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My Nass Eggon Guys. Casnboh!!! So they used ayeta on the police, according to the explanation here, the bullet yeta back to the police officers shooting sporadically

♪♫ Cashbo le juma le le, Eh Eh! x2
A susa mata x2 ♫♪♫

Nass Eggon!!

how do i explain this without sounding like a sexist?

pro01: This is unbelievable. . .well, almost. When you give insensitive and wicked people an inch, they take a mile. When you offer a mouse a cookie, it asks for a glass of milk in addition. When some of us were vehemently protesting the ban of Okadas, we knew that the intent behind it was malicious, and that the malice behind that decision stemmed from contempt for the masses. . .contempt that would find more and more means of expression. Now, here we are: the Keke Napep that was touted as a viable alternative to Okada (even by the conceited bumpkins that were defending Fashola's obnoxious policy) has now been banned. What next?

How daft can the Opeifa dude be to be talking about BRTs and buses. Would BRTs and buses ply inner city streets (e.g. around GRA Ikeja or Ikoyi)? Would BRTs ply the all-important narrow connecting routes that link major access ways? If the only pragmatic alternative is taxi, how affordable are taxis for the ordinary people toiling for their daily living, the overwhelming population of whom are dirt-poor?

Well, I can't cry more than the bereaved. "Internet activism" can only achieve so much. The masses would have to rise up and take matters into their own hands, preferably with bloodthirsty zeal. War has been declared, and all is fair in war. There is no time for niceties. If they know what is good for them, they would launch a massive revolt that would consume these bloody elitists and their smug families and cronies. 2015 is simply too long. The time is now.

Come off it please, you live in GRA and you can't afford to pay your taxi fare? Okada/Napep have not been banned in places where the masses live and work. Okada/Napep are not viable means of transportation if we truly want to develop. So, we should not move forward because someone depends on Okada for a living. it is the government and the people in it that worries you not the policy. being emotional and ish, its irritating.

j4jj: The LASG should go ahead with the implementation of banning tricycles from roads if and only if his not bringing in its own new vehicles (tricycles). At d end of d day d revenue generated goes back to govt purse where they eventually misuse it.

Lagos State in itself now is a "company" that makes profit from its people. Hence should pay tax!!! Lagos State shey u dey pay ur tax becos me I dey pay my tax o!

Every successful Country/State/LGA is operated or should be managed like a company. Barack Obama is a registered company, wait let me check my archive.

Libkid: yet it is bin used as a means of transport.fashola should'nt bite d finger dat feed him

as you can see from the picture. it looks like an Abule/Aba AKA Village, not a city. But wait, this is what you want Lagos to be like. Iro le pa! God pass una!

Libkid: We want to be lyk d western country yet them stil use dis as a means of transport#smh 4 fashola

Ope! This is either Indonesia or The Philippines.

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Exponental: U dont cut off d head cos of headache........ Fashola is avoiding solutions, but choosing excuses.

Really? avoiding solutions but choosing excuses. Na Lagos state born them? stopping them from plying major highways is not enough solution?

Acidosis: wow

Next na to ban cars with manual gear cos they are prone to accidents and theft


Car owners take note, or better still start saving for helicopters


Eko o ni baje o

Ogbeni, lo fi ori lugi! Para e! As the commissioner said, an alternative has been provided, BRT.

No

Seun: Definition of STRIKE DOWN
3. To render ineffective; cancel: The court struck down the law.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/strike+down

Did anyone notice when the host went ballistic for no reason on Professor Soyinka? She was like "i also have a literature degree". WTF

Seun: My Fellow Nairaland Members,

Rule 17 is the most controversial rule because it sounds unfair. My fellow moderators have debated this rule at length and it could not be changed. We cannot extend the prohibition against offence to other religions because that limits your freedom of speech, and we cannot remove that rule without jeopardizing security and the safety of lives. Sorry about this.

Best regards,
Seun Osewa.

Are you kidding?

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Scape Goat

Reno Omokri was irked by what he read about the performance of his Oga at the top published yesterday by The Guardian UK (Goodluck Jonathan's Report Card for Nigeria? Must Try Harder - Remi Adekoya). So he responds and he argues strongly. Maybe the President has had too much bad press, that's why his efforts are not being seen or appreciated, but i think this is the paragraph that must have enraged Mr.Omokri. A direct threat to his plate of rice.

"It's no easy job running a country that is half-Christian, half-Muslim, underdeveloped and home to some 250 ethnic groups. Some say Jonathan is too weak for the job. But you don't have to be a great man to be a great president, as long as you are clever enough to you surround yourself with wise advisers, possess the intelligence to process information and have a steadfast desire to improve things for your people."

Omokri's response

I just read Mr. Remi Adekoya's piece in the Guardian of the U.K. entitled ‘Goodluck Jonathan's report card for Nigeria? Must try harder’ in which he praised President Jonathan for a booming economy but came down hard on him for failing to help Nigeria's poor. When Adekoya says "Infrastructure also remains a problem. Without a modern road network, doing business in Nigeria will remain prohibitively expensive and logistically challenging", he betrays a surface understanding of recent events in Nigeria. For example, before the Jonathan administration if you wanted to travel from Lagos to Kano you had two choices, you either went by road or by air. Today, under President Jonathan’s direction, Nigeria's railways have been revived and a traveler planning the same journey has a third alternative. He can travel from Lagos to Kano by rail at a cost of 1500 Naira which is less than $10. It is rather surprising that Mr. Adekoya did not reflect this major development in his piece especially when you consider that Nigeria's rail revival miracle has received praise from some of the major newspapers and magazines in the West. Jon Gambrell of the Associated Press had a string of highly syndicated photos recording this feat. But when you think of it, it is hard for someone reviewing Nigeria's progress from the United Kingdom to have first hand information.

Besides, what does Mr. Adekoya consider a "modern road network"? Under this administration, previously abandoned road projects have been completed. The previously notorious Lagos-Ore-Benin motorway has been repaired and I personally supplied photographic evidence of that feat on Social Media as well as highlighted testimonials from Nigerians testifying to a reduced travel time from Lagos to Benin since the repairs. In the Federal Capital Territory, Nigerians are now calling the new Kubwa Express-way our own version of Germany's autobahn I lived in England for a while and I know the state of its roads and I dare say that Mr. Adekoya would wish he had a fast car when he sees this new road that connects the business and commercial districts of Abuja to some of its satellite towns.

In his budget speech, the President listed major roads that have been completed and many that are ongoing. Some major road projects that have been rehabilitated and completed include the Vom-Machom road in Plateau State, the Gombe-Numan-Yoka road, Kano-Daura-Mai Adua road, Aba-Owerri road, Dualization of the Access road to Onne Port in River state and the Ijebu Igbo-Ajegunle-Araromi-Ife-Sekona road in Ogun state. But perhaps the greatest testimonial to the administration’s efforts in roads comes from an advert from the privately owned luxury bus operator, ABC Transport, which reads 'The Roads are Getting Better’. This is from an end user of the product. Those words carry more weight than the words of a pundit who writes about Nigeria from the comforts of London.
Still on infrastructure, Mr. Adekoya forgot to tell his British audience that while it may be true that Nigeria still does not generate enough electricity for its population, the Jonathan administration has nonetheless increased generation from the 2800 MWs it met on ground to the present 4500 MWs Nigeria generates today a 35% improvement. But that is not even the main story. This administration has kept faith with the Roadmap to Power Sector Reforms that the President launched on August 22nd 2010 which in summary charted a course for the privatization of the nation's power sector.

In keeping with that Roadmap, Nigeria has successfully privatized many of her power generation stations and on April 22nd this year a Presidential Power Reform Transactions Signing Ceremony was held at the Presidential Villa where the five power generation companies that emerged successful in the bidding process of the privatization of the sector received their certificates. But certainly Mr. Adekoya could not have failed to take note of the praises the power privatization process received worldwide. It was remarkably transparent which is a departure from the past and signals that Nigeria is a safe place to invest which is no surprise given that even the Prime Minister of The United Kingdom, David Cameron, himself led a trade delegation of some of Britain's top businesses to Nigeria and on return said "We've been hearing about China and India for years but it’s hard to believe what’s happening in Brazil, in Indonesia, in Nigeria". Mr. Cameron certainly knows a great deal more about Nigeria under President Jonathan than Mr. Adekoya does!

And then Mr. Adekoya goes on to say "Education is particularly problematic: tens of millions of Nigerians are illiterate. Most cannot afford an education: without government assistance, thus far feeble, they will remain intellectual invalids."Really Mr. Adekoya! Are you talking about the same Nigeria where President Jonathan initiated a programme to provide 400 schools for itinerant scholars in Northern Nigeria known as Almajiri? The President commissioned the first of these schools on the 10th of April 2012 with almost a 100 completed in 2012. The administration has also increased the number of Federal universities in Nigeria by 12 as well as completed hundreds of blocks of classrooms in 15 states as part of efforts to meet her Millennium Development Goals.
But the cherry on the education cake is that there has been a 15% increase in pass rates in School Leaving examinations in Nigeria in 2012 when compared to the 2011 season an indication that the government's efforts are succeeding.

And then Mr. Adekoya thoroughly pooh-poohed our health sector which I will admit still needs a lot of improvement, but he did not note the improvements which the Jonathan administration made to what it met on the ground. For instance, this administration established a National Trauma Center in the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital and the National Hospital Abuja. Mr. Adekoya failed to note recent feats in Nigeria's health sector such as the commencement of Stem Cell Transplant for sickle cell patients at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital and the Introduction of Laser Treatment of Kidney Stones at Chivar Urological Center, Abuja.

Adekoya may wish to note that Nigeria’s Life Expectancy increased from 47 years to 51 years according to the 2011 Human Development Index of the United Nations. That represented the highest increase for Nigeria since records were kept. If anything puts to lie Adekoya’s assertions on minimal improvements in Nigeria’s health sector under President Jonathan certainly it is this fact. And then Adekoya’s poison pen wrote that “On security, Jonathan has dithered. Boko Haram, the Islamist terrorist group, has killed thousands on his watch, while he seems unsure whether to use crushing force or grant "amnesty". It may interest Mr. Adekoya to get the recent statement released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,(OHCHR), which praised President Jonathan for considering amnesty for Boko Haram. Yes, it is easy for Adekoya to sit down in London and pontificate, but if he were to see firsthand the sufferings our brothers and sisters in the North face as a result of this sect he would understand that discretion is the better part of valour. After all, the government of the United Kingdom which almost lost its entire cabinet to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Brighton Bomb incidence of 1984 eventually chose to negotiate with them and today there is peace. All the guns and bombs of the British Army could not defeat the IRA as much as diplomacy and negotiation. Is Adekoya saying that it is good for the U.K. but not for Nigeria?What I will just say to Mr. Adekoya is that nation's progress over time and not over night and it betrays a lack of understanding of Nigeria's past and how far we have come to score President Jonathan poorly in meeting the needs of the poor. It is not for nothing that Henry Bellingham, a Member of Parliament as well as a member of Mr. Cameron's administration said "Nigeria is the world's fourth fastest growing economy". You don't achieve that level of economic progress if you have not made reasonable efforts to better the lot of the masses whose productivity is the reason for such a phenomenal growth! Thankfully David Cameron gets it and I for one am so glad that he is in charge of affairs in the United Kingdom and certainly won't fall for the very pedestrian analysis that Mr. Adekoya Adekoya tries to pass off to his British audience as in-depth.

http://www.thescoopng.com/reno-omokri-president-jonathan-deserves-a-pass-mark-as-david-cameron-observed/
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awodman: I sincerely hope this talks will bring fruitful results..like Toyota and Nissan coming to set up plants here and MTN improving their network..

Na SA get Toyota and Nissan?

Bryancrox: Why he be say any GEJ thread dey make frontpage? GEJ haters eat a DI*KK

I think this article is more of give him a break, he is doing his best. read it.

[quote author=touch_me_hard]Lol. Desperate measures for Remi Adekoya to be heard. We know tha GEJ as achieved far more than his predecessors in all these sectors mentioned here.
Try something else Abeg.[/quote]Bro there is nothing malicious about this article. Yimu at the bolded.

Remi Adekoya, a columist at the Guardian and politics editor of Warsaw Business journal. Here is his piece on the C-in-C Goodluck Jonathan's performance thus far. Honest and makes sense. Love it.

Nigerians had no rational reason to believe their lives would improve after Goodluck Jonathan became president three years ago this week. The list of promises their rulers have broken is so long it would make a virgin cynical. But then Nigerians can be stubbornly optimistic.

When Jonathan first appeared on the political scene in 2007, when Nigeria's then president, Olusegun Obasanjo, announced him as the running-mate of his party's next presidential candidate, Musa Yar'Adua, many mythologised the good fortune that seemed linked to Jonathan's first name. And so, when Yar'Adua died in 2010 from heart disease and Jonathan was handed the most coveted job in Nigeria, many voters believed good luck had come to Nigeria. Were they right?

Nigeria's economy has averaged an impressive 7% annual growth since 2010. Fiscal policy is responsible. The country has a debt-to-GDP ratio of roughly 18% and a budget deficit of under 3%, levels Europe would be delighted with today. This is largely thanks to finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former World Bank managing director. But Jonathan deserves praise for not interfering.

Still, his end-of-year report is not spotless. While the economy is booming, precious little wealth trickles down to the poor. Jonathan must be more energetic about changing that. The electricity supply is erratic, so businesses and individuals spend fortunes on generators and diesel. This in one of the world's biggest oil exporters. Things have improved since 2010, but far too tepidly: Jonathan only gets a C minus.

Infrastructure also remains a problem. Without a modern road network, doing business in Nigeria will remain prohibitively expensive and logistically challenging. Nigeria is a federation: individual states play a big role here. In the richer, well-governed states such as Lagos, where the commercial capital city is located, progress is visible. But Jonathan needs to do more to facilitate modernism in poorer states: he gets a C.

On healthcare, Jonathan gets an F. If a Nigerian gets cancer today and can't afford private treatment, he will die. Even obtaining aspirin in a public hospital can prove impossible.

Education is particularly problematic: tens of millions of Nigerians are illiterate. Most cannot afford an education: without government assistance, thus far feeble, they will remain intellectual invalids. Nigeria's rulers need to understand that a country is not respected because of the number of oil barrels it sells, but because of the quality of citizen it produces: F.

Jonathan's record on corruption is a disgrace. A recent report from the US State Department was spot on when it cited "massive, widespread, and pervasive corruption affecting all levels of government".

Asked to disclose his assets, the man whose parents couldn't afford shoes refused. For emphasis, he said he "doesn't give a damn" what anybody thinks about it. The Council of States, led by Jonathan, meanwhile pardoned his former boss, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, who had been convicted of money-laundering.

On security, Jonathan has dithered. Boko Haram, the Islamist terrorist group, has killed thousands on his watch, while he seems unsure whether to use crushing force or grant "amnesty" (read: bribes), as he has offered. Boko Haram laughed in his face. It is Jonathan's government that should plead for amnesty, it has suggested.

In a country where the rule of law remains a dream, Jonathan's message is terrible: he is, in effect, saying: "Prove to us you are strong enough to make our lives difficult and we'll give you a share of the pie." How can a president expect loyalty from his citizens if he appears to lack the power to protect them?

It's no easy job running a country that is half-Christian, half-Muslim, underdeveloped and home to some 250 ethnic groups. Some say Jonathan is too weak for the job. But you don't have to be a great man to be a great president, as long as you are clever enough to you surround yourself with wise advisers, possess the intelligence to process information and have a steadfast desire to improve things for your people.

I personally don't deny that Jonathan has some good intentions. But he is hostage to the powerful interests that catapulted him to the top. Ultimately though, he is Mr President, which gives him some pretty sharp fangs. If he wants to be remembered fondly, he should start baring those fangs in the interest of his people. Otherwise, he might as well call it quits in 2015, and spare us a second term. Nigeria has a lot of catching up to do. There is no time to waste.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/07/goodluck-jonathan-nigeria

Pk001: I don't think is a bullshid thread, because if you could recall the way thisday chairman was painted an unpatriotic Nigerian simply for allowing American anthem to be sang first, you will know that Nigerians need to learn.

they called him every name possible.

azpekuliar: Reminds of me of this vid!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeA7OOBhlDk

Can hardly fault any thing he said.

You can hardly fault anything this self hating right-wing negro says?

How many days did it take the emergency response organizations to respond to Katrina?

What are the cultural/political similarities the African/African-American have in common with the Japanese. America operates a me myself alone capitalist society littered with guns and the ideology manifested during the Katrina disaster when the area was ignored for days.

Did the people in potion of power, who had the resources to help, dispatch help when it was needed? Were they African?

The Japanese have had experience dealing with major disasters. e.g Atom Bomb.

What demographic similarity do Katrina and Japanese victims have in common? What is the average age of Japanese victims we saw on TV and those of Katrina and Haiti?

What educational qualifications do these victims have? Mind you, Education does not have to be in English.

Why didn't the Melayus and Thais(Thailand and Indonesia) loot their countries after the tsunami? There is no sense/history of injustice and discrimination, and these are countries made up of single races.

Didn't Caucasians eat/cannibalise each other during the siege of Stalingrad and other battles?

This guy is a deluded self hating bastard. It is him and his family that have a god problem

Iru

hammedkola: Whats the title of the movie where this music was played?

The Narrow Path

love this image

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So, they had this but allowed Salisu below to die in vain.

https://static0.demotix.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/a_scale_large/2000-2/photos/1367296924-nigeria-police-force-performs-ceremonial-parade-to-mark-police-week_2006092.jpg

The brave Salisu
https://www.newsrescue.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/detonating-bomb.jpg

He should seek Amnesty. O ga o

I think i was knocked down by a vehicle as seen from the dent. but why is it left there to rust away.

https://saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/photo_images/Apr/camera%20d.jpg?1367263196

Ray-J said the song is not about Kim Kardashian, look at the model he featured in his 'I Hit First' Video. Lmao

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On a daily basis, hundreds of Abia government officials commute through this road, but it is striking to note that the same officials actively connive to ensure the state of the road remains same as a guarantee for lining up their pockets - the failure of leadership and governance.[/quote]This road has been fixed. I can't remember where but someone posted a recent picture.

Nonybb: Ppl always complain that they got HIV infection but they never mention how they got it. Where it is easy gotten? Lessons to be learnt, and stuffs like that. Thats why so many others kept contacting it without learning frm ppl who already have it. Some says its ppl who normal goes to night club, others says its ppl who normal sleep with ashawo. Pls tell us plainly, where did u got ur own

Were you a commercial sex worker? No offence intended. Just wanted to know how you contracted the disease.., once known only then we'll be able to offer possible solutions..

Please be mindful, it's not the end of the world. Best wishes..

Nairaland's Oponu index is at a all time high

[quote author=Alyricist★Laura]Op Hiv testing is a Sham..

If you have used the Toxic Medications prior to ever seeing a Rash or Wounds....then chances are they were formed from Toxic Medications you previously Used.

Steer Clear of Injections Directly to your Blood Stream and Radical Cancer Causing Toxic Medicines.

There is no Such Thing as "Hiv"...Only Aids.

And if you have Aids, it was probably injected directly into your bloodstream, Via Government Administered "Vaccinations" of some sort.[/quote]Lobatan