₦airaland Forum

OtunbaGm: It is more than 3 days that we experience electric power supply from oshogbo the Osun state capital.

Are we to say the ACN control state is punishing Ondo state for voting LP?

I have been runninG Generator foR days now! Pls LIKE to say enough is enough! Injustice to one, is injustice to all!

A litre of Petrol is 110 naira, Barika de sallah to all our leaders.....jooor OOOO. Oba je tiiii

Another dumb LP supporter
Does the Osun ACN led government now control the PDP FG owned PHCN facility?
SMH at the find of creatures trawling Nairaland nowadays
Miimiko's mega school graduate
Your education if you had any was simply a waste

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) , Tuesday, challenged those supporting the unregulated operation of commercial motorcyclists, popularly called okada to take a trip to the various hospitals and medical emergency centres to see the havoc wreaked by their activities.

Governor Fashola who spoke on the topic “Freedom from Fear” in relation to Law and Order in Lagos State said they should visit the hospitals and emergency wards and see those who have lost limbs, arms, those who have lost children or those who have become orphans by the recklessness of the okada riders.

Noting that a lot depended on the citizenry in ensuring an orderly society, the Governor said everyone must build a consensus that the idea behind the new traffic law was to ensure the protection of life and assets of every resident of Lagos and their businesses.

Tracing the various well organized public transport systems that had existed in the past like the L.M.T.S and L.S.T.C, he said it should agitate the minds of citizens and members of the Club how the State arrived at its present state in terms of the unbridled operation of commercial motorcyclists.

According to the Governor, in less than two decades, the okadas have gained so much prominence that it has become a phenomenon which should not have been allowed in the first place, stressing that the elites also contributed as many encouraged their staff and employees to start taking okadas to run errands quickly.

“The only way to stop the business from flourishing is by not patronizing them. It is a business that if the income from it dwindles, the business proposition of those in it will change”, he said.

Conducting an overview of various facets of life in the State, Governor Fashola explained that he had taken it upon himself to lead by example by shunning the use of siren to escape from the traffic, adding that as a Governor he has always taken it upon himself to fight against any attempt by Very Important Personalities to close roads and the people must be ready to fight against behaviours and conducts that are hazardous to healthy and secure existence.

The Governor who drew a comparative analysis of what happens in distant locations said the State Government established the Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) to allow people dispose their refuse properly but that the people prefer to still patronize cart pushers who would dump the refuse in a canal by the corner thus causing flooding.

“Some people are saying that they will not obey the law that protects the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) dedicated lane because they say it is draconian for the government to insist on its enforcement”.

“This is a law made by the State House of Assembly. A law that I swore on oath to defend and that is my duty. I make no apologies for doing it and I will continue to do it. If we continue like this, we are on the road to Bangkok in Thailand”, the Governor stated.

The Governor said there should be concerted effort by everyone to ensure that Nigeria does not reach the notorious status of Bangkok in terms of traffic because Bangkok is a city that loses about one million dollars every year to traffic congestion and where the training of the average traffic police officer includes the delivery of babies from pregnant women who are trapped in traffic.

Urging business executives and corporate leaders to rethink the types of ventures being supported, the Governor said the tricycles known as Keke Marwa represents the sign of India’s age of poverty which the country is striving hard to move away from as it is now busy manufacturing TATA buses and wondered why that is what Nigerians are now embracing wholeheartedly.

He added that the same applies to motorcycles which originated from China, saying currently the Chinese are making fast trains for their usage while Nigerians are helping their economy by patronizing their okadas.

Noting that those who break the law with impunity are often more than not, aliens with no respect for rules and regulation, Governor Fashola revealed that in the last 24 hours, over 100 people from Niger Republic have been escorted out of the State, stressing that there is no going back on the enforcement of the State Traffic Law.

The Governor while speaking on the topic of ‘Freedom From Fear’ explained that the presence or absence of law and order in any society is what determines whether the people will live in fear or without it.

He added that while the Nigerian Constitution guarantees many rights, there is no right classified as right to be free from fear in the Constitution because freedom from fear seems to have been the forgotten freedom.

He advocated that the responsibility to give the freedom that secures all freedom lies with every individual who must make it a point of duty to ensure that they secure themselves against fear.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/fashola-lambasts-supporters-of-unregulated-okada-operation/

~Royal~:

Take away Dre's Beats and You will see Pac was spitting garbage Nursery Rhymes as Well....
lol@people who thought pac was a Lyricist

He was spitting garbage rhymes yet he's the most influential rapper that ever lived
His same nursery rhymes made him the best selling US rapper
Dude get a life and don't derail this thread to a pro/anti 2pac thread even though below are links testifying to his lyrical ability
No wonder Snoop said he met more bitc# niggaz than ho's , now I know


http://rap.about.com/od/toppicks/ss/Top50Emcees_9.htm
7. 2Pac
Undoubtedly the most influential of all time, 'Pac remains a transcendental MC that's often imitated but never duplicated.

http://www.the-top-tens.com/lists/best-rapper-of-all-time.asp
No 2

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/roc_a_fella7/top_20_rappers_of_all_time
"The Most Influential Rapper Ever", "All-Time Fan Favorite", the "G.O.A.T". 2Pac will forever be remembered for bringing emotion to Hip Hop.
He still has the diss song of all time with "Hit Em Up".

http://www.mtv.com/bands/h/hip_hop_week/2006/emcees/index10.jhtml
Tupac Shakur was the hardest-working and probably the most impactful MC of all time. Rappers and fans alike all try to emulate some part of Pac: the warrior, the prophet, the leader.

http://voices.yahoo.com/greatest-rappers-all-time-top-10-emcees-2538654.html
#2 Greatest Rapper of All Time: Tupac Amaru Shakur

http://www.bet.com/music/photos/2011/09/50-most-influential-rappers.html#!2011-topic-tu-pac-crop

1. Tupac Shakur
15 years after his death, Tupac's musical influence worldwide is still astonishing. His confounding mixture of ladies' man, thug, revolutionary and poet has forever altered our perception of what a rapper should look like, sound like and act like. In 50 Cent, Ja Rule, Lil Wayne, newcomers like Freddie Gibbs and even his friend-turned-rival Biggie, it's easy to see that Pac is the most copied MC of all time. There are murals bearing his likeness in New York, Brazil, Sierra Leone, Bulgaria and countless other places; he even has statues in Atlanta and Germany. Quite simply, no other rapper has captured the world's attention the way Tupac did and still does.

Maybe today's commercial rap where all they rap about is drugs, alcohol, booty, big rims and bling
Any true hip hip head knows the glory days are long gone even though the 'gods' of that age are still alive even if not in the game actively
Methinks 2pac and Biggie Smalls allowed what they spit out to dictate their lifestyles
Also personal egos [which the establishment capitalized upon to eliminate especially 'Pac] to influence their viewpoints which lead to their deaths and erosion of the fathers who laid the foundations upon which they both strode as colossuses
Who would listen to 'Brenda's got a baby' or 'LORD KNOWS' and not connect with what poor black ghetto youth go through?
All Pac, Biggie and most 'gangsta' rappers spit out was the deprivations they encountered in their hood
Yeah they were loud and bragged a times [unlike today's material donkeys] but they were only exhibiting man's mortal material weakness which we all exhibit in varied measures
Both are long gone now, God bless the dead and true hip hop is dead [well almost]
All we have now are temple serfs desiring worship but sixpence is the same as half a dozen

Dipwater: My opinion; 2pac is average in terms of content

Mr Globe answered you well
Pac is a global hip hop god living eternally in the heartz of men
Stop hating

Naija e-virgins [especially onila ] take note.

Hmnn!
Is the white establishment finally owning up to the looming victory of Obama over Myth Romney?

Its a phishing spam text
Stuff like this could get your phone hacked by clicking on the link

Every true GOONER must sure be wondering when Arsenal will stop been an over-hyped underdog

D-mouthed:
Fashola is just a lawyer and not a politician. his knowledge of the law is what has been helping him but now it won't at all.

This is where his pride has come to crash. must every case that could be settled out of the court be taken to the court make show of one's pride?

Fashola is so prideful and its bad. I have followed every detail of this issue and I can tell that fashola's unwillingness to pardon his even when

Tinubu advised him to is just being over zealous, and LASTMA too is only after broken-down vehicles and not doing the Traffic Management work.

IMOO

FASHOLA should have a rethink.

Fashola is proud because his officers impounded a vehicle that broke the traffic law?
And OBJ who should be a beacon of leadership retaliated by impounding 10 BRT vehicles instead of paying the fine
Obama was fined for breaking traffic laws
New Zealand's prime Minister was fined for breaking traffic laws
A former Nigerian president believes he's above the traffic laws
And you say Nigeria is not a banana republic?
Mindsets like the quoted poster makes one know Nigeria is still on a long way to civility

CGKing: Just invest thst money into infrastructure and modernize the region. Create jobs. Strengthen their universities n encourage them by helping the build a career in oil. Why r we wasting money on nothing.
The amnesty programme makes no sense. When an authority offers a criminal amnesty, it is a favour, a pardon, a second chance for them to re enter society, not to be settling them.
Looks like the militants were the ones that gave the GEJ govt Amnesty.

The amnesty programme does have to make sense
It was a scam to funnel money & blackmail the nation from day1
Yes the ND Delta people have been aggrieved by the Nigerian state but has the ND region be impacted by the amnesty programme, NO!
Have some crooks&criminals gotten richer, YES!
Is there now a more equitable distribution of resources, NO!

CastleandGreen: I an not against amnesty program but the federal government should create jobs for them after the training.

Have the reformed and retrained [at great expense] now gainfully employed, NO!
It isn't government's job to create jobs, ironical ain't it.

caseless: hmmmm... U cant be more oblivious! Do u think through the lower opening of ur body? Did u take ur time to read through my post b4 this alphabet soup u typed out to defend ur militant guardians? U think like a typical bigoted nigerian..so i'm not suprised. And did u say niger delta is ahead of every other region? Ok, in what respect? Dont forget ogoni people are stil crying and if ph was without oil,then left to tourism alone ,do u know how the IGR of the state would have looked like? . Also, the allocation that bayelsa state alone with 8 LGs and with population of less than a million recieve in a month is what the 6 north-eastern states recieve as their monthly allocation in 3 months. my dear militant advocate, have u seen that huge allocation translated into any meaninful development? So it is not about 'who-has-what' but it is about condenming what is wrong. I dont care what the ex-militants gets, but how has that helped or impacted on the life of ordinary niger-deltan who's not an ex-militant?

Is it me, or is it...
How come the ethnic group benefiting from the 'amnesty' is predominantly [if not exclusively] Ijaw?
Anyone smell a scam?

Gbawe: My guy, you speak too soon. Amnesty on the way for boko Haram. Shekau and other bosses , like Kabiru Sokoto and co, will be maintained on N10 million per month while other members will get N2 million. It is all about keeping the 'peace' that enables the looting to carry on. The only way to be stupendously rich today in Nigeria is to be a politician or someone who uses violence to make life difficult for politicians. As for ordinary Nigerians, nothing for you. You are not accounted for in the 'sharing formula'.

The North has learnt well from the Ijaws
Hold the nation to ransom by violence
Terrorize the nation to submission
Get the highest political post in the land

Sorry Ebele
Not every open door is a door to walk through
Awoof dey run belle wella sometimes
I doubt if you can get the analgesic for your king sized headaches
Biko

Default01: Lagos did nt give alternatives to dis okada men.other states gave dem tricycles to replace dose okadas in a subsidised rate.if na u dem comot fud 4 ur mouth u go gree

87. naptu2: Quote Post

It appears that the Lagos State Government needs to do a better job of informing the public about its programs because it seems many here are not aware of the plans, programs and alternatives that are available.


1) Skills acquisition centres: There are at least 16 skills acquisition centres that have been set up by the Lagos State Government. @ these centres, the youths and unempployed learn skills such as tailoring and carpentry and are giving loans, upon graduation, with which they are expected to start a business.

http://www.lagosindicatoronline.com/Fashola_commissions.html

2) The Lagos State Government, working with private banks, has worked out mortgages for traders with which they can own their own market stalls and pay monthly or yearly until they own the stalls outright.

3) Okada riders have not been banned from all Lagos roads. Rather, they've been banned from operating on the highways and certain bridges and districts. I know this because I went past the okada park @ Obalende yesterday. Lastma officials and policemen were there, but nobody was harassing the okada riders. However, the okada riders refused to take passengers to Victoria Island. Overzealous policemen and lastma officials will try to take advantage of the law to unlawfully harass okada riders, but that's why the office of the public defender exists.

4) The Lagos State Government has held several workshops, meetings and public enlightenment campaigns with the Motorcycle Operators Association of Lagos State (MOALS). The state house of assembly also had a public hearing while considering the law.


5) The government has also pprovided alternative means of transportation, including the BRT and LRT (although, personally, I would have preferred if the government had waited for the LRT to start operations before restricting okada operations).

thelastPope: One day the poor will have nothing left to eat but the rich!

Poor people don't own okadas, get that into your cranium
I think your advice should be directed more to you Aso Rock principal seeing it is policies from the center which affect us all the most

deshclones: Before/During election campaigns.....i gave them helmets....after election i collected their bikes....please who am i??

berem: When you seize okadas and expect the riders whom most of them have wives and children to cater for to become jobless,isn't that pure wickedness? How could fashola be so mean? Why didn't he give them warning first or make a deadline? Seems he doesn't know the consequences of what he did. Armed robbery,ritual killing etc will surely be on the rise! He has no idea of how many people he has rendered jobless.smh

Be objective in your criticism
We all want a better Lagos but we don't want to feel any pain
The seized bikes are those who commercially ventured unto the highway
Though we know officers implementing orders tend to be overzealous at times
Helmets protect riders, and to think Fashola had the foresight to do this before FRSC mandated it is a plus
I don't recall other state governors getting the stick when they enforced total bans on bikes
Like I said before be objective in your criticism
Stop taking cheap pot shots at Fashola
If you or any of your relatives/loved one has ever been involved in an okada accident, you'd know commercial bike highway driving is a no-no
I take bikes too and have felt the impact of been stranded starting over the past weekend
Fashola is helping stop many people from their suicidal wishes
I'm not disputing that some people will have financial setbacks [some permanent, majority temporary]
Yet let them ply neighborhood routes or find something else to do
If it is possible, let their union liaise with the government and banks to create a scheme similar to LAGBUS and LAMATA with maybe something like tricycles
But I must saying destroying property is not the way to go
As a saying goes, person wey we wan roast,come dey rub cooking oil as moisturizer na to help roast am better

The rejection was emphasised by two symbolic acts. First, of the three major contenders, the ACN came last with 143,152 votes; the People Democratic Party came second with 155,961 votes, while the Labour Party won convincingly with 260,199 votes. Second, and more importantly, Akeredolu lost his own ward and polling unit to Mimiko, even as the ACN candidate sat tight in the ward during the polls. A politician’s standing is in serious doubt when his neighbours look him or her in the eye and vote for an opponent.

Personally I heard 6 months before the elections from the lips of a current ACN house of reps member that it would be hard to wrestle Ondo from Mimiko's grip
That ACN came 3rd didn't mean they came last
Not only 3 parties contested nah
Aketi is free to claim the elections were not free and fair , buhari did same after the presidential elections as did the PDP candidate in the Edo guber polls
The onus rests with him to produce compelling evidence if he chooses to go to court
Na hin money
OBJ lost his ward to the AD in the 1999 elections but still won the vote
Awo lost elections in the past yet that didn't demean his standing
ACN imported thugs from Lagos yet the elections were peaceful
ACN bought voters cards yet the documented cases which made the news were of 2 cases both involving LP chieftains
I hold no brief for Tinubu because his kind [corrupt influential and powerful godfathers] populate major political parties
Please note that other political parties are no angels
Whether ACN bombarded people with propaganda, time will tell
The Ondo people have made their choice
I wish them well as they enjoy the consequences of that decision for the next 4 years

binger: Awww,pendo dear,easy,easy oh...its just a movie,a film,complete fiction

Some are based on real life events

@ thread, yeah I have
Only two movies ever did that to me especially movie no 2
Both based on real events in Africa

1] Sometimes in April
2] Hotel Rwanda

Oh no!
Another Tonto Dike on the loose?

Oceemo: My fear is dat wat wll become of doz guys. Dis daz policies ar jst d 2 favor only a few n leave d rest hungry. I even watch on stv one Acn politician challegin fashola of hs laws nt favorin d masses Acn better watch oh! My thouth.

But Abuja and some states in the SE& SS have banned okada without anyone protesting or claiming the governor/ FCT Minister was anti masses

omosexy1: I will ask you a simple question - Do you feel comfortable riding an okada?

I've riden bikes in Benin Republic before and I can say it wasn't like the crazy rides we taken down here in Nigeria

Some Okada riders went on the rampage in various parts of Lagos State on Monday to protest the ban on them from plying 475 roads in the metropolis.

At Onipanu, on Ikorodu Road, the protesters vandalised about 10 BRT buses during the violent protest against the Lagos State Government.

Armed with sticks, iron roads and other dangerous weapons, the Okada riders hauled stones at BRT buses on Ikorodu road at Onipanu and Palmgrove bus stops.

There are better ways to protest peacefully and effectively
Been violent wont help their cause
If my memory serves right, okada was banned in Abia and Cross Rivers states and I don't recall anyone going violent
Personally, I believe the okada ban should be enforced on major roads whilst inner city riders should have a standard [helmets, driving school certified etc]
People should stop attacking personalities i.e Fashola over the okada ban
Bedlam has reigned in Lagos for so long a tie thus anyone bringing order will be called names
Yet let law and order have a human face

Never knew you
Never met you
RIP
Raise the bottles of Big Stout I had tonight in a toast to thee
Hope you find bliss wherever you are
Peace to thee as life goes on

eduson55: you see?
https://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc1yr6xSTu1rf089no1_400.gif

It never stops, so just move on with life
My 2 cents

berem: If Rochas fights over a seat,is he the first to behave uncivil? Is he not human? What of members of the house of reps who fight in the National Assembly? Are there no other governors who slap their aides in public? So why should Rochas be a topic in the first place?

Defending the indefensible
Because Natl Assembly members did it, should he lower the bar of public decorum lower
A governor fighting with another governor's subordinate [madam fighting with the neighbor's housemaid/Oga fighting withing with the junior staff] is disgraceful
And to think Rochas is been touted to contest for the 2015 presidency

berem: If you were in his position,wouldn't you do the same? I can see some peeps have taken it to a tribal issue because no other tribe fights in public.Nonsense!

No I wouldn't descend so low to do such
Making it tribal is folly in action

mrhansome12: Anoda nonsense thread making de front page *wandering is this how low de IQ of our mods have desend* waiting 4 my ban again 4 expressing my feeling. (Hitler mods)

The quality of NL mods is a refection of the state of the nation, be angry not
[certificate cheating legislators,armed robbers, BH bombers, intelligent persons, election riggers, brilliant people, secessionists, land grabbing legislators, sharia propagationists, propaganda revisionists of history, godfather politicians, agberos, ALUU ... you fill in the rest]
Also the quality of critical resoning on NL has long hit the ladder rung

Billyonaire: Americans and their propaganda. You dont have to bury BlackBerry (Canada) to sell an iPhone (USA).

True that
Especially a story plant by a material donkey
BB got complacent with their status &failed to visualize the future, some many companies and humans fail to do
They are not yet out of the loop but it would be VERY VERY HARD if not impossible to come back to sit atop of smartphone money pile

Lady Winona: Am I missing something here? I admit I'm not a phone geek but I do know my math and money management. A friend of mine who bought an android cos she was told it's better than BB spends a 1000 for 200MB. With my BB plan, I spend 1400 for 3GB, which if I'm to calculate is abt 15000 for the same 3GB with an android. Does that even make sense economically? Or is there something I don't know

You are not missing anything, common sense is lacking with most people
If you are into entertainment off your mobile, into gaming and have constant Wifi, Andriods and iFrauds [my bad, iPhony ] makes sense
If you seek business productivity& instant messaging,BB is the way to go

mrkels: This is a sponsored post.  remains the best phone with flexible bundles and the best qwerty keypad in nigeria for now, so they can keep spilling the BS, I don't care. Love my  and I aint changing it for nothing.

True, a sponsored post by Apple[ ] against BB
Funny thing is Apple [that overpriced status symbol] is way behind Android now

So been a material donkey is a sign that Nigeria's GDP is going north?
That I don't get yet in a country where the statistics we are been fed & regaled with daily fail to leap off the pages they are inscribed upon into real life scenarios when you walk the streets and interact with the populace

So Jimi no dey use rubber band when hin dey nack Akpako with bushmeat

virtuoso01: It sounds so lame, like most Nollywood movies.


But are you sure this is not actually a movie script?

Nollywoos atar acting out Nollywood script in his real life
Now that ain't hard to imagine

What of laptops?
And electronics?
Especially manufacturer refurbished ones

geeez: Well I've seen Yoruba crimes hit the front page several times but for every one Yoruba crime, you bet there are sixteen Igbo crimes. It's just comparing Ethiopia's medals at the Olympics to that of the USA

lestat: i will always say it, seun is are closet tribalist but no fear though other sites like naijapals.com have so far passed nairaland in the number of members since and they don't have to display it at the top of the website to fool people. Seun as i am sure you have figured out by now i am your biggest critic, i feel you are a hypocritical biggot, who would rather ban garri advocates (whom i think are realists) instead of banning tribal hate peddlers. but i aint surprised after all this site has virtually become low and sleasy with all manners of characters wrting whatever they like? what gives anyone the right to insult isalm? or Yorubas or Ibos.. dont worry you will still need to reduce advert rates further to get the kind of traffic you want and that wont even save this rag website you creep...
PS: ban me, after all i have been watching you sin since joining here in 2005

Why are you mad @ Seun or NL?
Beats me hollow
Did Seun or the mod not post from Vanguard newspapers?
Was it not 2 Nigerians the thread handle read?
The news report did allude to tribe, you did
Or are Ahamefule Cosmos and Iriegbe Chinonso from Biafra?
Face it dude, its not Seun or Nairaland's fault the average Igbo man breaks no sweat living up to his stereotypes

karl max: Monday, 15 October 2012
“Those who think we are going after lowly elements can now see how serious we are. The arrest of Uba is a game changer and I can tell you that this administration will do more in terms of fishing out those fraudulent elements,” the source said.

“Those who think they are untouchables, those who think they can sabotage government after getting involved in the scam can learn from Uba. We are not going to spare anyone found wanting“,the source said.

“For the cynics, this is the time for them to be convinced about the seriousness with which we take this anti-corruption war. We are taken the war to a new level and the citizens should be rest assured that the level of seriousness is now at an all time high levels.

“More arrests are coming. Investigations are going on all fronts and in due course, more actions will be taken by the government. Nigerians should no longer think that the anti-corruption war is a joke. We are dead serious“,the source declared.
http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/49157-subsidy-scam-ubas-arrest-scares-marketers-

Yeah right!
Was he jailed?
The arrest of a pro PDP billionaire making front page in a pro PDP news paper
Na today!
Stretches body, yawns and takes some Valium tablets

Maxymilliano: Finally, the merchant of justice is back, the sales continues.

Keep recycling those dumb PDP beer parlour stories

About time
Hope this story is no hoax

valencia25: Fuji Garbage Better dat shit i swear

Fuji Garbage is a fuji classic
Don't even go hating on the man nor comparing his music to today's auto tunes

goofie: yes he made some real facts about Tonto Dike and her travails. but i cnt help but point out tht i feel he has some personal grudge with her that he needs to settle wit her out of the eye of d media.

Charles Novia is not exactly flawless in his own field as a movie producer/director.

True that
You can miss his thinly veiled attack on her person
Not that I'm a Tonto fan
You must wonder, why the hating?

ArQueBusieR: Looks unreal to me.

same here