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EmoBoy:
Thats not up to a 100 megawatts in 8 years. Kudos

100 megawatts to power the lagos state government.
Not one megawatts wasted on the useless national grid.

Close to 100 new manufacturing companies, thousands of startups, booming housing market says otherwise.
In a truly federal state, Ogun will be second richest. Second only to lagos. The FG pocket all the taxes.

Fashola would have to be creative in sourcing revenues to fund projects.
One thing I know is that he is going to prioritise most the project.
I am sure that Roads like East-West, West-northcentral, Northwest -north east, East -central and East-northeast are going to tagged tier 1.
Personally I will suggest that they simply do remedial work on those Roads,while devoting as much resources as they can find on power.
Amaechi should also prioritise cargo over people in the railways sector.
Removing most those trucks from the roads will be a good thing.
Make those cargo trains journeys terminate outside city limits while devoting the lines within city limits to mass-transit of people.
This way, you can have train journeys within e.g lagos, lasting no more than 45 min
Like yaba to agege. 20 mins. The train turns around, and reverse the journey.

Koolmexxi:
Why dem no merge communications and information? I've neva really understand the difference. ..

2 different mission entirely
Info deals with info, government propaganda, PR and NTA.
Communications I think, run the rule over, and is the father of the tech agencies who regulate industries like the Internet companies, GSM and all

ProfShymex:
But what's the Yoruba consciousness among them like in real time?

I know there was a thread on here a few months ago where folks where asked to represent the part of Yorubaland they're from, and the overwhelming majority of folks on that thread were from Kogi. I didn't post on the thread but I was shocked, to be honest.

More yoruba than most parts of the SW.
E.g Son of okun


Prof pius adesanmi
Prof of English and literature.
Carlton university,canada


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVwgaXpzays

No to arbitrary increase of school fees and
No to sub-standard educational system.’


I am trying to wrap my head around the logic of these 2 statement.
Ftom what I understand from previous examples, it means keep things essentially the same.

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Good.
Live within your means .
You are selling bonds while only 600 legislator are eating a substantial chunk of your national income.

rabosh:
This is totally irresponsible journalism. Can a governor be declared incompetent with just 6 months in office? Is traffic management the only parameter to judge a governor? They make it look as if there wasn't traffic gridlock under Fashola's government. How does Ambode's attempt to make LASTMA civil a sign of incompetence? Anyone who lives in Lagos knows that the reasons given by the governor are true and cogent.

We all complained bitterly at the early days of Fashola's government, let's cut Ambode some slack. He seems open to criticism which is good and will definitely help him get better.

I am not holding brief for the governor but I think we have the worst commissioner of police in Lagos.

In a state like Lagos , yes.
Worsening traffic , crime ,refuse are enough to judge.
It might sound jolly to reduce the enforcement powers of LASTMA but the repercussions are costing him dearly.
With the low salaries being paid , what did he think was going to happen .
It is obvious that they augment their salaries with illegal fines .
To get the ideal effect , those LASTMA would have to be paid at least N 200,000 a month. That is the level of salary I believe people stop getting bent all the time.
I guess that he simply woke up one day without considering the impact .
An ode should wake up or seek help

Shymm3x:
However, the background story/history and demographics of these countries are different from Nigeria. It is better to have a small and functioning country, than a big for nothing shyte that Nigeria is.

I won't talk much about Brazil cos it is similar to America. Slave and slave owners, with few natives. And according to racial classification, Brazil is about 90% white cos the Pardos see themselves more as Caucasians until recently.

Let me start with India. There is a reason why the old India was divided into two: India and Pakistan. And Pakistan also got divided into two: Pakistan and Bangladesh. The current India is predominantly Indo-European and they're mostly Hindus and Sikhs - hence there is caste system there. Also, it's easy to govern cos the Indo-Europeans control everything. I won't even call India a shinning example cos it still has a long way to go, but they're getting there and they have the right structure to turn their fortunes around.

With China, the country is over 90% Han Chinese, with a civilisation that is over 3,000 years old. And despite the fact the they are basically the same, you can't move from one region to live in a next region in China without permit. Hence it is easy to govern. Same people, same language, same religion and within a structure that enhances evenly distributed developments everywhere.

Now let's talk about Nigeria: apart from only having huge population in common with these other countries - what else do they have in common? I'm not against having a big country that can actually work/prosper...but once you analyse Nigeria properly, it lacks everything required for a big country to prosper. I would like you and/or anyone to cite any country in the world, with the same ethnic demographic as Nigeria - where three groups are almost the same size, and with evenly divided religions that has ever prospered. Once I see one, I will start supporting Nigeria with everything I have.

I just want to see a black country that is actually working, no matter how small it is, in my lifetime.

Even the European union is tearing itself apart based on ethnic consideration.

So what exactly is your grouse?
Have you ever bothered to find out the reasons why.

Let me guess,non compliance with building codes.
Just building socially useless churches all over the place.
Why not build schools in the poorest areas and shape the pupils' characters.
Let me guess, free schools do not generate profits.
If I am right, hilltop is one of the best postcode in ogun state . I would not want a Nigerian church or mosque to bring the noise pollution they produce anywhere near where I live.

Djicemob:
The country is moon walking into recession while APC are celebrating scramble champions et al that was achieved through the players own hardwork.Change doesnt just happen by wishful thinking but hardwork.Why not put in your hardwork to the country so that we can all celebrate the govt.

Sadly,we have a tourist/model/hunter for president who uses about half a year to select his friends and party members as ministers and end up blaming everything on the past govt.

Do you know how to read charts?
Jonathan dropped the country into a recession.

Definition
a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters.
"the country is in the depths of a recession"
synonyms: economic decline

Shymm3x:
Lol @ the bold.

I thought I was the only one who saw that. But I don't really talk about it cos you can't wish death on a man, who's the leader of a country.

They saw what happened with Yar Adua and don't want the same thing to repeat itself, hence they positioned all their foot soldiers where they need to be, should old age catch up with the incumbent. Hence I laugh all the time when these APC clowns allude to Tinubu playing some type of game to unseat Saraki and that the rise Saraki has nothing to do with Buhari and the Northern hegemony - wishful thinking. All Saraki needed to do was show his loyalty and it's been game over since then.

Ha, many do not see it.
As it is, I will quote ambassador John Campbell

"Nigeria is on the brink ". My short and long term forecast for the country is not encouraging.

Shymm3x:
I was alluding to "poor" based on what it gets from the centre vis-a-vis the size of the state.

Osun definitely can be a rich, but right now, it isn't.

I get you Bro. that is why we have to exit that country. This is why them afenifere folk have a nuisance value.
I do not know but we sure have to work for it rather than continue moaning about a failed state.
As it is, the problems in the country are mounting. We are not even talking about

Desertification and deforestation
Over population
Climate change

IyaIode:
Whatever decision we take (new party or remain in the Apc) It is looking good for us, forget the "loopsided" appointments ( that gave us the Firs). The Yoruba leaders of the Apc are smart men, they have been there before (june 12) and there is a reason why they nominated heavy weight for every position they got.
Fashola, fayemi, osinbajo, fowler, lai, no matter what, these men will be the shining light of this administration.

Tinubu is not stupid, he chose a fragile, old and maybe honest Buhari (remember his fellow elite fulani never wanted him as president)

Kwankwoso's recent outburst and Quimicababes's revelation about a top fulani elite, shows how scared these people are.

2019 is going to be very interesting, Tinubu is a patient smart fellow

Appointments has never meant anything to the SW apart from getting commiserate numbers employed in the ministry. Yes you expect to be in top positions but as long as the politicians bring the bacon home.... It's OK.
This is exactly why ours are different from the SE.
Their go to Abuja to stuff their mouth and bringing nothing home.
When they do bring, it does address their strategic needs ( e.g the warehouse Jonathan called a port) and for which, they gave their vote.
Later they shout lack of federal presence when the people they voted fail them.

Shymm3x:
Darn!! Ijesha folks are great merchants and warriors - salute!

Osun is blessed but poor based on the revenue the state generates and what it gets from the FG. But I think the governor needs to focus more on tourism cos a lot of Yorubas in the new world go there for festivals. There are over 80 million folks practising Yoruba religions in South America and the Caribbean alone and a lot of those folks look towards to all these Osun festivals. Now imagine what will happen if the state governor can make these festivals world class events and create awareness about them everywhere.

Davido's cousins are nice - and bwoi, you need to check the type of crazy bodies these chics have.

Let me attach the pics of two of them (the first one is Brenda and the 2nd one is Fola):

No state in the SW is poor.
A true federal state where all revenues are collected by the state, including VAT (sales tax), mining etc, means no state apart from maybe Ekiti, is poor

Shymm3x:
Lol. The romanis have always formed partnership with the North since Nigeria was created. Don't let their posturing under GEJ fool you...being slavish to the North is the same reason why they're mostly in PDP.

I think the partnership between the SW and North right now is more of a marriage of convenience cos GEJ had the SE/SS and they had no other place to look towards in the South apart from SW.

I am loving you the more.
The fact you are outside actually make you see the big picture.
Actually, they are waiting in the wings to organise around the feudal arch conservatives from the north because they are soul mates. Those societies are feudal as well.
Did you not see how the politicians rally around Saraki?
The game being played is against buhari's age. If at all the unfortunate thing happens, a well position Saraki will be available to shunt Osinbajo aside while the looting clique is reconstituted.

WIZGUY69:
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The President Muhammadu Buhari-led
government has approved the construction of the
$2.4 billion Lagos red line rail project.
According to Lagos State Commissioner for
Transportation, Dr. Dayo Mobereola, approving
the right of way for the project had been a
problem for donkey’s years as the Federal
Government in the previous administration was
reluctant to do so.
Bear in mind, the right of way belonged to the
Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC.
“It took us four and half years to get approval for
the project. It took us another four years to get
them to discuss the technicality of the project
with us. The right-of-way has been approved and
we are in full discussion with the bidders,” he
said.
Speaking on the Blue Line Light Rail project, the
commissioner said the government would
complete it by the end of next year.
“We are mindful of the problem of transportation
in Lagos State. Towards the end of next year,
something will happen. Our rail project is 27 km
and we are doing it in phases. We are doing Mile
2 to CMS now and we will do Mile 2 to
Okokomaiko later,” he said.

It was part of the bad belle ism of Jonathan that git him kicked out.
He had nothing to show for the $500 billion earned during his term.
I hope they are not putting all their eggs on this light rail project.
You still need the conventional rail to do the heavy lifting even within cities

Write me a letter when the contractors are on site.

With the manner with which squandered the resources of the country and the state of the country's finances, I'm sceptical.

Nigeria - failed state.

What most of those countries have in common?
They are culturally and ethnically homogeneous and mostly non religious

Aareonakakanfo:
This is off-point imo,It has nothing to do with my comment.Anyways lets leave this Itsekiri discussion for another day.

As per the emboldened, that's a different topic entirely.Its a religious topic so lets leave that aside.We should discuss what we share in common and not what divides us like Islam,christianity and Ifa.We have people representing the three schools of thought here

Religious topic?
We are Sleepwalking into disaster.
You will lose your land
Do you even know what Egypt, Sudan, Libya look like in the past?
blacks were wiped out of many parts of Sudan ( not talking about darfur or southern Sudan who resisted) after converting to Islam at the stupidity of their leaders and stupid black people who did the afonja thing.
This is as recent as 30- 40 years ago.
Like I said before the yoruba culture and religious values is inversely proportional to those of these 2 religions.
We do live and let's live.
They do leave or let's die.

Aareonakakanfo:
Lol Oduastates so him having a Yoruba name is the reason why you feel they must be with us?

You're letting your wishes overcome reality.Please lets talk reality here and not cartoons

Tell us about Rotimi Amaechi who told us he's not Igbo

Tell us about Sunday Ogochukwu Oliseh who told us he's not Igbo

It's easy to jump on our keyboards and claim people but have they claimed us? think about this

It is a statement of the state of mind Of those in his royal house and him as well .
If the King makers were through custodians of the throne, that alone would have disqualified that royal house.
The day we put on the thinking cap of Oyo, the british or the American, that day we will start seeing progress.
Tell me why
There are no German Princes called Abdul or Saudi princess called Mary?
As a true omoluabi, I gave no problem with anyone faith but I have a serious problem with aggressive faith. Be it Christianity or Islam Most especially the salafist and pentecostal fraud


Ancient Arabs Views on Blacks.
Those Still remains the same



Zanj (Arabic: زنج, "Land of the Blacks" or "Land of the Negroes"[1]) was a name used by medieval Arab geographers to refer to both a certain portion of the coast of East Africa and its inhabitants, Bantu-speaking peoples



"We know that the Zanj (blacks) are the least intelligent and the least discerning of mankind, and the least capable of understanding the consequences of actions Jahiz (d. 868 AD), Kitab al-Bukhala'






"Galen says that merriment dominates the black man because of his defective brain. , whence also the weakness of his intelligence." Mas`udi (d. 956 AD), Muruj al-dhahab



"The Zanj are so uncivilized that they have no notion of a natural death. If a man dies a natural death, they think he was poisoned. Every death is suspicious with them , if a man has not been killed By a weapon." Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, India, 1030 AD

About the Zanj: "Their nature is that of wild animals. They are extremely black." About the Sudan: "Among themselves there are people who steal each other's children and sell them to the merchants when the latter arrive." Hudud al-`Alam, 982 AD

"If (all types of men) are taken, from the first, and one placed after another, like the Negro from Zanzibar, in the Southern-most countries, the Negro does not differ from an animal in anything except the fact that his hands have been lifted from the earth ,--in no other peculiarity or property,--except for what God wished. Many have seen that the ape is more capable of being trained than the Negro, and more intelligent." Philosopher-theologian Nasir al-Din Tusi (1201-74), Tasawwurat

"Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated." Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddimah, 14th century AD

"A amadani, Mukhtasa

"beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings." Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddimah



"The Zanj are slight-witted (kam 'aql), and God, most high, has created them stupid, ignorant, and foul (palid)." anonymous, Iskandarnamah, 1343 AD

Aareonakakanfo:
So where in my comment did I manifest any insular line of thought?

That forcing minorities to join us is wrong?

This is what I have for you.







Prince Godfrey Ikenwole Abiloye EmiKo

The new olu of warri.
Representing all things yoruba better than we the so called yorubas
The criteria being

name
Culture
Tradition

I trust itshekiris, they will scratch out that Godfrey out very soon.

Aareonakakanfo:
Wo e don do abeg! You just carry the thing on top head like trailer.Your courtesy is zero.I don't enjoy having conversations with rude Yorubas like you because I avoid conflict with my fellows.Thanks for your contributions

Bro, I'm not been rude. I am just correcting a dangerous and insular line of thought which has become common nowadays.
Because it is not Ondo, oyo,ogun, osun,lagos, ekiti . That means he is not yoruba.
Bros I will tell you something, I gbadun my yoruba folks from Sierra Leone well.
Personally , I pray to see the day when all our brothers are back in together in the border pre - 1914 borders. When a palm oil seller started her from Igbokoda ( Ondo state to market her wares in Lome . Sell her stuffs and head to the present day mali to buy gold for resale at home.

Aareonakakanfo:
Call me what you want but don't call me Ignorant.Learn to address people with courtesy.You don't know me

Back to your comment,have Itsekiris told you they want they want to be with us? and why make it a must.How many Itsekiris have proclaimed to you they are Yorubas.The same thing you're doing here is what the romanis are doing concerning the Igbo-related groups like Ikwerres.We're bigger than that please!We're Yorubas! we don't force anyone.The other part of your comment has nothing to do with the first part.I'm in support of Yoruba independence

Either they come with us or become what they were in the past. An independent and friendly buffer state against the unknown from the east.
Bro.put on your Oyo empire thinking cap.
Read my long story again. Oyo did not rise because it went to war. Oyo grew because it was always assessing potential risk and removing those risk by being proactive.
That is why oyo did not lead any expedition against Benin at the Power. Less conflict means more chances for growth and development.
If your eastern borders are tight,
Kai, many people are not strategic at all.
Look at the long picture.
There is no doubt a potential for conflict under that scenario.
Do you want to share borders with Biafra .

Aareonakakanfo:
Call me what you want but don't call me Ignorant.Learn to address people with courtesy.You don't know me

Back to your comment,have Itsekiris told you they want they want to be with us? and why make it a must.How many Itsekiris have proclaimed to you they are Yorubas.The same thing you're doing here is what the romanis are doing concerning the Igbo-related groups like Ikwerres.We're bigger than that please!We're Yorubas! we don't force anyone.The other part of your comment has nothing to do with the first part.I'm in support of Yoruba independence

No you should apologise to all yorubas for calling regarding your own brothers as bastards or not belonging.

CabbieAC:
Iya Agba I saw you talking about the idea of Itsekiris joining us.Abeg we should stop speaking for anyone or wanting others to join us.The 6 south-west states plus kwara are enough.If they want to join us,they should speak for themselves.We can't speak for anyone,it makes us look cheap.

You are ignorant Bro. Everybody who is a member of the family or related must leave with us.
You do not even understand the strategic reason why it has to be so.
Many in the Yoruba leadership and pretenders are shortsighted and outrageously vain and greedy.
That is why I regard the tinubus Fasholas and the rest as transitional leaders. The Falaes ( Babangida's boy boy)no? non leaders and impostors.
So why do I call them shortsighted, they are essentially making the same mistake that Awo made by investing so much in Nigeria when it is clear that the country is doomed.
people like shymxx can see the failures because they are removed from the madness but most are used to it because they leave in that filth.
Why is there no standing and organised yoruba self determination group overseas at home especially when you look at the current trajectory of the country. A country where law and order has collapsed(a failed state). A country where minorities and animist in the middle belt and North East are being cleansed off their land.
I can go on and on but there is another matter on my mind.
A yoruba oba bearing Abdul something in Iwo? I'm not keen on either this ooni or the Iwo guy.
To me, they do not look well groomed and I do not see them as the brightest bulbs in the basket.
From the pictures I've seen, they look more like your vain-glorious politicians
A true yoruba and a custodian of our yoruba tradition, culture and civilisation will never borrow the name of facist religions which which are subordinates of the one handed down by our forefathers.

Like I said in one of my post. There are no kings anymore.
There are over 80 million Active practitioners of the yoruba religion in the Americas alone, yet we have Mumu king running to to the middle east to bow to stones in the name of those 2 religion.
Even leaving the spiritual aspect, let us consider the economic imperatives for a rebirth and reawakening of our religion .
The ooni ( the spiritual custodian of the yoruba religion) and the alaafin ( the economic and military custodian are being short sighted. Imagine what places like ife and oyo will gain from prestige, tourism and pilgrimages. Foreigners are not coming in numbers because the foreign practitioners consider the kings as people who are not serious.
The ooni died and nobody knew. Not a whisper beyond the borders of the country because they have rendered their positions as insignificant.A damage that is self inflicted. Running after shady contracts when the potential derivable income from homage, tourism and pilgrimages is in geometric terms, multiples of that.

The yoruba calendar is just one of a few calendars in the world. It is our invention, it is very accurate, it shows the ingenuity of our people, it shows out civilisation predates and was ahead of even those who colonised us, yet our Mumu leaders and Kings do not celebrate what they have ( Another high level reason why Fashola, tinubu and co will never be leaders of the yorubas)
The yoruba new year starts on June 4 .
The Chinese celebrate their own new year.
The Ethiopian celebrate theirs.
We celebrate and worship invented foreign sstones.
Look around you, the result is there for you to see.
A beaten, poverty blighted people who are less civilised than their so called illiterate fore fathers who could.
People queuing for rice to sell their future. The food our forefathers regarded as not healthy and fed to goat, sheeps, pigs and hens. Our so called illiterate forefather

1Read the cosmos and invent a calendar
2 Who could measure the passage of time
3 pave their own Road 500 tears ago without foreign help
4 build the own houses
5 smelt steel,bronze, brass etc
6 make their own medicine
7vaccinate through inoculation entire cities
8 build massive structures and fortifications
9 build empires
10 build beautiful works of art
11 feed their own people
12 build a society with law and order.
13 who ran a society more democratic than anything in most countries today.

Snake oil salesmen.
They've probably warned him that his online activities is bad for business

That guy has been spewing hate speech on radio since forever.
There are videos of him doing just that on YouTube.
I listen to his radio almost everyday for strategic analysis I know the effect it has on me.
Basically, the effect is that it creates a volcanic rage in you.
it becomes addictive that, when you just want to get angry for no reason, you tune in.
If not for my deep omoluabism and high level of realism, I would have been sucked into his vortex of counter hate.
This is the effect that it has on his listener who probably are not that deep.
They have been sucked into a vortex of hate and many of them do that have the mechanism to filter out rubbish.
For example,When the government succeeded in jamming his radio, his callers were calling in and essentially complaining of withdrawal syndrome.
The hate he preaches is feeding their discontent( who is not fed up).
He has reduced others to less than human ( cockroaches inhabiting a zoo) and the only ingredient missing is the spark.
in order words, he has created and is still creating an army of genocidaires

funmijoyb:
Itsdekiri and Ilajes are yorubas, Akoko Edo of Edo-states are yoruba too will you join them with Naija delfraud?

They wants to be Igbos 4 real o

These days dreamers will know when the time comes.
They will learn phrases like continental shelf, territorial waters, historical accounts, treaties and history itself.
There will never be a biafra or ND Republic on the western side of the Niger.
At the worst, the itshekiris and Edos will be a autonomous protectorate of Odua States like it used to or federating states of oduastates.
We will preserve our historical buffers against people from far far away.

I am not against anyone campaigning for self determination because it is a right. Nigeria is and remains a colonial experiment which is bound to fail.
Anyone who thinks otherwise are either deluding themselves or ignoring scientific and physical observations and the prevalent philosophical differences.
I'm yet to see anyone of these so called biafrans articulate the reasons why they should not be regarded as a group of nincompoops,doing the hatchet jobs for the cabal who wasted and destroyed Jonathan's government.
Just read the reasoning of this fellow.
Move this, move that.
As if they have not attempted moving them before?
Move the ports now.
When he is done,he should carry the Atlantic ocean on his head.
The rubbish murtala airport, he can uproot it from the foundation and cart it to enugu. We will not miss it that much. In fact, I would rather land and be processed on an open field rather than that eyesore?
By the way, Wale babalakin airport( the best) will do just fine.
the capital was moved from calabar for lifestyle, commercial and IQ reasons and nothing you ever dream will change the blessings of the yoruba nation.
Shetland they wanted to turn Abuja into the Information technology capital / hub of Nigeria by waiting money on building all sorts of buildings in Abuja and whereever.
while at it,they should remember to build the voltrons who will write the computer programs.
Really really want out of the forsaken country.

Indirectly saying that,
"look at what they've got, I want that too."
"Not a new one, but his"

Someone who plants yam and expects to harvest apples.
They have essentially been voting for nincompoops since forever. Well the harvest is here.
Meanwhile, the incompetent drama Queen ( Iweala) who superintended the waste of the revenues derived from the longest commodity boom in the history of the country, is regardeded a hero.
Where exactly are the leaders and elders to cut through all the nonsense being spewed up and down.
Y'all Five years late.
essentially sabotaged the Subsidy fraud protest.
The videos are on YouTube.Now stop complaining about lack of infrastructure.

Dele Momodu is only a Lil bit better than the so called activists in the country.
He gravitates towards and he is easily mesmerised by money, power and fame.
I have never seen him interview any of the achieving intellectual of Nigeria descent who are resident at home or overseas home.