₦airaland Forum

TimeMachine2:
No no no, this is utter rubbish, just wait next year when Obi becomes president to see him construct world standard roads and not this nonsense.

mrvitalis:
This road reconstruction was not conceived by Tinubu administration
They didn’t award the contract
Tinubu government have not spend one kobo on this road yet taking credit

This is an MTN road done with a tax credit
Conceived and awarded by Buhari administration

Don’t get why Tinubu wants credit

voortrekker966:
In truth Tinubu tried in road rehabilitation in the south east. Making a south easterner works minister was purposeful and Umahi is living up to it. That doesn't however mean the people are not hungry.

anonimi:
The region indirectly supported the master strategist with their 100% rigged votes for naive son of the soil Obi.

LithiumBa3:
Seun I don't know why u allow this poll, which one is which infrastructure will be beneficiary to South East

Good road or Baby factory.... North that produces Almajiri what will u say about it

mrvitalis:
This road reconstruction was not conceived by Tinubu administration
They didn’t award the contract
Tinubu government have not spend one kobo on this road yet taking credit

This is an MTN road done with a tax credit
Conceived and awarded by Buhari administration

Don’t get why Tinubu wants credit

TimeManager:
The Federal Government has revealed that the elimination of the petrol subsidy under President Bola Tinubu has resulted in savings of over $84 billion, which are now being channelled into the construction and rehabilitation of 40 key road projects across the country over the past two years.

This was disclosed in a policy brief released by the National Orientation Agency (NOA), titled “Two Years Later: Key Benefits of Subsidy Removal,” and made available to journalists over the weekend in Abuja.

The report, which reviewed the outcomes of the subsidy removal since May 29, 2023, noted that the policy averted a looming economic crisis.

It also enabled the Tinubu administration to clear long-standing financial liabilities, increase capital investments, and support the financial stability of state governments.

https://businessday.ng/news/article/84bn-saved-from-petrol-subsidy-now-financing-40-key-roads-report/?amp

"I know of States that have received over 500 billion Naira from the Federal Government as palliative, but I have never received anything.

I think the reason I don't get it is because I'm not in APC.

-Dauda Lawal, Zamfara State Governor pic.twitter.com/QvfR8olibA

— Arewa Source (@Arewa_Source) February 17, 2026

NaijaRoyalty:
…Says Buhari doesn’t have my kind of money

However, Buhari doesn’t have the kind of money I can steal neither does he have the money I can collect. He doesn’t even have the money for Lagos votes. So, whatever I promise, it’s for real and is coming from my pocket. It’s not until I go to Alausa before I get money to give you.”

Addressing APC supporters on the need to deliver votes, Tinubu said handsome cash rewards await those who can deliver votes for the party.

He said he would not make mistakes of the past where people would collect money in advance and not deliver on election day.

Tinubu added, “Those of you that say you come to Bourdillon for mobilisation, it is mobilisation that we are doing here or don’t you understand? Definitely, if you know people in your neighbourhood, our members, how we used to do.

https://punchng.com/i-said-i-was-richer-than-osun-state-tinubu-admits/

dominique:
Was it not MTN that renovated this road? The government might have done finishing touches to the renovation but MTN conceived and started it.

dominique:
Was it not MTN that renovated this road? The government might have done finishing touches to the renovation but MTN conceived and started it.

simpleseyi:
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You go cry tire

greatiyk4u:
So where are the roads please?

voortrekker966:
Come to the south east. You'll see the roads.

Remember I said rehabilitation. I didn't say he built new roads.

That said, I reiterate that president Tinubu has done a lot in rehabilitation of south east roads. The Enugu/Onitsha expressway is a testimony. I'm not a Tinubu supporter by the way.

Openyamind111:
😂 those doings are why he’s being called master strategist.. to be fair with you that region has leaders that I personally admire, can you evaluate a renowned economist from that region with the one man who have nothing upstairs? 😂

InvertedHammer:
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It is by far better than Enugu.

500 gallons of water go for N20k. Multiply by 4 in a month, that's N80k. By extrapolation, that's N960k in a year on water alone. Why? Because the governor believes that clean and accessible water is the least of his worries. Yet they prance around like Enugu is Abuja even though the red muddy soil will have residents looking like they went tomb-raiding at night.

But then, considering where it was before Peter Mba, one can understand the accolades being that he moved the town from 16th Century to 17th Century but not anywhere near 20th Century. 21st Century is a stretch. EEDC? The worst of all.

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fergie001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5v-F81hNTs

The Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources in Lagos State, Mahmood Adegbite, has said that people drilling borehole in the Lekki axis of the state is probably drinking ‘’shit water.”

While speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, Adegbite noted that contaminated boreholes in Lekki pose health risk and added that treatment of waste water would eradicate any form of disease that may arise from it.

He said, “On waste water treatment, I will say that everyone digging borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘shit water.’

https://punchng.com/video-everyone-digging-borehole-in-lekki-is-probably-drinking-shit-water-lagos-govt/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMABDJjbGNrAwAEK2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEewOd7728C0FSKQJNWar4yKRxNpNKt1owSlw47y57FKAux2QxvQL24Iu18rtw_aem_3kB5Sd2GjpdqjN6zFuIs7w

chinchum:
The Tax credit in road construction is simply govt not collecting the amount of tax MTN owes the govt directly, but asking them to pay it to the contractor.

If a man owes me money and i ask he use that debt he owes me to pay directly a car dealer i just financed a car with, then it means the debtor bought my car?. what a weak logic from a comment above.

mrvitalis:
This road reconstruction was not conceived by Tinubu administration
They didn’t award the contract
Tinubu government have not spend one kobo on this road yet taking credit

This is an MTN road done with a tax credit
Conceived and awarded by Buhari administration

Don’t get why Tinubu wants credit

mrvitalis:
This road reconstruction was not conceived by Tinubu administration
They didn’t award the contract
Tinubu government have not spend one kobo on this road yet taking credit

This is an MTN road done with a tax credit
Conceived and awarded by Buhari administration

Don’t get why Tinubu wants credit

Tenses:
You just choose to hear what you want to hear.

They all said it was Buhari initiative but ronus said it's tinubu's.

mrvitalis:
Name one road APC started n finished in south east

anonimi:
Can you please open ya mind and let us know why your master strategist has failed to make ordinary water available to Lagos residents after 27 years of increasing tax burden on the people to grow their budget 100 times, thereby setting up a bad example to other states in this basic government utility provision

The federal government is not responsible for water supply in cities and towns. This is the responsibility of states.


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tollyboy5:
It’s not about who started it. It’s about who continued it and will complete it.

These things are common sense bro!

anonimi:
Can you please open ya mind and let us know why your master strategist has failed to make ordinary water available to Lagos residents after 27 years of increasing tax burden on the people to grow their budget 100 times, thereby setting up a bad example to other states in this basic government utility provision

The federal government is not responsible for water supply in cities and towns. This is the responsibility of states.

Parachoko:
Some Useless Things want our roads to remain in terrible shape, so that they will have something to be Wailing about

Tenses:
You are very rigid maybe your bias is towards tinubu

Do a government come on board and cancel a contract that is almost finished?

For many years this was the fate of Ndigbo before President Tinubu 👇😳🙆

This Enugu-Onitsha Road was impassable but today the story has change.

Tinubu has in many ways proven himself as the best President ever. pic.twitter.com/xK9yecKIa0

— A. Ayofe (@abdullahayofel) July 15, 2026

dequir:
You post waters everywhere, and you are whining for additional water, when you are not a water spirit.

Splashme:
The first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, on Tuesday, said that the cancellation of the Lagos metroline project in 1985 was a major mistake and disservice to many Nigerians.

Jakande spoke in Lagos during the launch of a book which chronicled his life in politics and journalism.

The book, entitled, ‘Jakande: Leadership in Action’ is written by Dr. Bola Olaosebikan, who told the audience at the event that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was not responsible for the cancellation of the project.

Jakande said, “Reflecting on the metroline project, I think it is a major disservice to many Nigerians. Imagine how many people would have benefitted. It would have made life easier and changed the face of transport in Lagos. Whoever cancelled it or gave the advice towards its cancellation didn’t do right.”

The former governor asked Nigerians not to vote for unserious leaders in the coming polls, saying the elections presented Nigerians with a good opportunity that should not be squandered.

Expressing the hope that Nigeria would soon overcome its developmental challenges, Jakande said hope would be actualised faster if credible people emerged as leaders in the next dispensation.

He said, “This book comes at a very auspicious time in Nigeria’s history as we need leaders who can act. We need leaders who would not compromise the standards of good governance. God has blessed this nation the most in Africa, although we have not reached where we should be; with the right leaders, Nigeria would overcome its challenges.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/cancelling-metroline-a-major-mistake-jakande/

eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.

anonimi:
Was Jakande a water spirit when he added so many litres of water to the state’s supply and increased coverage to more parts of the state

Do you know how many times the UPN progressive governor increased tax burden on people to grow the budget by how many times?


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anonimi:
Can you please open ya mind and let us know why your master strategist has failed to make ordinary water available to Lagos residents after 27 years of increasing tax burden on the people to grow their budget 100 times, thereby setting up a bad example to other states in this basic government utility provision

The federal government is not responsible for water supply in cities and towns. This is the responsibility of states.


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greatiyk4u:
The road was in perfect shape during PDP era and regular rehabilitation was carried out by FERMA on the road and That was when FERMA was still active and effective

This same road, Peter Obi built a section of it at Onitsha and Awaka and they are still standing till date