MRLINGTON:
For real?

Guess you don't like idea. But I think it makes sense maybe N100/ hour

uzolexis:


not all d soldiers involved in the coup were Igbos e.g Adekunle

Adekunle in the 1966 purge by Nzeogwu and his gangs?

Think you are referring to the civil war .

Bayswater:


You have always been shuttling between Osogbo and Lagos abeg lol
Abeg shut up, make we hear word

Why do you like throwing 'I just got into the country', 'I am in the country', 'I will be in Nigeria soon' lines? Lol

To you, it seems travelling out of the country is a great achievement eh?

Okere (squirrel) like you, still feeling funky as usual.

We are in the southwest stomping the ground for your worst nightmare (GEJ), I don't need to travel out to have some prestige

You've been exposed as a fraudster and a fraudster, you will remain.

Continue living in penury and anger at your failure in life. I still haven't seen your father's CV? Send the PM again, my gateman just took some days off, your dad I learn is experienced in gate manning.

Exposed as a fraudster? I operate at a level your forefathers and your future generations will and can only dream and wished. Go do your car washing work before your supervisor query you but remember to tell your father I'm back.

Controlled:


great post.... APC thinking solutions ....PDP stealing n bribing ......d diff is clear. Vote Buhari...

Won't mind seeing some APC states adopting modalities for implementing this PAY PARKING idea for states with large vehicular movements. It allows for commonsense on the roads.

Bayswater:


Read what you typed again and see if it makes any sense.

Are sure you are not one of those peddling fake BRT bus tickets at ojodu/Berger? You talk like them.

No I actually drive the BRT bus. You're so stupid, daft and moronic. If only you know. I'm in the country right now, you can bring forth your family needs now since poverty mentality is entrenched and have taken permanent residence in your lineage.

Bayswater:


Shush there and stop spewing rubbish. They said somebody died and you still manage to spew all these bile?
You APC eediots are always seeking to score cheap political points even from the gravest occurrences. Shame on you!

you must be senile and stupid for quoting my mention. Am I not entitled to my opinion again? Did the president went to Adamawa for state duties?

Useless brainless morons like you who have mucous in your brains and have no sense of responsibility sees being stupid as a normal trait since it is inherent and a passed on genes in your lineage.

He's dead and has his death made the president stop his political misadventure for a day in his honour?

Stupid azzlicker.

Controlled:
'businessmen' using debts..... .to finance their lifestyle....

No businessman can exist without taking Loans but the plan to collect back lies solely with the Creditor not the debtor.

America is the assumed biggest economy in the world today yet it owes in bonds and bills in trillion of dollars to China. Dangote is indebted to banks but is he servicing them? The fact remains that the system in Nigeria have been exploited and rendered impotent by the corruption in high places.

What was the recovery plans by First Bank before giving out such amount to him? What is just because he is a top class politician close to the corridors of power.

I'm waiting to hear other banks go to the court laying claims to same properties First Bank wants to commandeer. Nigeria is really in a fix and need a COMMONSENSE REVOLUTION.

rebranded:
Not all developed countries require pay to park

Not everything abroad must work in Africa

List some of those developed countries where you don't have to pay to park except on weekends or after 6pm?

Aside the fact this is a revenue earner, it is a worthy venture that enable sanity on the roads. People park on every available space in states like lagos since they know it comes free and go whereever they want for hours causing obstruction and slow movement.

We can't continue to wish to be global citizens of the world aspiring to turn the country into the new york, Paris and London of the west yet close our eyes to the things it takes to get there.

LAGOS, OGUN, KANO, ANAMBRA, RIVERS, OYO AND KADUNA STATES are really sitting on a gold mine that is really waiting to the exploited and explored.

I really wish the STATES really wake up to the opportunities that abound in this revenue making avenue. Remembered paying N500 for a full day parking years back at Ebute Ero, guess who were the COLLECTORS? NOT THE STATE but Area boys.

the Revenue Boris Johnson sees alone in London borough from Car Owners might match the yearly Budget of 10 states in Nigeria if not more.

Ambode let's explore and exploit this huge revenue earner.

Currently, the Nigerian government is running low on revenue due to the steep decline in oil prices to less than 50 dollars a barrel. This has led many analysts to question how the national and state governments are going to fund their development when 90% of their revenue is derived from oil exports. Many have called for a diversification of exports, which is indeed a major issue, since 70% of Nigeria’s export revenue comes from crude oil. Looking beyond a diversification of exports, since 90% of government revenue still comes from oil revenue, the real issue is that public officials and lawmakers throughout the country have failed to develop alternate ways the state can increase revenue and diversify its funding structure so that they rely far less on oil revenue. Even the ministry of finance with all their claims of efforts was only able to increase tax revenue by half a billion dollars, (see the minister of finance brag about a paltry increase of half a billion dollars in taxes: There is a measure floating among state lawmakers to double VAT taxes, but this measure will do little more than put a tiny band aid on the gushing wound caused by declining oil revenue.

One key overlooked area is parking revenue. Throughout the entire developed world, governments at all levels generate substantial amounts of rents and fees from charging motorist fees to park on public streets. Those who travel abroad know, that meters are placed almost everywhere to collect parking fees, even in towns as small as 7,000 residents. Today in a city as large as Lagos, it is mind boggling that motorists are still able to park for free on some of the most prominent well traversed public streets on the planet. Motorists are the primary users of the road, and are known in Nigeria to deliberately ram and speed into pedestrians with no regard to the right of pedestrians to traverse the streets alongside them. Accordingly they should have no issue with paying parking fees to maintain those same streets and help sustain the state that helps to regulate them. By not charging motorists appropriately Nigeria’s states and local governments are robbing themselves of billions of added revenue that they could generate instead of relying primarily on handouts from the Federal government.

To look at the numbers closely, in 2009 Lagos State had over 1 million registered vehicles. Every year the state was registering over 200,000 more vehicles. Today there is estimated to be over 2 million vehicles registered in the State of Lagos alone. That amounts to 1 car for every 10 people in the state. This number does not include the hundreds of thousands of vehicles on Lagos State roads that are registered out of state. If half of these vehicles paid 300 naira to park their vehicle every day for 1 hour only, the State of Lagos would generate over half a billion dollars a year. In reality the density of street parking usage throughout Lagos would likely be far greater than this estimate. In fact it could reach as much as 4 times this level of usage for Lagos State alone. In addition to Lagos State, in the 36 states, the FCT, and in each of the 774 local government areas there are no less than 3 towns and cities where paid parking meters could be implemented immediately. By not doing this, local and state governments across the federation are sitting on their hands like little babies waiting for handouts from the federal government, and robbing themselves of no less than 10 billion dollars annually.

Given the current propensity of micro-corruption among underpaid civil servants throughout Nigeria, some of whom go months without receiving their due salary, there are many who question the viability of trusting these same civil servants to reliably collect parking fees and remit them accordingly. Even more daunting a question is if civil servants actually do remit the parking fees they collect, will the internal revenue collection officials across the federation honestly report how much revenue they are collecting from the meters within their territory? If you ask the average Nigerian, the obvious answer is no! With good reason, nobody has any confidence in public officials to handle this process professionally and honestly, and in a manner that would benefit everyone. Fortunately, technology has a solution for all of this. Parking meters in much of the world are outfitted with auditing and tracking systems that can be independently verified, tracked, and reported. It is virtually impossible for any of the meter maids to get away with not remitting funds collected from meters on their route. Further, the auditing technology also allows for third-parties to independently verify and track usage. By taking samples on random dates analysts can reliably project annual revenue in entire towns and cities to within a couple percentage points utilizing basic statistical models. Accordingly, it is actually very difficult for even “the oga at da top” to manipulate revenues that would benefit them personally beyond basic pocket change.

Moving forward, local and state governments are going to have to implement revenue diversification measures like these immediately. It is actually quite pathetic that even some of the largest cities and states in the federation are yet to do so, but perhaps the current budget pinch is a perfect catalyst to get public officials to start doing their jobs.


David O. Kuranga, Ph.D. The author is the Managing Director and Principal of Kuranga and Associates, a full-service investment, political and economic risk consultancy, and asset management firm that specializes in Africa.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/03/18/nigeria-loses-over-10bn-annually-in-parking-revenue/

Awoofawo:


Having your PVC and arming yourselfwith it on election day be the koko... As for me everyone contesting for one post or the other is a joke. Am not wasting vote for jokers like J and B....

The next election is BUHARI'S to lose. It is a classic mismatch like Chelsea vs Stationary Stores. It is a walkover by GMB, I didn't come home to support the cause because I miss home, I came because I want to smile and rejoice in my grave that I was part of the COMMONSENSE REVOLUTION that swept through Nigeria.

Night bro.

this is classic case of "DOUBLE WAHALA FOR DEAD BODY", Let the bank go collect from the grave if they gave out monies without collateral.

A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, has adjourned till Wednesday to settle the issue of legal representation among the lawyers involved in a suit filed by First Bank of Nigeria Limited against the company of the late businessman, Alhaji Abdul-Azeez Arisekola Alao’s Lister Oil Limited, to recover a loan of N7.2 billion.

Different individuals have given different lawyers mandate to represent Lister Oil Limited in the impending suit.

Meanwhile, the order granted by the court directing the directors, shareholders and agents of Lister Oil Limited to yield up possession and deliver to the receiver manager the assets mortgaged by Lister Flour Mills to First bank Limited still subsists until the issue of legal representation of the defendants are resolved.

Joined as co-defendants in the suit are Lister Oil Limited, Mrs. Khadijah Alao-Straub and Fatimoh Alao, while First Bank Limited and Lister Flour Mills (Nigeria Limited) (in receivership) are the plaintiffs.
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The court presided over by Justice Saliu Saidu on 11 February, granted an order that the defendants by themselves, the directors, shareholders, agents, servants, privies and/or employees of the second applicant in the suit, Lister Flour Mills Nigeria Limited, and the first defendant, Lister Oil Limited, are restrained in the interim from challenging, interfering, with or otherwise obstructing or frustrating the performance of the statutory duties of the receiver appointed by First Bank Limited over the asset covered by the Deed of Legal mortgage dated July 25, 2005, duly consented to by the governor of Lagos state, and registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission on November 23, 2005, and upstamped on April 4, 2012, and September 2, 1013, respectively, pending the hearing and determination of motion on notice.‬

Justice Saidu also ordered that the defendants, directors, themselves, the directors, shareholders, agents, servants, privies and/or employees of the second applicant in the suit, Lister Flour Mills Nigeria Limited, and the first defendant, Lister Oil Limited, however described are directed to yield up possession and deliver to the Receiver the asset mortgaged by the second plaintiff/applicant, Lister Flour Mills Limited, to first plaintiff/applicant, First Bank Plc, being 21, Creek road, Apapa, Lagos, more particularly described as Plot 1247, Block “IW” LSPDC Layout, Apapa, Lagos, containing an area of approximately 3.213 Acres of more, particularly delineated in duly plan number L.E.D. B/S. D/40 of Apapa Town Planning layout, and covered by the Deed of Legal Mortgage dated July 25, 2005, duly consented to the governor of Lagos state, and registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission on November 23, 2005, presently in the custody and possession of the defendants pending the hearing of motion on notice.

The plaintiffs, First Bank and a company in receivership Lister Flour Mills Nigeria Limited, in their originating summons filed before the court by their lawyer, Mr. Oluwakemi Balogun, SAN, under the matter of the Company and Allied Matters Act Cap C20 Laws of Federation of Nigeria, had demanded whether the defendants can be perpetually restrained from disturbing and obstructing the rights of the bank and the appointed receiver.‬

Consequently, the plaintiffs are seeking a declaration of the court that the defendants lack rights to interfere with the power and duties of the receiver duly appointed by the first plaintiff, First Bank Plc on November 26, 2014, pursuant to the said Deed, and that the receiver is entitled to exercise all statutory powers and duties of receiver over the mortgaged asset in accordance with the provisions of the said Deed of Legal Mortgage and Companies and Allied Matters Acts Cap C20 LFN without any interference, obstruction and/or hindrance in any manner whatsoever by the defendants or any persons acting under their authority or any person whether shareholders, officers, agents, privies and/ or employees of the second plaintiff, Lister Flour Mills Nigeria Limited.‬

They are also seeking a court declaration that the second defendant, Mrs. Khadijah Alao-Straub, being the former director of the second plaintiff, Lister Flour Mills, lacks the right to challenge the receiver appointed by the first plaintiff, Lister Oil company, over the asset.

According to an affidavit sworn to by relationship manager, Debenture and Corporate Banking Group of First Bank Mr Nurudeen Giwa, First bank sometime in January 2011 granted Lister Flour Mills four different types of loan amounting to N7.2 billion for the purpose of importation of factory equipment.

The loans were later restructured several times but when the facilities became due and due to the persistent failure of Lister Flour Mill company to liquidate its indebtedness, Mr Oluwakemi Balogun (SAN) was appointed as a receiver manager over Lister Flour Mills mortgaged asset to realise same in line with the deed of the Legal Mortgage executed by the company in favour of First bank.

On two occasions when the case was mentioned the matter could not go on due to multiple legal representation for Lister Oil Limited and Fatimo Alao.

Consequently the court had to adjourn till Wednesday for the issue of the legal representation to be sorted out.


http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/03/17/first-bank-sues-arisekolas-company-over-n7-2b-debt/

saintandsinnerz:


It is only a fool and an empty vessel that brags about what they have! What height have you attained? Your father must have been a monumental failure judging by the way you speak. Deranged people like you need to be locked up in a zoo where you will only interact with your kind! Jet lag ni, jet lag ko!

Told you to inform your mother I'm back, she still have my details I guess.

Awoofawo:


Bro welcome! But how can you bad mouth our 5 star + 5 ace airport, the pride of Africa just like that?
The thing you saw there no good ni? Hahahahaha transformation in progress.... Loading...............since 6years!

Hahahahahahahahahaha I dey laugh in 3D colour

I really wish Nigeria and Nigerians gets to see the values of a good and working system. The MMIA I saw this afternoon won't pass for a county financed airport anywhere in a civilised society. I saw this type of airport in Serbia and really that's even rating it higher than necessary.

Why do we celebrate mediocrity in this country? Why are we so happy with second class and inferiority when we deserve more and have the capacity to get more if only we demand it.

Thanks bro, I'm home to do the little I can in the QUEST FOR CHANGE. Pastor Osinbajo has fired up the patriotic zeal in most people in the diaspora who have voters cards to come be part of the process of deliverance of Nigeria from the corrupt czars.

saintandsinnerz:


Why won't you ask your father to seek public office if d current person there is useless and worthless? Or is your father useless and worthless also? Just asking

your father will not step the grounds mine did. Sorry he's late but since yours is still hoping for where the garri he will sip to work tomorrow will come from, you better be wailing for the way your life and your lineage turned out.

The heights I have attained every male child in your family line will only dream and wished.

Go get a life, I need some rest from jetlag. Tell your mum I'm back she can come collect tomorrow.

jide333:



May my children and children's children die of ignorance, hate, die like rats. May Thunder fire the whole of my household, may I not experience peace and bury my children with my own hands.. .. May all I post here happen to my households that of my other siblings, my nuclear and extended family and entire lineage that bears the same surname with me and my maternal side from generations to generations till the end of time except GEJ did not go to Adamawa over the weekend. I SAY AMEN to to this prayers on behalf of myself, my families and all male and female children that are sired in my lineage. Quote me without an answer and let the GODs of Ogun strike me and my family dead... I HAVE NO HOPE IN LIFE AND WAITING TO BE STRICKEN BY LEPROSY AND ALL MALAISE OF LIFE

WHO AM I NOT TO SAY AMEN TO YOUR PRAYERS WHEN THE MANIFESTATION IS ALREADY BEDEVILING YOUR LINEAGE. I TRIED INTERCEDING ON YOUR BEHALF BUT I HEARD THE NATIVE DOCTOR WHO PLACED THE CURSE HAD DIED WITH THE ANTIDOTE.

SO SORRY FOR THE WAY YOUR LIFE TURNED OUT. Iyi ta wi fun ogbo ni ogbo ngbo, bi were bi were ni se were titi do Jo iku re. Ko se Ko se ni ti Epe owuro, ti alale ba ni Ko da fun e, olowuro o ni JE. Mo pe Gbogbo ogun lakaiye Ko fi eje Gbogbo mo le bi re we Ki Odun yi to pari.

Be ni ori titi dojo Ale fun Gbogbo molebi re do Jo ale.

I help you say AMEN BRO.

saintandsinnerz:


You are too disrespectful! If somebody calls your father useless and worthless, I know you will resort to fighting. Can't yoy make your point without abusing the president? I wonder the kind of training you received from your parents.

My father is not the president of Nigeria nor did he put himself up for election. No one force the useless worthless idiot to contest if he knew he had nothing to offer he should have remained in Otuoke looking for his shoes.

If you have a problem with me having an issue with a public official, don't go hug transformer cos there isn't light, jump in front a moving trailer to show your anger at my abuse ar your god of otuoke.

Once again he is a useless worthless and idiotic nonentity.

The start of the pogrom and military incursion into our polity.

Wished the igbo soldiers never toiled the path they did.

How can any reasonable Nigerian support the PDP and what it represents.

The main issue in the next election for the PDP is BUHARI, BUHARI and BUHARI while for the APC it is Security, end to corruption and impunity, restoring our military prestige and glory and rescuing the country from the brink of complete collapse.

More credence to the story that he went to beg Atiku to please come and endorse him. He is so sure of winning yet he is begging and plotting to scuttle the democratic process if he is not returned.

Is it not clear enough to his blind supporters that THE GAME IS OVER for JonaTAN and his 40thieves.


Useless worthless president that ever liveth.

So glad to be back home to BE PART OF THIS CHANGE.
Is the Murtala Mohammed Airport part of the acclaimed AIRPORT TRANSFORMATION by GEJ?

Sai Buhari
Sai APC.

I wish PDP a painful long and stressful recovery.

It is clear anything JonaTAN touches turns to badluck.
The guy needs to go do proper cleansing. His hands are bloodied and cursed.

Reminds me of SOMEONE ON NAIRALAND. they say adegun then came back and say ade ogun mo.

So the person you've been abusing for 3years has been cloned and became a new being. No more Jezebels running his government again ba?

When you lack principle and objective, you ridicule yourself amd make yourself irresponsible.

Wondered why the GMB campaign is ahead? The answer is in the coordination and the FACT they.stick to the ISSUES affecting an average Nigerian.

How you ever seen the GMB campaign Org. react to mudslinging or the documentary on GMB and BAT. They just ignored it because reacting to it shows IT HIT HARD. FFK should learn, his reaction makes more people wants to know what he had said before, making him expose his azz more.

GboyegaD:
The fear over the card reader machine fire me is the reason why we should use it.

I feel the card reader technology will be the first amongst the many by INEC to improve the overall conduct of election in Nigeria. I look forward to electronic voting verifiable with Biometrics so Nigerians in diaspora being allowed to participate.

The PDP and GEJ says he is using technology to fight corruption but he is scared of using technology to fight electoral fraud and rigging.

berem:
Card readers must be used whether PDP like it or not!!

Sai Jega!!

There's no compromise on that, Thank God the Electoral Act of 2011 has given Jega so much powers over issues such as this.

One can see with all the failures all plans of the PDP to disrupt the process have encountered. From their YDP which they feel will be their masterstroke failing woefully to plot to remove Jega hitting the rocks before being hatched.

jaymichael:
A candidate in an examination (PDP) dictating the exam (elections) rules to the examiner (INEC), na for where that one dey happen?

Add the fact their candidate was the one who approved and paid for the thing they are seriously fighting against now.

It's clear he thought the APC can't match their strides or the power of incumbency he bears not knowing the real power belongs to the PEOPLE. They tot it will be business as usual not knowing Nigerians are tired and have decided to tAke their destinies in their hands.

kheart:
No going back on CARd reader

They are sponsoring some jobless and hungry youths to protest against the usage of PVC and Card readers across the country.

Why are they scared of it? It's obvious they want to cheat.

kestolove95:
If u want to spoil any pdp supporter day...just mention card reader

Never knew the thing scare them like the DAY OF JUDGEMENT.

They deceive themselves and their gullible supporters with hallucination of winning with a landslide but inwardly they are so scared that INEC won't allow them produce voodoo election figures like the 99.9% PDP recorded in the South South and South East in 2011.

Is there anyone out there who still think GEJ and PDP has a change of winning in a free fair and open contest on the 28th of march 2015?

Can't wait to be in the thick of it all.

CHAIRMAN of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Integrity Group, Senator Anietie Okon, has insisted that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must listen to the voice of reason and abandon its plan to use the smart card reader for the coming election.

He said in an interview in Abuja at the weekend that in view of the shoddy preparation by the electoral body, making use of the device was fraught with grave danger for the country.

Okon wondered why the INEC chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega, would insist on its use if he had no ulterior motive.

According to him, “particularly worrisome is the refusal by INEC and its chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to yield to common sense and reason, and to recognise the glaring pitfalls inherent in the card reading machine as well as the consequent confusion that is inevitably occasioned at the polling units arising either from the malfunctions of the device or deliberate mishandling of same.”


http://www.tribune.com.ng/news/news-headlines/item/31920-inec-must-abandon-planned-use-of-card-readers-for-polls-pdp-group

Pity JonaTANians in their usual foolishness hailed the move they never knew their principal was being played on and foolishly edged on in his mumuism.

Every Yoruba son or daughter knows a King bless with his irukere by placing it on your left and right shoulder.

Same thing happened in the palace of the AWUJALE to show those who called him a CHRISTIAN that he is not a spirit filled one.

JonaTAN is seen as a MUGU that must pay in the SW and he is sure paying infact in HARD CURRENCY.
HE WON'T WIN A SINGLE STATE IN THE SOUTH WEST.

freegaza:
They bombed themselves... They know the boko haram among them...No one screened them...All you need to be an idp is just to say it

"They bombed themselves" I thought I was exchanging views with someone who has some level of commonsense.

Why not commit suicide to drive home a point then come back tell us the experience.

If Your utterances is anything to go by, you're part of those or know those who hatched the plot to kill those innocent souls. If what the state government says doesn't make sense to you then you need your senses back from where you donated them.

After they've stayed in the camp for 4months and because they want to go home decide to bomb themselves up. That's your reasoning ba?

The leadership of the PDP in the state need to be arrested by the ICC for investigation into this massacre. They threatened it and have gone ahead to actualize it.