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I can't just stop laughing, tot one prophet few days ago said dey will go back to pdp, oya let d games begin, pdp now 16 n 2decoy- Apc 18...........anyway d end is new n dis is just d beginning of d end

did he got married without a ring?..........cos I think it's his left hand he was using to hold d gal...... abi u don dey dey unfaithful after a week

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Most times when people come forward to share testimonies in church, they do it to show off n some do it in real appreciation............ I will like to knw how you guys react when people share testimonies in church...

The exchange was formerly called Lagos Stock
Exchange
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has
demanded an urgent review of the 1977 decree
which changed the Lagos Stock Exchange to
Nigerian Stock Exchange, saying it “negates the
global standards.”
The governor made this known while speaking to
journalists at the end of the technical session of
the 10th Lagos Executive/Legislative parley,
where he noted that across the world, stock
exchanges are named after their host cities.
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) suggested
that it is the time to take a second look at
legislations that were passed during the military
era when there was no legislative arm of
government and the executive appropriated to
itself the power to make laws for Nigeria.
He explained that it was during the military era
that the Lagos Stock Exchange as it started out,
became the Nigeria Stock Exchange in a
unification move, underscoring the need for the
nation to go back to what is best global practice.
The governor said, “I think the time has come for
us to begin to look at the legislation that was
passed during the military administration that is
decrees and acts. I think that was when the
Lagos Stock Exchange became the Nigerian Stock
Exchange, in unification for the country.”
“Perhaps there is the need for us to go back to
what is best global practice because we have the
Johannesburg, Paris, New York and we don’t
have the American Stock Exchange or German
Stock Exchange while there is a Frankfurt Stock
Exchange and so on.”
“There is nothing like the British Stock Exchange,
but the London Stock Exchange” he adds, noting
that a similar trend should be followed in Nigeria
consistent with best global practices.
“Those are issues that some of the legislators will
take on board to their various legislative bodies”
he said for all the legislators representing Lagos
state at both state and national assembly.
Faults bill on Nigeria International Financial
Centre.
Mr. Fashola also faulted a proposed bill at the
National Assembly for the creation of the Nigeria
International Financial Centre, NIFC, arguing that
the lawmakers might be ‘over-legislating’ because
the measure is against the 1999 constitution.
The bill seeking the establishment of the NIFC,
which is expected to gulp N5.69 billion, according
to the financial compendium attached to the bill,
scaled the second reading on the floor of the
Senate last May.
When passed, the legislation is expected to
produce three separate agencies, namely, the
Nigeria International Financial Centre Authority
(administrative body); Nigeria Internal Financial
Centre Regulatory Authority and the Nigeria
International Financial Centre Judicial Authority.
According to the governor, “we have looked at the
bill and we think that there is a tendency that
there may be over legislation on the bill.”
“The intention of the bill is well defined in the
activities of Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) and
the Security and Exchange Commission, (SEC),
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and other agencies
of the central government.”
He added that “there is also doubt about whether
one can legislate the existence of a financial
centre. Is the legislation aimed at achieving a
geographic entity for it or the creation of an
agency to create regulatory frame work?” Mr.
Fashola asked.
“It also seeks to set up an appellate court. It is
very clear in defiance and in conflict with the
constitution itself.”
“The idea that Lagos is the financial centre for
the country is one that is hard to debate due to
the location of the stock exchange and the
number of industries in the state. It shows that it
doesn’t need any legislation to define.”

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may God give ur family d fortitude to bear d loss,nao it is left to u n God, hope u lived a good life

gratiaeo: Who is this JEO Igbokwe?
Did he know that Yoruba did not vote for OBJ and yet he become president?
Did he even know that Yaradua is not northern's choice that Obj foisted him on them and yet he was elected?
Whom did SS form alliance with before GEJ become president?
The man just want to be relevant with his cheap political point
Btw, what did he do/say when Fashola deported his fellow Igbo from Lagos.........

Many will think u av spoken well bt u av no proof to all u just said,I believe yoruba voted well for obasanjo, if dey did not, y den did d candidate for a.d d yoruba party dat won in all their state has only abt 100,000 votes n who told u yaradua wasn't d notherner's choice?......he was chosen to prevent ibb n atiku cos he his believed to be well accepted even because of shehu yaradua n as for Jonathan, he was d incumbent n who told u he didn't form any bond?.........I can tell u dat 5 of d g7 governors were d arrow head of his campaign in 2011......bro as long as we remain together, we need eachother n I want to let u knw dat d southwest is only forming bond because of d future wen dey will want to produce d next president.... den it will be believed dat the southwest has always supported all region

Shaakasi: hmmmm

u are hotter dan she is, u've back side dan her,I dey trip ooooo

I don't knw d reason for dis arguments, if anybody knows of any good road he constructed,den post d pictures n if u knw of any road dat is bad n of high importance,bt yet untouched den post it too,cos he obviously cannot construct all d roads......

I don't knw d reason for dis arguments, if anybody knows of any good road he constructed,den post d pictures n if u knw of any road dat is bad n of high importance,bt yet untouched den post it too,cos he obviously cannot construct all d roads...... I av a pics though.

Ogun plans to co-operate with Surabaya on
several investment areas.
The Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, and
some members of his executive council are now
in Indonesia to participate in a week-long
discussion with investors and top government
officials in Surabaya, one of the provinces of the
South-Asian country.
The team, comprising of the Commissioners of
Works and Infrastructure, Budget and Planning,
Culture and Tourism and Environment, as well as
the Special Advisers to the Governor on Trade and
Investment, Housing, Research and
Documentation, and Agriculture would, in
Surabaya, hold talks with investors in areas
ranging from agriculture and forestry,
manufacturing, pharmaceuticals to tourism.
It would also explore the possibility of co-
operating with the Asians in the use of technology
for enhancing the production of adire fabric for
export.
Mr. Amosun held a private meeting with the
Governor of Surabaya, H. Soekarwo, and both
men, would, this weekend, sign a joint
memorandum signifying the beginning of co-
operation between their two governments on
several issues.
The governor and his team would also participate
in a business forum to be attended by leading
Indonesian industrialists. It would afford the Ogun
State team the opportunity to showcase the
investment opportunities in the state.
Surabaya, the second largest city in Indonesia,
and a major industrial centre and port, covers an
area of 47,922 square kilometres, with a
population of over 37 million.

there is hope in the west, am sure dis guy is going to make sure someone better succeeds him and continue with the legacy

that criminal go get hatred for virgin gan ooo, bt I wonder wat dey told there parents dat will make dem stay in skul during a total n indefinite strike like dis.

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Fashola with the same people weeks ago and it was a fine and victorious affair instead of the ogogoro drunkard disgracing Nigeria...





lmao...

did u notice d woman was looking at fashola in all d pictures, am sure she was like,so dere are intelligent people from Nigeria?

9jagirl4re: The guy is really trying if I had to rate Nigerian Governors he would be in the top 5

among top 5 abi no1?

he New Peoples Democratic Party has
alleged that the National Chairman of
the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji
Bamanga Tukur, and other chiefs of the
party supported the All Progressive
Grand Alliance in the November 16
governorship election in Anambra State
because of 2015.
It alleged that the facts before it (the New
PDP ) indicated that Tukur did this to
enable APGA to adopt President
Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential
flag-bearer come 2015.
It said because of this, Tukur and those it
alleged gave support for the APGA
candidate, Mr. Willie Obiano, during the
election must be summoned and
disciplined by the party.
A statement by the National Publicity
Secretary of the faction of the ruling
party, Chief Chukwuemeka Eze, said the
Umaru Dikko-led Disciplinary Committee
should be bold enough to invite Tukur
for questioning.
But Tukur has denied the allegation,
saying there was no way he could have
supported APGA when he was in the
state to campaign for his party and its
candidate.
He said those making the allegation
should be ignored by the PDP and
Nigerians.
Tukur, who spoke through his Media
Adviser, Mr. Oliver Okpala, said he was
aware of the provision of the party’s
constitution an therefore would not be
involved in anti-party activities.
Eze, however, insisted in a statement in
Abuja on Thursday that Tukur was the
arrowhead of the plot to deny the
candidate of the PDP, Mr. Tony Nwoye,
the needed support.
CULLED FROM PUNCH NIGERIA

The All Progressives Congress said on
Thursday that the Independent National
Electoral Commission deceived it by
using different voters’ register for the
Saturday’s governorship election in
Anambra State, which it said was
completely different from the ones it
submitted to the party before the poll.
The Interim National Chairman of the
party, Chief Bisi Akande, who stated this
at a press briefing in Abuja, said at the
appropriate time, the commission would
be forced to produce the register it used
for the conduct of the controversial
election.
Akande added that the party had
formally petitioned the Chairman of
INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega seeking the
cancellation of the election and the
organisation of a fresh election, instead
of the supplementary election being
planned by the electoral body.
The former governor of Osun State said,
“We don’t have the voters’ register used
for the election. We saw the first voters’
register and the second one, but the
third one, which was used for the
election, was not giving to us. It was an
orchestrated plan to disfranchise the
people of Anambra State.”
With this, Akande said the electoral body
could not no longer conduct a credible,
adding that it had shown its bias against
the opposition political party in several
ways.
He said it was not known to the defunct
three political parties -Action Congress of
Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change
and the All Nigeria Peoples Party- that
while they were trying to merge to form
the APC, the commission was also
merging with the Peoples Democratic
Party and the Presidential Villa.

I guess he has been told he will die soon or dat he is even gone already n maybe he is just been heldup by his sins n he is nao trying to say d truth so dat he can be set free,good of him though

Two women fainted while several others were
injured when security agents dispersed about
300 women protesting the Anambra State
governorship election on Wednesday at the state
office of the Independent National Electoral
Commission in Awka.
The women, who identified themselves as
Anambra Women, called for the cancellation of
the election and the discontinuation of the
supplementary election called by INEC at a yet-
to-be-announced date.
They carried placards with the inscription,
‘Anambra not for sale’, ‘No election was
conducted in Anambra’, ‘Fresh poll not
supplementary poll’, ‘INEC cancel 608,000 votes
not 113, 113 votes’, among others.
The women were dispersed by security
operatives attached to INEC office, who fired
teargas canisters into their midst, leaving many
of the elderly women wounded while two persons
fainted.
One of their leaders, Mrs. Tina Akonobi, said they
were at the commission’s office to “mourn for
the disaster, destruction, doom, robbery and
fraud that took place on the November 16.”
Akonobi added, “The election was a sham aimed
at insulting the integrity, intelligence and
intellectual ability of the people of the state and
Nigeria in general.
“INEC brought a fraudulent register three days to
election where they removed names of voters
whose name starts with the letter ‘O’ like
Okonkwo and Okeke at Idemili.
“They brought fraudulent people to conduct
election here; it was a scam and destruction of a
generation and Igbo land.
“We are calling for the cancellation and
resignation of Prof. Attahiru Jega for the doom
that is impending because this is what will
happen in 2015.”

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Just saw dis news and I felt I should share it.

Adekunle Ajasin University has pulled out of ASUU
strike. The school authority has instructed all
students of the institution to resume for the 2nd
Semester on Monday,25 November, 2013.
ASUU is yet to react to this development.

metronaija.com/breaking-news-adekunle-ajasin-university-pull-out-of-ASUU-strikestudents-resume-on-monday/

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams
Oshiomhole recently marked the fifth
anniversary of his administration.
During a media parley, the former
Labour leader spoke on his vision for the
state, the challenge of the office and
what keeps him going. MUYIWA
OYINLOLA was there.
Congratulations on your 5th anniversary
as the Governor of Edo State, your
opponents would think the celebration
was a waste of state resources.
We are not like any other government,
our selling point is the trust line between
the governed and the government and
every responsible and honest steward
must, as a matter of duty and obligation,
account to his master. I am the steward
of Edo State. I have the privilege to be
entrusted with the management of the
resources of the state and the state is not
made up of a few elite but also of people
in the rural areas and as well those in
the Urban areas. In terms of election, the
people are more in number than the
elite and so on the occasion of the 5th
anniversary and my first year in my
second term as I have done over the past
four years, it has become a tradition to
face the people and tell them what has
changed since November, 2008 and
today but more particularly between last
year and now so that they follow up the
progress we are making. If you call that
extravagance, well that would your
choice of words
but I call it practical accountability, open
governance. In the trade union world
when you are elected at a certain period
you hold your meeting, you give report
of your achievement and where you have
challenges you explain it to the people.
So I don’t see what was extravagant; I
didn’t see people drinking champagne or
eating three course meals, rather I saw
women under the sun and when we
finished, a few people came to the
Government House for lunch.
Your Excellency when you were
addressing the crowd you spoke about
copying certain processes from Lagos
State especially in the area of financial
re-engineering. We want you to tell us
the peculiar situation of Edo State?
You see what I make is that people don’t
like to say they copy except when you
talk about America and Europe but what
I’m saying is that there are a lot of good
things that are happening in the
Nigerian environment and sometimes,
you don’t need to go out to find what
works and adopt it. Lagos has always
been there and at a point, things were so
bad that Lagos became so impossible that
you use odd numbers and even numbers
to manage your traffic and military
officers were deployed to use the
horsewhip to enforce simple traffic
rules. That was how
bad Lagos was. General Obasanjo was
reported as saying that Lagos was an
urban jungle. Today, Lagos is not a
perfect place but everybody agrees that
good things are happening in Lagos.
Ojuelegba used to be where we recruited
our area boys when we wanted to make
Lagos a bit less uncomfortable for the
big people plying the road. The last I
passed Ojuelegba, I
couldn’t find area boys. Lagos was
known for de-humanising mass transit
called molue where you enter with clean
cloths and come out with tattered rags
and we are beginning to see roads that
where blocked and opened up with
several lanes, so for me, that shows that
things are changing in Lagos but we
need to understand what has led to those
changes?
By 1999 when Tinubu was the governor I
had to represent workers before him and
he was obliged to convince me why he
won’t do the level of wages we wanted
him to pay and I realised that from that
interaction that Lagos revenue was
N600m and when you add that to what
they get from the federation account, it
was difficult to pay salaries. But today, I
understand from IGR Lagos generates
some good amount and with that they
have been able to connect some bridges,
things have changed in Lagos.
Oshodi has been cleaned up, it was
something for me that I could copy and I
can say I went to Lagos to proudly copy
what works and I came back to Edo to
re-engineer our tax system and we
raised our own locally generated
revenue from about N285 million and at
a point we hit N2 billion because we
didn’t need to depend on Abuja to be
able to do everything that we needed to
do. It requires courage, clear thinking
and a level of determination to be able
to get the people to realise that citizens
have obligation to the state to pay taxes
so that in turn
they can become real stakeholders to do
the things that we are doing in Edo State.
If we are going to expand and carry out
urban renewal like what they did in
Lagos you do need to sometimes get rid
of certain things in other to restore the
right of way and expand the roads.
There are a couple of things we copied
from Lagos, land use charge,
consumption tax because I’m sure that
some of you at one time or the other
have travelled outside Nigeria and even
those of you who have not travelled just
watching debates in other countries,
central
to every election debate is tax policies,
and tax defines the character of a
government. The left wing government
would want more taxes so that they can
take from the rich in other to provide a
robust social safety net for the poor.
Right wing party believes everybody for
himself and God for all of us. They can
build private roads and send their
children to private
schools and fly private aircraft but for
the government that is pro-people you
can fly your jet but you must pay. Look
at the intra-city tram which would have
been done many years ago is now
happening in Lagos. Imagine if
somebody had made up his mind to do
thirty year ago what Fashola is doing
now, life in Lagos would have been lot
more comfortable than it is now but we
recognised that the fact we failed in the
past is no reason why we should fail
now.
What is your take on the national
conference and what you feel is the way
out for Nigerians to move forward?
Well, I have no new views, the one I
have canvassed before and from pages
of your newspapers and electronic
media we even have a full broadcast of
what I said but I also recognised that
there are many Nigerians who believe
that we should keep talking but I say we
should get on with the job. I don’t
begrudge those who believe that talking
can solve it, but no one should begrudge
me if I say we should start working.
On the continued closure of Nigerian
universities?
I have a particular difficulty on this
matter and this is why I have not
commented on it and I don’t think I
really want to comment on it because
somehow I helped in mediating between
the federal government and ASUU in
2009 the very agreement that is in
dispute. All I will say for now is that
under the Nigerian labour laws,
agreements are enforceable because both
the Trade Union Act and Labour Act
recognise the status of collective
agreement entered into between an
employer and employee and the key
issue is that both sides should act in good
faith because making any statement for
and against either side might not
promote the cause of peace.
You had earlier said your only regret
was the fact that your wife was not there
to celebrate with you and what struck me
was that you may probably be thinking
of marrying another wife. How soon are
we expecting that?
I wish you would have avoided the
question because really when I talk
about my late wife, people may not
understand why. You are in a position to
judge whether to agree or disagree.
When a man in my own case has the
privilege of being elected as a state
governor or president, my wife’s status
changes automatically to that of first
lady of the state or the country, with all
the glamour that goes with it. To have
the kind of wife I had, who was familiar
with all the police stations in Kaduna
and outside, and sometimes searching
for her husband who might
have gone to work and detained by
police on account of Trade Union work,
it was her lot to stand by me and she
bore all the deprivations of a husband
you were never sure where he was going
to be in the next few minutes. At a point,
she called me an absentee husband. In
one interview she said I have donated
my husband to the Nigerian workers, so
she went through all that pain and the
day we were inaugurated, which usually
is a day when women put on their very
best befitting the status of the first lady
of a state. On that occasion, my wife and
I
discussed and I said to her, I can’t
change my identity now because I have
been a worker and have used khaki as a
factory worker and President of the NLC,
and I don’t want to look different and
she agreed rather that than going to buy
lace, she opted to wear the same khaki,
except that mine was better sown than
her own because her tailor was not used
to sowing khaki for women. So I looked
around and imagined that she should
have been by my side today to share the
joy of the 5th year anniversary. If you
come from my background, any
woman who agrees to marry a man who
is not rich, a man who alternate between
police station and cells and lives in a one
or two bedroom apartment that is your
real love and when she says I love you, it
was from her heart. I just imagine how
she could have felt seeing all these
people, the only worry she have ever had
was that who was going to employ our
children owing to my agitations. She
feared that after leaving the NLC, our
lives would be lonely because it would be
a payback time for all those big people I
harassed in the course of my work. So
it would have been joyous for her to see
that five years down the road, I have
more people around me than I had
before. Her second fear was that she
never approved my involvement in
politics because she was very proud to
be referred to as the wife of Oshiomhole
because she saw the affection because
most Nigerians were happy with my
stewardship at the NLC. She was worried
that once I got into politics I would be
ridiculed and all of that would go.
She felt I should keep the name but I told
her even before I went into the NLC,
NLC was a write-off as military
apologists and the human rights
community distanced themselves from
the NLC and I said you can always
choose how you want to be remembered
that am going into politics to redefine
and demystified governance and
reconnect with very ordinary people and
politics offers that platform for anyone
who believes the ordinary man deserves
a better deal. So for all that and for
many other reasons, that is one thing
that I regret that she should
have been there to also see the other side
of life. I have seen it all, in this state
now, there are people who will call me
the oppressor and you know who they
are, the oppressors of yesterday, if you
ask ‘Mr fit it’ who I am, he will tell you
I’m oppressing him because I have de-
fixed him. It would have been nice for
my wife to see life’s full circle that those
guys who
feasted on us and cheated the state that
we have reduced them to political
vegetables and placed them on
permanent political oxygen. The leaders
of APC came to Benin to show solidarity,
when the party was formed, we believe
that it would bring change to the PDP
government but the way they are going
we are wondering if PDP was a party of
killers like Audu Ogbe would put it.
Why is APC looking for PDP members to
follow them?
PDP is not a tribe, that you should do the
DNA to find out if there is something in
the gene. Nigeria has been more or less a
one-party state and there are many who
are not convinced about the message or
promise but they went into PDP, because
that is the only game in town. The
beauty of a two viable alternative
political platforms is that it offers the
opportunity for people of like minds to
come together regardless of where you
were before and Edo is an example.
Before I got here, those who are with me
now were either in PDP or ANPP and
some in
their private bedroom grumbled over
what was happening. They all used to
pay political pilgrimage to Uromi for
political blessing not because they were
convinced but that was the only way it
could be done. Once we open a platform
those who were genuinely unhappy with
what was going on there left to join the
ACN now APC and those who are happy
with the godfather remained with him.
They have been people in this state who
took advert and they said if you asked
them to paint the face of God that by the
time they finished painting that face,
what you
will see is the face of godfather and that
was blasphemy and that is how far some
people went and by praise singing like
that you could become a minister,
senator and governor for people who
believe that the end justifies the means. I
think that in every political party you
would find some good and bad people, I
don’t think that there is pretence that
every person in APC is an angel nor is
there a suggestion that everybody in the
PDP is a devil.

Iykeponti: what a phvcck do u guys want from Igbo laand seff??

personally I was just trying to use election to see d preparedness of inec for d upcoming general elections n moreso am a nigerian n from wat is happening in my state now,I knw wat good governance means,so am only wishing dat u have d best

u for tell us his/her name nao, u fuckup oooo amosun