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And so what? Is Boko aram not on wikipedia? Nonsense

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President Buhari allegedly appoints
his Personal Assistant, Sabi’u Yusuf who
appeared to be a very young man with little
stature, although his stature has nothing to
do with his duty but his age is stunning
and calls for merit for him to attain such high
position very young.
The information is still on a gist level and it is yet to
be made official. According to Kabir Daura, who
broke the news on social media that Sabi’u Yusuf
has been appointed Pres. Buhari’s Personal Assistant.

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Fashola Brings the Lagos Impact to the Centre
Perspective
Emeka Odikpo foresees an impressive change in the
administration of President Muhammadu Buhari
with former Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos
State as a minister
Politics is not a game for the feint of heart. This
truism has been reiterated in various shapes and
forms. American politics is one of the most brutal.
Nobody comes out of it with his reputation intact.
Your political adversaries will pound at your name
until it reeks of filth. Barack Obama confessed that he
usually hides the Newspapers from his Children,
because he hates their reaction when they read the
hate filled diatribes against their father.
Nigerian politics has swiftly descended into a chasm,
where hate and filth are routinely hurled at people on
the other side of the political divide. This has led to a
situation where even though we have had more than
100 governors since 1999, not a single one of them is
considered by our internet warriors of hate as being
good enough for the highest office of the land.
Babatunde Raji Fashola was Governor of Lagos State
from 2007 to 2015. The Chance to evaluate his
performance by residents of Lagos came up in 2011.
That election offered a clear window into his
evaluation by the people of Lagos. The Peoples
Democratic Party’s nomination of an opponent for
him for the election turned into a non-event.
This is apropos of the fact that no heavy weight in the
then Federal Ruling party wanted the nomination.
Musiliu Obanikoro did not bother to vie for the
nomination neither did the ebullient Jimi Agbaje.
The only reason these gentlemen did not want the
poisoned chalice of an opportunity to run against
Fashola was because they knew that the performance
of the Governor was stellar and any contest against
him was futile.
Fashola’s impact on Lagos despite all attempts by
revanchists to change history has been phenomenal.
In evaluating Fashola, you do not discuss tarring of
roads, because he did this in their thousands of
Kilometres, rather you discuss the reinvention of the
multi-modal means of transportation in Lagos.
The reality of the Mass Transit Light rail lines steadily
emerging and innumerable flyovers that are being
constructed from Okokomaiko to CMS has been the
defining issue for experts on modern city
reconstruction. The construction of the first Cable
Stayed Bridge in West Africa from Ikoyi to Lekki
brought a refreshing dimension to the idea of
governmental vision and delivery of a beautiful and
well-designed project.
The reinvention of water-ways transportation of Lagos
clearly showed the trappings of counter-intuitive
thinking. The sudden change of Lagos from a city of
dirty dingy bus parks, such as Oshodi, Ojota and
others to a city with beautiful gardens was the result
of detailed planning and decisive actions. The ongoing
constructions at the Eko Atlantic City that has
created tens of thousands of construction jobs and is
billed to eventually create a whole new city from the
formerly flood ridden bar beach remain the stuff of
legends.
It is impossible to capture a significant part of the
works by Fashola in a short essay. Therefore, I will
suspend the discourse for another day. The poser here
is actually how the Fashola impact can be transferred
to the National level. The onus will of course rest on
the President and the role he decides to assign to the
vision driven Fashola. Even more important will be a
decision by the President to give this particular
Minister some creative space. Any role that does not
admit of counter-intuitive thinking and application
will be a no-no for him.
Most of the problems we have in Nigeria emanate
from the poor quality of thinking by our leaders. Every
leader, even the most ridiculed, actually had an
ambition to be hugely successful. The catch is that
leaders with low quality thinking are soon
overwhelmed by the problems they are meant to
confront and they succumb to the easy part of
regarding the problems as part of the “Nigerian
Factor”.
Great Leaders on the other hand realise that there is
no such thing as the Nigerian Factor and that iron
will ultimately melt at the right temperature. That is
exactly where a man like Fashola will be useful to
Nigeria. His uncanny ability to see solutions, where
other Nigerians see problems have made him one of
the most successful Governors in Nigeria’s history. A
fitting evaluation of Governor Fashola by Time
Magazine op-ed writer, Alex Perry on May 2, 2011
illustrates this:
“Fashola is not your usual politician. Rather than
barging through his way across town with sirens
blaring and lights flashing like other Nigerian leaders,
he chooses to endure Lagos traffic with his fellow
citizens. Also Fashola reads economic theory for fun.
On his bedside table are books by development
economists who see potential in poverty, people like
C.K. Prahalad of the University of Michigan or
Hernanado de Soto of Institute of Liberty and
Democracy (ILD) in Lima.”
I can hardly evaluate the uncanny ability of Fashola in
better perspective than Alex Perry. But I dare say that
Lagos is a much better space because Babatunde
Fashola happened to have been the governor for eight
years. A continuation of the constructions, vision and
plans he and his team have clearly commenced and
mapped out for Lagos will ultimately resolve the
transportation conundrum that is the greatest
problem of Lagos. The apposite hope herein is that
the man will also affect an area of our National life
positively at the National level if he is adroitly utilised.

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Lagos Tops Destination for FDI
in Second Quarter
James Emejo in Abuja 


Lagos State accounted for over 99 per cent of all capital
imported into the country in the second quarter of the year,
according to the investment data provided by the National
Bureau of Statistics (NBS) monday.
Inflows to the state stood at $2.663 billion, representing 99.90
per cent of the total $2.666 billion recorded for the whole
country in the period.
Capital importation to the state grew on a quarterly basis by
more than the overall total at $17.78 million or 0.67 per cent in
Q2.
However, year-on-year, inflows were down by $3.044 billion or
53.33 per cent relative to the overall decline in capital
imported.
The statistical agency stated that every other state with positive
capital importation in the previous quarter recorded a decline
in the quarter under review.
It said the greatest absolute quarterly decline was observed in
Akwa Ibom, which recorded $0.50 million in Q2, representing
a $10.96 million or 95.68 per cent decline compared to $11.45
million in Q1. Year-on-year, inflows to the state declined by
24.99 per cent or $164.94 million.
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja also saw a decline
in capital imports in the period in review at $1.27 million,
down by $0.22 million or 14.66 per cent from the preceding
quarter and as much as $2.71 million or 68.12 per cent year-on-
year.
According to the NBS, the banking sector overtook the
financing segment in the business category as the second
greatest value of capital imported, increasing by $246.02
million or 214.14 per cent compared from Q1 inflows.
It reached the greatest value recorded since Q2 2013 at
$360.92 million or 13.54 per cent of the total, up from the 4.30
per cent it recorded in Q1. From Q2 2014, banking inflows were
greater by $169.81 million or 88.86 per cent.
Financing, on the other hand, recorded the greatest absolute
declines in inflows, dropping $716.95 million or 93.90 per cent
quarter-on-quarter and reaching its lowest value in the series.
Its share of the total capital importation dropped from 28.58
per cent in Q1 2015 to only 1.75 per cent in Q2. Year-on-year,
financing inflows declined by $676.60 million or 93.56 per
cent, according to the NBS.
Capital imported for the telecommunications sector remained
the third greatest source of inflows, representing 5.19 per cent
of the total. Year-on-year, it was still greater by $76.74 million
or 124.46 per cent.
But it declined by $198.47 million or 58.92 per cent from the
preceding quarter. This was despite the steady decline from its
Q4 2014 peak of $769.92 million.
The NBS further stated that the greatest increase in inflows
came from electrical businesses which was greater by $72.52
million or 8,689.26 per cent in Q2, up from $0.83 million in Q1
to reach $73.39 million or 2.75 per cent of the total inflows.
Year-on-year, the rise was marginally lower by $71.59 million
or 3,994.55 per cent.


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He famously claims to be "just doing his job". But in a land where politicians are known for doing anything but, that alone has been enough to make Babatunde Fashola, boss of the vast Nigerian city of Lagos, a very popular man.

Confounding the image of Nigerian leaders as corrupt and incompetent, the 51-year-old governor has won near-celebrity status for transforming West Africa's biggest city, cleaning up its crime-ridden slums and declaring war on corrupt police and civil servants.

Next month, he will come to London to meet business leaders and Mayor Boris Johnson's officials, wooing investors with talk of how he has spent the last seven years building new transport hubs and gleaming business parks.

Yet, arguably his biggest achievement in office took place just last week, and was done without a bulldozer in sight. That was when his country was officially declared free of Ebola, which first spread to Nigeria three months ago when Patrick Sawyer, an infected Liberian diplomat, flew into Lagos airport.

Health officials had long feared that the outbreak, which has already claimed nearly 5,000 lives elsewhere in West Africa, would reach catastrophic proportions were it to spread through Lagos. One of the largest cities in the world, it is home to an estimated 17 million people, many of them living in sprawling shanty towns that would have become vast reservoirs for infection. To make matters worse, when the outbreak first happened, medics were on strike.

Instead, Fashola turned a looming disaster into a public health and PR triumph. Breaking off from a trip overseas, he took personal charge of the operation to track down and quarantine nearly 1,000 people feared to have been infected since Sawyer's arrival.

Last week, what would have been a formidably complex operation in any country came to a successful end, when the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that since Nigeria had had no new cases for six weeks, it was now officially rid of the virus.

"This is a spectacular success story," said Rui Gama Vaz, a WHO spokesman, who prompted an applause when he broke the news at a press conference in Nigeria on Tuesday. "It shows that Ebola can be contained."

The WHO announcement was a rare glimmer of hope in the fight against Ebola, and even rarer vote of confidence in a branch of the Nigerian government, which was heavily criticised over its response to the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls by the Boko Haram insurgent group in April. As a columnist in Nigeria's Leadership newspaper put it last week: "For once, we did not underachieve."

For Fashola's many supporters, it is also yet more proof that the 51-year-old ex-lawyer is a future president in the making, a much-needed technocrat in a country dominated far too long by ageing "Big Men" and ex-generals.

"He is the best governor we have ever had," said Odun Babalola, a Lagos-based pension fund portfolio manager. "He's made a lot of progress in schools, railways, and infrastructure, and unlike a lot of politicians, who are corrupt, he's a good administrator."

True, the successful tackling of the Ebola outbreak was not Fashola's doing alone. For a start, the doctor's strike that was under way when Sawyer collapsed at Lagos airport turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Rather than being taken to one of Lagos's vast public hospitals, where he might have languished for hours and infected numerous fellow patients and staff, he was instead admitted to a private clinic. There he was seen by a sharp-eyed consultant, Stella Adadevoh, who spotted that his symptoms were not malaria as had been first thought.

She then alerted the Nigerian health ministry, and along with other doctors physically restrained Sawyer when he became aggressive and tried to leave the hospital to fly to another Nigerian city. Her quick thinking help stop the virus being spread more widely, but also cost her her life: she caught Ebola herself while treating Sawyer, and has now been recommended for a national award.

But even by the time Sawyer had been isolated, the virus was already on the loose. Knowing that he had passed through one of the busiest airports in West Africa, health officials had to try to track down every single person who had potentially been infected by him, including the other passengers on his flight. The list started at 281 people and grew to nearly 1,000 as eight others whom he turned out to have passed the virus to subsequently died.

That was where Fashola stepped in. He broke off from a pilgrimage to Mecca, flew home and then helped set up an Ebola Emergency Operations Centre, which spearheaded the mammoth task of monitoring all those potentially infected. A team of 2,000 officials were trained for the task, who ended up knocking on 26,000 doors. At one point, the governor was being briefed up to 10 times a day by disease control experts. He made a point of visiting the country's Ebola treatment centre, a way of communicating to the Nigerian public that they should not panic needlessly.

"Command and control is very important in fighting disease outbreaks, and he provided effective leadership," said Dr Ike Anya, a London-based Nigerian public health expert. "He also said exactly the right things, urging for the need to keep calm. Regardless of whether you support his politics, he has been very effective as a governor and I would be happy to see him stand for leadership."

Born into a prominent Muslim family but married to a Christian, Fashola trained as a lawyer and went into politics after being appointed chief of staff by the previous Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu, a powerful politician often described as Fashola's "Godfather". But while he has long enjoyed the backing of a political "Big Man", is his role as a rare defender of Nigeria's "Little Men" that has won him most support.

Once, while driving through Lagos in his convoy, he famously stopped an army colonel who was driving illegally in one of the governor's newly-built bus lanes, berating him in front of television cameras.

"The bus is for those who cannot afford to buy cars," he said. "I want a zero tolerance of lawlesness, and those who don't want to comply can leave our state."

It was one of the first times Nigerians had ever seen a civil servant confronting a member of the security forces, whose fondness for committing crime rather than fighting it has long contributed to Lagos's legendary reputation for lawlessness.

Armed robberies - sometimes by moonlighting police - used to be so common that few people ventured out after dark. Foreign businessmen would routinely travel with armed escorts, and the few willing to live there would stay mainly in a heavily-guarded diplomatic area called Victoria Island, a rough equivalent to Baghdad's Green Zone. Add to that the suffocating smog, widespread squalor and regular three-hour traffic jams, and it was no surprise that the city had a reputation as one of the worst places in the world to live.

Today, much of the problems remain. But members of the vast Nigerian diaspora say they now notice big changes whenever they go back. "When you return you see an absolute difference - things have improved 100 per cent," said Nels Abbey, a London-based Nigerian journalist and businessman. "Traffic is not what it used to be, bus lanes have been introduced, and it feels a lot safer. Fashola has been like a Tory mayor for Lagos - he is trying to make it attractive to the well-off."

Styling himself as Lagos's answer to Boris Johnson has not endeared him to everyone. As well as laying plans for a vast offshore business park intended as an "African Dubai", he has accelerated programmes to clear the ever-expanding shanty towns, ordering their occupants to return to their homes in Nigeria's poorest east and north. That has led to criticism from human rights groups, although others say it is hard to see how Lagos will ever improve otherwise. "Do I endorse it?" said Nels. "I am afraid it is a bit of a necessary evil."

Another big achievement has been increasing tax revenues, vital in a city where the GDP of $43 billion makes it the fifth-biggest economy in sub-Saharan Africa. Fashola has tried to sweeten the pill by putting up signs on all new infrasructure projects, saying "paid for by your taxes". It is a rare acknowledgement of gratitude in a country where a guaranteed stream of state oil wealth has historically allowed rulers to remain aloof from the ruled.

However, despite being relected with 80 per cent of the vote in 2011, the man hailed as Nigeria's brightest political hope in years is far from guaranteed a life in office. Having served two terms in office already, he is not allowed to run as Lagos governor again. And as a member of a minority tribe and the country's opposition All Progressives Congress, he currently lacks the political backing to go head to head against Goodluck Jonathan in next year's elections.

In the meantime, fresh from ridding Lagos of Ebola, he is focusing on an arguably even tougher challenge, launching a new initiative to stop motorists stuck in traffic jams from blasting their horns all day. As he put it: "If we can overcome Ebola, then we can overcome noise pollution."

• Culled from the Telegraph, UK

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Let this be on front page.

Pls let this trend be on front page

Ayo Fayose’s ISREALI - MADE VICTORY -
~By Lanre Oguntoyinbo

In the aftermath of the Ekiti election, a lot has been said to be the reason why the rather ‘performing’ incumbent Governor of that state, John Kayode Fayemi, lost to the former Governor, Ayodele Fayose, who is said to be a looter and a murderer. Some who are happy that Fayose won the election have also declared that though he’s their Governor but they don’t want him as their child’s role model but they would rather want their child to emulate the gentility and educational prowess of the incumbent Governor John
Kayode Fayemi. I wonder how that makes any sense. You don’t want him as your child’s role model but you want him to be your Governor?! Funny country!
Probably, the last may have not been heard of the Ekiti election. The ‘loser’ conceded defeat; hence some political analysts had called him a honourable man who is rewriting the political scripts of Nigeria’s polity. Some argued that he did that to allow peace to reign as the results of the election could incite violence, given the militarisation on ground by the by the Presidency before, during and after the election. However, a third group believe he was too quick to make that concession, saying Fayemi sold his lunch to the dog because of his gentility as the election was massively rigged and it might look free and fair but too far to be credible. One important point that’s being raised amongst the political class in Ekiti State is that the election was ‘photochromically’ rigged. The political party that sponsored the incumbent Governor; APC (All Progressive Congress) said the PDP (People’s Democratic Party) that sponsored the Governor-elect used a high-tech electoral malpractice system that has never been witnessed or used in Nigeria to rig the
election. During my investigations, I then realised that indeed there was ‘photochromic’ ballot papers and these ballot papers were used in Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe, who has performed woefully in office and known to be a dictator and whom almost lost his re-election in 2008 but enjoyed landslide victory in July 31 Presidential election. International observers and oppositions as declared that Mugabe’s victory is ‘Made In Israel’.
ISREALI CONNECTION:
It’s no news to many Nigerian that the PDP-led government at the centre are deeply involved with many
Israeli deals, especially under this administration of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. We have read how
Israelites are the one handling security outfits in Aso Rock to how they are awarded billions in contracts by this same government to monitor activities of Nigerians on internet especially Facebook and Twitter after the Occupy Nigeria protests. Reports also revealed that high delegations of Nigeria’s Presidency are
always going in and out of Israel to strike deals that will turn Nigeria to a one party state.
The company NIKUV is Israeli owned.It features majorly in electoral malpractices and African countries are
their major client; countries like Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, Angola, Botswana, Ghana and
Lesotho. The company footprint was noticed in Africa in 1996 when the company was taken to court in
Zambia on allegation of election rigging.
This company have been in Zimbabwe for years and it also has standing relationship with Tobaiwa
Mudede who is the registrar general of Zimbabwe whose office controls the production of Identification and electoral materials in Zimbabwe.
NIKUV is also friends with Army Generals or Security Intelligence of state they operate from.
PHOTO-CHROMIC MIGHT HAVE BEEN USED IN EKITI
Findings reveal that high-tech rigging materials that are alien to Nigeria’s system was used to rig Ekiti
election. A considerable portion of the ballot papers are said to be photochromically made. Photochromic
ballot papers are deplored with the use of strange but special ink in an already patterned ballot paper
which takes the thumb-printed ink straight to the marked columns, regardless of wherever a voter must
have voted in the first place.
Also, report on ground from those that voted in Ekiti seems to corroborate the photochromic theory; as it
was revealed that the electoral officers in each polling booth would fold ballot papers in a rather funny bend
before giving to electorate to exercise their franchise which has never been done in history of voting in
Nigeria. It’s therefore revealed that such folding of the ballot papers is believed to have been done to
prepare the paper for a swift movement of the ink within 50sconds to 2 minutes after voting to the already
programmed column to suit their already written results.
One major instance that made me believe in the photochromic theory is what happened in the polling booth
of Engr. Olusegun Oni a former Governor of the state and a chieftain of APC.The leader went to his polling
unit to vote in same unit with his wife, children and other relatives numbering about 11. Surprisingly, when
the result was announced, APC had just one vote from that unit. The question is; was it that Segun Oni who
is APC’s Vice Chairman South-West and family voted for PDP? Is the incumbent Governor that bad that
nobody in that area who are sympathetic to his style of Governance? Even the gluttonous and corrupt Alao
Akala never got it that bad in the election that removed him as Oyo State Governor.
Also, one has to look at the performance of the incumbent Governor who has transformed the state and
fixed major roads linking Ekiti State and other neighbouring states. He has reduced tensions due to
assassinations in Ekiti with his gentleman kind style of governance, unlike when the Governor-elect was in
power. He has succeeded in transforming Ekiti State to a better state than what she used to be. So with all
his achievements, which political analysts and observers are said to have surpassed that of his
predecessors, it is without doubt the election was technically rigged and the issue of photochromic
materials is safe to be adjudged to be a true.
If APC does not challenge this election in court, same might be repeated in Osun. In fact, it isadvisable for
political actors to call for the inspection of voting materials before they are used for an election.
As it concludes its plan to make Nigeria a single party state, the PDP federal government has so much
eaten deep into our collective treasury cake; therefore, most Nigerianssuffer from extreme poverty. The
PDP is now using ‘stomach infrastructure’ formula to gain access to our treasury(especially in South
West). If they succeed, it’s going to be massive setback to development recorded in our democracy over
the years.
I hope Nigerians can use their tongue to count their teeth and not using the personal hatred or dislike for
one man to judge the services of some patriotic foot soldiers who are passionate with the rescue mission
they are embarking on. We need a rethink as it is dangerous sleeping on the bicycle.
As it stand, I do not believe the election in Ekiti was free and fair.No one convince me that Ayodele Fayose
won that election; I believe and take it that Foyose’s victory was ‘Isreali-Made.’
I’m Lanre Oguntoyinbo and I tweet with @lanreneville

Lagos

Fashola again!

The current most popular leaders in the world: 1. Barrack Obama. 2. David Camerun. 3. Babatunde Raji Fhasola. Oya........Go kill urself.

The most popular leaders in the world: 1. Barrack Obama 2. David Cameron 3. Babatunde Raji Fashola. Oya go kill urself.