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Tolexander: na which kind source be this

capricon: Mr man i know exactly what im saying. Okay answer this question for me. Why is it that nigerian economy is growing yet nothing to show for it? Let me tell you what i think

The economy is growing on paper because the economists are doing a good job and its not showing in the lives of people because politicians aren't doing their part only embezling.

me_for_you: all yorubas claiming to be from lagos. aragbesola, former lagos commisioner now state of osun governor. another former lagos commisioner now contesting for governorship in ekiti.
the same tribalists that insult igbos. go to igbo villages and see devt. modern houses, roads, light, social amenities, infrastructures. because igbos know their roots to their great great grandfathers' roots. unlike every yoruba that claim to be omo lagosian. so the vast underdeveloped lands from benin to lagos and ilorin to lagos are owned by which people? camerounians?
that's why it was very easy for fulanis to take over ilorin from people calling themselves afonjas.
went to abeokuta and visited olumo rock. and was told that's the rock the whole inhabitants hid under when they were fighting ibadan people. if not cowardise, what will make able-bodied men hide under a rock for years during a war?
and they will come out and start claiming omo lagosian.

VICTORCIZA: Thanks to Gej who doesnt play politice of hatred,believe me you if Fashola or any Apc man is the president they will never allow the loan to manifest,they will sit tightly on that loan reguest till thy kingdom come.I dont need to tell you that Apc is playing politice of bitternes,Fashola has been making life unbearable for pdp councilor in lagos,he always fustrate them and make it look like they are incompetent.GEJ IS A GOOD MAN WE ALL KNOW THAT AND GOD WILL KEEP HIM ALIFE TO RULE NIGERIA TILL 2019

ojimbo: GEJ is still the best president that Nigeria have produces so far, he never give up even with all the whole critics and comfrage the nothern polical touts were bringing up on him, my fellow nigerians, cant we be on our senses and realise what buhari and tinubu are trying to do to nigeria, God will judge anyway, that same thing He did to Abacha, He will surely do it to another person in due time

wise_many2k:

teedeeone: According to a report on theparadigm, the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola recently acquired two Land Rover BulletProof jeeps. The bullet proof cars which arrived the nation’s sea port in Apapa, Lagos is reportedly worth N610 million.

However, an official contacted inside the State House at Alausa claims not to know how much the bulletproof jeeps was bought.

SEE PHOTOS http://www.pointblank.com.ng/2013/12/photos-governor-fashola-acquires-two.html

Sunny_bobo: Anambra has the best road network in Nigeria. Anambra has the highest human capital in Nigeria, Ogun state comes a distant second.

ogologodimkpa: Your abuse is uncalled for just for you to make this crappy comments ?

Ngige will still lose even if the election is re-contested.

He associated himself with Tinubu and buhari (APC) and that was the beginning of his failure.
We don't want our state to be mortgaged the way Tinubu did in some state?

President Goodluck Jonathan and former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, on Monday engaged each other in verbal punches over the proposed national conference, with the president declaring that contrary to Mr. Tinubu’s claim, the dialogue was not diversionary, neither was it meant to achieve a political end.

It was also a day the president’s aide, Doyin Okupe, said the former governor’s position on the planned talks did not represent the views of the majority of Yoruba people in the South West.

Mr. Tinubu, had upon his return from a medical trip early October, said the planned national dialogue, announced by Mr. Jonathan in his independence day broadcast to the nation, was “diversionary and deceptive”.

The All Progressive Congress, APC, leader, also alleged that the dialogue was being packaged to promote Mr. Jonathan’s 2015 presidential ambition. He maintained that position in remarks he gave Monday.

Mr. Tinubu said while he welcomed the planned talks, such a serious exercise cannot be left in the hands of a “flip-flopping” administration that had done little to draw public trust.

He challenged the president to, as a show of seriousness, implement first, the recommendations of the previous conference convened by the Obasanjo administration, and proposals endorsed by the electoral reform committee headed by former Chief Justice of the Federation, Muhammed Uwais.

Mr. Jonathan fired the first salvo Monday, using his message to the nation as Muslims prepared to mark Eid-el-Kabir, to subtly respond to Mr. Tinubu as being “in error”.

“Those who continue to say that the initiative is diversionary or aimed at promoting certain political ambitions are in error,” the president said in his message.

The president said the decision to convene the dialogue was informed by his avowed commitment and firm belief in the right to freedom of expression and the right of all people in a democracy to make choices on how they wish to live and be governed.

Mr. Jonathan added that it was the desire of his administration for the majority of Nigerians to key into the process and agree on the best way forward for Nigeria.

“My administration remains fully committed to the implementation of measures and policies that will further promote and enhance national peace, stability and progress,” he said.

“It is in keeping with that avowed commitment and my firm belief in the right to freedom of expression and the right of all people in a democracy to make choices on how they wish to live and be governed that I recently announced plans for an orderly national conversation on our problems and challenges.”

He added that his administration’s desire “is for the greatest possible majority of Nigerians to key into the process and agree on the best way forward for our dear nation.”

The president said he had been greatly encouraged by the very positive reaction of various national interest groups to the initiative, and urged all Nigerians to offer their support to the conference.

Earlier, while addressing journalists in Abuja, the president’s aide, Mr. Okupe, described Mr Tinubu’s claim that the proposed dialogue was tainted with selfish motive, as purely conjectural and in the realm of speculation.

“His assertion that there is an ulterior motive for the conference is purely conjectural and speculative; and has no foundation in any reasoning or logic. The onus is heavily on him to prove this; hence we will not dwell too much on this unjustifiable conclusion,” he said.

The presidential aide stated further, “We wish to state categorically that President Goodluck Jonathan has shown convincingly that he is a credible, reliable and capable leader by his unprecedented achievements in such a short space of time. He most certainly does not flip flop as the opposition politician insinuates.”

Mr. Okupe unfolded his principal’s achievement since he assumed power, recalling among other things that he had delivered on electoral reforms.
The presidential aide said the APC leader spoke ignorantly on the various issues.

According to him, Mr Tinubu’s “myopia and beclouded diatribe on this matter reveals the narrow mindedness of a local politician totally insensitive to the genuine sensibilities of other sub-nationalities within the polity.

“The results of the various programmes of the Amnesty Office are self-evident and have definitely impacted positively on the lives and wellbeing of the youth and communities in the Niger Delta region,” he said.

On the former governor’s allegation that Mr. Jonathan was organizing a national conference when his (president) party was bedevilled with internal crisis, Mr. Okupe said he (Tinubu) was merely being mischievous and dishonest.

“The APC leader, as usual, is completely off target. Desperate politicians and self-seeking political leaders tend to believe that their quest for power or insatiable appetite for wealth accumulation through politics is superior to the genuine desires and innate aspiration of the ordinary Nigerians,” Mr. Tinubu said.

“Senator Tinubu in his criticism of the conference asked: “Where is the capability, where is the sincerity?” He also queried: “Will this president have the guts to implement fully all final resolutions of the conference without fear or favour?”

“On all these queries, we state that for the first time in the history of post-independence Nigeria, a Federal Government took a bold initiative to call for a National Conference without the obnoxious “no-go-areas” so that Nigerians can once and for all have the opportunity to address all pertinent issues regarding the polity and has also given the advisory committee freewill to determine its nature and/or structure. This is a definite demonstration of boldness and sincerity by the administration of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

“Our dear Senator Tinubu wants the Yoruba Nation and indeed the people of Lagos State to believe that he is sincere in rendering public service to the state and the people, whereas he has heavily garrisoned the state political apparatus with a sizeable number of his immediate family members.”

Responding to the issues raised by Mr. Okupe, the APC leader said he did not expect any less a vitriolic outburst from presidential “cry-babies”, adding that he would leave Nigerians to judge since they were the ones feeling the pains.

“The reaction of Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential cry-babies to Tinubu’s extensive comments on the proposed national conference was predictable,” he said in a statement signed by his media adviser, Sunday Dare, late Monday.

“As usual, rather than deal with the salient and substantial issues surrounding the proposed National Conference raised by former Governor Tinubu, the reaction from the presidency skirted around them.

“In typical fashion it resorted to abusive language and name calling. Okupe, like a punch drunk pugilist threw several empty jabs and went on a flight of fancy praising his boss and flaunting fictional achievements of the administration in the face of Nigerians.

“We leave it to Nigerians to judge. They are the ones who feel the pains and millions will not be able to relate to all the fictional transformational achievements reeled out by the Presidency. Nigerians are saddled with a President who believes fiction is more important than fact and imagination is more genuine than reality.

“While we would not mind such a person to be a leading figure in our Nollywood film industry, I am frightened that he is the Chief Resident of Aso Villa and surrounded by a cast of like minds.”

anonimi: And his propaganda team is doing an OK job as well hence MOST people forget that he has little or no record on the BASIC issues that matter to the vast populace of Lagos STATE such as:

* free & COMPULSORY education for ALL children in GOVERNMENT schools.
* pipe borne water

in addition to the two sectors you already listed.

Make dem dey paparazii us dey go but eyes go dey open small, small!!!

A pro-Jonathan political rally, disguised as a Unity and Peace rally, has ended abruptly on a tragic note in Kaduna, with an unspecified number of participants reportedly injured, with some dripping with blood.

At least two people were stabbed and rushed to hospital while several others suffered minor injuries after participants began to use dangerous weapons on one another, witnesses said.

The rally, reportedly bankrolled by a governor from the South-south geopolitical zone, was organized under the auspices of the Northern Youth Forum, which has members in the 19 northern states.

The governor is believed to have shelled out N500million for the rally meant to buoy President Jonathan’s acceptance in the north ahead of the 2015 presidential election.

The participants, those familiar with the organisation of the rally said, were bused to Kaduna from all the 19 northern states and paid N3000 each.

In the invitations to participants, organizer Jubril Tafida, a former vice-chairman of a local government in Kaduna and current youth leader of the Northern Youth Forum, had claimed the rally was called to promote unity in the north.

But shortly after the event began at the Murtala Muhammed Square in central Kaduna, it dawned on participants that the rally was organised to drum up support for the reelection bid of President Goodluck Jonathan, witnesses said.

Muhammed Bello, who attended the event, said the rally turned violent after Mr. Tafilda and other speakers began to heap praises on President Jonathan in their speeches.

“As they praised Jonathan, some elements in the crowd began exhibiting campaign posters of the President,” Mr. Bello said. “A lot of participants became angry and they started throwing stones and bottles at the organizers. People started running in different directions. Some people were saying they don’t want to hear Jonathan’s name at the rally.”

Another witness said the police was later called in to restore order.

“The police started shooting teargas until everyone dispersed,” he said.

Spokesperson of the Kaduna state police command, Aminu Lawan, could not be reached to comment for this story, as calls to his telephone failed to connect.

Mr. Tafida’s telephone was also switched off the several times our reporter called.

abubaka101: I think u should be more considerate in your approach to this topic. To construct a road of 1km cost over N15m, this road is near 7km. Also the road in going to be expanded meaning it would cost more. Also the road has a round about, more money. The road my have additional utilities like streetlamps, which may require solar panels, that alone na another cost. So you see why u need to be more considerate?

i_laugh: DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH IT TAKES TO CONTRUCT ONE SINGLE INTERCHANGE? dO YOU KNOW WHAT AN INTERCHANGE IS? THIS ONE HAS 5 INTERCHANGES. MUMU

cashkid18: dude,anambra n abia is more industrialised than ogun..d only tin dt i know dt is produced in ogun is likes of biscuits

cashkid18: do u mean d biscuits

cashkid18: plx cn u tel me wat ogun is manufacturin