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If the government banned okada ,then the okada riders obey the law.
Left to me , I will totally impose a ban on okada as a means of commercial transportation .
Promote bicycles instead

gazilion:
There is nothing wrong in copying and pasting parts or whole article but it is important and [b]intellectually honest [/b]to quote your source !!

Dear All, the source of what he wrote is given below:

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html

If you cannot see the change in style and deduce that I looked for searched for the closest definition for Nigerian Facism on the Internet ,that it is your business.

Lagos government should look into what ?
It is a federal road leading to one of the ports where they collect over 3 trillion naira annually.
They Should remove 20 billion naira to repair all the federal roads within the metropolis.

3,000,000,000,000
....20,000,000,000
Stupidity is when the cow producing the milk is starved to death.
Later someone on the tambuwal thread will come here and tell me he knows what leadership is about.

nationwide1:
Did you read the article and understood Tambuwal's submission?

Did I read it ?
I read it and took out my history books . Then I digested it and took a long and short view of the polity.
people throw the word enlightenment around a lot but you have to be switched on to know what is happening.
Leadership qualities ?
That is for the newspaper.
Read again
Your future is being determined as read .
It could be
Another Jonathan ( bad governance)
Civil war
Partition
Constitutional Crisis
Nothing
Good government
It could be anything but the national assembly is going to have a say on the next president.

Warmis:
Ūя̲̅ only talking you don't Know Dogara, Femi on his own can not Face Rt Hon Dogara for any contest even in lagos... Even with all the support he neded from the party, god father tinibu that has a lot of loyalist in the house did he win? Dogara came out on his own and single handedly win, Dogara is more smart intelligent and powefull than many people have ever expect this man rejnected a bribe of whooping $5 million and burst the deal and exposed the ppl behindn it in 2009 when he was chairing Customs and excise in the house of reps... He was very close to Dimeji Bankole and because of trust intellect and simplicity Bankole gave him the most sensitive commette chairman ship of house services and walfare.. Because of the complexity of that commette nobody has ever chaired that commette for more than 2years immagine all the walfare of the members procurements in the House in the hands of 1 person! If not an intelligent person who can handle it? Bt Rt Hon Dogara being found worthy held that commettee from 2009-2015 even 2 sespensations 6 solid years! With no single scandal! Dogara is even more educated than femi being a lawyer of many years very connected since from the military dispensation.... He's very gentle and not rousy what abt Ūя̲̅ femi? Very arrogant, filled witnh pride too ambitious and incalculative, there was a time during their politicking that he said he doesn't even need PDP's reps votes, he's going 2 win with only APC votes how dumb and incalculative? And what was the result even with. Almost all the contestant stepping down for him with their support! And support from tinibu and the APC leadership! Haba if some 1 like femi becomes the speaker every day there must be boxing in the chamber...

You kids do not know what is happening

Little by little.

ILIDEFI:
Sorry, you don't sound intelligent with your post.

The effectiveness of legislators can be measured mainly by their activities in their constituencies, not necessarily by what they say or do at the floor of the House (or Senate). Some may not be very articulate or eloquent, and be avoiding speaking at the floor of the house, but they are very true representatives of their constituencies.

So I ask you, how many constituencies have you visited, to assess the works or inputs of these legislators?
How come you've concluded that only 6 out of 360 or so, of them (if I can remember) have a business in the House?

I hardly respond to dumb comments but I will take exception to this one .

They are representatives of the federal republic first, before any constituency.
They are there to vote on federal laws and keep a check on the the executive . A legislator from Lagos is as accountable to someone in Kano or ebonyi as he is to his own constituency.
Why am I bothering with you when you have no clue about basic civics.

This guy is America and is still talking crap. With all the resources at hand , 24 / 7 electricity and Internet, universities , libraries ,books
SMH

60% of Nigerian abroad are igbos .
Really ?
Maybe in South Africa and China abroad.
Definitely not in the UK ,Canada ,Australia,the Americas
Just like when these guys conjured a story of how most black American were igbos taken during the slave trade when in actual fact , their numbers do not even register at all . Insignificant.
In fact , majority are Yorubas .
From below the link below

The ancestors of current-day Yoruba people from West Africa - which is one of the largest African ethnic groups - provided the largest contribution of genes from Africa to all current-day American populations


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3009647/America-s-melting-pot-revealed-Scientists-map-genetic-fingerprint-colonisation-make-surprising-discoveries.html

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/05/genetic-variation-among-african-americans/#.Vck0x4p4WJI

zimoni:
What?

Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I can't believe this.

Barr Femi Gbajabiamila, who practised Law in USA for years, is not competent to lead House? Lawd Jisos. Jisos Christ of Otueke.

Femi, you see your life now? You see your damn life outside?

You worked against your own, Mulikat Akande, so Tambuwal could become Speaker.

You convinced Tinubu to support him, you lobbied and got the job done for Tambuwal, being the head of opposition then.

Tinubu asked you several times, Femi are you sure this guy will not betray you? Are you sure you know what you are doing? You Olorinla Femi stood to your gun, you convinced Tinubu to order the SW Hons and ACN members at large. Tinubu set machinery in motion and Tambuwal became the Speaker despite the fact that PDP wanted Mulikat Akande as the Speaker unopposed.

Funny enough, some of his Brothers in North voted for him against their PDP candidate Mulikat Akande.

Now that you needed their support, did they reciprocate the good gesture?

NO.

They said YOU(FEMI GBAJABIAMILA) is NOT COMPETENT. I still can't believe this.

Femi, you got served.

You of all people shouldn't have worked again the emergence of your own, Mulikat Akande.

You are both Yorubas.

You are both Muslims.

You are both Lawyers.

You are both SWesterners.

Yet, You(Oloriboobo Ti N Bo Mo'gbo) Femi Gbajawhatever WORKED AGAINST YOUR OWN SISTER.

Karma Is Indeed A Dam.

Femi, if you are reading this, YOU DID NOT LEARN FROM THE PAST EVENTS IN THIS COUNTRY AND NOW YOU'VE LEARNT YOUR LESSONS IN A BITTER WAY.

You got SERVED Femi.

You DESERVED whatever treatment you got from them.

You Made Him The Speaker Indirectly and now Tambuwals says You are NOT COMPETENT.

O Ma Shey Oooooooooo.

What A Pity.

Alaabaa.

Alaabaa.

I do not think you know that mukilat
The mukilat is an embarrassment.
In fact , I would take fayose over her all the time

dunkem21:
Read the thread title again, oga ..and the revelations of the Traitor in Chief ..

Tambuwal has worked with both of them and has indirectly submitted that Gbajabiamila is grossly incompetent.

I have said these things two months ago on NL.

Tambuwal is in no position to pass judgement on anybody.
He is no more more than a tribal chief.
A tribal chiefs of thieves.
Leadership qualities to pass laws allowing old men to abuse children .
Was he not the speaker under Jonathan's calamitous ?
government?
Was he not the speaker when they were paying themselves ridiculous allowances under Jonathan.
When tambuwal talks about leadership qualities, he is talking about the type of qualities that got Nigeria to the present situation .
If you think that there is any form of regard or respect for tambuwal, Saraki Etc from those who want the brightest and the best occupying positions , then you are completely missing the point .
We voted for Buhari for his reputation and not these clowns .

If Buhari disappoints , we will be on his case.
Have you ever heard of Mr leadership qualities addressing any issue and offering solutions .
E.g water, electricity ,deficits ,NNPC .
You saw El rufai putting his neck on the line a few weeks ago and proferring solutions .
Give me 1000 El rufais and I will vote for him a million times.

dunkem21:
I agree totally with the "Traitor in Chief"

Femi, though intelligent, is proud, arrogant and too forward ..virtues missing in a worthy leader ..I remember those days of mass defections and the way he wanted to foist himself as majority leader against subsisting court rulings that status quo be maintained ..

Before, you call me a Wailer, ..Tambuwal said so

You meant
Articulate , ambitious and self confident .

I have come to understand that in Nigeria, those are considered bad qualities.
I will agree with you that he can be over ambitious at times .
But What exactly would you call Obama or David Cameron ?
They said the same thing when a certain man was warning of the impending fiscal crisis in 1983 .
The gbajamila guy happens to be one out of about six people who has any business in the House of Representatives. Most of the rest have no business and are unfit to represent a herd of cattle . The other being , Abike Dabiri , the northern guy who grilled iweala and one guy from the SE who seems to be on top of the issues .
Apart from that , you could as well scrap the entire National Assembly and not feel it . Better still , change it to a house of Chiefs with the Kings representing the constituencies.
Cutting through the drama , only the discerning can cut through the conspiracy.
Buhari is an elderly man ... You know what I mean .
They are already burying the man even though he is still very much with us.
It is nothing about leadership or service but all about the primitive accumulation of power and money if the inevitable thing that happens to everyman should happen during his tenure.
A primordial power struggle is being waged and some people are limiting it to a inconsequential statement from a former speaker.
i guess perpetually voting for clowns means that some regions will continue to be the insignificant enablers of what has led Nigeria to its current situation.
North west conservative are already moving in their chess pieces to take over should Buhari die . The idiotic and corrupt politicians and their supporters from the south are singing hallelujah.
Later , they will be complaining about marginalisation and how all oil blocks are owned by the North .
On the other hand , am happy. Tinubu would be a golden asset to have in the liberation movement .when his eyes opens that he is trying building a house on quick sand.......Nigeria is beyond redemption.

Sending thugs , clowns and thieves on the fast lane to irrelevance and prison.
All those appointed have a day job. Seeing itse sagay on the list gives me joy.
That no nonsense man should have used the SS slot that obj gave to Jonathan.

Our elites are vainglorious and only know how to drink champagne and buy private jets .
Compared to Indonesia where you find chemical magnates , construction magnates, real estate magnates , retail magnates, agriculture magnates..... , our own are mostly rent seekers who became rich from corrupt deal , drugs ,

many will miss the most important accusation in this interview

Facism. That word perfectly describes Jonathan's government and I described the government like that a couple of times last year.

Under fascism, the state, through official cartels, controlled all aspects of manufacturing, commerce, finance, and agriculture. Planning boards set product lines, production levels, prices, wages, working conditions, and the size of firms. Licensing was ubiquitous; no economic activity could be undertaken without government permission. The consequent burdening of manufacturers gave advantages to foreign firms wishing to export. Fascism was thus incompatible with peace and the international division of labor

Fascism embodied corporatism, in which political representation was based on trade and industry rather than on geography.The government cartelized firms of the same industry, with representatives of labor and management serving on myriad local, regional, and national boards—subject always to the final authority of the dictator’s economic plan.

Welfare is dangerous when misapplied.
Paying a fit and healthy person free money makes them develop a sense of entitlement.
Have you seen NW politicians' sense of entitlement when the talks is about the free allocation from revenues generated in the south?

Then you share Ibadan money to others

Turning back the hands of the clock and getting back on track to the 21st century.
Those of you who experienced the showrooms,supermarket,stores and mini mall of the past , can you list those ones you remember

I remember

Bata
Kingsway
Leventis
May and baker
McMillan bookshop
Abiola bookshop
Julie pharmacy
Volkswagen showroom
Peugeot showroom
Phillip

The noose is tightening.
I hope others are learning and taking notes

What many of you do not know is debt management strategy for development that Osun is using .
Even at it peak , the allocation Osun was getting was small and not commiserate with her population and responsibilities. Once salaries are paid, virtually nothing remains .
What do you do to get around this to fund capital expenditure ?
You borrow and use the allocation as collateral.
you use the principal for capital projects while using a part of your allocation to pay off the interest.
This is how governments run worldwide .
In other words , recycle money.
At times debts will go up ,and at times , it will go down depending on the borrowing needs of the government
So you do not have to wait for 50 years until you have 20 billion to embark on a project which would cost 50 billion by that time .
However that model is contingent on a stable national economy and the federal government managing the country properly.
Osun problem started when madueke stealing went nitro 2 years ago .
Allocation went down
Interest rates went up
All sorts of illegal deductions were imposed by iweala like the police fee .
Oil prices collapsed .
All of a sudden , after interest payments , the allocation is not even enough to pay salaries.
Unlike Lagos who can easily brush aside the fall in allocation , Osun became stuck in a rot.
The problem here is not debt , the problem is revenues .

Turn around maintenance indeed.
Always using middlemen to steal when you can deal directly with the vendors or manufacturers .

Definitely more than that and it started in 1960

Good in theory but not in practice.
enforcers?
The Nigerian police?

Fu<<k me . Get her a day job . No First Ladies

MANGAM:
When there are areas with no access road, drinking water, salaries not paid for months,.... What use is an airport when u ve an intl airport less than 100km from Lafia?

Very funny.
He needs somewhere to park his future private jet

Sahara reporters are carefully picking their targets

The ugly first
The bad next
And the rest later

mooremedia:
This is what I call religious harmony.

Definitely not religious harmony .
This is replicated in millions of homesteads in the Yoruba country.
This is straight from the omoluabi value system.
We even have a song for it which goes like

We shall not allow our individual beliefs to divide us
We did not come to this world with a religion neither will go out with one .
It is a pact between you and God
Let us celebrate life as the children of the same God regardless of our belief
Let us celebrate as the children of oodua

As a result , whenever we see the religious intolerance emanating from the east and the North , we shake our heads and wonder how we ended up in the same country

Civilisation and enlightenment and the philosophy of the ifa system all rolled into one .

The head (ori) and destiny
When the head is not an accursed one , you fear no one but the one God and that God alone you serve .

No where else in the world is this ever done. Not Even in the so called developed countries.
religious bigotry,extremists and extremism have no place in the country of the Yorubas .

Another gift of civilisation to the world by the children of oodua .
Good work musiwa

Nice to see the fire still burning .
Quiet ,peaceful and not materialistic.
The true religion of God
The religion of the Yorubas

The solution is simply Taxation.
For starters ,Make the universities fund themselves. Go after those who seller by the road side and who pay nothing.
Just getting At least a few of the 2000,000 citizens of tax paying age contributing 4000 a month will do the trick .
When people get to the point when taxes starts hurting, then they know that they are paying the right taxes.
The day people realise that they have to have skin in the game ,that is when we will start seeing movement.
That is before we talk about the federal government which vacuums all the wealth produced in the states and share it laggard States .
Ogun can do with the taxes on beer consumption in her territory which are presently shared with sharia States .

Boko haram , a crashing economy in spite of record revenues , corruption , insecurity , rising poverty, Nigeria becoming an object of international ridicule and so on and so forth are not reason enough?
The SS voted massively for Jonathan?
You got to be kidding me.
Was there an election in the SS?
Only cross river and edo had anything close to an acceptable election .
Apkabio contested for election in central senatorial district but won in the north
N:B
Jonathan was simply a Dundee figurehead . We know those who messed up his government. Those throwing their toys out of the pram .
The thoughts behind those reasons enumerated in this post are exactly the reason why Jonathan was kicked out ,and the reason why the SE will not smell the presidency anytime soon .