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obadiah777: REVELATION 1 VS 7 Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. <<< FUTURE PROPHESY. WHEN HE RETURNS THOSE WHO PIERCED HIM AND BEAT HIM UP BEFORE HE WAS PUT ON THE CROSS WOULD BE ON THE EARTH. THEY WOULD HAVE REINCARNATED BACK INTO THE EARTH.

Obadiah, honestly you get me confused sometimes. Always scared reading your post albeit you make sense sometimes. I'm getting more engrossed I'm your bible translation; but I've killed my spirit not to agree with you.
I promise not to read your post again

Burger01: Smh....

I shook mine 10 times. I wonder if these guys can change no matter what the government offers them. In my humble opinion, I suggest the country should divide. I wonder how a region that contributes virtually zero to our economy causing unnecessary chaos in the name of their religion

At least 11 people have been killed in an early morning attack on a remote village in Adamawa state, the state police has said.
The Adamawa Police Public Relations Officer, Mohammed Ibrahim, confirmed that unidentified gunmen raided Midlu Village, in Madagali Local Government Area of the state, and attacked the home of the state deputy governor, Bala Ngalari. He did not provide further details.
“So far, the information available to me is that 11 people lost their lives in the village, including two private security men at the deputy governor’s house,’’ Mr. Ibrahim said.
But villagers, quoted by the News Agency of Nigeria, say the gunmen attacked several houses, calling out names and shooting residents leaving some death and others injured.
An eye witness, who pleaded anonymity, quoted by NAN said the incident took place in the early hours of Saturday around 2 a.m.
“The attackers went from house-to-house, picking out their victims, who they even called by name,” the source said.
“They also went to the house of the deputy governor, Bala Ngalari in the village where they shot some people and wounded some.”
The source said the exact number of deaths was not clear.
“They killed many people but I don’t know exactly how many were killed or injured because I fled the village,’’ he said.

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Me three! I no fit kill myself I beg

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Lovely pics of my president.
Btw who is more handsome, GEJ vs Tinubu (one word answer required please)

An explosion has been reported at a luxury bus park along New Road, in Sabon Gari, Kano.

Sources say many passengers on a Lagos bound bus were affected.

Details are still sketchy with some sources saying the explosion emanated from a car parked beside the bus while others claim it was from within the bus.

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/news-news/52806-just-in-bomb-goes-of-at-kano-luxury-bus-park

Olumba Olumba will meet your needs

Slides were stuck to the lens with double sided tape and lit with a cheap torch
Scientists used an iPhone 4S to diagnose intestinal worm infections in schoolchildren in rural Tanzania.

They attached an $8 (£5) ball lens to the handset camera lens, and used a cheap torch and double-sided tape to create an improvised microscope.

Pictures were then taken of stool samples placed on lab slides, wrapped in cellophane and taped to the phone.

They were studied for the presence of eggs, the main symptom of the parasites.

When the results were double-checked with a laboratory light microscope, the device had managed to pick up 70% of the samples with infections present - and 90% of the heavier infections.

The study has been published this week in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Researcher Dr Isaac Bogoch, who specialises in internal medicine and infectious diseases at Toronto General Hospital, told the BBC he had read about smartphone microscopes being trialled in a laboratory and decided to "recreate it in a real world setting".

"Ultimately we'd like something like this to be a useful diagnostic test. We want to put it in the hands of someone who might be able to use it," he said.

"70% (accuracy) isn't really good enough, we want to be above 80% and we're not quite there yet," he added.

"The technology is out there. We want to use materials that are affordable and easy to procure."

Camera key

Dr Bogoch and his team, which included experts from Massachusetts General Hospital and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, said the only reason he used an Apple iPhone was because it was his own handset.

"You need the ball lens to help with the magnification - but any mobile phone with a decent camera and a zoom function will be sufficient," he explained.

The smallest eggs visible using the smartphone were 40-60 micrometres in diameter.

"From an egg standpoint that is not tiny but it's not enormous either," said Dr Bogoch.

"The microscope was very good at diagnosing children with heavier infection intensities as there are more eggs, so they are easier to see."

Intestinal worms are estimated to affect up to two billion people around the world, mainly in poor areas.

"These parasitic infections cause malnutrition, stunted growth, and stunted mental development," added Dr Bogoch.

"It's a big deal, a big problem."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21769537 >
BBC © 2013

iPhone an baba

Ola I beg answer na

Still waiting.........

Pastor Kun: The slimy hypocrite would rather die than address the quoted scripture that provides overwhelming evidence that he is a filthy liar and his church doctrines are also mostly false man made theories.

OLAADEGBU don put his finger for tortoise yansh today. You must answer Goshen's question or else

;DGod will belss you abundantly LWKMD
God will belss you abundantly LWKMD

house fo sogis: this is a very interesting piece. tithing!i have a piece 13 page article on tithing, if you would like to receive it send me an email aminuife2012@yahoo.com and i will forward it to you.shd christians tithe?did d early church tithe? waoh!!it is good to hold on to only what the bible commands. well i have seen a place where God commands us chriatinas to tithe.cheers

Kindly forward the article to my box. Akinsola55@gmail.com

Cardinal Keith O'Brien has admitted that his sexual conduct has at times "fallen beneath the standards expected of me".
In a statement, he apologised and asked forgiveness from those he had "offended".

He also apologised to the Catholic Church, and to the people of Scotland.

The cardinal resigned last week after three priests and a former priest made allegations of improper behaviour against him.

The statement issued through the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland read: "In recent days certain allegations which have been made against me have become public. Initially, their anonymous and non-specific nature led me to contest them.

"However, I wish to take this opportunity to admit that there have been times that my sexual conduct has fallen below the standards expected of me as a priest, archbishop and cardinal.

"To those I have offended, I apologise and ask forgiveness. To the Catholic Church and people of Scotland, I also apologise.

"I will now spend the rest of my life in retirement. I will play no further part in the public life of the Catholic Church in Scotland."

Cardinal O'Brien was Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric when he resigned last Monday as the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh.

At the time, he said he would not take part in the election for a successor to Pope Benedict.

The cardinal had been due to retire later this month when he turned 75.

The former priest and three current priests from the diocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh complained to the Pope's representative to Britain, Archbishop Antonio Mennini, in early February about what they alleged had been inappropriate behaviour towards them in the 1980s.

The ex-priest told the Observer he was disappointed by the "cold disapproval" he faced for "daring to break ranks".

He also claimed to have only gone public because he feared the matter was in danger of being swept under the carpet by the church.

< http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21649475 >

The Abia State University has withdrawn the degree certificate it awarded to a former governor of the state, Uzor Orji Kalu.

An online news portal, Premium Times, reports that the university in a statement by its Registrar, O. E. Onuoha, on Saturday said the decision was taken after an emergency meeting of the university senate which considered the recommendations of a panel which investigated the allegations levelled against Kalu.

Onuoha said, "On the strength of the findings and recommendations of an investigative panel into allegations of breach of the extant academic regulations of Abia State University, in the admission process of the admission and graduation of Kalu Orji Uzor in the discipline of Government and Public Administration, of matriculation number 00/42226, the Senate of the university at its resumed 69th extra-ordinary meeting of March 1, 2013 and by a vote of 88 against three dissenting voices only, approved the cancellation and withdrawal of the degree, result and certificate awarded to him.

"The decision of Senate was based on the following grounds among others: The violation of the academic regulations of the university on Admission-by-Transfer, which rendered the offer irregular, ab initio and the he non-completion of the mandatory six semesters (i.e. three academic years of study), before he was awarded a degree of the university. He spent only two semesters in all.

"The university Senate maintained that its action, aforesaid, derived from the exercise of its onerous statutory responsibility to guard and maintain , at all times, the academic regulations of the university, its hard-earned reputation and the credibility of the certificates it awards."

After Kalu had dropped out of the University of Maiduguri, he reenrolled at the Abia State University while he was governor of the state.

As the visitor to the university at the time and there were allegations that Kalu was an absentee student.

The admission and graduation of Kalu, the university stated, made mockery of its academic rules and regulations.

When our correspondent called Kalu for his comments, he said, "My lawyer will reply at the appropriate time."

Source: http://mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/news/abia-varsity-withdraws-kalus-certificate/

I dey laugh

@noblezone, they will enlarge their coast of bombs at their own peril. They can keep on doing whatever they desire in the north but not MY south

By Gimba Kakanda
Malam Nasir El-Rufai is a saint. El-Rufai’s intellectual and managerial wisdom is unmatched by any living thing that has ever been in power in Nigeria.

Those are the things we discover in his memoir, The Accidental Public Servant. TAPS is not only a celebration of an individual’s narcissism but a revelation of the destructive elitism on whose back this polarised nation suffers. But because TAPS documents the political tragedies we have witnessed since the coming of this present democracy in which the author was a privileged actor, we must repaint our triumphal arch to welcome this confession of an insider.

I won’t advise any hypertensive person to open the book, if not for the author’s inability to contain his large ego in this overtly expressive tome but for his exposé of the financial scams and abuse of power by the political elite who, despite declared differences and public opposition, are actual friends and family in the closet. El-Rufai reveals, somewhat unwittingly, that Nigeria is just a chessboard on which the masses are manipulated and taken for granted.

In TAPS, there is President Obasanjo who wants to overstay, the lawmakers who abandon their duties and scramble for complicity, General Babangida who is just an expired buffoon, Nuhu Ribadu an unreliable confidant who is also an unprincipled anti-corruption crusader and Atiku Abubakar who is a smooth criminal—everybody wears the garb of a devil in this book. One, though, hears a man too angry, as an opposition party member, to be decorous.

El-Rufai has guts, and he is really arrogant about his illusory intellect and academic exploits. He makes everyone around him, including his boss Obasanjo, seem dumb as he keeps screaming about his A-grades at Barewa College where the late President Yar’Adua whom he portrays as unserious student and chain-smoker managed to leave with good grades which seemed to have shocked El-Rufai. It doesn’t matter that El-Rufai didn’t even meet Yar’Adua at the school.

Similarly, the literary prowess which he plays down in his major case of condescension in the book—with a claim that he was better with figures, as though he had propounded a mathematical theory—was later overblown in his boast that he wrote a speech “single-handedly” for the then military Head of State General Abdulsalam Abubakar. He never lets you forget he graduated with a first class honours degree; perhaps that is because he is the only one who has ever done so? Nor does El-Rufai fail to remind you that he is a penniless Ghandi who, after his notoriety as FCT Minister, couldn’t afford a stay in Dubai. He could only afford having his children at elite schools in Maryland and London.

TAPS is built on a diseased mindset. It romanticises the author’s intellectual wisdom as the flight that conveyed him to our cloudy political sky. But there was no accident in El-Rufai’s public service career; the author is just too dumb to recognise nepotism for what it is. What he optimistically calls an accident was in fact an invitation from his elder brother’s friend to serve as a member of the advisory council in General Abdulsalam’s transition government. Let us examine El-Rufai’s own words:

“I subsequently learnt from a mutual friend that (General Abdulsalam) Abubakar had remembered me because I had met him a couple of times in the course of my quantity surveying career and MAY HAVE (emphasis mine) debated the role of the military in politics and governance. My GUESS (emphasis mine) is the Head of State THOUGHT (emphasis mine) he needed contrarian views to enrich his policy decisions… (p. 53)”

You don’t need a language tutor to see through the lame excuses and reasons given in the excerpt above, especially the self-indicting words in upper case: There was an unnamed mutual friend who revealed what had escaped the author’s memory; and in the use of “may”, El-Rufai, who remembers page-long dialogues, is clearly being economical with the truth.

Note that El-Rufai bases his reason on a conjecture by the use of “guess”, pondering the so-called accident that earned him a slot in that team. So you may be eager to know how he guessed a man’s thought. General Abdulsalam didn’t say it. In Nigeria, we know that political opportunism is facilitated by ethnic, religious and regional cronyism. Yes, you only need to be member of a certain group to make it to that cycle!

And as a member of that team, El-Rufai justifies his own brand of “cronyism” on recommending for ministerial appointment a man whose eligibility was built around what El-Rufai too calls “rumour mill”. The nominee, a suspended Deputy Governor at CBN, Alhaji Ismaila Usman, whom El-Rufai claims he had met just once, was rumoured to have refused to be an accomplice in a financial scam ordered by the late General Sani Abacha. This selection criterion, which is exactly the practice that brought El-Rufai too on board General Abdulsalam’s transition government, is an undeniable nepotism.

I always campaign for right to expression and even recently have written to defend El-Rufai from his political antagonists on the alleged blasphemy accusation and other matters. I had maintained that his past in public service must not be allowed to be used to deny him a right to political activism.

But TAPS is an explosion of that egalitarian utilitarianism on mine and the outrage of that belief is a welcome development from me, in my barricade amongst the citizens of common sense. Our resolve now as citizens is to study and challenge what elitism does to this country. The arguments in support of El-Rufai’s elite-aggrandising policies while he was FCT Minister fail anytime we have a gander of the effects they had on the common people of Abuja, especially the “subaltern” residents who were never compensated, whose lives were destroyed by that insensitivity to our socioeconomic structure.

There are only three saints in El-Rufai’s book: His late daughter Yasmin, elder brother Bashir and the countless people he introduces as “mentors”. But any attentive reader would understand that El-Rufai who couldn’t resign in a government known for reigns of corruptions, despite his unsuccessful attempts to justify his stay, is apparently suffering from Out-of-Office syndrome. His portrayals of Yar’Adua, especially when he engaged the services of foreign lobbyists to make Yar’Adua appear like a military leader, betrays the honesty of his activism.

The El-Rufai who afforded such media stunts wasn’t broke as declared in this memoir. That politics is too cheap for Nigerians. The trick in this new turn of El-Rufailitics is to wallop his fellow members of the elite class just to earn the sympathy and trust of the “Suffering Class” and, more importantly, the Twitter-based youths many of whom only think that Nigeria is just the size of their blogs. One thing El-Rufai fails to acknowledge is: Though a crocodile may stay with a community of alligators, it can never become one. May God save us from us!

Gimba Kakanda
Maintains a weekly column, "Flips of Commonsense", for the Abuja-based Blueprint Newspaper.
misterkakanda@yahoo.com
@gimbakakanda (on Twitter)

By Ahmed Olayinka Sule, CFA

Your Excellency: I hope all is well with you and your family. I would like to begin by commending you for all the great things that you have done since you were first elected Governor of Lagos State almost two thousand and eighty-eight days ago. During your tenure in office, you have transformed Lagos State. You have worked hard to improve the educational sector, while your vision to turn Lagos into a mega city is attracting praises from the four corners of the world.

Your Midas touch can be seen in the transportation sector, the environment, housing and the hundreds of infrastructural development projects that your administration is currently implementing or has already implemented. Through your actions, you have proved to Nigerians that it is possible for elected government officials to work towards improving the lives of the governed. So far, so good.

Lagos, like other large cities around the world, plays host to people on different rungs of the economic ladder. The State is home to the ultra-rich, the rich, the middle class, the poor, and the very poor, including beggars. In recent years, the Lagos State Government has tried to resolve the problem of people begging on the streets through a number of initiatives. One initiative that your administration has adopted is to rehabilitate beggars by relocating them to the Rehabilitation Centre at Ikorodu. This centre also offers the beggars vocational training to enable them live independent lives. This is a good initiative by your administration as it is meant to help the beggars derive a source of livelihood. So far, so good.

However, since the commencement of your second term in office in May 2011, your administration appears to be waging a war against the poor, the marginalised and the downtrodden. In short, to borrow a phrase used by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, your administration appears to be embarking on a KOSOVO-STYLE SOCIAL CLEANSING OF THE POOR.

Due to the lack of progress with the rehabilitation initiative, your administration has turned to some drastic measures to eradicate begging in the State. Shortly after your second term inauguration in May 2011, it was reported that the Lagos State Government had deported 3,029 beggars to their state of origin in the last couple of years. In justifying the state’s action, Mr. Dolapo Badru, the Special Adviser on Youth and Social Development, suggested that beggars and the destitute constitute a social nuisance, which threatens the Lagos metropolis’ status as a mega city. Mr. Badru also warned in a press conference that “Lagos State frowns on giving alms to beggars. It is punishable under the law and you can get up to two years’ imprisonment for giving money to beggars.”

In August 2012, a number of beggars protested against harassment and forced removal from the streets of Lagos. They explained that they were being forcefully removed from the streets and taken to the rehabilitation centre in Ikorodu. According to the President of the Physically Challenged who spoke on behalf of the protesters, “No fewer than 600 beggars had been arrested by the government without providing adequate alternative for them.” Another protester stated, “Our movement within Lagos State metropolis has been restricted such that anyone caught roaming on the road will be taken to Majidun.”

In February 2013, the Government took this war against beggars to another level by charging a number of them with “constituting a nuisance in public by begging for alms” and for conducting themselves as “disorderly persons without any visible means of livelihood”. Of the 39 beggars charged, 30 of them were sent to Kirikiri and Badagry Prisons for one month pending the final judgment by the judge.

While I understand your desire to make Lagos clean; while I understand your desire to make Lagos a mega city; while I understand your desire to make Lagos safe; while I understand your desire to eradicate poverty from Lagos; while I understand your desire to rehabilitate beggars; while I understand your desire to provide beggars with vocations and shelter; while I understand your desire to make Lagos attractive to foreign investors — in some respects, your administration is going about achieving these aims in the wrong way. In the process of ensuring that Lagos is clean, safe and a mega city, the Government is adopting immoral means in order to achieve a moral end. As Martin Luther King once said, “Ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process, and ultimately you can’t reach good ends through evil means.”

Arresting, scapegoating and deporting beggars all in the name of creating a so-called mega city is unjust, immoral and unfair. It is shocking that the beggars were arrested in the first instance and it is sickening that they were sent to Kirikiri Prison, which happens to be one of the worst prisons in the world. Furthermore, unlike those who steal billions of Naira and are still walking freely on the streets of Nigeria, the beggars whose only crime is “asking for alms” have been sent to prison because they do not have the money, clout and resources to properly defend themselves. Some may argue that the beggars contravened the law of the land and so deserve to be put in jail for begging; but as St. Augustine said many centuries ago, “An unjust law is no law at all.”

Admittedly, some beggars may not be genuine and may be trying to take advantage of people’s charity. Yes, some beggars might be taking advantage of people’s religious beliefs; yes, some beggars might be pretending that they have disabilities; yes, some beggars may make more money than some people who are gainfully employed; yes, some beggars may engage in petty crimes; yes, some beggars may view begging as an easy alternative to working. However, we cannot use one brush to paint all beggars as lazy, opportunistic and deceitful people, just as we can’t paint all state governors, legislators and politicians as evil, opportunistic and deceitful people even though some governors and state legislators loot the treasury.

Rather than wage war against beggars, the Lagos State Government could make more progress toward the eradication of begging if it were to instead wage war against the structures that cause a man, woman or child to go out onto the streets to beg. With unemployment at elevated levels and with able-bodied graduates and post-graduates unemployed for years, what chance does a beggar living with disabilities and with little education have of being gainfully employed? In a society that discriminates against people with disabilities, it is an evil logic to accuse beggars of being disorderly people just because they do not have any source of income. Yet your administration deems it rational to charge beggars with “conducting themselves as disorderly persons without visible means of livelihood”. Trying to eradicate begging without putting an end to the conditions that causes a man to beg is like trying to stop a gas leak without addressing the source of the leak.

Instead of throwing beggars into prison, your administration should concentrate on making its rehabilitation programme more effective. One of the reasons why some beggars keep on leaving the rehabilitation centres for the streets is because of the deplorable conditions in these centres. Perhaps your administration should try to build more rehabilitation centres with conditions that are more conducive for living. After all, I am sure that no member of your cabinet would want his or her family members to live in a congested room housing 40-60 where people urinate, excrete and sleep in the same place.

Besides adopting immoral means to achieve a moral end, your administration is also dehumanising a group of people because of their economic circumstances and their physical challenges. The saying “beggars have no choice” should not be used as a justification to deny beggars their human rights. They deserve to be treated with dignity for several reasons: first, they are creations of God Almighty; and second, the Nigerian Constitution conveys to all Nigerians -- the rich and the poor, the able and disabled, the non-beggars and beggars, the employed and unemployed, the accommodated and homeless -- the right to dignity as human beings. The Nigerian Constitution also grants Nigerians the right to move freely throughout Nigeria and to reside in any part of the country. So when the State Government deports beggars to their states of origin and restricts their movement within the State because they are begging, the State is denying them their fundamental human rights. Furthermore, Article 17 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities states: “Every person with disabilities has a right to respect for his or her physical and mental integrity on an equal basis with others.”

In addition, your administration’s attempt to rid Lagos of beggars is not only immoral and dehumanising, but it is also unrealistic. As a widely-traveled governor, you must have noticed that most cities have their share of beggars. I know you are eager to transform Lagos into a mega city, but if you critically examine other cities like New York, London, Paris and Barcelona, you will notice that these cities are not exempt from the phenomenon of people begging on the streets. If these cities which offer their citizens a social safety net can still have beggars, how can a city like Lagos, which does not provide adequate social safety nets for its citizenry, expect to remove beggars from its streets?

So if one is to give an honest assessment of your administration’s attitude toward beggars, one is likely to arrive at the conclusion that the key reasons for their ill treatment is because they are Nairaless, jobless and homeless, rather than the official line that they are nuisances, disorderly and lazy.

Governor Fashola, you may not realise it, but your administration’s attitude toward the beggars suggests a Kosovo-style social cleansing of the poor. If you think that this is an exaggerated claim, I would like to draw similarities between your administration’s actions and some of the stages identified by Greg Stanton in his 1996 paper titled “The Eight Stages of Genocide”. The first stage that Mr. Stanton of Genocide Watch describes is the classification stage, in which people are divided into the categories of “them” and “us”. An example of this can be seen in the utterances of some of the State government officials such as one of your Special Advisers when he said, “We still rehabilitate some of THEM, but most of THEM don’t want to be rehabilitated and THEY don’t want to work. THEY feel more comfortable preying on people with superstitious beliefs.”

The second stage is the symbolisation stage. This occurs when the people who have been classified as “them” are given names and symbols associated with the classification. State officials have given beggars various labels such as “lazy”, “disorderly”, nuisance”, “people who prey on people with superstitious beliefs”, “people who do not want to work”, “people who pretend to be blind or crippled”. Mr. Stanton describes the third stage as dehumanisation, in which “one group denies the humanity of the other group. Members of it are equated with animals, vermin, insects or diseases”. The emerging pattern of the treatment of beggars in Lagos State suggests that this stage is in full force.

The fourth stage is organisation. The State Government has been the organiser-in-chief in forcefully pushing beggars off the streets. The polarisation stage, which is the fifth stage, occurs when the propaganda machine is put in force to reinforce prejudice and hate. Very often, laws are implemented to help achieve this aim. This stage is evident in Lagos not only from the utterances of some government officials, but also from the unjust laws which forbid begging and makes giving alms to beggars on the roadside an offence punishable by two years’ imprisonment without the option of a fine.

The sixth stage is the preparation stage. In this stage, victims are identified and separated. According to Mr. Stanton, the victims are “often segregated into ghettoes, deported into concentration camps or confined to a famine-struck region and starved”. While beggars in Lagos State have not been sent to concentration camps or famine-struck regions, they are being identified and segregated in addition to being harassed by government officials because of their begging activities. Many beggars have been deported to their state of origin or other countries. Some of the beggars have been forced against their will to go to rehabilitation centres, which in some instances are not fit for living. In other cases, the beggars are beaten and sent to prison.
While I know that your administration is not intent on committing genocide on the beggars, I believe that it is important to reflect on these stages, as the ill-treatment of beggars in Lagos State appears to be increasing exponentially, starting first with relocation and progressing to deportation and incarceration. Hopefully it will not reach the extermination or incineration stage.

If the State Government is still eager to banish disorderly people who are conducting themselves as nuisances, I can tell you whom to banish. Rather than banish the beggars who can barely afford to eat two square meals a day, your administration can banish the kidnappers, armed robbers and white-collar criminals who are causing havoc in the state. If the State Government is still eager to wage war against some elements in Lagos, I can tell you whom to wage war against. Rather than wage war against beggars who do not have access to top-notch legal counsel, your administration can wage war against those who regard the State’s resources as their personal property. If the State Government is still eager to fill Kirikiri Prison with prisoners, I can tell you whom to incarcerate. Rather than incarcerate the beggars who do not have a voice, your administration can incarcerate those people using political connections to acquire prime land and property at little cost.

In conclusion, I would like to say three things. First, remember that when you were elected as Governor of Lagos State, you were given a symmetric mandate rather than an asymmetric mandate. You were elected not only by the elites of Lagos State, but also by the masses of Lagos State; you were elected not only by the rich people of Lagos State, but also by the poor people of Lagos State; you were elected not only by the employed people of Lagos State, but also by the unemployed people of Lagos State; you were elected not only by the able-bodied people of Lagos State, but also by the disabled people of Lagos State. In short, you are Governor for the whole of Lagos, not only some affluent sections of Lagos; and it is important for your passion, policies and politics to reflect the oath you swore during your inauguration.

Second, although you have a desire to make Lagos a first-class mega city, you have to remember that this can never be the case as long as she has second-class citizens who are stripped of their freedom, dignity and humanity. Finally, if you have not already done so, you may want to take time to reflect on what legacy you want to leave behind as Governor of Lagos State. How would you want to be remembered? Do you want to be remembered as a ruler who built his kingdom on the symmetric foundation of justice and equality, or would you rather be remembered as that ruler who built his kingdom on the asymmetric foundation of injustice and inequality? History is watching.
Eko o ni baje

Ahmed Olayinka Sule, CFA
suleaos@gmail.com
http://about.me/ahmedsule

February 2013

The views stated in this article are personal to the writer and does not represent the views or opinions of any company or organisation with which the author is or was associated.

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You should first tell me why I should go for thugs. A party engulfed with cultism and nepotism are not deemed fit to rule my beloved country. I'll rather go for a party with national spread and a party that can wash its dirty linen right in the face of the public. ACN is run like cult, CPC are blood suckers ANPP PDP all the way. 1 million likes

@OP God bless you for your wonderful lecture on alcohol. For me, I don't take alcohol but if you offer me chilled guilder I go take. Please tell them alcohol is bad. I beg make I go take my Guilder

Patience Jonathan. Love her die

Freiburger: me too

Me three

valacious: Go for the 40k job. Been in your exact shoes before.

Excellent!! 100 likes!!!
People don't realise how frustrating when on contract job. No growth, bonuses and can be fired with no single naira pay. My brother please go for the permanent job, I believe you will not regret on long run talking from my experience. Good luck

I dey Laugh while waiting for the answer

I hope the story is real. Shameless MOGs

duality: you can't be so sure. can you vouch for them with you life?

secondly its not a bad idea if others are given a chance. this time.

My brother I can swear by anything to let you know I knew NOBODY when I applied back 2010. I'm currently employed as cost engineer in NNPC Abuja. You never can tell, just apply

Bunch of thieves

Redhot111: Am sure dey already hv d names of doz dey will induce. Jst a tot though. Dey r jst publishing dis 2 fullfil all righteousness. Abi no b naija?

My friend just give it a try. I just resumed on 3rd September without knowing anybody. I think the country is changing and not business as usual