Djicemob: Seun, you are the most lenient admin of a forum that i've ever seen.

See comments directed at you abeg! Some not even upto to your AGE not to talk of other criterias are here throwing insults at you. SMH.

ShehuAba: Seun, you are trying to solve a problem and you are creating more. Why will you again suggest that APC supporters hacked nairaland. That's a very grave and unacceptable accusation.
Look into that too.
Then, you should unban the likes of Gbawe, Barcanista, etc. who were unjustly banned. This is the right step in the right direction.

AlabaBoss: Seun

Stop being paranoid, I am almost 100% certain that no APC member/s will contemplate on hacking your site. The mere suggestion that APC could do such a thing is preposterous, I think it is time you read between the lines and stop listening to dimwits like Kint. He is just an attention seeker and an aging poverty stricken man.

I have heard claims that your site was hacked just after APC lost the Ekiti Elections, while the timing might seem coincidental with the hacking of your site. I will also like to remind you that a big argument was going on in the travel section between some Dubai based man who allegedly duped some ladies. They put all his details and pictures up and he threatened to shut NL down and that same day NL went offline. For me, that is a more plausible source of the problems you encountered.

APC members might not like the ways your MODs and yourself treat them but what will they gain by destroying the very medium by which they could use in pushing their message across to the public.

APC does not want to hack your site, they want to elevate the level of debate and they want a level playing field.

Anambra Adigo mma

MalcoImX: "Regarding General Ihejirika, I have my own theories regarding how he may have come under Stephen Davis’ searchlight in the first place, ending up on his list of the inculpated. All I shall propose at this stage is that an international panel be set up to examine all allegations, irrespective of status or office of any accused."
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"Well, while awaiting the Chibok girls, and in that very connection, there is at least an individual whom the nation needs to bring back, and urgently. His name is Stephen Davis, the erstwhile negotiator in the oft aborted efforts to actually bring back the girls. Nigeria needs him back – no, not back to the physical nation space itself, but to a Nigerian induced forum, convoked anywhere that will guarantee his safety and can bring others to join him."
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"I know Stephen Davis, I worked in the background with him during efforts to resolve the insurrection in the Delta region under President Shehu Yar’Adua. I have not been involved in his recent labours for a number of reasons. The most basic is that my threshold for confronting evil across a table is not as high as his - thanks, perhaps, to his priestly calling."
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"I am therefore compelled to warn that anything that Stephen Davis claims to have uncovered cannot be dismissed out of hand. It cannot be wished away by foul-mouthed abuse and cheap attempts to impugn his integrity – that is an absolute waste of time and effort. Of the complicity of ex-Governor Sheriff in the parturition of Boko Haram, I have no doubt whatsoever, and I believe that the evidence is overwhelming. Femi Falana can safely assume that he has my full backing – and that of a number of civic organizations - if he is compelled to go ahead and invoke the legal recourses available to him to force Sheriff’s prosecution. The evidence in possession of Security Agencies - plus a number of diplomats in Nigeria - is overwhelming, and all that is left is to let the man face criminal persecution. It is certain he will also take many others down with him."
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Read full article here:
http://saharareporters.com/2014/09/13/bringbackjonathan2015-wages-impunity-wole-soyinka

whatlyf: I will MOST likely quit NL after 2015 polls. That Admin slammed a one month Ban on my main handle (barcanista) because of the most ridiculous reason(which I snapshotted and used as DP). Before now I have also been banned(in August) because I created a thread to ask why one of my harmless thread that was devoid of tribal/ethnic/ewar/religious or any war. The Mods Apologised and restored the Thread BUT the Admin went ahead to hand me a 1week BAN. This is most embarassing

eliment: Its high time we SW moved to an unbias forum, nairaland has deen sold to the igbos.

Arysexy:

Rants ignored

Arysexy: Mtcheeeew

Why not table ur complain without pointing fingers at d enugu thread? This is how u people start fight here.

Ngwakwe, seun please delete this thread.

Nonsense

Rawani: Thats very unfair and discouraging. Do they want us to take our patronage elsewhere?

Seun and the 'gang' he uses to oversee the politics sector are openly biased with dictatorial tendencies. Only OAM4J is decent and I get the impression he is likely overwhelmed. Jarus left because of the biased antics of Seun. I have, because I own businesses also and know how difficult it is to please everyone, always tried to give Seun the benefit of the doubt and not join those calling him out for partisanship regularly.

Yet this latest development is disgusting and a step too far in open and brazen discrimination. Why make a thread about the debt of Lagos a sticky for almost a week , as if attempting to force negativity about Lagos and the opposition Party in charge of it down the throat of Nigerians, yet dismiss a thread seeking to redress the balance by showing what Lagos has done with all funds gained from IGR, sundry income, Federal allocations and loans?

@Seun. You should grow up and stop embarrassing yourself. Nairaland is your business and, if a sensible and pragmatically mature boss, you would try and use basic business common sense to keep every stakeholder happy. This sort of abuse of power and open discrimination , where you show that you have taken sides and are willing to us the politics sections prejudicially to aid your corner, should not be happening if you know what matters.

nanospy007: PDP are PIGS! Pigs should not be allowed to pollute the human space.

Shock and awe (technically known as rapid dominance) is a military doctrine based on the use of overwhelming power, dominant battlefield awareness and maneuvers, and spectacular displays of force to paralyze the enemy's perception of the battlefield and destroy its will to fight. The doctrine was written by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade in 1996 and is a product of the National Defense University of the United States.

eaglechild: Self deception at its peak.

PDP desperate to win in 2015, says Aregbesola

Posted by: Bisi Oladele, Ibadan in Featured, News 11 hours ago

Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola raised the alarm yesterday over plans by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to use unwholesome means to win elections next year.
He urged his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), to refocus its strategy to wrest power from the PDP.
Aregbesola spoke at the first APC Southwest Assembly in Ibadan the Oyo State capital. The event attracted the cream of the party’s leaders.
The governor also gave an insight into how he won the August 9 governorship election.
He said the masses, particularly women and school children, were those who defied the alleged intimidation of thousands of mostly masked security operatives who went round the state intimidating voters before and during the election.

According to him, women, particularly low cadre women, who are naturally overlooked, and school children, defied gun-wielding security operatives to insist that they would exercise their civic rights and would only vote for the candidate of their choice.
Aregbesola said with the masses and support from other APC-controlled states, the PDP, which he said, hid under the power of the Federal Government to militarise and intimidate voters against performing their civic duties or preventing them from voting for their choice candidates, would have won the election.

He said: “The PDP is determined to take our states from us. They are ruthless opposition that will do anything to deny our people of their democratic choices. If we understand this early enough, we will see the need to stop them on their track. But if we underrate them, we will record losses. The actual winners, those who defeated the opposition in Osun, were the ordinary men and women, particularly women who refused to be intimidated. They came out even in their most dreadful form. For the first time, security operatives put on masks in broad day light in their thousands on trucks, shooting. But women came out to perform their duty. They sang against them and sent signals to them that they would not tolerate terror.

“We must thank and celebrate them. We didn’t prepare them for it but they did it on their own.
“Quickly following the women in the determination to exercise their rights were school children who always sang that people should vote for Aregbesola. It was unbelievable.

“They deflated the ego of the people that wanted to dominate and terrorise us. Yes, our men worked but the determination of our women and the children including artisans, drivers, was high. Politicians must acknowledge them.
“We must let people know that this is what they must do. They must refuse to be cowed, that they should vote and defend their votes. They deserve accolades for the victory of our party in the State of Osun. I will never forget them. Women that one would think wrongly are the least in a struggle like this.”

Aregbesola said when President Goodluck Jonathan came to Osun a week before the election to campaign for his party’s candidate, he referred to APC governors as miscreants. The governor wondered if winning elections turns one to a miscreant.
But he said even beggars refused to take money from them because they were not acceptable in the state.
Aregbesola advised his party men to review their strategy if the party is serious about winning future elections, saying the PDP would stop at nothing to win elections.

Our policies and programmes must be geared towards mobilising and educating the people. From the leadership to the lowest level of our party, we must inspire the people. The only ones they cannot defeat are the people. They arrested close to 1,000 of our leaders the night before the election. They even attempted to enter my house at Government House at about 1:30 am on election day.
Warning of what is ahead in next year’s election, he said.

“The real stake in Osun is ego but in Lagos State, it is going to be for both ego and materials.”
The PDP took electoral contest as a war. But It was all well that ended well.” He said.
National Vice Chairman of the party in the Southwest, Chief Pius Akinyelure, said the APC was making history by initiating the first zonal assembly.

Akinyelure alleged that the PDP was promoting “a retinue of rogue regimes that negate the fundamentals of the egalitarian political heritage of the Southwest democratic space” in the zone.
Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi urged the party to leverage on its intellectual base to sustain and improve on the achievements recorded in Southwest states.

In its eight-point action, the communique issued at the end of the meeting, said the APC in the zone resolved to re energize the party through alliances, work in line with the fact that leadership is not about taking people to where they want to be but where they ought to be and that the party had demonstrated rare performance in governance that meets global standards in the states under their control.
The party also urged its members not to revert to the culture of pedestrian politics where appeal to base and banal instincts is the rule because of slight setback. It also resolved to energise younger people and the masses by embarking on mass mobilisation and sensitisation of the people as done during membership drive.

The APC in the zone also resolved to give the 2015 elections “all that is legally necessary, realising that Nigerians are dealing with tricky and devilish people in power” and that it must review its strategy and redouble its efforts since the PDP has turned ruthless and ready to snatch power through a civilian coup.
To achieve the above, the party resolved to build a formidable, modern regional secretariat equipped with the latest information technology for swift , smart and decisive response to the challenges of the party.
It saluted the exemplary courage of the women in Osun State in standing up to the terror tactics of the PDP.
The party reiterated its commitment to regional integration being midwifed by the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) commission and urged the leadership of all the states in the zone to be committed to the project.
It also reiterated its commitment to true federalism.

skyfall: The truth cannot be hidden. We all know this.

Aregbesola, best performing governor –ICPC

The Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) has described Governor Rauf Aregbesola as the best performing governor in the country.
The commission noted that his people oriented policies and transparency in governance have given him much edge far above others.
The commission’s team led by the Southwest representatives, Professor Olu Aina, gave the remarks during a visit to Governor Rauf Aregbesola in his office.
The commission said it expected the governor to be more proactive in alleviating the poverty of the people and be more efficient in the management of public resources during his second term.
While praising the Governor for the value which his administration has added to education, Professor Aina said the commission has decided to consider education and re-orientation as the most important tool to use in the war against corruption because the Governor has decided to banish poverty through education.
He also presented a letter of request from the commission to the governor for the allocation of land to build a new office in order to expand the operation of ICPC in Osun while congratulating the governor for his re-election.
Responding, Governor Aregbesola, who described corruption as the bane of the society, said the most important aspect of the war against corruption is education in order to restore human and societal values, adding that corruption has become a way of life in Nigeria.
He said poverty cannot be divorced from corruption because it is a condition of existence where the society does not matter to the individual, stressing that the first step in eliminating corruption is by educating the individual on the danger it poses to the society.
The governor explained that it was the reason why his government was struggling to put in place a governing system that would guarantee for the people what Chief Obafemi Awololo sought seriously to achieve, which is making life comfortable for the people.
Aregbesola said the stance of his government towards the people earned him the victory in the last governorship election despite intimidation by Federal Government.

ba7man: The cable car system should be completed quickly, I'll gladly pay just to ride in one to enjoy the view.

To those hating, you better vote in Governors that will pioneer innovative solutions to your State problems rather than criticize another's effort.

Ropeways Transport floats N81bn Lagos Cable Car mass transit system
MONDAY, 04 FEBRUARY 2013 00:00 JOHN OSADOLOR E-mail Print PDF

Ropeways Transport Limited is investing $500 million (about N81 billion) to launch a cable car mass urban transit system in the nation’s commercial capital, Lagos.

The cable car transit system, the first in the quest in Nigeria to provide commuters affordable, safe, timely and stress-free mode of transportation, particularly in urban centres like Lagos, is being floated by a company owned by Dapo Olumide, former managing director of Virgin Nigeria Airlines; Yemi Osinbajo, former attorney-general and commissioner for justice, Lagos State and Yemi Ogunbiyi, proprietor, Tanus Communications Limited.

Already, Ropeways Transport Limited has signed of a 30-year Franchise Agreement with the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) and the Lagos State Government for the execution of the project.


Under the terms of the agreement, Ropeways Transport will this November, begin the construction of towers, stations and connecting network cables along various routes covered in the first phase of the project, namely, Ijora – Iddo, Iddo – Adeniji, Apapa – Oluwole, Oluwole – Adeniji, Adeniji – Obalende, Obalende – Falomo, and Falomo – Victoria Island. The project is expected to be fully completed and commissioned by early 2015.

The transit system when completed will create about 500 direct jobs, while commuters will pay between N200 and N300 per trip. The African Development Bank is a co-financier of the project.

Dapo Olumide ,chief executive officer of Ropeways Transport Limited, who spoke in Lagos, said the Lagos cable car transit system would provide an alternative means of mass transportation in the city and help ease the current transportation difficulties.

He added that it would restore dignity to commuting because the current situation hampers economic development within the city and negatively impacts the quality of life of its residents.

“By complementing existing transport modes, the Lagos Cable Car Transit System will play its part in reducing the traffic congestion in the city” he said.

Olaolufred:

Ondo is my state of origin.
I want to believe that Mimiko was absent as a result of other engagement.
We are watching his role so far in nigeria's polity.
People supported him to purnish PDP in Ondo state.
He should not do things that will make people hate him as much as they have shown him love.
DAWN is about regional integration. Not about party politics.
So He need to be focus on the regional co-operation that will change the scheme of things in the SW.
Even though we know Mimiko is looking for an allignment to save his political career,
He has that right. However, not at the expense of people's interest.
God bless Ondo State,
God Bless SW.
God bless nigeria.

tpia.:
a thread title or news report which shows seriousness, would read something like

"Southwest governors converge in Ibadan for something"


then when listing the attendees, a minor paragraph would casually mention those in attendance and then say the ondo governor was unable to make the meeting or something like that.

Not screaming fonts shouting "ondo governor did not attend!!!!!!"

we are more enlightened than all these theatrics i hope!!!!!

Historically, the processes that have culminated in the creation of the 36 states and
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Nigeria are the result of a complex political
arrangement and rearrangement, rather than a search for economic efficiency in the
application of the principle of subsidiarity. It is safe to assert that it also reflects the
fear of the central government to lose control of its overlordship of the country. The
outcome is that the atomized states are saddled with important expenditure
responsibilities, but the central government retains 52 percent of revenue accruing to
the Federation account. This is a paradox, given that independent Nigeria had
historically been a Federal system until the advent of the military in 1966. The military
retained the name “Federal Republic of Nigeria” as the official name for the country,
but proceeded to re-structure the entire country along central command lines. This
has persisted till the present.
The extant political arrangement has constrained the development aspirations of not
only the Region, but also the full realisation of the potential of all the other component
parts of the Nigerian federation. The super-structure remains faulty and ambivalent in
every respect. It therefore requires a new framework, otherwise the country will
continue to flounder and sub-optimise, regardless of every good intention.
A composite Regional Integration and Development Agenda for the Southwest has
therefore become imperative in order to fulfill the immense potential of the Region.
Yorubaland has always been known as hubs of economic growth, demonstrators of

talk2davoo: mimiko is an egbira man.not yoruba.hence d reason for his absence.d former ( mimiko) is straightforward while d later ( yorubas) are bunch of criminals and betrayals

Olaolufred:

THE FEAR OF JAGABAN, IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM FOR PEE DEE PEE AND RETARDEEN'S LICKERS.

Demdem: Mimiko seems to have gone the way of the retardeen.