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As an economist, I have consistently argued that Lagos is borrowing more than it should and also not investing on strategic developmental projects with real economic value on the short/long term.

Just like When Ngige was governor, he spent almost all the money the state had and borrowed just to finance wonder projects with no commensurate economic value. Just because we ignorantly see building of certain infrastructures especially roads as development, politicians use it to a grave advantage.

Gov't should be strategic in drawing up it's scale of preference before arbitrarily spending on fancy projects just because it's an eye candy that appeals to the ignorant sense of the ordinary people.

Billions were expended to plant flowers on bad roads, then Roads and bridges concessioned, because the state can't fund the project.

Rochas is another dude preying on people's ignorance. In a bid to fulfill too many bogus campaign promises, he has extensively borrowed to finance dubious and highly inflated projects.

Even Elechi of Ebonyi state is another sorry story not even worth going into.

Brazil isn't as fancy as the UK, but the economy of Brazil did surpass that of the UK. Making more appealing to investment than the UK which in return boosts it's economic potential and growth.

Lagos is politically astute but economically irresponsible. If Lagos state is well managed, in 7yrs, not only with she be without debt, but also become the Hong Kong of Nigeria. The potential is there but every economic decision is usually not without a greater amount of political undertone and interest.

God help us and give us the leaders we need not the politicians we want.

God blessed us with a great president.




Thank you Jesus

Olympus has fallen is cliche and almost lame.

White House down is dope.

It is called "Housekeeping".

Time to drop the stupid political antics inherited from Obasanjo and become true democrats.

PDP has become a no nonsense party. Respect yourself and the party or get booted out unapologetically with your bag of money and throng of supporters.

FreshAir Era....

Ojukwu must have given him a spiritual knock on the head when he mentioned his name. Probably why he cried.

Rochas is a man every dubious person should identify with. A do gooder who couldn't do good.

All of you saying rubbish about Nigeria needs your heads examined. Only a fooool hates his/her country.

It's people like the yeye lady talking rubbish that man these foreign missions. The government can't take the blame for the failures of people who aren't doing the job they are paid to do.

These people should formally complain to the foreign affairs ministry and the people responsible for this sorry situation will be recalled and replaced with ones that are efficient.

Even if you distrust your leaders, always love your country.

Until you travel the world, you wouldn't have many reasons to love Nigeria.

I walk tall in Nigeria without fear or prejudice. Something you can never get in another country that adopts your sorry self.

Burning of passport or The Nigerian flag should be criminalized.

Thank you lord for giving us not the president we want, but the leader we need.

Nigeria is working....

Buhari should not be gagged, neither should he be barred from contesting the presidential election under his new broom party.

After all, they are self-proclaimed Pro-Aggressives democrats.

This house of strange-bed fellows is doomed to fail. The combination of extremist personalities shows what desperation can do to selfish minded people.

Thank God for giving us president Goodluck Jonathan.

A silent over-achiever, defender of the people and the most responsible president ever in the history of our beloved country. Nigeria.

God bless Nigeria.

FreshAir

This dude got 15million from Chibuike Amechi, then over 10 million from other Nigerians. And he's a cheerful giver because he donated a meager 200k?.

Oh please........

The last time I checked. Multi choice don't Coerce people to watch this show. Neither do they shove it down their subscriber's throat. Please don't cry more than the bereaved.

FYI, this show has served as a platform for number of talented African youths from different ethnic background and nationality to showcase their talent, while at the same time attaining stardom.

This is the 21st century and not the Stone Age my friend, pop culture is the new order. The faster you realize that the better for your shrewd cultural hypocrisy.

Big brother isn't my thing but it sure got it's audience, and it's good business for multichoice and the viewers. If you don't like the Chanel, stick to NTA.

One man's meat.. Is a vegetarian's nightmare.

Okija juju: If Nyesom Wike was there, then please dont expect our esteemed Governor to be there..

Gov. Rotimi Amaechi Does not associate|negotiate withh Terrorists|militants|Touts & Shepopotamuses..

Long Live Rivers State..

I didn't expect any more than you just offered. I would have been disappointed if you'd posted something sensible.

Most of us actually believed this man was as sensible as he claims to be.

gramci: Are they protecting it from christians, Hindus, Shintos, pagans, atheists etc or from fellow Muslims?

Good question. Lol. The secular Muslims are the true Muslims, the extremist Muslims are just as confused as their interpretation of the Quran.

Let's preach Tolerance and not religion.

I need my party registered. Alliance Of Politicians.

malc619: Poverty isn't an excuse for lawlessness. Being poor doesn't give you the right to live under Oshodi bridge, shyte in the gutter and procreate in bus-stops!!

If Lagos is too hard for you to survive move back to your village!!

Abi dem bury their placenta for Lagos

Why do people prefer to live like pigs and goats in Lagos when they can afford a decent living in their villages??

Usually I don't reply your kind of ignorant comments. But for the the benefit of those reading this thread, I wish to educate you a little.

Homelessness is not a crime. Neither, it's a social issue.

Travel the world and you would find homeless people everywhere. the difference is usually the action government take towards these people who are also legitimate members of the society.

In the US there are some U.S. federal programs that are designed to help end and prevent homelessness. Whereby these programs fail to end homelessness, alternate programs are usually in place to to manage it.

One of these programs include emergency shelters and transitional housing programes. While these programes take in two-third of the total US homeless, the remaining live in abandoned buildings or other areas not meant for human habitation.

Even though US government's "homeless assistance programs" does not provide shelter and other basic necessities of life to "ALL" of it's homeless citizens, it does not seek to flush them off the society either. Or take them off their inhabitable homes without providing alternative shelter.

The Lagos state government has not lived up to it's responsibility. It's morally wrong to render people homeless without providing an alternative. The LASG may not be duty bound to provide permanent homes for them, but a temporal shelter should suffice and basic assistance is very much what any "responsible" govt would undertake.

And for your information, the highest number of people who live on the streets, under the bridges and the shanties are predominantly, Yoruba's And the igbos. They are Lagosians too.

iresearcher: This is my argument.
I have a land somewhere in a city.I leave it unused for some time
You go to the land and erect shanties,slums etc.I come back several years after
and I ask you to leave because I now need my land to do something meaningful then you start
crying blue murder.
The truth be told, provided you did not buy the land and it is not your inheritance, you
do not have any claim to it whatsoever.
It amazes me how some organisations make noise out of nothing. Even outside of the country,
despite the fact that the land is yours or your inheritance, you are still told what and how to build
on it because there is a master plan. If you left your village without penny, what do you expect
in the city,inherit someones land or property?

Please lets use our brains before we make comments abeg.

Wise man make I tell you...

The government has a binding social contract with it's citizens. This contract contains certain duties and responsibilities of the government. And one of the duties of the government is to "provide" for it's citizens. Both the rich an the poor.

The govement builds infrastructures like hospitals, roads, schools etc. and majority of these infrastructures are cited in the urban areas. Now how does a poor man who resides in the rural area with no access to these roads, schools and hospitals benefit from the government which he also has as much tights to as those living in the cities?

In a democracy, the government derives it's powers from the citizens, which invariably means that the citizens are sovereign.

It's is a breach of this social contract for the government to render it's citizens homeless instead of doing otherwise.

Lagosians are not only those who can afford houses but also those who can't and the government have a moral obligation to satisfy these people in different social statuses.

So you're argument is weak and of no substance.

Only an irresponsible government t renders it's citizens homeless in the name of development.

I hear something like this in Fashola's mind..

I hereby move that poor people should not be part of our decent society.

If they can't afford to pay toll, buy/rent a decent house, pay ridiculous taxes and STFU, then they are not qualified to be part of our great Lagos state and should give up the ghost or hug the transformer.


NONSENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Pro-Aggressive o'ni baje oooo

I just read a story about someone in need getting random assistance from someone he didn't know, so I got inspired to share similar experience of mine.

8years ago, I ran into debt because I had taken up an interest yielding loans from a friend to start a business but within 4 months, the business had collapsed and the cash was gone. Eight months elapsed but I wasn't able to pay back, since I was even struggling to feed properly. One promise to the other led to the involvement of the Police, I was arrested and later released on bail on the condition that I will sign an undertaking to pay up within a month.

As I left the police station, I picked my phone and called "everybody" I know in this world and told them my predicament, although they sympathized with me, but almost all of them were struggling too. Some requested for my account details and promised to send me anything they could raise, but none of them got back to me.

3 weeks had passed but I was only able to raise 68k coming 332k short. The fourth week, I reported to the police station, explained the situation of things and asked for more time, instead of getting my request granted, I received series of hot slaps and got locked up in the cell.

The next day, the IPO brought me out of the cell to "reason" with me. while we were "reasoning", The IPO's attention was needed and a certain girl who was sitting near me on the bench asked why I was being detained. I briefly explained to her, she just shook her head and said "Don't worry things will be better". I was later returned to the cell and the next day, the IPO came and told me that I am free to go. I was confused until when he told me that a good Samaritan whom I shared my situation with the previous day came to pay the debt and secured my release.

I just cried..................


Whoever she is and wherever she is, May she never know anything short of GOOD and favour. BLESS Her!.

Dolling out such an amount of money to help a random stranger is more than an "extraordinary act of kindness" Her kindness has inspired me to be a giver, not to those who want, but to those who need. I wish she could see what I've become in life.


If you have a story of an inspiring act of kindness.. Do share...

bukatyne: I sincerely believe it is a 'victim's mentality' to always want to 'prove' who you are. If Hilary Clinton wears Iro and Buba from now till next year, it does not make her African neither will a banker always be mistaken for a white because he/she decks suits even in bed

Culture as we were taught is a way of life encompassing dressing, language etc. so why are we so fixated on the dress part despite the fact that we have all of Friday - Sunday to wear it?

A lot of people who wear natives to represent 'Africa' always run abroad at slightest headache, do not use local(Made in Nigeria) stuffs, do not watch local channels, probably send their kids/school abroad etc. Some people wear dresses even to weddings. I wonder how many of us will decide to plait corn rows or didi without attachment. How many people still trek around? How many people are farmers or blacksmiths? How many people wear natives to a party? Or is sewing mini dresses with Ankara and show me your back them them now our culture? Is it the style we are fighting or the material? How many still grind with stone? Most posters esp those in diaspora have condemned our local food as fattening and yet we all parrot 'culture'

I guess we all choose the part of our culture to promote, Lol!

This Your argument ehn. SENSELESS......

Don't equate culture (A way of life) with science, technology, innovation and development my friend.

He should give them the political platform to emulate him. The pastor should include other Nigerians in the category of Ibori that are also worthy of emulation like

Ade Bendel,
IK Anajemba,
Anini,
Lucky Igninedion,
Shina Rambo,


ETC.

Mr Aboki: [b]Mr. MoodSwing Sir..

It would be a big shame if you are indeed a lawyer in real life as you seem to have a very poor understanding of how the law works.

1. You blamed his being granted bail on the 'Imperfect legal system' of Nigeria. Now how you came to this conclusion is yet to be ascertained. Now please tell us in your legal opinion why he should have been denied bail.

2. You spoke of a just legal system. By what yardstick does one measure how just a legal system is. By yours or a set internationally recognized yardstick.

3. This statement 'As long as the case against Chidi Lloyd is yet to be decided, it is still subject to mitigation or collateral attack'. Collateral attack?! Mitigation?! Like whats your point?!

4. This statement 'he can sue me for whatever will make him sleep, but be aware that I never referred to him as criminal. I only implied that his actions showed great deal of murderous tendencies.'

Here is a quote from your previous comment;





I want you to read the highlighted portion of that quote slowly and tell us again if you called/referref to Mr. Lloyd as a criminal.

5. Freedom of Speech... You have the freedom to speak, but only speak wisely.. [/b]

1 & 2

It is indeed disturbing that your supposed understanding of the legal system is based on shrewd personal perception and sets of assumptions formed on a very wrong premise.

One of the principles of the rule of law states that "The process by which laws are enacted, administered and enforced is accessible, fair and efficient". You referenced George Zimmerman's case in your earlier post. Now, Zimmerman was set free even when it was established that he "followed" Treyvon, and in the ensuing confrontation which he obviously caused, shot an unarmed Treyvon. Zimmerman was discharged not because he wasn't guilty of killing Treyvon, but because of the controversial stand-your-ground law, which his defense was based. Even the US attorney general Eric Holder and other high ranking lawyers didn't agree with the law neither with the verdict.

Since you claim to be a sound Nairaland lawyer, you should know that laws must pass a general test of validity: not repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience or incompatible either directly or by implication with any law for the time being in force, and also must not do injustice. The stand your ground law didn't do the course of justice, neither it circumvented it..

I am not advocating for an accused person to lose fundamental rights, but that the course of "justice" should be upheld in the dispensation of law and not just for laws to be literally interpreted and arbitrarily executed by the court.

No set of laws in the world is perfect, and when i say that our criminal justice system is flawed, it doesn't mean that the court didn't act within the prevailing laws, but that our laws are deficient and thereby wouldn't serve the cause of justice at all times. Kapish?

THE LAW IS SUPPOSED TO BE AN INSTRUMENT TO SERVE JUSTICE, and when justice is not served in law, then the purpose would be considered defeated.

3: mit·i·ga·tion
/ˌmitəˈgāSHən/
Noun
The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.
Synonyms
alleviation - relief - palliation - extenuation

The law was used to reduce the severity of Mr. Lloyd's murderous actions.

On the other hand....

By collateral attack, I mean challenging the validity (not legality) of the relevant laws or decisions by which Chidi Lloyd's trial is based.

4: I guess you have the right to interpret it anyhow you like: 'Like every other" does not intend to make him a criminal, neither it was used to highlight similar behavior exhibited by people whom have been legitimately accused of wrongdoing and incarcerated.

Rossikk: What a lousy, illiterate write-up by a colonised mental slave with no sense of dignity, self-worth, or independence.

The audacity this pig has to equate African attire with 'uncivilization' and western attire with 'civilization' alone is enough to confine him to a mental hospital for the severely reta.rded. Worse is his smug assurance that he can actually equate his self-hatred to some sort of 'enlightenment', positing that our traditional attire were created ''hundreds of years ago''. Well the western suit WAS invented 'hundreds of years ago' too, and, like African wear, has only been modified as the years progressed. Why can't this goat advocate a more 'work-friendly' transitional process for African wear if that's his thing, if not for his colonised self hatred? Just as this goat is happy to import his language, his religion, his eating habits, his car, he also wants to jettison his indigenous wear for imported clothes alone. How long before pigs like this begin to advocate for mass skin bleaching of all Africans to ensure we ''meet up'' with the light skinned colour of ''civilization''? It seems all we've got left to remind us of who we are is the skin colour. Don't bet against self-hating orang outangs and swine like this writer campaigning to shed that too.

Finally, the writer's claim that ''The wearing of cap is not indigenous to any ethnic group in Nigeria'' shows his GROSS HISTORICAL ILLITERACY, and that he is an absolute DUNCE where it concerns Nigerian/African history. A walking white dunce in black skin. An embarrassment to every living African, and a caricature representation of the bamboozled slave steeped in ignorance and self-loathing. The sooner his loathsome ilk die away from our independent society the better for us all.


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Africa_Ife_Head_1_Kimbell.jpg/379px-Africa_Ife_Head_1_Kimbell.jpg
Ife noble wearing a cap, 12th century

[img]http://img1.nairaland.com/attachments/306903_Benin_Art_2_jpgf1b2119836e93a9b113b5cd337a41008[/img]
Ancient Benin, 14th century

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Igbo Ukwu Chief wearing cap, dated 12th century. This man is from the writer's own ethnic region/group.

Arguably the only nairalander that's always on-point.


You are the son of your father.

@Topic, I don't comment on this kind of rubbish. The writer may claim to be educated, but he's surely an overzealous illiterate.

Mr Aboki: [b]You don start again abi?!

Talking nonsense that you know nothing about..

What did our Justice system do now?! Was the case not a bailable offence?! So you expected the court to hold him in prison indefinitely. Now let me teach you yat another lesson in law. Even murder suspects can be bailed under certain conditions. Most times when bail is denied a suspect, its either the evidence around the case is so heinious that the suspect might be a threat to the society, The suspects life is being threatend and his safety outside the prison walls is not guaranteed, the suspect is a flight risk or the suspect is a repeat offender. Chidi lloyd is none of the above. Infact, he can be granted bail based pn personal recognition. The max the court would do is to take away his passport and travel documents. #LessonNo.1

Rivers people dont need a thank you from him, rather Rivers People are thankful to him for stopping those coup plotters that tried to unseat the government of Rivers State using cheap street thugs. God also loves Chidi Lloyd. Chidi defended the unity of Rivers State. If faced with another ugly situation like that, we expect no less from him.

Chidi lloyd is not a criminal, be careful how you speak. For you to call someone a criminal, they must have first been 'convicted' of that crime. Since he has not been found guilty of that crime, nor does he have any previous convictions that we know about, he is not a criminal and should not be reffered to as a criminal. Thats why the Police use the word 'Suspect', thats why the law says 'Innocent until proven guilty'. You can be sued for slander & defamation of character right now by Mr. lloyd and you would be found guilty . #BeWarned.. #Lesson No.2

He can sue the Police for inhumane treatment. The police does not have the power to torture anybody in their custody. Infact the police cannot hold a suspect for more than 24 - 48 hours without charging him or her to court. The Police cannot hold him for that long, keep flying him from one place to the other without allowing him full access to his lawyers. Even if Chidi is truly a killers sef, he still has rights. Even a convicted criminal should not be tortured under the law. He may get hard labour, but never torture. Ihunwo reserves the right to file a civil suit against Chidi and claim both punitive and compensatory damages to whatever amount he pleases, but that does not stop Chidi from suing the Police. #Lesson No.3

Our Law and criminal justice system has not done anything wrong in this case so far. Even Oscar Pistorious was granted bail in the case of Murder. O.J Simpson was also granted bail on a 250,000$ Bond during his own murder trial. George Zimmerman was granted bail on a 150,000$ bond in the Treyvon Martin murder trial. So is it a case of assault that sholdnt get bail?!





Na wah for you o!! I hope you are not with the Police. Na your type go see simple accident case, call am attempted murder with a dangerous weapon.

_{Barrister Aboki Esq.
#Street Lawyer..
#Shoe Shiner..
#Security Man
#Cattle Rearer
#Suya Seller
#Kilishi Retailer
#Shoe Maker.
#Terrorist
#Tanker Driver
#Kiosk owner.
#Mishai Seller
#JTF Soldier}

[/b]

My friend the law can be interpreted in so many ways, don't bring this lame sets of assumptions based on your literal understanding of the law and not what should be obtainable in a just legal system.

Even when we "suppose" the law is absolute, it doesn't necessarily mean that it serves the course of "natural justice" and good conscience.

As long as the case against Chidi Lloyd is yet to be decided, it is still subject to mitigation or collateral attack.

he can sue me for whatever will make him sleep, but be aware that I never referred to him as criminal. I only implied that his actions showed great deal of murderous tendencies.

And please don't threaten my freedom of speech.

I pray he lives to see 2015. Amen.

[size=14pt]THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS[/size]


Instead of this dishonorable man to be thankful to our imperfect criminal justice system which granted him bail and issue a very remorseful apology to Riverians and Nigerians for his dishonorable conduct in the RSHA show of shame. Then proceed to seek forgiveness from God and the man he almost killed. Instead he became emboldened like every other criminal whom have undergone some kind of incarceration.


If he sues the police for inhumane treatment, For how much will the man he nearly murdered sue him?.


The LAW and our criminal justice system is flawed, this is why some person like their justice served jungle style, I pity our justice system, It is so weak that even potential murderers and ardent criminals now taunts her. An eye, for an eye

Even if Chidi Lloyd later walks free, he should have it at the back of his mind that he still owes this country atleast, 5yrs prison term, which must surely be paid as at when due.

Lol

The "word" PROGRESSIVE has suffered. Imagine a moderate jihadist like Buhari and the most sophisticated area father (political bully) of our time in the person of Tinubu, parading themselves shamelessly as "PROGRESSIVES" and "DEMOCRATS".

For your information, you rejoicing dullards. Buhari truncated democracy when he overthrew Shagari. And therefore has no moral standing to dine among "TRUE" democrats. He's surely dining with men of his likes and not democrats as we are meant to believe.

Progressive has been rascalized by Tinubu and his cohorts, then redefined to mean anything other than the true meaning of the word.

APC, ACN, CPC and others does not represent progressive political ideology, but they are Pro-aggressive political movement of "STRANGE-BED FELLOWS".

True democrats and progressives, form political alliances with people/parties who share similar political ideology as them, and not with people of same political malicious intents.

All they want is power. Power not to do good, but power to fulfil their devilish desires. God Forbid!.

Meanwhile the topic is an awfully crafted propaganda that didnt score.

QUOTE: APC is not a political marriage of convenience, but a marriage conceived on the alter of men with no principle and false sense of direction .The self-acclaimed "mega" opposition party is already dead on arrival.

Longeria: Dear president

Time and space may not allow me to add the negative part of your government hence the positives and the need to correct and improve. On 28th of this month make me 41 years on earth, only in your administration I witness empty filling stations, running rails, Agriculture revolution, airport transformation, electoral reform, electricity reforms, education, roads, improved external affairs policy, etc. To me, the Nigeria you inherited is like a burnt house, not possible to rebuild in four years, your zeal and patriotism in tackling the mountainous tasks simultaneously gives me hope of light at the end of the tunnel. I make bold to urge you to disregard the intimidation and ranting of all the MERGING NUISANCE and concentrate on making the country real giant of Africa. Why change a winning team when we are striving to top African development premier league. I make bold to urge you to declare for second term, you deserve it, you will get it.

LONGERIA
Portharcourt

You are a true Nigerian and a son of your father.

obitwo: Yoruba sense vs Igbo sense

Sixth sense vs Nonsense

Yoruba thinking and reasoning is far superior



The reason you are in Lagos is because since 1999 when we returned to democratic rule, Lagos and other Yoruba states have made their region advance and built infrastructure to encourage investments. That's why you hear of Oyo State's GDP being higher than that of any SE state or that monthly IGR of Ogun is almost N4bn which is three times higher than the highest IGR or any SE state

This is what the Yorubas do better and don't tell me we are what we are because of you because GDP stats for Lagos shows that more than 90% of the GDP comes from sectors dominated by Yorubas and some multinationals

So its just in our DNA. We are light years ahead. Live with it

Lol. Is this guy for real?. What an ass.

Advice: don't talk about what you don't know. It make you look more stuupid that you actually sound.

osaiworld: you claim to be an intelligent person, but its now certain you are not. this is my last dosage for your foolishness as after this no more because silence is the best answer for a fool.
only intelligent people know that you dont dismiss an assertion until you hear from the other party, but you display your idiosyncratic element when you dismissed the documents from fashola without waiting for Adaobi to respond. guy you be mumu. swallow that and mellow down.

you are actually dumber than I give you credit for.

2mch: Did these guys who Obi deported have rights? Yes or No:

Even if that was true. Does two wrongs make a right?.

osaiworld: I told you I will fasholanise you, you thought I was joking? you claim to have brain but you write up betrayed your assertion.

Your docility is of unprecedented magnitude. You can read because you have eyes. Unfortunately you have no brains to understand.

I actually expect sane and reasonable members of this society to engage me and not some joke like you.

Kindly find someone in your level of idiocy and 4k off.