₦airaland Forum

L brasi: I hope someday in my lifetime Nigerians wont attach so much importance to tribal and ethnic divides.
Well done Aregbesola.

Same here. If we still remain firmly Nigerian in our hearts then it is not difficult to want progress for every corner of our Nation. I personally believe that the mediocre rule of the PDP has to be challenged so that Nigeria can develop.

Yet, it is so sad that the folks who normally and automatically have a problem with any good news emanating from the SW are those not even from the region. Personally, this makes me sad because I see how far we still have to go, as a Nation, to conquer divisive emotions that sees us being the biggest enemies of each other when we are supposedly fellow citizens of the same Nation.

Imagine having a fellow Nigerian who only wishes you hardship and failure because your are not from his ethnic group? Why do Nigerians need enemies outside Nigeria when we do a good job resenting each other and praying for each other's downfall?

[quote author=I-B.]I also took some pictures of market underconstruction in osun, I will upload them online here soon. That governor is doing well o.[/quote]My dear sister, I thank you very much. Some may develop a heart attack with these pictures you are uploading. As I have always insisted, the enemies of progress can come here and say what they want. They can keep up the effort to sell the "only Fashola is working" crap to the gullible and those who don't like to conquer ignorance. As long as citizens of certain States , aside Lagos, are seeing and feeling progressive leadership then those who hyperventilate here daily, in their blind and mindless hatred of others, can keep spreading lies and engaging in mischief. It is left to the intellectually lazy to believe uninventive lies in this information age where knowledge is readily available for anyone who makes the effort to seek it.

Alxmyr: Conspiracy theory.
Another junk reportage.

Dismiss it as flippantly as you want. We all know what Anenih did , detrimental to the development of Nigeria, while Minister of works and Housing. We also witnessed Allison-Madueke, while Minister of transport, shedding Crocodile tears and pledging action over a very dilapidated federal road that was a death trap. Yet she did absolutely nothing during her tenure.

Stockholm syndrome should be renamed Nigerian syndrome since we are probably number today in the world as an example of those who defend and deify their merciless oppressors.

@OP.

Well done and thanks for the pictures. This is what we appeal for. I.e for citizens to show us the good and show us what is bad or what they want done. We all have cameras these days and we should use it to put leaders under pressure or show their effort.

I firmly believe that the SW will wear a drastically different look, for the better, in the next 2 years. Fashola has the biggest headache given the problems of Lagos. If other SW Governors can raise IGR aggressively and innovatively secure funds for infrastructure then all SW States could be transformed more quickly and more effectively than has been achieved in Lagos under Fashola in 5 years.

ypzilanti: The appointment does not surprise me. GEJ is the biggest 419 ever successfully perpetrated on a large population of citizens anywhere in this world. A status quo candidate sold as a transformation candidate. And gullible Nigerians fell for it hook, line and sinker.

I agree totally. Travelling throughout Africa, I feel shame when I see those who are Presidents of other Nations. It really does not speak well of the political sophistication of Nigerians.

HNosegbe: Isn't it funny how the Jonathanians on this forum have expertly avoided addressing the ISSUE at hand (namely, the shameful, wicked, diabolical appointment of a reviled, corruption-tainted shameless old man to one of the most sensitive positions in the land) and have instead resorted to name-calling in a vain attempt to distract the rest of us from the core issue being discussed?

My challenge to every Jonathan supporter on this forum, as well as all those who "voted for Jonathan but not the PDP" is to show the rest of us, in plain, unambiguous terms, how EXACTLY this appointment fits in with the president's "transformation agenda" or his supposed "war against corruption". Show us Anenih's track record as well as his achievements in public service or private enterprise that qualify him for this appointment. In fact, prove to us that this appointment is not just another example of the crass patronage, "jobs-for-the-boys" system that has been the hallmark of this killer party called the PDP.

I'm waiting.

My brother, this is what the 'Jonathanians, as you wittily put it, engage in. I.e open and nauseatingly dishonest sycophancy laced with a perpetual obsession for attacking the messenger rather than look even semi-dispassionately at the message. As I always say, we will all have our difference. What still confirms decency is the ability to call a spade a spade and condemn what is wrong. This action of GEJ is shocking and shows a President totally lacking a moral compass or even a sense of what is deeply offensive and inappropriate. Whatever next under this "I don't give a damn" President? Shina Rambo as head of Customs? "Fresh air" indeed. What an embarrassing President. Why won't non-African critics be laying into our President mercilessly when they see things like this not even witnessed in Banana republics.

Callotti: Was anyone expecting GEJ to go against his 'BELOVED' Dieziani?

What is really going on between GEJ and that woman? Surely her position became untenable many, many scandals ago?

[quote author=ndu_chucks]Shame on GEJ's administration which is poised to go down as the most corrupt in Nigeria's history.[b][/b] What a shame!![/quote]Most certainly from the way things are going. Nigeria would have moved forward immensely under a Ribadu or Buhari Presidency. The self-destructive tragedy for Nigeria is the ethnic jingoism that continues to ensure some will never admit the grotesque misrule and corruption the GEJ government represents. Unless something gives, I think we may just be a people programmed and/or cursed to destroy each other.

No. I think the current Government is terrible and some of its action really gall patriotic Nigerians to the extent some hanker for drastic action. Ultimately, it is still average Nigerians, as is the trend worldwide, who must learn to shape their own destiny. The problem is that we are all looking for a messiah while the true messiah is in each and everyone of us. We cannot derelict our civic duties , as responsible and sensible adults, only to be looking for 'supermen' to save us.

Let me first congratulate Katsumoto. A worthy winner who has raised the level of intellectual discourse here. Naptu2 also deserves commendation as an amiable and intelligent poster with threads that tend to unite Nairalanders and confer a spirit of Nigerian 'togetherness' and collective hope in our nation.

I thank those who voted for me immensely and wish everyone a happy Xmas and very prosperous new Year.

Elueme: Mr,the bolded caught my fancy. I don't expect you, the almighty Gbawe, the I know it all of nairaland to lose count of something like this. if you know more I put it to you that the pleasure will be all yours to chronicle them. Sahara reporters has a role to play just like other whistle blowing news outlets but the overzealousness of the SR and quest for quicker recognition had made them too partisan and vindictive. This may just be their undoing. As a poster rightly said, let the dead rest in peace and forget who was wrong or right in utterances. Until SR starts investigative journalism as we have with whistle blowing agencies, then will it rank in the class of whistle blowers but for now, we are too intelligent for secondary news gathering and pronto publishing without due recourse to facts verification.

My brother, It is a free world and you can say what you want. Bottom line is that saharareporters, along with 1 or 2 others, have been the only source of truth at stages where our highly deceitful politicians have tried to fool Nigerians. They may get some things wrong but it is absolutely visionless and myopic, mainly because folks like you remain committed to individuals, for some not to realize that a lawless Nation, full of criminals parading as leaders, needs the likes of saharareporters to aid its natural and evolutionary development. Throughout history, imperfect rebels rise to challenge greater evil. Whether it is Robin Hood or Patrice Lumumba.

You and others should tell us how many investigative journalists you feel a criminally led Nation like Nigeria needs. I would suggest a thousand or more because I believe that is the extent of wanton criminality , that must be exposed, attached to political leadership in Nigeria. What hope for Nigeria when folks like you speak so negatively about a hideously under-represented sector and the few sources bucking the aberrant reportage trend in our nation , while our mainstream media remains firmly about brown envelope journalism ?

Agreed we can encourage Saharareporters to be more factual in their reportage but I think those who dismiss them frivolously are very dishonest people given what Nigeria is and taking into account the fact that this news source has delivered many factually correct and very important/informative breaking news mainstream media is not aware of or deliberately not interested in covering.

How many worldwide have, for example , condemned how NTA is used? Even very important breaking news about Nigeria are reported by the BBC and Reuters two days before NTA takes an interest. NTA prefers to show weddings and coronation ceremonies of Politicians and their children. Nature deeply abhors that sort of vacuum and it is only a matter of time before genuinely patriotic folks like Sowore , even if few in number, deliver Saharareporters and others like it. Yes they make mistakes but we need them for what Nigeria is and for the stage we are at. Only a dishonest person will not agree with that.

Abagworo: In all honesty Buhari is too upright for Nigerian politics. We need people like him to move this country forward.

It is Nigeria's loss and a disgrace to Nigerians, in an age even African nations are putting their best hands forwards, that men like Buhari are in the 'wilderness' while extremely corrupt and vacuously abysmal mediocrities like GEJ, with no positive achievements to their name whatsoever, can gain the most influential office in the "biggest black nation on Earth". Absolutely disgraceful and a damning indictment against Nigeria. No point going around saying we are the "giant of Africa" when our actions demonstrates something akin to lunacy not seen elsewhere and even in Nations we look down on.

Ikengawo: how is joining the military a vision?
If it leave your people poor and embattled by terrorism, i would rather be a visionless educated man or businessman

I totally agree with you. The military can only form the ruling class for those who believe in force or the notion that "might is right". This is the tragedy of Nigeria. The wrongs done to us has now bastardized the mentality of many to the extent we say things that would be regarded as 'weird' and perverse worldwide. In most Nations of the world, the skills needed to lead a Nation are not those acquired in the barracks.

Buhari is exemplary beyond his military persona. He is an austere, sincere, disciplined and pro-talakawa leader. Exactly the sort we do not have enough of in a political arena dominated by those who think nothing about spending £40 million on a Private Plane or a Westminster Mansion while Nigerian children are dying from easily treated diseases.

hisblud: Hmm. A drop of tears nearly fell as i read his story. Hmm should i consider him?

Many lie and make things up about Buhari but he remains a great man and a very good Nigerian even if not perfect. Understanding the psyche of some Nigerians means accepting that they can dislike and hate others whimsically and without recourse to logic, facts or even fairness.

We are also a people easily frightened and manipulated by those who want to continue looting Nigeria. Those people don't want Buhari anywhere around power because they fear it is game over for them. They put things in the public domain that gullible Nigerians swallow and amplify. "He is a bigot". "He is head of Boko Haram". Etc.

The irony is that many Nigerians have now been 419ned to uniquely become a brainwashed and extremely biased people who reject medicine that can save them (the likes of Buhari) to drink the poison (corrupt mediocrities like GEJ) that will surely kill them. Lovely interview from one of the very few men I consider genuine 'fathers of Nigeria'.

I hate to say "told you so" but I remember how me, Oyb, Blacksta and others shouted ourselves hoarse here telling people that what we see now will be the main outcome of electing GEJ as President. I.e hideous corruption everywhere. When GEJ was endorsed unanimously by the most corrupt and ruinous hands in Nigeria, plus AGIPs who have made a fortune sabotaging Nigeria from one government to another, what did reasonable people expect? When Otedola et al were following GEJ around like Vultures, what sort of Presidency did Nigeria expect?

GEJ's support base before the elections was grotesquely crooked. A unison of corruption. Balanced folks who don't fool themselves knew that the omen was bad as regards how all the biggest crooks and thieves in Nigeria were united for 'project GEJ' while Mr.President could not even get respected and upright Nigerians (like Achebe, Soyinka, Balarabe Musa et al) to endorse his ambition. It was obvious the crooks endorsed GEJ robustly because "game recognize game". Well, Nigerians have voted. Let us hope some have learned their lesson and will look beyond sentiments and sectional bias in future.

ballabriggs: Why did Labaran Maku use a valedictory session of the deceased to celebrate the fact that he escaped the crash?

Because he is a BIG FOOOOL

JONA FIRE MAKU NOW!!!

My guy, some Nigerians simply don't appreciate how ridiculous they make themselves and Nigeria look with their non-stop defence of utter garbage rejected and unseen elsewhere. Maku, Okupe, Abati, Omokri et al are nothing but discredited hacks who show that Nigeria is still in the dark ages in regards to folks being loyal to Nigeria and her institutions rather than selling their soul and credibility to one individual. Everybody who joins the Presidency automatically lies and deceive others on its behalf because Nigeria is a joke where every Prresident personalises, perverts and debases the Presidency while insisting other join him in doing such.


http://saharareporters.com/column/beyond-oronto-douglas-irresponsibility-statecraft-pius-adesanmi

Notice that I called the Presidency the apex “body” of our state. If I were talking about other responsible presidencies, say in America, France, South Africa or Ghana, I would have used the word “institution”. The culture of irresponsibility has never allowed the Nigerian presidency to develop into an institution in the real sense of that word. When, for instance, we speak of the Kennedy White House, the Carter White House, the Bush White House, the Clinton White House, the Obama White House, we know that beyond party affiliation and deep-seated political differences, all of these ‘White Houses’ are connected by their subscription to certain transcendental attributes of American self-fashioning, reducible to the philosophical core of buzzwords like “freedom”, “promise”, “values”, “enterprise”, “can-do”, and the sacrosanct “American dream”. In over two hundred years of existence, the American Presidency has evolved as the first institution of state which immediately embodies these immutable attributes of the American being. The state evolves and behaves in such a way as to project and protect these transcendental values of American-ness. And the American Presidency is an institution because these values are greater and grander than any incumbent President and his team – cabinet and aides.

[b]Contrary to these normative attributes of responsible presidencies, the Nigerian Presidency is a transient, ephemeral embodiment of the egomaniacal idiosyncrasies of the incumbent, his cabinet, his aides, and the political jobbers and hangers-on who constitute the President’s bubble. No philosophical core, no transcendental attribute of Nigerian self-fashioning links the Obasanjo Aso Rock, the Yar’Adua Aso Rock, and the Jonathan Aso Rock in the sense in which I have sketched out what connects successive American White Houses. In the absence of an enduring deontology of responsibility, every Nigerian President and his team approaches Aso Rock not from the perspective of being custodians of the sacred, great, and grand values of the Nigerian people but as guarantors of the immediate prebendal moment of their ilk and political benefactors – even if such benefactors are convicted criminals.

Once they invest the Presidency with this narrow vision, this baser instinct, the President and his aides become greater and grander than the collective will, vision, and aspirations of the Nigerian people. From here, it is open sesame to irresponsibility as statecraft and to crass personalization of the state and her resources[/b]. From here, it’s only a matter of time before we get to Okoroba. This is not just pure theoretical talk. When a Presidency is a genuine institution, she recognizes the power and value of symbolism. Presidential symbolism devolves mainly from the personal example of the incumbent. His style, his preferments, his priorities, when collectively adopted and projected by his team, become symbolic expressions of the character of the state. What sort of symbolism have President Jonathan and his team been sending out to the Nigerian people?

monkeyleg: Fantastic!!!, this is what Nigerians deserve. After all the people are only as good as their leaders.

Chief (Thief) Anenih, carry go, nothing do you. The country is phucking ripe for the plunder, take her, and have no mercy

Dollarman101: There is a big difference between whistle blowing and rumor blowing. The distinction lies in the fact that the former is facts based while the latter is rumor inspired.
There is nothing like whistle blowing in what Sahara is doing. What they re doing is complete rumor blowing with impunity.
You don't come up with fictitious reports and call it whistle blowing.

What on earth are you talking about? Saharareporters may not be perfect but do you and others want a few example of the revelations they brought to the awareness of the Nigerian public while other news sources collected brown envelops to lie to us?

When the Presidency , through liars like Maku and Abati, told you the first lady was "resting" in Germany, who revealed the true state of affairs to Nigerians? When Saharareporters was busy telling an entire Nation the truth about the real situation with Yar Adua's health, what was all other news source doing if not attending Aso Rock to collect bribe abd sign an oath of secrecy "in the interest of National security". Who reveals GEJ's appointees correctly before they are announced? I think people like you confuse whistle-blowing to be a science. Even in advanced nations, whistle-blowers are allowed to get it wrong by virtue of how they use sources who often don't wish to be quoted !!!!! Whistle-blowing is more similar to espionage because it involves exposing what Politicians want to keep secret by all means - and truthful folks know saharareporters do that very well !!!!

I have lost count of how many factual breaking news saharareporters have delivered that all other news sources were conveniently ignorant of. I really don't understand Nigerians. Saharareporters, imperfection and all, would be superstars in Nations where people still have properly calibrated compasses to appreciate one of the few sources of truth in an ocean of compromised and corrupt reportage.

Folks can insult saharareporters all they want. It just confirms what Nigerians are becoming. A people who hound goodness yet embrace and defend evil willingly.

koruji: Why is it always black or white with you guys?
Sahara Reporters has done nothing by reporting what a source told them.

At least SR helped us to know that Maku left b4 the crashed copter. Maku didn't say that but that is what happened.

My brother, 'whistle-blowers' are revered worldwide. It is only only Nigerians, deranged by 'Stockholm-Syndrome', who prefer to hold brief for those destroying them with lies, misrule and corruption. If Maku is lying, should he not be exposed? Is he a private individual or an important government appointee? I don't get Nigerians at all.

In the UK, a very well run Nation, whistle blowers actually have more credibility and audience than politicians. Yet in Nigeria that has been destroyed by politicians, you find the poverty-ridden people cursing Saharareporters et al while vehemently defending their oppressors masquerading as political leaders. Fela was right with his "suffering and smiling" observation. The mentality of Nigerians has been bastardized by years of misrule. That is why it is common to see Nigerians talking and behaving abnormally today in comparison to citizens of other Nations.

[quote author=GARRI (x7)]This Administration's fight against corruption is only on papers. GEJ is obviously as corrupt as they come......[/quote]Exactly. Things can only be about rhetorical utterances for this government because corruption sponsored it's loyal son (GEJ) into power. We all saw the most corrupt and most evil individuals in Nigeria uniting to 'endorse' GEJ and campaign for him before the election. What on Earth did Nigerians expect after that show? GEJ will suddenly start moving against the interest of those crooks?

I am beginning to think mindless followers are even more to blame for the misrule leaders get away with. We all run around blaming bad leaders for our woes yet what about the gullible and naive followers who saw GEJ fraternising with the most corrupt in the land yet went ahead and voted for him? Till today such hopeless followers are still holding brief for the mindlessly corrupt antics of GEJ. Na wa OOO. Nigeria in yawa.

Exactly as some of us predicted here while the sycophants made noise about 'harmonised' final report and such jargon. GEJ easily on course to be the sleaziest, most corrupt, most callously deceptive and most shamelessly immoral President Nigeria has ever had.


http://saharareporters.com/news-page/nigerian-government-abandons-ribadu-report-wogu%E2%80%99s-white-paper-committee-never-took

Nigerian Government Abandons Ribadu Report; Wogu’s White Paper Committee Never Took Off
Posted: December 21, 2012 - 16:37

https://saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/news-page-images-480-wide/page_images/news/2012/ribadu_portrait_0.jpg
Nuhu Ribadu
By SaharaReporters, New York
The Federal Government of Nigeria may have technically dumped the report of the Mallam Nuhu Ribadu-led Committee on the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force Report after all.

Investigations by our reporter show that the White Paper Committee, which President Goodluck Jonathan on November 14 gave two weeks within which to submit its report exists only in name. Not only has it not begun sitting, its members may have departed for the Christmas holiday to return in the second week of January.

The committee is headed by the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu.

Other members are the Minister of Interior, Comrade Abba Moro; Minister of State, FCT, Oloye Jumoke Akinjide; and the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs II: Dr. Nurudeen Mohammed.

A key member of the committee told our reporter in Abuja on Friday, that there was nothing on ground to suggest that there was anything to show that government was serious about the report.

The member said, “We have not met; there is nothing to suggest that we are going to meet and take any position on the matter.

“Going by the terms of reference, we ought to have submitted our report since end of November. But, you are aware that even the Federal Executive Council is on break and will not resume until second Wednesday of January 2013.

“Government knows what it is doing when it sets up the committee and it is the same government that is not asking us for any report.”

Efforts to speak with Wogu were not successful. When our reporter visited his house at Asokoro on Friday, one of guards said the minister had travelled outside the Federal Capital Territory on holidays.

It was further learnt that the minister left at about 9am for his home state, Abia, where he will be observing the Christmas break.

The Ribadu committee report, as submitted to President Jonathan, bitterly criticized the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation for various economic crimes against the nation.

It added that that oil majors such as Total, Eni and Shell made bumper profits from cut-price gas, while Nigerian oil ministers handed out licenses at will.

Though not illegal, the report however added that the action did not follow due process of using open bids.

Apart from that, the report added that international oil traders sometimes buy crude without any formal contracts, and the state oil firm had short-changed the Nigerian treasury of billions of Naira over the last 10 years by selling crude oil and gas to itself below market rates.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, subsequently indicated that the Ribadu report would be discarded when he said it had failed to accomplish the most critical duty assigned to it.

It has also since been discovered that Mr. Wogu, whom Mr. Jonathan assigned to head the White Paper Committee, is himself a beneficiary of a N2.7b oil subsidy fraud through his shady Pinnacle Contractors company.

Mr. Maku’s yarn was in keeping with the
minister’s attitude. “He appears determined to
misinform the nation on many issues. He is so
committed as a misinformer that the line between
what is true or what is a lie is easily blurred.”

@topic.

This thread vividly illustrates all that is wrong with Nigeria. Even with our differences, how have we come to this stage where we cannot unanimously agree that an 80 year old man who has been a serial disappointment to Nigeria, in administrative office and tainted with serious corruption scandals, should not be gaining this sort of influential office? Even bum-like lack of ambition should not make anyone speak in defense of this nonsense that is becoming a rarity throughout Africa.


It is really frightening the bad blood and unresolved vendetta motivating some folks to the extent they cannot simply see or side with what is right. This action of GEJ is a new low and folks should take it from me that we are increasingly becoming isolated , even in Africa, as a Nation given to doing self-defeatist things that makes no sense whatsoever.

akinzeb: I am very sure he was drafted to NPA to scoope aside funds to sponsor GEJ's re-election bid come 2015. My people don't be surprised if you start hearing missing billions from the coffers of NPA: Mr Fix is at work!

Precisely. This is the crux of the matter.

Word.

The recycling of the old brigade of PDP politicians that have milked the country dry over the years, by the Jonathan government and the PDP at such a time in Nigeria’s history, is another indication that Mr Jonathan lacks the will power to bring Nigeria out of the wood. Mr Jonathan should be aware that Nigerians have given up on any hope of restoration let alone transformation from his administration. He has shown to Nigerians in different shades that is it business as usual with his PDP cahoots. For a man who ran a campaign with a subterfuge that he walked without shoes as a boy, promising zero tolerance for corruption, 'fresh air' and El dorado to turn his back on Nigerians barely two years into his tenure is not fit to be considered for a second term.

Jonathan’s tenure will readily go into Nigeria's history books at the end of his four years as one of Nigeria’s most corrupt administration if the plethora of reports, investigation and other indices available is a yardstick. Well meaning Nigerians would rather wish 2015 can fast-forward to save us from this leadership plunge.
President Jonathan has shown from this despicable appointment of Tony Anenih as NPA Chairman that his is in Aso Rock to perpetuate sleaze, entrench impunity and sustain the legacy of waste bequeathed to him by his predecessors. It is a cinch that corruption has come to stay in his administration.

As 2015 beckons, Nigerians must be vigilant and vote wisely.

@OP.

No one claims Fashola is perfect but the man has done very well in a Nation cursed with administrative mediocrity. Real Lagosians, who have no axe to grind and just want a better life, know the truth and the state of affairs throughout the entire metropolis before and after Fashola. You should at least admit the man is a good administrator, by any marker, before any criticism of Fashola, coming from you, can appear objective.

Who, for example, would continue a discussion with someone who says Mohammed Alli was a crap boxer and concocts all manner of crap to support that crazy and ridiculously false summation?

seanet01: Egbon Gbawe do you think you can win an arguement with a mad man?
That is like cooking a stone.

My brother, Ndu Chucks may be flawed but I think he is a decent lad. This is why I talk to him and ignore others who are the "mad men" you talk of. The days of me talking to "mad stalkers" and attention-seekers are firmly behind me. Osun will surely see positive changes from the availability of money for infrastructural development. Citizens should remain vigilant to ensure they relate funds we all now know has been raised to development on the ground that will improve the lives of the inhabitants of the State.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]^^^^ I expected an effeminate emotional outburst of a reaction from you and you did not disappoint. The outburst does not, in any way invalidate the criticisms levied against you. It takes a real man to take constructive criticisms, reflect on them, and adjust their way as appropriate. I'm sure you are up to the challenge and I'll be watching you henceforth. You may rant one more time if you wish, this is my last word on this issue.[/quote]Ndu Chucks, grow up and get a life. What do you need to "watch me" for? People like you do not realise that there should be no formality or rigidity to our use of this faceless forum. Why watch other forumers? Am I President of Nairaland? Do I have any official role here? Why don't you just simply supply your opinion and move on instead of focusing on personalities and obsessing over their action here?

Do your thing and leave others to do theirs. That is what I do 24/7. In the end, you are the one displaying effeminate tendencies with your unmanly conduct. I may not be perfect but I stalk no one here and I have never reduced myself to the effeminacy you and others show with how you walk in other men's shadow here . Own your own opinion here and live by your own convictions as real men do. Do your own thing and leave others alone. Online decorum 101. Gbawe this , Gbawe that. Do you sad folks have no life or beautiful woman to jump on? No challenges? No kids to raise? No business models to develop? Wetin for god sake with you people?

ballabriggs: Reno Omokri have you no shame. Must you continue to live the life of a scum.

That Lagos does not build its schools or does not provide free health service is the biggest trash I have read. In Fashola's first term there was a project to renovate and build 500 classroom blocks in Lagos, that I know for sure. And there where also hospital projects all over the state. LASUTH Emergency ward and the the Island Maternity upgrade is one of the few.

Okay, the calculation is Fashola may contest for Presidency in 2015, so take every step to rubbish the man. Epic Fail I say!! He has 1 million brains more than the dumbass called Jona and if he decides to move, I will mobilise and support him. He is a man of vision, he knows what direction he wants to lead to, unlike Jona who seems a blind man crossing Ikorodu road unaided.


The biggest problem Lagos has is that it has too many to cater for relative to its resources. Why? Because there is virtually nothing going on in every other part of the country. Tell Jona to repair that East West road wey dey our backyard make development spread and reduce the pressure on Lagos. That should be Jona's focus instead of spending his whole day drinking 'sapele water' and leading Azazi to kaput in a 'kabu kabu' helicopter.

Go and get a life you scum.

My guy, every time you talk you remind me of Jeremy Paxman. A no-nonsense and abrasive English journalist who can reduce any political figure to looking ant-like through his method of confronting them harshly with the uncomfortable truth. You are correct here again but many Nigerians don't like the truth and prefer to create fantasy. Lagos is heavily burdened beyond its capacity and support structure. The governor is a great administrator who would do even better assuming we had leaders working on the same wavelength and all dedicated to the progress of every corner of Nigeria.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]I agree with you 100% on this. Uncle Gbawe has become very combative when his views are challenged particularly when the said views concern ACN Governors. Don't dare ask those ACN Governors for accountability else Uncle Gbawe will become extremely emotional and react very "violently" that is if he does not ignore you and deem your challenge not worthy of response. Sadly he is quickly becoming the Beaf of ACN.

This new behaviour is why he will not win the Poster of the year award this year. Lets hope the new year will bring forth a new Uncle Gbawe who listens to his constructive critics.[/quote]Guy, are some of you for real? Why don't you get married, have kids, run businesses or do real things instead of coming here and acting as if this forum is your life by intolerantly encroaching on the private areas of others? What stupid touchy-feely intervention are you and others convening on my behalf when we are merely fellow discussants on a faceless forum? Do I owe you anything here? You think the poster of the year thingy is in any way an influence on how I talk here? An award on a faceless forum is something suddenly pivotal in comparison to the real and tangible things I have achieved in life?

Dude stop speaking in ways that will leave other concluding you have no real life anchors or achievements to the extent you are ranting about an award related to a faceless forum. I don't care for that award and will continue to be me even if folks like you are not happy with that. Yes I believe the ACN leaders are doing well and what is wrong with that? Am I not from the SW and a stakeholder in the affairs of the region allowed to have a view and a say ? What would be very weird and mentally unhealthy would be if I were to be an 'amebo' like you , and others, with my nose, criticism and pessimism always attached to a region I am not from 24/7 while I ignore my own region of origin.

Demdem: The Retardeen simply doesn't disappoints. Good to see more peeps seeing the deceit they voted for.
Retardeen promised us fresh air, transformation. Little did many know that what he meant was recycling.
Those that voted for GEj and not PDP have surely been fooled.

indeed. "Recycling" of the same highly corrupt and evil empty Barrels that contributed to what Nigeria is today.

[quote author=ola_pluto]Refute me by naming that Nigerian president who has fought corruption as much as OBJ. Which Nigerian president has had the 'balls' to jail high class thieves?[/quote]My guy, this is perhaps the greatest act of 419 Nigeria has ever witnessed . OBJ was, by far, more corrupt than anyone he brought to book as attested to by even Ribadu. OBJ and IBB have this love-hate obsession with each other. OBJ simply wanted to be richer than IBB once President because those guys are of the old school that believe money controls everything. OBJ looted blindly and callously installed corrupt folks everywhere while pretending to hound 'corrupt leaders' who were essentially political opponents he wanted to neuter or others he simply wanted to use as sacrificial lambs to bolster a false image to the entire world.

There was nothing fair about OBJ's fight against corruption in so far as the man himself was far more corrupt than others he hounded malevolently. How can OBJ justify backing a misfit in America, i.e Andy Uba, to be governor of Anambra State when many more qualified candidates existed? OBJ was/is pure evil. It is time Nigerians show ambition by moving beyond malevolent Dinosaurs like IBB, OBJ, ANenih et al