₦airaland Forum

betterABIAstate:
I don't go about snapping pictures of flyover, but bear it in mind that an interchange is also a flyover. Flyover is not just like the one in mokola, flyover have different types and going by that Enugu has nine flyovers. If you will add ebeano tunnel, which is a railway flyover, then its ten.

If you have been to Enugu, you won't be asking me the pictures of flyovers, if you coming from 9th mile before you get to abakpa junction, you will meet 3 flyovers (the one that leads to new market, trans ekulu flyover and abakpa junction flyover), from abakpa junction to airport road, you will see two (one at new heaven junction and the airport road flyover). If you are coming from port Harcourt (gariki flyover entrance, amechi flyover, ugwuaji flyover and artisan flyover).

One1after:
Akpu man, I have never in my life been to Osun state and not even from there but they are better than your erosion ravaged region. Leave your parent house and go find job instead of spewing lies cum disgracing your family online.

bendovex:
stop saying nonsense. Osun state is the least undeveloped state in Nigeria. I did NYSC in Osun, Osogbo to be precise, that state is just too local and undeveloped. in fact, a village in anambra cannot be compared with Osogbo, which is a state capital in terms of development.
it's a shame you're defending a place you've not been to before. I can categorically tell you that from ojo-oba down to oke-affia, from there to oke-ayepe etc are just horrible sites to behold. 1900 dilapidated buildings with brown roofs abound in Osogbo, now the story even becomes worst if u move down to other local governments like ede, ife, ilesha ila etc

One1after:
Yet your people cant stop running to same SW. You people just love disgracing yourself everywhere with your chest beating. Ogun state alone commissioned 40 projects few weeks ago, cos your governor commisioned dog cage does not mean you are better than other region. Chest beating is a sign of weakness.

betterABIAstate:
Yeah, nothing seem to be happening in other regions. This is the time to get the edge, it clearly shows the dependency of most States on fed allocation.

InyinyaAgbaOku:
.....Ex-governor Peter Obi of Anambra State got me thinking. Two weeks ago, he was giving an account of his eight years stewardship and he announced some figures: N75 billion as credit balance in the state’s accounts and no debt over-hang. That figure, he said, included balance in savings and in investment. Then the big one: Anambra State under him invested in bonds issued by other state governments. Since he made that statement, I have not heard anyone say he lied. It was a combination of these that actually got me thinking —Anambra State that was not paying salaries post 1999, pre-2003; Anambra State of war and lawlessness in Chris Ngige era; the same Anambra that was home of violence and inexplicable crimes. Obi said the state he was leaving behind was not owing anybody a dime; rather, the state invested in bonds issued by other states! Then, I remembered that out of the six states in the South-West, only one has not gone to the Capital Market to take money through bond issuance. What has that told me? It means that my South-West is indebted to South East’s Anambra State — and that is serious. I know some partisan fellows will say ‘and so what?’ They can say so because for such fellows, the only reference they make to the past is using it to cover up the eczema of today. None of the founding fathers of Western Nigeria would ever imagine that a day would come when Yorubaland would owe Iboland.

Some international financial experts have warned that the current craze for bonds by African countries, including PDP’s Nigeria, will soon lead to what they call “Eurobond curse” just as the continent is wracked by “resource curse.” Some queer commentators would say the warning was directed at national governments. At the state level, the alarm bell should really sound louder. A recent report quoted Joseph Stightz, a Nobel prize-winning economist, as warning that “the financial sector loves to find people to prey on and their most recent prey are governments in developing countries.” The same is happening at the domestic level. Cash-strapped state governments should know that there are no friendly financial institutions. They are in business to make money and it does not matter how.
I do not know what economics is behind the current craze for bonds. Some are even saying bonds are no loans. What are they? Gifts? Won’t they pay back? And at what interest rate? They would even pay costs of the transaction — they call it ‘issue costs?’ Are there consultants packaging these bonds? If there are, who are they? What are their fees?

Yorubaland currently suffers unprecedented, unfortunate and insulting, venal shut-out in the affairs of the PDP Federal Government. The alternative regimes in the states ought to give reasons for hope, not debt over-hang. Nothing should be done by anyone to bond the race to a future of criminal servitude. Governments have to provide amenities, yes. But have we forgotten what our ancestors said about he that eats benefits derivable from a child even before that child is born? Exactly what Niyi Osundare described as “eating tomorrow’s yam today ”!
Western Nigeria started solid in the 1950s through the early 60s. Chief Obafemi Awolowo and his stellar team gave the West a solid foundation. They made their people first in Africa without hanging ‘slavery bond’ on their collective neck. But after them, what have we had? Public debt, private wealth! Whatever intervening disaster can still be remedied if only we resolve today to make the future more golden than the great start. We cannot do that by mortgaging the future to bonds of bondage

See complete article at

integrityreporters.com/columns/the-crisis-of-yorubas-future-lasisi-olagunju/

bendovex:
I don't think any good thinking igbo will ever want to go to any other SW state aside Lagos. I'm not trying to be a tribalist but it's the truth. Igbo people and indeed people from every other tribe go to Lagos a lot, yes I agree, same way people from Yoruba flood to Port Harcourt.

bendovex:
I don't think any good thinking igbo will ever want to go to any other SW state aside Lagos. I'm not trying to be a tribalist but it's the truth. Igbo people and indeed people from every other tribe go to Lagos a lot, yes I agree, same way people from Yoruba flood to Port Harcourt.

InyinyaAgbaOku:
.....Ex-governor Peter Obi of Anambra State got me thinking. Two weeks ago, he was giving an account of his eight years stewardship and he announced some figures: N75 billion as credit balance in the state’s accounts and no debt over-hang. That figure, he said, included balance in savings and in investment. Then the big one: Anambra State under him invested in bonds issued by other state governments. Since he made that statement, I have not heard anyone say he lied. It was a combination of these that actually got me thinking —Anambra State that was not paying salaries post 1999, pre-2003; Anambra State of war and lawlessness in Chris Ngige era; the same Anambra that was home of violence and inexplicable crimes. Obi said the state he was leaving behind was not owing anybody a dime; rather, the state invested in bonds issued by other states! Then, I remembered that out of the six states in the South-West, only one has not gone to the Capital Market to take money through bond issuance. What has that told me? It means that my South-West is indebted to South East’s Anambra State — and that is serious. I know some partisan fellows will say ‘and so what?’ They can say so because for such fellows, the only reference they make to the past is using it to cover up the eczema of today. None of the founding fathers of Western Nigeria would ever imagine that a day would come when Yorubaland would owe Iboland.

Some international financial experts have warned that the current craze for bonds by African countries, including PDP’s Nigeria, will soon lead to what they call “Eurobond curse” just as the continent is wracked by “resource curse.” Some queer commentators would say the warning was directed at national governments. At the state level, the alarm bell should really sound louder. A recent report quoted Joseph Stightz, a Nobel prize-winning economist, as warning that “the financial sector loves to find people to prey on and their most recent prey are governments in developing countries.” The same is happening at the domestic level. Cash-strapped state governments should know that there are no friendly financial institutions. They are in business to make money and it does not matter how.
I do not know what economics is behind the current craze for bonds. Some are even saying bonds are no loans. What are they? Gifts? Won’t they pay back? And at what interest rate? They would even pay costs of the transaction — they call it ‘issue costs?’ Are there consultants packaging these bonds? If there are, who are they? What are their fees?

Yorubaland currently suffers unprecedented, unfortunate and insulting, venal shut-out in the affairs of the PDP Federal Government. The alternative regimes in the states ought to give reasons for hope, not debt over-hang. Nothing should be done by anyone to bond the race to a future of criminal servitude. Governments have to provide amenities, yes. But have we forgotten what our ancestors said about he that eats benefits derivable from a child even before that child is born? Exactly what Niyi Osundare described as “eating tomorrow’s yam today ”!
Western Nigeria started solid in the 1950s through the early 60s. Chief Obafemi Awolowo and his stellar team gave the West a solid foundation. They made their people first in Africa without hanging ‘slavery bond’ on their collective neck. But after them, what have we had? Public debt, private wealth! Whatever intervening disaster can still be remedied if only we resolve today to make the future more golden than the great start. We cannot do that by mortgaging the future to bonds of bondage

See complete article at

integrityreporters.com/columns/the-crisis-of-yorubas-future-lasisi-olagunju/

freeze001:
God bless my dear people of light...as the sun rises and shines bright, so do our fortunes at home and abroad.
They will see and wonder but still be confounded!

One1after:
Ben Obinna, Why are you people full of lies and also shameless. Your igwe flogged in Ondo must be from Japan, what about those in Ibadan and those in Ogun state. You are born to lie and its really affecting you guys, is Lagos in SE? Continue to disgrace your tribe online. Smh

One1after:
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Shut up your smelly mouth, you are the one spewing trash as a typical gala seller. You all come online to chest beat, the place is under developed and your kinsmen cant stop flooding there everyday. Dont you have shame? You served in just 1 local government in Osun and saying the whole state is under developed, even bringing your cursed erosion ravaged land to discussion. So having brown roof means a place is underdeveloped? You are truly deluded, no wonder you all call a man that run away from war front hero and brave. Mschew

bendovex:
oh boy! I sense a heart attack. why are you fuming? I only said the truth na, or do u want me to lie? Lol, see painment
my kinsmen flooding to Osun? God forbid! I rather run to Taraba than go to Osun. I only endured that horrible one year because of NYSC, after all my attempt to relocate failed. I cannot even advice my enemy to go to Osun, it's as bad that.

bendovex:
liar! except the ongoing construction of orji flyover which was started by the past government of Ikedi Ohakim but couldn't finish it, can you please tell us another project that is going on in imo state? not even a single road construction is going on, the state is finished. abagworo just face it, okorocha your paymaster is a failure and so is APC

bendovex:
shut up, why are u so allergic to the truth?

AshiwajuFoward:


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/191989-ndigbo-in-akure-eats-humble-pie-begs-deji-over-misconduct-of-eze.html

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/three-factions-contesting-eze-ndigbo-title-in-oyo/

AshiwajuFoward:
Akuko. Only in a deluded Igboman like yourself mind is nothing happening in other regions. Wake me up when any of your states begin to build quality flyovers like the attached, and not some red-mud stained eyesores you all are celebrating.

One1after:
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Gala man, you are the pained one. Why should I have heart attack over lies, I gave you examples and you foaming in the mouth like a castrated dog. You should go chase your kinsmen in Osun away, we all know you red mud villagers lie for a living but you now have no shame anymore. You run away from your cursed erosion ravaged land to the SW yet you coming online to spew trash, the joke is on you Obinna.

explorer250:
yeah, you are right. i saw when that obi aid was saying that on channels tv

Abagworo:
But sincerely looking at the low quality houses behind the flyovers call for sober reflection. The high quality flyover dies not fit the environment.

InyinyaAgbaOku:
.....Ex-governor Peter Obi of Anambra State got me thinking. Two weeks ago, he was giving an account of his eight years stewardship and he announced some figures: N75 billion as credit balance in the state’s accounts and no debt over-hang. That figure, he said, included balance in savings and in investment. Then the big one: Anambra State under him invested in bonds issued by other state governments. Since he made that statement, I have not heard anyone say he lied. It was a combination of these that actually got me thinking —Anambra State that was not paying salaries post 1999, pre-2003; Anambra State of war and lawlessness in Chris Ngige era; the same Anambra that was home of violence and inexplicable crimes. Obi said the state he was leaving behind was not owing anybody a dime; rather, the state invested in bonds issued by other states! Then, I remembered that out of the six states in the South-West, only one has not gone to the Capital Market to take money through bond issuance. What has that told me? It means that my South-West is indebted to South East’s Anambra State — and that is serious. I know some partisan fellows will say ‘and so what?’ They can say so because for such fellows, the only reference they make to the past is using it to cover up the eczema of today. None of the founding fathers of Western Nigeria would ever imagine that a day would come when Yorubaland would owe Iboland.

Some international financial experts have warned that the current craze for bonds by African countries, including PDP’s Nigeria, will soon lead to what they call “Eurobond curse” just as the continent is wracked by “resource curse.” Some queer commentators would say the warning was directed at national governments. At the state level, the alarm bell should really sound louder. A recent report quoted Joseph Stightz, a Nobel prize-winning economist, as warning that “the financial sector loves to find people to prey on and their most recent prey are governments in developing countries.” The same is happening at the domestic level. Cash-strapped state governments should know that there are no friendly financial institutions. They are in business to make money and it does not matter how.
I do not know what economics is behind the current craze for bonds. Some are even saying bonds are no loans. What are they? Gifts? Won’t they pay back? And at what interest rate? They would even pay costs of the transaction — they call it ‘issue costs?’ Are there consultants packaging these bonds? If there are, who are they? What are their fees?

Yorubaland currently suffers unprecedented, unfortunate and insulting, venal shut-out in the affairs of the PDP Federal Government. The alternative regimes in the states ought to give reasons for hope, not debt over-hang. Nothing should be done by anyone to bond the race to a future of criminal servitude. Governments have to provide amenities, yes. But have we forgotten what our ancestors said about he that eats benefits derivable from a child even before that child is born? Exactly what Niyi Osundare described as “eating tomorrow’s yam today ”!
Western Nigeria started solid in the 1950s through the early 60s. Chief Obafemi Awolowo and his stellar team gave the West a solid foundation. They made their people first in Africa without hanging ‘slavery bond’ on their collective neck. But after them, what have we had? Public debt, private wealth! Whatever intervening disaster can still be remedied if only we resolve today to make the future more golden than the great start. We cannot do that by mortgaging the future to bonds of bondage

See complete article at

integrityreporters.com/columns/the-crisis-of-yorubas-future-lasisi-olagunju/

Arjeeni:
If you want to cook any propaganda remember that thorough research is the first thing to do not mere speculations.
The fact that a state is in debt does not rendered such state less performing.
I am in Lagos I know what Ambode doing in fact the rate at which Lagos state moving now no state is able to do that let me mention but few of the projects;
Ambode kicked off light Lagos last year and now no a single area Council left unlighted, the rehabilitation of ikorodu express road which is still going on, construction of Iyana Ipaja express road via Abule Egba still going on and construction of at least one inner road of all local Council in Lagos state still going on, unlike any other state, he equipped law enforcement agencies with modern equipments commissioned recently.
I am saying this emphatically that no state ever had a good networking road like Lagos in Nigeria and the quality of good work was equally superb.
And for the Lagos state got approved for loan in world Bank this year earn her prestigious position among other state because right now no state can.
All these projects was not a left over from Fashola administration, are projects newly commenced.

Who claimed that Lagos borrow money from any state in this country should provide evidence to back it up.

bendovex:
hahaha this guy will soon die o, heart attack is real!
all these rants because I said the truth about Osun state? I cannot even take u serious because I know how an average Yoruba person behaves. very typical!
Now a little advice, if you can channel the energy u expend ranting and attacking igbos online to holding your useless APC governors accountable, Osun and indeed other South West states would be better off.
the last time I checked igbos did not put you in this sorry state, but you blame and attack igbos at any given opportunity. so foolish of you. But the irony is that igbos doesn't even know if Yoruba's exist, we work hard and you hate, we progress and you hate, keep hating, Lol... you hate does not affect us one bit rather it trudges us to greater exploits. hahahahaha

One1after:
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Obinna, I hope you dont run mad with the way you are going. You are masking your bitterness with fake smileys, I know your type very well. Your lies have been bursted but as a typical gala seller and product of baby factory, you will always dish out another lie just to safe face. An Ibo man will open a thread to denigrate others but a senseless Ibo will want those people to keep shut and smile. Who have the energy to envy gala sellers, pirated cd sellers and cocaine smugglers? Lmaooo. You are all laughing stock and reason no one take you all serious cos you are all born to lie and denigrate others while your own region is in shambles. Advising an Ibo man to return to the erosion ravaged sad beast region is like telling him to commit suicide, they will rather die in the SW/ North than return to that dead region.

AshiwajuFoward:
Guy, you are not even ashamed to talk? That is obviously an old section or district which exists in every state, not to talk of one as big as Ogun. The mere fact that such an area can attract that sort of project should be commended and not jeered at. Does Rivers have flyovers in its rural parts? Or even your Imo state sef. When Imo go even build anything that comes close to that, not that inferior looking rubbish you are displaying all over as flyover in Owerri wey dem still never complete since how many years now? Don't get me started here bro coz I am not anti-Rochas but I have enough punchlines to embarrass you and your principle so watch your mouth.

bendovex:
I don't do names calling, if you think I'll come down to ur level, nah I won't do that. I dunno how old you are but I'm too old for that shit. But one thing I cannot stop doing is saying the truth, lol I know you hate the truth and I'll continue to say it.
Osun is undeveloped QED. oya go ahead with your hate speeches, I'm not perturbed. you keep hating while we keep buying your lands, lol. that's how we roll.

kingofchess:
so what u r saying now is that buhari's government is corrupt right?

cckris:
Buhari's 1st Budget INCLUDES items repeated so many times, in order to STEAL not less than 2 trillion naira, out of a total of 6 trillion naira, in just one year!
Is a document tabled before the Senate, to be enacted into Law, still a speculative rumour?
K W A R R A P S H A N

HiddenShadow:
Would the self acclaimed sophisticated people agree that they have lost it. The worst mistake Awolowo made was not to have seceded to continue his developmental stride.

ODVanguard:
Nonsense and poppycock! The sort of flyovers/interchanges you described Enugu as having more than 9 of are even more common at Ibadan than the entire SE. #FACT. The Challenge/Ring Road/Ojoo to Iseyin Road axis alone has over 8 of those (this area covers less than 5km). In fact, entering Ibadan via Lagos-Ibadan expressway greets you with more than 6 interchanges and flyovers connecting one to the rest of the city. The entire Enugu state can't even boast of ONE of the kind that was commissioned at Mokola few years back, while Ibadan has at least two of that sort. Ogun listed no less than 5 flyovers for commissioning during the last 40th year celebration of the state so what are you talking about?

Abagworo:
Its not about comparison but the flyover picture exposes Nigeria at its ironical best.