Permit me to bring another angle to this issue. As long as Nigeria refuses to let the best hands run every sensitive position in the country and instead continues to promote mediocrity there will never be change. Did you watch the US presidential debate held last nite/early this morning? Those were 2 highly intelligent men talking about issues that concern Americans. Just try and imagine GEJ in such a debate, lol. It is also a known fact that there are people in the national assembly who can even write their names.
So the question I ask is how do you expect Nigeria to make any form of progress with these kind of people? Believe me, you can't make intelligent progress with unintelligent people.

To even think that people still fall for the 'God told me to marry you' line is amazing.
Na wa o!

Way to go Prof., way to go!

I was there with her all through when she brought my bundle of joy into the world. I was the one who cut the umbilical cord sef. It is something I personally think every man should experience as it helps you to appreciate your wife even more.
I must mention here that, experiencing the difficulty of pregnancy and then the labour pains and finally child birth made me understand why a mother can genuinely curse her child and the curse will have a real effect.

I am involved in the oil and gas industry but all the same, make the oil finish so that we can all go back to the basics and start to use our ingenuity or develop our other God-given resources properly to survive.

hmmmmm..........

Would it be possible to roundup all the boko boys and their supporters in maiduguri and its environs and send them to Calabar to watch those Calabar chics dress in their skimpy carnival wears?

Maybe the backside shaking of Niki Minaj and the calabar chics would be the ultimate icing on the cake for their entertainment.

Just thinking aloud

hmmmmmm...........

@Op has created a topic that has definitely kept the younger ones out, too bad.
I still remember most of these programmes like they were yesterday. They held little minds like me then spell bound.
But those any one remember, especially if you grew up in Northern Nigeria, 'Magana Ja Riche ' (hope I spelt it right)?
It's a series of a bird that tells a story to a man. If I recall correctly too, it won National honours back then.
Man, those were the good old days

Sisi_Kill: Someone took a stance against something wrong and got it righted. . .and he is being insulted??!!

I give up, I'll never understand y'all.

Don't be bothered my sista. Why do you think they say common sense is not common at all.

Why are guys spewing trash here? Omojuwa lost his ipad on an arik flight. He was initially told by the airline staff that it was placed back in his bag but they later changed their stance saying it they couldnt find it. So he took the fight to them electronically.
My point exactly is that if a few days after blacklisting him, they have called for a truce and bought him a new ipad it tells you they feel somewhat liable and that it would have simply been better to just settle him.
It simply means he won. He took on a big establishment as Arik and won.
So kudos to him.

He needs Jesus!!!

@Callotti unfortunately there are many others who are still left in Nigeria that we must worry about. Not to mention the fact that Nigeria is our own and we want to see it progress.
So worry we must! I believe bringing the details as seen in this article up for discussion will enable us understand and convince the north that the bulk falls on their table to correct the mess they and we are in.

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Please read the article below and tell me if you agree.
For me I am in absolute agreement with the writer and also because of my personal experience growing up in the North.
So do you agree?

The Politics of Oil Blocks and the Northern Elites (2)
Published on March 14, 2012 by By ROSS ALABO-GEORGE

I agree the North is poor. Yes, I agree the poverty has bred millions of destitutes, who have become instant and easy recruits for Boko Haram. But my question is: Who impoverished the North?
A caveat: I am an unabashed capitalist who believes that every citizen has a right to do good business and make profit. I salute hard work and do not disparage honest efforts. However, uncompassionate capitalism driven by pulleys of aristocracy breeds a brutal class order worthy of condemnation.
In my last article titled – “Elrufai’s amnesia: The day Boko Haram Wore Jeans”, I categorically stated that greed and the senseless chase for power by the Fulani aristocrats and political elites of the North are responsible for the extreme poverty of the North. I still and will always stand by that. My position did not go down well with my targets; they responded vituperatively.
The recent Mallam Sanusi’s statistics was intended to mislead us by ruffling the rudder of our common sense. See, Ekiti state has a 2012 budget 0f N88 billion; Kwara state, N90 billion; Cross River state, N144 billion; Anambra state, N82 billion; Enugu state, N74 billion. Now let’s look at the 2012 budgets recently passed into law by the four major Boko Haram occupied states – Kano state has a budget of N 210 billion; Borno state, 150 billion; Gombe, N94 billion; Yobe state, 80 billion.
A simple comparative analysis shows that Ekiti state has about the same revenue as Yobe and Gombe, but only 17 students passed WAEC and NECO in Gombe state last year, while Ekiti is known for its high literacy level. Gombe state has a bigger budget that Enugu and Anambra, why hasn’t MASSOB bombed anyone. Borno state has a budget twice that of Enugu state but the poverty and unemployment level in Borno state is more than thrice that of Enugu state. Borno has a bigger budget than a Niger Delta state- Cross River, while the leaders of that state over the last decade have transformed it into the Nation’s leading tourist destination; those of Borno have transformed it into a Somalia.
Kano state gets the highest statutory allocation from the FG, because on paper Kano is the most populated state in Nigeria, yet Kano has about 1.6 million destitute Almajiris. Kano has a budget almost thrice the budget of Enugu, twice the budget of Kwara, Anambra and Ekiti, but how come almost 90% of students in Kano fail WAEC? How come the poverty level in Kano is higher than all these states put together?
Why is the North so poor? From the figures above I have shown that Southern states with lesser budgets have shown better development performance than most North Eastern states with bigger statutory allocation and budgets.
Now, I need to tackle the sensitive question of revenue allocation that has infuriated the Mallam Lamido Sanusi and Mallam Elrufai and their likes. Niger Delta states get higher revenue allocation because they contribute virtually all the eggs in the national crate. That is expected. Albeit the 13% remains grossly inadequate, the CBN Governor has suggested that the ‘Boko boys’ are resisting the disparity.
I want to posit that the North through their aristocrats and ex-military rulers (except Gen. Mohammed Buhari) rake in more oil money (from the Niger Delta) individually than any Niger Delta state, and collectively more than twice the entire Niger Delta put together. In this disquisition, I have attempted to show that 80% of crude oil and gas produced by indigenous companies is controlled by the North. It is an area they have well conquered through General IBB, Abacha and Abdulsalami. However, the loots never get back home.
In this first part I will attempt to describe the very uneven nature of the distribution of the nation’s wealth among the Northern aristocratic families and their military generals who for decades looted Nigeria. They did so blatantly, and while Nigeria was weeping about oil windfall loot and others, Nigerians would wail if they know how much of the nation’s resources these folks allocated to themselves and their business fronts before they stepped aside.
Let us therefore begin.
To the state of origin of Boko Haram: Borno State. Enter Cavendish Petroleum, the operators of OML 110 – with good yielding OBE field. This oil block was awarded to Alhaji Mai Deribe – the Borno patriarch, who even in death will remain the richest man dead or alive in the history of Borno state- by General Sani Abacha on the 8th of July, 1996. OML 110 has a proven oil reserve in excess of 500 million barrels (More than the entire 300milliom barrels reserve of Sudan). As yet with the capacity to produce about 120,000 barrels of crude oil daily from its OBE 4 and OBE 5 wells. At optimal production levels, Cavendish nets circa N4billion monthly in crude oil sales (Using current oil price of $100pb). Cavendish Petroleum’s N4bn monthly net dwarfs the monthly statutory allocation of Borno which is about N3bn and its internally generated revenue staggers around N1billion. His mansion in Maiduguri has become a tourist attraction. A simple Google search will throw up different perspectives of Mai Deribe’s palatial home.
Enter Oriental Energy Resources Limited, a company owned by Alhaji Mohammed Indimi, a Fulani and close friend of General Ibrahim Babangida. Also worthy of note is that General IBB’s first son is married to Alhaji Mohammed Indimi’s daughter – Yakolo Indimi-Babangida, who also serves as a director in the company. Alhaji Indimi hails from Borno State.
Oriental Energy Resources Limited runs three oil blocks: OML 115, the Okwok field and the Ebok field. OML 115 and Okwo are OML PSC, while Ebok is an OML JV. All of them good yielding offshore oil blocks. OML 115 on its own is 228 sqKm. On OML115 Oriental Energy Resources Limited has 60 per cent while Equity Energy Resources AS. On Okwok, Addax has 40% and on the Ebok field, Oriental Energy Resources shares with none: its 100%. AMNI produces twice as much as Cavendish Petroleum.
I will then shift to the centre of the aristocratic hegemony and capitalism in the North – Kano. Here. Enter the Fulani Prince Nasiru Ado Bayero, Mallam (Prince) Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s cousin. He is a Key shareholder and director in Seplat/Platform petroleum operators of the Asuokpu/Umutu Marginal Field with a capacity of 300,000 barrels monthly and A 30mmfcsd gas plant capable of feeding 100MT of LPG. The Ado Bayeros, Yar’Aduas and Atiku Abubakar are Nigerian holders of Intels. It is a private port that has grounded three Federal ports in the South. Intels is discussed later.
Enter South Atlantic Petroleum Limited (SAPETRO). South Atlantic Petroleum (SAPETRO) is a Nigerian Oil Exploration and Production Company that was created in 1995 by General T. Y. Danjuma. General Sani Abacha awarded the Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 246 to SAPETRO in February 1998.
The block covers a total area of 2,590km2 (1,000 sq. miles). SAPETRO partnered with Total Upstream Nigeria Ltd (TUPNI) and Brasoil Oil Services Company Nigeria Ltd (Petrobras) to start prospecting on OPL246. Akpo, a condensate field was discovered in April 2000 with the drilling of the first exploration well (Akpo 1) on the block. Other discoveries made on OPL 246 include the Egina Main, Egina South, Preowei and Kuro (Kuro was suspended as a dry gas/minor oil discovery).
In June 2006, General TY Danjuma divested part of its contractor rights and obligations to China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) for $1 billion (N160bn). Akpo exports about 230,000 barrels of condensate daily. Condensate export is not regulated by OPEC, so SAPETRO/TOTAL exports as much as possible each day. Egina exports about 75,000 barrels of oil daily.
Therefore, Akpo and Egina fields export just over 300,000 barrels of oil/condensate daily (three times what the country Ghana exports). SAPETRO (TY Danjuma) get 25% of this. Now, note I have not talked about the gas component – it’s about 2.5 trillion cubic feet. The money SAPETRO nets each month is more than the monthly statutory allocation of all the Niger states combined and also more than the oil revenue of Ghana. Do your math.
Enter AMNI (or is it AMIN?) International Petroleum Development Company. AMNI owns two oil blocks – OML 112 and OML 117. In the production sharing contract, AMNI gets 60% for owning the oil block and Total gets 40% for providing technical advice. OML 112 was awarded on the 12/02/1998 while OML 117 was awarded 06/08/1999 all by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar. Operations started on both blocks 0n 26/02/2006. The licenses are due to expire 11/02/2018 and 05/08/2019 respectively. (Now you see why the next election is important?).
The Okoro and Setu fields in OML 112 are operated by Afren Energy, a company substantially controlled by Rilwanu Lukman. The Okoro and Setu oil fields have about 50 million barrels in reserve and currently produce/exports just a little below 20,000 barrels per day. The chairman of AMNI International Petroleum and Development Company is Alhaji (Colonel) Sani Bello a Fulani from Kontagora, Niger State. Lest I forget, Alhaji Bello’s son- Abu, is married to General Abdusalami Abubakar’s eldest daughter.
Enter Express Petroleum and Gas Limited floated by Alhaji Aminu Dantata, solely for the purpose of fronting for winning oil block(s) even though he and the company are in no way qualified for the award. General Abacha awarded him OML 108 on the 1st of November, 1995. CAMAC Houston, a company owned by Kase Lawal bought 2.5% of Express Petroleum’s 60% holdings. The other 40% on OML 108 is owned Sheba E&P Limited an IBB tributary company. SEPCOL operates the Ukpokiti offshore field in Shallow water Nigeria, which was acquired from ConocoPhillips in May 2004.
Enter Shebah Exploration And Production Limited (SEPCOL) . It is the operator of the Oil Mining License 108 offshore Nigeria. Head office is in Lagos, but ‘head quartered’ in Minna. Enter Consolidated Oil. Conoil Producing Limited is an integrated upstream oil and gas company. They are the operator of six blocks in the Niger Delta as well as 25% Equity holder in the Joint Development Zone (JDZ) Block 4. Corporate Head office is in Lagos, but its ‘Headquarters’ is in Minna, Niger State.
Conoil signed a technical operator agreement with Continental Oil and Gas Limited (CONOG) to provide 100% funding and technical service agreement to operate blocks OML 59 on a 40% (Conoil) / 60% (CONOG) basis. Conoil entered into a Production Sharing Contract with the NNPC by virtue of an agreement executed on 17th October 2008.
Conoil’s has overall potential hydrocarbon resources of over 1.0 Billion Barrels of Oil and 7.0 Trillion Cubic Feet of Gas. General Ibrahim Babangida awarded the first oil block to Conoil in 1991. The company produces about 100,000 barrels per day.
Enter Rilwanu Lukman, another Fulani multimillionaire with fronted controlling holdings in Afren, the operators of AMNI oil blocks and also with very key interest in the NNPC/Vitol trading deal, Vitol is a London based oil trading company. Vitol lifts 350,000 barrels of crude oil daily from Nigeria.
Enter Intels and the Yar’Adua , Ado Bayero family and Alhaji Abubakar Atiku. The Oil and Gas Free Zone and Oil Services Centres, as well as Support Bases, are operated from government-owned facilities, leased to Intels under long-term agreements. Intels runs a ‘private port’, a venture that has systematically killed the Calabar, Warri and Port Harcourt ports. There are over one hundred major companies operating at the Intel facility in Port Harcourt. The company makes more money in profit than the government of Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta states put together. I shall give details and figures in the part two of this disquisition.
I do not need to write so much about NorthEast Petroleum registered as NorEast. NorthEast Petroleum Nigeria Limited is the holder of OPL215 license, covering an area 0f 2,564 square kilometres in water depths between 200 to 1600 metres. NorEast is the parent company of Rayflosh Petroleum Nigeria which got the 2005 bidding round and was awarded the blocks OPLs 276 & 283 closing thereupon a Joint Venture Agreement with Centrica Resources Nigeria Limited and CCC Oil and Gas.
Not surprising, NorthEast Petroleum is owned by another Fulani businessman from the North East, Alhaji Saleh Mohammed Jambo. The license was awarded to him by General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida in 1991 and then renewed in 2004. So far $50Million has been spent on the very promising Okpoi-1 and Egere -1 exploratory well.
We will table other North Eastern billionaires who make more money than their states of origin from Niger Delta oil blocks. With all these oil blocks owned by ‘North- Easterners’ in the Niger Delta, it should be clear to Elrufai and Sanusi who really benefits from the Niger Delta Amnesty Programme.
Sadly, the National Bureau of Statistics Poverty Profile Report just released shows the North East as the poorest region in the nation with 69.1 and 76.3 as absolute and relative poverty level respectively, while the South-West had the lowest poverty profile with 49.8 as absolute poverty level and 59.1 relative poverty level.
With these figures from the National Bureau of Statistics, I rest my case.
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty. Let us reason together.

maasoap: Going to his pocket because the companies are being privatized and he is one of private investors jostling for the takeover. Infact, I believe it is the major reason behind his resignation due to criticism from workers. Can you now see why we're paying 500naira monthly which has nothing to do with what you consume. Hope you got what I meant by saying it is counter productive?

Nothing amazes me like when someone consistently shows his lack of knowledge and still doesnt realize he doesnt know what he is talking about over and over again.
What do you know about electricity charges?
Bart Nnaii was trying to improve electricity generation and at the same time bring the Nigerian standard of billing to international standards.
In developed countries you are charged monthly 2 or more fees for power that are not related to what you consume.
I can reliably mention (1)Administration Fee (2)Meter and Data Fee.
So pls before u talk open your brain and learn.
Dont come here and expose your lack of knowledge.
Haba!!!

sw: What is the source of his wealth? Government i presume.

Geometric Power which Bart Nnaji was the founder and Chairman is a company financed by local banks and international financial institutions based simply on his recognized personality.
I can tell you authoritatively because I worked in one of such institutions. Please note that we are talking of billions not small money. The project Geometric power is into, being the first of its kind in Nigeria, attracted so much interest that a renowned member of IFC resigned his appointment to work with the Geometric power.
Hope that answers your question.

Me thinks a great deal of the problem is illiteracy coupled with poverty.
To reduce poverty govt needs to sanitize lagos and make it less chaotic and more attractive for people to come and do business and also live in.
These laws are very likely to cause lagosians some pain but ultimately will help to develop lagos economically.
It might even result in the okada riders doing better jobs than okada riding.
But the Okada riders on their own dont understand this at all.
All they can think about is now, now and now. They cant be bothered about tomorrow.
Somehow I dont blame them. If there are educated people on Nairaland who dont understand it, is it the Okada riders that will?
That's where the illiteracy part comes in.
Its just a complex thing.

tessyade: @op i read it in the open heaven yesterday and i was like 'how i wish our people will listen to this.' It's so sad that some people will marry someone they do not love just because their pastor told them to.

Really? Does dat really happen?

HOW PDP RUINED NIGERIA. Kunle Adebayo

What the PDP has done over the years to itself is equal to what it has done to the nation.

Every nation judges it progress by the prosperity that its leaders and leadership institutions have brought on the people. Food, shelter and clothing. Security, employment, healthcare and education. Economic expansion, industrialisation and cultural strength etc.

And so when is a nation? And when is a leadership? Is it when a few have all and the rest groan & rotten ? Is it when mediocrity, lick ass mentality silences & steals the voices of the majority?

In spite of all the endowments and over 12 years in the saddle over the nation's wealth, PDP has behaved not like Marines but like buccaneers, jackals and drunken gluttons. It preaches democracy, morality, justice, integrity, transparency etc and yet it hates those things and punishes its own people for it; and so does our govt.

It defines values by vagaries & crookedness. It is a church of contradictions. Its leaders and government even insult God untiringly by saying that God, who is not on any electoral register,chooses them! Yet in spite of that, they still give Him a bad name by brazenly arrogating their misbehaviour to God's fiat.

But Boko Haram, MEND ,power Zoning monster & 419ers ensembles, whch their ineptitude created, they'll say, are ungodly and antichrists.

This govt rapes the economy, defeats dreams and messes up talents and loyalty.

Its men murder & assassinate opponents, loot publcc system & then get granted Amnesty. How? Look at the circle! Deed is done, suspect arrested, arrest revved up by the media, go to court, gets bailed, goes home, rest awhile, occupy seats of govt again by proxy and as "respected elder statesman and party leader" - & we are partakers!

When they meet every Wednesday @ FEC to apportion spoils..their ethnic or religious leanings do not count but their greed.

Later they watch as Boko Haram and others kills and maim the common man. They share oil blocks and punish the people by taking petrol to hell per litre.

Before our very eyes, the combined refining capacity of naijas four refineries at full tempo=10m lit daily whil our daily need=35m lit! Yet 2 out of the 3and a half refineries are bad. And yet the gaddem govt talks about transformation.

12 years of PDP, and naija still transports crude to Brazil, to refine and then import!
12 years of Africas biggest ruling party,the entire S/west thrown into darkness by PHCN without apologies or notice.

Imagine! Pacific President Jonathan gets his Sovereign Wealth Fund bill passed, governors get fuel subsidy(?) removed- Masses gets minimum wage! But gets punished when its taken away by effects of new fuel price!
Our PDP! Algeria - 11,000 megawatt fr. 35m people, .Egypt - 24,500 mega fr 77m people, S A.- 40,000 mega fr 49m people while Naija 2,000 unstable megawatt for 150m pple! And yet it will rule naija for 60 years! What a joke!

PDP accuses Nigerians of being impatient about development issues yet it carries on with the recklessness & insensitivity that makes even His imperial Majesty King devil envious!

Even in a state, the governor elected on Labour Party punished his people with window dress so much that Obj in a media interview after a group photograph with the ambitious governor said “He is a true PDP man, our son! He only strayed to LP. His soul is with us, only his body had strayed!”. And true, the man no longer talks "Caring Heart" again, but "Transformation" ! Now the big questions as the circus goes on is :what happens to the people? A man once told me before, that "elections can't chase PDP out of power, only our sticks and stones can".
And what are the stones? Our proactiveness, dedication, commitment, loyalty and hard works toward rebellion. Where would Vision Be wen Dreams are lying down naked? Nowhere ! We must refuse to be part of a lame & compromising opposition that always hopelessly complain. Rome wasn't built in a day! Let's act NOW!

Nice piece! I agree with the writer. What do you think?

As the Americans say, 'way to go, Atta boy!'
Thumbs up to these Muslim brodas. Na now una start the ngede!

@slimyemi
this is the kind of article that women folk should take to their women empowerment forums for discussion.
they should disect each of the points raised and discuss it to a logical conclusion
i will serve them as much as trying to emphasize their need for women rights.

To think that I moved from the city (Lagos) ranked 138th to the city ranked 5th is amazing.
Nevertheless, I love Lagos!
I can say without a doubt that it is a city that is improving.

tunyus: Without Doubt MOURINHO is the greatest coach in the History of the Game...
He knows how to bring out the best in his players.
He came to the EPL and win the league in his first year in charge and defend the title in d following year.
He went to INTER and win the league in the 2yrs he spend in ITALY, he win Treble in his 2nd year in charge of Inter Milan.
In his madrid history he won COPA DEL REY in his first year.A trophy Madrid as not won since for over 17yrs....the Great RAUL never in his career @ the Santiago BernaBeu never win
In his 2nd year he won the LaLiga with a record 100POINT...a feat that as never happen in the history of the game....scoring more than 130goals in the process
He won champs league with portuguese team PORTO and win Treble in the same year ....
He is the only Coach that is so confident enough to resign from his Job having in mind another bigger offer is on the way.

With all these Record I believe the Hater knows in he is undisputable the world greatest coach.



ALL HAIL MOURINHO
His speech inspire and motivate me
He is my Role Model

You are so blind with your love for him that you dont even know you are wrong.
Do you know what Vincente Del Bosque has won in his career?
To help you learn something new (which I think is rear) I will not tell you.
Do your research man.
If anybody at this point in time deserves to be called the greatest coach, its Vincente Del Bosque!

@Op abeg let them be jare.
We menfolk they enjoy their banter.
Believe me, its like sipping rum and ice and watching a chicken fight.

The saying 'Blood no dey lie' comes to mind with this Sheik's sermon.
I remember growing up in Kaduna when his father Sheik Abubakar Gumi was alive and used to give sermons like this every friday.
It was an open secret that his father was one of the instigators of almost all of the religious crisis in Kaduna back in the 80's.
His radical sermons were well attended and taken seriously by alot of the muslim faithful back then and it is now obvious that his son has taken after him.
Radicalism runs in their blood I must say.
I remember his father saying that it would be over his dead body for a christian to rule Nigeria.
God made it happen as the Sheik died months before Ernest Shonekan became Head of the Interim National Government.

nagoma:

Another apologist for an incompetent president.

Not at all broda. I am saying it as it is. Whether you want to accept it or not it is the truth. I grew up in the north and still have very strong ties there so I know what I am talking about.
FYI I dont have faith in GEJ so sorry to disappoint you, I am not an apologist. The man plainly doesnt have it.

@ Op in as much as I understand the pains of the sacked residents of Makoko I think you should also look at it from the side of the Lagos State government.
A group people go and occupy a certain place illegally and unchallenged for years then when government realizes that the place has become an embarassment and a security threat and decides to demolish the place, should they (govt) now relocate people who in the first place were occupying the place to be demolished illegally to a new place (that now becomes legal)?
If they do that, it simply means others can now feel that it is okay to occupy a place illegally because govt will relocate them when they need to demolish this place.
As a govt, you are simply setting a bad precedence. In plain sense, you are encouraging illegal settling!
Fashola's govt is making a statement to everyone, that if you occupy anywhere illegally you are doing so at your own risk.

From anoda point of view, and I have stated it here on Nairaland about a month or two ago. This is a typical case of us (govt and the governed) allowing things to get so bad that when someone rises up to take the bull by the horn and fix the mess, we all start to shout that he is inhuman. A very good example of this is the the Abuja and El-Rufai action of some years back. Today Abuja is better off for what he did.

acidtalk: I tell people, Raji Fashola is a very deceitful, callous and greedy individual.

The guy used Lagosians and dumped them. He has absolutely NOT done anything in this his 2nd term as Chief Terrorist of Lagos state.

All the so called expansion of BRT projects, Housing projects, and the rest all went down the drain.

He is busy emptying the Lagos state treasury to beat his bosses record of looting.

This ACN and PDP politicians are the most devislish on planet earth.

@Acidtalk, I lived in Lagos for 8+ years before I left and those of us who know where Lagos was coming from to be what it is now will continue to appreciate Fashola even though he does make some mistakes from time to time.
I still remember driving home from work late at nite thru some streets that were bad, dark and extremely dangerous at some point in time and seeing the road now completely repaired by Julius Berger with beautiful street lights and I unconsciously muttered 'God, bless Fashola!'. I am sure there are people on Nairaland who know what I am talking about. I am proud of him for giving Lagosians hope that a government in Nigeria can do what is necessary for the people.
So no matter what you think or say about him, you cant sway some of us that have experienced him. The man is a performer and a blessing to Lagos State.

@Op I want to make a comment to this topic but first, I need to know why you think a foreign education is a luxury.

The only reason why Boko Haram has suceeded in terrorizing the country for this long is because they have apologists in the north.
Those who are silent supporters of Boko Haram activities simply because they feel they have lost out in the power scheme of things.
Believe me, these supporters are not just the ordinary people but also very influential northern elders.
The northern leaders have every chance of killing this hydra headed monster called Boko Haram.
All they need to do is mobilise their subjects to go from door to door and pick out anyone who they suspect to have sinister agendas in their communities.
Maybe these recent attacks on them will change their thinking and make them do what is necessary to end this madness.

Kai, I wish say na me been dey on my way home for that flight. I would have totally enjoyed myself. For that reason alone, I would fly KLM more and more.
KLM try well well to have allowed him to entertain the passengers who were mostly Nigerians on their way home. You could even see how excited the Airline crew were to have him play.
As far as I am concerned anybody on his way to Nigeria on that flight who didnt appreciate the gesture of being entertained by Nigeria's own can go and look himself up in the toilet for the rest of the journey.
They should appreciate the country they are going to and the kind of entertainment we love.
Those of you here calling it (10 mins performance) disturbance, shey if na lady gaga or justin bieber the sing for that play una for they jump up and down with them, nonsense!
You guys had better start appreciating the creativity that Nigerians like Femi have put into music that has brought him fame all over the world.
Try and love and appreciate your own more than others outside. Simple.

Humourous and very real with regards to the Naija daily life.

I am beginning to take note of the writer.

Maybe I need glasses but from what I can see, one person is leaning into the other.

In summary, Star pass Star!