onuman: You seem to be glad that Federal government takes charge of reconstruction of streets in states. Why is Nigeria dubiously called a federation?
Who profits from absence of true and fiscal federalism in Nigeria?
I have no time for all these silly and stupid arguments that people bring up during election season. What the hell is, "You seem to be glad"?? Can you show me where I said that I was glad? What kind of nonsense is this.
Read it again, slowly this time, and maybe you'll understand what I wrote.
FreeStuffsNG: It's there and you actually owe the OP an apology. Here's the quote below sir:
President Muhammadu Buhari will, on Thursday, attend the public presentation of ‘My Participations’, the autobiography of Bisi Akande, former interim chairman of the APC.
The event will take place at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos state.
According to a statement by Tunde Rahman, media aide of Bola Tinubu, Buhari is the special guest of honour at the event; Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, is the chief host, while Tinubu, national leader of APC, is the guest of honour.
I think you wanted to quote the person that I responded to.
LASG ANNOUNCES EMERGENCY TRAFFIC DIVERSION ON AHMADU BELLO WAY
The Lagos State Government will divert traffic on Ahmadu Bello Way from Adeola Odeku Intersection inwards Adetokunbo Ademola Roundabout (Eko Hotel) from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm on Thursday, 9th December, 2021.
A release signed by the Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde, said the road will be temporarily unavailable to motorists for the stated period, assuring that alternative routes have been mapped out to ease traffic flow within and around the designated route.
He explained that motorists will be diverted to Adeola Odeku via Akin Adesola, adding that road users will also be diverted to Oyin Jolayemi, Oko-Awo and Sanusi Fafunwa Streets as Akin Adesola connecting Ahmadu Bello Way by IBM will be closed to vehicular movement.
Oladeinde noted that Ozumba Mbadiwe will serve as alternative access for motorists to link their destinations as traffic from the road inbound Adetokunbo Ademola will be diverted to Ajose Adeogun and Sanusi Fafunwa Streets or redirected back to Civic Events Centre axis
The Commissioner reiterated that all feeder roads leading to Ahmadu Bello Way from Adeola Odeku intersection as well as those leading to Eko Hotel from Adetokunbo Ademola Roundabout will be temporarily closed to traffic from early hours of the day.
While assuring motorists that signage will be mounted along the routes to guide movements, Oladeinde affirmed that the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA), will be available to manage any inconvenience in order to reduce travel time for motorists.
The State Government appealed to the citizenry, especially those who reside and do business along the aforementioned routes to cooperate with officers assigned to manage movement within and around Victoria Island, stressing that the traffic diversion is for a short period.
#LASG #ForAGreaterLagos
The road will be closed from at least 8am till 2pm.
I've had to go down Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island at least once a month in the past 4 years and I have been shocked at the condition of the road. It was riddled with potholes and I was surprised that such an important road, which leads to Eko Atlantic City, the NTA, Silverbird Galleria, Naval Dockyard and other important facilities, could be left to deteriorate in such a shocking manner.
The Federal Ministry of Works moved to the site in 2019 and they have completely reconstructed the road from the Eko Hotel junction all the way to Marina. I believe that President Buhari will commission it during his visit.
Buhari to inaugurate made-in-Nigeria defence boat in December
October 31, 2021 22:38
President Buhari will inaugurate a made-in-Nigeria seaward defence boat in December 2021.
Awwal Gambo, chief of naval staff, said his visit to the presidential villa, on Sunday, was to officially invite the president to launch the indigenously built boat.
The boat is one of three being built by the Nigerian navy dockyard staff in Lagos.
The naval chief said the boat “will add to the set of vessels that we have for the protection of the Nigerian maritime territory against piracy, sea robbery, illegal bunkering and all other maritime crimes”.
Responding, President Buhari said completing the boat is an achievement the nation should be proud of.
“It prides us as a nation that we can build something from the scratch to finish, by our own shipyard. So, it is a thing of pride to us,” the president said.
Gambo who declined to mention the cost of building the boat said it is cost-effective.
“It is unlike when you get foreign vendors to build or to supply the ship. It’s saving a lot for the country and going forward, we are looking at doing more of that within the shortest possible time,” he said
The naval chief said other countries have indicated interest to partner with Nigeria in building and maintaining ships.
“We have the Democratic Republic of Congo, they are ready and willing to partner with us in shipbuilding and maintenance,” he said.
“We have Badagry shipyard that wants to build a shipyard in Badagry. They are also ready to partner with us in maintenance and construction and most of the countries in the West Coast are definitely going to patronise us.”
Buhari to be in Lagos on Thursday for Bisi Akande’s book launch
December 08, 2021 10:47
President Muhammadu Buhari will, on Thursday, attend the public presentation of ‘My Participations’, the autobiography of Bisi Akande, former interim chairman of the APC.
The event will take place at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos state.
According to a statement by Tunde Rahman, media aide of Bola Tinubu, Buhari is the special guest of honour at the event; Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, is the chief host, while Tinubu, national leader of APC, is the guest of honour.
In his foreword on the book, Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate, described the autobiography as “a national gift that could not have been more instructively timed”.
“There are books whose very handling must be done with heavily insulated gloves since, virtually every page sizzles with contradictions between attestable reality and impudent claims, attempts to cover past crimes and dodge responsibilities,” Soyinka said.
Trained as an accountant, Akande was employed in his younger days as an executive of British Petroleum, a multinational oil and gas company.
He started his involvement in politics as a councilor in Ila-Orangun, Osun state, before he was elected into the constituent assembly in 1977. In 1979, Akande was appointed as the secretary to the state government of Oyo by Bola Ige, the then governor of the state. He later became the deputy governor in 1983.
Advertisement Akande was one of the politicians that was detained by the military following the collapse of the Second Republic in 1983. After regaining his freedom in 1985, he reportedly vowed never to participate in politics again.
However, he went on to join other activists in opposing the military and emerged as the Osun state leader of Afenifere, Yoruba socio-political group.
In 1999, he became the governor of Osun state on the platform of the now-defunct Alliance for Democracy (AD).
60% of AEDC was owned by KANN Consortium, which took a loan from UBA to finance the purchase. 40% of AEDC is owned by government. KANN couldn't repay the loan and UBA took over its shares and sacked and replaced the management of the company.
(I suspect that the dispute between KAAN and UBA might have been the reason that AEDC could not pay its staff).
NERC, as the regulators of the sector and BPE (representing government's 40% shares) approved UBA's take over of AEDC.
UPDATE: The General Manager of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (@followlastma), Bolaji Oreagba has categorically disowned the unsubstantiated allegation that officials of the agency were involved in the unfortunate truck accident yesterday at Ojodu
Oreagba averred that ”from the reports we received on the incidence, the driver is believed to have lost control of the vehicle, probably because of mechanical reasons. The police are investigating the matter; the public should await their report".
LASTMA does not have a traffic management duty post around the accident scene. And all patrol personnel had reported back to base for daily parade as at the time the accident occurred leaving only those at their traffic management posts”, Oreagba noted.
The General Manager further said that in the various unconfirmed reports in some media, not only LASTMA as an agency was fingered but some other government traffic control agencies and wondered how all these agencies would be in pursuit of one truck, a truck that could be apprehended at a later date, that is, if it had committed any traffic infraction.
He advised that the media should refrain from rushing to the press with unsubstantiated reports, all in a bid to be the first to break the news. A news that could engender public distrust before the revelation of the facts.
Oreagba commiserated with the families of the students that lost their lives and pray for the quick recovery for the injured.
He also said that we all have the responsibility of making our roads safe for everyone, by strictly adhering to all motoring and traffic rules and regulations that have been put in place.
Kano APC Crisis: What we discussed with Tinubu – Shekarau
Ibrahim Shekarau says the crisis in the APC in Kano is not about Mr Ganduje but about the leadership of the party in the state
By Abubakar Ahmadu Maishanu December 7, 2021
A former governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, on Tuesday, confirmed that the meeting on Sunday of members of his faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano with a former governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, was on the lingering party crisis in Kano.
Mr Shekarau told BBC Hausa that Mr Tinubu, who is the national leader of the party, invited him for the meeting in Lagos after he was briefed on the party crisis in Kano by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje.
Mr Ganduje’s loyalists constitute the other faction of the APC in Kano and controlled the leadership until the federal high court in Abuja last week voided the congresses that produced the party leaders.
Ganduje not our problem
Following the meeting with Mr Tinubu, Mr Shekarau said the crisis in the APC in the state has nothing to do with Mr Ganduje but rather the state’s leadership of the party.
Mr Shekarau said “I told Mr Tinubu that the crisis in Kano APC was not between myself and Ganduje, it is a disagreement of the party leadership in the state; we were sidelined in the affairs of the party in the state.
“Tinubu told me that Governor Ganduje initially briefed him about the crisis, so as a leader, he deemed it necessary to invite me to hear from me and he sent for me and we met on Sunday in Lagos,” Mr Shekarau said to BBC Hausa.
Mr Shekarau said the meeting with Mr Tinubu was strictly on the Kano party crisis. He said such a meeting with the party leader was usual as they had always met to discuss issues at stake in the APC.
The former Kano governor said all the contending groups in Kano have briefed Mr Tinubu about the party crisis in the state.
“He is a party leader; he will eventually render his advice on the next line of action for the success of the party,” Mr Shekarau said.
Background
The two Kano APC factions had conducted parallel state congresses on October 18 and produced two sets of leaders.
The Shekarau faction, which had two senators and four members of the House of Representatives, elected Haruna Danzago as chairman while Mr Ganduje’s camp elected Abdullahi Abbas.
The National Appeal Committee of the party later recognised Mr Abbas as the chairman of the party in the state, indicating its siding with the faction loyal to the governor.
Not satisfied with the decision of the party, the faction led by Mr Shekarau, headed to court, asking for the nullification of the congresses at the ward, local government and state levels conducted by the rival faction and recognition of its own.
Subsequently, the Federal High Court in Abuja granted the requests and upheld the congresses conducted by the Shekarau faction.
The judge also made an order restraining the Ganduje faction from appointing new leaders for the APC in the state.
Following the court judgment, arsonists last week attacked the campaign office of Barau Jibrin, one of the senators in the Shekarau camp.
The building also housed the new head office of the Shekarau group and was scheduled for commissioning on Thursday last week before the arsonists destroyed it.
Following the attack, the group wrote a petition to the Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Usman, accusing the rival faction of the arson.
The petition, dated December 2, was co-signed by Mr Shekarau, who is also the senator representing Kano Central, Mr Jibrin, who is the senator for Kano South, and four members of the House of Representatives including; Nasiru Abdua, Tijjani Jobe, Sha’aban Sharada and Haruna Dederi.
The petitioners fingered the chairperson of the rival faction, Mr Abbas, the state’s commissioner for Local Government Affairs, Murtala Garo; Faizu Alfindiki, chairperson Kano Municipal local government area; Khalid Diso, Chairperson Gwale LGA; Hassan Garban-Kauye, chairperson Kumbotso LGA; Auwal Shuaibu, Chairperson Nassarawa LGA and one Gwarmai as ”the sponsors of the arsonists.”
However, the spokesperson for the group, Ahmad Aruwa, denied the allegations.
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