...I'm just curious to know what stopped them this time. Was it 16 years of PDP too?
Or have the jobs already been created technically?

Who are they going to arrest next in order to divert attention from this spectacular failure?
How many billions of dollars are they going to find hidden underneath Diezani's bathroom slippers tomorrow in a bid to keep their worshippers busy?

Please, if anybody here knows Osinbajo, kindly tell him that the leg of the corpse he buried is showing.

anonimi:


Before you start blaming the public anyhow, please tell us what arrangements the LGA made to collect the refuse in a particular place or the bins that the LGA provided for this purpose.
Thanks.


www.nairaland.com/attachments/3084794_DumbPeople_jpg287f2b4d3ead2f536f99f92cbca9c590

Local Government structures don't exist in Imo State anymore, as Rochas dissolved all the offices of the Local Government chairmen and councillors the second he became governor in 2011.
He has refused to conduct elections ever since, and has concentrated all powers to his office, concurrently diverting all LG funds and allocations directly to his table for quick looting.

Afonjas

nextstep:


True, but I don't turn off my engine 17 times to wash it. I turn it off, let it cool. Wash it. Rinse it. Wash it again. Rinse well. Then I even rub small petrol on it to make it shine. Then I even add small oil sef and top off other fluids. Then it's good for long while because I washed it right the first time.

You do realise I was being sarcastic, right?

rozayx5:
did i just read 17 system collapses this year alone


kenai

You are a pained wailer!

Buhari is cleaning the 16 years rot of PDP!

Tell me, if you want to wash your car engine, don't you first turn it off before washing it? The same applies for the power stations. You have to turn them off to fight corruption.
When we generated 0 MW, did you think it was by accident? Infact, my impeccable sources revealed to me that, on that very day, Baba was right there, in the power station control room, fighting corruption.
The only people angry about the economy are PDP members!

You are just angry.

I stand with Buhari!

Chei Buhari!

All the president's children study in the UK
He vacations in the UK
All his doctors are in the UK
He goes to treat his ear infections in the UK
He goes for his medical checkups in the UK
His wife wears 89 million naira Hermes bags and expensive jewelry shipped from overseas

But he tells his zombies in Nigeria that the economy is bad because Nigerians love foreign items. He tells them to "go back to the farm" for Nigeria's future is in agriculture... Subsistence farming, that is.
He tells them to buy Nigerian to grow the naira, as he jets off to have his polyps removed... In the UK.

A tale of a hypocrite, and his gullible, semi-literate worshippers.

And most importantly, you can browse your poorn with peace of mind.

The shameless, hypocritical coward of a woman is scared to death of Buhari.
It is very clear she's still holding on to a small glimmer of hope that she'd still be given an appointment under this administration, even if it's as a town-crier.

At the very core, this woman is simply a hustler with no scruples. But she's stuck now. The BBOG outfit has been exposed as a politically-packaged scam. It has blown up on her face. She can't back out, because that would expose her as a fraud. At the same time, she can't intensify her criticism because that would kill her chances of ever gaining an appointment under this dispensation (that's what she truly wants).
So now, we're left with a frustrated and emotionally unbalanced marketwoman, blowing hot and cold at every turn.

Vanguard, abeg, make una no spoil market for the woman ooo.

I no even fit talk again.
Na so so laugh I just dey laugh this Mr. Bean government and their brain-dead followers.

Nigerians deserve the immbeciles they have as leaders, really.
You know why? Because most Nigerians are immbeciles themselves.
The apple doesn't fall very far from the tree, you know.

That a man who promised to diversify the economy "using the Army, Navy and Airforce" could EVEN be allowed to win a polling unit, is a DAMNING INDICTMENT on the country!

What does it say about you? That you call yourself a PROFESSOR, but your boss no even get O-Level.

What does it say about you? That you saw a man who failed to update himself for the 30 years that he was out of power, but you foolishly voted him with the hopes that he'd bring you CHANGE!

What does it say about you? That you voted a man who had 150 cows in 2003, 150 cows in 2007, 150 cows in 2011, and 150 cows in 2015, with the hopes that he'd bring you economic GROWTH? A man who mistakes wretchedness and lack of enterprise for 'humility' and 'being non-kwarrapt'.

Omo, na one chance, straight.
But don't act like your country deserves better. It doesn't.

The people get the leaders they deserve. Don't get it twisted.

When you keep them illiterate, you keep them wretched.
And when you keep them wretched, you keep them OBEDIENT.

The Northern elites know exactly what they're doing by keeping their people illiterate and poor. They opposed those schools from the get go, because the schools would liberate their lower class from the shackles of ignorance and gullibility, and they can't have that.
They can't have a lower class capable of thinking for themselves, disecting their lies and rejecting them.
They can't have a lower class capable of challenging their UK-educated children in politics and leadership.
They can't have a lower class capable of rejecting their plates-of-rice inducements during election season.
They can't have a lower class capable of seeing them for what they truly are.
So, those schools are "expensive" because the results would "cost" their selfish political ambitions a lot.

As Lord Confucius would say, "He who knows nothing, doubts nothing".
By extension, he who knows nothing, questions nothing.
Where do you expect them to get obedient foot soldiers for their numerous pogroms against blasphemers of their prophet?
If these children are taught about family planning and population control, how do you expect their elites to get their numerous bloated votes and census figures to help them earn more federal allocation cheques?

The Northern criminals know EXACTLY what they're doing.

By the time this stark illiterate is done with Nigeria eh, many Nigerians will be hustling for VISA to Somalia.

Ehem... I no talk anything oh. I just dey render am as I see am...

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303531204579208322842825640
Screenshot Credit: Tunji Andrews (@TunjiAndrews)
*whistles and walks off*

I thought the goat-faced tout Aregbesola said Goodluck Jonathan was cutting Osun state's allocation to punish him for belonging in the opposition?

Tell me, is Jonathan still cutting your allocation from Otueke?

And to think so many so-called "EDUCATED" people like Gbawe, Omojuwa, Ayourb, OgbeniDipo, GbengaGold, DOlusegun and the other fraudsters helped in PERSISTENTLY spinning that lie?
WHAT A PITY!

Truly, these people have played themselves and shown the world they're nothing but hungry riff-raffs who lie for a living.

What credibility do you have left?
Shame!

Truly, the Nigerian 'intellectual' is a fraud.

Yasirarafat:

U get time to type all this for sm1 who don't know u exist??

Sorry bro

From the look of things, you should devote the time you spend on the internet to improving your atrocious grammar, dear zombie.

Well, well, well.
A country is under recession but its president is more interested in 'fighting indiscipline' using a uniformed semi-literate brigade.
I guess the only people actually dumber than this expired fecal matter, Buhari, are the dunces who voted him in the first place.

In all this, I'm really impressed with my people, the Igbo.
They REALLY saw through this ancient dunderhead.
On TWO occasions, he contested for the presidency using an Igbo as his vice, but they really SAW through his charade and rejected him TOTALLY!

We remember the manipulative criminals who staged the OccupyNigeria scam protests over Subsidy Removal, even attacking the South East for not partaking in that iddiocy parade. Today, same people justify the removal by Buhari.

We remember the people who never failed to constantly update us on foreign exchange rates and Jonathan's 'failure' because the naira was 216 to a Dollar. Today, the naira is 400 to a Dollar under Buhari, and they are dead silent.

We remember the people who spat fire and brimstone over Stella Oduah's Masters Degree. Today, the same people defend Buhari's lack of an O-Level Certificate.

We remember the people who allowed themselves to be used by political charlatans all in the name of BringBackOurGirls, even attacking the South East for not joining in. Today the founder of the BBOG trend has now been compensated with a juicy position at NPA, the Chibok School Principal has been penciled down for a commissioner post, the girls have still not been found... And they're now cool with it.

People were warned about this man's lack of education, lack of an economic plan, and hatred of democracy; but they cheered him on and even insulted the Igbo for their "miscalculation" of totally rejecting the caveman.

Ultimately, history will judge us all tomorrow for the roles we played today... And dare I say, history will be very kind to the Igbo.

Blood of God!

Some weeks prior to the event, the sports ministry boasted that the Nigerian Olympics outfits would 'showcase the Nigerian culture'.

Na like this?

See as the females dey like graduates of The Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizadry, and the men dey like people wey dey work for mortuary.

Honestly, at this point, I think I should actually thank the dude who misplaced the outfits.
You were almost the real MVP!

When we kept drumming it to the heads of these dunces that Buhari's appointments have NOTHING to do with merit and qualifications but are based on 3 factors - Tribalism, Nepotism and Cronyism - they went haywire with the usual empty, hackneyed recitation, "I don't care where Baba picks his people from, as long as they PERFORM".
Well, there you have it.
Playtime is finally over, and the grim, depressing reality that these "technocrats" were actually UNQUALIFIED to handle these posts has finally come home.

See, you can never win with nepotism or cronyism. The fates will not allow you. One way or another, your intellectual emptiness will be laid bare for all to see.

When you replace a Barth Nnaji with a Fashola, an Adesina with an Audu Ogbeh, an Okonjo-Iweala with an Adeosun, an Emeka Mba with an 83-year old Durojaiye and a Mobolaji Johnson with a glove-wearing clown; then trust me you have already staged your own epic failure.

This man was running a team of economic illiterates and high-powered dimwits all along, but you piled excuse after excuse to defend the blunders.

Now they're out of ideas and are finally looking for 'experts'...
Wait... You mean these clowns were mere 'office holders' all this while?

Tell me something!

Best wishes.

None of the mainstream loudmouths from her homestate or home region bothered seeking justice for her.
None called for further investigation or put the police under scrutiny.
None held protests opposing "Violence Against Women".
None of the hungry, penniless APC internet warriors called for resignations.
The usual social 'activists' who called for the resignation of the Interior Minister in the wake of the Immigration Recruitment Stampede are now deaf and dumb in the face of the numerous Fulani attacks, religious violence and wanton mutilations.

But wait for another verbal nuclear bomb from Dino Melaye aimed at their supreme goddess Remi Tinubu, and they'll crawl out of their slums and shanties, fully kitted with branded shirts and banners, protesting against 'Domestic Violence'.

Such a shame.

obailala:
Swerve... 7 days to go.

Pitiful. The rettard is saving face.
Next time, don't jump into conversations uninvited.

obailala:
Until the one week period i gave your brain to assimilate info expires, i would bother reading beyond the first sentence of your repeated, pointless, off-the-topic wailing verses you keep vomiting. Be gone!

Says the dumb buffoon who jumped on a conversation between me and Goke7.
A conversation that didn't even involve him in the first place.
Now that you've been taken to the cleaners, it's "Be gone"?

Wake up and smell the coffee. It is you who should get going, loser. And I hope this experience has helped teach you a lesson on the importance of READING and COMPREHENDING a post before jumping in to type garbage.

Kindly take the nearest exit and get lost forever.

obailala:
I'm sorry I must have overestimated your brain capacity, probably because of your good use of grammar, I assumed I was conversing with a sound person who should know the difference between 5 and 6. But now I know better; some brains are unfortunately not as fast as a standard brain ought to be, so I would leave you some time, say a week, for your brain to assimilate and grasp the simple message on the difference between high speed trains and scraps.

You overestimated my brain capacity? Awww... So touching, I think I'm tearing up. *sniff-sniff*

Unfortunately, I can't say the same for you.
I never 'overestimated' your brain capacity. I knew right from the onset you were a dullard because your pitiful history of obtuse, hair-brained and intellectually vapid babbles is well documented across these boards.

Knowing your knack for bare-faced lies and fact-twisting, what I seek to do is not to educate you, but to prevent you and your pack of liars from misinforming and deceiving the innocent silent readers who might be going through these threads.

Like they say, when a lie goes unchallenged for a while, it becomes gospel. This is more evident in the "Jonathan Ruled For 6 Years" lie which many people ended up chanting because it went unchallenged, never minding that he served from 2010 to 2015.
Knowing how morally wretched Buhari and the depraved subhumans supporting him are, it was only a question of time before they tried to award the accolade to him.
Remember the "BUHARI BUILT 3 REFINERIES" scam?
Remember the "BUHARI CUT DOWN INFLATION" scam?

We're on ground now, and your lies will never be allowed to take off anymore.

Better adjust to that new reality, loser.

obailala:
Apparently I've been talking to a mannerless kid who's just out to win an argument for some imaginary price, hence all the pointless blabbing; a person who doesn't know the difference between narrow and standard gauge coming here to insult people.

This thicko is still out here deceiving himself. Such a shame.

The first standard gauge train in Nigeria is being commissioned today, yet in your infinite wisdom, you claim to have seen where someone at some point in the past was insulting a train that was only commissioned today... Oh I forgot, your brain still hasn't assimilated that there's a difference between those former train systems and the one just being commissioned today, my bad!

I have already referred you to the thread you should go read to witness your zombies attacking EVERY, and I mean EVERY rail project started by Jonathan. I've also given you the video that chronicles the progress of the rail system, showing that your inept illiterate idol played absolutely no role in the train he's trying to claim today.
If you choose to still remain here telling empty lies, that's your cross to carry. Rest assured that I'll always be around to help you dig your own hole and bring further huimiliation to you.
That choice is yours, loser.

obailala:
My main point I have been trying to pass across is regarding the bolded part of your message above. Nobody ever badmouthed the standard gauge rail project which is being commissioned today; the badmouthed projects are the refurbished/exhumed pre-1960 rail track system which can't support a decent fast moving train. Narrow and standard gauge rails are not the same thing as you've been ignorantly vomiting repeatedly all evening. That is the simple message I've been trying to impress into your skull all evening, even a primary school pupil or a person with a pentium 1 brain should have grabbed this message ages ago.

Meanwhile every other thing I said was in response to the extra bits of garbage you kept shooting out.

"Nobody ever badmouthed the standard guage project".

Just listen to yourself and how miserably pathetic you sound.
Lying may be in your DNA; but it's sometimes wiser to simply keep shut if you know you're going to do nothing but disgrace yourself.

Was it not on this forum that EVERY rail project of GEJ was attacked as scrap? Why are you so desperate in your quest to rewrite the disgraceful past of your co-travellers?

Was it not on LRNZH's thread where he tried to draw up numerous comparisons between Jonathan's trains and the trains in other countries in a bid to attack GEJ?

When your fellow numbskulls came in here branding ALL of Jonathan's railway revitalisation projects, was there any mention of "Err, no, I'm actually not attacking standard guage ooh!"?
Did any of you praise-singers even attempt to specify if it was Standard Guage they were attacking or not?

You forget that the 5 years worth of hateful junk from your fellow zombies is littered all over the forum, and can always be pulled up to shame you and your lies.
Their history of irrational hate for GEJ is well documented on these boards, so it would do you a world of good if you refrained from retroactively contextualizing your numerous episodes of unbriddled tomfoolery.

I posted a video that showed that THIS VERY SAME Abuja-Kaduna rail project you're trying to distinguish from GEJ's earlier works, was STILL built and finished by GEJ.
You should get your dull brain up and working and watch the freaking documentary instead of messing yourself up here.

Boy, you have lost.

Take the L like a man and stop further digging your hole!

obailala:


He keeps going around in circles, throwing insults like he's got some wisdom in his head. FYI, if only you could reason normally without the inordinate urge to abuse your father and entire family like a frustrated person, you should have since gotten the simple message I've been trying to pass which is that contrary to your assertions, the narrow gauge train systems being used before today (which were badmouthed) are different from the standard gauge train system being commissioned today.

I never veered off from any discussion, it's only your brain and comprehension that veered off due to your urge to respond with insults even before reading. I am not responsible for your frustration boy...

With each successive post, you continue toi show me how dull you are as an individial and a poster.
Please look below for a quick summary on the chronicle of the discussion and where you started shooting yourself, numbskull:

Goke7: "What is all the fuss about if Buhari commissions a Jonathan project? He commissioned his predecessors' projects too."

Kenai: "The fuss here is that Buhari and his camp are the only ones to criticize and badmouth a project while out of power only to try to steal the glory for the same project while in power."

*Obailala jumps in with his trademark tomfoolery*

Obailala: "Jonathan commissioned deathtraps! Jonathan commissioned scrap! The insults were well in order because Jonathan commissioned these repainted junk locomotives!"

(You still don't see how you foolishly veered off from the main issue? Read on, still)

Kenai: "Errr... No, dull citizen. We're talking about these modern trains. "

*Obailala comes in again with his low IQ and lack of basic comprehension*

Obailala: "Obasanjo commissioned the first this-and-that guage. Lugard commissioned this guage. Arnold Schwarzenegger commissioned that guage"

(How the hell does that really have ANYTHING to do with the MAIN issue which is TAKING CREDIT FOR SOMETHING YOU CRITICIZED IN THE PAST AND HAD NO ROLE IN ITS ACTUALISATION?)

If after all this and your dull brain still can't show you how you played yourself here, then there's really no helping you.
It simply means you are perpetually locked in your own vortex of iddiocy, and you genuinely have my pity.

What a dullard!

obailala:
Like I have been saying, your lack of knowledge seems self inflicted and you enjoy the bliss of it because that is the only way you can have what to say.

You initially claimed some people who blasted the old death trap trains placed by GEJ on the tracks are now turning around to hail the same trains today. I pointed out to you the difference between standard gauge rails and narrow gauge rails; your brain is still incapable of comprehending the difference.

Then I proceeded to show you an example of the haunted looking archaic trains that were badmouthed as locomotives, you jumped out in shameless denial claiming the picture I posted was a freight train. I proceeded to disgrace you on your lies by proving the trains were indeed passenger trains, then you have now reverted to showing us air-conditioned beautiful looking trains, claiming they are the same thing as those being commissioned today.

The simple question for you is this, the video you posted from 2015, on what kind of tracks do those trains run on?..... modern standard gauge or pre-1960 narrow gauge death traps?.... Also, what is the speed of those 'beautiful trains' you posted?... Trains which take upwards of 35 hours to travel from Lagos to Kano is what someone who claims to be 'smart' wants to compare with standard gauge trains?

You ended up disgracing no-one but yourself with your hopelessly barren attempt at coming off as sensible.

My first post highlighted the hypocrisy of the ruling party and its penchant for turning and trying to steal credit for projects and policies it hitherto denigrated.
You, on the other hand, foolishly just jumped right in on an endless hair-brained rant about Jonathan commissioning those old trains, despite the fact that they long predated his administration.
To show you just how stuppid you are, I posted pictures of the modern passenger trains Jonathan brought on stream, which you and your pack of hungry sycophants had tried long and hard to denigrate.
Sensing that your folly had been laid bare, you went on a lengthy, baseless lecture about Standard Guage rails like they are the crux of the matter or the issue under review.
How you could so aimlessly veer off from the main line of discussion (About taking credit for projects you badmouthed) to start lecturing like a m0ron on an incongruent topic, clearly exposes your bewildering iddiocy.
Still think you're disgracing anyone but yourself, boy?

Please stay on the freaking topic and stop veering off. You're not fooling anybody.

obailala:
Sorry boy, you can keep using all the abusive words you know in your dictionary, I would just take it that you are insulting your father... but then, that does not change a fact from being a fact. The first STANDARD GAUGE rail built in Nigeria is the Ajaokuta to warri rail built by OBJ to connect Delta Steel Company Warri and Ajaokuta Steel Company; that line isn't functional yet because the steel companies are still dead.

The second STANDARD GAUGE rail built in Nigeria is this Abuja-Kaduna rail which is being commissioned today as the FIRST commercial use standard rail in Nigeria. All the other trains you have seen (including those pictures you posted above) all run on refurbished pre-1960 narrow gauge rails; hence they are pathetically slow (travel time from Lagos to Kano is 2 days) and the trains keep derailing like no man's business.

Like I mentioned earlier, you unfortunately are still ignorant of the difference between the new standard gauge rails and narrow gauge rails; to you, train na train..

Your imbecilllity doesn't surprise me one bit, and I anticipated you would go down this lane of iddiocy by choosing to regale me with inanities.
The fact of the matter remains that Goodluck Jonathan built those rail lines as well as the new train system you and your motley crew of sycophants are so desperately trying to corner and attribute to your illiterate idol.

The very same train system you blasted as locomotives, you're trying to claim today.

Thank God there's already a documentary video detailing the revitalisation of the railway which everyone can see. Your attempt at revisionism has FAILED!


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

Watch that video, fast-forwarding all the way to 24:50.
It was published on March 20, 2015, and you can see those recent trains as well as the Abuja-Kaduna one your hero wants to claim.

You and your fellow sycophants are so pathetic. You are so desperate in your glory hunt to accord your hero with works he had no role in, just to make him look less worthless than he already is.

It was this SAME desperation that had his zombies lying and claiming he built 3 REFINERIES!
How far naa? Are you still spinning that refinery lie?
Bubari's fake glory hunt didn't start today.

Boy, kindly look for a quiet corner and sit down.
Your revisionist expedition has failed woefully.

obailala:
Boy, stop dancing naked in public. The picture below is a sample of the exact refurbished pre-1960 narrow gauge trains which were termed archaic locomotive scraps. In the 21st century, how could anyone be celebrating refurbished pre-1960 narrow gauge trains?
www.nairaland.com/attachments/4022905_download_jpeg9e044ea0ed5817381b189680f392bafe

How dare you try to equate the haunted house above to the latest standard gauge speed trains?.... Obviously you do not even know there is a difference between these new high speed trains and the archaic narrow gauge trains which take 35 hours to crawl from Lagos to Kano. Pity!

You and your pack of wretched, penniless lowlives are destined for fates worse than torture and death with the devilish and demonic lies you peddle in public with such sickening glee.
You can only fool your fellow praise-singers and mercenaries, but not us.
Those trains you posted above long preceded Jonathan, and are known to be used for freight haulage by private construction companies. You are a SHAMELESS nincompoop!

Please, look below for some of the trains brought on board by Jonathsn. Take correction and stop acting a fool.

There are strong indications that one of the contractors handling the reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Messrs Julius Berger (Nig) Plc, may soon pull out of the project if the Federal Government does not mobilise the company before the end of August.
Investigations revealed that the company has threatened to pull out of the scheme unless part of the contract sum was paid into its coffers within two weeks.
Julius Berger, it was learnt, had been under severe pressure by the Federal Government to continue work on the road despite not been paid for work done so far on the road since returning to site a couple of months ago.
According to a top official of the company, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the Federal Government was arm-twisting the company to continue work on the road.
“Since we returned to site about two months ago, the Federal Government has not paid us one kobo for job so far done on the road. Instead, what officials of the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing kept telling us is that our absence from the road would further cause untold hardship to motorists plying the road.
“But they forget to appreciate the fact that so far we have been spending our own meager resources to fund our activities on the road. They further posited, that we are responsible for the slow pace of development on the road as a result of our refusal to fully mobilise our personnel and equipment to the road”, he noted.
According to him, since the contract for the reconstruction of the road was awarded to Messrs Julius Berger (Nig) Plc and RCC by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, no significant payment had been made by the Federal Government to the company for the rehabilitation of the expressway.
He pointed out that Julius Berger was contracted to handle the reconstruction of the expressway from the old tollgate at Ojota to Shagamu intersection (known as Section one), while RCC was to handle the reconstruction of the road from Shagamu to Ibadan (Section two).
He said unequivocally that there was no way the company would continue to work on the road beyond the third week of August if no payment was made to it.
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When contacted for his comment on the matter, the Director in charge of Public Private Partnership (PPP) office in the ministry responsible for overseeing the road project, Engineer Babatunde Ekunsunmi, declined comment.
According to him, he had been redeployed from the office, adding that another director had been reassigned to oversee the project.
The Director of Highways (South-West), Engineer John Ibe, said that the supervision of the road was no longer under his purview.
However, investigations revealed that the ministry was delaying payment of the outstanding sum due to the company and RCC until the new minister in charge of the ministry, Babatunde Fashola, was done with the reconciliation of the figures quoted by the two companies for the execution of the road project.
A source at the ministry said that the ministry would definitely mobilise the two companies but that would be after all the reconciliation process had been concluded.
It was learnt that funds had been released by the Federal Government for some specific road projects across the country of which the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is one of them.
The lingering non-mobilisation, according to observers, may worsen the condition of the road especially this rainy season and may well spell hard times for commuters.
It would be recalled that the contract for the reconstruction of the road was re-awarded to Messrs Julius Berger and RCC by former President Goodluck Jonathan after the former contractor handling the project, Bi-Courtney Highways Services Limited (BCHSL), was asked to hands off the project in 2012.
Bi-Courtney Highways Services Limited, a company owned by Mr. Wale Babalakin, was awarded the contract for the reconstruction of the road under a build, operate and transfer (BOT) agreement at a sum of N85.9 billion.
The concession was granted in July 2009.
Babalakin as at the time the contract was revoked claimed that he had spent about $300 million.
According to a source at BCHSL, up and until when the contract was terminated, the company claimed that it had completed the patching and overlaying of bad portions of the highway, adding that its $6.5 million asphalt plant was seized by Ogun State government.

http://www.today.ng/news/national/158252/julius-berger-pullout-lagos-ibadan-exp-release-funds

Goke7:
Let's stop all these madness please, did GEJ not commission projects that were conceived or done by his predecessors? So what's the fuss about

The 'fuss' about it is that the same monkeys and repulsive savages who were badmouthing the project during GEJ's time (calling the trains rotten locomotives and deathtraps) are the SAME iddiots coming today to praise Buhari for commissioning it.
Overnight, the trains have ceased being 'locomotives' and have become 'high-speed trains' simply because their god and saviour Buhari is commissioning it.
Boy, do you think we are fools? Do you take the public for gullible puppets?

Who can forget the other day when a rabid Buharist by the name 'LRNZH' created a thread comparing GEJ's trains with the other trains Johannesburg, London and New York, as a way of mocking 'Retardeeen Locomotive'? This is the thread: https://www.nairaland.com/2064509/photos-comparison-gej-new-trains

Who can forget the week after Buhari was sworn in, when he posed for a photo with some Chinese guy, holding a hi-speed train toy? Remember how his zombies congregated on that thread to denigrate GEJ's "locomotives"? This is the thread: https://www.nairaland.com/2273789/photo-gmb-inspecting-train-new

You can't trash-talk something only to come back and want to claim glory for that same thing. It only shows you lack honor and are nothing more than a fool.

By the way, whenever you see Buhari, please tell him we're waiting for the day he'll bring this train of his to Nigeria and stop trying to take credit for another man's work, especially something he and his wretched, penniless zombies badmouthed in the past:


www.nairaland.com/attachments/2340842_img20150423204000_jpeg54d46d8bee44c08ce83e1df6c7bfa2eb

Do you all remember the 2013 drama at the House of Reps when the committee members, led by Abdulmumin Jibrin (this same man currently facing hell at the hands of Dogara), posed '50 Questions For Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala' on the economy in a bid to embarrass her, only to have her brilliantly tackle each and every question and leave them all cowering in shame?

Well, it turns out those questions posed were actually not written by Jibrin, but a man he contracted for the hatchet job at 115 million naira, named Odilim Enwegbara.

He's speaking up today, and has penned a clear article that chronicles his ordeals at the hands of Abdulmumin Jibrin.

Odilim Enwegbara: My ordeal in the hands of Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin

On December 18, 2013, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Finance, Mr. Abdulmumin Jibrin, hired me to come up with some 50 questions the House Committee on Finance wanted to slam on the then Coordinating Minister of the Economy and the Minister of Finance, Ms Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to prove to the world that she has been mismanaging the country’s economy.

[b]As a well-known critic of Ms Okonjo-Iweala, Mr Jibrin told me that after the committee’s long deliberations, they decided that there was no one better than I to come up with these 50 questions covering all sectors of the country’s economy.



Notwithstanding his flattering, I insisted that for me to come up with these 50 questions within the shortest period of time, and the fact that the 50 questions should reflect all sectors of the economy, I have to be paid the sum of N100 million. With Mr Jibrin and I agreeing on my fee to be N100 million, I quickly went to work, suspending all my engagements, including an important meeting with some foreign diplomats.

As if not enough, three months later when Ms Okonjo-Iweala submitted her response to the 50 questions, Mr. Jibrin calling from Switzerland, insisted that since I came up with the 50 questions, he was further hiring me to react to her response. He went further to inform me in advance that as soon as he returned to Nigeria, he would call for a public hearing with my reaction to her response to the 50 questions forming the basis for the would be well publicized public hearing.

In fact, he told me that the goal was to humiliate this so-called Coordinating Minister of the Economy. While I had no disagreement with whatever his committee intended to achieve, I had to let him know that that too should be paid for. After long argument, he agreed on N15 million as my fee to react to her response, bringing the total agreed consulting fee to N115 million.[/b] As he bragged on the phone, a public hearing by the House Committee on Finance was scheduled in March 2014.

But to my great shock, the public hearing which I was invited as a major resource person along with other Nigerians was suddenly called off two days to the day of the hearing. And to my greatest dismay, I only read the announcement on the pages of some national newspapers. I was not happy that I was not informed by Mr Jibrin who had always called me, including sometimes three times a day. I was not happy because I had to cancel a foreign trip and had to travel and return the same day from Lagos since Mr Jibrin needed me to hold a meeting with his committee to discuss the modality of posing the questions to her. While reading it, I quickly called Mr Jibrin, but he didn’t pick.



The shocker of my life came when after several trials to talk to Mr. Jibrin to ascertain the authenticity of what I was reading in the newspapers, he finally picked my call with response, “why must you be informed?” His tone on the phone, almost made me lose breath. But calmly I thanked him and told him that maybe he wasn’t in his best mood. Since then on he never picked my calls.

I became worried. When eventually I got him on the phone, I politely requested for an urgent meeting with him regarding my consulting fees. But he quickly asked what consulting fees should we be meeting for? I responded by reminding him that it was about my consulting fees for the 50 questions. But while I was asking him when and where he would like us to meet, he hung the phone on me. He called later to give me a date and time to come over to his private office in Ministers Hill, but made it clear to me that he did not know what fees I was talking about. Calmly, I accepted his proposed date and time for the meeting.

At the meeting he openly but arrogantly told me that as smart as I thought I was, including having an MIT education, that I was a fool who could be easily used and dumped. To quickly drive this home, he asked me to produce any form of written agreement or contract to show that I did the 50 questions not to mention agreement to be paid N115 million consulting fees. I appealed to him to recognize the work I did which I did believing in his being an honorable member of the House of Reps. Laughingly, he told me the meeting was over and that I should never ever contact him on my so-called consulting fees. I quietly left his office.

While leaving his office, I told him that maybe he needed some time to recall our meetings and phone calls where he hired me and assured me that as an honorable member of the House of Representatives his word should be his bond. I went further to tell him that he should better start putting the money together because nothing would make me not to demand to be fully paid my fees, whether we signed an agreement or not; and that agreements either in writing or oral are legally binding. As if I knew he would negate on this oral agreement, to safeguard my intellectual property, I introduced five questions into the 50 questions from my previous newspaper articles.

When every effort to have the house to pay me or agree on when to pay me fall through, I discovered that I had no other option but to write the Speaker a letter which I copied the committee chairman demanding for my payment and inserting the five question along with the pages of the newspapers were they were lifted verbatim. Once he got my copy, Mr. Jibrin who had been avoiding my calls, called me late that day, which I asked my assistant to pick and hear him out.

He rained on me with insults and as God could have it, he sent series of blackmailing SMS, telling me that his lawyers would soon descend on me for trying to extort money from him as a member of the House of Representatives. But when I threatened him with plagiarism, as luck would have it, his text message response was, “you are sick for plagiarizing yourself.” In other words, he has officially told me that in fact, I have a case against him, the speaker and the House.

Efforts were made by me and my lawyers to meet with the speaker on this matter. Eventually through a powerful clergyman, an agreement was reached for a meeting with the Speaker, Aminu Tambuwal who called me and confessed never to be aware of the case. I reminded him of a copy of my letter that was sent to him, which he denied seeing. He promised a meeting in his residence and gave me his media assistant’s number Mr. Imam Imam. On the day of the meeting, every effort to reach both the speaker and his media assistant, failed.

In the meantime, my lawyer during his investigation of who was the House of Representative’s lawyer in this case, came to know that it one of the country’s foremost lawyers. When a meeting with the powerful SAN eventually took place, I was shocked by how much the SAN knew about the case, and in his usual humorous way, told me that as a human rights lawyer, he would do everything within his power to make sure that the case was settled out of court and that I am fully paid for the job well-done, a job that the whole House was proud of for having embarrassed Okonjo-Iweala on her poor handling of the country’s economy.

But every effort by Falana to organize a meeting with the speaker, who he told me was readily willing to settle the issue, never materialized. As a result, my lawyers had no option but to sue Mr. Jibrin, Mr Tambuwal, and the House of Reps. Understandably, it was a time everyone, including the speaker was fighting for their political life because the powerful PDP was determined to render the speaker a political orphan for having used the party to become the speaker and now dumping the party to join the newly formed APC.

Given the nonchalance attitude exhibited and the colossal abuse of office by both the Speaker and the Committee Chairman all these months, I finally decided it is high time I sought a redress in the Court of law; hence the lawsuit no. CV/890/14 instituted at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on December 23, 2014. What still baffles me to date is why the well-publicised March 2014 public hearing was called off? It was so unbelievable that after the 120 paged reactions to the Okonjo-Iweala’s response to my earlier 50 questions the whole was just suddenly called off without any form of explanation. Could one be left to wonder if some kind of “settlement” took place?

I am yet to recover from my encounter with this serial blackmailer and liar, who calls himself an honorable member of the House of Representatives. It is unbelievably how people like Jibrin could have made it to the country’s House of Representatives. I am not surprised that he has been sacked from being the House Committee Chairman on Appropriation. I am equally not surprised to read his ongoing effort to blackmail the leadership of the House, after all that is his specialty.

I think that the people of Kano should do this country a great favor if they should recall this dishonourable man, so that he stops using his constituency as the platform to terrorize the country. Also, let me use this opportunity to invite EFCC and DSS to fully and thoroughly investigate this man’s enormous wealth, his bank accounts including how he made the money he used in buying his numerous latest luxury cars; his expensive properties in Ministers Hill, Maitama where he locates his private office and his expansive and expensive Wuse 2 residence.

Here is a man who as the Chairman of the House Committee on Finance was alleged to be extorting billions of naira from ministry, departments, and agencies of government under his committee, and those refusing to play along were threatened with a public hearing with the goal of blackmailing them. Thank God for President Buhari, the era of using budget padding to steal billions from our commonwealth by people like Mr. Jibrin is fast becoming a thing of the past.

Enwegbara, a development economist and Chairman/CEO Pan Africa Development Corporate Company can be reached at basil_enwegbara@yahoo.com or 07038501486

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So, the corrupt and dull fellow was right there in the house, putting up a facade of "defender of the economy and voice of the people" while he was just a greedy, corrupt chap on a personal agenda of vendetta

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Wait a second... The mainstream Nigerian film industry of Asaba-Enugu-Calabar axis, which is what has brought us international recognition and admiration from our African peers (like Kenya, Ghana, Cameroun, Congo, Malawi, Senegal, Uganda, Tanzania and the rest of Africa), you're not supporting... Rather, you're taking from the country's commonwealth to go build a Kannywood film village in the religiously intolerant and islamic fundamentalist hotbed known as Kano? Jesus Christ!
Was this logic inspired by the similar one that had Nigeria building an OIL REFINERY in KADUNA?

I swear to God, if you leave these Northerners, they're ready to criminally CORNER everything about the country's commonwealth without any regards to DIGNITY, merit or common sense.

You all witnessed the way these savage criminals turned Nigeria's oil industry into a family affair during the military regime, criminally awarding oil blocs to their friends, brothers, sisters, MISTRESSES, girlfriends, cousins, nieces and nephews, in such BRAZEN display of arrogance, entitlement and IMPUNITY.
These people were not built for democracy. PERIOD! No sugarcoating or political correctness can surmount this glaring fact.
They crave their past social structure of Authoritarian EMPERORS and Paramount rulers where their leaders reign supreme and make arbitrary decisions without putting into consideration the ethnic diversity of the country.
They crave their cultural system that engenders oligarchs and cabals, creating a class structural divide of 'The Royalties and The Serfs".

IMAGINE! You want to use the country's commonwealth to develop a film village in Kano, to help strengthen "The Hausa Language"? A section of the country.
How many people did you consult before embarking on this rubbish?

Nothing for Pound Road, Aba
Nothing for Iweka Road, Onitsha
Nothing for Idumota, Lagos

Mba. It is for Kano, the hotbed of religious intolerance.

Shame on this primitive, parochial tribalist.

#BingoLivesMatter!!!