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kettykin: Is he a Muslim or Christian

National Mirror gathered that the relocation of Akpabio’s family to Lagos perhaps worsened the absence of the governor from the state(Akwa ibom). When he takes time off his busy schedule in Abuja, he(Akpabio) moves to Lagos to spend time with his family.

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/crisis-pdp-states-paralysed-as-govs-relocate-to-abuja/

Ibrahim mr fish: This guy is really not helping gej.

Sincere 9gerian: Answer the question, you hypocrite. Can you recommend Fela's personal lifestyle to your children?

kenbee: Some Facts:
Rochas has been a known political Prostitute.
APGA is sectionalised just as ACN and CPC. The only party with National colouration is PDP.
Rochas publically admitted that he had neva won an election in his life till he joined APGA.
APGA had the strongest political structure in Imo state since 2003 but was destroyed by Rochas.

ADVICE for ROCHAS

DO NOT PULL DOWN A HOUSE THAT MAY COME DOWN ON YOU!

anonimi: Firstly thanks for your response about the yoruba writing.
I am not "anti-progress.
But I am definitely anti-SCAMMERS and anti-FRAUDSTERS, no matter their disguise in some borrowed "progressive" robes.
See the difference

Tingles: Shouldn't the rising debt profile of the pitiable state of osun be of concern to us? I still maintain that the Opon Imo cannot be a replacement for real books and it is one of the numerous white elephant projects of Governor. Misplaced priorities.

Osun to save N8.2b annually through Opon Imo
The Osun State Government will be saving N8.2 billion annually through the distribution of the Opon Imo (Tablet of Knowledge) to pupils.

Instead of spending the fund on the purchase of books, the government will spend only about N200 million on Opon Imo.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola made this known yesterday while distributing educational materials worth N30 million to scools at the multi-purpose hall of the Local Government Service Commission.

The materials include 10,000 daily attendance registers, 11,600 school record diaries, 150,000 continuous assessment report cards for Junior Secondary Schools and 145,000 continuous assessment report cards for Senior Secondary Schools.

Others are 7,000 white chalks, 70,000 cumulative record folders, 7,000 chalk board renovators and 30,000 chalk board dusters.

The governor said with the downloading of 56 textbooks on 17 subjects into the Opon Imo, pupils only have to carry a digital device about, adding that this makes learning easier.

Instead of being criticised for spending N200 million on Opon Imo, he said his administration should be praised for the initiative.

He said about 150,000 tablets are to be distributed to pupils across the state.

Aregbesola said his administration is investing huge funds in education to instil a minimum level of value in every public school pupil.

He said: “Were we to buy 56 textbooks for 17 subjects offered in Senior Secondary Schools for 150,000 pupils. Over N8.4 billion would have been spent annually as against the N200 million expended on Opon Imo.

“Instead of being praised for God’s endowed ingenuity and wisdom, which gave birth to the Opon Imo initiative, some people prefer to demonstrate their ignorance. They are grandstanding and claiming what they are not.”

The governor described the score card of the last administration in the education sector in its 90 months in office as a far cry from his administration’s achievements in 27 months.

He warned teachers against sharp practices in the distribution and utilisation of the materials and urged parents to monitor their children.

olaezebala: Come to think of it ooo. Opon-Imo don de win award wen dem never give am out to students. Warin e go come win wen students don start de get am self.

Tolexander: To be sincere, i was never a fan of this my governor but he convinced me so hard he is the messiah.

Congrat to O-governor!

Even when the propaganda of ACN being a Yoruba party was being bandied by the government of the
day, it was unfortunate because the Yoruba are
people that are most friendly to the Igbo. They
don’t kill us. Our people have never run home
to say that they were being killed or that their
shops were being looted. I feel pained when
this blackmail is being done just for political
ends. For example, the Governor of Anambra
State has all his businesses here in Lagos. His
company, Next International, is based in Lagos.
That is where they are trading. All his
containers come from here but the same man
will sit down and tell people I am from a
Yoruba party. It is not fair. Why would
somebody tell me that I should not associate
with Yoruba. I want you to know that those
who are shouting All Progressive Grand
Alliance (APGA) today do not know that the
intention of our founding fathers when they
formed United Progressive Grand Alliance
(UPGA), led by Dr. M.I Okpara and Chief
Obafemi Awolowo, was a good handshake
across the Niger, between the East and the
West, a good handshake across Benue;
between the East-West and Benue. That was
why we had Okpara from the East, Awolowo
from the West, Joseph Tarka from Benue as
frontline leaders, Mallam Aminu Kano,
northern leader.

karl max: if not for the local content policy of this administration would this had been possible?... past policies by those now in the opposition killed all our vaible economic sectors and even drove companies to other countries like ghana...

Sincere 9gerian: @seanet02...
I've investigated the 270MW power plant in Apapa Lagos. The fact is that its is an Independent Power Plant (IPP) built by AES. The full name of the plant is AES Nigeria Barge, Apapa, Lagos State, 270MW. It was not built by the Lagos State Govt.

Other IPPs currently operational in Nigeria include:
1. Nigerian Agip Oil Co, Kwale-Okpai, Delta State, 480MW
2. Shell Petroleum Development Corporation Afam VI, Afam, Rivers State, 642MW

However, AES Nigeria Barge, Apapa, Lagos State, 270MW is also operational. It was built in 2001 based on a power purchase agreement between the Lagos State Govt and AES. AES was to build the plant while after completion, the Lagos State will buy the power and sell to certain parts of Lagos through PHCN. All the same, credit to the Lagos State and Tinubu for supporting the project. Without the state govt support and agreement to buy power, AES wouldn't have built the plant.
https://www.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09LAGOS65_a.html?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C5680858201
http://www.lseb.gov.ng/content/aes-power-barge-project

Kingspin: Dnt mind them. Ifeanyi na the same people is just like given a mad-man a new shirt. PDP remains the only national party in Nigeria others are sectional parties. what stop a party to plan beyond 2015, if really u have genuine something to offer,or is APC just in for 2015. U guys have taken ur 8years.So why the noise & sentiment?

idumuose: 2015 will be very interesting.PDP is now controlling 15
states,APC is contolling 11 states while VOP is now in
charge of 7 states that is if the rumour is true that
Kwara state has joined the new party.methinks with this
new development,PDP's wings have been tremendously clipped.
Jonathan has to sit up.It's time to buckle your belt and
work,otherwise, Ɣ☺u will find your self thrown out of aso rock
by 2015.

Group condemned the size of government.
The Afenifere Renewal Group has urged the newly registered All Progressives Congress, APC, to ensure that its programmes rescue Nigeria from the brink of collapse.
In a statement on Friday, the Yoruba socio-political group said that the emergence of a mega party on the Nigeria’s political turf is not enough to end the tide of woes buffeting the nation’s drifting ship.

“The APC should go a step further by saving the country completely from present and future trouble by incorporating comprehensive principles of federalism in its cardinal policies,” said the group in the statement signed by Kunle Famoriyo, the Publicity Secretary.
The group stated that it welcomes the excitement that greeted the emergence of the APC several weeks ago when the Independent National Electoral Commission formalised its registration.

“The public unveiling of APC’s manifesto recently convinced us that the party will entrench a purposeful administration if given the chance by Nigerian electorates.”
While unveiling its manifesto on Thursday, the APC, among other promises, pledged to tackle Nigeria’s perennial power problem by generating 40,000 Mega Watts within eight years.

The Yoruba group said that an APC-led administration will change Nigeria for the better not based on the manifesto alone, but that many of the party’s leaders have demonstrated an inextricable connection between them and their words.
“In all its grandstanding for the past 14 years, never has the PDP been able to dare to promise half of what APC boldly declared as its electoral promises,” Mr. Famoriyo said.

“It is ridiculous how PDP-led administrations over the years have made us believe that good governance needs weigh more than rocket science. After 14 years, power generation fluctuates and has never exceeded 4,000MW.”
The group stated that it endorses all of APC’s manifestoes except its stance on federalism. It further noted that the nation needs a fundamental political reform that will overhaul the present bloated governance structure.

“And we believe such fundamental reform can only come about through an instrument of a Sovereign National Conference,” said Mr. Famoriyo.

“Our country is over-governed. In 2013 budget, the presidency alone has an allocation of N35.7bn while Office of Secretary to Government of the Federation got N70.4bn. We have more than 30 federal ministers, 469 federal legislators, 36 state governors, 774 local government chairmen and thousands of state legislators and councillors, All these political office holders have retinue of special assistants, advisers, and consultants. The present cost of governance is unsustainable and in fact, anti-democratic. We must be moving towards lean governments, which is why we believe local governments should not be a federating tier of government.”

“We also believe that many of our 36 states are weak and nonviable. Therefore political reform is needed to allow for willing federating states to merge in a way that will allow for fiscal federalism. The leaner the government, the more transparent it becomes, and the less we would have to fund anti-corruption initiatives.”