₦airaland Forum

duduspace:
With all due respect to Pool supporters, I'm taking this discussion back to the Munich thread.

for once 

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE 

typical:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/deportation-looms-for-athlete-who-won-gold-for-uk-1838759.html
But in 2007 Mr Onwubiko was sentenced to five months in prison for driving while disqualified after twice being convicted of careless driving, once after jumping a red light.

David Wood, head of criminality and detentions at the UK Border Agency, said: "In light of a number of criminal convictions, Vincent Onwubiko was notified on 13 November 2007 of a decision to make a deportation order against him.

Jarus:
@illusion2,
Na wa 4 u o. What has an innocent usé of word got to do wt religion comparison? Did I say there cannot be eleborate islamic way? Folawiyo's burial. Okoya's mother's burial etc. Never had religion comparison when i posted dat comment. U need to grow bigger than all dat, dude.

9ijaprince:
@mrcrackers: u have a bad mouth.

Nchara:
Read my posts. I have always said of (among) the states, Lagos takes the highest of the VAT money. Of course the FGN is the big brother

Also, I take it you also agree that oil-producing states should use their oil to grow their economies, right?

Nchara:
Illussion2,
VAT money is not shared equally. Lagos generates more VAT money and also gets the highest, among the states. There was (or perhaps still on) a lawsuit in which Lagos wants to get all of the VAT that comes from the state (just like the oil-producing states are asking for 100% resources control) but the feds are kicking seriously. I am asking a friend who works in the fed min of finance to get me one month's VAT disbursement data. As soon as that is available, I will post it here. I had one before but lost it when my NL-dedicated laptop crashed due to NL's virus infection
I agree that Lagos does not get back the equivalent of the VAT money it generates, but so do the oil-producing states with respect to oil from their lands.

Jarus:
It would be most surprising to learn otherwise o. Hope I'm also not wrongly presuming as I accuse many Nigerians of.

The slightest idea I have is that, he buried his mother, Oyin, in an elaborate Christian way.

ayinba1:
@Nchara,
The point is if a person does not like the taxes in Lagos, there are 49?? other states in Nigeria to try out. I live in the US, left Chicago for another state because of parking availability = parking tickets.
Again, please start a thread lauding the achievements of any of the Eastern/Southeastern state governors.

Nchara:
People,
I am 1000s of kilometers away from Lagos and Nigeria. I have no personal business in Lagos and my only relation living there is a multi millionaire who can afford any taxes even much more than the indigenous Lagosians. These Yoruba fools in here ranting about should eschew tribalism.  My bills and taxes here in the US are far more than most Lagosians can pay but heck we are talking about Naija where salaries are tragically low, on the average.

duduspace:
I don't agree with this, I believe Ngog is a serious youngster coming up bloke is just 20 and not looking out of place, don't do a disservice to your club. Atimes its better to reverse and then gain momentum to move forwards. Arsene has shown the way with blooding players early and with Pool's financial condition you might be forced to toe that path too. I think you have a good number of exciting yountsters coming up, Insua and Spearing are actually not bad and Pacheco is also interesting.

BlueDiva:
Lot's of unhappy fellas here.
Seems you lot are walking alone already, geez. . .it ain't even end of Dec yet.

Ezenwenyi:
It can make a difference if and only if we all feel free to speak the truth Like Dele Momodu just did.

davidif:
Our jersey for the 2002 World Cup was the best.

jagunlabi:
We can never be manipulated unless we allow ourselves to be.

cyriluzo:
Does anyone have an idea how one can get the country's constitution?, or at lease the second chapter.

kcng:
ATTENTION ALL! YOU SEE AT TIMES I ALWAYS FEEL NIGERIA HAS NO HOPE.THE AVERAGE NIGERIAN IS VERY DUMP AND I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY?THINGS HAVE NEVER BEEN THESE BAD
CAN ANYBODY TELL ME ANYTHING BAKARE SAID THAT IS WRONG? IF NOT THAT SOME OF YOU ARE ALREADY CITIZENS OF HELL! BY VIRTUE OF ASSOCIATION. PLEASE LEARN TO SEPRATE ISSUES FROM PERSONALTY. IF YOU DONT LIKE BAKARE NO PROBLEM,BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN WHEN YOU HEAR THE TRUTH YOU SHOULD NOT ARCKNOWLEDGE IT. PERSONALY I DONT LIKE JONATAN,BUT ITS NOT UP TO MY OPINION,BUT THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION.
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU HATE THAT MAN,HEAVEN KNOWS HE'S ONE OF THE FEW TRUE PASTORS WE HAVE IN NIGERIA. I WAS A MEMBER OF REDEEM, I LEFT BECAUSE OF THE HIGH LEVEL OF HYPOCRISY AND PERSONAL AMBITIONS OF THE LEADERSHIP. YOU SEE, TO THEM ITS NOT ABOUT GOD. ITS ABOUT BEING THE BIGEST AND THE MOST INFLUENCIAL CHURCH IN NIGERIA. ASK TONI RAPU AND ETUA EGUDALO.BUT THE MOST CORRUPT PEOPLE IN NIGERIA SIT COMFORTABLE IN THE FRONT SIT AT THE REDEMPTION CAMP WITH THEIR CHAIN OF WIFES.LOL !I PITY THAT CHURCH. YOU DARE NOT TRY IF TUNDE BAKARE'S CHURCH,ITS EITHER YOU RUN FOR YOUR LIFE OR EMBARCE DEVINE CHANGE FOR GOOD.
MY PROBLEM IS NOT REDEEM OR ITS LEADERSHIP,BUT I SEE NIGERIAN YOUTHS BEING BRAIN WASHED. I FEEL REALLY BAD ABOUT THESE. ABI THESE PASTORS DEY JAZZ NNA, IGNORANCE NO BE EXCUSE O, READ YOUR BIBLE AND OPEN YOUR MINDS TO GOD I BEG O, THIS NA END TIME OOOO.HELL NA REAL OOOO.HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

babapupa:
I don't think it makes any difference, I see Fashola enjoying another term as the Governor of Lagos State.


Eko o ni baje = Fashola. His absence = Eko ma baje and I don't think Lagosians are ready to go back to where they were a little over 2 years ago. I strongly believe they'll do anything to keep Fashola.

felele:
Fashola needs to watch his back seriously.

Having served as Tinubu's Chief of Staff, and having saved his behind from going to jail on more than one occasion, he knows where "Asiwaju"'s bodies are buried, so to speak, and therefore has the upper hand in this battle.

If the constitution is amended in time for the 2011 elections to allow independent candidates to contest, Fashola, on his current trajectory, will win in Lagos State as an independent - hands down!

If not, he can always negotiate with his friend, Jimi Agbaje and his fellow DPA members, who want nothing more than to cut "Tinubu" (also known as Amoda Ogunlere) down to size, and also stop him from milking Lagos State altogether.

His Sins:

1. Raised a N50b bond for infrastructure in Lagos state and did a good job on Lagos Island. On the mainland, all the roads except the one in Yaba by PW are sorry excuses for construction jobs and will be found out within one rainy season. Where did the N50bn go?

2. Despite the N50bn, he apparently concessioned (read sold) Lekki-Epe expressway to a private consortium, one of whose members he has a serious stake in, namely the grossly incompetent Hi-Tech construction company. Their lack of expertise is an open wound on the Lekki-Epe expressway that users of that road are bearing right now and will bear for years to come unless the "concession" is revoked on grounds of non-performance.

3. There is an allegation, which refuses to go away, that he owns a controlling interest in Alpha Beta Consulting, a company fronted by a UK returnee, which earns around N2.1b in commissions every month from all Lagos State revenue, just for printing and issuing receipts!

4. In addition to selling the Lekki-Epe Expressway to himself, he has allocated thousands of hectares of the choicest lands in the Lekki axis to companies in which he has a substantial interest, or to himself and to his wife, who, incidentally is eyeing Ganiyu Solomon's senatorial seat.

5. He controls almost all the commissioners in Fashola's cabinet, with the unsalutary scenario of him having to clear decisions made at state executive council meetings. Commissioners like Banire and Abosede Francisco (considering the Physical Planning bill he sent to the house, in which he arrogated the power of life and death in Physical Planning in Lagos State to himself as commissioner) undermine the Governor at every opportunity and slow down the pace of development in the state to sabotage Fashola's efforts to drag us into the 21st century.

6. He planted a lot of politicians in strategic civil service positions, like Gbenga Ashafa, the Lands Perm. Sec., who is constantly undermining the governor by not paying compensations to villagers for land acquired for development, and constantly carries out controversial and dodgy acquisitions, which the Governor has found himself having to repudiate, because he knew nothing about them. For clarity's sake, the Land Use act vests the power to acquire and allocate land in the person of the Governor, and not a civil servant of any kind. But if Ashafa gets the go ahead from Tinubu, he assumes God has spoken, and acts without consulting the Governor. There are many more like him planted in the service.

However, one thing he doesn't seem to realise is that Fashola has support. That support is based entirely on Fashola's work so far. We can see the difference between someone who wants to feather his own nest, and someone who actually takes pride in his work. Fashola should harbour NO FEAR, because the voice of the people is the voice of God. Ignore Tinubu and his people, and actually start weeding them out, starting with the civil service infiltrators, and then moving on to the political appointees. If they were appointed by Tinubu, no matter how much loyalty they pledge to you, WEED THEM OUT. If not, they will wait for you to turn your back and knife you whenever Tinubu tells them to.

One area you can also cut them down to size is to get your own people in the House of Assembly to pass a bill returning Lagos state to 20 local governments, and carrying out elections into all of them immediately. You have people who are ready to back you with money and sweat ALL OVER LAGOS STATE, even in Ibeju-Lekki! Just say the word, and you'll be surprised. Supplant Tinubu's boys in the LGAs and hand back their land, advertising, market, parking and sanitation revenue to them, and you'll have your own machinery in place overnight, which Tinubu's people will not understand. You must start moving NOW!!

Eko o ni baje o.

SOLID ! Enough respect at your critical analysis