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cashkid18: Ooops!!another misplaced priority...hw many of those pple livin in ogun cn afford to board a cab

Afam4eva: Nice looking taxis... But i'll advice these governors to also consider something similar to BRT in their states cos not all citizens can afford to hire a taxi.

Gbawe: Fixed. The way all administrators are working in the South West and keying into the concept of amiably developing the entire region as a whole, things should be vastly different in the next 6 years. With Omoluabi replacing Omoluabi, the most important consideration, then the future looks bright.

10. Covenant University Ota

Tolexander: John! Your man don convince me with all these road projects through out the state. I can't believe there can be a governor with this road achievement in osun. I can feel it in my domain.

chukwudi44: Fan-kayode and fashola

This development has exposed the lie that APGA is an Igbo party, a party committed to Igbo interests. How can a non Igbo who has never stayed in Anambra State decide for the Anambra people their governorship candidate? Have things fallen apart so much so in our beloved state that a full-blooded Ijaw person who is not even an in-law of ours will determine who will be our governor and who will not be?

By Press Release
August 18, 2013 22:55:54pm GM
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Saturday received the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Ms Eunice Reddick and Director of African Affairs at the White House, Ms Leanne Erdberg on a courtesy visit, underscoring the need for deeper understanding and cooperation in an increasingly global world.

The Governor who spoke when he received the team led by the US Consul General at the Lagos State Consulate, Mr Jeffrey Hawkins at Lagos House, Ikeja said the call has become imperative because what happens in any part of the world now will affect every part of the world for good or for bad.

“Therefore our understanding of one another and that even if we can communicate, we are probably in many respects not operating at the same wavelength. It helps us to further know that there may be a need for forbearance here and forbearance there. Also to understand that historically some parts of the world are farther ahead in the way that the modern forms of government have aced in those parts and therefore some experience and expertise have been built there”.

“So when we look at the African continent today, it is also to recognize that it is a new African continent. There was a lot of originality here several thousands of years ago, but there wasn’t governance as we know in this structure, it was governance by monarchies and they worked for all they were worth at the time”

“So, perhaps as we therefore engage, it is to understand that for some it is still a sprint and for others it has become a walk and that in any event my understanding also is that the cycle of renaissance would continue and as they do economic dynamic, political dynamics and so on would continue to change”, he reiterated.

Governor Fashola explained that ultimately the world would be a better world by how much of interdependence the people builds on and achieve and how much of tolerance and understanding of the peculiar and local solutions they have.

While commending the US Consul General at the Lagos State Consulate, Mr Jeffrey Hawkins, the Governor said he has seen an increasing attempt by him to understand local peculiarities as a way of measuring the expectations he has of Nigerians who are also desirous continuously of keeping the healthy relationship the country has at least with the US Consulate in Lagos and which have been so far so good, a very good working relationship.

The Governor also used the occasion to clarify the notion about compliance with job rules in the state, stressing that Saturdays are official work free days but that because some work has piled up and that a week was spent in mourning the only way to catch it up was to put in some extra shift which necessitated the Executive Council meeting.

“They’ve all agreed to come and do that over the weekend so that we can get back to nearly normal hours although they are never normal here. So also note that otherwise we don’t work on Saturdays here except in some departments where we provide weekend services like vehicle registration and land permit for people who leave home early and never really get service”, he said.

Speaking on behalf of the visitors, US Consul General at the Lagos State Consulate, Mr Jeffrey Hawkins said the group is in Nigeria this week to participate in the latest edition of the US- Nigeria Bi-National Working Commission and the Working Group on Security.

He explained that the team has had a couple of days of very rich discussions in Abuja focused on security and primarily on the North but a theme that ran through so many of the discussions was on governance.

“The delegation also had the opportunity to meet with a group of Governors on Wednesday night and we were in Port Harcourt yesterday and met another Governor there and as someone who has a reputation for excellence in governance we wanted to also come and get your views on the future of the country and on the way forward and above all on the ways in which sub-national governments can move this country forward and we are looking forward to the discussions”, the diplomat stated.

The Governor was joined by the Deputy Governor, Hon (Mrs) Adejoke Orelope- Adefulire, some members of the State Executive Council including the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Lateef Ibirogba, Secretary to the State Government, Dr (Mrs) Oluranti Adebule, Economic Planning and Budget, Mr Ben Akabueze and Youth, Sports and Social Development, Mr Enitan Oshodi, Education, Mrs Olayinka Oladunjoye and Special Adviser on Political and Legislative Powers, Mr Muslim Folami while others on the entourage of Mr Jeffrey Hawkins include Chief of the Political/Economic Section, Mr Rolf Olson and Nigeria Team Leader for Bureau of Conflict Stabilisation and Operations, Ms Caitlin Conarty.

payless: LMAO!

Soludo supporters don't care even if he contests under Boko Haram party as long as his name appears on the ballot.

ak47mann: I wonder why some people are so interested in ANANMBRA that ravage by erosion,you leave your advance states,with cars flying with remote control,sophisticated people 'am afraid.And come here to poke nose about anambra politics.Something is not right,What an irony

emiye: I thought you people hate a party with northern origin, why Atiku's PDM?

24 July 2013 , By Eugene Agha,
A 25-year-old man, Chukwuemeka Benson, has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a British expatriate in Lagos State.
The suspect was said to have been arrested by a combined team of police detectives attached to the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) and the State Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) at Okokomaiko area of Ojo, Lagos State, where he had allegedly gone to collect N7.5 million, being the ransom sum demanded.
Another member of the gang also identified as Ugochukwu escaped with bullet wounds, it was gathered.
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, while addressing newsmen gave the name of the Briton as Dickson Lee.
He said the victim who came into Nigeria on July 16, 2013, from Amsterdam was rescued from the criminals' hideout at Okota area of the metropolis.
Manko who used the forum to advised members of the public to desist from paying ransom to kidnappers, said the gang attacked their victim at Mafolokun area of Oshodi.
According to him, the driver of the vehicle escaped with bullet wounds, while the assailants drove away with their victim.
"Based on the report made at area G, Mushin, the police swung into action. The victim was rescued four days after he was kidnapped. The Briton who looked pale and sick has been released to go for medical treatment," he added.
Explaining how the police were able to track the suspects, Manko stated that the police encouraged the victim's relatives to open negotiation with the suspected kidnappers, while the GSM number used by them was tracked.
Manko stated further that the payment of ransom by victims' friends and relations is making kidnapping to appear lucrative to criminals.
He added that efforts are ongoing to track down other fleeing members of the gang.

lagerwhenindoubt: on the flip side we comfortably (blissfully) ignore the fact that an entire town was thrown into confusion over this.. hhmmm.. our future is indeed bleak.

neither Islam nor common sense supports such proposition

22 July 2013 , By Sunday Awopegba
Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Nigeria's Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, has a knack for cutting superfluous controversies.

Though highly self-opinionated, her coruscating brilliance is not in doubt. She speaks candidly on any aspect of economics that catches her fancy.
One may have deep reservations about her soaring prognosis on the Nigerian dodgy economy and even dislike the somersaulting policies of the government she is a part of; certainly one can't deny that the former World Bank technocrat often ardently means whatever she gives voice to.

It is in this context that I view her recent remarkable appraisal of governance in the State of Osun. This should remind us of the useful lesson evident in the idiomatic expression that it can be counter-productive to throw out the baby together with the bath water. The Minister's considered utterances sometimes embody unassailable facts.

I commend Dr. Okonjo-Iweala for adding her notable voice to those of many others who have conscientiously spoken about the unprecedented improvement evident in the socio-economic condition of the State of Osun since the advent of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola's administration.
Media reports quoted the Finance Minister as saying that Governor Aregbesola is a model for good governance, having demonstrated clearly that good governance in Nigeria is feasible. She made the remarks in the address she read at a two-day workshop organised by the World Bank last June at Iloko-Ijesa for volunteers in the Federal Government's Youth Empowerment and Social Support Operation, YESSO.

It must be remembered that the unimaginable success of the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme, OYES, necessitated the existence of YESSO. About a year after the introduction of the scheme in Osun, the World Bank reportedly began to study the programme and later submitted that OYES provided a practical platform for mass employment. It recommended the idea to both the Federal Government and states in Nigeria.

In the said address read by her representative, the National Coordinator of YESSO, Mr. Peter Papka, Okonjo-Iweala rightly observed that the initiatives of the ACN government in Osun gave comforting assurance that it is very possible to level the perilously imposing mountains of youth unemployment across the country.
Hear her: "You [Aregbesola] have demonstrated that good governance is possible with your programmes. You have demonstrated that youth development is possible. Your programmes so far have demonstrated that you are a good example of government and governance".

These are no patronising sound bites, for when the Minister says "programmes" she guilelessly speaks of the numerous sustainable 'O'initiatives of the state government, which continue to undeniably redefine the social and economic conditions of the people of Osun.

That the State of Osun comes first as the State with the least unemployment woes in Nigeria is a reality that can no longer be ignored by those who incessantly carpet its government. Before Aregbesola became our governor, those of us who live and make our living in Osun know that the state was a kitchen midden of youth unemployment, infrastructural decay and economic stasis. Poverty stalked and menaced the people. But that is no longer the case.

The transition that has been witnessed in our state for the past two years now has soothing evidence of concrete transformation. Youths whose lives were steadily wasting away have been rescued, given training in useful skills and empowered to start small businesses.

Farmers have their own happy stories to tell. Under the aegis of the Osun Rural Enterprise and Agricultural Programme, agro-allied businesses have received a massive boost. With the computer tablet, free school uniforms, free daily feeding for pupils in Elementary Class 1-4, building of ultra-modern schools across the state, and increase in funding, the education system of Osun as we used to know it has changed significantly. Infrastructural development enjoys adequate attention now. Old roads are being rehabilitated and newer ones are springing up.

A few weeks ago I read in the papers that all the nine state hospitals are already being renovated. That is in addition to the marked changes in healthcare services. Indeed, great things are taking place in Osun. Those who can't hear, see them; those who can't see, hear them; and hardly is there a single household in the Land of the Virtuous that doesn't benefit from the policies of the present government.

One other way to test for the genuineness and effectiveness of the policies of the Aregbesola administration is to invoke the methodology prescribed by the seasoned British economist, Dudley Seers. According to him, to understand whether a state or country is developing or not, three main questions need to be asked: First, "what has been happening to poverty?" Second, "what has been happening to unemployment?" Third, "what has been happening to inequality?"

He contends that if we notice tangible declines in all of these key areas, doubtlessly the entity - state or country - can be said to be in an era of development. However, he cautions that if one or two of those core issues have an organic tale of misfortune, or if the three are becoming more unbearable, it would amount to sheer lunacy to describe that misery of biblical proportion as development.

Surely, Okonjo-Iweala had issues of unemployment, poverty, and inequality in mind when she lauded Governor Aregbesola as an exemplar of good governance.
The capacity of the Osun people to live dignified and meaningful life has been (and is still being) made possible through a consistent and focused implementation of programmes that squarely address poverty, unemployment, and social injustice.

This is a fact that a high-ranking PDP apologist has affirmed dispassionately. And I see this as another clinical deconstruction of the two-for-one-penny fable of secession and islamisation that some calcified minds who could not stand the vision of Aregbesola wickedly spawned against him but to no avail.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201307221648.html/

Gbawe1: Not real. The first lady did not say this because the article is satirical.

Tolexander: source??

Big Star: I wonder what these guys are going to use against him in 2014. He is touching every angles with good initiatives.
2014, No disturb, work in progress.
Osun ti ndara!

The Peoples Democratic Party has suspended the Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, from the party.
The PDP stated this after an emergency meeting of its National Working Committee on Monday.
Details later…