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PoliticsRe: Re – Who Will Defeat Jonathan In 2015? Joe Igbokwe Responds. by Gbawe(op): 12:53pm On Jun 23, 2013
maclatunji: The ACN is a right-wing party. It believes in Capitalism as the pivot for economic growth and development and sees effective taxation as the primary source of government revenue. In essence, an ACN/APC controlled Nigeria is likely to be efficient in the provision of infrastructure such as electricity, roads, health etc. There would be increased taxation with initial resistance from labour unions and the lower classes.

However, in the long term, there would be economic adjustment with more job openings and opportunities for the unemployed.
A visit to the website of most Nigerian Parties will reveal their core ideology. To say "no Nigerian political party to this day has a political phylosophy" , as Mikeansy does, is totally false and ridiculous .

http://www.acnigeria.com/about-acn

Our Party
Saturday, 29 September 2012 07:59
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), formerly known as Action Congress (AC), is a classical liberal Nigerian political party formed via the merger of the Alliance for Democracy, the Justice Party, the Advance Congress of Democrats, and several other minor political parties in September 2006.
I also believe, like you, the ACN will manage Nigeria much better than the PDP at the centre because of the core ideology of the Party and the policies and innovation we see initiated at State level. This is not difficult to discern if one looks at issues as a political 'aficionado'.

The problem is that many Nigerians simply refuse to views things truthfully and dispassionately. This is mainly because they are highly sentimental, politically unsophisticated and fully devoted to sectional interests/affiliation above the notion of siding with what is right, developmental and desirable.
PoliticsRe: Osun Airport: Gateway To The World by Gbawe(op): 12:52pm On Jun 23, 2013
Free trade zone

The airport will also aid the free trade zone being established in Osun primarily to provide investors with a chance to trade without heavy tax burdens. Transportation is essential to the success of free trade zones. Presumably, the activities of the FTZ would means opportunities exist for goods and passenger transportation.
PoliticsRe: Re – Who Will Defeat Jonathan In 2015? Joe Igbokwe Responds. by Gbawe(op): 12:11pm On Jun 23, 2013
mikeansy: Just for the records APC at this moment has no phylosophy and neither did ACN. In fact no Nigerian political party to this day has a political phylosophy.

If you say it is a like tell me if APC or ACN is a left-wing, right-wing or centrist party and while you are at it demonstrate how their policies from state to state demonstrate this phylosophy!
Are you not tired of repeating this lie? You say this same thing all the time but it simply is not true. Nigerian Parties all have core ideology and administrative/political philosophy they identify with even if most make a poor job practising the theory behind their political ideology.

I know many Nigerians have a casual disdain for many things to do with Nigeria even if they will never admit so and this your false statement demonstrates that. It is no different to many Nigerians, perhaps themselves scantily educated and guilty of ignorance, calling Nigerian leaders "illiterate" when many of our leaders are actually well-educated achievers. Whatever our views of others, we should endeavour to operate with established facts always. Saying Nigerian Parties have no philosophy is outright false.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Congress_of_Nigeria_(ACN)


Action Congress Of Nigeria
Chairman Chief Bisi Akande
Secretary-General Lawal Shuaibu
Founded 2006
Headquarters 16 Bissau Street, Wuse, Zone 6, Abuja
Ideology Classical liberalism
Colours Green, black, white
Position in national political spectrum Progressivism
Seats in the Senate 18 / 109
Seats in the House 74 / 360
Governorships 6 / 36

Website
http://www.acnigeria.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism

Classical liberalism

Classical liberalism is a political philosophy and ideology that emerged as a response to the Industrial Revolution and urbanization in the 19th century in Europe and the United States.[1] It shares a number of beliefs with other belief systems belonging to liberalism, advocating civil liberties and political freedom, limited government, rule of law, and belief in free market.[2][3][4] Classical liberalism is built on ideas that had already arisen by the end of the 18th century, such as selected ideas of Adam Smith, John Locke, Jean-Baptiste Say, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo, stressing the belief in free market and natural law,[5] utilitarianism,[6] and progress.[7] Classical liberals were more suspicious than conservatives of all but the most minimal government[8] and, adopting Thomas Hobbes's[citation needed] theory of government, they believed government had been created by individuals to protect themselves from one another.
PoliticsRe: Re – Who Will Defeat Jonathan In 2015? Joe Igbokwe Responds. by Gbawe(op): 10:47am On Jun 23, 2013
maclatunji: I am certain he will try to do this. The big question is: how will Nigerians react to it ?
It will be very problematic to achieve a rigged win in 2015. . Already, there is real rancour and bad-blood attached to 2015 and I think any result/winner would possibly face serious and violent resistance. The politicians, instead of subscribing themselves to a democratic test of popularity, are behaving in sabre-rattling ways that indicate serious mayhem may be unavoidable. Rigging will surely ensure chaos in an atmospshere which is very tense already.
PoliticsRe: Osun Airport: Gateway To The World by Gbawe(op):
Tourism continued.

Also note that there is a formal and organised effort in place to boost tourism through the O'Tour scheme.

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=101568

O’ Tour Is Meant To Showcase Osun Culture – Daniyan
Osun Tourism is essentially meant to showcase the natural endowment of the State of Osun to the whole world.

https://www.osundefender.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/olumirin-waterfall.jpg
olumirin waterfall
The Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Tourism, who is also the Chairman of the State of Osun Tourism Board, Engineer Bimbola Daniyan, stated this in his office while responding to questions from journalists
Daniyan said the aim of setting up O’Tour is to showcase God’s natural endowment sites in the state and to utilize it to create employment opportunities for the youths.
He added that the sites like Olumirin Waterfall, Erin-Ijesa, Ayinkunugba Waterfall, Oke-Ila, Opa Oranmiyan and Osun Osogbo Grove are unique sites, which cannot be found anywhere.
He further explained that the State of Osun is unique and Ife being the cradle of Yoruba race and source of every man has never been in doubt.

Daniyan then said the government of Ogbeni Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola is doing everything possible to create a treasure out of a great heritage in the state by turning the potentials into assets and a cash-flow society.
He therefore acknowledged the vision of Aregbesola in ensuring that every available opportunity in the state is turned to wealth-creation for the youths and enjoined the citizens in the State of Osun to cooperate fully with the current state government, with a view to moving the state forward.
O'Tour on facebook. Flagging off ceremony.

https://en-gb.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=143189239093119&set=a.143184469093596.37997.140006606078049&type=1&theater
PoliticsRe: Osun Airport: Gateway To The World by Gbawe(op): 9:22am On Jun 23, 2013
Sincere 9gerian: The OP says the Osun state govt is building Osun International Airport, and that the aircraft maintenance facility will be completed next year and international flights will also commence next year. No mention was made of cargo terminal.

But the link you provided suggests a cargo terminal is being built at the same location and will be completed later this year.

Well, I'm not an expert in aviation but building an international Airport for passengers in Osogbo is senseless. Building of cargo terminal is more sensible and would not cost as much, both in building and running cost. Definitely, the cost of building and running cargo Airport cannot be same with full fledged international Airport.

I learnt there's a proposed Agro Cargo Airport, Sagamu, Ogun State. That is very SPECIFIC and it is the way to go. Even at that, feasibility studies and solid business plans has to be in place before embarking on such project.
You're never an expert in anything yet would it kill you to do some basic research before you come here to talk ignorantly? The airport will have allowance for Cargo and passenger transportation. It is a medium-scale airport. The "international" merely reflects how the airport will cater for passenger flight to and from airport destinations with "international" appendage to their name. Flights, for example, could be between Ido-Osun and Murtala Mohammed international airport.

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=5091

The reporter’s findings in the Processing Unit, State Ministry of Finance indicated that an amount of money, over N4 billion had been pumped into the reactivation work to remake the Ido-Osun airport into a General Aviation which serves all types of aircraft, business, charter and private aircraft as well as scheduled air taxis which carry passengers between towns, and to and from commercial service airports with the word international in their names.
Now, to deal with the need for the airport.

Tourism.

Good administrators plan for their own specific reality, endowment, challenges expectations and targets. Aregbesola wants the airport to serve the planned free trade zone and to boost socio-economic progress. For example, far more can be made of Osun's tourism potentials in regards to how the State is a historic geographical destination definitive of the essence of Yoruba culture. If a formal approach is taken to tourism that effectively and adequately deal with the challenges of transportation, healthcare, hospitality, security et al then tourism could be immense considering that those affiliated with or even respectful of Yoruba culture (From Brazil to Cuba et al) would wish to visit the Osun Osogbo shrine. The Osun Osogbo shrine is listed by Unesco as very important to Yoruba culture and Aregbesola feels this holds great tourism potential same ways historical spots worldwide (Taj Mahal, Stonehenge and many others) are attractive tourist destinations in their own right.

Tourism can be immense for Osun if other factors that currently under-develop the sector are dealt with. This is what Aregbesola is doing. Effectively, as as example, package tours could be arranged featuring flights to MMIA from anywhere in the world and then a connecting flight to Ido-Osun. I have personally watched Ghana grow her tourism sector over the past 14 years admirably from one bringing in a comparatively negligible amount to a money maker that now contributes billions of dollars to the Ghanaian economy. For what Yoruba culture is, one of the last vestige that pays homage to it will surely be a big attraction if marketed correctly and work is done to ensure the expectations of even the fussiest tourist/holiday-maker can be met. Aregbesola would be a fool if he cannot plan for what his State, because of it's natural endowment, can achieve through tourism.


http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1118


Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove

The dense forest of the Osun Sacred Grove, on the outskirts of the city of Osogbo, is one of the last remnants of primary high forest in southern Nigeria. Regarded as the abode of the goddess of fertility Osun, one of the pantheon of Yoruba gods, the landscape of the grove and its meandering river is dotted with sanctuaries and shrines, sculptures and art works in honour of Osun and other deities. The sacred grove, which is now seen as a symbol of identity for all Yoruba people, is probably the last in Yoruba culture. It testifies to the once widespread practice of establishing sacred groves outside all settlements.

https://whc.unesco.org/uploads/thumbs/site_1118_0009-594-0-20121213164740.jpg
PoliticsRe: Ajimobi's First-class schools in Oyo by Gbawe: 10:13pm On Jun 22, 2013
Sibrah: There is no offense in leaving some school the way they are until the funds to fix them become available. Atleast, he hasn't borrowed, so it is safe to say he is planning to reconstruct these schools as the funds come in and avoid paying interest.
These guys, obviously working to budget constraint and access to funds, all have solid plans. Oyo will build three model schools in each senatorial district of the state that will serve as the prototype for public schools to be built in the State.

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/oyo-to-boost-education-with-three-model-schools/

Oyo to boost education with three model schools
KEMI OLAITAN January 25, 2013 No Comments »
As part of its efforts to provide friendly learning environment, the Oyo State Government is planning to build three model schools across the senatorial districts of the state.

The state Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Adetokunbo Fayokun, disclosed this yesterday while addressing journalists in Ibadan, adding that provisions were made for the projects in this year’s budget.

She said the schools, which would communicate the dream of the current administration on the standards of public schools, would be built in each of the three senatorial districts.

The commissioner explained that construction of the schools became apparent in view of the dilapidating structures, poor academic performance, emergence of mushroom private schools and other woes that bedevilled public schools in the country.

Mrs Fayokun added that efforts by the state government had begun yielding positive results for pupils by way of improved performance in the last West African Examinations Council (WAEC) during which Oyo State moved from 34th to 23nd position nationwide.

She said the model schools would afford the government the opportunity to demonstrate how schools should look like and be run.

According to her, aside rebuilding infrastructure across secondary schools and motivation of teachers in various ways, the government also approved payment of the counterpart funds to access funds from the Universal Basic Education (UBE) for projects in primary schools.

She said Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s administration was committed to the development of education.

The commissioner said with friendly learning environment, extra-mural lessons for pupils preparing for public examinations, free exercise books for pupils and motivation of teachers, the government was committed to restoring the glory of Oyo State as a pace- setting state, particularly in the area of education.
PoliticsRe: Aregbesola's First-class Schools in Osun, The ''O'' State by Gbawe: 9:01pm On Jun 22, 2013
Below, is a relatively brief and summarised breakdown of Aregbesola's plan for the education sector. What exactly have we not seen come on board to show that this man is a doer who plans, informs the public of his plans and delivers what he has promised? The promised model schools are being constructed, O-meals is ensuring children have balanced and protein rich diet for growth and physical/mental development and the Opon Imo tablets are being delivered. Why will senator Chukwumerije, knowing how ethnocentric and egotistic Nigerians are, not emphatically advise all and sundry to "drop their ego" and learn from what Aregbesola is doing? OP, your thread is an epic fail because Aregbesola is one of the stand-out governors Nigeria has in regards to the education sector.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/05/in-osun-challenges-fuel-drive-for-infrastructural-devt/

In Osun, challenges fuel drive for infrastructural devt

Another characteristic feature of infrastructural revamp in Osun State is in its educational sector. It began the implementation of the summit recommendations which it hosted in 2010 by committing N30 billion to building 170 new model schools across the state equipping it with state-of-the-art facilities. It is believed these would enhance and stimulate teaching-learning environment in order to replace the dilapidated buildings that stand as classrooms. These model classrooms are now springing up across the state.

Twenty of these schools are for the high school senior students. When completed, they will conveniently accommodate 3,000 students on the basis of 40 per class. Each of these structures would cost the state government a whooping sum of N700 million. The school would also have an examination hall that can comfortably seat 1,500 students and two e-libraries; one for sciences and the other for arts and social sciences.

Interest of students

The 50 junior schools with its model in Osogbo, after completion would accommodate 1,250 students and the elementary schools about 100 is spread across the state. This would conveniently accommodate 900 pupils. To further stimulate the interest of students to learning, the government is reducing the burden of having to go to school with bags filled with books by replacing books with a computer tablets invented by the state government.

The tablet, designed in form of an iPod called Opon Imo, contains the entire senior school syllabus, including Yoruba traditions. Examination past questions of WAEC, etc, are also part of the software design. The purpose of this is to stimulate students’ interest in learning both at home and in school.

For starters, senior students in public schools targeted for the pilot scheme would be given the computer tablet at no cost. This project will cost the state government about N2 billion. As part of its feature to attract more enrolment of children in public schools, government rejuvenated the school feeding programme and tagged it O’Meal, that is Osun Meal with a high protein content. This according to state officials has increased the enrolment figure in public primary schools by 25 per cent in the last session and government is anticipating an increase in the figure in the coming academic session.
PoliticsRe: Aregbesola's First-class Schools in Osun, The ''O'' State by Gbawe: 8:43pm On Jun 22, 2013
Sibrah: ^ I felt the guy could have done better with the 'Opon Imo' project. No doubt about him being a significant improvement over Oyinlola.
How could he have done better with it?
PoliticsRe: Aregbesola's First-class Schools in Osun, The ''O'' State by Gbawe: 8:37pm On Jun 22, 2013
@Topic.

Some of these schools were built during the days of Obafemi Awolowo. Administrators after administrators have come and made no real difference. This is to include Oyinlola of the PDP who was Osun's Governor for almost 8 years. Aregbesola came in and stated unequivocally that the pictures we see here represent unacceptable decay. He opined that children could not learn in environment not even fit to raise chickens in. His government therefore decided to do the hard work of demolishing these 'Chicken cages' to replace them with modern model schools. All it takes is a little fact-finding research and we will all see what matters quickly.

This year Osun is planning to build around hundreds of model schools to replace the mess on ground.


http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/4307-osun-demolishes-3000-public-school-buildings

Osun demolishes 3,000 public school buildings
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Osun State, on Thursday, disclosed that it had demolished 3,000 dilapidated school buildings out of the 4,000 deplorable school buildings identified across the 30 local government areas in the state.
The government, which also allayed the fears of residents of the state on the planned merger of the primary and post primary schools in the state, contended that the development was targeted at repositioning the state’s educational sector, with much emphasis on delivery of quality knowledge to the pupils.
Addressing newsmen in Osogbo, on Thursday, the chairman, Osun Schools Infrastructure Development Committee (O’ schools), Chief Lai Oyeduntan, stated that his committee had spotted schools with dangerously dilapidated structures in the state and will replace them with new ones.
He hinted that 100 model elementary schools would be built in the state, while 50 middle schools and 20 high schools would also be built in the nine federal constituencies of the state before the end of this year.
While contending that most of the school buildings in the state were constructed by the administration of former Premier of the old Western region, Chief Obafemi Awolowo and that of the former governor of the old Oyo State, Chief Bola Ige, Oyeduntan observed that the buildings were weak and could no longer stand the test of time.
According to him, most of the school buildings erected during the administration of the immediate past Governor of the state, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola were either located close to high ways or of low quality standard, a development which compelled the government to demolish them.
He explained that the buildings that were demolished were not only those built by the government of Oyinlola as insinuated by some people, stressing that the present government in the state does not put political sentiments into its actions and deeds.
Oyeduntan who said arrangements had already been concluded to ensure that the planned merger of schools succeed, assured that all envisaged challenges that may affect the new government policy have been considered, such that the policy would be beneficial to all the stakeholders in the education sector including parents and pupils.
PoliticsRe: Aregbesola's First-class Schools in Osun, The ''O'' State by Gbawe: 8:19pm On Jun 22, 2013
Sibrah: Aregbe in deep poooooo for acting b4 thinking. He should have focus on adding value in a meaningful way and not neccesarily in a noisy and wasteful way. However i wouldn't blame him on the state of the schools.
Dude, I will suggest you do more research before swallowing the lies people sell here daily. Not many Governor can match the deliberate and systematic effort of Aregbesola in the education sector in Nigeria today. His approach is entirely comprehensive and visionary. From feeding school kids to a robust plan for building adequate model schools through to the most sophisticated and modern learning aid, Aregbesola has done things in a manner others should emulate. We can all engage in all these back-and-forth but we all just appear like illiterate when we never wish to listen to the adjudication of the most competent referees. available.

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2012/10/chukwumerije-hails-aregbesolas-education-policies/

Chukwumerije hails Aregbesola’s education policies
POSTED ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10TH, 2012


By Gbenga Faturoti, Correspondent Osogbo

Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, Senator Uche Chukwumerije has called on other states in Nigeria to emulate the feat recorded by Osun State in education sector saying that what is happening in the state is capable of rescuing the country’s rotten education sector.

Chukwumeriji, who lead other members of the committee on an oversight visit to Osun State, challenged other state governors to learn from the policies being put in place in Osun if indeed, they are set to put their states on the path of glory.

He explained that all state governors must drop their party affiliations and sentiments and learn from Osun because the state is on the right path to the development of the sector.

Other members of the committee included wife of the former governor of Lagos State, Oluremi Tinubu, Professor Olusola Adeyeye and Atiku Bagudu.

The committee said the visit was a mark of respect and solidarity in showing appreciation for the feat that the young administration of Aregbesola has achieved in Osun.

According to Chukwumerije, “The states and the country owe Governor Aregbesola a lot of gratitude for promptly laying a formidable foundation for education in the state. I will like to use this opportunity to advise other states irrespective of your political affiliation, you must drop your ego and learn from the people oriented projects and programmes of Governor Aregbesola.”

The senator described the collapse of education in the country as a national challenge and appealed to all to muster the courage to address the decay in the education sector.

“The Governor of Osun is God-sent to his people. Aregbesola, as a fresh governor, has shown that he is a serious-minded person. For the first time, the education policy of Ogbeni Aregbesola remains the best in the country, even ahead that of Lagos State.”

Responding, Governor Aregbesola held that for the country to progress, the interest of the people must be considered before any decision is taken; stating that parliamentary system of government is the essence of democracy.

He said, “The best form of political activity is in the parliament, our nation will not make appreciable progress if it focuses only on the executive, at least the parliament is where ideas are generated, they have total representative and support of the people.

“Parliamentary system is the essence of democracy. The assembly of the people must not be an expression but it must put into practise. For a country to have a meaningful development progress, it must not be a one-sided means of power.” The governor averred.

Speaking on education, Aregbesola said when he got into power; his intention was to close down schools for about a year because of what he met.

“What was on ground was dilapidated school buildings not fit for human habitation. The conditions of teachers were nothing to write home about plus the condition of other infrastructure.”

He urged the committee not to be afraid to tell the president that there is a problem in the educational sector, adding that the decadence in the sector must be arrested to rescue students from the problem of not having sound education.

Aregbesola held that the basis of growth for any country is sound education and that Osun is committed to provision of genuine and sound education for its citizenry hence the commitment of huge resources to make sure that its pupils will rank among the best in Nigeria.
PoliticsRe: Amosun's First-class Schools In Ogun State by Gbawe: 7:59pm On Jun 22, 2013
anonimi: That is part of the cyber bullying tactics of the ACN lap dogs.
If they are not insulting and abusing you they will label you PDP man as if any one who points out the many faults of ACN must be a PDP person.

Did not work then, won't work now.
Look, stop this weasel-like behaviour and man up. Below, reproduced again, is what Sonny_bobo wrote that Shymexx responded to. Instructive you were not compelled to say anything about the ridiculous utterance yet Shymexx is deserving of your negative comment for responding to what is written which, frankly, is an insult to any proud Yoruba person. The part stating "especially outside the shore of Nigeria" is the most laughable garbage I have ever heard as someone who has lived in the UK for ages. What are you going to be supporting next? The white supremacist drivel of Hitler?

Sunny_bobo:

Meanwhile, why is it that when merit is used instead of quota and federal character, the South Westerners don't come anyway near especially outside the shores of Nigeria?
PoliticsRe: Amosun's First-class Schools In Ogun State by Gbawe: 7:19pm On Jun 22, 2013
tawa89: heheheheehe. Quit hiding bro. Show your true bigot colours. We all know its in you and we all are tired of you trying to hide it. I know you must be tired of hiding it too? Huh?
Stupid f00l. You are too bigoted to know the difference between your sort ( shameless bigots) and someone defending his origin from unwarranted and nauseating slurs. Id1ots like you contribute nothing positive here, in the way of intelligent political discussion, but are on the scene pronto to talk when things are taken off-topic by bigoted losers. Abeg, think what you effing want. The opinion of lowlife losers like you matter nought to me.
PoliticsRe: Amosun's First-class Schools In Ogun State by Gbawe: 6:57pm On Jun 22, 2013
anonimi: What's the empty bragging about huh
So why are you and other yoruba diasporans on NL if you "don't care about Nigeria"?
Is it possible for you to say something coherent?
This is why you are singularly the most disgusting Nairalander I know. A slithering snake full of deceit and wretchedness. You claim Shymexx is "bragging" yet do you know what Sonny_bobo wrote that prompted a response from Shymexx? I.e:


Meanwhile, why is it that when merit is used instead of quota and federal character, the South Westerners don't come anyway near especially outside the shores of Nigeria?
below is the response of Shymexx to the above empty garbage:

@ the bolded - how do you mean?

Are you sure you want to debate this?
Yet SHymexx is the poster you chose to accuse of "empty bragging"? Do you know that on this thread this Sonny_bobo has made many supremacist brag against the ethnic group you claim you are from? Somehow, that does not offend you or even gain your attention. Someone says you don't come anywhere near those in his ethnic group for innate ability and you are cool with that. Yet it is Shymexx, defending his ethnic group from that very same slur, you have an issue with not the chap who directly and ungraciously, several times on one thread, stated unashamedly he is superior to you, your father, mother, uncle, brother, sister et al by birth and ethnic origin like a vile and worthless bigot/racist.

Shame on you !!! You are just a clown. A totally wretched and messed-up creature. Best thing you can do is to stop running around pretending to be Yoruba because you are unclad here attacking a Yoruba person rightfully speaking up against an openly tribalistic m0r0n hollowly touting ethnic superiority against others. As someone told the fool earlier, every ethnic group has greatness it can easily boast of. The only person condemnable here is the person ranting about ethnic supremacy. I don't expect a fake and vile nuisance like you to note this. You're sick !!! Very sick !!!
PoliticsRe: Amosun's First-class Schools In Ogun State by Gbawe: 6:32pm On Jun 22, 2013
[quote author=Sunny_bobo]I'd take this to mean you throwing in the towel. No hard feeling bro. If not for the madness of January 15th 1966 and the subsequent civil war, the Igbos would have been dominating every facet of human endeavour in Nigeria which would have honestly been bad though.

That's why the wise man Awo cleverly used the opportunity of the civil war to reduce the Igbos to zero economically but thank God things have reversed and we are in top gear now.[/quote]Here we go again. There is always something/someone stopping you 'dominating' as your "supreme" endowment indicate you should be doing. I ask you very simply, what stops you intellectually dominating even Nairaland with the delusional superiority you claim to have? On this thread for example, I find your contribution childish and distinctly unintelligent yet you are proposing yourself to be part of a 'master' ethnic group? huh huh huh

Why, as an example, have your superhuman administrators not turned the SE into the envy of civilisation? I think 'delusions of grandeur' and megalomania best describe what ails you.
PoliticsRe: Amosun's First-class Schools In Ogun State by Gbawe: 5:06pm On Jun 22, 2013
amarilo: If we keep on showing the world the school picture you described those gov will think they have arrived that is why the ugly pictures need to be shown so that they will not forget. But then I did not see you castigate when your clan was showing schools from pdp governed states. You will do well when you balance your views if you really mean well for Nigeria irrespective of who is in power.
Did you see me contribute to those threads either? I did not contribute, in all honest truth, because I do not know, in detail and comprehensively, what Chime, Akpabio et al are doing so how can I offer any defence for them? Whereas I know precisely what SW Governors are doing enough to speak up for them.

I believe in live and let live. I also have no interest in commenting on things I don't have full knowledge of.

Same way I speak here in defence of Amosun, as someone whose parents are from Ogun State, is how I expect those who hold their direct leaders accountable to show up on those threads and counter any mischief against their own governors and administrators. I should not have to do such for others to prove I am Mr.Nigeria to you or anyone else. I respect the space and privacy of others. Suffice to say Governors deemed to be performing (such as Akpabio, Chime et al) have my overall support. I don't however follow what they are doing in detail and can therefore not show up to be defending them against squalid pictures. You and others should do that while refraining from childishly retaliatory antics that gets us all nowhere.
PoliticsRe: Amosun's First-class Schools In Ogun State by Gbawe: 4:47pm On Jun 22, 2013
Sad that so many Nairalanders are hateful creatures into mocking and attacking each others like uncivilised apes and barbarians. It is only the bigoted elements , unable to give credit where due, who will pretend not to know that the ACN Governors are all replacing the mess of the PDP (typified by the picture OP supplied) with modern, well-equipped model schools as part of a holistic and comprehensive policy underpinning a return to greatness on sound, qualitative and comparatively robust education.

Below is a model school being built by Amosun. One would hope that amidst all the tribal and jingoistic jousting going on here, we should all still have the decency in us to support administrators who are doing well - wherever they are from - and leave them out of these childish, petty and senseless mischief that can only make non-Nigerians view us as highly warped and aberrant.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ogun_state/8757489100/in/set-72157632226234541/lightbox/
PoliticsRe: Re – Who Will Defeat Jonathan In 2015? Joe Igbokwe Responds. by Gbawe(op): 1:29pm On Jun 22, 2013
payless: It comes down to APC nominating the right candidate. I don't think Buhari is acceptable to our youths. I don't see how Buhari wins South-west. He has the North in the bag already but his achilles heel is in the Southwestern states.
If it is Buhari, he may be a better sell with a charismatic and popular performer as his VP running mate. We have to remember that a very popular VP can make the ticket popular and attractive to those who may be ordinarily lukewarm to voting Buhari.
PoliticsRe: Re – Who Will Defeat Jonathan In 2015? Joe Igbokwe Responds. by Gbawe(op): 1:07pm On Jun 22, 2013
maclatunji: Chido Onumah was only saying that Nigeria's population has a large chunk of unelightened and simple-minded people who will still vote for GEJ no matter how incompetent he is. Add that to PDP's rigging machinery and the PDP has a good chance of 'winning' in 2015.

The challenge for the APC is to engage, educate and empower poverty stricken, unelightened Nigerians on the need to vote for a better-by-far alternative to GEJ and the PDP.
That is why Igbokwe fired back this retort. Truth be told, Nigerians are not exactly the quintessential model of a politically sophisticated people. Igbokwe, accordingly, is well aware of how a proactive Party wishing to take on the ruling Party in Nigeria must work on the defeatist mentality of Nigerians. Indeed, I think he senses defeatism in the writing of Onumah hence the reason he highlighted some very good points relating to the simplistic pontifications of Onumah. Igbokwe, for example, is right that Onumah errs by making the APC about Buhari. This is no more sensible or logical than when some wish to state that the APC is about Ikimi and Ogbeh. Overall, Igbokwe makes it very clear the APC is putting in the work as well to win.

Now if the question is “Is the opposition ready to compete in 2015? Please take notice that the answer is yes and this is final. A lot of sacrifices are being made, lots and lots of structures are being put in place, lots and lots of engagements are going, interests are being taken into consideration, human and material resources are being deployed to bring about this change and all APC needs is support and encourage and not to be pulled down.
PoliticsRe – Who Will Defeat Jonathan In 2015? Joe Igbokwe Responds. by Gbawe(op): 12:39pm On Jun 22, 2013
http://www.osundefender.org/?p=105331

Re – Who Will Defeat Jonathan in 2015? By Joe Igbokwe


“If free and fair elections were held today (even though PDP will never permit free and fair elections) chances are that President Jonathan will emerge victorious. I say this with every sense of responsibility.” – Chido Onumah

My brother Chido Onumah is a gifted writer. Please give it to him. He is one of the vigorous advocates of the peoples’ cause, an activist, a thinker, author and a committed Nigerian. His Book: Time To Reclaim Nigeria is a popular idea whose time has come. Chido’s contribution to the project Nigeria cannot just be dismissed by any sensible person. However his latest article posted on various internet forums, with the title, 2015: WHO WILL DEFEAT JONATHAN? has just caught my attention and I need to take him up on the statements above.

I do not know what led Chido Onumah to believe that PDP led by anybody in Nigeria today can win a presidential election in a free and fair process. I tried without success to figure out why he made the statement above and believe you me I was left with no option than to write this rejoinder.

Now the question is this: On what basis is PDP going to win this election? Is it based on performance? What is the basis? How good have we fared in the past 14years to warrant Chido to make this egregious forecast? Are we getting better? If you still give PDP 50 years can it do anything better than what we have seen? Again, is endless crisis and unending strife that is afflicting PDP at present a recipe to winning election in Nigeria? Did it escape Chido Onumah that what is known as PDP is a house divided through the seam, with inchoate interests battling each other in a deadly struggle to win the upper hand and take control of the nation’s resources, as we are seeing at present?

What could have Chido Onumah to gloss over the critical importance of performance in winning elections or the issue of party unity. Did Chido miss all these or did he deliberately ignore them in the thinking that Nigerians don’t notice these imperatives in winning elections? The intellectual in Chido would have protested this negligence for these critical issues remain at the soul of democracy, founded on one-man-one-vote principle.

I would not have quarreled with Chido Onumah if he had posited that PDP will always win elections the way it professes to know best-through outright gerrymandering and rigging. This has been the tradition PDP has invested and reaped heavily from since 1999. No one would have quarreled if an intellectual, after a careful analysis of the present political realities posited that PDP will win every election by the way it knows best-purloining electoral results and writing its own results-as we have been experiencing since 1999 but there is a lot to quarrel with an intellectual who comes up with the strange permutation that a PDP that is knocking on death’s doors, with a well known history of incompetent governance and mind boggling corruption, will win a free and fair election. I guess that whoever believes this is deliberately taking liberty with the truth for reasons best known to him. One sees the biggest challenge facing the Nigerian position as stopping PDP’s notorious rigging machine and I believe the Nigerians opposition is working on this.

PDP has neither conducted nor won any free and fair election since 1999 and this remains the single greatest threat to democracy in Nigeria. Suffice it to say that any democracy founded on the type of horrendous manipulation the PDP has come to impose on the current democratic system in Nigeria has lost its essence and rivals any other undemocratic rule.

Now talking about APC, how can Chido tie the future of APC to one man, General Buhari(Rtd) in a nation of 150 million people? Is Chido saying that if anything happens to Buhari today, APC will not fill a presidential candidate in 2015? Don’t we have more than 50 presidential candidates who can do better than Buhari if we search for them? Can Chido with every sense of responsibility say that he has not seen the sacrifices being made by the progenitors of APC to provide an alternative to PDP? Is Chido saying that he has not seen the mines and bombs PDP mercenaries have been sowing on APC’s highway to reclaim Nigeria? Does Chido think that it is that easy for ACN, ANPP, CPC and APGA to come together in today’s Nigeria to challenge PDP? In a way I wanted to run away with the thinking that the write up sounds like a job for PDP but…… If we must sack PDP it is going to be a collective responsibility, and defeatism approach cannot help us. We just have to take a stand on where we are going and stick to it head on.

Those who think that keeping President Jonathan without performance is a way of addressing the minority question in Nigeria cannot get it. More money has gone to South South in the past 14 years more than the total of what went to South East, South West, and North East put together and yet there is not much to show in terms of development in the Niger Delta. Other Nigerians see this as a blackmail that cannot stand. We cannot continue to sacrifice the future of this country on the altar of mediocrity and comprehensive emptiness.

Now if the question is “Is the opposition ready to compete in 2015? Please take notice that the answer is yes and this is final. A lot of sacrifices are being made, lots and lots of structures are being put in place, lots and lots of engagements are going, interests are being taken into consideration, human and material resources are being deployed to bring about this change and all APC needs is support and encourage and not to be pulled down.

But most importantly, A football team that cannot score goals must be disbanded. If PDP cannot do something tangible in 14 years, it has to be defeated and sacked not minding the so-called national spread
Joe Igbokwe
Lagos
PoliticsOsun Airport: Gateway To The World by Gbawe(op): 12:23pm On Jun 22, 2013
Interesting history to the airport.



http://www.osundefender.org/?p=104525

Osun Airport: Gateway to the world



Coming just when its efforts to leapfrog the state’s development is being acknowledged globally, the coming of Osun Airport, another far-sighted initiative of the Rauf Aregbesola administration must be seen as taking the bar of governance in the state up another notch. Of course, for an administration that has performed rather impressively in just a little over two years in laying the foundation for the state’s economic take-off, the airport project presents another piece of icing on the state’s developmental cake.

There are several ways to look at the planned transformation of the Ido-Osun aerodrome built under the direction of Sir Donald Cameron, the fourth Governor-General of Nigeria, into an international airport. First is the benign acknowledgement of its historic import as the first airfield in the West African sub-region, serving as it were, as the base from where Africans conscripted to fight in the Second World War were airlifted.

The second reason – also related – is that the aerodrome must have counted seriously in the colonial transportation matrix as facilitator of its administration as well as its economic policies and programmes. The latter obviously raises the question of why successive administration which ruled the state could not see what the colonial authorities – in their far-sightedness – saw on the potentials of the airport to the state economy.


As for the PDP administration of Olagunsoye Oyinlola, it rather saw it as an opportunity to squander the state’s funds. The administration is on record to have spent a whopping N5 billion on the project even when it did little or nothing on site.

Today, the development-minded administration of Ogbeni Aregbesola is not only proving a world of difference on the project, work has since assumed a frenetic pace. Barring unforeseen developments, the administration has indicated that the aircraft maintenance facility of the airport would be ready by next year; international flights are also expected to commence by then.

Why do we think the airport project is important at this time? The reasons are certainly many. A few will however suffice here. First, given the pace of development across all sectors in the state, the airport is needed to complement the other initiatives of the administration in the area of commerce, tourism agriculture and tourism. It is no doubt an integral part of the administration’s plans to open up the state economy to the world – part of its quest to tap into the potentials of the West African and indeed global trade.

Secondly, the administration’s hunger for development is as admirable as it is unprecedented. While some states have long settled for the luxury of snail, progressive pace in development matters, the current administration in the state of Osun has long insisted that it is a luxury it can ill-afford.

The administration has been bold, daring and imaginative rolling out innovative programmes and policies most of which are futuristic. Such has been its passion about its programmes and policies; so unflinching has been administration’s quest to surmount all obstacles on its path to development that the citizens cannot but be infected with the development bug. It would be hard to separate the Ido-Osun Airport quest from the administration’s holistic plan of development.

We have no doubt that the airport project is well conceived. More than anything, the administration’s records of careful planning and discipline in the execution of projects give us the confidence that this project will be delivered on schedule. Of course, by then, the benefits would have been so obvious that citizens would be wondering why previous administrations did not think of starting the project earlier.
PoliticsRe: NOT THIS Time:no Elaborate 50th Birthday Party For Me -gov Fashola by Gbawe: 9:20am On Jun 22, 2013
[quote author=tpia@]the miserable people are already on the thread? huh

na wa o.[/quote]Indeed. They are ruining the user experience of this forum for many decent folks and I personally think cheap broadband will become one of the biggest problem of man in future as every evil, misguided and m0r0nic waster now has a ready-made audience for their jaundiced and societally unhealthy views.

Imagine that in a poverty-riddled nation a governor is telling everyone not to spend any money (private or public) on his birthday , because he wants a private and inexpensive affair, yet we have some finding objection with that utterance. This is what shows you that many Nigerians have mental problems that makes them automatically oppose what others say because of the handed-down message they must always do so. How can any normal person have a problem with what is written below? Some people are just brought up to hate others and be angry with them even when there is no reason at all for that.

"By nature I am not a ceremonious person. I don't like all the noise and partying. When I saw all the plans going on for my 50th, I said no. If this is my day, then those who really love me should allow me do it the way I want to. I have told my aides how I feel about this whole 50th birthday celebration. I asked them if governors in other countries don't have their birthdays and is it usually in such a loud way and manner? If I do it my own way it won't cost me that much to receive my visitors.

And to tell you the truth, the idea that probably I will have a birthday at tax payers expense is something that does not go down well with me, and it's only for 24 hours. So I am going to have a very quiet and simple day with close friends and family.
PoliticsRe: Will The Nigeria FG Support These Two Men In Kenya by Gbawe: 7:35am On Jun 22, 2013
Your thread title is offensive for insinuating the Nigerian FG will support any Nigerian who has been arrested for committing a criminal offence.

The current Gestapo-style deportation actions of Kenya against "foreigners" is primitive, crude and xenophobic. Nigeria would be totally worthless if she will not challenge such patently unfair antics against her citizens. Any reaction of the Nigerian government to that action from Kenya cannot lead any sensible people to conclude our FG will support Nigerians arrested for drug smuggling in Kenya .
PoliticsRe: World Class Road Networks & Hospital In Abakaliki, Built By Gov Elechi. by Gbawe: 5:21pm On Jun 21, 2013
@OP

The main roads appear motorable to me i.e we don't see the deep potholes and gullies that make many Nigerian roads unusable nightmares and death traps.

Granted,the overall environmental look is not great but I don't think most of the roads you showed can be deemed terrible for what roads do.
PoliticsRe: Re: The Mokola Flyover Project - Information For The Mis-informed! by Gbawe: 3:47pm On Jun 21, 2013
Afam4eva: It's really difficult to get impressed with a lot of projects these days especially when one has seen something better. But i think the most important thing here is whether or not this bridge meets a need and the locals are happy about it. If they are, then every other thing is not important. All fingers are not equal and every state must not develop at the same pace. States should just work on solving their unique problems and not try to be like another state especially if what they'll end up doing has no bearing on the citizenry. Ibadan as a city has been neglected for decades. So, i think it's commendable if a government is finally doing something no matter how small. Ajimobi mustn't turn Ibadan to London. He will do what he can do and leave the stage for another administrator that will continue from where he stopped and maybe decide to look at the needs of Ibadan and Oyo differently.

Yes, Akwa-Ibom probably has one of the best infrastructure right now. But all these infrastructure will become rustic in years to come if the people are not developed alongside the infrastructure. We can see an example of that from Calabar. A city must be able to sustain itself and not wait for a governor to build gigantic structures before it can be relevant.

But isn't it weird that cities and states that need the huge allocation don't get it.
Well said Afam. What you said about not finding certain projects impressive is valid also to a certain extent as per an argument regarding aesthetics - which is a highly subjective arena where folks will often have to agree to disagree.

Mixing functionality and efficacy with looks, to judge delivered infrastructure, is however an error only unintelligent and ungracious folks will make. In my case, for example, there is hardly a modern City of the world I have not visited. Yet I have enough sense to understand that issues are , first and foremost, about end-users , with the specific challenges and limitations their leaders must work with, gaining functional infrastructure that aids development.

It would show a lack of class and poor developmental thinking on my part if I consider a bridge in Ekiti or Zamfara worthless because it does not look like what I have seen in Madrid, Milan, Florida, Houston, London, Paris, Rotterdam or Lisbon. Some of us do not praise these project because they are the heights of aesthetic architectural efforts for us. Far from it as we have seen much better and even gazed at cutting edge delivery that makes anything in Nigeria appear pedestrian. We praise these projects because the capacity to see the big picture, and factor in all the relevant considerations, makes us appreciate a perfectly adequate and entirely functional step in the right direction.
PoliticsRe: Mokola Flyover Opens For Use On Tuesday, 25th June. by Gbawe: 2:18pm On Jun 21, 2013
Batam: I have observed some posters here no matter what governors of South West do in terms of development are not always goo but they are so ignorant of what the governors in their region are doing with the resources at their disposal.
Construction of Mokola flyover is a laudable project and I don't any of these critics have a technical knowhow and feasibility compare to the engineers that designed the said flyover
Thank you !!! I don't know what is wrong with some people. End uses are happy with the functional and architecturally- sound bridge delivered yet these non-stakeholders can never be happy for them. They are always the one hyperventilating most angrily and totally out of context considering their non-involvement with SW States.

They will then begin silly, childish and unwarranted d1ck comparison antics even a child knows reveals innate insecurity and feelings of inadequacy. These wasters cannot ever be charitable or gracious. They can only be negative plus consumed with hate and disapproval. At no point does it occur to them that a people who were previously given nada are now seeing progress.
PoliticsRe: Mokola Flyover Opens For Use On Tuesday, 25th June. by Gbawe:
[quote author=Okija_juju]I believe you are the one taking this into another sphere all together..

This is a thread.. Where we all share ideas.. Debate, argue and discuss..

The darn bridge has been built.. All we are doing is analysing what was done.

Remember that we are all gonna pay for these constructions one way or another.. I think everyone is allowed to air their views. This is not political, purely analytical.
[/quote]I think most here know what you are. A bad-belle irritant with no class. A bridge is built in a town. The people, who actually use the bridge, are jubilating and happy because a major traffic headache has been addressed efficiently. An outsider then show up at their Party to be raining on their parade with unobjective and senseless criticism in which he disregards salient and restrictive parameters.

He then seems to want to force unhappiness on them by shoving pictures under their nose of what he insist they must have, that he is enjoying, when they keep repeating that they are pleased with what has been delivered as it serves its purpose very well. Does all that not show said stranger is a bad-belle, uncultured and insecure bushman?

What would be classier, in the spirit of live and let live, than being happy for people who are happy with a positive development in their lives? Please stop the silly pretence of hiding behind constructive criticism.

You have been told a zillion times, from thread to thread, this is a functional bridge delivered to real landscape constraint yet you and others bone-headedly keep spamming with pictures of Akwa Ibom. It is not even just this alone. Whether it is a market or bus scheme Ajimobi et al deliver, you are there always in negativity when stakeholders are happy progress is being seen. That is what marks you out as a nauseating person not possessing enough class to respect that it is the opinion of end users that matters most not yours. If they had complained to you different. Yet this is not and never the case. You are, with you silly, gratuitous criticism and mischief, just a tiresome, hateful, bigoted dude. Those who doubt me can see you, with two examples out of many, in your 'element' below :

https://www.nairaland.com/1316546/oyo-hasnt-borrowed-money-2/2

Okija Juju wrote:
Holy shiiit!!


Someone just asssfucked Oyo state governor..
https://www.nairaland.com/1316468/ibadan-gets-new-market-over


Okija juju: You mean it took them 30 years to build this crap?

Do these Yoruba people realise that we are in 2013!? The era of space travel, super computers, etc.

Even by 1995 standards, this market looks like SHIIT..
PoliticsRe: Mokola Flyover Opens For Use On Tuesday, 25th June. by Gbawe: 1:13pm On Jun 21, 2013
Is it not amazing it is always non-stakeholders hyperventilating angrily the most on these sort of threads while end users themselves are happy with what is delivered? Can these mischief-maker not appreciate that their insecurity and inferiority complex is glaring with how they always immediately and automatically begin talking of Akwa Ibom and other places on these threads?

Who is childish and unintelligent enough not to understand that Paris and London do not have to be the same as long as Parisians and Londoners are respectively happy with their cities?

Who turns every single topic into a d1ck-comparison contest except an insecure and inadequate person?

If family man makes a big show of claiming he is happy and that what he has is the best, why is he always talking about the wife and kids of his neighbour and looking over the fence into their property? Secure, fulfilled and happy people live and let live.
PoliticsRe: Soyinka - The Village Mourners - A Must-read Bombshell by Gbawe: 9:31am On Jun 20, 2013
I think it needs to be stated that Woles Soyinka is not targeting Igbos, or any ethnic group for that matter, with his utterance. Wole Soyinka's message should be very clear to those who can read what is written and assimilate it dispassionately without sectional or ethnocentric preponderance.

Especially discernible is Soyinka's frustration and disappointment that even the highest level of education attainable has not cured some people of unobjective, unneeded and ugly prejudice.

Overall, Soyinka is getting across the precise message that it is difficult, whatever a man does, to please those who are determined to be prejudiced, clannish , unwilling to be charitable towards others and obsessed with the notion of maintaining senseless enmity and rancour against them.
PoliticsRe: PDP In Dilemma Over Govs Who 'betrayed' Jang by Gbawe: 8:25am On Jun 20, 2013
[quote author=Akanbi_edu]LOL.[/quote]Indeed. What a backwardly arrogant Party. The statement below confirms why, under undemocratic and undeserving Presidents, the PDP has not gone forward as a political Party since 1999. It is only undemocratic 'throwbacks' who will not understand that the NGF election should have nothing to do with "disobedience" or "anti-party activities". Should the Governors not be free to choose any colleague, regardless of his Party affiliation, they believe can lead their own forum best?


A Presidency source said both the Presidency and the party had been investigating those behind the disobedience, which he said was very embarrassing.

He said it was unfortunate that Lamido could also have the "temerity" to own up to his and co-travellers' alleged anti-party activities.
Foreign AffairsRe: I Don't Understand Why Some Somalis Dont Think They're Black by Gbawe: 8:16am On Jun 20, 2013
zetdee: Why do you even give a shiite about the non entity called Somali.
Grow up dude. Why insult Somalia? A forum user mentioned them. They did not ask to be made a topic for discussion and insults here.

@Topic. In my dealings with them, I have not discerned that Somalians reject being black. Perhaps some you have met do but you can't claim this to be a general thing.
PoliticsRe: Jonathan Is Surrounded By Professional Praise-singers - David-west by Gbawe:
ilugunboy: grin grin cheesy grin who is this one?
A shameless, uncultured, ill-bred and attention-seeking groupie who prefers to focus on other forum users rather than comment on the topic. Sadly, this place is full of these pathetic elements. You can tell they were brought up in the gutters of Nigeria and the type to always fight publicly without any shame whatsoever.

They bark when they should talk and even snarl to greet others. These gutter children make Nigeria horrid because they grow into the adults who take this innate bellicose demeanour everywhere. Whether at work, socialising or even blogging. The story is the same. Agbero behaviour that cannot be cured is always visible. Sadly, the net now unites these uncultured animals with the rest of society.

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