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porshuch:
can you please hear yourself . It was a contest she won, she even bought the form for the contest. So she deserves her reward. Is just like you graduated from Uni and your school refused to give you your certificate, how will you feel. Pls always use your thinking brain.

Tell that to your father!

porshuch:
How can she help them raise money? Ok by doing small ashawo business for them. Don't they have sisters that they can use to raise the fund. God punish devil!

No be she wan collect brand new car and prize money? Na free?

She resigned because she wasn't given the promised car and prize money! QED. Moreso, the organization is in debt and needed her to help raise money.

echeonyilo2:
pls is uba giving out loan for this year?

What type of loan?

ricsman:
abi

Lol...you sef reason am?

irunooboo:
Jonathief goatluck egbere


Pa-shiit-ence jonathief faka


Criminal husband and wife who stole Nigeria blind

Smh

irunooboo:
Can we see proof

Can we see proof of your username?

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[quote author=maverickboy post=41933286]And what's that 'best way'?

Armsgate na

maverickboy:
What idea? to award a phony contract and divert the money to their presidential campaign?

The best way to raise campaign funds

The bible says,"you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." I have heard a lot of outpouring of emotions about the demolition of OSHODI Market by the LAGOS State Government led by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode last week. I heard Ohaneze, l heard CD South East, and l heard some Igbo groups in Lagos.

The summary is that Gov Ambode has declared war on Igbo Traders in Lagos because they did not vote for him in the last elections. Now the truth must be told: Former Governor Babatunde Fashola had planned to evacuate that market right inside the Oshodi Roundabout loop since 2007 when he came into office. The location of that market was not only an eyesore, but mindsore, mouthsore and headsore. An expert Engineer Eke, the new Controller of Works in Lagos tells me that Loops/cloverleaf are meant for drainage basins for the road and should be a green area not market. A committee was set up to plan a relocation. I was in that committee and Mr. Ben Akabueze was also in that committee. We held several meetings at Oshodi Isolo Local Govt with the market leaders. A lot of politics, mistrust, blackmail and ethnicity played itself out on where to take the market to. Govenor Fashola stopped the committee and forged ahead to secure a place at ISOPAKODOWO Market now called OSHODI Resettlement Market.

This new market has been there for years and these traders refused to relocate. Fashola left office without moving the market even though he cleared the bigger problem and the bigger mess called Oshodi. But the plan to relocate the market has been in the front burner. Ambode moved in last week to do the needful when all the avenues of dialogue which have been going on in the last 8 years failed to yield positve results.

A similar case happened in Berger Auto dealers Market. For 8 years Governor Fashola also tried to move that market to Mowo near Badagry but the traders resisted it with every energy at their disposal. At a time an Igbo Patriot Engineer Mgbemena, a former Federal Cotroller of Works in Lagos offered to help broker the deal . Everything was going fine until one of the dealers headed to Court to secure an injunction to stop the relocation. Out of annoyance Governor Fashola said he will wait for the courts to decide knowing fully well that Berger Auto Market remains a bad advertisement on the way we do business . Businesses like that are not done on the highways anywhere in the world. I was in a meeting where Engr. Mgbemena was apologizing to the governor for the misconduct of the Autor dealers in resisting change in a dynamic society like Lagos. He asked the Governor to give him another chance but did he succeed ? The rest is now history.

Now enter Ladipo Market in Mushin Local Government area and the leadership of Ladipo Market Traders Association have agreed few years back to rebuild the market. They agreed they will do it in batches to minimize loses. A date was set aside for the construction to start but the traders were not ready to move. On a certain day the Contractor who incidentally is an Igbo young man moved in with his equipment and hell was le loose. He was losing money on borrowed funds. Ohaneze Ndigbo Lagos went to town to address a press conference that Igbo Traders are being intimidated by the government of Lagos State as a result of fallout of 2015 elections. Before you know it other Igbo groups went to town with their defeatist attitude. Myself and other members of The Igbo Conscience ( TIC) called a meeting with all the stakeholders. All the leaders of the Markets were there including the leadership of the Mushin LGA Led by the Executive Secretary and the Contractors. After weeks of high level engagements we set October 1st as the D day. The rest is now history. Go to Ladipo Market and see the modern Market standing like colossus with all the trappings of good thinking and good result. Commonsense, even though it is not common, worked. Intervention worked. Sound reasoning worked. Spirit of give and take worked.

Now our people must hear this: Lagos State government I know is working hard to change the face of Lagos and we must not resist change because the change is for the good of all and sundry. We must be wise enough to know when to shift ground for the good of the commonwealth. Defeatist attitude and persecution complex is not the way to go at a time like this. Igbo leaders in Lagos must help our traders to respect constituted authority in their own interest . I have lived in Lagos for close to 35 years and I serve the Lagos State Government . I know enough to realize that our people must change their attitude to live in peace with other Nigerians. I rest my case.


Joe igbokwe

Lagos

http://saharareporters.com/2016/01/13/truth-about-demolition-owonifari-market-oshodi-lagos-joe-igbokwe

Cc: lalasticlala mynd44

Where is lalasticlala sef? or na mynd44?

bokohalal:
I have never hated anyone in my whole life but Goodluck Jonathan. I tried not to but did not succeed. Everything about him never really got on with me.

Considering recent revelations, one can't really blame you for how you feel about him.

maverickboy:
I quite agree with this writer... Dasuki was only acting as ordered. Meanwhile, aima ise ko omo'rogun, lomu koribo omi gbigbona.
It serves dasuki well well.

Before this month runs out, Badluck Jonathon and Devilwill emefiele must be called to come and 'talk their own'.

I disagree Dasuki was "only" acting as ordered. At best, he is an accomplice! A willing tool. In fact, I believe the idea was his. He sold the idea to the then Head of State, who saw how brilliant it was, and obliged.

I could be wrong though.

BY EMMANUEL UCHENNA UGWU; JAN 12, 2016

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is Africa’s most eligible war criminal. There are twenty thousand reasons why he merits the dubious honor. And those twenty thousand reasons represent the twenty thousand human deaths he caused as a sanguinary Commander-in-Chief.
The Nigerian media casts Jonathan’s National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, as the linchpin of the plunder of $ 2.1 billion meant to fund Nigeria’s battle against Boko Haram, the cruelest terror group in the world. They call the story of the bloody fraud, “Dasukigate’’, because Dasuki is the apparent central character. Dasuki is the omnipresent factor and actor in all the narratives of beneficiaries of the loot. They reference him as the one who handed them their share.
But if we insist that we know no indigenous way of characterizing a scandal other than append an exotic ‘’gate’’ to the name of its local author, then we might as well give precision to the naming, and reflect the unvarnished truth reality unfurling before us. I mean, if we have bound ourselves to a `taxonomic code that says that every made-in-Nigeria scam must bear the suffix of the surname of the protagonist, then ‘’Dasukigate’’ is an error. It is ‘’Jonathangate’’!
Dasuki’s fabled culpability in the arms scam does not extend beyond a compliant errand boy’s service to his master. Dasuki was a puppet of his principal, Jonathan. All Dasuki did, he did on behalf of Jonathan. Dasuki is the face of the scam because Jonathan was just too restrained by the strictures of his position to personally distribute the blood money among his partymen.
Olisa Metu, the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, would even admit that President Jonathan, at some point of desperation, went out of his way to bribe him, hand to hand!
Leading Nigerian newspapers had reported that, in the build up to the 2015 general elections, Jonathan during his tour of the South West of Nigeria, distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars cash to traditional rulers to buy their support.
These monies, we now know, came from a defense budget Jonathan converted to his pocket money!
The ''gate'' ascribed to Dasuki is Jonathan’s. The closest Dasuki came to owning to the fabled ‘’gate’’ was manning it. Dasuki was no more than the gatekeeper. Dasuki passed people through the ‘’gate’’. He vetted and screened the old men and party chieftains who must partake of the spoils.
Dasuki appears to be the owner of the ‘’gate’’ because Jonathan, the real proprietor, had trusted him, positioned him, and vested him with the carte blanche to loot on Jonathan’s behalf and share in Jonathan’s name.
We know this. We know this for sure that neither Dasuki nor any person in government could have undertaken to make sports of raping the national treasury and stealing the money earmarked from rescuing Nigerian from existential threat without the say-so and support of the head of state. We know this. The facts assail us and overwhelm us.
But there is some kind of conspiracy to exempt Jonathan from a story that is distinctly his and transfer his culpability to Dasuki, a less significant character. Those who believe Jonathan’s dignity must be preserved seek to make Dasuki the chief villain. To achieve this, they are subliminally projecting Dasuki as the overseer of the fraud that begat 20,000 deaths and Jonathan as the aloof bystander, located on the outermost fringe of the scam!
Their mention of Jonathan in this saga tends to slip through the cracks of hesitation. And when it escapes, a tone of reverence is sent after the embarrassing audacity. A tone of respect that apologizes for not bowing too low to the presumptively iconic Jonathan.
The NGO, Socio-Economic Rights Accountability Project (SERAP), the other day, sent Jonathan an open letter that hewed to this tenor of adoration. The letter, in summary, was a list of rhetorical questions. It was a fawning appeal to Jonathan to deny ever having the faintest idea that Nigeria’s defense budget was being diverted to his political campaign. It was a suggestion that he pleads that he was physically absent from his own presidency!
I imagine that Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, also deserve the same level of courtesy. Shekau, after all, derived his powers from Jonathan. Jonathan stripped Nigerian troops and Shekau preyed on their unclothedness.
Jonathan and Shekau collaborated as if the Commander-in-Chief and the Terrorist-in-Chief were subscribed to a mutually-agreed, joint agenda. They complemented each other. Jonathan disarmed Nigerian soldiers and Shekau killed them!
The media and the commentariat are overly solicitous to Jonathan. That's why they flinch from according Jonathan the place of place in the arms scam. They do not want to expose him to disgrace by highlighting his role. They believe that he deserves to be excused from his mess.
Most of them reckon that Jonathan has earned pardon for all his transgressions he may have committed as President. Jonathan conceded defeat in the last general elections and handed over power to his rival, Muhammadu Buhari. Jonathan saved Nigeria, their thinking goes, from a civil war, by exiting Aso rock quietly. They deem him to have qualified for eternal respect because he did not resist the electorate’s sack.
This faux obligation to honor Jonathan explains why many Nigerian newspapers named him MAN OF THE YEAR 2015. The presumed peaceable man saved his country and its people from bloodshed.
But the trophy they carved for Jonathan, however, happened to sit, rather awkwardly, besides the growing preponderance of evidence that Jonathan had actually shed the blood of no less than 20,000 human beings to win re-election.
The stream of confessions that has been flowing since the arrest of Dasuki has established that Jonathan is nowhere as qualified to be a Nobel Prize Winner for Peace –like his most imaginative supporters propose –as he is due for a trial for crime against humanity at The Hague.
It is now beyond doubt that Jonathan betrayed Nigeria he had the responsibility of governing. He violated the oath he swore to protect the lives and property of the Nigerian people. Jonathan authorized the stealing of Nigerian’s defense budget. He reduced his own country's military to a mockery in wartime.
Jonathan was a charlatan. He personified the very abuse of the word, ‘leader’. Worse, he was a misanthrope!
While he actively disarmed Nigerian troops and diverted the resources covenanted to the prosecution of the war on terror, he played the hypocrite. He affected to be saddened by reports of new death tolls and loss of territory Boko Haram was scoring against the Nigerian state. At the occurrence of every new terror attack, he had his spokesman, Reuben Abati, issue a vacuous press statement that expressed President Jonathan’s profound grief on learning of the latest ‘’cowardly’’ act of the murders. Those statements ended with Jonathan vowing ‘’to bring the perpetrators of the dastardly act to book’’!
We know now that Jonathan advantaged the terrorists against Nigerian troops. We now know that the guardian of the Nigerian state sided with killers of Nigerian people. We know now that Jonathan backed the terrorists to kill Nigerians to their heart’s content.
Jonathan did not see the war as a humanitarian tragedy that should be abbreviated. He saw the war as a business opportunity that should be prolonged. He saw the war as an opportunity to make and share blood money!
This Commander-in-Chief had famished Nigerian soldiers deployed to the front lines with a ration of 30 bullets! The soldiers faced a better armed band of insurgents. They faced the threat of certain death when they ran out of bullets.
While some soldiers died, others took flight –and got death sentence for ‘’mutiny’’. And the unchallenged terrorists overran scores of villages, annihilating women and children, and leaving a scorched earth behind.
The lucky survivors are the 2 million internally displaced persons scattered in many camps around Nigeria.
Even if Nigerian laws legitimize aiding and abetting mass murder, Jonathan’s own words condemn him.
Apart from quotes like ‘’I had no shoes’’, ‘’Stealing is not corruption’’, ‘’I don’t give a damn’’…about assets declaration, his most celebrated public statement is, ‘’My ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian’’.
Jonathan poured the blood of 20,000 Nigerians as libation to his second term ambition. He failed his own standards. And he must be held to account.
The words of Jonathan’s wife also condemn him.
Days after Boko Haram invaded a school in Chibok and abducted 200 girls, Patience Jonathan (the self-styled Mama Peace) wept as she admonished the terrorists, “All this blood you are sharing…There is God o!’’.
What we have learned so far that Goodluck, his husband, was as malevolent as the terrorists. He ‘’shared’’ innocent blood in concert with Boko Haram.
With 20, 000 human deaths to his credit, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has a pair of blood-soaked hands that will turn any river red. That’s why he should be shipped off to International Criminal Court!

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2016/01/12/twenty-thousand-reasons-why-goodluck-jonathan-war-criminal-emmanuel-uchenna-ugwu

Have Dino and his co-travellers found the missing 2016 budget yet?

No way the picture used here is Iga Iduganran! This is Oniru's Palace. Kindly therefore replace as appropriate.

Nice thread by the way! Eko o ni baje ooo...

YorubaParapo:
Iga Idungaran (Oba’s Palace)
The palatial residence of the local monarch, the Oba of Lagos. Located to the North of Lagos Island, on Upper King Street, this magnificent building dates back to 300 years ago. Iga Idungaran is the Oba’s Palace for Lagos Monarch. The newly renovated palace combine modern architectural show piece and acient Yoruba artifacts. Historic moments and monuments of Lagos tradition is available at the palace. Iga Idungaran is one of the most important historical sites in Lagos and is the official residence for the Oba of Lagos. An important part of the structure was built by the Portuguese in 1705. The building has been expanded and renovated in stages to keep it in good condition. Tourists who want to explore the palace can ask the Secretary of the Oba of Lagos for permission.

https://www.dasiko.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Iga-Idungaran-Palace-Lagos.jpg

Which road be Karim Imogen for VI again? Abi na Karimu Kotun you wan type

It's been there for a while. It was recovered from Seawolf by First Bank through AMCON, and dumped in the sea (opposite First Bank's Head Office) in Marina.

See gobe! Eko o ni baje o...

Source please?

What an excuse! Death of a relative

pneumaticos:
Ogbomoso is in oyo state ,hence we can say op is still in line

So, by your reasoning, Ogbomosho is in Ibadan city?

What is the title of the thread again, please?

LilSmith55:
That's a lie, that Round Shaped Stucture is Located in Iwo Road...

Iwo Road ko, Odo Oba Road ni! That round-shaped structure, I insist, is the Senate Building of my alma mater, LAUTECH in Ogbomosho, and was built circa 2002. Fact!

adioolayi:
All the pictures there are IB City...If you don't know them, then you don't know IBADAN

I know for a fact that the round-shaped structure in one of the pictures is the Senate Building in LAUTECH, Ogbomosho.

Cc: Aigbofa

Illiterates everywhere!

Money certainly can't buy class. Fact!

fyneguy:
Why is Amaechi staring at the Finance Minister?

As in...I think say na only me see am oh!

obailala:
I swear..

My finger got tired while scrolling down to see where it ends. And then I saw Cont'd

Na tv series

egift:
I believe it is more of a work in Progress. He should have waited for things to be finalized and announced before discussing it.

If I were him, both in Ph and Kd, I would have simply said "the FG is reviewing the issues and policies on Pump price and Subsidy". Or better still keep mute and comment only on matters regarding the refineries and aim of the Federal Govt to spur up local production to meet the demands.

That would have saved him many explanations.

He was certainly testing the waters.

realborn:
The summary:

Kachikwu is the master of "obfuscation".

Saw the word in quote a dozen tyms.

TonyeBarcanista:
See setup

Like the guy rightly said, please read and summarise for them!

You can still read it, all you need do is take your time. Don't be in a hurry.

TonyeBarcanista:
I love to read but this one long o