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A lifeline urgently needed by EU to revive its moribound economy.  EU can only remain economically bouyant and relevant in the face of a rampagin Asia if it can sell its moribound and expensive technology to brainless countries like Nigeria which does not know how to manage its own affairs to achieve desired growth but depends on the west and its imperialist organs like IMF/World Bank, UN etc.

More money will be wasted and no lasting good will come from this. Another pipe dream.  EU will have what it desire but not Nigeria. This government needs to think deeply to come with durable and enduring solutions to our economic problems; not paliatives / cosmetic efforts.

How easily we excussed incompetency and ineptitude with religious and ethnic sentiments. As long as we keep doing this, we should know our children will meet this country in a problematic state it is now.
Have you ever seem a political leader without enemies before. Obama has his own now but he is pushing to get things done. Should excuse Jonathan's failures for the fact that he is a xtian and a southerner? Will this fact be sufficent an explanation to your child if you have no food to put on the table for the family?
I do think Jonathan is failing in many things other than Boko Haram and you cannot blame the North for it. What is GEJ doing to reduce the huge cost of running govt and high level corruption preying on Nigeria for instance?

As far as I know, GEJ has all the resources to handle all the problems of his office and I assume he contested because he believed he can perform. The only resources GEJ has so far not have is personal competency. The problems are within GEJ character and intellect.

Stop wasting time blaming the North and other faith, it will not get you a better country. It only shows a flawed thought process in the individuals doing so.

The Ibadan flood was a disaster. Billions was lost in properties and very many lives as well. Worst is there was no emergency response from the various arms of governments. It was like people were left to their faith during and after the flooding. The governor is said to be in Saudi for lesser hajj while his citizens are been washed away by flood caused by mismanagement of the dams that overflowed. Nobody is even looking to the actual cause of the dam overflow to determine if this is man made error or natural disaster per se.
I think the Oyo State governor has to wake up and do the work he was voted to do. I have not seen a departure from the business as usual style of his PDP predecessors.

It is a shame.

Lasty, the flood exposed the grinding poverty in Ibadan. I was shocked by what I saw and pitied the helpless citizens.

May God help this country.

NO.

It looks like GEJ is in a trance. He still thinks ASO rock is a sweet dream and that he will wake up very soon and therefore just waiting while the whole nation waits on him.
GEJ cannot help this country at all.

There is something inherent in Islam, something unspoken, unwritten but nonetheless existent that allows Muslims to become terrorists and justify it with Islam.

That thing is hidden deep in the Arabic language but not found in the Quran, something Muslims from other diluted parts of the world only get to know when they associate with the terrorists.

Why is it that all terrorists who find justification in their religion have an allegiance to Islam?

The terrorists who are not Muslims have NEVER mentioned the Bible, or any other religious text in their propaganda. Why?

@alj harem,
They have not stolen your religion, there is something unwritten in Arabic, (and traceable to Mohammed), only the few , and the undiluted Jews know it.


Poster - This type of post shows something. Both the poster and whoever concur to it have deep hatred for muslims and only looks out for this type of occurrences to bash muslims. Hating muslims and stereotyping will not make all xtians or budhism. Even God created the world with lots of diversity and most people are born to a particular faith. For you who are muslim haters, what if you were born a muslim.
Matter of fact is violence whether terrorism, militancy, war and others abound in all parts of the world. Where a country's security forces are up to the task, they prevent innocent people from harm and abort such violent attacks. We do not kknow why this Nigerian govt has not come up with the sponsors of this violent group up to date. Who knows they may be sponsored by the powers that be as a way to further weaken the Federal govt in Nigeria. Afterall, a weakened federation will be easy to break and we know the oil will be for only those that sits atop the oil lands.
Otherwise, we would say the present govt is grossly incompetent.

Okay thanks.

I pray I was wrong and that it was not a fraud ring.

Sorry, did not get your drift. You gave a tenable reason why it may not be fraud but you initially said what you were suspecting. What were you suspecting?

Friday 5th August Law school Bus stop VI, La bus reg xq 766 LSD loaded to Ajah by 2.15pm. Stopped at Lekki Phase 1 and picked a man in white native attire. Driver accosted man for ticket and man produced one. Driver pointed out ticket only gets man to Jakande and that man should sit but be ready to buy ticket that will take man to Ajah at Jakande.
Immediately man sat, a lady who was a co passenger sitting two row behind and not in any uniform offered the man a lag bus ticket. I querried lady, asking if she was an official of lag bus for selling a ticket in a bus. The lady mumbled something I did not comprehend and the driver waved off the exchange of words.
At Jakande, the ticket checker came in and I again asked the ticket checker if there was a reason a co passenger should sell ticket. The ticket checker's response was not coherent or let's say inaudible.
At Ajah, I found out the lady that sold the ticket had disembarked before we got the last bus stop or garage. The co passenger that bought the ticket even embarrassed me and the driver was kind of persified the chap.

Does Tom or Jerry sells Lag bus tickets? Or is this another fraud ring.

Does anybody have infor? That was my second time entering a lag bus as I rarely take public transport.

My dear, trust NIgerians to fall for this bull shiot again.
Did Nigeria not fall for mr. "I had no shoe"?

Nigerians are simply misplaced up stairs. They dont know what a leader is and therefore will not see one even when he raises his hand.

let nigeria continue to fall for "i have no money" "i had no shoes" "I had no comb" etc.

Useless group of people.

Better to have common sense with no education than to have education with no common sense. Nigerias may be highly educated, but they lack any iota of commonsense collectively.

Ileke Idi , well said.

Fact is claiming basic rights in Nigeria is unlike the west where law and order are respected.
Most Nigerians have actually resigned to faith and hardly bother to claim their rights any longer because of the difficulties often encountered or the huge obstacles almost insurmountable. This defeatist attitude cuts across tribes, and educational attainement. In fact, the touts by dint of stubborness often claim their right when the elite shy away in frustration.
How far can you go or have you gone to get what rightly belongs to you? Please share your experiences. By sharing your experiences, you will be encouraging Nigerians who are already cowed to wake up and fight for their rights. May be we can again become a brave people and together re-shape Nigeria.Afterall, our collective bravery is a collection of our individual bravery.

Please share with us.

as at December 31, 2007, Nigeria's total public debt officially documented by the DMO stood at $22.229.88 million. 3.8 Billion Naira. Impressive figure for the collapsing Apapa Oshodi Road and other decaying infrastructure.


http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/opinion/editorial/2011/aug/01/editorial-01-08-2011-001.html

Na libel o!
i will sue on their behalf.
[b]you think you can stay online and tarnish hard earned reputation of hard working,ambitious and God fearing business role models?[/b]you will hear from us.
We will get you.


Quite interesting piece of information. Role model indeed. Been hearing quite a lot about how Bank MD's , Directors and other top guys in the industry make Billions of Niara from illegal deals that is economic crime against the state. How do you explain the sudden wealth of the CBN appointed Directors of the five distress Banks yet even their Pastors have failed to query the sudden wealth. It is only here that our Pastors and Imams see sudden wealth by members as God ordained.
If looters are your role models, wish you the best.
Don't want to duel on this at all. It is appauling that we all are not ready to confront the country's worst enemy. Corruption.

It takes a lot of restraints not to yab this president of ours.

He has and continues to deliver Nigeria to the owners i.e politicians and AGIPs.  The loosers now know themselves. Those who voted for GEJ are clearly the loosers.
This government cannot claim it does not know how to address the fundamental problems of this countries as mentioned by many on this blog. Anyway, it is a sad reminder that Nigeria started another wasteful journey for four years maybe more since May 2011.  Meanwhile, these weak and visionless leadership will weaken the federal government to the extent that only a broomstick will be required to break up the fatherland.

Can any good thing come out of this country?

Why would u rate a person's performance after 3 months into a 4 year stint? this thread just calls for sentimental answers. The thread should have been, " what would u have GEJ do to improve the economy" and how do we achieve this target of ours.

It will be a tragedy if we wait till the end of GEJ's tenure before assessing his performance. By then, the damage will be irreparable. By conducting this type of evaluation pari pasu with the pace of governance, GEJ has as much feed back to improve his government. Some may have posted bad comments out right prejudices but there are genuine comments on way forward as well. It is for the President and his handlers to choose.

This rating posting is therefore not out of malice for the President.

I will like to provide an insight.

There seem to be many more Nigerians from across the lenght of the Country that are frustrated by GEJ. Not that Nigerians expect GEJ to provide power, infrastructre and resolve all the country's problems in even four years, but Nigerians want to see workable plan to solving the problems over time even if it extends beyond GEJ.
Government needs to approach issues from a different and strategic point. For instance, the number of aids, ministers, commissioners, paliamentarians and civil servants urgently needs reduction by nothing less than 60% to free funds to facilitate economic growth.
Government needs to genuinely fight corruption. Reform the judiciary and not keep corrupt judges to deliver favourable rulings to the presidency. In fact all across the country the Judiciary should be financially independent of the executive just as the process that appoints judges should be.
If the plan or no plan so far displayed by GEJ is a basis for reviewing the government right now, no progress should be expected from his government even in 50 years.
Meanwhile, GEJ should shed the excess fat of AGIPS. Why would kerosene, diesel and other be readily available to the masses when GEJ AGIPs are feeding fat on it. Same with Cement and other public utilities including power. AGIPs are feeding fat on generator importation and sale.
The President should decide honestly which side of the fence he wishes to be counted. Masses or the buccaneers AGIPs.

Please correct me.

Thank you Delafruita,

I suppose governance is about solving peoples problems. Glad you know the problem preceeded ABAT and BRF. Also, glad you know the flooding was due to heavy rainfall , and poor drainage atleast the last flooding was. My point was between the two ABAT and BRF, ACN have been in power in Lagos state for 12 years. Do we conclude ACN lack the innovation and the will to solve the problem considering the huge resources they collect. You guys can continue to give them excuses but it will not last forever.
Planting flowers does not improve the life of an average Lagosian compared to having a traffic free good road, floodless raining season, decent and affordable accommodation. I want to believe that if a relative of yours got drowned in the flood, you would have held the Lagos state government responsible and not excuse them.


Sorry guys, I meant to type planting flowers does not improve the life of an average Lagosian compared to having traffic free good roads, floodless rainng season, decent and affordable housing.

Folks,

What is your rating of GEJ on the current issues in the country.

1. Minimum Wage
2. HIgh cost of Running Governemnt at all level of government in Nigeria
3. Boko Haram
4. Quality of the FEC.

Delafruita,

floods in lagos have been in existence ever before asiwaju became governor.besides the floods are a result of the combined forces of heavy rainfall,poor drainage and the release of water from the dam in ogun.of the three,the only one the government of lagos has control over is the issue of poor drainage and lagosians can attest to the fact that asiwaju and fashola after him have done a lot in that regard.otherwise the floods would have been more sever because of the population increase in lagos between 1999-2010.

Thank you Delafruita,

I suppose governance is about solving peoples problems. Glad you know the problem preceeded ABAT and BRF. Also, glad you know the flooding was due to heavy rainfall , and poor drainage atleast the last flooding was. My point was between the two ABAT and BRF, ACN have been in power in Lagos state for 12 years. Do we conclude ACN lack the innovation and the will to solve the problem considering the huge resources they collect. You guys can continue to give them excuses but it will not last forever.
Planting flowers does improve the life of an average Lagosian compared to having a traffic free good road, floodless raining season, decent and affordable accommodation. I want to believe that if a relative of yours got drowned in the flood, you would have held the Lagos state government responsible and not excuse them.

Only Emeka himself can take the decision considered right for himself.

The decision will be easier if no other issue exist between them but could become complicated if any other exist.

Scenario 1- Child fails DNA. Confront wife, she owns up, what does Emeka do? Send her away with the child. What does he achieve? Does he have his wasted life back? No. He has his honour back. What is destroyed? Other people maybe other children from same woman for Emeka. Can Emeka bear the emotional turmoil and bitterness this will bring to him?

2 - Emeka accepts wife's apology presuming she owns up again. Keeps family stable and everybody happy but Emeka sad. He sees himself as the goon and used . But the child could have been his anyway since he slept with the woman back then. Sometimes, when something has been on for too long, it is best to let sleeping dog lie.

I do not know what I would have done in this situation myself and that is why I repeat only Emeka can do what is right for himself in this matter. Whichever way it goes, Emeka will be further hurt. But we should remind ourselves that the peculiar thing about this case is the fact that it ruined Emeka's life though he allowed it to. There are many taking care of children they did not father without knowing.

It is a sad tale and one that makes one wonder if truly justice can be done in some situation.

ACN is really a smart party in many respect but unfortunately equally bad as PDP. What has ACN not tried to deflect the bad publicity that the flood brought its way.
It was not Fashola / ACN incompetence but global environmental problem. Flash flooding, and even rumour of tsunami went abouot town to make citizens exonerate uncles Fash and Tinubu and ACN corrupt machine. Now GEJ for not coming to visit should bear more blame than the incompetent ACN government .
Whether GEJ come to Lagos or not, what difference will that make to the fact that people have died because the government have failed to utilize massive state resources to solve the perennial flooding problem despite being in power for 12 years.

Regrettingly, the PDD daft as ever has kept silent why ACN makes mischief. Anyway, both are birds of same feather.

Ileke Idi,

Did you read the report? Even the reporter indirectly confirmed it is a government school. Private schools don't bear such names anyway.

Supposing the school is a private one , whose responsibility is it to license schools in Lagos State? Do they just license schools any how without adequate infrastructure and also fail to monitore? Are these not the Lagos state government responsibilities?

Had this boy been your nephew, I hope you will still defend your glorified over-hyped mediocre Uncle Fashola.

Hope you are not offended sha.

Bye

THE heart-rending death of an eight-year old primary school pupil of Irepodun Primary School, Ketu in Lagos, who fell into an open dilapidated pit toilet while defecating, underscores the deplorable state of infrastructure in Nigeria’s public school system. The death of the pupil is a pointer to the mess in our schools, and the horrifying condition under which our children are learning.

A lot has been said about the pathetic state of infrastructure in our public schools without the authorities doing anything to remedy the situation. The result is that pupils and students in public schools, from primary to tertiary level, daily face acute challenges in a most excruciating learning environment.

Little Lawal Buhari paid the ultimate price for finding himself in one of such blighted schools. In those schools, the children are exposed to disease-causing pathogens in a most unhygienic environment. Since there is no water, the issue of basic hygiene is foreclosed. The pupils defecate without washing their hands and obviously eat with the same hands. It is nauseating.

What else is expected in an environment where there are practically no water and no toilets for students and teachers, who are consequently forced to use nearby bushes when pressed. There are no records of the number of school children who have died or contracted one disease or the other in schools as a result of poor hygienic condition. The frequent outbreak of cholera in different parts of the country, especially, among children, obviously is indicative of this sad situation.

According to reports, little Buhari about a fortnight ago fell into his school’s open pit toilet that caved in as he was stooping to ease himself. The boy’s corpse was later pulled out of the pit in a most disgusting spectacle. If the boy had not been seen when he went into the ramshackle toilet, there could have been suspicion that he had been kidnapped or used for rituals in our increasingly diabolical society where people get missing daily.

However, his mates saw him when he took permission from the class teacher to use the toilet shortly before closing time. In the absence of a decent toilet, the pupil made straight to the dilapidated pit latrine used by more than 1,000 pupils of the school.

He reportedly spread papers on the dirty floor, in the manner of the pupils, to defecate upon and later throw into the toilet. But unknown to him, the toilet’s bricks have been weakened; he fell straight into the six-feet deep pit helplessly as it caved in.

When another pupil who noticed that Buhari had fallen into the toilet went and informed his teachers, they reportedly ignored him. But he persisted until it dawned on them that a disaster had occurred. That was when they began efforts to pull the boy out. But it was too late as he was already dead. His death resulted from a combination of negligence and failure of the system.

News of Buhari’s death naturally drew the ire of some young men in the neighbourhood who invaded the school and reportedly pulled down the doors of the toilets used by the teachers, which were locked and not accessible to the pupils. The damage, however, has been done.

The Ketu school disaster is only a tip of the iceberg of the horrible situation in our public schools. All over Lagos, the situation is the same in virtually all public schools. Things are not different in other states. Even public secondary schools and universities are not left out. Undergraduates in many of our institutions help themselves in the surrounding bushes because there are no toilets.

It is unfortunate that the nation finds it difficult to provide toilets or conveniences as part of basic human infrastructure needed. Schools, markets, bus parks, train stations, and indeed all public places are built without toilets. People travel long distances from one part of the country to another without seeing a single convenience on the way.

Across the country, practically no public building has functional toilets. In places where a few exist, they are reserved for the highest officials like the Ketu Primary School case, and so are permanently under lock and key, accessible only to the concerned officials. The rest of the people urinate and defecate in the open, presenting an unfortunate state of affair that reduces Nigerians to the level of sub-humans.

Absence of water and sanitation facilities undoubtedly aggravates the spread of communicable diseases. Few Nigerians wash their hands once they leave their homes until they are back. Market women, snack hawkers, fruit and vegetable sellers, meat sellers, etc, use the same unwashed hands to sell to members of the public. There is urgent need to provide toilets in schools and public places. It is pertinent to ask why schools are built without toilets, or why the toilets are not maintained.

As regards the death of Buhari, the state authorities failed in their responsibility to provide safe and decent toilets when the school was built. That amounts to negligence, for which Buhari’s family should be compensated accordingly by the Lagos State authorities, failing which the family ought to seek legal redress. Hopefully, little Buhari’s death would mark the beginning of the era of providing safe toilets in public schools, and therefore preventing a recurrence of the ghastly incident.

To butress the point made about the quality of the road work being done by Lagos State Contractors, pot holes are emerging on the Ozumba Mbadiwe road in front of Calverton Helicopter. The same road that gulped whooping 2 Billion Naira per Kilometre. You can deceive people many times but you cannot deceive them all the time.

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I voted for GEJ and not PDP. There will be many more of this. We sidon look.

There are times when logic desert men and goodness is mistaken for evil. That GEJ won does not indicate he is better than Buhari, only the biggest spender won.

Buhari and GEJ are politicians but when CAN president becomes a politician, then peril awaits the country and Rwanda and Somalia are examples. Men in position like CAN President should desist from making such utterances coming form Oritsejafor. It is actually immature and indefensible. I know a former CAN President tactly avoided commenting on Oritsejafor's utterances. Has Oritsejafor thought of what he will look like if GEJ performs woefully?

Posterity will jugde all men. I only hope when the reward for the conduct of us all comes, we will be honest to accept it.

ACN owes Nigerians an apology. The party owes Oyo State apology for recycling this man. If this man were still PDP, I will find the comment to type but not ACN. Can ACN decamp this man now because he can only bring more disgrace and bad publicity.

Is ACN loosing the grip due to massive gains in popularity?