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megastu: Oyinbo Man say " Cut your coat according to your size".

Now this is one of the issues are. I know a number of people who live larger than their means, current and projected. I also had to withdraw my children from a school because the values on ground runs contrary to how we want to raise our children. We rationalize the peer effect as transferred from some parents to their children and we didn't want out kids to grow that way. I was shocked when my daughter in primary 3 tried to select which of our cars should be used to drop her in school, apparent class display and competition on travels and stuffs.

I'm tempted to believe that some women in this generation may lead their husbands broke with the competition and wealth they flaunt. I think the men folk also want the quick moneys and explore dubious means........

In all these we must still give props to those that are genuinely successful and on course.

I try to put into perspective the argument that many leaders of thought today went to government and local schools and yet they are leaders and Billionaires. ..... Well I went to a public primary school in Ketu Lagos, then FGC and Model college in Lagos. Now let's truly examine

1. A large chunk of these leaders had one or more form of quality advanced education in degrees, diplomas and special programs. Many have taken courses in Harvard, Princeton, Oxford, London School of Economics etc. I bet a sizeable number had taken these courses on government and company sponsorships. The captains of industry and politicians flaunt their resume and it starts with. 1st degree in Nigeria and a retinue of ivy league school degrees.

2. These people are severally accused of enrolling their kids in the government schools. Why? It's not about wickedness but at the end each father takes stock of his offspring.

3. Can we compare the quality of government schools that produced these leaders back then and the same today?

Tnx Bro.

The bolded part is the meat of the matter. If we all can get into the minds of people that opts to pay extra for greater quality, maybe we can see what they see and understand better.

6 years ago I decided to invest a huge sum on my MBA program in Nigeria, people thought I was crazy. That took a heavy toll on my family's finances but I thank God for a supportive wife who we both crafted and running our vision. If you check out the "said Creme-de-la Crem", you will also see that in many cases these investments in the education of their children is targeted. Who doesn't want to build his own empire? And who will want to build one and not put in place sustainable legacies in their children. I have followed someone like Bolaji Balogun, Subomi Balogun's 1st Son.....my take on him is that he's a combination of awesome smart and best exposure, 2× he'd address Mt class in Bskull and you will realize that the Dad had prepared a second generation of Billionaires......

We also need to understand the required input of parents that money cannot buy. I became my daughter's lesson teacher to prepare her for common entrance exams. She had the daily tasks. Of 200 questions from UGO C UGO, spanning maths, English, quantitative and Verbal. This is exclusive of the one with a weekend lesson teacher. She wrote 2 essays per week and memorized lots of current affairs information. ......I cut my recreation and social schedules and we went the distance together.

So my take. ...are these schools worth it? May be yes, May be no.........It's the parents prerogative

lovinam: @Mapet thanks, you have said it all. Some people are just ignorant and follow the bandwagon. I have my eyes set on a school in the west. We have two years to go, so I've started now to drill my child so we can get scholarship. I know she will make it. Its all about planing. People are busy buying cars renting houses in expensive areas, stocking up on gold, going on expensive holiday just to belong . They forget the most important EDUCATING the CHILD. I will spend my last dime to ensure my kids go to the best school that have high/ good academic standard.

The OP comes suspicious to me. when someone either ignorantly or mischievously throw numbers around without proper references, it is more dangerous than an illiterate.....

AZeD1: Debt is not a bad thing. It becomes a bad thing when the debt to GDP ratio is high.
N167 billion of the debt came from bond issuance and i don't know if the interest yield on the bond is included in the total debt.


PS: before this turns into a pdp vs apc thread, i suggest all those who know nothing about finance to avoid commenting on this thread.


http://businessdayonline.com/2013/11/lagos-raises-n87-5bn-bond-in-book-building-exercise/#.U_sbQvldXdA

6. Now to the issue of funding, I dare say many of you guys are way off the mark. The truth is that it is not only the "rich" that can afford these schools. There is a category, in which I belong, I will call aspiring rich, yet good planners (and God's favor). Let me explain. I have just 2 kids, age almost 4years apart and 5 classes apart. We're avid saver and investor of money. We are smart in our consumption and frugal in our expenses. We have set life goals for ourselves and religiously follow the steps in the path we've defined. we have promised to give our children access to greater opportunities in life than we ever had and vowed to prepare them for it. We have seen these times coming when the children's fees to quality secondary schools and universities are major milestones in our lives. We have planned for it, saved for it and organized our lives. Much more God has helped us to make things work for our good......... so when it's time to actualize, we do just that........

7. We should also respect parent's prerogative and what they choose. Yes, I do agree some parents' primary objective is to network (a parent actually confided in my wife), but we should understand that, provided that parent keeps watch on the academics of her ward, it's still in place. Some also do it for access, that is, to help their transition to other school overseas. We for one have told our daughter that even though we can afford it, she will not have her first degree in the States but Masters and PHD if she so pleases...why? simply because we want her to be truly ingrained in our culture and value system......well that's by the way

8. The issue of performance in WAEC, JAMB etc are relative. Most of the children in these school do write and pass JAMB. Many of these schools flaunt the results of there gradutes on the pages of newspaper....but that in itself is just a means to an end. The most important thing is the child, My daughter, My son....... whom I have visions and prayers of where I pray to lead them on to.

OK Folks. Let me join this discourse and I need to state ahead that I may be classified as a parent with a child in one of these schools. I share my experience to help clarify a perspective.

1. I understand the sentiments and anger that this kinds of argument elicits, especially when we try to rationalize and justify reasons why these schools are this expensive and why people send their kinds there. I also crave that we're more matured in the way we vilify parents of wards in these schools are latent criminals, politicians and government contractors........well "Assumption" they say is the mother of all Fvckups!!

2. Our Educational system is probably one of the contributor to the gap that brought forth these schools. Even the famed unity schools have lost it and the FG were that helpless that they considered privatizing them of recent. Then when you talk about government state schools, we also do know that standards have so fallen. I do acknowledge that there are efforts by some state governors to address the education system in their states tho. My point here is that if did not have the lacunae, we will not have a "thriving market" for these institutions. The same played itself out in the tertiary level, where private universities have sprung up........

3. I think we should cut parents who choose to send their wards to those schools some slack, even if we feel "slighted" by their apparent "disregard for same institutions" as we are. I say this with all sense of respect to those in the opposing category. Hopefully like me, the primary reason why parents send their ward to those school is simply to get the best value(..and I dare add, their perceived value) within their means. Let me play it like this, If I have good money, on whom would I spend it on first, if not my wife and children. Other things mentioned, networking, quality environment and ambience, exposure, access to innovative offerings are "other benefits" and they are valid.

4. We need not deride the children in these schools because they earned the right to be there. My daughter who is starting year 7 in about 3 weeks, sat for and secured admission into 5 top secondary schools. She scored 159/200 in National Common Entrance and was invited for Interview. The only reason I stopped her sitting for the interview was that I had already paid half the school fees in her new school. My daughter faced RIGOROUS interview sessions in 3 of these 5 schools, especially the panel interview that involved both my wife and myself. I couldn't have been prouder as a dad the way she aced those questions thrown at her. She's 9+ and few months shy of the cut off age, yet they waived that and offered her admission in all cases.

5. I want us to understand that many these schools also set a high standard entry barrier and that in itself shows the quality the hold. Someone mentioned a package and I do agree. My daughter's school runs 2 tracks, Nigerian and British curriculum. In addition to that there are other stuffs like checkpoint exams, IJMB and Leadership training which they go for at Sea School. By the time you narrow it down to the details of what you're paying for, well, maybe expensive, but more in terms of value offerings.

to be continued

Bros.

My apologies. I hit the wrong botton

Jarus: Sms

I'd rather you sought my drift as others did.......

chloride6: Why are you shooting your self in the leg?


Jarus's opinion and yours are in perfect alignment


So quick to pick the sword

You can't even differentiate friend from foe.


See pesin wey dey talk say make anoda pesin go get university education.


Seems you need the same education more.

Sure my apologies are laid down.

I'm laughing at my mistake as well.......

alentyno: Lol
Mr mapet the strangest thing here is that you have been on NL since 2005 yet you don't know who jarus is. Few things are as parallel as jamb & the person you are referring to. An apology won't be bad.

AZeD1: Did you read the post you quoted?

Big blunder on my part. I was meant to quote this guy. guess I clicked on the wrong button.

ayusco85: It has now turn to Family business. Turn. Y turn. U can only find that in APC state undecided

Bros,
Stop hating..... I hope you're in school or went to one. If not better face your Jamb studies and get a good University Education. Then you can be in a position to be considered for posts. Rather you're hating. Why not direct yourcomplaint to the NJC that recommended to the Governor.......

The hierarchical order as favored in the Legal profession was followed. We all knew she was next in line when her sister was sworn in back then

Jarus: Smh.

Is this a political appointment?

Does being a sister to the outgoing disqualify one from being the CJ is one is the next most senior Judge?

When the sisters enrolled for Law degree more than 40 years ago and rose through the ranks, was it APC that advised them to do?

...omo you gat brain o!

fweshyboi: This ppl gat no brain.. Is water the problem of we Lagosian?

jcccccc: They said a Nigerian living in Canada produced it.

They said and Google is too far away from you?

Onegai: All of you shouting US FDA hates this drug because it was released by a black man (another lie), you need to go and find out how many things you currently use that were invented by black men. Maybe you'll see the truth and stop deceiving yourselves and being happy in your ignorance.

1. Best places to hide things from NLers is a book. Many are just too stweepid to read, but adept at regurgitating incorrect statements
2. Nano Silver's proponent of late is Dr. Rima Laibow MD Medical Director Natural Solutions

1. For me, Institutions run by conventional medicine has never looked favourably to alternative medicine. Nano silver is from the alternative medicine source, hence the controversy.

2. I want to hazard a guess that Nano Silver has not gone through the checks and certifications with the FDA in the US, hence the approach to viral dissemination via conventional and social media.

3. It would have been a "Professional blunder" if the minister had not recanted his initial statement on Nano silver.

4. For me, Is Nano Silver the solution to Ebola? May be yes, may be no. But the reality is that in the current management and quest to eradicate Ebola, which his managed by the conventional medicine institutions, Nano Silver will not be used.

5. Options for the use of Nano Silver will be restricted to those who will seek private treatment, the cases of Dr. Abalaka and Prof. Orji etc

The controversial woman behind Nano Silver, the new ‘Ebola drug’ being tried in Nigeria

By every description, Dr. Rima Laibow is controversial and combative.

The American doctor ─ who said she has a cure for the Ebola virus disease and whose treatment is now made available to Nigeria by an unnamed donor ─ has been campaigning against the “conspiracy” of conventional drug makers.

You guessed right ─ she is into “natural solutions”, or what is better known as alternative medicine.

She sells things like “hemp oil” and “organic chocolate” as cure for illnesses.

In fact, Nano Silver, which arrived Nigeria on Thursday, is not classified as a drug, because it is not so certified by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ─ the American equivalent of NAFDAC.

Rather, Nano Silver is classified as a “supplement”. She calls it “drug-free medicine”.

‘The Power of Ten’

Recently, she started a campaign of “10 PPM” to make Nano Silver available, saying “no one need die from Ebola: You and your friends can stop it”.

Under the scheme, you are supposed to “make the pledge of 10″ ─ to get the information about Nano Silver across to 10 people.

This is how it works, according to her.

Step 1: Secure the protocol for the use of Nano Silver 10 PPM by going to her website and entering your email address.

Step 2: Calculate how much Nano Silver 10 PPM you need and make sure you have enough on hand.

Step 3: Take the Pledge for 10. Make yourself a promise that you will send out this information on social media and by email, in your club’s website, your PTA or whatever to make sure that at least 10 other people are protected in the same way.

“Let’s do the math,” she says. “If 10,000 people protect themselves and enlist 10 each to do the same, we have a hundred thousand who will not die. Then when they share the protection information with enough people that 10 react to each one, we have a million people. Ten of their friends and we have 10 million. One more multiplication and we have 100 million people, 1/3 of the population of the United States.”

A bit complicated, it seems, but an unnamed Nigerian has taken the offer and the solution to the Ebola outbreak may be here with us.

website Rima

Nano Silver

The Nano Silver, according to Laibow, will work where vaccines do not exist or fail and are effective even when the immune system is impaired, such as in AIDS.

“While there are some suggestions of mild risks to the environment, our research shows that they are unfounded and often associated with conflicts of interest since the widespread use and acceptance of Nano Silver directly threatens both the powerful vaccine and antibiotic industries,” she said in a recent open letter to four African presidents.

She lists some of the attributes of Nano Silver as follows:
◾It is widely used around the world for its anti-microbial characteristics and is, in fact, approved by the United States FDA as a surface cleaner for hospitals, food service and other health-sensitive areas because of its notable efficacy and non-toxic profile.
◾Sufficient short term protection for an individual outbreak cluster is provided by the use of Nano Silver that an epidemic can be effectively prevented even after infection clusters have been established.
◾Therapy can be started after infection, and normal immune function, including GI flora, is left intact to assist in recovery and prevent opportunistic co-infection.
◾It is stable at room temperature.
◾It offers a potentially beneficial therapy against virtually all types of viruses, bacteria and other pathogens
◾It is self-sterilising, reducing its cost and increasing its usefulness in challenging circumstances.
◾It is a pro-immunity nutrient.

cardoso111: Thank you for opening this thread.First when ebola hit Africa in the 70s,and it died down since,my gut instinct told me that they must have found the cure/vaccine for it.It shouldnt be a surprise that none has been publicised ever since.Not until one man was asked to disperse the virus in Africa,s most populous nation!
The MD of Nano silver professed that it works,so lets make us of it if US refuse to give Nigeria

My brother,

to the best of my knowledge, you don't just hit ground running with any drug simply based on the profession of the MD of the company, even regardless of the passion displayed by the MD when asserting the efficacy of the drug. Lest we reduce medicine to peddling (like done in local public transport), there are certified ways and procedural steps to get drugs safe and fit for consumption.

Secondly, you don't also try drugs use in the middle of outbreak of diseases. You can't justify with desperation of the dying patient because the said patient lacks knowledge of the components and efficacy, and also will be in a good position to make rational judgment. Cases when these were done had come out with consequences

The reason US refuses/holding back in giving out ZMAPP is obvious and logical as elucidated in points 5 & 6. The Meningitis case in Kano comes to mind and the cost to litigation, insurance and image is so immense that institution are careful to subject drugs to proper trials and disclosure of its side effects before it's commercialization and mass production. Even in cases where side effects where later discovered, authorities do get the companies to withdraw it.

Check below some information on the MD of Nano Silver

9. Would this drug stop the Ebola epidemic?

If it were widely available, it certainly couldn’t hurt. An effective Ebola drug could help doctors treat the deadly virus, which is killing about 60% of the people infected in West Africa. But a vaccine would be a much more effective tool in stopping this, and future, epidemics.

Vaccines are given to healthy people to prevent them from ever becoming infected. One challenge with Ebola, experts say, is that companies don’t believe they could make much money from developing a vaccine, so few companies show interest.

8. Who paid for the drug and how much did it cost?

We don’t know. Samaritan’s Purse covered the cost of Brantly and Writebol’s evacuations but did not pay for the drug, according to a spokesman.

When a patient gets an experimental drug, the drug company can donate the product under compassionate use. Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. might have done that in this case.

Health insurance companies typically do not pick up the tab for treatments that have not been approved by the FDA. But they would usually cover the cost of any doctor fees associated with giving the drug and any costs associated with monitoring how the drug is working.

7. Does the company have more vials of the drug?

The company has very few doses ready for patient use, Fauci told CNN. “Apparently the company is trying to scale up, (but) it’s not easy to scale up to very large number of doses.”

6. Will the drug be made available to other Ebola patients?

It’s unclear. Doctors “cannot start using untested drugs in the middle of an outbreak, for various reasons,” World Health Organization spokesman Gregory Hartl said.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says scientists have to be careful about assuming this drug will work in other patients as it appears to have worked in Brantly.

“Having worked with administering antibodies for people for a really long time, that would be distinctly unusual,” he told CNN. “As we all know in medicine … you have to withhold judgment.”

5. Did doctors know it would work?

No. The drug had shown promise in primates, but even in those experiments, just eight monkeys received the treatment. In any case, the human immune system can react differently than primates’, which is why drugs are required to undergo human clinical trials before being approved by government agencies for widespread use.

The two Americans’ cases will be studied further to determine how the drug worked with their immune systems.

4. Why did American missionary workers get the drug?

Many have asked why these two workers received the experimental drug when so many — around 1,600 — others in West Africa also have the virus.

The World Health Organization says it was not involved in the decision to treat Brantly and Writebol. Both patients had to give consent to receive the drug, knowing it had never been tested in humans before.

The process by which the medication was made available to the American patients may have fallen under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s “compassionate use” regulation, which allows access to investigational drugs outside clinical trials

3. How does ZMapp work?

Antibodies are proteins used by the immune system to mark and destroy foreign, or harmful, cells. A monoclonal antibody is similar, except it’s engineered in a lab so it will attach to specific parts of a dangerous cell, according to the Mayo Clinic, mimicking your immune system’s natural response. Monoclonal antibodies are used to treat many different types of conditions.

This medicine is a three-mouse monoclonal antibody, meaning that mice were exposed to fragments of the Ebola virus and then the antibodies generated within the mice’s blood were harvested to create the medicine.

2. Are there other experimental Ebola drugs out there?

Yes. In March, the NIH awarded a five-year $28 million grant to establish a collaboration between researchers from 15 institutions who were working to fight Ebola.

“A whole menu of antibodies have been identified as potentially therapeutic, and researchers are eager to figure out which combinations are most effective and why,” a news release about the grant said.

Tekmira, a Vancouver-based company that has a $140 million contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop an Ebola drug, began Phase 1 trials with its drug in January. But the FDA recently halted the trial, asking for more information.

At least one potential Ebola vaccine has been tested in healthy human volunteers, according to Thomas Geisbert, a leading researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch. And last week, the NIH announced a safety trial of another Ebola vaccine will start as early as September.

Let's cut the chase and go straight to point

Facts about ZMAPP- Please lets dig out what we can find and put on this page

Two American missionary workers infected with the deadly Ebola virus were given an experimental drug that seems to have saved their lives.

Dr. Kent Brantly (pictured) was given the medication, ZMapp, shortly after telling his doctors he thought he would die, according to a source familiar with his case. Within an hour, doctors say his symptoms — labored breathing and a widespread rash — dramatically improved. Nancy Writebol, another missionary working with Samaritan’s Purse, received two doses of the medication and has also shown significant improvement, sources say.

As there is no proven treatment and no vaccine for Ebola, this experimental drug is raising lots of questions.

1. Who makes the drug?

The drug was developed by the biotech firm Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., which is based in San Diego. The company was founded in 2003 “to develop novel pharmaceuticals for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, focusing on unmet needs in global health and biodefense,” according to its website.

Mapp Biopharmaceutical has been working with the National Institutes of Health and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, an arm of the military responsible for weapons of mass destruction, to develop an Ebola treatment for several years.

1. I have watched a lot of comments on NL concerning the above. I believe some comments are educating and helpful. I must also say that I find many comments absolutely ridiculous.
2. While I cannot lay claim to being an expert, besides my course in anatomy, Biodiversity, Ecology and other stuffs I can't remember in my undergrad days and well over 15years ago (and I've crossed from that to IT and now to Business Development and Strategy, but still have keen interest in Health and Medical stuffs) I believe, we owe ourselves as a collective group the responsibility to be properly educated, not hearsay, not unverified information, not stupid and ridiculous lies and assertions, and junks
3. I must also lay out (and pardon me), that I find all the proponents of "American and West wants to suppress us in Africa" and their claim laughable, ignorant and at best lazy mentality
4. Let critically review some the issues here. It is my hope that we'll mostly be educated.......

So Let's Start

My brother,

All these your thoughts are simply naive. Either go there or seek information. Everything you've stated is provided in the new Tejuoso market.

Princek12: First of all I commend Gov. Fashola for a job well done. My issue now is whether or not the construction was well thought out, owing to the fact that this building is launched in 2014, and giving the incompetency and mediocrity of Nigerian leaders and Nigerian-trained professionals.

Was a parking deck that will have sufficient parking for the traders and their customers constructed?
Even if the parking deck was constructed, hope it was not designed in such fashion that it will require you to block another car when you park?
Is there water supply?
Is there a cafeteria or food court?
Is the parking congruent with the flow of traffic? This is important because a traffic gridlock occasioned by the market would dilute any contributions made be the construction of the market.
Is there a plan in place where association fees will be collected from the traders that will be used for the upkeep and maintenance of the market?
Has a trash collection system been instituted?
Are there restrooms/toilets in multiple locations that will be sufficient for the traders and the eventual patrons when the market is at peak capacity?
If any restrooms are there, do they have sufficient urinals (for men restrooms) and toilets (for both men and women restrooms) that will accommodate the traders and patrons when the market is at peak capacity?

These are some of my thoughts. I could go on and on, but these are just the pressing ones that I hope were taken into account when the market was designed. I know that many, if not most, Nigerian-trained architects and engineers are incompetent and are terrible at basic, let alone critical, thinking.

My brother,

1. You don't need a long epistle to rationalize this. Besides lots of contributions here are simply ridiculous.
2. I think we take things too far. From the limited balance of the OP's story, it is clear that the issue is not clearly reported.

3. The Catholic Church may hold the prerogative of giving more slots to their folks, which is logical and you can't begrudge them for that. Besides we don't even know if the said sister came up short I other aspects of the interview. That she came first in stage 1 does not automatically mean she will be first all through.

Btw I'm Anglican.

9jalyte: I hope this doesn't turn to irrational war. I want to make these comments, cus I think it is time for people to start acting in the right direction.

First I am a Catholic, I am also one of the few people who believe that church and indeed religion should be put to check. Concerning this issue raised, I will say outright that it is very wrong for the school administration to adopt such discriminatory position, which is not typical of catholic institutions. As long as they did not initially define the program as strictly for Catholics, they should have left the benches on a level ground.

That being said, I want also to point out some facts. in most institutions, especially international institutions, the admissions are made not only on scores, rather, they can say out of the 100%, 30% is on grades, 20 on motivation, 20 0n references, 20 on extra-curricular skills, 10 on publications. Even if you have all the 30% scores on grades, if you score low in the others, someone with lower score will get the chance. Why I said this is that the fellow in question may be right that she performed well in the questions, it may be that the school policy is the being a catholic has a mark, and why should anyone complain about it. Wrong as it may be I rather think that this is supposed to challenge the other religious bodies to venture into human capacity development, at least the Catholics have tried in that area.

I was telling my friend that since the missionaries left the church in the hands of Nigerians, we have been experiencing a lot of retrogression in true faith development. If you may recall, in fact the Anglicans performed wonderfully in human development better than the Catholics to an extent, cus the anglicans where the first to push their followers beyond college. The Catholics were doing massive education but limited most of the early educated ones to teaching jobs at PTC, or TTC. When they founders left, our clergy saw the church as their vine yard and forgot about the developmental aspect of evangelism. It is even the Catholics that to a large extent are still committed to development. Eg, search for the contributions of catholic relief services in the fight against HIV in Africa, in Nigeria search for the Catholic Caritas organization. These organizations employ everybody not minding the creed, which you will hardly see in other religious organizations.
bottom line is this, each month you are asked to pay tithe, please talk to your religious institutions to stop building towers of babel and invest in the human church. By the way, even abroad you will confirm what I am saying, if you check the scholarship bodies in Germany, one is catholic and one other is either Presbyterian. surprisingly, the catholic scholarship considers non-Catholics, but the other insisted that it is only for the members. so ...

My father in-law's house is@Love-All

Demdem:
Interesting to see that my likeminds on NL frequents or probably resides within this area in ketu.
Whenever I visit lagos, i constantly come to these area..... Aladelola, Ikosi road, love all, oluwalogbon etc.

It would seem to me that you're on an arduous task here as there is a clear knowledge gap between you two. How you'll educate him is what I'm not sure if it's worth the effort.

emiye: You need to first of all understand the phases of a project , there are roughly 6-7 stages, and yes all the stages require funding. at least from Project design, read the report once again, i have a feeling you did not read it.

Please developmental issues should be devoid of politics. From your tone, it seems you are interested in makng political statements.


If me and you in a joint venture want to set up a pure water manufacturing coy, and i am contributing a building and you are contributing the machines, to avoid disagreement, certified independent assessors can quantify the monetary value of my building, that way my equity contribution is determined.

Unfortunately you don't have a sound mind neither do you have any iota of logic.

Your analysis, reeks of putrid stench - ladden conjectures. Pray tell, would you rather Osun electorates voted Omisore that had distributed rice and kerosene, but avoided debate to articulate his manifesto and sell to the people?

Except you live in planet "Zong", a major thrust of Aregbesola's first term performance is in the Agricultural sector. I know it's difficult for someone whose farthest travel exploit is Niaraland, to comprehend.

dcitizen1: Let us congratulate the winner. Election has come and go. We have seen the power of stomach politics in south west nigeria. We have seen the power of the odourless fufu that rauf shared before the election to buy the future of a vast proportion of the electorate in the state. i donot want to believe that a vast proportion of the osun indigene are so poor that they queue for fufu despite having a vast arable land.

The government need to open up the agricultural sector so that a vast citizens of osun state can engage in farming to solve hunger problem and see beyond food for stomach politics.
The election was free becos it was devoid of harassment and intimidation of the electorate, however, it cannot be seen to be fair becos 34percent of the accredited voters out of a total sum of 1.5million voters decided the fate of the election. Dat is jst a minority number deciding the fate of vast majority of people.

The heavy security situation in osun was in order to forstall breakdown of law and order. South west region istroubled and flash point zone right from the independence and has witnessd two states of emergency- ekiti and oyo state. There were negative campaign from both sides of the parties instead of engaging themselve on the basis of campaign based on programmes and track record. There were threat of lives and propertie during the built up to the gubernatorial election and political thurgery and hooliganism. It shows a high level of desperation, grinding poverty, power tussle and political arrogancy on the part of nigerian politicians. If there were no security presence, mindless violence and blood will trail the outcome of the election. I give kudos to gej for his timely and thought provoking intervention in the state.

I pray and hope one day we will have sophisticated electorate that will vote on the basis of superior ideas not sentiment and propangada. 70 percent of our electorate are third class brains who lack the intellect to assess a candidates bf he get to power. Democracy thrives on information and some level of comfort. If the electorate receive incentives to vote, and lack the intellect to assess the electorate, it means democracy has failed.

Now is the time to see beyond 'agbiri' (longer throat) politics and vote candidates on the basis of superior ideas and programme as it is done in developed clans.