₦airaland Forum

joshua idibia: LOL. an expensiv joke that few wud ndastnd.

gmyguy: ok, but my generation had to manage with foodco, that place opp ui gate...forgotten the name now and dugbe., its nice, i thought that kingsway was in lagos island

gmyguy: like it was ever there in ibadan b4

Forza p: Ewwww,only if p-square & co had known oo,gud news anywayz

debetmx: Are you the editor of the monthly newspaper called historical ........ Cant remember the other name now

omonnakoda: Yes !! The same thing happened in a Banquet in heaven after Moses burnt some rams as offering Baba God took his share and then Jesus rose but the angels blocked him so the Holy Ghost would chop.Unfortunately the Holy Ghost was angry with Jesus for breaching protocol and consumed the offering with very hot fire and so Jesus went to bed hungry that night

jiffylibra: I want to believe you are a learned person and you should know what i meant with regard to that election conducted. We are talking about election here not about a personal matter. If you like you can dance naked in a market place, thats your own cup of tea but when an election is conducted like that by governors, people that are saddled with the responsibility of protecting our votes, to me that action becomes illegal. This is not election of cooperative society or association of tailors, we are talking about governors of our states that should lead by example and show the whole world how we practise our democracy.

jiffylibra: Nothing could be illegal than the mockery the governors have made of our democracy in the eyes of the whole world. When something is not done the right way it becomes illegal. The way they carried out voting on that day is totally wrong and that makes it illegal even from Jang to Amaechi involvement. Abi, how can a contestant provide election materials and be a conductor? and how can 16 be greater 19?. They have all behaved indecently.

sexymoma: I dont even know what to type.... Should we say he is too wealthy that he doesn't know what to do with money again ni, meanwhile his fellow man is dying just because he could not raise 16M, Let even forget about the fact that OJB needs Money, Me wey dey type sef never chop because i could not afford money for fish to support ma garri, it really unfair, na wetin make me no dey buy this people album, e be like ocean wey person come dey piss inside again.

johnie: I did not know that!

Are you sure?

That'll be great!

[size=14pt]Jonathan, Fashola inspect shipwrecks at Lekki.[/size]

July 21, 2011 | 9:27 pm

LAGOS — President Goodluck Jonathan, in company of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Tuesday, inspected shipwrecks at the Lekki Beach in Eti Osa Local Government Area and their impact on coastal erosion.

Jonathan, who alighted from a Nigerian Air Force Chopper with registration number NAF 541 on the beach accompanied by Fashola and the Lagos State Commissioner for Environment, Mr. Tunji Bello, said wherever shipwrecks happened, it should be the responsibility of the Nigerian Maritime and Safety Agency, NIMASA, and other federal agencies to take charge.

Briefing the President earlier during the inspection, Bello said since the shipwrecks had been washed ashore, it was the state government that has been responsible for the removal of the wreckages.

He said the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, and NIMASA should have come in to play their roles rather than leaving the state government to tackle the wreckage alone.

Giving insight into the President’s visit later at the Airport, Fashola said the visit of the President was symbolic because since the flood incident of last week, the President had expressed his sympathy and also sent men including a Minister and Permanent Secretary of the Ecological Fund to evaluate it personally.

He said the President had also gone to Alpha Beach and part of Maiyegun Beach to see parts of the severely impacted places where the state could get some help.

Speaking during an interview with Airport correspondents after the visit, Fashola said the visit to Nigeria by two world leaders in the last 10 days reaffirms the assertion that the role of Africa on the planet has been particularly definitive and that Nigeria as the biggest black economy on the African continent will have a role to play depending on how she organizes herself.

“The message of the talk by the British Prime Minister is Aid, Trade and Democracy. There is a lot of business in the air. Our government agencies, banks, financial institutions must brace up. There are a lot of opportunities in the air and we must embrace it and take the benefit the way Britain expects us to benefit.

“There is a lot of work to be done and instead of grumbling, everybody including the media, the society, the government, civil society must see this now as one last huge opportunity for nation building”.

“We can use this decade as Nigeria’s turn around decade. It’s predicted that about six to eight fastest growing economies are on the continent. We would be there if we actualize the dream, potentials won’t take us there, actualising means rolling up our sleeves, stop quarrelling, fighting and stop being part of the problem but the solution”, Governor Fashola stated.

Responding to a question about the purported failure of the drainage system in the State as being responsible for flooding, the Governor affirmed that the people should be careful to jump into conclusions about workings of the drainages system without proper knowledge.

“This tells us that we have a lot of work to do to share information with the people that there is a drainage channel. But the drainage channels are not just channels that we call gutters but the body of lagoons, rivers, canals and creeks. The channels that we call gutters are to take water to the drainage. We have a lot to do to let people know the role the channels are supposed to play in the neighbourhoods”.

“We need to build more. go to Lekki, you will see our men, at Surulere in Babs Animashaun by Census, work is in progress, in Shomolu, three contractors are working, in Lekki by Igbokusu and Chevron by Ajiran. We have solved the problem in Idi Araba. Two years ago when we were doing the concrete lining, parts of Surulere were flooded and there was a lot of outcry.

Today, the concrete line is working and the river LUTH is not a river anymore. The drainage works but with 16 hours unrelenting rainfall, it could be very challenging”.

[size=14pt]Nigeria: FG Committed to Festac Town Restoration - Minister[/size]

8 October 2012 , Source: Vanguard

Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Ms Ama Pepple has raised fresh hopes of presidential intervention towards restoring Festac Town in Lagos to its former glory.

Leading a team of officials, including the Managing Director of Federal Housing Authority (FHA), Mr. Terver Gemade, on an inspection of the sprawling housing estate recently, Pepple said President Goodluck Jonathan was disturbed by reports of the decay of the estate, stating that the inspection was to enable her team assess the situation and report back to the President.

The minister expressed concern over the collapse of the central sewage system in the estate and the total takeover by squatters of the buffer zone meant to shield the estate from the busy Lagos-Badagry Expressway.

She however expressed delight that the roads in the estate were being gradually rehabilitated through collaboration between the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) and the Amuwo Odofin Local Government.