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Ive been day dreaming about residing at the yet to be developed Eko Atlantic City whenever its finally developed but now im having a rethink. @ ideylaff, instead of proffering solutions ure blaming the government. Is it not u and i's fore fathers, fathers, mothers e.t.c that started Nigeria and have made it the way it is?? All ure bent on doing is to apportion blame on the government and others without wanting to take responsibility for anything. U just want to sleep one fateful night to wakeup and find a new Nigeria the next morning without adding your input. What is Nation Building?? Nigeria is still at that stage and we should not rest on our oars and say Nigeria is bad, its going to get better one day? How? When all you do is blame government for the ills in the society. Yes, the government should shoulder the blame but are we going to stop there? We Nigerians should always be objective and rational in our thinking. The Nigeria that fully functions will be enjoyed by my grandchildren and im ready to take that beating for them! Americans have done that, that is why everything works there. @ ideylaff, u should be ready to do that too.

@ Cute Tj, of .cos I'm ready to play my very own part in making our society a better place.

I'm not saying the people should be absolved of the blame for this at all, im saying where is the voice of the elected government, where is the action,

1. I can tell u as a fact that I do not throw things on the road within the environment I dwell in, , my driver is not allowed to do so as well as people who hang around me.

I have bn known even to have a go @ friends for dropping cigarette buts on the road

what I just don't get is the arrogance, swagga and lack of responsibility our leaders take in doing things right,

if the train fails in the UK, as in the tube or surface trains, the right channel of complaint exist and the people responsible are always apologetic to the letter S, its always Sorry sorry sorry we will fix it, we will get it right,

I repeat, drainage system is more than just digging a 100 metre trench, where is the water.waste flowing to,

are the people responsible for building and allocation of land with reckless abandon.?

if d government leads by example, people will surely follow,

but when u allow a big man to build a big mansion on a street and don't enforce the rule that his drainage passage has to be
able to accommodate his waste,  or u make allowance for drainage up to the end of the street with no link to another channel

u are already making recipe for disaster

whose fault is that?

Tell me really with the amount of figure we float around mega projects, New Lekki Airport, can that not be channeled to alleviate this problem

if you don't learn how to crawl, why try to walk,


I bet you in a week, the government will fly in some experts on environmental issues after a 20 man visit to the country, and then some clowns will
make a banner for the seminar "HOW TO DEAL WITH FLOODING IN THE 21s CENTURY"

The commissioner will show up in agbada with the rest of the ministry people sit for 4 days at the expense of tax payers money, drink coffee and tea all day, sign some document and put it away locked up with no action.

A secondary school boy can easily come up with a solution to these never ending malaise,

I begiiiiiiiiii, we 2 dey complicate things,

I have never known/seen any country that has some much talk, seminar, road show, workshop and whatever like 9ija,

The other day I saw a week long seminar on Oil, 50 years in Nigeria, what is the meaning of this, 

maybe it should have bn tagged Oyel, A curse or what, 50 years of it in the pocket of a minorty few,

na who ask atiku

Your points are very clear never mind me with my unclear points

There is a difference between criticizing somebody to take action and just plan saying he is stuopid.

What you people have been hammering is that things are not being done because the president is stuopid. Anything that happens now is GEJ.

@Jarus,exactly my tot when I saw Dr Olagunju's name on d list.heard he's a very close pal to ibb.

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to my opinion it is another form of banking, where instead of charging interest, the people who take loans from this system share in the profits of the bank,” she said.

Would someone be kind enough to explain what Ngozi means by the statement above? How can people who obtain loans from the bank share in the bank's profits? Why should a person obtain a no-interest loan, use the money for his own benefit and then turn arround and share in the bank's profit?

I heard her make the statement on TV. My question is, was madam on Ogogoro when she made that statement?

Paralyzed by laughter @ 'Special Adviser on Ethics & Values'.

He gave the Harmonica to Genevieve

This is exactly what ARIK want to achieve in Nigeria. To divert the attention of the populace from the rot and stink in the company by bringing in Agbani. Guys, 75% of the posters are only interest in the damsel and are saying noting about the decay in ARIK airline.

abeg i wan ask isnt this same Arik that owes staffs salaries?

Let us think of it my people the solution to Nigerian problem does not need an IVY educated whiz kid. We have the polices but we lack the execution because of what? I wiill tell you my people CORRUPTION and GREED. We can bring the present IMF director or even Gordon Brown. You know what they cannot deliever at all because first we dont have a system and also there is so much graft in the system called governance in Nigeria.I listened to Okonjo Iwealla yesterday, all she said we already know them. Who does not know we need power to drive this economy, who does not know that we are running an over bloated government. Tell me who among us here does not know all these? First and foremost we need to cut the cost of this government. Look at Britain the run a parlimentary system of government and this has proved to be cost effective. Also in that same Britain the run a welfare system type of government yeah I know you will say taxes are high there but we all see what the tax money is been used for. In Nigeria there is alot of waste even in our own private homes and lives we waste alot. We dont believe in planning as a result of greed which is borne out of no one having that feeling that Nigeria must be strong. I happen to live in Douala now and it pains me when I look at the way they have light for 24/7/365 in a year. I begin to wonder these people dont have any Bath Nnaji or  Ngozi Iwealla. All we need in Nigeria is to copy the Asian system after all kalu Idika Kalu was the one who guide South Korea to what it is today through their IMF/World bank loan repayment schedule. So you see it is not a matter of having Whiz kids in government but a matter of stopping wasteages and corruption in our system. We must show we love Nigeria and want to make her great again.

@jampro123,  Well said. bro, all ds jumping up and down cos of Ngozu is like Enugu Rangers FC signing Messi to play with the rest of the half baked crooked team.

I pray she is allowed to do her work/wek, but I have my doubts

We too dey bow 4 Cambridge this, Harvard that 4 Nija, when Nigeria was running well, how many of them go these IVY league schools.

All the BRIC nations even Ghana, Dubai and co are not run by IVY league people,  we need to solve our basic problems inwards,

I have nothing againt IVY league, but our dependent on them is so embarassing,

Food 4 Thought. address The Fundermentals and the micro issue or else , na story again oooo

@ multibabe  says: she as always been a pride to African women, i just hope they(PDP) will not corrupt  and politicise her

Quote from: enyojo on Today at 06:01:22 PM

^^ I think if I get your point, you are saying that a Lionel Messi playing among Heartland FC of Owerri might not achieve much. Ko?

Something like that. Im saying if HeartlandFC have 10 other useless players, Lionel Messi being the 11th player will be a waste of money and effort. In fact if he doesn't leave early enough, people will classify at same level with the other players.

Ngozi herself knows this from first hand experience. She had to quickly resign when OBJ wanted to mess her up

so okonjo is the majic wand to all of our probmens? i laff in boko

You have spoken , bro,

President dey beg Person to come serve 4 Cabinet, are we dat desperate,

Anyway Okonjo is bn used as a tool for recognition and she herself like the role as well as has some agenda to have power 1day
she really does not know 9ija,

hmmmmm.


Please dont tell me World Bank MD is d same thing as Minister Of Finance

1 na just paper work administrative, red tape bureaucracy role and the other os Power, Influence, Political and whatever comes with the office

Okonjo sef like Politics, na only her, issshhh, please dont come back crying to daddy ooo when GEJ and his
croonies spend all the money u save them

Cut corruption and things will work, do u really need Ivy League to make that work

How many Harvard People dey 4 Dubai or Ghana to make thigs work, wey na so so Ivy League we dey chase 4 Nija

OK she will save 9ja money and the Government will spend it on themselves, abi, wetin remain,

I wish her Good luck but lets revisit this thread in a few years time, 

abeg i wan ask isnt this same Arik that owes staffs salaries?

Why is the man being congratulated for doing what should be done. It wasnt like he gave the money from his own pocket, so why is it a big deal when the man disburses government funds?

Hushh your mouth. Like I said, we are not putting a gun to your head and forcing you to praise anybody. No be by force.

There are a million and one none Fashola threads on NL, go look for one of them and ease your pain.

Btw, I didn't bother reading the rest of your rubbish so you can shove it.

The fact is, I don't see people putting a gun to your heads to praise Fashola, it's their business, not yours.

To some people like the clown you are defending, it doesn't matter what Fashola is doing or not doing, it's still about hate and tribalism.

Btw, I dn't care about your job so don't worry about me praising you, you are not the governor of Lagos state and you are yet to be elected to take care of any state and 18 million people.
Fashola ain't your mate so stop the silly analogy,Please get real
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I think it time to rename this site Fasholaland. Fashola this, Fashola that. Nna una no dey tire? Again nuff respect to his PR team. N256 million to 126 schools definitely sounds better than N2 million to each of the 126 schools.

Why is the man being congratulated for doing what should be done. It wasnt like he gave the money from his own pocket, so why is it a big deal when the man disburses government funds?

there you go, a random drunk american consular officer asked funmi a random question about working for cnn and some nairalanders nearly hung themselves defending funmi. . . . .nigerians are a joke, they will believe any sort of rubbish from these attention-seeking celebrities.

blink182, cuteobi, goosebaba, aloy/emeka, bluetooth, etc. . y'all are laboratory morons!

Didn't you read where she thought the will offer her something like a Morgans Piers/Larry King show?. Or at least use her to replace Nancy Grace in HLN?. Nancy Grace is getting too old for the screen and Funmi seems to be a right choice for now.

Stop hating please. I saw the letter of employment myself

That ship is humungous. I wonder how many metric tonnes of AGO/PMS or Bonney Light it can carry

We cannot  talk of achieving Vision 20: 20-20

These IDIOTS are still fooling us with ds vision 20:20 all over the place, Vision Ko Blindness 50:50 Ni,

u don't need an acronym to make things work, only in 9ja is everthing giving an acronym. Good punish all of them,

NB. GEJ, cut your Presidential fleet to 2, cut your cabinet of Jonzers as well and den start the pain 4rm the Presidency 1st, b4 u hit the poor man

Haba, why u wan collect from person wery nor get at all.Tsssssscheewwwwwwww.

Egbwe, Egbwe eeeee Pafuka all una heads, like Chief Zebrudaya will say.

How many home made products do they have in Aso Rock

How have they encouraged home made products, 

Even all them ppresidentialmaterial wey den take do campaign na 4rm Switzerland dem bn import am.,Tsssssscheewwwwwwww.

Awon moda f / o r k a r s, gbo gbo,