₦airaland Forum

tupacshakur:
Wetin you go do, toothless Bulldog? You wan die?
Do you realize your post is an attempt to derail this beautiful thread.

Aareonakakanfo:
Abeg abeg leave the red mud mawffugh

He has been here before and we handled it well

Report the derailers everyone plus the one who came before him to cancel Ilekehd's posts

The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has disclosed that the development of rural areas in the state would be the priority of the state government in 2016.
The governor also revealed that the state has lost over 60 per cent of the statutory allocation due to her because of the financial meltdown being experienced in the country.
Amosun said the decision to prioritise the rural area is because of the realisation that the bulk of the people of the state reside in the rural areas as well as the need to open up the places.
The governor spoke on Tuesday at the Town Hall meeting with stakeholders on the 2016 budget.
Senator Amosun disclosed that because of the onerous importance of the task of developing the rural areas of the state, he has saddled his Deputy, Yetunde Onanuga, with the task of fixing all the rural roads and rural infrastructure.
The governor, who promised that the new policy thrust of the 2016 budget would be vigorously pursued, however, lamented the massive drop in the revenue of the state.
According to him: “What we receive in Ogun State has dropped considerably.
“In fact, our allocation coming from Abuja has dropped by as much as 60 per cent.
“It is so bad.
“When we came in, we were collecting between N3.5 billion and N4.8 billion in a month, but with the recent slump in the price of oil in the international market, the money coming to us has slumped.
“This last month, we collected just N1.3 billion and our wage bill is in the excess of N7 billion in a month.
“How do we do it?
“We have to enthrone prudent financial management.”

[size=14pt]The governor announced that no new roads would be awarded in 2016, saying: “We won’t award contract for any new road in 2016.
“We will only complete the roads that are presently under construction across the state.”[/size]

Governor Amosun also told the audience that Ogun State will be 40 years in February 2016, adding: “We will be commissioning 40 projects across the state.
“Our leader, President Muhammadu Buhari, would be coming to our state to commission the projects.
“We will be making it real celebration because our state is now 40 years.”
The governor also decried the refusal of landlords to re-connect their homes with public water supply in the state.
He hinted of government’s plans to ensure that all landlords re-connect to public water.
Senator Amosun equally explained that indigenes have snubbed all efforts to reconnect to the public water after the reconstruction of the roads that passed their areas.
He said: “We are determined to ensure that that is reversed.
“We observed that people take jerry cans to public taps.
“We will soon discourage that because we will soon be installing meters on those public water taps and ensure landlords reconnect to public water mains.”
Earlier in her own speech, the Commissioner for Budget and Planning, Adenrele Adesina, noted that the event was to aggregate the opinion of the public on what they wanted to be included in the 2016 budget.
Present at the event were the Deputy Governor; the Olu of Ilaro and the Paramount ruler of Yewaland, HRM Kehinde Olugbenle; the Secretary to the State Government, Barrister Taiwo Adeoluwa, among others.

tupacshakur:
Aare baba, you should know I love engaging 'em Igbos.

Aareonakakanfo:
Yeah but you know engaging them here isn't the way to go

That will derail the thread

IlekeHD:
So StBlack is back too?

Always thought the dude was superstar1 or oduastates.

LAGOS — Former Governor of Ogun State, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s allocation of key ministerial portfolios to Yoruba extraction as a big challenge, insisting that highest level of performance is expected from them.
Olusegun Osoba

Olusegun Osoba

Osoba, in an interview with Vanguard in Lagos, said President Buhari was a leader known for delegating duties on trust, and contended that the performance of the Yoruba ministers in the Buhari’s regime would be used to measure the future of South-West and Yoruba race in the politics of Nigeria.

The veteran journalist was optimistic that the President’s concentration of three major ministries central to infrastructural development and economic growth in the hands of former Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola indicated that Nigeria was now serious about real and visible governance.

Osoba, however, advocated for collaboration between Fashola as Minister of Power, Works and Housing, and former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation, overseeing the railways, maritime, and aviation, for Nigeria to get the best.

According to him, “as one of the leaders of Yoruba race, and as an elder statesman of Yoruba extraction, I will say that President Buhari has thrown a big challenge, a gargantuan one, to the Yoruba nation by the appointment of ministers. I do not want to be sectional. I will only analyze those who are party members.

“The success of Fashola will be a measure for the future of South-West and Yoruba in the politics of this nation. I believe that we must all rally round party members who are now in the cabinet, especially from the South-West of the country. This is because it is a big challenge that Buhari has thrown to us and the onus lies in us to perform.

“The economy of this country is heavily dependent on the old Western Region, starting from the old Mid-West that is Edo and Delta states, down to Lagos. Fashola is in the position now to revive the economy of this country, revive the middle class, the industrial base of this country is around this South Western area, his performance and that of Amaechi, combined will score enormous goals.

“My simple advice for Fashola is to, like he did in Lagos, pick some few essential network of roads and just get going on them and that will change the whole economic situation in the country. By this I mean, he should pick the major link with the rest of the country.

“For example, Lagos-Ibadan-Ilorin-Jebba road to the North; Ibadan-Akure-Okene-Lokoja-Abuja road to Kaduna, Kano’ Shagamu-Ore-Benin road to the East, and Port Harcourt-Aba-Enugu road. If Fashola can fix these networks of roads, they will change the whole of the economic life of the country.”

Watch out for detailed interview this week.

StuntingBlack:
Long time Sis.

I really miss the Combo of Terrific of you and Desola.... I still remember 2 years back how you both run down 'em protuding heads into dried prunes.!!

IlekeHD:
Long time. Gbogbo yin ti farabale, even oduastates sef ti da omo Olorun.

lol Desola wey dey form big shrimp now?

Are you back for good [even it it's only for this thread]

Since he left office as Speaker, Federal House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole has somehow withdrawn from the limelight except playing local politics in his home state, Ogun. He was seen in Lagos during the week, mentoring Young Nigerians many of whom have spent the better part of their lives outside the shores of the country, on how they can add value to National development. KAZEEM AKINTUNDE report.

Few months after he left office as Speaker, Federal House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole was in Boston, Massachusetts in the United State of America having a walk when he was accosted by a young Nigerian who recognised him as the former speaker.

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The Young man that walked up to Bankole was Efosa Ojomu and in a not too friendly tone accused Bankole to be part of the elite that had ruined the country. He told the former speaker point blank that as a young man himself, Bankole has nothing to show for the nearly four years that he spent as the number four man in the country.[/size]

But rather than getting angry at the young man for his impudence, Bankole decided to lecture him on the role he played while at the helm of the House and the series of interventions that actually helped in stabilising the government of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo at that time.

The exchange of that day led to series of lunch dates, discussion over dinner and in no time, many young Nigerians in the Diaspora soon became members of an exclusive club of Nigerians desirous of looking for a way to contribute their small quota to the development of the country.

And in 2012, an organisation known as Young African with MBA’s, YAM, was born. Founded by four MBA’s alumni from top business Schools abroad, the aim of the organisation was to impact on young African talent with a view of offering a comprehensive suite of products and service across Africa, focused on recruiting value chain in a collective determined and inspired bid, and to deliver the best in management talent to the African continent.

The challenge

Most members of YAM, are children of the super rich Nigerians born with silver spoon. Many of them spent their formative years outside the shores of the country but most of them are back in the country, looking for ways they could turn the fortunes of the nation around.

But the challenge many of them are facing is the fact that after spending the greater part of their lives outside Nigeria, where things work, they are finding it difficult integrating into a system that is a bit cumbersome and complicated.

Even when they are in the country, they reside mostly in highbrow areas like Ikoyi, Victoria Island or Abuja and have not really experienced what it takes to be in the “real ghetto ” like Agege, Oshidi, and other places where the not too privilege lives.

And when Bankole met with the group during the week in Lagos, one thing that was paramount in his intervention was the fact they have to know Nigeria and its people before they could start thinking of how they could be of help to their fatherland.

‘You have to leave your comfort zone of Ikoyi, Victoria Island and Asokoro in Abuja and meet the real Nigerians that live in Ajegunle, Oshodi and Agege if you are to be of help at all. You must get your hands dirty.”

Bankole is of the view that many of the young professionals would not be able to fit in into the Nigeria system except they experienced and feel what the average Nigerian feels on a daily basis.

“”It is when you know and feel what the average Nigeria feel on a daily basis that you will be able to appreciate what they are going through and you can now use your education to change the system.

Using his own life history as an example, Bankole informed the young professionals that he came from a family where politics was more like a family business as his dad and grandfather were prominent politicians in their own right.

“But nine of my senior brothers were not interested in politics and though I became the speaker of the House of Representatives at a relatively young age of 37, I have been involved in partisan politics then for 17 years.

‘Yes I was elected to represent my people, the fact remains that I became the speaker was due mainly to the fact that there was a vacuum and many of my colleagues felt that I could feel that vacuum.

When asked whether the National Youth Service Scheme, NYSC, is still relevant in view of the fact that what many of them study abroad had little or no relevance to the scheme, Bankole said that if he has his way, the One year Scheme would be purely for military training but insisted that the scheme is still much relevance to our national development.

Indeed, Bankole seems best suited for the role he is playing now as he could also be regarded as been born with the proverbial silver spoon. Born Novernmeber 14, 1969, to a wealthy and prominent politician in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Dimeji Bankole also had his University education outside the shores of Nigeria. At the young age of 37, Bankole became the number four citizen in the country after the removal of Mrs Patricia Etteh. It is on record that it was during his tenure in the lower chamber that the practice of returning unspent funds by Ministries and MDA’s became entrenched after the house exposed the huge funds usually shared by government officials.

Desire to make an impact

At the end of the day, many of the young graduates went home happy that they have had a glimpse of how they could impact their environment with the necessary inputs supplied by the former speaker.

Indeed, Bankole since he left office has somehow withdrawn to his shell by simply playing local politics in Ogun State while shying away from National issues.

Cornered by the media after the event, Bankole refused to assess the six months old administration of President Muhammadu Buhari insisting that it is too early for any meaningful assessment of the government. He, however, urged well-meaning Nigerians to rally round the president in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgent.

Bankole said that he remains a card carrying and active member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and that the challenges facing the party would soon be resolved.

He, however called all well-meaning Nigerians to rally round the government of President Buhari in the overall interest of the country.

Though, he decline to state what his next line of activities would be in the nearest future, Bankole promises to bounce back very soon.

The exchange on the street of Boston has however yielded strong dividend as YAM now boost of over 100 members all desirous at contributing their quota to the development of the country.

And they have agreed to get to know the country and its people before embarking on the rescue mission.

StuntingBlack:
I have got my hands REALLY full recently my Sis... but just that i now have a bit of leisure times that spices up my boring moments. For sure, I'll be visiting this thread to have fun with you guys.

StuntingBlack:
My Thuggin' Shymexx. Hw u diggin it over there bro....

Heard you are now the Duke of 'em Ibo chics. Cant stop LMAO.

tupacshakur:
Aare baba, you should know I love engaging 'em Igbos.

ARIZONA123:
. Another Oluwole grad. How is ur new wifey ?