.

https://www.nairaland.com/1431831/ex-militant-tompolo-buys-private-jet

The part below is what every decent, aware and pragmatic Niger Deltan should confront instead of buying into the scam of those pretending to be fighting for the region yet only supervise the enrichment of themselves and their cronies. It is instructive that militants are buy private jets for $15 million while the region is going backwards under a "son of the soil" President and a Niger Delta Development Commission fully empowered, as never seen before, to bring change yet remains moribund and about corruption committed by Niger Deltans against Niger Deltans !!!!

Good Niger Deltans should make no mistake about the fact that they are in a struggle against their own leaders who happens to be their biggest enemy. What the Niger Delta has gone through is no excuse for letting Niger Deltan opportunists hijack issues from this point on to make things about themselves and their pocket. Especially deplorable, to cover there looting, is the fact that these opportunist have nothing to offer but a constant desire to point the finger of blame at other Nigerians while they are the main saboteurs of their own people. Niger Deltans must begin to hold their own leaders accountable instead of buying into their deception.

Yet inspite of all these huge investments under the direct control of Niger Deltans; and inspite of the opportunities presented by this moment in history, with a president of Niger Delta stock; what have we got to show for all these as ordinary Niger Deltans? What is the current state of infrastructure and basic services across the Niger Delta after all these years? Why are millions of Niger Delta youths still unemployed and unemployable? Why is the East-West Road still under construction [a state it has been in for more than two decades]?

Yes it is true we now have quite a few of us who have become fabulously and mind bogglingly rich in a short space of time; yes we now have Ex-Militant Generals who are multi-billionaires courtesy of maritime and oil pipeline security and surveillance contracts! And of course we now have politicians, and political office holders who have become some of the wealthiest Nigerians, and who have more palatial houses in Abuja, Lagos, and overseas than there are houses [huts included] in the villages of the Niger Delta from which they hail!
So was this what we fought for? Was this the reason why the Ogoni Bill of Rights; the Kiaima Declaration of Ijaw Youths; and the Manifesto of the Chikoko Movement were made/proclaimed/issued?
Did we launch a collective struggle for a collective and shared Resource Control? Or was it simply just a struggle to enrich a few and launch them into the circuits of the treasury looting and collective wealth pillaging circuits of the Nigeria ruling class?

Ayekotoo: Furthermore, the state of security in Lagos is not happenstance or mere co-incidence but the consequence of a deliberate strategy encompassed in the activities of the Lagos State Security Trust Fund (LSSTF), which was set up by Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola under a law enacted by the State House of Assembly in 2007.

The LSSTF is a public-private initiative created to address the issue of inadequate funding of the police and other law enforcement/ security agencies by the federal government which is constitutionally charged with that responsibility. It is one of the acute incongruities of Nigeria’s current constitutional order that the federal government insists on not permitting the establishment of state police while abandoning not just the police, but most other federal agencies domiciled in the states (SSS, Customs, Prisons, Immigration, and even some federal secretariats) to the state governments for funding and operational maintenance. In effect, the state government neither eat their cake, nor have it.


http://spotonreporters.com/fashola-a-legacy-sustained/

This is a point I have always made and the reason FG retrogression has to be countered with regional integration lest we stagnate and move at the snail pace the indolence of the centre traps us in.

[quote author=Adm. Yamamoto]Gbawe, how far with the DAWN Agenda, any updates? Look, I am getting impatient with these projects and so should all Yoruba sons and daughters! I can only wish we were at least 60% into the programme where healthcare and education have already been integrated, standardized and regularized with citizens registered and placed in different categories: Yoruba Citizens, Non-Yoruba resident, Out of State residents, etc. These people should be paying a premium for staying in Lagos! Why should a governor leave his state collecting billions of naira per month and come to be using roads in Lagos while keeping his money in his pocket? How about school? They should be paying differential fees which will greatly increase the revenue of Lagos government and our states. In fact, by strict regulation and standardization, the SW states can practically run their entire economy from taxes, fees, differentials, charges, fines, etc ALONE while developing increased capabilities with our oil wealth, etc. Kai, when will DAWN become a complete reality?? [/quote]I don't know detailed plans for every sector but I know top priority is linking the SW effectively through an upgraded transport network. Expect to see something in this regard first and soon. I have to correct a misconception though. DAWN is an initiative to benefit those who live in the SW, love the region and, wherever they are from, wish to contribute to her progress. I think we need to make this distinction rather than lump every non-Yoruba into the category of "enemy within" or "unwelcome nuisance" even as I agree there are tonnes of people in those groups.

It is enough for DAWN to focus on making the SW a rapidly developing region not impeded by the indolence of the centre. Any benevolent-minded person who lives in the SW can key into this and do their bit to make issues work. Yet, I think, because of all that is going on, a corner has been turned and there is more awareness amongst the Yorubas over what the SW is to Nigeria that others love to take for granted. It is not about making noise. Everyone will see the effort that follows this new 'Awareness'.

So Mrs. Akpabio prefers to raise her children in Lagos and not in her "fantastic" native State her husband is governor of and can thus afford to give her and the children the best Akwa Ibom has to offer? She would rather be an inhabitant of Lagos than be first lady of Akwa Ibom. What a powerful statement. Says a lot really about what leaders are doing while average citizens are on the net chest-beating and bragging worthlessly.

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Wsdm: That is what Jonathan and his team don't understand. The kind of opposition he has now in the North will give him a very dirty fight the type he is playing also.
Not like Buhari who is calling for free and fair election that does not exist anywhere on earth. These ones understands the terrain of Nigeria politics. Rig your way and attribute the victory to Allah or Jesus.

Thank you!!! Some fans of GEJ will be shocked to see the tenacity and ferocity which this crew will fight Jonathan with. They went to town shouting "Buhari" without realising that the real Northern enemies of GEJ are the ruthless bunch in his own PDP Party. The clannish fans of GEJ forgot that Buhari spoke up in defence of GEJ having the right to run in 2010 when PDP hawks were trying to shut out Jonathan.

Difference is that Atiku, IBB et al were on their own back then. It was the Northern 'moderates', with official power like Lamido et al, who saved GEJ then. Today, they are involved and fully committed 'Hawks'. I wish GEJ 'goodluck'.

Prof Corruption: I dey laugh ooooooo

Bros, Abeg make I follow you laugh too.

Timehin: So because 'there is honor among thieves' then nigerians should keep quiet in order to appease politicians who believed they own the country and dictate to millions because of their selfish ambitions
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Agreed Gej may have made mistakes but must i on the basis of that be compelled to vote a northerner or an annointed candidate from certain 'dishonourables' if that aint my desire The soul/future of this country is at stake and we all need to take a stand on the way forward for the betterment of the masses.

There is nowhere I have told you or any other Nigerian what to do when it comes to your turn at the polling booth. Keep your vote for whoever you want and keep it away from any Northern candidate whatever his quality. That is your prerogative.

My point is that these politician are stakeholders dealing with each other by method they deem suitable for their own purposes. When you are at a PTA (parents/teachers association) meeting for your child, will a single man who has no child be allowed to have a say or even a vote on how you and other stakeholder parents should proceed over issues affecting the development and needs of your children?

Same as you would not tolerate any politician trying to force you vote against your will at the polling station is how, even if you do not see or accept it, you cannot influence how politicians themselves feel they should deal with those amongst them who have no respect for obligations and responsibilities towards others.

My guy, please ensure you go out of your way to vote for a non-Northerner. By even bringing this in, you show you miss my point which revolves around getting people to see key stages and the limitation of our input and partisanship. Whether you agree or not, intra-Party politicking has nothing to do with me and you. At this stage, generally liked politicians have no problem soliciting for support from their own Party.

Ngige, for example, had no problem becoming the APC candidate in an affair that was about smiles and bon homie. Jonathan, on the other hand, face toxic resistance everywhere. Can you confront the real reason for this or will you simplistically ignore the cynical actions of GEJ to make things conveniently about the North and SW "hating an Ijaw man"? GEJ has treated his fellow political stakeholders badly and treacherously. We are now seeing the fightback against his deliberate Machiavellian power-play. That is not my problem and it should not be yours.

[quote author=sweet_gala]Leave matter , did he utter any sentence that is beyond the Nigerian imagination or far from our current reality. Abeg parkwell[/quote]Don't mind him. Read through the thread to see it is clannish fans of GEJ full of intolerant anger and lashing out insultingly and unprovoked against others expressing their views. Now imagine GEJ being surrounded with unreasonable sabre-rattlers and divisive elements, like these nairalanders, in his 'inner circle'. Is it not obvious then how GEJ finds himself in the situation he is in today? When unreasonable people egg on a leader to be as insensible, bullying and as dictatorial as possible then it is the leader, if sensible, who must reject those characters or find himself in the situation GEJ is now in.

I have always argued it is not a coincidence, despite the hollow lie "GEJ is performing", that not even a few Nigerian 'good guys' are behind GEJ. Our President is only supported by mercenaries and the AGIPs (any government in power) who have rendered Nigeria crippled over many decades. Whereas the opposite is the case worldwide i.e the best a society has produced are all usually united in support for political leaders doing the right things and genuinely transforming lives.

The lies, treachery, prejudice and needless animosity towards others now beginning to catch up with 'team GEJ'.

Wsdm: Your statement is very coherent and laddenend with emotions. But mind you that GEJ'S opposition is not only from the North. In fact, if the incumbent factor is removed from him and the presidency is to be zoned to South-South, he may not even be considered among the first 100 people.
GEJ had an agreement with them which made them to disgrace Atiku their own in 2011 PDP primary election and went further to also disgrace Buhari in the general election. All these while no body was shouting betrayal or bigotry.
To the masses, GEJ failed in all his electioneerring promises and did the worst by removing fuel subsidy on new year day an issue he didn't mention through out his campaign.
Oil theft is at its maximum even after giving his kinsmen ( a former militant) the contract to secure it.
Aritsejafor the CAN president talks any how to any one he feels is not with GEJ.
His kinsmen are promising brimstone if he is not reelected.
These and many more.
How will you feel if are in the opposite camp?

This, for those who do not entertain sentiments and clannish bias to the detriment of reality and commonsense, is what will not happen again whatever GEJ spends to co-opt desperados everywhere. It is only on Nairaland , because many here are not politicians, that Atiku, Tinubu,Buhari et al get called all manners of unsavory names. The fact is that in their own stakeholder group,and amongst themselves, those guys are seen as "honorable" and worth working with whereas GEJ is currently akin to a leper because of his own treachery and dishonorable association with others. Many of us simply do not appreciate what is going on because we never put ourselves in the shoes of others.

Whatever one thinks of Lamido, Aliyu et al , and despite the ungodly names those guys have been called by ungrateful supporters of GEJ, would Jonathan be President today had those guys not gone against their own to begin delivering for GEJ right from the PDP primaries that defeated Atiku andthrough to the general election? What has been the payback these guys have received from GEJ and his clannishly uncouth fans and loutishly sycophantic hirelings? GEJ fans have their own intolerance and bigotry to blame for this. Their derogatory utterance towards all others, as if GEJ is some superman who would never need anyone, would have been similar to the wave of clannish rhetoric spewed by those surrounding GEJ. All this combined to make GEJ 'heady', inconsiderate and careless to the extent he went ahead to alienate those who already had reasons to be legitimately mad at him. Now the Chicken has come home to roost and we see the pensive mood of those faced to confront the hollowness of their braggadocio based on nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Insincer9gerian is busy crying that GEJ is fighting with one hand behind his back while he forgets the times he boasted 'almighty' GEJ will crush all before him en-route to an "easy" 2015 return simply because all others were bullied out of the way to make Anenih "consensus" BOT chairman. Now we hear of "gang up" against GEJ. Was there not a "gang up" against Amaechi with the only utterance from fans of GEJ being words of chastisement for "small" Amaechi who "deserved" all he was getting for standing his ground? Did we not hear, till it became the Nairaland catchphrase, that "you never challenge the President" by braggarts who spoke as if GEJ was someone who could do and undo when the truth is that he is a detested figure who can be dismantled easily because many stakeholders will willingly join any political plot or rebellion against a President who has shown he has no time for the adage "honor amongst thieves"?

Well, fair is fair in life. Let GEJ face his battles same as he treacherously and dictatorially took it to others. When Oyinlola et al were being taken down, with some of us saying it was only a shallow victory, GEJ fans shrieked maniacally while his paid mouthpieces (Okupe, Abati, Maku, Omokri et al) barked at everyone like rabid dogs. Now they play victim. When OBJ stepped down as BOT chairman, we discussed it here and I held the distinct view OBJ was merely getting out of the way for what he knew was coming the way of a man who had drawn the anger of the virtual establishment, good and bad, with 'rogue' treachery. We are seeing it all unfold today. OBJ was a "foolish and impotent old man" back then. A "powerless has been". Well, things change quickly in politics. I think it appears OBJ has exemplified the naivete of team GEJ with how he jumped ship to now reinvent himself as a champion against 'in house' treachery. "The night of the long knives" is upon us.

[quote author=P.Stacks]What gives you the right to attack the other guys opinion? Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, that is what he feels and that is how he perceives it, you should state your own opinion for others to see and not to attack someone's else opinion.
The fact that people are "liking" his opinion is proof enough for you to know the guy was on track, y attack the guy if not that you are forming the holier than thou attitude, or probably you think you are better than the guy and his contributions..
I strongly rebuke you for attacking such a geniune contribution on this forum, we are not mediocre minds here like you want it to appear..

Back to the Topic jare... UP Kwankwasawa...

Allaha eh Raya mana Kwankwaso..

What you won't take u won't take it..
When they were busy messing everything up they didn't know they would need other people some day, now they've messed it all up and need people to pack their poo for them, Kwankwaso is definately not one of the ass-lickers and I'm happy he has distanced himself.

Thy are looking for cosmetic approach so the press would carry it that Kwankwaso and GEJ have agreed and pallied up..

No cosmetic approach, ooo! Everybody must reap what they sow, no such thing as a free lunch nowhere. Life is Action-Reaction, Give and Take.

A house divided against itself can not stand, PDP has divided itself and 2015 is seriously shaking now they want to do fire brigade cosmetic approach till 2015 and continue the decadence.. If e go scatter, make e kuku scatter now..

Nice one Governor Kwankwaso.. Thumbs up for you. Allah eh Bia bukata. Amin amin.[/quote]Well-said. I have said it before, many times, that the 'fightback' against GEJ will come. Many of these guys got their hands 'bloody' for GEJ not because they love or ever loved him. They did what they did, at serious personal risk in some cases, to be in a position they assumed they would be in today with an incumbent putting them at ease by pledging he will not run in 3015. These guys all went to fight for GEJ in 2011 Because they thought their path to the PDP ticket will be made easier with an incumbent President who is not in the race.

After doing all that, GEJ then stabs everyone in the back. Not only has he reneged on his pledge but he has denied it publicly to make a fool of the many, including OBJ et al, who has taken the President to task for his treachery and lack of honour. To make matters worse, GEJ began listening to sycophants to view himself omnipotent and above everyone. Ruthlessly' team GEJ made enemies of everyone with very dictatorial and rancour-inducing 'palace coups' everywhere to actualise an ambition built on treachery. !6 is greater than 19 and 5 is greater than two dozens et al.

Such thoughtless antics are enough to unite many in the justified effort to make sure GEJ, after his machinations and bullying, is left with a worthless shell of a Party that will not even be able to win an LG election. These guys know they have the number and sagacity to succeed because they feel their cause is "just". Their cause is one many stakeholders themselves, not you and I, will support because of the overarching desire to see a 'rogue'bully, willing to destroy everything to include what he has profited from, brought to book. In short the determination to ensure GEJ does not get away with treachery is very personal and strong for many, many, many,many political stakeholders.

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adanny01: What is making GEJ's supporters hostile to reasonable arguments? Second comment had no argument but just insult. Wow, even the Buhari supporters that killed and burnt properties were'nt this hostile. I wonder what will happen when GEJ eventually loses the election.

I still wonder why someone so myopic will sit in his village in the south south and think his benefactor has millions of supporters in the North west.

Consolation for GEJ's supporters - No one can categorically claim he will not walk back to Aso villa but so many conspicuous events have transpired that makes his chances hazy, which he should not continue to ignore. The threat to his success are real, the sooner he realises the better his chances are.

GEJ should not be decieved that 7 Governors are irrelevant to his chances. If those Governors donot take away the entire votes of their states, they will certainly take half. With 7 governors that translates to an entire geographical zone or more. Who should ignore that? This does not include those who were never for him and those the opposition will wrestle for assuming they have a credible candidate. Not a single vote for GEJ is dispensable right now!

Feel free to insult me!

Well-said. Shame fans of GEJ are too uncouth to see the logic in your post. GEJ, with opportunists like Tukur and Anenih being his "main men", has no chance of gaining the ticket of a strong and united PDP. Fans of GEJ are too unreasonable to understand that those fighting him are the same politicians he made pledges to and has now undermined with treachery and deceit.

Are these folks simply supposed to forget their personal ambition they thought they would be in a better position to actualise currently by accepting the sucker punch of GEJ and queueing slavishly and impotently behind him without a fight?

These are the same sort of people using terrorism to butcher Nigerians because of a Party zoning arrangement. What will they then do when GEJ has reneged on a personal pledge that made many of them, in defiance of serious backlash at home, to work for GEJ's 2011 win? Nigerians, including the very sentimental, should get real. GEJ has boxed himself into the sort of corner that ensures only unprincipled mercenaries like Anenih and Tukur remain behind him. Our politicians have their own self-preservation rules GEJ has callously gone against when no one should breach such. Laughable how some think the office of President makes GEJ omnipotent when his action is one resented by even the most treacherous politician who still minimally understand the notion of "honour amongst thieves". Let GEJ spend all Nigeria's wealth on hirelings from every region like Fasehun, Asari Dokubo, Anenih, Tukur et al. He is only postponing the inevitable.