₦airaland Forum

Amya:
There's simply no justification for criminality no matter how you twist it. That excuse is simply too lame. Yes there's corruption in Nigeria because of people like you with this mindset. You say our leaders did this to us? please do these leaders come from the sky? are they not Nigerians! In this country there are countless people who have made something for themselves and family through sheer hard work and perseverance! People who started with nothing and had no connection whatsoever but are now wealthy beyond belief.

You and your criminal friends have to know that nothing good in this world comes. easy! You have to work hard and build something for yourself out of nothing. Taking people's hard earned cash fraudulently while blaming the government is the dumbest shi-t I've ever heard someone justify. People like you always looking for people to blame for where they are in life is exactly why we'll never move forward as a country.

That get rich or die trying mentality has to be completely erased from the psyche of our youths. They are a lot of people making a decent living through small businesses. These people end up doing better than their employed friends at The end of the day.

Funny these people clamour to leave the country for another country claiming Nigeria is too messed up for them. They could practically do anything to get out. When they go over and see that money can't be plucked from trees, or that it isn't particularly a land flowing with milk, honey and dollar bills, you see them engaging in criminal activities all in the bid to have money to flash to their peers when they come back home. You can still be successful working legitimately anywhere in the world. Nothing good comes easy though.

#SayNoToCriminality

Obalende:
Gen 9

Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants will he be unto his brethren. the black race is cursed

even in my area overseas, the blacks steal cars, steal and vandalize property, the youth low waits their jeans, its all part of the genesis pronouncement.

Rexyl:
some people just love to trouble their hearts on nothing. I think the governorship candidate is from Southwest, born there and he has been residing there for at least 10 years. He is 100% the son of the land. Or is he an indigent of northern or eastern States? If not he has every right to contest for elective positions in his father's land.

Even beyond that I think law of the land gives grace to other tribes to contest in a place where they have shared many things in common with the indigenous people.

Billcakes:
Must you flaunt your ignorance in public??For starters,Akinwunmi Ambode is from Epe in Lagos East.Therefore let the useless and faceless group write all the petition they can write,while ignoramuses like you echo and re-echo your faulty state of origin argument,but what will break your backs is the Nigerian constitution which guarantees anybody who has lived in and paid tax in any state for ten years,is entitled to aspire to the highest office in the land

pweshex:
politics is very dirty indeed. so they dug out his jamb reg form??

rajoys:
Criticize positively my guy, if we have 36 Tinubus distributed all over the states in Nigeria and they are controlling the various states like the way 'Tinubu is controlling Lagos' as u claimed, then i bet u Nigeria will be better for it. If other politician who claim to be godfather can be making the error of installing a FASHOLA like Tinubu did, then Nigerians will rejoice and we shall get to our promise land on time. JUST MY OPINION

kendrick93:
who is amaju picnic kwa

Toktee:
Naked lies,dnt even blive them,how on earth the Americans will ask the nigerian army to widraw the equipment frm the frnt line,it does nt make any sense,does it mean the entire nigerian equipment are deployed in the three state and yet,bokoharan are standing tall?
Believe me,there is somethng going on that me and you dnt knw,why the nigerian govt refused the assistance given to them by the US,CHINA,FRANCE,BRITAIN ETc to fight bokoharam,why?

Graham123:
Which country would you rather we pitch our tent with? Russia? China?

Graham123:
Some moronic comments in here as usual. For a country facing security issues, if the needed equipment for training, as the Nigerian government stated (if you believe that in the first place, well, God help you), are all positioned in the field, that brings more questions than answers. First among them, there is apparently not enough of the equipment, why should that be? The mysterious equipment in question is no doubt essential in the war against the insurgents and we do not have enough of it? In the event that the operators of the said equipment get killed in action where do we get new operators when there aren't even enough of it to train with.

Some dimwits would suggest why the US wouldn't help us with some of theirs. Why would they, the US, just like any other country, is in for the business. Why would they give out expensive military technology for free especially to a country known for human right violation. They owe us nothing and they have no obligation to help us.

FrankC3:
Nasir is actually a man I would love to have on my project team but I would never have him head my project team. My reason: He has such a high IQ but a pathetic EQ. You need more of the later to lead in a society like ours.

lilprinze:
APC is so taking over kaduna from that lazy and greedy fool called Mukhtar Ramalan Yero who has not done anything since he has been governor.
He is the worst governor that has ever ruled kaduna state.

felixchip:
Well, in as much as every useless and hopeless Nigerian blames his misfortune on the government, the reasonable and success minded ones are busy making changes and achieving milestones.

Well, it's a good thing the world admire us.
It's left for us to build on the reputation.

sholasys:
After Okadigbo death no any other, my opinion.

NairaMode:
The world is tough.
Demands of the present world is high.
House rent, school fees and material things.
If you truly did it for your kids, I'm sorry sha.
God help those kids now.

neejay1986:
No. What God has join together let no man think of evil about it.

MaziOmenuko:
Every sensible Nigerian will be touched after reading this; its not like we don't know these things right from the word 'Go'.

But trust Nigerians, they will find a way to attack the messenger and ignore the message. I'm beginning to doubt the sanity of most Nigerians.

soroptimist:
Some of you are naturally daft and your genetic make-up oozes 'apoda-ism'

Your simplistic explanation of the source of Tinubu's income can only fooled the gullible like you and those who probably have an eternal pact with poverty

To think that a man of Tinubu's status as an Executive in Mobil a Multi-national company will not know the nuances of how the Oil and Gas industry works and how he can leverage on the insider information of the several contracting processes that such company does to make good,clean and smart money even while working as a staff

It is people like you who are known to glorify poverty that will think that someone who work in an industry will close his eyes towards any emerging opportunities therein but stay content with being a salary earner

Even ordinary Energy Desk officials in Banks are known to resign in few years to float multi-million Oil and Gas trading companies owing to the information and knowledge they are naturally expose to in the course of helping clients facilitate transactions with their Bank

It will then be infantile,silly,idiotic and financially lazy for anyone who would see those smart dudes become multi-millionaire in few years and infer they must have stolen or did something shady when compared with fellow Bankers who didnt work in very lucrative department


The PDP that Tinubu is competing politically against have his dossier and source of wealth beyond what most of us would ever know......if ever they have anything that can nail him and put him away,OBJ of all people would have done it....not to talk of GEJ

sammhi:
it is obvious that it is time to divide the country. the judiciary is a mess. the people are rotten . we support criminals as far he share his loot with us. we only condemn when he is not one of us. In sane societies, both fasola and Tinubu will be in jail. Berlusconi didn't even do half of these and still was sent to jail . in Nigeria, some people are above the law!

the Hausas are now one to condemn GEJ yet none of them raises voices to condemn IBB, ABACHA, SHAGARI, ETC yet these are the very people that sow and watered all these rotten fruits we all picking now.

until we most of us know what is bad and collectively stand to condemn it when it happens , then we are not different from those kept in the zoo!

ola6:
Please read and digest: tinubu is the number one landlord in Lagos and has turned Lagos land worth trillions of naira into his personal possession to be used freely or given away unaccounted for. Even after he left office, tinubu still continues to steal Lagos land under the watch of fashola. He gives out Lagos land to curry political favours and still occasional sign certificate of occupancy even as ex governor and backdating them to period he was in office. These brazen acts of corruption are with the active collaboration of select few public officers who are obscenely wealthy at the expense of Lagos tax payers. Most notable are Gbenga Ashafa-formerly executive secretary and now Permanent Secretary, land’s Bureau since 2001; Mrs Awofisayo-formerly Permanent Secretary and now Special Adviser, New Town Development Authority (NTDA), and a relation of Bola tinubu from Iragbiji, Osun state who has been in charge of NTDA since 1999; Hakeem Muri-Okunola-PA to former Gov tinubu and now Executive Secretary, land’s Bureau; Mrs Nike Animashaun-Director, land Services and known to be close to Bola tinubu and Tunji Olowolafe. These people are arguably the wealthiest unelected public servants ever in the history of Lagos state. They are major wheelers and dealers of prime land. We mentioned in our earlier publication that the land’s Bureau at Alausa stinks of corruption.

We catalogue below a few brazen acts of stealing and corruption committed by tinubu and aided by fashola on the good tax payers of LagosTinubu’s greed and primitive acquisition tendency knows no bound. In fact, it is believed that Lagos land personally converted by him is worth over N500 billion and growing because he hasn’t stopped.
A few of them are listed below:
1. 4 Oyinkan Abayomi (formerly Queens) Drive, Ikoyi. A 5 bedroom detached house on 1 acre of land which was a Lagos State Governor’s guest house since 1979 now belongs to Bola tinubu. The C of O was signed and released to him by fashola in 2007 shortly after he assumed office. The property is valued at N450million

2. tinubu’s residence at 26 Bourdillon road, Ikoyi was initially falsely presented as Oando Plc guest house. Later, he purportedly bought it from Oando, and used public fund to rebuild and renovate it. Recently, the Lagos state government bought the property and paid undisclosed sum to him and thereafter gave the property back to him under the bogus Pension Bill he signed to law shortly before he left office in 2007. The property is worth over N600million

3. The annex of the Lagos State Guest House in Asokoro, Abuja was bought by the State Government in 2006 for N450million purportedly to protect the main house from security breach. Shortly after he left office, the property was transferred to him under the pension plan he signed into law before he left office.

4. The 250 hectare land valued at about N35billion strategically located at the Ajah junction on Lekki Road which was initially meant for a General Hospital for the people of Eti-Osa local government was stolen by tinubu and handed over to Trojan Estate Ltd- a company owned by Deji and Wale tinubu to develop as Royal Garden housing estate at the expense of the tax payers of Lagos

5. The 1,000 hectares of land valued at about N75billion located at Lakowe near Abijo at Ibeju-Lekki LG and given to LCC which is part owned by tinubu and fashola and being developed as golf course and housing estate by Assets and Resource Management Ltd(ARM) as ADIVA project

6. The prime land of 157 Hectares with 2.5km of Atlantic beachfront valued at about N10billion and stolen by tinubu from the communities of Siriwon, Igbekodo, Apakin, etc in Ibeju-Lekki LG and given to Ibukun Fakeye-his crony to build a golf course and luxury villa with little or no compensation to the villagers. In addition, tinubu paid $20million (N3billion) out of public treasury to Ibukun Fakeye to commence the project in late 2006. fashola has since released additional funding for this project which is not owned by the state government.

7. The 14 Hectares Parkview Ikoyi Estate foreshore land reclaimed by Lagos State Government is now owned by Bola tinubu.

8. While in office, he allocated to himself the former Strabag yard beside the Lagos state secretariat at Alausa, Ikeja. The property is now being developed into a shopping mall as big as the Palms in Lekki. This is public property brazenly stolen and now owned by tinubu aided by fashola

9. Also the choice property at Lekki-Epe road on which he built and owns the multi-billion naira Oriental Hotel and the extension of multi-storey car park beside it. Also the multi-level recreation centre by Mobil in Oniru Estate on Lekki-Epe road jointly owned with ARM and Tunji Olowolafe. All these assets valued at over N25billion were obtained without paying a kobo to the Lagos State Government.

10. tinubu and fashola sold the following prime Lagos properties to their personal friend and front-Prince Dipo Eludoyin at very ridiculous prices: • The 3.8hectares of land of Lagos State Fisheries office in VI(beside the Institute of Oceanography) valued at N3billion• The Fishery landing jetty at Badore (where the Ilubirin fishermen were to be relocated) valued at N500million• The entire Ogudu foreshore scheme initially earmarked for low cost housing scheme valued at N5billion • The Ilubinrin housing estate (which used to house Lagos state civil servants and judges up till 2007) valued at N2.5billion• The former Julius Berger yard at Oko Orisan, Epe valued at N450million

11. tinubu raised a loan of N4.7billion on Eko Akete Project for which nothing was achieved before he turned around to sell the property to his Chagouri friends of C & C and Hitech Construction Ltd at ridiculously low price at the expense of the tax payers of Lagos.

12. tinubu applied to personally purchase the Federal Secretariat building while in office. When he couldn’t get to buy it, he directed fashola to stop the eventual owner of the complex to develop it. The complex is presently wasting away courtesy of the Lagos State Government.

13. It took several months of horse trading and underhand payments before Gov fashola could allow the new owners of 1004 flats to redevelop the complex.

14. Several other buyers of Federal Government properties and developers of properties in Ikoyi, VI and GRA Ikeja were forced to succumb to the outrageous demands of tinubu, fashola, Commissioner Abosede and other officials of the Lagos State Physical Planning Ministry and were made to pay ridiculous amounts to private accounts before their redevelopments were approved. Those who refused or are unable to pay could not develop their properties. This is a major economic strangulation of property developers and has contributed largely to the sky rocketing rent in Ikoyi, VI and Lekki axis.

15. tinubu converted all the plots of land where Lagos Polytechnic was located at Ikosi near the old toll gate. He chased away the polytechnic in 2006 and went ahead to locate the choice plots to himself, his cronies and political associates. The headquarter of Television Continental (TVC) which is owned by him is located there. He deprived the youths of Lagos of decent education because of his greed.

16. tinubu single handedly sold the prime land on Aboyade Cole, VI which was recovered from some allotees, to UACN Properties Plc. The amount of proceeds was shrouded in secrecy.

17. Eludoyin, fronting for tinubu built the estate directly opposite Goshen Beach Estate in Lekki area

18. tinubu’s wife Remi tinubu built the massive New Era Foundation youth camp at the junction of Eleko off the Lekki-Epe express road with Lagos state funds and has now converted it to personal use

19. tinubu also owns the Fara park estate and the Beach wood estate both in Lekki

20. The Critical care unit at the LASUTH in Ikeja built and equipped with state funds is now owned personally by tinubu. He has put one Dr Sikiru tinubu (a supposed cousin of his) to run the outfit. It is run as a private unit and the proceeds are pocketed by the duo. The unit charges its users exorbitantly and most Lagosians can hardly afford to pay its high charges. Much of the revenue is derived from fees paid by the state govt for patients referred there by its General Hospitals.

21. Several prominent Nigerians in the judiciary, police, INEC, and other sensitive agencies have obtained prime land from former Gov tinubu and Gov fashola over the years without paying a kobo. Many of them had turned around to sell the land to third parties at substantial profit. Many top officials in the police, INEC and the judiciary who participated in the 2003 and 2007 elections and tribunals in states where tinubu has interest were compromised with parcels of free prime Lagos land and cash. If the Lagos State land’s Bureau could publish the names and identities of beneficiaries of land allotees from year 2000 to date, the scandal that will result is better imagined. Gbenga Ashafa and Mrs Awofisayo are the conduit through which these acts are being perpetuated. Both are also personally involved in various dubious land transactions on their own

22. Prime land and properties have been used to pay off public officials who are personally close to tinubu and fashola for ‘job well done’ or for being privy to sensitive informationa) Dele Alake, former commissioner for Information and Strategy was sold a whole house on Alexander road, ikoyi where he lived as official quarters at a giveaway price. (b) Rauf Aregbesola, AC Osun State governorship candidate and former commissioner and Muiz Banire, still a serving commissioner got detached houses at Ladoke Akintola st, GRA Ikeja for the “good job” while serving under tinubu. (c) Yemi Cardoso and Wale Edun both former commissioners were sold houses on Iru close, and other location in old Ikoyi at giveaway prices by tinubu. The list is endless.

23. Gov fashola in the wake of the petition against him presented by “The True Face of Lagos” to the House of Assembly has succeeded in buying his way out of trouble temporarily by bribing each of the 40 members with cash and prime state land at Abijo GRA off Lekki-Epe road. In addition, he bought a N40million bullet proof jeep for the speaker in a desperate bid to ward off investigation by the assemblyThese corrupt acts have deprived the tax payers of Lagos billions in revenue which could have been used for public projects. Indeed, the prime land stolen from the Lekki axis is enough to build the Lekki-Epe road without burdening residents and other tax payers with a 30 year concessioned toll road, We know that people will say why don’t you take this matter to EFCC? Well the EFCC appears compromised on matters concerning tinubu. If not, how come he has not been charged to court despite several petitions against him and in spite of Nuhu Ribadu’s boastful claims that he had enough evidence to nail him. Late Chief Gani Fawehinmi once fought hard to get the Supreme Court to rule that that the Police could investigate tinubu for certificate forgery and perjury and prosecute him after he leaves office. He left office 3 years ago and lost his immunity but where is the Nigeria Police? But we know that eventually, his cup will run over and he will be brought to justice. and why is there a conspiracy of silence by those known to be dogged fighters of corruption? Why are they watching as both men seems to be getting away with corruption? We hope Lagosians will wake up and fight for their rights. The elites should speak out now and force the EFCC to take action. We once again call on the elders of Lagos, the elites at the Lagos Island Club, Ikoyi Club, Lawn Tennis Club, Yoruba Tennis Club, Ikeja Country Club, Eko Club, Metropolitan Club, The Boat Club, Apapa Club, etc. We also call on the religious leaders of both faith, prominent traditional rulers, the media, opinion molders and members of civil society to speak out Let us join hands in the collective effort to call on the anti-corruption agencies, and in particular the EFCC, to act now and move into the land’s Bureau and the State’s Treasury Office at Alausa to conduct a thorough investigation on land matters from year 2000 to date. We assure the public that if this is done transparently, it might be possible to recover trillions of naira stolen from the tax payers of Lagos.

brownlords:
Pdp thug I guess?

what is your obsession, why do you hate apc, don't you have a reason for protesting or you just hate apc because it's apc?

ProfCorruption:
Take a quick look at this:

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/172143-anamco-restarts-operations-assembles-trucks.html

Who destroyed Annamco that was established by Obasanjo/Shagari regime?

miredia:
Nigeria. A free for all fight in all quarters.

Abagworo:
They should have extracted information from the young man instead of killing him. Now we are still left speculating about those behind boko haram.

CFCfan:
Yes I know. I'm just stating that people shouldn't be shocked if Fashola isn't the running mate.