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Golan007:
The state initiated the project.

If it is too congested for you, you could always live elsewhere.

for your information i don't live in Lagos, and will never wish to live in Lagos. I just have sympathy for those living there cos the place is so jam packed, such that life will always be difficult for you there irrespective of how much earn for a living. Efforts should be geared towards decongesting that city instead it is being jam packed the more.
Living in Lagos is nightmare I will never wish to experience even though I've visited there on a few occasions. And each time I've always been eager to leave that city. Those who live there are really strong

They will complain of Lagos being congested. A place with two seaport that is super congested built another port, thIs will be the mother of all congestion. There are other places in the south with ocean line that deep sea port can be sited but Nigerian politicians reason backwards.
How can you explain away one of the smallest state in Nigeria having three seaport servicing the entire federation, that is madness.

Crixxx:
Savage

lol. Dem no want allow us hear word with mega city na.

Lol. Somebody claimed to be the brain behind the megacity. And wants to turn Nigeria to Lagos. We can see his Lagos work rate.
Abeg Nigeria no want that kind work rate o.
The work rate pass kante own. Lol

A global business intelligence, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has said Lagos, the Nigeria’s commercial capital city is the world’s second least liveable urban area.


EIU ranked Lagos 171 out of 172 countries in the list of most liveable cities in the world for the first quarter of 2022, according to the latest 2022 Global Liveability Index.

This report makes the Nigerian best city the worst in Africa as Damascus (Syria) and Tripoli (Libya) continue to anguish at the bottom of the list along with Lagos (Nigeria) as they face social unrest, terrorism and conflict.



“The least liveable cities were Damascus in Syria, Lagos in Nigeria, Tripoli in Libya, Algiers in Algeria and Karachi in Pakistan, which scored 30.7, 32.2, 34.2, 37.0 and 37.5 respectively.

“The EIU further highlighted the top five most liveable cities in the world which are Vienna, Austria scoring 99. 1; Copenhagen, Denmark with 98.0; Zurich, Switzerland with 96.3; Calgary, Canada had 96.3 and Vancouver, Canada with 96.1
“However, most of the cities in the bottom ten have improved their scores compared with last year, as COVID-19 pandemic induced pressures,” EIU stated.

The EIU, which is a sister organization to The Economist, ranked 173 cities around the world on a variety of factors, including health care, crime rates, political stability, infrastructure and access to green space.
The EIU examines the quality of health care, education, infrastructure, stability, and culture when assessing living conditions of each city.
More than 30 factors are taken into account when calculating each rank, which are then compiled into a weighted score between one and 100.

From the indicators used for the ranking index which was stability, healthcare, culture & environment, education and infrastructure, Lagos scored 20.0, 20.8, 44.9, 25.0 and 46.4 respectively which dragged its score to 32.2 from a total of 100.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/06/lagos-ranked-second-worst-liveable-city-in-world/

They should bring back online registration

2loadedguy:
It is a well known fact by all Nigerians that the next election is between two thieves in Tinubu and Atiku. The most important thing is to just choose your own theif carefully. As for me and my household I have chosen my own theif in Asiwaju who I'm sure is competent to deliver the economy based on his track record in Lagos. Please feel free to choose your own theif and don't tell me rubbish even though the pandora man will also pretend he's not a theif as well.

since I'm not a thief, I will rather choose a candidate whose records shows he has not stolen our common wealth.
Atleast the ones above had stolen my parent's future I will not allow them steal my children's future

Whom you support in this election is a reflection of your personality. Only a thief will support a thief

Hahahahaha. Person wey no fit win senatorial seat for himself based on his woeful performance as a governor.
Mind you I'm from cross river state, and from the same local as this governor (obudu). In cross river we don't reward rubbish.
Ayade being a scammer want scam tinubu collect campaign funds. Anyway it is Nigeria's money tinubu looted so, ayade is free to scam him.
In cross river we know who we are supporting for presidency and no governor can decide that for us.

Assetinvestor:
If Nigerians make the mistake of allowing any of these 2 Criminals to succeed in seizing power, then I will by all means support the break up of Nigeria because it will show that as one, we are allergic to development!

These two criminals will be in jail if Nigeria is a country where there is sanity and rule of law!

Atiku's partner in the heinous crimes against Nigeria is already in jail in the United States! He was even banned from entering that country because of his corruption! T

It's the same story with Tinubu, he has so primitively accumulated wealth that would have been used to make life better for Lagosians!

How would such criminals be campaigning to rule Nigeria?
Are we cursed

Brother I weak. With the kind of revenue accruing to Lagos, it should have been the economic capital of Africa. The potential of Lagos is been eaten by kleptomaniacs but yet we are praising them like the best thing since sliced. Chai who Bewitched Nigerians? Are we allergic to good things? God pls help us

How will the world take us serious if we vote this kind of individuals into power.

This is no longer greed but sickness. This bewitchment must scatter by fire.
This is corruption personify. Lagos must be liberated from this strong hold.
Imagine our nation purse in the hands of kleptomaniac like this. means it will become a looting spree

This how they want to lead this country. International community will never take us serious with leaders like this

Graft Allegations Dog Nigeria’s Presidential Hopefuls

Tinubu and Abubakar long dogged by corruption accusations

Corruption fight won’t feature on campaign trail, analysts say

The fight against corruption has been a top campaign issue in Nigeria’s last two presidential elections, but the history of graft allegations surrounding the two main candidates means neither is likely to raise it in the run-up to February’s vote.

Front-runner Bola Tinubu, who secured the ruling party’s nomination earlier this month, was being investigated by the country’s anti-corruption agency as recently as last June. Three decades ago he fought a lawsuit in which the US government accused him of laundering the proceeds of heroin trafficking and eventually reached a settlement.

Atiku Abubakar, his chief rival, brought tens of millions of dollars of “suspect funds” into the US when he was Nigeria’s vice president in the 2000s, according to a US Senate report, and was implicated in a bribery case that resulted in the imprisonment of an American congressman. Neither episode resulted in charges against Abubakar.

Spokesmen for Tinubu and Abubakar didn’t respond to requests for comment.

The next president will face a daunting challenge to turn around Africa’s largest economy. Falling oil production threatens Nigeria’s place as the continent’s biggest crude producer, inflation is soaring and more than half of the working-age population are either unemployed or underemployed.

The local currency has depreciated steeply under outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari, falling from around 220 naira to the US dollar on the widely-used parallel market when he was first elected in early 2015 to about 600 naira this week.

Nigeria vies with India as the country with the highest number of people living in extreme poverty despite having a seventh of the population. Meanwhile, secessionists, Islamist militants and armed criminal gangs terrorize large swathes of territory.

Efforts to restore security and fix the economy alone will likely fall short because there’s an unavoidable connection between financial graft and government dysfunction in Nigeria, said Leena Koni Hoffmann, an associate fellow at Chatham House in London. Corruption “hollows systems out and cripples them from the inside,” she said.

Contrast with Buhari

The race will see the two wealthy septuagenarians mobilize impressive political machines built over more than 30 years pursuing power in Africa’s most-populous country. Voters in Nigeria are often offered cash, food or clothing to persuade them to cast their ballots for particular candidates.

On the eve of the last election in 2019, two armored bank vans were photographed driving into Tinubu’s home. “If I have money to spend, if I like, I give it to the people for free of charge as long as it’s not to buy votes,” he told reporters when asked what the vehicles were transporting.

Tinubu and Abubakar have cultivated deep systems of political patronage, according to Hoffmann. Both men excel at “engineering and expanding political networks through co-optation, through channeling and redistributing money and positions and favors,” she said.

Tinubu, 70, who lives in Lagos’s wealthiest neighborhood, says he made his fortune before going into politics by investing well and working as an accountant for companies including Deloitte LLP. Abubakar, 75, who splits his time between Nigeria and Dubai, spent two decades working for the government’s customs department and co-founded a large logistics and oil services firm that has operated concessions at Nigerian ports.

Their lifestyles contrast sharply with Buhari, an austere 80-year-old former general who keeps a herd of cattle at his ranch in the far north of Nigeria and briefly ruled the country as a military dictator nearly 40 years ago. He was swept to power in 2015 promising to eliminate the corruption that had flourished under the previous administration.

While Buhari insists he has made some headway in reducing graft, Clement Nwankwo, executive director of the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre in Abuja, said he has “failed woefully”. Still, corruption is likely to take a back seat this election to more pressing issues, particularly “the incredible levels of insecurity across the country and the rise in poverty,” he said.

Decades of Investigations

Tinubu won the ruling All Progressives Congress party’s primary in a landslide on June 8. A former two-term governor of Lagos state first elected in 1999 and the most powerful politician in southwestern Nigeria, he has handpicked his three successors and been dogged by allegations of lawbreaking for decades.

As of last June, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had an open investigation into Tinubu, the agency’s chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, told ThisDay newspaper at the time, without specifying what it was scrutinizing. An EFCC spokesman didn’t respond to questions about whether the probe is still active.

Tinubu is also accused in an ongoing Nigerian high court case of secretly controlling the company that handles Lagos state taxes and is entitled to take a 10% cut of what it collects. It was awarded the contract while Tinubu was governor.

The firm’s founder sued Alpha Beta Consulting LLP and Tinubu in June 2021, alleging the company had wired out millions of dollars in “suspicious monetary transfers” and denied him his share of profits for more than a decade. The plaintiff and ABC are currently discussing an out-of-court settlement.

A spokesman for Tinubu, who has not participated in the talks, told Bloomberg in March that the allegations are “unsubstantiated.”

Revenue raised by the Lagos government rose sharply during Tinubu’s tenure to 83 billion naira (about $690 million at the time) from less than 15 billion naira when he took office. In 2020, it was almost 420 billion naira (about $1.1 billion at the time), more than three times higher than the next-best performing of the country’s 36 states.

In July 1993, when Tinubu briefly served as a Nigerian senator, the US government filed a forfeiture lawsuit in Chicago against bank accounts in his name, claiming there was “probable cause” to believe they held the proceeds of heroin dealing. The case followed a probe by the Internal Revenue Service and other agencies into a trafficking network involving Nigerian suppliers.

The IRS secured warrants in January 1992 to seize almost $2 million, according to court filings. While living in Chicago between 1989 and 1991, Tinubu had deposited more than $1.8 million into one of the accounts, before transferring large sums to another bank, according to the US government’s complaint. While disputing the US’s reason for targeting the accounts, Tinubu settled in September 1993, agreeing to give up $460,000 to the US government in exchange for the release of the rest of the money. Tinubu wasn’t indicted over the matter.

Abubakar is the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate. Nigeria’s vice president from 1999 to 2007, he has run in all four subsequent elections. Abubakar came second when Buhari was re-elected four years ago -- and during that campaign was granted a temporary suspension of a US travel ban connected to bribery allegations because he had a reasonable chance of winning, according to a person familiar with the matter.

A report published in 2010 by the US Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said one of Abubakar’s wives helped her husband bring more than $40 million in “suspect funds” into the US while he was Nigeria’s vice president, including at least $1.7 million in bribes paid by Siemens AG. Abubakar and his then spouse previously have denied any wrongdoing.

Former US Representative William Jefferson was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 2009 for taking bribes from American companies interested in doing business in Nigeria and Ghana. In July 2005, Jefferson told a cooperating witness that then-Vice President Abubakar had also agreed to accept a bribe in exchange for his assistance, according to the Louisiana congressman’s indictment. Abubakar has previously rejected the allegations, saying he had no personal or business relationship with Jefferson.

Abubakar’s hopes of succeeding President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2007 were torpedoed when the EFCC declared him unfit to hold public office and a Nigerian Senate panel recommended his prosecution for allegedly diverting government funds. Abubakar denied the allegations, saying he was the victim of political persecution.

Both contenders will focus on issues other than corruption while campaigning, said Hoffmann. “They know it’s not part of their political image,” she said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-22/presidential-hopefuls-in-nigeria-can-t-shake-graft-allegations?utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-africa&utm_content=africa&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic

Paid urchins are going the extra miles to dig up dirt on obi. They are indirectly admitting that their principal is a cesspool of corruption and so must fine anything possible to make obi be in the same level as their kleptomaniac boss.

Idiko1:
The bolded in the above crap holistically declared you as ignoramus.

don't mind him. I'm also a cross riverian and we absolutely admire Peter obi and he will win cross river. Wike is simply a tout with no sense of decorum. The difference between wike and mc olumo is just the law degree wike has

Khaleepha5681:
Don't change moniker we would come to remind you.

Anyone with foresight knows Atiku is the next president of Nigeria, and so they fix their connection with him in case.

I'm not changing anything. He will not win I can bet on that

Don't waste your time, you won't win

Here we go. #the labour of our heroes past shall never be in vain

I bin don commot hand for PDP matter na labour party i dey now

“Things are working out towards their dazzling conclusions. So it is neither here nor there what ticky-tacky we befuddle our brains with.” – Ama Ata Aidoo in Our Sister Killjoy

POLITICS guarantees that people are bound to blame Peter Obi for whatever decision he takes on the pursuit of his presidential ambition. He is already being judged, some harshly, for leaving the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
He is running away from challenges, his accusers say. They see no solution in his decision. Some say his departure from PDP has decimated Obi’s chances of amounting to anything subsequently.

The truth is that Obi is desperate to be President of Nigeria. He is desperate, not for himself, but a certain pull draws him towards suicidal political decisions like telling delegates they would not get a dime from him, then leaving PDP.
Unthinkable decisions have to be made to match the dazzling dash that rescuing Nigeria requires. There is no time. There are few takers. The Electoral Act’s late arrival, the firmness about sticking to the schedule have engendered a ferocious pace that is new to our elections.

Nigeria is in dire straits. People who see 2023 as another season of elections miss the point. The first task is to pull Nigeria back from certain calamities she has been thrown through particularly in the past seven years of divisive decisions. The time to do that is during the pre-qualification of candidates. That time is now.
The elections are about Nigerians searching out those willing to fight through the rubble on which Nigeria stands and make something out of it. The professional politicians see another season of harvests of their calling as delegates turn desperadoes.

Negotiations are about cost of delegates. Obi said his politics would not accommodate the waste, distortion, corruption that system entails.
Criticisms of his position are endorsements of more than N9 billion the 774 PDP delegates could earn at $20,000 each. Different figures apply in the different parties.

Obi is aghast at this expenditure. People abuse him for his legendary stinginess. Obi asks these questions which bear directly on how reckless political expenditures affect our lives –
Where do aspirants get dollars to buy delegates when manufacturers have no forex for critical spares and materials?
Why would people be spending dollars when the official currency is Naira?
How would these free spenders recoup their investments?

These questions should draw us to deeper contemplations of where Nigeria is heading again. They judge us. They point directions for us. They warn us of the dangers ahead.
We are on the verge of losing more of Nigeria again, if we add another bad decision to the one that got us here. The times are telling, trying, and tumultuous. Our existence is at stake.
Only Obi provides deep perspectives to managing these issues and their possibilities. His track record of performance whether in governance, business or personal life are practical demonstrations of one who tackles matters sustainably for the common good. He sees the bigger picture.

Without an acceptance of the fact that Obi is the best of the aspirants in the race, across parties, across regions, across religions, we would fail ourselves again. Obi has connected with Nigerians. He is a movement without the traditional ties that tilt power to personal purposes.
Are we joining Obi and like minds to rescue Nigeria? Is pulling Nigeria from those pernicious holds not more important than which party wins the elections? Do Nigerians feel strong enough about their despondency to act against it?
If we cast our lot with Obi we can build the new Nigeria we only have in speeches and social media debates. It is possible.
Where are the coalition of parties that would mobilise their resources over the next eight months to pull Nigeria back from the brink? It is the need of the hour.
The behemoths, APC and PDP, are formidable forces in this race. Yet they can be defeated with articulation of alternatives to what they represent.

Concerns should not be about what happens to Obi. They personalise and minimise his quest. We should be more concerned about us. Obi’s stinginess would lead us out of the current morass. We should follow him as he dismisses vote buying, an act that is illegal. Like most laws, parties gleefully breach the electoral regulations.
Speed is of essence as Nigerians decide who would fix their broken country. We should not join delegates, a miniscule part of our population, to bring further ruination on Nigeria.

Obi has pointed the way to a new Nigerian political behaviour that returns power to the people. Let leaders and the led embrace Obi for the obvious difference he is.
If the mission is to rescue Nigeria, Obi is the best choice by miles. It is time we joined him in halting the charade that is hurting us.

Finally…
DRAMA will never depart from Rochas Okorocha. The lengthy live video production of Okorocha and family supplicating to the Almighty to save them while agents of the Economic and Financial and Economic Crimes Commission, EFCC, banged their doors, captures bits of the character of this presidential aspirant. Is resisting arrest a matter for the Almighty?
THE landscape is still drenched with blood. The killings continue. We cannot find the killers when we distract ourselves with blame-sharing. Anyone who can stop the killings should.
https://businessday.ng/politics/article/yes-peter-obi-desperately-wants-to-be-president/

2023 elections will be full of twists and turns. E no sure for any party so far. However it is already game over for PDP

Electrochemistry:
Peter Obi and Osibanjo are the best choice. Others look like rogues to me.

they are actually rogues and not look like rogues

Na Peter we sabi o

Jamesbally:
Amongst all the contestants, Peter Obi is the least qualified.
1, He is a thief.
2, He was indicted by Pandora investigation
3, He left Anambra in worst shape
4, He is IGBO
5, He is Igbo
6, He is Ndi IGBO.

lol. You are obviously a troll

seguntijan:
Oh! But Tinubu can be blamed for Lekki Massacre even when he left office 20 years ago? The level of hypocrisy in you people is just on another level.

And mind you, you don't need to be a sitting governor before you can contribute your quota. Obasanjo once go to Sambisa forest to dialogue with the Boko Haram guys, he has used different fora to contribute his ideas on societial issues. Even Tinubu has been using colloquium to contribute his quota.

you are just wiping up sentiment without with no substance. Whose company is collecting lekki toll gate. And who is in charge of security in a state, a civilian or the governor?

seguntijan:
As an elder stateman in Anambra, how has he helped to tackle insecurity, kidnapping?
How has he ensured peace and harmony?
Whaat has he done to IPOB menace in his state?

is he the sitting governor?

Jamesbally:
Who will vote for Peter Obi? No body

Nigerians will never vote an Igbo man

you lie. Nigerians will vote credible candidate and he fits the bill

Then what did you do about it. You went to Dubai to chill

Minjim:
A candidate like Peter Obi, right?

God bless you. A credible candidate like him. I love that gentle man with all my heart.

I will see how the core North will make him president as they did buhari prior to his alliance with the south

This is an eye opener to PDP if the cede their ticket to a northerner then they will lose into Oblivion. PDP should give their ticket to a credible candidate in the south and watch how the entire south and North Central vote them into power. They don't need the core North to win the presidency. All they need is SS, SW, SE and NC.