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Governor Peter Obi pretends to be an ordinary man by not moving with bodyguards and all that. He is a wise man, he knows an average Nigerian would consider him a saint for that alone. Now he is whipping up public sentiments against Lagos State’s Governor Tunde Fashola. The reason is simple, someone like Governor Peter Obi would NEVER dare compete with Governor Fashola on the altar of performance. Governor’s Obi’s failings in Anambra will be his undoing. Elections are coming so he needs a distraction.

If he cannot settle his issues with Governor Fashola man-to-man or government-to-government, does he think President Jonathan would cane the Lagos State Governor because he has chosen to be a crying baby over a matter they could both have dealt with? Some men need to grow balls. May be the Lagos State Government was wrong – and I think they were – , may be they had their reasons but writing the President without even starting a conversation with the Lagos State Government amounts to a need for someone to man up.

You don’t have to always report to the teacher just because you have issues with your peers. Those making this an ethnic issue have issues with their mental view of the world. They are the ones that continue to see the world only through their parochial village-view.

Where were they when people were relocated to Ondo, Oyo and other South-Western states? Until we are ready to debate this as Nigerians, those throwing the ethnic card must be reminded they have lost the debate already. Who made it a Northern issue when Northerners were relocated? Or do you think only those sent to Anambra were relocated by the Lagos State Government?

http://omojuwa.com/2013/08/lagos-relocation-saga-governor-obi-needs-to-grow-some-balls-omojuwa/

P.Stacks:
Don't talk like that.. People flock into lagos everyday from every part of the country where other state govt and federal govt has failed and heap their failure on Fashola a tiny small Lagos with over capacity of over 15million people.. Zimabawe where Mugabage wants to kill himself over is not upto the population ment for Fashola to handle. If for anything he's handling the Population of a country with Allocations of a State. Its not done anywhere in the world where 15 million would over stretch infrastructure built for not more than 5million..

Fashola is Really Trying but Water done pass Garri. I feel for him, I feel for the street hawkers I feel for Nigeria.. Koni Baje.

You have spoken well, well said.

Imanuelle: ***singing
faya faya
in our contiri
give me pulenty water
make I kuwenchi faya. ..

welcome daddy showkey welcome x6

Oriyomi!!!

born9ice: what is the update now?

I can still see smoke from my house in festac right now.
10:48pm

jhydebaba: Tuition is free but EDUCATION is not free.
U pay illegal monies before gaining admission and also some regular monies like 100/200 naira without which u cannot stay in government schools. The government made it free but the admin and teachers made it otherwise, that's why I asked if you are a learner.

That is exactly my point, thanks for shooting yourself in the foot

jhydebaba: Are u a learner

do they pay tuition?

Education is free in Lagos up till secondary level

anonimi: You actually made a good point.
Can we expect you to give them much more and ask the family to return the 500k to Daily Need

BTW, I thought Fashola being the "best ever administrator" would guarantee free and COMPULSORY education for ALL children in Lagos state.
I guess it says a lot about the CREDIBILITY of his expressed wish to be a teacher after 2015 in his VAIN attempt to demonstrate the high value he places on education.

https://www.nairaland.com/1354532/ll-teacher-after-2015-gov

HYPOCRITES!!!

When will that be? After fraudsters would have swindled enough with his name?

braine: He'll join when the time comes.

Some people have been posing as the President/Chief Executive of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, on the two popular social networking sites, Twitter and Facebook.

Many fans of the richest man in Africa are eager to meet him on social media, but they are deceived into believing that they are already communicating with him on the micro-blogging service.

Although the Dangote Group has an account on the social service via the handle, @DangoteGroup, none of the handles is being used by the mogul.

For instance, one of the Twitter handles bearing Dangote’s name is @AalikoDangote. The person behind the handle simply describes him/her self on the service thus: “The word ‘impossible,’ is NOT in my dictionary! Follow me (on Twitter) and I’ll show you the way to success.’’

When a Twitter user, who uses the handle @chiomaa_challenged the impostor on the social service some weeks ago, the fraudster says, “I don’t have to make you believe anything.. Happy New Month & Have a nice day!’’

Those impersonating Dangote on Facebook may be having fun engaging in fraudulent activities as a handful of lovers of the industrialist visit the various fake accounts in search of jobs.

On one of the fake accounts, Aliyu Kawu posted, “Sir, my dream in life is to work with Dangote Group and since 1998 to 2012, I have attended several interviews with the company. Please, help me!

Another Nigerian on a different fake Facebook account says, “I’m a biochemist, I want to use this medium to say that if an opportunity is given, I will improvise a new technique that will ensure the production of high quality sugar with a low cost.’’

However, some billionaires in the stature of Dangote around the world, whose identities are being faked, now appreciate the need to embrace the new media.

For instance, the fourth richest man in the world, Warren Buffet, who is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Berkshire Hathaway, an American multinational conglomerate holding company, shamed dozens of impostors two months ago when he claimed a spot on Twitter.

The 82-year-old had once professed an aversion to technology with a reported admittance that he didn’t know how to check his voicemail, now tweets via @WarrenBuffett.

When he joined the service he said in a post, “Warren is in the house.’’

Buffet’s second and last tweet was on an article published on cnn.com on why he believes women are key to America’s prosperity.

Although Buffett has yet to become a regular and sustained user of the micro-blogging service as only two tweets could be credited to him on the social service, he has moved to curtail significantly the activities of impostors.

People who have genuine activities to do with him on social media can reach him directly on his verified handle. He currently has over 500,000 followers on the social network.

Other billionaire converts to the service are American business magnate, Bill Gates, and Chairman and CEO, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch.

Bill Gates has since been using the platform to propagate the work of his foundation and his sundry areas of interests. As if forming a billionaire clique on Twitter, when Buffet joined the social network, Gates retweeted his first tweet to millions of his followers.

Media mogul, Murdoch, also joined Twitter in January 2012 at the age of 80, with the Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey himself, announcing on the social service: “With his own voice, in his own way, @RupertMurdoch is now on Twitter.”

If there’s any well-known African businessman who should be on Twitter, it’s probably Dangote. Like many of his impostors have been doing; posting great and concise inspirational quotes on the social service, could encourage the younger generation who continue to yearn to interact and learn one or two secrets of his success on social media.

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http://omojuwa.com/2013/07/dangotes-billionaire-colleagues-waiting-for-him-on-twitter-by-temitayo-famutimi/

Last week, the National Teachers’ Institute announced that about 80 per cent of teachers in Northern Nigeria were not qualified to teach. Just before that, the Federal Ministry of Education had announced the cut-off marks for admission into the Federal Government Colleges, known as Unity Schools, with the shocking piece of information that while the cut-off mark was as high as 139 for a Southern state like Anambra, it was as low as two, yes two, (out of a possible 200 marks) for pupils of a Northern state like Yobe.

According to the Federal Character Commission, “In 1954 when Nigeria opted for a federal form of government, the concept of Quota System as a policy was adopted in the recruitment of persons into the officers’ corps of the armed forces and the police as well as in admissions into educational institutions,” to promote a fair representation and close the existing disparities among the parts of the nation. On the surface, it is a good idea, because it ensures that no single area gets into federal establishments to the detriment of other areas.

However, over the decades, it has dealt a heavy blow on the psyche of Northern Nigeria. Man is naturally competitive. Man performs at his peak in times of difficulty: the maxim “necessity is the mother of invention” captures it. The collapse of communism bears testimony to this. Remove competition among people, provide amenities for them equally, reward them equally — no matter their individual contributions — and the will to excel evaporates. Even though the Federal Character policy was established with good intentions, those who created it and those who still support its continuance are indirectly not wishing the North well.

In the 2007 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, Imo State produced more candidates seeking admission into the universities than all the 19 Northern states put together. That is not just shocking but dangerous. The top five states with the highest number of candidates were Southern states. They are as follows: Imo 93,065; Anambra 64,689; Delta 61,580; Edo 57,754; Akwa Ibom 47,928; while the lowest five states were Northern states as follows: Sokoto 3,925; Taraba 3,832; Zamfara 2,904; Jigawa 2,541; and Yobe 2,516.

The trend remains virtually the same year after year. For example, last year, the top three states were Imo (123,865 candidates); Delta (88,876); and Anambra (71,272); while the last three states were Northern states.

Last month, UNESCO released a report that ranked Nigeria as the country with the most number of children out of school: a whopping 10.5 million – the population of Portugal! No doubt, a larger proportion of these children would be from the North. Some blame the almajiri system for this. It is a system that was created to offer young boys the opportunity of being groomed and tutored by a religious leader, so as to grow into exemplary members of society. But it has gone awry, making these young boys roam the streets begging, with nobody to direct them, and then growing up into angry youths that can be used to cause mayhem at the drop of a hat.

Right from birth, the Northern child is disadvantaged. While his Southern counterpart grows up attending school, the Northern child does not. Through education and entrepreneurship, the Southern youth grows up with more opportunities in life. He knows that he can only succeed in life through excellence. That drive makes a southerner successful and he trains his children in good schools, instilling self-reliance and competitiveness in them, thereby improving the chances of the children even succeeding more than him. The average Yoruba person does not want an Igbo person to beat him in any field of human endeavour and vice versa; that spurs both sides to excellence. The average Urhobo person, Efik person or Bini person does not want an Igbo person, or Yoruba person or Ibibio or Ijaw to beat him. So there is healthy rivalry among them, which leads to excellence and success.

On the contrary, with no education, no artisanal skills and lack of competitive spirit, the Northern child grows up with extremely low chances of success. He cannot secure a decent job; he cannot even offer specialised services of an artisan; he is afraid to start off a small-scale business because he virtually has nobody to understudy. The only available job is the most difficult and yet the least remunerated: the work of a labourer. He supplies water in 25-litre kegs to people who live on the fourth floors with no elevators for N50 per keg. He uses a wheelbarrow or tub to move sand and concrete at construction sites; he stays around markets to help those who have bought heavy items like tubers of yam and bags of rice to move these items from deep inside the market to their vehicles or even home. And for all this hard labour, he gets paid pittance.

As he renders this poorly paid service to people, does anybody expect him to be happy with the successful people around him? It is impossible.

The Northerner is not less intelligent than his Southern counterpart, neither is he weaker or less creative. How many people can beat the business acumen and creativity of Alhaji Aliko Dangote, or the automobile design ingenuity of Jelani Aliyu, or the academic intelligence of Nasir el-Rufai, or the resoluteness of Col. Abubakar Umar and Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, or the football skills of Tijani Babangida and Daniel Amokachi, or the musical talent of Innocent Tuface Idibia, or the organisational and leadership abilities of Sir Ahmadu Bello?

Some would claim that Islam is the reason for the North’s poor embrace of education. If that were so, why is a predominantly Christian state like Taraba found among the states with the lowest literacy rate? Saudi Arabia, the headquarters of Islam, is very education-focused with a literacy rate of 85 per cent, ranking 116th of 194 countries. Indonesia, the most populated Muslim country in the world, is education-savvy with 92 per cent literacy rate. The United Arab Emirates has 90 per cent literacy rate. Nigeria has 72 per cent literacy rate, but should actually be in the 90s.

The danger in having the North lag behind is that Nigeria has to always move at the pace of the North or put appropriately, lag behind with it. Nigeria is a unit and cannot move and leave some parts behind. Again, the more the South moves ahead of the North, the more conflicts will arise between the North and the South. While the North will feel that the South is cornering the joint resources of the nation, the South will feel the North is pulling it backwards.

One other factor that has worked against the North is its long years of ruling the country. There is a form of complacency that comes from the feeling of “We are in charge.” At such periods, you let your guards down; you don’t complain so as not to overheat the administration of your “kinsman”. But when your brother is not in charge, you feel left out and thereby complain the loudest of marginalisation. Those in charge bend backwards to satisfy you with different projects. The North should de-emphasise its focus on the presidency. Forty years of Northern presidency – civilian or military – have not offered the North any tangible advantage.

Those who hate the truth would rise in righteous anger, seeing this treatise as the work of an enemy rather than digesting the hard truth and finding solutions to a worsening problem. And those who love ethnic bashing will quickly see it as advantage to start shooting at the North. But the truth is that the progress of the North will serve both the interest of the North and South.

There should be a two-way approach to this problem. The North should set up a 20-year target to catch up with the South in education and entrepreneurship. The Northern states must make it an offence for any parent to deny their child education. The state governors and local government chairmen need to start a programme of sending as many Northern children as possible to Southern states for their secondary and tertiary education. The new Northern youths need to leave their comfort zone: compete with their Southern counterparts, interact with them and imbibe some of the ways of the Southern people.

The second aspect concerns uneducated youths who may no longer want to go to school. Lack of education is no impediment to success. The Northern governors and local council chairmen should start an intensive skills acquisition programme for the youths. A labourer cannot train another, neither can he rise much in life if he continues as an unskilled labourer. But someone who has learnt masonry, tiling, sewing, vehicle repairing, generator repairing, painting, plumbing, etc, can grow to a level where he will have apprentices. Massive construction takes place non-stop across the federation. Nigerians have an unquenchable appetite for cars and fashion. So, they need these services. That way, the number of skilled workers increases; the earning power of the people increases; and such people can afford a better life for their children, gradually changing the face of their community.

Quota system or federal character is derogatory and has worsened things for the North. Every Northerner who loves the North must tell Nigeria to stop insulting the North with this federal character bait. The North must refuse anything offered it on a platter: it is either a Greek gift or a poisoned chalice. The North should save itself by rejecting this insulting Unity Schools’ cut-off marks that cut it off from development and modernity.

http://omojuwa.com/2013/07/the-harm-nigeria-does-to-the-north-azuka-onwuka/

The new Iya Oloja-General (market leader), Mrs. Sade Tinubu-Ojo, has denied being imposed on market women and men as late Abibatu Mogaji’s successor by her father, a former governor of Lagos State and National Leader, Action Congress of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu.

Mogaji, who died recently, was Tinubu’s mother.

While inaugurating a new tomato section of the Mile 12 Food Market on Friday, Tinubu-Ojo said her appointment was not political.

She said, “I was never imposed. It is impossible for anybody to impose anyone on traders. Traders are not politicians. Although we all are political animals, this is not a political office where anyone can be imposed. Besides, before my grandmother died, she gave me the mantle. It was the Iya Oloja before her, late Pele Wura, that appointed her (Mogaji) as the Iya Oloja. I learnt she was about my age then.

“I didn’t even have the idea that this is the responsibility that my grandma wanted to bestow on me, when she said I should go and lay the (market) board for her. I had my ambition but I believe this is the will of God for my life. Even if my grandmother chose me for this position, there would be trouble if God has not said yes to it.”

She urged traders to cooperate with the government to allow rapid development, adding that it was their joint efforts that could bring about development in the country.

Tinubu-Ojo urged them to be responsible to the society, so that the government could also attend to their needs.

Tinubu-Ojo said, “If we want government to provide amenities for us in the markets, then we also should also pay our taxes as this is a means of generating funds for government. I am not usually happy whenever a market is shut down. I plead with everyone to always observe environmental sanitation in the market in order to avoid such occurrences.

“More so, it is rainy season and there is usually flood in the area. To avoid flooding, we should clean our surroundings and make sure everything is in order. By so doing, we would encourage the government to attend to our needs.”

For whoever wants to know why inefficiency is the lot of the Nigeria Police, the starting point may be to closely watch the state of things at police stations across the country. Apart from the poor physical state of many of them, they are largely run on charity.

By the way, how much should a police station, which ought to be always battle-ready in all ramifications, since security problems can arise any time, have in its coffer at every point in time? Well, investigations shows that some of the police stations in Nigeria get as low as N35,000 as allocation from the force headquarters per quarter.

This is the reason why in all the states of the federation, many police stations rely on philanthropic gestures from members of their host communities and proceeds of bribery to function effectively. And that is why inscriptions such as ‘Donated by Welders Association’, ‘Community Development Association’ are constant features on many items and facilities found in many police stations in the country.

From rehabilitation of buildings, to fuelling of patrol vans and generators that serve the stations, many Divisional Police Officers appear to have been turned into beggars of some sort.

Besides, Nigerians who have at one time or the other had a reason to report an incident at a police station are no longer new to the demands from the policeman on duty, asking them to part with sums between N500 and N1, 000 before their statement can be taken.

Even after taking such statements and there is a need to make an arrest of those reported, the policeman on duty asks the complainant to drop another N2, 000 to fuel the police patrol vehicle.

A cross section of DPOs who spoke to Punch correspondent on the condition of anonymity say the development poses a dilemma and, indeed, a threat to the operations of the security agents.

Besides, despite the Inspector-General of Police’s order outlawing police check-points on highways, policemen are still occasionally sighted at some strategic highways across the country, mounting roadblocks and extorting money from the motoring public.

The reasons why this development has continued to be a regular feature of policing in the country, according to men and senior officers of the police, is as a result of the paltry sum of money being allocated to run police stations.

They declare that many of them run the affairs of police stations from the proceeds of bribes collected by men who go on regular patrols as well as philanthropic gestures of members of the public.

But a new twist to this development is that criminals are joining other law abiding citizens to contribute to the running of police stations in the country.

A DPO serving in the Ogun State Police Command explains that depending on members of the public for effective policing is not only risky but also against the principles of policing. Describing the majority of such philanthropic gestures as a Greek gift, the senior police officer says experience has shown that many of these donors usually have skeletons in their cupboards.

Butressing his argument with what transpired in his area of jurisdiction, he explains that an hotelier who had taken up the responsibility of paying for the monthly subscription of the DSTV in the police station was, initially unknown to him, doing so as a cover for his child abuse activities in his hotel.

He says, “Unknown to us, this hotelier was engaging in commercial sexual exploitation of juveniles in the hotel. We were shocked to learn about this and initially it was very hard for us to take a decision due to the support he had been rendering to the police station.

“My men didn’t have the gut to take actions because they were unsure if they had the moral right to arrest a staunch supporter of the station. My men had to await my arrival at the station before a decision to raid the hotel had to be taken.

“Expectedly, the subscription for the DSTV stopped and, ever since, I foot the bill from my purse whenever I have enough money to spare.’’

Investigations by our correspondent reveal that police stations receive quarterly allocations from state commands, after the latter would have got reimbursements from the Force Headquarters, Abuja.

A senior police source at the Ogun State Police Command headquarters in Abeokuta also confided to a Punch correspondent that the quarterly allocation the command receives from the Force Headquarters fluctuates between N450, 000 and N650, 000.

This amount, it was gathered, is meant for catering for the needs of the 46 police stations and the five area commands in the state for three months. The amount, it was learnt, is not distributed equally among the police stations as criteria such as the size of the police station and the crime wave in the station’s area of jurisdiction were being used to determine how much each station receives.

A Divisional Police Officer in the Command, who claims to be receiving one of the highest quarterly allocations, says his division receives between N35, 000 and N40, 000 every three months.

This amount, according to him, is meant to cover fuelling of patrol vehicles, generators, stationeries, communication, and other expenses incurred by the police station during the three-month period.

The DPO, who also pleads anonymity because he is not in a position to speak to the press, explains that the allocation for a typical quarter is not even enough to fuel the patrol vehicles in the station for three days, let alone covering the whole expenses for three months.

He says, “It is very difficult to run a police station as a DPO without your men engaging in corrupt practices. How do you run a police station without funds? To describe the allocations we get quarterly as inadequate is to say the least.

“I get less than N40,000 to cater for my running costs quarterly, and, as a matter of fact, to run a truly motorised patrol, for instance, you will need about 40 litres of petrol in 24 hours for a patrol van and this amounts to N3, 840 daily. In this division, we have four patrol vehicles and this makes it N15, 360 daily.

“If we decide to spend the allocation only on petrol, the money wouldn’t last more than three days. So, where do we get the money to make up for the huge shortfalls? Am I in the position to tell policemen who incessantly complain of poor salaries to donate money to run the affairs of the station?”

In Lagos, the Lagos State Security Trust Fund, a public-private partnership established by law in 2007, has been useful in this regard. The LSSTF intervention ranges from acquisition of police equipment, purchasing of patrol vehicles and their maintenance.

However, a senior police officer in the state, explains that patrol vehicles whose maintenance bill is footed by the LSSTF are those attached to the Rapid Response Squad, noting that other vehicles in police divisions are left in care of DPOs to maintain from the quarterly allocation.

The police officer explains that the quarterly allocation given to police stations in the state is between N45, 000 and N80, 000, depending on the size of the police station and the crime wave in the area the station is situated.

He adds, “Police funding is a problematic issue and there is no way the police will perform magic with the way we are being funded. For my division, I get an allocation of N45, 000 quarterly. Just tell me what that money can cover out of the needs of the station for a total of 90 days?.

“Apart from fuelling of patrol vehicles and generators to power the police station, we incur expenses on stationeries. This is especially because the police are not ICT-compliant. As a result, we often beg for assistance from members of the public.’’

According to investigations, DPOs are usually in the habit of holding save-our-souls meeting with the members of the community in their jurisdiction to solicit for help to run the affairs of the station.

In such meetings, it was gathered, community development associations, owners of small businesses, among others, usually take up one or two responsibilities of catering for the needs of such police stations.

One of the DPOs in Lagos State Police Command told our correspondent that when he assumed office, in one of such meetings, he begged the stakeholders in the community who raised money to buy blocks, pay for the labour costs as well as foot the bill for fixing a gate around the station’s fence.

He says, “For you to succeed as a DPO there is no way you won’t live your life as if you are a beggar because money won’t be forthcoming from the top to make ends meet. And who are you to ask questions? When you are invited to a meeting with your boss, maybe at the Area Commander or Commissioner of Police, and issues bordering on finance come up, the best you can do is to say ‘yes sir, I’ll manage, sir.

“When I resumed at my duty post I specifically made the areas of needs of the station known to the various stakeholders in the community. At the end of the day, some private citizens and managers of firms were the ones who erected the fence of the station.”

He adds that after much persuasion, two managers of the petrol stations in the area had been providing the station with 50 litres of petrol per week. The Officer in Charge of Patrol and Guard goes around taking delivery of the fuel every Monday.

“And when the fuel finishes, the boys know how to go about getting the patrol vehicle refuelled because the work has to be done,” he adds.

A source in Akwa Ibom State Police Command explains that the situation is not different from other state commands. He however notes that the local government chairmen provide some monthly allowances to support police stations in their domains.

Also, a police source adds that the case of many states in the northern part of the country is usually worsened by the presence of many police posts under police divisions.

Another source at the Police Force Headquarters says the Police Public Relations Officers in the various state commands are worse off as their offices are not entitled to any allocations from the Force Headquarters.

The source adds that the PPROs in the various commands live at the mercy of the commissioners of police in their respective states.

The source notes, “The IG is just trying to work around something and find a way of including that office in the scheme of things to function appropriately. What about officers who get transferred to new police commands? The allowance they are entitled to in lieu of accommodation at that new desk for 30 days is not often even paid.

“Nigerian police officers and men are suffering in silence and yet we are expected to perform some magic. There are no two ways to it: The Federal Government and the National Assembly should commit more funds to the police for effective policing of the country.’’

When contacted, the acting Force Public Relations Officer, Mr. Frank Mba, a Chief Superintendent of Police, confirmed the plight of the DPOs across the country.

According to him, the challenges are not peculiar to one particular state stressing that the state of police stations across the country are pathetic.

He adds that the Force Headquarters is constrained and cannot fund the various police divisions, area commands and state commands appropriately because, “we cannot give what we don’t have.’’

He adds that the current challenges being faced by the police predate the era of the current Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar. But he notes that the Federal Government is working hard to change the fortune of the Nigeria Police.

He says, “The Federal Government has expressed very strong determination to change the trend. There is also an ongoing debate on police reforms and funding and some of these challenges, I believe, will be tackled.

“Besides, the current management team is placing professionalism of the administration of the finance of the Nigeria Police Force in the front burner to manage the resources available to us. That is why we now have officers who have degrees in disciplines such as Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Administration and other closely related fields being transferred to work in the finance and budget units of the police.’’

Mba says donations in cash and kind to the police are not peculiar to the Nigeria Police. He notes , “Private citizens and companies even in the United States and United Kingdom do so as part of their corporate social responsibility.’’

But Mba notes that DPOs owe it a duty to conduct background checks on those individuals and firms making such donations to the police, warning that those who fail to do so would be ‘’arrested.’’

He adds, “The IGP is not in a position to monitor donations being given to police stations. It is the responsibility of the DPO concerned to conduct background checks such that it will be ascertained that such donations are not Greek gifts.

“A DPO holds a strong and very important office as the police station is the foundation upon which effective policing work is built upon. Any DPO who fails to conduct such checks is acting irresponsibly and would be arrested.’’

Mba advises officers and men of the Nigeria Police to do everything “humanly possible,” to do the job well despite the “challenges and constraints”.

The information might not be recent but does it change the fact that it is the truth

Sincere 9gerian: October 1 Bombing: Henry Okah Insists Jonathan Masterminded Bomb Attacks

Submitted by LEADERSHIP EDITORS on May 3, 2012 - 5:42am

Imported User:
AHURAKA ISAH, GEORGE AGBA

Mr. Henry Okah who is standing trial in South African magistrate court, yesterday, told the court that President Goodluck Jonathan and his aides organized the October 1, 2010...

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That report was written in May 2012 but we are now in July 2013 for goodness sake. It seems regurgitation of STALE and DECOMPOSED reports is the latest from the bag of tricks of online vultures. Desperation has surely crept in, all in attempt to resurrect the dying APC project. But the degree of shamelessness is just appalling.

tellwsdom: Oh, she now sings fuji ??

dry

All that my mentor accused Buhari of, I can't see corruption anywhere and that is what is dragging us back as a country

With suffering and smiling, we are truly happy

There's a PSP operator for my area in festac and they come every Tuesday. on these days people bring out their waste to dispose and the fee is just 300 a month but people have refused to pay and over the years has accumulated with some flats owing up to 9 thousand naira. some will lie that they aren't always at home but the truth is most of them drop their refuse where those PSP guys will find and pick it.
This is How LAWMA is faring in my area through their accredited PSP operator

#BreakingNEWS In addition,Dr. Olajide Idris, Honourable Commissioner for Health, Lagos State also assigned an ambulance to this cause.

Also an ambulance was donated to the cause

#BreakingNEWS Dr. Olajide Idris, Honourable Commissioner for Health, Lagos State has donated FREE DIALYSIS TREATMENT to help OJB.

https://twitter.com/mr_nomoreloss/status/350605894884655105
Nomoreloss tweeted this some hours ago

KayEnn: This boy though...it's his time. But while enjoying his luxury, he shouldn't forget OJB. OJB might not have done nafing for him but for charity sake, he should please do sumfing. I'm happy for the lad.

OJB m made his first album when he was just 11, if it is true that he just bought another Porsche then I'm

tpia@:
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3643/3329170006_e0be64187d_z.jpg?zz=1

cabbage and celery, i think.

Really need where I can get celery around festac/amuwo to complete my Joe Kross juice fast recipe

resurrectn: try putting foods I cn readily get in 9ja okay

that's the challenge, We can't get most of them here

hardknockbroda: Festac town belongs to the Federal government,a property of the Federal Housing Authority (F.H.A)

These roads were built over 35 yrs ago (1977) and were not maintained at all until recently when the LG and Lagos public works fixed some parts which had little or no effect cos as one pot hole is being fixed five more are opening up beside it.

The LG can't fix all d roads in FESTAC (over 100 roads) and festac is not the only area under AMUWO ODOFIN Lg. Other areas need attention also

What needs to be done is a total rehabilitation or if possible reconstruction of all these "expired" roads and to achieve this, there should be a kind of collaboration btw the F.H.A and the state govt.

I think it will be best if the F.H.A just handed over the estate to Lagos state.

Well said

FSU: I hear Fasola is fixing the Festac Grammar school (for Igbos). Don't worry he will soon fix these bad Festac roads for Igbos.

Lie, I'm an alumni of the school and it is in a bad state especially the junior school

LoveKing: @nikkygal

thanks. but whats its traditional name?

And anywhere one can get in Lagos?