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Beaf U go wunjore pesin pikin o. ![]() Sufri sufri. ![]() |
O boy. come and see wonders. There's money for everyone. Extra 2k for minor expenses. ![]() |
Wao, what a day?!!! |
[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=788021.msg9404040#msg9404040 date=1319404630]as for you, Every action deserves a reaction. All I did was react to what you of your brother/sisters did. Teah it is silly and childish but again every action has a reaction. If you equate that to dislike for u or your people, heck there is nothing I can do about it. My hands are tied u see. It hurts people like u when others open topic about your people but when your people open topics about others, it is ok abi !! heck, every action has a reaction[/quote]I have seen your numerous IDs. You are such a crook. |
How do you hail a drug dealer? Gbawe, I am very disappointed in your remarks. |
pendo89:Where is the source of this info? |
I wont be suprised if the OP starts to insult Ifeoma in two months time. Alh Harem, You are demonic. I need to see you in real life. |
Amaka G29:Check my profile. Send me a mail. |
Ndi[b] Mancity[/b] ejirila okpu isii gbagbuo ndi ManU!ndi na acha obara-obara jisiri ike gbata naani otu!Obi ada-ada adago! |
Amaka G29:Hey Amaka G29, did u see my last msg? |
Beaf:I hope the robots wont be program to hold Naija people hostage. They might be influenced self to start collecting #20. ![]() |
[code][/code]BY JON GAMBRELL ASSOCIATED PRESS LAGOS, Nigeria -- Trumpets and car horns sound first, then local gang members rush by screaming and chugging cheap liquor as a convoy of campaign vehicles push through the crowded streets of Nigeria's main city carrying local candidates asking to represent the people in a system rife with corruption. Races to run Nigeria's 774 local governments represent politics at its rotten core in the oil-rich nation, where crude sales prop up politicians and the neighborhood councils become their personal fiefdoms. Those living in the megacity of Lagos voted Saturday for their local representatives, but the results appeared to be a foregone conclusion as political fortunes are made and lost based on personality and muscle in Africa's most populous nation. "I know they will change, (but) there's nothing we can do if they don't change," said B.G. Said, a 62-year-old voter who waited at a polling place that opened two-and-a-half hours late Saturday. Nigeria inherited local governments from British colonialists and kept the system in place after gaining independence in 1960. Little changed under Nigeria's military dictatorships and when democracy took hold in 1999. The governments, run by council members and overseen by a chairman, remain responsible for road maintenance, sewage systems and markets, as well as assisting in health care and education in their areas. [size=8pt]Yet even on Ikoyi Island in Lagos, which once housed the nation's federal government, potholed roads with little asphalt run past some of the most expensive real estate in all of Africa. Public schools remain dilapidated and overcrowded. Passers-by relieve themselves in open drains. Area chairman Wale Adeniji, running for re-election under Lagos' ruling Action Congress of Nigeria, said his administration worked hard in its last three-year term. However, when interviewed this week by The Associated Press, Adeniji struggled to offer any specific improvements completed by his administration. He also repeatedly declined to say how much money his area received from the state as part of the federal funds allocated to local governments. Still, as he campaigned and met with the public, no one asked him specific questions. Many surrounded him chanting the party's acronym ACN, and youths offered shouts of "Well done, sir!"[/size] Adeniji is one of the "Big Men," the "oga" in the local language, smiling amid the squalor and broken streets, asking once again to represent a people who long ago gave up on the government. At a crowded local market near an army barracks, Adeniji made no promises of improving services when speaking to elders there. His entourage passed out gift bags filled with notebooks and unmarked boxes. Others received shirts and caps bearing his image. "We will vote for ACN this Saturday," market leader Jokotade Logun Tairat promised after hearing Adeniji describe the voting process in her sweltering, dark office. But she hinted at the Bosom-for-tat politics of the country: "We are like Oliver Twist: we keep asking for more. Please don't forget us." Such exchanges, whether monetary or for favors later, remain common in local politics, said Foluso Idumu, the program coordinator for the Orderly Society Trust, which advocates for better governance in Nigeria. State-level officials put trusted lieutenants or lackeys into local governments, who tailor their opinions and operations to suit their political "godfathers," Idumu said. Those who don't obey lose out on unmonitored government money, while those who follow orders end up with SUVs, she said. Idumu's organization had to abandon a grant-funded effort to honor innovative local government leaders when a survey of more than 70 areas found no one worthy of the award. "It's a national malaise, really," Idumu said. "We really still don't have democratic principles being adhered to and followed duly." Opposition candidates, even for the nationally dominant People's Democratic Party, rarely campaign for office in ACN-dominated Lagos. On Ikoyi Island, the national party's candidate Ibrahim Babajide Obanikoro bucked the trend, campaigning one day with a host of buses, cars and motorcycles following him. At one stop, many young, unemployed men known as "area boy" gang members drank from bottles of local liquor and jostled in close enough to touch the candidate. "As you can see, I'm a man of the people," Obanikoro told the AP. "They have access to me and all the time they have my back." Some of those men in the crowd attended Adeniji's campaign the day before. On Saturday, voters waited on one rubbish strewn dirt road in Lagos Island, the commercial hub of the city, waiting to vote amid water-filled potholes. Nearly all said they voted for ACN and seemed content with the party. "ACN is doing this democracy well well," said Risikat Jinadu, 63. "They are trying." Many support the party for its most prominent politician, Lagos state Gov. Babatunde Raji Fashola, who they say is responsible for many of the improvements seen in the once crime-ridden city. Yet Fashola himself cast his ballot Saturday in front of a worn grammar school in his Surulere neighborhood, where daylight peeked through holes in the ceiling and worn wooden benches sat among litter on the cement floors. Asked about local leaders being unable to even say how much government money they receive, Fashola told the AP: "That's no reason to make the conclusion he has 'chopped' the money, if he couldn't tell you why." Still, the run-up to Saturday's election remains likely the only contact many in the Lagos public will have with their local leaders. Surveys by the Orderly Society Trust suggest more than half of the nation can name at the most one or two of those leaders, if any at all. http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/22/2466346_p2/in-nigeria-corruption-roots-in.html |
Amaka G29:Alright we can converse beyond the pain of beauty. ![]() Can I have your email address? |
This networking site has attracted students within and outside Nigeria. |
Wao, just finished having a hot session with dyt. She enjoyed the whole experience. ![]() |
Just joking with you. I know there's one over there. Anyways thanks for your answer. |
Hey Pendo, is there a US military base close to kenya? |
toluxa1:I feel like giving you thunderous slap through my laptop. you will see stars when I am done. |
Dyt:Abeg give me the correct details. Venue, date and time. |
Dyt:haba, what moves do you want to see? You will see it in real life not on NL. ![]() |
Amaka G29:Nah, Thats a movie. I asked cos I imagine how you gonna look like. That pose is worth 100 million dollars. ![]() |
jason123:Na only Nchara you see? Alh-Harem with over 200 usernames go follow. I wont be suprised if I wake tomorrow to see 10000 thousand votes. |
Amaka G29:Is that your mom in your profile pix? |
Ok. |
Na wa o. All this money, shay Fashola one make people drop out from school ni? This is just ridiculous. |
Lagos State University students, LASU, protesting the proposed hike in tuition fees, recently announced by the insitution, have barricaded the Lagos-Badagry Expressway. The sudents locked the road with a seized BRT bus and an articulated truck, as movement on the road, as at the time of this report, is at a stand still. Vehicles going out to Badagry are stuck just as incoming vehicle into the mega city cannot move beyond the school gate. Trouble started this morning when students union executives of the school mobilised their colleagues for the protest. Other students were chassed out of the examination halls in the ongoing 2010/2011 2nd semester examinations. Vanguard gathered that[b] the increase is over 700 percent .[/b] According to a bulletin(INFO/PR/LASU/1192 issued by LASU’s Information and Public Relations Unit of the Vice Chancellor’s office on October 12 entitled “Proposed Increase In School Fees for the 2011/2012 Academic Session: New students admitted into the Arts/Education faculty will pay N[b]193,750[/b]; Social and Management Faculty tsudents will pay[b] N223,750.[/b] For Faculty of Law, the proposed fee is N[b]248,750[/b]; Part 1 students in Communications/Transport will pay, N[b]238,750[/b]; Science , N[b]258,750,[/b] Engineering, N[b]298,750 [/b]while College of Medicine students will pay N[b]348750[/b]. Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief. http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/news/general/116458-protesting-lasu-students-barricade-lagos-badagry-expressway.html |
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