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dasparrow: I do not know this British lady but I feel sorry for her based on what she had to go through. I am sure she will never see Kenya the same way again. I am curious though, which African countries are indeed friendly to African foreigners living in their midst? I know you have traveled Africa extensively so I would like to hear your view on that please.

Kenyanstar: NIGERIANS ABUSING KENYA'S HOSPITALITY.

Kenya is an economic powerhouse in africa and probably among the best emerging economies in the world... You can take a look at what kenya offers before giving unsolicited comments. Nigeria might be large in Numerical population but very backward and archiac both in economy and social life. https://www.nairaland.com/51356/nairobi-photos-kenya-beautiful-east . Chinedu knows that going back to Nigeria is like going to his grave. The opportunity that Kenya provides Nigeria could never grant him.
This Chinedu guy must be one of the most stupid guy in the all world for insulting the hand that fed him for the past 20 years. Chinedu has been involved in drug trafficking and the governments efforts to deport him were long overdue due to abusing the court process. Chinedu was facing a number of criminal cases and was in April arrested in his house with 10 grammes of heroin that he is believed to have either been using or intended to traffic.

The arrest followed an operation carried out in the city centre in which two men including a Nigerian national were nabbed for trafficking heroin.

The men were identified as Nelson Namunyu Mwangi who was found with 268 grams of heroin and Nigerian national Adebiyi Oluwatosin Fatai who had 20 grammes of the drugs.

They were arrested outside a popular club with the narcotics. Police say the two have been behind several incidents of drug trafficking in the city and they were expected in court again on Monday for mention of their case.

Cases of narcotics consumption are on the rise in the city and police are grappling with the situation.

991: @ the bold
exactly what i have in mind. I've been to Nairobi Kenya around 2007 or so, Nigerians are known for their flamboyant life style, driving expensive cars, luring women with cash, spending money in clubs & beer parlors to an extent that the natives wonder where and how they(nigerians) make the money they spend.

The issue about my wrongful deportation started some years ago when I had a misunderstanding with my ex-wife and later separated. It was over infidelity on the part of my wife. She was having extra-marital affair with a popular Kenyan politician at my back. And when I found out, I divorced her, after which she connived with the man and started fighting over my property that is worth over $5 million. So, in 2008, they wanted to deport me through illegal means, but the Nigerian Ambassador to Kenya at that time, Ambassador Nwigwe, intervened and stopped them. He countered whatever gimmick they introduced to deport me. Since then, they have been putting me and many other Nigerians through series of traumatic experiences.

gbanikiti: That means it's not really targeted at only Nigerians, but all the same, Federal Government should act fast to curb the situation. Nigerians in South Africa are suffering, now Kenya? smh

gbanikiti: O ga o! Federal Government seem to care less. NO one is saying anything. Our legislators are busy doing irrelevant things. Why should Nigerians be treated as slaves in foreign countries yet foreigners are treated as kings in Nigeria? hmm...

991: Lesson to learn.
1. always come home and invest
2. away wife na try-ur-luck
3. bad things happen to good people everywhere
4.

And the plan of the Kenyan elite is to take over everything. You can verify all I am telling you.

Afam4eva: Not every building is of the same height.

@topic
This is nice. We need to start dotting our skylines with skyscrapers.

Btw, who owns the hotel?

mike404: Jagaban don milk Lagos dry

VillageBoi: Thank you Gbawe. Yes I did go for a certain DOF with each pic, glad you like them. I have a 7D and 60D (love the flipout screen of the 60D)... but I want a tiny pocket camera too. The funny thing is I only take pics for fun really; it's not that much of an interest... ok I get paid for all sorts of photoshoots even though I'm totally amateur but my main interest really is filmmaking.

I don't want to derail this photo thread so if you right click on my name you can find 'topics' I've started with some short films of mine. Teehee... I'm a wannabe film director lol.

Is Osun truly at the onset of a revolution?

JUNE 9, 2013 BY TUNDE FAGBENLE 4 COMMENTS


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Tunde Fagbenle

There’s been a flurry of activity in the State of Osun (you call a person or place how it chooses to be called, jo) in the last few weeks to invite the attention of Nigerians everywhere and raise the curiosity of many a serious thinker – what is all these about? Is there much substance to it or is it more of noise and make-belief?

It started with Oyes-TECH, itself an offshoot of O-YES (the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme which reportedly employed 20,000 youths in the take-off of its rolling scheme at the onset of the administration), as one of the many O-This and O-That by which the state continues to brand its sundry development programmes, quickly appropriating the ‘O’ such that any other state with first letter O has to figure something else with which to distinguish itself or its programmes.

I happened to be in Osogbo to tend to my farm that day in early May and was opportuned to witness the graduation (“Freedom” in our traditional artisans’ parlance) of the Oyes-Tech participants. It was an impressive event at the open field around the government house overlooking the high street from which curious passersby could catch a glimpse.

The political fanfare of it aside, I was truly touched by the sight of fresh graduands, young male and female, clearly impromptu stating their experiences during the training programme that imbued them with broad understanding of the theoretical framework in ICT and the skills to engage in repairs, servicing, maintenance and assembling of mobile phones, computers, etc.

The crash-programme aimed at training 20,000 youths was run in conjunction with a technical partner, RLG-Communications, that set up some ten training centres spread all over the state as part of the government’s broader “state industrialisation and citizenry empowerment” agenda – the “teach a man how to fish” principle.

There’s the O-REAP (for Osun Rural Enterprise & Agric Programme that aims to turn the state into the food basket for the region if not the country), the O-CLEAN (for environment hygiene and cleanliness) and a number of other ‘O’ programmes all over the place, simultaneous and bewildering. Are these fancy ideas or are they well grounded? Are they sustainable? These are valid questions to engage the mind more from genuine fear and sincere hope than from arrant pessimism or sheer negativity of idle naysayers.

But the real story, the mother of all, is this one about the state’s recently launched “Tablet of Knowledge,” a technological contraption specially designed for secondary school pupils of the State of Osun. Typically of Ogbeni’s fierce advocacy for resurgence and promotion of Yoruba culture, religion and language, the tablet is christened OpónÌmò.

Word about it has been about in the last month or so but I was not enthused. I was filled with reservation, even apprehension about it. Why this? Why now? What cost? How meaningful? How sustainable? Where is the precedent? What result? And a million other queries concentrated my mind. I am of the old school, and that may partly accounts for my reservation, but I’m far better than a mate of mine (name withheld!) who is still stuck with his typewriter and remains grumpy,even resistant, to the advent of computers.

I began to put phone calls around the globe to those whose opinion I respect. “What is this Ogbeni’s OpónÌmò about?” I asked. No one seemed able to argue well for it. Everyone was going to make a check and get back to me. Has this man been railroaded into it by some smooth-talking Nigerian-Americans eager to do business and prey on Ogbeni’s passion for education and eagerness for trail-blazing?

But I am getting to be a convert to the futuristic possibilities of the OpónÌmò. I have taken time to read some available literature on it, including its own dedicated website: http://www.opon-imo.com, and comparative tendencies in other countries. But it started with unblocking my prejudice and reminding myself that all new and great ideas require vision and courage to pursue them to fruition.

There is no gainsaying the fact that education is the bedrock of development and electronic technology is the new age in education. OpónÌmò is seen as the learning tool that could revolutionise learning in developing states around the world. It is a stand alone e-learning tablet to be distributed free of charge to senior secondary school pupils and their teachers in Osun hoping it will radically transform the state into the leading educated state in Nigeria in the immediate and Africa’s Japan in the not too distant future. The Android 4.0 technology is preloaded with learning materials consisting of 56 E-books on 17 core subjects, wide-ranging video and audio tutorials, some 10 years past question papers and Mock Exam tests for WASSCE, brain-developing games, etc.

From research, which the website also highlights, the tablet technology is being embraced by a number of countries including the US, the UK, Thailand, Turkey, etc. Thailand, for example last year, distributed 850,000 to Thai students and teachers out of its planned 1.7 million tablets in its “One Tablet Per Child” scheme. Turkey too is aiming to bring as many as 10.6 million tablets to local schoolchildren as part of its ‘Fatih’ project, says a report, with the proviso by the government that “The production of tablets should be in Turkey and the producer company should establish a research and development centre within the borders of Turkey.”

The State of Osun is said to be having the tablet assembly factory in Osogbo with nine support centres (one per federal constituency) to ensure development of local capacity and gainful employment that, again, the OYES-TECH keys into.

To be sure, in all the other countries cited, the tablet is seen only in complementarity with traditional books and not in displacement. But there is a building consensus that the technology is the future trend, with its cost-saving element countervailing budget constraints in education. As Apple puts it: “Budget constraints force schools to use the same books year after year, long after the content is out of date. But with textbooks on ipad (tablet) students can get a brand-new version each year — for a fraction of the price of a paper book.”

I still have my worries about OpónÌmò although its website tries to allay most of them. Its success will depend on all of us – pupils, teachers, parents – setting aside our objections, reservations, or antagonism – to embrace it,first and foremost by developing a sense of collective ownership such that any careless handling by any pupil would be rebuked and forbidden.

The maverick governor of the state, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, is clearly in a hurry to move the state forward, not only ahead of its peers but thrust it sufficiently to catch up with the rest of the developed world. But I cannot in all honesty charge the governor with “too much haste” having myself long posited that there cannot be anything like “too much hurry” in the repair of the mess we are in this country.

Something tells me we are at the onset of a revolutionary development in Osun. O yes, I hope we are.

Sibrah: Oga Gbawe, the anonimi guy effed up no doubt, please forgive his sorry arse and don't arse eff him anymore. I know he has learnt his lessons.

RedReact: KORO is a man who is KOROciously eyeing the the seat of the of the man that Koronically floogged him at the 2007 polls, causing him to Korostically faint and was afterwards Koronically coronated as KORO of Nigerian embassy in Ghana where he Korogatedly did nothing at all.


All Hail King KORO; the mesaya and mesapo of Lagos

nuclearboy: I wasn't! Just wanted him to climb the tree past the leaves

I am currently in Ibadan and have been following Ajimobi as an impartial observer and I have stated on other threads that despite my misgivings about politicians, this is one man that amazes me! In another thread, I detailed meeting him driving his Acura with just 2 policemen and peoplehe had displaced at Molete were cheering him even when he stopped to warn that they were again moving onto the road - I was dazed as I expected booing and curses. Ibadan is changing

ebankole: Sorry am not tryin to go off TOPIC" but u guy seen or witnessed the massive stuffs going on in Ogun state..menn that Man is trying...in thinks these Acn Govs are superb in as much as am not any party freak...great SW is gettin better...Buh really am yet to see much of Aregb or Osun.

django1: Gbawe, you beat me to this, its a shame the boy never confirms what he is about to post properly and will always have people to like his post regardless.

probably he does not understand that a budget is more of a forecast of future earnings and spending, there is always a need to provide a buffer for when your expenditure will be in excess of your income, but if such situation does not occur it matters not that is in included in your budgetary plans.

Garri the 1st: Thanks for exposing the hateful liar. I wonder how folks with such dark hearts manage to sleep at night...

nuclearboy: [size=18pt]Wow[/size] - will research this but IF TRUE, then truly something is wrong!

Do you have any other links that support these assertions? Cos I have honestly started (I live in Ibadan currently) going out of my way to praise the governor and was ecstatic to hear he took no loans. If he did take loans, it doesn't remove from his good works but calls his integrity into question.

Please provide any other information you have

texaco1: ACN=ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL NETWORK.wel let ajimobi chop all the money he can now because the verdict has been passed on him already by the people of oyo state which is ACN MUST GO .that party was built on lie ,no wonder they have a liar as their secetary.
i told dayokanu that we are taking our time before commenting and i was t dissapointed .poster thanks for wonderful eye opener research.now lets see how acn goon will wrigle out of this one

Okija juju: Holy shiiit!!


Someone just asssfucked Oyo state governor..

Oyo to float N30bn bond to finance budget, says commissioner
Premium Times
Published: May 1,2013

The Oyo State Government will need loans to finance its 2013 budget.
The Oyo State Government is to float a N30 billion bond for the implementation of the 2013 budget, the Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Olaniyi Olarinde, said on Tuesday.
Mr. Olarinde gave the information during a breakdown of the budget in Ibadan.
He said that the 2012 budget could not achieve more than 70 per cent performance because the government could not obtain a N50 billion bond expected to form part of the estimate.

Mr. Olarinde also said the state government would require additional N2.9 billion external loan and N4 billion internal loan to finance the budget.
The state House of Assembly had on March 19 approved the budget with more than N5 billion addition to the N152.15 billion presented to it by Governor Abiola Ajimobi in January.
The commissioner said that the budget of N159. 63 billion was made up of N111. 05 billion recurrent vote and N48. 58 billion capital expenditure.
He said N49.3 billion or 15 per cent allocated to the Ministry of Education was the highest, while the Office of the Governor got N12.9 billion or 8.14 per cent.
The Ministry of Works and Transport has N10.6 billion or 6.66 per cent of the budget, the commissioner said.
He, however, expressed disappointment that the allocation from the Federation Account still formed 31 per cent of the state budget.
He said the non-payment of taxes by the citizens was negatively affecting Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in the state.
Mr. Olarinde said that the government had spread its tax net to the area of property tax to beef up the IGR.
He urged all eligible tax payers, including corporate organisations, to cooperate with the government by paying their taxes to accelerate development.

rodeo0070: Dafua is going on here? Who them be? Where dem dey?
I don't care if a governor is from "ACN,PDP, ICAN,PHCN or what-have-you as long as he/she is performing, and this Gomina don impress me and the good people of Oyo state. If previous administrations had been on their toes doing the right thing, things would have been much more different.
I score this present administration 69.1%. Dm do well...

Egba girl: Interpreted as: proper management of funds is evident.
Those criticizing him should chill out. He did not out rightly state that he is anti-loans. He just said that they have done so much from properly utilizing and managing funds. When the government is ready to doors than their budget can afford, I'm sure they will look into it.

A lot of unnecessary noise. Biko, calm down

Atiku acknowledges transformation of Ibadan, hails Ajimobi’s urban renewal programme
Posted in Press/News on March 15, 2013


Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday openly acknowledged the transformation of Ibadan from its former rural-urban setting to a modern state capital, commending the Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, for the urban renewal programme of his administration.

Alhaji Abubakar, who spoke during a courtesy call on the governor in his office in Ibadan, said he had lived in the state capital for some time and knew what the ancient city used to be which had earned it the stigma of being the dirtiest city in Nigeria.

He, however, said that he was impressed with the new-look which Ibadan was wearing, saying “I have seen a lot of changes, with cleaner streets and green environment’’.
The former Vice President also commended the governor for the distribution of 320 tractors to local government councils, a feat which he said would boost agriculture and ensure food security in the state.

“Honestly, I must commend you for the distribution of 320 tractors to local government councils. This is colossal. Agriculture is no doubt the mainstay of Nigeria’s economy. So by doing this, you have succeeded in putting people to work and this, I am sure, will boost agriculture and ensure food security,’’ he said.

Alhaji Abubakar also described the governor as a member of his political family, stressing that they had both come a long way and shared some things in common. In his remarks, Governor Ajimobi said that aside nipping in the bud the security challenges which he faced on assumption of office, his administration had also succeeded in lifting Oyo from its old rural setting to a modern state and consequently restoring its lost pace setting status.

He described the former Vice President as a man of impeccable character, with simple disposition, urging him not to relent in his efforts at realizing his political ambition, notwithstanding the challenges he had been facing.

ewet: He will need to borrow for capital project financing at some point as no govt can do much by justdepending on fed allocation and IGR which is obviously to meager to have any impact. But i will like to trust that it will be done with due diligence fiscal responsibility.

aasog1: Despite "liking" your comment, I disagree with your opinion about Lagos having way more challenges than the other ACN states. Heres my example,

Ogun State: 21 LG's Lagos State: 25 LGs
Lagos GDP which $90 billion, compared with Ogun state $10 Billion
Lagos Size is 9,999 Km in size, while Ogun state is 16,972 Km
And with the current population of people jaunting into Ogun State, I'd say in 7 more years, the population of both state would be fairly balanced. And coupled with the incredible debts left by the former PDP governor who did ABSOLUTELY nothing in this state, and with a poor IGR, I dont think think BRF would have accomplished the kind of feat he'd if given the post of a governor in Ogun State. Dont get me wrong, BRF is a wonderful governor, but I only believe Fashola has only created a "template of development" for the other ACN governors who are willing to copy.

ballabriggs: KORO OLE!!! Arsonist and thief.

He also was one of the champions of OBJ's demonic tenure elongation bid. Can we the people of Lagos trust such a deceitful and criminal mind.

Mo taka ofo kuro laiye mi!!!

vizboy: not only that. The interception isnt at 90 degree. If it were to be at 90 degree i would have gone for the red car but in these case it isnt