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This is just plain terrible. How come these hausa/fulani guys can walk in and hack innocent souls down for hours without stress but the second they are through taking lives, the berom people who naturally come out angry for revenge are rounded up and arrested. this problem is scarier than people think. The military and security services have been compromised badly by religion. The same thing is plaguing pakistan where recently a governor was killed by his own bodyguard for speaking against a law that would make blasphemy against islam an offence punishable by death. I hear that most times the killers in jos are dressed in full military uniform

This is very very sad. I remember seeing those war veterans along the onitsha - enugu expressway whenever i travelled to the east. Many of them would sit in their wheel chairs close to the expressway. they all looked bowed, deprived but never broken. To me they are the symbolic repository of all that was noble about us Igbos - sacrifice, dignity and most important, defiant belief in a cause bigger than them. Ojukwu instead of dedicating the rest of his life to making life better for the disadvantaged men who served under him, is busy prancing around politicking for the same system he vowed to be lead his people out from. Shame !!

@philip

thats very weak my guy

i think its about time Goodluck said goodbye to bad rubbish.onovo was inept and totally incapable of providing us the necessary security of life and property that we and our friends and families deserve in the definitely r owdy election 2011 threatens to bring. Thank goodness the man grew some balls.

I ran into the protesters that morning and got to work late but it was alright. The Toll idea is a CON ! no matter what all these cheerleader pro-PPP apostles scream out.

You cant enter into secret deals and decide to put already heavily taxed people at the mercy of a profiteering concessionaire just like that without a choice of saying no. For crying out loud what use is all the tax money if everything is given up to private developers and entrepreneurs. Fela called democracy - ''demonstration of craze'' and we all thought HE was insane.

DAAAAMN!!!!

That gay activist has a face you just would just love to punch in the jaw. Homos will NEVER be able to raise their heads in nigeria and walk freely in the streets. That guy may not survive if he carries on with this BS. Gays are sick and only God can cure them

Without question Femi Kuti is the most recognised, critically acclaimed, influential and renowned musician from Nigeria today. Tuface and co are popular among nigerians abroad but when organisers of mega jazz and rock festivals like glastonbury and coachella rock festivals are inviting mega bands like U2, Radiohead they always invite Femi to play alongside them.

Most of his gigs are outside naija nowadays and they are not small at all.

Fela called our democracy , ''demonstration of craze''and we thought he was the crazy one. I'm sure the soldiers are laughing at us now.

@poster

Is she new to the office? Is she's new,her boss may just be trying to intimidate her to let her know who's boss. I had the same problem and it eased after a while. Prayer is the key.Tell her to pray and sow a seed, if the guy no behave he is the one that will leave the office for her. But mind you,she must first check herself to be sure that theres somewhere she may be at fault

Bez is the man. A superb guitar player and one soulful singer as good as any.the first time i heard him i thought it was john legend or somebody.The song was the oceanic bank - ''today is a good day'' track.

@papabrowne

Great job analysing and rating the intelligence or lack of in posters.

Now what is your take on Eko Atlantic City Project?

@martinosi

You know your onions. Are you into corporate finance or something?

@kobojunkie

thanks for the advice. Ignoring crap talkers is the best option.

Thanks for the details on the developers. Its however a bit disturbing that marc chagouri is the point man in this. HITECH is owned by the chagouri family and Tinubu is the chairman of the company. Hmmm,

@PrinceK12

This is a topic for intelligent discussion. Take your tribal BS and get the funk out of this thread

Na fight?!! If you dont have the intellectual competence to engage in this discussion i suggest you find a topic less tasking.

@paddy lo

When I say start companies, I am referring to the government partnering with the private sector like they are doing LCC (even if they're doing a crap job of it) waste recycling plants, factories etc private coys can be invited to start and can be supported with tax breaks, land and so on. This isnt the US so capitalist policies have to be tempered down to realism. I can give you a hundred instances where the Ghanaian govt did similar and its we know how well they're coming along.

''Employing forever'' means there should be a job that should outlast the worker. Not civil servants but private workers in a place that is privately managed but encouraged to start by the govt.

As for roads Its obvious you dont live in lagos. i work in ikoyi and besides bourdillon high street most of the neighborhood is flooded as we type bro. I was at the General hospital I spoke about to get a Yellow card to allow me travel to another african state and i saw sick people standing cos there werent enough chairs, long lines because there werent enough doctors (the few there couldnt give a damn), the place was hot as hell because there wasnt light (IN A HOSPITAL FOR CRYING OUT LOUD). In a state that makes over N15 Billion from taxes a month and N6 Billion from federal revenue. Go and ask the man in the street what he wants - an Atlantic City or Roads without floods when it rains and decent healthcare

@babapupa

I am torn between descending to your level of trading insults like an illiterate meal seller and responding to your questions in a mature and objective manner. Well I think I'm more inclined to the latter. For the record my guy, this is a forum for information sharing so DIVERGENT views will always come. Eat it or throw it away.

I cant find a shred of sense in your post but I will help you out with facts. The Lagos State Ministry of Waterfront and Infrastructural Development expended the sum of N7BN fixing the shoreline and  since the project was announced as completed, there have been instances of the water breaching the barriers. I can understand a couple of decades but a few months is unnaceptable to me because I'm a diligent taxpayer. You said ''the best shoreline protection folks'' are doing the shoreline I'll love to hear who they are if you REALLY know who they are and not just bawling out.

Also you mentioned roads, bridges, health centres etc being constructed I'd like to ask you can you name three major roads, hospitals that have been built. Let me ask you,have you been to a General hospital lately? I tell you the one on Broad Street is run down (it was relaunched about two years ago). The Lekki - epe Expressway project has been on for five years and has only managed to move from Law school to lekki phase 1 (2% of the project)after the Billions spent. For your info it is also a private project since it was concessioned to LCC but the masses will pay for it in tolls for 30 years. Just to clarify something - the builders, lawyers, engineers and so on are part of the same gang and besides the temporary crumbs falling to the plates of the footworkers, the big bucks will go to the bosses. Road building and construction is NOT a sustainable source of employment. Why cant the government you're foaming at the mouth to defend, start companies or industries that will employ people for ever.

Im really sorry for her. the guy na player sha. He had three babies with nivea now christina milan. The guy was spotted last week frollicking with his PA see the pic

@debosky

I'd love to ask - what makes you think that the money from the taxes on the project will be used to develop other areas of lagos. The billions raised every month in taxes hasnt translated to commensurate improvement in the rate, quality or maintenance of amenities. Rather there's been a lull. A visit to ajah which is my constituency will change your mind. You are right the project like every prioritised project by this administration is targeted at what , you said it - ''HIGH END INVESTORS''. I still believe that this government can afford to partnert with some investor to build DECENT medium income housing units in undeveloped tranches of land in places like EPE,Ikorodu, Okoko,etc

And for the record try googling Mega City and fashola in the same box and tell me that this government isnt sold on the idea and ''positioning'' the state

@babapupa

Ok. I'm interested in knowing how the people behind this project are going to do things differently. Do you have any facts to share? as far as i know there've been insane amounts of money spent by the state government to protect our shoreline. I heard (a rumour though) that the same company that did the shoreline are involved with this eko atlantic thing. naturally i'm not encouraged. would you be?

The UTC cutlass wielding omo onile boys in my area should be made aware of this law O !!

After seeing the incompetence that constituted the ''final solution'' to the overflowing atlantic on ahmadu bello way, i'm scared for residents of the floating city

Amen! Lets just pray this filters all the way down to the streets.

The Eko Atlantic City Project is an ostentatious, real estate wankfest designed to make money for the ''owners'' of lagos and their foreign partners or whoever is providing funding for it. This project is line with this lagos state government's drive to make lagos bonafide eye candy without creating jobs (lastma\lawma etc aside) , affordable housing and other basic amenities that exist in mega cities that they are trying to ape. Instead of a friggin city in the sea why didnt that bespectacled midget (tinubu) and his lanky sidekick put a deal together to build decent medium income apartments at ikorodu, epe or wherever the state owns hectares of land.

@pokerface

na wa for you o!

@190

Thanks my guy!!!!! I dont understand why my chick will want me to stomach that kind of insult. If the guy had tried to act tough he would have seen what happened in 1973. lol

Guys I recently experienced what almost all of us have been through. i recently took my girlfriend out and while we were having lunch she complained that some guys have no class. When I asked why she told me that a guy facing her (I was backing the punk) had been trying to UnCloth her with his eyes non-stop for minutes.

My girl has a bakassi that could stop a truck so i'm kind of used to stares. After a while i had a dash out to answer a call because the place was noisy and came back just in time to see the guy pass his card to someone to give my chick. I waited a while and saw that she refused to take it. Seeing that he had stepped over the line I got mad and waited to make my move. I looked the jack-ass and his pot-belly over and decided to wait for the right moment.

He got up to go to the mens room far from the eatery and i followed him. i waited outside the cubicle as he was sh, ting and when he stepped out he almost fell back when he saw me . I asked him ''does my girlfriend look familiar to you?'' he started mumbling and acted like he didnt know what i was talking about. seeing he was chicken I walked away. i told my girl what happened and she got pissed,calling me a ruffian

Abeg guys no be so i for do am? wetin una for do

Without a doubt Yakubu was soooooo much more frustrating to watch. While Kaita definitely showed passion (maybe a little too much passion) yakubu was sluggish,wasteful, FAT! and outright incompetent in front of empty nets!!! If i catch that monkey in any night club feeling sexy with himself within the next two weeks I will organise fans to tie him up and flog him

Wow ! I have about 1,200 songs and i thought i was the Man. You all are putting the record industry out of business with all this downloading

True talk! Dede would have done beautifully. But chiwetel is one hell of an actor and i'm sure he will nail it. Funny enuf i heard months ago that it was djimon honsou that the studios picked to play fela