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The Oracle only speaks once every 7 years, channeling His message through Oga Nex, the Always Mighty Area Fada of Benin City.

My only question is why there is no mention of our Uncle Justin's requirements for the services of comely wenches,  who would do so much to enliven Justin's sojourn as unwilling house-guest at His Majesty Obasanjo's pleasure and discretion. 

Speaking of His Majesty, would it be safe to assume that King Obasanjo's own daylight heist of 16 billion US dollars from the federal electrical power generation budget must be struck from the record since it was committed by blue-blooded Nigerian royalty ? If so, Praise the Lord !

There is no proof that OBJ stole $16 Billion dollars, and secondly if you must know mismanagement of  funds is not theft.

he never die!, boys no fit wait oh

[size=16pt]This is a diseaes that has pilfered through into our national psyche. It would not be far-fetcthed if 30 million Nigerians are suffering from one form of delusion, mental degredation and abject psychosis, or how else do one explain the hooligans who came to court hailing 'Akala'and 'OGD' after those two unscrupulous being have taken everyone for a ride. We are surely suffering hypnotism extra-ordinary, juju and grandstanding parochialism. [/size]

LAGOS – The Court of Appeal, yesterday, adjourned till November 23, for hearing in the appeal by the former Chief Executive Officer of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr. Erastus Akingbola, challenging the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court, Lagos, to entertain the application by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s, EFCC, application seizing his property and freeze his accounts.

[b]At the hearing in the matter, Akingbola’s counsel, Chief Felix Fagbohungbe, SAN, pleaded with the court to hear the appeal early enough, complaining that the seizure of his clients assets and freezing his accounts had left his legal fees outstanding.

He asked the court for an early date for the appeal, noting that since the appellant’s assets and counts were frozen by EFCC, he had not been able to pay his legal fees.[/b]Earlier, the appellate court granted EFCC leave to file its brief of argument out of time.

Akingbola, in the appeal challenging the seizure of his property and freezing of his accounts, is contending that the lower court had no jurisdiction to entertain EFCC’s application filed during Christmas vacation, upon which his assets and property were attached.

The appellant is also contending that EFCC did not fulfill the conditions precedent to enable the lower court exercise its jurisdiction to hear and determine its application during the Christmas vacation.

Local shayo Joint!! after subsidy

Big Guniess – sold now for N150.00 in the lowest of the low joint in Lagos, probably got it for N100.00 from the suppliers $DOLLAR profit would be – N50.00/160 = 0.31cents. After subsidy suppliers price would have gone up let us say – N180.00 new retail price. Shayo Joints would be selling between N350.00 and N450.00, dollar profit using the lower figure for argument sake, profit would be 350-180=170/200=0.85 cents profits. Using the higher figure =450-180=270 profit in dollars$ would be 270/200=$1.35 bearing in mind Nigerians perchant of going for even higher prices one would not be surprise that this drink would be sold between N550.00 and N600.00 in most places.

During this period most entrepreneurs would sell at prices they feel comfortable with don’t forget the numerous ‘okada’ riders who are self employed men would have jerked up their per drop from N100.00 a drop in Lagos to between N250 and N300 per drop thereby putting a dollar in their pocket each time they pick up a passenger.

Surely it would be interesting time for self employed people.

It appears that we are in the last and final throes of full Dollarisation of the Nigerian economy. I spoke to a Ghanaian he said they went through a dollarisation process about 7 years ago, after that exercise followed the now well known Decimisation of the Cedis aligning it to the dollar. Today one Cedis exchanges for one Dollar.

Nigerian at present, on the other hand is covertly devaluing the Naira by 25%, by the end of the year a,  $1 would be N200.00 Naira. With subsidies coming off, everything would be expensive, but a Dollaraised economy would have being created. That economy would not be good for salary earners, but businesses both small and medium would be taking home more dollar in returns of their investments thereby lifting many people from the ‘misery and penury’ that has being the bane of our society for sometime now.

Let us look at something as mundane as travelling in a Peugeot 504 from Lagos to Ibadan. At the moment it would cost N500.00 per passenger, after the removal of the subsidy the price per passenger would go up from N500.00 to N2000.00 per person, we should not forget those cars carry four passengers officially and 5 unofficially, when you do the maths let us assume they carry 5 passengers,  that would be N10,000.00 assuming N4000.00 of that takings is spent on fuel, the owner of the Vehicle would make N6000.00 which is 6000/200(200 being the new exchange rate by January 2012) =$30.00 profit for that trip a return journey would net the transporter another $30.00.

Let us see what they make now, the same trip at present would cost them N2,500.00(with 5 people in the car)  and I am assuming they spend N1,000.00 on petrol from Lagos to Ibadan, what is left is N1,500.00 a return trip would net them N3,000.00. What is the dollar profit of this amount? 3000/160=$18.75 for both to and fro, when compared with what would be the norm next year, the guy would be making $60.00 next year as against $18.75 this year, dollar wise our friend has made a killing this simple example would replicate itself all over the country in every small and medium enterprise business, so my people do not despire it is not all doom and gloom, our entrepreneurs would certainly be making a killing. Salary earners I am sorry I can’t help you, you just have to get off your back side and start something or face martyrdom?

Isikan: Ondo’s 5-star market in Akure. Facilities: •24hrs solar light •Creche •Clinic •Toilets •Police post •Bank •Boreholes •Mosque
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Written by Wale Ojo Lanre Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Dateline: Akure Thursday, October 6, 2011. Location: St Louis Nursery and Primary School, Akure.

Adeyemi Adenikinju,standing akimbo at the front of this school, could not believe his eyes.
He put his hand inside his trouser pocket, sought out a handkerchief to wipe off the imaginary particles that covered his eyes to enable him see clearly what he perceived as the eightth wonders of the world. Adenikinju, a seafearer who left Akure for Alexandria, Egypt, for a course in Maritime Engineering in 2009 and who came back two weeks ago, was going to buy his favourite snail from his customer at Isikan Market.
With nobody engaging him in any discussion, he soliloquised:
“No, this cannot be! I can’t believe this! This can’t be real. Can this be Isikan market? No, no, no!”
To be doubly sure, he crossed the median to the other side of the road and entered the beautifully enclosed compound, only to be confronted by rows of open stalls where foodstuff sold by gaily dressed women and men were.
“This can’t be true,” he muttered.

However, he summoned courage and asked one of the traders “Excuse me ma, is this Isikan market?”
Sensing that Adenikinju was surprised at the state of the market, the trader responded “My brother, Governor Mimiko has turned Isikan into a five-star market.”
‘Then , if this is truly the old Isikan Market, I concur with you that it is a five-star market. However, where is Iya Onigbin’s stall?” Adenikinju asked.
Convinced now that he was at the right place, Adenikinju, before leaving the woman, commented. “This transformation is phenomenal!”
Only those who never knew the Isikan market of old will not be dazed with what Governor Mimiko has done.”
A member of the Tribune Tourism Magazine crew whose mother once operated a café in Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, a few years ago and who, when circumstances arose, usually helped the mother to pick some items at Isikan market, was also speechless at the site of the old Isikan.
“This is marvelously surprising. I cannot believe this. This is not the Isikan that I knew. The one I used to know was ugly, disorganised, dirty, stinking and smelling, with ugly sheds of different shapes and sizes.I don’t know this five-star market.”

Mrs Adedipe Oluwafunke, a 58-year-old seller of tomatoes, described Isikan thus: “this is a completely brand new Isikan. The former one was an eyesore. Terribly disorganised, dirty, with lawlessness being the order of the day. No decorum, either from the traders or the buyers, no decency. It was naunseatingly rowdy and the sellers then, like the then environment were dirty, snobbish and rude. It was like a pigsty.”
“And when Governor Mimiko was campaigning for votes in Akure and promised the sea of heads who thronged the stadium that he would restore dignity and bring sanity to bear at the markets in Ondo State, of course, because of his unassailable credibility and precedence, we never doubted him. But we never envisioned that what he had for the markets could be beyond our imagination.”
According to Uche Adichie, a spare part dealer, who claimed to have secured a lock-up shop in Isikan market, “ When Iroko was making the promise of changing the face of the market in Ondo State, though we believed him because he is a man of his words, I swear, the man surprised us with the dimension of this beautiful sight. We had thought he would just come, build some sheds, tax the people heavily, and start to “make mouth” that he has done something. We never knew he had something totally different from our thinking, something we had never seen before.


That is why there is a big gulf of difference between a power seeker, who has not only done his home work by having a blueprint of what his people need so badly but knows exactly where the shoes pinch them, and is battle ready to confront it headlong, and a pretender who was co-opted and packaged for the job by godfathers.
While the man who had perfected his home work well would be rolling out innovative projects that touch the soul of the existence of the masses, the pretender would only engage in photocopying and imitating what he has no clue.
Sincerely, a visit to Isikan market, which consists of 366 lock-up shops and 126 open shops, which Mimiko has replicated in Osele Market in Ikare (considered as regional because of its size), Ughele in Ondo (under construction), Ijare Market, Okitipupa, Oba Akoko, New NEPA, Igbokoda, Owo, Ita-Ogbolu, are, would lend credence to the belief that there are still men in Nigeria who do serious thinking to make the corpse walk and improve the environment far, far better than they met it.


Dr Mimiko’s concept of neighbourhood market is rooted in his Caring Heart Programme of injecting a human face, adding value and planting projects of excellence that will beautify the landscape of the state.
This concept is turning all the dirty-looking, strikingly wretched, historically ancient markets which previously dotted the state into places of attraction where traders are protected from the harsh visitation of the elements, where their goods are secured, where the basic needed facilities like security, pipe borne water, clinic, crèche, police post, light, are available.
Indeed, Isikan market is a replica of what is obtainable in Ikare, Okitipupa, Owo, Iju, Ita–Ogbolu Igbokoda, in terms of architecture and facilities, except in number and size. It is a row of beautifully designed, open and lock up shops, packaged sensibly to allow enough interaction between sellers and buyers. At Isikan market, the facilities provided were unknown to the history of markets in the South-West of the federation.
Isikan is a market that is fully asphalted, very clean and neat, where you can hardly find dust or dirt which are the common features of markets in Nigeria. And this is a place which used to be waterlogged and unkempt.


This is a market which has 24-hour security guaranteed, a market provided with a crech, police post, clinic, 24-hour solar powered light and boreholes.
Madam Helen Adeyanju, 45, who claimed to have been selling tomato in the market when she was 24, said: “I have been selling tomatoes here since I was 24, and I can tell you what was obtainable during the time of old Isikan and the brand new Isikan which God has used Governor Mimiko to build.
“Nobody could ever have dreamt that this kind of transformation could happen in Isikan market. Even if a prophet had predicted it, we would have doubted the accuracy of his vision. We would have thought it was one of those prophesy made out of inebriation.
“It is only those of us who were sweating it out under the sun and rain then that can fully appreciate and thank God for using this man to rescue us from the debilitating condition and shameful environment of the old Isikan market.
“Then, trading by the roadside was the order of the day, with its dire consequences on our health, psyche and expo to accidents. The market sheds were not organised, while some of us were victims of careless drivers who sometimes abandoned the road to use the market as an alternative.
“Then, trading was done under our route umbrellas; that was even for those who could afford it, or the ramshackle wood or zinc-covered shed which barely sheltered us from the harsh bite of the sun and the rains in a muddy environment littered with filth.
“Governor Mimiko took us off the streets where we were constituting nuisance to the public and traffic and allocated to us beautiful rooms inside this hotel.
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And for the fact that he deliberately dignified us at our trading posts, he will never fall and all weapon fashioned against him shall not prosper.
“He put a stop to our humiliation, he halted our being ridiculed and messed up by restoring confidence in us. For the first time, he made us at this market feel the full impact of good governance. We now realise that there is a government in power which really cares about the downtrodden, and for me and my household, we shall never depart from being loyal to this man who feels what we feel, who took steps to expunge our pains and anguish and make us feel great. Such a man will always see the favour of the Lord and his sun that is shining shall never go down.


To Mrs Anthonia Ofido, a native of Enugu who sells soup ingredients and condiments, “one cannot quantify what the governor has done by transforming the slum, which was what the then Isikan market was, to a palatial palace where buying and selling takes place in a very decent, neat and cool environment. If you know the frustration and the challenges that used to confront us during the time of old Isikan, you will have no choice than to join us in praising and appreciating the ingenuity of Mimiko.
“Governor Mimiko saved us from the psychological trauma of those who usually turned our sheds to spiritual bathrooms.
“Then, it was a common occurrence for you to come into your stall early in the morning and find sponge, soap and water used for spiritual cleansing! You are bound again to call your pastor or whoever to clean up the stall, thereby spending time and money which should have been expended on other profitable things.


“Also, because of the way this market is organised and administered with 24-hour security, we no longer carry our wares home, I mean those of us in the open stalls, unlike before when the sheds were not secured and we had to ferry our wares to and fro home. We no longer pay transport fees on these. Thus, we have no reason to transfer charges arising from these to our goods. This has contributed to the cheap prices we offer now.”
Abdulahi Aderohunmu, the spokesperson for the butchers at Isikan market, a native of Iwo, Osun State, said: “How do we express our thanks to Dr Mimiko? How do we compensate him for doing what we call something extraordinary? Don’t you like this place? Imagine us selling meat in this kind of environment. I am sure you will have confidence in the state of any meat you buy in this kind of environment. Do you notice our appearance? Do you notice how neat our shops are? We too appreciate the environment which has conditioned and reformed our sense of dressing. That butcher is wearing lace materials, see my own attire, can you see the other man there too? We dared not put on this kind of wear at old Isikan market. That means butchers can be natty if the proper environment is provided. This is another thing Mimiko has done.

We can never be ungrateful to him.”
Christianah Joseph, 38, from Ebonyi State, expressed her feelings and thought in song “I am singing this song on behalf of the extremely poor market women and men whom Mimiko has covered with clothes of honour and dignity by removing us from the streets, far away from the scorching sun and the frequent rains. He has done it for us, he has done it for us, what no governor has ever done, Mimko has done it for us. And we are grateful.”


To Pastor Raphael Afolabi Fadipe, Chief Executive Officer, Oyemekun Rocks Unity Village, “Do you know what impressed me most? One day, I went to Isikan Market. Dressed in white, I drove in leisurely, parked my car conviniently, got a ticket, bought some items, went back to my car and drove pleasurably without any hassles. The floor was not waterlogged as the case used to be, my clothes were not messed up by whatever, in the same Isikan market. This is nothing but a miracle.”
He described Mimiko as the ornament of Ondo State who “belongs to the genre of selfless leaders who were purposely created to serve people by making possible things that were previously perceived to be impossible.

Who could have thought that Isinkan, I mean Isikan could ever be transformed into an eldoraldo like this? Who could ever thought that somebody would one day keep street traders off NEPA junction in Akure? Who could ever have believed that the historical Osele market in Ikare, Ughele ale in Ondo, the Igbokoda market, the markets in Owo, Iju, Ita ogbolu and Okitipupa, which were hitherto eyes sores could be turned to tourism centres of attraction and structures of beautification like these. Nobody ever!”


This is because:
Men are flippant lots
Quick in making promises.
Especially when in a competition
With other men for a take home
They run their mouths
Promising heavens and earth
And getting the gold
Only a scanty few
Who appreciate the role of history and posterity
As chroniclers of deeds and actions, for this generations and those yet unborn
Do fulfill those promises
The noble few.


One of such men is Dr Olusegun Mimiko, the governor of Ondo State, who promised his people that he would transform the ancient markets and build new ones. He did not only keep the promise, but fulfilled it beyond their imagination.
The neighbourhood markets are all there in Ondo State to see. You can’t miss these products of ingenuity. They are real. Not propaganda.

All the stats show that, that semi illetrate soldier is performing more than that clueless Dr. in Aso Rock, it would be a shame if a man like Abacha can floor both Jonathan & Ngozi with all d books they have read.

[size=18pt]Let us call a spade, a spade, democracy is meant to the best but the way our folks are going about it they are making it one hell of an experience[/size]


Civilian Atrocities


1. Most of the State’s Civilian Governors help themselves to between 15 and 20 Billion Naira by the end of their respective terms. NO Military Governor would dear try that for fear of the unknown or is it known. 


2. Abacha only stole $1.2 billion that is a record by Naija standard. 


3. How come Naira was exchanging for 80 to 1 through out his regime and now we are heading to N200 to N1.00 


4. It is either JEG is grossly pathetic or Ngozi Iweala is grossly over-rated, or how come under her watch subsidy on petrol is withdrawn, and the Niara is performing abysmally, I know some people would blame the CBN Governor, I am sure the super Minister of Finance should be able to override the CBN Governor. 


5. PTF was a success except for the skewed development apportioned towards the North during that era. Same can be said with this regime, 87% of Federal Contracts are currently spent in the South-South. 


6. Look at the Speaker of the House of Reps, he would have to rent a house sold to his predecessor for N40.00 million, meanwhile the house was sold for N45.00 Million to his predecessor. Does this make sense? 


7. A Governor planning to build 10  Primary and secondary schools for N900.00 million 


8. “I swear we don kolo finish for this country"?

lthough there are others such as Kebbi, Bayelsa, Taraba

How can Bayelsa be amongst the list of unknown states. Are u telling me there are Nigerians who does not know the President comes from Bayelsa?

@poster, Jigawa is not unkonwn, in fact the Governor has been showered with a lot of encomiums in the last 2 years for the good works he is doing. In fact when it comes to a Governor that is perfroming North of the Niger and Benue, his name crops up as the liklely contender for the best performaning Governor. Those folks in Rivers State looking at you like an alien when you mentioned Jigawa do not no know what is going on.

[b]
To me without a shadow of doubt the least known states ar[/b]e

1. Yobe
2. Nassarawa
3. Kebbi
4.Gombe
5. Ebonyi

The least being the first one mentioned that is Yobe and 5th least being Ebonyi State.

It seems SLS is polishing his image with his long stay in a Church on independence day, maybe with that some folks would tone down their continuous barrage of labelling him as a 'religious bigot extraordinary'

Prostitution is the oldest profession in the world so it makes sense, that profession predates all of us.

States are better, with regions we would not have success story like Akwa Ibom and Jigawa States. Just because some idioooootic State Governors have not done shiiiiiitttttte in their various states does not mean states are not better. They are better.

It is an irony that the road leading into the state’s prime economic zone is the worst, though the state government has tried in vain to take it over and construct it to the standard of the rest

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SHAME TO JEG & NDDC

@ Beaf,

Don’t you think it is high time you tell your oga to get his act together in NDDC. All those sub-standard roads they are building all over the place is not it oh. It is just a ruse to share money, they should just disband NDDC and share whatever money that is accrued to that Organisation amongst the oil producing states for ‘inter oil producing states projects’ i.e the Governors in the recipient states would dictate the projects that would benefit them not some bloooooody bureaucrats in Abuja,  

sourceeeee

Vanguard News Paper

Akwa Ibom’s Cinderella story
On October 3, 2011 · In People & Politics
By Ochereome Nnanna

I can't copy the source because I am on a secured Network.

Perhaps it is time to pay AKS a visit, hehe.

Oil wealth properly managed = prosperity.

Bayelsa and Rivers earn a lot, but AKS will zoom past both of them at the rate it is going.

I am serioulsy thinking of opening a beach bar in Eket and environs, I have to do my home work well though.  

Btw, source of this article?

Online Vanguard.

Amazing! So spending $1.6 billion a year on capital projects? Will be the most developed state in Nigeria at that rate.

How do the different states rank?

Hrm, very impressive.

T[b]he only way is up for this state. He has to pass the baton to another reformist like himself when he finishes his term. [/b]

[size=18pt]The Worst Road in the State is a Federal Road. Our Federal Agencies including the Federal Government are an abysmal lot and failures. People who are only interested in lining their pockets. [/size]


When Akwa Ibom State was created on September 23, 1987 by the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida, many who were left behind in Cross River State (especially the indigenes of Calabar) heaved a sigh of relief in the hope they now had more breathing space.

Even though civil servants moved to their new state of origin, many Akwa Ibomites remained in Calabar. The old prejudice that described the relationship between the two sides showed itself recently when the Cross River State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs. Ekama Iwara, reported that majority of prostitutes in Calabar were from Akwa Ibom State.

Social and economic ladder

As things stand now, Akwa Ibom is rapidly on the rise to the top rung of Nigeria’s social and economic ladder. The first leg of the journey started from the moment that Babangida decided to create only Akwa Ibom and Katsina States. The second leg did not start until the dawn of democracy in 1999 when Obong Victor Attah was elected.

Opinions are divided as to the quality of Attah’s contributions to the development of the state. Officials in incumbent Governor Godswill Akpabio’s government are quick to point out that many roads built during that era were washed out within two rainy seasons.

Two things Attah contributed to the rise of the state from the mud to Olympian heights broke the barrier.

The first was the struggle for resource control and payment of the 13 per cent derivation based on oil royalties mined on the Continental Shelf, not just onshore. The rest of the country except the South East fought bitterly to deny the Niger Delta States their right to earn royalties from offshore oil and gas but at the end of the day justice prevailed because if you remove the sea from a riverine people you have taken life from them.

Akwa Ibom would have been no better than Edo as an oil producing state. But with this settlement, the state is now the largest revenue earner from derivation royalties. This has enabled it to commence one of the most ambitious developmental strides anywhere in the country.

Attah’s second contribution was that he appointed Barrister Godswill Obot Akpabio as Commissioner who served in various capacities between 2002 and 2006 when he started his political journey to the Government House on May 29, 2007. The exchange of batons was not smooth.

Attah wanted his son in-law to succeed him, but Akpabio clinched his party’s ticket at the primaries. Attah’s spirited (but failed) efforts to ensure Akpabio did not succeed him created the bad blood that persists till date. However, Akpabio continued from where his predecessor stopped, ensuring to complete all ongoing projects.

Today, the state is probably the only one in the country that can boast of zero abandoned projects.

To celebrate the 24th anniversary of the state, Akwa Ibom pulled all the stops because as Akpabio put it: “there is something to celebrate”. Any Cinderella story is worth celebrating. The state has undergone what President Goodluck Jonathan described as “uncommon transformation”, with world class infrastructure.

Akpabio has proved that when big money meets big ideas big things happen. When this reporter visited the state last in 2007, the Akwa Ibom International Airport runway was just being bulldozed, yet former President Olusegun Obasanjo “commissioned” it! But today, three aircraft land from Lagos alone at the Uyo Airport.

The dual carriageway to Uyo is classier than the Bill Clinton Way leading into Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.

The underground drainage system has gone a long way in solving the perennial flooding of the state capital, though the work is yet to be concluded. Apart from its network of high quality roads, perhaps the most impressive thing about today’s Akwa Ibom is the educational policies.

There is free and compulsory education up to secondary school level for residents of the states, not just indigenes. Akwa Ibom is one of the few states in the federation that does not discriminate between indigenes and settlers in educating Nigerian children living in their state.

Governor Akpabio has monitoring groups in all three senatorial districts, whose job is to go round and arrest any student found wandering during school hours. Besides, primary and secondary schools in the state have been fully modernised and our touring team was able to see so many of them throughout the state.

Akwa Ibom is also preparing big for tourism, what with its massive e-library and the Ibom Tropicana complex, which is a one-stop entertainment centre. Akwa Ibom is better seen than described.

Politics in the state

However, politics in the state is vicious. This is understandable though not excusable. Any politician who visits the brand new Government House will like to live there. Anyone who knows the amount of money that flows into the coffers of the state government will like to control the purse.

The state government forwarded an Appropriation Bill of a whopping N309 billion for 2011, out of which 80 per cent is devoted to capital projects, thus making the state the highest in capital to recurrent ratio in the country.

Neighbouring Rivers State, which is also one of the best performing states in the federation, has 64 percent reserved for capital expenditure.

The signs are very positive that the oil wealth of the state will only get bigger.

The US government rated Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Edo states as states with “impressive governors” to “watch out for” in a rare positive Wikileaks diplomatic cable message. A lot of work is required to be done for Akwa Ibom to start competing with states like Lagos and Rivers in terms of internal revenue generation. Right now, Akwa Ibom is heavily oil revenue-dependent.

Due to big revenue allocation, the 2011 elections in the state were particularly nasty, and bedevilled with kidnappings, killings, unhealthy propaganda, burning of government property and subsequent detention of the most prominent challenger to Governor Akpabio, Senator Akpan Udoedehe, the candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). However, the bid to use tribalism as means of gaining power did not work.

All that Akwa Ibom needs for more rapid development is peace and common purpose among its political leadership. In the next five years, Akwa Ibom will be an uncommon African story going by the pace of work.

Giving Lagos a run

THE only bad major road you will see in Akwa Ibom is the Eket – Ibeno federal road, a most shoddy job being handled by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). It is an irony that the road leading into the state’s prime economic zone is the worst, though the state government has tried in vain to take it over and construct it to the standard of the rest. [size=18pt]SHAME TO JEG & NDDC[/size]
Ibeno immediately reminds one of Bar beach in Lagos. But unlike Bar beach and the Lagos coastline, this is the oil and gas belt. The state’s coastline covers several local governments, and plans have reached an advanced stage to establish a deep seaport – the first in the East – at Ibaka in Mbo Local Government Area.

If properly developed, the Ibeno and Ibaka areas can be transformed into the nation’s only coastal oil city after the fashion of Houston, Texas, USA. Nigeria will then have two copies of Lagos instead of one. Agreements have been signed by the Akwa Ibom State Government and various stakeholders, including the Federal Ministry of Transport, Nigerian Ports Authority and the government of the Kingdom of Belgium.

The future of the state’s economy lies in this area of Akwa Ibom.



[size=18pt]This Governor needs to be encouraged- He has done well, Kudos Akpabio[/size]

How did dis man qualify as a doctor, na cheat d man cheat I swear, such a clueless buffon

Time for some silly Governors to put their thinking cap on instead of going pan in hand to Abuja.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-681841.0.html#msg8446009



Even a useless Governor like Gbenga Daniel still manage to build a skyscraper of 12 floors in Ogun State. What has the Governor’s of SS and SE built, yet we no go hear word, ‘Amechi’ is doing well or ‘Chime’ of Enugu State is fantastic wetin dey don build. When it comes to Skyscrapers Gbenga Daniels knows what’s gwaaaan.

The staff and d company would probably have to live through d " blackout" in PHC for d moment b4 things improve hopefully, and a big "hopefully it is. Nothing works in PH, even d state of d roads in d city are all shiiiit, if comments made on this forum are anything to go by . What that Governor has is a well oiled propagandist dishing out shiiiit as fast as it comes out of d Governor's Nyansh.

Delta State has d worse Governor in d federation followed by d Guy in Bayelsa. Those two men are Ninecompops extraordinary.

If this is actually done, Fash may be called for 3rd term.

Fashola must do a Putin. Step aside for one term, and be back in the frame come 2019. I believe a good administrator should be there for the long haul if possible. Look at Mayor Andrew Young of Atlanta he was there for almost 20 years. He did so many great things for that city including lobbying and bringing the Olympics to Atlanta.

When will your so called revolutionary thinking assume some flesh

Our Revolutionary thinking would be un-masked ish- Allah, by the power of God, by the grace of our lord Jesus. Come June 2012, I would have disengaged myself from the activities I am doing over here. Nigerians would have a choice of choosing between good and evil. Evil thank God cannot be hidden, evil can be seen from a million miles, there are too much evil in the land.

Does this last honest Nigerian have a name?

Why do you need the name of the last honest Nigerian. They are relics now unfortunately the DNA of such people was never conserved. Our society today is experiencing the last throes of martyrdom(suicide bombing an alien phenomenon in these shores have become a mainstay, it has become something our people hear and pain no attention to, the people have become immune to the sensibilities and shock of such dastardly act), macabre activities are on the rise and increasing(the Beroms in Jos have cultivated a new culture and habit of roasting the flesh of their enemies and making suya out of it) yet, we are contended with this new vagabonds in power who come in sheep skin but are more deadlier wolves. Why don’t our authorities deal with the salient points mentioned in this article, all these callous men coming out of the wood work telling gullible Nigerians they have assets worth millions of dollars in Nigeria yet they have know known factory, industry, or companies. I would like to know the secret of that instantaneous wealth,

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when U com to NL and talk wit such pessimism, how does it solve our nation's troubles?

Strong institutions are not formulated or created, what is meant by strong institutions abroad are ‘asking people simple questions’. How did you become a wealthy man over night, where did the money come from, can we have a look at your banking transactions, even a kindergarten accountant/auditor if they have a one-on-one with 99% of our politicians he/she would be found wanton.

A million dollar asset does not drop from the sky, there is a source for this unscrupulous wealth, even a not too clever accountant/auditor would discern the source of such flagrancy in a matter of seconds. But our intuitions are too weak to ask this simple questions, this same people cannot boast of having millions of dollar assets when they were abroad because the authorities over there ask simple relevant questions and check one or two things about the individuals, before long they would be exposed and found out like fox caught in a headlight of a car at Night