₦airaland Forum

Love800:
I even thought fulani were beautiful creatures, but i still doubt it.

Calabar girls are more beautiful than the north.

Garri in Brazil 😅....
This was really interesting to watch pic.twitter.com/37LWt3F6bg

— Ziko Abara (@zikohercules) July 31, 2026

Daguccizgreat:
A big shock awaits Tinibu and Apc come next election

SalamRushdie:
But Tinubu is 90

Diamond098454:
Both the living and the dead, born and unborn knows BAT is not 74

SixSeven:
Obafemi Hamzat is older than Sanwo-Olu

Babajide Sanwo-Olu is 61 years old. The Governor of Lagos State was born on June 25, 1965.

Femi Hamzat (Deputy Governor of Lagos State) is currently 61 years old. Born September 19, 1964. He will be 62 next month.

In 1999, Bola Tinubu was reported to be 47 years old when he assumed office as the Governor of Lagos State. His deputy at the time, Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele was 60 years old. Today, Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele is 87 years old, and Bola Tinubu is 74 years old.

Prince Abiodun Ogunleye who was appointed to fill the deputy vacancy at the tail end of Tinubu's administration in May 2007 was born in 1940. Ogunleye was 67 years old while Governor Bola Tinubu was 55 years old at the time.

Princess Sarah Adebisi Sosan served as the Deputy Governor of Lagos State under Babatunde Fashola from 2007 to 2011. Born on February 11, 1956, she was 51 years old when they took office. Governor Fashola, born August 16, 1963, was only 43 years old, making his deputy 8 years his senior.

Leave Lagos.

Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje served as the Deputy Governor of Kano State under Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso for two separate tenures (1999-2003 and 2011- 2015).

Ganduje's Birth Date: December 25, 1949.

Kwankwaso's Birth Date: October 21, 1956.

Ganduje is 7 years older than his political principal, Kwankwaso, despite serving as his second-in-command for 8 years.

Moses Ekpo is older than Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom by 24 years.

Prof. Ivara is older than Ben Ayade by 21 years.

SalamRushdie:
You are a Tinubu supporter

Igirigimercenar:
. Peter obi fumbled on that issue of subsidy. He should have remained silent or align with Atiku. Atiku has obviously made his policies anchored around pro masses and I am beginning to fall for him

Peter obi wants the status quo maintained, which means continued suffering. I am not buying into that

I am igbo but I don't like obi's subsidy stand. I thought he said he is for the people,why then does he want to remove the only lifeline Nigerians have

As for tinubu, he is a confirmed failure

Diamond098454:
Both the living and the dead, born and unborn knows BAT is not 74

SixSeven:
Obafemi Hamzat is older than Sanwo-Olu

Babajide Sanwo-Olu is 61 years old. The Governor of Lagos State was born on June 25, 1965.

Femi Hamzat (Deputy Governor of Lagos State) is currently 61 years old. Born September 19, 1964. He will be 62 next month.

In 1999, Bola Tinubu was reported to be 47 years old when he assumed office as the Governor of Lagos State. His deputy at the time, Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele was 60 years old. Today, Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele is 87 years old, and Bola Tinubu is 74 years old.

Prince Abiodun Ogunleye who was appointed to fill the deputy vacancy at the tail end of Tinubu's administration in May 2007 was born in 1940. Ogunleye was 67 years old while Governor Bola Tinubu was 55 years old at the time.

Princess Sarah Adebisi Sosan served as the Deputy Governor of Lagos State under Babatunde Fashola from 2007 to 2011. Born on February 11, 1956, she was 51 years old when they took office. Governor Fashola, born August 16, 1963, was only 43 years old, making his deputy 8 years his senior.

Leave Lagos.

Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje served as the Deputy Governor of Kano State under Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso for two separate tenures (1999-2003 and 2011- 2015).

Ganduje's Birth Date: December 25, 1949.

Kwankwaso's Birth Date: October 21, 1956.

Ganduje is 7 years older than his political principal, Kwankwaso, despite serving as his second-in-command for 8 years.

Moses Ekpo is older than Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom by 24 years.

Prof. Ivara is older than Ben Ayade by 21 years.

lowkeybahdguy:
Truth is Atiku is the most experienced politician on the ballot. Consistent with issues based campaign. Understands the right levers to pull. I will give him that. Unfortunately, his desperation for power already ruined his chances.

AlphaTaikun:
SixSeven, read the Post Script [P.S.] right BELOW for another perspective from a book written about former Governor Abdulateef Jakande by Dr. 'Bola Olaosebikan. What super clean, fantastic archival sources are you using? Are they personal or public domain archival materials?

Whoa! I wish Group Captain Gbolahan Mudashiru (rtd) is still alive as of today to respond to some historical specifics here. However, I'm aware his wife was into mechanised agribusiness in Lagos State and she might have some perspectives which her late spouse shared with her while in that Military government and knowing FULL well as you stated that the French consortium, "Interinfra" took the matter to court and successfully sued for breach of contract.

Why take overall credit for the Lagos Metroline project cancelation in that "African Concord" Magazine when his then Military boss was the one who "nudged" him on? I mean, Mudashiru spoke with his FULL chest in that 1985 interview and that same month of August 1985, Babangida and his goons overthrow Buhari in that coup.

When I have the time, I'll have that "Africa Concord" magazine scanned and let you have it for future keeps and reference. These are the kinds of historical references that we MUST NEVER forget to avoid second-hand fables being told and retold. The knowledge of history is key for preventing future errors of judgement.



I appreciate your honest feedbacks here and your attention to details.


P.S. Here's another perspective right in the two Weblinks right BELOW:

[1]
http://www.punchng.com/news/cancelling-metroline-a-major-mistake-jakande/

[2] https://www.nairaland.com/2202067/cancelling-metroline-major-mistake-jakande

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.


The author of the book, Olaosebikan, said he was motivated to write about Jakande in 1994 after he met the former governor.

He said that his findings as recorded in the book showed that Buhari did NOT abort the metroline project as being claimed but that ‘certain forces’ terminated the project.

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

As if Jakande was prophesying, the metroline project has remained just what he saw it to be: a dream.

Mudashiru, now air force commodore, who became Lagos State governor after the military terminated the Second Republic December 31. 1983, thought the project was a gold mine for the politicians. The governor was less than three weeks old in office when Akangbe Kenku, a professor, who was his commissioner of trans- port, announced January 25, 1984, that the metroline project had been scrapped because it was "over priced." The decision was a big blow to the long-suffering Lagos commuters who had looked forward to the metroline for relief from their transportation problems, and Mudashiru was greeted by a barrage of criticisms. Said THE GUARDIAN in an editorial: "The metroline project is abandoned at the wrong time, under wrong circumstances and for all the wrong reasons

Mudashiru then tried to recover the N75 million which had already been sunk into the project from Inter-Infra, the French consortium which was jointly fina financing and constructing the metroline system. To make sure the project was never resurrected, the sites that were alloted for the construction of discharge terminals were shared out to individuals and companies to build houses and offices. At the same time, equipment, machinery and tools brought in by the French consortium for the job were sold out, contrary to conclusions by two separatc contrary to conclusions two separate government-appointed probe panels that the project was properly concerved and remained the only viable solu- tion to transporiation nightmare in Lagos metropolis.

AlphaTaikun:
You made a nice post there.

However, I have a 1985 copy of Chief MKO Abiola's magazine publication entitled, "African Concord" in one of my personal libraries/archives where the then Military government led by the senior Airforce officer, Group Captain Gbolahan Mudashiru took credit for the cancellation of the Lagos Metroline projects. Mudashiru confessed in the interview with the magazine that he personally terminated it and was planning to reaward the project. However, the notoriously corrupt Military government of Ibrahim Babangida took over and that was the end of that project. That was how the Military played ping pong with that project after easing Group Captain Gbolahan Mudashiru out. However, BETTER now, the Blue, Red rail lines are in full swing and impending Green line linking Lagos Island to the Lekki Peninsula is much awaited.

So, for the records, it wasn't the then Head-of-State, Muhammad Buhari that scrapped the Lagos Metroline project BUT the then Military government of Group Captain Gbolahan Mudashiru of Lagos State. A lot of people like to bandy around the FALSE accusation that it was Buhari that scrapped that project but Gbolahan Mudashiru took responsibility for the termination of the then Lagos Metroline [being overseen by the biological father of the current Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat who was the then Lagos State Commissioner for Works in Governor Abdulateef Jakande's government from 1979 to 1983] with the intention to reaward the contract.

Anguldi:
Terrorism will stop when security votes corruption ends 😑.

Waterlilly:
Fake story all for what

koxyz:
Goose pimples all over me because of that Ogun State Anthem.

HacheNoire:
Ogun state people have perfected the best way to vote for incompetence.

That state has not had a governor in last 3 decades and will now once again be forced again to choose between two extremely incompetent candidates.

That state needs deliverance!

Drive through the length and breadth of that state and you start wondering if it actually a state or village.

It is just a looting establishment for the political class of the state because the intellectually sound elites have hands-off politics.

Talk about a open air concentration camp in Nigeria, that’s Ogun state.

AMINDA:
Not too significant but from a strategic point of view, this shouldn't be released until the pictures themselves make the statement. Show, don't tell. Obi should hire professionals to manage his campaign.

She added that he would have an opportunity to give his own account when he returns.

Vision101:
When did he do this? Yesterday 2020. This is oneline degree offered by a UK university that he did while in Dubai. His main qualification that he used for his working life even as vice president is one diploma in Arabic whatever.

Vision101:
This is not wailing. This is policy reply based on sound technical knowledge.

Atiku didn't think these through. All his life he worked in customs collecting bribe. His educational training is one Arabic studies. He has no knowledge of the workings of the petroleum industry. Nigerians can now see that it's easy to make chochocho against a government but to provide solid workable alternative is very difficult.

“Earlier, one of my Press Aides contradicted me in a policy statement as far as subsidy is concerned. I want to repeat categorically that when I said I would return to Subsidy, I will! Nigeria is rich enough to look after the welfare of its citizens. Let it be clearly stated that… pic.twitter.com/GNSSLsPNEB

— Royalty E. Uso (@royaltyuso) August 25, 2026

emkz:
Yesterday, Atiku disowned Paul Ibr for saying Atiku intended to reintroduce and withdraw subsidy after some time. Atiku insisted he was bringing back subsidy. Kenneth Okonkwo had said Atiku did not believe subsidy should exist since it is our product.

Atiku and his team have not properly articulated this subsidy talk. In my view, they should drop it. Atiku is not exactlu someone trustworthy. He has been in government and his records on privatisation, power sector reforms, and economy are extremely poor.

CaseSensitive:
Thank you! And I think globalisation has reinforced this mentality that development must come from somewhere outside us.

Foreign investment is useful, but it shouldn't substitute for building the capacity of Nigerians to invest, build and create businesses here. We seem more interested in convincing foreigners to believe in Nigeria than creating an environment where Nigerians can believe in and invest in their own country.

Globalisation hasn't necessarily translated into meaningful prosperity for the average Nigerian because we remain largely consumers and recipients rather than producers and owners.

Like you said, foreign investors will come when there is money to be made, and leave when the conditions change. That's business, I guess that's how Nigeria was set up to operate initially anyway. Government’s primary responsibility shouldn't be to foreign investors; it should be to the people of Nigeria.

MoneyMan5:
I got tired because they are a lot of people with your mentality in Nigeria

There's no country on earth that can develop without the investment of foreign investors even China and the US.

How did you think China became the production power house they are today without the investment from US and Europe?

Hedonisco:
I am incredibly miffed by how he foolishly affirmed support for the removal of subsidy when the question was put to him at the NBA conference in Port Harcourt. No other candidate there did.

“Earlier, one of my Press Aides contradicted me in a policy statement as far as subsidy is concerned. I want to repeat categorically that when I said I would return to Subsidy, I will! Nigeria is rich enough to look after the welfare of its citizens. Let it be clearly stated that… pic.twitter.com/GNSSLsPNEB

— Royalty E. Uso (@royaltyuso) August 25, 2026

Biodun556:
They are more important because they bring in huge amounts of money

“Earlier, one of my Press Aides contradicted me in a policy statement as far as subsidy is concerned. I want to repeat categorically that when I said I would return to Subsidy, I will! Nigeria is rich enough to look after the welfare of its citizens. Let it be clearly stated that… pic.twitter.com/GNSSLsPNEB

— Royalty E. Uso (@royaltyuso) August 25, 2026