naptu2: Lasepa has taken action against lots of churches, mosques, music stores, hotels and factories that have been engaged in noise pollution and there are many nairaland threads about those incidents, so I'll encourage you to complain, because the system works.
What you are asking for already exists both at the federal and state levels.
Unfortunately I'm in transit at the moment, so I'm going to compose this post entirely from my memory, but I'll provide more information when I get to my destination.
The law that created the Nigerian Environmental Safety Regulatory Agency (NESREA) empowers it to set noise limits. Individuals and organisations must comply with this limit or they will be made to pay fines for every day that they contracene the regulation and they can also be jailed. Unfortunately I can't remember what the limit is.
In Lagos State, LASEPA has set a limit of 55 decibels during the day and 45 decibels at night. I watched an episode of Sunrise Daily (between 2005 and 2009) in which the then commissioner of environment, Dr Muiz Banire talked about noise pollution.
He said that he tested the generator in his home and discovered that he was contravening the law and he had to get it soundproofed. He said that citizens could complain to LASEPA and LASEPA would initially issue a warning to the defaulter to reduce the noise being emitted. Then they will conduct inspections to see if their warning is being complied with and lastly, they will seal the property if the problem continues.
I've posted a long list of example of action taken against churches, mosques, bars, factories, hotels etc. and ways in which you can contact LASEPA. I'll search for them when I get to my destination or you can use the Nairaland search bar and type " Naptu2 Lasepa "
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@bold. Arriba Luiz Martinez
Aribba means "Up" and it was his war cry. So it's like "Up Luiz Martinez".
Luiz Martinez in the 1970s and shortly before his death in 2013.
Professional wrestler King Kong Bundy, who rose to fame in the 1980s when he battled Hulk Hogan in a steel cage match, has died at the age of 61.
News of the death of the wrestler, whose real name was Christopher Pallies, was shared on Facebook by his long-time friend David Herro.
Mr Herro wrote: "Today we lost a legend and a man I consider family. Rest in peace Chris. We love you."
Authorities have not yet revealed the cause of the famous wrestler's death.
The wrestling industry and fans have shared their memories of the wrestler, calling him a "hero" and an "icon".
In a statement published on its website, WWE said it was "saddened to learn that WWE legend King Kong Bundy has passed away".
The company called the wrestler "one of the greatest and most eye-catching big men to lace up a set of boots" and offered its "condolences to Bundy's family, friends and fans".
The King Kong Bundy character was developed by Mr Pallies on the New Jersey wrestling scene, where he capitalised on his immense size.
According to his official WWE profile, he weighed more then 458lbs (208kg), and was known as the "walking condominium".
He made his WWE debut in 1981, where he quickly developed his signature move 'the five count'. Audiences would delight as he demanded the referee count to five, rather than the customary three as he pinned his opponent to the mat.
Bundy quickly rose through the ranks and achieved international fame as a rival to Hulk Hogan in the mid-1980s.
Mr Hogan expressed his sadness at the death of his former-rival, saying he was "overwhelmed" by the news.
King Kong Bundy was planning to appear at a wrestling convention next month in New York, and tweeted about it shortly before he died.
Outside of the ring, the wrestling legend made a number of TV appearances, including in the US sitcom 'Married...with Children".
Bundy was part of a class-action lawsuit filed against WWE in 2016, which alleged the company failed to protect wrestlers against head injuries that led to brain damage. The lawsuit was dismissed in 2018.
Lots of wrestling fans shared the impact King Kong Bundy had on them growing up.
Basilio Frusciante, who describes himself as a "passionate wrestling fan since 1983", told the BBC: "[King Kong Bundy] left an impression on me as a wrestling fan going back to when I became one as a kid... at the age of five.
"He [performed as a] "baddy", but, from all accounts, he was a very nice guy.
"I saw him wrestle a couple times... I'll always have fond memories of King Kong Bundy."
Everybody has heard of TAN because of the role that they played in the 2015 elections.
Ifeanyi Uba was one of the major forces behind TAN.
TAN went underground after the 2015 election.
Ifeanyi Uba recently won a senatorial election in Anambra State on the platform of YPP.
Ifeanyi Uba called for a press conference in Abuja and everybody thought that the press conference would be about his election.
Instead, Ifeanyi Uba announced (at the press conference) that TAN was about to begin serious work to support the election of Babajide Sanwoolu as the next governor of Lagos.
ahmedkoded95: The first part of the 2019 general elections held last week as Nigerians trooped out to vote their presidential, senatorial and House of Representatives candidates across the country. The second part of the election, in which Nigerians are expected to vote their governorship and states’ Houses of Assembly candidates, is scheduled for next week.
The next electoral contest scheduled for March 9 would bring to an end several months of intrigues, name-calling, propaganda, networking and alliance formation across party lines. Politicians on their part adopted different slogans, slangs and street lingo to connect with the people and canvass support. These electioneering activities have informed as much as they have entertained Nigerians.
Many Nigerians would not forget in a hurry some of the powerful imageries that characterised electioneering and party politics in this election. PREMIUM TIMES highlights some of the dominant imageries:
1. “O to ge”
The “ O to ge” (meaning ‘Enough Is Enough’) campaign mantra is by far the most potent political mantra in the 2019 general election. Adopted by Kwara State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as its campaign catchphrase, the slogan is largely believed to have contributed to the fall of Senate President Bukola Saraki and his allies in the state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Although there are conflicting accounts of how the “O to ge” mantra was birthed in Kwara, the dominant narrative is that it was coined by Islamic gospel artiste, Ibrahim Labaeka. Mr Labaeka, a member of the Islamic Musicians Association of Nigeria (ISMAN), is a popular Ilorin artiste whose musical works was used to rally voters toward the anti-Saraki cause in Kwara.
In Ilorin, the chant of “O to ge” is often followed by “Lilo le e lo”, meaning “We will ensure you are chased away”. Aside that the campaign slogan led to the fall of Mr Saraki, it also swept away all PDP aspirants across Kwara State. It has since taken a life of its own outside Kwara and now being adopted by people in other states, including Lagos.
2. 4 plus 4 – “NextLevel”
While “O to ge” is a campaign slogan rendered by words of mouth, the “4 plus 4” is a non-verbal use of sign language. It’s essentially meant to convey the desire to support President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election bid in 2019. The sign is done by spreading one’s two hands apart, with all of one’s fingers but the thumb raised while displaying both hands. The two separate four fingers displayed conspicuously are representative of each of the four-year periods of the two terms the Nigerian constitution stipulates for the president.
Mr Buhari himself popularized the sign last year when he appeared before the National Assembly to present the 2019 budget. The sign was however trailed by controversies as some Nigerians, among them opposition leaders, suggested that the sign was “occultic”, a charge many pro-Buhari commentators promptly dismissed.
The “4 plus 4” campaign sign goes hand in hand with occasional chant of “NextLevel” among Mr Buhari’s supporters. NextLevel is the campaign roadmap of the ruling APC, launched in November 2018.
With the victory of Mr Buhari in penultimate Saturday’s election, it is safe to consider the sign as one of the most potent of the election season.
3. #TakeItBack
One election slogan that would not be forgotten easily by Nigerians, especially those of the younger generation, is #TakeItBack. It was popularised by publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore. Mr Sowore contested for the presidency on the platform of the African Action Congress (AAC) after he emerged the party’s candidate unchallenged on October 6, 2018, at the AAC’s national convention.
Mr Sowore, a reknown activist, is the convener of #TakeItBack movement, with the core philosophy of taking the nation back from those who plunder its resources. Mr Sowore lost the presidential election to APC’s Muhammadu Buhari.
4. Atikulated
Shortly after former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar emerged candidate of the opposition PDP at its convention in PortHarcourt in 2018, the internet was awash with posts and comments expressing support for his candidature. Across Cyber Nigeria, especially on Twitter, the hashtag #Atikulate was projected to campaign for the PDP flagbearer and wish him well.
A subtle campaign message was also launched to show that Mr Abubakar was more articulate and has better grasp of the issues plaguing Nigerian than his major challengers, especially Mr Buhari of the APC. It was not surprising to hear Nigerians say that they are #Atiku-lated, in reference to throwing their support for Mr Abubakar, widely known among Nigerians as “Atiku”.
5. Obidiently
Used alongside the #Atikulated slogan is #Obi-diently. When paired together, it was said as “Obidiently Atikulated”. It was a campaign catchphrase coined with the name of Mr Abubakar’s running mate and former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi.
With the uncertainty that clouded the security situation in the South East, the slogan was also used to encourage voters in the region to come out and cast their votes.
6. Ortomatic
Another campaign catchphrase that was popular in the 2019 electioneering is #Ortomatic, popularized by supporters of Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom. Mr Ortom defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress into the PDP in 2018. This was at the height of the herdsmen-farmers’ clash that claimed numerous lives in Benue and other parts of the country.
Upon his defection, some old-time PDP members ruled out possibility of the party granting the governor automatic ticket. But supporters of the governor dismissed the charge and drummed support for him. Mr later would later emerge the party’s flagbearer and his campaign supporters promptly adopted the Ortomatic mantra, perhaps to affirm that the governor’s re-election bid would be seamless.
7. ‘O tun ya’
When the “O to ge” mantra began in Kwara, it was not given much attention by the PDP. But when it got to its crescendo, with youths and non-partisan adults willingly popularising it, the PDP promptly coined its own slogan to dilute the popularity of the APC’s catchphrase. Since they were canvasing for continuity, they adopted “O tun ya”, meaning “Let’s do it once again”. But as events would show, the “O tun ya” mantra did little to save the party from the impending tsunami as all of its candidates in Kwara lost the election.
It however remains unknown whether the party would bounce back in the forthcoming governorship election on Saturday.
8. “O Penkele”
Adegoke Adelabu, the late Ibadan politician, popularized the catchphrase “peculiar mess” which his supporters in Ibadan corrupted as “Penkelemesi”. Decades after his death, Bayo Adelabu, a scion of the Adelabu family, has resurrected the catchphrase, adopting it as campaign slogan. “O Penkele” is the refrain of his supporters whenever issues of electioneering and Oyo State 2019 governorship election are raised.
9. OtogeLagos
Shortly after the fall of Senate President Bukola Saraki in Kwara, which signaled the success of the “O to ge” movement, some opposition elements in Lagos politics adopted the slogan and launched what they called “OtogeLagos”. The new ‘movement’ was apparently opposed to the political dynasty of Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress. Mr Tinubu is believed to wield enormous influence in the politics of who becomes Lagos governor and he is instrumental to the ouster of incumbent governor Akinwunmi Ambode and emergence of Babajide Sanwo-olu as APC flagbearer.
“OtogeLagos” has also been linked to the PDP candidate in Lagos, Jimi Agbaje. It however has been criticised has being unoriginal and untimely, apart from being championed mostly by people from a section of the country. Since its birth, the politics of Lagos has once again taken an ethnic dimension, resulting in name-calling, squabbles and tension among Lagos residents of different ethnic identities, especially on the internet.
10. Sanwo-Eko
Sanwo-Eko is the adopted campaign slogan of Mr Sanwo-Olu, APC flagbearer in Lagos. It was popularised during the party primaries last year and has since been adopted by his supporters and other party chieftains. Sometimes, supporters of Mr Sanwo-Olu adopt an abridged version of the slogan, “Sanwo-e!”
11. Omi Tuntun
PDP governorship flagbearer in Oyo State Seyi Makinde has been a household name in Oyo politics. But he has tried to distinguish himself by identifying as being of the new breed. Hence, the adoption of the name “Omi Tuntun”––meaning a breath of fresh air. Although the campaign slogan is not relatively new to Oyo people, it has generated considerable interest in the last few months, placing Mr Makinde among the major contenders for the governorship seat.
In 2015, when he contested on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Mr Makinde adopted same slogan. He is now widely considered a major contender in the election.
12. “Ambo!”
Until his governorship ambition hit a brickwall, “Ambo” was the campaign catchphrase of Akinwumi Ambode, the outgoing governor of Lagos State. Mr Ambode met his waterloo when the APC members in Lagos adopted Mr Sanwo-Olu as their flagbearer in the party primaries held last year.
Before then, the slogan had generated interest among supporters of Mr Ambode in the party, especially in Epe, his hometown. “Ambo” is a Yoruba word which means “We are coming”.
On occasions when the governors supporters had the luxury of time or space, it was spelt in full as “Ambo lekan si”––meaning “We are coming one more time”––to popularize the reelection bid of the governor. It was however cut short by Lagos APC members who denied the governor a return ticket.
13. #GrowNigeria
In the days before the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the PDP presidential flagbearer, a campaign slogan popularized on Twitter was #GrowNigeria.
It was birthed by handlers of Senate President Bukola Saraki. In his movements across Nigeria, Mr Saraki said at the time that he was spreading the message of how to #GrowNigeria.
Every campaign message on the internet, especially Twitter, at the time contained the #GrowNigeria hashtag. Mr Saraki would later lose the ticket to Mr Abubakar and returned to pick the senatorial ticket in his native Kwara State, where he lost penultimate Saturday.
naptu2: This is what inspired that thread and it's what Osinbajo has been doing since December.
"Won ni ika ilabe la ma lo. Eno ika ilabe yin soke!"
(Translation: They said that we are going to use our index finger. Raise up your index finger)
(the crowd raises up their index finger). Then Osinbajo starts singing the song below.
(during the Lagos rally at Teslim Balogun Stadium, Tinubu joked
"Ika ti a fin la obe"
Translation: The finger with which you lick soup)
There's no rally, door to door campaign or engagement that Osinbajo has in the south-west that he doesn't sing this song and it ocurred to me that non-APC members might not have this information.
They sing this song with their index finger pointing upwards.
N-Power to treble from 500, 000 to 1.5 million – Osinbajo
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 7:17 pm
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has stated that the job creation and empowerment initiative of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government will treble when the government is re-elected on February 16.
Osinbajo who headlined Ondo and Ekiti State campaign rallies along President Muhammadu Buhari reiterated the commitment of the government to create jobs and create an enabling environment for entrepreneurs.
He explained that the APC government will continue to ensure that the monies of the people work for the people, insisting that even the enemies of President Buhari know that he is a man of integrity and uprightness.
He then assured the crowd that more unemployed graduates will be coopted into the N-Power scheme, tripling the figure from 500,000 to 1.5 million.
“The successful persons here are the ones who have decided to vote for a leader that fights tooth and nail against corruption and such a leader is President Muhammadu Buhari,” Prof Osinbajo said at the Ondo Presidential rally.
“I’ll be speaking on the three cardinal issues that are of paramount importance to this administration and one is, work for the youths. “The President is really interested in ensuring that our youths are gainfully employed. Our universities and polytechnics produce 1.7 million graduates annually and these graduates enter into the labour market after NYSC.”
“This was the main reason why we had to set up the N-Power scheme,” he said.
“We currently employ 500 thousand persons, but this is just the start as our target in the next level is to employ 1.5m individuals.”
“Power is the second item on our list, if electricity was available, we would all enjoy the benefits at our homes and work places which would only mean higher quality of work from our artisans. The issue of estimated billing comes a result of the companies that NEPA was sold to in 2005 not being able to perform up to capacity and as such we are looking to bring in new players into the fold. Companies that can transmit the power being generated to the people that need it.”
“Home Grown Feeding is another scheme that we are hoping to improve on. Currently the scheme feeds 9.2m children but at the Next Level, this figure is expected to grow up to 13million as we expand to cover all the states from the current 26 participants.
“This scheme is helping to engage our cooks and farmers on whose behalf we are entering into partnership with Brazil to provide us with equipment such as tractors and combined harvesters to spur on mechanized farming.”
“All the above can and would be achieved if we all here present vote for President Buhari, the man who was responsible for the construction of three of Nigeria’s Four refineries, over 3,500 km of pipelines.
“A man whose character profile is snow white clean when compared to his main challenger who not only publicly stated he was going to sell off the state owned NNPC but enrich his friends as well, if he came to power”.
Prof Osinbajo urged the teeming crowd to vote for the APC at all levels before he rounded off his speech with his signature tune, “Oke Oke Lan Lo oooo” (We are going higher and higher).
Politics › Re: Lagos Seals 70 Churches, 20 Mosques, 11 Hotels For Noise Pollution by naptu2: 7:57am On Mar 06, 2019
